Hollywood Handbook - Adapting TV Formats (with Flula Borg)

Episode Date: September 14, 2021

FLULA BORG returns to help The Boys adapt more German TV formats.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. And I'm sitting down with Ethan Cohen. And he and Joel, whatever happens, he wants to meet people. Like like most things it's none of my business hey here's a little lesson for the listeners there's a lot of shit in the world that happens between two people brothers and collaborators and that stuff that happens is none of your business. What happens between two brothers is not about you to know. You're not entitled to that information. They may share it with you if they so choose.

And if they don't, you know what you do? Just shut up already. And I walk in and he does want to talk about it. What did happen? Yeah, I'm curious. I'm like, I don't. Brothers.

You don't want to know. Yeah. I don't want to hear about this. That's brother stuff. But professionally. They made some brother movies, huh? Yeah. The brothers.

Four brothers. Four brothers. brothers the brothers where are you brothers mcmulkin mm-hmm and i'm talking to ethan i'm like so who was it that was actually like doing work like who was like actually doing this camera and writing it yeah and he was like oh i did all that stuff right i did basically everything yeah he says first of all it was my idea to have the lebowski be so damn big and well i i and i knew this a little bit because I remember going to an early screening and Joel just couldn't sit still. He should be smaller. He should be smaller. He should be so much smaller. And I said, I didn't think he was that huge.

And he was like, did you see him up there? Are you serious? Yeah. One of the biggest guys ever. Yeah. The screen was big, too. I think that's maybe what he was referring to. What he was referring to is like, OK.

He said it was he said it was my idea to have Miller do all that crossing. Right. Like, OK, that's pretty smart. He was the one who made barton a fink yeah yeah and he said it was my idea to have some of the country be for old men but and that's where i was like none of it was i think i think they said that none of it was for Old Man. And he was like, you're fucking kidding me. Yeah, I think Joel recut that.

I think he actually went over his head and went behind his back with the studio. Because I had a meeting with Ethan. I didn't get to sit down like you did. We were on treadmills. But what he told me was he was like, you know the thing i'm most proud of that we did an entire movie that took place completely outside lewin davis oh god brutal i didn't know what to say i mean you at least flula did you take one of these because i when i left nate nate corddry was coming in as soon as i left i could tell that they were like talking to a lot of people i mean a lot of guy yeah yeah did

you take one of these flula i did sorry just like give me one second flula borg returns to hollywood handbook and's Guide to Kicking Butt and Dropping Names. He's back. We got Flula back. All the fucking haters said he'll never come back. They said we treated him like shit. He didn't have fun and it wasn't anything he would ever do again that he's only gotten bigger and we have stayed

the same size generously and probably gotten smaller and that we'd never see him again. Well, well, well, look who's sitting in his car and talking to us. Oh, how the cookie crackles, you bitches.

You bitches who doubted it. Yeah. It reminds me, I had a coffee with Karen Cohen. And she was just telling me a lot about how there were umlauts initially on Lebovsky. And they wanted to keep them everywhere. And I told her, you should add them to more of the films.

So I'm waiting to hear back on that. Maybe. Yeah. Bjorn after reading. Bjorn after reading. Bjorn after reading. What was the one about Cyclops where the man from Roseanne is swinging things with his eyeballs against a tree? And then the man from Peacemaker and J-Lo, what's his name? They're in prison. Yeah, that's the

brothers. Where are you? Who are the brothers? Where's the brother? Where are the brothers located? Yeah, where are the brothers located? So Karen, Karen's their mom. Oh, it's the mom. She looks

very young. Looks so good. Yes. So good, Sean. I didn't realize. But she looks really nice. oh it's the mom she's very looks very young i thought this was so good yes so good sean yeah but she didn't realize really nice oh well okay well let's let's not get cancer are you no i'm not it's uh it's uh you know it's i'm not saying anything people can look nice hey you know what unfortunately for a lot of these keyboard warriors out there, in 2021 people can still look nice and I can notice that. Thank you.

Listen, type that out you bitches. Right? So did you take one of these so Flula the Suicide Squad Javelin.

