Aunty Donna Podcast - Podcast Ep 221 - Exciting News With Ed Helms

Episode Date: October 20, 2020

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This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Get our legends and welcome to a very special episode of the R&T Donna podcast. Today we announce that on November 11th, our new six-part sketch comedy series will be coming to Netflix. So before you listen to this podcast, jump on YouTube, Facebook or wherever and watch the trailer for Auntie Donna's big old house of fun. Today we have a very special guest, our executive producer Ed

Holmes joining us. And lastly, we did record this podcast over soon, so audio equality is slightly lower than usual, but we hope you dox down mine. Take it away Tom! Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Antidonna podcast. I'm here today with Mark Bonano, how are you Mark? I'm good, thank you so much, Broden, it's so good to have you here, so good to be here with the podcast and we do have two very special guests today, don't we, Broden? We do. It coincides with some very exciting news, which we haven't been able to talk about for a very long time, but now we can. If you're online, you may have seen that we've released the trailer for our next project which is one we've been working on for a while. It's going to be available

across the world. It is a Netflix original six-part series called Anti-Donors Big Old House of Fun. We're very happy. He shot it in America, and it was lots of fun. We've edited it up. We've done the sound mix. It's coming out. We did the great. We did the great. Yeah, the great was doing it.

You did mention the great. Yeah, well, I didn't think it was necessary to just a general public audience. Well, a lot of people would like to know. I'm sure there were a lot of film studios at the same time. We did the great. We did the great. a lot of film students. We did the grade. We did the grade. And we'll like the grade.

When the grade happened. But what's happened is to announce this show, we were lucky enough to get two guests and performers from the show onto the podcast this week. Should we introduce them now? I would love to introduce, let's introduce them one at a time. Okay, great. Well, our first guest, you may know him from the TV series, The Office,

from the Hangover series and many, many other things. He's a fantastic guest on our show. Please welcome Ed Helms. What's wrong? Thank you. Thank you so much for having me, guys. Yeah. Could I make a little request that maybe you refer to this

as a podcast end-a-sode? I'll, yeah. Yeah. I don't know don't don't say no. Just sit on it. Think about it. Is what can I ask why? Because my name is Ed. And it's very clever wordplay to replace

app with Ed. Okay. But you get edd a so. So okay. I you get Ed a sod. Okay. I think I'm still, that's really funny. Can I do it?

Can I offer another thing? Maybe a podcast episode with Ed Helms. Oh, that's interesting. What do you think of that? I mean, it's fine. That's fine. Yeah. I think that has that sort of play on words

that you quite liked about, even though I don't still fully understand episode, but I think what Brodon is suggesting still has that fun play with words that maybe you liked. Sure, I like it. I like it. And I'm getting, I mean, I don't wanna to get in a fight like right at the top here. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, big thing. But just think about it. When you email and tweet people about this, maybe think about Edith's sod as a funny little thing. Just think about it. Don't shoot it down. Don't

commit either way. Okay. All right. Um, okay. Uh, uh, all right. And our other guest is a star of the show as well. And we're excited to show you, you know, to feed or meet all of our funny characters in this funny comedy show. And it is funny. That is important. The stress. And there's a few, there's a few characters. There's a few, I'm wacky characters. Some you'll be familiar with others. You won't be. Uh,'t be. This is a character that I think some of you may know. It's Ed Helms.

Ed Helms, welcome to the show. Wait. Yes? Hold on, I'm also here. Yeah, it's two Ed Helms. So we've got Ed Helms, the producer and the guest star in Antidona's Big Altair so fun. But then we also have Ed Helms, the character in the show, if that makes sense.

Ed? Did you say Ed Helms? Like, et cetera. Yeah, like, ET? Like, it sounded like you said, Ed, no. That just, that just more, but you more accent, might. Oh, I said, I said, I said,

I said, Ed. I am the guest on this podcast. I am also a special guest on your show. And in addition to those two things, I am also a guest on your podcast. That's right. And if you could pick one to play, that would be great. Today, I will be Ed Helms guest on your podcast featuring guest Ed Helms. Great, okay, okay, okay.

