Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Ike Barinholtz, Drew Tarver, Erin Keif

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Ike Barinholtz joins Scott this week to discuss his new series "Running Point" on Netflix, basketball bounciness, and tipping your showrunners. Then, Dr. Henry Heimlich returns to pitch his TV show id...eas, and Bostonian Louie Pantano drops by to reconnect with old friends and find work in the entertainment industry.  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 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang comedy bang bang Rattatatt, Cat in the Hat, Crack of the Bat, that's Amore. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. Thank you to Lil Puss in Butt for that catchphrase submission. Thanks to Lil Puss in Butt. And welcome to Comedy Bang Bang for another week. My name is Scott Aukerman.
Starting point is 00:00:40 We have an exceptional show this week. Coming up a little later, we have a doctor. We also have a Bostonian. What a show. But before we get to them, let's get to our guest of honor. Of course, we know him as the creator of the two night event, was it?
Starting point is 00:01:01 Or was it a- They called it a special two night event. A special two night event, which was a Or was it a? Was it a? They called it a special two night event. A special two night event. Which was a release strategy that had never been attempted before. And hasn't been since. But he was on hyping it up back when History of the World, part two came out
Starting point is 00:01:17 and premiered on a special two night event. And now he is the co-creator of a show entitled Running Point, which hits Netflix on a one-night event, one-day event. It's a, it's just one-moment event. It all comes out in one moment. One second. Basically, like, every episode comes out one second of the day.
Starting point is 00:01:39 It's basically, no, it's basically like the TV equivalent of the Big Bang Theory. But, but, confusingly, not the Big Bang Theory. Oh, okay. So, I think what you're trying to say is an explosion, which would create tributaries by which all other TV special series will be compared to and spring forth out of. Yes, it's basically the first one. It all comes out at one big pop and then just will have billions and billions of shows
Starting point is 00:02:14 stemming from that. I can't wait. So just spin-offs. Spin-offs upon spin-offs upon spin-offs. Even background characters. Background characters. Opening titles get their own spin-offs. Wow.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Yeah, it's a new thing where Netflix is trying. Okay, this is amazing, but it all comes out this Thursday on Netflix. Please welcome back to the show Ike Barinholtz. Thank you, thank you. It is my pleasure, Puss in Booth. Puss in Butt. Puss in Booth is what you said first. I just burnt myself in my coffee.
Starting point is 00:02:44 It's so wonderful to have you back. what you said first. I just burnt myself in my coffee. It's so wonderful to have you back. You are of course, one of America's greatest showrunners and co-creators. And, uh, you, you did, uh, the history of the world part two. Yes. And this. Yeah. And, and what else did I do? I did a show gun.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I ran show guns. You were the show gun. I created it. I didn't take a credit on it because they kind of went a slightly different way than I envisioned. Which way did they end up going? They just went kind of hard drama
Starting point is 00:03:11 and I thought it was kind of more like a multi-cam kind of fun, you know. Live studio audience. We filmed the pilot in front of a live studio audience. Right. And it was like, you know, it was like the scene when he commits, you know, seppuku, it got like a great, aw.
Starting point is 00:03:27 That's good, that's the reaction you want. Yeah, when the other guy was like, I want you to have sex with this, my nephew and I will watch, the crowd was like, ooh. These are Shogun spoilers, by the way. Yeah, sorry, sorry. Oh, by the way, I also heard as a promotional kind of thing, you gave swords to everyone in the live studio audience.
Starting point is 00:03:44 I did, and that is kind of the root of the lawsuit. I, okay, I understand. Lovely couple from Buffalo was in town, wife was decapitated. Oh no. Husband was mortally wounded, he's also dead. Okay, yeah. So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:00 That's like a wound you do not wanna get. Mortal wounds have always sort of the worst. I hate them. Anyways, his two sons are suing me and Hulu and Disney and they're gonna win. Oh, okay. Yeah, they're gonna win. All right, so this may be the last time we see you.
Starting point is 00:04:14 You might be jailed? I would love to do a Colin from Prismature at one point. By the way, I think this would be the first civil suit that results in you being like a person, a litigant being jailed. Yes, no, it's breaking new ground. It's criminal, civil kind of- It's so egregious that-
Starting point is 00:04:29 It's criminal featuring civil. Oh, okay, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this is, I mean, that's all in the past though and possibly the future itself. Yeah, well, we're right in the middle of it right now. I'm leaving today to head down to the courthouse. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:40 We have another pre-trial motion, but the trial, I would love to plug the trial. Oh, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. I think it drops April 3rd. Oh, okay. It'll be on court TV. It'll also be on the news. Yeah, oh sure, yeah, well, I mean,
Starting point is 00:04:55 the story itself was so crazy, it was everywhere. Yeah, and yeah. But you know how the news cycle goes these days, like 24 hours later, no one cared about the woman who got decapitated at the Shogun Live taping. And her husband mortally wounded. Yeah, no, so, but it's all coming back
Starting point is 00:05:10 and it's gonna be kind of interesting. Wonderful. Well, let's put that aside and talk about a show that I'm told is called Running Point, which I've never heard this expression, I've never heard these two words put together. Really? You've never heard someone say like, I'm gonna run point on this one? Sure, I've heard heard this expression. I've never heard these two words put together. Really? You've never heard someone say like, I'm going to run point on this one?
Starting point is 00:05:27 I sure I've heard run point. Yeah. OK, so it's basically someone who's running point. Yes. Yes. So it's not like a point where people start running. No. Well, it's the double.
Starting point is 00:05:38 On your marks, get set, go. You're at your running point. No, the double meaning comes in running point, as in I'm gonna take charge, I'm gonna be in charge of this. And also in basketball, if you're the point guard, you're running point for the team. Oh, okay, you're also running. And you're also running, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Basketball, what if there was a no running rule in basketball? Can you imagine how exciting this would be? So you're just walking? Yeah. Casual walking. Like if anyone even breaks into a trot, that's a foul. This is an exciting variation on the game, you have to admit. It is. No, it would be good. This show would be called, I guess, Walking Point. Speaking of sports, we were talking with Dion Sanders a couple of weeks ago about why,, you know the long snap where they throw it
Starting point is 00:06:26 to the kicker, why doesn't the guy just turn around and throw it to him? Why doesn't the guy go through the legs? Why doesn't the snapper, oh that's a good question. I wonder if there's a rule that you have to go through the legs. It's emasculating, isn't it? It really is embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Like I'm bending over, here's my little butt. And then it goes whoop, through the legs, and sometimes he misses, and it gets bobbled. Sometimes it catches the taint and it just, you get a penalty then. Just turn around and throw it to the guy. Anyway, this is a sports podcast. Welcome back to sportscast.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Okay, so running point, now I know what the title is. I'm being told by the internet, the series stars Kate Hudson. Boom. This is of course Oliver Hudson's sister. Yes, Oliver Hudson's sister, daughter, not in law, stepdaughter of Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Boom.
Starting point is 00:07:22 The two, the star wattage on that cou coupleage. It's the highest star wattage for a couple of all time. You have another couple that has more wattage than that. You can't. Yeah. I'm trying to think of any two stars. Bill and Hillary Clinton. Almost a two president couple. Almost. Just by the skin of our teeth. Not quite. Almost. But this is Kate Hudson and I'm told that she stars as Isla Gordon. Isla, yeah. But you're the only other person that's made that mistake is everyone who's ever read this script.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Kate was the only one that was like, Isla, right? We're like, thank you. How many takes were ruined because of someone saying Isla? Multiple, and ADR sessions where I'm like, it looks like if the lip flap is matching, just go ahead and say Isla, it's gonna work. Okay, Isla Gord, why would you name a character Isla? It's a beautiful name. It's, oh, I guess you don't like the song,
Starting point is 00:08:14 La Isla Bonita. La Isla Bonita. I don't know, you know, I think actually that name was Mindy Kaling. I fought around it, man actually that name was a, Mindy Kaling. I fought around it, man. No, it was- Mindy Kaling co-created this show. Yes, Mindy Kaling, our dear friend
Starting point is 00:08:32 who I did the Mindy project with. You were just an actor on that? No, I wrote on that. You wrote on that as well? I wrote on that, yeah. Did you want to write your own lines or ever? I wrote my own lines, I wrote lines for everyone. If you paid me enough money, I'd write you a line.
Starting point is 00:08:47 That's kind of how I look at it. So really, anyone could have been in that? Yeah, I'm from Chicago. You come to my office, you give me a little envelope with a couple 20s in it, you're going to find a couple lines in the next script. Sometimes we're not jokes. You're just like, hey, there's a package for you, boss.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Choo-choo. I'd love to do that. Oh my god. The residuals on that. The zids. Yeah, so we wrote together with my other partner, Dave Stassen. Who's this Dave Stassen character? He is probably one of the more important figures in Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:09:17 He's like my best, he's only my best friend of like 40 years. 40 years? Yeah, believe it or not. Since you were what? Three? No, I'm a little older than that. I'm seven. I turned 70 this year.
Starting point is 00:09:27 I'm the big seven now. So you met this guy when you were 30 years old. He became my best friend. Which is a little too old to have a best friend in my opinion, but you guys are tight. So Dave Stastin, you've known for a long time. Yes, we went to camp and school together and we got hired together on the Mindy project. Oh wow, as a team. As a team.
Starting point is 00:09:49 And then we've obviously been writing together since then and then Mindy kind of came to us with this idea and she was like, you guys love basketball and we loved writing together and stuff. It's the most orange of balls, is it not? It is definitely the most orange of balls. Oh, it's the only orange ball. What do you got?
Starting point is 00:10:06 You got baseballs, white. There's a pool cue, or not cue, but a pool. A pool ball, but that is the... What is that, the eight ball? No, that's the black. What is it, the nine ball? What's yellow? Is it the 12? Is it the 12?
Starting point is 00:10:17 I'm gonna look up orange ball. Orange pool ball. Pool. Footballs are brown. Footballs are pretty brown. Tennis are... The five ball! The five.
Starting point is 00:10:28 And, well, the 13 is the strike. The strike, no, doesn't count. Doesn't count. No, to your point, basketball is the most orange of balls. And it's the bounciest, I think. Has it ever happened where a basketball game happens and the ref throws the ball up and it's flat and everyone's like, what the fuck, this won't bounce anywhere. And then they have to go, all right, everyone go home.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Well, I mean, you know. We don't have an air pump tonight. Yeah, at the professional level though, there's pumps and not extra balls, I think. Usually the games I go to, if you go to one thing and you go to a basketball game, you see dozens of balls there. So they would just probably grab another one.
Starting point is 00:11:05 There's all rack of pumps just in case. Sorry, folks. We'll be flying in a pump from Arizona. Should be here in one hour. Please welcome Tiga. Tiga. Isn't he the rapper? I think it's Tiga, isn't it? I mean, is it Tigger from Winnie the Pooh?
