Danny Jones Podcast - #107 - How F*cked Up is Social Media? - Should We Be Afraid? | Jamie Kennedy

Episode Date: August 19, 2021

Jamie Kennedy is a hilarious comedian and actor who has had a marathon of a career in Hollywood.  He’s been in films & TV shows such as Romeo & Juliet, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Boiler Room, Scream, ...the Jamie Kennedy Experiment and I’de be here all day if I kept going.  On this episode we talk about Florida, the evolution of media & Hollywood, what it's like balancing a Hollywood career with comedy & social media, and much much more. http://jamiekennedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello world. Today's guest on the podcast is Jamie Kennedy. Jamie is a hilarious comedian and actor who's had a marathon of a career in Hollywood. He's been in films and TV shows such as Romeo and Juliet, Malibu's Most Wanted, Boiler Room, Scream, the Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and I'd be here all day if I had to keep going. On this episode, we talk about Florida, the evolution of media and Hollywood, what it's like balancing a Hollywood career with comedy and social media and much, much more. This one is short, but it's packed. with gems. Please welcome Jamie Kennedy. Dude, I don't even, we should open it up with you cleaning out your microphone. You're safe. You're safe, Jamie. You're safe, Jamie. I don't remember who the last mouth was. Bro, coming down to crack down. Yeah, this is crack town, but we're not far from the beach. This isn't, this doesn't remind you of where you're from at all. Malabizi. This is nothing like Malabizi, huh? Malabizi. What could you relate? What is this town remind you of? Because you've been to a lot of different towns.
Starting point is 00:01:11 around the country. It's cool, but it's like you gotta like drive through the crack to get to the water. You know what I mean? So you like got this dope setup that people are looking at, but they don't know that outside of here looks like it could be a potential war zone. You know what I'm saying? Drug trafficking. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:29 But it's dope. You know, and I never met you and you're like, yo, come into this room. And then I'm like, yo, this guy looks kind of fit. Like, what do I got to do? Oh, thank you. Got my pen. Like, may I get him in the neck? The other homie here.
Starting point is 00:01:41 And there's some dude in the Tesla. I was like, how many can I take out? Do a joke. You know what I mean? But it's nice. And once I got in here, and I know you got a good following. See,
Starting point is 00:01:51 you'll go anywhere because the numbers. You got good numbers. So I was like, I got to come to the band. The numbers are what brought you here? Dude, I was, my assistant was setting this up, and then they were like,
Starting point is 00:02:00 well, we can try to do this. And you guys were a little hard to pin down. You guys hit me up. I hated when people do this. They hit me up. And then they want me to accommodate them. And it's like,
Starting point is 00:02:10 what the fuck. I got to fire the guy that handles all that stuff, the booking guy. Oh, he was... He fucks everything else. Well, no, he was... I mean, no diss to him, but he was like, he can't do it.
Starting point is 00:02:18 And I was like... And then I know that you have a good following, so I was like, fuck it. So I drove over the bridge, took a rowboat. I apologize for him. He's a pain in the ass. Appreciate you. No, no diss to him if you're seeing this, but...
Starting point is 00:02:28 Tyler, fuck you, Tyler, you suck. But it was... It's not like it's about a skid row. I mean, some people have little skid row. No. Yeah, a lot of pods are in hell. In hell. This is nice.
Starting point is 00:02:41 You got a nice set up here. 70s reminds me in the 70s. Yeah, that's what I was going for. I was actually originally going for the look. You know, in the Sopranos, when he sits in there and talks as a psychiatrist, like, their room? Yeah. Have you seen the Sopranos? Like, honestly, it's two Eps.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Isn't that crazy? Yeah. You know what's crazy, bro? I don't know anything about you, but I know concrete media. Really? And I know you have a big following. How do you know that? And you don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:06 Because I see your clips get recommended to me. Oh, really? Yeah. So you have like $450,000. Yeah. And I don't know who you are. And yet you are now a destination that you got me, whatever I am, I'm like a mainstream. You're a Hollywood superstar. Well, I'm a mainstream name.
Starting point is 00:03:22 But this is what the beautiful thing is of our world right now. Guys like you can have this hub that's little but it's not. It's becoming very big. I did this in Austin. There's another group over there called the Drinking Bros. They're blowing up. And it's like every city has it. So it's like media is completely disrupted forever.
Starting point is 00:03:40 It's dope. Yeah, it's super weird. Right? Like I would have never, some little kid in the crackhead town would never have the chance to talk to or interview a guy of your caliber. Stop. And you came here. You came here to talk to. I came to you.
Starting point is 00:03:51 I got my dunk in and listed a drive. And you saw my Uber driver. She was fine, right? She was super hot. Shout out to her. Driving the Malibu, the Black Malibu. Came in the Malibizi. But honestly, it was the numbers.
Starting point is 00:04:09 And then BT at the club was like, yeah, man, it got big following. B.T. blew you up. Like, in fact, two other people in Florida told me about you. Really? Yeah. Wow. Your name rang bells. Loobing me up right now.
Starting point is 00:04:22 You're making me feel good. Juicy. Loving it. Loving it. How, um, so you're here on, like, are you on tour right now doing comedy or what? Uh, yeah. I mean, we fucking were doing comedy and fucking parks and, uh, top of, uh, parking lots and forest in L.A. Like every comic you see on Netflix was like playing a bush
Starting point is 00:04:45 And we were of a different experience And hey real quick if he Keep an eye out for him because he might come in later And then the The world slowly opened up and people started making me offers And I was like I want to go inside And then I saw like one comedian going aside And then they like check the filtration systems
Starting point is 00:05:05 And then the club here is incredible Side Splitters is incredible It's like BT who owns it. He put these lights, dude, in the AC. So it's like those inferreds. Oh, the ones that Trump was talking about that killed the virus. For real, dude. But they do.
Starting point is 00:05:23 He's got mad air conditioning. People spread out, but still packed. And these lights. So it's like everyone's getting a wash of black light. No, it's like a UVA light. So he's like so on it. And it's like, boom. And then we do a meet and greet.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Outside everyone's six feet. buys a package, takes a picture, takes the mask, walks away. Like, it was smooth as silk. So, yeah, man, so I got a bunch. I'm booked until the middle of October. We'll see before the world shuts down. Yeah. I just started June 1st.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Yeah, we're not shutting down Florida. The rest of the world will shut down in Florida. It will still be slanging. DeSantis won't shut us down. Shout out Taco Bus. Yo, it closed at midnight, bro. I usually go there at 3 a.m. and get my cracked taco. That is weird.
Starting point is 00:06:09 They close at midnight in Tampa? Yeah, bro. It's weird. Like, the next thing you know, Mons Venus is going to be closing at, like, 1 a.m. Like, what's going on? Oh, he was the last guy I had in here. Now. Mon's Venus?
Starting point is 00:06:19 The guy who owns Mons Venus. Wow. Yeah. I bet he's sitting on some cake. Yeah, he is, man. He's crazy. Crazy old man. Crazy old, old guy.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Got the spaceship. No, no, no, no. He doesn't know. No, that spaceship room. That's Mons Venus. That's not Mons Venus. That's, uh, that's, uh, that's, uh, 2001. 2001.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah, okay, okay. That's 2001. Mons is right across the street. Mons is like this little tiny hole in the wall right across the street. You don't even really see it. It's right next to the Taco Bell. But none of the women there have, like, bullet holes. No, there's no bullet holes.
