History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - 184 - Mike Rowe is WILD!

Episode Date: January 6, 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR CUZZIES! We started the New Year by interviewing Mike Rowe !!Guys first reflect on the year. What a nightmare but the boys did grow in 2020! We’re gonna make it in 2021 because reality is a suggestion, so 2020 is still our year. Who’s writing this? Yanni Biden? Anyways health to you and your loved ones, know that this year is the year of the cock. And when we say that we mean the year of the PSEUDO PENIS! How gorgeous is that guy’s voice? I mean Mike Rowe is the most designed man for television that they guys fall in love with. Mike Rowe is lucky this is through zoom or else Chris would kiss him straight on the lips!! Mike Rowe from Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs is starting new show. Before we tell you, did you know that this guy went from being an opera singer, to working on QVC’s Shopping Channel to showing us the dirtiest jobs in America. WILD STUFF. Now the kid has a new show about history called Six Degrees with Mike Rowe. Listen babe, everything in our crazy world is connected. Showing on Discovery+, Mike transports himself back in time to some of the most major moments in history and connects the dots between these events. He connects Australian outlaw, Ned Kelley to how wifi was connected. I MEAN HOW WILD IS THAT CUZZIE?!Mike Rowe is a dope entrepreneur who considers at one point working with the guys for a TV show. But then Ven- antifa kind of ruins it. LET’S HOPE MIKEY RO RO ACCEPTS THE NEW PRODUCING JOB she loses! Wei Zhong Xian!We kept is low key this year. Chris and Chazz Palminteri went to Times Square and say Jennifer Lopez ’s ass! ITS WHAT IT IS CUZZIE! The rest of the Hyenas stayed home. What’d you do?!REMINDER BABES: Even though Trump did not follow through with his promise to build a wall, Chris and Yannis did. It’s a Bay Ridge Boys wall and you can find it at patreon.com/bayridgeboys. CHECK IT OUT CUZOUR SPONSOR 🚨This is brought to you by Tim Dillon's Belly Hair in support of the Gary Sinise Foundation. If you don't know who Gary Sinise is, you need to break out the VHS and watch Forest Gump as Tom Hanks plays a total Frank and Beans who befriends Sinise's character, LT. Dan. He has been raising money and advocating for veterans for more than 15 years. Your donations will go to good use: https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/Want more Hyena content? Check out www.patreon.com/bayridgeboys where things get really WILD!Follow us!: 🙆🏼‍♂️🐕🙆🏻‍♂️🙆🏼‍♂️Chris Distefano on Instagram, Twitter, website🙆🏻‍♂️Yannis Pappas on Instagram, Twitter, website🐕History Hyenas on Instagram, Twitter, website🎥 Mike Lavin our producer on InstagramSubscribe to the poddy woddy on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, and HH Clips

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Happy New Year, guys. Listen, 2020 is our year. We still got memories to make it happen. Yes. Yeah, we're going to make it happen in 2021 because reality is a suggestion. Yeah. And so 2020 is still our year. Because we said in 2019 it's going to be our year.

And then Bill Burr came along and we didn't help our podcast at all. Yeah. But we are days away from me. Hopefully, I'm on Rogan right now. Giannis is on Joe Rogan right now. 2020 was the year of the bat. 2021 is the year of the cock. And by cock, we mean pseudo penis.

Pseudo penis. Happy New Year. I hope you don't get kivved. I hope you don't get kivved. Yeah, so 2021, Happy New Year. Celebrate safe. I'll be with Chaz Palminteri watching J-Lo's ass flap around. All right, babies. He did. Yeah, so 2021, happy new year. Celebrate safe. I'll be with Chaz Palminteri watching J-Lo's ass flap around.

All right, babies. We got a nice, fun interview with Mike Rowe coming up. I mean, how gorgeous is that guy's voice? He's got a gorgeous voice. He's an industrious self-starter. I had no idea that Dirty Jobs was a show he created, shot himself, and pitched to the network. I thought it was a Discovery Channel show that they hired him to host because he's got a silky smooth voice,

but nah, the kid's an entrepreneur. He's an entrepreneur, and what I love about him, about filming that show about Dirty Jobs, which I didn't know, which you'll find out in the interview, is that it was all pretty much one take. He just didn't want to have a reality show

where they staged stuff, so it's like actually a dream for the people filming the show where it's like that whole thing probably only took two hours to film as opposed to doing other reality shows where you have to be there for 12 hours to shoot one bullshit thing

that looks staged anyway. Yeah, you guys are going to enjoy this one, man. Check it out. Mike Rowe. Everyone knows him. Dirty Jobs. Dirtiest Catch. I mean...

Deadliest Catch. Deadliest Catch. Dirtiest Catch is my show about having chlamydia. Enjoy it. Enjoy. Have fun. Yeah. What's up, everybody? Welcome to History Hyenas. We have a very special guest, one of my favorite people on the television show, with one of my favorite shows. Give it up for Mike Rowe, everybody. I mean, Mikey Rowe, everyone, make no mistake, Mike, my mother had to put on extra pair of underpants for this episode because she loves you.