Starting point is 00:11:22 Maybe that's no. No, I always thought it was. Is it Tiga? Oh, I think it was Tigger from Winnie the Pooh? Maybe that's, no, no, I always thought it was, is it Tyga? Oh, that, T-Y. It's akin to a tiger. Yeah, that's right. Okay, well, regardless, he's at the game right now, singing for two hours, waiting for a pump to come in. The pump comes in in an hour, and then it takes an hour to get the ball pumped up
Starting point is 00:11:40 to the proper. Just someone talking to them, being like, there's a big five on Bullsher, I could go get it right now. They're like, nope, it's gotta be official from the league. So then what I'm being told is, Isla Gordon is a Los Angeles executive. Yes. That would be enough for a lot of other shows.
Starting point is 00:11:58 LA Law. Sure, the LA executive. This is a good idea for a show actually. We don't know what they do. Um, she basically, it's loosely. No, let me say it. Oh, sorry, yeah. She's unexpectedly appointed head of the family business.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Good, yeah. Is that it? And that's it. No, oh wait, there's a dash. That business is the mafia. This is a mafia comedy. Just capping people in the head. I've always wanted to see that. That would be fun.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Bafangu, motherfucker. The business, which happens to be, just happens to be, or it sounds like they didn't work hard at the business. It's like, oh, we started a business and then it just happened to be one of the most famous professional basketball franchises. It's like, guys, there's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this. I wrote this copy, so I'm just, I'm taking notes. So it happens to be one of the most famous professional basketball
Starting point is 00:12:55 franchises in the country. Yes. That's enough. But then guess what? There's another dash. When her older brother publicly flames out and appoints her the new owner. Boom. Boom.
Starting point is 00:13:07 Who's this brother? The brother is played by an actor named Justin Theroux. Okay. Mulholland Drive fame. Mulholland Drive. Beautiful, beautiful movie. And yeah, he plays her older brother. It's loosely based off of the family of Jeannie Bus,
Starting point is 00:13:23 who owns the Los Angeles Lakers. Which there's another show about the Lakers. Yes, it's not on anymore. It was called Winning Time. Winning Time. And this is- This is running time. What is this?
Starting point is 00:13:34 This is running point, but the running- Hey, basketball players, it's running time. Oh man. It's also, oh wait, wait, wait, before you go out, it's also dribbling time. Don't forget shooting time. People are just out there running and dribbling, forgetting about the shooting. Final score, zero to zero. It's running point, the running time is about 29 minutes and change, I think, for the pilot.
Starting point is 00:14:03 But yeah, it's not like that other show because it's on, first of all. Right. As you can see it. And it's more like a... Wow, meow. Well, no, that came off very catty. I didn't mean it to be catty. These ostensibly are your peers out there.
Starting point is 00:14:19 The difference between our show and that show is you can watch ours currently. No, it's... But that was about the 70s team. Exactly, that was 70s. This is more contemporary and it's also fictionalized. It's not about... It's more contemporary, but I was reading it set in 2018. Like why?
Starting point is 00:14:37 Well, it's adult contemporary. It's a lot of like, you know, we set it in 2018. We just thought that was a really good time. Yeah, for everyone. Yeah, like it's really kind of, in the pilot, the movie, Nope, is coming out. Oh, okay. And they all have tickets to go see Nope.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Yeah. And so that's kind of one of the plot points. Is this gonna be like the morning show where the next season is all about the season where they got COVID? Yeah. Where two years, or what was the Aaron Sorkin show? The newsroom was like 16 months ahead.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah. But in an alternate universe as well, whatever TV station this was, was existed first of all, and was huge. Ah, I love the news. Yes. But in any case, so this is Kate Hudson. She is the, uh the the head of now a basketball team. Yes
Starting point is 00:15:27 And she does she know anything about basketball? She actually does know a lot about basketball. She was just kind of like She was like a late 90s party girl kind of rich LA brat whose life kind of just wasn't panning out. Who's Jeannie Buss? Jeannie Buss is... Jimus is the daughter of Jerry Buss. Right, but she's married to someone now. She's married to Jay Moore. That's right. Yeah, she married Jay.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Yeah. But so that again is lightly fictionalized. Jeannie, I think was a much a very serious person who was always working at the company, but we wanted to kind of just take this person. Fish out of water is a... Fish out of water. There we go.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Well, it would... But she knows enough about basketball where she's like, you know, I think air is okay. I'll go back in the water. Yeah, she doesn't die. She doesn't die. She doesn't die. Like a true fish out of water, she's dead in three minutes.
Starting point is 00:16:14 So three minutes into the show. She's gasping for breath, shaking on the ground. This is a good show. And it is a comedy. It is a comedy. Yeah, so I wouldn't really call a fish out of water. Okay. Yeah, like-
Starting point is 00:16:30 Fish in water, but- Fish in water is- Fish in a brand new water. Sure. There's fish in this pond over here. We've taken the fish, we've driven it three towns away to a totally different pond. But there's other fish in this pond- Other fish, but they don't know them.
Starting point is 00:16:45 They don't know the fish, but they get to know the other fish. They get to know them, but it's a little rocky at first. Okay. But the good thing is she lives. She has the water flows through her gills and she's able to produce air. Right, right. By the way, Little Rocky, that's a good idea for a movie, right? Little Rocky.
Starting point is 00:17:01 Little Rocky. So it's like, Goo goo ga ga. Who am I doing? I'm trying to do Sylvester Stallone. You mean baby Rocky, not even Little Rocky. Yeah, well, I mean. Goo goo. To be littler than Sylvester Stallone.
Starting point is 00:17:16 By the way, one of our greatest Hollywood ambassadors now. He is my favorite Hollywood ambassador. I'm meeting with him later this afternoon. Just to clear this show? Yeah, yeah. To make sure it can come out? Yeah, and I'm meeting with him later this afternoon. Just to clear this show? To make sure it can come out? Yeah, and I want to pitch a couple other things. Little Rocky, of course. Little Rocky, I want to make a movie about Jesus, but he's a Marine. Okay. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Which I want Stallone to play it. Great. He's not too old for this. No, I mean, he's the most, I think, mentally with it of the three ambassadors. Of the three ambassadors, of course. I did hear- Look up the ambassadors of you. I did hear a clip of one of our ambassadors, Mel Gibson. Oh yes, he's one of the three.
Starting point is 00:17:57 I heard a clip of him on the Joe Rogan podcast and he was like, it was so funny. He was like, I remember like 20 years ago when the tape came out of him screaming at like his wife and it's like, I want to kill you. And I remember thinking. And the other things. Yeah, a couple of other things. Look them up.
Starting point is 00:18:15 You can Google those if your computer will allow it. But I remember at the time being like, oh man, he's so mad. Like I've never heard someone so pissed. Yeah, like you've gotten mad, I'm sure, in an argument with your loved ones. But I've never been like, like shaking. And then I heard him on Joe Rogan
Starting point is 00:18:32 and he just talks like that. Oh, okay. It's like he's just always that mad. And he was talking about, oh my God, it was the funniest clip. He was like, he was like, and there's a lot of things that aren't true out there.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Like it's global warming and the ice caps are melting. He's upset about this. He goes, he goes, you ever have a glass of water and there's ice in it and the ice melts? The water doesn't spill everywhere, does it? And it was just so sick. It was so cool to see like a 75 year old man not know what a glacier is. Compared you to the ice too. Yeah, it's like, no, that's not quite,
Starting point is 00:19:08 that analogy doesn't quite work. The water doesn't spill out everywhere. Okay, well anyway, he's one of our great ambassadors. We love him, we love Hollywood. But Running Point is coming out on Thursday. Yeah. And who else is in this show? Because it's a star studded, from what I can tell.
Starting point is 00:19:27 You have Justin Theroux. We have Justin Theroux. Joining Hudson in the comedy are Scott MacArthur. Yes. And Drew Tarver. Yeah, Tarvay. Tarvay. Tarvay, he's a French actor we found.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Oh, okay. He's like, he started off as a mime, but then kind of graduated graduated to French improv, which is totally different than American improv. Oh, really? It's just very condescending. It's like... It's like, no.
Starting point is 00:19:50 No. Yeah, and you've heard of Yes, Anne? Yeah, this is just no. This is just no. Yeah. Yeah. Drew Tarvey as Isla's brothers. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:57 Then you have Max Greenfield as her fiance. Yes. And then, to top it all off, the cherry on the Sunday, Brenda Song, as a high level team staffer, the greatest. Also, Jay Ellis is on there. Chet Hanks is on there. Chet Hanks, otherwise, aka Chet Hayes.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Chet, aka Chet Hayes. Chet is one of the star players in the team, and he's fantastic. Really? He's amazing. Oh, great. I swear to God, he's great. Does he get to rap as well or is he? Yes, he does. Was that contractual? By us.
Starting point is 00:20:32 We demanded he did that and yeah, he really actually killed it. Fantastic. And let's see, what is Running Point about? Ila, the only sister in a family of brothers, is ambitious and often overlooked. But when her brother is forced to resign from his position as president of the Los Angeles waves, what is this?
Starting point is 00:20:53 The Los Angeles what? The waves. Like, you know, you're surfing a wave. What do you think it's like this? Oh, the wave, doing the wave in the stadium. So, but that would mean that there's lots of waves going on in LA. There's groups of thousands of people. The fans are doing the waves during the games and then the players also have to do the wave?
Starting point is 00:21:13 The players have to do the waves. During the game? They stop the game with the players. All get into a circle. So you couldn't get the rights to a real team? Well no, that was a conscious decision by us. You were conscious during this? We were conscious.
Starting point is 00:21:28 Most of the show we wrote, we were passed out. We were like, our writing processes, have you seen Alien? I have, yes. You know how they get in those tanks and the chambers and that? Yeah, that's the biggest part of Alien. That's how we...
Starting point is 00:21:40 I turned it off right after that. So you just think it's like a nice, peaceful movie. Nice tank movie. That's how we write the show. We get into these tanks and we enter a state of. Just turn on the AI. Turn on the AI, wrote most of the show and did a really great job. But this is a WGA sanctioned AI.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Oh, okay, really? This is the first sanctioned by WGA? This is the first actual member of the WGA who is AI, yes. So who's the member? Like your computer is the first actual member of the WGA who is AI. So who's the member? Like your computer is the member or? It's just like user00048. They didn't bother even giving it like a name
Starting point is 00:22:12 or some kind of fake identity. Like, hi, I'm Solly. You know, it's no, it's not an assistant number. When you applied to SAG or whatever you have to do, like you go join, right? Yeah. You know that it's fraught with tension the moment when you're in the office and they say,
Starting point is 00:22:28 all right, let's look up your name to see if you can keep using it. I did not have that problem. They didn't have any, I don't know, like old school garbage men from Kiev. I didn't think I was gonna have the problem either, but it's just in that like 15 seconds when they're looking it up.
