Bein' Ian With Jordan - Revel In Wreckage W/ Harland Williams | Bein' Ian With Jordan Ep143

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody. This episode we have on our favorite guest, Harlan Williams. He can rules, but we have a special thing that we put out, which is where me and Ian watched rocket man and that's on the Patreon. And then with Harlan today, we talk all about rocket man. We get into the nitty gritty of the movie. It's an incredible film. There's so many little secret Easter eggs that you can, that you'll find when you watch it and you'll find when you talk to Harland. It's such a fun episode.

Starting point is 00:00:28 We're me and Ian are on the road all the time at Punch Up. I'm at you can find my dates at Jordan Punch up dot live slash Jordan Jensen. No. Oh, I'm coming over. Huntsville, Alabama, Phoenix, Arizona, Philadelphia, Rochester, all over you and finance.com. Bye. Telling jokes and having smokes, riding bikes all through the night. It's a wild ride when you're being Ian

Starting point is 00:01:11 Coffee ice no matter what Now you know he likes it in the butt It's a wild ride when you're being Ian Being Ian Life is shit but you're being Ian, being Ian Life is shit but you're positive Let's find out what it's like to live a life Being Ian, being Ian With Jordan! What's this all about?

Starting point is 00:01:42 Oh that's just one of our weapons. This is really the main weapon we use. Whoa. Yeah. You've done that to yourself? I've done the purple one. I won't do the black one. Don't do that.

Starting point is 00:01:54 Yeah. Well, in case anyone comes down here. Oh, Zach, you're... Whoa. What? It's crazy that Kay was not afraid of that. She's afraid of if you make a fart noise with your mouth, but she's... Yeah, isn't that strange?

Starting point is 00:02:05 Her dog doesn't like fart noises. I might have had a little bit of a good time with her when I first got her, maybe. Oh my God. Jordan adopted her when she was particularly gassy. It's true. Oh, no. Yeah. What's her name again? Coyote. I like that. Wild. She was at your house.

Starting point is 00:02:26 Yeah. Yeah. That was her. Yeah, same one. And the flesh. Hold this to your mouth. Oh, we're on? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:34 Oh, damn. I wanna come back. You gotta come back. I don't have any plans to go to LA for some reason. When you do come, come back on the show. That was a blast. Yeah, your show is the best. You had Nick Mullin on. That looks really fun.

Starting point is 00:02:45 Yeah. Do you know Nick? Yeah. Well, it was great. Wildcat. Yeah. Right out of hell. Are you getting that wildcat from hell? Harlan is is allergic to cats. So when we walked in, Glenn was in his little perch and he wanted to be touched so bad. So he was like, he's going porn mode.

Starting point is 00:03:05 And I, I covered him so that Harlem wouldn't get any cat stuff on him. Nice. Yeah. So then you got the cat on you and now you're here. Yeah. I can't touch cats too itchy. My ankles puff up my, my glands, ankles go in my a thyroid. Your glancles. My glancles. My glancles and my. Only your ankles swell.

Starting point is 00:03:28 My ankles puff, yeah. They actually, almost like a Dairy Queen sundae, they drip over my sides of my shoes. Ew! Wow! You got melting almost. You go full David Lucas? Yeah, they like power puff almost.

Starting point is 00:03:40 Like a heavy lady walking around Disney World. Yeah, pretty much. They get swollen and red. Did you hear my David Lucas joke? I did. Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:51 Wild. Yeah. So cats and then it's hard to speak. Yeah. My chest gets tight. It's really tight. But not here? Not before when you did this podcast?

Starting point is 00:04:03 You were fine? Well, I didn't touch the cat. Oh, it's only if he touches them. If you pet a cat, ankles swell up. They just puff. They like just power swell. The cat doesn't need to rub your ankles. No, if I just touch it, it's like whatever it goes straight to your ankle.

Starting point is 00:04:18 It goes into my bloodstream and puffs my ankles. Yeah, it just puffs. It's like I'm a hydrofoil almost. Yeah. What is that? I can almost slide. Yeah. What's a hydrofoil? It's like those boats that sit on the water and they ride up on a cushion of air. Oh.

Starting point is 00:04:35 Because my ankles almost puff up so big I could almost glide down the street like Gumby. Yeah. That'd be kind of cool if you have to go somewhere quickly. Just puff up and go. Yeah, but I can't tell anyone because my chest's so tight I can barely talk. The death thing. And I salivate.

Starting point is 00:04:54 I'm like Kujo. You ever see Kujo on the dog? Oh, the dog. Yes. Just like dripping and eyes, it looks like mustard coming out of my eyes. Like it's just like. That's what Ian looks like when he's around a badass.

Starting point is 00:05:06 Is it? Like a fat roast beef? Yeah, and then I go. Oh, little lady love. Yeah. Lady lumps. Do you have a pet name for an arse? Like do you have a bedroom name?

Starting point is 00:05:21 Yes. Dumper? I call it dinner. Dinner. Like a dump roast? Yes. What do you call it? Dumber? I call it dinner. Dinner, wow. Like a dump roast? Yes. What do you call it, Jordan? I call it big old pooper, big dumper.

Starting point is 00:05:30 No, in the bedroom, like for intimate time, not for camping. Pooper, dumper. That's camping time. Place where poop goes. That's camping. Well, I'm talking fun, fun time. When you're in like your bedroom,

Starting point is 00:05:44 there's a handsome fella. And you're doing squishy squishy goo goo. I go get your poop particles away from my bed. What? There's no intimate like. You know one time I did a go with a guy and he pulled his penis out and I dragged him into the shower by his penis

Starting point is 00:05:58 and showered him. Oh wow. So I'm really, I don't like poop stuff. Okay. Or butt stuff. Isn't that more on you than on him? He didn't do anything. But as soon as it came out,

Starting point is 00:06:09 I realized that his penis was gonna touch my bed, so I dragged him by the penis. Yeah, but if you were to clean ass, that wouldn't happen. I don't know how to clean my ass, I should have. It's pretty simple. Yeah, but I didn't even check to see if it was dirty. You're doing enema. I'm not doing an enema, I'm not a gay man.

Starting point is 00:06:24 By the way, I love her music. Is she from New Zealand? This episode sponsored by Pure Moods. Shout out. And how long are you here? I leave tomorrow. I'm just here for tonight. How was the journey?

Starting point is 00:06:40 It was good. Did you do Delta one? Delta one. Well, you got to sleep on the way here? No, no, no. Was it a bad was it a long trip? Did you get turbulence? It was pretty good. We only crashed twice.

Starting point is 00:06:52 So that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. As long as I get here in the end. Yeah. Like two crashes is good. Yeah. And one was near a Dairy Queen. Oh, great. So we crashed. You ever heard the term crash and roll? So I crashed, rolled for about two and a half miles.

Starting point is 00:07:09 Inflated the ankles saved the fight. Yeah, the ankles are like airbags. Lowered the ankles down. Yeah, it's like when that thing bounces on Mars. But I rolled two and a half miles to a Dairy Queen, got a peanut buster parfait and got back on the plane and we made it right into LaGuardia. Great. Yeah. How do you say it?

Starting point is 00:07:27 LaGuardish. LaGuardish-ish. It's the Amish fly, everything's ish. Here, bro, let's start. Oh, yeah. Woo! Woo! Welcome back to another episode of B&E with Jordan. We're so happy you're here. Patreon.com slash B&E and pod movie out. Coyote's teeth are showing everybody. Oh, power puff girl. Oh, why is she smiling like that?

Starting point is 00:08:05 Oh, I think she's angry about that stuff in the bedroom she was talking about. Yeah. Wow. She's angry to hear about what a dirty mistress Jordan is. Bop, bop, bop, bop. Yeah, she always talking like that. No, Ian!

Starting point is 00:08:23 She doesn't like fart noises. Your horn is very William Golding, Lord of the Flies. Oh yeah! Yes, Lord of the Flies. It reminded me of Piggy up on the rock just before they cast him into the sea and his brain spilled out all over the ocean. Yeah, that's right.

Starting point is 00:08:40 Yeah. What do you think about Pig Pig as a name for a special? Pig Pig? Yeah. Like a you think about Pig Pig as a name for a special? Pig Pig? Yeah. Like a comedy special or an eating special? Well, both with me. I think why not? And it's your special,

Starting point is 00:08:54 so you should call it whatever you want. I got a lot of different names. Why double pig though? Cause I say Pig Pig. You do? Yeah. In what context? Talking about a pig pig.

Starting point is 00:09:04 Talking about one pig, I say Pig Pig. Pig Pig. It's a pig pig and there's a pig pig. You do? Yeah. In what context? Talking about a pig pig. Talking about one pig, I say pig pig. Pig pig. It's a pig pig and there's a wild pig. Huh. So you should call it wild pig. Why do you double it up, though? I'm not sure. Do you say cow cow? No, just pig pig.

Starting point is 00:09:17 I just like the way it comes out. Pig pig. Pig pig. I'm saying pig pig isn't like cute pig, like a little pig pig. It's almost like you stutter full words. That's right. That's right. Most stutters. Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig even be just be museum museum museum museum museum museum. Yeah, it's clean Like a clean clean. Call it clean pig Pretty good Hey, okay, can you come back out here for it on you? Are you reveling a bit too much? I like to revel I know that was one of the longest revels.

