Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - 101: The Alex Punch Story ft. Stevie & Alex | Crew Biscuits Ep. 1

Episode Date: July 3, 2017

A look back on the early days of Mythical, how Mike & Alex were hired, Alex’s big screen debut and more on this week’s Crew Biscuit. Listen & subscribe at: Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/29PTWTM Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2oIaAwp Art19: https://art19.com/shows/ear-biscuits SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/earbiscuits   Follow This Is Mythical: Facebook: http://facebook.com/ThisIsMythical Instagram: http://instagram.com/ThisIsMythical Twitter: http://twitter.com/ThisIsMythical   Other Mythical Channels: Good Mythical Morning: https://www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink2 Good Mythical MORE: https://youtube.com/user/rhettandlink3 Rhett & Link: https://youtube.com/rhettandlink   Credits: Hosted By: Stevie Wynne Levine Featuring: Alex Punch Executive Producer: Stevie Wynne Levine Managing Producer:  Cody D'Ambrosio Featuring: Stevie Levine & Alex Punch Camera/Editor: Meggie Malloy Graphics: Matthew Dwyer Set Design/Construction: Cassie Cobb Content Manager:  Becca Canote Logo Design: Carra Sykes To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This, this, this, this is Mythical. Hey guys, we wanted to pop right in before this episode of Ear Biscuits to let you know that we will not be hosting this episode of Ear Biscuits. That's right, actually Stevie's hosting this one. Yes she is. And she's interviewing Alex. Right, because we're calling this a crew biscuit.

Yeah, because we're gonna have a handful of crew biscuits. Take out your hand, open it up, do it. This helps to visualize. Vigilize. Open up your hand, open your palm, and receive some little biscuits, some little crew biscuits. You can fit a handful of them in your hand.

Starting with this one, because we are, we literally just ran from the set of Buddy System. Season two. Well, I briskly walked. Well, it's hot out there, so I wanted to get in. Okay. And we're gonna run back right after this, and we're gonna keep shooting Buddy System.

I'll walk back, too. Season two. I'll walk back, too. But we're having a great time. I'm gonna trot. It's not affecting anything about us, personal appearance or anything like that. Nope, not at all.

Nothing is being impacted by this season of Buddy System. We're having a great time, it's going very well, but it is taking all of our time plus a little extra that we don't have. Mm-hmm. So that's why we were excited about the crew stepping in. It's crazy though, let's talk about Buddy System for just a second, just to give them a little teaser.

Talk about it. It's crazy. I mean. Like, I mean, every scene we do, I'm still like, they're gonna come in and they're gonna shut this down. Someone would sense. We shouldn't be allowed to do this? Is gonna say, stop the madness!

Lots of people are conjecturing about different aspects of the plot given some of the social media that has been released and also the behind the scenes videos that you can watch on the This Is Mythical YouTube channel. Yeah. You know what, you're not gonna, I mean, the plot is so stupid.

No, let's not, don't say stupid. In a good way, though. Okay, good stupid? I mean, people see an image and they're like, well, this must happen. I'm just like, no, what you think's happening is probably not happening. I'm just telling you. That's great. You gotta watch no, what you think's happening is probably not happening. I'm just telling you.

That's great. You gotta watch it to figure out what's happening. Yeah, yeah. So even though we're so busy doing that, it was very important. The thought never crossed our mind to not put an intro on the top of this to set up Stevie and her conversation with Alex.

Of utmost importance for us, we thought that it was almost crucial, essential that we do an intro for this. Yeah, we would never not do an intro for this. Although. So that they would have to then do an intro without us having to do it. Although I will say that. Having done one. We will not do other intros for the rest of the crew biscuits.

That's probably true. It was very important for us to do this one, just so you'll know that that's what is coming, but for the next few, we will not be doing an intro because you're smart people. Mythical beasts are smart. They don't have to have everything explained to them. Right?

And I think that you're gonna gain insight into the lives of the people that we work with and that are our friend workers. They're not just coworkers, they're friend workers. I do think they're friends, Link. No, they're not friends, let's be real. I mean. They're friends because they work for us.

Yeah, but now they've become friends. But we do like them, a lot. People become friends through different circumstances in life. You don't have to say, well, you're only a friend because I chose you as a friend first. If they didn't work for us, they wouldn't be our friends. I mean you were a classmate of mine

before you were a friend. That was a joke. It was circumstance that led us together and it's circumstance that has led us to the Mythical Crew. Nothing to be ashamed of. I'm not gonna call them friend workers. I might call them friendly workers. They are very friendly when they work.

I'm gonna call them friends. Friends, I'm also gonna call you friends. Enjoy this Crew Biscuit. Welcome to Crew Biscuits, I'm Stevie. And I'm Alex. And today we are taking over the table of dim lighting amidst buddy system preparation, pulling back that production curtain of magic to let you in on that little secret

if you didn't already guess that one. I'm going to now give a double intro because we're not sure if at this point more production magic Rhett and Link are doing an intro to this intro so you never know. This is in the case that they are doing an intro. Cool. Wow, that was a great intro. That went well, better than expected. And all the nice things that they said about you, about me. That was great of them. It was just like super generous and heartfelt and... I cried, yeah.

It was beautiful. More than I could have asked for. Yeah, yeah. um okay this is in case i didn't do an intro okay uh you know what i was hoping for this week on ear biscuits what what's that an intro from retin link yeah which would have been nice it would have been great and i think it would have kicked things off in a much better way had there been an intro. But because there's not an intro is what we're talking about. Sure.

Is there not an intro. Right. All right. I think we covered it. Covered it. Nailed it. Like always. Nailed it.

