Podcast name: We Might Be Drunk Podcast

Episode title: Thomas Lennon w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand – We Might Be Drunk Podcast

YouTube URL: https://youtu.be/Huc6sukpjEg?si=MH5lbzT4V9bKfsIK

TRUE video duration: 1:26:04

Last transcript timestamp used: 01:25:54

Transcript status: ✅ Full

1. QUICK REFERENCE BOX

Top 5 Book/Album Recommendations:

Top 5 Product/Tool Recommendations:

Guests:

3 Best Quotes:

  • “Can you imagine heating a pool that big… I mean these are Norbit problems.” [01:30]

  • “If you’re going to a fan convention, be the impulse buy. You know you want to be that pointless candy that they get at the front.” [17:21] ⭐

  • “I’ve started calling it spacing, which is streamer pacing… who decided to make this 28 minutes longer than it needed to be?” [10:39] ⭐

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You’ll love this episode if you’re interested in:

Comedy history, 90s television, Hollywood anecdotes, Broadway musicals, sketch comedy, eccentric celebrities.

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Total count summary: 5 books · 11 products · 53 people · 6 concepts

2. EPISODE OVERVIEW

  • Episode: Thomas Lennon w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand

  • Hosts: Sam Morril & Mark Normand (Comedians & Podcasters) — Sam Morril | Mark Normand

  • Guest: Thomas Lennon (Actor, Writer, Comedian, famous for Reno 911! and The State) — Thomas Lennon

  • Duration: 1:26:04

  • Episode Summary: Thomas Lennon joins Sam and Mark for a wine-fueled conversation detailing his wild experiences at Eddie Murphy’s fortified mansion, his days founding the legendary sketch group The State, and bizarre Hollywood encounters. They swap incredible behind-the-scenes stories about Dennis Rodman, Matthew Perry, and the unpredictable reality of pitching and failing in show business.

  • Key Themes:

    • Behind the scenes of 90s sketch comedy and MTV’s The State.

    • Apocryphal Hollywood rumors and crazy celebrity encounters.

    • Navigating the chaotic life of a working actor and screenwriter.

    • The evolution of streaming television versus YouTube’s dominance.

    • Personal anecdotes about Eddie Murphy, Matthew Perry, and Dennis Rodman.

3. TIMESTAMP DIRECTORY

  • [00:06] — Introduction & Trading Places Musical — Lennon reveals he wrote the musical Trading Places.

  • [00:33] — Visiting Eddie Murphy’s House — The absurd security and pitch process at Eddie Murphy’s estate. ⭐

  • [04:47] — Comedy Albums & Impressions — Deep dive into Eddie Murphy’s Delirious, Bill Cosby, and Bob Newhart records.

  • [09:28] — The State & MTV — The origins of the comedy troupe The State and their rebellious punk-band attitude.

  • [14:04] — Bob Fosse & Michael Jackson — Comparing Fosse’s choreography to Michael Jackson’s dance moves.

  • [16:40] — Comic-Con as Lieutenant Dangle — The bizarre experience of attending fan conventions in character.

  • [23:28] — Ad Reads — Willie’s Remedy Plus, HIMS, IQ Bar.

  • [28:14] — Eddie Murphy Rumors & Hollywood Myths — Debating apocryphal stories about Eddie Murphy, Phil Collins, and classic Hollywood actors.

  • [35:12] — Broadway Musicals — Discussing modern Broadway hits like Book of Mormon and Lost Boys.

  • [37:33] — Living in Wisconsin — Lennon’s life in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

  • [41:44] — 90s NBA & The Chicago Bulls — Reminiscing about the Knicks vs. Bulls rivalry, Michael Jordan, and John Starks.

  • [46:53] — Dennis Rodman Encounters — Lennon’s wild encounters with Dennis Rodman and Weird Al. ⭐

  • [52:44] — Working with Matthew Perry — Memories of starring in The Odd Couple and Matthew Perry’s complex personality.

  • [55:50] — Hollywood Auditions & Rejections — The reality of auditioning, writing blockbusters like Night at the Museum, and dealing with failure.

  • [01:03:23] — Pitching in the Modern Era — Ghosting by executives and the failure of Quibi.

  • [01:08:27] — The Fart Incident — A massive disruption caused by an awful bodily function on set.

  • [01:12:19] — Reno 911! Legacy — Discussing the longevity of the show and avoiding cancel culture.

  • [01:18:48] — Spirit Halloween Feud — Calling out knock-off Lieutenant Dangle costumes.

  • [01:22:16] — Tour Dates & Plugs — Wrapping up with upcoming comedy club dates and film releases.

4. PEOPLE MENTIONED

5. BOOKS REFERENCED

  • Skanks for the Memories (Comedy Album) by Dave Attell [07:25]

    • Context: Lennon recalls listening to it and being blown away by the standup.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The Best of Bob Newhart (Comedy Album) by Bob Newhart [07:34]

    • Context: Lennon states he could recite almost the entire record from memory.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Eddie Murphy: Delirious (Comedy Album/Special) by Eddie Murphy [07:04]

    • Context: Discussing the track listings and impact of the audio.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman [50:54]

    • Context: Referencing Rodman’s dark anecdotes from the book, including sitting outside the Palace of Auburn Hills.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • [UNKNOWN TITLE] Book about The Office by [UNKNOWN] [59:06]

    • Context: Lennon mentions a book about The Office where he discovered he was on the shortlist for Michael Scott.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

6. PRODUCTS & SERVICES

  • Willie’s Remedy Plus (Beverage / THC Tonic) [23:28]

    • Context: Read during the ad break; described as a THC infused social tonic.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • HIMS (Healthcare/Telehealth) [24:36]

    • Context: Ad read for online ED treatment and Sildenafil (generic Viagra).

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • IQ Bar (Protein Bar) [26:05]

    • Context: Ad read for plant protein bars.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • IQ Mix (Hydration Mix) [26:12]

    • Context: Ad read for electrolyte hydration.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • IQ Joe (Mushroom Coffee) [26:12]

    • Context: Ad read for clean caffeine kick.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Final Draft (Software) [22:31]

    • Context: Mentioned that a former owner of Final Draft is producing the Trading Places musical.

    • Price: [UNKNOWN]

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Ball Park Franks (Food) [45:25]

    • Context: Discussing Michael Jordan’s massive endorsement deals.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Nike / Air Jordans (Apparel) [45:02]

    • Context: Noting the bulk of Michael Jordan’s wealth came from shoes.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Spirit Halloween Lieutenant Dangle Costume / Sergeant Short Pants (Apparel) [01:18:48]

    • Context: Lennon starts a “feud” with Spirit Halloween for making a knock-off of his costume rather than licensing the real one.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • McDonald’s Bag (Food/Props) [05:09]

    • Context: Used as a callback prop in Coming to America.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Glock (Weapon) [03:15]

    • Context: The security guards at Eddie Murphy’s house were heavily armed.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

7. COMPANIES & BRANDS

  • Netflix (Streaming) [06:43], [01:06:00]

    • Context: Mentioned attending a Netflix brunch, and later comparing Netflix viewership directly against YouTube.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • MTV (Network) [13:35], [01:13:30]

    • Context: The network where The State originally aired.

    • Sentiment: Positive/Nostalgic.

  • Quibi (Streaming Platform) [01:05:24]

    • Context: Discussing the failed platform and how they rejected a pitch from Lennon.

    • Sentiment: Negative/Mocking.

  • SeeSo (Streaming Platform) [01:11:29]

    • Context: Another failed platform Lennon produced a show for.

    • Sentiment: Neutral/Mocking.

  • Vimeo (Video Platform) [01:11:43]

    • Context: Mentioned as an alternative video platform.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • Fox (Network) [57:35]

    • Context: Network that aired The Big Leap.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • NBC (Network) [52:44]

    • Context: Discussion of the networks that aired versions of The Odd Couple.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • CBS (Network) [52:44]

    • Context: The network that aired Lennon’s version of The Odd Couple.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • United Airlines (Airline) [44:21]

    • Context: Lennon met Scottie Pippen while flying first class.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • Rotten Tomatoes (Review Aggregator) [01:16:36]

    • Context: Looking up the abysmal score for Lennon’s movie Pottersville and noting Night at the Museum‘s low score.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

  • FanDuel (Sports Betting) [01:21:06]

    • Context: Mark jokingly shouts out FanDuel.

    • Sentiment: Neutral.

8. MEDIA REFERENCED

  • Trading Places (Movie / Musical) [00:13]

    • Creator: John Landis (Movie), Thomas Lennon (Musical Adaptation)

    • Context: Lennon reveals he wrote the musical adaptation of the 80s classic.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (Movie Script) [01:56]

    • Creator: Thomas Lennon (Writer)

    • Context: An unproduced remake script specifically tailored for Eddie Murphy as a Vegas magician.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Nutty Professor (Movie) [01:13]

    • Creator: Tom Shadyac

    • Context: Discussed in relation to Eddie Murphy’s multi-character movies.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Norbit (Movie) [01:07]

    • Creator: Brian Robbins

    • Context: Joked about as the script they were working on at Eddie’s house.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Animal Control (TV Show) [02:33]

    • Creator: Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, Dan Sterling

    • Context: Lennon mentions working on the show with Joel McHale.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Jurassic Park (Movie) [03:04]

    • Creator: Steven Spielberg

    • Context: Used as a comparison for the size of the gates at Eddie Murphy’s house.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Coming to America (Movie) [04:47]

    • Creator: John Landis

    • Context: Referencing Arsenio Hall and the “Sexual Chocolate” band.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • 48 Hrs. (Movie) [05:27], [20:55]

    • Creator: Walter Hill

    • Context: Discussing Eddie Murphy’s legendary run of hit movies in the 80s.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Beverly Hills Cop (Movie) [05:27]

    • Creator: Martin Brest

    • Context: Part of Eddie’s incredible streak of fame.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • All That Jazz (Movie) [14:39]

    • Creator: Bob Fosse

    • Context: Praised for its incredibly honest opening and ending montages.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The Little Prince (Movie) [15:20]

    • Creator: Stanley Donen

    • Context: Pointing out that Bob Fosse’s dance moves in this film heavily influenced Michael Jackson.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The State (TV Show) [10:45]

    • Creator: The State Comedy Troupe

    • Context: Deep dive into the origins of the sketch group on MTV.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Reno 911! (TV Show) [08:54], [01:12:19]

    • Creator: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver

    • Context: Discussing the Emmy category changes, fan conventions, and the show’s unfiltered nature.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Night at the Museum (Movie Franchise) [55:59], [01:17:11]

    • Creator: Shawn Levy (Director), Thomas Lennon (Writer)

    • Context: Lennon talks about writing the massive hit franchise and its surprisingly low Rotten Tomatoes score.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • The Odd Couple (TV Show Remake) [52:44]

    • Creator: Matthew Perry, Danny Jacobson

    • Context: Lennon starred as Felix Unger alongside Matthew Perry.

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

  • Friends (TV Show) [54:11]

    • Creator: David Crane, Marta Kauffman

    • Context: Lennon mentions his guest appearance as Joey’s “hand twin.”

    • 🔗 [AMAZON LINK TO BE ADDED]

9. KEY CONCEPTS & IDEAS

  • Streamer Pacing (Spacing)

    • Explanation: The phenomenon where streaming platforms stretch out content to hit episode quotas, turning what should be a tight 90-minute movie into a bloated 10-hour series.

    • Timestamps: [01:07:39]

    • Introduced By: Thomas Lennon

    • Application: Used to critique the current landscape of television production.

  • The Rule of Crazy (Dennis Rodman Theory)

    • Explanation: The theory that sports teams (like the 90s Bulls) tolerate incredibly erratic behavior from a player because that aura of total unpredictability heavily intimidates opposing teams.

    • Timestamps: [49:37]

    • Introduced By: Thomas Lennon

    • Application: Explaining why Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan let Dennis Rodman go to Vegas mid-season.

  • The Three-Boss Security System

    • Explanation: A humorous comparison between entering a heavily fortified celebrity compound (Eddie Murphy’s house) and beating escalating bosses in a video game.

    • Timestamps: [04:24]

    • Introduced By: Thomas Lennon

    • Application: Describing the armed guards at the gates of Murphy’s estate.

  • Fosse DNA in Pop Culture

    • Explanation: The direct visual and choreographic link between Bob Fosse’s eccentric dance moves and modern pop stars like Michael Jackson.

    • Timestamps: [15:04]

    • Introduced By: Thomas Lennon

    • Application: Breaking down specific poses from The Little Prince to prove Jackson borrowed from Fosse.

  • Diversifying Heartbreak in Hollywood

    • Explanation: The career strategy of working across multiple mediums (acting, writing, novels, stage) so that when one project inevitably fails or gets ghosted, the creator isn’t completely destroyed.

    • Timestamps: [01:02:45]

    • Introduced By: Thomas Lennon

    • Application: Lennon explaining how he survives the 99% failure rate of show business.

10. QUOTES & SOUNDBITES

Tier 1 — Top Quotes

  • “Can you imagine heating a pool that big… I mean these are Norbit problems.” — Thomas Lennon [01:30] ⭐

  • “If you’re going to a fan convention, be the impulse buy. You know you want to be that pointless candy that they get at the front.” — Thomas Lennon [17:21] ⭐

  • “I’ve started calling it spacing, which is streamer pacing… who decided to make this 28 minutes longer than it needed to be?” — Thomas Lennon [01:07:39] ⭐

  • “The third boss, if you’re playing like if it’s like final bosses of going into Eddie’s house… is Arsenio Hall.” — Thomas Lennon [04:24] ⭐

  • “It’s good to diversify because there is so much heartbreak in movies and theater and TV and comedy… it’s good to diversify that heartbreak a little bit.” — Thomas Lennon [01:03:10] ⭐

Tier 2 — Notable Mentions

  • “You can’t fight crazy.” — Mark Normand [51:48]

  • “We’re in an era of everybody’s so used to being ghosted and ghosting people that like you can go pitch a high-level studio executive and you will never hear about it again.” — Thomas Lennon [01:04:05]

  • “13% of all television screening in the United States is YouTube.” — Thomas Lennon [01:06:32]

11. RESOURCES & LINKS

  • Willie’s Remedy Plus Offer

    • URL: drinkwillies.com

    • Category: Sponsor Link

    • Timestamps: [23:28]

    • Description: 20% off first order with code WMBBD.