Starting point is 00:06:50 Yeah. The women there, all the women that go to the strip clubs in Tampa, they all come from all over Florida. It's, you know. They drive like three hours to go to work because they make so much money there. Yeah, it's the strip club is here. This is kind of like the, how can I say this? It's the typo blood of strip, meaning that like type O blood as they say the caviar of blood it's like you can't take anyone's
Starting point is 00:07:14 blood but you can give your blood to anyone I know that's a weird reference but I was talking to a doctor earlier about all this shit and COVID and basically the strippers here are that it's like a very high end industry here it is it is like this is like the capital I love how you keep wiping that thing down it's PTSD everybody that comes from Los Angeles is very paranoid about the cleanliness it's a funny thing I know it's not me it's just PTSD. No. Oh, it's PTSD from the media. Yeah, for real, bro. Like, it's like, the virus is everywhere. But it's like not. Yeah. And then it's like, you come to Florida and everyone's like chilling, eating a taco, riding a beach cruiser, no drama. I've had no drama so far.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Really? I've had pack shows. No drama. No fights. And I see a lot of people wearing masks. Yeah, a lot of people wear masks. But a lot of people don't like to follow the mask rules. But I don't see like any people out there with signs doing shit None of that No So it's like it's what I'm saying is a little bit of And then your numbers were bumped up three times more than what they were Did you read that?
Starting point is 00:08:19 The CDC lied and said 28,000 people had the case But it was only half of that It was about 15,000 When did that happen two days ago? Really? So it was like people like trying to make Florida look like you know Florida man Yeah they were they always try to do that to us
Starting point is 00:08:34 Yeah they fuck you Those bastards those bastards I feel like I'm interviewing you When's the interview gonna start This is how it always goes That's why you don't know who I am I know that's why you don't know him
Starting point is 00:08:45 Because I'm a shitty interviewer I just do this I get people like you on here No we talk, we open up Yeah yeah exactly you know I just watched your podcast Your four hour podcast with Bert Oh really? Yeah How? How? Just now to prepare for this
Starting point is 00:08:58 I just watched it in the last like 48 hours It took me on and off I just watched it was great It wasn't even like a podcast Like you guys were just sitting there on the couch getting drunk and talking shit, it was hilarious. Dude, Bert is the man. He is, he's Florida royalty, isn't he?
Starting point is 00:09:12 I just, I learned on that podcast that he's from Tampa. I had no idea he was... He's actually from Tampa, wow. That's what he said on the podcast. Yeah, Bird is, like, one of the greatest. And yeah, I did like a four-hour pod with him. Like, he's... He has so much fun.
Starting point is 00:09:27 It's like you guys forgot you were even doing a podcast. 100%. That's what he does. On a couch. And I was like, oh, shit, is a camera? Yeah, it was incredible. He's awesome. Is he an...
Starting point is 00:09:35 Is he? in L.A. also, close to you? I think, yeah, he's not far. I think he's over, he might be in, he's in the valley, and I'm over in the hill in Moro called Hollywood. Okay. But yeah, he's got a dope set up. Now, you have a podcast, right?
Starting point is 00:09:49 Yeah. Where did you start it? I kind of started it in 2017, and it was like, it was called Hate to Break It to You, and it was a way for me to start talking to, like, two my fans another version of me.
Starting point is 00:10:08 You know what I mean? Because it's like people know me from movies and stuff. But like people who know me, know me. You know what I mean? But it's like a pod. It's like you keep it real. And then I was doing it a little bit. And it was a lot of work. And then I was getting so busy. And I was doing like different movie or TV show. And I was hard to do, you know?
Starting point is 00:10:25 Yeah. And then I didn't have the right producers. And then when the pandemic hit, I was like, I'm really going to do it. So then I just buckled down. And now I'm like, you know it. So I try to put out an episode every week, every two weeks. But I do solos, which are easier. The solos, though. I feel like that's harder.
Starting point is 00:10:40 No, I have a lot to say, and I have takes on stuff. And sometimes you get a guest, and they just don't. It's like, you know, people really want to, I have a lot of opinions, so people like that. Yeah. But a good guest, like, I have a guest on today that's going to be great because he's my buddy who's a young. He's a young stud, but he's a nurse. He's a nurse in the, I don't even want to say it because I want to get you demonetized in the C ward. Do you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:11:07 So that's what's crazy We can't even talk about you But so he's... The C Ward? Yeah, think about it. You know? Ms. Rana. So, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:11:14 I'm trying not to get you D. That's okay. I get Ded all the time. You know what I'm saying? So, and he's telling all the stuff because I put all types of information on my Instagram. So I'm funny,
Starting point is 00:11:23 so I'm not. And people got, aw, booty tickled. So I got a nurse, my buddy who's like a young kid like you who's like on the front lines. And so it's pretty... So I like people like that
Starting point is 00:11:35 who are like, an expert in a field I know nothing about. Yeah, that's, that's pretty much the only type of podcast I do. I don't really have many. There's not really much going on in my, I'm being humble. My mind is, my brain is just kind of like always been soft serve. You know what I mean? I'm not very, not very sharp.
Starting point is 00:11:52 So, like, I need people like you to carry the show. You're being humble. Are you a surfer? Yeah. I can tell that. How could you tell that? Because you got kind of like the bill, but you're like being super humble, but you're like totally assessing the situation, getting me to spill my book.
Starting point is 00:12:06 getting the clips out of me. I like your, I like it. I like your perspective, you're smart guy. What, what, um,
Starting point is 00:12:11 so the, you say that you have like opinions and you're able to like talk by yourself and, and get a lot of your ideas out solo. It's kind of like, um, Bill Burr. He's like the best at that, right?
Starting point is 00:12:22 He's the best, yeah. Is that come from, from a lot of writing? Is that how that, did that, was that something that you developed or was that something that you were just naturally always good at?
Starting point is 00:12:33 No, I think that we're just, That's why I'm in comedy because it's like you have all these takes on things and they're like brewing inside of you and they're going nuts. And you're like, I got to like expunge this. So that's why you go on stage, you know. And so you start doing it. And I've had success in a lot of other areas in life, but I'm still drawn to the stage. And it's like it's a way to like feel heard and share your opinions and get like minded individuals.
Starting point is 00:13:02 And be like, yo, you feeling what I'm feeling? So it's just it's something. that it's like you look at something, it gives you, it leaves an impression on you, and then you talk about it, you regurgitate it. I feel like being that kind of person that's not good for Hollywood, though, right? Because you have opinions on everything is not really good for it. You don't want to piss off the establishment. Yeah, that's a very good point.
Starting point is 00:13:25 I think that the establishment is getting disrupted, though, by, like I said, like guys like you, new media, and I think people are just starting to look at the establishment, see all the cracks, see all the bullshit, see all the stuff that they're feeding us and being like, is this, do we want this? You know what I mean? It's like, people making this shit from behind this wall and this mountain. And it's like, yeah, it's cool. But like, I want to hear like the realness. I want to hear a voice from someone else.
