Happy Sad Confused - Adam DeVine & Anders Holm & Blake Anderson

Episode Date: April 10, 2018

You'd think that seven years of a TV show would make Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson, want to take a little break from each other. But nope, wasting little time since the conclusion of "Workaholics", the three have reunited for  their first film together, "Game Over, Man!".  The trio join Josh on this episode of "Happy Sad Confused" to talk about their new Netflix film, the cameo that got away (spoiler: he was Blade), and the perils of the furniture in Josh's office.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on Happy Sad Confused, the Workaholics guys reteam for their first film, Game Over Man. Hey guys, I'm Josh Horowitz. Welcome to another edition of Happy Sadden Fused. I'm Josh, joined by Sammy. Hello. Sammy, you've been gone for a couple weeks. Welcome back.

Oh, thank you so much. Thank you for scheduling Sean Penn when I wasn't here, because that was something I would have been really excited about. I know you guys have beef. No, don't. start that. TMC is going to go crazy. Sean Penn was a delight even if you couldn't be around for that one.

It's not like you ever are necessarily around for the... I like knowing when they're here and walking by and seeing them. You like walking into the seat and saying who is just in the seat. Exactly. I try to guess. Yeah. Well, today's show, you'd have to guess three individuals. That would be Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm.

Correctly pronounced. Yes. I know it's Anders now, having done my research. These, of course, are the... DERS, as they call them. That's right. If I was really in the know, I would say that. Of course, these are the gentlemen known as workaholics.

Their hit TV show concluded last year, but they wasted no time in reteaming for their first film, which is available on Netflix right now. It is called Game Over Man. Do you know what... This is putting you on the spot and you're going to fail. What? Do you know what Game Over Man refers to?

A video game. The end of a video game. Okay. Well, not real. I feel like that's the logical explanation? There is a video game tying in the movie, but it's a line from aliens, Bill Paxton's character, fantasy says, Game of Rue Man.

Just proving to the audience again that I'm a super big nerd, and you're cooler than I am. If you want to ask me any of the B-Lift characters from the wedding date, I tell you who they are, though. Save that for the next episode, for the J-Lo episode.

Was she in the wedding planner? No, you're so stupid. That's Deborah Messing and Dermit Moroni. God. Not Dylan McDermott. Yes, exactly. So, yes, Game Over Man is their new film. It's basically imagine the workaholics in a diehard scenario.

So it's an big action comedy, and it's super fun. If you're fans of their work, you're definitely going to dig this one, see them kind of do their thing on a little bit of a bigger scale. Lots of fun celebrity cameos. It's available on Netflix right now. Get the to your streaming device after this podcast and enjoy it at your leisure. So, yeah, so Sammy's back. I'm back. What's what to talk about?

Well, there's a couple items of business to discuss about this podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. Thank you for reminding. First of all, everyone should know that there was, it was, there had to be three seats and Josh pulled a terrible seat for Adam. I did. You'll hear in the podcast, there is a seating malfunction issue. Adam, long story short, sat on maybe the most uncomfortable seat ever created by a cruel human being. Are you sure it was a seat?

Did you just get him like a spike? It was a spike. I wanted to test his medal of a man. And, yes, so there's a seating malfunction, but we address it. Great. Item of business number one, and number two is actually the more important one. Yes. So, I, Sammy, I don't know this about me.

I am not perfect. Well, I did know that. So for those of, yes. Yeah. Over the course of the 200 plus episodes of the podcast, I've made very few horrendous errors in terms of recording. And generally speaking, I record these myself. Sometimes there's help too, but in most cases, it's me doing the business by myself. And here's the irony. When you have multiple guests, you have to bring in some extra devices and things and make sure everything

is all accounted for. So I was a little stressed. And I was making sure everything was like ready for these guys. And after all that, and I got it all ready. Of course, I forgot. hit record on one or both devices both of course oh yeah because if you hit one you're going to hit the other so it's not as catastrophic as it sounds because uh i only missed i think the first couple minutes of conversation so all that to say all the big secrets yeah exactly all their deepest secrets all the only thing to say about that is that um there's no immediate beginning to the conversation you're going to kind of come into the middle of the chat that's all just a little context Did they make fun of you?

They made, yeah, there's making fun of me. Not, no. About the recording or did they feel bad? No, this is how good I am. They didn't notice. Oh. Or if they did notice, they didn't say anything. They're like, get me the fuck out of here.

This guy's an idiot. After almost murdering Adam with a seat, not recording the podcast. They're never coming back. This might be the last appearance of the workaholics guys. Oh, we'll miss them. They're fun. They are fun. Very, very fun chat with these guys.

