Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Pordlandia (Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Will Hines, Erin Keif)

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein discuss their new podcast, “Podlandia: A-O Rewatch,” while Scott familiarizes them with the concept of TV. Detective Boobs Rinse returns with another Los Feliz-centric true crime report, as well as inside dope on who has qualms and who is ruffled. And mobster’s girlfriend Bunny LaRue is looking for a stand up person to help out her boyfriend.   “Podlandia: A-O Rewatch” is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere podcasts are heard. New episodes air every Thursday.  Don’t forget to check out the Comedy Bang! Bang! Action Figures at shop.figurecollections.com and go to actionfigurecellar.com for international purchases. If you want more great episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! become a subscriber at comedybangbangworld.com. We have all of the past episodes from the archives, every live show, ad-free new episodes, and original shows like CBB Presents and Scott Hasn’t Seen. Find more great Comedy Bang! Bang! merch at https://www.podswag.com/collections/comedy-bang-bang Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/cbb Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Comedy Bang Bang Episode Number 9-8-1 Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching Band of Brothers in the Den. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. Thank you to May Not Last for that catchphrase submission. I hate to say it may not last, but that catchphrase may not last. I do believe the hunt continues for a real... You know what?

I swear we're going to get a real catchphrase for this program. We've been searching. ever since, God, the third year or something when I accidentally gave What's Up Hot Dog, a perfect catchphrase to Weird Al Yankovic. He now opens every show saying it. Did you know this? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, he stole it from me, like a thief in the night. And now, unfortunately, we have been searching for a new catchphrase and may not last. That was a good one, but I just can't see saying it every single episode. But thank you very much for that. And welcome to Comedy Bang Bang for another week. My name is Scott Ockerman.

I'm the host of Comedy Bang Bang, and we have an exceptional show today. Look, I'm not even going to say who's on the show. I may not have gotten any notes from my producer about who's on the show a little later. And that's because I've said it before, and I'm proud to say it again, stars are back on Comedy Bang Bang. That's right. We took a big hit during the COVID years, during the strike. We took a giant hit, but stars are back. And they're back on this episode.

They, let's just, let's run down a list of their accomplishments. At the top, Peabody winners. Peabodies! I don't know what that is. I've never understood it, but occasionally, just every year, they give out a bunch of awards and they go, this is prestigious. And we all have to go like, oh, cool, a peabotter. Do you guys know what these peabodies are? I think originally it was for journalism.

Hmm. That's correct. And did you win it for journalism? Yes. You did. Yes. Okay, great. Yeah.

What's big story did you break? Yeah, what story did we break? Tinneman Square. Tiananmen Square. The existence of it or just what was going on in it? But by then it was... No, the Lego set. When they came out with the Tiananmen's wear Lego, we broke that story.

Oh, got it. Got it. We let them know it was for sale. Yeah. Did it direct a lot of business to the Lego? corporation? Is that we that out of our hands at that point. Okay. That's what makes us good journalists. We're like, it's none of our business. Yeah. At that point, just whatever happens happens. We just report their news. Sure. Okay. So you know them as journalists who won the Peabody Award,

but in their off hours, they also are actors, musicians, writers. And together as a duo, they wrote, starred in, I'm sure they produced, directed even. Did you, you, occasionally, yeah, after John left? Yeah. Okay. The television show, Portlandia, which ran for eight seasons on a little defunct network called IFC. Please welcome Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Hi, guys.

Hi. Hello. How are you? We're good. Very good. Happy to see you. Happy to be here. Mm-hmm.

You're really teaming up on me early on in the show. Wow. We rehearsed. Portlandia, obviously, one of the classic shows from the 2010 era. Strange that we're so far removed from the 2010 era, eh? Yes. And that it's called that, yeah. Yeah, who knew we were going to have a name for it?

You know, when you're living in the new millennium? Yeah. Well, you know, they have the swing in 60s, obviously. in the, what did they call the 30s 100 years ago? It was like the Jazz Age, right? The Jazz Age, the Great Depression. And then they now call it the 2010 era. Yeah, and the Audies, I've heard.

The Otis. What were the 70s? The 70s were the Super 70s, I believe, and the great 80s, and the naughty 90s. Really? Yeah, that seemed. What's your source? That was believable. Always the journalist.

Yeah. Yeah, the super. 70s. Mm-hmm. Okay. But the 2010 era, we had, what a time for comedy. Of course, you were on the IFC Network always on, never off. Slightly off, I think, right?

Slightly off, so off that you'd be like, this doesn't make any sense at all. This is not even English. These people aren't human beings. Yeah, you could comprehend it. Sure. Was that your main goal doing the show? Yes, comprehension. You could steal that catchphrase.

Yeah. I think you would not get sued. Absolutely. I don't think they're in existence. Yeah, they're not a going concern any longer, aren't they? They are still a film production company. Yes, but I don't believe that they, those two are even really related. Not really.

I don't think. I remember when I was at South by Southwest with the show once, I had a badge and it said my name in the IFC, and I went to a movie. And they were thrilled I was there because they thought I was going to pick up the show and I like walked out of the movie. And they were like, what did you think? Oh. And I was like, what do you give a shit? What I think about the movie? I was just like, yeah, it was good.

I walked away and went, oh, I have. is also a film distribution company. Their hearts must have been broken at your attitude. Yes. Yeah, I don't give it. What does it matter? So dismissive. What do you care what I think about you?

But also an era where IFC had cultural power like that. That's right. Yes. And you guys were at the forefront. You were the first IFC original. No, you were not. You were not. There was the whitest kids you know.

Oh, yes. And the Onion News Network. That's right. And I think Todd Margaret. Todd Margaret. That's right. also Ricky's show, Garfunkel notes. Although that was after you guys.

That was maybe right after. So you were the fourth or third. Yeah, maybe the third. First iteration for sure. And you guys paved the way for shows like, well, I'm just going to say it, comedy bang bang, bang to be on the air for as many seasons as we did in the wake of your extreme success and the shadow of what was happening with Portlandia. You guys were the big overwhelming just whales that allowed us little minnows to just feed off of the krill that that was on your underbelly.

That's how we thought of it. But Portlandia, you finished it. It was eight seasons. And now I was like, okay, I was reading the newspaper the other day. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Portlandia. Oh, Portlandia done after eight seasons. Okay, great. And I shut the newspaper.

And then cut to smash cut two, in fact. years later, I opened the newspaper. I'm like, what is going on? A podcast now about Portlandia? Yeah, a rewatch podcast. And I honestly, I just read the headline and I didn't read the actual article because I'm more of a headline guy. Right. But so why don't you tell me about this? Are you guys involved in this? Yes, we are. We are. I'd say we're pretty highly involved. I would say extra involved. Yeah, super involved. We host. We co-host a rewatch podcast. So essentially what we do is we rewatch the show starting chronologically. Chronologically with how they were shot, meaning you go, you know, the coverage of one scene over here.

Oh, that's very great. That's very granular. No, I think we zoom out slightly. So like chronologically in terms of when they aired. So season one, episode one. I see. And we rewatch and then we discuss and we bring on guests who are on the show. And it's really just an excuse for Fred and I to hang out.

and revisit something that meant a lot to us and that we had a lot of fun doing. And you actually do rewatch the show. Yeah, like the night before or something. The night before. So almost like, oh, it's podcast Eve, you know, like Christmas Eve. You know, like Christmas Eve. Kind of a little bit.

Yeah, in a way. Like, you're not leaving out milk and cookies for each other or anything like that, but you're like you do with Santa on Christmas Eve. How funny. Have you not heard that? How, no. So, so for Santa Claus, who. Santa Claus.

Chris Kringle. Yes. Yeah, for the lay person. He comes down the chimney and he gives presents, but a lot of times people don't think like, oh, well, we should give Santa Claus something. So it's like occasionally families will leave out milk and cookies for Santa. And then he nibbles on them. And he... I don't think it.

It's incredible that a grown-up would want milk. And even cookies. Because milk is kind of disgusting when you think about it. That's the one thing about Santa that you. you don't believe? That's the one thing. Okay. Well, he's just an odd, but you're not saying you don't believe it.

He's just an odd guy. Right. You believe in Santa, but you also acknowledge that he has eccentricities. I guess he must. Yes. Okay. Even the cookies part, that's a lot, house to house. That's a lot of cookies.

Cookie. Well, that's why he doesn't eat all of the cookies. Just a nibble. Yeah, just a nibble here, a nibble there. It's sort of like, you know, when you're on a diet, you're like, oh, these Oreo Thins would be fine and then I'm eating 20 of them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So many neighborhoods. Yeah, that's, no, I've never thought about it that way. We never acknowledged that. We never acknowledged that. Yeah, you've never thought about it calorically. No. No. Yeah.

But it happens. And anyway, so podcast Eve, you guys, are you watching it together or are you watching it separately? No, I think separately and they'll sort of come in with notes. And I will say, I do enjoy watching it all these years later. Have you forgotten it? Like, I've forgotten every bit of my show? A lot of it. A lot of it.

that sometimes, you know, the bold stuff, it's like, okay, the headlines. You sort of remember the headlines, but not, there's a lot of minutiae that I have forgotten. Also, so many sketches, and we never had a soundstage, so a lot of locations. So just impossible to remember the breadth of it. I mean, I'm sure that watching it makes you remember the details of it when it happens. I just, if someone were to ask me, hey, do you remember? And they do sometimes. Like, do you remember the sketch that you did?

I'm like, nope, I have no idea. While you're in it, you're so, like, focused on it. Yeah. But now these, how long has it been since the last episode, 10 years or? Six, eight years, I believe. Since the last one, yeah. Yeah. Perfect time for a podcast.

Perfect year anniversary. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big one. Yeah. And so do you record in separate homes or offices or you always record together? Oh, yeah. So. It's kind of just better that way.

