Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Chauncy, Chauncy, Where Did Your Leotard Go? (Armen Weitzman, Paul Rust, Neil Campbell)
Episode Date: February 26, 2026Long-time friend and first-time guest Armen Weitzman talks about his upcoming movie “The Napa Boys.” And Paul Rust is also here, joining the 32 timers club! Twin brothers Barrett and Benny Bachelo...r explain how they’ve revamped their businesses. And scoundrel Frankie Forkson works on breaking a bad childhood habit. Don’t forget to check out the Comedy Bang! Bang! Action Figures at shop.figurecollections.com and go to actionfigurecellar.com for international purchases. If you want more great episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! become a subscriber at comedybangbangworld.com. We have all of the past episodes from the archives, every live show, ad-free new episodes, and original shows like CBB Presents and Scott Hasn’t Seen. Find more great Comedy Bang! Bang! merch at https://www.podswag.com/collections/comedy-bang-bang Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/cbb Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang for another week.
My name is Scott Ackerman.
I'm the host of Comedy Bang Bang.
We have an exceptional show for you today.
We have a couple of movie stars.
We have some record industry titans.
And we also have a scoundrel coming up a little later on the show.
This is, look, if you only listen to one episode of Comedy Bang Bang, I get it.
But I'm glad it's this one.
We're going to bring on our first guest.
Now, I mentioned movie stars.
What is a movie these days?
You know what I mean?
With screens getting smaller and some screens are getting bigger.
Like I went to this IMAX.
Have you heard of this?
IMAX?
And it was, the screen was big.
And I was like, wait a bit.
I heard all these screens are getting smaller.
Like, we're watching things on our phones or something.
I came in expecting to watch this on my phone.
And instead, there's a giant screen called IMAX.
It was crazy.
And Avatar was wonderful.
But before we get off on too many tangents about, of course, the Avatar universe, we talked about it a few weeks back.
Let's bring in these movie stars.
First off, I'm going to bring in this gentleman.
He's been on the show very many times.
I'll count up what timer club he's entering as I say hello to him.
Our good buddy Paul Rust is here.
Hello, Paul.
Hi, Scott.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thanks for having me.
And I agree.
It's so funny that we live in this day and age.
where some screens are getting smaller and smaller.
I mean, the smallest they might have ever been in the history of screens.
But also, at the same time, there are screens that are getting bigger and bigger.
It feels almost as if there should be some regulatory committee that, you know, make screens the exact same size.
Just choose a median size.
Whatever the average of every screen that exists out there right now is, make that the average and then make.
So if you have a phone and it's like, say, TV-sized and it's in your pocket,
that would change fashion forever.
Pockets get bigger.
Oh, pants get bigger.
Pants get bigger.
Like Jared from Subway style.
Yeah.
Oh, everybody.
Oh, they'd be begging Jared.
Please, please make more pants like yours so we can wear them to fit our large.
Oh.
You know, the future scares me.
Conversations like this.
Do they ever scare you when you think about like,
where we're headed as a future.
Yeah, he's entering the 32-timers club on Comedy Bang Bang.
And I believe he is our only guest to ever be on every single year, calendar year of Comedy Bang-Bing.
Is that true?
I don't know.
But 32 times.
What's the secret Disney restaurant that I've never been to?
Club 33.
Club 33.
You're almost there.
That's also Las Ducriste, the age of Christ, when he died.
I know some of our guests don't believe in that.
Well, I heard that Club 33 honors that by when you come in to the Disneyland.
It's not in the restaurant where you...
No.
I heard in the lobby, you don't see this, but where you eat, there's like a crucifixion.
Oh, really, in the lobby of Club 33.
And you eat in the lobby?
How interesting.
What a strange restaurant, but I mean...
Hey, it's Totsy Turby.
That's Walt Disney for you.
Yep, yep.
He was an Imagineer.
He imagined people eating in the lobby.
If he had his way, you know, we'd eat breakfast on our kneecaps at night time.
That's a good point about Walt Disney.
Let's bring in our second guest.
He is the co-writer, the co-star of a new movie coming out this Friday called The Napa Boys.
Please welcome to the one-timers club, Armin Weidstman.
Hello, Scott.
Thank you.
Hello, Armin.
How are you?
It's great to see you again.
It's great to see, but great to be the year of the first.
the opposite of the
32, exactly. I've always said
that. Armand, you are an old
old friend. You've never been on the show
before, but you haven't had a lot to
promote in the past.
And now you have a huge, huge project,
a movie that you've co-written and you are
co-starring in called The Napa Boys
coming out this Friday.
How do you reconcile these two existences?
I think that's
what we were saying about the Great Gatsby.
We had a long
literary discussion. We also do CBBB
book club right before we come here and none of us had ever read it we do it before the recording
of every episode and then you usually say book club over here are the guests for the next you know
everybody so it's kind of cool that for the first time first time we're doing it back to do 10 years of
doing the book club before the recording that we stuck around yeah that's true I just well what's like
great gatsby about this what about great gatsby I know you're right I got a little too attached to
this great gatsby opener which was just that
Like Great Gatsby, I've now reemerged from the ashes and to make you proud of me.
That's right.
You, uh, uh, uh, great Gatsby famously in his book, uh, disappeared a few years back and, um,
and hasn't spoken to any of his friends in a while.
Yeah.
And, uh, I, I recently read it.
When you say like he ripped from the ashes, that's literal too, because the second to last chapter,
Gatsby, like, his house starts up fire and then he starts on fire.
He's like, oh!
And the flames in his body.
Yeah, and then he becomes ashes, and then suddenly magic happens, and he swirls around,
and they all reconstitute his body, and he's like an ash monster at the end of the book?
Yeah, a sort of ash monster that attacks Hoboken, New Jersey.
All right, Paul.
Classic Paul Russ comedy.
I'm so sorry.
It's this an emotional time.
This is an emotional time.
It's great to see you.
But it is fun.
Explain to newish listeners.
Well, look, you've never been on the show before.
Some people may not even, long-time listeners may not know who you are.
But let's go through your biography a little bit.
You grew up here in Los Angeles.
Well.
You then, you're taking issue with that?
That sounds like one of those L.A. types, but I'm, I'm...
You're not an L.A. type in terms of your personality, but you grew up in L.A.
Yes.
And you were the type of person to grow up in L.A.
you then went to Emerson College
Not even that
Yeah you're right
Well you're right
I met some great friends there
And that's what I learned about
Doing comedy for more than just your
You started doing comedy in Emerson College
You met a certain gentleman named Harris Whittles
And were the rest of the people in your group
That you were in the group with from Emerson as well
Yes
Yes they were
Who else explained this group?
Well now of course there's an original group
but the ones maybe I think you're thinking of are mookie.
Mm-hmm.
Mookie Blake Lack.
And there was also Dave.
Dave Horowitz, yes.
And you guys all started a group called.
Well, Hendershaw, although I wasn't part of that name.
Okay.
Naming.
But you were in a group called Hendershaw, and that's how I first got to know all of you.
That's right.
That's right.
You were in a sketch group called Hendershaw.
And you would perform out here at shows, at the M-Bar, at the UCB Theater.
and that's where I first met all of you guys
and you in particular were close with Harris
Yes, extremely close
You guys were great friends
And you and you were in the Hendersonhaw group
You guys worked together a lot, right?
Yes, and then we became sort of enmeshed in a
sort of a, yeah
Like a wife or whatever it's called a partner
Sure, yeah
You can call it either one depending on
Well, I meant like a work wife.
