Hollywood Handbook - Adam DiMarco, Our Interview Friend

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

The Boys welcome back ADAM DIMARCO to discuss some interviews he did for Overcompensating. Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook Like the show? Rate Hollywood Handbook 5-Stars on Apple PodcastsAdvertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I had not thought of him that way, I guess. I've never heard it phrased that way. But I mean, I'll hear you out. Well, tell me how you thought of him. How I thought of him? Initially. The madman Across the Water? Correct.

I thought of him as, you know, I think what, like it, no matter what you think of him, it's hard to lead a country. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, it's, it's like, it's, it Like, it's hard to. It's difficult. Like take that many people and have them be like, yes. Like I'm into what you're.

That's not how people work, is it? Right? No! When you get a group that large, they are not in lockstep operating. They're not all rowing in the same direction usually. And to generate that, to get that kind of, to even get a quorum, even a quorum. It's challenging.

Trying to do that can make you appear to be a madman, hey, across the water. I don't wanna leave Adam out of this. What do you think? Adam, what do you think? How have you been thinking of him? I don't know what the hell we're talking about. I'm already lost.

It's amazing. The madman across the water? Kevin? You got it, buddy. Is it Kevin? Why would Kevin be the madman across the water? First of all, there's water on the desk. Kevin, you know, he's a little off kilter sometimes.

I wouldn't call him a madman. I need a bit more context. Kevin can't lead the Sinister Six in song. Kevin can't, he's not gonna lead the country. An entire country? Doing karaoke. Everybody! Dead silence.

And Kevin, that's nothing to do with Kevin. We're talking about the madman across the water. Sir Elton John. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Is there not water in between us and Elton John right now? I guess. Right. Yeah. And he's a bit of a man, just the way he like. Wait, what's so mad about him? You're just supposed to sit in glasses. You're just supposed to sit in glasses.

Even they're out of control. The bench is there at the piano for you to sit on. That's what, if I just had one, just even a brief audience with him, that's what I would, that's what I would say. By the way, we talked before. Benson Boone. Back flip Boone.

Oh my God, oh my God. This, speaking of country, this country country has a Benson Boom problem right now. The fellow's like out of a monkey cage. Yeah, what piano bench? I'm gonna climb on that thing and flip right off. Oh my God, what am I watching? The circus acrobats or a musical performance? Because at this point we have a Benson Boom problem.

All these kids growing up watching that, breaking their necks, jumping off of them. It's not fucking safe, and it's certainly not a part of playing the piano. No. I mean, he's our modern day Johnny Knoxville, at this point, which I mean, sort of thought we were done with all that,

but welcome back Johnny Knoxville and Benson Boone. Great. Benson Baboon more like. No, he's behaving like a baboon. He's jumping like you came straight out of the monkey cage at the zoo. I mean, it's like, note to Benson, relax, please.

You don't gotta do all that. He don't got one song where he needs to be doing all that. Okay? Just sing the frigging thing. And take a page out of Alton John's book in terms of learning from his mistakes. The guy's being referred to by also to call you the madman this side of the water. The guy's being referred to

by both of us as a madman, and you're considering it as well. And I'll tell you what, this guy's gonna throw his back out one day, and I worry with the way he sings, I'm worried no one in the audience will know. Jesus Christ, tough to tell, huh? When he's suddenly Please! yowling in pain. Asking for help. Be indistinguishable? When he's suddenly yelling in pain.

Asking for help. Be indistinguishable from me. Like when he inevitably throws his back out one day. I want you, I need you. Oh God, you know, it's back. So you're like a huge fan, huh? Yeah, you know all the whole thing. You're like going crazy for this guy.

I thought you were just bringing him up as like, he's like popular right now, but he's like your guy. Yeah, I was like your man. You know all the words. Four, five of the words, yeah. You know, what do you mean? I just said one word. You said six words.

Yeah. I just made a sound basically. I wasn't like, I don't know. Is that in it? I didn't even, is that in it? I didn't even know that that was in it. That's part of it. That's how it starts, man. That's actually the beginning of it.

Wow. But you just like. I think you said eight words. I'm looking back through it. I think you said eight words. Then you tried to pretend it was five. It's whatever. So here's what the show isn't.

We've had to do this a little bit. The show is not gaslighting me. That's not what the podcast is. I don't know. I know you didn't have any idea what the fuck you were doing here last time. It's about gaslighting me. Seems like we're there again.

Oh yeah, it's all about you. Oh yeah, for sure. Everything we do, the show's about you. In the middle of your goddamn press tour for your 15 TV shows. Somebody save Adam, he's being gaslit by the mean men on the podcast. What, what episode is this?

We can't get this guy a hat pack hat. Thank you so much for adding that. He's gotta fucking wear the Toronto, the what? Oh yeah, where's the? You're on black one? I don't care man. It seems like he's only got black ones. It's not a question we usually ask

right after premiering a new color. Oh what's the new color? Frozen ice variant. Frozen ice. Mm-hmm. I'll take a madman across the frozen ice. Right? Yeah. I thought you were talking about Xi Jinping. Now that Kevin is out, I can admit this. I didn't know you were talking about him and John. We don't like to do this in front of Kevin. We like to sort of act like we both understand each other. Yes.

I honestly. Let's just get it all straight now right now. I may have been. I may have been. Adam's got me all thrown off today. So I don't know what, you know. Now speaking of song lyrics too, as we do talk about, John, I mean, and him being a madman,

the fuck is he talking about? What is he talking about? Okay. What is that? Thank you. Wow, two hats, three hats. I guess it's Bernie, Bernie Topin responsible for some of that, huh?

That's right, yes. But Bernie just gets a free pass. Why are these so hot? He's kind of the mad man as well. They're in my car, my car's on with the heat on. Oh my God. His car's on fire, as is his house and everything else he owns.

This car is on fire. I put this hat on, that means we're friends. Amen. And only one way to find out. Okay. It'll be nice to me if I put that on. Come on, get in here brother. I'm always nice.