We're, you know, we get to really talk about it and not have to. deal with as much technical stuff. So did you, did you, because you did how many episodes, I believe you did somewhere in the 70s, somewhere around there? Did you record all of those already? And now they're just coming out? We're only done two seasons so far. Yeah. Really? Two seasons already. Well, two seasons of Portlandia and one, and we're halfway through the season of the podcast. You know what I mean? We have to record like the first season of the podcast is like 40 something episodes. Right. Oh, really? So we'll get to like season four of Portlandia. So you, are you doing one episode of Portlandia per episode of the podcast?

Yeah. Okay. And then some bonus episodes, like we had Kyle McLaughlin on who played the mayor, and that's just a bonus. Those are bonus. At what point do you go, like, why are we spending so much time on Portlandia? Let's do another show. You know, like Duke and Rec or something.

Well, we end up talking about music. It's pretty tangential, I would say. Yeah. But I know the office ladies, I was talking to them once, and they were like, oh, once we're through with the office, then we stopped doing the show. I'm like, why? Like, no, like, just hang. It's an excuse for you guys to hang out. Just move on to another show or go backwards now. What about if you did that? Just go backwards. Once you hit 76 or whatever, then go back to 75 and then go all the way back to one. Or we could do like, we could really dumb it down. So the second time through, a really dumb version.

Dumb Portland. Oh, like when you play celebrity in the first round, you get to do all of the, the second round is two words. That's exactly what I mean. And the third round is just. miming. That's exactly what I mean. We're like the third time through, yeah, we just mind. We're just miming. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot easier to do a podcast than a TV show, isn't it?

Yes. Yeah. Well, you have paused for a second. No, I was getting, I mean, I agree completely. But you agreed after a pause. What was that pause all about? The pause is like, how can I put it in a way that I sound like I'm adding to the idea? I'm like, well, but I'm like.

And then you said yes. And then I just, yeah, I guess the answer is yes. Well, the podcast is called Portlandia AEO rewatch, and it's out now. Yeah. And people can get it anywhere, I guess, podcasts are procured. Yeah. Where do people get podcasts these days? I don't know.

I feel like it's everywhere. Everywhere. Whatever streaming and whatever. You don't have to go to like a special store. Not that I know of. Like a brick and mortar or anything like that. No. And say, oh, can I order Portlandia A.O.

rewatch? And then they look at you. Yeah. There's none of that. Yeah. And not to be, like, didactic, but it's actually Podlandia. And I only say that because there was, like, a big debate. Yeah.

And have I been saying Portlandia? But which is the natural thing to say? Oh, you only did it once. I only did it. So out of the two times I said it, I said Portlandia once. I don't actually, I think out of the one time you said it. I noted it actually sent it something in between. Oh.

It was almost to Portlandia. It was like, Pordlandia? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Interesting. Interesting of me to do that. Yeah. Now, I've been doing this show for 17 years, and you would think I was new and had no idea what I'm doing. And yeah, you guys are, you've been doing this for 17 years? I have, and you guys are newbies, and you're already on to like, oh, no, he said this wrong. And I said this right.

That's a very fun way to be in any situation. You said that wrong. Everyone loves to hear that. Yeah. And what was it like just, you know, because you guys did the show. It was over eight years ago. Have you had a lot of opportunity to hang out since then? Plenty.

A lot. We're very good friends in real life. We were friends before the show. We were friends after. So it's just, it's like a formal way to hang out. Even though once we're there, we're just having fun.

But like, yeah. It's like an appointment with your friends in a way. Which isn't bad. Yeah, no. I mean, that's why people play mahjong or, you know, like have weekly poker things.

You know, it's like an appointment to hang out with your friends. Or like, why you go to the bar. every single afternoon at about 3 p.m. You know? Yeah, Mahjong is something I'm about to get into because I keep hearing about how great it is for your brain. You should talk to my wife about it and she'll teach you how to play. I would love that.

Okay, fantastic. We have a table right upstairs. Okay. I've heard terrible reviews of Majan. Oh, I thought you were going to say of my wife. No. You've read Yelp reviews at my wife? We, remember, we had a sketch that we never got off the ground called Yelp reviews for

kids. That's right. It was always a little note on the board. And we got close. We got us kids? Yeah. Like when you're, you know, you invite a kid over and then you could leave a Yelp review. So that when someone else is going to hang out with that kid, you're like, ooh, you only has two and a half stars. I love those cards that are on the board that never. Yeah, we just, we were like, that's a funny thing. But what's the sketch? Officer Lady Guts was one on Mr. Show that never quite made it over the finishing line. Officer Lady Guts. That was because, uh, remember Slim Good Body. on the Conan O'Brien show

was a man who like that toy doll had a clear stomach they then made a female version who was also pregnant and for a sketch

and when they saw it completed they said this is so horrible it cannot go on the show but they somehow ended up donating it to us and trying to write a sketch around this prop for a long time. And one of them was Officer Ladyguts and it was a motorcycle cop who whose stomach you could see into. Oh, man. That's a great idea.

Is it? I don't know. But it's a funny part to constantly look at. What happens once it starts? Exactly, yes. But you guys had no problem with that on Portlandia. And I will say that the podcast is actually called Podlandia, A.O. Review for anyone who's confused about it. And how many episodes are out right now that people can listen to. Four? I think it's four so far. Yeah, it comes out every Thursday. Every third, why did you pick Thursday? Is that because must see TV was on Thursday? Yes. We, you know what? I don't think we picked Thursday, but that was the, the preordained day. And that's the day where like, you know, a lot of the, the ads are sold because the movies are

coming out on Friday, right? Do you do, do you end up doing a lot of ads for movies that are out the next day? We haven't, we haven't. Do we do ads for movies? Go see Supergirl. in theaters now. I wish, that seems like such a luxury. I know. I would do an ad for that. We get asked to do a lot of ads.

We've really been not great. We've said no to a lot of things. Really? So far. What percentage of the ads do you say no to? Well, we haven't done any. So it sounds like 100%. We haven't done any, but I mean, they air ads, but we haven't personally done.

Oh, you haven't read them. Yeah. Okay. We will, we need to. But I want to do one about movies. I'd be great. I know. We tomorrow.

Or what about cars, like Mercedes and stuff like that? would you do that? Only luxury. Only luxury brands. I feel like people don't buy enough luxury cars. And it makes me crazy. It's like there should be at least three per person. Yes. What is everyone doing? They're better cars. Like, why are you cheaping out on a, you know?

I know with low gas prices. Yeah. Don't cheap out. Well, Podlandia A-O review is the show. And look, if you're a Portlandia nut and, look, if you're a Portlandia nut, And I know that, I mean, this show just swept awards. Didn't it win any awards other than this Peabody? We got some Emmys for costumes and.

We got nominated a lot, but we never won. We won. It was exciting. We, no complaints. Art department got, well. I believe I saw you guys at the Emmys once. Yeah, we were there. We got to go.

Yeah, we were nominated. We were nominated. I mean. I just feel like if we said we won a bunch of. Emmys. Everyone would just think that. They would think it. So you guys won...

We won for Best Show. It was crazy. You guys won 13 Emmys. Yeah. It's so crazy. 13 Emmys. 13 Emmys and Best Show eight years. Every season you won Best...

Just show. And it wasn't Best Drama or Comedy. It was just Best Show. A separate category. Yeah. Just like, okay, why are we, you know, bothering to divvy it up between... And, you know, is... What's that show?

The cook or the chef or whatever? The Bear? Oh, the Bear. Oh, the Bear. Oh, the Bear. Yeah. You know, like, is that a comedy? Is that not a company?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Just best show. Best show. Yeah, and we were up against like Breaking Bad and Mad Men and they were like, no, it's Portlandia. It's Portlandia. You guys won 13 Emmys.

Yeah. Even in the in memoriums, it'd sort of give us a little quick shout out of like, hey, none of these guys are dead yet, but when they do, it's going to be huge news. We were the last image they showed every time. It's like, not dead, but here they are as a sort of, we're really appreciating them. Yeah. Let's take a little time out from what we're doing right now,

which frankly is kind of a bummer to be like, hey, here's a funny show that is one of the best shows ever. Well, it's quite an achievement, and I love that you guys are out there in the podcast space. I've always been saying, like, we need more celebrities in the podcast space. You know what I mean? Thanks for thinking of us as celebrities. That's nice of you. I do think you're celebrities.

You're, you know. Fred, I think you're kind of a celebrity, Fred. I'm a very regular normal. You're like a driver. A cup of coffee. Lunchbox, Johnny. Grease on my shirt. I came in here with the dirtiest arms I've ever seen.

When I travel, I'm just like, I talk regular and my volume and my voice. You love the middle seat back row airplane. Only place to say. That's where you thrive. Yeah. I smoke. If you can't smell the toilet. Hey, how are you?

How are you? How are you? How are you? You're the reason that several of my planes. that I've been on have landed right after takeoff because you light up immediately and you're kicked off pretty much in the first five minutes of so many flights you're still feeling around for that ashtray always yeah and for like that smoking sign to come over my accent's really not regular too I'm a very regular I don't I'm not like yeah exactly that's when people come up to you on the street

they expect they expect the sort of a feat Fred that they've seen in Portlandia or or S&L and you're just a normal Joe. Every man. And when I look at art, I'm just like, I could do that. Yeah. Meanwhile, you, I know I've come up to you on the street and you have a totally like more posh accent, like an English accent almost. Yes, I tried to put that on.

And you dumb it down for shows like this, which I really appreciate. Absolutely. But I'm much, I mean, I'm from England originally, but I try to kind of do the Northwest thing. Thank you very. Which was really difficult when we were shooting Portlandia. Yeah. Because I worked with a vocal coach.

Yeah. I've watched so many of your scenes and I would hear it slip through. every once in a while. It's embarrassing. As a Rata graduate, that is embarrassing. But, you know, with a good dialect coach. The dialect coach, by the way, was, you were telling me that it was the highest paid person on set, including you guys. Is that true? Easily. Yeah. As they should be. Yeah. Just millions of dollars. No, wasn't plural millions. I think it was a million? It was just one million per episode. Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine. So I think it was close. Yeah. No, not million. I was saying over the totality. Oh, yes. It was like 76 million or whatever, however many.

however many episodes that you did. Yeah. Well, Podlandia, I almost said it again. Podlandia. Rewatch. A.O. Rewatch. Is out right now four episodes. They're about, if I had to guess, they're probably an hour or so.