Starting point is 00:13:50 And so you're definitely right. But I think that's all cracking. Has that made an impact at all on that part of your career? Because obviously that's like the foundation. That's where you, did you, you started acting or did you start in comedy? I started both, you know. in 1990, but I really got more successful as an actor, but
Starting point is 00:14:10 like I was making inroads, inroads into comedy in L.A., but I wasn't really getting known for it. And then, but by getting little comedy gigs, agents would see me or producers would see me, they'd bring me in, I'd read,
Starting point is 00:14:26 and that's how I started getting early acting jobs and, you know, commercials and like this stuff. But definitely more as an actor, but I'd doing comedy, you know, my whole career. Since you started doing, like, podcasts and broadcasting this kind of, like, raw,
Starting point is 00:14:42 unfiltered shit and giving your opinions on shit, like that? Has that affected your acting career at all? Or has it, like, do you have agents and producers talking to you? Like, don't say this, don't say that. Like, don't... Is that real? Is that real? It's so fucking real.
Starting point is 00:14:57 I don't think it... Uh... It hasn't affected me yet. there's definitely I definitely have a representative I'm not going to call them out who definitely told me like yo go easy on saying certain stuff
Starting point is 00:15:14 you know you just might want to lay low which I was like I just kind of let it slide and I'm like do you know who you represent you know what I mean like and this is what we do don't like curtail like an artist would you tell like fucking Johnny Rotten go easy on
Starting point is 00:15:30 you know slicing yourself with razor blade no it's Johnny Rotten you know I'm not saying I'm doing that, but it's like, yeah. So that was a great example of the typical, like, make money, don't rock the boat, always try to get the bag to, like, having opinions to rocking the boat. But there's a new bag out there. That's what I'm saying. All of this disruptive media is making a new bag because there's an audience really want the new bag. They're sick of the bullshit.
Starting point is 00:16:00 I hate to say that. But like the waking up, the real woke. is the people waking up to all the bullshit. That's my opinion. Do you think that there's people out there? Because you were just in a movie with, what was the latest movie? Did Brad Pitt one? The BP?
Starting point is 00:16:16 That one, I did that one, but then I got cut out. Fuck, I'm so wrong. What do you mean? You got, oh, they cut you out when they were editing. Yeah, I had three good scenes, but they're really good. But hopefully, I heard if it goes to Criterion Collection, then they'll be in there.
Starting point is 00:16:31 You know what that is? That's like when the movie is, like, put in its own thing in the long. longer form. Oh. So that would be dope. I thought they were going to make you the dad. You should have been the dad.
Starting point is 00:16:40 The dad. The dad. BP's dad. BP's dad in the movie, the guy in the spaceship. But I did another movie, which you're talking about, which you don't know if you're talking about, but I did this movie called Roe v. Wade, and that pissed a lot of people off. And that was just a movie about abortion.
Starting point is 00:16:55 And that pissed off a lot of people. And a lot of Hollywood press wrote about it, started saying all the stuff. And it was like, you know, I'm just an actor. So that was that movie? I came out over the pandemic, like, March, and it came, like, to, like, all these streaming services. But it was, like, considered, like, more of a right-wing movie, but it's really not.
Starting point is 00:17:15 I'm just an actor. I'm not right-wing. I'm not left-wing. I'm just a dude. But they were, people were mad at that I did that. But so far, I really hasn't fucked me up. So what was it about? Abortion.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Very. The take on it was, like, you shouldn't abort. Well, the take was a little bit more, like, hey, abortion is a little bit more dicey than people say. There's a little bit of money being made. There's an agenda there. And a lot of people didn't like that. They thought they were messing with their rights and got a lot of people upset.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And, you know, it's like, then people were asking my opinions. And I'm like, I'm just an actor. And it's like, you know, well, you're being irresponsible acting in it. And I'm like, you know, it was a good role. So it's a longer conversation. But basically, in a nutshell, that's what you should do. You should make movies about. things that caused conversation and that's what it did even if it was uncomfortable yeah i mean i like
Starting point is 00:18:07 escapism too but yeah well the crazy thing about it is like like what you're talking about they got mad at you or like the establishment will get mad at you for doing certain types of things or having certain types of opinions or whatever it may be but it's like coming full circle with youtube too because now everyone's in the media right now talking about how youtube demonetizes people and it make they make conversations that like that they don't think think it could be like an accredited, like you were talking about, like your buddy who you're going to interview today, the guy who's a nurse, they will probably demonetize it if he talks about COVID or has any kind of opinions on it and they make it on unprofitable to talk about that kind of shit. Don't you think that's weird? I mean, yeah, of course. It's fucking crazy. It's scary as shit. But it's like coming full circle. It's like now YouTube is you can't talk about certain things or else you get deplatformed or demonetized.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I know. So what does I tell you? That tells you you got to join, what's his name, Glenn Greenwald's Rumble website. I just saw that. I saw that, too. I saw that kind of dope. That's be real. But then they're going to call you like a right winger, right? I guess, probably.
Starting point is 00:19:14 He was on, I saw that he tweeted about it. Who is Glenn Greenwald? He's like, he's a gay political guy. He started some media platform a long time ago. And then you get addressed it. There's like two little levers on the left side. Just pull it down. What do you want to go down?
Starting point is 00:19:30 Yeah. So there's a, the, the, back. left one pull it up i did didn't go down oh there you go that was a way to describe that you're gonna get so much shit he's a gay political guy that's he's a gay political guy but he's got a lot of really good takes like he he's obviously he's very he's a left-wing guy but he just like shits on like hypocrisy of like a left-wing politics and all the corrupt people in there and how like you know he talks a lot about like the the de-platformization of people and like and like the freedom of the press and how they're like
Starting point is 00:20:07 trying to you know put julian assange however you say his name in prison for life even though he's overseas and like turning journalists you know into basically trying to incarcerate journalists for talking about whatever they want to talk about yeah and he just you know lately i've just noticed he's been pointing out a lot of the hypocrisy and that kind of stuff and he's actually pretty cool because he's he's just this like gay left-wing guy, but he's going on all of these right-wing shows like Tucker Carlson and the Democratic people
Starting point is 00:20:38 hate him for that. Oh, wow. Why would you go and talk about, you know, on this guy's show? Because he's keeping an open mind. He is keeping an open mind. That's why I like the guy. He's like, he's very smart. And he started Rumble. He started, I don't know if he started Rumble. I learned about him through the guy Tim Dillon. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:54 I learned he was on his show. Okay. So that's how I found out who he was. And then he's just been pushing this Rumble thing. And maybe, it probably is his. I got to go, Dude, but think about this. Look how insaneness is that you can't talk about certain stuff. Like, I get, like, it's like, that you're being demonetized. What does that tell you?