Starting point is 00:10:05 I like it didn't even barely acknowledge it. And about 40 sec, you were still like, I'm going for the Guinness book of world records for revelry. That was a long reveling in your own. Thank you. Well, I'm not sure. Like it was almost selfish is what I'm trying to say. So you were trying to do a podcast here and you just stole 45 seconds with this. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:31 We want that back. All right. Well, I'll give it back. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. We want that back by the way. We want that back by the way.

Starting point is 00:10:46 We watched Rocket Man. Did you hit your balls? I will. We haven't introduced him, but if you don't know, our guest today is Harlan Williams. Hello. Hello. I am Harlan Williams. I can confirm that.

Starting point is 00:11:00 Harlan, what's your middle name? I was just going to ask what his middle name was. I swear to God, I was just going to ask what his middle name was. I swear to God, I was just going to ask what your middle name was. That's why you guys are symbiotic and should do a podcast together. We should. I was thinking we should. We should call it Jordan. Jordan. Welcome me the letter. How confident are you that you think you'll guess? Within three tries. Winthrop. I can guarantee you, you won't guess it. Either one of you.

Starting point is 00:11:31 Give us the first letter of the name. And I'll give you some good hints. All right. First letters are. How many syllables? I don't know syllables, but there's one behind you. You can hit it if you want. Yeah. I'd say one syllable. Ready? Roland. Ray. No. You're not gonna guess it. Ramone. No. Is it foreign? No, but you've never heard it before. Rib. Run muck. Rib rib.

Starting point is 00:12:06 Ribbit. Ribbit. Is it one syllabus? I sleep on a lily pad. Actually, apropos, apropos. Is it rag? Rag. Is it one syllabus? Two syllabus.

Starting point is 00:12:22 He's not a professor. I don't talk Greeky talk. Syllabus. No, what is a syllable just to remind me? A syllable. Jordan is Jordan, two syllabus. It might be two. Okay.

Starting point is 00:12:39 Rigor. Oh, that's close. It sounds a bit like that. Ritter. No, you still won't guess it, but it sounds a little like. River. Randy. No.

Starting point is 00:12:50 Ritner. Randall. Rit. River. Ritten. Is it River? What about I give you a hint? OK.

Starting point is 00:12:58 E.T. liked these. Skittles. Reese's. Reese. Reese's. Reese. Reese's. Reese. Reese.

Starting point is 00:13:11 Reese. What is Reese? That's a cool middle name. That is not your middle name. It is not Reese. Come on. Harlan Reese. It's Revel. Wilson. You got it. What is Reese? It's Revel. Harland Revel Wilson.

Starting point is 00:13:27 You got it. What is Reeser? Whose name is that? It's an old family name. Reeser. Yeah. Reeser the Greaser. Yeah. Is it really Reeser?

Starting point is 00:13:34 Reeser. R-E-E-S-O-R. Oh, shit. I just realized something. What? I don't know Ian's middle name. I don't know yours. Oh, wow.

Starting point is 00:13:43 OK, what's your name start with? T. Thomas. That know yours. Wow. Okay. What's your name? Start with Thomas. That's it. Wow. Wow. Wow. What's yours? Our research. That's right. Father. What's your middle name? Start with our Renee. Oh, close ish. Are. Renee. Oh, close-ish. Renault. You do know it.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Rachel. It's a Hick name if you put it with my first name. Randy. Jordan Rock. Jordan... recipient. Give me another hint. Is it Italian? One, recipient. Give me another hint. Is it Italian? One, one, one syllabus.

Starting point is 00:14:34 One syllabus. Ray. Yes. It's Ray. You got mine and I got yours. Yeah. We should go to Harlins. No, Arby's. Oh, we should go to Harby's. What the name of roast beef disconnect are you having? That was like a full on roast beef like short circuit. Let's go to Arby's. Ian, you can't go. Thomas. But now I want to go to Harlins. Like you mentioned that. Yeah. How do you spell Ray? R-A-E. Yeah. Wow. Jordan Ray Consentini. That's hot. Cosentini. Cosentini. So it is Italian. I do have half Italian.

Starting point is 00:15:08 Cause I said rigatoni. Close. Huh. Do you have an Irish bone in your body? Zero. Would you want one? I put a lot of Irish bones in there. You gotta revel in that one for a bit.

Starting point is 00:15:21 Yeah. Not too long. Right about there. And cut. Are you, you're not Irish. Yeah. Not too long. Right about there. And cut. Are you, you're not Irish. Stop. You went back and you re-revelled. Yeah. I just cut and you dipped back in bro.

Starting point is 00:15:35 Dude. You are really off with your reveling. I know. You're like a revel without a cause. Unbelievable. He revels a lot. I'm glad you're here to see it. Oh, sorry. SARS. Came for a podcast and left with a terminal disease.

Starting point is 00:15:58 Hello? That's a shoe, not a phone. Yes? Hello, chief? The results are in. I'm negative for SARS. By the way, I don't have SARS. COVID? Oh crap. I have COVID. Cigarettes. He smokes cigs. Have you seen, there's, there's a really, really funny video of this guy leaving a voicemail and he goes, Hey, I just want to let you know, I just left the hospital and I tested positive for Indian COVID and they said they did for last two weeks.

Starting point is 00:16:30 Wow. Wow, I love it. That's why I say wow to Coyote when I walk in the house, it's Harland. Wow. Whenever I open the door and Coyote's standing there, after hours of not seeing her, I go, wow, wow, look at this. And I do a Harlan impression.

Starting point is 00:16:48 You do? Yeah. She loves it. He does? Yeah, she, don't disarm my genders. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You say Harlan to her? I go, wow, I do Harlan.

Starting point is 00:17:01 Why do I say that? Yeah, all the time, wow. Wow, yeah, I guess I do. Yeah, yeah. Wow. You're right, yeah. Wow. I do, Harland. I don't want to. Why do I say that? Yeah, all the time. Wow. Wow, yeah, I guess I do. Yeah, yeah. Wow. You're right, yeah. Wow. I do, you're right.

Starting point is 00:17:09 Really something. That's what I say. I do. Really. That's one of those things I'm not aware of. Really? But now I will be. It's the best.

Starting point is 00:17:16 Now he's gonna be in his head every time. No, he won't. But it's okay. As soon as he leaves. If it's me, it's me. Who cares? Be proud of him. You gotta wear you.

Starting point is 00:17:25 See she came out cause I said it. Wow. You gotta just be you. Gotta be you. Oh. No. Whoa. So weird that we just record into these things

Starting point is 00:17:36 and we kind of just feel like they're watching us now, but right now they're not at all. You know what I mean? What? Like we record into these devices and then later somebody will watch it, but right now we kind of in our heads feel like they're watching.

Starting point is 00:17:49 Cause we know they will eventually, but right now it's just us talking to plastic. Oh, I see what you're saying. It's odd. I'm glad one of us does cause I don't. Yeah. I get to your vibe. Like if a, if a tsunami hit and just wiped out these cameras,

Starting point is 00:18:02 we would just be sitting here looking at them going, yeah, reveling. No function at all. Like you're reveling at a device. Yeah. You're reveling at it just a part. It might as well be a muffler that you're just looking at going.

Starting point is 00:18:16 Fine, I will now turn my revel to you. That seems more appropriate. All right, now that I have your permission, get ready. Let me think of a line to say it to. I saw that you released the Wingman. Not the movie, but it's happening. Yeah, it hasn't been sold yet, but we finished it,

Starting point is 00:18:38 and we're doing a sneak screening in Toronto on May 9th. Wow. Yeah, it's gonna be the first public screening of the movie. And what is this? It's a movie I wrote and directed called Wingman. And what's it about? It's about a sort of a demented professional wingman who helps like people get laid or find love or find a partner.

Starting point is 00:19:02 Oh wow. And he's sort of, he's sort of an over the top guy who uses really wild techniques, but he gets results. He's actually good at his job. So it's the real world, but the wingman sort of like Austin Powers, Ace Ventura over the top.

Starting point is 00:19:20 Oh, that's great. And these nerds sort of hire him, not realizing what a whack job he is. And they think he's nuts, but he actually gets results with what he does. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That's so cool. Russell Peters is in it.

Starting point is 00:19:36 Jamie Kennedy, Kayla Wallace from that new Billy Bob Thornton series, the Landman. And I take it you were the wingman. I am the wingman. I didn't wanna be, I did it almost cause I had no choice. Really? It was a lower budget film and I sent it to all my high profile comedy cohorts.

Starting point is 00:19:59 And it was just, they couldn't do it cause we didn't have the money to pay them. And so I didn't want to be the wingman because I was directing and that takes all your focus. So I didn't want to be the lead guy. But I really- How do you do that? Do you just do something

Starting point is 00:20:14 and then you run in front of yourself and you go, Hey, redo that tape. But I didn't do it. Yeah, pretty much. It was pretty, it was a lot. Because the cameras are set up, you can't look behind them. You're acting. Yep.

Starting point is 00:20:26 And the bigger kicker was because we were low budget and under such a time restraint, we didn't have a playback monitor and we didn't have a monitor. No, I never even saw what I did. No, I'm not kidding. Only through the little hole. I didn't, I couldn't even see it because I was acting. So you had an assistant director, right? Not really.