So what is Crew Biscuits, you might be asking, because you didn't put together the fact that we're members of the Mythical Crew and we're on ear biscuits. Yep. Well, let me just explain. I would like to start off by just talking about myself because that's what you do when you have a guest on is that you just talk about yourself. I never have a second to talk to any Mythical Crew members. I'm physically running oftentimes. I've noticed I'm physically running oftentimes. I've noticed I'm the only one who physically runs

from meeting to meeting, but I do it. And I wanted to have a second to sit down with crew members and just talk about life and where they're coming from. Where they're coming from. Currently, where they're coming from. I just came from the bathroom, so that went pretty well. So my first you're my first guest. Yeah. Do you feel honored? Very. Excited, nervous, sweaty. It's gonna be great though. Do you want to know why I chose you as my first guest? I do. It's a heartfelt moment just like the intro that Rhett and Link maybe did. People cry on the show

and it could happen again let's see. Well I've always said to you time and time again, your greatest skill is just talking to people. And this is a podcast. Yeah. Well, first of all, thank you. That's very nice. You've talked some people into some really odd things. Yeah, horrible.

Well, I won't say horrible, but some wild things. Yeah. And you're always like, sure, I'll call that snake charmer and ask him if he does lizards. Yeah, you never know until you ask. So traditional ear biscuits, we go way back. Yeah. I have a list of things that I know about you, facts that I know. One of the facts that I think everyone knows

is that you're from Michigan, you went to Michigan, you love Michigan, you wear a Michigan hat all the time, you have parents in Michigan, you have a brother who is from Michigan. Still there, yeah. Yeah, tell me about your family life. Tell me about Alex in Michigan. Michigan was a great place to grow up

um my whole family is still in michigan my sister lives in michigan as well she's a nurse i have a brother who's a doctor are we talking about city like urban michigan are we talking about cornfields cornfields everywhere a cornfield in front of my house a cornfield behind my house dead serious cornfield to the right of my house and a cornfield to the left of my house swear surrounded by i'll show you a picture on like google maps after this if you zoom in it's just cornfields and then my house did you have anything to do with the cornfields no so here's what happened my dad is a professor of computer science and engineering so a big computer guy you know really into all that kind of tech stuff a professor at

at michigan state so another college in michigan okay a rival school the one i went to um but he's you know very technologically savvy guy but he was tired of like living on a college campus i think and so he moved to the countryside just outside of a college this is pre you being born or this is like you used to live on a college campus? Yeah, so I grew like, I think until I was like five or six, I grew up on a college campus and then we moved to the countryside.

Okay. Like my dad would have like drunk college students pee on our lawn and stuff. He would have them? Well, he wouldn't be like, hey, what are you doing? But that would happen to him. I need you to come over tonight

because my lawn is dry. I need an excuse to move and I would you to come over tonight because my lawn is dry. I need an excuse to move and I would love for you to pee on my lawn. No, yeah, it was like, he lived in the middle of a very crazy college town and then, you know, he moved my family to the countryside. But he continued to work at the state.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, and he's still doing that today? Yeah. Okay, living in the cornfields. Living in the cornfield, working on computers. Okay. like he's like really big time computer guy there like he does like super computing stuff did he growing up

my dad always had like one of his hobbies was he had a bunch of pcs and he'd take them all apart and then he'd build like super computers that did like very random things. But was he like a hobbyist computer guy or just? He's like hardcore, like that's his job. So he'd do like. Oh my God, that part. Like it's not a game to build packaging, you know what I mean? He would do like, I mean, we would always grow up with,

which I thought it was strange. So back in the day, you know, now everybody has computers, but when I was a kid, not that many people did. we had four or five in our house all the time pc yeah yeah all kinds of different stuff so it was it's a little bit different but yeah he was they were always everywhere around the house was he like a gamer dude uh he would play like flight simulator yes your dad do that oh my gosh yeah that was a great game though it's no yeah it's also no joke it's like you're in a cockpit.

Yeah, and like a huge joystick. Yeah, he had the whole thing. I didn't think I was going to be bringing up huge joysticks, but here we are. And let me tell you, my dad could work it, you know? He could really fly that thing, you know? Yeah, I mean, now I do. Yeah, yeah, sure. So your mom, I'm guessing your mom was not into

flight simulation no okay i think i like take after my mom a lot more like my dad's very analytical you know kind of a more serious guy but my mom is a school counselor she also loves like what age like what elementary and middle school okay so she's always dealing with like children's problems and stuff you know That's her thing. Does she have any good motivational posters in her office? Yes. Yeah? She sang the song about a volcano to us.

Like if you're angry and you're about to blow your top. Can you? I don't know it. I wish I did. I don't know it. What a tease. I know. I'm sorry.

What a tease. Lori Punch definitely has sang the volcano song to us. And this is when we cut to the video of your mom singing the Volcano song. She would definitely send one in. She loves it. But no, yeah, she had like a lot of problem solving techniques. She liked to pass. Employ on you.

Yeah. We would always say we're being counseled. Like, mom, don't counsel us. What? So you have a brother and a sister. And what's the age difference between all of you guys? My brother and I are like almost two years apart, like a year and three quarters, I think. all of you guys my brother and i are like almost two years apart like a year and three quarters i think he's older yeah he's older

than me and then my sister's three years younger than me okay yeah a middle kid middle yeah yeah i thought you said ew no no it's good i like jfk was a middle child but you middle children it's that people forget about them that's the yeah so were you ever forgotten yeah I was left in a theme park no no um no I mean they did not leave you at home and then they went to New York and they were like Kevin and then they're like no his name's Alex no um no I mean I don't I think there's a unique experience to being a middle kid though you know you're never like the center of attention, I think there's a unique experience to being a middle kid, though. You know, you're never like the center of attention ever. I think you're always competing for it.