Starting point is 00:22:47 You're gonna be like, am I gonna be known as J. Scott Alcremont? Yeah, or were you like Isaac Barinholtz? No, I was luckily like Barinholtz, but I have multiple friends who had to do like little tweaks and stuff. Kevin Spacey was actually Kevin Space High. His real name is Kevin Space High. And there was actually Kevin Space High. His real name is Kevin Space High.
Starting point is 00:23:07 And there was another- Space High. It's just S-P-A-C-E-H-I. HI. And he wanted to go with that. And there was another guy with the name, so he went with Spacey. Yeah, interesting, yeah. These are the kind of facts that you know
Starting point is 00:23:19 when you're good friends with Kevin Spacey, like Ike Baranhold's is. I mean, he doesn't live in the country anymore, but we still talk. Sure. So, Running Point is out on Thursday. Is there anything else you want people to know about this show? What's important for our listeners to get them? Oh, okay, I'm seeing a little picture of everyone at a meeting.
Starting point is 00:23:41 And there's like a sort of... The show is mostly about meetings. Oh good. There's not a lot of like character development. There's not like even really like... So the first sitcom told exclusively through meetings. It's like Microsoft Groups basically, where it's like, but you see actors.
Starting point is 00:23:59 So it's like a typical scene on the show is this. Now here's a picture where two characters are sitting on a couch and they're watching a meeting on the street. They're watching a meeting. Okay, just run and keep you on it. So like one of my favorite lines in the show is Kate Hudson comes in and it's like, our third quarter numbers are down.
Starting point is 00:24:15 And Brenda Stong goes, let me bring up the chart. And it's just like, it's so good. It just runs from there. It's like, you can imagine kind of where it goes from there. Yeah, that's a hot place to start a scene. It's just that it's just the scene is, it's a show for people who, when they're at work and they're sitting in a meeting, think like,
Starting point is 00:24:31 I love this, I wish I could do more of this. Yeah, I wish I could have more of this at home. Yes, yes. Wonderful, well, it's out this Thursday. Yes. And is this make or break for you in terms of your career? This is the one, this is it, folks. And I, listen, you got you folks. Can I make an appeal
Starting point is 00:24:47 to your listeners real quick? Yeah, please. Yeah. Folks, I've been on this podcast many times, and every time you have bailed me out, and I have stayed in this business through the skin of my teeth and your largesse. By their grace. Yeah. And I wanna thank you, and want to keep the Ike train rolling. And so if you're able to, when you hear this, set a reminder, alarm on your phone. Because it comes out at 11.59. It drops at 11.59.
Starting point is 00:25:14 On Wednesday night. On Wednesday night. So do a five minute before, 11.54. If I wake up, you're going to want to pee probably. If you're like me, you're going to want to hit the John. Then go down and you don't even have to watch the show, just press play. But if you could do this one and bail me out of this,
Starting point is 00:25:29 cause if not, I'm out, I'm done. This is it for you. So this may be your last time on the podcast. Yeah, and I love it. I don't wanna move. I don't wanna move out of the state. I don't wanna leave the business. You would probably have to leave your family as well.
Starting point is 00:25:43 I have to go find work. Yeah, yeah, I have to find work. They're a shame. I'm begging you, if you're listening to this podcast, please watch this show. We need Ike's standard of living to continue at the pace it is now. You guys, I don't, this is a little personal.
Starting point is 00:26:01 My Rivian was in a fender bender last week and insurance I've been told because it was my fault. Will not cover it. What kind of fender bender exactly? I, I, do you remember the old Arby's on Sunset? Sure. Yeah. It's a Prince street pizza now.
Starting point is 00:26:18 And I, I, I drove into it. Intentionally? Yes. Insurance will not cover it. Okay, so we need this show to be a hit otherwise. Yeah, otherwise I- It all comes crashing down. It's a house of cards right now.
Starting point is 00:26:33 Otherwise, it's the old Arby's. It comes crashing down. Yeah. So please, please watch the show and if you like the show, you can find me on Venmo and you can shoot me a couple bucks. That would be okay. That'd be great. I keep the show, you can find me on Venmo and you can shoot me a couple bucks. That would be okay. That'd be great, I keep the show going, baby. I think that showrunners deserve tips.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Don't you? You know what, man? Now we're getting to something. You know, if you like a show, send the creator a tip on Venmo. There's this little QVC code. Yeah. A QR code.
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Starting point is 00:27:29 We'll be right back after this. Yeah. Comedy Bang Bang, we are back. Ike Barinholtz is here. Hello. He is the mastermind and maestro, co-maestro. Co-mastermind and co-maestro. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:44 There's all, every symphony has three conductors. Sure. The good ones? It's true. I mean, it's such a huge orchestra. You go to the Hollywood Bowl or whatever, and you go to the Hollywood Pops or whatever. There's like 75 people. Why don't we split it up between three people? Like all 75 are supposed to watch one guy? I'll take the strings, you take the woodwinds. You got percussion. Let's do this. And we'll hold hands while we do it.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Yeah. And we'll be squeezing our hands to make sure we stay on tempo. This is a good idea. It is good. Um, running point this Thursday, people should watch. Kate Hudson, Drew Tarvey, so many people. Let's get to our next guest.
Starting point is 00:28:20 I can feel mine. I love it. Um, this is a medical professional. Ooh. He's been on the show many times before. He is the creator of the Heimlich maneuver. Has this ever been used on you, Ike? I've never been Heimliched.
Starting point is 00:28:33 I've choked, but I managed to get it out. Yourself, this is a self getting it out? This is a self getting out. This is a self kind of hitting and bending over. And then, and then my wife slapping my back. So your wife, your wife has an assist on this? She has an assist on this and this happens quite a bit. So I have to, I'm very curious to hear
Starting point is 00:28:50 what the good doctor has to say. Well, please welcome back to the show, Dr. Henry Heimlich. Hello, Scott, how are you? I am so good, it's so good to see you again. It's so good to see you and it's so nice that you sort of use this maneuver, well, the slap, your wife's slap. So that's, you also take credit for the slap.
Starting point is 00:29:08 No, no, no, no. You start with the maneuver and then you move on to any means necessary. That's very true. So you know, you can chop, slap, squeeze, exert, fall, kick, anything to get the piece. Abdomen squeeze. Abdomen squeezing up and you get squeezing up, and you get it out.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Anything that gets it out, but before you created this maneuver, those were the only means that people knew of. Yes, people were falling out all the time, choking, little chunk of meat, cracker, peanut butter, done, and the maneuver. The chunky peanut butter. The butter, the chunky, the smooth just slaps right through. Well, yeah, I was like, when the chunky came out, everybody, oh, we love this. We love this. We love this. Choke, choke, choke.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Dead, dead, dead. I said, we need to make this cream. They should call it Chokey peanut butter. Choke. That's what I was pushing for. Is this is it? And so you were the one that said, we should make this creamy? I came out, I was really pushing for more creaminess in food. And then I had to pivot to some new. Wow. Now you came out with a more creaminess campaign
Starting point is 00:30:17 and people didn't know exactly what you were talking about. Yeah, it was just like, we need to make this creamy. I love those people sitting down eating prime rib. Can we blend it, make it creamy rib? That would be your preference then, is everyone just drinks liquids instead of eating food, right? Well, I'm caught in between
Starting point is 00:30:37 because I love when people don't choke, but I also love when they say my name and use the maneuver. And you get paid a little bit to the residuals when people use your maneuver. I used to, but I sold all the residuals. Really? To who? To AEG or something? ASCAP.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Oh, ASCAP? Oh, wow. Yeah. So the people that protect your residuals now own them? Seems like a conflict of interest. Yeah. It's the American Association. Oh, this is a different ASCAP.
Starting point is 00:31:05 So they go with the S, the American Association of Choking. Upon people. Upon people. Oh, as cup. Upon. As cup. Upon, upon. Yes, so I, you know, but there were many, many different things that I tried before as
Starting point is 00:31:23 a maneuver. You remember throat bugs Sure. Yes bugs trained to go in and get it out. Right, right. Very difficult to train some bugs That's that was the biggest problem almost impossible. They're not like dogs in theory. No, no not like dogs. It sounds perfect Yeah, in theory like oh first thought throat bugs choking what it was just knee-jerk I'm not the first person to shrink of throat bugs but you were the
Starting point is 00:31:49 first person to literally try to train them. To get the bugs, become friends with them, train them, get to trust. Becoming friends with them. Sleep with them. So wait get their trust comes after training them? Sleep with them? Yes. In the same bed? Yes but yeah like you know not creepy. No this is yeah, like, you know, not creepy. No, this is a- I mean, you sleep with your friends. Sure. This is a non-creepy version of sleeping with bugs.
Starting point is 00:32:09 You don't sleep with your throat bugs. You don't sleep where you eat. You know what I mean? That is true. Right. Yes. So- So they would go in the throat, your idea was they would go in the throat, eat the
Starting point is 00:32:19 food, and then come right back. Oh no, they would grab it and pull it out, right? They would grab it and pull it out. They don't get high on zone supply. The idea was they would go in the throat, eat the food, and then come right up. Oh no, they would grab it and pull it out, right? They would grab it and pull it out. They don't get high on their own supply. Are these large beetles or are these thousands of ants? I wonder.
Starting point is 00:32:35 Well, we tried one big bug. And people would choke on that. Yes, that would have caused another... You're putting a choking hazard on top of that. ...sophageal blockage. Yeah. So then we had little bugs and it's hard to get a lot of guys in the same direction. You gotta have one main guy.
Starting point is 00:32:53 There's always one who really wants to do it. Oh my gosh. Yeah. There's the teacher's pet. There's always a class clown bug. Oh, you can't get him. He's making fun of the blockage. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Poking fun at it. He's sitting in fun of the clock edge, poking fun at it. He's sitting in the back of the throat, just laughing at everything. Yeah, so that didn't work. I tried lung teeth, lung teeth, of course. What, your lung teeth again? They're just an extra set of teeth down in your windpipe to chew.
Starting point is 00:33:18 Ah. That was tough. The procedure, very difficult. It's like open heart surgery. Oh, it takes weeks. Weeks, wait. I said it was like open heart surgery and you said, yes, it takes weeks.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Open heart surgery doesn't take weeks to do. No, I mean, it takes longer than open heart surgery. Yeah, it was like a super- I mean, a medical procedure where you're out for weeks, that just sounds like a coma. It's so invasive for such a preventable small. And I wanted to teach it. Look nice. So I would be in there. They don't look straight. I do veneers. Oh yeah. Lung teeth. Smile. If they start moving in the lung, you have to
Starting point is 00:33:59 reopen them up and put braces on them. Exactly. Yes. So 13 years after they're installed. Yeah. Find the dentist for them. And then they would eat the popcorn and the popcorn would get caught in their lung braces. Oh, yeah. I tried a dare style program. Oh, okay. Chalk. Cause you want to do the four letters. You mean dare, dare to keep your children off drugs.
Starting point is 00:34:21 That's not what dares does. Where is it? Well, there D T keys C. Right. Dare to keep your children off drugs. That's not what dares stands for, is it? Dare, D-T-K-E-C. Right, but I always see D.A.R.E to keep your kids off drugs. So it's probably like drug. Drugs are really bad. No, darb.