Starting point is 00:20:50 Yeah, it was, it was blind faith. The only, I think it was my years of experience doing movies and acting and doing comedy. I hope I pulled it off, but I, that's up to the public to decide. I feel like it went well looking at looking back at it. I also cut the movie. Yeah. I edited the movie. So I feel like I did it, but I was just flying by instinct.

Starting point is 00:21:16 Cause we, we didn't just, we just didn't have the budget to hear out of here. That's not true. That's absolutely. Really? That's incredible. Look at all of here. That's really that's not true. That's absolutely really that's incredible. Look at all of it.

Starting point is 00:21:28 No, I could. We didn't even look at Daly's. What? I'm not joking. What do you mean? You film the whole thing. Filmed it. They didn't have a little thing that you could open and go. No. What do you mean? What did you film it on? Disposable cameras?

Starting point is 00:21:42 No, we filmed it. We got lucky with memories. What are you talking about? disposable cameras? No, we filmed it. We got lucky. With memories? What are you talking about? Here's the kicker. We shot it during the strike and we shot it in Canada and the unions in Canada are different than the American ones. So we were allowed to shoot. So cut to all these.

Starting point is 00:22:05 They said you can shoot, but you can't look at it. You can't look. Yeah. That's right. No looky. That's about right. I love that. This is Canada. No sneaky peeky.

Starting point is 00:22:21 But what happened is, you know, they shoot a ton of stuff in Canada. And so all these high level cameramen, focus pullers, all these tech, the crews, the gear, they'd been sitting dormant for a year and none of these guys had worked. So now here comes us. It's me who I'm well known in Canada

Starting point is 00:22:45 from what I do in comedy and so forth. And then I got Russell Peters who's Canadian. So here we are with this low budget movie, but it's me and Russell. So all the top guys who had been out of work for over a year when they got the script, we got all these amazing camera pieces. So our crew looked like a $20 million crew

Starting point is 00:23:07 with equipment and expertise. And the crew was so talented. And so we ended up, and my director of photography who was Canadian was amazing. And so this little movie where we had very little resources looks like- But it was just guys going like this with their hands. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pull the cardboard over. 50 people just really good. But it really, um, it really, um, looks like a bigger movie than what we, we had, and so we'll see it's, that's always up to the people. I just still doesn't explain why you couldn't watch the foot, like plug it into a monitor after it. Well, on top of not having the equipment to do that,

Starting point is 00:23:52 I had no time. Oh yeah, the time, that's what you told me about when I was at your house. That was crazy. There was no time. If I wasn't acting, I was directing the other actors. I was looking at lighting, wardrobe, makeup, this, that, the the the the the locations, the vehicles, the props, the.

Starting point is 00:24:11 I had to do it all to make movies that just you have to do it so fast. That's what they do now that we shot a feature film in 15 days. We shot good God movie in 15 days, three to four locations a day. Oh my God. So we shot it in a small town. That was the upside. Every location was within about six miles and no traffic in a small town. So we, we had the luxury of being able to, but it was literally stop, go, stop, go.

Starting point is 00:24:44 So how do you direct while you act? I have to direct myself in my head. And fortunately, my actors were so professional and so off book, they nailed it almost all the time. But if I did see something, I would literally have to say, hey, next time we do it, give me this or bring that down. Or so I had to do. But but. Because you're like in every scene.

Starting point is 00:25:10 I'm in a lot. I'm in probably over half the movie. And and yeah, it was it was it was intense, but it was super rewarding. And and you watched it and it's great. Well, I watched it because I edited it too. Out of necessity, I had to edit it and I've watched it like 600 times because I had to cut it.

Starting point is 00:25:31 So I feel good about it, but again, it's not what I feel. It's how the public reacts. So I'm hoping they dig it. Well, you're so beloved. I'm sure everyone's gonna love it. Well, it's not about being beloved. It's about how did you execute? Because you can be Macaulay Culkin and still have a piece of crap movie.

Starting point is 00:25:51 Right. So I, I hope, well, cause he's so beloved. He was a cute little kid when he was a kid. Yeah. Or even like, you know, John Candy was beloved. If you put them in a poorly executed film, it's, you still love him, but it's like, what was that? So I hope technically the whole thing works,

Starting point is 00:26:10 but we'll find out. That's part of the beauty of it, but we'll see. Me and Jake were just talking about how good Austin Powers was and how there's nothing close to it anymore. Like nothing, you know how it holds up so well and you'll just die laughing every time you've seen it, even though, even if you haven't memorized. I still think that he danced like this.

Starting point is 00:26:34 He did. He just didn't walk like that. You were walking into places dancing. Well, I was in my spin on it. But he would. Yeah, yeah, that's it. And you were doing the twist into rooms. Yeah. Yeah. We were talking about the scene when he goes, that's not my penis pump.

Starting point is 00:26:59 The guy goes saw an Austin Powers book signed. That is my penis pump. And he's like, no, it's not my bag, baby. And it's like a handwritten note that says that is in fact my bag, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's great. Well, that's what I try to do with wingman is just take it back to that no holds barred, like focus on funny and not worry about hurting everyone's feelings and just, just try and try and be as funny as you can. Yeah. No, like the first line and wingman is, you know, I sit down in a bar and my client, the guy who hired me is right across from me and we're looking at each other and the client goes, how do I know this is going to work?

Starting point is 00:27:38 And my first line is look, buddy, I'm going to get you laid faster than an olive oil soaked butt plug bouncing down the side of broke back mountain. And it just goes from there. Like that's where it starts. So I'm glad you laugh because like I said, I haven't shown this movie to anyone yet. So if that's, that's the react, I hope everyone laughs like you guys. That's the first line. That's the first, that hope everyone laughs like you guys. That's the first line. That's the first line. Yeah. That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:28:09 So, it's actually not the first line. It's the first line once he's active in with the bar. The first line is actually, I wanted to set the tone immediately. And the first line in the movie, no word of his eyes is my character goes, I want breasts. Yeah. And that's the first line. Cause I was like, you know what?

Starting point is 00:28:32 The second he talks, I want this movie. I want people to know the tone. And it goes from there. The wingman wants breasts or the guy who's hires him? The wingman. So the first scenes of the wingman solo. Are you ordering chicken? That's what he said, a drive-through. Yeah. But it's a close-up of his mouth.

Starting point is 00:28:49 And you hear the voice so it sounds like he's doing phone sex. Right. You hear the speaker box but you just see his mouth. It's a tight close-up. Oh that's great. It's like I want breasts and then the girl goes how do you want them? And he goes. You go spicy, irregular, bouncy. And then, and then it pulls back and you realize he's at a, he's at a drive through chicken. That's great. Thanks for wrecking the movie. Son of a.

Starting point is 00:29:19 Damn you. Damn you for dance. Well, yeah. Revel and wrecking. I'm reveling in the wreckage. So that brings me to ask, you wrote this, you directed, you starred in it, and that is something that happened with Rocketman in 1997 when that came out. Right.

Starting point is 00:29:41 Well, I didn't direct it. You didn't direct it, but you wrote it. You completely took over the script. How did that happen? So they they wrote a script. Actually, you know who wrote it, which is interesting is Greg Erb and Greg Mason. And Greg Mason, Greg Mason is the guy who wrote Chernobyl. And now that series on HBO, the one where the fungus is growing everywhere.

Starting point is 00:30:07 Oh, Last of Us. Last of Us. Yeah. That's good. Wow. So he's the writer, creator of Rocketman. He wrote Rocketman and his partner. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:30:16 And so. He's like huge. He's like the biggest guy right now. This was his first project. So Disney came to me with two scripts, George of the Jungle and Rocketman. And George of the Jungle, no offense, I'm just being honest, was one of the worst scripts

Starting point is 00:30:30 I ever read, it was horrible. And I think you could kind of tell they were cashing in on an IP, you know? Wait, the one that Brendan Fraser started in? Yeah, yeah. So that was supposed to be you. Well, I passed on it and then they showed- You would be him?

Starting point is 00:30:43 You would be- They offered it to me, yeah. I'd be George, I passed on it. And then they showed him, you'd be there. It to me. Yeah. I'd be George of the jungle. Yeah. Which would have been fun. I liked the idea of being George of the jungle, but again, it was down to the script. I read the script and there was just nothing there. It wasn't actually bad. No offense to the, but I'm just being honest. Well, it's making fun of monk. I mean, it's him doing monkey is the funny part is that he just is being a monkey.

Starting point is 00:31:05 Well, it was supposed to be sort of like the comedic version of Tarzan, but it wasn't. It was just that's the script. The story went nowhere. There was no layers. There was no depth. It was just like it was like mud. Yeah. And again, I apologize, but I'm just keeping it real. And so I didn't want to do that. And then Rocketman came to me and I said, yeah, this is like, there's a story here. It goes, there's an arc.