Is that what they say?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I just meant, you know what I mean.
But I mean like...
A workwife, yes.
So you had a very tight relationship with Harris.
You were...
You would write together.
You would perform together a lot.
Like Bob Zamuda.
Like Bob Zamuda.
And you co-directed something with Harris as well, right?
That's right.
What was it called?
It was...
It was also called The Badger's Promise, but it was...
The Badger's Promise, yes.
You know, never mind.
That's not a funny story.
Oh, but that was a separate show that,
you and Harris did together.
The Badgers Promise was a live show.
Which I saw at UCB, which is very, very funny.
Oh, yeah.
I think you were a guest.
Yeah.
A guest.
I was a guest on it, too.
Oh, okay.
And so was Paul.
Was this happening also during the live show, Little Don Draper?
Was that ever a live show?
Little Draper's Date nights.
Little Draper's Date nights.
What exactly was that?
That was, you know, a one or two-off show that was canceled at the UCB theater.
They canceled things?
Well, a couple times because the guest didn't show up, then we brought a audience member on, but I think she was not old enough to drink after.
It was someone acting like little Don Draper?
Is that what?
I think, yes.
In many ways, it was sort of me, and the humor would be that I'm not even as smooth as Don Draper.
Okay, great.
And people listening to you right now are getting a sense of your personality and way of speech.
You have a halting way of speech in a mind that zigs and zags and all sorts of jobs.
directions. Yes, although I am, yeah. Here's the truth, though, but I'm trying not to, but you're right.
But you, but you, uh, what's, what's the most coherent you could talk if you really tried?
When they say action. Okay, action. Oh my God. Hey, what's up guys? Hey, that was pretty good.
What's up? Well, how's traffic? The band? The band, the cars.
I mean, look, the band and the cars are great. Normal stuff. Normal, normal, normal.
Yeah, normal stuff.
So you, you, you, in Hendershaw, you were this group.
And then Harris, for those of you who are not longtime comedy bang bang fans, investigate Harris's work.
He is no longer with us.
This, in fact, is this the 10th, this is the 10th anniversary of him passing away, I believe.
Yes, yeah.
And I think so.
Oh, 11.
Oh, is it 11?
Oh, okay.
So this is one of those off.
anniversaries that we don't need to celebrate.
No, no, no.
We really should have gotten it together for the 10th when you think about it.
But that's classic, Harris, dude.
He liked odd numbers.
He liked odd things.
He liked odd numbers.
He liked...
He liked being odd.
Mm-hmm.
A-W-E-D.
He got even with people who crossed him.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We had a good cop, bad cop thing.
Yeah, who was good cop and bad cop?
I was the bad.
I was the good.
I mean, he's, he's the bad boy.
He was the bad boy.
Well, he really was the bad boy of American comedy.
Yeah, exactly.
He was active, but we always said.
Yeah, who was against him in the international races of bad boy?
Was it Mr. Bean?
Yeah, Mr. Bean was representing England.
Yeah, I was going to say, are Donald Glover or Mr. Bean.
Yeah, and I think Abba was representing Sweden.
They weren't even comedians.
They were just, they were musicians, but.
Like traffic.
Yeah, like traffic.
Double meaning.
So that's a little bit of background about you.
And you...
It's got me curious.
Do you think, with you guys talking about Armand's background, him growing up here in Los Angeles,
we met him because he came through people he met on the East Coast and then came to the West Coast.
Do you think there's a world where Armine would have never even...
But, or, if he had just stayed in Los Angeles...
If you stay and never went to Emerson.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think our path was still cross.
Maybe I'd even be more successful.
Oh, yeah, if you would never went to Emerson and Matt Harris and everyone.
You'd be more successful?
I was very into the magic of movies, and then he taught me about comedy, and I thought we'd all be like Monty Python.
Oh, yeah, yeah, making movies.
Yeah, or before they broke up, you know.
Yeah, but you, so you really, you wanted to make movies before you went to Emerson and Matt Harris, and he taught you about comedy.
So what kind of movies did you want to make before?
I mean, Armand made one, I think, right in high school, didn't you make a feature film?
Sure.
Well, no, no, this is not, this is for the, yeah, friends to see.
Okay, but it's not on IMDB, but it's close to your heart.
Everyone starts somewhere.
But yeah, no, no, it's just dreams sort of thing.
I'm just saying it, then, yeah, not counting how old I actually am or what year it is,
I'm a young up-and-comer and this is a dream come true, and I'm just happy to...
Yes, because now you've made a movie.
You've made a feature film that's being released in theaters.
Let's talk about it.
That is, it is real.
Yes, it is real.
It is a real film.
Yes, Scott, Wayne, don't you find sometimes with, with comedians in the comedy world?
You know, they might, of course, they're lovers of comedy.
Sure, comedians, they usually are lovers of comedy.
Yeah, but they, a lot of times they're bigger fans of the cinema.
They're movie maniacs sometimes.
So, really?
When, Armin has, you know, he went to college.
He wasn't necessarily thinking of Chris Hardwick.
He was thinking of Federico Fellini.
Normally that joke structure works better.
I was, I know, I thought later, as I was saying Chris Hardwick, I was like, I should have said this second.
Chris Pine.
Oh, oh, oh, I thought you just meant the order of the names.
No, I'm just saying like he wasn't thinking of Chris Hardwick.
He was thinking of Chris Palini.
Oh, dear.
Chris Huffellini
Well let's talk about the Napa Boys
This is a real film I've seen it
It's coming out in theaters this Friday
This is co-written by yourself
And a gentleman
The gentleman named Nick
Corry Rossi
Yeah, Cori Rossi
And some would say
No, well
There mind
Yeah some would say he's the new bad cop
But it was a joke about
Because the other one's
And I got a new one.
Yeah, I get it.
I understand.
But of course, that is humor-based
whoever's hearing this.
It's humor-based quips that we're doing right here.
But there's an element of truth to it.
But getting the last name right, too.
It's a little like, I've always heard a bit of a debate between Sessie and Sasey of Scorsesey.
Right?
Yeah.
His daughter Sessie, you mean?
Isn't it interesting that Sissy Space Sick never?
Slade of Scorsese?
I don't know that it's interesting as much as...
Slaid.
Never shot.
Okay, that's what I said.
Slate is not a good S word there.
I'll tell you what a good S word is, though.
Shit.
Well, when I step on one of my kids' toys, yeah, good S word is shit.
Oh, gosh.
Listen, when I met you, you didn't even have a kid.
You were...
That's right, I was just screaming shit for other reasons.
Yeah, you weren't stepping on anything.
You were just screaming shit everywhere you went.
But these days you do have a kid, Paul, and we'll get to your involvement in this film.
Sure.
I do want to get the information out.
Of course.
It is co-written by the two of you.
So he directed this movie.
This is co-written by the two of you.
It co-stars the two of you.
Paul, you are also in this movie.
You play the antagonist in this movie.
That's right.
Squirm.
Squirm.
And what's the concept of the film?
Do you want to say it or do you want me to say it?
and you agree with it.
Oh, that'd be interesting.
Okay.
I think the concept of the film is,
it is part four in an imaginary series of films called the Napa Boys and the Adventures
of the Napa Boys.