Starting point is 00:34:37 Drugs are really. Drugs are really ew. Yeah, that's probably. Drugs are really ew. We tried that, called choc. What's choc? C-H-O-K eww. Yeah. Drugs are really, eww. Drugs are really, eww. We tried that. I think that's what it is. Called Chalk. What's Chalk? C-H-H-H-O-K. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:48 Okay. So almost choke. It's very close. You don't want to do five. But have you seen five letters? It doesn't work. We can't even remember what the four for dare are. No.
Starting point is 00:34:58 Yeah, so we would warn the children of choking and we had, we had a Smokey the Bear style. Chokey the Bear? It was not Chokey the Bear. We should have gone with Chokey the Bear, but it was William the wrong pipe dolphin. And that was, he didn't really take off.
Starting point is 00:35:18 You know, he would give a short speech, choke, and then we would just turn the lights off. He'd give a short speech? What's the speech he's giving? About food safety. Or is this just about politics or what kind of speech? We would let him do whatever. It was a lot of times politics.
Starting point is 00:35:37 He was pretty angry also about. Like a libertarian. Yeah, he was like, just stop, let people do what they want. If they wanna do drugs all day, let them die. Oh, okay, a hardliner. Yeah, he was like, just stop, let people do what they want. If they want to do drugs all day, let them die. You know? So. Oh, okay. A hardliner.
Starting point is 00:35:47 Yeah. He was pretty incensed, but luckily he would choke. So, and, and, and this was a planned choking, but a real one. Yeah. Well, weirdly we were like, and then you're choking. He just did. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:00 It was, yeah, he would choke. It's hard to choke on command. It's so hard. Not if the fish is big enough. Yeah. And they're eating whole fish. Yeah, he would throw down a couple of whole fish from the bucket.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Sure, from the bucket. From the bucket. Yeah, of course, we've all fed dolphins. I love feeding a dolphin with a whole bucket. Yeah. It's fun, right? It is, I mean, that's the thing. It's like what other types of food
Starting point is 00:36:30 other than KFC comes in a bucket? Bucket, very few. Fish for dolphins and chicken for humans. Yeah, I'm trying to say nothing else. So this was unsuccessful mainly because of the Smokey the Bear style. What was his name again? William the Wrong Pipe Dolph.
Starting point is 00:36:53 And then I did a Hell House. Remember this? I remember the Hell Houses. They were like haunted houses but Christian. Yeah, there would be like two kids and one bad and one good and there'd be storylines and then one of the kids would, both of the kids would choke and die and and one good and there'd be storylines and then one of the kids would Both of the kids would choke and die and then one of them would go to heaven and one of them go to hell Wait, so it was not prevented the choking and dying. No, no, no. It was just like
Starting point is 00:37:15 You can die. It was to show what happens if you choke. Yeah, but why but why would he go to if he didn't save him Why would he go to heaven? One would go to heaven and one would go to hell due to- Well, you wanted to have a message. Sure. And I needed the churches. What were the sins- And they were like, how does this do with God? And I was like, I'm just trying to get the word out on choking. And they're like, well, we're trying to get the word out on eternal judgment.
Starting point is 00:37:38 What were the sins that the bad little boy did? Oh, fingerings. That's a sin? Bullying. That's, bullying's bad, I guess. little boy. Oh, did. Fingerings. That's a sin. That's bullying is bad, I guess. Bullying, fingerings. Drinking. Oh, oh, oh. But they. Why is fingering the first?
Starting point is 00:38:01 That seems like the least of. The initial like before you start doing drugs, you start doing the fingerings. Oh, it's a gateway to drugs. Seems like a cool guy. What did the other loser do? The other dead loser. The one that went to hell fingered nobody.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Oh! So the fingering guy actually went to hell. Oh this is, but it all didn't work. I understand why the churches didn't like it. Yeah, I just, and I, like I said, I sold my royalties, so I, and I've, my wife left me. Oh, I'm so sorry, Henry. I'm not doing well, despite my fun tone. Jaunty, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:38 I'm not doing well. You have a, I've spoken to you probably five times at this point, and you have a fun tone regardless. Fun tone? Even when talking about it. The voice doesn't match the bit. That's the emotion. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:38:51 But my wife left me for the person who invented CPR. Oh no. Yes. I'm so sorry. Was it the Bee Gees who invented CPR because of the ah ah ah ah ah? It was. Here's a fun way to know how to do it.
Starting point is 00:39:05 Yeah. Sing our song. So your wife left you for Rob and Gibb. Yes, yes. Who's passed away now. Yes. His corpse. My condolences, first of all.
Starting point is 00:39:15 I mean, like, a famous corpse is better than a broke alive man. I've always said that. You've said this. Yes. And I spent all my money after this. Yeah. All the ASCAP money is gone?
Starting point is 00:39:30 All the ASCAP money is gone. I had a huge bar built in my house in the shape of a clogged esophagus, which cost me so much money. Was the bar the clog in the esophagus? Yeah, you got it. So the room is the esophagus. I'm sorry, the room is the esophagus and the bar you got it. So the room is the esophagus. I'm sorry, the room is the esophagus
Starting point is 00:39:47 and the bar is the bar. And the bar is the clog, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I had a custom Cadillac built to look like the shape of a small piece of shoe shoe. I'm struggling. You're reading this and you're struggling. Again, Henry, I think the problem is
Starting point is 00:40:04 that you're trying to give us eye contact instead of just looking at your notes. I know, but I'm trying to go back and forth. I want to connect. I wrote down the things that my life has been ruined by. You're reading from your diary. Yes. If I may ask, you said you had a custom Cadillac, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:40:19 Like a small piece of sushi. Built to look like a small piece of sushi stuck in a throat. But now, okay, that's where I'm wondering. Is the Cadillac, the throat, and the driver looks like a small piece of sushi? Yeah, where's the sushi? Zaramie, from whatever angle you're in. Okay. Yes, I dress like a small piece of sushi from inside Zaramie.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Okay, so any angle you look at it, it looks like this. It looks like this. People come by. They comment on this. They know exactly what it is. Even an aerial view from like a helicopter. Aerial view look, but then if you go a little bit, you know the chameleon cars that change color, then the car is a piece of sushi. You know the chameleon cars that change color. I don't think I've heard of those.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Yes, they were like early 2000s sort of like. We were all driving these! You remember, it looks like almost like chrome but purple but green but blue. I don't know. It was the Roy G. Biv car. Yeah, it was it was really cool, but I actually I got it stuck in a tunnel on the way here. What? Yeah, I had to- That's ironic. It is. It is. I know. It's, my life is irony.
Starting point is 00:41:30 It really is. Do you agree, Henry? And I brought this up on a previous show with Stephanie Shue and, Shue and Shaw, of course, Sasha Mamet. A hot dog is the only food stuff that's in the shape of a throat. So people shouldn't eat them
Starting point is 00:41:45 because they will get stuck there. I can't believe I wasn't on that episode. I know, we were all saying like, Henry should be here. It's perfect. They made them perfect. They're exactly like this. It's almost like someone made a mold out of someone's throat and said, let's make a hot dog out of this.
Starting point is 00:42:04 Yeah, that's how my daughter died. Oh no. That's right. You have dead, you have dead, how we not. Bones of choking. But wait, there's two dead? Dead. We talked about this on a previous show. I think we did.
Starting point is 00:42:15 Did you invent it because of that or you had already invented it? I can't remember. I was almost there. So it wasn't like, it wasn't like I will fix this problem. After the set second. It was just you were one step away.
Starting point is 00:42:28 Yeah, I was so close. And I tried chopping, slapping, hitting, pushing. They were hurt from that too. There's been a lot of arguments that that's what did it. Right, if you would. Oh my God. If I just had the squeeze, I could have done it. Yeah, what are the steps again? It's sneak, you sneak.
Starting point is 00:42:52 Because you want them to be surprised. Because you know if you, they say when you get in a car accident, don't tense up, it's the same. If you fall out of a building, just go limp. Exactly, you want to sneak up, because if they see you Tints up. Yeah, it's the same. If you fall out of a building, just go limp. Exactly. You want to sneak up because if they see you coming, they're like, here comes strong guy doing Heimlich. Right.
Starting point is 00:43:11 So you need to sneak behind them. What's the Q? What's the what? Wait, what's the, what's the acronym? Of Chalk? We just skipped over Chalk. Chalk. Oh, that's just Chalk.
Starting point is 00:43:24 That's just short. Chalk, oh, that's just choke. That's just short for choke. I mean, children heed, otherwise killed. Okay, children heed, otherwise killed. Yes, I think that's what it stands for. Or just choke. Or just chalk for choke. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it's been a devastating life.
Starting point is 00:43:44 I am so sorry, Henry. it's been a devastating life. I am so sorry, Henry. It's been a devastating life. Despite my fun tone, it's been really tough. These are tough times for you. Yeah, I've been sneaking into the Soylent Factory and adding little hunks of beef. To increase the chokes. To increase choking. But why?
Starting point is 00:44:00 Because I want to be known again. But everyone knows you. Everyone's... Yeah, we talk about it all the time. At least you have fame. You talk about me all the time? Yeah. But why I want to be known again, but everyone knows you everyone Yeah, we talk about all the time at least you talk about me all the time. Yeah, there's also no other rival out there No one's like oh, she's choking use the Anderson like it's it's like you own it. You're the only guy You're the guy and there aren't any really any other maneuvers that are named out. Oh, there are diseases There's Luke Eric's disease, right, you know, I mean, you're the only guy with a maneuver. Motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:44:26 Are you all right? You just need to raise. I get mad at Lou. And Lou Gehrig. Oh, come on. I know, but it's in my nature to be mad at others. To be jealous of someone just because they attach their name to a famous thing?
Starting point is 00:44:39 Yes, yes. Cedars, cyanide. Who the hell is that? I mean, I think it's the Cyanide Desert problem. I don't wanna say. I mean, it's the Cyanide family. Oh, fuck them. What about the Crypto.com arena?
Starting point is 00:44:55 Do you get mad at that? Yes, yes. I don't like it. Anything that has a name? You're like, no, fuck them. So little babies when someone gives them a name? No, if they become famous for a medical procedure, maybe, or they own a building, possibly.
Starting point is 00:45:14 I just understand how we had thousands of years of humanity. And at no point before, what, 1980, no one went like, oh he is joking. No one figured out the, oh you know what, if you blow one end of a straw it gets the, you know, the peanut out. Yes, but that was also one that you try to blow into the straw and get it out of your throat. Yeah. Push it down further. Push it down further.