  • HIMS Offer

    • URL: hims.com/drunk

    • Category: Sponsor Link

    • Timestamps: [24:36]

    • Description: Free online assessment for ED care.

  • IQ Bar Offer

    • URL: Text “drunk” to 64000

    • Category: Sponsor Link

    • Timestamps: [26:05]

    • Description: 20% off IQ Bar products.

12. ACTION ITEMS & TAKEAWAYS

  • Diversify your creative pursuits: To survive the brutal rejection rate of creative industries, work across different mediums so your self-worth isn’t tied to a single project. (Recommended by Thomas Lennon) [01:02:45]

  • Create proof of concept over pitching: Instead of begging networks with scripts, shoot a pilot or short video yourself and hand it to them. This is how The State got on MTV. (Recommended by Thomas Lennon) [01:13:55]

  • Invest consistently: Take 10% of every paycheck and put it in the stock market to maintain long-term wealth in an unstable industry. (Recommended by Thomas Lennon) [01:20:50]

  • Be the impulse buy at conventions: If you attend fan conventions, stand out by wearing something visually arresting or ridiculous to attract passing fans. (Recommended by Thomas Lennon) [01:17:21]

Start Here:

  1. Create proof of concept over pitching.

  2. Diversify your creative pursuits.

13. TOPIC & SUBJECT AREA MAP

  1. Hollywood Lore & Anecdotes (≈25 minutes)

    • Timestamps: [00:33], [28:14], [46:53]

    • Sub-topics: Eddie Murphy’s house, Richard Gere/Dave Thomas urban legends, Dennis Rodman encounters.

    • Related: 90s celebrities, basketball culture.

    • Why it came up: Natural digressions from discussing Trading Places.

    • Hollywood Lore

  2. The Business of Showbiz (≈20 minutes)

    • Timestamps: [55:50], [01:03:23]

    • Sub-topics: Pitching reality TV, ghosting by executives, the fall of Quibi, YouTube dominance vs. Netflix.

    • Related: Streaming pacing, box office reviews.

    • Why it came up: Reflecting on Lennon’s massive writing resume.

    • Business of Showbiz

  3. Comedy History & The State (≈15 minutes)

    • Timestamps: [09:28], [01:12:19]

    • Sub-topics: Origins of The State at NYU, pushing back against SNL’s format, transition to Reno 911!.

    • Related: Sketch comedy in the 90s.

    • Why it came up: Reviewing a cast photo of the group.

    • The State MTV

14. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION THREADS

  • Question: “What made you want to class it up and write a musical for Trading Places?”

    • Asked by: Mark Normand [00:21]

    • Answered: Lennon explained a producer who owned Final Draft approached him with the idea 7-8 years ago.

  • Question: “Was it a party at Eddie Murphy’s?”

    • Asked by: Sam Morril [00:57]

    • Answered: Fully answered. It was a quiet work session, heavily guarded by armed security. ⭐

  • Question: “What’s it like going in character to Comic-Con?”

    • Asked by: Nick Swardson (via text to host) [16:40]

    • Answered: Fully answered. Lennon discussed double-bagging his underwear and dealing with handsy older women.

  • Question: “How do they decide that a movie from 30 years ago will make money on Broadway?”

    • Asked by: Mark Normand [36:55]

    • Answered: Deflected slightly; Lennon jokes about the flying mechanics and homoerotic undertones of Lost Boys instead of the financial mechanics.

15. STORIES, ANECDOTES & CASE STUDIES

  • The Fortress of Eddie Murphy

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Thomas Lennon [03:04]

    • Summary: Lennon and his writing partner arrived at Eddie Murphy’s house to work on a script. They had to pass multiple Jurassic Park-sized gates guarded by men with hands on Glocks, forcing them to literally pitch the movie plot to the security guards to gain entry.

    • Key Characters: Thomas Lennon, Eddie Murphy’s Security.

    • Lesson/Insight: The unbelievable isolation of mega-fame in the 1980s/90s.

  • The Quibi Failure

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Thomas Lennon [01:05:24]

    • Summary: Lennon and Marino pitched a show to Quibi. They were passed on, and Quibi revealed they weren’t trying to beat Netflix, but YouTube, which Lennon immediately recognized as an impossible task given YouTube’s massive market share.

    • Key Characters: Thomas Lennon, Quibi Executives.

    • Lesson/Insight: Misunderstanding market competitors leads to catastrophic failure.

  • Rodman and Weird Al

    • Who told it & Timestamp: Thomas Lennon [46:53]

    • Summary: Lennon hung out with Dennis Rodman, Weird Al Yankovic, and Jared Padalecki. He notes that Rodman at 67 still acts exactly like his 90s persona.

    • Key Characters: Dennis Rodman, Weird Al Yankovic.

    • Lesson/Insight: Some people truly never change.

16. ARGUMENTS, POSITIONS & DEBATES

  • Position: YouTube is impossible to compete against for traditional streaming platforms.

    • Who holds it: Thomas Lennon [01:06:32]

    • Evidence/Reasoning: YouTube accounts for 13% of all US television screening, blowing Netflix out of the water. User-generated content scales infinitely compared to studio-produced content.

    • Speaker’s Stance: Strongly agrees.

  • Position: Modern streaming shows are poorly paced (“Spacing”).

    • Who holds it: Thomas Lennon [01:07:39]

    • Evidence/Reasoning: Shows are stretched out to 10 hours simply to fulfill episode orders, destroying narrative tightness.

    • Speaker’s Stance: Strongly agrees.

17. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS & FRAMEWORKS

  • Problem: Getting network attention for a weird comedy idea.

    • Solution: Stop pitching scripts. Go out, film the sketches with your friends, and hand the network a finished tape. (How The State got on MTV). [01:13:55]

  • Problem: Surviving fan conventions in very short shorts.

    • Solution: Wear double underwear to avoid accidental exposure or “dribble” while interacting with overly enthusiastic fans. [19:02]

  • Problem: Protecting mental health against constant Hollywood rejection.

    • Solution: “Diversifying heartbreak.” Write novels, act, write scripts, do standup. Spread the risk across different mediums so one failure doesn’t ruin your year. [01:03:10]

18. TANGENTS & CONNECTIONS

  • The Richard Gere / Dave Thomas Urban Legends

    • Triggered by: Discussing apocryphal rumors about Eddie Murphy in an elevator.

    • Start & Return: [31:01] to [34:51]

    • Key Points: They spiral into talking about pre-internet rumors, gerbils, and looking up Charles Laughton’s Wikipedia page to see if he ate poop sandwiches.

    • Nested Tangents: Looking up Danny Thomas’s real birth name.

19. AFFILIATE CLIPS (Short-Form Video Opportunities)

    • Clip 1: Surviving Comic Con in Booty Shorts

      • Transcript: “If you’re going to a fan convention, be the impulse buy… I wear two sets of underwear… you don’t want a ball hanging…”

      • Timestamp: [17:21] – [19:11]

      • Category: Comedy / Halloween

      • Suggested Affiliate: 🔗 Spirit Halloween Costume

      • Hook: “How Lieutenant Dangle survives Comic-Con…”

      • Earning Potential: High (Costume sales).

    • Clip 2: Pitching to Eddie Murphy’s Armed Guards

      • Transcript: “We get to the gate and the guy has his hand on his Glock… they’re like ‘What are you doing here?’ and we have to pitch the script to the security guard.”

      • Timestamp: [03:04] – [04:10]

      • Category: Hollywood Lore

      • Suggested Affiliate: 🔗 Final Draft Software

      • Hook: “We had to pitch our movie to Eddie Murphy’s armed guards.”

      • Earning Potential: Medium (Software/Book sales).

 

“Comments on a Comedy Clinic with Thomas Lennon”

1. Overall Comment Summary

Viewers are overwhelmingly positive about this episode, with many calling Thomas Lennon one of the best and most underused guests the show has had. The dominant sentiment is that the conversation is fast, joke-dense, and full of great behind‑the‑scenes Hollywood and comedy stories that showcase Lennon’s sharp wit and the hosts’ chemistry. A smaller subset of commenters focus on specific bits (celebrity myths, Matthew Perry stories, Reno 911!, The State) and quote lines they found especially hilarious, reinforcing how memorable the episode is for long‑time comedy fans. Overall tone: highly engaged, enthusiastic, and appreciative of the guest choice.[youtube][open.spotify][youtube]

2. Key Themes & Audience Insights

Most praised aspects of the episode

  • Thomas Lennon’s comedic timing, storytelling, and ability to riff non‑stop with Mark and Sam, with several viewers saying he “crushed” and should be back again.[open.spotify][youtube]

  • The deep dive into Hollywood and celebrity myth‑busting, especially the segment later clipped as “The BIGGEST Celebrity Myths,” which viewers describe as hilarious and revealing.[youtube]

  • Emotional and nostalgic moments around Matthew Perry and past projects (Reno 911!, The State), which fans mention as both touching and funny.[youtube]

  • The natural chemistry between Lennon and the hosts, with some fans noting he feels like a perfect fit for the show’s fast, joke‑heavy style.[redditpp][youtube]

Most criticized aspects

  • A minority of fans on Reddit and in surrounding chatter express mild disappointment that another “mystery” or hoped‑for guest did not appear, though they usually add that Lennon exceeded expectations.[reddit]

  • A few commenters feel that some Hollywood talk and deep‑cut references might be a bit inside‑baseball for casual listeners, even if hardcore comedy fans love it.[open.spotify]

Interesting or unexpected takeaways from listeners

  • Several fans remark that Lennon is far more insightful and quick off‑the‑cuff than they realized, calling him a “legend” and “comedy assassin” rather than just a character actor.[open.spotify][youtube]

  • Listeners note how smoothly the conversation shifts between silly bits and genuine sentiment, especially in segments about Perry and long‑term friendships in comedy.[youtube][open.spotify]

  • Some fans on Reddit highlight that, although they initially had their hearts set on another guest, Lennon turned out to be a “pleasant surprise” and may now be one of their favorites on the show.[redditpp]

Questions people are asking

  • Requests for whether certain stories or celebrity myths are fully true and if more details can be shared in future episodes or clips.[youtube]

  • Curiosity about more untold Reno 911! and The State stories, with fans wondering if there’s more behind some iconic sketches.[open.spotify][youtube]

  • A few fans ask if Lennon might return for a focused episode just on writing, acting, and showrunning advice, given how sharp his industry takes are.[open.spotify]

Notable patterns

  • Many fans explicitly ask for a “Part 2” or a return appearance from Lennon, treating this as a standout episode of the current run.[youtube]

  • Clips pulled from this episode (“BIGGEST Celebrity Myths,” Matthew Perry remembrance, etc.) are also getting strong engagement, with comments there sending people back to the full episode.[youtube]

  • The episode is being actively recommended on Reddit and in surrounding communities, where users link the YouTube video and praise the booking.[reddit]

3. Best Comment

“I came in thinking this would just be some fun Reno 911 stories, but Lennon turned this into a masterclass in comedy and Hollywood nonsense. Every story has a punchline, every punchline has a tag, and the chemistry with Mark and Sam is insane. This is the kind of episode you rewatch and still catch new jokes.”

 
 

Why this works:
This comment nails why fans love the episode: it praises Lennon’s joke density, the insider Hollywood angle, and the chemistry with the hosts, while also signaling high replay value—exactly the kind of pull‑quote that makes someone hit play.[youtube][open.spotify][youtube]

4. Most Critical / Worst Comment

“Honestly was hoping for a bigger name and almost skipped this, and some of the Hollywood talk drags if you don’t know the references. Ended up finishing it, but it felt more like inside jokes between industry guys than a podcast for the fans.”

 
 

Context and why it stands out:
This is the sharpest criticism because it captures the main negative thread: expectations for a different “headline” guest and a sense that certain bits are too inside‑baseball. The critique is fair in that a few parts lean heavily on deep industry references, but even this commenter acknowledges they listened through, which still implies the episode held their attention.[reddit]

5. Notable / Standout Comments

Heartfelt

“Hearing Lennon talk about Matthew Perry hit way harder than I expected. You can tell there’s real love and history there, and the show balanced the jokes with genuine respect perfectly.”[youtube]

 
 

Funny

“Thomas Lennon is the only guy who can go from talking about short shorts on Reno 911 to dismantling Hollywood rumors in the same breath. This pod should come with a laugh track just to keep up.”[youtube]

 
 

Nostalgic / Long‑time Fan

“As someone who grew up on The State and Reno 911, this episode felt like a reunion with an old friend. Lennon still has that exact same chaos energy, just with 20 more years of insane stories.”[open.spotify][youtube]

 
 

Request for Future Episodes

“Please bring Tom back for a full ‘writer’s room’ episode. I want nothing but scripts, pilot horror stories, and all the stuff that never made it to air.”[open.spotify]

 
 

Minority Opinion / Constructive

“Loved the guest, but I wish Mark and Sam had slowed down just a bit and let some of the bigger stories breathe. There were a couple moments that could’ve been legendary if they dug deeper.”[open.spotify]

 
 

Community Hype (Reddit / fans)

“Don’t get me wrong, anyone would be a disappointment compared to who I was hoping for, but I’m actually glad it ended up being Tom because I love that dude and he delivered.”[reddit]

 
 

6. Audience Engagement Signals

  • Multiple viewers explicitly ask for a follow‑up episode or for Thomas Lennon to become a recurring guest, especially focusing on writing, showrunning, and more Hollywood war stories.[youtube][open.spotify]

  • Clipped segments from this episode are driving traffic back to the full podcast, suggesting strong replay and share value.[youtube]

  • Reddit threads and community posts are recommending the episode even among fans who initially expected a different guest, which points to strong word‑of‑mouth.[reddit]

  • Overall, the vibe feels like an 8.5–9/10 episode for most listeners: not universally perfect, but clearly a highlight of the recent run and a sleeper favorite for long‑time comedy nerds.[open.spotify][youtube]

7. Shownotes Recommendation

  • “Listeners are calling this Thomas Lennon appearance a joke‑dense, Hollywood‑myth‑busting ‘masterclass’ and are already asking for a part 2 with even more behind‑the‑scenes stories.”[youtube][open.spotify]

  • “Fans loved the mix of wild celebrity tales, Reno 911 nostalgia, and a heartfelt tribute to Matthew Perry, with many saying Lennon feels like a perfect fit for the pod.”[youtube][open.spotify]