Right. Competing with both of your siblings. Yeah. I am the oldest child and my sister, I have one sister and she's younger than I am. And I felt like growing up, my mom would like test things out on me and then like a couple couple years later she'd be like yes you can watch pg-13 movies or you can like i never got to do any of the fun stuff like i was always the guarded one and then my sister got to be the one that just got to do everything always yeah i think it was a thing where they're like they gave it a shot with my

brother and then he gave up on me and then it was like yeah by the time my sister came around they're like yeah maybe we should give it a shot again you know but you know teach their own experiences but you're close with your you're close with your brother at least i know he just got married yeah and how was uh how was that it was wild where was that michigan yeah it was back in michigan i was like last week yeah uh it was great i was my best my's best man. I was my best man. I was the best man I could be at that wedding. I wanted to talk, one of my notes says, hold on, I need to read it directly because it's a funny one. It says, mother dash protein starch veggie mom question mark. Do you know what that note means?

No. What's that about? Growing up, I felt like my mom, like dinner for me, always included a protein, a starch, and a veggie. And it was like a very, it's a very like 50s thing to do. And it wouldn't be like peas as the vegetable, but like in my mind as a child growing up, if I didn't have those three things

something had gone wrong my mom had like it had been a bad day for my mom yeah so i think this means did you have protein starch and veggies for your like what was your like home life like yeah kind of so we my mom would patch our pack our lunches every day and we would always it'd be like a sandwich drink uh like starchy snack and then like a sweet snack like a paper bag and a paper bag every day so yeah i guess you have the same thing for lunch every day or was it like a varied sandwich situation very like it changed all the time but it was always the same thing and be like i feel like goldfish are ruined for me really because you used to get them all the time? Yeah. I can't. I feel that. Yeah, I used to get, so it'd be like a sandwich and then like a pudding.

And then like some chips and then a drink. And I remember it pretty clearly because like you'd see these kids with lunchables and stuff like that. And I'd be like, yeah, that looks dope. They're so good. Have you had a lunchable lately? No, but I bet they're just as incredible. The pizza ones? Yeah, they are.

I believe it. Yeah. No, but that makes sense because it's like, like you said, we'd get the same kind of thing every time. Yeah. So I guess my mom is a starch. I keep wanting to go like this, but then the mic is way taller than I am. Yeah.

And this looks weird and it looks like so i'm not gonna do it i read like this and i'm gonna do this um are we talking like public school yeah public school the whole all your schooling all the way through yeah but i i don't know i think it's probably a different experience than a lot of people because i lived in the middle of nowhere so it was like there there was only one school to go to did people ride on horses to get to school no but people would take their tractors to school they would yeah like multiple in the parking lot multiple tractors i think that like if it was like in season they would roll up in their tractor and be like hey what's up like and also if it was deer hunting season like there's

no point going to school because all the kids were gone. I thought you were going to bring tractors into it. And I was like, that doesn't seem like a good idea. Because they were always shooting deers on their tractors. That's so crazy. There were pickup trucks in my parking lot. Oh, yeah. A lot of those. I remember this kid, like, because hanging out in the parking lot in high school was, like, a thing.

Yeah, it was cool. Before the bell. Yeah. And I remember after school one day, this kid was chasing after his friend. Like he was running and his friend was driving, I think it was like a station wagon or something. And he stopped the station wagon to be funny. And the kid ran through the back windshield. Yikes.

That's, I don't know why I just brought that up. He passed away. No, he's, well, I mean, he could have passed away. Like since that incident. He didn't during the incident. Okay, good. I would not have brought up that story. But I don't remember who the kid is,

and therefore I haven't spoken to him. So RIP if that is the case. Did you have an iconic car in high school? Because I did. No. Let me hear about your iconic car. I had a 96 Jeep Cherokee. Is that an iconic car?

Well, mine was. What's the definition? Mine, so my car, like I had this 96, it was just this red Jeep, but everything was broken on it, basically. So all the doors, like they wouldn't lock. Is this a car you asked for? Is this a car that your parents were like-

No, no, it's like a hand-me-down. Me and my brother would share it. Okay. But none of the doors would lock. So every day I would come out of school and all of my stuff in my car would be on my roof and all the doors would share it. Okay. But none of the doors would lock. So every day I would come out of school and all of my stuff in my car would be on my roof and all the doors would be open. My friends thought that was super funny.

That is super funny. But also, this is great. You know, like the back windshield sprayer? Mine was broken and it would just shoot outwards. And so like my friends would walk by and I would shoot them in the face with my windshield wiper fluid. But yeah, it was pretty, people it was pretty people knew that does sound iconic yeah good times in that car i had a blue rav4 oh but it was not iconic but that's all it was that's just what it was no one put stuff on my roof or anything like that i I love that car. It was great. I'm not a big car person.

I feel like I've had the same car since 2008. Since I've known you, yeah. Yeah, and you are a big car person. Sort of. I mean, you're a chooser of cars. Yeah, chooser of cars. Can we go through? If you ask the specs about my car,

I could not tell you a thing about it other than it's red and the roof comes off of that thing but before that red volvo convertible oh yeah yeah what did you call your other you had another jamal jamal okay who was a who who no you can call him a who he was he had a lot personality. He wasn't a PT Cruiser. No. He was a... Heavily misunderstood Chevy HHR. Yeah, okay. But that car, I mean, that car was great here. We used to use that car for shoots all the time.

Did you go Jeep, HHR, red convertible? Yeah. Okay. We're moving up in the world. Broken Jeep, Chevy HHR, and then I got my red convertible. So you took the Jeep to Michigan, to University of Michigan, or you took the HHR to University of Michigan? I didn't have a car in Michigan at U of M,

but I got one when I got my first job after I graduated. I got the HHR. Did you always wanted to go to U of M? No. Well, it's weird. I don't know if I've talked about this a lot, but I didn't go right to U of M? No. Well, it's weird. I don't know if I've talked about this a lot, but I didn't go right to U of M right away. I was a transfer student.

Yeah, I spent a year. Oh, my. Scandal. Please tell us more. I'm not a pure blood U of M guy. I went to school for a year at this place called Eastern Michigan University, which is weird. It's weird.