Oh, I mean it is a good time. You don't know what being nice looks like. Being nice, the friends who are really nice are willing to be honest with you. It's nice to take the Leafs hat off now. What's your number? Wait, how many buttons? Oh, I be honest with you. It's good. It's nice to take the Leafs hat off now. What's your number? What how many buttons? I go all the way all the way this man goes all the way Doggie this is very man. Here's my guy. There's the kid shit, dude This episode is actually looking up. What's up? I'm back out for you. Come on boss. Um

Last time I was on the show. Yes. Yes, killer. I hadn't listened in a while. I remember it was like a thing. It should go on. Yeah. And I haven't, and obviously after doing the show, I really didn't want to listen to it.

You know? But I- Really common. You know, the show's like- Really't wanna listen to it. You know? But I- Really common. You know, the show's like- Really common for guests and everyone to, you know, what does the monk do before going on the show? Doesn't listen. What does the monk do after going on the show?

Doesn't listen. So it is that old proverb. Hearing, you know, the show's fucking everywhere, guys. Congrats, I've been hearing about it so much. The show's been blowing up lately. It's actually gotten a lot of heat, yeah. That old that old proverb hearing you know the shows fucking everywhere guys Congrats I've been hearing about it shows been blowing up lately. It's actually gotten a lot of heat. Yeah Speaking of the Leafs you I heard you guys talked about hockey It's crazy. Did it go? How'd you think it went? You know it's interesting yeah to look back on it now

and and I didn't think it was gonna work when I intentionally, I did get some things wrong on purpose in order to like drive engagement for the show. By the way, that wasn't even this show. Oh, okay. It's not, yeah. Okay. Just so you-

Well, I don't know, cause I don't, you know. You don't listen. Yeah. You don't listen. And I'm not just talking about the show right now. You don't fucking listen I'm not just talking about the show right now. You don't fucking listen, brother Yeah, I had thought it was a big part of acting to kind of listen. There's two schools of it Mm-hmm. So where would you hear about them both?

Where would you hear about something like that? I Have a freaking Canada group chat. It's just everyone's talking about the show Anywhere everywhere text read. It's all it's talking about the show Anywhere everywhere text read it's all it's all true. Doe is fucking going off in there You're doing a hockey pause you're doing a hat back into a hockey the frozen ones true going boys you could do a Boy speaking of the show everywhere He's not in anymore. Do you think we made the right call turning down that Vulture article

that Doughboys ended up doing instead of us? I can't see if you're looking at me. Doughboys just had this Vulture write up about them doing the show for 10 years. We'd done ours a little longer. And they talk all through this interview about how their show sucks and it sucks for the listeners. I know, and so that's why I turned it down.

Vulture was like, do you guys wanna do an interview about how Doughboyz sucks? And it's like, it's like horrible for everyone involved. And that's why you guys haven't done it for so long. Yeah, that their fans suck and their show sucks. And I was like, I don't know. I feel like I'm on record about that. I don't need to do that again.

Maybe ask them how they feel. They asked you to do an article about Doughboys? They asked you to- Wow, I thought I was joking when I said you didn't listen. But no, I thought they didn't ask you to do one about- They asked us. They asked to interview us. Not about Hollywood Handbook.

I mean, if it comes up, it comes up. Yeah, I mean, there's really no avoiding it. They probably would wanna talk about it. But the thing that's really bubbling up right now is how Dubbois sucks and the show is straight dog. I guess probably some of our listeners, either fans of you or just people who are just listening to the show for like what it is,

probably would need us to say, Doughboys is a podcast, used to be very popular. It's about like food chains and the two guys who do it both think it sucks, they're on record as that and they actually hate their fans as well. And they didn't get asked about our show. I think they probably would have had to say that our show is very good.

Over 10 years of this. How many episodes have you done? This is 60 what? Two. Two, yeah. Cool. So we're going back to back on the overcompensating cap. Oh yeah.

We probably have to. Yeah, overcompensating. But this is 603, right? Nope. Because of the, it wasn't there? No, it's not. 601 came out today. But there was-

No, Adam, it's not. I don't listen, but I've heard that there's, you know, people are talking about- Adam, how's press going for you? How's your press tour going? You know, that shows so how people talk about how they're, you know- You know, Adam, last time you were here. An episode that didn't.

I don't know what Adam's talking about. There's a lot of there's not a lot of you are here. We talked about doing media training. You are playing the nice guy, aren't you? You're really starting to get under my skin. This new character you've adopted. Yeah. Now, media training for interviews

was the subject of our last episode that we did with you. Remember talking about that? Oh, well, you must remember it because you immediately said, we're not gonna talk about my interviews again. Oh, God, you got, no, what? You did this last time. And so. Sean.

34. Look at me, Sean. Sean, look at me. Y time. And so. Sean. 34. Look at me Sean. Sean look at me. Yuck. And so. 34, I didn't think he was that old. You finally did Nuvo, huh? And this headline, a little scary, it has me, it has my palms getting sweaty.

I see a lot of influencers are pre Nuvo, but you are Nuvo. Which is cool. That's cool. Right. Got the call. This headline. Doughboys are in vulture and Adams in Nouveau.

Adam DiMarco is done playing the nice guy. Yeah. He's finished with it. Listen here, she. It's me, Fingers DiMarco. Playing the mean guy, huh? This is what you taught me, Fingers Damarco. Playing the mean guy, huh? This is what you taught me, right? Last time you said, you gotta get that dog out of you.

It's that dog, yes. Yeah, the dog. We definitely wanted to hear the dog. We wanted to hear the big dog bark. Yes. Yeah. Right? Yes, and rough, rough.