Starting point is 00:31:30 It goes from A to B and there's so much room, an idiot going into space. There's tons of room for comedy. Yeah. So those guys wrote it and and then the Disney liked it and we were greenlit to go and then Disney, you know, these guys are always never happy. So then they handed it out, they said, we want to hand it off to there's two writers who wrote the movie, The Santa Claus with Tim Allen. Yes, I saw that in theaters. Uh? Yeah, which was-

Starting point is 00:32:05 More power. I never saw it, but I think it was a very successful movie. They made like seven of them. Yeah, so they handed it to them to do a rewrite, and then again, no offense, they didn't do a great job. I think they were so busy, they kind of went, yeah, here's our rewrite, you know what I mean? At least to me, it didn't feel like there was a lot of time

Starting point is 00:32:24 and effort put into it. And I think Disney felt the same way. And I said, guys, give it back to these guys. Like it's their first script. Like this is a big, I said, please give it back to them. And they did. So they gave it back to Craig and Greg. And then they reworked it again.

Starting point is 00:32:41 And then I just said, Hey, can I take a pass at it? And Disney sort of knew it was my sensibility. Greg and then they reworked it again. And then I just said, Hey, can I take a pass at it? And Disney sort of knew it was my sensibility because I was the lead. And they said, yeah. So I did a rewrite on it based on all this stuff that it was already there and just literally went through every line and said, how would Harlan do this? How could, what, what would Harlan, how would Harlan do this through his own prism? And so they let me rewrite the whole script twice.

Starting point is 00:33:09 And I don't mean rewrite it structurally, but add all the stuff I wanted. Just punched everything in. Punched and to a degree rewrote it, because I would take one scene or I would create a scene that wasn't there, but I didn't restructure the whole journey, the whole skeleton of it.

Starting point is 00:33:26 And so, um, that was just a delight and they loved it. And so off we went and we shot it. And then even on the day when we were shooting, they were letting me, if I came up with something, they'd, if we had time, they'd let me kind of add it in the moment on the day. Great. That was a great moment. Wait, let me say this. This is weird. In the movie, this might be too weird,

Starting point is 00:33:50 but in the movie, you were the initial programmer of the thing. Yeah. And then you're like the idiot going into space. But then in the actual movie, you're just like the actor, but secretly you were the guy who wrote the whole thing. Kind of weird. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because you're just thinking an actor is just secretly you were the guy who wrote the whole thing. Kind of weird. Meta. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:34:06 Yeah. Because you're just thinking an actor is just playing this role. That's true. You have no idea that he did the whole thing, but the idiot in the movie is actually the guy who like programmed it and he's secretly like actually very genius. Yeah. I rewrote. I didn't get a credit for any of the writing and I didn't ask for it because I just wanted to do the best funniest movie I could do. Well, you can tell the whole way.

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Starting point is 00:35:55 So I remember you told me that one of the things that you kind of added was when you go to the sleep study, you have to sleep in complete solitude for 24 hours. Oh yeah. And the giant sleep chamber, the pressure chamber. Yeah. So how did you adjust that? Because initially it was one way. They just wanted to show it. Didn't they just want to show like maybe like one beat of you in there and then didn't you elongate it?

Starting point is 00:36:22 Yeah, this was emblematic of what I did with every scene. So I take a scene and I go, how can I extract comedy out of this moment? So we actually went to NASA and shot there in Houston. And there is this chamber where they, it's called an anti-gravity chamber where they actually put you in it and they, it's this huge door, it's a 40 foot door and it's calibrated so perfectly.

Starting point is 00:36:47 You can push it with your little finger. It weighs like, I don't know how much it weighs, but there's a giant door and they put you in, then they suck the gravity out of it or something. I think the guys can float inside. And so what they had is, you know, they had Fred Randall, which was my character. They said, put Fred goes into the anti-gravity chamber. They closed the door and there's a little window. There's a porthole window cut to the window.

Starting point is 00:37:13 Fred pops up and goes, mommy. Yeah. And I was like, I said, no, this guy's so space. So he's got such a, I said, have you locked him in a room? And it was sort of related to space. He'd be in his element. So I said, instead of just that one line, let's put the competing astronaut in the chamber beside him and he can hear through the wall. And then I said, when Fred gets in there, he'd start singing.

Starting point is 00:37:41 He'd start yodeling. He'd do a puppet show. He would, he would be dancing around. And I said, let's have the guy on the other wall be hearing all this. And it makes them insane. So what went from mommy turned into like a five minute scene of John Jacob, jingle, Hymer, Smith, yodeling. We just go up a little bit each time.

Starting point is 00:38:01 It would seem like so much has passed and I'd be like two minutes. And then they open and you're like, can you give me a couple more minutes? Can I finish the third act, please? I was doing sock puppets. By the way, that was, the sock puppets idea was actually a suggestion from my girlfriend at the time. And I was like, oh yeah, that's, yeah, I was,

Starting point is 00:38:20 I just wanted funny. So anybody that threw anything at it as like, you know, just that mommy thing felt like, I went, what's funny about that? And also it made him seem like a wuss cause he was going mommies. I said, he's not a mommy, he loves this. This is, he's been wired his whole life for space stuff. He would be in heaven.

Starting point is 00:38:40 So that little one from one word to, you know, 15 punch lines and physical comedy bits. So that's sort of emblematic of what I did through the whole script. Yeah. It was incredible. That actor who was playing the straight man, who was playing the, then you had to like make him do, because probably the initial script he was just like a guy.

Starting point is 00:39:02 And then you turned it into him like shaking and convulsing. Yeah. Well, in the initial script, there was no like a guy. And then you turned it into him like shaking and convulsing on the thing. Yeah, well in the initial script, there was no guy. There was no competitor. It was just me training on my own. And I said, let's get a guy that I'm going against so we can have this comedy where he's like a macho astronaut. And I slowly, you know, in the classic Peter Sellers Pink Panther where you don't know you're affecting other people.

Starting point is 00:39:26 You're just going forward and everyone's falling to the side because you're such an idiot. So let's have that Fred Randall slowly disassembles this guy and makes him a walking wreck by the end of the movie without even knowing it. And the funniest thing, the one line, when you're like fun is my Chinese neighbor's name. And then the funniest thing, the one line, when you're like, fun is my Chinese neighbor's name.

Starting point is 00:39:47 And then the funniest thing to me is when you're spinning around on the Gravageon and it lets go and it's just so perfect, the nuns are taking the kids around there like, and the number one important thing at NASA is safety. And you go through the door and then you hit Gary. And then you come out and you go, uh, I ran into Gary. Yeah. Well, that's another perfect example. So that scene with the, with the gyrating thing, that scene was supposed to end with it speeding up and a close on Fred going, I want my mommy. And I said, guys, you're building this whole thing.

Starting point is 00:40:25 They built that on a set. Oh, wow. I said, you're building that. He's going around in a circle and the payoff is I want my mommy. Again, it makes them look like a little wimp. Yeah. And I said, I said, let's have him go around and he loves it. He's so he goes faster, faster.

Starting point is 00:40:41 And they're like, and then I let's cut to the bolt shaking and the whole thing flies off. And originally I had it that he flew off. I said, let's have them smash through the wall. He goes down the hall. He goes past the nuns. He hits Gary. He goes out into the parking lot, slides down the street, goes through a drive-through,

Starting point is 00:41:03 grabs a bag of food and keeps going. So they said, we can't do all that, but let's go, let's do the part where he flies off, goes through the drywall, hits Gary, and then Gary hits the wall. And that was another thing I added is, let's have him keep injuring the other guy so that now I have to go.

Starting point is 00:41:23 And that was another huge comedic beat. So that was another example of taking, I want my mommy to this huge physical bit with, and I love finding that. Like I love sitting down and it's like, you guys are comics. So when you write a joke and you go, oh wait, here's another tag. Oh, and here's another tag.

Starting point is 00:41:41 And the fourth tag is even funnier than the first set up. Yeah. It's that. And it's so beautiful. And that's the stuff Disney were so gracious enough to say, if Harlan wants to do that, like let's, let's listen to it. And it was, and it was a lot of extra work, but it really was magical. What did you do before that that made them like trust you? I was sort of, I did Dumb and Dumber. And then everyone thought that was sort of the thing that got me kicked off,

Starting point is 00:42:12 but into gear. But I did this follow-up movie called Down Periscope, where there's a submarine movie with Kelsey Grammer. And I improvised this huge scene underground where I had to, in the submarine, I had to make all these whale noises and I had to walk around the sub and go when I was doing all this. And it literally stole the movie. Like it was the funniest. It was a huge,

Starting point is 00:42:38 and I think all the executives went next, Jim Carrey, next Jim Carrey. And that's what they're saying at the time. So I think they were counting on that and counting on my comedy instincts and graciously they followed it and let me do all that stuff. And so that was, it was really nice. So that's incredible. How'd you get hooked up with uh that cameo in Dumb and Dumber? That was through uh Jim, Jim Carrey. He, we'd worked together at a few stand-up shows and things like that. And excuse me, he just really liked my stand-up

Starting point is 00:43:12 and I think he liked me and he asked the Farreles to see me. And so I went in to read and the Farreles ended up giving me that part, that little part. That's awesome. And then they tapped you again to do that. And there's something about Mary when you were the hitchhiker. And they also asked me to be in Kingpin. They asked me to play Randy Quaid's part, the Amish boy.

Starting point is 00:43:38 Really? But I was doing a sitcom at the time so I couldn't do it. Oh my God. And then they said, well, this was great. I wish this happened to me now. but they said, pick any other role in the script that you want. I was like, wow. So I said, well, let me do the smaller role.