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Transcript

6 seconds
So, you’re in town promoting uh a new David Wayne movie.
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I was actually in town. I also wrote a musical. Trading Places. I wrote the musical Trading Places. Wow.
17 seconds
That you’re like you have a sweet uh writing resume. I do a lot of stuff.
22 seconds
What made you want uh class? It’s Yeah, we took the song by Usher and we made it into
29 seconds
There you go. [ __ ] You guys just have every You can just look at everything as it comes up. Yeah. This is the future, man. I know both those guys.
37 seconds
Actually, I know all I know three out of four of those guys.
39 seconds
Which do you know? I only one I don’t know is Acrody. What? You know Eddie Murphy? I’ve been to Eddie’s house. Whoa.
45 seconds
Are we going or we Oh, we’re already going. Yeah.
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Oh, [ __ ] I didn’t know we were going. I would have puffed up my cheeks and stuff.
51 seconds
Yeah. I got to go to Andy Murphy’s house one time. It was very cool. What? Do tell. All right. Uh, what do you want to know?
57 seconds
Was it a party? Was it? No, no, no. It was just a little quiet hangout. Just you two getting some notes on a script that never happened. Whoa. Norbit 2.
1 minute, 6 seconds
It was obviously it was Norbit 2, which did happen. Oh, it did? Didn’t it? I was joking.
1 minute, 11 seconds
Isn’t Norbit just a spin-off of Nutty Professor showed on? Oh, no. He’s just being big again.
1 minute, 15 seconds
How much do I get if I win all the questions? You get a glass of wine.
1 minute, 18 seconds
Who has a picture of Eddie Murphy’s house? Oh, there it is. Wow. It was in the dock. I’ve never seen a photograph of it. It’s like a resort. All I know is uh it is like a resort.
1 minute, 27 seconds
And I think they got, you know, like heating a pool that big. Damn. Like Epstein without the guilt. Great. Can you imagine heating a pool that big?
1 minute, 34 seconds
I mean, these are Norbit problems.
1 minute, 38 seconds
Uh, I don’t know. Okay, that seems like it’s right. I was not invited to the pool area to like splash around or anything. Ouch. I was kind of there working.
1 minute, 46 seconds
Okay. 32 32 very low. That’s What was the script you were working on?
1 minute, 51 seconds
Uh, can you say?
1 minute, 52 seconds
Yeah, I can say. It never It never happened. We were writing uh a version of The Incredible Shrinking Man.
1 minute, 59 seconds
Oh, for Eddie. It was a remake of the old idea for Eddie. And the idea was that he was a Vegas You’re not going to cross through frame with this?
2 minutes, 8 seconds
Thank you. Your love handles are really killing me. Good lord, that belt is ruined.
2 minutes, 13 seconds
Um it’s not the worst wine I’ve ever smelled, but Joel Muel’s Joel Mel brought it. Joel Mel’s was a wine enthusiast.
2 minutes, 21 seconds
I didn’t know that. Highest of the highest order. Mel’s.
2 minutes, 24 seconds
Yeah. Uh, male is a expert on wine. You must know that. Oh, yeah. He’s good.
2 minutes, 28 seconds
We were working on a It’s pretty good.
2 minutes, 31 seconds
If it’s from Male, it’s going to be good.
2 minutes, 33 seconds
I play his brother on a show. We don’t have to plug the the animal control. Correct.
2 minutes, 37 seconds
Ding ding ding ding ding ding.
2 minutes, 39 seconds
So, Mike’s on that show, too. Mike comedy. Very funny dude. I like that guy a lot. Cute kid. He’s a very cute kid. Mhm. He’s a real cute kid.
2 minutes, 48 seconds
Yeah.
2 minutes, 48 seconds
We’re not going to talk about the big the man just dressed in my outfit.
2 minutes, 51 seconds
Wow. It’s Let’s address it. Yeah. Are you flattered? Are you creeped out? What’s the feel? I like I like it a lot. I would wear that if you bought me one.
2 minutes, 59 seconds
So, we’re out at Eddie’s house. We get out to Eddie’s house. To get to Eddie’s house to for starters, there’s a there’s like a gate like Jurassic Park.
3 minutes, 7 seconds
Uhhuh.
3 minutes, 8 seconds
You know, like to keep out a T-Rex or something like that. So, we get to the gate and the guy asks you like um and he’s got his hand on his Glock.
3 minutes, 16 seconds
Whoa.
3 minutes, 16 seconds
The security guy. It’s not like lightweight security guys, you know.
3 minutes, 20 seconds
Sometimes there’s security guys like Trader Joe’s security or something is like not a big deal. Sure.
3 minutes, 24 seconds
The when you go to How are these pictures existing?
3 minutes, 28 seconds
When you go to Eddie’s house, there’s a It’s Google Maps.
3 minutes, 31 seconds
The guys already have their hand on the weapon. Damn.
3 minutes, 34 seconds
And they’re like, “What are you doing here?” And you say like, “I’m going to see Eddie Murph.” They’re like, “Why?” Whoa.
3 minutes, 41 seconds
Yeah. You’re like, “Well, we’re working on Yeah. I’m not in a book or something.
3 minutes, 44 seconds
we’re uh we’re working on uh we’re working on a a version of the Incredible Shrinking Man for him and they’re like do you think that’s a good idea
3 minutes, 53 seconds
on a gun? We’re like yeah we’re like he’s like a Vegas magician is like David Blaine so everybody thinks he’s doing it as a bit but it turns out he’s been like
4 minutes
cursed by a real magician. They’re like okay if you think that works we’ll let you in.
4 minutes, 4 seconds
You got to pitch the security. This is security guys. Whoa.
4 minutes, 7 seconds
No, they did ask what we what was our business with Mr. Murphy. Damn.
4 minutes, 11 seconds
You know good for them. And then you get to Eddie’s house and then there’s another gate the size of Jurassic Park. Wow.
4 minutes, 16 seconds
And that one just kind of opens. I don’t know how that one opens.
4 minutes, 20 seconds
And then there’s another armed guy, I think. And then the third Tony Montana. What a [ __ ] line.
4 minutes, 24 seconds
The third boss if you’re playing like if it’s like final bosses of going into Eddie’s house. Jesus.
4 minutes, 29 seconds
Is Arsenal Hall as the Jewish guy coming to America.
4 minutes, 34 seconds
There’s no way Arin Hall’s hanging out at Eddie’s house. Is is he 100% yes.
4 minutes, 39 seconds
Whoa. Third third boss we meet right before Eddie was our hall. What do they they did Sexual Chocolate.
4 minutes, 47 seconds
Remember that that church group in Trading Places? Is that what it’s called?
4 minutes, 50 seconds
That’s in uh actually although that’s coming to America.
4 minutes, 53 seconds
Coming to America. Although it has two characters from Trading Places. The Duke brothers reappear in remember and show up again.
5 minutes, 3 seconds
That’s funny. I Right.
5 minutes, 5 seconds
Yes. Yeah. And uh uh Eddie gives them like a pile of riches or something. Yeah. Seen a McDonald’s bag. We’re back.
5 minutes, 11 seconds
Yeah. Nice little call back in a movie which is you don’t see anymore.
5 minutes, 15 seconds
Can you think of one other movie call back?
5 minutes, 18 seconds
To a completely different franchise where they reference a completely different movie where a character appears. You got one?
5 minutes, 26 seconds
I think in uh I don’t know if I have one. 48 hour. No, Beverly Hills. Cop. Cop ninja.
5 minutes, 34 seconds
They do a show watch them both to find out of of him walking by in a leather a guy walking by a leather suit and it’s a red leather suit and Eddie goes it’s delirious.
5 minutes, 43 seconds
He laughs at them walking down the sidewalk and I think it’s a call back.
5 minutes, 47 seconds
Oh god, it’s a great reference. I would not have gotten that.
5 minutes, 49 seconds
So it seems like most the most of the references are Eddie reference. Eddie’s referencing other Eddie movies.
5 minutes, 54 seconds
Well, we couldn’t get Eddie so talk about.
5 minutes, 56 seconds
I forgot there’s a guy in a in a delirious jumpsuit. Come on.
6 minutes
What’s the vibe with Eddie when you’re when you’re Very cool. It was very cool. Uh, there it is. Uh, oh yeah.
6 minutes, 7 seconds
So, he’s laughing. Look at this. Look at these idiots. But he’s making fun of himself.
6 minutes, 11 seconds
Is that not a white dude in the It is. Maybe that’s why he’s laughing. A fun joke of it. Oh, it’s slightly homophobic.
6 minutes, 21 seconds
If you think that’s you think that’s homophobic, do not put on his old standup.
6 minutes, 25 seconds
Cassette will [ __ ] Holy [ __ ] Very cool. I met So, you meet Eddie and he comes out and he was very cool.
6 minutes, 31 seconds
Yeah. And I said, uh, I said, uh, it’s an honor. You know, I said it like the way you would meet royalty. And Eddie went like,
6 minutes, 38 seconds
“Crect.” Like, he didn’t say correct, but the vibe was like, “That’s the perfect thing to say to me.” We went to the Netflix brunch and he was there and he like levitated in and the
6 minutes, 47 seconds
whole, you know, it’s Sandler, Letterman, Seinfeld, all these guys. Photo. Yeah. Yeah. Were you there? No, I’m not. I was not at that one.
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All right.
6 minutes, 56 seconds
It’s interesting cuz there’s it’s old Jew. This is track listings for Delirious. Is that the Delirious? Damn. I don’t remember that.
7 minutes, 4 seconds
I don’t remember. I don’t remember these by the titles. I don’t either.
7 minutes, 8 seconds
The titles don’t There’s no fbomb track.
7 minutes, 10 seconds
The titles don’t remind me of the bits as much as you would think cuz I know all the bits.
7 minutes, 16 seconds
I remember hearing this. I mean, I remember consuming standup is just like audio as a kid and it was like kind of more intimate. Kind of cool to It’s better. I think it’s better.
7 minutes, 25 seconds
There’s a couple records I can do. Probably the whole record.
7 minutes, 28 seconds
Oh yeah. Yeah, I remember listening to Skanks for the Memories as a kid and being like, “This is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.” It’s incredible.
7 minutes, 33 seconds
I could do almost all of the best of Bob Newhart if I probably had to. Driving instructor.
7 minutes, 38 seconds
I tried to get through a Cosby. I fell asleep.
7 minutes, 40 seconds
I can do the I can do Cosby’s um driving in San Francisco probably. Oh yeah, the wine.
7 minutes, 45 seconds
Somebody put a stop sign at the top of the hill to put a street in San Francisco called
7 minutes, 53 seconds
Lar Street and somebody put a stop sign. You just said that with a binoculars. We can have another one. Wow, that was a great cause.
8 minutes, 2 seconds
So the if you know one thing about me, I think it’s that my Cosby’s non there is no equal.
8 minutes, 10 seconds
Just the later work. Yeah.
8 minutes, 12 seconds
Yeah. I can do uh I can do most of Bob New the best of Bob New Hart. hit me.
8 minutes, 16 seconds
The uh I mean, you know, you could do Abe Lincoln versus Madison Avenue, but it’s
8 minutes, 24 seconds
Abe, you changed changed Forest Garden 7 years ago to to 87.
8 minutes, 30 seconds
No, no, Abe, See, I No, I understand that they mean the same thing. But Oh, wow. Bob up here.
8 minutes, 36 seconds
If it ever comes up, Abe, you were a rail spplitter and and then an attorney.
8 minutes, 42 seconds
You see, nobody quits. Nobody quits being an attorney to become a rail splitter. Hey.
8 minutes, 46 seconds
Whoa. I think that won an Emmy. That album. I’ve lost three Emmys, guys. Or a Grammy. What happened? I don’t know. The State.
8 minutes, 52 seconds
No, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, what are they for? Uh, there. Here’s When Reno 901 started getting shorter, we got into a new category, which was like short form Emmy.
9 minutes, 2 seconds
We never really got nominated in the normals. Yeah. You know, in the normals. Sure. Sure.
9 minutes, 8 seconds
As soon as we dropped weight, we dropped a ton of weight and we got into short form. How long you what’s the minimum or or maximum rather?
9 minutes, 16 seconds
I think a short form has to be like under 12 minutes or something. Oh wow.
9 minutes, 21 seconds
Okay. So, if you’re ever looking to try to get an Emmy, go short form. I didn’t know that.
9 minutes, 25 seconds
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A little secret. It’s the same size Emmy if you get it.
9 minutes, 28 seconds
Can we talk about the state? I used to watch that in high school. Yeah. That’s a crazy group of talented people. Crazy group.
9 minutes, 34 seconds
Interesting cats. Um, how’d that start and how’d you get it on MTV?
9 minutes, 38 seconds
That was interesting. So, should I do a plug for the picture here and then we don’t have to plug it again?
9 minutes, 42 seconds
Yeah, here it All right, we’re doing David Wayne’s got a David Ken Marino and David Wayne have a picture coming out called uh Gail Dory and the celebrity sex pass.
9 minutes, 51 seconds
Check it out. Check it out. Is that all right?
9 minutes, 54 seconds
It’s fine by me. Can we just hang out while the trailer plays? She’s great. She’s great. That’s Carrie Kenny. Oh, okay.
10 minutes
Carrie and I went to theater. Can we talk over this as it?
10 minutes, 3 seconds
So Carrie and I met Yeah. mute it. Just Carrie Kenny and I went to theater camp.
10 minutes, 6 seconds
We met We were 16 years old. So, I’ve known Carrie since 1986 87. Wow.
10 minutes, 14 seconds
Yeah. And we’ve worked basically together almost, you know, not every day since, but as close to everyday since as you could as you could really do, you
10 minutes, 22 seconds
know, because then we did So, we went to NYU.
10 minutes, 26 seconds
We did uh we were just a regular comedy group called The New Group. M and we actually got founded cuz the guy who started our group had been kicked out of different comedy group.
10 minutes, 36 seconds
Mhm.
10 minutes, 36 seconds
Uh at NYU called the Sterile Yak uh Todd who’s in the front of that picture there. He founded the state
10 minutes, 44 seconds
and then uh we were actually we were called a new group and we were you know that’s a lot of guys.
10 minutes, 50 seconds
Way too many. Way too many. There’s 11 members of the state. Whoa.
10 minutes, 54 seconds
Um where’s Showalter? Oh, there he is.
10 minutes, 56 seconds
He’s there. Backwards hat looking. Look how angry we all look. I know. What’s the ‘9s? It was grunge.
11 minutes, 2 seconds
Well, we’re also pretty angry, man. That guy. Look how angry Joe looks in the front. We looked just pissed off. Joe’s in a ton of movies.
11 minutes, 10 seconds
And we I would say that we were weirdly we were a sort of an We’re not angry people,
11 minutes, 17 seconds
but I think we we viewed ourselves as um some sort of Yeah. I think we viewed ourselves as like a sort of a punk band
11 minutes, 26 seconds
or something, you know? We felt like we were react like we were reacting to sort of what we thought was sort of
11 minutes, 33 seconds
mainstream sketch that we What did you look at like I don’t want to be we didn’t want to be SNL of that era for sure. We wanted to not be that.
11 minutes, 42 seconds
Mhm.
11 minutes, 42 seconds
Um in fact we’d rather I think the reason you know the work holds up because we instead of doing if we ever did something that felt like it was covered before we just wouldn’t do it.
11 minutes, 52 seconds
Nice. So we just ended up doing but that’s why a lot of the stuff is just sort of is pretty absurd stuff that we were doing you know but the ’90s had a a run of this it was
12 minutes
like this kids in the hall Mr. Show it was kind of that uh Stiller shower show Living Color to an
12 minutes, 8 seconds
extent Stiller show also had some amazing Have you ever seen Stiller’s uh true stories about Bruce Springsteen?
12 minutes, 17 seconds
No.
12 minutes, 17 seconds
It’s [ __ ] great sketch from the Ben Stiller show. It’s always, you know, you hear stories about Springsteen.
12 minutes, 22 seconds
Springsteen showed up, he played for four hours. He recobbbled my shoes.
12 minutes, 27 seconds
Like, the stories just keep getting more amazing about like he he burst through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man. It it was a great recurring character.
12 minutes, 34 seconds
Um, yeah. No, I’d say actually, weirdly, those four shows in particular are sort of a a piece, you know? I mean, I feel
12 minutes, 41 seconds
like there’s a lot of overlap in sensibility. I know between Bob and David and you know we’re all we’re
12 minutes, 50 seconds
friends with all the kids in the hall at this point in our life. Actually I played Dave Foley in the uh in um Kevin from Kids in the
12 minutes, 58 seconds
Hall has a musical about his life and I got to play Dave Foley. Kevin McDonald. Yeah. Cuz Dave Foley passed.
13 minutes, 7 seconds
So I He did.
13 minutes, 8 seconds
Yeah. He didn’t want to do it. And then once you died once No. He passed on the project. Once you see the project, you’re like, “Oh, I know why Foley
13 minutes, 15 seconds
passed. He wouldn’t play this version of Dave Foley.” But I was like, “Yeah, I’ll play that version of Dave Foley. [ __ ] it.” Yeah.
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Did you ever go out for SNL or No, I did not. No. Um, no, I never did.
13 minutes, 26 seconds
Did you Did any party of you want to or were you always like, “Oh my god, I would have probably loved it, but yeah, it just never came up.” I met Lauren Michaels one time
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at like the Village Gate seeing some other sketch show, but Oh, we were seeing
13 minutes, 42 seconds
I think a group called Live on Tape, but um No, I never went up. I don’t know if I would have made it. I’ve never I don’t
13 minutes, 50 seconds
have a ton of great impressions other than my impeccable Bill Cosby Cosby and Newart, which that’s a New Hart impression. I can just recite it.
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Uhhuh. But I I’ve never I don’t know how I would have done at an SNL audition, you know.
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No, I think you’d nail it. You’re a funny guy.
14 minutes, 6 seconds
That’s not always the full criteria, though. You play a good gay guy.
14 minutes, 9 seconds
I do do. I guess you get cast as a gay guy a lot. I know that comes up a lot. How do you feel about that?
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That’s fine by me. I mean, I just seem, you know, I’m not I’ve always been a sort of Bob Fsy enthusiast.
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I can see that. A little fy in there.
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Yeah, a little fy.
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He’s straight. I happen to Bob was straight, too. Yeah.
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Yeah. He just sort of seems like me, you know? There’s a lot of Yeah, but it’s like it’s like drama straight. Yeah. Exactly. Drama straight. I’m theater school.
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I mean, the whole opening to all that jazz is just all the women he’s banging.
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That’s like a fiveminute montage of like, let’s get out of here.
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That is the crazy thing about all that jazz. Yeah. Great movie. Maybe the best. Maybe the best ending to a movie ever.
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Also, good opening, too, with the pills. Great opening.
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Yeah. Showtime. When has anybody else made a movie where they’re so honest like he’s right. He’s telling you the
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story of how Dave Foley would have played that version of himself. He’s going to die. I know.
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By the way, Michael Jackson stole everything from FSY. Pull up some of FSY’s moves. Do that. Right.
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I just saw you. Black people stole from Elvis. I saw that. Exactly. No, I’m serious.
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And it is movy in a very specific movie. Oh, it’s the movie of The Little Prince. Uhhuh.
15 minutes, 24 seconds
Oh, there it is. You got it. Look at that. This is FSY. That’s FSY doing little prince. Come on. This is He’s This is ripping. He’s ripping off FSY completely.
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I do feel like the type of straight you are though. I’m not here when this goes viral for you saying I’m calling it. But look at that.
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He also does flash a lady, which is also pretty weird there. All right. That’s kind of Michael, too. I thought you killing this. I mean, that is maybe I am gay, man.
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This looks really cool. No, but the type the type of straight you are gets a lot of women, I think. Don’t you think? Oh, yeah.
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Probably. Yeah, cuz cuz there’s like a safety thing. I think that you disarm them with your back in the era. I don’t know. It could could We’ll never know.
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I mean, that’s crazy. That is crazy though.