That's a little confusing, but that's fine. That's fine. Our second guest today on this discussion panel is two foot tall creature. That's all I know about him. Please welcome, sorry Marko. I just say we don't want to give too much away because you haven't seen,

you've heard orally What this character Sounds like but you haven't seen this character and we're excited to show it to you. You haven't seen him orally You haven't seen him orally or fiscally You haven't seen him fuck around with you cash Please welcome Mugi. We've got to guess time is the eight homes and me Mr. Mugi. Mugi

Wugi, I'm too fat tall and I love to boogie. I also wear clothes that I call the Mugi Wugi. My land that I come from is the Mugi Wugi land and our currency is the Wogi dollar, which changed 1967 from the Mogi, from the Mogi Wogi, but we went to a metric system in 1967 to the Mogi dollar. It looks quite similar, but the notes are plastic and 100okie cents equal a mookie wookie. Ed, were you aware of the mookie currency changing in 1967? No, I was not aware of the existence of the mookie wookie and at all. At all. So this is blowing my mind in a lot of different ways. So this is blowing my mind in a lot of different ways, but now that I am aware, I'm particularly glad to know that they went metric because that's a far superior way to measure things.

And the United States where I live, we are way, way out of whack on the, what do you call it? What's our system called? The Imperial system. The Imperial system. That's right, thank you. You look at the Imperial system. Yeah.

The Barathe. We should be metric also. We should take a cue from the Ogi Boggies. No metric. Now, Mugi, thanks for coming and being part of our TV show. Q from the OGI Boogie Burghies. No matter. Now, Mugi, thanks for coming and being part of our TV show. What do you remember from the shoot? Well, look, it was a bit of a blur.

I remember I was in LA at the time trying to make it sort of like a hymns worth of brother. But then, you know, we did the show. I was working on a web series with the production company out of LA and then obviously COVID happened. So I had to come straight back to Australia to be with my Mogey family. Now I'm in Westwood. And how's COVID affected your family?

Look, we're all safe, all good, luckily, but I was in Melbourne. I was living in Fitzroy, but being a muggy, I got an exception. I got a muggy, muggy, exception, and I got to go to muggy, muggy Brisbane. We can't cross the border. It's worth knowing, sorry, sorry, Mugi. Just in Melbourne, Melbourne's in severe lockdown. Ed, one of the harshest lockdowns in the world, where they're trying to pretty much get our COVID numbers to zero, which means that we've had a curfew.

We couldn't leave the house. We've been zooming, podcasting now for a very long time. But obviously Mugi was allowed to leave the state and go to Brisbane where restrictions are much less. Yes, I went to my Mugi Wugi doctor and they gave me a little Mugi Wugi certificate, a pink little fluffy certificate that lets me go anywhere. Did still have to do the Mugi Wugi where I had to stay in the hotel. So the Mugiwui is also susceptible to COVID? We don't know yet. There's a small population.

There's been a couple of cases of Mugi's in Hong Kong that might have gotten it. But we don't know if it's a pathogen for us yet. We don't know if it has a negative effect yet. We also don't know if we can pass it on but until we know it's just not worth the risk is it Ed? Of course better safe than sorry right? Absolutely yeah. Now Ed same question to you what was your favorite part of coming down and shooting? I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. the comradery of the cast and the crew. You just get there first in the morning, get a cup of coffee in you, and everybody's, it's a self-selecting profession because the people that wind up on a set,

whether they cast or the crew, they work really hard and they're generally very good at their jobs, and there's something really fun about feeling part of a team, you know? Yeah. Like, on the outside you were swearing and people quite a lot, is that usual for you?

Well, on yours that no one was doing what I wanted them to do. Oh. So I just, yeah. Yeah. So that's really only one way to deal with that, right? I mean, you scream and you swear. I remember you saying, I am the lore a lot, walking around and you were just saying, I am the lore.