Starting point is 00:21:15 Like, YouTube used to be, like, the freest, craziest shit. The fact that they are, like, that just shows you that's, like, if something is, if there was no, uh, I call fuckery, shartutery, because you know i try to use if there was no charchudery there you would be fine it's not like you're saying if you're just going saying something against what a bigger message is being pushed as that's weird and that's what i'm saying and then when you comment on it people are like no no no no no it's like you're being controlled like if you can't have an opposing opinion with based in some type of
Starting point is 00:21:57 of reality then we're in trouble and I just feel like that's what's weird bro like big tech is now I don't know yeah but they're like and they're pushing the same narrative as like uh let's just say CNN
Starting point is 00:22:16 and I'm not saying CNN all has bad stuff and has some cool stuff yeah but it's definitely a biased thing just like obviously Fox is biased but Fox is like the dark star and CNN is like considered Luke you know what I mean? Right. Are they? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:34 And it's, I mean, it's everyone is, it's all everyone talks about now is like everybody knows that Fox and CNN are these two completely polar opposite things that just push headlines for views. Yeah. And I think those shows, but those shows don't,
Starting point is 00:22:46 aren't very successful. They get those daytime or nighttime segments they have on those shows get way less viewership than your average podcast gets. Yeah, totally. Like, then your episode with Burt probably got twice as many views as any episode of Tucker Carlson gets. That's crazy. You know, it is fucking crazy. That's nuts.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Well, yeah, but pods are super, like, you know, informative. And people are just going in and it's free-form speech. You get to say what you want. Have a seat, Mike. Oh, what's up, dude? This is my friend and client, Mike. What's up, Mike? He's going to join us.
Starting point is 00:23:18 How you doing? How you doing? You jumped in late. We're talking about, we're talking about... What happened, Mike? What were you at? Yeah, where were you at? Your flight was...
Starting point is 00:23:25 You were in the car, dude. He was in the Tesla. Well, now you've blown my cover. Yeah. All right, Mike. You're not coughing anything, right? There were only three of us who knew that. He's worried about...
Starting point is 00:23:37 Don't cough because he's worried about... I've got my card. He's wrong. Oh, he's got his card. Can you show you a show you? That's all right. You can buy those in Tijuana. That's all.
Starting point is 00:23:46 I don't need to see it. I got you. The thing is, I haven't been to Tijuana. He could be shedding. No, but even if you have your card, you can still spread it, Mike. Spreader You only put my mask on? No, you're fine.
Starting point is 00:23:56 You're fine, Mike. I have my Darth Vader mask. You're fine. I have a hockey mask. It won't protect germs, but if you throw something at me, we're good. He was worried about coming here because he was, he called this town crack town. And then he was a little. He felt better once he got to the studio because it's a decent location.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Nice. It was like I was walking around. I was a little paranoid. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I don't be paranoid. You're good.
Starting point is 00:24:25 He pulled up in the car with the door open. He was driving down the street with the back. You were driving down the back door open. Ghost ride to whip. What were you ready to do? Jump out? I was ready to just, you never know when you have to jam out.
Starting point is 00:24:36 You know what I mean? I was like, I was about to run out. And I'm like, all right, just go to go to Walgreens. And I'm like, I'll just run out. And then she's like, oh, he's over here. So she flipped a bee. And I was like, Burr.
Starting point is 00:24:48 You like to. I remember. Gluckman is down with the bitches in a hose. The bitch is. in the house, Mike? My daughter and I watch that movie probably conservatively 20 times.
Starting point is 00:25:01 No. You tell me any part of that movie and if you can stump me, I'll give you I'll give you a... I'll give you a watch. I'll give you a one point. All right. Ready, Mike? Okay. Shrink, shrink, blink, blink. Shrink, blink, blink, shrink.
Starting point is 00:25:20 All right. Blank, shrink. Shrink, shrink, blinkety blink. Yeah, but it's about the, when you want to. Try to make me think. Can you finish your rhyme? Yeah, try to make me think. Got to go to the sink.
Starting point is 00:25:34 Don't think. And vomit. Clean it up with common. Yo, Earth is my planet. Yeah. He's my planet. Planet. Because I had to make it rhyme with time.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Mike, appreciate you. Mike's a huge fan. Huge fan. Keep throwing about me. Keep throwing out of it. funniest movie ever. You appreciate it. I think it's aging well, too, right?
Starting point is 00:25:56 Mike? Yeah, it is. It is. And do you, do you ever, is that your most well-known? That,
Starting point is 00:26:11 scream, Jamie Kenning's Sperman for the Super Comedy Heds, and Ghost Whisper for the Midwest Mommies. Those are like the four that really hit.
Starting point is 00:26:22 I mean, then there's, like, movies like, enemy the state and different movies that like people oh yeah yeah yeah but yeah i would say malibu's in that one and that one you were 75% of the movie so i mean it's you're yeah yeah you know i mean that was my baby yeah that was that was that was you didn't have a part in it um he was the other people had fractional fractional parts yeah the movie was it was b-rah yeah that's that's what i was trying to do you know it's trying to be that character up in the bizu what was the deal with how did that what was that what was the deal with how did that what was
Starting point is 00:26:53 the deal with that movie? How did it come about? Like, what was like, how did they approach you with it? Was it your thing? No, so it was like at that time, a lot of late 90s, you know, white boy, want to be gangsters. That was like a big affliction that now is accepted. But at the time, it was a new strain of an affliction. People were like, what is this? And there's a couple of movies that, like, I went in for and I didn't get, but I always had that character, you know, and I did stand-up, like I was saying, and my stand-up was basically just trying characters and then getting it going. And then I did the show, the Jamie King's Experiment, which is a whole other ball of wax,
Starting point is 00:27:35 and then the character got very popular. So I had a script for it, you know, kind of like Mike Myers, who's one of my heroes and making characters in the movies, and then I bought it to Warner Brothers, and my show was at Warner Bros. So they were like, well, this is interesting. And so, you know, we developed it, and boom, you know, we did it for, for a low budget, you know, and then they got the gray cast,
Starting point is 00:27:55 and boom, we were off to the races. And it was incredible. Do you still, like, to this day, if you're in public and a stranger, it calls you B-Rad? People say, people look at me now, and they say, are you B-Rabs,
Starting point is 00:28:11 kidnapper? Well, the reason, the reason I ask is, but they do. They'll roll up on me and say some shrinks, right? And, yeah, blinkety-blink. Sink-y- shrink-y- shrink, blink. try to make me thank you in the sink.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Yeah. Sometimes as, yeah, I've been friends with Meyer Lopez for years. And one time, one time out in Vegas, this is probably 15 years ago. You're going to drop a jewel.
Starting point is 00:28:34 You're going to drop a jewel, Mike. I don't know about that, man. I don't about that. But, but just by chance we're at the hard rock. It was on New Year's Eve.
Starting point is 00:28:43 We used to go every New Year's Eve. And, uh, for business. We're playing, exactly. It was business. Uh,
Starting point is 00:28:49 but, uh, playing blackjack. And I was with Darius Rocker on one side And Mario on the other side And everybody was called him hooty And in more Mario Slater And both of them
Starting point is 00:29:04 Just annoyed the shit out of both of them Wait, why would he's got, they're playing on a public table Well On the floor I never said that Can we rewind the tape? But who would You, now it had to be public
Starting point is 00:29:17 Because if they had a private table, no one would say that So they were getting, yeah, that's So they were getting annoyed. Yeah. Yeah. It happens. I mean, sometimes it's like, it just depends. Like, you know, Darius and Mario are just normal people.
Starting point is 00:29:30 You know what I mean? They just happen to be famous and, you know, like myself, I'm very fortunate. But there are days when you just want to play blackjack and you don't want someone come up to you going, what's up, Slater? You know, no, no, no, I know. I know. I know. It took them a long time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:44 But you kind of got to be ready for it if you're at a public table. 100%. Like you got to be, you have to go and we. your best foot forward. And the problem is, is that we can't make mistakes. If we do, then we're, you know, POS is.