Yes, these are all nouns. We'll talk about that. We'll get into all this. Did you take one of these meetings with Ethan, with Joel? You met with Karen. I met with Karen. Ethan and Joel and I were MySpace friends for some time. They were both in my top eight.

It was them, it was Carrot Top, Bruce Springsteen, and then Emily in Paris. Emily in Paris. Wow. Unrelated to the show. Yeah, but you were early on that. I was. I was early adopter.

I was like the man with the first group of glass. Was she even in Paris yet? No. The passport process had just begun there. This is pre-TSA pre, so it was taking some time for her to get there. Someone's about to rear-end me. This is fun. Oh. I'm in my automobile business. This will be submitted as a court document. It will be.

I think it's pretty exciting i'm excited i'm excited to enter the court of law as a german i just think it'd be so big for the show you know would we be the first podcast uh video podcast ever to be submitted into evidence yeah to witness a hit and running yes anyway sorry so that sorry. So I never met with Joel and Ethan, and then I lost my MySpace password. What happened? How did you lose it? The original email address,

which was flulaborgeschool at Gmail, I lost the password to this, and then I lost, because this password was connected to MySpace, I could not reactivate my account. Okay. Can I guess what the password was? Yes. Kulaborgesflul.

I mean, that's a better password. I can tell. Well, you know, answer is I don't remember my password. This is the issue, Sean. Yeah. So even if I write, you don't know. You know how this is. Maybe that we spelling it like C-U, or are we moving the O-O over? And then, yeah, there's no way to know.

So you'll get locked out trying to figure that out. Exactly. I have a quick, I have a question for you. This is something we like to ask all our guests, and I don't want to get out of the way up top. So right now now as we record it's august 27th i i want to know is it too early for a pumpkin spice latte sean does starbucks have the pumpkin spice yet i know it's not at all but i know

sean i feel like no i've been researching like what is the stupidest fucking question I've ever heard and the number one result was that one Sean about the PSL okay it's always time for a PSL

I feel silly for asking yeah it's not too early come on it's too late. Why didn't I have one already? I mean, sweet shits on my tits. Cut that. That's inappropriate. Cut that out, Kevin.

Cut that out. Just have him saying that we look nice. Thank you. You guys look nice. Plug that in. Stitch that in. Stitch it. Yeah, put an ad drop.

Ad drop. Javelin. Yes. Javelin. Yes, Javelin. From the Suicide Squad. Was he wifed up? No, Javelin has a very high testosterone.

Too high for marriage. Is he booed up? Booed up? I don't know his religion, but I can tell you intercourse is high on his list of activities it's also low on his list of activities it's his entire list of activities okay

just the one activity javelin is a very obvious metaphor for his gigantic penis so he throws it no he refers to his own genitalia as a javelin, but also his weapon as a javelin.

Yeah. There's not a lot of subtle CDs with javelin. It's very obvious. WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get. I like that. Some of these superheroes keep me guessing in this way where I go like, okay, so it's Batman.

All right. We made 50 movies of this guy. This is a bat. Is he a man? Like a bat downstairs? Yeah. Right. Like this guy swinging a bat or he got a legit bat.

And is this coming out of the freaking bat suit is this other guy hauling around a green lantern i mean for what a campfire right yeah well no but you said you said whizzy wig and and haze i think correctly what so talk about speak on this whizzy wick is an. What you see is what you get. Often if you are coding a website and you're using HTML or something like Macromedia Flash, you want to make certain that WYSIWYG,

that what you see is what you get. Love Flash. Love Flash, shout out. I like, I'll use it. I'll go to the site they'll say you have to download this i'll download it thank you i say and then afterwards i will go in and manual i will dispose of it i want a fresh flash you you get a fresh flash every time i don't want to use an old flash because you don't know you know what what kind of stuff they've improved since you last were there it gets all gummed up and the and the

the web tunes i'm watching oh yeah on your on your zoom yes they will they'll gum up the works the fucking jib jabs i'm santa's elf i'm dancing to britney spears oh man i'm going to e-bombs world baby yeah i hear that yeah yeah live at five top five cheers cheers okay close to you guys yeah it's five o'clock in a location some it's some it's here here do you want to talk about how you ordered extra small lacroix cans to make your hands look big on the zoom well i don't need to talk about it sean because you just said it so why don't you order a very large gallon of p gallon gallon which it's just like the bowski not not a small a large gallon or a small gallon yeah what are we uh what are we whipping around these days what are we sitting in