Not much else to say, except, recommendations. I know we're both watching. Have you concluded Wild Wild Country yet? Not yet. Halfway through. Okay. I'm two episodes in. You were telling me it gets even better. I think three is where we take our turn. Three is where things we go into high gear. Everybody's talking about this one also on Netflix, big six-part documentary about this crazy cult. They call it a cult in the thing. But maybe that's a little inflammatory. There's sensitivity around the word cult. Yeah. Yeah. We're not talking Jonestown Massacre. We're not talking like these are not evil people it's just they're doing their own thing and they like having orgies there you go um i would also recommend uh if you have the opportunity i saw children of

blessed god on stage uh starring joshua jackson and a host of newcomers actually the leading actress i think it's her first performance she's not not a professional actor and she i just found that out today everyone's freaking out about her yeah she's really meaning my mother loved my mother thinks she's fabulous the hellers are in a tizzy yeah uh so Yes, check that out. That's Joshua in his Broadway debut, a great performance and a great show. And, yeah, those are our recommendations of the week. Beyond, of course, enjoying this podcast. This, yeah, for sure. Okay. So, of course, remember to review, rate and subscribe to Happy Say I Confused on iTunes, whatever program you use to listen to a podcast, spread the good word. And without any further ado, here is a little bit of a in-progress conversation. with the three gentlemen that comprise

the artistic unit that is workaholics. The two city college tour has taken a toll on the artist formerly known as workaholics. Do you guys I would imagine... And please refer to us as that.

Well, I was wondering, I was wondering, oh, the artist's part, but does the workaholics thing, which is obviously, you know, do people just like, when they see you expect to see Blake? When they see you, do they expect to see Adam? Is that... When I do stand-up, I, 100% of the time, never once has it not happened where someone's like, where's Blake!

The DIRS! They won't even say where you are. They'll just say your name. And that doesn't work. The DIR! No, no, no. No, no, no. No, I'm Adam.

And that goes for everything. even if you just, like, post an Instagram picture. They're like, where's Adam and where's theirs? Like, I don't know. Probably at their house somewhere. So how much of this is just a marriage of convenience now where you feel obligated to just give the public what they want? And the demand is insane.

The birthday gigs don't stop. We're doing bar mitzvahs, ba mitzvahs, all the mitzvahs. We're having a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah. Today you are a man. I never got bar mitzvahed. I'm the least Jewish Harrowitz. You've ever met guys.

What happened? We just never, the Horowitz family, we just never really embraced. I mean, culturally, we're Jews, but just the religious part, it's not. You can still have it. I know. I always say, like, if shit hits the fan on any of the little cash influx, that's what's going to happen. Yeah, you can hit up all the aunts and uncles say, guess what? I'm now a man.

That's right. I just realized yesterday. My homie growing up, Ira had his bar mitzvah and bought a water bed. And I was like, I cannot believe I did not have a bar mitzvah. I didn't know one single Jewish person growing up. Not one. Am I your first? Yeah, you're my first.

This is cool. You have any questions for me? What's it lying? When we landed in New York, we put a blindfold on them. And we breathed them right here. Don't be scared. It's going to be okay. It's different.

It's all different. You're doing really well, Adam. I told the story the other day, but when I first moved to L.A., I didn't know any Jewish people, and I didn't know that Acidic Jews, like, wore the hats and had the whole fits. Yeah, yeah. But where I'm from in the Midwest, those are Amish people.

I was gonna say, yeah, yeah. So I saw one get into a BMW and drive away, and I screamed, cheater! Because I thought he was like on vacation, like driving cars. You committed a hate crime. Yeah, totally. My favorite part of the story is that like,

you have your same time, you shout at people out your car door window. He was justified. I thought who was cheating. I got you. God will judge you. Yes, mind you. So it's been about a year

since workaholics went off the air. Is that right? Just about it. Does that feel like a year or feel like 10 years? Does it feel like you got... It feels like a while now. It feels like two years for me. Very specific.

It's very good for you, Blake. Yeah, 10 years. Wow. It feels like a decade. It didn't feel like we stopped, really, because we did Game Over Man. Right. Like, right after, I really went... A couple months, right?

Yeah, like, I went and did a PG-rated Disney movie. The Magic Camp? Magic Camp, yeah, yeah. And then the next movie I did was Game Over Man, which is... Not PG. Very, very not PG. Do you feel comfortable in the PG landscape? Did you feel like you had to...

Was it only 40% of Adams' essence in there, or? Yeah, I toned down some of my essence. No, it was fine. Basically, it's just like, people ask me all the time about that. They're like, oh, you really had to change, like, what you do. Was it hard not to improv curse words? And I'm like, no, because I'm talking to kids. I don't curse all the time when I'm not a monster who just sees kids and I can't help but drop F-bombs.

Yeah, I mean, I just spoke like a human being to children. Also, we have immature humor, so it just fits right in. There you go. So was the goal, was the thought always when you had some time on your hands to, like, would there are a bunch of feature ideas that you guys were playing with over the years when you were doing the show? Well, it was just this one. Yeah, it was we sort of all came up with a bunch of ideas and then voted on what we thought we would like to do. And it was this one by far.