It's almost akin to,
I think I was reading an interview where the two of you were talking about how it's
almost as if the movie sideways had gotten a bunch of American Pie-style direct-to-video
sequels where the concepts kept getting more diluted and more weird as it went down. So this is
episode four of the Napa Boys. Yeah, that's basically correct. But of course, it's even much
more. And anyone also, it's, you know, the part four, you know, a new hope was part four. It didn't
stop you guys from eating it up. That's right. Yeah. So this is, exactly. We, Star Wars released
episode four first and everyone loved it and everyone understood it and I look I understood this film I
I wasn't lost I was like these are the Napa boys obviously um but it's the two of you play the titular
napa boys and you go off on an adventure to save the winery of a good friend of yours yeah that that's
that's pretty much does it right yeah so so who's in this film we have the two of you we have Sarah Ramos
We have Mike Mitchell, one of the doughboys himself.
Oh, yeah.
Was that uncomfortable to be on set with the guy who banned you from his show?
No, no.
He doesn't seem to think that I was banned.
And, yeah, you know, he was just happy to see me.
I think we just had been a while.
Mm-hmm.
It'd been a while.
So we have Mike Mitchell.
I should have answered so earnestly with that one.
We have other people like Ray Wise from Twin Peaks is in this.
Amazing.
DJ Qualls, David Wayne.
That's right.
Oh, yes, that's right.
We have Ricky Lindholm.
We have Nelson Franklin. He's one of the Napa boys. We have Beth Dover. So many, Natasha Lajero, Steve Agee. So many alumni of this show. Plus, we have other great people. Ryan Perez is in this. And then we also have cameos from people I don't want to necessarily spoil who are in this. And it's just a comedy lover's feast. And people who listen to podcasts and know about things like Bug Main and.
whatever it is, they're going to have a ball watching this. Is that right? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think also
it's always been on your shelf. This movie's been there since, you know, I mean, this is all things.
I think you're going to be surprised that it's not just some sort of niche, sort of niche comedy,
silly. This is also. It's so much more than that. It describes the layers of the human condition
in such an interesting way, in a deep way, that I think people will really be surprised.
surprised that you guys were capable of going there.
I think so.
And I think also we really adopted the ensemble similar to like American graffiti.
Sure.
Or an Altman type film like Nashville or something like that.
It really reminded me of that type of film when the Mavericks of 70 cinema were out there just breaking all the rules.
It could be called Napa Boys or it could be called Tapestry.
Yes.
Or Tapah Boys like Tapas Boys.
How about that?
Did you ever think about Tapist?
You know what?
We did.
I'm going to write that down.
That's good.
Do you need a pen?
Because I don't see you.
And Scott, you mentioned Ray Wise.
Well, and comedy fans.
Yeah.
Ray Wise shares the screen with the comedy world's, uh, uh, Mike Hanford, I believe.
Yes.
Yes.
But yeah, I'll echo, Scott, what you said about it.
What is this?
The Grand Canyon?
Oh, my God.
Well, you're going to edit that out, right?
I'm going to edit that out.
You have to edit that out.
But fucking shit, that was funny.
Oh, my God.
Do you mean like this?
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
I should have never said echo around this canyon head.
This canyon head left and right always talking about echoes.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Anyway, get back to your point if you can remember it.
That, uh, it wasn't.
Oh, uh, for, for, for, if you are a.
Comedy lover?
And hey, you're listening to this podcast, so you are.
Hopefully, hopefully.
You'll love this movie.
You got to check it out.
Armist's not going to, you know, he's too modest.
You're too shy and reserved and modest.
But Armin and Nick, both of them, have made something really, really special.
The two of you, I loved working with you.
It was great.
It was an honor.
I think I just, yeah, I just, everybody got.
a moment to shine.
And we put, you know, these guys, this cast did beautiful things.
And everyone...
And the great thing was is the cameras were running when they were doing it.
Well, that's...
Sometimes you'll make a movie and it'll be like everyone...
Its magic is happening.
And then you're like, we should turn these cameras on eventually, right?
We were...
Yeah.
Look, I'm just saying, just in case I die, one earnest thoughts that we did...
You know, this was from our souls and it was just sort of like Lord of the Rings.
We slipped this through the system behind.
the armies of the...
The gatekeepers trying to keep this type of movie out of people's hands.
Well, you know, it went to TIF, the Toronto International Film Festival.
Is that what it stands for?
Oh, yeah.
Is that what the eye is for?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so it's not for, it's not like the eye in iMac.
No, no, no.
Or igloo.
Yeah, exactly.
So it went to Tiff and did it play really well there?
Sure, I think so.
I think I'd have no idea.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and you were there.
And then it got picked up by Magnolia Pictures.
Yes.
Such a...
Who let me watch it on an app, as the filmmakers intended, with my name.
Right there in the middle of the screen, the entire movie.
That was at TIF, though, too.
It's a lot of it.
It legitimately confused Kulov because it said starring.
And then my name came up, and she's like, you're in this?
I'm like, no, this is the watermark that's on it.
Yes, we did have request watermarks, and the sound is fixed now.
Oh, since I saw it?
Not that you, but yeah, just so you know in your heart, it's even better than you thought.
Oh, okay.
Well, we did, uh, that, it's actually good to know because we did think that there were some issues with the sound.
I saw you think we were joking around.
That was, and this must just be special having a Magnolia pictures release it because the board, the executive board is all the living actors from Magnolia in character.
Will you, well, Mitch Macy.
Phil Hoffman, Phil Palmer, I guess.
And yeah, the Wiz kid.
Philip
Quiz Kit
No Philip
What's his name?
Yeah
So there's
Whizkid
Quizkid
You could call him
Quiz Kid
And they've only
Put up to
Right
They've only put out
The movie Magnolia
Up till now
So this is only
The second movie
That they've ever put out
They were like
Well okay
We put out this movie
We're all in
Yes
But this one's too good
We gotta put out this one
This is
Yeah
Well similar to this moment
I think someone
At Magnolia
Lost a bet
And now they're
forced to do this. You, so you're saying you lost a bet and you're forced to do this show?
I was being a, as they say, I was humbly that you lost the bet. I understand, I understand,
Armand. Can I call you a Scott? You can call me Scott, although you were looking at Paul when you
said it. Because it was too scared. It was too scary. Scottie, Scotty, Scotty, Scotty. Well,
Armand, you're, look, I've known you a long time. I've known you 20 years maybe or when did you come to
back to that? Oh, yeah. Oh, no, back. Oh, yeah. When did Handershaw come and start doing stuff?
Was that?
I don't know.
2006.
I was going to say 2006.
Somewhere on there.
So I've known you 20 years.
Oh, no.
It's great to see you putting out something that you made.
It's great.
Yeah.
Yes.
And he's, even if we weren't friends, though, he would like it.
Yeah, I mean, obviously.
Yeah, because it's even better than.
Even if we were like enemies.
It probably would heal the divide between us.
It's that good.
That's what I think.
I do think that.
And everyone who, whoever hates.
the haters the hater do you look I know you want to to take part of the show to talk to
you want to to go is that right now do you want to talk about him I just want to say it's
kind of cool to have someone on these things that is holding their breath mm-hmm
yep yep that's pretty I love it that was exactly what you told me you wanted to say to
the haters so I'm I'm so glad you got a chance to do that well I think with Armin's
debut here I think it was a rather smashing
I think it was a smash debut.
Smashing debut, Armin.
Smashing.
Guys.
Yes, Armin.
It was.
It was a smashing debut.
Now, look, we're coming up on a break.
Okay.
Do you want to say anything else about the film before we take a break?
We're coming up on a break.
Okay, Ross.
Dress for less.
Rachel, we got to dress for less.