Yeah. Something in there, yeah. I think so. You ever just like go like, let's not put time limits on this? Let's just, you know, as, let's just go as long as we want. Whenever we get tired, we can go to sleep in the middle of the episode if we want to. It's just going to be a long one. time. You ever do that? We hope we could try that for the future. Yeah. I mean, I think all the best

things just kind of go on. Yeah. On and on and on without limits. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. I mean, I want to do an episode like that where we just take a nap in the middle. That would be fun. That must have happened at some point, right? Must have happened on a podcast. That happened to me just in our late Portland show recently. I was almost taking a nap right there on stage. Wait, where did you guys perform in Portland? We were at a River. Revolution Hall. We did two shows. And, you know, the late wind goes till 1 a.m. And it's, uh, were you seated? Uh, I was seated. And it's hard for a guy with a baby who, uh, is in bed by 10 at the latest every single night. And you, did you feel yourself sort of like, uh, fading away a little?

Fading away and I tried to just like, uh, wow. But I just sort of rested my eyes during part of it. Wow. Wow. So it has to happen with a show. Um, and you, I mean, obviously, Carrie, you're in, the great band Slater, Kenny, you must have fallen asleep during some of the shows, right? Very frequently, yes. Yeah. And people do not notice. Hopefully you let out at like a big sustained cord. Yes, I do feedback. Yeah, just a lot of feedback. Yeah. Well, Podlandia A. A.O. rewatch, I cannot stress enough. If you have, I know you're listening to Comedy Bang Bang and you're a religious listener of this and you're like, I don't know how I can fit another podcast into my

schedule. I implore you look, you could stop this one right now. Just head over there. I mean, it's Fred and Kerry and they'll be over there. Just fit this into your schedule every week. It sounds like it's on Thursdays, which is a great day for podcasts. And

they'll be, as soon I'm sure you're going to be doing all the ads, reading the ads for movies and cars and jewelry and all the luxury brands. And we do a lot of cliffhangers. So throughout the podcast, yeah. Just like in the middle of a sentence sometimes. All kinds of, we just keep everyone wanting to come back.

Yeah, that's how to do it. Wow. Well, this is a great show. I implore everyone to fit it into your schedule. We're going to take a break. Can you guys stick around? We have a couple of great guests whose information I did not receive before the show. But I know they're going to be good.

We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to have more from Fred and Carrie. More comedy bang bang. We'll be right back after this. Comedy Bang Bang. We're back. Fred and Kerry, Podlandia A.O. Rewatch is out there right now. And, I mean, all you Portlandia, what do you call the fans again? Portlandia heads, Portlandia, Portlandia, Portlanders. Portlanders just sounds like they're from Portland.

Yeah. True. Did we have a name? We never got, we never had one. Porties, Portos. That sounds like Port-a-Pottie, but yeah, Portos. Oh, this is a good opportunity. Porto's, though, is the sandwich shop that has a huge line outside of it. I didn't know that. Something heads doesn't match. It doesn't fit for Portlandia.

Like, it should be your audience. I wish there was a heads something. Oh, wait, you like the heads thing? Yeah, but there's no way. I can't figure out of the talking heads. No. I mean, they're not doing anything anymore. I mean.

They've always said they're never going to reform. So you think we should call them talking heads? Yeah, just call them the Talking Heads. I don't think they're a bit in confusion. Everyone knows that the Talking Hads is a band is over, right? It's a way of celebrating that that band is over. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure.

It's reclaiming something great that's lying fallow right now. Man, I... Yeah, I'll take it. Or The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead. Because they're grateful they watched the show and they're, you know... And they're revisiting it. And it's a dead show, but it's alive now in the memories of everyone.

The Grateful Dead. Sure. Yeah. Okay. So all you, or maybe just like deadheads. We're on board. Officially. Okay.

So officially. Oh, my God. You signed a noticed document. All right. So the deadheads out there who love Portlandia, they're going to love this show. We need to get to our next guest. Our next guest, he's a private investigator. We've spoken to him a few times before.

He is a Los Felas. I don't know if he's a native, but he certainly resides within the city limits. Please welcome back to the show, Boob's Rent. Scott, good to be here. Good to have you, Boobes. This is Fred and Kerry. Yeah, of course. When you're on the show, names Boobes.

I like to unlock the door and let you in. Yes, well, I appreciate it. No need to be thanked for that. Okay, well, I was out there a while and I didn't want to presume that I was going to make a I just, I did know, I forgot when we were starting. I mean, you arrived pretty much within 20 minutes. That's when you saw me. How long have you been outside?

Not too long. 4 a.m. That's a long time. What time is it now? We're taping this at 7 p.m. My God. Gosh, I went inside myself. I've been doing great work with my own mind palace, and I've been finding great peace.

And honestly, the time flew. I actually had a great time, so no complaints. Okay, all right, good. But certainly during that time period, I was like, maybe this isn't going to happen. Maybe I'm not going to be... I mean, not a lot happens at 4 a.m. Have you guys had any, like, appointments at 4 a.m.

or anything like that? Everyone's usually... What percentage of the world is asleep at 4 a.m., would you say? I've got those numbers. You've got the numbers? That's correct. Let us hear them. At 4 a.m., if you average out the 4 a.m. in every time zone,

so not at any one particular 4 a.m. No, you can't... But in everybody's local 4 a.m. Yes, that's what I mean. You can't say at 4 a.m. here, how many people are awake? Because in Australia... That's exactly. Especially Australia.

They have their own schedule. But at 4 a.m. averaged, 75% of the world is asleep. That's too little, I think. I agree. I mean, I know people work the graveyards. Oh, yeah. This is fucked. I'm sorry. This is totally fucked up.

Never mind. Forget I said anything. How did you double check it so quickly to find out it? I just looked at these numbers and I'm like, oh, this isn't even, I don't even know what this is. You just wrote, you scribbled 75. No, I did a lot of data work, but I think on the tallying, I got it mixed up with, I'm replaying this video game subnautica. I got my percent.

It doesn't matter. I got the numbers mixed up with a video game. I have no idea how what percentages. A lot, let's say a lot. When you replay a video game, don't you already know how to beat it? That's the fun part. Oh. Being good at it.

Okay. Showing those NPCs, you know what's up. All right. Well, anyway, welcome to the show, boobs. Hey, great to be here. Great to have you here. Thank you. What have you been working on?

We all know you're a Los Felas private investigator. Tons. You're a Los Felas private investigator. I'm going to investigate all the crimes and mysterious goings on within the boundaries of Los Phelis, Los Angeles. And let me tell you, Scott. If it goes over to Echo Park. I can't do anything about it.

Okay. Heads into Silver Lake or Hollywood. It's out of my jurisdiction. And certainly I've had a lot of my foes evade justice. Glendale? Can't go near it. Never been there. Never been to Glendale?

No. I hear great things. There's an olive garden there that I worked at for three days. Yeah. God damn it. God damn it. And I haven't been there. If you had ever been there in 1994, you might have seen me on those three days.

I wish. Yeah. I love olive gardens. They're all so different if you know what to look for. I guess if you order something different on the menu each time, then get involved with the staff. That's how they're all different. Caused personal drama with the people who work there. Got it.

They've all got their own flavor. So what have you been working on? you. All right, number one, the lines at Maru Coffee are insane. Something is going on at Maru coffee. Now, it's always, now, I don't even need to explain the references. I'm sure the audience is intimately familiar with the goings-on of Los Angeles. I mean, for Fred and Kerry, who, you know, you guys know a lot of Portland references, but Los Felas references, I think we know some. Yeah. Fred, you know of Maru Coffee? I sure do. I do, too. All right, see? Okay. It's kind of beige. It's very beige. I would say it's exceptionally beige, actually. I think you're being generous when you say

it's kind of beige. Ungenerous, perhaps, saying kind of beige. Yeah, you're being a little strict on its beigeness. It's actually a lot more beige than you're giving it credit for. There's a lot of black, though. The print is in black. Yes, that's true. I take it back.

You're really, you're not really standing by your convictions at all. I've been shaken lately, Scott, by the goings on in my life. What's happening in Maru coffee? That's, okay, first of all, I don't know. Well, partly I do know. It's an influencer kind of hipster scene. So that's partly why there's a long line. It's one of those things where there's a long line because there's a long line, like people want to be seen there.

I know that's part of it, but the line has grown beyond its normal crazy length. Okay. It's going down to the vista. I mean, that's if you know Los Felas. Carrie, is it, is it matcha? Because once somebody introduces matcha to a coffee shop. Carrie, great theory, because I thought it was mantra. Oh, okay.

That was the very first thing I checked out. Macha is maybe the most disgusting food stuff on the planet. Is it not? That seems a little bit overstated, don't you feel? But, and yet it's taken... You can throw shit on that list, but if you're just on the planet, right? No, I would say macho is worse than... Worse than shit.

Worse than shit. Then maybe you're not overstating it. But... I checked it out anyway. It's not macha. It's not macho. My theory is there's a murder. Someone's covering up a murder, and that's why the line is long.

Can I... Boobes, can I mean, you've been on the show many times. Yes. No, boobs, your name is boobs. You can't just suddenly forget that your name is boobs. Try to be funny. And try to use it as the body part boobs and be confused about what I'm saying. You just can't do that.

A person with the name of boobs cannot do that to another person. I retract that. Please delete that from the conversation. Unfortunately, our editing machine has been broken for several years now. But Boob, Boob, you, we've talked many times on this show about the fact that, yes, you are a private investigator. but you also are a very successful actor. That's not how I'd put it. Sometimes in the investigation of my cases,

I have, yes, had to go undercover onto some television shows and movies. You're a season regular on the pit. That's right. You have been a co-executive producer on Abbott Elementary for its entire. You have a Peabody yourself from Abbott Elementary. Yes, and it's consulting only, all right? I'm barely in the room on Abbott Elementary, so it's not fair to say that. Your IMDB page has hundreds of listings on it.