And I thought, yeah, yeah. Well, I think you misheard what I was saying is, I am the Lord. Oh, right. Right. That was a phase I went through. I now understand. I've had some therapy. I understand I'm not actually the Lord, but I did think for a little while there that I was the Lord.

Then naturally, if you speak that, then you think everyone should bow to your every whim. I was very whimsical at that time. people weren't doing what I wanted. I specifically remember asking Broden to put marshmallows in his nostrils. And because I thought it would make me giggle, not only do you refuse, but we got in a terrible screaming match. We had to shut down shooting the rest of the day. And honestly, it was a growth moment, I think, for everybody. It was a day that you weren't actually in any scenes.

You just showed up. Yes. Right, that was also a day that I think I did close to three kilos of cocaine. By my side. Right. Yeah. I brought it. close to three kilos of cocaine by my side. Right. Right.

That explains the behavior a lot. That's it. I guess not. I guess not. Mugi, you never got to do any scenes with Ed. But you were a great energy on the set. What's your... Is this the best set you've ever been on? Oh, wow, okay. Oh, wow. All right. That's a big question. I mean, I don't know if you know, but I have a small part in

in the next in the next The next Marvel movie I play a I play a news agent and as as the Black Widow runs past I go wow what was that so I got to see Scalant your hands and stunt double a close proximity that was Um, look, your set was a lot of fun. Uh, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I had fun. I had fun, I guess. I, you let me play and do my Mugi song. Um, and I, I saw a cut. I'm really grateful that, you know, a couple of seconds,

a bit of it made it through. So I'm really grateful that you know, I could come and play. And it was tough in LA. It's not, it's not what you imagined it to be. It was good to get on set and, and do, you know, I could come and play. It was tough in LA. It's not what you imagined it to be. It was good to get on set and do, you know, practice the old acting muscle. I'm moogie, woogie, woogie, woogie. Do this song again.

Yeah. Look, it was all right. It was fun. I had fun, yeah. Pfft. Mark, do you have any questions for other of these gentlemen? It was fine. I had fun, yeah. Mark, do you have any questions for either of these gentlemen? I guess, I mean, I really wouldn't mind delving into that three kilos of cocaine. That that sounds like a lot of cocaine to me. And I feel like we brushed over that. I feel like we brushed over that.

I didn't want to. I didn't want to go. Hey, look, we don't have to go into it. We don't have to go. No, I was just afraid, but if you want to drill in, if you want to go. I look, we don't have to go into it. We don't have to go. No, I was just afraid, but if you want to drill in, if you want to go him, then I appreciate it. I guess the question is, are you okay, Ed?

Well, it depends on how you define okay. I did go into cardiac arrest that time. Yes, yeah. And was actually my heart stopped for three days. And I would, it actually, it took a lawn musk, literally, it plugged me into like a Tesla battery system and that's the only thing that brought me back to life.

But it was a dark chapter. I'm not going to lie. Do you know what's funny? Elon Musk is actually a mookie. Did you know that? No. It's true. He's a mookie.

Well, he's half mookie-wooky, half-south-African. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. He's the most famous Mugi Wugi. In the human population, the most famous Mugi Wugi in the Mugi Wugi population is Wugi Mugi Mugi. They've been hosting the Mugi Wugi, Bugi Al after the last- And it's important now with Mugi that with Mugi he replaces words with the word Mugi,

but tonally he's saying a word. It's like a- like, so he can be saying Mugi and it actually means like car. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's, it is smurf. It is smurf. It's very similar to smurf. It is slightly more fluffy and, you know, one night in terms of the, not in terms of the design, not in terms of design, in the way that Smurf

replaced words with... Yeah, yeah, also as a society. I mean, as a society was very similar to the Smurfs, but that was like 500 years ago. We've advanced technologically at a very similar rate to humans. Look, I just want to put a pause on the muggy to smurf chat here for a moment. Because we actually have, I wanted to surprise both our guests today. Because we have muggy, we have Ed Helms playing Ed Helms from the show. I've done this big old house of fun, the character Ed Helms, not the producer Ed Helms.

