Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen

Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ted was a self-proclaimed “hot mess” in 1994 when he met Mary in a cast meeting for the film “Pontiac Moon.” During our magical visit to their Santa Monica bungalow, we hear how Mary’s calm energy turned this conflicted playboy into a self-aware and deeply-committed husband, and how an early canoe ride down the Mendocino River became a fitting metaphor for their life together.

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0:00.0	T.J. Don't you just love the music of the Beatles?
0:12.4	Tony, that's not the Beatles. That's the DVD menu music from the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
0:18.6	Oh, I know that T.J. I just love the Beatles so much I even love the sound of like bands.
0:23.0	Well, I'm a purist Tony and I'm looking through you. I'm Tony and I'm T.J.
0:29.6	And we host the Untitled Beatles podcast. It's a celebration of the fam for with us a couple of improv
0:35.2	idiots. Yeah, it's like hanging out backstage at a Chicago comedy club doing bits about the best
0:39.9	band in the world. Thank you. Now T.J. Would you say that we're like the syskull and ebert of Beatles
0:45.2	podcasts? You know, Tony, I would not. The Greg Codd and Jim D. Rogadas? Uh, no.
0:51.6	Captain and Taneel? Tony, we're the Jimmy Nichol and Kurt Claudio of Beatles podcasts.
0:57.5	Well, hey, I get to be Kurt Claudio. No, you're the drummer. I'm Kurt Claudio,
1:02.8	have a new toast. Untitled Beatles podcast. Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.
1:16.8	Hi, I'm Phil Donahue and I'm Marlo Thomas and we're going on a series of double dates to find out
1:23.7	what makes a marriage last. We flew out to Santa Monica to visit Ted Danson and Mary
1:33.7	Steenburgeon. Their house is carved into the side of a hill. It's a craftsman style bungalow
1:40.3	built in 1922 and it has what is called a living roof which is covered with greenery to fight off
1:46.4	climate change. Ted and Mary decorated themselves. It's very relaxed and homey. Mostly it was their
1:53.8	warm connection to each other that grabbed our attention from the start. First off, this is fun.
1:59.5	Yeah, we've been so excited. We're really honored that you asked us. Yeah. Well, you came to mind
2:06.5	immediately, you know, really. People are always asking us, how did you, how are you married so
2:11.6	long and what? I like him. He likes me. Yeah, he's cute. I like the way he smells. I don't know
2:17.0	who that is. That's a big deal. That's right. Yeah. So we do smell good.
2:23.7	Ted likes to play the rascal, but once we settled at their farm style kitchen table and began to
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