Starting point is 00:29:58 Oh, man, Jimmy Candy. And it's like, yo, I might have have had a bad bowl of oatmeal, my old, my girlfriend, might have, like, you know, hollered out of me. You know, I might have just lost money in stock market.
Starting point is 00:30:08 You don't know what's going on. And it's like, you know, and it's like, so you, you know, that's what it is. But as an artist, as an artist, when you did something that put you on the map.
Starting point is 00:30:17 100%. I'm very fortunate. And then you've done so many things that, are so much better, so much better. I mean, you've grown as an artist. Yeah. And everyone still wants to bring you back to that.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Well, no, that to me is very high art. Malibu's is very high art. It's pop art. It doesn't take itself seriously, but there's a lot of messages in it. It's aging very nicely. Got the biggest booties in the stable? Yeah, it's got the biggest booties. But it really has to do with cultural appropriation, which is a big topic now, but also cultural
Starting point is 00:30:50 appropriation and appreciation. That's what the movie's about. Where's appropriation? And for me, it was based on my love of hip hop. You know, and I mean, just because I'm a white dude, doesn't mean I can't love it and can't rap to it. But that's what I love. I grew up on two, you know, Led Zeppelin,
Starting point is 00:31:06 and then somebody gave me hip-hop. And I was like, oh, shit. So I love Led Zeppelin, but I also really love hip-hop. So it hit me at a young age. Well, you can be diverse, you know. Yeah, yeah. But it wasn't like that, as you know, in the early 80s. It was like hip-hop was like, you know, more like inner city.
Starting point is 00:31:20 and Led Zeppelin was more like suburban kids. Right. And I was always like, kept my foot really in both. But when it comes to those mixing of cultures and different, you know, musics and that sort of thing, I don't think anything is more just validated than Kirk Cobain and Irana with the big hair bands. I mean, when that grunge music came out of Seattle, I mean, you know, Van Halen and Monty Crew and all of them went, oh, geez, we're fucked.
Starting point is 00:32:00 Because grunge was so intense. Yeah, but it was like a light switch. Well, yeah. I mean, Van Halen's different. I think they're a much deeper band. Yeah. And they're so interesting. But I think some of the hair bands that were more fluffy realized how deep Kurt was.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Kurt's like a super, you know, generational artist. Yeah, yeah. He's like John Lennon. Yeah. So you're saying that just completely... I remember that, you're right. It shut down that whole, like, fluffy... Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:28 And became, like, as raw as it can be. Oh, yeah. As great as Motley Crew was... Yeah, I love Molly Crew. And other bands, for that matter, they're, you know... You're just saying he was so deep. There's so much pathos. The unfortunate thing, really, is that...
Starting point is 00:32:43 He has such great music. And, in my personal opinion, it's... It was so great because he was a really troubled soul. Yeah. And, you know, he wrote, he did some great stuff that, you know. Did you ever see the HBO? I would never want to be in his place. Did you ever see the HBO documentary about him?
Starting point is 00:33:03 I've seen like, there's like, there's, there's multiple ones. There was one with the drawing. They took his, his book of writings and stuff, and they, like, put animation to it. It's, it's insane. He's incredible. Yeah, he seems, he seemed like a very, very troubled guy. Seems like some of like the most successful artists in anything in any form are like the most deeply troubled, a drug addicted. Oh, I think so.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Absolutely. I'm absolutely. Joplin and Jim Morrison and 27 Club. Yeah. I think you, you know what? I mean, it doesn't mean you, look, it doesn't mean you can't grow up in a nice life and not create something great, but usually troubled people channel that pain in this usually something really amazing. You know, Amy Winehouse, amazing. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:50 So it's, you know, it's there again. Yeah, I know. I know. It's intense. Look at the circumstances and the outcome. Yeah. It's unfortunate. It's so unfortunate.
Starting point is 00:33:59 But it's like, you know. Roseanne. Yeah. She's still here. Roseanne. She's still here. You can just go. She's still here.
Starting point is 00:34:10 But, but, yeah, it's unfortunate. And even, you know, even, you know, a lot of many artists that are still around. and when I say they write their best music that, you know, they're not creative unless, you know, unless they're depressed and, you know. It's a way to cope. Yeah. It's, you know, they're just the, the music, the lyrics, the, just that pours out of them. Yeah. You know, when they're, you know, everyone has good days and bad days.
Starting point is 00:34:39 Yeah. They're not, you know, they'll say that, you know, they're best writing or any of the writing. Usually it doesn't come on the good day. Yeah. It comes on the depressed day, you know, curtains closed, having left the house for two days. Yeah. And then when they emerge, they emerge with just genius.
Starting point is 00:35:01 Yeah. You know what I love talking about podcast? About people. I hate that because I'm still in Hollywood. So that's avoid all that. Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:10 We just popped all your tires, didn't right? Mike came in. I always started talking about it. Do you go back to whatever you were doing? I got one I want to talk about. Hey, he brought up the Maryland-Manson thing. He's fucking. I'm just saying, you know, most of great music, not nothing, though.
Starting point is 00:35:26 They're pain, right. A lot of great music, and they'll tell you it's, you, it's when I'm in my darkest hour. These words just flow out of me. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Mike, what do you do? I actually own a chain of hearing centers.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Oh, a hearing center. It fits people with hearing losses. We do automated testing and figure of age, yeah. You're like a, you have a, you like helping, helping society. It's Audubal Hearing Age. It's literally the only thing I've ever done. Wow. I started in this industry when I was 21, and I'm still doing it.
Starting point is 00:35:57 That's awesome. So. He goes to, like, Africa, and he'll fit, like, thousands of kids with hearing aids. Yeah, a lot of people give a dollar, but they won't give an hour, you know? Yeah. So, you know, some of the places you don't want to be in. Yeah, not. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:16 A little scary, but, but, um, but, um, some of the places you know, you don't want to be in. But, you know, prior to the pandemic, you know, I was probably doing five missions a year between one week and three weeks. So you're a missionary? Well, I'm an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur. Yeah. But, um. Go to like Botswana and stuff like that?
Starting point is 00:36:36 I've been to Africa twice all over there. Congo? Yep. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. I know.
Starting point is 00:36:43 Honduras, Mexico. I have no idea how many times, tons of times. Peru Just any place where it's You know Just impoverished and people wouldn't get help otherwise Yeah You know
Starting point is 00:36:57 Beautiful Yeah So How's your hearing Any this isn't about me It's about you Oh That's a real
Starting point is 00:37:04 That's beautiful That's a real story though My hearing is okay That I know Oh Jesus Good I hear that every day Yeah
Starting point is 00:37:12 Come here Let me fit you Checked out, bro. Yeah, I think it checked out. Don't let that ring in your ears get too loud. That's the aliens. You know, I wanted to ask you, speaking of talking about people in Hollywood, do you still talk to Nick Swartson? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Nick Swartson. He's one of the funniest motherfuckers. He was, like, one of my, like, the first comedians I was ever exposed to as, like, a young... A day in the life of was the first time I ever saw him. Oh, my God. The day and a life of, and it was probably 15 years ago. Yeah. It's a funniest damn thing I've ever seen at the time.