I just want to say that Paul was really, he was really great.
in the film. Paul's very good in the film. It was,
yes, very funny. If you had seen
him in his Neil and Paul,
I don't know if you heard about Neil and Paul.
They used to be sort of a duo. Well, they directed
the Henderson show. That's correct. When you say they, you mean you and this other
guy, Neil. Me and Neil? Yeah.
But I would call them Neil and Paul.
Neil and Paul. Yeah, they were in a different group
whose name I can't remember. What was it again?
Chanty, Chanty, where your leotard go?
Chanty, yeah, a great sketch group.
It's hard to come up with a sketch group name.
but Chaunty Chaunty where did your leotard go was a rival not even a rival because that implies that you were against each other but a
Yeah to change it from Unitart because we couldn't get the URL
It should be you and I T-A-R-D
Yeah
God we're having a lot of fun
You're old friends
No this is yeah decades of friendship between us
I think we have 80 years of friendship between all of us
That's good right
Just think of this okay if you're listening to this okay if you're listening
What if your dream was to be on this podcast?
You were just a regular Joe?
That's like me.
Like I'm feeling emotional and I can't even joke about Ross or Rachel.
That's, well, it's hard to talk about Ross or Rachel when you're feeling this emotional.
But I'm glad, Armin, I'm glad that you're here.
I'm glad you have reemerged from wherever you've been and you're putting out shit.
You're here.
I want to encourage people to see it.
Now it's coming to LA this Friday and then it expands to New York.
the next Friday, and then it's in even more cities after that, the Friday after that.
Correct. That is correct.
You know why? Because when you see it, you're going to want to tell a friend.
Exactly.
Who lives in New York.
You're going to tell a friend who loves comedy.
You're going to say, and it does get better.
Like the prestige.
The second time you start to realize what actually...
Oh, I thought you meant the actual prestige part of the magic.
Well, I was going to say...
Like, oh, finally, this magic trick got better.
Well, you see that.
Magic tricks are actually really bad until...
Well, until you bring it.
back.
So everyone watch this film in L.A.
then call all your New York friends.
And then all those New York friends, when you see it, when it's there, call all your friends
and all these other cities.
And we want people to be out there watching the Napa Boys.
That's right.
Yes.
So the Napa Boys in theaters this Friday.
We're going to take a break.
Armand, you can stick around, right?
Paul, I know you have to go.
When we come back, we're going to be talking to some record industry Titans.
This is exciting.
We're going to be right back with more Armin Weightsman.
No more Paul Russ.
We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.
Comedy Bang, bang, bang.
We're back.
We have Armin Whiteman.
The Napa Boys in theaters this Friday.
Very exciting for fans of movies with Napa and or boys in the title.
Are there other Napa movies that you can think of?
Like if Blockbuster video was still around, where would you be filed?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, alphabetically.
Near sideways and...
I don't think...
Well, alphabetically...
Oh, did you say alphabetically?
I did say alphabetically, but I mean...
Let me start that over.
Then I would be near the ends.
Yeah.
What are the...
Are there other movies like Napa?
I'm trying to think of...
N-A...
Okay, Namaste, is that a movie?
Or NAN...
Oh, Nantucket.
Is that a movie?
No. Nebraska.
Nana?
Which was...
Also directed by...
Nebraska would be after you.
Yeah, by Robert...
Alexander...
Oh, Alexander Payne.
That's right.
Yeah.
That's right.
You're a painhead.
Well, sure.
Because you're getting me a pain in my ass right now.
Of course he's kidding.
Enough joke it around.
Let's get to our next guests.
They have been on the show many times.
They are record industry titans and also sandwich artists.
Please welcome back to the show Barrett and Benny Bachelor, the Bachelor brothers.
We're back.
We're back.
That's ringing a bell for me.
Where do I remember that from?
And the Bachelor Brothers, of course, we said it last time.
Oh, that's right.
That's what we say when we go back someplace, no matter where it is.
Even if we don't know people working there.
Do you find yourself wanting to go to new places because you get tired of saying we're back all the time?
Well, we go into new places so that we could quickly turn around and come back the next day.
Yeah, when we go into a new place for the first time, I'm just holding my breath until we can come back the second time to say, we're back.
Do you hope eventually to go to every single place that exists on Earth so you can then, everywhere you go, you say we're back?
Exactly.
Yeah.
I'd like to go there.
Twice.
Benny, it's so good to see you, Barrett.
Also, great to see you.
Thank you.
Great to see you, babe.
If people haven't heard your...
Oh, that's right, babe.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, you say babe.
That's right.
We say Babe a lot, babe.
If people haven't heard your previous experiences, when I say that, I mean episodes on the...
show talk about your history a little bit we're twin brothers we own a record label
Bachelor Brothers records right and we only sign the hottest most wild acts but a few
years ago and this is an update for you this isn't part of the lore this is this is
new because I've been I've been spoken to you in a number of years yeah it's it's been
a rock and roll minute exactly sure so it's been a few rock and roll minutes ago okay
Here's the problem. Bachelor Brothers Records, we went under.
Under, wait, the water, the sea?
Under the sea.
Well, yeah, we almost...
That's where it's hotter, under the water.
Take it from you!
We did go on an ill-fated...
Were you in a submersible?
In submersible, yeah.
Why was it hill-fated?
It had a tiny little hole in it and some water got in.
We only went one foot under the water, babe.
But that's not what you're here to talk about.
We would, we went woke and we went broke.
No!
Yeah.
We stopped signing, we stopped signing the wildest, hottest acts.
And we started signing all the woke acts.
No, not you guys.
You remember our previous bands, like the kooky cavemen.
I remember they're probably your most popular band.
Yeah, they would dress like cavemen and play instruments that like both.
I mean, just absolutely wild.
And you could get away with that sort of stuff.
10, 20 years ago
But in this day and age
Right
The public appetite shifted
Okay so
Oh forget about the appetites
Talk about the boycotts
The picket line
Talk about them
Come on Barrett
Talk about them
That's what was doing us in
People outraged
All these people
In front of our record
You know
Our record building
Your record building
Yeah it has a sub shop
Downstairs
Like a record
With a sub
Through the middle of it
Yeah
Oh okay
Because on the top
donuts. A submarine, like
Spielberg's old restaurant?
Dive?
At the Century City Mall? They're like Ashton Kutcher's old restaurant.
Ketchum. Oh, okay, got it.
It was called ketchup dive.
Oh, okay.
So it's sort of like a big double-dare obstacle.
God, there was a big bottle of ketchup.
And you dove into it. If you got to the potty, we got a
French fry. You dove into the bottle.
Anyway, that's all that passed.
And who's this guy? What? Do you date
the Doubledair host's daughter or something?
They're talking to you, Armin.
Did you date the Double Dare host's daughter or something?
Mark Summers, I believe is his name.
Well, I can talk.
Yeah, you can be, yeah, please, yeah.
I mean, they're asking you this question, Armin.
Did you date Mark Summers' daughter or something?
I don't.
You're not under oath yet.
Fair enough, babe.
Fair enough, babe.
So the top floor of our building is a recording studio.
The bottom floor is a submarine sandwich place.
Right, right.
So we got the record.
No, Jared's allowed.
Right.
Okay, and people were picketing the outside of this?
People were picketing because our acts were too wild.
So we set the public appetite once these new woke acts.
So that's what we got.
We signed this band, the Clean Plate Club.
Okay, the Clean Plate Club.
What did they sound like?