Most of which are insidivage. dental and I don't even care or remember about them. And I'm there on cases. I know that you consider yourself to be a private investigator. I consider myself because I am one, 100%. You mentioned this influencer. To the middle of my bones. You mentioned this influencer coffee shop.

You are an influencer yourself. I'm on your Instagram right now. You have 2.1 million followers. I don't pay attention to it. I think these people are gathering around this coffee shop because you're there every single day. I don't think that has anything to do. They want to meet you. I'm talking to a lot of people, absolutely.

And if they ask for a selfie... Are you taking selfies? Constantly. But that's just because I'm a friendly guy. The line is to get a selfie with you, I think. Sometimes. But I... If there was a murder, I think people would stay away from it.

You'd think, right, Fred? Exactly. Of course. If there was a murder, Maru, what's the one thing you don't want? A long line. Right. So do we? This doesn't make any sense.

No, this is the basic instinct theory. The woman who you think killed with the Ice Pick is not the woman who wrote the book about it. I can't remember the plot. There was an ice pick underneath her bed at the end of that movie. Yeah. She did it. Yeah, she did do it.

Yeah. And that's what I'm saying is that's what's happening here. The long line is the ice pick. No, the long line is for you. Huh? I'm looking at your... There is a long line for me. I'm looking at your IMDB page.

Thank you. You worked on Portlandia. You guys know him? I don't remember. Is that true? Not to my memory. You, I mean, I'm looking at it right now. You provided the costumes for it that won the Emmy?

I gave Amy Mann a vacuum cleaner. That's all I did. Amy Mann needed a vacuum cleaner. I think they were short a vacuum cleaner once on set. I brought it and I was out of there. I might have done a couple of VO lines. I don't even, ADR, maybe. But you described yourself as a local vendor.

I was temporarily because I was disillusioned with the state of Los Phila's at that time. But you also, I mean, just if you happen to be in a place, you're technically local, right? That's what I say. Because you're local to what's going on right then. So, I mean, I just, I don't think there's anything going on. Look, I'll grant you that I might be contributing, let's say, God, 1% to the size of the line. Okay, I'm bringing maybe minimum. I mean, maximum.

That is a big difference. You have to be clear on that. What's that? Either minimum or maximum. They're different, right? They're very different. Let me write that down. Okay, they can be the same number occasionally, but they tend to be very different.

I am bringing maximum 25 people to that line, maybe 100. But Maru's going from the opening of Maru past home. What time do you usually get here? 4 a.m. I just, boobs. You're farting. too popular to be doing this. Is that your given name?

It is. It's my Christian and atheist name. Right. And you have a, there's a series of books that your roommate has written about you. My roommate Bennett Quince is a crime novelist and he's written several crime novels featuring me. An exaggerated version of me, I might say. I mean, I've read these books.

You're as kind of boring in the books as you are in real life. Thank you. Hey, I love to be boring. I'm not sure what you're saying is exaggerated. I'm not in the books. I'm, you know, I'm like, I'm having sex with women. I'm beating guys up with my bare fists. It's one of these, like, you know, sort of pulpy crime kind of jack.

What are you beating people up with in real life? Never with my fists. That's ungentlemanly. I get two tire irons and sometimes some fine art and I whack them across the side of the head. Some cast iron. You know, what I do is I go to an insurance building. Because I got crazy art in the lobby, usually. Usually heavy.

That's why you go to insurance buildings? That's the main reason. I go, yeah. Because of the crazy art. For weapons. Oh, okay. Because like it's heavy. It's cast iron. It's like weird, like, you know, like a sad bird hunched over like an apple or something like that. So you're breaking pieces off of these sculptures and using them as weapons. That's correct. Are there still insurance buildings? I mean, last I checked, I believe so. Are they, is that, are they not happening? Do you do all your insurance work online, Fred? Always. Really, what's been going on with you? Have you a lot of car accidents or? No, I have to sue myself about my own lawn. No, really? That's a shame.

Yes. Just in Los Felis. So I have to, it's the only way that I can pay myself back for the taxes that I've spent. Oh, I understand. So it's a circular payment kind of. Yeah. So I, I just claim that I fell on the grass and I have to sue my company. Right.

Oh, okay. That's so smart. A lot of people don't realize that. Once you get up to a certain tax bracket, you can sue yourself and your company for money and then the company suits you for the money. They reimburse it. Yeah, exactly. There's a judge in Los Felis named Mitch McGee. If you ever get him in a case, call me because he's corrupt as a rabbit has ears.

Ooh, good. Yeah. Yeah. What's wrong with Mitch McGee? He's a corrupt judge. No, you said that, but like, go into specifics. That's what I'm asking. He's open to bribes.

He's open to them. He takes them? He's open to them. He takes them? Sometimes. He's not always. He'll field offers. What bribes is he taken?

Let me see. I once went in there. I was falsely accused of embezzlement. By whom? By Albertsons. How can you be accused of embezzlement by a supermarket? I worked there undercover for several years. Oh, I see.

And I was accused of embezzlement when I was an employee. What case were you investigating when you were working undercover there? The case of the dented bread, which was a murder. Okay. What, I mean, you solved it, obviously. I solved it. There was a dead body on the floor of a pretty well-to-do house, and there was some dented bread nearby,

and I proved it was the murder weapon. Mm. From Albertsons. Correct. Okay. I wouldn't call that the case of the dented bread. I would call the case of the guy murdered on the floor. That, to me, wouldn't make it memorable.

The dented bread was the unique factor. What would you call the case? The case of the murdered guy. The case of the murdered guy. Let me describe another case. Tell me what you'd call it. Okay. Okay.

So I had another case that's fountain there at the end of Los Fields right before you get into Atwater Village. All right, there was a man dead in that fountain. But when I went... It's always a man, isn't it? Why not a woman? You're right. Murder.

It's not fair for me to only be investigating these murdered men. Do you only investigate men? So far, I mean, I don't want to get in, you know, I don't want to, I don't want anything inappropriate to happen. What? I'm too embarrassed to investigate the bodies of the dead women. Oh, you're embarrassed to, oh, I see, because you're looking for clues and that would... You've got to really get in there. Okay.

So I don't want to, you know, I don't know that. That's what police and, you know, the people in the morgue, the coroners. I don't know. I don't know. That's how they would describe it. I got to really get in there. I got to really get in there. Okay. Number one, you go right for the asshole.

If it's a man, I check out the asshole first and foremost. Why? See if there's something in there. How often is there? Zero times. Okay. Well, then I would say that shouldn't rise to the top of the list. It doesn't take long.

All right. So then describe. Dead guy in the fountain. Dead guy in the fountain. Right near the fountain is a still alive goldfish. Mm-hmm. inside a goldfish bowl. Fountain's dry.

Yeah. But there's a goldfish bowl with a live goldfish in it. Yeah. That was the murder weapon. Okay. What do you call that case? The mystery of the dead guy. Okay.

Look, usually I'm the idiot in our conversation. So it's strange for me to assume the posture I'm currently assuming. I just like that. But I think that's a bad name. That hooks me. It's like if it's the mystery of the curious goldfish. The errant goldfish is how it's in my files. I don't give a shit about it.

out of gold. I'm not going to read this. But the mystery of a dead guy? Wow. That's a real mystery. I guess if, I guess in the spectrum of possible stories that would be what would grab you. But in the spectrum of existing murder cases, the case of the dead guy would not stand up. Here's what

you should do. You should call every case, case of the dead guy and then a subheading of the errant goldfish or whatever it is. You know what I mean? So everyone knows that like, oh, there's a dead guy in this. I'm not just going to waste my time.

I got a paper filing system, okay? It's a filing cabinet with manila folders. So all this would be undersea. Right, exactly. I think that would be a poor... I must have just take the title off, right? If they all begin with case of the dead guy. Again, I feel strange criticizing your logic would normally I come in and I'm, you know,

wacky. But I've got to say this is a stupid, this is a stupid system you have proposed. And I say that with respect. I don't think so. I think it makes sense to me. The only case of that where it makes sense to me is, one, There was a dead guy in Los Phyllis. Right outside my office.

Well, yes. In case of a dead guy. They're all pretty juicy. This sounds really good. Well, you haven't even heard the best part. It was right outside of Little Doms, which is my office is upstairs on Little Doms. That's right. Dead guy right outside.

It was horrible. Just people walking by. The weapon was a second dead guy. Right next to the first one was the murder weapon. So you call that the case of the dead guy? I would call that the case of the dead guy. Wow. The case of the second dead guy.

That is better. I would just call it a case of the two dead guys. Was he just thrown at him? Yes, the first guy was murdered in the case that happened in Eagle Rock and I was not curious about. Who killed the second guy? The guy who was thrown. The guy who used the, oh, this is the thing. I can't even really say because it's a mystery.

It's a case. Well, it was a mystery because we didn't know. At first, we didn't know what caused the death of either man. If you solve it, it shouldn't be called the mystery of anymore because you solved it. It's not a mystery. Well, in the... I don't know. That's true.

Yeah. Because in that time frame... It's an X mystery. Yeah, I guess that's true. The X mystery. But the the... But the the around it means it was an isolated... Would you put it in brackets?

Like in a multiplication? You would say the third... The Second World War. Mm-hmm. The X... I would call that the X Second World War. I think you're right on this. This is not going on.

The first... The First World War. The X First World War. Sure. That's good. So. Okay, in the ex case of the errant goldfish, sorry, in the ex-case of the dead guy. Yes, and it's a closed case.

So the ex-mystory of the closed case of the second dead guy. Yeah. Which I do agree is a good modifier. Okay, good. The second man who was killed with a dead body. Yeah. Was killed by Big Dom. From Little Dom?

From Little Dom? Yeah. Oh, Big Dom is the father of Little Dom who owns a restaurant? Older brother. Shut out of the business. They're both named Dom. They're both named Dom. One's Dominic, perhaps.