right now yeah oh this ghost writing of the whips this is a leased automobile from germany i don't want to say the brand because no one's paying me i'm paying them so you know they should say you but some of it's coming home at the end of the year huh of course of course there's lots of gum here to gum up the works hey what kind of couch are you sitting on can you say this is also leased from germany okay uh this is um you know harry's razors they have this factory and uh and germany yeah that we've had a relationship with them for a really long time oh great and this is a a very sharp couch that they make using a lot of the same materials it's don't do no it's not like uh like a it's not like a drum fill like it is really sharp it really hurts um it's like genuinely like a the definitely the sharpest couch i've ever it's pretty uncomfortable i i you know

i've i'm in some ways no offense i'm relieved that we don't record in person because there was a period where we would both sit on the couch and then i would have to treat hayes's wounds afterward so it breaks the skin yeah the way he sits he kind of like he does a lot of it looks like you're holding still but he does a lot of kind of bouncing around with his butt i'll get excited about like something i'm gonna say yeah and i'll kind of like wiggle like my my tushy around and like just like get get really excited and um yeah it will um essentially garrot my butt a garrot my butt garrot yeah like garrot

you know like in like three days of the condor or something or like piano wire it almost happened to Austin Powers Random Task almost did this to Austin Powers I don't associate that with you know like razor blades in your couch though

I guess garrot is this an acronym? It could be. Good riddance. Good riddance, old... Toshi. Toshi. I'm replacing you because of the razors.

Great. It's closer to spelling Groot there than Grot my bad no it's never a bad thing to spell Groot agreed I'll talk

about what I'm sitting in also from a sponsor just so the audience is probably going to be like is Sean going to say know also from a sponsor just so just the audience probably gonna be like is sean gonna say anything um yeah also from a sponsor not from harry's razors but um also from a uh european sponsor this is a snooze chair so this is yeah it's reclaimed snooze snooze like is this an animal snooze it may be in addition to being just a delightful smokeless tobacco uh you know you keep it cold and then you you go ahead and tuck it into your cheek and you're gonna get a nice buzz on a pleasant flavor and um after that a lot of people were just

throwing it out. Snooze had the presence of mind to, for some of their best spokespeople, shove the used tobacco product into a plastic pouch. And now I sit on it. Like a beanbag of chewed up tobacco. And how does this smell, Sean? I've gotten pretty used to it. I guess if you were walking in for the first time, you would say that

it smells kind of like shit because it's not great. It's the breath of people who use smokeless tobacco products that primarily is making up the odor uh you know combined with the plastic and and and a great deal of time okay it sounds and is there a promo code just for anyone listening

yeah absolutely uh um snooze doggy Snooze Doggy 20 Type that in. There's not a space for it, but if you just go to the website and start typing, they'll know what you mean. It auto-fills the promo code? They could feel it. They smell it. once you get to

snooze D they know the Augie 20 comes next got it so I have to I made a mistake it was not random task that tried to number two

it was not number two although eventually Austin did ask. His name is not Lucky Charms. His name is Patty O'Brien. He does have a char bracelet that he calls his Lucky Charms. And he says that Scotland Yard is after his Lucky Charms. But he is not familiar with the cereal, it turns out.

Patty O'Brien feels like a miss on those names totally shouldn't it have been at least like Patty O'Furniture or something like oh yes I feel like that would have fit more with fat bastard gold member end of task

Dave should have been Patty O'Furniture that is very good that is excellent Flula you've been trying to Dave should have been Patty O'Furniture. That is very good. That is excellent. Flula, you've been trying to say something, to share a story of yours. Go ahead. Sorry. Yeah.

You can read it from the energy? Yeah. Yeah. I can tell that you're frustrated with me. I can tell that you want to share. No, Sean. No, Sean. The frustration you feel is pure jealousy because of your snoozy chair. And while we were speaking earlier, I was looking online and I did try Snooze Doggy 20 as the promo code.

It did not go through. So it's more just as a formal. Yeah. Well, we can definitely put in a word. I don't think it's going to make that much difference. Okay. There is a little. Yeah.