It's like three miles from U of M, but it's also a D1 school. But it's, oh, man, it's not as good of a school as U of M. It's a great school. I don't know how to walk around this. Do you think they're watching you when you're? Yeah, no. Okay. So it's fine.

Yeah, you're right. It wasn't as good of a school. But it was cool i mean yeah i spent a year at eastern i didn't really know what i wanted to do so like i said my dad taught at michigan state i probably could have gone to michigan state which is also a big you know huge school next to your house right next to my house it's literally like 10 minutes away from where i grew up but that's kind of the thing So like all my friends would go to Michigan State. We would go there when we were in high school still

and hang out with our friends. Like that's all everybody did. So everybody kind of did, would do the same thing. Like a lot of my friends from high school are still all best friends. I don't really, I don't talk to them that much anymore. They are watching actually. They probably are.

Sorry. But yeah, everyone would kind of do the same thing and I never liked doing the same thing, so I went farther away. I went to Eastern Michigan University. I never even applied to U of M because it's a really good school, hard to get into. And then I transferred out after a year.

I got in. Your self-confidence, I feel like you've grown. Your car choices match your car choices. Have missed. And that's your confidence level. So, but once you were at U of M, then you decided you wanted to be in entertainment? Yeah. Yeah, while I was at U of M, I started studying film

and kind of fell into some really lucky internships and stuff like that, working on movies. I would work on, every summer I was like that working on movies i would work on every summer i was at u of m i would work on like another movie you know what my favorite movie story of yours is probably do you want to talk about your your screaming my screaming yeah so so sorry sorry i'm jumping around but you're at u of m yeah decide you want to go into film yeah you fall into some good internships. Let's maybe talk about those internships and then we'll talk about the screaming.

Well, it was weird. So right when I got to school, these huge tax breaks were coming to Michigan, like over 55% tax break to shoot a movie in Michigan. So you could double your budget by just shooting in Detroit, which is like kind of a bombed out city as is. And Detroit's listening right now.

But a beautiful bombed out city. It's like World War II never stopped, but it's beautiful there. It's great. I love Detroit. But anyways, yeah, so there's these huge tax breaks. So there was tons of movies being filmed in Michigan, and they didn't have enough people to work on them which was crazy because like that's people's dreams to work on these huge budget movies but that summer what year are we talking 2010 and

2011 oh long long time ago long long ago but yeah so there's all these these tons of of movies shooting and so there'd be these job postings all the time, like, hey, we need people to come out. But they would never say what it's for. They're always very secretive. They didn't want press people finding out stuff. So I applied. My first one I applied to was intern needed

to assist with directors and producers. And I was like, I could do that, probably. And then I got to this random kind of office building in Ann Arbor and there was a parking sign that said parking for Wes Craven. I was like, oh snap, this is so crazy. I just reacted as if that was a surprise. Did you see that?

I was like, who's at the parking sign? Oh my God, I didn't know that. I didn't see that one coming. That's pretty wild, especially a kid from four cornfields around his house to be in the presence of, I didn't know that. But I remember like, that's pretty wild, especially a kid from, you know, uh, four cornfields around his house to be like in the presence of like, I loved movies. That's why I studied movies.

And so to be around all that was crazy at what I was 20, 20 years old. So, so after you saw the parking spot, I went in and like, they sat me down directly in Wes Craven's office and said like, Oh, this is going to be internship working with his assistants and the producers of the movie like is

that something you're interested in I was like yeah yeah sure that'd be great and then kind of like one thing led to another I it's kind of weird but I was working on like a 55 million dollar movie in the middle of Ann Arbor like that summer it's crazy so crazy it was wild but you weren't just working on the movie behind the scenes no well no I am featured heavily it's so funny I actually got a check uh for cocky student which was my role in the movie sorry to jump ahead but yeah um recently you did yeah like last week I got a $13 check in the mail that's not too shabby like it's been a while check it out on netflix tell your friends to watch it as well because

i can think i get some percentage of money every time people watch it i guess we can't really cut to clip no i would i would tell myself watching this yeah we couldn't cut to the clip if you want you probably could find it somewhere but uh yeah, that's another weird story. So I was like, strangely, I had become sort of friends with Wes. Like he was an 80-year-old man and he loved playing Angry Birds and Flappy Bird. Or not Flappy Bird. It was Doodle Jump. Wait.

Doodle Jump. What's the difference between Angry Bird and Flappy Bird? What's Flappy Bird? Flappy Bird is when you press it and then it tries to go in between like bars. it's not an angry bird no it's he's a happy bird i would say he loves to fly oh but weirdly enough sorry i'm getting this which means this is the ad um and i'm i'm reminded via cody going like this how much i desire to have an ad right now. Alex, are you desiring an ad? I would love to see an advertisement. Spotify. That's right, you can find us in the podcasts section within the browser tab when you're using Spotify on mobile, or you can just go on there and search Ear Biscuits,

and believe it or not, Ear Biscuits, that's us, is what will pop up. I believe it. While you're there, click to follow us to have new episodes delivered right into your Spotify library. Ooh, a little surprise in the Ear biscuit, Varieté, in your Spotify. That's not how you say it, it's Spotify.

Yeah. I just wanted to say that. You tried to rhyme Varieté and Spotify. And it's hard to do, but I did it. You could have just said Variety and Spotify, and that still doesn't rhyme. Okay, Mythical Beast, head over to... I also said Mythical Beast wrong. I said Mythical Beast-sk. So, I'm really... No, no, we're changing also said Mythical Beast wrong, I said Mythical Beesk. So I'm really.