One's... That's a difference. That's their exact... This is the thing. They're exact same size. They're exactly the same size. But one is Dominique and one is Dominic. Interesting.

Yeah. Wow. How do they decide who's big and who's little? Just... I think age is always like big. They're twins by the second. They came out next to each other right out of their vagina. They came out side by side.

Simultaneous birth. That's so hard to do. Photo finish. Wow. Photo finish. The doctor was taking a photo? The doctor could see, he's like, we get a photographer here. They're coming.

Quick. We got to know which one's older. This one, by a toe. But they were dead. They were by an electron. I mean, it was like this. Don't say dead when you say. Dead finish.

Okay. Yeah. That's, we don't want to. Yeah, you're right. Absolutely right. Yeah. We don't want to bring that into this. Yeah.

Well, what, I mean, what an interesting life lived. But you just, one's big because the Dominique takes up, uh, cerning. The font is wider. Oh. If you use a fixed font, Dominique is bigger than Dominic. Got it. Got it. Wow. That's big dumb. And he was shut out of the restaurant business and he murdered someone to piss off his, to ruin the business of his simultaneous twin brother. But it didn't do it, right?

Because Jason Manzookas still has a booth. Jason Manzukas has got a booth. Rachel Bloom and Dan Gregor got a booth. What do you have to do to get a booth at this place? I've been trying to go more than once every five years. I've been saying quirky stuff. I've been trying to get involved with all comedy girls. I've been trying to do whatever I can to make an impression in the Los Felis scene. Yeah, if you marry up, Mary and Alt comedy girl, maybe. Do you think that it'll work? The two of you can get a booth. Oh, that would be great.

Do you guys go to Little Doms? You see these booths? Yeah. They got little plaques and stuff. Little plaques, yeah. Yeah. I didn't see that they have plaques. Yeah, yeah, just certain favorites.

Rachel and Dan are at the bar. Jason's got a booth. Jason's got a booth. But not with his name on it. With his name. Really? Yeah. This is before he did Taskmaster.

Yeah. I mean, this is when he was just on the league or whatever. He goes there a lot, though. Not to blow up his spot or let listeners know about. He's blown it up. He's blown up. He's there so much. If you get a plaque on a booth, you have to assume that that's going to be mentioned on a podcast.

Just like if there's a sandwich named after you, you have to assume you, you're there a lot. Yeah. Exactly. You see these Danny DeVito Jersey Mike's commercials? All the time. Yes. What do you think about him? Too much.

I mean, I think he's a big fan. He's a big fan. He's a big fan. You think he's doing, he volunteered. Pro bono? No, I think he's getting paid, but I think he legitimately likes it. I think he probably does. I don't see Danny DeVito doing anything he doesn't actually.

actually like doing. It just seems like the kind of thing you would only do because it doesn't feel it's not luxury cars. It's not like a big thing. It's just there's a connection there. How much time do you think he spends on set? I got those numbers. You have the, okay, what do we got? For all the Jersey Mike commercials, let me check here. Danny DeVito filmed four showing here 10 minutes. 10 minutes for every single commercial. Total. Good for him. Good for him. Get that paper, Danny. Yes. I'm in a couple of those. You're in a cut. Oh, that's, oh, what are you doing them? I interact with him.

I'm the guy who's interacting with him. That's, I recognize. I mean, I recognize you from everything. You're in so much stuff. You did Super Bowl commercials this year? Couple, yeah. Yeah. I didn't know I was doing those.

Those were just someone was filming you and you happen, they have, you just, that's the thing about you. You say so much interesting stuff. It just ends up into television shows and commercials. They just want to use it. Mm-hmm. I do a fun run and they keep it. Yeah.

Wow. There was a murder and Los Fields. was involving a Bud Light, some Doritos, and a crypto coin, and I ended up in the Super Bowl three times. You were in that Larry David crypto commercial, weren't you? I talked him into it. He didn't want to do it. He's like, this is going to hurt my image. I was like, you'll love it.

This is going to work for you. I talked him into it big time. He's a nice guy. He's not like his persona at all. He's push over. Really? He seems prickly on the show. Never prickly.

He's not for one side. He's got no qualms. Wow. Wow. That's so good. He's unruffled. That's so good. good to know.

Yeah. Unlike Mark Ruffalo. It's right there in the name, right? Right. It's giveaway. Yeah. So you ever on Portlandia? Mark Ruffalo?

He wasn't. He seems like a guy who would have been on that, right? Sure. Yeah. But yeah, he wasn't. That's weird, right? And yet he wasn't. Well, is it weird?

I mean, he seems also like he's been busy for decades. Yes. I know, but like too busy just to do a cameo? You know what I mean? I don't know if we asked. We should ask now. We have him on the podcast. We could do that.

Yeah. You guys should do another season just. so Mark Ruffalo could do a came on and say what the episode would have been like if he'd been in it. Wow, that's a good premise, I think. What would you have done on the show? You can do this Yelp for Kids. Yeah, finally. Let's do one episode.

An audio version, yeah. Yeah. Well, Boob, anything else going on in Loz-Fillas? Just one quick thing. Okay. I'm running for City Council. Okay. Why?

Because I want to get more involved in my community. Okay. I mean, it sounds like you're already very involved. You're going to businesses at 4 a.m. Not as much as I'd like to be. So if you're in the Los Felas voting district, which is district number 27, please vote for boobs rins when you see me on the balance. That's this November? This November.

And you're running for a city council person. That's correct. Okay. And what do you want? What's your platform? What do you hope to achieve? No traffic lights. Zero traffic lights.

Let the people figure it out. Stop signs? Don't need them. So just chaos, anarchy? No. Just like looking out to the windshields, giving each other nons, a little. little wave, we'll figure it out. You think we'll police ourselves. That's correct. I'm a libertarian just for traffic lights. Honey, the way people drive these days? You know what? Okay, I take it back.

Finish that sentence. What were you going to say? I can't tell if you're for it or against it. They do that anyway. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. Honey meant like we all live here. You're being, you're shooting straight with me. Yeah, yeah. You're being very real. I appreciate that, Fred. This is a no BS podcast, so I appreciate it. I'm glad. You try to BS. We just instituted that rule for this episode, by the way. Oh, thank you. No BS. Appreciate it. What are we going to say, Fred? We were talking about judges who are bribed, and I thought, whoever enjoys the actual bribe, like, if I was a judge and I don't understand how much money is worth all that trouble. Right, right. Like, someone was like, what's your bribe threshold? Like, let's say it was

$15,000. Isn't it easier to go, oh, this is too complicated? I might get in trial. I'll lose Yeah. Yeah. Like what, what amount of money is worth it to you? And by the way, you're a Hollywood star

who's on S&L for what, a decade. And you, you know, have, you know, millions and millions of the bank. Like,

what is it, what's it worth for you? Well, let's say, I don't understand. What are you talking? Would 10 mil move the needle, Fred?

No, because what do you do? Because you already have 10 million. Well, I always donate. I always donate. You don't. Yeah,

that's right. But what do you do with the, money. Like if you're a judge and you get this money, do you actually spend it? Well, hopefully you get it in gifts that are worth less than $5,000, like a jukebox. Okay. If you ever go to a judge's house and he's got like a jukebox and just like a lot of fun stuff, that guy's taking bribes. You know, like a judge, there's like a mispacked man over here. Like a segue that has like some fun decals on it. I just don't get the enjoyment. A bunch of odor diffusers. I got this. our car, I guess.

I think you have to be hungrier to understand the enjoyment. You know what I mean? Or also be into the secrecy of it. Yeah, Fred, you've been famous since you were 18 years old and got on SNL.

You're right out of high school. I did pop music first. That's for a two months. For a variety show. For two months out of high school. And then at 18, on your 18th birthday, that was when you were 17. On your 18th birthday,

Lauren, like, you finally said you're old enough kid. Yes. Get in here. And you got in there. So, I mean, maybe you just don't relate to these judges who... Who probably have money already.

Right. But there must be like a power hungry aspect to it. That's what it is. That's what it is. A Machiavellian can kind of lord it over. Yeah. I got this bribe. It seems like so much work.

It does. You'd also brag to the other judges. I got this bribe. You weren't offered a bribe. I got this bribe. Oh, I bet that does happen. That's why they call them superior judges because they got the bribes. Superior vibes.

I meant it's like, why did you, why did, why was it not guilty? Why do you think? Wink. Oh, man, no way. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Man, it would be fun to be a judge, wouldn't it?

Yeah. Guilty. Guilty. Yes. Guilty. Guilty. Not guilty. Not guilty.

Not guilty. I like this guy. Not guilty. You know what? Not guilty. I would try to be even by the end of the day. Like as many not guilty is guilty. It's quotas.

It's quotas. To too. evenly. Ooh, I guess I have to do guilty right now. I got to do some more guilty. Sorry. I would do the coin toss method. Yes.

The two-face method. Yep. Yes. Just flip a coin. That's right. I would do it according to family reactions in the audience. So if I see them starting to get upset, I'd be like, no, no, no, no. And then I check them out.

Yeah. Uh-oh. Here come the waterworks. Not guilty. Or I would go, I pronounce you n-mm. And then if I say, if I say, you. see them like going on the waterworks if someone goes i got away with it i would go guilty absolutely yeah guilty actually wow guilty actually

I loved that movie yeah well boobs I gotta say you're a fascinating individual I appreciate you saying that and what are you up to next what's he's running for I'm running for city well I might not now because as it's been pointed out people are already driving like there's no traffic lights but um but also I got to yard sale coming up. Season three of the pit though is your story. Oh yeah, season three of the pit yeah, my character's going to get more involved but I can't even remember the scripts really.

Yeah, I'm going to be in the Odyssey too. They just kind of incorporate. You're going to be in the Odyssey? What? Odyssey 2. The Odyssey 2? If it goes. I mean, what else has to happen in the Odyssey 2? It's a comedy. It's like an ensemble comedy of everyone who survived. That sounds fun. I think so. Congratulations. All right, well, boobs rent.

