One of this week’s guests on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast is 87-year-old Dick Van Dyke. The guest discusses his career, especially his amazing run during the 1960s (Bye Bye Birdie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins), but he also mentions something I had never heard: Before his great success, in the mid-1950s, he was the host of CBS national morning show (as Charlie Rose is today), and his news reader was Walter Cronkite and one of his writers was Barbara Walters. It’s a fun listen if you get the chance, though Maron’s show always is.

Here Van Dyke is joined by Lucille Ball on his 1976 variety show for a skit about human augmentation, which is still only in its infancy. Not quite as dark a take as John Frankenheimer’s Seconds, as you might imagine.