And then we continued to write it for six years. Yeah, it was a process for sure. It was like drafts and drafts, but then also we got busy. I was, like, I'm the one who's writing it, but then I was doing, like, movies and Mindy Project and, like, then I got to, like, squeeze in a draft into, like, a month,

and then, like, send it to these guys who are then doing other work, or, like, Seth and Evan Goldberg, Seth, Rogan Evan Goldberg, who are also busy as all get out, and, like, they got to go back to us about their notes on the draft, so it was just like...

And workaholics that people don't realize that, that's... takes up like eight months of the year and then... And then you're spent. You're like, you want to go into a hole probably afterwards. And you don't really want to work on more stuff with us when you just got done working on eight months of stuff with us.

Right. You want to take a little break and go do the other acting stuff that you want to do. And then, so that's why it took so long, but I think it kind of timed out perfectly for, to be done with workaholics, give it a year for people to go like, where are those guys?

Here we are. Here we are on Netflix. Friday March 23 Game over man What was the shittiest idea That you abandoned that you'll never come back to There must have been Library Pirates It's a good title

So literally we're like We're like now gearing up to Start thinking about our next movie idea And I found this old document that had a bunch of lists And a little short summaries of movie ideas And then there was one that just said library pirates Question Hart Which for sure I think I just

rode out. I know. We also had a unicorn derby, which actually... I wouldn't even... Which actually... Are you still developing that one? Might be a good idea. Wait, is that mean, like,

unicorns competing in a, like a... Oh, Adam. Jesus Christ. I'm just okay. Yeah. That's exactly what he knows. Pizza gets it is in the title. Pee T. Anderson listens to this podcast and now he's going to make...

He's going to do it so well. Unicorn derby's ours. Was Game Over Man always the title? Do you start with a title sometimes, or is it? Originally, it was Stakes as high. Yes. But nobody knew what that meant. I don't know what that means.

It's a DeLossel album. Okay. But the proper sentence would be Stakes are high. Yeah. But it was from an album, Stakes is high. And of course, Game Over Man, if you don't know what it refers to, you go under, I mean, go away because we don't care about you, but it's the Bill Paxson line from aliens.

Right. And we cut this, we cut the final scene. reshot it, but originally the last thing in the movie is usling out the window after da-da-da-da-da, we see this big billboard of a video game that we ended up selling in this video game

in this movie, and we're looking at it and the title of the video game is Game Over Man and I'm like, I don't know what that is, and Adam's character says, it's a quote from the movie, Predator, you idiot. Which I thought that was funny and confusing to anybody who... Yeah, but

but in the movie we sell like we want to make a video game so where that is also where it's a video game element so is I was thinking about that in terms of like pitching things

because I would imagine you've been through all manners of pitch meetings you have no idea what's the worst what's the worst sometimes no manners what's the worst pitch you've ever been through is there one that haunts you like a pitch me that went wrong we had one where it wasn't so much our fault

but our representation was in the room with us and we started to pitch an idea. It's no longer a representation. We started to pitch this idea about like it was Adam's idea about like life behind the scenes at a comedy club. Basically it's the TV show crashing before they did crashing.

It was basically my life of like a 20-something guy who moves to Hollywood from Nebraska and gets a job working at the Hollywood Improft Comedy Club. And it's a sitcom where you you're always hanging out at the bar and you very rarely go in the room

where you see the stentums but there's always like very famous stand-up comics that pitch is fine but while he's saying just that we hear like a mm-mm no our representation like no already pitched that

something just like that last week they don't want that one they don't want it and that is the reason we went to go to these people to pitch was this idea and then he was like tell about that other one we're like what other idea oh my god

He may switch like this way back burner idea that we had. I can't remember. And then in the parking lot, we were like, don't ever do that again. What happened? That's horrible. Yeah, it was like, I don't think you're allowed to come to these meetings anymore. You're supposed to make me look better, not worse. I had a thing where, like, essentially, it was like two years ago or maybe more.

I wrote this comic book that's kind of like a stranger things thing where like it's kids, it's young kids. And then there's like a slasher in the woods. And I went to Paramount and pitched it. to this woman who was like so what's it rated? I'm like it would be rated like ours, pretty violent or whatever she's like but then there's kids in it I'm like so kids can't see it and adults don't want to watch it

and I was like why wouldn't adults want to watch it? She goes adults don't like movies about kids I've been in marketing for 25 years trust me and then I was like why am I here and the woman who brought me in that was Vinither was like I'm sorry and then Stranger Things came out nine months later and changed the world yeah exactly

I know, like, it is huge, and I'm just like, this fucking town, right? Hollywood, huh? I tell you, you never know. Can we swear in here? You never know. Yeah, please, please do. Please, swear.