We're going to come right back. We're going to have more with boobs, more with Fred and Carey. Plus we have a very special guest coming up after this. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang. Comedy Bang, Bang. We are back, Fred and Carrie of Podlandia A-O rewatch. Four episodes out right now, and then five, and then six, and then it just kind of keeps going.

Do you take breaks in between the seasons, or do you just kind of, does it come out religiously every single week? It comes out religiously. I love this. So you'll, I mean, a year and a half, you'll be through all episodes, right? Yeah, well, the first season of the podcast, I think we only are going to get through four and a half seasons of Portlandia. It's going to be very unsatisfying for people. Yeah. So the first season of the podcast, how many episodes is that? 40 something, right? 40 something. And you're getting, okay. So then you're taking a break? Or are you? Okay. I think we'll take a break. You're going to take a break. Just like Ross and Rachel, another Thursday staple. Just like Ross and Rachel. Remember them?

Oh, yeah. Sure. Were you guys ever, did you ever, were you considered to be one of the friends or anything like that back in the 90s? That was an era for me where I did not watch TV. You were watching TV. Remember that there was that time in the 90s where it was like, did you have a TV or not have a TV? It was like kind of a. I think we didn't.

We didn't. Wow. I just didn't watch no one I knew had a TV. So no home improvement. No. No. I know what the stuff is. I remember being on tour, and it was still the time when we were staying at people's houses and, like, we'd get back or, like, have a night off, and people would be sitting around, like, watching friends.

I remember being like, oh, this is like this big show. It's a big phenomenon, but I did not have a TV. Did you? No. Yeah. Two roommates? Two roommates? I don't remember a TV in that. Isn't it ironic? Then suddenly, you're on TVs, and you're like, what is this? What is this technology that I'm on? And so the camera's like, why are they filming us? This is a stage show. But remember that bumper sticker in the 90s, kill your television?

Oh, yeah. I mean, it was a real thing. Yeah. It was like people took a stance. Carrie, you, I mean, you then, you were in Portland. Like, were you, were you centered there or were you in New York? I was in, first I was in Olympia, Washington, which is where my band formed Slater Kinney, but then I moved to Portland.

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so I would imagine that, yeah, people, people take a, hard stance about that kind of stuff up there. I think in those communities, especially like the sort of pedantic, like punk rock communities, people definitely had very rigid ideas about like what was too popular, too materialistic, too commercial. Chicago, too, same thing. So then it didn't even come up. It's like you just, anything mainstream TV shows? Not even discussed. Not even as a guilty pleasure. By the 2010 era, which is what it's called. Suddenly people don't.

don't care about that anymore. They don't care about being on a major label or anything. And you guys have a TV show and there's no hubbub about it. It's like, oh, yeah, TV. It's like, time moved on. Yeah. I wonder if the person who had that bumper sticker still has it on there, whether he, like, scraped it off sadly one day after he caught, you know, the Sopranos.

It was like, this is pretty good, actually. Just like scraped it off his bumper. That's so funny that the Sopranos would be that point. Yes. 98 or whatever. Yeah, of like, wait a minute, actually. I remember watching the X-Files. Like that was like the late 90s and I like X-Files were great.

Yeah. I mean, I guess Conan and Letterman and all that. I mean, there's probably been good TV shows. South Park started. Oh, hey, boobs. How's it going? Yeah, I'm still here. South Park is your favorite show?

It's the only one I've seen. You've only seen, well, I mean, you're on. Except the ones I'm on. Oh, you watch the shows you're on? No, I do not. Okay. Because do you hate looking at yourself on camera? It's just not important to me.

Jeez. Wow. I mean, you guys are doing a rewatch of your own. show. We are. And don't you think we should clarify, like we grew up obsessed with TV. There was just a detour, like a punk detour. This 90s thing of like we don't do anything having to do. I mean, you couldn't say the word mall. What are you going to the mall? But now we say it's weird because it's a word we say all the time. Mall, mall, mall. You say it like five, six times a day. At the mall. From the mall. Oh, look at that mall. Yeah. Oh, I just passed a mall. That's a mall.

That was a mall. There might be a mall. There should be a mall. Park at the mall. Pick me up from the mall. Think of this as a mall. I'm still here. Heaven is...

I like to think of heaven as a mall up in the sky. Which Apple Store? The one in the mall. Oh, yes, that's right. There is an Apple Store there. These are the words that we say all the time. And yet back then you couldn't even say it. Couldn't even say it.

Wow. We're going to go buy that at a mall. Shut up. Wow. Well, I mean, things are. are different now, but what's not different is Podlandia AEO rewatch is a podcast that is out there and people are listening to. We also have boobs or rins over here and we need to get to our next guest.

This is exciting. She is a mobster's girlfriend. Please welcome Bunny Leroux. Thank you for having me, Scott. I need your help. Oh, just meet. By the way, this is Fred, Carrie, boobs. Oh, boobs rins.

Oh, do you know each other? Yeah, I've had to run in with Bunny and her people sometimes. when they try to make trouble in Los Felas. Make trouble, I would never. Why did you invite boobs rins you, Scott? I'm sorry, I don't know if guests have issues with each other. I just kind of... You don't check?

Should that be on a questionnaire or something when people appear on this show? Like, do you have an issue? Like, who do you have an issue with? Yes. Okay, I think for some people that would be a long list. Yeah, boobs rinses at the top of my list. I'll tell you that much, Scott Hockerman. I apologize. Was he...

Bonnie, I got no trouble with you. It's just the people you have. associate with. He's been trying to put away my boyfriend. Who's your, I hate to frame you within the context of a man's job, but who's your boyfriend? I did that to myself when I pitched the character spot. That's a good point. Don't blame yourself. My boyfriend is Frankie five times Fonte. He's the dreamiest one, and boobs or rinse has been trying to put him away. I'm not the one who nicknamed him after how many times he's been to prison. He's bringing this to on himself. Well, if you bring him to prison, he'll be Frankie six times, and that's not alliterate.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense anymore. We're trying to keep him out, Scott. That's where you come in. Oh, okay. What can I do to help? You're going to be his alibi. Oh, okay. Watch it, Ackerman.

You're on trial here. Should you be saying this right in front of Boob's Rinse? Yeah, I'm putting my hand up to block it. Oh, I see. I can't hear it. Okay, what do you need me to say? You need to say that Frankie was here with you and not killing little dawn. Oh, wait, he's the case of the dead guy?

Shh, shh, sh, Scott Ackerman, easy. He's the villain behind the case of the dead guy or the second dead guy. The very same. Oh, my God. Wait, Frankie did it. Okay. When did this happen? I don't know.

So you have to say he's just been with you for months. I've never met him. No one will believe that. Oh, come on. Of course you've met him. And why would I do it anyway? Come on, Scott, do it for me. Stop batting those eyelashes at me.

Scott, Scott, Scott. They're getting stuck every time I bat them. Ow, it hurts. They're sticky. You should switch mascara or something like that because that's too goopy. Oh, how dear, you call my eyes goopy. Oh, my God. They're beautiful eyes.

It's just the product on them is very sticky. Look, I don't know this guy. I don't know that I can. No, it's just easy. Just go. Yeah, he was with me. Oh, okay. Thank you, Fred.

Do you want, maybe Fred could do it for you? But I would say in the capacity that he was on this. He was with you. Oh, oh, you can be his alibi saying he was with me. We can vouch for that. I can say he was with you. Yeah, see, that's what I mean. Yes, that's okay by me.

See, these are stand-up people. These are good people, Scott Ackerman. Okay, and where was he? I mean, obviously, he was doing the crime. Why can't you say he was with you? Because I was down singing at the club. I sing at the Velvet Canary. I'm waiting to be discovered.

Oh, where's the Velvet Canary? You can take your hand away when you mention where the Velvet Canary is. Boobes can hear this. Loose, Feliz. Valva Canary, yeah, it's Velvet Canaries and Los Feliz. Oh, where? Los Felos is the locals call it.

Yeah, but I say it in an old-timey fun kind of way. Right, what, what, and what? Velvet Canary is on Hillhurst and right down at Prospect. Oh, yeah, I passed that play. It doesn't have a song. It's right next to Captain Cook Lickers. Yes, I'm waiting to get discovered.

Oh, okay, as a singer? Yes, I could be the next Lauren Bacall if she sang. I don't remember. Did she? I don't think so. Oh. Maybe I would pick a singer to be the next. Never mind.

Why can't you say that Frankie was there? Why can't that be? Like he would listen to me sing. Oh, you're talking about Frankie? I was at the Velvet Canary. I was watching Bunny that night. So I would know if Frankie was there. Why were you watching Bunny that?

I don't miss a show at the Velvet Canary. A show that she's in or just any show? Any show. How many nights a week does the Velvet Canary have shows? Eight. I don't know how we manage it, but we do. Wow. That's a lot of live music.

If you stay there every night, you there eight nights. But only seven nights have happened outside. Carrie, maybe you should play the Velvet Canary at some point. Sounds like it's hopping over there. It really does. Who books of the Velvet Canary? Who's the... Little Tommy two books.

He only owns two books? He only owns two books a day. Both. He reads the only two books he owns every single day. Yeah, he reads the Bible and the How to Be a Bad Guy book for dummies. The Bible is more of a collection. of smaller books, don't you think? I guess, Scott.

I've never read it. Don't tell little Tommy two books that. Oh, you know the mob. Matthew, John, Luke, John, Peter. What's this now? Judas. You just named all the people that Frankie's in the mob with. Oh, they're all named after biblical characters?

Biblical characters. Oh, yeah, you've never read the Bible. That guy Jesus, he hung around with like a bunch of bachelors. Sounds like Frankie. Does it now? Yeah, he doesn't like to come listen to me sing. Why doesn't he like to hear you sing? He says it sounds like a bird being strangled, Scott.

Maybe we could hear an example of it, and we could be the judge of that? The nerve of that guy. All right, give me a song, I'll sing it. Okay, something in the public domain. How about Camp Town Races? I get that, but I'm hurting my own ears, Scott. You don't know any of the lyrics. You're hurting your own ears, so you know how you sound.