Yeah. No, please. When you type the code, your camera activates. Of course, your camera is already on. So that makes it a little easier. Yeah. And they kind of like check you out to see if you'll fit in the chair. Obviously, like given what it's made out of it's like a very specific

body they can't like change the chair for like certain body types yeah okay and uh well and just to conclude that was my story oh wow that was the whole okay yeah yeah okay Flula, last time you were on the show, we talked about formats. We did? Floormats? This is formats. You've got your car on the brain, friend. No, it's formats. So we, you know, obviously America's out of ideas.

All the shows you see are foreign shows they're just they've been you know the name has been translated but basically every show the office oh la oficina yeah yeah yeah yeah i know yeah no it's true it's true yeah and of course yeah uh brooklyn 99 oh yeah madrid and wave it wave it wave it wave it everybody knows welcome to sweden was get out of sweden it's what it was and so yeah we last time we talked about some German formats that we could adapt

we did them we ran through them that's a great test this is all we curved through they're done those are used we had a it was a great experience for us we need more okay okay great

from me right now yeah just what's hot what's been new on the german tv scene give us some ideas and we'll work our magic and three of us can you know co-create these things doesn't have to be right now we can sit sit quietly for 10, 15 minutes. Oh, if you want a couple minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, I won't bother you. I'll go on mute. I'm stuck on this yesterday's crossword puzzle. Oh, what's your question?

Let's see. Let's find one. That would be embarrassing. let's find one that would be embarrassing I can stuck up couples at a wedding and

it's got a question mark afterwards now the first four letters are cake they're stuck up I know toppers cake toppers cake toppers

cake toppers like what are they calling this cake toppers uh roof cake cake roof uh cake cake cake cake a top so okay so cake toppers did work but i don't want to you know I don't want to discourage you Flula from finding an even better correct answer no as they say on the postal list if it fits it ships let's do this that was another format like cake boss of course the original version

the Spanish version was cake tapas cake tapas is all cold all small and then only after 4pm. And just like prosciutto wrapped cakes. And the ham bone.

Oh, ham bone was big. The salty cake. There is a show, it's right now only in Bayern. It's a very regional show called Spaghetti Hoodie. Currently. show it's right now only in bay in bayern it's a very regional show called spaghetti hoodie and spaghetti hoodie it does sound good um it sounds like what you would think is spaghetti but there's no pasta in the show don't don't have to be yeah no i wasn't thinking there would be

oh great because hoodie who is your protagonist. Rudy's the guy, yeah. Rudy is the man. Rudy, it's a show of, it's always one shot. There's no cutters. That's good for production. Very cheap. And it's, Rudy just, he's walking around the block, you know, and he goes and he makes a right.

And then he goes 50 meters and makes a right. and then he goes 50 meters and makes a right, and then he goes 30 meters and makes a right, and then he goes 10 meters and makes a right, and then he goes 2 meters and makes a left. Can I ask,

what makes Hootie so spaghetti? Thank you. It's a fair question. I'm just wondering, because I love that there's no spaghetti in the show. I love that. I love Hootie. This is a guy I can root for. Who among us hasn't gone 50 meters, taken a right, another 50 meters, taken a right, gone 10 meters, taken a right, gone two meters, taken a right. Gone 10 meters, taken a right.

Gone two meters, taken a left. Taken a left. There's no one in my life that doesn't have, if not that story, a similar story that they can map onto Hootie's experience. What I'm wondering is, I walk into your peacocks right your shutters and I say hey I've got this show and they go why is it called

spaghetti hootie I have to have an answer well I can't say because I stole it the answer is in the beginning of the show as Rudy is walking right when he...

You think he will walk straight for an additional 51 meters. But on the ground of the street there are two noodles. And so he observes those and he makes a right. And so... and that's... But they're not spaghetti noodles.

Not spaghetti noodles. Not spaghetti noodles, no. It's penne. It's penne. It's penne. It's penne. My, oh my. But the writers didn't, they don't, you know, some people don't know different like dog species.

They only know like greyhound, bloodhound, poodle. The writers only know spaghetti, macaroni. Two hounds and a poodle. Americans, they see all these different pasta and they think it's all spaghetti.