That is so ironic because I took off my normal pair of underpants because in solidarity, I think your mom and I can make some kind of weird history. Mike, here's the thing. If you want to sign those and send them over to me, we'll give you a P.O. box. That's going to be my mom's Christmas gift. So let's do this. My mother-in-law was excited for this as well. Oh, do this all right my mother-in-law was excited for this oh yeah yeah my mother-in-law was very very excited your mother-in-law's a piece mike i gotta uh uh yeah we i like we said you know we've all heard this

rumor about the little plague going around a little pandemic new york has sort of been the epicenter of it uh your your famous show dirtyirty Jobs, could you just come here and just go follow any person doing a job here and now it's a dirty job? It's so weird, man. That show, like every five or six years, something happens where the show catches up to the headlines, right? Right. headlines right like in 2008 the economy crapped the bed and the show had been on five years but all of a sudden everybody wanted to talk about the definition of a good job and that show which was like the number one show on cable at the time became became this like this polemic for work and then this year of course the you know the the virus is upon us and essential work is in the

headlines. And everybody, the network wants to reboot the show. Everybody wants to talk about meaningful work, essential work, and so forth and so on. So God help me, I'm probably going to get sucked back into this whole mess. Has there ever been a man more designed for television and speaking in micro? I just felt like I was on your TV show. I just felt like I was watching it like you're on the show. What a fricking voice. Your voice just sounded like a Klonopin. I'm calm now. Yeah. Yannis, Yannis, Yannis had,

Yannis had COVID two weeks ago and then he had a true mental breakdown. He's been on Klonopin. So this is the first day he's not on psychiatric medication and we have the soothing voice of every Ant's hot guy fantasy, Mike Rowe. Giannis, I'm here to talk in a crisp, well-modulated baritone and say whatever I need to say in order to get you level and easy. Yeah, because if I write a book, you're reading it. I'll pay whatever it takes to get you to do the audio version of my book. Yeah, because if I write a book, you're reading it. I'll pay whatever it takes to get you to do the audio version of my book. Yeah. Even if it's a dumb book. Yeah. I don't even look at meditation apps anymore. I just watch Dirty Jobs and I'm calm. Let me ask you a question, Mike. Dirty Jobs is such an iconic show and it really, you traveled all 50 states, show and it really you traveled all 50 states really gotten uh contact and exposed not exposed but sort of you know exposed right yeah exposed yeah yeah you exposed okay you exposed um a lot

of people on the coast especially to you know the working man and woman and whatever yeah and woman and whatever, man, woman, whatever, you know, whatever gender that's cool, unnoticed. But so that you had a lot of, that gave you a lot of pull and power. Were there politicians giving you calls, you know, here and there going, yo, Mike, you want to go get some dinner? Can you maybe, you know, maybe endorse me? Yeah, it didn't start, though, really until 2009. So when the economy went sideways, I got a call from a reporter at the Wall Street Journal who wanted to know my thoughts on rising unemployment contemporaneous with the widening skills gap. And he was curious to know if I

might have any insight on these two seemingly dichotomous data points. This is his language, not mine. I'm like, what the hell are you talking about? He says, well, you've got a lot of jobs and the economy is upside down. So I'm just wondering if you have a take on why there are 3 million open positions that nobody wants. And so I answered him. It took me a half hour, but I basically, in a short version, told him that even though unemployment was going up, everywhere I went on dirty jobs, I was seeing help wanted signs. So it seemed like there was something else going on in the country, some other narrative that nobody was talking about. So I started this foundation and tried to make a more persuasive

case for good jobs that actually existed that nobody wanted. That turned into a scholarship fund. It's called MicroWorks. And every year we give away a million bucks to kids who want to learn a skill, master a trade, and not go to a four-year school. When I started doing that, politicians started paying attention because work and education, right? I mean, they're very, very relevant to people on both sides of the aisle. And the funny thing was, I would go to Congress. I've been maybe three times. And I say the same thing every time. You know, the country needs a PR campaign for work. You know, we need to do something to make people give a damn about all these available jobs. And it never fails.

Every time I go, I get calls from Democrats and Republicans, and they each say the same thing. They're each like, Mike Rowe, it's nice to finally hear from somebody who gets it. Somebody who's on our side. You know what I'm saying? You say, hey, talk is cheap, babe. Give me a plane ticket on you to the Alfani Coast right now and maybe I'll mention you in my party. Well, Mike, you know what you were alluding to too about how like we need work. Because we got to beat the Chinese, it's like, you know, now we're seeing in this pandemic, like there's just no jobs for people like that moving forward. Like we saw it here in New York, like, you know, a certain politician who we won't name pushed the Amazon warehouse out of New York City, which would have created so many jobs for people because Amazon is becoming one of the only places that you can work at now with all these people losing their jobs in, you know, waitressing

and the service industry and all that stuff, losing all that. And now it's like, what are people going to do? Some of these jobs that they're just don't exist anymore. And the businesses that they work at are closed. So, I mean, what are we going to do? I mean, I've started a fans only page, which if you want to, you could do that. I mean, I'll we going to do? I mean, I've started a fans-only page, which if you want, you could do that. I mean, I'll take my pants off, whatever you want to do, but not everybody wants to do that. I'm willing to shake my ass, Mike, for money, but what should other people do?

Well, you shake whatever you got, right? Yeah. Shake your back, shake your front, shake your head. I mean, these are not times to fall back on your hopes and your dreams and your passions. These are times to look around, see where everybody's going and head in the opposite direction. It's,

it's, it's time for the reverse commute, right? Beautiful. You, you gave a Ted talk that I watched. Cause you just talked about that. Don't follow your dreams,

follow your passion. When you started saying that in your Ted talk, I perked up because we're comedians. And lately, it's become this trend where everyone wants to, you know, nobody wants to work a real job. Everyone wants to live some sort of dream. They're living off daddy's money from the suburbs. They moved to New York. And, you know, everyone's doing improv. Everyone's got a podcast. And in your TED Talk, you say what you learned from being on Dirty Jobs is that these people who do these tough, seemingly tough jobs are more happier than people who are, like, trying to be, you know,

follow their dreams. So you did say that. You said that's all. He didn't say more happier. There's no way a guy like Mike Rowe would say more happier I mean he's one of the smartest guys I've ever talked to He's not running around saying more happier He might say it if he was singing it in a German opera

And that's the way that language goes Where that word comes before because make no mistake The kid has a silky smooth voice But he can also fucking serenade Your wife with a little Italian Opera whenever he wants So watch your fucking step guy. That's the first time Yanni's been hard in three weeks from the Klonovitz.