After every song, they would finish their plate and show it to the audience.
They'd go, look, I ate it all.
I ate every morsel.
Even the lima beans.
So they started eating before the concert,
and then they would, or they were eating continuously throughout the other band members would eat while the singer was singing and then...
Seems like they would want to be playing to back him up or did everyone take turns?
Take turns.
When someone does a solo, the other ones are munched.
So the singer gets, you know, when there's a drums solo, he's...
So everyone took turns playing, so it would be like someone playing the drums, doong, do kud-dun-d-d-d-t.
That's exactly one of their songs.
And then he would stop, and then everyone would...
And then a guitarist would start.
Yeah, and then they'd show off their plate.
And we thought, hey, this is what the public wants.
They want these acts that are so woke.
Right.
They didn't care.
They didn't like it.
They didn't buy their records, babe.
No.
We went woke, and then, because of that, we went broke.
Okay.
We had all these, tell about another woke acts, Benny.
We had the pardon me's.
The pardon me's.
The pardon me's.
Okay.
A bad would come out and go, pardon me.
Hey, Scott, can I try?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Watch this.
Um, the pardon me's?
Hey, pretty good.
Uh, so what does that mean?
That's some sort of weird.
Are you, what?
Are you starting to think we're kind of quirky dudes here?
I'm just saying I'm kind of like scots.
Yeah, you can take over his host of this, if should ever anything happen to me.
Yeah.
What about the, what about our woke band, uh, uh, the all star doing your homework without mom ass.
Right.
So let me guess the dog ate it.
No, they did the homework, babe.
That's the problem.
But they weren't bad boys at all.
The dog ate it?
No, they didn't even own a dog
The people who say the dog ate their homework
They did the homework much like your group
Oh true
But there was a woke band that really
We've had the most passion about
That we felt was gonna be the most successful
The please and thank you sayers
Okay
Before every song
May we please play you another song
And then people say yay
Thank you
And then they go why thank you
And then they play the song
And then they finish everything on their plate
They're doing the same stuff
Clean Plate Club.
That pissed off the clean
makeup.
But it was all veggies,
baby.
All veggies.
They were vegan, babe.
Broccoli,
lime beans,
broccoli,
a califlower.
Okay.
And by the double
encore,
they're just chomping down
carrots.
What's a double encore
where they're playing
two songs at the same time?
Isn't that when a word
sort of has another meeting?
Oh,
no,
that's a double entendre.
So they were doing
double entendre?
That doesn't sound very woke.
It might have flown right over our heads, babe.
You're very literal.
We're 125 years old.
You're 125 years old.
Well, combined.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Six.
Combined with a couple other people is 125.
Oh, we forgot to mention the biggest part of our lore, Scott.
Oh, what's that?
That when us, we were twin boys when we were born, we came out 6090.
Remember?
I do remember this from your previous appearance.
Yeah, I just wanted people to remember.
I provided Benny with oral pleasure.
Okay.
So we went broke after we went broke.
So the, I mean, you signed four acts and you went broke.
It seems like maybe there wasn't a lot of money.
Wasn't a lot of money in the coffers.
And we tried to do a revamp of the kooky cavemen.
Oh, what happened to that?
Called the conscientious cavemen.
Conscientious cavemen.
And what were they like?
They had their hit song,
Teradactal adoption.
Okay.
Where it was all...
Adopt, don't shop.
Terradactyl.
Don't go to a teradactal breeder, you know.
Was there an issue with people saying like,
hey, the cavemen and the dinosaurs weren't on Earth at the same time
or anything like that?
Yeah, we went on Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast,
and he kept hammering us on that.
Yeah.
God, what a bore.
we said we begged a different babe
well i mean look uh that's terrible yeah it was a low point but now
yeah now what's happened how did you the rise how did you much like the great gatsby come
rise from the ashes we rose like skywalker babe ray so we uh you know what you got to do
if you go woke go broke you got to go anti woke to go anti-woke oh you went the opposite way
What were some of the acts that you signed after that?
Thanks, we're asking.
The please and thank you and our word sayers.
That's right.
It was the please and thank you sayers, but they started saying the R word.
Raspberry.
They started blowing raspberries at their audience every show.
That's rude.
Yes.
The most antivote thing you can do, babe.
Oh, I would hate it if I went to say.
a band and they just pointed at me and started blowing a raspberry, that would be awful.
Oh.
I would feel so embarrassed and ashamed.
I know.
People come to the show and they're like, we were ready for you to blow horns, but blow raspberries?
No, no, no, no, no.
But I'm staying because I'm boogeying.
Right.
I love this song.
And those records are selling like hot cakes.
Okay, which you do sell in your sandwich shop?
Yes.
The bread is now all hot cakes.
But it also works as a record.
And that's selling okay, or is that not so?
Oh, it's selling like records.
Oh, it's selling like.
records.
Our crumb's
always in there.
These are the only records
he collects anymore.
Oh, does our crumb collect records
because his name is record?
Yeah, record crumb.
Exactly, babe.
You always know he came
and looked at our records
because there's always crumbs all over.
Well, I mean, look, he loves records,
R and crumbs, sandwich shop.
Yeah.
It makes sense that he would be there.
A sandwich shop's bread and butter
is the crumbs, babe.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
That's how, I bet if you sweat.
We've swept up all the crumbs that were left over from a day.
You can't make one sandwich out of it.
Hey, yeah, we sell that for a lot of.
What do we call it?
Scratch' hole a lot.
Another anti-wool-band.
I'm sorry?
Is that money?
Yes, I think so.
Okay, got it.
All right, another band you were saying?
Oh, Benny.
The no tucks, chucks.
The no tucks chucks.
What does this possibly be?
It's a folk group.
All right.
And they come and they sing with their guitar.
guitars, but all their shirts are untucked and their names are all Chuck.
Okay.
Any members from any other of the bands in this one?
It's all the members of the tucks.
Oh, I haven't heard of the tucks.
They'd come in with their shirts tucked in so tight.
Oh, and they were all named Chuck.
You remember their album, Visible Belt?
I sort of do remember this.
Why didn't they call themselves the tuck chucks since their names are all Chuck?
slipped their mind.
Subversivity babies.
Okay.
So, and these guys are selling like records, which are selling like hotcakes?
Yes.
Okay, great.
And who else have you signed?
The manosphere.
The manosphere.
It's a man who lives inside a clear plastic sphere.
Like the bubble boy?
Yeah.
And if you're wondering how he eats food or where his urine or fecal waste goes?
Detachable tubes, babe.
detachable tubes
detachable tubes
that hook right up to the clear sphere
okay so food goes in
they get replaced when they start to
brown
okay
and we give him the sandwich made of crumbs
our bread and butter is the crumbs
and he gives you scratchola for it
now it is a soundproof sphere
so his record is just silence
we don't know what he sounds like
but it's selling like hot cakes
You call something the Manosphere and the Joe Rogan crowd comes running.
Oh, okay. Have you signed Joe Rogan?
Yes. No.
We got him to sign an autograph for us.
Oh, really?
We went to the Comedy Mothership.
How was your experience there? I've never been.
We just wanted the autograph. We didn't really pay attention to the show.
Oh, okay.
Did you rush the stage?
Yeah, we got our news radio poster and he was the final autograph.
We've been going through a terminal like thing.
You remember the terminal?