All spaghetti. So, my theory is that it's called spaghetti rudi because of the pasta right prior to the first turn that'll help I've traveled and so I know there's the linguinano

there's the tortellano very good there's the farfallocce. That's good. I have not been allowed to travel. Oh. But even just from reading, and I love to read.

It's such an escape for me. I know. Yes, I love that. There's smaccaroni. Yes. Isn't there smaccaroni? Oh, and there's a subset ulbu smacarooni which is very good

ulbu smacarooni smacarooni yes and there's ungelhore paster which is also very good Kevin pasta picks go CD sorry? CD

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We did Spaghetti Hootie. Spaghetti Hootie done. Very good. I think has a lot of potential for franchise the profit margins have got to be insane if you can get that off the ground because I don't know how you could actually tell if I was playing the same episode again

does Hootie talk? no yeah so if he changes clothes are we on face are we watching we gotta see the noodles If he can't close that. Are we on face? Are we watching? Is it like the Travolta shot?

Well, this is a CSI situation. You know, so like watching. You're going through his insides. Well, no. So like the first CSI is just it's just a man. You are following Hootie as he goes at his own trails. And then like the CSI Miami, it is you are following, Hoody, as he goes on trails. And then like the CSI Miami,

it is the same trail, but now it's just from behind. Okay. Yeah, I guess that is what they did between CSI and CSI Miami. Yeah, they got behind the guy. CSI Miami was all behind. Just different angle. And then CSI, I don't know, what is it?

Topeka? It's like he's just a GoPro. Honestly, to sell it in this country, It's like he's just a GoPro on the chest. Honestly, to sell it in this country, if we're going to be behind him, we probably got to give this guy a fake butt. Let's do it. I know he would be open to it.

He's going to, just because of the way. Again, I like to read, you know, so I don't watch the keeping up with uh cardouche bags or whatever this stuff is but wow but to me it's like i i know what sells on tv and hootie if he wants to make the leap to american television we're gonna need to put this guy in a big fake butt gotta cut to put the booty on that man yeah that's what they say yeah that's fine i know he would be open to it he uh he and i have been speaking a little bit so i i'll text him about his anus and see if he's up if he's into it i don't know that they ate it yeah yeah i don't know if the anus is even

really gonna be visible the way i was but uh you know i i forget i said that let's not speak let's let's wait and see where it lands because if we are on i want to stop this i just want to make sure that we're in okay territory here yeah i do i do my research i spent we've got a week to prep for this stuff and so i'm in i'm basically in the archives i'm in the i'm in the library i'm blowing the dust off and I'm researching. We talked about this butt, this fake butt. And I

am reading in GQ, Good Questions magazine Good questions. that Flula he actually declined fake butt cushion. And that's in the headline and that's in the headline it's in the headline

it says the real life died of Flula Borg who declined butt cushions to fill out his Suicide Squad costume and it's by Danielle Danielle I told Danielle about I didn't shove anything into my anus

that's not what they but that's not what this is again yeah i feel like we have two different ideas of what would constitute a fake but so now i wonder i don't know if this came up in the interview in fact i don't think it did but i think that is maybe what we're that's maybe the impasse that we're facing here. Well, this is an interesting philosophical idea, though. What does make a butt? You know, I've always thought so much about the two cheeks, and that, to me, was the butt. But to Flula, it seems like, and I can't tell him he's wrong,

butt but to flula it seems like and i can't tell him he's wrong the butt is the internal mechanism through which waste can be expelled for me the anus is is this hole from where all of the things can go in or out of the butt yes yeah it can go in and out uh with depending on your on your activity and without an anus is it even a butt hello hello yates yates said it you know and so uh yeah so i would say the anus also includes these cushies for the pushes and everything you know below and behind your penis or. And the pushies in this case is the push in shot. Slow push. During Rudy's walk. Yes, correct. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Kevin? Yeah. What since obviously you don't have to take notes since obviously you have perfect memory, photographic memory. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Do you want to set, like, what did we just talk, what format was that? So we can actually use this and so this can actually be a worthwhile way that we spent our time. So that we didn't just waste all of Lula's time. Please be our one sheet, Kevin. Lula's time. Please be our one sheet, Kevin. I would say it's a reverse pushy close-up dramedy.