Starting point is 00:45:44 Hand on throat, push into stomach was hard push it down further, yeah. Hand on throat, push in the stomach was hard. That was hard. Impossible almost. But I'm happy to be here because, I'm so glad. And I'm happy to be here with Ike because I have, I need money. So I want to pitch television shows.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Oh, okay, yeah. Maybe you'll get some tips out of it. Yeah, so I'm just like, I think it could be good, my story, you know, Dr. Heimlich. Is it like a drama based on your life, or is it like a reality show, like Dr. Pimple Popper? Well, I think I could do a lot of different things. Like, people come to his office in case,
Starting point is 00:46:18 if they're choking and he- My son's choking, can he come see you next Thursday? Sure, we'll get the cameras. Yeah, we're pretty booked up next Thursday. Please. He doesn't have much time. Well, is he willing to to appear on my social media? Yes. OK, so maybe now we're talking. But yeah, I had like maybe like you could do a medical doctor show drama.
Starting point is 00:46:39 Like House. Yeah. Yeah. Like House, you are the good doctor. Yes. Like and call it like, let's say like hospital MD. Okay. Okay. Hospital. Yes. Comma MD. Yes. And this follows Dr. Henry Heimlich as he becomes the medical director of one of the oldest American public hospitals aiming to reform the neglected facility
Starting point is 00:47:03 by tearing up its bureaucracy, mostly by union busting and making nurses walk off site to their parking. Do we like? I like, I wouldn't put the comma in the title because the comma implies that it's doctor hospital MD. So I would just- Right, so mostly you're, I don't,
Starting point is 00:47:25 I'm not tied to the name. No, you're not. I actually think it works. There's actually a new show right now, seriously, on CBS called FBI colon CIA. Yes, see? So you just like add a bunch of things. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:40 Maybe, add, put the word syringe in there. I don't give a fuck. Doctor Hospital MD. Colon, syringe. Maybe, put the word syringe in there. I don't give a fuck. Hospital MD, colon, syringe. Maybe. What are you watching it out, tonight? Why do you wanna bust up the union? Well you gotta get rid of the other red tape, it's bullshit. Okay, all right.
Starting point is 00:47:58 So you can quickly, you know, solve people's problems. Does Henry's character merely administer the Heimlich, or does he do other medical procedures as well? He's doing it all. He's the guy. Or is he an administration guy? Well, he's mostly like doing offsite parking. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:17 Making sure, you know, no one organizes, keeping people from talking in the break room about problems. I will say, it seems like this character is less interested about saving lives and more about being punitive towards the nurses. What hap... Okay, I don't... I'm not tied to this.
Starting point is 00:48:33 Is there an episode like a flashback episode where we figure out why he's upset about the nurses or...? Yeah, yeah, you go to his childhood, his father's a pretty conservative, yelling about unions and stuff. But the nurses, why does he have a thing against the nurses? He doesn't like those clothes. Doesn't like those clothes.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Let me ask you a question. Let's say I'm an executive and I do like this idea. Yes. Who ideally would you have playing doctor, hospital, MD, colon syringe? Me? You wanna be the actor? I would like to. I'm worried about your fun tone during such a serious show.
Starting point is 00:49:11 I said have you ever acted before ever? No, but I feel like I'm fun and good on camera. Why do you think you're good on camera? Because you're an elderly gentleman. Yeah. And I was thinking this could be something for like, oh God, I don't know, Brad Garrett. Sure, yeah. You know? Oh, yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:30 I love him, but it's gotta be me. It's fine, if you don't want me, I have a different show. Okay. I have a different show. That's even more forceful than N'Sync, it's gotta be me. It's gotta be me. Wow. It's gotta be me. Oh, you're sitting. It's gotta be me. It's gotta be me. It's gotta be me.
Starting point is 00:49:45 It's gotta be me. Yeah. Oh, you're singing too. Okay, you didn't say that. Well. Okay, all right, okay. This is like a Manny Patinkin kind of like. What was his medical show where he sings while he operates?
Starting point is 00:49:54 Chicago Hope. Yes. Chicago Hope, yes. So this one is called Obstruction Island. Okay. Okay, a love island type show where hot single men and things they could choke on live in a house together and try to figure out who was meant to choke on what? Who was meant to choke on what by fate yes they hang out they can noodle You show you know people choking on things at the pool and other other people are like, I was supposed to choke on that.
Starting point is 00:50:26 I thought we were having good chemistry. Henry, I'm worried you're still on your first page. No, this is, that might be the best one. That might be the best one. Maybe. What if they don't choke? What if no one chokes? What if the food is all papaya?
Starting point is 00:50:44 We cancel it. We just cancel it. What about all don't choke? What if no one chokes? What if the food is all papaya? We cancel it. We just cancel it. What about all of the sunk costs? Oh, we start yelling at them about, you know. Trying to startle them into choking? Be like, don't be nurses. Don't do that. You know, maybe we go more hospital MD syringe, was it?
Starting point is 00:51:01 On the island? Okay, okay. I don't know. Yeah, I think it's a tough spell. Okay, fine. How about this joke? Masked asphyxiator. The masked asphyxiator.
Starting point is 00:51:12 Little hard to say. Yeah, it's tough. But famous people dress in costumes, hiding their identities, and celebrity judges have to eat the score they gave them and hopefully not choke. That's not what I thought it was gonna be. Don't worry, I got it was gonna be. So-
Starting point is 00:51:25 Don't worry, I got a few more pages. Have to eat the score that they gave them. Yes. Eat what in the score? The weight in almonds? Or the actual numbers. The number. They have to hold up the number and then eat it.
Starting point is 00:51:35 Ken Jeong and Dennis Robin almost died. Oh, okay. Still means this. Okay, so just, okay. We're using the- If we're using the masked singer- As a template. Yes. So there's someone on stage who's not masked. Just, okay. If we're using the masked singer. As a template.
Starting point is 00:51:45 So there's someone on stage who's not masked. There's like someone else. It's just like Terry Bradshaw is on stage doing something. But masked. But masked. He is masked. But he is incidental to the choking. The choking happens.
Starting point is 00:52:00 And the choking happens to the host, it sounds like. So Terry Bradshaw's up. Is he singing? What's he doing? Singing just like the show. Just like the host. To the host. So Terry Brad shows up, is he singing? What's he doing? He's singing just like the show. Just like the show. Oh, okay. So he's singing and you're like, is that Terry? It's purely the Masked Singer, but the host's choke.
Starting point is 00:52:12 So then Doctor Ken holds up the score, which I don't even know if they do that. Yeah. And let's say he gives him a 8.6. I don't think they score people on the show. I don't think they do either. I think it's like an X or something. No?
Starting point is 00:52:22 Are you gonna do the show, Ike? The Masked Singer? I can't talk about it. Because if I am, I would be masked. So I can't talk about it. Okay I think it's like an X or something. No? Are you gonna do the show like? I've never seen. The Masked Singer? I can't talk about it. If I am, I would be masked. Okay, got it, got it. So I can't talk about it. Okay, well maybe not Zen.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Maybe this is just, they don't even have, they don't give them tens. Yeah, I think they just kind of say like that was. I guess that would make sense because the whole thing is just like who is this. Who's underneath it. Yeah. It's not about who really, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:40 Maybe they do score them. I don't know, it's been a minute since I've seen. They should just give them a little score, just for fun. Yeah. You know, that was good Terry. It's been a minute since they should just give them a little score. It's fun. Yeah, you know, that was good. So then Dr. Ken holds up at eight point five made of paper. Oh, he would choke on that.
Starting point is 00:52:54 I guess. Cracker. You're very concerned. A cracker, a singular cracker. Do you have more shows? I just has one more. You have one. OK, this is Friday night exertion. OK. So a coach in a small town, Texas.
Starting point is 00:53:14 I didn't even write it right. Coach in a small town, Texas, where Friday night football is king. His team has a losing record, but he brings them all the way to the state championship after they let the quarterback of the other team choke on a rice cake and an awards banquet. They let him do this. They don't help him. They don't intervene. They just see it and they stay put. And the coach is like, don't help.
Starting point is 00:53:41 Because this Friday night. Don't help because Friday night replays the game. I like this. It feels like it's Friday night. Don't help, because Friday night replays the game. I like this. It feels like it's more of a one-off special, maybe. Yeah, I also worry about the likability of the coach, who would say, let him choke. Yeah. Right, so should he be union busting,
Starting point is 00:53:57 or how do we make him more likable? I don't know, I don't know. Henry, I- I'm down on my luck, despite my fun tone. I wish that they would give people shows just purely for the fact that they're down on their luck, but show business unfortunately doesn't work that way. It's a meritocracy, right, Ike? It absolutely is.
Starting point is 00:54:18 Yes. Yes, it's not about right place, right time. No, only the best people. Only the hardest working best people make it. That's a fact. Yes, okay. So yeah, unfortunately, I can't get on board in any of these shows, but I think you should keep trying. Work harder and smarter.
Starting point is 00:54:33 That's my advice to you, because you're doing neither right now. Right. Okay, okay, I'll come back. I will go work hard, smarter, and I will come back. Okay, yeah, this is good. I mean, I like talking to you, so. I I will come back. Okay, yeah. This is good. I mean, I like talking to you, so. I love it here.
Starting point is 00:54:48 Please, you do. Can I live here? Yeah. Temporarily. Tempor, how temporary? Just for like six or seven years. Okay, but you didn't even have me at six or seven. Even if it were days.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Even if it were days? Hours? Hours, you're thinking hours. Hours, okay, I can stay here for six, seven hours? I'm out. Oh, that was days. Yeah, that was ours. You're thinking hours. Hours. OK, I can stay here for six, seven hours. I'm out for this reason. I'm out. I'm so sorry. Oh, no. At least give me a score.
Starting point is 00:55:13 And eight point three. Oh, don't eat it. Don't eat it. Oh, come here. Give it to me. Who? He? What did you eat? Look what's on the table. Cracker. Cracker. That says 8.4. Alright, well we need to take a break, Henry.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Can you stick around? Yes, I'm here for six or seven hours. I'll be here. When we come back we're gonna have a Bostonian. We are gonna come right back. We'll have more Dr. Henry Heimlich, more Eichbaren Holtz, we'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this! Comedy Bang Bang after this! Comedy Bang Bang we are back Ike Barron Holtz uh aka Mr. Running Point is here uh you need people to watch uh this weekend right? The uh- This weekend and and if you don't if if we don't hit the Netflix numbers I'm out. You're out. I, I'm out.
Starting point is 00:56:05 You're out. Moving home. Hollywood's in the rear view. Hollywood's in the rear view. Screech. Going back to Chicago. That's the second city though. It is the second city, but I'll be working in the stockyards with my dad. In the stockyards. With my dad. Wait, I thought your dad was the judge on... Jury duty. He had a new show that didn't work out.
Starting point is 00:56:25 They sent him back to the stock. They sent him back to the stock. I know what some people say. Oh, stockyards aren't there anymore. There's still a couple of stockyards and that's where it's rough. It's rough. People are getting all their meat from other countries. Yeah. Speaking of which, times are tough.