Starting point is 00:37:46 greatest he he helped you know he was like a guy that really helped push malibu and he wrote it and you know and then like yeah i didn't know that yeah he yeah he wrote a lot of it yeah he he he would uh i would like rift the character and then he'd go and he would write 10 pages just absolute brilliance and he'd bring it back to me and i was like oh my god then i'd like he'd write 10 more so he really helped that movie become what it is he's he was the genesis of it yeah so nick's my boy i love him yeah he's down here right now Is he really? I think he's somewhere in Florida right now.
Starting point is 00:38:18 Well, then, I got to get his house on that. Yeah, you got to hit him up. You got to hit him up. Holy shit. Well, he doesn't know I hit him up, but you do. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:38:28 I'm sure he won't. He is, he is, he is brilliant. There's no doubt about it. The best. No doubt about it. Like one of the funniest people you'll ever meet. Yeah. Like, like, I, you'll just sit with him and you think you know him.
Starting point is 00:38:42 I've sat with him 50 times. Every time I'll find something new. and I'll just cry. Like he'll always just make you laugh. Like he's, I mean, I love him. I used to fucking just love scrolling through his Twitter feed and this and all
Starting point is 00:38:55 the shit talk he would do. He's talked so much shit. He loves football. Like he talks so much shit about football. So fucking funny. Does he have a podcast? I don't, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:39:04 I don't think so. I'm sure. You know? No, I don't think he does. I don't think he does. You got to hit him up, bro.
Starting point is 00:39:10 He'd be perfect for this. Yeah, it was always like, like him, like you, Nick and, uh, dirt nasty were always kind of like
Starting point is 00:39:18 Simon Simon yeah you guys were always kind of like owned that niche you know what I mean that that comedy acting niche like comedy rapper slash yeah kind of niche in LA yeah there's a few of us you know what I mean that have that kind of like that vibe of I don't know cut from the same mold yeah you know what I mean it's like hip hop mold cloth whatever hip hop inspired comedy, you know, with a little bit of a twist, you know, but like Simon's also brilliant.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Like, hilarious. His raps are dope. You know what I mean? It's funny because his raps are funny, but they're really dope. Like, they've got great beats and there's hooks and his style, like dirt nasty. Like as soon as he comes on, you know, you know his, it's him. So he's got a signature sound. And I think that, you know, sometimes, I think it's probably a, you know,
Starting point is 00:40:15 he's got a lot more music in him and I think you probably want to make it That's another interesting thing you guys were talking about With Bert where you're just like You guys are like these comedic rappers But you guys are like on your teetering On the edge of being like legitimate Like successful hip hop artist
Starting point is 00:40:32 And comedians Well it's seeing it's like Yeah I was my buddy Stu Who's also Stu's a really good rapper So it's like he got these You got people right So it's like Kind of like for white
Starting point is 00:40:45 white dudes, the way in the hip hop was, was funny. You know, I mean. It's the first people to take you serious. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, say what you want, like, you know, one of the best ever to do at Eminem. Right. You know, his, his first rhymes are so insanely amazing. Sick.
Starting point is 00:41:03 But they're funny. Like, he's, he's a sick lyricist, but there's a lot of comedy there. Like, Eminem is hilarious, you know. and he's also very deep, very dark, you know, like intense. But his foray into hip hop was, you know, hi, my name is, which is all, like, dope, but sick, but hilarious. And I think that that's what, like, the Beastie Boys initially were funny. Me and Stu, like my buddy Stu is a dope rapper.
Starting point is 00:41:42 Really good. He was an actor. He's been in a ton of stuff. He was a care bear as a kid. He was Johnny Darko. Like, he's been a lot of stuff. And he just wrapped on the side in garage band. And I, like, one day I heard him.
Starting point is 00:41:53 I'm like, yo, this shit. He rap's so good about a porn star. The porn star heard it. And he started dating her. Like, that was like, yeah, because he started dating him because you love this. Do you have a pencil? He started rapping so much. And so, like, his, so I was a fan of his raps.
Starting point is 00:42:11 And I'm like, y'all, I'm going to produce your rap. So I gave him like 20 grand to like do his album and he did it but couldn't get it going. You know, this was before like SoundCloud. And I'm like, yo, I'm doing this movie like you gotta help me. So he wrote my rhymes but not really from Malibu, but then he started writing all these other songs. So I wanted to put out a comedy rap album called crap. But like that's what comedy and rap. But like before like the Lonely Island is also really funny.
Starting point is 00:42:38 But the Lonely Island is dope too. Like they're good rappers. So I think that that's what we do. We go in with a funny way, but no one can accept it. Now there's artists that can, one minute they're acting, the next minute they're cooking, the next minute they're writing a book, and they're like accepted. But for a while, people were in, like, they couldn't take you outside of your hole, you know, your pigeonhole.
Starting point is 00:43:04 And so I think now it's easier to be a cross-platform artist. But, yeah, like, you can, the key to it is a good beat. Yeah, for sure. And then, like, keeping the shit hard. But for me, you couldn't be hard right away. It had to be funny. But if you listen to my album with Stu, there's some bangers in there, low-key. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:22 Low-key bangers. You know what low-key bangers? You know what low-key bangers are? No, I don't. No, no, no. Low-key on the high note. Maybe you missed a part where I said I've been hearing age. No.
Starting point is 00:43:37 Low-key on the high note means that it's like, yo, it's like, you're like, it's like how can I say it like yo just tacos low-key fire so how would you say what that is turn it on it's fucking keeps vibrating fuck dude Maryland manse low-key means just like
Starting point is 00:43:54 a lot of people don't know about it like it's underrated it's really fucking good it's like taco bus has got a low-key fire a chorizo taco you don't know about it's like it's good but it's like on the menu low-key is kind of hidden right it's like not the main not the most popular thing
Starting point is 00:44:11 Okay, but it's the, it could be the best. Yeah, it's not mainstream. Like, a lot of Florida rappers that came up, you know, like that. Yeah, like that. Like, uh, have you heard of Rod Wave? No. Okay, never mind. But that's all right.
Starting point is 00:44:28 He's like that he's like one of the top five billboard hip hop artists. He's got like one of the, he's been like top five billboard for like the past year and a half to two years. And he came, he literally was born and raised 10 minutes from here. in like the ghetto of St. Pete. Wow. Yeah. It's weird if St. Pete has a ghetto. Oh, dude.
Starting point is 00:44:46 It gets rough in St. Pete downtown, or like south side St. Pete. Not like. Stabbings and stuff. Oh, yeah. Stabbings and shootings every week probably. I mean, it's not as bad as like some other town. It's not as about Chicago, but it's still pretty bad. Yo, like, low-key, like, I'm trying to think, like, Chick-fil-A.
Starting point is 00:45:09 Man, that's high-key. No. Trying to think like... Food? Anything. Like, yo... Pop-I's? Like...
Starting point is 00:45:18 Have you had the Pop-Pi chicken sandwich? That's low-key fire. It's low-key fire. Meaning kind of is... It's about it. And then it'll just go high-key. It's like, yo, it's just high-key. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:28 High-key on the high note. High-key on the high note. Yeah, that's where you've completely sold out. It's done. Yeah, you're sold out. You've already hit your court. You've already... Like, I'm not going to lie.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Like, you come off stage ago that gig was low-key fire. Right. And you didn't expect it to be that good because it was like I played it as like a tree house. Yes. In L.A. I'm not kidding. It's in a.