No, no, we're changing it. It's official, Mythical Beesk. All right, Mythical Beesks, head over to Spotify.com slash podcast for more. That's Spotify.com slash podcasts. Oh my gosh, that ad was so good. Wow, that was really good. Okay, what were we just talking about your role in

scream 4 yes um there is another story that you have told me that i want to bring up because i think that if you brought it up it would sound like you're name dropping but if i bring it up it is exciting so um miley cyrus tell me about her well okay so after I did Scream and I had a role in Scream 4 we'll breeze over that I was in Scream 4 a kid was too young to do it and so they asked me to do it wait that's not Cocky Student that's a different one that is Cocky Student that's like the story of Cocky Student oh I'm sorry there's more we'll go back to Cocky Student. Okay. So, yes. So you can find the clip. We talked about that.

And now we're going play by play on Cocky Student. Yeah. To give you, because we're not done with Cocky Student. Well, I just, yeah. So I was 20 at the time. And I guess the kid that they had hired to play that had lied about his age. And he was underage. And it was like a SAG project.

So they were like, oh, you can't do it it and so that day they needed somebody to replace it and they're like alex where you're not doing anything you need to do this and i was like oh god are you serious and so i went into like a dark hallway hallway with west and he was like walk up and say this line to me and i did it and he was like yeah that's fine and I was like oh snap and so the next thing you know I was like in hair and makeup and I was in I had like my own trailer for the day very very wild I can't remember what you looked like but crazy I looked insane so I'm I was gross I was working on the set I remember like going back to the hair people and she was like when was the last time you showered I was like so long i'm on this set

every day you know that wow yeah she was rude and i had like really curly hair i don't know it's a wild oh my gosh you did have curly hair really but you naturally had curly hair they didn't curl your hair no i mean i i think i was a lot did they shower you is that what you're saying they like bathe they sponge makeup sponge bath your body yeah yeah it was gross yeah i just looked crazy and then they did what they could i think and then i had to go do that line and it was weird i feel like students look yeah yeah yeah exactly curly hair yeah all students have curly hair yeah but that yeah that was the story though i uh had curly hair i wasn't hired to be an actor.

I was just there. Right time, right place. I had played a lot of Doodle Jump with Wes and we were friends. Oh, sorry. We didn't even talk about Doodle Jump. Yeah. Flappy Bird, you're in between bars. They're happy and they're not angry.

Yeah. Doodle, Doodle. Doodle is just a guy who jumps. Do I sound old and out of touch right now? The Doodle Jumps. No, no. Yeah, this is like early, early iPhone games and i had just gotten an iphone 2 like my parents had got me an iphone for that movie i was like oh i need one everyone will think i'm a loser if i'm on this movie and i don't have an iphone

and so i just gotten like doodle doodle doodle jump on the iphone wes and i had bonded over that and then uh he asked me to do that part and I was in it you owe it all to doodle gems yes it was cool I gave a really good teaser earlier yeah when I just said Miley Cyrus and that's all I said she's great what how did she come into play this is another film that you worked on because there were not a lot of people in Michigan to work on films yeah this happened so I killed it, you know? I'm the best guy around after I worked with Wes Craven. I'm like top notch now.

There's nobody here who'd really worked on movies and then the next summer came around and they were like looking for people again. And I was like, I happen to be a close doodle jump friends with Wes Craven. So perhaps I could work on this film as well. So I worked for this. That's like the perfect cover letter.

Yeah, it was wild. So I worked for this that's like the perfect cover letter yeah it was wild so i worked for this guy named chip diggins on an independent movie called love and honor and chip diggins was like a former executive at paramount and he like had left there and he's doing independent films now and so producing or directing producing like he was like i think he was a higher up at disney as well but he was like hardcore like i love he he's like one of the best dudes ever like he kind of was a huge mentor to me and still is like great great dude um but he hired me for that movie and on that intern pa as his assistant i was so i was an assistant to the executive producer and you're still in school this is like

yeah summer between you being in school. Yeah, I'm 21. So this is the next summer after Scream 4. Okay. And so Liam Hemsworth was the lead in that movie. This is like right after he had done, oh gosh, I almost said Twilight, which is wrong. It's the other one.

I wouldn't have called you out on that one. It's the other one. It's with, you know hunger games hunger games he's the one of the male lead in the hunter games yeah yeah which is also good we're young um which the movie is good your hunger games is great yeah it's or it's good that we know of hunger games both we're smart young and we know about stuff i like hunger games yeah he's pita or gail one of those no he's not pita and i like hunger games to the point where i know that he's well maybe now i'm questioning myself but i know jennifer lawrence yeah okay oh that was a oh my gosh i totally forgot i wanted

us to have a platform to do shout outs because i feel like we never do if we're on gmm sure or you know 10 feet tall like I'm always on 10 feet tall and I'm always thinking when am I going to get a chance to shout out? So I want to give a shout out to Jennifer Lawrence. Thank you for

being in Hunger Games. And you're really cool. You seem cool. I feel like I've wasted my shout-out moment. Can I do one? Yeah. I want to shout-out to Liam Hemsworth,

also in Hunger Games, who is a great guy. I love that guy. Really? Very, very sweet dude. Was very nice to me as a young man. Appreciate you. Love you.

And your assistant, Angus. Both great people. Love you. Miss you. Hang out soon. That was very personal. Yeah. Whereas mine was just more of an observational.

I'm sorry. Yeah. I shouldn't have done it that way. That's fine. Yeah. Okay. So Liam Hemsworth is in it and he's a nice guy and you know his assistant, Angus. Yeah.

Oh, his assistant, Angus, is the best. But, oh, he's great too. Everyone's so fun um but yeah so i i worked on that movie and somehow also became like friends with with liam and some of the people in the cast i was very close with a lot of the cast just because i worked pretty close with them who else was on in the cast oh gosh oh gosh uh chris lowell wyatt russell who's doing very well he was just in everyone everybody wants some he's kurt russell's son and goldie hawn's son um what else is in that movie oh uh uh amy

tea garden she was in friday night lights she's very nice too wait who who which one she was the coach's son in friday night like she was the coach's son oh daughter daughter oh no amy no she's not gonna like that she's the coach's daughter yeah yeah friday night lights is the show that i just like like to have on in the background of everything like i've watched it like three times all the way through it's like one of the best shows in the whole world. Highly recommend. It's so good. Alex plays a cocky student in a couple of the episodes. Please watch. I might get paid for that at some point too. Shout out to Friday Night Lights.