It's a own day. I got the melody. Is it on the day? That's beautiful. Oh, thank you. It's a little bit. I got it, not to, no shade on your singing, it's a little better with the full band behind you.

You got the clad, you know, when the full band at the Velvet Canary's there, it's, I mean, we could simulate the band if it, if it would help. All right? I'll be the drummer, I guess, Fred. No, you want to be the drummer, right? We all want to be the drummer. Yeah.

Everyone wants to be, okay, we'll all drummers. We'll all be drummers. A percussion at least. Dumb Dots! Dump, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, Camp Town Racists sing that song. Da-da-la-da Kim to race to sing that song

Oh, the drumming day Yeah Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh my gosh, you guys should work at the Velvet Canarian. This is the most talented percussion section I've ever seen. I got out the big symbols for the chorus. I love it. Scott, please.

I'm trying to get Frank you back on the straight and arrow. Please, please, please. It sounds like he doesn't even like you all that much. I mean, if I had a dame who could sing the way you sing, I'd be at the club every night. Oh, my God. Well, we've been engaged for 15 years. He refused to walk down the aisle with me, if you can believe it. Why would he not want to get married to you?

I mean, especially if he got engaged to you. I know he's married to a life of crime, he says. Okay. Well, I don't see why you're sticking your neck out for him. Yeah, he doesn't even sound like he likes you all that much. It's a like a stupid Okay now we don't We're not understanding

She's shrinking She's shrinking I think you can do better I think you can do better than this guy Do you mean it? I do mean it There's a lot of really great bachelors In Los Phila

What about Tommy Two books? Yeah Oh my God You think Tommy two books Would like a girl such as me Yes he booked you That's true he's a fan Wait is that why he's Tommy Two Books

Because he books two people at his club nicknames don't always have to be so literal, Scott Ackerman. Okay, I apologize. I mean, your nickname, you know it, of course. No, I don't. What do people call me? Scotty Naps on stage Ackerman. God, I wish.

He just rests his eyes in the middle of comedy bang bang tours. Well, look, yeah, Tommy Two Books, I mean, what does he look like? Is he a handsome to your eyes? I don't know. You tell me, tall. swoopy hair Swoopy Smells

Smells bad Like leather and whiskey I think Frankie Wouldn't even notice I think he would Yeah You don't even have to break up with them I think you

I say this about Tommy two books He's a law abiding fellow I mean he works at a shady joint But he runs the joint clean Okay Well I think that's what you need to do Is to get You know

There's so much stress Like to Fred's point About the judges so much stress being on the wrong side of the law. What is it worth to you, you know? I mean, but that sounds boring. But energetically, it feels draining, right? What you're doing?

I don't know. You're here begging, making Scott to all this stuff. You've done this entire segment on your hands and knees with your... I'm pleading. I'm begging you, Scott. Oh, you think I'm losing myself? Just stand up and sit down. What are the perks?

What are the perks? Yeah, what are the perks to see in this guy? Mink coats. All the neat coats I can carry, he says. I mean, don't you get, like, paint thrown on you by PETA? Yeah, Peter, the guy in the mob, throws blood on me all the time. Wait, Peter, blood on you? Yeah, little Peter blood on you.

You know him. I just, I feel like Scott Ockerman's sleepy when I think about dating a nice guy. So you wouldn't enjoy it. You like the excitement of having a guy who could be thrown in jail by someone like boobs here at any second. I will throw Frankie five times in jail. The first time I see him, he's going in jail. So you're like boobs one time in terms of...

Because the first time you see him, you're going to throw him in jail. That's true, yeah. If my name were named according to how many times I need to see Frankie before I throw him in jail, my name is boobs one time rinse. Good luck. He's bribing every judge in town. Don't I know it? Oh, boy.

Unbelievable. Can Scott, permission to ask Fred a real question? Sure, I'll give for me. Yeah. Just this once. I'll give you permission. Speaking of the mall, Fred, about five years ago, me and my friend saw you during the day at the Americana.

And it caused a three-year-long argument about what you were doing at the Americana. I love the Americana. You love the Americana. I do. Why? What did it look like he was doing? And what did your friends think he was doing contrary to your beliefs? Well, we all had a different opinion about it.

And it got really contentious and compassionate. Let's hear it. Let's hear what do you think the reasons would be? Well, I thought you were walking with a purpose. It didn't seem like a leisure walk. So I thought you were seeing a film at the Americana. Is that in the realm of possibility, Fred? Have you ever seen a film?

I have, but I go for other reasons. You go for other reasons. Okay, then I stand. I've actually stayed my entire reputation on this. What did your friends think was happening? Well, someone said Barnes & Noble. Yeah, I've done that. Done that.

Okay. Okay. But does one walk with a purpose to Barnes & Noble? I did recently because I needed a keychain. And Barnes & Noble might have interesting ones. This was five years ago. Okay, but five years ago? Apple store maybe? Apple store, probably.

You were walking away from the Apple store when we saw you. To where I parked. To where you parked. I don't always park in that lot because it's too high up. Yes. So if you park along the street on brand or central, you can actually find spots. And it's oddly easier. Like you could, there's like, then the parking garage.

Yeah. You blow in my mind. I feel like one ambles to the Barnes & Noble. Yeah. One walks with a purpose back to your vehicle. Yep. And there's places to eat there. There used to be a sushi place there.

Now there's a newer sushi place there. There's a newer sushi place. There's a hand rolls. Which is great. Yes. But there used to be a Katsuya there. Sorry, boobs.

This is in glad. I don't know what you're talking about it. Yeah, this is leading me in the dust. And then the Nordstrom's has, or Nordstrom, I don't know if it's plural. I believe it's Nordstrom. Nordstrom has easy to buy clothing. So that's like meaning like black jeans. They don't make you jump through the hoops that you normally have to go through.

No, it's not like, it's very like plaid shirt, maybe even a shirt like this. Black pants. So it's very easy to buy clothes. Well, once again, Bunny, you're wrong as you ever could be. God damn it, boobs rinse. You got the instincts of a dumb bird, I tell you that right now. So we've landed on you were going to your car. I was coming from there, but I go to the Americana, I would say, often.

Are different clothing stores making it difficult for you to buy clothes? Some of these designs these days. Some of the sort of focused ones, like, I won't say any names, but some of the newer brands, they get a little, first of all, the selection is small. Yes, because they want you to buy online. So they say, we can get that for you online. It's just like a display. It's a clothing display. It's not a shop.

Absolutely, that's what it is. And on pants, can we do away with diagonal pockets? The pockets have to be horizontal. Not as long as I'm allowed. Your phones are falling out at movie theaters constantly. I had to dig through a movie theater seat to find my phone at one point. Like, let's make all pockets have to be horizontal and none of these diagonal ones. Thank you very much.

This is what I would be doing if I were running for city council person, by the way. I'd stop you. Diagonal pockets are what I live for. You'd be using all of your power as a Hollywood executive. By the way, I've noticed here that you are now on the, you're on the buying side. You're like working as an executive over there. For investigation purposes, yes. And you're also one of the lawyers who's trying to push the Paramount merger through.

It would help my investigations into the Maru line. Yes. That changes my attitude about you, Boo Brits. Why is that funny? Here's my headshot and a resume. Why is this so blurry, this headshot? I was running when they took the photo. As fast as I could, obviously, Scott Hockerman asking questions.

Who are you running from or what are you running too? I have a big discussion with my friends about this. I was running away from the Apple store because I had just stolen a MacBook. Oh, okay. And you were running to Nordstrom. They have a cafe on the roof, did you know? Do they? Is the grand piano up there?

I don't know if they still have a piano, but they have fantastic Parmesan French fries. I worked there in my youth for three years. Did you really? I ate those French fries every day because I didn't know what protein was yet. I had that for lunch every day and wondered why I was tired. Well, I got to say, Bunny, that it's always the mark of something about this interview you want to have to look down at your name. Yeah.

It didn't go great. I think this is the last you'll be here. No, Bunny, we love you. No. No, I centralized a man in my character and had to talk about someone that's not even here for most of it. Tell us about yourself. It's not too late, funny. And you sang?

I guess, Fred. And you made us root for you. Yeah. What's better than that? Oh, my God. What are your interests, Bunny? Well, I'm an empty vessel for dating a man. I usually can be.

found on like a big ship or like in like a cd club and i'm in most 1920s to 1950s musicals keep an eye out there's always a woman with a voice like me keep an eye out well fantastic i mean i guess you're also can i just say one compliment bunny look i i don't like frankie five times you know that all right he's my enemy but i will say it sounds like you're a fan and you're going to see her a lot i'm a fan i'm a fan of the velvet uh canary canary uh and uh end of your music. That's giving you plausible deniability. I don't think any person goes to see a performer that often without having some sort of affinity or parisocial relationship with them. Or just feelings. Oh, wait, what was that? I would say I'm a fan. Yes, I think that's fair to say. Just to add some

depth to both of your characters. What if you guys got together? Are you trying to throw us a lifeline? It's always a mark of the CBB meet up at the end. You know, what if you guys you know, were to form a relationship between you two. Have you ever thought about that? Of course, I'd be honored. I'd be honored to be in a relationship with somebody as sophisticated as bunny. But I couldn't let my reputation take the hit, and I'm sorry to say that. But with the people you've associated with, it would be bad for my job.

And Frankie five times would kill you dead. He wouldn't get close. So you're afraid. You're afraid of fight. That's not what I said. That's not what I said. You're a coward. I'm not a, not a, I've never been scared of anything in my whole life.

You're too afraid of the reprimary. in order to just let your feelings for Bunny here. You had to look at my name again! Wow, that was a look. Oh, my God, you haven't forgotten anyone's name. Boobie's rinse over here. You know his name. Well, Boob's has a name that you don't tend to forget.