Starting point is 00:43:53 The one that Bill Murray ended up taking where he was like the asshole. Buller. Ernie McCracken. It conflicted with my schedule. So I ended up not being able to, but Peter Fairley just phoned me at home. My phone rang when he goes, hey Harlan. I go, yeah, we want you to be in this movie. And I was like, okay, it was really cool.

Starting point is 00:44:10 It was an exciting time for me because I was in a place where sort of everybody wanted me and wanted to do a movie with me, which I realized is rare and a blessing. So it was exciting. It was an exciting time. That's incredible. Man. Yeah. One of my favorite scenes in Rocketman is when you get the okay to go to NASA and you're at the table. And again, you're like, ah, and you step over everyone. You re-enter Gary. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:44:40 And then you make this huge ordeal. and that was just like every beat in that movie it's I think it's just such a classic example of what comedy film should be it's slapstick it has heart it's funny and it's just beat by beat by beat funny funny funny joke joke joke well I'll tell you how I dissected that scene again it was another sort of flat ending where in the original script. Don't tell me they bring up your mommy again. What was their obsession with mommy? I think they just thought it would be a fun running gag, but I thought it made the characters seem very wimpy. Right. Even though he was a wimpy nerd and he loves space. Yeah. I didn't

Starting point is 00:45:22 anyone who says mommy, it's just, it's not only it mean, it's a kids movie and I didn't want that. So, so the line in that one was, uh, they announced the, the, the third astronaut and they say, astronaut Fred Randall and Fred faints. And I want this guy's waited his whole life to this. Where's the funny and fainting? Like fainting was probably done if I were to guess in the first five Charlie Chaplin movies, comedies of all time. I bet somewhere he fainted. I go, what's something we haven't seen?

Starting point is 00:45:55 So this is an example of on the day we were shooting and I said to the director, I said, I just, I don't buy it. He faints. There's nothing funny here. So I said, I said, Stuart, give me one take. I'm in a Bertann. I'm the girls at the Miss America page. And when at the end, they, they scream and their fingers shake and they're,

Starting point is 00:46:16 they're putting the, I said, give me one take. And he goes, okay, I'll give you one take. And I said to the sound guys with the boom, I said, guys, I'm just wanting you to stand back. I'm gonna do the scream of all screams. We got one take. And I said, let him scream and let him get up. Gary's already injured.

Starting point is 00:46:34 As I run to the mics, let me knock him over. He hits his head, cause he's already got the neck brace on. And so the director let me do it. I did one take where I just screamed cause I knew I only had one. So I just let it go. And that moment made it into the trailer.

Starting point is 00:46:52 It was like, it's like a game now. It's a gift. That's the take that they used in the film. They had to, cause they only let me do it once. And so we did about four takes where I fainted. And I said, I said, please, I know that's not funny. I said, give me one. Because he's too annoying to faint.

Starting point is 00:47:11 He would be like a nice quaint way of leaving the conversation. Of course he gets up and steps over everyone and knocks Gary out. For him to get asked to go to Mars is the biggest win of his whole life. And so of course he's going to have that Miss America. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:26 And I always, I always thought the Miss America reactions were so like, their fingers are trembling and they're like, so, and I thought, I just channeled that. I said, I'm going to pretend I miss Hawaii or something. And, and God bless them that they put it in and it was, it was a beautiful. That is so cool to believe in yourself enough to go, you know what, I've got this, just give me one chance and you nail it and that becomes the main thing.

Starting point is 00:47:54 That's incredible. And it was scary because you gotta remember, this was my first leading role. And I'd done a bunch, at this point I'd only done about, I think three, three or four other little parts. So, I just went, I'm never coming back here. I gotta go for it.

Starting point is 00:48:13 God, that's awesome. Yeah. And even, even there's a moment too, up in, when we're up in the spaceship, where I'm with Julie, the beautiful female astronaut. And there was a moment in the spaceship where I'm with Julie, the beautiful female astronaut. And there was a moment in the spaceship where I did something stupid again, where it was like a mummy thing or whatever. And in the next scene, she's in love with me.

Starting point is 00:48:36 And I said, guys, she she wouldn't be she's too smart. She's an astronaut. She's not going to put it the singing. That was your idea was the that was my. That one I did on the day. Oh, wait, wait, wait. When you're, when you're, when you got the whole world. No, no, no. When I wish upon a star.

Starting point is 00:48:51 Oh, right, right, right. I said to the director, I said, yeah, I said, we have to have a moment where we see her fall in love because she. That's insane that you were like, and my idea is he'll be singing into space and she will fall in love. Yeah. And so, and she just looks at him and it's like, and my idea is he'll be singing into space and she will fall in love. And she just looks at him and it's like, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:10 But it wasn't just the singing. It was, I said, I need something that connects them. And I said, at random I go, we're just sitting there and I go, I go, look out there, you see that star out there? That's my star. I used to wish on it as a little boy. And she goes, wait, that was my star too. And then I said, let me sing when you wish up, because Disney owned the song. And I said,

Starting point is 00:49:31 when you wish upon a starter and let's see her fall in love with him because he's such a clutch. He's pretty much ruining the mission. She's a brilliant, I said, she's too smart. I said, let us have a moment where she can fall in love with them. And so I literally wrote that on the day before we shot. And again, I asked the director, I said, please let me do this. And they said, can you sing it?

Starting point is 00:49:56 And I said, yeah, I can sing it. So we just, when you wish upon a star, you know, and I loved it. It was like such a beautiful scene, but it, that scene is great. That's crazy. It grounds it, you know, for once he's not an idiot and you can see her, you can at least believe

Starting point is 00:50:14 that she's like, I love this guy. She felt his passion. She felt the connectivity to him, to space, to their combined sort of passion for something. So I was really happy with that. One of the best lines is when you go, not the hairy one. And she covers herself up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she goes, ah, ah.

Starting point is 00:50:37 Was there anything you suggested that they were like, no? Like, was anything that you brought up that they were like, no. Like was anything that you brought up that they were like, no, we're just not gonna do this. And when that happens and it's such a big thing, I mean, it's a Disney movie, how do you not let that shake your confidence to keep suggesting and going forward? Well, actually I asked them to cut something

Starting point is 00:50:59 that I didn't like, which looking back, I almost, later now I sort of wish I didn't, but I sort of wish I did. Craig and Greg wrote a scene where when we were in space, someone forgot to flush and that we're gonna have a floating log of poo floating around in the spaceship. But I was a very clean comic and I wanted this movie to be very clean, not one swear word.

Starting point is 00:51:28 And I felt like that was a bit too on the dirty side and it had already been sort of done in Caddyshack. So with, with the chocolate bar in the pool. So I, I, yeah, the fart was funny enough. So I, I cut that thing, but we did shoot a number of scenes that, um, didn't make it. I had a scene in the bar where, um, I'm sitting with, uh, Jeff Bridges. There's a Bo Bridges was the, was the big, um, astronaut guy that gave me the coin.

Starting point is 00:51:59 Oh, oh, oh, bud. Yeah. So I did a whole scene with him where we're sitting in the bar and I'm talking about how excited I am and I start doing like wookie noises right in his face, like, you know, and I'm doing all this and he's just sitting there like, so we lost that. And then there was another scene where I was actually up. They had some old spaceships out in the parking lot at NASA

Starting point is 00:52:22 and we had a scene where I forget what, excuse me, what it was, but I said, let me go up there and there'll be pigeons on top. And I did like a whole, like I did a whole pigeon walk. And I was, and I'm sure it was funny, but they cut it. We couldn't put everything in there.

Starting point is 00:52:41 But for the most part, man, they let me, excuse me, they let me do almost everything that I asked. Yeah, it was amazing. What was the monkey like? Well, before I get to that, I'm glad you mentioned the fun is my Chinese neighbor's middle name. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:52:59 That was a joke I wrote that, I think that was one of the jokes that convinced them when they saw that joke when I did my first rewrite, they were howling and they just went, you know, Harland's he can, he can write. Oh, wow. Cause yeah, I was just, it's like every little thing, every line I was trying to find an answer and in the script that just said, um, you know, that other astronaut, when I get off the twirling thing,

Starting point is 00:53:25 it was my turn to go to have fun. And I thought, well, what's Fred's reaction? And he goes, well, fun is my Chinese neighbor's middle name. Yeah. And so, what did they originally have it as? It just said, have fun. And that's it. And then I said, well, let's so brilliant. Oh, thank you. Yeah. So good. But anyways, back to your, your other question. It was sorry. It was about the monkey.

Starting point is 00:53:49 Oh, the monkey. So the monkey was amazing. I had to go. It was a real chimp. Obviously I had to go and meet the monkey. The, the before, I think technically they're apes, right? They're not monkeys, chimpanzees and gorillas. Ape.

Starting point is 00:54:05 So I had to go, I had to go and meet it because I was gonna be working with it. So I had to go up to the farm where they kept all the animals and I had to go in and meet them and they brought me into the room and the trainer was sitting there with Ulysses and I had to go sit across from him,

Starting point is 00:54:26 and we just sort of had to feel each other. And I'm just sitting there, we're checking each other out, and it was amazing that the trainer said, his real name was Raven, in the movie he was Ulysses. He goes, Raven, go to the fridge and get your apple. And this chimp stood up, ran to the fridge, opened it, grabbed an apple, came back, sat down, and he went to eat.