Over the last 30 years
You've been doing this
Exactly, it has been
Yeah
Scott though you remember the terminal
Right he's trying to get the autograph
Of every jazz player
Every jazz player
Of course I remember the terminal
We were trying to do that with a news radio poster
Benny, I've seen the terminal
Don't worry
And we've also been living in an airport
How do business
At your records
Slash sub-s
It's easy to do anything
When you're there with Cathars
Veda Toads
I spoke it like a true Michael Douglas
Let me inspect your tongue
See if you have the same
All right
Okay, yep
You have the same affliction that he had
That's from Benny babe
Okay, I don't know about that
So wait, everything is going well then
Oh yeah
Now that we're anti-woke
We're back on top of the charts
You gotta catch our bands like
Dr. Foot
and the hot foots
Dr. Foot and the Hot Futs?
No, Dr. Match.
Dr. Match and the Hot Futs.
You know their hit song.
No, I don't.
I'm going to light a match
and put it between your toes.
Classic prank.
Yeah, anti-woke.
That no one wants to have happened to them
when they go see a concert.
Very anti-woad.
That's right.
Oh, and this one you're going to love.
Yeah.
Braden Bradley.
I don't know.
What's Braden Bradley?
Not everyone's name describes their gimmick.
Oh, okay.
What's Braden Bradley do?
He has a song called I Pulled Sisters Pig Tales.
Oh, and dipped him in ink, I bet.
I bet.
Oh, I've been over to that kid's house.
He's got little ink wells everywhere dumped over.
My friend Paul would hate to walk around that house if he stepped on one.
He'd probably say the S word.
What, Sloppenheimer?
That's right, the Mad Magazine subscribers are one of our bands.
I would also think he would be upset seeing inkwell spill because Paul hates spilling.
Okay.
I don't know what that means.
Oh, it seems like perhaps earlier he might have spilled right before recording began.
Oh, that's a yes, of course.
I heard through the grapevine and that grapevine.
He did, yes.
Jason Manzuka style spilled, but instead of coffee it was just water, which I appreciated.
Now, there couldn't possibly be any other bands on this list that you're reading.
from could there?
I think so.
I can mention more songs by the Mad Magazine subscribers.
Okay, sure.
Air Farse One.
The Da Vinci Coma.
Okay, good.
The groan of interest.
And Timmy McVeigh.
That's their parody of Ella McKay.
Timmy McVeigh.
Timmy McVe.
The guy who...
Timmy McVe.
What did he do?
What was his thing?
He got executed in Tara Ha, Indiana.
Okay, all right, that wasn't his, like, main claim to fame.
Well, that's how we'll remember him.
That he was executed by our government.
Right.
So, guys, you're back on top.
Don't forget about another band.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
This must be a hot signing.
I don't even know about this one.
Who's this, Benny?
Who's this?
This is the rude kids on the block.
Okay.
You know, it's all the original members.
of the new kids on the block.
We've got them reunited.
Really?
They're changing their name
to the rude kids
and all their songs
are getting changed
to rude-based
frequency.
Give me examples.
I'm like it.
What I'm hearing?
Give me examples.
Instead of the right stuff.
Okay.
It's the bright snot.
So like bright green snot.
Imagine.
Hey, you should have.
I get that.
I mean, look,
you guys seem to know
what you're doing.
Yeah.
Well, that we got you.
salivating for a reason.
Okay.
We want you playing these acts on CBBFM, babe.
Oh, I thought that you were going to say because you brought sandwiches.
Yeah, we did to help smooth out the deal.
Payola, babe.
Lubricate the palms, if you will.
It's payola granola.
So you want to get rid of my salivation in my tongue, and you want my palms to be greased
with a little bit of, you want me to play these songs.
Yes.
And Armin, babe.
ever hear of a soundtrack with music from
and inspired by a motion picture?
That's right.
Who does the soundtrack of the Napa Boys?
Oh, all kinds.
All kinds of people do the soundtrack for the Napa Boys.
Well, don't you want a needle drop from Braden Bradley?
Yes.
Is it too late to put in a song from Brayden Bradley?
Not at all.
Not at all.
Okay, great.
Real quick, do you think ever once in history
where a soundtrack said music was inspired by the film, that was true.
That someone watched the film and said, man,
this gives me a great idea for a song.
This isn't a B-side from two years ago.
No, I'm inspired by Batman forever, babe.
I don't think it ever once was true.
Until now.
Until now.
And so you're going to have, you're going to screen the Napa Boys, Armin, for these artists
on Bachelor Brothers Records.
Thank you.
And they're going to get very inspired.
and they're going to come up with the soundtrack inspired by the movie.
It's like, we are the world.
We're going to record it all in one night.
Okay.
And release it the next day.
Would be great.
No jokes here.
No jokes from Marvin.
We haven't joked once.
No.
Well, I haven't jokes this entire, for the past 17 years.
We should start a political podcast that's done by comedians called No Jokes Here.
I think that'd be cool.
I think that would be really cool.
I would love to hear what comedians think about politics.
Okay.
Well, guys, this is exciting stuff.
Yeah.
And although I may not agree with your tactics, I mean, it's obviously working for you.
It's in the tunes, though.
Mm-hmm.
Why were you just hitting your chest?
My pacemaker.
Oh, no.
Are you all right?
Yeah, I'm getting shocked right now.
Oh, shit.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's a health emergency or his impression of McConaughey from the beginning of Wall Street.
Oh, right.
Yeah, no, but it is something with your pacemaker.
I think I saw something like this on the pit.
I haven't seen it.
Are they taking headlines from my life?
I think most of the storylines are bit.
Were you ever at Pit Fest?
And it got shot up by an active shooter.
Are they taking my stories from Pit Fest?
Benny's always on the lookout for pits.
Oh, really?
His biggest fear.
We're going to fall into a pit.
Keep your eyes on the ground.
I say, bear it, bear it.
Hold my hand.
I might fall into this pit.
Okay.
And Barrett's always right there holding me by my back belt loops.
It's visible after all.
Well, guys, this is exciting stuff.
Really?
And you think your listeners will agree?
No, but I think that...
Let's get those votes.
Best of, babe.
Get the best of, babe.
Mark this episode down for the best of's babe,
because the Bachelor brothers are...
Buh, ba, ba.
Bank.
That's right.
We're going to take a break here.
Armand, you have to go. Is that right?
Yeah, no, I do.
Okay. Well, that's too bad, but it's, uh, we'll be right back with more Barrett and
Benny Bachelor, but we also have a scoundrel is going to be here.
What an episode of Comedy Bang Bang.
We'll be right back with more CBB after this.
Comedy Bang Bang!
We're back. The Bachelor brothers are here, Barrett and Benny.
And you, there was a flurry of it.
activity during the break. You were taking phone calls and you were you signing people? What was going on?
We were catering a wedding this weekend. Oh, really? So with the sandwiches or with records?
Both sandwiches and records. Swift, Kelsey, babe. Okay. Baxter Brothers Bakery. So you guys are doing
the Taylor Swift wedding? This is huge. Yeah. Should we have led with that? Yeah, that's way more
interesting than all this woke broke shit that you were talking about. We listed a lot of hands.
That's a good point.
You probably wouldn't elicit as many bands
if you talked about Taylor Swift earlier.
Exactly.
Taylor's great, though.
She's a poet, even when you're just talking to her.
Like, we said, what would you like on your cake?
And she said,
icing, I think would be nice.
Wow, that's, I can hear that in a Taylor Swift song.
I said, put that in a song, Taylor.
Really, did she?
She slapped me.
Oh, okay, yeah.