Hey, let me show you something. What you're talking about is actually back here wow screenshot that all right we got a micro ass shot look at that it says don't don't always bring it with you and it's on a poster of me artificially inseminating a turkey right there's a long story and i don't want to bore you with all the details but i did give that artificially inseminating a turkey, right? There's a long story, and I don't want to bore you with all the details, but I did give that TED Talk back in 2008, and it pissed a lot of people off because I'm in Silicon Valley, and I'm talking to a couple of hundred venture capitalist hipsters all with their smartphones, and Twitter had just come out,

and everybody was terribly impressed with the shortcut, right? The business of taking a shortcut, the business of getting your 15 minutes of fame, your little slice of the pie in whatever way you could carve it. And I was basically up there saying, look, that's not a bad way to go if that's what you want to go. But the question people usually ask me about Dirty Jobs was how come everybody was having so much frickin fun in a show that looked like everybody should be so miserable? Because, you know, every other scene features some guy covered in other people's crap or something worse, you know. And, and that was the answer. You know, the answer was these guys, collectively, they know some things most of the

people in the audience have forgotten. You know, they know, for instance, that if you have a skill that's in demand, you can go anywhere in the country and you can apply to your trade. And they know that if they were somehow retroactively removed from the fabric of the country, then the whole quilt would bunch up and be worthless. So, you know, I did get a chance to, like, weigh in about some themes that are probably, you know, a little outside of my pay grade, but I don't care. By the way, I should have put – you guys can see this, okay, right? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, hold on. Can you see –

Wait, can you see these whooping cushions right here? Yeah, can you see that? We got this. Listen, listen. That's what we got. Yeah. Yeah. You're not the only one with awards, guy.

Hey, we're getting an award. We just got 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. We're getting a plaque. Yeah. Hey, that's something. How about a diverse rainbow friendly shark coming out? I mean, you're appropriating the shark culture.

Put that in a box and send that to AOC's office right now and say, you are unnoticed. So Mike, I, I obviously, you know, cause for me, I mean, you're a part, you know, to me of, you know, American culture, American history where, you know, when I was, I mean, you're a part, you know, to me of, you know, American culture, American history, you know, when I was, you know, in my college years, you know, it was Mike Rowe with Dirty Jobs, Ben Bailey with Cash Cab, and the Impractical Jokers. That's, I'm like, these are the guys, the white patriarchy.

No, these are the guys who are like, this is television. This is like, I'll always be, associate those faces with those names. And now you have this new show, Six Degrees, which we saw some episode, we watched the first episode, which is fascinating and connecting. Just, I mean, just know, oh, I'm not going to give anything away, but just know somehow horseshoes are connected to fricking Tinder and the Nazis. It's all you got to know. And it's just like, I can't, Mike explains it.

And I was fascinated. It was like, my mind was blown. nazis it's all you got to know and it's just like i can't mike explains it and i was fascinated i was like my mind was blown but do you have you know any because you're so associated with that at least to me do you ever find like you're the you know like the george from seinfeld thing where it's like oh i only think of that guy with dirty jobs but meanwhile you have all these other shows you can do as well at least catch yeah i. Yeah. I mean, well, Deadly's Catch and Dirty Jobs, same street, different house, right? I narrate a lot of shows that have to do with people who make money doing dangerous, disgusting things. So the bad news is, yeah, I mean, if I put on

the ball cap and a t-shirt, right, I'm the Dirty Jobs guy like that I mean we should we stopped shooting the show eight years ago but it's been on every single day so right the show never went away the good news is um I don't have to like George Costanza you've mentioned Jason Alexander I talked to him once and you know it's kind of a nightmare to be recognized as a character that you're not really, you know what I mean? It's tough to be James Kirk, right? It's tough to be William Shatner if all they see is Captain Kirk over time as it chaps your ass. But I didn't, I wasn't playing a character for better or worse. It was just me being an eighth grade, smart Alec crawling through a river of shit, making dick jokes.

Right. That's what I did. And, but the show had big themes under it too. So it was a good mix of serious stuff and ridiculous stuff, but I never had to pretend to be somebody I wasn't. And so that's, uh, made life a lot simpler today, honestly. And that's something too, because it wasn't like you got, like, you know, they came up with the idea of Dirty Jobs and you got cast as the host. This was your brainchild from the beginning and

you brought it to them. And that's why it's so awesome, right? Well, look, you got nobody to blame but yourself, right? When you do something like that. But it's the truth. I mean, Dirty Jobs broke a lot of eggs. You know, there was no reality show on television at the time, but for Survivor, which is like, you know, a competition thing. And I think maybe Jesse James was building bikes in his garage. But the idea, like the idea that a network would send a guy out into the world with a camera crew,

do no scouting, do no writing, do no second takes, right? Just simply document the trip of a guy who wants to see what's under the rock or inside the turkey's ass and actually make a show out of that. It was outrageous. And it never would have got greenlit had I not that it was outrageous and it never it never would have got green lit had i not shot it myself originally and then just showed it to them and said what do you think man and they were like nobody's gonna watch that but it's pretty funny so we'll try it and they it's always funny every like groundbreaking show you hear about always there's a story that

the network or the executives are like that's not gonna work nobody's gonna watch that yeah and you know it's like what do they even pay those guys for or girls or girls well look i mean honestly you you guys are comedians right i mean yes so you know the drill there's a everybody's ripping everybody off all of the time. And, you know, if you watch the local news, if you turn it on in Austin, you know, it looks no different than it does in Cleveland or Baltimore. Stand up is the same way. FM music is the same way. Cable TV is the same way.