You're on the shitty chair, Adam. Should we get you a different chair? I noticed you were... Is that what's happening? I don't know. Yeah, this is a very uncomfortable. Let's get you a different chair. We're losing, like...

It's just blood in your booty? It's comically painful. Talk amongst yourselves. Wow, it's like... Adam is sitting on a steel spider web of geometry. With razor blades. Yeah, there's like... In different places, your nuts can fall.

But a fart can go right through it, and I just had to say that. Oh, by the way, if you're tuning in now, it is the Blake and Ander Show. Hey, guys, how are you? So tonight we're going to be talking about werewolves. What's up with them? We did it, guys. Oh, shit, they're back. By the way, Josh, I love your half-run.

Half-runs are the best. That was me in a sprint. You know, that's me on the treadmill. Josh just went and got me in this chair. Thank you very much for that, by the way. but his, I'm running, but I can't run in the office, so. Trot. Yeah.

I was running. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm proud of that. For you guys out there just tuning in. I'm not a nosy guy, but I just saw a business card for Professor Triple X on Josh Azka. It's, it's James McAvoy. And again, it's one of my shenanigans that I had here, guys. Yeah, you got some shenanigans.

I like that. That's what you're welcome here. You guys are the kings of shenanigans. We are. So many shenanigans. so what were we talking about for the unfortunate share incident oh so let's talk about the genre of the film because I love a good action

comedy and we don't get enough of those nowadays that don't star like it's like Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart they there are other people in the universe come on guys yeah yeah I mean not that they got those guys aren't great put me in your movies but time's up yeah on that that's a whole other I don't think that's really a good use of the time's up yeah that's not really a time's up three white guys need to make movies yeah huh Let's talk about that.

Do we get a pass? I'm seriously, I want to ask, and you can tweet at Blake about this. I don't want to hear it. Do we get a pass because we have always been friends and we're kind of established as a threesome. Do we get a pass? A pass on what? At like being three white people at the head of a movie, because it's like that does not fly anymore. Right.

We're essentially one person. You're already grandfathered in. It's the next wave that's a trained in those next guys. You got it just under the wire. No, I don't like them. It's called Grand Wizard in, if it's three white people, I think. Yeah. And again, Tweet Blake.

I mean, I'm not the guy. I'm not the guy. So what's the Netflix experience like versus Comedy Central? Netflix feels like, it feels like the stories I hear are like they basically give you a bag of money and let you do your thing. We were pretty lucky on both sides of the fence with Comedy Central let us do what we wanted to do from the beginning. I think stakes were so low with season one of work. They weren't paying us anything. It was like, yeah, we'll give them a shot.

If they could pull it off, they can. If not, we'll cancel it. Not a big deal. Yeah. And then we actually did. And then season two, they started to give us more notes. And we were kind of like, guys, last season you didn't give us any notes. And it really worked out.

And then to their credit, they were like, yeah, you're right. Yeah, they made the mistake of, like, setting the precedence early on. And you can't go back and be like, actually, now we're going to get a new business. We got away with so much in that very first season that the precedence was set that they're like, yeah, we can't give you a note on that because type butt hole is you're saying. We already said jizz.

We used the word jizz. Now you're saying we can't. Artistic freedom. And what was the experience on this? And then Netflix, it was the same kind of thing. They just like, they trusted that we could do it. And really, we only got one note really ever from Netflix. And that was a note not.

to change something and it was a Blake has a big turn at the end of the movie and uh we we had like a round table family and friends style and some people had some problems with it and so we're like oh maybe we do change it and Netflix was like no we love it yeah please keep it nice well I think it's cool you mentioned like you're working with producers you know Seth rogan and Evan Goldberg on this and, you know, having talked to them over the years, they're really smart, especially like in the wake of, I think it was post Green Hornet where they kind of figured it out, right? They were like, that'll be a slap in the face.

Green Hornet was an education for them, I think. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And they basically were like, okay, let's make movies on a budget, $15, $20 million, and we know our core audience will be there and they'll let us keep making our stuff. And it feels like that's a good model. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but maybe to emulate for you guys.

Yeah. I don't think so. We're going to go out. Yeah. We're going to start a million. We, yeah, our next one. I think a Green Hornet reboot for you guys could be really good. Greener hornet.

Yeah. Green Hornets. There's three of them. There's three of them. Oh. White hornets. Lossps. Hey, here we go.

It's a superhero team. Yeah. Yeah, and then the wasp. It's in the, it's in the zeitgeist. They had the same thing with neighbors. They took it around trying to get it made for 35. That was like the budget they wanted to rock with. And Hollywood, once again, said, uh, not happening.

And then. they went back to Universal after Universal had passed and said how much would you give us to make this? And they said, I think it was 18, I think. And then they were like, okay, we're going to make it here for 18, but we don't want to hear one word. And Universal, to their credit, was like, go ahead, do your thing. Is that a model that you guys have talked about, like, every two or three years, like try to get the band back together for one of these things? Yeah, we had totally. We had so much fun doing it.