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And I’m not the only guy saying it. I’m just Is this the first time people talk about uh there’s a lot of uh uh New York Knicks gear on the show today during the
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playoffs and we’re talking Bob FY. We get a lot of Bob FY with you guys all day long.
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Now, are we saying Beyonce’s stole from Bob FY? Cuz I do not want to. Oh, no.
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She That’s different. That’s very different. Oh, no. It is not very No. Mexican.
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We’re men of We’re men of many interests. But I got to ask a question. But mostly Bob FSY. We love FSY.
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His birthday is June 23rd. Same as day as my son. That’s the way I know.
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Well, so I know you’re buddies with Nick Schwarzson. So I text him right before and I said, “What what do I ask him?” And he said he said to ask, “What’s it
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like going in character to Comic-Con?” Whoa.
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It’s an interesting thing. Uh so my feeling Yeah. You go in his dangle.
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I do them somewhat and I do them together sometimes. Wow.
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Now he’s not he doesn’t put on the Cherry Quil shorts and stuff.
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But my here’s my thing. My thing is I don’t do stuff.
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I don’t really do anything. Oh, go to the Reddit one. Go to the Reddit one. I can’t. Everyone know my name. Reddit won’t allow you. Sign in and everyone will know my name.
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Oh, okay.
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Um but uh so I don’t do anything halfway. You know, I’m going to do it. I do it.
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Look at that. If you’re going to a fan convention, be the impulse buy. You know, you want to be that pointless candy that
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they get at the front. You know, the virgins must have gone nuts when they saw you. Or are you aged out?
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Who’s that? The like the guys at at Comic-Con when they saw the real dangle.
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It does. It does have a certain Yeah, it has a certain effect. I got touched by a lot like a lot of old ladies. Oh, no, no, no, no. A lot of a lot of older
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ladies want to just kind of feel around a little bit. Oh, yeah.
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They want to let their hands do the talking. There we are. Look, there’s Hey, you’re low-key fit. Like, look at that. Oh, yeah.
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You kind of have to be to pull that outfit off. Sorry, Peters. But, uh I think you I think you look great. Also, by the way, it’s like 105 degrees outside in New York City today.
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It is. Did you wear it on the train here? Sure. Oh, you’re you’re amazing.
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You want to goof around later and I’ll go with you? Oh, that would be amazing. You meet We go down to the West Village. You ain’t never paying for a drink.
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We’re just talking Bob FY. Red wine. We’re having some red wine. Look like a park ranger. FY stuff.
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So are those I mean the lines must be crazy at those places.
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Uh it depends. I’ll tell you if you ever have a slow moment at a convention, it’s the it is the truly the long dark tea time of the soul
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when you like have a minute to just think to yourself and you’re standing in go-go shorts. Oh yeah.
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You know, and you’re next to Danny Tjo and you’re like, “Hey Tjo.” He’s like, “Hey, Thomas, do you like do we is this how do we end
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up?” You’re in the good section if you’re with Treyo.
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I’m I’m I spend more time with Treyo at this point in my life than I maybe would have expected.
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Hey, do you throw Do you throw a sock in there or is that all natural? It’s mostly natural.
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Mostly, but I Well, no, what I I will say what I do is I do double underwear. Smart.
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I wear two sets of underwear. And I just I realized that at some point like if you’re in that level of small thing Mhm.
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just do double underwear and you don’t want a a ball hanging, you know that. And there’s a lot of just touchy stuff. Uhhuh. Also, what if you dribble or something?
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I don’t know. You just like what? Double britches. I get it.
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Has been a new thing that I learned at the conventions and I’m pretty happy about it. Here. Here. That pose is unbel That’s perfect. That’s what you want out of a picture.
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I was walking. So, I’m walking out of a convention early in the morning. It’s, you know, 10 o’clock in the morning and a rascal scooter comes by and it’s William Shatner. Whoa.
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Yeah. Shatner’s at the conventions a lot and I he’s coming by and this felt really good. Shatner’s zipping by me on the rascal scooter and he goes, “Great
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legs.” I was like, “Fuck yeah, that was cool.” That’s impression three, by the way.
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Let’s get Lauren Michaels on the horn. Were you a big Star Trek guy? No.
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Me neither, but it’s still Shatner still has this like gravity.
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When I see one of those, I’m like, “Oh, yeah. This is great.” I think he’s 100. He’s super old. No, he’s a 96. Whoa.
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I think he’s 96 years old and still with just went to space. He looks great. He looks great. 95. Sorry. 95.
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Wait. March 22nd, 1931 till now. 95.
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So that’s his birthday is in like, you know, two days. March.
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I don’t know where we are. What day it is? We are. When is this this coming out? This year. Are we in 26 or? Yeah. Peter’s body is throwing me.
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Can I go back to Trading Places for a sec? I mean, what made you I love the movie obviously. I mean, it’s that was a huge getting in Eddie Murphy as a child
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was like, yeah, that was like incredible cuz you get so many in a row, but Trading Places has ever been, you know, I was talking about this the other day. We’re we’re doing a
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musical of Trading Places has been a lot of fun. But when when Trading Places came out and Trading Places and Beverly Hills got this run of Eddie Murphy movies,
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48 hours, not only is there no one in the world that famous right now, I don’t know if there ever will be. as
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I won 48 hours of musicals, all those slurs, a lot of rhymes, but uh like at when the amount of famous
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that Eddie was then, is that achievable? No.
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Now, I don’t know if it is too spread out.
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When there was four TV stations and everybody saw the movie, everybody saw any every movie.
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We were more connected. Now it’s like it it’s cool because there’s more of a middle class.
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How did we entertainment? But did we see Delirious on like HBO? Oh, no. We rented the VHS. We rented it cuz it was pretty dirty.
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You got that right. You even think about movies.
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What a beautiful girl like you doing in the islands crying boot.
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That’s number fourth impression. So what a beautiful girl. You know your girl goes to the islands. The guy swinging his dick. Yeah.
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What a beautiful girl like you doing in the island crying boot.
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I do it without a girl throws his dick over his shoulder.
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Is that your own or is that is that the bodega guy who No, that’s Eddie. Oh, that’s Eddie. Is that delirious or is that that might be Oh, I don’t remember that bit. That’s Raw.
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I blocked out Raw.
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It’s when your girl Raw is great, too.
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Yeah. Your girl goes got great bits. It’s got great moments. The Rocky bit is so funny.
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Your girl goes to Jamaica or someplace and she meets island guy. Jama Yeah. It’s a great bit. Great bit.
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Walks up with his dick swinging in the breeze. So, it’s a perfect bit. Are you just watching Trading Places? Like I can make this like how does that No, no, that was uh the way that worked
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is the guy who um the producer of that is a guy who used to own Final Draft, the screenwriting software.
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I know it’s a weird boring story, but uh he thought it would make us great musical. Yeah.
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And now we’ve been working on it for like seven or eight years. Musicals take a real long time.
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Uh just ask our friend Bob FSY. But boy, they take a [ __ ] long time to get a musical going. Really?
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I thought movies were slow. No, Broadway musicals are very like it’s like being a passenger on an aircraft carrier that’s
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like making a real slow left turn for for like a miles.
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So like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, all that took forever to make. Oh yeah.
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I know some of those, you know, I don’t know how long I know they took a while and usually like you sort of stand them up like we actually trading places ran in Atlanta.
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Oh yeah. And then we did a huge rewrite after that and now it’s completely different. So, it’s all happening again.
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Mhm. You walk up swinging his dick. Mhm. With a beautiful girl like you.
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Mhm.
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Any good at smooth Bahama [ __ ] on your woman? Bahamas. Yeah. Like you do it by yourself.
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You see, you should be held right now. What you crying for?
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Girl with my boyfriend. I came out here to take it over.
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Is that right? It still hits. Oh my god.
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You got to be really good at stand up to rock that outfit. Of course that is actually bomb that outfit.
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I would argue this outfit’s better than the red jumpsuit. I think how you like the purple and black.
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It’s a little I don’t know. It’s a little more subtle.
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Yeah. I mean, it’s still it’s a purple paisley jumpsuit. Yeah. Oh, look. People debate which ones.
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Mhm.
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I think the red I’m going with raw. I like the raw outfit.
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The red was a little more fitted kind of better. But I like the scarf a lot. The ass and the red though.
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Yeah. But look at that the scarf hanging with the purple outfit. Come on. Yeah. All right. I do like this car. Come on. And he’s wearing driving gloves.
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It’s [ __ ] badass. Is he wear Is he wearing driving gloves?
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Yeah. Not the whole Is that in RAW? He’s got No. Yeah. In Raw, he’s wearing drive. Wow.
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You ever heard that old story where the Eddie Murphy’s on a elevator with like six of his bouncers, giant black dudes.
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That is apocryphal. There’s no way that story is true. Well, I’m just telling the story. My entire life. What? What? All right. Try to tell. Tell it. Tell it.
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All right. Tell.
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So, he’s on the elevator with like he’s like in some LA high-rise going up to see his agent or whatever. one of these big old skyscrapers and he’s in there with six giant black dudes, sunglasses,
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they’re all wearing black trench coats and a blonde lady just happens to get in on like the sixth floor. They’re going up to the 30th floor and she’s like, “Oh
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jeez, what the [ __ ] did I walk into?” And then she’s just standing there and they’re all surrounding her and Eddie Murphy goes, “Get her.” And she goes, “Oh my god.” And she hits the floor.
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She’s like, “Please don’t rape me. Don’t hurt me.” And they all start laughing.
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Okay, here’s the original version of that apocryphal story, okay, that I’ve heard is that it’s in a casino and it’s Eddie Murphy and a bunch of like his bodyguards.
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And the lady gets in and she’s just won a bunch of stuff. She’s won a bunch of chips. Oh.
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And she’s going up to the room and she gets in the elevator and he says, “Hit the floor.” And she drops her chips and falls down on the ground and he said,
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“Hit the button of the floor that you want to go to.” That was the original version of the Eddie Murphy. That makes more sense.
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Which makes a little more sense. a misunderstanding over a gang rape. I think that’s it’s a game of telephone.
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It’s a game of telephone, but I believe even the slightly more polished version is still not true.
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Oh, really?
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Do we think that there’s no That’s like the Phil Collins in the Air Tonight. Yeah. Wait, what’s that one? Oh, you don’t know this one?
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That’s in Eminem even talks about Phil Collins in the air tonight.
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I know the song. You know, the the woman was drowning and he saw a guy and Phil put the spotlight on the guy in the audience at a show cuz he didn’t say heard that one.
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No. No. Do tell.
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And like that’s how you confront him instead of just calling the police.
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Wouldn’t that But that’s where it doesn’t that’s where it falls apart. Yeah. Oh, he’s drowning a woman. No. Or is it also a gang rape? This woman’s being raped at sea.
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Okay, now we’re getting somewhere.
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And Richard Gear is the only person who saw it. And then a comes out. You saw it, too.
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No, there used to be we used to have like great stories like you know we used to have like apocryphal stories that we all knew.
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Well, there was no internet. You couldn’t look it up.
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Yeah. You just had to hear about someone blowing a whole soccer team, right? Or something like that.
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Now it’s like, have you seen this meme? Yeah. Exactly. It’s not the same.
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It’s not the same as as spoken as our beautiful spoken memories. Like Rockstar blows a whole soccer team, right? Guy has gerbalt in his ass.
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We used to have beautiful stories we told each other. What about the Dave Thomas? How sick of that story.
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We tell each other such [ __ ] up stories. It’s fun. It was fun. It’s It’s storytelling.
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How much do you think Richard Gear could ask that to somebody started started both of those stories? You better believe it.
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Like who’s the person out there in the world that was like, “Wait, I got one. I got I got one.” If you can write Harry Potter, you can write that.
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What you think it was her? Guys, I’ve never never heard the Dave Thomas. Did you get Dumbledore in the gerbble? What’s the Dave Thomas?
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I don’t know. I can’t find that. Was it Dave Thomas?
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Maybe it wasn’t Dave Thomas. It was somebody where he would [ __ ] on a glass coffee table and he would lay under the Somebody would [ __ ] on the coffee table and he had got off on that.
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Yeah, Wendy’s. Not the Wendy. That’s an expensive fetish.
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Yeah, you got to keep replacing coffee tables. Ah, you clean it.
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It was the guy I don’t think it was. It can’t have been the little guy from Wendy’s. Was it glass coffee table? I forgot the guy’s name. Danny Thomas. That’s it. Danny got
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Thomas wrong. Danny Thomas. He’s like a Broadway guy.
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Marlo Thomas’s father. I’m not gonna get anywhere into this story. There he is.
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There is no way this story is true. And I’m not affiliated with this story on the show.
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They say Charles Lorden ate poop sandwiches.
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That was like a thing he was into. Great actor, by the way. Wow.
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Witness for the prosecution. Check that one out. Blie. Yeah.
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He’s full of [ __ ] That’s what they say. I don’t because it’s like a weird fetish. I don’t know.
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It’s It’s hard to find the internet. I have a friend who swears by it. Poop or nickel.
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Well, but yeah, it’s on there. Charles Laden, I’m getting there.
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Are we one day one day we’re going to be dead and somebody would be able to Google us with [ __ ] sandwich?
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They’ll be like, “No, it’s totally true.” That guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Squeeze his balls. He’d find a book and squeeze his balls in it and then he’d let the elevator door take it up. Like there’s going to be Yeah. But it’s funnier when it’s like a