Executives get fired when they try new things that fail, but they don't get fired when they green light successful ideas that fail. Right. So they're basically rewarded in a lot of ways for not taking chances. Right. And, you know, think of your favorite comedians, You know, A, he or she took a risk at some point. They were original at some point. And most importantly, they're not trying to make you laugh. They're trying to amuse themselves. Right. So, you know, when I see a great singer or a great comedian or read a great writer,

you know, the first thing that strikes me is that they don't really give a damn what i think right they're doing it for them and i'm just along for the ride yeah that's a very tough thing to pitch if you're trying to sell a show it's easier just to shoot it yourself show it then that's what yeah because we have a great time on here yeah and then people come in and they go you guys are are wild, wild, and they enjoy it. And that's what they enjoy. So we've both, Giannis and I both have done, you know, the TV projects and have the stand-up specials, the Comedy Central specials, and all those things that you would think like,

oh, these guys must do this or that. But we only, obviously, before the pandemic started selling tickets and getting big recognition. Well, I started getting the recognition a little bit later than Giannis did because Giannis had a very successful character on YouTube, but much like his successful character on YouTube and our successful podcast, we created on our own with no help from any executives with no outside influence saying, change this, change that. We just said, we love doing it. We have so much fun doing it. And then the people have responded

to it's the biggest thing that either one of us have done because But it's what we've also done all the Comedy Central things and the honest hosted a huge show on fusion and millions of dollars backing and it never worked because it was like this project that It was in organic but the organic stuff. This is what people want speaking of organic mikey you if you gotta be a vegan yeah can i call you mikey is that okay once in a while mr mikey i think i've earned it okay yeah mr mikey yeah mr mikey what's uh talking of speaking of organic just to piggyback off that your new show you're bringing you you have you you're working with your friend an old friend tell me how that happened how you pitched it is the kid good in front of the camera and what's it feel like to

be with your old buddy chucky well it's weird you know because i've i've never really not been with him i went to high school with this guy i've known him for 40 some years and for the last seven or eight years he's been working uh with, my office down in Santa Monica. I've got the foundation I mentioned. So he's like on the front line of that. But I got half a dozen people that work for me. And, you know, I love them all. But Chuck is that asshole buddy you went to high school with who you never shook.

It's like stepping in gum. Right. He's with you. The thing about Chuck, Chuck though is that he's actually crazy talented New York uh New York uh American Academy of Dramatic Arts you know and I mean he's been in Broadway he's been he's produced movies he's written movies he started movies like if you look at his resume you're like holy crap the guy's literally done everything uh but we stayed

friends. And whenever I got a campaign or something to do, I'll find he'll wear any wig, he'll put on any costume. He played a dog in this short series I did a couple of years ago, who was infested with fleas. It's funny stuff. So when this show came along, the idea was, I don't want to do drunk history, but I also don't want to do like, you know, connections or a big high-minded science show. I want to do a history show that looks a little bit like your podcast, where you take everything and you throw it at the screen. From animation, to puppets, to cheap recreations, to bad costumes, some really dubious acting. I walk through time and my old buddy Chuck is always there wearing some stupid outfit to help me make the connections I want to make on a budget.

Well, yeah, because, you know, earlier in the year, or I'm sorry, last year, you know, our podcast got successful. And then me and Giannis went out and started pitching our own TV idea. And we pitched it at Discovery and they said, we already have a TV show with two friends. And one of the guys associated is Mike Rowe. So we did it. Now we're just still in the same studio. You took our fucking show away. Yeah, sorry.

Because you're better than us. Like I said, guys, there are no new ideas well yeah now we're going to come out well you know we're doing seven degrees of separation with chris with the history hyenas with kevin bacon it's coming out next year so watch out yeah i'm watching man yeah careful what you wish for somebody's gonna buy that thing and then you're gonna be stuck i know imagine some executives like what a great idea seven degrees what is your what is your goal seriously like what do you do from here with this podcast this kid well i'll tell you what his goal is he wants a house on the water in long island i want a house

on long island but i mean i'm paying 30k a month a year in taxes i can't do it um so the honest with you our goal is to get bigger because right now uh we're making good money like we're you know we're we're getting good viewership we're getting advertising we have subscribers so the internet kind of suffices uh you know we don't need to sell it anywhere i think we would probably even uh take a step backwards if we move this to anywhere, maybe except an internet streaming service, because we're getting the eyeballs because a lot of the eyeballs in today's day are on the internet. Yeah. Yeah. Like somebody like you, like who's like a household name and a recognizable name. It's like, of course, like

I'm going to watch TV from micro, but people like us that don't have never, we've been on TV, but not in the, you know, capture the audiences like you have. It's almost like all our peers who are, you know, living like sitcom stars in the nineties are all on YouTube and the internet. So that's where we've shifted our focus because, you know, I mean, I had a, you know, a sitcom with CBS, I've hosted a show, I've done all that stuff. And it just never, it was just a paycheck that came in way. The only staying power I've hosted a show. I've done all that stuff. And it just never, it was just a paycheck that came and went. The only staying power I've ever had has been through YouTube and the podcasting. And what we hope, what our goal is like, you know, obviously keep financially, you know, keep this thing going. When the world opens up, sell a lot of tickets,

keep going to do what we love. And if a tv network or somebody came in you know with big money and wanted to buy it we would consider but this is something that like we wouldn't give up because actually i feel like i'm making a living where i can afford you know whatever i want my family has whatever they want and i'm not going when making enough money that i can live and i still have my anonymity i don't nobody cares about me besides the diehard podcast fans. That, that, that's the thing, right? So Six Degrees, the pitch was, this is a history show for people who don't watch history shows. You guys are doing a podcast or a video podcast, maybe for people who don't watch podcasts. Yeah. Yeah. podcasts. And so, you know, it's only the hardest

thing to do, right, is to get into a familiar form and then do something to shake it up a bit. For me, that involved hiring my old buddy Chuck and using puppets to recreate the great San Francisco earthquake. I don't know what it means for you guys, but I, but I can promise you when the dust settles this incredibly large and fickle audience is, is going to reward the thing that looks different and feels original. They always do. Right.