Well, he's the producer Ed Helms, but he's playing the character Ed Helms, who's in the show. You didn't want to play like a character from one of your famous shows or movies, you know, like a, you know, like an Andy Bernard or your character in the hangover, like it's one of them, you wanted to just play Ed. Is that right? Well, yeah, I just, I don't think it would be appropriate to take one of those characters and take them out

of context like that. Legal. I think that would be legal. I imagine a legality. I mean, I don't even know what the legal implications would be, but it's sort of like those characters exist in a context, and if you put them in a different context it's like I wouldn't even know any Andy Bernard like in an agitatist. Yeah that's real, it's fucking stupid, bro.

Maybe like he's lost his hands. Like I'm just saying, maybe that's like an office, that would be like an office storyline and you're writing like an office. But I know, I like because it be us, like don't you see? That's fucking dumb man. That's dumb. Hey Mark, it's not that dumb. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, but it's not, I was just checking, I was just checking.

It's not a good idea. It's not a good idea. It's not a good idea. It's not a good idea. It's what it's true. All right Mark, you wanted to bring someone in. I'm sorry. I wanted to bring somebody in. He's a great, he's another guest that we have on the show. Ed, you might know this character, Mugi. I don't know if you ran into this character on set. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. I'd like to welcome to the podcast, Cowdoy.

Cowdoy, how are you today? the podcast. Cowdoy. Cowdoy, how are you today? Well, hey boys, do you want to see Slikas come around here? I'm here to get you some old spittoons. Cowdoy, they're talking about spittoons. Cowdoy, uh, that's it. I met him on the shops one time I was going through and he was getting some, some eggs and I said, why, why are you? He said, I'm been sneaking these for six weeks. Our thought is crazy and then he hit me. Ed, you've been sneaking eggs hitting Cowdoy? You, he's annoying. He is annoying.

You know, and I couldn't, I'm not proud of it, but yeah. Look, we've all, look, don't worry. We've all, we've all given Cowdoy a bit of a belt behind the back of the ears at some point. Tell everybody that I was stealing eggs. I don't know, Kadoi, I never wanted to ask you. I ride on a horse.

Why do you talk like, like, why are you, why do you string nonsensical ideas together? There's good question for you old slinger. I've been I'll tell you some I've been I learned everything I learned from Foxtail. Sit there on the on the prairie your fox tail and that's who I am Ed? Yeah And Mugi I suppose Mugi's lives in Mugi Wugi Brisbane so probably knows what fox is The Mugi Wugi Brisbane is it in Australia? It's in Mugi Wugi Land

You have a city called Mugi Wugi Brisbane? It's not in Australia? Yeah The fame park it's with uh we're very creative That's your Brisbane. That's all can of worms that I'm not even fucking willing to go into right now. Ed, do you know what Fox-Tell is? No. Alright. I know what Fox, I know what Fox, what Fox, the tale of a Fox would be, but I feel like you're referring to something different. You say about rape and murder.

Murder and murder. It's jumping in your head. Yeah, so much of cover of the Moogie Woogie podcast. You're saying you don't know any moogie. We do get Netflix though. In Moogie Woogie, so we've seen coffee at Creme, we've seen a few of the things on Netflix. Tell me, what's your message to the Mugi Mugi community? By the way, now we like to sing songs where we say Mugi Mugi and Bugi a lot. Well, I think, you know, as long as your love of singing songs that have the words Mugi

and Bugi and Bugi, as long as that doesn't, you know, conflict with your enjoyment of great comedy-caper movies, then coffee and cream is a great choice for ogie-ogie-mogie. We're trying to get a doubt of it at the moment of where it's Mugi Bugi. So you'll be in there saying Mugi Wugi Bugi, but it's kind of just subtitled. But we love your work. I did the Mugi Bugi community, we're big fans. And I'm not using this opportunity,

maybe to line up a Zoom meeting with your production company. I think you think right now, because there are any daughters. I'd say they could happen. I've you think great work is on your daughter's head. And that could happen. I've got some great Moogie Woogie ideas. Are you a Hustlin? Did you just come on our podcast? You started Hustlin? I just bought out the air and said,