And, uh, and I think, I think it's something that we want to keep doing, obviously, is, uh, I think our fans like us, uh, just fine, apart, but together, I think, uh, we are a super team. Yes, sir. Yes. Do the roles, has the roles, uh, changed over, over the years? Like, like, are you guys kind of like, I don't know. Are you complimentary? Do you feel like you have, like, like, you have, like, like, You feel the same roles, like a season one workaholics versus on the set of Game Over, man. Yeah, I feel like we've gotten more comfortable within our roles and knowing what we're stronger at and what we can back off and let the other person shine in that role. I think we've, at the first season or two, it was like figuring out what we were good at or what we, you know, we didn't know. Right. We had no idea. steep learning curve

but it was like trial by fire and the action comedy genre when you guys came in here we were getting out of my silly 80s posters on the wall I assume that you know diehard is clearly an influence here on when people keep saying that we have to say that we're actually

really need to check that out really just keep saying I'm reusing that joke oh no it's really good you should check it out there I feel about the diehard franchise fell off a cliff though let's be honest let's just well you can't make eight of them how many did they end up making

they're at five or six well he kind of started to get that like disease of like he has like super strength and stuff right yeah right let me clear his name a little bit live for your die hard I loved it's all it's okay yeah it's a fun yeah it's a fun

yeah it's a fun movie one's unwatchable there's too many moving pieces for me but he's just saving Justin Long repeatedly and Justin Long it's pretty funny in that movie and Kevin Smith Smith yeah that's like he killed it I love that movie there were two instances

where you go whoa but then you're go, eh. Right. And then Bruce Wilson shoots through himself to kill. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy, who's one of my favorite bad guys. That's a cool set piece. What's his name?

Oh, it's Timothy Oliphant. Oliphant. Yes. Yeah, that movie's pretty good, actually. I would put that, here's my ranking. My definitive diehard ranking for the record. I've never done this before, but I'm going to do this. What do you say?

I go diehard first. I go three, the New York Die Hard with a vengeance. Then I'll go. I think I'm going to still get to die Hard 2. Who's underrated? It's, I call the Thinking Man's Die Hard. Because if you're an idiot, you go, that's kind of smart how this switched to clips on the gun. It's got, Rennie Harlan directed it.

It's a solid action movie. Yeah, and William Atherton is back for more. I love Willie, big Willie style. Not with William Matherton. He was on Workaholics, played my father. He's an amazing man. Is he really? Yeah, he's the best.

He's the best. Does he like embrace the Ghostbusters character? Can you talk to him about it? fully. We gave him a line and we were like, so you know, we just say it kind of like how you said. He's like, in Ghostbusters. He goes, you got it. Yeah. Of course. Perfect. And, yeah, and then I would put four and then the Russian one way in the back. Yeah. Well, you're pretty much, it just gets worse as it goes. Yeah.

Except for the three, two, four, five. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. For encapsulating. Yeah. On the same page. Maybe there's another one coming out, right? They've been working on it. Yeah. I think they want to do young John McLean. All right, I'll do it. That would be ill. That would be ill. I go, yippie-kyee, mother father's my chama claim. Are you excited?

Have you sent the secure link of this to De Niro yet, or what are you expecting? Bobby D. Yeah, Bobby Dix. Will he watch it? Absolutely. Yeah, right? I don't know. I think he would like it.

He signed up for bad grandpa or dirty grandpa. Yeah, that's true. That's true. he is like he likes to to laugh to giggle well he he doesn't laugh

really out loud he doesn't emit sound he just makes a super De Niro face and like wiggles right so I think he'd be wiggling in this one

do you guys find like as you started as you started to like work outside of like your kind of like created universe like where you obviously feel safe and comfortable and it's the whole team working together it's our womb it's your womb yes the safe womb but like when you go and you work with the De Niro's, et cetera.

Did you, is it apples and oranges? Does it feel like it's a totally different thing than... People say he and I are very similar, right? Right, right. If there's a De Niro of the group, it's like, obviously. Thank you. Thank you.

No, it is cool just, because obviously he's like one of the best actors ever. Right. And like a total legend. And then it was cool to see him fuck up, you know? It was cool to see him instantly. What? Constantly. Hey, no.

No. But I mean like, not again, Bobby, he would like, you know, not remember a line or like skip a head, you know, stuff that every actor does. Right. But then to see him do it, you're like, oh, okay. It's fine to mess up every once in a while. Like, you don't need to stress it too hard. It's fine. You'll just do another take.