Well, we decided, yeah, we're history hyenas. We do history, but mostly we are more hyena which means we just go wild for example we did and where we saw the first episode we did a full episode a full hour and a half podcast episode on Hedy Lamarr and never mentioned one thing that you mentioned about her on the show because we were going nuts about everything else I mean we were talking about what Hedy Lamarr may have smelled like instead of talking about her brilliant history. Yeah. A lot of times we just, we've been, we've been referred to as Wikipedia sluts. We just read Wikipedia to the audience and go, and go wild. Yeah. So to call us a history podcast would be like calling –

it would be like calling someone who's not intellectual who's an intellectual. Someone who's not intellectual but is intellectual? Larry the Cable Guy? It would be like calling Larry the Cable Guy – A scholar. Yeah. Or scholar, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. No disrespect, Dan. Larry the Cable Guy's real name's Dan. Yeah. Is anybody actually calling you guys a history show at this point oh no no but you know you know what our goal is mike you know what or at least i think the goal for our podcast has always been to get fucking mike rowan and then shut it down yeah shut it down fuck yeah that's it eddie shooters is emmy now i want to see his

piece it's what it is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because if we were in the studio, you would not be able to leave our studio without getting softly kissed on the lips. You want to see something cool? Yes. This is the kind of crap people give me, right? Yeah. This is a fin worn by a Navy SE seal who engaged in some deep cover operations and i i narrated some

movie about navy seals and they came by and they and they presented me with this thing and now i gotta i gotta figure out where to put i gotta hang a fin on my wall somewhere, which is pretty great. I mean, not that you ask, but like the best part about getting a little bit of notoriety is that all kinds of weird crap happens. The stuff people send me. I got a trident on the wall. It's crazy. So, you know, I mean, I got a trident next to a Ford sign next to me stimulating the cloaca in the wreckage of a turkey.

Yeah, we got, yeah, and we have a picture that somebody made of beads of us in the car right before moments before JFK was shot. That's our thing that we have on our wall. Yeah. It's a thing. It's a thing? Because literally, what would you say was the number one thing that helped you get through covid and through the pandemic when you were quarantining here in the studio you told

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Yeah it's what it is You're going to need to sleep For the next four years In Biden's presidency Helix has got you covered Mike let me ask you this What's it like Making the transition you're going to need to sleep for the next four years in Biden's presidency. Helix has got you covered. Let me ask you this. What's it like making the transition from a non-scripted, reality-based television where you even said in your TED Talk, you know, you did one take.

You wanted it to be as real as possible. You didn't want, you know, line producers coming in saying, let's do that again. Get the testicles from this angle. To a scripted kind of more narrative-based show with, you know, with actors and Chuck in a dog outfit with fleas. Yeah. The difference is like life and death. That might be a bit extreme. No, look, I actually started in the scripted world. I did theater, I did plays, you know, and it doesn't really matter

whether you're on stage playing a part or whether you're in a sitcom or whether you're in a movie or a soap opera, whatever. If you're working from a script, then what you're fundamentally doing is bringing somebody else's vision to life. So every single thing you do and say is an attempt to execute somebody else's vision. And that's great. If the vision you're executing is great, right? I mean, if you're working for Scorsese

and if you're maybe in a play by David Mamet, you're working with the best people, the best material. But there's a lot of shit material out there. So a lot of talented actors spend a lot of time trying to, you know, put lipstick on a pig. And that's just the job. Now, in true, unsed nonfiction reality TV, true, then all that goes away. And the whole onus of the transaction falls to the person on the camera. They're writing their own stuff in their head. They're playing the cards they have, visibly. So for me, the trick was, like the tragedy of nonfiction television today, and reality, is that a lot of scripted producers got involved and tried to make unscripted, scripted.

And you can see it. You can always smell a fake, you know? You can always see a take two. That's a performance. The reason we didn't do that on Dirty Jobs, A, I wanted to tell an honest story about the day I went to the turkey farm. But more importantly, even though we shot it with multiple cameras, I always had a guy with what I called the truth cam, shooting very wide, standing back from the whole thing,

literally documenting the day. So when a plane flies over or a battery dies or somebody screws up or says the wrong thing and the crew needs to stop for any reason, I would always turn to the truth cam and I would explain to the viewer what's going on. And then I would try and make sure that those moments, or at least enough of them, got cut into the finished show. So what you saw when you were in college watching Dirty Jobs wasn't necessarily the most glamorous or the cleanest or the best edited version of non-scripted TV.

What you saw was an honest look at what our day was like. And it was the Truth Cam that let us do that. And for the life of me, I don't understand why more productions don't do that. I think it's because deep down, most people in my world want to appear more credible than they are, than they are they're even non-actors are very very actory you know and they're or maybe they're in control of their their lifestyle brand or maybe they got a sponsor that they need to fillet a little bit right there are a thousand and a thousand reasons otherwise decent projects go off the rails. But if you have the truth cam, you know, it'll keep you honest.

Whatever it is. Yeah. I've noticed even with six degrees, like, well, you know, there's a couple of times I saw in one of the episodes, you know, you break and you talk to the guy playing Hitler and, and all that stuff. Or like you saying like, yeah, we're really not in Hawaii. We're in San Francisco. Those things I've always, when I'm watching a show or anytime I've been part of a pilot, cause I've, I've had nine pilots. I'm Chrissy pilots. I've never had one make there, but I've been part of all these pilots where I've tried to say, can we just keep that in like the honest truth of it or let me do it. And, you know, again,

not having the power, I, they would just say, no, you know, like we're going to put this edited bullshit business card version of you. And I'm like, that sucks. Like, I wish you would just say, no, you know, like we're going to put this edited bullshit business card version of you. And I'm like, that sucks. Like, I wish you would just let me be honest because it's so much fun. So that's why when I watched your shows, I'm like, man, this guy, this is awesome. And even I found something, we found something that you, you've been doing this from the beginning. Like when you worked at QVC in the eighties, you got fired for just making fun of the products and belittling the viewers. And it's like, that's what we want to do. That's like these networks never let you do it. No.