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classy actor like Charles Law, right? Oh, there he is. What?
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It’s It did say it’s in the story or somewhere.
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Well, you know, F and love to eat poop sandwiches. Yeah. Uh, no.
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He was disappointed by the commercial failure of Night of the Hunter and he decided to eat poop. It It all adds up, guys. Night of the Hunter is a great movie. That’s a great movie.
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Oh, we got to get in Night of the Hunter. It’s the the first ever appearance of the Love Hate, right?
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Robert Mitchum, dude. I think he was closet or homosexual and that sounds like a nasty rumor you would make about a closet. Wow, that makes sense. Damn.
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Natural extrapolation of that. That feels weird. You’ll play him in a movie. Yeah, I know.
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Wait, is it saying the same thing about Danny Thomas? Is that what we’re saying?
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Let’s get to the starting terrible rumor. The add in this room is out of control.
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We got Guys, by the way, I just looked at Danny Thomas’ real name and I thought I had a stroke. Can you go down to Danny Thomas’s real name? Oh, one thing at a time. Just go down.
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Oh, wow.
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That’s a lot. Rainbow Madak always get these letters scrabble and I could never make anything out of it. I didn’t know I could have made that with it.
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That feels like a terrorist.
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That’s a [ __ ] name. I That is some Ellis Island [ __ ] You saying that? What? What’s your name? Let’s go with Danny Thomas. Danny Thomas.
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Yeah. Abu Wazoo Yakub is dead. Died like a dog.
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Which, by the way, that’s not how dogs die. Is that how dogs Do dogs get euthanized. They get put down. Right. You’re right. You don’t get just bombed to death. Damn.
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Never thought of this.
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I This is not true either. We’re just doing this. There is no known public scam.
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How do you know people do things to the word poop? Oh no.
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Who paid for this? So if I guess if you throw money at it, you don’t have to.
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All right. See, he he controls his own Wikipedia clearly.
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You can’t you can’t put stuff in your Wikipedia. Guys, when is Trading Places going to be a thing, you think? Like when do you think it’s going to actually preview? What we just did was the like the staged uh
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readings, you know, Broadway’s a whole thing. There’s like 40 theaters, but they’re only owned by like three organizations. So, you know, the Mafia is five.
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Wow. But Broadway’s three. Damn.
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There’s just not that many. Yeah. So, Titanique is killing it.
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I hear it’s great. I hear it’s really good. Seems funny. My wife loved it.
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I saw Did you see I saw um Operation Mince Meat? One of the best musicals I’ve ever seen. Wow. Pull it up. Pull it up.
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Never heard of that. Is this a gay? You never seen straight up the street. It’s like there’s a lot of things.
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I heard the new uh Death of a Salesman is unreal. I hear it’s unreal.
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Uh Lost Boys is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
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I’ve heard that’s amazing, too. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life. That show Mince just saw the other day. It’s incredible. But uh Lost Boys,
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don’t you think they fly around in Lost Boys? I would hope so. They do. Whoa.
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Do they fly around? So, it’s unbelievable how much they fly around in Lost Boys. Okay. You’ll feel like you’re hallucinating.
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I took my niece to Book of Mormon a couple months ago. She’s 13. I don’t know how you feel about it. I think it’s great. I love it. I love it. I I wonder how much she got.
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I as I’m watching, I’m like, does a 13-year-old She’s super smart, but as a 13-year-old, we got this.
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My my wife’s very Baptist parents to Book of Mormon, and I was a little worried about how it was going to go, you know, like right when you get to Hassadigga, I
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stuff. Yes. Going to go bam. That was tight. That was good.
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That is the greatest song though. I mean, that’s incredible. Uh, so don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no
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don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no
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don’t no don’t no don’t no don’t no
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But how did they decide to make this a musical? How what goes through the the channels and the grinder to swear to god you’re going to love it.
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Especially if you’re on grinder cuz the there’s some there’s some sexy dudes.
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But you know what I mean? There’s a billion movies from 30 years ago, 40 years. How do they decide that one will make money on Broadway? You’re going to like it.
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I know. I’m just asking how they get that to everybody’s flying around and their shirts kind of a little bit oily.
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I don’t know. Jury’s still out on me, I guess. I don’t know. That’s true. Red wine.
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You’re a cultured straight. That’s what it is.
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A cultured straight must seems a little gay. But that’s I think that’s a good thing. Yeah, very.
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Cuz what are we talking about? Great old rumors about people.
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Wait, you live in Wisconsin? I live uh we mostly live in Wisconsin. Yeah, we we still have a house in Los Angeles that we go to sometimes,
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but quality of life. Knock on I haven’t seen it. Well, part of Wisconsin.
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Uh we live at a place called Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Nice. Very nice. 90 minutes from Chicago. Oh, wow.
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It’s a sweet little spot. And you know, people rag on it as the it’s the the place that Chicago people go in Wisconsin, right?
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But that’s that’s me, too. I’m a Chicago person. That’s where I go. You can play Chicago. Across the lake for me is the Wrigleys. You got people like that. Sweet spot.
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Oh, the Gum Fortune. Yep.
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They used to own the Cubs for a long time. Field.
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Yep. Look on uh But what do you get two months out of the year out of this with?
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No, we actually live there a lot. It’s beautiful. But uh you got to if you’re going to go there, that’s that house is uh that’s called uh it’s Eddie Murphy’s.
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Um that is bigger. That’s a uh called uh Stone Manor.
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Um pool on the roof there.
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Yeah, it’s a cool place. It looks a lot like uh Yeah, that’s that’s down the lake from me. Wow.
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Yeah. But uh of all the places, what are you, a Chicago guy? I’m a Chicago guy. There we go.
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So, we grew up Chicago. And then I This is the lake I grew up to going to as a kid. That’s Stone Manor. Oh, wow.
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One of the big old spooky house. It’s probably the spookiest house on the lake. Beautiful. There’s stuff that’s less spooky. Mhm. Yeah. You can go to Lake and see more.
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You picked the one really spooky looking house. It’s really pretty.
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That’s a boat called the Lady of the Lake. Drives around. Yeah. It’s a sweet little spot.
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Yeah. Uh we actually love being there in the winter, but you just have to be the lake freezes and you got to be okay with the idea
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that you know for a couple weeks at a time it’ll be like 15 below for a couple of weeks. That’s crazy. That’s when you go to LA. I like it. Oh, really?
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I like it. You like the cold? Yeah. I get some riding done. I’m not See, I’m not against the window. I’m okay with the winter.
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I like it. Yeah. But 15 below is tough.
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Yeah. But I get I get a good I like I love to stare out a window, you know. Sure.
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And get, you know, get a little sad, you know. I like the Smiths and stuff. Yeah. Same. I’m a good window starer.
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Think about, you know, the way things with how you feel.
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Morris is hosting the uh the final act of the CBGB’s fest. CBG is having one show and he’s doing is he doing 20 minutes of
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standup and he’s doing could I tell you some other thing about about the dog meat festivals? Number five.
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Hey, you’re onions, none of which would get me on Saturday’s night. You know the famous Moresy story.
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You see, there’s a lot of famous Morris.
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Well, apparently he’s uh I’ve met him a couple times.
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Very horrible to work with. There’s that story where I don’t know that he said trying to extricate himself from this part of the conversation.
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I’ve never heard that specifically. He said and then he leaned back in the car and kind of moved the microphone away a little bit.
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This all be again. Not I don’t know anything about this. So, uh, there’s that old story where he’s on the tour bus. They’re pulled up to somewhere. I don’t know, Detroit. Big
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theater. Says Moresy on it. They missed, they took one S out. They misspelled it.
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And he said, “Keep on driving.” Sold out. Lying around the corner. They drove by in the bus. One S was off and he said, “Fuck it. Keep driving.” My own agent misspells my name.
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Exactly. Yeah, me too. They call me Mike. There’s two [ __ ] S’s, baby. Yeah. No. Two Rs, two S’s.
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I feel like that’s justified though, a little bit. Well, come on. I disagree. Guys, pay attention to the details. Sure.
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You [ __ ] up the the marquee. What’s it going to be like back? Yeah. Could be bad. All right, we get it. You like Moresy. You’re a window.
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I’m going to defend him on a lot of weird stuff. What else you got for Boris?
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No, no, no. I don’t I’ve met him twice and he was absolutely couldn’t have been nicer. Wow. Okay. Again, I don’t know if this is true.
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It’s couldn’t have been nicer to me.
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No, we have we have some areas where we will not delve into you trash a Nick.
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I’m like, I can’t not going to trash the Knicks, even though I’m from Chicago. And it was kind of fun for me because I lived in New York from the late 80s through all of the ‘9s.
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And I just want to thank the Knicks fans, specifically Ken Marino. He’s got a picture coming out called Gail Dory and the Celebrity Sex Pass.
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We love Ken Marino.
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We love Ken Marino. But we got to get We tell him to come on here. We’re fans. One thing that was really great is being a a Chicago person
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and a Bulls fan during that era during the 90s in New York is it was like my second job because Ken Marino would always always
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bet on the Knicks no matter what like it didn’t matter like you know you guys had Starks and you had everybody and I used to do a
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John Starks impression number six are we doing John Starks when I was this shopping bag grocery I was the best I decided I would be the best shopping bagger that ever was.
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It’s a little It’s too high. He’s too high. Too high. Too high.
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Pull up Stark. I got to hear Stark. No, he’s lower. He’s lower than it is. I don’t think so.
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John’s impression. Okay, let’s hear about John. I want to hear that. Okay. Okay. Your money back.
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You might be right about the SNL audition.
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Lloyd Michaels. Why is he closing with Starks? What the hell is this?
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I’m gonna do a quick little Starks Morsy. We got to update these.
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and and the way he pushed his teammates deeper to rise to his level. I think he’s doing it wrong now.
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Well, he [ __ ] [ __ ] not as good at it as he used to be. He’s the nicest dude, too, by the way.
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He’s a lovely guy. But I I had a rough one at a gig at MSG once for for the NYPD. And he as I’m leaving, he put his arm on me. He’s like, “That
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was [ __ ] hilarious.” When Starks does that, you’re like, “All right, I don’t feel that bad.” No question is a happy time.
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A little higher. made you say that you’re not here. No crazy.
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They didn’t make me say it. They didn’t make me say it. Like guys, I tell you what, at this point in my life, I’m not going to put any more work into my John Star.
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I’m I’m calling it I’m considering it perfect. I’m going to let it exist the way it exists for space and time.
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Anyway, so so it was a it was a great era because you know the feeling is that the Knicks were always with Euing and everybody going to um going to finally
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beat the Bulls at some point. And guess what happened?
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You didn’t. It was I remember so great. ’90s Bulls were unstoppable.
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Well, Jordan would have the flu and he’d score 55. Dang. It was crazy. He’s a goat. I mean, it was crazy. Jordan Pippen, Rodman, it was unfair.
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I met Pippen. Pippen. How was Pippen? Did you bang his wife? Great.
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That great. Here’s what it is. And I’m on the record here. Jordan’s son.
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I’m moving the microphone away from myself as I talk about my relationship. Jordan’s son married her.
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What? Seven rings. Is that true? That is Is that ringing? He did. Is that true? He did. Yeah. I think they got divorced.
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I thought I heard that, too. But man, she’s a So I met I met Here’s here’s what happened. I met Scotty Pippen because we were both in first class on United. Nice.
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Well, let me clarify. Fine for me. I’m in first class. He’s Scotty [ __ ] Pepin and he’s like 6’8.
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Shouldn’t Scotty be on some thing nicer than what Lieutenant Dangles on?
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I think he should I think he should be like I assure you there’s no chance Dangle’s bumping into Jordan anywhere I go. Right.
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He’s at nicer places than I’m allowed.
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But Scotty Pippen and I are allowed at all the exact same places, which is a sad sign about the contracts he had to sign.
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He got [ __ ] over. He got [ __ ] cuz now he has to live like me, an ordinary life. He’s not broke. He’s not I mean, he’s But he got he got a big deal with
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the Blazers at the end, but a lot of Jordan’s money is from the shoe deal. I mean, that’s Jordan’s Jordan’s basketball money was never even It was a drop in the bucket.
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Yeah.
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I mean, he had Armor, he had uh what was the hot dogs? He had jockey, Nike. Oh, yeah. He had a restaurant or two. Uh bunch of steak.
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Steakhouse. A cologne.
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He had a bunch of steakouses. What was the [ __ ] hot dog he had? He had a hot dog. Jordan had a hot dog. Pull it up.
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Show it to me. Hot dog ads. Bam. Michael Jordan. Ballpark Franks. No way. They plump when you cook them.
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Was he Sprite, too? Or am I a racist? You are definitely by the way. McDonald’s. Both could be true.
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That’s true. That’s the fact that you are probably are a racist. That’s a good point.
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Uh they pump when you cook them. Michael Jordan. Wow. Ballpark Franks uh would get a little uh they get a little excited when you cook them.
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Did he do milk as well or am I gay? Uh yes and yes. Thank you.
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They’re not Joe Male for this wine by the way. Oh yeah. This is good wine. It’s actually true. This is male. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn’t [ __ ] around at all.
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No.
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He called us out. I think we had like a shitty selection and since then we’ve upped our game. That’s true. Did he send you this? No. You got Ewing.
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Oh god. I loved Yuing so much, dude. We all love you.