Yes. Oh, this is good. I like shouting out. It's going to be fun. It's good. Okay. Wow. We have teased Miley Cyrus so much.

Oh, I know. I know. So much. Okay. So I'm friends with Liam. I can't wait to hear the story. Miley has just, I believe they are engaged at this point,

or very close to becoming engaged. Okay. So I work for this producer, and basically half my job for that summer is she just showed up to hang out. She had shot this movie with Demi Moore in Detroit the summer prior. So while I was working on Scream,

she had done this movie with Demi Moore in Detroit. So she liked Michigan and liked hanging out. So she would just come and hang out on set all day. And also her fiance was in the movie. Correct, correct. Okay, I just want to make all those connections. She didn't just really like Detroit. If she did though, would anyone tell her to leave?

Probably not. They'd be like, okay. I mean, I have so many Miley Cyrus stories from that summer, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about. I'm totally sure. Please, I would like to hear a little bit of each. I remember this was right before she was a bad girl. She was still nice. Before she was a bad girl?

Yeah, she had her long hair. Publicly. Yeah, so she had her long hair, but I remember she had gotten caught smoking a cigarette and the paparazzi went crazy and put that out there. We're still in Disneyland. Yeah, yeah, exactly. caught smoking a cigarette and the paparazzi like went crazy and put that out there. Or something like Disneyland. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. She got an equal, she got an equal sign tattooed on her middle finger. And so she had, but she had wandered off and no one knew where she was when she was getting a tattoo. And it was like my job to go find her. Like my, my boss had came up to me and he's like, we're going to find Miley. Like, where's Miley at? And I was like, didn't know that. I didn't know that was part of this whole thing, but I will go find her. Like my boss had came up to me and he's like, we gotta find Miley, like where's Miley at? And I was like, didn't know that.

I didn't know that was part of this whole thing. But I will go find her. And so I remember running around this town called Ypsilanti very late at night, because we were on night shoots, and like running all over town trying to figure out. Excuse me, have you guys seen Miley Cyrus? And then like I finally found her at a tattoo shop and she says something like, hey hey y'all what y'all

doing like she was very like oh hey what's up how's it going yeah but she i mean she was cool she was always very nice to me did you like tag her when you found her i was like oh no we need to go you can't be here you can't just be wandering around the streets of the city she wasn't getting the tattoo on her middle finger though she was She was getting. Yeah, she was. She was getting that tattoo. Yeah, yeah. At that moment. I remember that very distinctly because it exploded on social media.

I remember thinking to myself, like, that's so wild that. You were there for the moment when it happened. But also, like, she's just wandering. She doesn't care. She hadn't thought this through at all. Like, she just kind of went to this place and got this tattoo, which is awesome. Like, cool for her. But, like like she just made this split second decision and then it's everywhere like it's all over the news which i remember thinking like oh that's insane

i might be spilling things no you're good you didn't go um well speaking of insane things alex i also have a list of things that you've done very recently. Oh my gosh, I'm going to tease that list though because I want to go back to when I first hired you. Yeah. Which at this point is like three years ago. I pulled up the email exchange. That's so good. From May 21st, 2014.

That's so good. From May 21st, 2014. That's so funny. I had posted for a production assistant on staffmeup.com, shout out. And you had answered. I emailed you back. I asked if you wanted to talk. You said, quote, absolutely, exclamation point. Yeah. We talked.

I hired you. Previous to that, you know, we had another pa also named alex yeah how do you feel about that how did you feel at the time did um i was fine with i remember link came up to me and he was like trying to set up my email this is back when we did everything there was like what five of us yeah and so this is old studio that was like the weird like apartment half medical situation it was the best yeah it was good times but so link it came up to me and he's like well uh i need to send up an email for you but um you know we already have an alex one so i guess you can just take that one i was like oh no like that's like best case scenario for link is hiring someone in the same position with the same name so he doesn't have to remember the next person's name.

Because that's like a runner joke with Link is that you'll be like, my name's Alex. And he'll be like, Greg. And you're like, no, Alex. Which is so funny the first week. But year three, it's tough. It's so rough when he comes up and says that stuff to me now just kidding he doesn't do that oh very much okay so three years later here we are um at some point we brought mike on you we you know you moved up to production coordinator mike came on as a pa when mike first came on um we were questioning we were

questioning him i'm so excited to talk about this it's great um because mike was very mike-ish at the time yeah he hasn't changed yet um so a lot of his pa duties he just seemed, he seemed very constantly upset about everything, but also. But he's not. It's so strange. So it took a while to see for, I think for us both to understand that he wasn't upset about things. Yeah. So I knew like, yeah, he's just kind of a very dry kind of a dude. Do you know how mike came to be here though you might want to say this for your your podcast with him let's touch on it because i don't remember i have the worst memory um so i didn't pull up that email exchange yeah yeah i have a great email exchange with mike but so i hired mike because the old alex who used to work here had put up

a posting for interns and people on our old Facebook. And so that email address was up and it was like, oh, if you need to, if you want to apply for this internship, you can't just email me at Alex blank, blank, blank. And so his old email was mine, just like I said, like Link had done. And so people who are pretty savvy could find that post and then email me. And so Mike had. Wait, what do you mean people who are pretty savvy could find that post and then email me. And so Mike had. Wait, what do you mean people who are pretty savvy? Because you have to go way back through all those old. Oh, Mike went like a year back onto Rhett and Link's Facebook page.