Look, I mean, I bitched about QVC for years. In fact, I didn't talk about it for seven years because I thought it represented the very lowest point of my career. But the truth is, when I look back at that, every valuable thing I ever learned that ever came in handy in this crazy business, I learned in the middle of the night, usually after a couple of beers, trying to stay awake on live TV as I talked to this vast narcoleptic audience of codependent lonely hearts. That's right. That's where I learned every single thing. But the lesson is, you know, I didn't have to be outrageous on QVC to appear outrageous. All I had to do was be slightly different than the guy before me and the guy after me who were the same exact thing. You watch Qc 24 hours a day it's the same show over and over and over i i just put my toe over the line a little bit and when i did that it it made everything everything else look so completely and wildly subversive and irreverent that i got a

reputation for being a lunatic i i really wasn't. I was just in a very specific pond, behaving like a very different fish. Did Laurie fire you? Was it hers then? Laurie Grenier? Yeah. No, she wasn't there. This was like, first time I got fired was 1990.

Wow, nice. Yeah, I'd only been there a couple of weeks. Let me ask you this question, Mike. With Dirty Jobs and how honest it was, at what point did they give you the power to have creative say? Was that from the jump? Is that something that you got with popularity? I never got creative control. What I got or what I gave them were very few options. You get one take. Now,

I can't make you use it, but if you don't, then the chronology is going to get hinky pretty quick. You know, the big win for me, and I don't want to make it sound like Discovery and I were at odds all the time. We weren't. But we each wanted the same thing, but early on we had a slightly different way to get it. And one of the big conversations see the crew filming Dirty Jobs because that was a dirty job. You know, when you see your cameraman get hit by a 40 pound turd that slides off a ruptured lift pump and falls 30 feet through the air and just covers him, you know, you have to cut that into the show. Yeah. Oh yeah. You have to. But at the time doing that was insane. They didn't, showing the crew, showing the lights, showing a cable, show, you know, they used to hide the microphone. I'm like, I'm not going to hide the microphone. Just clip it here and let the cord hang. The viewer knows I have a mic. The viewer knows I'm out there with a team. So that was the first, that was the first big conversation and,

and getting them to say, okay, we'll show that. That changed everything. Because now the viewer knew they were coming along for a ride instead of showing up for, you know, a lecture. And you're ahead of your time with all that because I feel like now moving into entertainment, that's really what it's like. That's why, in my opinion, like, you know, the sitcom, the, you know, multi-cam sitcom isn't as popular as a, you know, single cam one, because the single cam one shows more of real life where we're like, hey, we, you know, life is not about a shiny set and the perfect hair placement and hair and makeup and hiding the microphone. It's about, you know, like reality. And that's why I think, you know,

what you doing that stuff feels like very, you know, ahead of your time. And now, you know, it's awesome because even, you know, the little things for me as the viewer watching Six Degrees when you walk off, you know, of the green screen and then it's just a wide shot of you on set. It's like all that stuff to me makes me trust you. And it makes me be like, oh, this guy knows what he's talking about. Where me on the podcast, us on the podcast, we're reading Wikipedia facts off our phones. Yeah, but you know what? If you let the viewer see you reading the facts off of your phone, that's okay. Yeah, we do. Yeah. I mean, there's a difference between being authentic and being

correct. Right. Right. I mean, it's pretty amazing. Years ago, Jon Stewart, when he was at the height of his power on Comedy Central, he was voted the most trusted anchor in the country. Like more than Peter Jennings, more than Tom Cruise. More than Matt Lauer? More than all of them. And, you know, part of the reason was he never said, trust me. Right. He just, he said, look, don't, don't take it from me. You know, he didn't pretend to read out of a prompter when he was reading out of a prompter. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't try to fool you

the way all the other anchors do. By the way, I just want, I just want to highlight something of just the disrespect of the youth in our nation we're on with mike freaking row right now and our 25 year old producer just wrote on the screen ask him what's the worst app of bad jobs or whatever it's called you're fired bad jobs or whatever it's called it's micro and dirty jobs what is the name of your former uh we call it we call her ven antifa we call her ven antifa because she's just always causing an uproar yeah her name is her name is her name is venetia and it's greek but we call her ven antifa yeah once we saw her instagram stories and she was at a few marches, she got the nickname Van Antifa. So that's – she just called it worst ep of bad jobs or whatever it's called.

Can you bring her on camera? I'd like to have a look. Oh, yeah. Can you come on camera? Take your mask off. Yeah. Do you have any – are you going to burn down a post office? That's it.

Okay, look, I want to tell her a very quick story. Hi, Mike. How are you? Yeah. Why don't you get in the middle here? Okay, sit here. Yeah. But you're not on camera. that's it okay look i want to tell her a very quick story hi mike how are you yeah let's go okay get in the middle here okay sit here yeah but you're not on camera here's a story for ventia all right we got it we got it right there we got it right there yeah yeah there there she goes okay great all right okay so just for me to you a special story i told this over thanksgiving and you know it took me years to to get over this moment but I told the guys back there

I got a turkey in between my thighs upside down and I'm stimulating the turkey in order to cause an erection and an ejaculation so I can collect the semen. Okay so here's how it works Fantia. It's a weird Thanksgiving. The turkey doesn't really have, it's got a penis, but it's inside of its asshole, right? It's called a cloaca. So what you do is you get the bird upside down in your lap and you gently with your thumb rub over the rectum. And you do this until the rectum fills with semen. Now in your left hand, you're holding a jar that used to have baby food in it. Now it's just an empty jar and it has a lid on it. And in the lid are two holes. And in one hole is a straw. And in the other hole is another straw. So what you do, Venti, is you

hold that baby jar in your hand with the upside down turkey between your legs that has a rectum full of semen. And you go ahead and you stick the one end of the straw into the semen filled rectum. And then you start sucking on the other end. So what you do is you create a vacuum in this little jar that used to hold baby food. And the semen comes out of the rectum and collects in that jar. And when that's done, you spread your legs and the turkey falls to the ground and a man brings you another one and you do it again and again and again and again until the jar is full of turkey semen. And then you take little

pipettes and you fill it with the semen and then you begin to inject them into the vulvas of the hens. And that's what I did on Thanksgiving. Fuck. There you go. You see, Benetia, go put that on TikTok. Benetia. You millennial. What you just learned is the true story of how your turkey gets on your table at Thanksgiving. It's not just running around there.