Starting point is 00:56:37 We have Dr. Henry Heimlich here. Times are tough, but you got to have your fun tone. You got to keep your fun tone despite. Keep your fun tone, Ike. Yeah. It's true. I'm going to work on it. Even at the yards, you have to keep your fun tone. You gotta keep your fun tone despite. Keep your fun tone, Ike, yeah. It's true, I'm gonna work on it. Even at the yards, you have to keep the fun tone. You have to, and I know what you do at Stockyards.
Starting point is 00:56:51 I know what those are, even. And I know they're tough, and you're gonna be toiling there. It's hard. But you have to keep your fun tone. I will remember that, it's tough living, but I will try to keep that in mind. Well, let's get to our next guest. This is very exciting. I've never spoken to a Bostonian before, I think.
Starting point is 00:57:09 Ever? Ever. No. Yeah, I don't think so. Chris Evans? No, never had a conversation with Chris. He's the only one. Marky Mark, I think.
Starting point is 00:57:16 Oh, Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg, Wahlberger's brother. Yeah, I've never been to a Wahlberger. I don't know. So this is exciting. Please welcome... Uh, uh oh. What is your name? Louie Pantano.
Starting point is 00:57:33 Louie. Scott, you don't remember me? No. We did comedy together, we started out together. Louie Pantano? Yeah, Pantano, you remember me. You remember me. Oh, okay, sure. Pantano. You remember me. Oh, okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:57:47 Scott, come on, finally, long time coming. I good to see you again, too. Yeah, yeah, I think we, did we work together? Yeah, we were on a Herald team at the Improv-o and put together, do you not remember? You know what, it was a long time ago, but I do, I can't remember every single person you meet in your life.
Starting point is 00:58:04 Well, you seem different. But I do, I can't remember every single person you meet in your life. Well, you seem different. Yeah. You, I mean, like you don't, I look very distinctive. Yeah. I mean, I'm a seagull. Is that what you're referring to? Yeah. I mean, I didn't want to say, you didn't want any, no, no.
Starting point is 00:58:17 Are you going to eat that by the way? I was, I mean, shouldn't have dropped it on the ground. Also, he didn't say yes. That's fine. That'd be annoying. Scott Huckerman, I'm so happy for you. It's so, and Ike, you too. Wow, show business.
Starting point is 00:58:33 You guys are thriving. So happy for you, oh my god. So great to see you again. Yeah. I don't recall all the details. Right, you and I opened for Bill Burr for summer. You remember? For a whole summer. Yeah, we traveled New England, you remember?
Starting point is 00:58:46 Yeah. I didn't even know you were like a big stand up in Boston. Oh, I was huge. Yeah. I turned my back on him. He dabbled. Yeah, I was a huge dabbler. But I achieved the kind of success that, you know, huge stand ups achieve.
Starting point is 00:59:01 Sure. Just by dabbling. But look at you now. If I had just really set my mind to it, I would just think of the things I could have achieved. This is Dr. Henry Heimlich, by the way. Hello, how are you? That was amazing how you took down that sandwich.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Just neck back, kind of gulping it down. Three bites. Unbelievable. Thank you. Neck back, ass up. That's the way I like to snack. As up, neck back, that's the way I like to snack. Ass up, neck back, that's the way I like to snack. You have to look nasty when you're eating.
Starting point is 00:59:30 Is this a shirt? Is this a t-shirt? This could be good. On the back it says you have to look nasty while you're eating? Can I have some of the proceeds please? All right. Scott, look at you now, huh?
Starting point is 00:59:40 $40 million house in the Hollywood Hills. Look at you. I mean, that was the list price Yeah, we had to go over a bit because it was competitive. Yeah, which room did Phil Spector shoot that lady in? Hey got off shots in every room they told me I don't know but Scott did you get my emails I did when you're making between two friends. I think I emailed you like four or five thousand times No, I probably switched my email address. What did 5,000 times. Oh, I don't know. I probably switched my email address.
Starting point is 01:00:07 What did you want to email me about? I don't know. I was just thinking I thought maybe you could help me break into the industry. Oh, yeah. I mean, there was a Seagull part in that. But then on the day, we couldn't find it. And then you gave it to Zach Galenakis?
Starting point is 01:00:20 Yeah. Unbelievable. That's how that happened? On the day Zach showed up, and I was like, you know what? He's a movie star. It fit him perfectly. I mean, really, yeah. Wow. Yeah. Unbelievable. That's how that happened? On the day Jack showed up and I was like, you know what? He's a movie star. It fit him perfectly. I mean, really. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:28 Wow. Yeah. And like, you blocked my number? No, no, no, no, no. What happened is I switched to T-Mobile. Oh, okay. Oh, you're one of the thousands that have switched to T-Mobile. Weird switch.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Weird switch. Yeah, I got out of Verizon. Verizon to T-Mobile? And I went back to T-Mobile. Weird switch. Yeah, I got out of Verizon. Verizon to T-Mobile? Back to T-Mobile, I got a sidekick. Oh. So that's what it is. Who's your sidekick?
Starting point is 01:00:51 I'm sort of like a- And there's somebody out there in that motorcycle. Yeah. Sitting there. Like a tandem motorcycle. That's my friend, Loop. Loop? Yeah, I hired him.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Named after Chicago's Loop? Yeah. He's my buddy from high school. He's a real Chicago guy. Yeah, that's cool. His name is Loop Deep Dish. Oh. And he kind of travels everywhere with me.
Starting point is 01:01:15 So anyways, we went to T-Mobile. Okay, so you still take care of your friend from the past, that's cool. That's nice. Well, we really went a little bit deeper, me and him, than me and you. And I want to apologize, him and I, we switched to T-Mobile,
Starting point is 01:01:25 so all my old, I have not gotten a text message from anyone in weeks. So I apologize. Are you still working? Or what are you doing? Trying, Scott. Well, wanted to be one of Mindy's love interests on the Mindy project.
Starting point is 01:01:38 And didn't hear back from Ike. No, I remember. And I want you to know, I pitched it to Mindy. I did, I swear. And she said to me, she's like, I like. No, I remember. And I want you to know, I pitched it to Mindy. I did, I swear. And she said to me, she's like, I like this idea, but I just, I don't want to, I'm gonna get her in trouble. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:52 She said she didn't want to do a love scene with the bird. What? I know it's kind of humanist. Wow. Yeah. Wow, Mindy, my God. You know, comedies change so much. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know. But there aren't a lot of changed so much. Yeah. Yeah, you know.
Starting point is 01:02:06 But there aren't a lot of parts for birds out there. Unfortunately, you know. I mean, what was the last bird project you can think of? Yeah, especially. The Birdman of Alcatraz. That was a while back. The birds. The birds.
Starting point is 01:02:16 Birdman. That would have been a great one. Oh, Birdman. I went out for that. Like, keep fucking me. There's just not many parts for loud beach birds. Yeah, that is true. You know, like you want like a hawk, something that lives in the park. An eagle, a beach birds. Yeah, that is true. You know, like you're more like a hawk,
Starting point is 01:02:26 something that lives in the forest. An eagle, a falcon. That's a limiting belief. I could go inland. Yeah, you're just like eating trash down near the sea. It's just like, I don't know. Okay, you're telling me you've never eaten a french fry out of a woman's mouth?
Starting point is 01:02:37 You think you're better than me? Listen, I always try. My wife lives in the sea. To make sure they don't choke. Yeah, of course, I'm getting it. I'm not kissing. My God. Be careful. Well, sure they don't choke. Of course, I'm getting it, I'm not kissing. My God. Be careful.
Starting point is 01:02:46 Well everyone here thinks they're better than me. They live in the Hollywood now and they drive the big fancy cars and they, oh my God, fuck you. Sorry, Louie. Are you gonna have that? Are you gonna eat that? Oh, of the nose?
Starting point is 01:02:57 I'm on a one meal a day diet, that was my one meal. So, no. Louie, the other issue was, you know, you were constantly shitting on everyone. Yeah. Oh my God. And so were you, Scott. You know, you're me embarrassing you.
Starting point is 01:03:09 You tore up that Tostino's audition. You went out for the commercial. You shit all over the room. Yeah, you shit all over everyone. In the dip. And people don't want a commercial where it's like, you know, you eat a Tostino and then you shit everywhere. It's just negative connotations.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Yeah. It had nothing to do with your read or anything. It was just literally like the white shit you were shooting all over people. Yeah, I know we're looking for more diversity in Hollywood, but I don't know that that extends to birds. Different species. Oh, I get it, you guys are jealous.
Starting point is 01:03:35 You were always jealous of me back in the day. Sharna Elburn liked me better than she liked you. Well, I mean, you know, listen, Sharna loves animals, but I have a great relationship with her. She's a friend and I don't, I understand you are holding onto some emotion because you might not have gotten to where you wanna be in this business and I understand that.
Starting point is 01:04:00 I was the star in our hero team, by the way. I was the one that everyone thought that I would get SNL. And two of Sharna's dogs were on that team and I was still the star of that team. I was on an improv team with lots of animals. I was like, Dr. Doolittle a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You were a stage hog though. You did all the first beats.
Starting point is 01:04:15 Yeah, I did. Every one, you were in every scene. Don't say she was a hog, by the way. There was a hog on the team, but we wouldn't let her talk. Also, sometimes you would just, you would just kind of fly off stage and fly into the control room and sit in there for a little bit and you'd come back and it was just a little,
Starting point is 01:04:31 it was kind of like on your schedule. Sometimes you'd show up with a condom you swallowed on the beach. Oh yeah, that was awesome. I knew at a party I was in my 20s. I mean, it's true, I can't argue with you. You and I used to sit on the beach in Chicago, Foster Beach. We'd stay up all night, and you and I would eat condoms until the sunrise.
Starting point is 01:04:49 That happened like once or twice. It wasn't a thing we always did. We always did that. You used to eat them sometimes, so. I mean, once in a while. I choked on one a while back, and it scared me away. Reading that running point has a scene where every character eats a condom?
Starting point is 01:05:03 That was the episode I wrote. That's 103. Yeah, and I do get a bonus if that one is streamed more than the other one. was a scene where every character eats a condom? That was the episode I wrote, that's 103. Yeah, and I do get a bonus if that one is streamed more than the other one. So folks are listening if you could watch 103 first. It's the third episode, why would people, a lot of people watch the third episode more than every episode?
Starting point is 01:05:17 Netflix data. The characters are confused because all the basketballs are deflated and they can't play the game so they go and eat condoms. Also, Scott's been just horrible listening to you ruin the game of basketball. Flat balls and everyone's walking? Scott. Scott. I think it would be exciting. Scott my god you used to say I was the best friend you ever had and now you're hanging out with John Hamm and Adam Scott and all these fancy people. I mean they're humans though we have more in common. Wow people. I mean, they're humans though.
Starting point is 01:05:45 We have more in common. Wow. Let's face it, they're bros. It's the bro code. I'm a bro? We didn't have that, Louie. Oh my God, I can hang with the best of them. Guys before goals is what I said.