Starting point is 00:54:50 He goes, don't eat it yet. Okay, now eat it. And what happened, they told me, and say with chimpanzees, if you don't monitor every single action, like if he just let him bite it without him telling to in the chimps mind, they go, Oh, I got away with it. What's the next thing? So they figured out that they have to rip your face out. They figured out that you have to dominate them

Starting point is 00:55:18 for every single action because the minute you, they slip one by it in their mind, it just escalates and then they're out of control. And then they become humans. Yeah, so he was, and then eventually he sent them across to see me and I held them and. Were you scared at all? I was a little nervous because it's, you know,

Starting point is 00:55:36 I've never done it and it was, they're very charming and endearing, but they're also powerful animals. Yeah. Now, Raven wasn't a full grown one. He was about three or three years old. The big ones are. Oh, he's a baby, I knew he was a baby.

Starting point is 00:55:51 Oh, and he's in his little astronaut suit. Oh, and he's in his suit. He wasn't really in the suit. That was a child? Well, here's something you'll like. So he was in the whole movie, but then when we went out onto Mars walking around together, you couldn't put the helmet on because it freaked them out.

Starting point is 00:56:07 It was just like that was too foreign for them. Jordan's the same way. Yeah, me too. Jordan's the same way with the helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to wear one, but the doctor says you have to wear one, but I won't do it. Because it makes me...

Starting point is 00:56:19 Ah! Whoa! Yeah. Cecil B. DeMille. Whatever that means. Yeah. Cecil B. DeMille. Whatever that means. Wow. It's just, that name seemed to fit when you did that. I don't know why.

Starting point is 00:56:31 Jordan, can you grab me the coffee real quick, please? That's your coffee. I was going to treat you like an ape. Oh. No. I... Don't drink it. But yes, so what happened is this is some cool trivia.

Starting point is 00:56:48 The, when we shot the scenes out on Mars or I'm walking around with Ulysses, guess who's in the, we got a monkey suit. Yes. Who's in there? Who you, you mentioned it earlier. You both did. Holy Colkin. Wait, shaved Macaulay Culkin.

Starting point is 00:57:07 No, you were talking about Austin Powers. It was Mini Me. No way. Verne Troyer? Verne Troyer was the monkey in Rocket Man. Yeah. Oh my God. Oh, that's cool.

Starting point is 00:57:17 Yeah, he was on set the whole time. Wow. Just a tiny little guy. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. He was the nicest little guy. Yeah. Wow. Yep. He's little though. Wasn't he smaller than the monkey?

Starting point is 00:57:29 He was about the same size as the monkey. Did you have to alpha dog him as well? Don't eat the apple yet. Yeah. It was pretty wild. Where, where did you film Mars? Where was it? Moab, Utah. I told you, I said that. That was my guess. Yeah. Was it red rocks or was a, it's Moab. It's a, it's a national park called mob where they have the, the natural rock arches and it's stunning. What's the valid, what's the big park there that I went to where all the red, the arches, Utah, arches.

Starting point is 00:58:06 Yeah, yeah, that's it. It's in Moab. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it was stunning. Yeah, but it was really cool. Yeah, me and the other castmen, we'd go out at night and walk through the park and look at all the stars.

Starting point is 00:58:19 And we're like, we gotta see a UFO. We're shooting Rocket Man. We're praying we'd see one, but it was really a magical spot. And it was great about rocket man. In those days, it was still under the umbrella of when movies were real. And so I talked about wingman being 15 days.

Starting point is 00:58:38 We had three months to shoot rocket man. And with wingman, I told you we'd go to four locations a day and shoot 12 to 13, 15 pages a day. On Wingman, it was common, or on Rocketman, it was common to shoot one, maybe two pages a day. Like they would just, they just took their time, you know, and you could feel the money and the props

Starting point is 00:59:02 and the sets and like three months to shoot this movie. Wow. Why do you think it's changed? It's just come down to money and time. And I think they sort of realized, I think when Jurassic Park came out and the T-Rex came out and it just, everyone was in awe. And it was like such a spectacle. And people thought, well, that made a lot of money.

Starting point is 00:59:28 We got to do that, but we don't have the budget. But if we do something that's sort of half assed, like looked, it's still a moving T-Rex, but it doesn't look perfect. And so a bunch of people started and people were like, you know what? It's good enough. It's still a T I'm still scared. I still feel the presence of it too. It doesn't, it looks more like a giant Cocker Spaniel,

Starting point is 00:59:49 but I get it. I feel it. And I think that sent a ripple through the whole industry there. And you know what, if we just give them enough, we can do these a lot faster and we can pay people less. And now what took three months, let's do it in three weeks or four weeks.

Starting point is 01:00:08 And we don't have to have the perfect Tyrannosaurus Rex, but if we give them something that sort of looks and sounds like it. Just make the water shake. Yeah, it'll work. You said, when I was at your house asking about this, you were like, eventually every film student got a camera and they were creating movies.

Starting point is 01:00:26 So it was like every person was putting out a movie. So then what does what happened is like the studio is like, this year our movie is Rocket Man. And now it's like this year our movie is 40 movies. Is it just like they allot smaller amounts of money to many more movies? No, I don't think I still don't think they put out that many movies, but they've figured out a way to maximize their profits and sort of minimize the effort. Quality and effort.

Starting point is 01:00:55 Outside of things like Avatar, and like there's some like the Marvel movies where they're just going, we gotta go full blown. Yeah, yeah. I think even there you're, because a few of these bigger movies now are starting to not be as profitable. I think even there, because a few of these bigger movies now are starting to not be as profitable. I think people are kind of a bit over them.

Starting point is 01:01:09 And so I think you're gonna see those start to scale down too. But yeah, it's all about sort of turning a profit now. Movies used to be sort of special and now they're sort of just a product now. And I think streaming and all that stuff has just made them more like, yeah, fast food, once this week and okay, they don't get

Starting point is 01:01:29 the $8 million T-Rex, but they'll be happy enough with the $2 million T-Rex, you know? So it's a bit- How many different phrases do you say on Mars? Like, you're the first person to be angry on Mars. You're the first person to- I'm the first person to walk backwards on Mars. You're the first person. I'm the first person to walk backwards on Mars. The first person to show inappropriate anger on Mars.

Starting point is 01:01:51 I think there was a whole bunch and I got to improvise a lot of those and yeah, that's so fun. Yeah. It was a lot of fun. And the farts, you know, I was just telling someone this the other day, they asked about it, but, um, there's the scene where I fart into the, it goes through the tube and then your suit gets all big. Yeah. And the, the, the, the lighting guy, they fired our lighting guy about a week in, for some reason, or two weeks in. And I honestly, I think he was going too fast. It was a case of, this guy would set up the lights in 40 minutes and he's like, okay, we're ready to shoot.

Starting point is 01:02:26 And I think they're like, oh, we're gonna be done. And I think they fired the guy who was doing a great job and they brought in the lighting guy who did lights on the original Blade Runner with Ridley Scott. Oh, wow. That's crazy. This guy came in and he sort of brought with him.

Starting point is 01:02:43 A vibe? Yeah, a bit of his ego and he wasn't a bad guy. He was a great guy, but he was like, I'm the lighting guy. And, and there were days, I remember there's one day he spent eight hours lighting a room and it actually got to the point where I was like, dude, you're lighting a room. Like, and I respect his art and his ability, but it was,

Starting point is 01:03:03 but anyways, one day he started sort of calling the shots to a degree, like even sort of pushing the director around a little bit, you know, which I didn't like, but I wasn't going to say anything. And we went out and shot the scene on Mars. And if you watch the movie, we have our face shields on the helmets. And for the up close of the fart scene, the lighting guy goes, I'm getting a glare on, on the helmets and for the up close of the fart scene the lighting guy goes, I'm getting a glare on the face shield. Let's take them off and we'll CGI them in. Well, this was sort of the very beginning of CGI where A, it was expensive as hell and nobody really knew how to do it. So if you watch the movie back, you'll notice we're on Mars

Starting point is 01:03:45 and in that scene we have no face shield. Yeah, yeah, you can see your faces. Yeah, I mean, well, you could see them through the other one, but it was through the plastic, but now they're completely gone if you watch it. And you sort of can't tell because you're already invested in it, but if you were, if you were looking at it now,

Starting point is 01:04:01 you'd go, oh, they got, no, how are they alive? Like, yeah. Whoa, I wanna see it. So it wasn't like, it didn't look like that you had taken them off. It just was literally not there. It was gone. It was completely gone. It's like when they, it's like those illusions

Starting point is 01:04:13 where your brain draws the rest of the circle. Right, right. Wow. It's like a lot of movies too, like car scenes. A lot of time they'll take the front windshield out to shoot into the front of the car. Oh, okay. But this was like blatant, like you could see it.

Starting point is 01:04:28 The fart would not be having an impact. Yeah, no, the fart would come right out of you. Yeah, they never did any special effects. I don't think they could afford it or they just decided we don't want to. Well, that was like one of the biggest special effects in the movie was filling up that suit with air and then the air going through the tube.

Starting point is 01:04:46 Yeah. They actually made a second suit for that. Yeah. They made a second suit where I was a bit bummed too, because I, it didn't fill up the way I wanted it. It sort of fills up, but it's a little clunky. I told him, I said, I want it to be like the, the girl in Willy Wonka, the blueberry. I just wanted this big round. And it sort of looked a little bit of half-assed. It still looked funny, but I wanted to be way bigger.