There's some guy jerking that fucking turkey off and throwing that semen in another turkey's pussy so santa is not real okay and neither is it yeah and it's john rowe from bad shit or whatever yeah can you just ask this guy can you ask this fucking boomer whatever happened on his fucking show what was like the worst one so we can get a fucking sound clip so I can put it on the talk tick. Yeah, that's what you want to do. Trying to wrap up the fucking episode. Yeah, nice meeting you. Nice meeting you and nice having you employed here, Ben Antony.

Yeah, deadass. You're gone. Nice meeting you, Jason Rowenstein. Holy crap. That is not real. I've got to get you guys a real gig this is amazing you want to produce our show I felt like you were pitching us before I understand there's an opening

yeah Mike I mean any please stay in touch talk to Discovery for us I mean I'll jerk off a fucking turkey for a couple mils just Mike all you got to do when you're going to pitch us for the show, we got to delete some tweets. We got to delete some tweets. We got to clean it out a little bit.

They fucking paid me a couple of mil to chop off a lamb's nuts. I'm in. You don't chop them off, you bite them off. He's Greek, he knows. I'm Greek. I mean, that's what we did at my bar mitzvah. Yeah, that's called a Saturday afternoon for Yanni the Greek. Yeah mean, that's what we did at my bar mitzvah. Yeah. That's just, that's called the Saturday afternoon for Yanni the Greek. Yeah.

Mike, listen, it was great having you brother. What, what, so when is, when is six degrees coming out and where can people see it and everything? Discovery plus they're doing this whole new streaming service. All their content's gone over the top online that drops on the 4th of January. So just go to discovery.com, sign up for the free week, watch it if you like it. It's a couple of bucks a month or something like that, similar to Netflix, only more bestiality and this kind of turkey molestation. We love it. Mike, thank you so much, brother. It was really like an actual honor to have you on.

So thank you so much. It was an actual privilege to be on guys. Good luck in whatever comes next and tell a van at Tifa there that I'm pulling for. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Thank you, Mike. Great.

Everybody. Absolutely. Six degrees, everybody. Check it out. Check it out. All right. Bye.

All right. As always, we love the newest members of the the family the matriarchy go to patreon.com slash bay ridge boys put in a funny name the winner gets a ppw let's read them out here we go starting off nice one eastern hemingway you know where to put that guys right that's on the list i don't have to say that eastern hemingway winner yeah yeah's the winner. Yeah. Yeah. So then we got Chrissy Greeks invented everything Stamulolus. Okay. Then we got Will Gandhi Blasio Thompson.

Matt Norris poo poo platter 14. That's going on the list list. Yeah. Ben Yarkin Christopher Hall Brandon McGuire.

Then we got Tuckback in the attic cause alum and Franks and Beans. Okay. Then we got Timmy D playing handball with Chrissy D's Blue Balls and Giannis Las Papas Fritas is a dictator. Hitler was a penis potato.

You had it right after. You had it after handball. Yeah. Then we got Fernando Perez. Then we got Eric, the Mexican Jew, a.k.a. the kosher Frank and Beaner Caballero. Yeah. List. Caballero. Put it on the list Jew, a.k.a. the kosher, frank and beaner, Caballo. Yeah. List.

Caballero. Put it on the list. Of course. If you're lost, you can look and you weigh Sean Sheen. Put it on the list. On the list. Yes. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. I mean, the first one's tough to beat, too. Yeah. Eastern Hemingway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Eastern Hemingway.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then we got Dabber McJule, Kristen W., Justin Benson, Hunter Grossman. Then we got Call My Peace Boogie because it's always with a hoodie. Ace Boogie with the hoodie. Kid's got to fuck it. He's uncut.

Kid's uncut. Put him on the list. Then we got Chris Hanvold, Shauna, Mike Beck, Brian Klein, Cade Carter, Syrup Boys. Then we got Alexander the Great's nephew. Alexander the Great's nephew is a Drexler. Nice. Yeah. Then we got Chris Larizza.

Then we got cuck-faced Italian Dominic Bondar. Drexler. Michael DeFilio. Then we got Mikey Steams. You know what it means. To the right-eye leans, we all scream for the white man's cream, a.k.a. the American dream. Okay, that's a direct slur. It's good, though. But look, funny's funny.

Yeah. Then we got Tyler, James Rose, John Griffiths, Justin Cole, Bradley Perez, Joseph Borghese. Then we got Patrick Falvey, Matt Saracino. Then we got $3 Bill Burr. My pronouns are he, her, the tip of my peen burns, go Spurs. Then we got $3 Bill Burr. My pronouns are he, her, the tip of my peen, Burns, go Spurs. For the funny, it's got to go on the list.

It's a heavy list. Then we got Joshua Wheat. Then we got roses are red and racism is bad. My son won't acknowledge me. I'm Sean King's white dad. On to the list. This is the first time where the list has outweighed the Drexlers. Then we got Andy, my binky is so stinky, even Vanitya wouldn't use her pinky.

Can't even Drexler. One person we can't take the jokes for is Vanitya. If it's funny enough, even if it's a little racist, it's getting a Drexler. Yeah, it's just what it is. Then we got DJ Master Jen, Y Don T. Then we got Dave Walken, Mike Chin, Drugs. Then we got Put the POTUS on Notice for sniffing those kids through. Drexler.