Starting point is 00:45:49 I was telling him we're playing all these places outside and some dude has got this dope setup. You would love it. Well, like tables and bushes, but like high up, he built straight up during a pandemic built like tree houses. Not crazy extravagant, but dope. So there's a table up there. Really? It's crib in Los Phyllis. from me by Griffith Park.
Starting point is 00:46:11 Have I heard of Griffith Park? And you have. And so you go there and you'll do a show and there'll be like 60 people. And there's like little boots and shit and it's not, it's high key fire. Meaning it's like... Mainstream.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Yeah, because it's in the back of this dude's house and it was like one of the hottest clubs. It's in the back of his house. He built it in the back of his house. How's parking? That's sick. He just parked in the street. You park in the street.
Starting point is 00:46:39 That's hilarious. And it is high key fire. That's hilarious. Yeah. So it's like, that's what people do. The one of the greatest things about the pandemic is brought the entrepreneurs out. So many cool, interesting inventive people. Mm.
Starting point is 00:46:50 Yeah. Shows or, you know, podcast blew up. So there's always moves to be made. Well, like, something's good or bad. Always moves, right? Yeah. Like Churchill said, never let a, you know, you know, a, you know, a problem going to waste. Never let a
Starting point is 00:47:09 Yeah Never let You know Can you find the Churchill Quote he's talking about? Yeah It's never let a crisis Go to Waste
Starting point is 00:47:19 Is that what he said? Never let a crisis go to waste That's a good quote. I think it took me longer To say that The Churchill lives Oh Low key
Starting point is 00:47:29 I was waiting Somebody to Highkey Mentioned Never let a good crisis Go to waste Speaking of Low Key fire
Starting point is 00:47:36 Bro Some of the best podcast That I've done have been low-key fire. Like the most fire podcast, they're always low-key. Yeah. They're not like the most popular ones with the most views.
Starting point is 00:47:46 Yeah. It's weird. It's like the shit that pops off on YouTube more than anything else is not always the best stuff. Like the best content that I've done is not always been the most popular. I'm sure you feel that way with like movies and different shows that you've done or specials that you've done. I did a movie called Buddy Hutchins. And it's on Amazon Prime. and it was a little movie,
Starting point is 00:48:10 and I play a guy that's kind of... You ever see the movie falling down? Mm-hmm. He did, you didn't. You should see it, but you might get it. So it's basically kind of what's happening now. It's like about a white middle-aged man who, like, can't deal with society anymore.
Starting point is 00:48:25 It's like the original... Just give it up, man. Get off my lawn! Type of dude. And it's Michael Douglas. It's brilliant. Yeah, it's great. Brilliant movie.
Starting point is 00:48:33 His glasses. He looks totally never... Really? And it's basically just like a guy just having a bad day to progressively worse and it's just like which turns into a bad week yeah a bad month so i did like a low budget version of that called buddy hutchins and it's just this guy he's at his wits end and he ends up doing horrible things but they're like you they're uh justifiable throughout the plot and it was kind of over the top at one point
Starting point is 00:49:00 i have a chainsaw it's a little crazy but people have hit me up about it like yo buddy buddy hutchins is low-key fire. But it played a niche, you know? So that's what I'm saying. Like, things have niches. So your podcast, people will have niches. It's like when you go to a convention, I do a lot of horror convention signings. And there's just people that are just straight up.
Starting point is 00:49:21 The dude who is the fifth death guy killed and Chucky will have such a line because people connect with that character. So super specific things now. That's why this all, this media is blown up because people will just, like with the hearing aid, you know, and there's a lot of people out there that need a hearing aid. They'll take that clip and they'll be look at it. And they might be a lot of traffic to Mike because of that. So it's like I think we're just always being able to connect in our needs.
Starting point is 00:49:46 Well, not if I can't form sentences. Well, that was the church hill. That was just on the tip of my time. Happens, Mike. Do you think, do you think, how many, how many, how many parts of the Malibu's most wanted were kind of just ad lib like off the cuff? Improv? Well, Nick would write, like, Nick had a really good scene. We would write it, you know, and then it was pretty much,
Starting point is 00:50:14 I'm from the Keenan Library schools of, like, comedy. So Keenan, like, will have, like, your scene, and then I'll have five other jokes. So I didn't have that luxury, but I would get, like, three. So I would say, you know, it was a good amount of it improvised. Tay and Anthony are hilarious, and as funny as the parts were written, they made it way funnier. by improvising.
Starting point is 00:50:38 They improvised so much. So they were a huge improviser. And all the rest of us had moments of it. But I was writing all the time. So I would add another joke in. I would say, try this joke, try this joke, try this joke. So I tried a lot. So that was kind of like improvisation.
Starting point is 00:50:53 But there was definitely stuff at the end of the scene where I just add stuff, for sure. So like I said with Jim Carrey in his movies, they're told, never shut the cameras off. Just keep running. Yeah. Some of the funniest stuff is like a minute after the scene, you know? tell you why you hire somebody. What was that? What was the quote?
Starting point is 00:51:11 Matthew McCona had said something where he's like, whatever his movie was, Interstellar, he was just like, I forget when he said it or what it was, but it was some clip I saw on Instagram where he's like when he does his scenes. Come on, Danny, spit out, come on. I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm better than Churchill, at least.
Starting point is 00:51:25 He's like, when he does his scenes, he, when he practices them, he said make sure they're rolling because he's like, the first time he says it, he says it's always the best. He says anytime after that, it's always acting. The first time he says it, it's always real.
Starting point is 00:51:38 Yeah. Everybody's got their own process. That's so true. Yeah. You know? Have you seen his movie that he did with Harmony Kareen? The movie that he did with Jonah Hill.
Starting point is 00:51:50 It's down in the Keys. They filmed it. It was basically 99% improv. What was the movie? Can you find out what the name of the latest Harmony Kareen movie was? It was called Beach. Oh, Beach Bomb. Oh, I heard that's good.
Starting point is 00:52:03 Dude, it was so good. It wasn't even like watching a movie. Wow. It was just like watching some dudes hang out for two hours. Yeah. No, like no script. It was just like he has Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, and some other guy, like, sitting there behind some $10 million mansion in the Keys and they're drinking and there's hookers. He's like, action.
Starting point is 00:52:23 Go ahead. Just start talking. And it was fucking amazing, bro. Wow. So, such a cool fucking movie. $10 million mansion drinking and hookers. Drinking and hookers. I tell you, I met Matthew McCannie.
Starting point is 00:52:35 And met Matthew McCannie. and talk to him and you know what he is the most family oriented honestly his kids his wife he that that guy is from texas right guy is just just just straight up you know yeah a solid guy yeah he is solid guy yeah super solid i want to ask you i want to respect your time oh yeah i got another pod if you can you really yeah can we talk a little bit about heck the heckler yeah go for it you wrote your notes. Did you even get to your notes? No, I didn't even get to my notes. I didn't get to my notes. I never do notes either. No, the stutter and fuck to my right won't shut up.