That would have been nice, rough, rough. This is a direct, you know, butterfly. The actual answer to that is yes. Doing the show to this is. And I, and all I wanted Adam, and the only thing I wanted when we were doing that, and you were so resistant to it, and you were so annoying about it,

but all I wanted was to see you succeed. And now who's in Nuvo? This is great for Nuvo. And they're actually embracing, right? Some of the lessons that we tried to impart. Took a little while to get them through, you know? I don't know if it was, you had your hockey helmet on or something and it was taking longer

for the ideas to get in there, but they finally did. And it looks like we've scored something of a hot trick TV shows-wise, because you had done the famous one, and you're on the new one now, and the second new one now, and it's overcompensating. Compensating month on Hollywood M-book. Overcompensating, and go to hell, or I'm doing killer devil man.

Get out of here devil, I'm sick of it. We gotta get you in Casey's movie. Oh my God. Day one of filming. You could work with the devil again. Oh my God, it's so incredible working with the devil. Day one of filming you probably wouldn't notice because the same amount of people are ahead come today.

Whoa. Hollywood handbook. Whoa. Hollywood handbook. It may look like his journey has just begun. No, it's not to me. There can't be a pause in the conversation because then you guys are gonna read this. But Adam DiMarco is ready to go off course. Damn, dude.

The year old actor has two resolutions for 2025. You're gonna read this whole thing? This is a long resolution. To release the debut EP for his musical side gig, Good One. No, no, no. Here's what I say when people come at Jesse David Fox's podcast title.

When people tell me they're gonna make a play at the same podcast title that Jesse David Fox has. You know what I say to that? What's his podcast? Hey, good one. Yeah, that's making me laugh as hard as one of Mike Birbiglia's jokes, man That is a good one. You think you're gonna fucking come for the crown? You got the wrong one. You got a better chance. That's the name of a place in cereal or the doughboy That's the name of JDF podcast might as well call your fucking band smart list man and for big leah's documentary

Produced by JDF does Kevin look things up Kevin. Do you ask him to look things up? Can you look up that when those came out? This might, do we know? 2017. How you feeling, big dog? Not good. Let me hear a woof woof. Not good. What?

And to move out of Vancouver, his home for the last 14 years. New York is in the running for his next address. So when did this interview take place? So have you moved to New York yet? No. Ah. No, no, but I gotta move out,

we were talking about this, I gotta move out of Vancouver eventually. And I love that just putting it out there and now New York is coming to you. It's like choosing the next Olympic city. Yeah. It's like the IOC is making its big announcement for where Adam is going to.

Adam to live. Adam, you should think about LA too. Oh, if you like New York, you might wanna come to LA. Adam, please. We can do, oh, we should do like a video, like a flash mob type video. Adam. You should get the mayor. Well, let's just sing Imagine.

But we'll change the words to be about leaving it at play. That's good. Imagine Adam DeMarco. Im Adam. Heating in Silver Lake. Yeah. Tattoo ramen. I don't know what it is.

Tears always are there anymore. Record so late in the day. No. And we can feel it today. Yeah, we're a little punchy today. I don't know what it is always there anymore record so late in the day. It's no like Today this is so Yeah 530 it's sometimes you've got to struggle coming out by the way sometimes you've got to struggle to grow You see it a lot in nature, too I'm sure it's a Charmander evolves into Charmeleon.

So this is interesting, cause I haven't played the latest incarnation, but I did not realize that Charmander moves from Vancouver to New York in order to evolve it to Charmeleon. Yes, and then to LA as Charmander. Obviously a very direct line. Yeah.

Or I guess he considers moving to New York and that's enough to make him evolve. New York's in the running. You gotta be on the move. Give me a top five, give me a list. Some rare evolve. New York's in the running. You gotta be on the move. Give me a top five, give me a list. Some rare candies. New York's in the running, who else is in the list? This is someone from, like, this is from the show?

Like, what, like, who is that? Is that her real name? Charmander? No, Charlie XCX. What other cities are you thinking about? New York, LA, Toronto. Those are the top three. Damn, going from Vancouver to Toronto.

Huge. Look out world. Could be big. Just really announcing. Yeah. It's time. Look at me. Yeah.

Dude, if you came to LA, you could do this show again. I had so much anxiety when I got the email about it. As soon as I got the email, I had a- Oh, this was an, yeah, this was an outgoing call. That's not what I was told, interesting. This keeps happening to me. We get, when we, so something happens to Kevin. What is going on with this?

Is this the same person? No, different. What? Kevin gets tricked a lot into thinking that people wanna do the show, and he'll go, this person wants to do the show. So you were wondering, he's like, Adam wants to do the show again.

He's got stuff coming out. I wanted to do the show, but it's still nerve wracking. We're getting parent trapped over and over again is that what happened on the last episode or Kinda kind of sure the Pokemon and now oh, it's a Pokemon I've only played Ruby Shield. What's that? It's like the new, it's new Pokemon. Ruby Shield? Which one did you play?

Is that real? Yeah, it's like the good new Pokemon. You know the old Pokemon. Ruby Shield's a good Pokemon. You know the old Pokemon are based on like, like those are, the old Pokemon are really racist. You know that, right? Yeah.

I didn't know that. They're all negative stereotypes. Yeah, the new ones are really racist. You know that right? Yeah, I didn't know that Yeah, new ones are they're all negative white people they're really racist against white people. Yeah. Yeah, don't play that Okay. Yeah, mr. Mime play that you know, I mean come on. Yeah, come on. That's a that's a white French guy That's just a white French guy. Yeah. They put in a ball and they throw it at everyone. Come on. True. Don't do that, man. Don't do that.

You disrespect yourself and you disrespect me when you do that. Sure, the Pokemon analogy seems random. We're not gonna read this whole thing. But it's a fitting reflection of Marco's mindset. Much like Nintendo's fiery lizard, he's primed to shed his old skin just as his career is heating up.