Totally. Only, it's nice if you get it four times for them to like mess around in the edit, you know, but you really only have to get it. once and I live by that sometimes only three quarters of once maybe get close enough is that the mantra at the end of a take you should get it close enough guys

we get it three times because there might be a camera move or something like that that's weird but you only need to get it once I enjoyed the unusual cavalcade of hostages that you have in this the cavalcade was unusual and we kept saying that

I was like this cavalcade if it's anything it's unusual you've never seen this particular group of human beings in one room, and I would venture to say they probably weren't in one room. Yeah. The secrets of movie magic, maybe. It was Steveo, Fred Armisen, Flying

Lotus. Flying Lotus. I mean, Andrew Batchler shows up earlier in the movie. King Batch for you all. Shaggy, Daniel Stern, Shaggy, Daniel Stern, Donald Faison, Action Bronson.

Joel McHale. Joe McHale. Sugar Lynn Beard as Unknown Steve Howie from Shameless One of our Goons So was the idea

Always let's just Let's just like go through the Rolodex And see what kind of crazy grouping we can get in here Partly Partly people we've worked with before Who we love And we're like

Oh yeah They'd be perfect for this And then some new folks We're like They'll do our movie Cool Is this the first time We think that Shaggy

Has sung at gunpoint Definitely not Come on The streets of Jamaica Are you kidding that's how he came up it's the only way you get better in a way

caught red-handed so he kills it you watched it all right how good was Shaggy Shaggy's amazing like he didn't really well let's see how this goes and you never know right yeah I just nailed it and I was like yeah I know thank God because that was a scene that

that was one of the first scenes in the movie that we that we like thought one yeah oh really Yeah, it was like the first draft. That was something that when we were pitching ideas that made us all laugh. I'm like, it's in that and my dick being out seen. And those are the two scenes that were like, these are in the movie, no matter where, what, how much this movie changes.

It could be unicorn derby and those scenes are just throwing away gold here. But every year, you know, you watch movies and you hope you don't see something that's in a movie you wrote. Right. Wait, did that happen to something in this? I'm trying to remember. Well, I mean, when I saw the first 21 Jump Street and the guy got his dick either shot off or cut off at the end, I was like... You're allowed to do that every three or four years. I know, but it was...

We were like ready to take it out that long ago. And I was like, damn it, they fucking did it. Of course they did it. And what's his name? Big homie. Jonah? No, no, who got his dick cut off? Kansas City

Kansas City's own. Rob Wrigal, yeah, yeah. He lives for that. He loves it. He loves it. And he, like, went down on his knees and picked it up with his mouth. And I was like, we didn't have that, that's better. Okay, God damn it. Do you guys, is anybody that you couldn't quite get into the film? Was there somebody that you were desperate to get in there for a quick

cameo? Snipes. Yeah, West's... Seriously? Snipes. Yeah. Someone needs to do something with Snipes. Did you get anywhere with him? Did he return a call? Yeah, we were, we were in. talks with him

it's just turns out Snipes costs a lot of money yeah there's back tax bills that don't pay

for themselves yeah there's certain people we couldn't get breakage for a little extra dough

right yeah we were Paxton was actually on the list too yeah

which was a bummer Denzel Washington couldn't even get him on the phone really yeah

Roman J Israel that's cool you couldn't get so weird answer that call that's weird and I I'm pretty

sure we have his direct line yeah he said something about being busy acting? Yeah.

Yeah. He said, I'm just going to act in movies. Right. And we were like, okay. Okay. Do you think Donzel, does De Niro text? Have you ever texted with De Niro? I'm trying to think, I always think when I, like, I talk to somebody who told me that

they text with Pacino and that blew my mind. There's certain kind of level of people. You just don't imagine using an emoji or. I feel he texts. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Pacino. What do you think?

He keeps this on, too. What? You want me to turn it off? Oh, that was a good one. Oh. Emoji. Yeah, what if he has, like, a Twitter handle that isn't him, and he's just tweeting all the day? Like, you're coffee, dad?

He's got some perfect, Jerry. Who's the best celebrity texter in your life? Who do you mix it up with on the text that, who in the group is the best best texter? Out of us? Yeah. Oh, my God. Hands down. I don't know the answer to me.

I don't know. What makes a good text? I don't know. I guess that's the follow-up question. I use a lot of emojis. Tons of hot nudes. Yeah. of yourself, of your...

Yeah. Or like randoms, like... Yeah. I just am constantly looking up naked people and sending them. Just all you to appreciate this. Yeah, look at this nude body. And they're like, why do you like... Okay, yeah, no, it's fine.

Just thought you'd appreciate it. Whatever, okay. Got to be weird about it. Yeah. I want to see them all. I want to see everybody naked. I'm collecting them. We're almost there.

So do you have it... What's the, do you have the next film idea, the one that you want to do next? Yeah, we got a couple ideas that we're pretty excited about kicking around. We do want to make a sequel to this movie. We love doing it. Yeah. You know, I feel like it's, it's diehard. We're safe if we do three.