Then we got Skylar the Skin Flute playing Squeak. Then we got Super Flumario Brothers. We've had that. Oh, we've had that. We've had that one. Then we got Hamad Bin Abid. You know what? Give him a Drexler just for being a Sandra Dee. That's what it is. Yeah. Then we got Hamad bin Abid. You know what? Give him a Drexler just for being a Sandra Dee. That's what it is.

Yeah. Then we got Arthur Rubin. Then we got Gokerman, the German. Then we got Nick Sedidis, Chad Miles, Tony Testa. Then we got Lighting the Mood, Nathan, Gerson Torres, Mooney. Then we got Devin Cumberbleed. Devin, come or bleed, I cum or bleed I've spit on you

for the last time it's just one word it's too much yep then we got Ephraim I'm already on the list but it's Schindler's List Duncan Berger

throw him on the list yeah sorry I mean you know what he gets a Drexler but it's a it deserves to be on the list

but that's what we'll do with the funny racist ones is that okay? Yep. If I acknowledge the humor. Yeah, acknowledging racism and then accepting it is okay. It's okay, okay. Venetian officially does not co-sign.

But for the humor, you get a Drexler. Okay. I mean, that was a great one. Just give it a repeat. Ephraim, I'm already on the list, but it's Schindler's List, Dunkin' Burger. I mean, the humor's goodindler's list duncan burger i mean it's the humor is good it's good yeah then we got call me mahatma because i too like them age 17 years i'm talking about cheese not kids list funny drexler funny drexler yeah it's just the other ones are

so good then we got adam liz ryan randall parker mich G. Dempsey, Justin Fyke, Chris, Ward McCormick, Cesar Chavez. Then we got Princess Molly, Little Piddles, Herrera. Then we got President-elect Kanye Jean-Gian. Then we got OG Buttermilk, Sean, A. Sean Jantani, D. Grecochoff, Poppy Spanky, S. Then we got Andy, I am Malala, S. Then we got Andy I.M. Malala, Call Me Halala Padridas. Then we got Chris M. Drexler for that one.

Malala's won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah. Then we got Stefan Fumarberry. It's a great one. If you're coming with the Fumari things, come strong, come strong. Drexler, yeah. Then we got Dan Sanchez, Max Hook.

Then we got Daniel McGregor. Then we got OMG. Don't say that. Oh, my God. Sorry. Once in a while, they have a little fun with us. Yeah. They fucking put me in their trap.

Yeah. Then we got Chris Kong. Yeah. Then we got Jacinda. The name is Greek. Jacinda. The name is Greek. Jacinda, the name is Greek. The tootles. The toot is.

The toot is white. It's what it is. Jacinda, the name is Greek. The toot is white. It's what it is. Sorry. This is a heavy Greek list. A lot of Greek names.

Yeah. Eric Agabayev. Steph Zepiri. Then we got Mohamed S. Gandhi's grandniece. Oh, my God. Yeah. Drexler for the humor. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's for the humor. Gandhi's grandniece. Drexler for the humor. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. It's for the humor. It's fine. Then we got Jake Dick Hits Like Ike Turner's Closed Fist Smith. Sorry. I can't put that on the list? No, we can't put it on the list. I mean, just one more time for the humor. Jake Dick Hits Like Ike Turner's Closed Fist Smith.

I don't support that. Wonder Woman 84 was a good movie. But it's getting a Drexler from Yanni P. Christopher Hall, Milan Pedrovic, Timothy Young, Rebecca Flores. Then we got Rasputin-sized pea-shootin' glue into any crease. Then we got Robert Downs Syndrome Jr. Can I put that on the list? Robert Downs Syndrome. Dre I put that on the list? Robert Down Syndrome Jr.

Drexler, Drexler. I don't support it at all, but Drexler. Then we got Frank Paolini. This is a safe place for humor. Then we got Great Southern Hemi, Lock Me Up With A Couple, 100% Not Straight Toots For Four Years, Trump 2024. Then we got Dan Grisale, Elon Fumar 2024. Elon Fumar. Then last but not least, we got Yanni P. and Chrissy D. Eiffel Towering AOC till she's

not a commie. Can I put that one on the list? Yeah. Fine. Okay, let's do less. It's a sexual act, the Eiffel Tower. On the list for the viewer. I mean, you got a strange morality. There's another one about an ethnicity I can't, but there's two, me and him, we're Eiffel Tower on the list for the viewer. I mean, you got a strange morality.

There's another one about an ethnicity I can't, but there's two, me and him, we're Eiffel Tower and AOC. Okay, so here we go.

Let's get to the list. Here are the finalists. Eastern Hemingway, Poo Poo Platter 14, Eric the Mexican Jew, aka the kosher Frankenbeiner Caballero. Very funny.

If you're lost, you can look and you weigh Sean Sheehan. Very funny. Call my peace boogie because it's always with a hoodie. For me, it's between that and Eastern Hemingway. Then we got Mikey Steams.

You know what it means. To the right, Aileen, we all scream for the white man's cream, a.k.a. the American dream. That should have been a Drexler. $3 bill, Burr. My pronouns are he, her. The tip of my peen burns. Go Spurs.

That's probably off because we've had it. Yeah, it's just these are the two for me. Roses are red and racism is bad. My son will acknowledge me. I'm showing King's white dad. That's another contender. That's three. That's three.

Yeah. Then we got, last but not least, Yanni P and Chrissy D. Eiffel Towering AOC till she's not a commie. That was very funny. But the winner is? But for me, it's Eastern Hemingway. Yes. Because he did a dash's Eastern Hemingway. Yes. Because he did a dash between Eastern Hemingway and the other one.

Call my peace boogie because it's always with a hoodie. Call my peace boogie because it's always with a hoodie. And the third one, Sean King's dad. I got Eastern Hemingway as well. I'm going with the first one. I think we have a bias because he was the first one. Yes. But it's the funniest one.

Eastern Hemingway, you are the winner. Congratulations. Go to patreon.com slash bayridgeboys. Join up. tier get your name right out let's have some fun yas