Boy. This is something. What noise did the writer make when you said that quote? They're loving this. Yeah, I don't know, it was a long conversation. You're giving them so much juice from that. I know. They're just them so much juice from that. I know. They're just like, did they just like start typing

almost independently? Like their eyes rolled back in their head and they were just like, aw, like fucking just started channeling something because like you activated something deep within them. I didn't know that, and I'm getting ahead of myself. Oh, this is what it's called. What? This, oh, this is what it's called. What?

This, oh, the devil's friends with me, and I give him a hug and a kiss. It's actually called Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. Wow, sounds great. And did it? No, it sounds like a really fun show for me to watch. Yeah.

I'm not allowed to, I can't say anything. Good luck with that, I'm sure people are gonna love it. It's one of those titles where I just, I get really worried. It's too scary? No, I'm worried for you. If somebody doesn't like it, they go, yeah, it sure did, this show.

Right. You know what I mean? Putting yourself out there with a title. Yeah. I hope everything's great, man. You just have to be a viewer. You just have to be. As a TV viewer? Yeah. You just have to be very sure. You just have to be very sure.

That something bad happens in it. Well, but not, but that something bad is not, it's the show that's bad. Well, I hope it. And I hope you are sure. I'm pretty sure. You better be you are sure. I'm pretty sure. I better be sure, yeah. I'm pretty sure.

I wish you nothing but grace. Is Matt Bellany on the show at all? Oh no, because he's on the studio. Yeah. Are you watching that Adam? It's a good show. I've seen the first two episodes. It could help to put him in this.

It could help to put him in this Could help to put him in this. It seemed to work well for them. By the way, that guy's fucking electric on screen. I mean, I was like, I know who he is. I got to work in this town. By the way, you should move here. You know who he is. But if you think he was an actor.

Yeah, we all know who he is. I know who he is, but when I seen him, if I didn't, I'd go, well, they knocked this casting out of the fucking park. And it doesn't hurt that he kind of holds your fate in his hands. I guess that's kind of good for you if you're friends with him, you know?

Right. So you put him in the show. You may wanna do some reshoots. Oh, okay. Something very bad is going to happen to Matt Bellany. I'll talk to him. Or I guess something good should happen to him. What if it's something very good

is gonna happen to Matt Bellany? He's gonna get cast in the show. Cast in the show. And have good things happen to him on the show. Maybe he gets a bluejob from a babe. You play a down on his luck groom in the show. Maybe a babe is cock-cock. Maybe you can.

Maybe it's your wife. Right. If that's what he likes. You can watch. It's whatever you want. Whatever he likes. You should have a meeting with him. You should discuss what he likes you can watch what it's whatever it's whatever you whatever he like You should have a meeting with them. Yeah, you should discuss what he likes But if he really shows if we have reshoots, I should have a meeting. Oh

If right, that's what you like. Yeah Yeah, oh no, you know you got it. Yeah. Oh no. Yeah, no need Mm-hmm. Yeah This one's this this is a locked cut. It won't, that one won't be out until next year, but. Yeah, no, that leaves us a little time for what we need, yes. Oh yeah, coming out next year, I'm sure. Maybe you could do a subtitles on,

and not a subtitles on for it. So, talk about that, what the fuck are you talking about? Once the next subtitles on. So, wait. In a a way because you a natural progression from DeMarco's resolution last year to be less scared oh yeah do you guys ever make resolutions yeah I resolved to be less scared and then I do an entire movie where I kiss the devil. Scroll up. Look at him with his small victory cup. I just imagine everyone going around

saying their New Year's resolutions and then just the sort of like, no one knowing how to react when it's like, I'm gonna try to exercise three days a week. And it's like, I'm, I'm gonna, yeah. I'm gonna meditate every day and all these self-improvements and then you just go like, I'd like to be less scared. It's like, well now we have to deal with this

like for the rest of the fucking year. Oh, okay. You gotta coddle this guy. Yes, it's like Shaggy's resolution. It is, it's very Shaggy coded. Yeah, do you have any, do you make resolutions? What location is that? Perfect. What location is that? Yeah?

You got a resolution for me? Yeah, I make a resolution 1080p Mm-hmm You ever seen picture quality like that? Pretty good. He'll get it up there. What these days. Yeah, don't worry about it. Nothing better than that, 1080p. Mm-hmm.

What location is that cup from? Vancouver, I think. Oh, Vancouver location? There's like six locations. I'll have one Vancouver cup, please. Small victory? Said no one ever. I thought you lit, it says in the article,

are you a liar? You don't know about, the small victory is like a thing. It's a it's like a chain of six big It's like a in Vancouver. Yeah, how do you know that? My guys been wait a second What are you? Stop coming I'm sorry We've never had a fake ass bitch on the show before.

I'm struggling with that as well. I truly don't know how to act. They had, I mean there was the Yaletown location, that was the first one that closed. Oh wow, okay. That closed last year. They're opening one up in Marina Crescent. Is it here, is it in LA? Is it just Vancouver?

No, it's where you fake live. I've spent like, yeah, like two months there in the last year, yeah. So now I'm trying to figure it out. All right. People just hand you shit, huh? They handed me that cup for the picture. People just hand you the cup.

You guys handed me three hats. They hand you all your clothes. They hand you. Jesus Christ, man. No wonder you're scared. Your carrots, your apples. No wonder this guy got me less scared. Doesn't know what he's drinking, what he's eating, what he's wearing. You have no control over your life.

You are completely out of control. You were eating an apple last night? Someone handed it to me. Through the fence. So I ate it. Oh, oh. Mm-hmm. Big old bucket of oats strapped around your neck, right?

Oh, he likes it. Yeah. Just winnieing away. Happy as a clam. Well. We gotta get you to jump that that's brother It's time. We got a free address You gotta be done playing the nice guy and not because someone told you to say it because you actually feel it in Here right right just the listeners. Mm-hmm. I'm pointing to my entire region

Isn't that we gotta get that dog out of the, out of the pasture. Okay. People, I mean, people are feeding you apples like they're a horse or like carrots and stuff. You're a dog. Come on, man. Dogs don't eat that crap.