Carrie Fred, iconic sketch duo. One of the best sketch shows ever of all time and all you remember their name's unbelievable. Bunny, this is your first time on the show, you know? I mean, we've never heard of you before. No. Not at all. Not if you get together with boobs over here. Landing

Frankie five times That's an accomplishment You know I mean he's not good for you But he's one of the top guys In the crime ring around here There's some status there That takes that takes some doing

Well he's waiting outside In a shiny car Outside right now What You got up and grabbed your jacket I'm gonna shit my pants Oh I just shit myself Please don't you did shit your shirt my ass

No boobs God damn it I shittle over my hair Oh, boobs, boobs. Shit out my ass. Please. Don't sit on the, don't sit back down. Don't, come on, boobs.

Come on, boobs. My own excrement. Boobes. Boobes shit-ass ritz. Your new nickname. Don't you tell anybody that? Too late. She's sitting on a pot.

Our editing machine is broken. I'm so sorry, boobs. That's what you're going to be known as. I'm so sorry, but I think you did it, Bunny. Did what? I remember you. Oh, I did it. I remembered your name.

Hey, you did good. I'm genuinely hurting everyone's ears. I can tell. Well, Bunny, look, I would love to get to know you further, and maybe you'll be on another show. Definitely not. Come on. But we are running out of time. We only have time for one final feature on the show.

That is, of course, a little something called plugs. Tell me your plugs. I really need your plugs. I really need your plugs. Tell me your plugs. I really need your plugs. Tell me what you do with this month. This week of this day, please just tell me I'll pay.

And after I'll stay, because I'm a VIP. Can I sign my card. If you would scout you Just signed my coffee It's y'all safe Is y'all safe Is y'all safe? J'all safe?

J'all safe? J'all safe? Oh, a tasteful fade-out. Appreciate that. That was Y'all Plug Safe by John Webb No Relation. Hmm. No relation to what?

The webs in general? Madam. Madam Webb, yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah, that's probably it. Well, what are we plugging guys? Fred and Carrie, you can do your plugs together or separately. I'll take anything. You want to split them up or do you want to do them together? We can do it together. Yeah. How do you want to do, do you want to work this every other word or you want to? Yeah. No. How about Podlandia? A.O. Rewatch. A port a. Portlandia.

Rewatch. Podcast. Wow, okay. You're getting applause. That's all that's all you need to know. And then nothing else is there. I mean, obviously, Fred, you have your fingers in pies of, you're on that Wednesday show. Yeah, doing a stand-up tour in October. Isn't that funny that your podcast comes out on Thursdays and yet you're on the show Wednesday? It's not that. I don't think it's funny. That's so odd, isn't it? It's not odd or funny. It's like, what are you doing Mondays and Tuesdays? Other things.

Other things? Recording the podcast. That's true. So you're doing a stand-up tour, you said? Yes, in October. In October. Yeah. Fantastic.

Spooky season. Are you incorporating like skeletons or anything? I guess everyone, you have a skeleton. It's too scary for me. Every time I see ghosts and skeletons, it just scares me too much. I understand. You might not even show up to the year. No, Halloween is just like, I don't think people should mess with like that imagery.

Yeah, it's an affrontry to God. Yeah. All the pumpkins coming to life. I just can't deal with that. Specifically the pumpkins. The pumpkins is like, because those are vegetables. Do you know what I mean? And to put a face on it.

It's also rude to vegetarians. It's absolutely. It's a waste. Yeah. And Carrie, I would be remiss if I didn't ask, is anything going on in your music career as well? Yes, musically, Slater Kinney is doing a co-headline tour with Liz Phair in September. Coming to the Greek, Los Phila. That's right.

You don't say. Which day is it at the Greek? Los Felas. September 8th. Oh my gosh, thank you. Wow. It's September 8th. Oh my gosh. I'm on my own tour then. Otherwise, I would be there with a bullet, but not a bullet like I'm going to assassinate you. God, Markham him! Wow. I mean, I would rush to be there. Bunny's eyes just popped out of her head, Roger Rabbit style. You're ready. But we'll be all over the U.S., so check out a show. Do you have new records coming out or anything? We're in the writing phase, but yeah, I mean, Liz Ferrer asked, and I'm such a fan of hers, so we were like, sure, we'll take some time out to tour. And that's a great time to tour September. Boob's Rince will be there, the September 8th show.

That's right. I'm excited to see you, Boob's Rins. If it were at the Wiltern, no dice. Couldn't go. That's why we chose the Greek. And Boobbs, what do you want to plug here? Well, Abbott Elementary. I'm not, you know, just as an executive producer, just got a lot of friends there. Oh, wait, you were co-executive. You've been bumped. up to executive? During this, yeah, during the recording of this podcast, I've been bumped up to executive producer.

Oh, man. Yeah. Incredible. Congrats. I got a text. Hmm. How about, um, there's a podcast my friend Will Hines does called Screw it. We're just going to talk about the Beatles where, uh, you're not going to believe this.

A bunch of people who like the Beatles keep saying they're good every month. And that's, it's been going for a 10 years. Has there ever been an episode where they're like, I don't think the Beatles are good. Not yet. No. They're batting a thousand with us. We just did an episode on the funniest Beatles songs, according to the panel. That was, I'm going to say, an interesting debate.

What won? Back in the USSR, after a contentious back and forth. I would, I hear you on that one. The argument was that that's when Paul McCarty was deliberately trying to be funny and actually did it, whereas normally he's sort of a creative genius, but like. The closest to a weird owl song that they've done. You know what I mean? Because it's a Beach Boys parody.

And it crushes as a musical piece. Interesting. And the references are really good. Yeah, George is always on my, my, my, my, my. That's funny. It's good. What's funny about that? I'm sorry, George is always on my mind.

It's too long to explain. It's not good night sung by Ringo, because that one makes me laugh for some reason. That didn't come up as one of the funniest sucks. Ringo singing a lullaby isn't intentionally funny. I'm going to listen to that episode and that show. The debate was more fun than even I expected. And we're doing the one-disc white album, a classic among Beatles fans. Well, don't you can't. Keep it double.

Well, that's not an option. I would keep the super long montage. I love it. Revolution 9? Yeah, then maybe do, why don't we do it in the road? Just those two songs. An amazing Beatles album if it was, Why Don't we do it in the road

and the Revolution 9 wrote it. And he didn't. What are you talking about for any? We're having a side conversation. Give us a minute. Stop blocking the mic if you're going to have a song. The song, Good Night, John Lennon wrote. And he didn't want, he wanted it,

he wanted Ringo to sing it so that he wasn't, because he's supposed to be. cinematic. So he didn't want to be the singer of it. Because he was too to revealing, not fitting into his acerbic personality. He didn't want to do it. It was always very interesting when John would want Ringo to sing. It's a song that he used to sing to his son.

John used to sing it to Julian. Well, that's not as funny as I thought it once was. Never mind. He says, Good Night Julian at the end of it. But to your point, there are some, it is fun. There's like a singer in the background, like a sort of crooner, like a Disney Yeah. Yeah, that's the most Disney-ish song I ever did. I didn't want to sound like a know-it-all.

No, I love it. No, I love it when someone mansplains the Beatles to. Oh, that's our whole podcast. Three guys and one women talk incessantly about the Beatles. That did sound like mansplaining. I was just, that's why I covered. You were explaining in a manly way. You were flexing your muscles while you were saying all that.

Bunny's a Beatles fan. She does a lot of Beatles covers and her act. Yeah, and Ringo genuinely has my favorite voice on the Beatles. Without a doubt. That is something Bunny has said and I've been flabbergasted by next day. It's the best. What makes you more nostalgic? Ringo's lovely.

I wouldn't say the best voice is the argument for it. Not in the Beatles. When you think of the Beatles, that's the voice. Maybe in the Ringo's All-Star Band, not even there. Not even close. Not even the top five. Because he's had... Most charming.

Most charming member of the all-star band, easy. Sure. For sure. Easy. All right. Well, Bunny, what do you want to plug? Check out Hey Riddle Riddle or Gum Shoes and Dragons, which is a Columbo, D&D, podcast, something that people have been dying to combine for hundreds of years. We've finally figured

it out. Wow. Fantastic. Well, I'm going to plug, look, we're still, we still have eight shows left on the Comedy Bang Bang Tour. We have September 8 in Denver, September 9 in Dallas, September 10 in San Antonio, September 11 in Austin. The venue moved in Austin to some strange place, but I hope everyone will join us. And then a huge show in L.A. at the Orphium with Hey, Randy opening for us. And then the final three shows will be October 6 in Huntington, New York, October 7, the rescheduled Medford Boston show, and October 8. We're closing out the tour in Troy, New York, and you can get all the tickets for that at

CBBWorld.com slash tour. And while you're over there at CBB World, go become a subscriber and check out all the shows we have. So much good stuff. And we're doing where you can listen to every show from the tour the day after we record it. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. I want to kiss you. Kiss you, baby.

All right, that was, oh, please let me open that bag by Lot. Ha-ha. If you have a plugs theme, head over to CBBWorld.com slash plugs, and you can upload all of your songs and get all the stems for remixes. And, guys, I want to thank you so much for being here, Fred, Kerry. So great to see you guys. Exciting you're getting into the podcast space. And I guess we'll be hanging out a lot because we're fellow podcasters now.

That's right. Yeah. Thanks for having us, Scott. I'll see you at all the podcast parties and the all the awards. Podcast awards. Podcast awards. And, you know, if you ever need to borrow a mic, I'm just right here. Conventions.

Sure. Yeah, everything. So we'll be seeing each other at least, you know. Twice a month? Three times a month? Yeah, I would say that's safe. And boobs, so wonderful to see you. Hey, great to see you.

And good luck with your courtship here. of bunny, I almost said larva, but it's, it's Laru. That U looks like a V. Larva! Would it be so bad if you changed your name to larva? Fine, my name is bunny larva. If you had to go into witness protection, you know, that's not that bad. If we get married, you'll be bunny rinse.

Why don't you change your first name? So I don't have to keep saying boobs every time you come on the show. Never. It's one of the only interesting things about my character. All right, we'll see you next time. Thanks. Bye. Thank you.