Right. Yeah, exactly. Don't go to Russia. Don't go to Russia, guys. No, if Justin Long wants to join us for a four? Oh, yeah. That's a reason to do it. That's a reason.

I'm down. I'd be down. Justin Long bought me a pitcher of beer the weekend that, that movie came out at Barney's Beanery in Hollywood. So we got to pay it forward. I love him. Yeah, he was great. I'm like, hey man, I literally just went to your movie

earlier that day. And I'm like, can I buy you a beer? And he goes, dude, I'm going to move it with Bruce Willis. I'm going to buy you a beer. And he bought me a pitcher of beer. And then I really wanted to hang out. And he's like, all right, no, I just bought you. This is so easy for you to go like. This is the nicest way to say, leave me a little. I've done something for you.

Now, goodbye, and then a pump of smoke. He disappears. That's amazing. I love his, he's good friends with Sam Rockwell, and that's just the friendship that just makes me happy. Oh, that's cool. They're the best. I saw, I took my first vacation ever, and I was overdue.

Yeah, finally, finally got it. Some of my same workaholic. And I went to Italy, and I'm on this, like, tiny island restaurant that you only can get there by boat. and uh and then the restaurant's the only thing on this island and uh sam rockwell's also there amazing yes and so it's like that weird thing where with like actors i see other actors in the wild you just sort of have to be like you tip your hat to you person i've never met so was there any actual words exchanged or just like a hat to no it was like a truly just like an acknowledgement of he sees me yeah also i stared at him the whole time i'm like with i

contact with me saying, you look at me. You look at me. You know, like, you don't recognize me. It might just have been like that man is staring at him. Yeah, now they're thinking about it. Why is he slurping down spaghetti and looking at me? Why is that man who's obviously wasted wearing linens? We're nothing but linens.

He's going to look over here. Any second now. You were staring at some Italian guy that looks like Sam Rockwell and he's like, doesn't have been staring at me. This is an Italian accent. The weird part is, is I recognize his wife before him. I'm like, oh, Leslie Bibb.

Yeah, I'm like, oh, that's Leslie Bibb. And my girlfriend was like, what? And she goes, you didn't recognize Sam Rockwell before? And I'm like, oh, yeah, no, there's Sam Rockwell. All right. Who's the, is there an actor or comedian that you guys each revere? Jamie. Jamie Foss.

Oh, okay. I didn't know where you were going to go. Yeah. Could about Kennedy. Yeah, we love Jamie Fox. He's just, uh, what does he do for you? I mean, he can do it all. That guy can do it all.

What does he do for me? everything. He is out of control funny. His Instagram is just, he just pops off. He's having out of everyone, he's having the best time. No one's having it. But he's a video of him dressed up in some kind of costume at the gas station talking into his shoe and just going, what up? Oh no! It's all

Gucci! Over and over again. When I first met Anders, he gave me, he goes, I want to show, I want to give you two things that will explain my comedic sensibilities completely. And he gave me a Jimmy Fox DVD. Stand-up. Stand-up DVD.

And the book American Psycho. And that is Anders. I'm like, I've never met anyone so dialed into exactly who they are. So this is me, man. Give me a call if you want to call her. This is all you need to know. Hey, this is me if you want to write a pilot called Dorms with a Z.

So now we know what defines Anders. What would the two pop culture items be that you would give a friend, Blake, Adam. What would define you? This is fun. Yeah. That's called a follow. Mine would probably be Jim Carrey. Actual Jim Carrey.

Actual Jim Carrey. Give us. Jim Carrey, the painter. The painter, sure. Serving Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey, and a hacky sack. Yeah. Sand hacky sack. What item?

So an actual hacky sack? A actual hacky sack. What item of Jim Carrey? The DVD. Of Dumb and Dumber. I guess if it was such a Blu-Roehrie or? Yeah. And I guess if we stayed on the theme of like a stand-up DVD and a book, I would go like probably

a Simbad stand-up DVD and then maybe Swamp Thing or something because I just read it and it spoke to me. Nice. I am and I'm super hyped. It's the first and only book I've read. He's become self-aware because. Yeah, it's cool, guys. So we know that you can read a comic book.

Are you guys all geeks to varying degrees? Do you enjoy the geek group? I mean, I don't even know what this word geek is anymore. It's like, I'm a nerd. It's like, what does that mean? Well, the nerds took over. The surfboards. Well, I'm like, well, you're a surfer.

I'm just cool as fuck. I'm sorry. I'm on the other side of the feds over here. Yeah, you can't be a geek when, like, the geek films make $2 billion every week. You're just about, like, I'm a Star Wars nerd. Oh, you mean, like, everyone on the planet? A human being that breeds? You mean you're just a human?