True. They strap a feed bag of oats around your neck. Dogs don't eat, dogs don't eat oats. You're a dog. Yeah. Come on, dude. You're not even like, around your dog's don't eat dogs don't eat oh you're a dog yeah come on dude you're not even like you're not even like a big dog where someone's like that's like a that's almost like a horse or like a meaty big dog is horse yeah yeah you're just like a normal dog yeah

Hollywood handbook. Hollywood handbook. Tell me about your character in Overcompensating. Who is he? Is that a- Oh, you know what? I think I have it in the article. I read that that was a swerve out of left field. Yeah.

How do you play baseball up there? What are the baseball rules? Cause I know if you do manage to make the move to Toronto, the big leagues, they do have a baseball team there. True. So are they swerving out of left field? Usually swerving out of left field is like, I mean, it's unconvincing.

There's nothing against it in the rule book to swerve out of left field. Right. But it's not really advantageous for the team ever. Defensively, I can't, yeah. From a fielding perspective, I can't see it going that well. Swerve out of left field into center field, guy in center, foul down maybe?

I guess there's a guy already there, unfortunately. You're gonna find out pretty quick there's a guy there. Yeah, left field will be wide open. It was a swerve. It was a swerve, yeah. It was a swerve out of left field. So the guy's like some kind of meathead frat bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude.

What made you do that? Even like that. Sean likes that. Come on, man. And what's he doing? He's getting it in, right? He's, he's, he's, he's. I like when he likes something.

So if he's happy, I'm happy. I mean, just for what I'm hearing. I'm on board with like. I haven't seen it. I've seen clips. So I've seen one clip in the show. And what you're doing is there's a guy talking to a girl. I don't think he's got game like you got it in the show.

And he's talking to the girl and she seems to be liking what he's saying. And he looks over to you and you're standing there and you start, and for the people who are just listening, you start humping. This gesture with his nether regions. Like you done it. Like no, the way you're humping him.

That guy did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm saying it's time to close the deal. I turned to, I was at work when I was watching it, so I turned to a couple of the assistants that I work with and I said, he's humped. And of course they can't see it. I'm holding my phone, you know, up really close to my face.

But even they could feel like this was authentic what we were seeing. And so like, just tell me about that. About that? That's like a scene where I, what do you want? Being a star on the rise can be as unnerving as it is thrilling. That time to tell you about that. Uh, there's a lot of stuff that feels unnatural as an actor.

I'm trying to read that exact part, Kevin. Get it. Kevin, that was the exact part I was trying to read. There's a lot of stuff that feels unnatural as an actor, whether it's doing press. Yeah, like this feels very unnatural. Yeah. And- Oh my God. I'm trying to approach things from less of a place of fear.

Yeah. Be less afraid. This guy's so scared. I promise I won't be scared this year, by the way. I'm scared of doing this right now. It doesn't say that, but that's the subtext. Yes it does, it says there's a lot of stuff that feels unnatural as an actor, whether it's doing press,

which is this, it is that. Yeah, yeah. Do you guys do, I mean, you guys are maybe too big to do. Doing press or auditions are all these things you don't really get to practice. Yeah. We did that on this show. We practiced that with you.

That was literally what we did. That was so long, maybe. Maybe next time we'll do it. And then you were like, I don't wanna do it. Maybe next time. When you showed up there, you were like, I don't wanna do it. I guess it's just fucked up to try to teach you something, have you be such a baby bitch about it,

and then have you go on the fucking news and say, I'm not allowed to do this. I don't get this opportunity when I tried so hard to give it to you. I'm going to say something I give it to you. I'm going to say something I never wanted to say. It's making it hard for me to enjoy Nuvo. Okay, here's what-

And that's not where I wanted to be today. Okay. You know? Well, I have some more, I have more stuff I have to do after, I'm talking to Jake and Amir tomorrow. Maybe, maybe. Whoa. So what they're. And future thing, maybe.

You're watching an old sketch of theirs or. Mm-hmm. What are they doing together? Segments? You're doing segments. Yeah, but all the segments are like, yeah, watching a... All of the segments are watching their show? It's different sketches that they did previously.

Each segment is a different episode. They did like 45 sketches 15 years ago, 25 years ago, and they just kind of watched them on a loop. They mouthed the words in the present day. Yeah, but as a guest, that's not that scary. Do you know what I mean? Okay, well aren't you supposed to be less afraid and approach things from less of a place of fear?

Yeah. Shouldn't all of us, shouldn't you? Yeah, but I'm saying you're saying that it's not scary. You guys telling me you never get scared. You guys saying you never get scared. No, I'm scared of when this episode comes out. That's really scary for me right now because they're going to say that I didn't let you talk, but what I'm going to know is that I describe you humping.

And then I said, talk about that. And then you went, you want me to talk about that? And, and then you said, what do you want me to do? But to them, it's going to be like that never happened. No, it was just you. We are you gonna do then it's gonna be like that never happened no it was just you ignore that part of it yes and we're just gonna be in this like I can't wait and let me tell you the way I like seeing my guy happy I do not like seeing my guy upset and I really don't like when he gets scared all right cuz I do get scared something like that. That's scary when that when that happens. I'm not I got one podcast

we have three or four podcasts, but basically one podcast and When it when it's Was your movie scary thriving born and raised in the strip mall saturated suburb Not thriving. Born and raised in the strip mall saturated suburb. Was it scary to put it out, put yourself out there? Born and raised in the strip mall saturated suburb of Oakville, Ontario. Oh, oh.

Yeah, I'm pissing my fucking pants. Oh, we had stores in my town. Dude, that's great. Oh, wow, I'm feeling better. See? Oh wow, I'm feeling better. See? You got me feeling all right. We gotta talk about this stuff. Wow.

Wow. This kind of thing could solve the male loneliness epidemic. Right? I just gotta say, hey, I just had a big breakthrough with Adam over here. What did he say? He said it's so quiet. I know.