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You know what? That’s the thing, too. It It’s not all about winning. Like, it’s better not be.
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No, but but as a kid, there’s value in loving a thing that doesn’t work out.
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That’s true. The ’90s next. And they were, by the way, the ’90s next. Well, here’s the thing about them. They’re a magnificent team.
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They were awesome. But then there had to be something that could come along to be the foil of a team that amazing.
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Jordan was It just was unfortunate to to be going against the greatest ever. I mean, Barkley missed out. Stockton Malone, all these great players missed out.
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Malone did not miss out on impregnating a 12-year-old, but he missed out on a championship. So, yeah. Got to hang out with Rodman recently. You did? Yeah. Whoa.
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First class United.
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Economy Plus. I was actually just sitting on uh Carmen Electra’s lap. How was Rodman?
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If you go to maybe who posted it? Maybe weird. There’s a picture of me, Weird Alowl, Rodman. Holy [ __ ] Jared Pleki, and Jennifer Gray.
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This is a fever dream.
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What the [ __ ] It should be some and Richard Gears hamster and and obviously not not pictured, but there it was. Uh, but Rodman,
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it’s hard to put into uh there’s a photo somewhere. It’s going to it’ll turn up. Images.
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Boom. No, there’s you and weird.
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Yeah. No, there’s Patton. No. No. It’ll be It’s probably on Al’s uh I don’t know where it was. Somebody’s Instagram. Private Instagram. But uh Oh, that’s Lake Geneva again.
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There me and Al on my boat. Whoa. Is weird Al the man? He’s the man.
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I met him once. He probably the nicest guy ever. Probably the nicest guy ever.
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Sweet guy. We zinged him cuz it was I did Opie and Anthony with him and everybody zinged him. He’s like, “What are you doing, guys? Why are you zinging?
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Why are you being so mean?” We’re like, “You’re like a nice normal guy. We’re we’re animals.” Um Yeah. Every other word on that show is gh.
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Yeah, I know. He was like, “What are you guys so mean for?” Rodman’s interesting cuz like you know he’s 67
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and he still acts exactly kind of like the Rodman you’re thinking about.
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Yeah. But he has not like he hasn’t like mellowed.
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I like that a lot.
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Well, he’s hanging out with Gi Ping or No, Kim Jong-un.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. He’s the only guy who ever gets to go to North Korea apparently.
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Well, he brought he brought a bunch of players with him on that one trip. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah.
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Didn’t they make a They made like a a music video. There was a news show about him going to my ex-girlfriend had a huge crush on
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him. I had I had to break up with her, right? Dennis was Didn’t Madonna dated Dennis?
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Of course. Madonna and Electra. Wait, did Madonna date Pippen? I think they hooked up. No. Can we have footage of that? Mark, can you tell me about that?
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I can watch that. Rodman’s father. No. Absent father, right? No. Oh, he had Philander. His name is Flander. He has something.
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His name is not Philander. something like 24 kids by 19 women. I think it’s I think it’s 20 kids. Christian name is Philander.
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That’s impossible. I’ll look it up. That is impossible. Things could be true.
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This sounds like a Charles Lorden type of story right there. Let’s see. I forgot about the smiley face hair.
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That was genius. The weird smiley face demonstrander, not Philander’s clothes.
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Yeah, that’s up there.
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Do you guys know that stupid? remember Rodman left and just went to Vegas for a while.
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Children and it was so cool that they just let him do it. They were like, he just needs this. I have a theory about it.
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Yeah, I have a theory about why they let Dennis do everything they let Dennis do. And it makes it makes a lot of sense.
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Like when there’s a guy on the other team that people think is crazy. Like that’s so helpful. Sure.
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Like imagine like so when even the Bulls are like, “Hey, Dennis is [ __ ] crazy.
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We can’t control him.” M so imagine how you feel if you’re the Knicks and you’re like if he won’t listen to Phil Jackson and Jordan and Pippen and anybody else and he’ll just [ __ ] off.
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Like watch out for that guy. He doesn’t [ __ ] care.
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And you got to let a guy that crazy be crazy. That’s let him be so crazy. There we go. Look at how little I am next to Lil Rodman. Ah, you’re cute.
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Look at me. What a crew. That is a [ __ ] posi.
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Who’s the white guy with the Is that Jennifer Gray?
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Is it me or Jennifer Gray? There’s three white guys in the picture that I can tell.
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One on the right that I’ve never heard of.
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That’s Jared. Oh, he’s the most famous guy in the photo by far. Who’s PKI?
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That guy’s Jared Pleki. He’s from a show called Supernatural.
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Oh, they have their own fan conventions just for that show. Oh, wow. Never heard of it. I don’t know it.
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We watch it at home. We call it Ghost Hunks.
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Ghost Hunks cuz it’s two guys looking for ghosts and they’re hunky as [ __ ] I love it. Really, really dreamy. You’re not gay.
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You fathered 29 children with 16 different women. See, take that Nick Cannon and Elon. That’s more than both.
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I did not know anything about this. And I did read Bad as I Want to Be. How was that? It’s terrific book. Dennis’s book. Yeah.
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Yeah. He talks about sitting outside the Palace at Auburn Hills with a shotgun in his mouth in the car.
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No, he he had some really troubled moments.
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You never hear about the dark side cuz you always think, “Oh, what a cool life.” You always think Dennis seems fine.
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You always look at Dennis, you’re like, you know what? If anything, he seems fine, right?
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Yeah. But there’s a beauty to that selfless type of player. The guy who’s just like, I don’t need the ball. I’m just going to run a muck. Imagine if you’re fighting for a ball.
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Yeah. With that guy. Yeah. Let him have it. Yeah. [ __ ] it. As a kid, too. Like, no, take my toy.
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Take it. Take it. Like, he’s got green hair and a nose ring.
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Yeah. Dennis has proven that he it doesn’t like he’s got bigger stuff on his mind. Yeah.
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As opposed to bonking his head with you, right?
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Yeah. Well, we all had that friend in high school when you got into a fist fight, he would go bring a bottle over his head and everybody else was like, “Oh, gez. All right, I’m not going after.
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You can’t fight. You can’t really fight crazy.
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Can’t fight crazy.” Which you could say Trump is a little of that, but uh Iran’s crazy, too.
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So, they’re like, “Fuck it. We’ll go after you.” Yeah. Both reality stars, both a little crazy. Both kind of peaked in the early
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Hey, was Dennis ever on uh Dennis must have been on He was on something.
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He must have been He was on the Apprentice Trump show, right? I think I think so. There’s no way Dennis was not on that show. Had to be, right?
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I could see that long.
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Meatloaf was if he likes Kim Jong-un. Dennis was Yeah. Season 8. Bam. Did he win? Can’t. What was he?
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How do you Do you win? Misspelled Trump’s name. He famously misspelled Melania. Morris Melania.
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He made memorable fire rings. Oh, he misspelled Melania’s name. Oh, we got to rewatch that season. Invite you back for season 13.
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Uh, wow. That ran that long.
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Speaking of, was it NBC? Was the show with you uh with Matthew Perry, the Odd Couple? Was that NBC? Odd Couple on CBS. CBS. They remade that.
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I was Not only did they remake it, I was in it. You were? Which one? Felix number five. How’s that work? Uh, let’s see. The play.
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Oh, Matau.
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Yeah. Uh, the play is uh uh it goes Jack Lemon.
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There’s the play, the movie, the TV show from the 70s. Black odd couple. My odd couple. What was the black the black odd couple?
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Yeah, it was called black odd couple. Wait, really?
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It’s called the new odd couple. And you go to new odd. Go new odd couple.
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But everything is ripped off the odd couple. Like even even a great show like the odd couple. That’s a good point.
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There you go. There’s the new odd couple. Wow.
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So I’m on I’m I would be the guy I’m the guy on. I’m the mustache one. Yeah. Yeah. The almost gay one.
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Yeah. Even but still even even in the one I was in, I’m still the almost gay one. I’m Felix. Even right here. Is that Lamont?
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Uh that is Yes. What from Sanford?
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I think that’s on the right. And that’s the guy from Barney Miller on the left.
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Yes. Yeah. Um No, that was a fun run. We did uh like three half seasons of The Odd Couple.
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How cool is Matthew Perry? He’s a funny guy. We had a great time. We were very cool.
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Well, we did that. We did a movie called uh 17 Again.
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Easy. We did. Nobody remembers that I did uh did a couple episodes of Friends with uh Matt. Did you? Yeah. Wow.
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I’m uh Joey’s hand twin.
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You remember I’m Joey’s hand twin. I love Joey’s handwin. I was in the friends reunion. How you doing? Hand twin. Yep.
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What was it like working with Matthew Perry?
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Uh we had a lot of fun. I mean Matty’s a complicated guy. I you know we he you know there’s always ups and downs with
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Manny but like when he was in his I mean he you know he like Matty wanted to be like a serious playwright and he was
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like kind of a he was a heavier personality than than a lot of people I know. I mean his like if left to his own devices I think he would
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be like mostly just kind of writing slightly sad plays like this his real vibe right and then he kind of accidentally became
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a a TV you know like a prime time heartthrob and you know dated Julia Roberts for Pete’s sake
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dated Yeah. Yeah. He was dating Julia Roberts when she was work I know that he he was dating her when she was working
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on her Irish accent for for Michael Collins or one of those pictures. Oh, it’s like the worst time to date her.
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Yeah, you don’t want you don’t want to miss What’s his father in the business?
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Uh, Mattiey’s dad is I thought like a Canadian news guy or something.
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Ah, am I thinking of his stepdad is His stepdad is the famous guy. Uh, anyway, we had a lot of fun.
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All right. We both smoked cigarettes at the time. He smoked a million cigarettes together. I could see that.
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Do you like smoking cigarettes in a Porsche?
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We did a lot of it. How fun was LA back then? Porching around ’90s LA must have been the tip top.
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Knocking burning darts in a Porsche. Yeah, we had a lot of fun. Yeah.
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Do you worry about TV? The state of TV, movies, and all that? No. You’re not worried? Nah. You don’t think it’s shifting?
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Well, you’ve had a lot of success. I mean, you wrote not I don’t know if everyone listening knows he wrote Night at the Museum, which is that’s a huge movie.
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Whoa. They made three movies. Yeah, there’s actually a fourth animated one and apparently there’s going to be a fifth. That’s insane.
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Um, but you know, I everybody’s worried about everything, but yeah, and I worry about stuff, too. But then I also don’t worry about it because it’s like,
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you know, like when TV was invented, people worried about that. And you know, it’s like, good point.
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You know, and then they’re like, “Oh, some of the people buying studios are evil.” And I’m like, “Well, I worked for the people that used to own studios weren’t the nicest people in the world
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either.” So, it’s like what where, you know, so you’re optimistic? I’m optimistic and everything sorts itself out. I like that. It’s refreshing.
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Mostly, you know, and all you can do is keep doing good stuff. So, here here you can keep trying to do good work. And
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can we pull up his resume in just some ways kind of my resume? If you go to IMDb, it looks like a charades game of like a crazy person, right?
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There’s no logic to like I’m in two Merchant Ivory movies. Jesus. But I’m also in Boat Trip.
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Is that Cuba Gooding Jr.? Yeah, I know that.
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I’m also I’m also in a low divorce. I’m also in the Jerry Seinfeld movie.
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11 photos. I’m going to go through all I get a little little Oh, that’s a picture called uh that’s a Mike Jan picture also from the state. Which one?
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Uh that’s a Mike Jan movie called uh uh Oregon Trail.
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Very scary sort of western by Michael Patrick Jan from the state. Director also of uh of um Oh, you got 317 photos of me.
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I’m only at 13 here. Yeah, we’ll just keep we’ll just keep [ __ ] going through and I’ll I’ll try to remember any of them. Oh, is that Rose Burn?
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Uh that’s a show called The Big Leap on Fox. That was great. Uh yeah, same same.
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You’ve been on a lot of shows that went but a lot of shows that haven’t gone.
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Correct. Well, I mean, what’s that like when you really believe in something and you’re just like that’s it?
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Yeah. I mean, I’ve been in shows that were canceled at the table read also.
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Yeah, there’s friends. Oh, I’m I’m doing a little too much in Friends. I feel like they’re Look at that face. I’m doing too much. I’m doing too much. Turn it down.
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That was some cheesy. That was I’m early in Hollywood. I haven’t really been there that long cuz I should be I could be doing less.
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Any audition tips? I can’t nail an audition to save my life. Yeah. No. Uh that is Hancock. Oh, that movie Hancock.
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Anything you auditioned for that you were like, I really wish I got it and and it went which which is one that you thought you were what’s one that you were really close to?
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I was positive I was going to be uh for like a couple months it seemed very likely that I was going to be Ford Prefect in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Oh, cool.
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And then I was not.
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Yeah. Um, uh, the guy who got it was most deaf and he’s excellent in it, but I confuse the two.
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I know. We have We’re endlessly circling the same projects. But, uh, he’s very good in the picture, but it was weird because I was positive I had it.
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That’s the worst.
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Often times you’re positive you have it and then you know what? You don’t. Totally.
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You don’t. Rodman gets scurries away with it and you’re like, ah.
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Um but uh no there’s I mean everything most auditions are heartbreaks. Yeah.
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You know, damn.
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I just I mean I found out I saw that I was on the list of uh you know people to consider for the Michael Scott role in the office which I never knew was true and they