Starting point is 00:53:13 You what? I said the stutter and fuck to my right won't show up. You're not a stutterer. You just had what we call Biden brain. Oh, no. Now that hurts, man. Oh, my God. Now that hurts. I do a whole joke about it. Hey, man. No, I'm serious. Hey, man. I'm serious. Hey, man. Mike. Come on, man. Mike's doing him
Starting point is 00:53:37 Biden brain I love that Hey listen We're on track We're gonna do over 300 COVID shots This month 300
Starting point is 00:53:47 I know Oh wait wait I do a whole joke about it Do you? Yeah Are you performing tonight? Yeah Are you?
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Starting point is 00:54:00 We're gonna come We're gonna come We're gonna come hang out And you You sell merch out To the shows I do Fuck yeah
Starting point is 00:54:05 8.30, 1030. Probably the 8.30 shows will be packed. That's one you don't go to. Yeah, but we've got you, so it doesn't matter. Some people just don't get that table up front. After this podcast, he's going to delete my number. He's going to forget we even exist.
Starting point is 00:54:17 We're just going to show up and hope for the best. No, but Biden, they say he's got a stutter, which is unfortunate. But it's like at some point, why is he not stuttering and is it more of like... I said it's not a speech impediment. It's a brain impairment. Look, he can watch old video of him because he's been in the projects. his whole life. He doesn't have a stutter. People get real upset about that.
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Starting point is 00:54:49 Yeah. Yeah, let's not talk about it. But what inspired Heckler? How did that start? How did Heckler come about? That's the name of it, right? Yeah. Heckler is all about just really happened with like online, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:05 I started Online hecklers I started becoming a name And then I started seeing like all the comments And you know And I was like What the fuck is this? Like we never had that
Starting point is 00:55:15 Like you go to a movie And then the movie would be done You wouldn't Couldn't like go write the actor in the movie And go The guy who played the postman Sucked dick You can't like
Starting point is 00:55:28 Go into his DM and be like You suck DIC sir You suck as a postman You're like what Like that never happened, but I don't know what you know in terms of life of your generation. That was just you went and saw something. It was done.
Starting point is 00:55:41 Right. And then if we reviewed the movie. You don't see people on the side of the road that are like calling you a piece of shit. Yeah, it was like reviewed in a paper in a respectful way. And so heckler was kind of like my comment on society of how it changed, how everything became heckling. So that's what we live in now. We live in a troll society. It was way before all the shit's happening now.
Starting point is 00:56:03 but like reviewers used to review a movie. They review you now. They review your career, your face, your body. Comedy Club hecklers would be considered the worst. They're now the bravest because they're there. You can put a, they're cool. Online is the worst because they hide. Yeah, they hide behind a meme or something.
Starting point is 00:56:23 And it's like. In their parents' basement. Yeah. So a whole thing is exploration of like accountability. Like who are these people? And then so I got all. these crazy-ass comments and so I went and explored
Starting point is 00:56:37 them and I just like I went and literally did the thing where you consider the source and I found yeah I found out what the source was and then people would look I'm funny than you so then I put them on stage and Google they would bomb and you know and so that was you know
Starting point is 00:56:53 that's what the whole movie was about it was about exploring who these people are and why is our society like that what do you think the main difference is between internet hecklers and commenters because I 90% of my comments are fucking people that want me to dead. What does there between those kind of people
Starting point is 00:57:07 and people who are in a live comedy show? It's easy to be 10 foot tall and bulletproof behind a keyboard in your bedroom. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think, I think, um, I think some of those guys are just swiping. They're just like, don't think anything of it.
Starting point is 00:57:23 They see you and are like, look at this fucking surfing point dexter or whatever. Because you got, I don't know, I'm just making up stupid shit. Putting it on point there. No, yeah, but it's like, So those say shit, no, they don't think of it. You know, they've got a big gulp in, the caffeine is running. Some of it's just harmless.
Starting point is 00:57:39 Some of it is like they really, you really piss them off because maybe you live on the life they want or something and they're insecure. And some of it is just actual trolling of like, I'm going to, there's an art to that too. So it's different. There's like three or four levels to it. But, you know, I think we should have something on social media where no one can comment without accountability. So you have to see who the person is. You want to censor the comments?
Starting point is 00:58:06 No, I don't want to censor them. I think all comments, I want to know exactly who they are. I want to know exactly where they are. No, no, no, animinemi anymore. No anonymimimini. I know what you meant, Winston. And it's just like. If you write it, sign your name.
Starting point is 00:58:25 Yeah, because you just see a lot different happening. And then you could like, like people say so much shit to me. And then they have private accounts. It's like you. You guys into somebody in a bar. You get your ass kid. You pussy. Yeah, there's such.
Starting point is 00:58:40 Can dish it out but can't take it. No, yeah, they can't even. They won't allow you to comment. And I'll leave the comment there. And then at some point, I just won't even comment. I just let my community is pretty good about policing that stuff. I'm like, really? And then that.
Starting point is 00:58:55 But it's just, it's all good. I'm not beyond reproach. We all should be, you know, have looked upon as, you know, can be criticized, but it's like, yo, let's have a discussion. Constructive, yeah. Don't do a drive-by and gum me down and then hide behind your fucking private wall. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:12 Bitch move. It is. It is a bitch move. The people that do it in, in the shows, they are way braver. Way braver. That's the whole, because of the liquor, right? That's the icon, the ironicness of it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:59:25 Some of them are just, most, most hecklers are harmless. They're just having a good time. They're laughing. They're loud. They don't understand. You say something, they believe you so much, and they're part of the show. They don't understand. But mostly women, though, right?
Starting point is 00:59:37 Yeah, mostly, you know, white women in their mid-40s. We call them the triple dubs, the white wine warriors. White wine warriors. Yeah, they get a box of franzia. Oh, my God. The Carins and Sharon's, that's the scariest gang. But what I'm saying is they get this, they're brave because they're there. I can see their face.
Starting point is 00:59:56 Right. That's just brave. And those used to be not the brave. those of what I'm saying, I respect them more than any of them. If someone threw a tomato at me, I wouldn't really enjoy it. At least it's soft, but I would respect them more than somebody leaving a comment. Right. That's hilarious.
Starting point is 01:00:11 Unless somebody's leaving a comment in another country. I couldn't take a boat to say it to my face. Does it affect how you handle hecklers? Because, I mean, historically comedians, the last thing you wanted to be is a heckler because the comedian would rip you apart. What do you mean? Does it affect? Well, now somebody heckles, and if, you know, you do what stand-up comedians do,
Starting point is 01:00:30 which is just, you know, make a joke of them, embarrass them, well, the other ones right back on their, you know, putting stuff in my mind. I mean, yeah, you deal with them in the moment, you know, comedians usually win. I mean, sometimes hecklers win, there's no doubt.
Starting point is 01:00:44 But, yeah, I mean, they'll definitely, some people take their licks and other people will go on a board and. Yeah, but if you're funny, if you got, if you, if you, funny, the crowd sees it. If you destroyed them in a good way and you really did a good job, I think everybody can aside with you. Yeah, but it doesn't stop them. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:57 Yeah. It doesn't stop them. from going, you know, the next morning and that night while they're still, uh, whatever, the W's into, from Brighton. White wine warrior. White wine warrior. White wine. Mike's giving me Biden brain now.
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Starting point is 01:02:52 Jamie Kennedy.com. That has my Instagram, my Twitter, my Facebook. and that's my hub. You'll see Patreon, all that stuff. Go to jamiecannity.com for more of me. Thank you. I love you, Jamie. Appreciate you.
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