And he was saying it to distract from what we were doing. He doesn't want to go back. He doesn't want to talk about the article. He just really connected with me in a big way. What did he say? He asked if the movie was scary. I didn't really get what he means, I still don't. But I told him I'm pissing my pants.

He goes, that's great. Dude, that's great. That you're pissing your pants about the movie? Yeah, but somehow it felt like I was being supported, you know? Okay. It's okay to feel your feelings, you know? Do you think that's secure

of the male loneliness epidemic? Well, we gotta do something. Okay. I don't mean to poke holes in it. I just like okay, and it might have been Not really being a part of like when it first happened and just like it's being repeated in a way That's not giving me the full that choice that you made. No, he was really quiet and he was turned away from me And I'm not wearing headphones Because you made such a thing about so many times when I would wear headphones I don't give a fuck where headphones if you would say stuff like that, but that like that makes me feel

Like we're headphone But even that the way you're saying it makes me feel like put on your head I cannot when you say like that. I can't do it like even if you're saying do it Are you scared to put the headphones on? headphones. I cannot, when you say it like that, I can't do it. Like even if you're saying do it. Are you scared to put the headphones on? I mean, I'm saying that it makes me uncomfortable when you talk about it like this. And I do not wanna talk about it anymore. The headphone thing, I would just like to move on

from the headphone thing. Okay, I forgot that I brought it up. But I somehow, I somehow. And just to close the book on it. Completely forgot that I brought it up. I brought it up because you did bring it up because you said it was my fault for not Participating in conversation. I could not hear it was your fault. That's a choice that you made We're not placing Faults we're not placing blame. Mm-hmm. What I'm saying is that's kind of a choice that you made. Mm-hmm

it's a choice that I made to just have a functioning show to just be able to like do another episode. Yes, that's a choice that I made. This is great. This is really good. Well, it's great. Well, if that's what it was like, then I can kind of like, so that actually. Doesn't that feel kind of like. Made me feel very warm. Doesn't that feel kind of like, are you guys feeling that?

And the male loneliness epidemic is sort of evaporating before my very eyes. Could you hear that when he did that? Because he did it, he did do it really quiet and it was facing toward me. Can you see what I'm talking about a little bit? I didn't get the same experience that you got from it because it wasn't directed at me,

but I did hear it. Yeah. But I wasn't reading something. So now like, now that I have an understanding, now that I actually did get to experience it, I see where you're coming from. Can I go back to the thing that I was talking about? I'd love to share that with you as well.

Go half the floor. And Hayes, can I say this? And Adam, shut the fuck up. So, and can I say this, Hayes? Yeah. And I'm gonna try to put nothing on this. If you are more comfortable wearing headphones during the show,

I want that for you. And I did not understand that comments I had made about you wearing it were making it less likely or were causing you to have a worse experience hosting the show than you would have without them. It probably partially was some sort of defensiveness worse experience hosting the show than you would have without them. It probably partially was some sort of defensiveness or self-consciousness on my part

that I didn't wear the headphones. But it was never my intention to punish you in any way for it or to cause you to not do it. Well, thank you for admitting that you did say that and he did just admit it. Did you guys talk about why Lotus SNL sketch on this podcast? The witch, so what?

I cut a lot of it. Do you wanna talk about that? Let's get into it. No, we love to talk about SNL. I'd heard, I just heard that you talked about it. It is in your interest. To listen to the show. Should we have Adam? Here's Lauren.

Should Adam host? I don't know, he's kissing the devil and stuff. Maybe if you moved to New York, but. That's where the show? Yeah. That's where the show? And like, I don't wanna be like, crass about this, but like, you know, they bring, there's a set number of cast members who have been on the show previously part of the premise of the

show is that they come back honestly I think like you have an opportunity here to like knock a bunch of them out and I understand why you want to talk about new cast member no old cast members Oh old, I mean, it's almost like a murder mystery. There's a pool. Speak on that. Of cast members. Right. That Mike is choosing from for who is going to come back.

Oh. For season. They're talking about SNL. For season four. Okay. Okay. You're one, it's like. You're an old cast member. You're an old cast member. He's still making the show. Yes. Some of one, it's like. You're an old cast member. You're an old cast member.

He's still making the show. Yes. Some of these characters have come back. We've seen them in different contexts. Now they're on vacation in a different place or now they're doing a work training thing somewhere else. So I see why it would be in your interest to be like, hey, did you guys watch that SNL sketch?

I mean, she doesn't even know what fluoride is. I don't know, I kinda don't know if she should go back. I know what fluoride is. Yeah, he knows what fluoride is. You know what fluoride is? Yeah, thing is this stuff from your teeth. She's gonna be the one character that comes back, doesn't even know what fluoride is?

It's the stuff from your teeth, you know? So it's like everybody knows that. And well, she doesn't. I can do that. But most people know that. She doesn't. You know it, she doesn't, right? Be kind of distracting if she's the one that comes back and like doesn't know what fluoride is.

And I'm visualizing you, just karate chopping your way through these other cast members, just sending them all flying, the floor-eyed lady, and Mr. Sad, and whoever, all these other, I guess you were kind of Mr. Sad. Mr. Sad? Yeah. I don't know all the fucking names.

Actually, no, I know your character's name because this fucked me up in the article. I didn't even know this. Your guy has the same initials of what you have. A little Easter egg for White Lotus fans that Nuvo turned me on to is Adam DiMarco and Abby DeGrasso. Albie. Albie.

Albie, that's what you're saying though. Albie. Albie. De Grasso. Albie? Albie? Albie. That's what you're saying though. Albie. Albie. De Grasso. Albie de Grasso too. My man ghosted his hit. He likes to ghost it, the hazel.

What I was pointing out before is that this article actually revealed is that Adam was born and raised in the strip mall saturated suburb of Oakville, Ontario. So this is a town with stores and that's something you had to deal with growing up. Saturated by them. Stores that sold like soda.

