that howie mandel had a buddy of his visiting him from canada. and i am going to hit up mr. mandel and see if this is true. he had a friend of his visiting he pretended to have a--another friend of his, in his house dressed as like--like a mugger, like someone who's like robbing, but like literally with a ski mask, like a central casting version. not just a dude in your house taking stuff. he's got to have a ski mask and like a hamburglar shirt, you know, and a cape. and so he goes in howie's house when--right after howie picks up his friend from the airport, a buddy visiting from winnipeg. they go into the house and here's this guy. howie, "bl, bl, bl," fumbles for a gun. it's a blank, it's a showbiz gun. boom, shoots him. completely fake. and then asked his friend to put car. and then i think they drove it to like the angeles national forest to really freak out the dude. >> shad: oh wow! >> will: who'd never been to l.a. and so my question for mike was like, "ok, that didn't happen." he's like, "oh that really happened, that really happened." "ok, but then he let him off th