Starting point is 01:06:00 Yes, guys before goals. All right, whatever. I see you out about in Hollywood with pigeons And yeah, well I mean they're just falling down the streets following me around Yeah, I've got a big following online most of these pigeons so when you get in there You can get like some followers. Yeah, I go on wire image I'm just like penguin pigeon pigeon penguin you also keep carrier pigeons on your roof, you were telling me. I do, I was very inspired by Mike Tyson.
Starting point is 01:06:27 Yes. And so I recently purchased about 30,000 pigeons. 30,000, that's a big group. My neighbors are furious. The neighborhood is just blanketed. Are you gonna eat that? Ah, ah, ah. Can I smoke in here?
Starting point is 01:06:43 You know what, I'm doing it. Okay, yeah, go ahead, do whatever you want. Look, I'm sorry. You know, in show business, it's not a race necessarily. And the destination, sometimes you don't even know what it is, what the finish line is necessarily for Ike. It might be running point, you know. Hope not. Might be the finish line for him.
Starting point is 01:06:59 Hope not. You just burst through the tape and that's it. That's it. Can either of you get me a job? That's sort of why I'm here. Oh, really? Fire me. Do you live. Can either of you get me a job? That's sort of why I'm here. Oh, really? Fire me.
Starting point is 01:07:07 Do you live in Boston still or are you living out here? Yeah, I got a place in Marshfield. It's a dumpster. Um, so I'm in South Boston area, but I come out here from time to time. I always do tell people who are looking to get in show business. I say, you have to live here. It's very difficult to not. Well, if I have a show out here, I do stand up in the parking lot of lobster.
Starting point is 01:07:28 Of red lobster. Yeah. Sort of whatever. There's a lot of good food trash there. Yeah. You're telling me. I do love red lobster. I love the cheddar biscuits.
Starting point is 01:07:37 That's a reason enough to go. You often take your wife's ass down to red lobster, right? Just her ass or her whole self? You gotta take her ass to Red Lobster. All right, give me a part on Running Point. I can do it. Can you host? We shot it. Can I host?
Starting point is 01:07:56 Can you host? Oh yeah, I can host. I have a show you can maybe host. Oh my gosh, yeah. Can you switch some of your show ideas? This one's called Say Yes to the Choke, and it's women pick dresses to eat and choke on. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 01:08:09 And then they say, is this your choke? I think this is your choke. That's pretty good. Scott, will you produce it, please? Scott, money, please. I think Ike is really the guy. I mean, he has a show on the air right now. Not yet. If they hear this, they might not air it.
Starting point is 01:08:24 If I say yes to this, they'll retroactively cancel Running Point. That's a good point. They're gonna be like, oh man, this guy, we thought he was a TV guy. He's not, he's a jokester. Yeah. He's producing a show with a goddamn bird.
Starting point is 01:08:35 Yeah, I don't know. I mean, do you have any bird ideas, Henry? Yeah, there was a way to have an idea, Henry, that still had a little choking in it, but it was a little more birds. I don't have a bird idea, but I have one that takes place outdoors. Okay, there are lots of birds there. I'm sure most birds are outside.
Starting point is 01:08:50 You guys have heard of Dawson's Creek. Oh, I love Dawson's Creek. Pacey. Joey. Like a reboot. Peter Gabriel. He was in one episode. And the show was based on his teenage years, of course.
Starting point is 01:09:07 So this show is based on my teen years, and it's called Squeezer's Drainage Basin. And it follows a teen heartthrob based on me named Squeezer, and every episode ends in him getting a handjob next to a drainage basin that gets interrupted by him giving someone the Heimlich maneuver. Who? The person he's masturbating. The hand job is interrupted. I'm going to say something earnest.
Starting point is 01:09:29 This is my favorite idea. This one might be good. This one might be good. So, real quick, if I'm painting it, so the character is... Squeezer. Squeezer's getting a hand job. Is the person who's doing it, they start choking or does he see someone like eating a sandwich nearby? It's always someone off nearby.
Starting point is 01:09:46 So he's getting a very public hand job. He's getting an H.J. And it's, yeah, well yeah, I mean like it's in like the mud next to the drainage basin. Right. And I'm good at hand jobs. Good, not great. I got wings.
Starting point is 01:09:59 It's more of a claw job. Yeah. I use my wings, not my claws. Oh, you use your wings instead? Of course. That would be so violent, just a bird batting Yeah. That's fine. I use my wings, not my claws. Oh, you use your wings instead? Of course. That would be so violent, just a bird batting its wings on your penis. OK, don't knock until you dry it.
Starting point is 01:10:10 But maybe you could be a bird who's just flying. At the I.O. holiday party, we did something. Don't lie to them. Well, I mean, that was a long time ago. That was a long time ago. Don't lie to them. My god. There's always a bird flying around
Starting point is 01:10:22 any time you get an outdoor hand job, though. Yes. I think that's the best use for you. Oh, we're always watching. I think the best use is just like whatever scene's happening, There's always a bird flying around anytime you get an outdoor hand job though. Yes! I think that's the best use for you. Oh, we're always watching. I think the best use is just like whatever scene is happening, just a bird flies by. You're a cross. You know what I mean? You're a good cross.
Starting point is 01:10:34 A background cross. A background cross. It's important because it makes the action look real. Yeah, you want the drainage basin to look real. I don't know, I feel like I'm more of a leading man type. Why did everyone make the same noise? So you wanna play Squeezer? Yeah, I would love to.
Starting point is 01:10:49 All right, let's see your penis. We're showing, we're showing. It's out. Weirdly enough, that is the first time that has been said on this show, I think. Wow. So then you have to find an actor who's going to masturbate a seagull.
Starting point is 01:11:07 A seagull, yeah. I don't know. Oh, you think an actor won't do that? Oh, please. I guess some actors would. I guess some actors would. Fair enough, fair enough. Okay, I'm in.
Starting point is 01:11:16 I'm in, I'm listening, I'm listening. Don't try to sabotage my career again, Mike. Again? You've been doing this since you was 21 years old. No. I slept over your house the night before my big Second City audition and my alarm mysteriously didn't go off. Wait, you think I did not want you to get hired by Second City?
Starting point is 01:11:34 I know that you didn't want me to get hired. Why? I never was hired by- We're the same type. We're the same type. Nevertheless. You're wearing a white shirt. He's a white bird.
Starting point is 01:11:43 I guess so. Canes look similar. That is true white bird. Yeah, I guess so. Canis' look similar. That is true. All right, okay. He told us to all take them out, right? We all have them out. If you're going to record a pod, you got to drop it out. Sure, yeah. That's what bros do. If I got in your way at all, I apologize.
Starting point is 01:11:59 I don't think you should blame me for where you're at. Well, I don't know about that. Okay. You could ask us 20 years ago who would be eating garbage in the Red Lobster parking lot. I would have thought you like it, honestly. In Burbank. We would have all said I.
Starting point is 01:12:12 Fair, fair, fair. Okay, that is fair, but I still don't think that, yeah, I think there's other reasons why it hasn't popped for you yet. Yeah, I mean, at least I was always supportive of you. You didn't even remember we had met, Scott. But now that I remember, I mean at least I was always supportive of you, you know. You didn't even remember we had met, Scott. But I was like, now that I remember I was... I mean, look, I see a lot of birds.
Starting point is 01:12:30 And he means it like Austin Powers. You're groovy, baby. Do you fancy a shag? Oh, brother. You know, and you know, I think you guys were like, we'll never see that seagull again, so you've been stealing my jokes and my bits and my show ideas. What idea have I stolen from you?
Starting point is 01:12:52 Tell me, who is David's original writing partner? David Stassen's original writing partner? Who was it? And they're here in the room right now, and it's me. You were, so Dave Stassen, so if I called Dave Stassen. Call him right now. Put him on speakerphone. Do you mind, is this weird? Yeah, no, go ahead and call Dave Stassen. It's ringing. You were do you so Dave's that's so if I called Dave's that's a column right now put a month Do you mind is this weird? Yeah? No go ahead and call Dave's Tassin. It's ringing call fuckface
Starting point is 01:13:11 Call it. I used to call him that Hey Dave, yep, it's Ike, Ike, Ike. What's happening, brother? That's your riding partner? How are you, man? Doing good, bud. What's up? Time to ticket. You said he knows a lot about, you both know a lot about basketball, right? Is he like watching it right now?
Starting point is 01:13:40 Yeah, I got basketball on. I don't have a lot of time. Listen, I'm just, real quick question. Did you you before we wrote together? Quicker, quicker. Did you ever write with Louie? He's a seagull. Louie the seagull? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I wrote a couple of things, but he just kept on eating the paper. Okay. And this was before you and I met? Yeah, this is like an hour before you and I met. All right. Okay. And then you walked in and you said, you looked at everything I'd written down that wasn't eaten by the seagull and you said, oh, I own half of this now.
Starting point is 01:14:09 We'd written down, my God. You're the best. I'm sorry to bother you, brother. Love you, baby. Love you, man. I'll talk to you soon. What did he say about me? He said he's never heard of you.
Starting point is 01:14:21 And you're a friggin' liar. Oh, classic. No, he said he... I sounded cool. He did. He sounded a little bit like Dennis Miller, baby. Cool. You know what, the two of you are fair-weathered friends.
Starting point is 01:14:33 When I choked on that human bone at the beach when I was in the hospital for three months, neither of you came to visit me. Where were you? I was still dealing with throat bugs. I was knee deep in the bad one bug. Yeah. Well, look, they don't let just anyone into a hospital.
Starting point is 01:14:50 That is true. Plus, it was a veterinarian. Yeah. So? They don't just let any random people come in and look at a bird that the vet is treating. No, it's not how it works. Also, most vets don't treat... I've never seen a seagull at the vets office
Starting point is 01:15:05 Yeah, and I think even birds. I think they have to go to special places I don't think you can special doctor for birds. I think there's a special doctor for so if you were a vet You would turn your nose up at a bird. I think I wouldn't do these we don't do it It's all the same guts inside. I don't think it is. I think it's like avian bones different guts Yeah, I think they had different guts. They have avian guts. It's the cloaca Yeah, I found out yesterday that birds don't fart none of them Different guts? I think they had different guts. They have avian guts. It's the cloaca. It's the cloaca. It is the cloaca. I found out yesterday that birds don't fart. None of them.
Starting point is 01:15:27 How did you find this out? Because you tried and it didn't work? I tried. I tried. I don't know if that means none of them do. You just might have a weird. You might have a blockage. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:39 I tried all day. Have you, by the way, Henry, have you tried a blockage on the other end? Yeah, you can do that. It works both ways. So if you push just instead of going up, Have you by the way Henry have you tried to block it? Yeah So if you push just instead of coming up And a turd shoots out and you sneak up they don't And then you just what and you can get it out
Starting point is 01:16:03 All right. Well, uh, show me okay. Come over here. Hey do a handstand. Wait, they always have to come to you? Yeah. Go to him. Why would you have them turn upside down? Don't you want, isn't gravity your friend if it's already pointing down? No, you want it up and out so people can go, there, whoa! I'm choking, I'm choking, do it quick! Look at that, it worked!