Starting point is 01:05:11 And then, Barbara, you're like, wow, I shouldn't have had that liver worst in Wolfsville. Oh, yeah. That was right after the spin thing. Yeah, that was another line I wrote, because I was like, I want that guy to be sick. Yeah, you made him cute. You're saying about your breakfast.

Starting point is 01:05:26 You're saying about what you ate. Yeah. You were like, you're just saying near his face. Like, I should know that liverwurst. That liverwurst and sardines sandwich. And you go. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:05:38 Yeah. Just, I was always, I just looked for every opportunity to write in a joke. Like I just, I wanted to be laugh, laugh, laugh. That's like Austin Powers. It's just laugh, laugh, laugh. Like it's a comedy, let's go. So even for Wingman, I tried to layer in joke after joke after joke.

Starting point is 01:05:57 Like, come on, like there's so many comedies now where you leave a comedy and you go, wow, I had two or two or three really good laughs. And I'm like, no, like Austin Powers, Ace Ventura, you have like, like 40, 50, 60 laughs. Like that's what I think a real solid comedy is. And like the, the naked gun movies or airplane, like, it's just you're laughing. It's a comedy. And I think a lot of these comedies, like, sort of have lost that recipe. Well, there hasn't been a super, like, really good comedy classic joke, joke, joke comedy in a very long time.

Starting point is 01:06:36 They always have, like, stories to tell. I think the last one was, there was one right after this one that I forget, but Bridesmaids. Oh, great. I watched that and I was like this is old Bridesmaids comedy lockers was really good. I thought blockers was good Wedding crashers wedding crashers. Yeah that whole era of that will ferrell Vince Vaughn Owen Wilson Those were like movie after movie, but yeah, there been few and far between with classic, I thought

Starting point is 01:07:06 Ricky Stinecki, a Fairly Brothers movie, Peter Fairly, with Santino, Jermaine Fowler, and again, John Cena. I thought that that was really great, just a funny like beat by beat comedy and Blockers I thought was so funny. But it's hard to name, like I can't think of a good comedy film that came out in the past. Well, that's what I liked about those is they took real scenarios. Like even though they're, they make them wacky, but bridesmaids is a real world wedding crashes. And, and so you, you, it's, it's like a saying,

Starting point is 01:07:43 you take that environment and then just find all the funny and you believe you're there, but it's also hilarious. So that's what I try to do. One of my favorite comedies that I watched obsessively, like I had it memorized front to back, You're In. That's how you're etched in my, Which one?

Starting point is 01:07:59 Which is Whole Nine Yards. Oh yeah, oh my God, yeah. That movie, me and my sister could recite the whole thing. We're obsessed with it. Yeah, that was so good. You were so it's so have you seen that with Bruce Willis? I've never seen Whole nine yards. It's so you know how I need to see it.

Starting point is 01:08:18 The bird cage. You ever seen the bird cage? You see the bird cage? Yeah. The bird cage, whatever that genre we my family's really into where there was like a little bit of serious, but then so much comedy. Like it felt like the boys were all super into like, like we love Dumb and Dumber, but the ones that we were obsessed with, the ones that would have, you know, cause we're girls. So we need to, we did a serious arc. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:08:40 Nine yards, dude. So that was a blast. Holy smoke. You die in it. Well, I get shot by Bruce. Yeah. It was really blast. Holy, you die in it. Well, I get shot by Bruce, which was really cool. And how do you do that? How do you get shot? Make it look believable on film. It was just, it was, it was a really cool scene cause it's late at night.

Starting point is 01:08:55 We're at, we're at a house. Bruce is a criminal. He's holed up in this house in the suburbs. He's got Amanda Pete and I play a cop, an undercover cop, and I'm sneaking up to the house and Amanda, they know I'm coming somehow. Perfect boobs. And Amanda Pete sticks out of the top window

Starting point is 01:09:14 with no top on. Insane. Do you see her boobs? Yeah. She goes, hey, and I look up and as I'm looking at her boobs, Bruce just walks out, boom, boom, boom, pops me like nine times and I'm just like her boobs, Bruce just walks out, boom, boom, boom, pops me like nine times

Starting point is 01:09:25 and I'm just like boom, boom, and he kills me. And I was like, it was fantastic. Yeah. No better way to die than seeing a good set of knockers. Matthew Perry's so good in that. Yeah, it was really fun. It was really cool. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:38 What's your favorite comedy of all time? Oh my gosh. Your top three. You know, there's a really obscure one by a Parisian writer, actor, director named Jacques Tati. And he did a movie called Monsieur Hulot's Holiday. And it's an old black and white movie that I would recommend people watch.

Starting point is 01:10:00 It's not gonna be knock you over the head, but it's one of these subtle movies. You watch it, but it's, it's one of these subtle movies of it's, you watch it over and over and it's one of those rare movies that really transports you there. And it's such a simple premise. It starts with the ocean waves coming in and this Chiron comes up. It says, do not look for a plot for a holiday is meant just for fun. And you see Mr. Hulot's car driving through the fields in the south of France,

Starting point is 01:10:29 and he comes to a little coastal town where it's a bunch of tourists at this one hotel. And just like Pink Panther, Peter Sellers, or Austin Powers, or he's this guy, they're just all having their nice little holiday, and this guy, they're sitting in the lounge playing cards. And the moment he gets there, he opens the door and just walks to the front desk.

Starting point is 01:10:54 And without knowing it, the wind comes in and blows their cards everywhere. So the second he arrives, he inadvertently has no idea that he's causing all that trouble. And by the way, there's a tribute to him in rocket man that I did. Wow. Really? Which part? So his car, Moussou Houlos car is an old,

Starting point is 01:11:13 I think they were called Pujos. It's a little French car that he drives into town and the minute he drives into town, as soon as he gets near, it backfires. So right at like the second and he's oblivious to how he turns everyone's light. And that's sort of what I channeled a bit with, with rocket man. Fred had no idea he caused all this, but what I did when we, when we wrote the script, I said, when Fred drives in, will you get me a Pugio? Will you get me a French car?

Starting point is 01:11:43 And so he drives that little car in and then I choreographed the whole thing. I said, let's have them stuck. So we used to pop up through the roof and bounce out. And then I said, instead of having a car alarm, Fred's the kind of guy every day he would take his wheel off. And then you see the wheel rolling down. It's so good. And I said, let's roll it through.

Starting point is 01:12:02 And then Fred will just be like, hey, Ling Chong, wow. And like, he should, he knows everyone in there, the factory workers. So instead of having like a car alarm, he just took a wheel. But that car was an exact tribute to Jacques Patti from, from, from. You could just say, I want that car. And Disney was like, we got it. That's what I mean.

Starting point is 01:12:20 Like everything I asked for, they, they facilitated it. Yeah. And that was, that's what I mean. Like everything I asked for, they, they facilitated it. Yeah. And that was, that's what I mean. Like back, I got in just under the, the finish line of when they movies were like really movies. I mean, they flew me there in a private jet. They got me like a little mansion to live in. They got me a Land Rover. And at that time cell phones were a new thing.

Starting point is 01:12:42 They like, I was just like, it's like, I had the real total movie star treatment and a real movie. And I've done a lot of, I was about 35 or 36. Oh, so fun. It was just, it was so magical. And then on top of it for them to let me put my imprint on the movie. Oddly enough, it's a movie that sadly they sort of buried.

Starting point is 01:13:06 It's a movie that's hard to find and hard to see. Why is that? Cause it has a cult following. It has, but I think it has a bit of a cult following because I think they tried to bury it, which is sad cause it's a very wholesome movie. It is, yeah. But my guess is there's a scene in the movie

Starting point is 01:13:24 that I wrote again, adding to, um, where they, they're up in space and they get a call from the president and the president wants to talk to all the astronauts. And when he gets to me, he goes, what do you think Fred? And I go, I go, I'm looking out the window on earth looks like a little blueberry. And then I start singing, You've got the whole world. And then because it's the globe, I go now the French, oh Papi all.

Starting point is 01:13:52 And I just start making up words. And then I go and now the Chinese. And then I just like in the old Jerry Lewis movies, like the tongue, tongue, tongue, tongue. The best part. And it was really funny, but I really think they're so sensitive, and I'm just speculating, but I think that might've been the thing that maybe killed it,

Starting point is 01:14:13 and if it wasn't in that, then there was someone at Disney that just said, I hate Harlan. Because they, well, they really buried the movie, even during DVD time. It was, you couldn't find it. It wasn't in theaters?