Yeah, I get it. They like cut your hair and stuff like that. Like this is actually the kind of place that you grew up. Not much going on. And now you're doing this stuff? Where do you, your town had stores? That's why it's so scary. You go from a town that has stores to out here.

Out here? It's like. Cannot even imagine. That's really scary. And it goes on to say that he initially decided to pursue a life sciences degree at McMaster University in Hamilton. Pretty cool.

Who's that? The Hamburglar's boss? Oh, I was gonna say as soon as he found out that Jordan Peterson wasn't teaching all of his classes, he left. Was he a McMaster? He was. He was, man. By the time you got there.

Made him quit. Yeah, but fucking for real, dude, I mean, who's that, the Hamburglar's boss? He said that. I said, he said that. Did you know? I loved it. I was setting him up to. I thought it was a parallel thought.

To knock it down. Moments. Sometimes when you love it, you just say it again. Yeah. So if you're banned, if you actually find a name that isn't already marked territory, pissed on by a much bigger dog than the dog here, you know? That's how dogs play.

Then you're not a small, like not a small dog. A normal dog. Like a normal sized dog. Yeah, I mean this dog is a dog where you're like, throw a fucking saddle on that thing. We're talking about JDF. And he is a dog and he is in the pasture on the ranch, but he also has a, like a sizzling brand

that he carries, an iron brand. And he will put it right on your fucking hindquarters. Yeah. Right on your big rumpus, normal rumpus. His is big. Which you apparently showed on the show. What, how do you know that? Kevin, that's all he wanted to talk about.

We were like, Kevin, what do we do with Adam? And he just was like, No. Adam reacts to burying his butt in Overcome. Oh my God, did you talk about this in this clip on Entertainment Tonight of Oshos? Only two tabs, okay, did you talk about this in this clip on entertainment tonight of all shows? Only two tabs, okay, that's good, okay. This is it.

But I did wanna say, if your band, if this EP really hits, you'll find people who enjoy what you're saying in the music, repeating it. Cause they like it. So like if Hayes has a line like, if Amber is boss, to me that's a pop song. You know what I mean? Like that's the kind of thing where it's like,

oh that's stuck in my head, that's an ear worm. And then you have the chorus behind you who's like. Yeah, you guys said something back when I used to listen to the show that stuck with me. Something about kicking his happy little ass up and down Main Street or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that sounds like something like the McMaster would do. Are you putting your headphones on? I don't know if we were going to play. Well, if we want to hear the clip, I mean, I don't I mean, like if it's allowed now, I don't like Sean said it was allowed for me to wear headphones. I'm not going to I'm not going to do it. Yeah, you should. That it's allowed. I'm not going to put the headphones on.

All right. Let me just hear distracted by Benny. Benny just got I mean, who was like Sandra like he was nice. And he's aura I mean you all y'all having your move exclusive I know this is a TV show but this feels big we all kind of went for it and dressed up we're just kind of fun it's fun to have an I went through the same thing Bryce did where he was like you're having your movie star moment right now and then he's like wait this dumb fuck is gonna think I don't know this is a fucking TV show Yeah You're having your movie star moment right now and I can just see it he's processing very quick realizing you don't know what the fuck

He means I don't think I have headphones But he's like oh wait this guy came from a town with stores, you know, what the fuck I'm talking I'm not gonna understand. He's not gonna know that I know it's not a TV show. I know it's a TV show. And I'm being nice. I wouldn't say you're overcompensating. I think you're just sating.

Just compensating. Or no, just sating. Yeah, you nailed it. Yeah, so just let Bryce take it next time. So Bryce prepared the line. Yeah. take it next time? So Bryce prepared the line. Yeah.

Launched the goddamn thing. Launched a missile. Yeah, way past you taking a swerve out of left field and over the fence. So like you could just go ahead, turn, and just watch her go, you know what I mean? He's not busted into the middle of your scene to like do an alt take on one of your lines.

So when Bryce is cooking, enjoy the meal. Okay. Okay. This is a horny, horny show, Adam. And you're in a lot of those scenes. I know. Oh my God. They showed that on ET.

Jesus, what the hell? I will say, what was happening in the third one you want to see that episode now. I Don't know My New Year's resolution is gonna be a little be less scared of that clip. I don't know what was happening in that I will say I didn't think the first shot was that Horny you walking away you walking away with I guess just having white That's kind of horny the cricket sounds maybe some people would think that's right. I mean I guess that When they make that sound that is what they're doing. They're being like they're absolutely like getting railed

It is crazy to think about that sound that like sweet chirp chirp is them just being like, I'm hard as a fucking rock right now. Doing shows where I have to get naked for them. But you know, it's worth it because, I don't know, I just love the scripts. It's, have you seen it? I have seen it. It is a fun ride. It's a hard job.

I just got a second, you stop it. I just feel so much better that it's not us you talked to It's working back hearing but sometimes I you know, I feel like oh no What did we do? But it's you. It's me. Yeah. It's horny and it's heartfelt, which is like, it's kind of the best scenario. What is the heads up you give mom, dad, the family of like, maybe don't watch this one? Yeah, that's exactly it.

I just, maybe skip those. But they're going to watch it. Hey, man, I got to say, you learned in the fucking clip. Like, we didn't have another Se did you got a yes here? Yeah? That's right. You were like all right Bryce knows what he's doing and you get out of his got a man Maybe don't watch this one. It's like I was dreading seeing you try to fucking top that But you didn't get it. Hey, man. That's it. Let the man cook. Let the chef Sometimes also sometimes I'm realizing sometimes I'll stop a sentence without finishing it

Sometimes they just want to say anything that I'm and again, I feel like last like last time you were here, we were like, you know, we were like, hey, finish those sentences, you know what I mean? Like really own the whole sentence. I think I did. What I'm realizing is you've become, you've done nothing but go up and become more successful and get more opportunities. But the sentences.