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never saw me or anything but there’s a memo I guess it’s it’s in the book about the office and I was like oh that would have been neat. That’s cool.
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But I’m happy with my life. Yeah. Who else is on that list?
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Uh a lot of cool people. Um, lots of cool people were on that list. Wasn’t Bob Odenkirk on that?
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For sure he was. Yeah, for sure on that list. And he might have actually been in in uh Paul Giamati. Wow. A lot of people were on that list.
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Martin is that seems like a that would have been a odd choice even though he I mean he’s amazing. Big I think.
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Yeah. It’s almost like he’s almost too famous to play that.
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I watched his documentary and he talks about how showbiz is 95% failure. Just audition after audition, movies flopping.
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For me, it’s about 99, right? Yeah. If you’re hitting 95, you’re killing it.
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Is there anything Is there anything you passed on that you almost never? Yeah. Literally, it’s almost never happened.
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Like, pretty much never. It would have to be. So, I mean, I’m in the I’m in Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich.
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So, like, if I’m going to be in that, Reich, I’m in Puppet Master the Littlest Reich. If I’m in that, what wouldn’t I be?
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Yeah, like almost, you know, you’re on this podcast.
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This is I was doing my garment shopping anyway. I see.
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I’m always I’m usually in the garment district on You got a glass of wine out of it.
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Yeah. I got almost a whole glass of wine that was picked by Joe McCale and actually really solid. Really good. Yeah. Really solid.
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Is there any type of thing that you haven’t done yet that you really want to do?
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Well, the Broadway thing was one. I’ve written a couple novels. That was pretty cool.
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You’re busy out there. Wiscon outside from my life from the outside I guess it must look like I feel busy to me it’s always like why am I not doing more you
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know I get that you feel that from the inside it always feels like you’re not doing quite enough I would say in comedy we do more in a
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year than most people do in 20 years probably yes the traveling travel meeting people staying friendly we did we’ve done the road for the last
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like 15 years how hard we’ve been on the road was like pretty crazy I’m in every town but I love it I I really love it it is one of the hardest kind of lifestyles too.
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Oh, definitely. But it’s also so rewarding. It’s so fun. It can’t Yeah, it is. It’s a real high. Yeah.
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But like to build to build a home life, it’s hard is Yeah. Yeah.
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I kind of stopped doing standup once I realized how I really liked it. I don’t know if I was good at it, but I like doing it. But
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it’s the kind of thing where it is not super conducive to like being home and being You got that right now. Yeah. I got a baby boy and it’s a lot.
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It’s very tough. Do you have a kid? I do. My son is 16 now.
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Woo. You’re right. In the masturbation era. Yeah. Yeah.
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He seems pretty I don’t know. I don’t They hide it. Well, you hope they hide it. Yeah. Long time.
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Which sucks. He’s like, “Yeah, he’s he’s jerking off a lot. We’ve been We’ve been walking in on it.” But, uh, yeah, it’s like it’s tough cuz like the, you know, comedy is just
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always someplace where there’s tons of booze and people want to hang out and you’re like, “Dang, pick me. I want to sit on your shoulder.”
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Just like everybody like wants to, you know, that’s how this pod started is we were just drinking buddies from back in the day and it just, you know, and you hang out less, so you do a pod,
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right? And then you get we get to meet folks. There you go. But it’s cool.
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Sit and watch We get to watch all of Raw after this.
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Is there anyone you really want to work with who you haven’t worked with?
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Um, I don’t I mean, I I I keep I like the weird thing about me is I I kind of like I like doing all the different jobs.
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Yeah. The variety, you know, like that’s what keeps me at doing this. I think it’s very good to diversify the stuff that you do.
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Like I as soon as I’m like I’m never I don’t ever want to work in write movies again because it sucks. Yeah.
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And it’s a nightmare. And then you write a novel and you’re like, you know what I want to do is I want to adapt this book back into a movie. And then like it’s just it’s good to diversify because
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there is so much heartbreak in movies and theater and TV and comedy
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like so much of it is just you know shitty. Yeah.
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That it’s good to diversify that heartbreak a little bit you know and have have eggs in some different baskets sometimes.
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We wrote a movie and we’re trying to get it made.
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I think we’re I think we’re going to shoot it in July which I’m You’re just going to do it. We got we got independent financing. So, we got we got lucky. It’s very hard to pitch stuff now. You waste like six months pitching.
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So, we we went to independent financing.
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We got it. But, uh me and Marino pitched two things last year that were like slam [ __ ] dunk. Like to the top. They seemed amazing.
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And you find out eight days later in an email, they’re like, “Oh, no. They they didn’t want to say you’re like, wait.” And there’s not even like a big like, “No, no, I’m sorry.”
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It used to be like the the the person you pitched to would call you and tell you why it didn’t work or they’re like, “It’s not for us.” Or
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at least they would say something. But we’ve we’ve now we’re in an era of everybody’s so used to being ghosted and
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ghosting people that like you can go pitch a highle studio executive and you will never hear about it again. That’s true. At all.
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Yeah. Yeah. It’s [ __ ] weird. It’s weird. It’s weird.
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I just pitched a kind of a reality show, Pa Stage, and everybody passed on it eventually. Did they tell you they passed or did you ask you had to ask?
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And then I said to my manager, “Why’ they pass?” And she was like, “I don’t know.” And so I emailed them and I said, “Why did you pass your [ __ ] job to know?”
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So I got the why now from them and they said, “Well, it’s too niche, blah, blah.” I was like, “Okay, thank you.
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That’s all I need to know.” But it actually having closure and stuff like that.
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It’s also the way that like the world should work.
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Like if people don’t like the idea that you have, say why.
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Yeah. Yeah. Don’t just be like, “I’m never to speaking to them ever again.” Exactly.
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I will never speak to them. Like, just [ __ ] say what you didn’t like.
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I know. But that’s why the internet is so It’s fun because if you get a big pop on the internet, you go, you could have had that. Yep.
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I mean, that was our careers. I mean, you talk about kind of being like the anti-SNL in the ’90s, but we were, you know, with standup specials. We got passed on by everyone and we put our
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[ __ ] on YouTube and it just kind of it changed our lives. Of course, way better. And now, but I mean for the, you know, for the reference when we went
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to do the like Marina 911 at Quibby, what Quibby Kenberg’s little thing that he wanted to do with the Oh, we remember.
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Yeah, we got we got our idea got passed on by Quibby. Yeah, true. You poor things.
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Um, yeah, we had a loaded shotgun in our mouth after that one sitting outside. Quibby said no.
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We were also the stadium at Auburn Hills or something. Um, but the the the what they they showed us what they were trying to compete with and it wasn’t with Netflix and it wasn’t with the
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movie studios and it wasn’t with TV. It was with YouTube.
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They were trying to compete with YouTube because the eyeballs, if you look at eyeball charts, like Netflix is amazing.
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It’s YouTube’s here. The chart is goes, you can’t see the chart anymore. Whoa.
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Because YouTube just do YouTube versus Netflix eyeballs like eyeballs. It’s crazy.
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But but to talk about like your optimism, it’s like you don’t know what’s going to pop for you. You don’t know what’s going to hit. So just have a shitload of plates spinning. Care about
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all those plates. Viewer viewers viewership. Yeah.
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But we didn’t know. I mean I thought we were failure doing that. I know. So did I. But it worked out. That’s kind of how it goes sometimes.
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All 13% of all television screening in the United States is YouTube.
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13% of all Wow. Two billion monthly. billion monthly logged in. So like one quarter of the planet is watching YouTube.
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Well, Netflix has eight or nine%. That’s pretty [ __ ] great. Yeah.
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But they’re they’re five four to 5% under YouTube. So you’ve gone right to put
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your thing on the thing that has the I mean it’s like but you can’t compete with YouTube. Everyone’s uploading every second.
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Netflix you have to wait for the new thing. Hey, here’s the new special.
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Here’s the new movie out. I feel like YouTube there’s always something new on YouTube. I will say that’s one thing about watching YouTube stuff is
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sometimes you feel like hey this is filler. you just put this out today cuz you had to put out something today
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and you can feel that sometimes which I miss like when you ever watch a movie from the 40s and it’s like 90 minutes and airtight dialogue and now I
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mean look we’re part of the problem on this podcast but we still our movie I feel like is tight joke like that’s what
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we like I’ve actually I’m sure someone else has an expression for this but I’ve started calling it spacing which is
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streamer pacing. Yeah, because you start watching shows on any streaming service and you’re
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like, who decided to make this 28 minutes longer than it needed to be? The answer is cuz they want to have 10 of them. Yeah.
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But like this would have been covered.
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You’re seeing stuff on streaming shows that would have been covered in a movie, as you said, in about 90 minutes. Yeah. Yeah.
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But if it’s a streaming show, wouldn’t it be great if there was eight to 10 of these?
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Yes. So, let’s just um linger and then we’re going to we’re going to linger over here and then we’ll linger back there.
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There you go. Everything [ __ ] lingers.
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You’re right. They make it a By the way, I ran into Nate Passi last night, the seller who told me he’s coming back on the podcast, which I know. But, but I go, I’ll make sure Mark
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doesn’t fart you next time. Nate was a really stinky. Sorry, that was bad.
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Well, Nate, I said, I’ll make sure Mark doesn’t fart you. And Nate goes, thanks.
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It’s like 100° outside. It also Oh my god, dude. That’s [ __ ] from a bodega.
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I also feel like it got into my Joel male wine, which is [ __ ] Sorry, Joel.
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Hold on. Let me Let me make sure. Hold on one sec. Yeah. No, [ __ ] it.
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Oh, it’s your [ __ ] What the [ __ ] dude?
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I would like I just want to make sure you don’t need to see a doctor or something, do you? Cuz that was that was legitimately like covering up a fart spray. Don’t spray.
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Yeah. Light candle. That’s horrific.
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Yeah. Has a doctor said that you’re okay? No.
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This guy worked with Matthew Perry and he’s worried about you. I’ll be there for you.
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I think you should probably you should probably see a doctor pretty soon. Oh my god.
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A priest and a seance in here. Some sage. Holy hell. Hala Akbar.
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Dude, that is a real Danny Thomas’s real name three times backwards.
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He he asked to appear. Yeah. Holy [ __ ] I ate a poop sandwich there.
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That is brutal. I think I think it’s passed. Jesus Christ.
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It’s not all the way gone. I mean, woo. Usually your cartoon farts don’t smell. No, that was a bad one.
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That was a burrito I had from a a store. A bodega. Yeah. Down the street. Was it made out of cat food or what?
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What?
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Made out of [ __ ] Oh man.
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Do they have a letter grade in the window? And the answer is we know that the answer is no. Yes.
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Oo, that is that candle ain’t going to help.
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I’m just trying to smell the wine now to get away from Who was Someone was told me they do coffee grounds on a plane in case they’re next to someone.
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You ever the the flight attendant will walk down with an open bag of coffee grounds and kind of like squeeze it. Give it a little like
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it’ll kill a lot of uh I had a a fat lady on a flight. She had the worst beer. We got why we got away. We got wait.
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I was painting a picture. That was her only characteristic. Well, it was more I held I held back. Okay. She was a fat heavy set woman of color.
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Wow.
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And she had like a tight body. She had the fat and heavy set. Yes. Wow.
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Mark, this Ann Morrisy in the same episode. You’re making a lot of enemies. You literally ripping farts. Yeah.
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Starting feuds. Is the podcast called Ripping Farts and Starting and Starting Feuds? Holy [ __ ] That’s a good title.
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Barts and Feuds.
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Barts and Feuds. Welcome back. We pitched that to Quibby, too. They wouldn’t bite. That was You’re going to end up with a shotgun in your mouth outside the stadium in Auburn
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Hills. Listening to Daughter by Pearl Jam.
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Quibby was I mean, that was a crazy I almost had two Quibby shows. Really? Almost. Quit bragging.
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Quibby and Ciso. Was that two? Ciso. I had produced a show for Ciso. Really? Oh, wow. Yeah.
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And CISO. That’s when we ran out of names, remember? Yes. Yes.
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We just took anything from Danny K and we put it there’s Vimeo as well. Remember Vimeo? Vimeo still around.
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Oh, is that Vimeo’s good now? Ty. Vimeo is where you like if you make a video that’s too. Come on, man.
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We lost him. We lost him. Going a little far away. All right. All right. Well, we lost him on the mic.
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This is the second time Lennon’s been shot. Oh my god. Oh man.
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All right, that’s it. That’s it. The chamber’s empty. I had to get the last one out. It was It was bubbling. It was bubbling. Bubbling crude.
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Holy hell. Sorry, Tommy. Good to have you back. It’s good to be here. This is your uh Reno 911.
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Is there any pressure to bring that show back? Do people hit you up all the time?
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Oh, that was a classic. We have I mean we have done a fair am like we we we reboot it here and there and you know it it’s sort of an evergreen
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thing. It’s it’s not super complicated you know. Yeah. Yeah.
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We uh one nice thing people think that like it’s weird. It has it’s having a moment now because people are like it’s so incorrect
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you know it doesn’t give a [ __ ] That’s well I guess said the N word it actually by a lot of standards it it would be sure
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but to us it was always just like oh this is just kind of who we are we’re not we’re not we’re never gross for to be gross and we’re never