Moogie Woogie, he moves to LA, is a fish out of water? And I'm so sorry. I'm, it's not, you shouldn't have to take unsolicited pictures for shows. You've come onto this comedy improvised bugger. What do you want, Karen? Ed.

Yeah, I got LVP for you. No, no, no. Ed. Let's see if it's good. I mean, maybe it's great. As long as you don't mind that, as long as you don't mind that this is now turned into a pitch meeting. Ed. Okay. I long as you don't mind that, as long as you don't mind that this is now turned into a pitch meeting. Ed.

Okay, I mean, I don't, Mark, I honestly don't really have a choice, so I put it so much. It's for Ed. It's for Ed. Ed. How do I, he's a pitch? You get, you're in the office and you got no pins.

Am I Andy Bernardo on the office? Or am I Andy Sandberg? I'm a character named Andy Sandberg. No, Sheriff's come down. And then this sheriff comes, is that part of the picture, or is the sheriff actually there in your studio? But the sheriff comes down and then we take it to Apple TV.

Oh, okay. So I think he wants to pitch an episode of the office where Andy Bernard's pants fall down and the sheriff comes in and he wants the picture to Apple TV. Andy Sandberg was part of this. I see he played the show. Maybe it's, no, unless it's a biopic. Yeah, so I'm going to just, I'm going to tell you right now, the pitch, it has like,

it has good elements to it, but it's also, it's extremely confusing and that's usually like an instant pass. Maybe I do a Bible, the two-page Bible for you where I draw at the characters and basically plot. Do up a Bible, get back to us, and Bible's take a long time. So make sure you really invest that time, your time into it.

I've gone passive. It's gone, Brodyn's gone passive. We'll count those gone passive on the idea. So now it's up to us. Ma. Yes, Mugi. It's my idea. I mean, we all interrupted.

I never got to pitch my idea to Ed. I'm sure. Is that OK? Well, we got to just a bit. It was, you know, we could come to LA as a fish out of water. Yeah. And, yeah, it's like classic fish out of water. Yeah, yeah.

I sort of made some people, we can do it in New York if that works. Are there any songs? Yeah, Moogie, Moogie song was maybe one or two songs in episode, but it's got a succession element. So there's just an element there where it's a bit like succession and also maybe there's a layer, it's sort of succession meets a flood of the concords, meets also it has just this sort of sprinkle of and all the homes.

Well, Ed, you know the market. Who do you, what network do you think we should be taking this to? I'm so sorry this is turned into a pitch meeting, but sometimes things happen on the... I'm taking this to the blacksmith. Yeah, I think it really thrives like just in, zoom like I wouldn't I wouldn't take it outside of this This exact At all I wouldn't even like I feel like it it's actually ran its course very successfully

Okay, here's another pitch Here's another pitch. Oh god. Yeah, we don't need wallets anymore. So maybe it's a phone holder that you can put cash in. And I have, I'm looking for 50% buy-in from companies and 100 grand to get my project up. So, how do we now believe that this is Shark Tank? Not pitching it TV shows anymore. Would you like to invest in?