Reverse pushy? Reverse pushy? So we shoot it? We shoot it in reverse? We shoot it in reverse? We play the footage in reverse? Both. Okay. Rudy's walking backwards? That could be useful, actually, because it's going to be getting dark during the shot, and so during be useful actually because it's going to be getting dark during the shot and so during the no we're going to be going backwards it's actually getting brighter oh yeah i like it rather than darker than darker yeah it's a metaphor

yeah whizzy wig yeah closer you get to the... Okay, but we need this other format. We need more formats. Yes, yes. There's another show called Is It a Train? And in the show, what happens is... Hayes, what's happening? What is on your fingers, Hayes? Who is it?

This is how big it is This is how big it is. Ant Hand. Ant Hand is a very... Is that a very popular format? Yes, it's part of the horse... As you can see, I'm a fan of Ant Hand.

The man who can make his hand very small or very big like an ant. And that's it. I am curious about he doesn't use his abilities very often in the show

and I guess I'm curious I'm behind. They haven't released all of Ant Hand in this case yet. No, we're like a full season behind here. You're a whole season behind. It's your season three. You're season three right now. We're season three.

He's getting divorced. He is divorced. He just got divorced. He just got divorced. He just finalized it. He made his hand really small to sign the paperwork. Yeah, exactly. That's how you knew he was sad.

He actually didn't want to get divorced because he was like, my hand is so small you can barely even see the signature. Yeah. That was a great cliffhanger. But I guess other than that, is he actually is there like superhero like is he actually like using this power and then it was really the first time i think we had seen him use the power with what surprised me that we were we were three seasons deep or you know two and a half and i hadn't seen him shrink or grow his hand and then really you don't even see it happen in the

show what happens is he sends the paperwork back to his wife she goes hey you didn't sign this he goes yes I did look again and she gets out a magnifying glass and sees that there's a very tiny signature and she goes wow you must have been really sad to sign it this small yeah so yeah

you never see his hands this is the weirdest part of the ad text not one time you never see his hands. This is the weirdest part of Ant-Hand. Not one time you never see the hands. They're either too small to see or weirdly too huge to see. Or they're normal.

Or they're normal. It's another option. Yeah, it's one of those three. So yes, Ant-Hand. So in the next season, does he grow his hands or shrink them at all just if you're ahead of us i know some people won't want to get spoiled but i i'm not sure i want to keep watching if he doesn't use it at least one more time do you want to know i can tell you i'd like hayes you can you can go you can take your headphones off or something if you don't want to know okay yeah i yeah. I'm going to go away.

Okay, Hayes is gone. Okay, so, Sean, what happens is episode seven of season four, it's a whole episode about applause. And so the first 25 minutes is just a rock concert. It's a very long song. It's like, is it a real band or is it a band that was invented for the show? It's a, it's exactly this.

They're called, they're called steel butterfly. It's an iron butterfly cover band singing in a God of Davida. And then, you know, you can see it's just panning into and-Han's face because he knows at the end he will have to clap. And we are waiting and so

it's a very long push. You know, it's like that scene at the end of The Third Man, you know, when they're walking away from that automobile except it's pushing into his hands and then he begins to clap and just like with the Sopranos. I think you're thinking of three men and a baby.

Three men and, oh, right, because he was holding the baby and then the baby started to make that sound. Uh-huh, and then the ghost came in. The ghost came in. And there was a ghost in there. And Whoopi Goldberg was there, that's right. Yes, but anyway, no, you just said the third man, which I don't think is a movie.

I'm not certain. But anyway, yeah. Oh, so, and then, which I don't think is a movie. I'm not certain. But anyway, yeah. Oh, so and then right, just like in The Sopranos, when Tony is assassinated, we don't see it or smell it. Just when you see Ant-Hant, he wants to clap. Sopranos, yeah. Sopranos. Yeah. The Ant went inside my computer.

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Oh, right. Spaghetti cutie. Cutie. Spaghetti cutie is a great... For the American... For the American audience to know he's cute. Yeah. Hoody cutie. Sp spaghetti cutie works that works it's strong cutie spaghetti cutie with us is it cute so let us q and t like spaghetti quick time okay quick time i mean quick time is so big now. Deep pockets. I think we got to take advantage.