I know. We live in the Marvel universe. I feel like I'm the new geek because if I go, like, to work out, I wear, like, actual short shorts and like things that don't look cool like I think that's the new like not carrying in a way that you're just like nobody is nobody wants to dress like this right you just feel comfortable in the short shorts it makes you feel it's athletic wear right you're not there to make a statement you're just designed for moisture wicking and right what do you word it to the gym swampy oh my minute are you a sweater in the group oh my god for sure I run hot I will not buy a car

for the rest of my life unless it has a fan under the seat, that's been my game-changer. You're wearing three layers, by the way, right now. And I'm sweating through two of the... Why are you doing that? Why did you do that to yourself? It's cold outside. Yeah, but we're...

Okay. We are inside of you. Also, live your own life. Yeah, well, I'm just trying to help. I want you to get something out of this experience. I'm getting something out of this experience. I'm getting the word out there about game over man. March 23rd, it's all about that business.

What does Netflix... Is Netflix going to tell you, like, you did it? B-plus, a... Like, you know what I mean? Like, because we never know the metrics, we never know anything. Well, I just did a movie, uh, when we first met, the Adirio one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and Adam Devine one.

And she did an Adam Devine one. I got your back. And it was, it was awesome. It did really well. It was number two. I don't even know if I'm supposed to say this, but I will. But it was number two on all of Netflix. Wait till after our moving his house.

Netflix kills game over now. Pulls plug. And they tell us. Those stats, like, where it's stacking up in... They'll tell us if we're number one or two or three or whatever, but... And then for how long it stays there. Right. But they won't tell us, like, X amount of millions of people saw it.

Got it. But they will say, like, it's, like, when we first met with number one in 175 countries. That's a nice thing to know. Which also, it made me go, like... There are 100 cents. Like, how many countries are there? I could name, like, 30, off top of my head. Maybe. Maybe I could do that.

We will only see the movie as a success if Netflix actually shuts down from downloads. Break it. You need to break it in two. We're trying to break Netflix. I want to know all about how they break it down. Like, I know how many people have played a movie, but how many people have, like, finished it? Right. How many of these plays start from, like, when you finish watching a movie, then you, like, go to take a piss, and it, like, starts anyway. How many clicks on it?

I want to know what they recommend after your movie. What are they saying? in Little China. That would be cool. It's good company to be in. Oh my God. So good. It is cool like our movie is for people that like it'll be like they like action movies.

They like action comedies. Because when we first met, I had to search for it. I'm like they're not pumping this out there. To you specifically. To me because I don't watch romantic comedies. Right. So like it wasn't. It wasn't in my feed at all, but then I met this woman the other day at the Knicks game.

She came out to me and she was like, it was all over my Netflix. I'm like, oh, you like romantic comments, huh? You are targeted. What do you guys watch when you have a few hours at home? Do you watch a TV? Do you watch films? Jamie Foxcane out of all right. I watch a lot of basketball.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. I'm such a nerd. I like basketball. That's well in Star Wars. Yeah. I'm really unique. I'm such a dweeb.

What have I watched recently? Um, I've been watching, well, I got a, I watched Mind Hunter on Netflix. It's good, yeah. But then I still subscribe to the discs too. Oh, because they have like deep cuts. So I just watched the first three ghoulies movies again. Oh, nice. And they hold up. They hold up. Yeah. They're the same shitty, crazy weird movies. I, you know, I never, for some reason, I never saw the gooies. Just watched the first one. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um, but yeah, they have crazy movies still on DVD. I think it's DVD.com now. Wow. You're the guy. You and, like, my mother and father-in-law, subscribe to the...

Yeah. It's not Netflix. It's not Netflix. It's not known as Netflix anymore. Do you have a Blockbuster account? Is there, are you? I don't know where this is coming from. It feels like a negative thing. I didn't want to make it certain. I don't want to take a turn. Again, you do you. And I will wear my clothes over here and sweat. I'll be in my little shorts watching DVDs. You're so red. DVD. DIRS just passes out.

Well, two out of three of you survived the podcast. Congratulations. We'll have a good wake for DIRS. It's going to be okay. I'll be tired. Wait, you're still talking. It's a miracle. This is my gosh.

He's back. Congratulations on the film, guys. Game over, man. You're always welcome here. And I hope you guys... I mean, you guys are going to get back together soon. This isn't like you don't take a year-long break. What happens?

Like, at the end of this press store. I think a year off. and then start getting nothing after it again. Well, I think, yeah, we'll see how the movie does, how excited Netflix is, because we love working with Netflix, so if they want to, like, get back in the shop and start cooking. Yeah, you need that Adam Sandor deal. You need that, like, 10-film Netflix deal. We would love that Adam's too.

But you know what, Netflix also needs to know that there's Amazon and Hulu out there. Oh, a little bidding war. Is that too aggressive? That wasn't perfect. I like it. I just want the movie to come out, please. Go check out the movie, guys. Thanks for stopping by.

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