Well, it's a product that's already out there. I don't know what your unit cost is, but it's probably more than some of the other companies out there that are already doing this at scale. And so for that reason, I'm out. Well, I would like to know, do you know your numbers? Like how much have you sold? I'm out. You're out. You're out. For me, I'm out on this one. All right. Well, you're out. Well, then there's nothing to be in because you were the thing that

you brought it up. So How do you come out? I walked off. I walked off. Alright, the next young hot thing looking to sell us a look in the picture something is Their name is Mugi Wugi. They're walking into the shark tank now. Mugi. What's your idea? I wugi and they're walking into the shark tank now. Mugi, what's your idea? I am. You know when you're walking down the mugi wugi and you realize you left your mugi at the wugi and you have no wugi for the boogie.

My mugi wugi boogie creates three different things. A mugi, a wugi a muggy, all in one. The muggy, muggy, muggy has patent pending in every country except China. We are so excited about the muggy, muggy, muggy. I would like $700,000 for five percent of the company. We have not, we are only been running the month. All right, that's that's quite a high evaluation.

I'll give you seven, seven, seven. You'll not get out. You left. Yeah, your counter, it doesn't, you can't even have, I mean, maybe were you still backstage and you overheard this pitch? I'm out. So you're not your backup. Oh, he's out. I'm gone. This is you know what? This is not Shark Tank. This is first tank. I'm just gonna say it. This is no, I can't even take these ideas seriously. They're not good. They're not what, they're not good ideas.

They don't make any sense, Ed. I want to apologize. This is, you came on here to do an improvised comedy podcast. It turned, it turned, then people started pitching your production company ideas, characters, absurd characters, a cowboy and Mugi. And then, I don't know how it got there. It turned into an episode of Shark Tank,

where both of you and I are very confused about who is and isn't on the panel, mostly cow. Good morning. But wait a minute, maybe this journey wasn't actually about what we got to, maybe it was about the friendships we made with muggy and international superstar Ed Helms. It's true.

I feel closer to Ed than I've ever felt before. Ed, what did you have to say? I think that I don't, I think it was about the journey and the destination. And if you think about it, the friendships that have been forged today on this podcast will last. In an infinite.

There's an infinite amount of length to this podcast. And yes, yes. Yeah. In infinity. Moogie. Ah, well, sorry, what was the question? Just your final thoughts. Just wrap it up. Well, I got a little shape from the Netflix people to talk about how to promote the trailer.

I guess. Yeah, you can read that out. Yeah, just read it. Just read it. Yeah, just read it. They said something about if you can subtly work in going in app and adding the show to my list, watching the trailer in app and adding the show to my list so you don't forget to watch it. I mean, those are sort of the things that PR people told me to say, but more than that, I think I'd like to finish with a song.

All right. Thank you so much for coming and we really appreciate it. Thank you for helping us make our show. And I hope everyone watches it when it comes out. This thing's for coming. No, your show is objectively amazing. Oh, thanks. You guys wrote an execute today, phenomenally funny show, and that's going to be on Netflix. And I was lucky enough to play a very, very tiny part in the whole process. And I'm excited for you guys.

I don't know how small it was that I would argue that maybe the show wouldn't exist without you. But... Yes. Very happen. And your production company believing in us and taking us all the way from concept to execution, we're very, very... Well, we never believed in you, but we did see...

We've not profit potential. That's... That's what people look at us. They say dollar signs. That's that's pretty common. And I'm so sorry. Thank you so much for in this Zoom committing to that meeting between me and your people and that my concept. Love it. Love it. To close us out, thank you Ed. Thank you Mark. Thank you. Hope Zach I hope you're feeling better.

To close us out, it's Mugiwugi. Well, hello there. How do you tell my name is Mugiwugi and I like to pay I'm in the Mugi and I love to Bugi and I'm feeling there's a layer here where is that growing

is regretting regretting I'm on the podcast and he really respects the entire time he's replaying a little furry bowl great chat, you know, we committed to the bit, mokey-wookie-wookie-wookie. Wrap it up, wrap it up, Zach.

Mokey-jewk. You losing him, Zach. I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna stop. Oh no! You've been listening to the Aunty Donna Podcast. Thanks for joining us for another rip-amp episode brought to you by AntidonaClub.com. See you next week! This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.

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