More than that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Wow. And somehow found that email from the old Alex and then had emailed me asking about internships. But in his email, he included a script starring both Rhett and Link, which he will hate me for finding. Oh, my God. I totally remember that.

Yeah, which I bet I could find. I remember you telling me about that. And it was insane. It was like the most insane script. But you know what? Mike can talk about that when he comes on. But it is like. Oh, my gosh.

I'm so excited. It's genuinely like the most insane. Didn't we read it out loud in the office? Yes, heck yeah, we all read it. And I was like. Just like all that fanfic that we read? Yeah, we read it. But it was nuts. And I was like, this is so insane.

And everyone was like, no, don't call that dude. Like, that's insane. And I was like, no, we have to. At the time, we probably didn't have a lot of interns. No, and we were looking. Yeah, we needed interns. We were looking. It wasn't just like, we got. And I was like, no, we have to. But at the time, we probably didn't have a lot of interns applying. No, and we were looking. Yeah, we needed interns. We were looking. It wasn't just like we got a million emails being like, can we work there?

Yeah, and I remember laughing so hard. And then I brought Mike in a week later. And then, like, he was. But was that a joke? What? Bringing him in? The script. Oh, no.

It wasn't a joke. Yeah, it was a joke. I mean, it was a joke. I mean, it was very clearly way over the top and very Mike. Like, I know Mike now, so I understand what he was doing. But back then, I was like, this is hilarious. This is absolutely insane. Like, I have to just see what's going on with this person, which we did.

Which we did, and we, like, kept checking in on him being like, wait, I think he might be miserable. Yes. I think he might hate everything we're asking him to do. Yeah, he had a horrible time when he first moved here. I know there's so many things going on, but he's a very... His car got broken into on one of our first shoots. And it broke down.

The transmission broke. I mean, he didn't have a place to live. And he didn't have a mattress for a while. We'll save this for the Mike and crew biscuit. But my point bringing up Mike is that you guys are real life best friends at this point. And so there was a transition between getting that email with that script that was ridiculous. And then thinking that Mike literally hated everything. And then to where we are today.

I mean, so you guys started working, you really started bonding on Good Mythical Crew. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, at a point, like Mike, it's so strange to think about now because like we do everything and we're like, I don't know. We're partners.

You're roommates. We're partners in like every aspect of our life. It's okay, you can say partners. We're partners. Your roommates. We're partners in like every aspect of our life. It's okay. You can say partners. We're friendship partners and business partners and all kinds of partners in every aspect of our life. I mean, you didn't have to say all kinds of partners because that kind of, you know, opened the doors a little bit more. But that's fine. No, but at one point Mike worked for me. Like directly for me, I would tell Mike what to do every day.

Like, you know, and it's weird to think about. Like it's just so far at one point his role kind of changed and it was like we were just splitting everything 50 50 with what we're doing and we now that's what we do anyways so yeah it kind of developed slowly but yeah we started we started doing the crew stuff and like that's where i guess we discovered our friendship i have a list of things that I'd like to bring up that you did on Good Mythical Crew. Because I feel like I was recently looking at the playlist about like an hour ago. And it's funny to me the things that you've done.

Yeah. Including you got your blood sucked by a leech. My worst fear. The only fear I have. Really? That's all I'm scared of was leeches. But worst fear. The only fear I have. Really? That's all I'm scared of was leeches. But now that you've done it, it's still a fear? Yeah, I don't really care.

Okay. I don't really care. Look at that. It hurt. But that's like the only thing. Check that one off this list. People would ask me like when we were trying to do the show, they're like, what are you scared of?

And I was like, leeches. I don't mess with leeches, man. And it's true. I still don't like them, but that was like my biggest fear. The weirdest thing about that to me was that it was in that woman's house. Yeah, that was insane. Like that's the scariest. That's the scariest. She was like, you're not going to like, you're not. Yeah, she was scary. I don't know.

She was great though. Yeah, she was great. She was great. Another great person. We appreciate her. Shout out to her. Shout out to Leech Lady. You built a cheese baby fountain. Yeah, that was awesome.

I think in that episode, you reveal it to me. Yeah, and you were like, oh, we can't use that. No, I was genuinely impressed by your ability to build that baby peeing cheese. Or was the baby puking cheese? Puking cheese, yeah. In my memories. It all blurs together. It was peeing cheese.

You spent a full day gathering horse poop. Yeah, yep. I think we'll leave that one. I think we were like, we just, see back in the day, we used to do stuff with real reckless abandon. So we were like, let's go to a in the day, we used to like do stuff with real reckless abandon. So we were like, let's go to a ranch.

We'll run on there. We'll steal some horse poop and then run off. And that's what we did. I like that you said back in the day as if like 10 feet tall is not exactly that. Yeah, it's the exact same thing. We looked at the horse poop episode and we were like that. More of that. That's pretty much what it is.

yeah yeah more of that that's pretty much what it is um this one i feel like there was a boundary that might have been crossed in this in this particular i know what it is really i that's a long i mean it could be anything but you drank la river water and then and you went into the river yeah i swam in it nude yeah and i exposed Yeah, there was some blurring that had to be done. Yeah. Shout out to those editors. Shout out to those editors. Shout out to whoever did that. AKA, it was Ben.

No, I think, I remember Matthew being- He passed it off. Matthew was not into, he was like, whoever had to blur it was upset with me. Understandably, I get it. That was not safe nope um you wore a diaper to a power rangers convention yeah that was good people need to watch that more it was good that particular episode yeah oh god you've just been like monitoring all the episodes yeah that's a good episode. People need to see that. It's good. You took a miniature horse's temperature.