Starting point is 01:14:24 It was in theaters, but what happened is George of the Jungle and Rocketman came out that same year. Yeah. So I didn't know this, but October is the death zone for movies. Traditionally, if you, if you chart movies, if you went in and did the analysis, like the way baseball guys do,

Starting point is 01:14:44 October is death month. Most movies in October, just for whatever reason, it's the dead zone. They all eat it. I didn't even know this. And summer's like the golden zone. So Rocketman was initially scheduled to come out in the summer, which is perfect

Starting point is 01:15:00 because it's a high concept comedy. And what they did about six months before, seven months before they swapped it and they, they put Georgia the jungle in the summer and they dropped rocket man in October. Why'd they do that? These are the things I don't know. Yeah. But, and again, no offense to the people, but I think Georgia the

Starting point is 01:15:23 jungle was not a good movie. It wasn't on, on the page. And I don't think George of the Jungle was not a good movie. It wasn't on the page and I don't think it was executed well. I love Brendan Fraser. The weird thing is he knew about Rocketman. I had never heard of it, but I was forced to watch George of the Jungle. I mean, we went to the theaters, I did the whole thing, and I did not know about it. But did you find out about about as a kid or later as a kid and then later. And I have that DVD

Starting point is 01:15:47 signed by you and it's in my apartment. And when you walk in, if you look to the right, it's like the first thing you see. And I can't tell you how many people walk in and they are just magnet, just lost to a flame. Rock a man. I love that movie. I saw it as a kid. I saw it so many times. Like it is such a people are that love it are obsessed with it. Yeah. But how did that happen? Because like, how did you find out about it? Like the boys you were around were watching it? I guess I don't even know. Like we would have a thing called video game night as kids.

Starting point is 01:16:21 And we'd all stay at someone's house and play video games at night. And then we'd watch movies and eat like Doritos and like soda and it's just one of the movies we put on. I don't know how but it just became a part of... Because I think they just pick somebody and pump them. Like I think it's like you know how like during the internet you know what I mean before the internet we didn't have the internet but everybody heard that rumor that Marilyn Manson took a rib out to suck his own dick. I think that's kind of like Rocket Man. Yeah. It all just floated into our conscience.

Starting point is 01:16:52 Again, I don't know if there was any plan or if it was done on purpose, but I do know that it was very difficult to get the movie. It's so frustrating. And even now, if you try to find it, I don't think it's on Disney Plus. Apparently all their movies are there, but Rocketman's not. Get out of here. That's not there.

Starting point is 01:17:10 How did we watch it? We pirated it. We did pirate it. That's so crazy. That's insane. It makes me sad, but it also, in a way, it adds to the mystique of it. And I feel like when people do get through to it

Starting point is 01:17:25 and find it, they really enjoy it. And one thing it really does, cause people meet me after my shows at my comedy gig, for some reason it was a movie that really bonded a lot of fathers and sons and a lot of families. A lot of families come up to me and go, we watched this as a family. I watched this with my father.

Starting point is 01:17:44 And that sort of really warms. In my mind's eye feel and see, do you remember the Disney VHS is that had this, and it was almost like a white case that you'd pop. Yeah, yeah. You hear that click. Yeah. I still hear and see that at my friend's house right now.

Starting point is 01:18:00 Like, oh wow. The thing that's frustrating is the George of the jungle was like, at least for me seeing it as a kid, I was like a fat little freak. And I remember watching that and it just being them naked, right? It was just Brendan Fraser. Yeah, George, she got all ripped like,

Starting point is 01:18:14 Brendan Fraser got ripped. And she was so hot. And I remember just being like, I remember being a kid and being like, I don't really wanna watch that one because it made me feel so bad. But like Ace Ventura, for example, I was like, I'm like him. I'm fucking weird and make those faces.

Starting point is 01:18:26 So if I had seen Rocketman as a kid, I would have felt so. You know what I mean? Because it was like she's in a fucking spacesuit the whole time. You know what I mean? You're a freak that I would have identified with so much. And instead, they're like, no, little girl, watch this. Watch this white woman with abs. And you're like, OK, I'll watch. I'll watch.

Starting point is 01:18:41 I know it's weird. So I don't know if they purposely buried it or somebody didn't like it or they're worried about something in it, but again, I made sure that the movie doesn't have a swear word. It's very wholesome, but I wonder if they were concerned about the Chinese thing,

Starting point is 01:18:59 which is you can't, when you're making like improvising voices for seven different cultures and improvising German and French and then Africa. We can't do Chinese. You just speak fluent Chinese. You start speaking it exactly how it is. Yeah right. But that's the thing you're including. Including yeah and it's comedy and that was the gist of that joke is to make everyone laugh. And you had the cut where you have all the Asian people going, singing it with them. Yeah, you cut to people singing. Yeah, and there's people in Africa and like, that's the thing, you're talking to the entire

Starting point is 01:19:36 world. And that's the joke which should bring everyone together, which is the purpose of it. Again, I'm just speculating. For all I know, it could just be like somebody at Disney forgot to click something and it never got out there. I just don't know. But in a way it makes it more fun because it's sort of like, it's sort of like the hidden item on the menu. And when people find it, hopefully they go, this is delicious. I mean, it is, it is,

Starting point is 01:20:02 people's faces light up when you bring up that movie and it is, it is a thing that stays with people because they watch as a kid. And yeah, it's a kid's movie, but we're, I'm 40. And I appreciate it so much as an adult, especially someone that loves comedy. You can see that it's just such a great template for what a comedy should be. It's incredible. Yeah. Well, I really, I, I, I'm a guy who thinks in terms of, I think a lot of people think in terms of what, what's tracking this week and what's tracking for the next few months. Yeah. But whenever I try to

Starting point is 01:20:38 do something artistic, I go, if someone pulled this off the shelf in 30 years, would it be impactful? But the same way Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's holiday still tracked with me, like I wanted this movie to really track if someone watched it today, 25 years, or maybe is it 30 years later now? Yeah. God.

Starting point is 01:21:01 Yeah, 97 is what. You also just, your brain works in like funny cartoon, like when you were at the cellar and that woman was chewing and you're like, can you please stop chewing like a Galapagos turtle? And I was like, that's exactly what she was, she was like, nuh-uh-uh. It was so good.

Starting point is 01:21:16 I would have been like, can you shut the fuck up? You know what I mean? I would have gone immediately edgy, like can you shut up, can you stop fucking eating? Like fat shamed her and you were like, can you please stop? You said it in the nicest way. Could you please stop doing like a Galapagos turtle?

Starting point is 01:21:31 It is funny though, that it almost like back to back was this wholesome hilarious comedy rocket man. And then you were in half baked. Yeah. They were kind of like, I didn't want to do Half Baked. Really? Yeah, because it was a drug movie. And I remember we were with, I was with Chappelle, we were shooting our HBO specials in San Francisco. And I got my, someone presented from the publicity,

Starting point is 01:22:00 showed me the first poster of Rocket Man. And I was like, oh, and I was there with Chappelle. And I remember going, oh man, Rocketman, half baked. I was a little conflicted, but I learned to separate everything. And ironically, as wholesome as Rocketman, I insisted it being cut to now with another man movie, Wingman.

Starting point is 01:22:22 I always stay true to the character. It's not my journey, it's the journey of the character. And so this wingman who makes his living exploiting women and men, I said this guy would see things through a very sort of bluer, rougher, like prism. And so it's a little scary for me to put this movie out cause it is so edgy, but I'm doing it through the, the eye.

Starting point is 01:22:52 As I put, as I put Fred through this innocent Prism, the wing man's going through this really like, I don't give a shit Prism. And so it's funny, it's sort of bookending different sides of what I've done as work. And I just realized there's two Rocket Man and Wing Man. So we'll see what happens. Oh yeah. That's exciting. Well, you're the man. Oh wow. Wingman, Rocket Man, you are the man.

Starting point is 01:23:18 You're the man, the man. Yeah. The Reaser. Do you want to plug anything? When does this come out? If you don't mind me asking. Next week. Oh, next week. Wow. Well, I would say if you're in the Toronto area. Yeah. May 9th, we're doing our first sneak peek at Wingman

Starting point is 01:23:38 at a beautiful theater in Toronto. You can go to harlemwilliams.com and get a ticket. And then the night before, I'm doing two comedy shows at the Royal theater. I love the, we're calling it the wingman weekend. And Jamie Kennedy, who's also in a wingman, he's going to be there performing with me. So go on harlowilliams.com and, and, uh, get in on the wingman action. You'll be the first to see it. And then also, uh, check out my podcast,

Starting point is 01:24:05 the Harland highway, which these two wonders have been on and Jordan's coming back. Ian was just on back. I'll be in town may 11th to 16th. Are we doing around guy? I don't know. Reach out. Hey, all right. Reach out and touch faith. Yeah. But, uh, and then check my my stand-up comedy schedule at HarlanWilliams.com see if I'm coming to your town and we'll see at the movies. I'm hoping to shoot another movie in October, a whole new one that I wrote. Well, if you need any, if you need any actors. Oh, wow. Do you know any? We... I'm kidding. That was comedy.

Starting point is 01:24:48 Ethan really needs work. Ethan doesn't make a lot of money. He really needs work. If you could just help him out. So yeah, but thank you for having me. Always. You know, just in closing, I, you know, Rockman's a bit obscure and I don't often get interviewed about it. So it was kind of really neat to talk to you guys about it. So thank you. Yeah. Of course.

Starting point is 01:25:14 So of course. Yeah. Thanks for sharing that with us. That's really cool. People are going to love it, man. Cool. And PunchUp live, punchup.live slash Jordan's PunchUp.live.com. Yes. And IanFiedance.com. Patreon.com.com. And we are on the road everywhere. Come out and see us. We appreciate it. Thanks for the love and we'll see you next week. Bye. Bye. Wait, don't go yet. I'm still... What was it we called it? Revelling.

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