Starting point is 01:16:18 It flew across the room. He's choking, Louis' choking. Here you go, here. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! I can't quite tell. He's screaming.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Oh, and then it flies across the room. Oh! Oh, my sandwich from earlier. Thanks. Ah. Ah. Ah. Are you gonna eat that?
Starting point is 01:16:37 I am. Do you mind if I eat this? Oh my God. Oh! Oh no! Shh, shh, shh. Okay, yeah, sneak, sneak. I'm gonna hide under the chair. Tiptoe, tiptoe. Okay. I got some chokers. Shh. Okay. Sneak. I'm going to hide under the chair.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Tip toe. Tip toe. Guys, I'm choking. Let him die. Ignore. I can steal his wife. I'm seriously choking. Okay, gotcha.
Starting point is 01:16:54 Oh, you farted. Sorry. Why were you upside down? Must be nice. I don't know. I panicked. You can't be upside down. I panicked.
Starting point is 01:17:02 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oh, great. Scott, can you please delete this out of the... He's a show runner, and he can fart. Brag, brag, brag, brag, brag. I was not the show runner, but I can fart. Well, I'm so sorry, Louie. Louie.
Starting point is 01:17:19 Oh my God, Scott. We spent a whole summer together, you don't remember? The two of you and Bill Burr. Yeah, yeah. Pete Holmes joined us for a little while for a couple of the cities. This is the best summer of my life. It was the best summer of my life. Pete, Bill, and me, and you.
Starting point is 01:17:32 Yeah, we were in Newport, Rhode Island, eating lobster rolls and doing comedy. Best time of our lives. I loved it, but those days are long. I mean, look, life is so different now. I have a different career. I have a family. It's got a family, yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:43 You know, it's just, people, sometimes people and birds grow apart. Okay, yeah, I have a family. It's got a family, yeah. You know, it's just people, sometimes people and birds grow apart. Okay, yeah, I see how it is. Don't be so resentful. Wow, no, it's nice. I'm happy for you guys. Rich, powerful. That's good, I'm glad.
Starting point is 01:17:54 Yeah, rich, powerful, yeah. Can I tell you the good news? We are now in an era where there's no gatekeepers. Yes. Where you can do whatever you want. If you have an iPhone or a T-Mobile sidekick. So I guess the gatekeepers are like the big tech companies who create the phones.
Starting point is 01:18:11 You guys just told me there's no parts for birds. Well no, they're not in the human mind. In the human head. But you can create your own parts. 150 years ago there were no movies with humans. And then a human said, let's make a movie. You can be that for birds, but you gotta do it yourself. No, I feel like the I.T.E.R.S.
Starting point is 01:18:28 I'm good enough that things should be handed to me. I mean, that's how I felt. People should be coming to me. People should be coming. If I was the funniest person on my Harold team in Chicago in 1998, then people should be coming to me. Is that when you were in Chicago? I was there.
Starting point is 01:18:44 I remember we were there together I was on a Herald team. I believe it was called genealogy. Listen, I That is neither here nor there. I think you have to do this yourself. I think it's harder for birds. I'm so sorry I mean we have you know, look we I can I have failed upwards in our career Like I started on mad TV. Yeah, and now look at him, you know, and so it's like TV. Yeah. And now look at him, you know? And so it's like, I'll tell you what, I will get you an audition for Matt TV. Fantastic. Done deal. You're going to have to do three characters, three second. This is the third reboot. There's already been two reasons. So one time event. Yes. That was the, uh, the precursor to the two night event, was it not? You know what? I only trust Dr. Heimlich.
Starting point is 01:19:25 He is creating content over there. I'm gonna hitch my wagon to him on one of his TV shows. I do have a show. I do have a show for you. It's called The Heimlich Files. The Heimlich Files, like the Rockford Files? Or like the X-Files?
Starting point is 01:19:43 It's similar to the X-Files. XBI, CIA. Yeah, so a show where detectives investigate paranormal choking phenomena, spooky cases of aliens who have choked on things. And I shouldn't have done this one, because the other one was better. No, I think I could make a meal on it as well, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:20:01 It's so tempting, I should have got out when I had the chance. Or you should have reordered these. Ooh, and I should have sexual tension with my beautiful partner on that show. You can. Ah. Do you go for other birds?
Starting point is 01:20:12 Yeah, what's your vibe? Human women. Oh. Just like you guys. Yeah, sure. Totally, yeah. Hell yeah. That's my type exactly. A human woman.
Starting point is 01:20:26 All right, me thinks the Scott protest too much, so I'd have hit a nerve there, didn't mean to do that. Hey, if you're a reflexologist, that's exactly what you wanna do, hit nerves. So you're right there. All right, I'll forgive you guys, just hand me your phones, I'm gonna take all the famous people's numbers, I'm gonna write them down and then we'll consider it.
Starting point is 01:20:44 All right, all right. Here you go, here you go. Kevin Spacey. Boom. That one. Space high. Space high, there's a lot of numbers for that one. Use the Italy one. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:54 Well guys, we are running out of time, unfortunately. We really only have time for one final feature on the show and that is a little something called Plugs. ["Plugs"] What would happen if we plugged each other? I'm hired by you to plug one another! Whoa! Ah! Oh yeah, that was Plug One Another by Chris Gray Weir-Wilf.
Starting point is 01:21:26 Puss in butt. Yeah, puss in butt. Guys, why don't we plug in Ike? Obviously Running Point is on Netflix this Thursday. Yes, that's the one. If you don't watch it, I'm dead. And what, people who wanna catch up with your earlier work just to,
Starting point is 01:21:41 like maybe they marathon everything you've ever done. Oh. And then suddenly leading up to Thursday, whatever. Then they get committed to an insane asylum. I mean, the Mindy project is out there. I'm sure that's a fun one. I think- Blockers.
Starting point is 01:21:54 Blockers is out there, Neighbors, Neighbors 2, Sorority Rising. Oh, there's a movie I did a couple of years ago directed by Dave Stassen called Maximum Truth. It's very funny and it's about right-wing. What about the movie where everyone like you and Tiffany Addish and I went to the premiere. The after party.
Starting point is 01:22:11 Yeah, no, no, no, no. Oh, the oath. That you. That I directed. Yeah, you directed. Yeah, the oath that's out there and it's happening now in the country. So it's good, you can watch it.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Yeah, and the after party is great. Yeah. So much, what a body of, what a body. What a breath. What a body,, what a body. What a breath. What a body, I just wanted to tell you. Thank you. Personally. I know I text it to you all the time.
Starting point is 01:22:29 Been flexing for 90 minutes, the first time you said anything. Henry Heimlich, what do you wanna plug? Well, you know, I'm trying to sell my house. I need to liquidate my house. You know, it's got a swimming pool that was built in the shape of a pretzel bite being ejected from someone's throat across a crowded restaurant
Starting point is 01:22:48 How does the restaurant signify? Also watch running point 27th it drops or 26 at 1159. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so get up pee if you like us you gotta piss Yeah, so get up pee if you like us you gotta piss Gotta go piss you gotta go piss so everyone piss before you watch this show. Yeah, thank you for plugging the show Benj it binge it go all the way through You don't want to be in the middle of it and suddenly you got to piss and you got to turn it off And you may forget to oh, yeah, don't pee around episode 5 You'll need to don't or do what I do when I watch every show wear a diaper
Starting point is 01:23:24 That's right boom Die, die, die, die right into the big running point is the first DiPe show Got a DiPe are you still watching or are you changing your diet? And of course Louie Pantano, what do you want to plug here? Uh, I have a show that I worked on called Win or Lose that is a Pixar show that comes out on Disney Plus. I think the first two episodes are out now. Congratulations. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:23:51 That's amazing. It's the coolest, it's so good. And I think the third episode comes out this week. Oh my gosh, on Disney Plus. Yeah. All right, gotta check that out. What's it called again? Win or Lose.
Starting point is 01:24:01 Winner? Win or Lose. It follows like a middle school co-ed softball team. Cause I was thinking about a winner who loses for the first time. Win or lose. Win or lose. Win or lose. Winner, comma, lose.
Starting point is 01:24:13 I'm already, I'm the best. Sounds like you're doing fine. You're on a Disney Plus cartoon. Yeah, you were complaining for a long time about having no career and here we are, plugging a show on Disney Plus. Fascinating. Interesting. You always want more.
Starting point is 01:24:25 Yeah, I'm the funniest person from my Harold team. I deserve the best. When I was doing Santa with Bill Burr, you were just flying around above us shitting on us. Yeah, and it was hilarious and I got the biggest laughs of the night. It was funny. I want to plug, head over to CBBworld.com. We have all of the past episodes of this show, all of the past episodes of this show, all of the live episodes we ever did, including our tour last year where we did 43 shows.
Starting point is 01:24:50 And we have great new shows there, like CBB Presents with Hey Randy. And speaking of Hey Randy, we have Action Figures, Randy and Carissa Action Figures. You can go to customers worldwide at figurecollections.com with free shipping with the US address, or in Europe with cheaper import fees at actionfigureseller.com. We also have Sprague and Big Sue,
Starting point is 01:25:13 and tour exclusives of JW Stillwater and Scott Aukerman still available. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. Plug bag Open the vlog bag with me, dude. Just please don't close it and be rude. Please don't close it and be rude. Open the vlog bag with me, dude. Open the vlog bag with me, dude. Just please don't close it and be rude. Please don't close, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, please don't go, luck. All right. Well, next time, next time I can, I can do it. Yeah, you can do it. Yeah. I believe
Starting point is 01:26:28 in you, Henry. Okay. Thank you. You, you've just got a fun tone to you. That makes me rude for you. Thank you. It almost makes me think that you didn't murder your two children. Your tone. No, that's, that's happening. Yeah. It sounds pretty bad. Yes. It's currently happening? Yes, I'm in litigation. We're both going to trial. Are you carpooling to the-
Starting point is 01:26:49 Same courthouse today, we're going. You're not gonna believe it, but I'm gonna be there too. What? What are you being sued for? Us arson. What did you just say? Meaning the Palisades fire? Yeah, I'm, ah, me, allegedly. That was seagull? Allegedly.
Starting point is 01:27:04 They said that was fireworks. What the hell? And a faulty transformer, but it was really a seagull dropping fire bombs on the city? Allegedly. That's gonna be bad for, yeah. I don't know, all press is good press, right guys?
Starting point is 01:27:18 That's what you always say. Yes. Ask your friend Kevin Space High about this. I'm not sure. All right, well, I want to thank you guys so much for coming by. Ike, always great to see you. My pleasure, bud.
Starting point is 01:27:30 And of course, Dr. Henry. Thank you so much. And Louie, I mean. Louie, yeah. I got nothing for you, unfortunately. I'll eat whatever I can find on the way out. Okay, we'll see you next week. Thanks, bye.
Starting point is 01:27:43 We'll see you next week, thanks, bye!

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