And you've gone, I think, even further away from full sentences. I feel like on some of the White Lotus clips, you were doing whole sentences. Full sentences. And now it's like, you White Lotus clips, you were doing whole sentences. Full sentences. And now it's like, you're just kinda, you're drifting off, it's in a way, it's the biggest Big Dog power play you can have,

which is you're like, seemingly not even aware that you're doing an interview or being recorded. And you're just kind of like thinking about the next conversation, or I guess thinking about your parents. Yeah, my parents, they just like. Or the next one, sorry about this one, it's about the next one. You know? My parents like lights and colors.

I just get like a laser pointer at it. My parents are sorta like man, TV, camera, microphone. Yes, yeah. They just like. They're at that age, you'll watch anything. I mean, they live in a town that has like literally has stores of it it's like saturated

God what they show Tonight I wow and the thumbnail it had a like happy face over it, but Jesus that's that is kind of crazy That's I didn't know you could Might be for their Internet clip of it. I think maybe when it aired in prime time, so that's shocking Yeah, I don't know that that would can do that. Can you do that? right, well, I now guess I guess now the video feed has a celebrity's butt on it. Demonetized.

Fuck, I never wanted to have a nude celebrity on the video feed. That's not the way that I want to get more views, come on. And I wish we could change it. I wish we didn't have a commitment to authenticity on this show. I think now I know why he was cast. Hmm.

This is your mom in the show? That's Benny's mom. That's Benny's mom in the show? In the show, yeah. What does this have to do? Bonnie, Lucas Cage. I know, it's so cool. Can I just say, Kevin, your timing is... is getting so precise.

Sometimes I don't notice we've just been doing the show for so long, but it's like it's my hands up there. You know? Like we're just, it's like we're one organism. Isn't that crazy? You know what I mean? Like when the clip stops and starts, like it's. Well Kevin's been here for a decade. I know, yeah. Have you listened to the telepathy tapes? It's the telepathy tapes.

It's the telepathy tapes. Have you listened to the telepathy tapes? No. Me neither. Did you know that Benny was in your shot here? No. Okay, well he did. Only Connie and I talked about it a bit.

I hadn't met her before, but it's always cool when you meet someone else from another season. Sorry, did he ask if you'd met her? Yeah, I don't remember. I don't know. On to the next one. On to the next one. Onto the next one. It feels like this, such an insular experience that like, it's probably like being on Survivor too, where it's like, you just don't,

you can't compare it to anything else. Then you wanna meet other people. That one, sorry. Shout out Mike White, right? Pretty good. That one scored. That was pretty good. That one scored. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.

Yes. Whoa. That, okay. Yes, that got due to like, explode. Getting back from pain. Bryce was losing it. This is a pro. And it's also just like, so let me talk about this Survivor thing.

So we've talked about, you are trying to be the lone Survivor who gets brought back on the next season of White Lotus. Like White was on Survivor. He loves the show. You're connecting with him. Oh, hey, we spend a little more the show. You're connecting with him. You're planting in his mind.

Oh, we have some of the same interests. We see, we filter through the same lens. Also, this guy feels like he is on Survivor. He's a real competitor. He wants to win. And that's the kind of quality I need. And when Arby's comes back on the next season and is, you know, having the same initials.

Period. Talk about like what was your experience? Wow, Mike White would love that. Wait, sorry, were you asking him what his experience? Whoa, Bryce just figured out the same thing I did. He did. What, I didn't, I can't hear, what did he say? He said Mike White would like that you just say,

I mean, Sean just said it. It was the same thing that he figured out. Have you seen this clip before? I hadn't, actually. I was really surprised by a couple of them. Oh no, oh no, we watch all your clips. Oh no, like, yeah, we've seen every press you've done. We watch all of it.

This fucking guy. I have fucking family, I got a job. You know what I mean? I can't watch all the clips. Just Kevin, I guess. I love ya, I love ya, I'm in love with ya. I'm a fan of your stuff. I'm not watching these clips, man.

I'm surprised I'm even watching it now. Just the humping one, just the humping clip. That one somehow just came across my screen. I think I had been watching a bunch of other people humping and then I was like, oh shit, I actually know this guy too. Cause I'm trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. Like in that third clip, I'm like, what is that? Yeah. Reference you tossed in there.

I love Survivor. I love Survivor. Do you pay attention to the fan theories or the fan expectations of that show? Because Connie said she wants to do an all-star season where you all kind of come together. That would be so cool. Yeah, I hope that happens.

I think people would like that. Maybe season five, you know? Or season 10. Hopefully we got season one of this to go. Five felt too early, you know, for an all-star season. Okay, maybe, yes. I don't think season 10 is better. You think season 10 is too late.

Yeah. Really? Yeah, I really think that's way too late. Five felt too early though. That's so many. And also I would love a more withholding energy here. You're a dog, but we don't need to be panting. You know what I, you're a dog, but we don't need to be like, panting. You know what I mean? Okay.

You're not necessarily a dog when its owner finally comes home after like a long- Comes home from the army, yes. From the log tour, yeah. Or, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So first, season two hopefully on the way. What do you hope happens next? In season two of this show? I mean, Benny kind of spoiled it for me a little bit, so I don't want to ruin it too much. Trying to check in which show it is. More, just more.

I mean, so many shows. Season two of this show or my other show where I kiss the devil, give it a hug. Benny's serving in the back too. He's eating it up. We know. Oh yeah, and he does do by the way. I don't know, just more, just even bigger and crazier.

And now that we know the characters, there's less, they've just established. I'm sorry, wait. So season one's not making crazy, so I'll just wait for the next season? You were asking him if he'd see the show. Have you seen it? Yeah. Yeah. We checked for the name of it.

Checked for the name of it. And then he went. And you know, it's looking at me. And you know, it's like the scripts. Because now we know the characters. I love the scripts. This show has scripts, yes? Oh, the bigger crazy show. It's, yeah.

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