And then I asked Travis,
Hey, what are two small dwellings and then a walk through the woods?
And he went, hot, hut, hike.
It burned him up, so you can't imagine that way to agree.
He got so bad.
All right, very good.
He hired you, though.
All right, well, let's get to our next guest.
What do you say, guys?
Yeah.
This is exciting.
We have a scoundrel on the show.
And I can't remember the last time we had a scoundrel on the show.
I think you just did two of us.
All right, guy.
We can be, we can be.
All right, but let's bring him out here for the first time.
Please welcome Frankie Forkson.
How are you?
Hey, guys.
Hey, Frankie, how are you?
Welcome.
Honestly, the truth.
Yeah, the truth.
The truth is, I think you're kind of, I think these guys are kind of goofing on you.
You think, wait, you think the Bachelor brothers are goofing on me?
I'm telling you, I'm sitting here.
Wow.
Okay, first I saw this other guy, he leaves.
He's all depressed.
He's loving everybody.
Park that guy.
Yeah, he's depressed and he's loving everybody.
He was a great movie, one of
to check it out, but then these guys, I'm just telling you from what I see. Yeah.
And I want to even quit whatever else I was going to say, they're goofing on you.
You think they're goofy on me. I feel like they've treated me with the utmost respect to you, Frank.
I mean, sure, on some level, but on other levels, they're goofing. They're goofed.
Because you're so nice. Okay. Thank you, Frankie. I have to confess, I don't know, I don't know anything
about you or why you think you're, you should be the arbiter of who's goofing on.
Yeah, Frankie, that is a very serious accusation where we come from the same.
say that we're goofing?
Well, because where I come from, we don't goof, okay?
Where do you come from, Frankie?
We don't know anything about you, sir.
The streets of Philadelphia.
Oh, Bruce Springsteen sang about him.
I came here to tell you guys about the whole thing.
I dropped forks.
I just want to tell you.
Wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry, back up.
What are you talking about?
Ever since I can remember, I was dropping forks.
Wherever I go, they fall behind me, or maybe in front of me,
and everybody called me Frankie Forkson.
And that's basically, you know, it seems to,
That's your origin story?
What was your name before that?
I'm skipping over because now I'm getting...
All right.
Well, okay, let's go back.
Of course.
No, I was born, Frankie Forkson.
Sorry, I don't know if that was...
Oh, so there were other reasons that people called you Frankie Forkson other than just the dropping Forks.
Oh, sure.
I mean, I was going to tell you guys just recently, I stopped dropping them.
But...
You were going to tell us that?
Go ahead.
Well, just this past like four days.
You stopped dropping Forks, Frankie Forkson?
That's everything we know about you.
No, now I feel bad because I'm just so, I'm stuck on this.
I watch you out here.
Yeah.
Day in, day out, what do you do?
You say, hmm, sandwiches.
Hmm.
Oh, interesting.
You sort of lead them forward.
Yeah, that's sort of the style of being a host is listening.
But some of the things they're saying is completely cuckoo.
They 69 each other.
They're brothers.
Look, Frankie Forksin, I got to admit, sometimes when I do the show, I can't believe the things that I get our guests to admit to.
but that's just the comedy bang bang vibe you know we're very comfortable here and people
let their guards down and sometimes tell their guards to back off
oh godf you all right sorry i got stuck on this yeah but i but i but i do think that
their story where it may be odd uh and maybe not everyone's cup of tea it is unique to them
and i yeah i think uh frankie hasn't buried about it okay you haven't buried a hat
It's a few years.
We've had our past...
You guys know Frankie Forkson?
Yes.
I know these guys.
Unfortunately, you...
You Frankie Forkson, a guy that we know basically that you used to drop forks.
Well, yeah, here's the thing.
And he's from Philadelphia.
Yeah, well, what's cool is that instead of going through all the rigmarole of me dropping
forks, lately I've stopped.
You've just stopped dropping forks.
Every time I hear it, it shocks me.
Like a...
Like a...
Let's say I found a piano in the street.
Sure.
It happens to us all every day.
Several of our artists started that way.
Once you pick it up,
life changes.
Okay.
Frankie stops dropping forks.
Let me see what else is in the news.
Water stops being wet.
Yeah, I don't think either of these things are happening, Frankie.
Earth stops being dry.
Are you kidding with that?
Because water is wet.
No, I think that's what we're saying, Frankie.
Look, here's what we know about you.
You're from the streets of Philadelphia.
Sure.
And you've been driven.
dropping forks since you were very little.
Just before I can remember.
And your Christian name at birth was Frankie Forkson.
Yeah.
These are the things we know about you and to have any of these been altered.
I'll say one thing.
I do sometimes call it Philly.
Hmm.
Okay.
This is good.
This is a new tidbit of info about Frankie Forkson.
I like this.
Yeah.
No.
Fair enough.
Here's a.
Give us the truth, Frankie.
Go ahead.
Hit us with the real real.
I'm just watching you guys.
I just like,
I kind of like what you guys are about it.
I take it back.
All right.
Let him over.
Hatchet has been buried.
Thank you, Gary Paulson.
Pleat 180.
From Frankie Forkson.
Well,
I feel bad.
I love to see.
I just want to make sure
y'all heard.
Yes.
Barrett referenced
Gary Paulson's The Hatchet, babe.
Oh, no, I didn't hear it.
Have you picked up this tome recently, Scott?
No, I haven't.
Real page turner.
Okay.
I mean, that's what you want in a book is, like, imagine if you picked up a book and you read the first page and, like, shut it and it was like, okay, I guess that's it.
Boy, that wasn't worth the $32.99 I spent to read one page or something.
And then someone says, no, no, no, you have to turn the pages.
And then a whole world of literature opens up to you.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I say, me and Barrett say all the time, we got the best passports in the world that can take us anywhere in the universe, our library cards.
That's so funny.
I literally thought you guys had great passports.
No, that's a library card.
Wow.
Frankie, do you have a library card?
No, no.
What the hell?
You don't have to take that from Benny Bachelor?
He just called you a smoke.
Look, everybody knows.
Well, I've been called worse before and called better by few.
Here's the thing.
You have a tinfoil hat.
You put it in the garage.
You eat it.
Same shit every day.
Mm-hmm.
What I'm trying to tell you guys before you get me off track here is that, of course, you read a book page at a time.
Are you guys kidding around with this shit?
Yeah.
I mean, it seems like Frankie Forkson, it seems like you're not a fan of The Bachelor.
No, no, I love them.
I've known them since I was birth.
I got a question for you.
I just feel scared.
You live in Philadelphia.
Not anymore.
Oh, but you're used to.
Sure.
And you call it Philly.
Well, yeah.
Occasionally, but it hasn't caught on.
Was the handyman who worked in your apartment building, by any chance, named Cleveland Heap?
Um, tell me why he, I don't even know why.
It's just a famous handyman from a Philadelphia apartment complex.
H-E-E-P, right?
I believe so, yeah.
Lady in the Water sort of dramatizes his story.
Oh, yeah.
Frankie, you love Lady of the Water.
We all went to it.
We all love ladies.
One arm's bigger than the other.
Yeah, guys, it sounds like you guys are friends.
Yeah.
You guys are really good friends?
You all went to the Lady in the Water together?
Oh, yeah.
I'm having...
Yeah, I love it.
Old Lady in the Water, we saw them all.
So wait, so you...
So the Bachelor Brothers, I should have brought the three of you on at the same time since you're all old friends.
Oh, yeah.