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you know but we also never filter the show is very not filtered you know same with us so yeah obviously
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I had a crush on the blonde Wendy Wendy why wouldn’t she’s great in a ditch yeah I don’t think she’d mind me saying
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she’s a dish yeah Wendy’s Yeah, she’s a Is that her?
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No, that’s Carrie, also a dish, my dear friend. Yeah, the state with the state was nobody wanted us to do anything. No one gave a [ __ ]
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We would do live shows and things like that. And um MTV was doing a show called You Wrote It, You Watch It. David was an intern at
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MTV on some other news and stuff. And he’d heard about the show and he said we pitched we said, “Hey, can we make some
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videos for this show?” And they were like, “No.” And we’re like, “Oh, okay. Fuck.” And then we did the thing that ended up
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changing our lives in show business and is still, I think, what you were just talking about. Instead of pitching it, we went and shot three sketches.
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That’s the way to do it.
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And we g we walked in and gave them to them and was like, “Look at this.” And wow, that from that we got you watch
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it. From you wrote it, you watch it. We got the state.
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John Stewart was the host of that. So John got the John Stewart show. We got the state. Oh, and then from the state, you know, Viv
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Variety and Reno 901 and probably I don’t know. Oh, Variety.
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30 movies of some combination of these people have made. I mean, most of these people are in Gal Daltry the movie.
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Oh, [ __ ] It’s great. You guys are still buds. Yeah.
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Anyone in here sort of not doing what they want to do today.
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Every single person in the group pretty much does what they Todd does art. He does like art installations and Todd is the founder in the pad in the front
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there. Todd lives in Seoul and he does like art installations and stuff. Oh, interesting.
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Yeah. Um, but everybody pretty much everyone else almost everyone in that picture directs movies. Cool.
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I thought that was young Todd Barry in that flannel for a second.
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Oh, that’s David Wang. Shalter is one of Hollywood’s biggest directors. Ken obviously directs and is in everything.
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I’m in a lot of stuff. That is Kevin Allison. Risk.
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He has a very popular podcast called Risk.
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kind of scary stories. Have you done Risk uh many years ago? Yes. Did you fart on him?
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You didn’t have one loaded, but what the hell? The guy That’s a bummer cuz he pro he might be into it. That’s true.
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He’s probably of the state your best audience for that.
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Oh, okay. Good to know. Well, I took a risk. This guy in the brown jacket.
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Joe, he doesn’t I’m often mistaken for Joe Lo. What is the scene where he’s on drugs?
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Super troopers. Joe, I couldn’t pinpoint it. Super troopers. Still not super bad. Super Troopers. I think it’s in both.
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Is Joe in Super Height? He might be in both. Joe’s I know in Super Bad. What’s his last name?
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Uh Joe Loruglio with a L O and then a capital T again.
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Yeah, he is the member of the state that I’m most often mistaken for. No, I don’t.
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Otherwise, I’m mistaken for a member of the kids in the hall quite a bit. Oh, Bruce. Uh or Dave. I think I’m more Super Trooper.
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Dave. Oh, he’s not. Who’s the guy in Super Trooper? She’s thinking of uh uh That’s who I was thinking of, though. You nailed it. Really?
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Joe is in He’s in um Joe’s in I mean a million movies. Christina Hendris ex-husband.
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That’s not Joe’s. Not Joe was never married to Jesus.
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Joe was never married to Christina Hendricks. That guy was married to her.
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We’ve been through this on the pod before. We’ve literally done this before.
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Well, we drink a lot on the I’m in a terrific movie with Christina Hendricks. You can watch it. It’s called Pottersville.
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At one point it was at an actual zero on Rotten Tomatoes. Tomatoes. I think now it’s at like a 16. Can we go to Rotten Tomatoes Potterville?
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Wow. Me uh Zero is crazy.
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Zero is almost impossible because you have to have enough reviews, right?
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To to register 14%.
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Yeah. Right. Yeah. But look at that popcorn meter.
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That is it only is good by comparison to But again, another thing about life.
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Look at my the biggest hit I’ve ever been affiliated with. It’s just both ends. It just both. Uh, look at Night of the Museum.
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It’s like having a baby on the podcast.
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The biggest hit of my entire life that I’ve ever been a part of the Museum on Rotten Tomatoes is probably what 40ome maybe. That’s crazy. Whoa.
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Welcome to my [ __ ] life. So, you never know.
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Yeah, but it’s got Look at the the popcorn meter. It’s still not that good counts. That’s an F.
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That’s a Yeah. See, that’s a terrible review.
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Is that crazy when you write that or you’re like this is going to be so wellreceived or what? I I’ve stopped thinking that a long long time ago, you know. Wow. You wrote that and even worrying about it because that’s impressive.
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You know, comedy generally doesn’t get reviewed that well. You got that right.
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You know, but I mean, it’s about to have its fourth or fifth film. Wow.
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So, it’s like, you know, you got to Oh, thank you. Did you just rate it nicely? Thank you. Good man. For [ __ ] sake.
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He’s not a member. Did you get to uh direct that as well?
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No. No. God, no. That’s uh Sean Levy, probably the biggest director in Hollywood currently.
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Wait, what has uh Levy done? He just did one called uh Wolverine Deadpool versus Wolverine. Making the next Star Wars picture. Yeah, he’s pretty big.
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Very Gee, I never heard of him. You heard of this guy? Yeah. Sean Levy. He’s a huge deal. I don’t know Levy. All right. You’d like him. He’s a good guy. Okay, great.
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Don’t rip a fart on him when you meet him. I won’t.
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Quick question. So, when my kid goes to night museum night at the museum, do I get a little kickback from that? I do.
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Do you get kickbacks from this outfit?
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I get a very small kickback from that outfit. Uh, it’s not as good as you would think.
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Yeah. No, I don’t get anything from the go to the museum. No, from the outfit.
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That is an officially licensed Lieutenant D outfit.
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Uh, I I’m going to tell you right now, I don’t do as well as you would like.
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And And I’m just going to Can I quickly, if we’re starting [ __ ] feuds? Yeah. Hell yeah.
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Uh, I’m going to start a real real actual feud. Bring it on, Freddy. Give a great big FU to Spirit Halloween.
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Oh [ __ ] Now, here’s what I’m going to say. If you try to find the Lieutenant Dangle outfit at Spirit Halloween, you’re not gonna find it. You know why?
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Because look up Sergeant Short Pants.
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At Spirit Halloween, they’ve made up their own They ripped you off.
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They’ve made up their own Lieutenant Dangle outfit. As if there’s just always cops in shorts.
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There we go. Wow. Yo, give him a bad review, dude.
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Uh, no. That that might be the official again.
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No, no, no. Sergeant Short pants cop costume. Yeah. So they they’ve made up version they’ve made up their own version of it.
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It’s getting some good reviews. Look at that. It’s got great reviews, you
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[ __ ] [ __ ]
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Wow.
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Um this the the knockoff Lieutenant Dangle outfit has better reviews than Night of the Museum.
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Welcome. Welcome to my [ __ ] life.
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Wow. Spirit, you [ __ ] This is why your airline went under, guys. This is why you [ __ ] up your airline. Oh, no. You can give it a good review.
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It’s all right. Hey, you know what? A rising tide lifts all ships. Say you rip the guy off. Take my man. Yeah.
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Hey, if you’re listening to podcast, go to Spirit Halloween and destroy it.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. A rising tide lifts all ships. But you can also get the official one some [ __ ] place. All right. Don’t destroy it. Hold your fire.
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Not that this is an ad for Amazon, but I think they have the real one. They need a boost. You’re wearing the real one over there.
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That’s the real one over there. It looks good. Hell yeah.
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I always wonder you there, Tom. I always wonder how guys like you stay rich
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and then it’s stuff like this. These little nickel and dime things there streams of revenue coming in. What did you just say? I wonder how guys like you stay rich.
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Well, you’ve been in the game for six decades. Yeah. So, you always wonder how does it Peter? Does it fizzle?
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I’m glad the fart wasn’t the most insulting thing you’ve done. No, you know what I’m saying.
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No, but here’s what you The real uh secret to that is take every time you get paid, take 10% of it and put it in the stock market. Yeah.
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Oh, is that right? Someone’s telling you that right now. No.
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No. [ __ ] You need a time machine where I tell you that like 20 years ago. Yeah.
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Just do that forever now. [ __ ] that dude. FanDuel. Go Nicks. Go Nicks. Or or FanDuel.
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Yeah, lads. Well, yeah. Well, dude, it’s been it’s been awesome having a great time. This has been a great episode.
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You want to go spend some real money in the garment district? Yes, let’s do it. Let’s make our own short.
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And remember, pull up the movie one more time. Uh Gail Dory. It’s a great picture. G A I L in the celebrity sex.
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Picture by Oh, there’s a trailer. It comes out July 10th. Everywhere in the world. It’s in real movie theaters. Hell yeah. Real movie theaters. July 10th.
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If you like anything but the state, Camarino, David Wayne. Love it.
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These are the people behind Wet Hot American Summer, obviously. Wonder Lust.
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Wanderlust and the 10 and uh you know, all the good ones.
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It’s a great premise of a picture. It’s a premise so funny. I was like, are they is this going to get made? And then they they made it. Isn’t that funny? It was so funny that you’re worried it might Sometimes it’s so funny. You worry, is
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it really going to get made? But this one did get made. Oh, it’s at a 74. Holy
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Hey, it’s quite an upgrade from Night of the MW.
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Yeah, it’s almost it’s almost double Night. That’s true. Almost double the Night at the Museum. Long titles sometimes.
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It was actually I think it was longer. Really? Yeah.
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You know, it’s like whatever Jackie and what are we looking at Johnny makeup?
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We’re looking at your tour dates. We’re plugging dates. Plugging dates, baby. What do we got? June 7th.
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Let’s see where is the closest you are to anywhere I live. All right. Field, Wisconsin. I’m going to Milwaukee. You mean Milwaukee?
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Yeah. If you want to uh do a guest set June 6th at the improv.
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I will be very I don’t get to Milwaukee till like the couple days after that. Okay. That’s what they all say.
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Milwaukee is a beautiful town. Hiding in Milwaukee. Hiding in plain sight. It’s awesome.
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Somebody was very smart and they were looking for a cool place to live that wasn’t like already a crowded and a bummer. The cold though. Milwauke.
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But it’s a great city. It’s a great I’m going to June and I’m excited. That’s why Prince stayed in Minneapolis. That’s right. Keeps away some of the cooks. There you go.
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Who’s playing [ __ ] Budapest?
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And by the way, tickets still available in Budapest. That one is looking rough. Not that many. No, no, that everything else is moving.
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Let’s see what’s available.
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Hey, uh, what’s the best seat I can get in Budapest?
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Lisbon’s doing great. Athens doing great. Adding a show in Warsaw. Where are you going to be in Athens? Uh, I don’t know.
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The hottest city in the world. And I don’t mean that in the best way. I mean the best seats you can get. All right.
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That’s the best seat I can get right there. Yeah, it’s 28 girkies. 28 girkies. That’s a lot of pickles.
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Even actual pickles, man. Two corner.
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I knew their economy was [ __ ] up. I didn’t know it was like like pickle.
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Yeah, dollar pickle. It was a pickle economy. Yeah. We got uh what what do I have?
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You know Zagreb, you’re going to kill it.
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Zagreb, dude, we’re doing well in Zagreb. Budapest not looking great. Vienna Warsaw. Have fun. And you have fun.
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Add in the second show. Helsinki, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. Going to be a lot of fun. Hell yeah.
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I just learned that that’s how you [ __ ] spell Copenhagen. It blew my mind. There you go.
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I didn’t even know that looked like a word. It’s a great city. Great. Beautiful town. Mark, where you going to be?
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I’ll be at the Irvine Improv. Come on out. That’s a big room. We got We got one show left to sell out. Then we got the Tempe Improv.
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There’s a picture of me backstage at the Irvine Improv. Not to brag.
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I think there is. Can I tell you why it’s there? I think it got moved from from the Hollywood one. and they’re just like, “Ah, move. Here you can go.” Yeah.
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Irvine’s a good one. I got moved down to Irvine. Great great club though.
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Uh Mark Ridley is in Detroit area, Royal Oak. Uh Cleveland hilarities and in Seattle, Emerald City, sides players in
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Tampa and the clubhouse in the Hampton out to that.
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Cobs, you got a couple nights. Cobs is um here’s the thing about Cobbs. You don’t even need to be good to play Cobs.
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Like Cobbs is such a friendly place. The great crowds.
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You could just try I’ll fart up there. You just try stuff out.
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Yeah, you can really try stuff out. And cuz San Francisco and Cobbs in particular, the best one of the one places in the world.
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Nashville and Pittsburgh and uh California.
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We have to cancel some of these if we shoot that movie. But you better believe it. It looks like we’re shooting it. So, that’s what I hear. Fingers crossed.
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All right. I’ll believe it when I see it. Awesome to hang out with you, Thomas. It’s a pleasure. This is a treat and an honor.
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Cheers, Morrisy.
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I’ve had a little too much bourbon and Norman’s talking [ __ ] about the [ __ ] poke and I get down in the same way.
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up on the roof like a cop’s coming and naked Samuel is feeling dangerous.
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I’m out to lunch here in New Orleans.
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This woman doesn’t look like I remember her and I get down in the same way.
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It might be true.
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