Rectally. Rectally is the part I was implying. But we've since worked with those miniature horses, so I feel like that's not as big of a deal. No, we're cool now. I should have started with that one because that one doesn't seem as bad anymore. No, no yeah they're great girl the mini horse people i'm sorry girl those are great i think girl the mini horse people i said those guys are great

yeah the woman yeah or the horses all of them they're what's the woman's name jean jean she's awesome shout out her. Those people are for real amazing. She is really amazing. They're great. And then for some reason last on my list, because there's a whole long list, and if you guys have not watched all of the old Good Mythical Crew episodes, you have got to shout out to those episodes.

And we'll touch more on 10 Feet Tall. But I also, we were in my office looking for something to do that was related to GMM episode. The episode was about hot dogs. And I Googled and happened upon people swallowing whole hot dogs and you attempted that. Yeah. Which like there's sometimes when I'm reviewing your episodes where i like literally tear i cry from laughing so hard and it's not it's not it's always when you're struggling

i know that's why that's like the struggle is so real like it's so hard and he didn't did you get i got a one of the baby ones down and But I also projectiled one out with like the wildest noise ever. It was like. That was a scary episode. There's a lot of iterations of the episode, but that's where we got to. And it was great. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaking of scary. I mean, let's talk a little bit about 10 feet tall. Yeah. At the time that this comes out, we will be really shooting buddy system even harder yep um which i was supposed to i don't even know how much i touched on i said that we're shooting buddy system but um but gosh boy is there a lot going on yeah you so you are just a blur i know we talked about you running but it's true it. It's true. Ran in here, going to run out of here. Yep, you are.

But one of my favorite 10 Feet Tall episodes that came out fairly recently, a little bit further back by the time this comes out, is the teddy bear episode. Yeah. And based on that episode we kind of we we've come up with other fighting based episodes so those episodes are going to be out around this time um you got shot in the nethers the nethers and you also hurt your hand being shot at by another ball. Yeah.

I noticed this stuff never happens to Mike though. Isn't that weird? Isn't that so strange how that happens? Bizarre. But literally every time horrible, bad stuff happens to me. But it's good. You recover. You always recover.

And we're always safe. Like we always, people talk about how we do stuff around cars. Yeah, maybe that's not safe. That's not good. We shouldn't do that stuff, but we do. We're getting lucky. We're getting really lucky

every time we shoot something. Yeah. What's, the point of me saying what my favorite episode has been as of late was to ask you what your favorite episode has been and or what you're

looking forward to and just talk a little bit more about uh 10 feet tall and and all that yeah i mean we talked about mike and i's friendship and it kind of that show all has like blossomed out of our friendship and like we're very strange i think people probably have gotten onto that and so you know we've been given the go ahead to just basically do whatever. Would you agree with that? It's just like, within reason. You know?

I mean, yeah, I mean, I still just check out, can you do this video? Yes, you can. Let's look at the story beats. Okay. Let me approve this video before it goes out. What's the title thumbnail? But yeah, I mean, pretty much whatever you want.

Yeah, yeah, like within some reason reason but that's like an amazing opportunity like that's crazy like people don't get to do that but um i don't know my favorite episode is probably i think i like the teddy bear one too you just were having so much fun that's's why I liked it so much. It was so fun. And our process for the episode was like, oh, we'll get them and we'll figure it out. And it's like, when you have that much leeway to kind of figure it out on your own and like you're working through it with your friend and it's awesome.

It was so fun. Like we did not have beat it out, I'll throw a trash can at Mike. We didn't have the fact that Mike was gonna throw a dummy at me. it's insane the stuff that we did and it was so fun and that's kind of you know we're trying to find our way still I think and that's kind of the the thing that we're moving forward with it's like we have fun together and when we get to you know be wild and be ourselves that's the best the best episodes I

think yeah I mean when we were first talking about transitioning away from Good Mythical Crew and starting this whole new show, we had a couple meetings where we were like, okay, let's come up with some episode ideas and they have to have this criteria. And Rhett and Link and I were sitting down and we're like, what do we want to see Mike and Alex do? And there was kind of a,

it was very hard for us to think of things for you guys so then when we sat down with you guys and we were like well what do you guys think is funny and what do you want to do got hot dog stands yeah and then the next time you came back and talked to us you had like a list of 30 ideas that we would have never thought of and we were like yes yes yes that's very mike and alex well, you guys know us very, very well at this point, especially you, Stevie. I'm old school at this place at this point. You are, yes. Which is crazy. Your email's even older than you.

It's true. I sent it in vitro. I don't know. In the womb? No, your email address. Alex. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Because of the other Alex.

We covered that earlier. I thought you meant I wasn't born yet, which doesn't make any sense. No. That's not what I meant. Well, Alex, thank you so much for being my first guest on Crew Biscuits. At the end of Ear Biscuits episodes, guests get to sign the table. I want to extend the same courtesy to you. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ask you to sign underneath the table because that's where I feel like the Mythical Crew should be signing.

You understand. No, yeah, I get it. Harley Mortensen takes up a lot of room, so it's like, you know. And he might be coming back, and we need another space for him to take up equally the same amount of room. Shout out to you, Harley. Oh, final shout out? Maybe. Maybe final? I'm kind of bummed I wasted it on Harley, but great guy still, though. up equally yeah the same amount of room and um oh final final shout out maybe maybe final i'm

kind of bummed i wasted it on harley but great guy still though love you um all right i'd like to uh watch you do this this is so much harder than you think it is upside down um you do you notice another signature under there right yeah it Yeah, it's the old Alex. But he wasn't asked to sign, right? I don't know the story of that. Oh, I do. Because I remember we were moving this table in and saw the old Alex had signed the underneath.

Yeah. What is it? I mean, Ben had told me that he had asked him about it and he was just like, yeah, that was my final goodbye. So we probably can't keep that in the episode. What? No, we're keeping that in the episode. And old Alex, this is a final shout out to you.

Thank you so much for being in our own studio. Stevie, it's been a beautiful three years. I can't wait for more. And you are a fearless leader. And we love you very much. Oh my gosh, thank you.