Are you guys going to appear together on this show from now on together?
Exactly.
I should hope so.
A lot like the Calvin's triplets who started off as two people and then they asked a third one to join them.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm a character.
Yeah.
He's going to run our...
We're all starting a comic strip where you're the Dave and we're the three chipmunks.
Oh, okay.
But you see.
It's a one panel, though.
So we got to get all the jokes in one panel.
Yeah, stuff all the jokes that would normally be in four panels into one panel.
Sure.
So it's Dave, like getting his guts pulled out of his ass by the chipmunks.
Also, Dave and the chipmunks are in it, too.
Okay, and we're watching?
We're watching, yeah.
Okay.
And we like turn to camera and say something funny?
Yeah, you kind of turn to camera.
Uh-huh.
And you go, boy, this new Hellraiser movie is certainly something.
So wait, so we're violating the copyrights of both Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Hellraiser franchise.
Yeah.
And I'm in.
And the next strip.
We're still watching the movie.
It's the exact same drawing
We're watching this happen on a screen now
And we go
Wow, the lament configuration
Really did its trick
Really did it trick
That I don't remember from these films
Ow
What happened, Benny?
I just felt something fall and poke my fork
Oh geez
Wait a minute
You said those days were behind you
Listen, I have a lore myself, and that's what it is.
Yeah.
But you said you hadn't dropped them in four days or so.
Wait a minute.
Did you mean you haven't dropped them in fork days?
Which is only five minutes.
We all know that fork days are five minutes.
Oh, God.
It's true.
I'm in Shakespeare.
I'm at fork days.
Well, guys, this has been a fascinating segment.
here. I mean, C Block
was incredible today
with Frankie Forks and hearing all of this stuff.
A character can be anything.
It doesn't have to be.
Exactly. But look, we are running out of time.
We only have time for one final feature on the show.
And that is, of course, a little something called plugs.
Open, open, open.
Now you know,
Super Custack.
Open back.
What's out?
Open.
and that you comes out
His name's argument, but he's not a Jew
Once I smell my pants, it's definitely booed
I guess now I could be president too
But first please tell me what's new with you
Open back
What's out?
Open pants and that you
Come down
Oh yeah, that was
Oops, I plugged my pants by John Webb
Maybe a brother to Mark Webb
Who directed the Amazing Spider-Man franchise
Probably
Probably
Thanks to John Webb
If you have a plugs theme
Head over to CBBWorld.com slash plugs
And you can upload them there
You'll also find what you need
For the closing plug bag remixes, all the stems
Guys, what do we plug in here?
Frankie Forkson, I would imagine you're a cinema lover.
Do you want to plug any movie coming out this Friday
That you want to plug?
Sure, but what I really want to plug is I love you guys.
Santa, hey, plugging love.
I love you guys.
I mean it.
And I'm saying this is
Frankie forks.
You guys are three great guys.
I mean, you have a long history with these guys.
You saw the lady in the water together.
Even longer.
We just met.
Sure, but I just mean, each of you are very special, uh, independent.
You just dropped another fork.
Well, ow.
It went into my fool toe.
And it dropped so slowly.
He said, ow, so long after it dropped.
Wait, those anti-gravity forks you've been developing that you told me.
Dear God.
Didn't it work out?
Wait a minute.
You lied about those?
A fork only,
a fork only Neil Armstrong would eat off.
Is that what you said?
That's what I've been saying.
I do.
Wow.
Well, I perhaps, because Armand had to leave,
I want to plug his movie,
the Napa Boys,
comes out in L.A. this Friday,
and also Paul Rust had to leave.
He is in the film as the antagonist.
And what a cast.
You have Mitch from Doe Boys.
You have Ricky Linholm, not Natasha Legerro.
And so many more comedy people, David Wayne, so many, such a great cast.
Check it out.
And Barrett and Benny Batchelor, do you guys want to plug anything?
This episode, babe, vote for it for Best of.
We know you're not liking it.
We know none of us are your fame.
You're imagining the reviews as.
I can picture the reviews.
But look, do a sort of game stop thing
and just sort of pump it,
you know, pump this episode with votes for the best of us.
Because those rich billionaires
don't want this to be number one in the countdown.
Exactly.
You think those people,
they come on and kill it every time?
I don't want to give.
They have hard lives.
The lives are easy.
Our lives are hard.
We need this.
And nothing else you want to plug?
No.
Okay, great.
I want to plug, hey, head over to
CBBWorld.com.
We have so much going on.
over there. We have, of course,
the complete archive
of Comedy Bang Bang, every single episode.
If you want to hear all of the Bachelor Brothers
appearances over the years,
then that is where you want
to head over to. We have every live
episode we've ever done. Plus, we have other shows.
We have CBB Presents, where people
from this show host their own shows.
We have Scott hasn't seen where I
watch movies with people and
movies I haven't seen before, along with Sprague the Whisper.
So much going on over there.
I also want to remind
you that the Reggie and Forval action figures are still available over at you go to
Figure Collections.com. Also in stock, we have Italiano Jones, Entre P. Neuer, Randy Snuts,
Carissa, Big Su, Sprague the Whisperer, and Scott Ackerman. More coming soon.
Available for customers worldwide at figurecollections.com. That's free shipping with the U.S.
address or in Europe with cheaper import fees at actionfigureseller.com.
You got to do a Frankie Forkson one.
Got to do a Frankie Forkson one, although I don't know that we can afford all of the forks that we'd be dropping out of his.
Because, I mean, look, as I was just saying all that about the action figures, you dropped 23 more anti-gravity forks.
And they're up on the ceiling right now.
They're up there.
It's no big deal.
It's a little embarrassing.
It's kind of a big deal because I don't own a ladder.
Oh, great.
What am I supposed to call the fire department to get these forks off my ceiling?
Yeah, or the ladder company.
Oh, good night, everybody.
Yeah, okay, I'll just call the ladder company.
All right, let's close up the old plug bag.
I want to kiss that.
All right, that was I want to buy Nels for Smells.
Oh, Nels for Smells has another one.
Thanks so much to Nels for Smells.
And, guys, I want to thank you so much.
I mean, look, you're three great friends,
and you agreed to be on the show together.
Thank you.
And that counts for something.
That's true.
You know?
Your old, old friends.
How long have you guys known each other?
I mean, obviously the Bachelor Brothers.
You've known each other since you came out of the womb in a 69.
But how long?
Frankie Forks and how long are you?
Oh, what?
Seven forks?
Yeah.
Seven forks?
Or whatever that was.
Seven forked years, whatever.
Seven napkins ago.
Seven fork years ago?
Meaning seven minutes ago?
Well, seven, 74 years ago.
Oh, 74 minutes ago.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So right at the beginning of this episode?
Okay.
I even go to...
Yeah, sure.
All right.
Quick lore.
Hey, that's some good podcast, lore.
You laugh, but that's a long time for me.
Well, guys, I want to thank you so much for being on the show.
Well, thank you, Scott.
Yeah.
It sounded like you were going to say something.
But you just wanted to angrily say thank you.
I want to say thank you, Scott, for letting me be on.
I was part of the show.
You were, Frankie?
You're an integral.
Oops.
You're an integral part of the show, Frankie.
We love you.
Frankie Forkson
Frankie Forkson
Frankie Forkson
We love Frankie Forkson
And then they throw forks when they chant it
The fans they throw the forks
Yeah
And then one hits Frankie in the eye
And he goes, hey, that's my job
All right
We'll see you next time
Thanks bye