We got to ride this wave to the shore. You know what I mean? Agree with us. They just hit the scene and they hit it with a splash. Wow. I haven't seen a premiere like this since. And then, Kevin, what I'll have to do is come up with some kind of big premiere. Well, since Adobe Premiere.

Adobe Premiere. Big time. It's not been a big time. Which is, I mean, I think it's... Since Adobe Premiere. It does a lot of the same stuff. It was also... That was huge when that... And then QuickTime showed up.

Bam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like the Bing of Google. Boop, boop, boop. Boop, boop. Hardcore. Let's do format three. Sean, what's the...

Is it a train? Did we talk about is it a train last time? Oh, I think we might have talked about and made is it a train last time oh i think i might have i think we might have talked about and made is it a train oh you sold it we sold it we shot it we sold it in the room we shot it in the room we we sold it in the room and we shot it in the room we made it in the room it aired and was canceled in the room. In the room. Amazing. Yeah.

The room saw a lot of action that day. Yeah. Yeah. It was quite a ride. And we said all we had to say. This one is for we need a show for hdmi port number two you know how all these other shows are on hdmi port one yeah yeah or three if they're like weird shows we need a show that is not so niche that it's for the complete freaks who use HDMI port three. Yeah.

But we don't want to do this like mainstream candy coated, like just dumbed down HDMI port one stuff. I want to do smart. I want to do smart comedy that has something to say that doesn't mind if it loses some of the lowest common denominator audience. And this is for so like, you know how every time you try to put the HDMI cable in your no matter what way you try to put in, it's the wrong way. Yeah, I know it's for this show. You do have to keep trying and you do have to get it in that that way yep uh-huh like you have to really really push and you have to get it in there but once you're in you'll be able to watch this show oh there's a show uh only in stuttgart called flip it flop it don't stop it okay and

it's a show that i think we could carry over to the H, Stuttgart show. We could carry it over to HDMI port three and two, flip it, flop it, don't stop it. It's actually, it's an intercourse show, but you can't see anything. It's all in the dark.

So the intercourse show. So you say that that's a, in your mind, that's a type of show. It's a genre. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's an inter of show. It's a genre, yeah. Yeah, okay. So it's an intercourse show.

You can't see anything. No. So it's beautiful in that with Spaghetti Hootie, there's no sound. With Flip It, Flop It, Don't Stop It, there's no video. So it can be produced very cheap. no video so it can be produced very cheap and i think it would be very good for all ports airports uh carports and hdmi all the ports would enjoy it flip it flop it don't stop it don't stop it so it's and and is this what they're saying while they make love that's it yeah it's flip yeah it's it's only and then you just disappeared for a second did you i just sorry i was wanting to give you a preview of flip it flop

it don't stop it okay so yeah you had intercourse during that briefly a very brief yeah i i flipped it i didn't flop it i think i actually have seen an episode of this and it was it was a little concerning or i i say i've seen it i mean really what i did was i heard it but you heard it yeah but i was trying to force the hdmi uh port in the wrong way of course it was in it was in uh german because it was i was watching the stuttgart version we would translate it but to translate it for you guys now it sounded a little like this flip it flop it no don't stop it

that was perfect so so it it does always end with i i don't know exactly what's going on for him. Is he like, is something hurting him or is he ejaculating prematurely? Well, this is part of the fun of the show. Nobody knows. Yeah. And then they're like, and the last thing is always like,

now let's see what happens. And then, but then the show ends. So I guess the question for this is, do we do dubs or subs? thing is always like now let's see what happens and then but then the show ends and then i guess the question for this is do we do uh dubs or subs for the original germ you know because like we can take the entire visual feed of this yes just like put the like just import that for this format but do we do dubs do we do subs or we do scrubs i would say well i don't want no scrubs i would say you do jobs dubs and subs is how i would do it dubs and subs and then maybe some hubs okay that's interesting yeah Have you heard of the Hubble telescope?

Yeah. That's a slang in German Hollywood. This is a big telescope. This thing is massive. It's a big boy. It's a big boy. When you really want to look at

the sun, when you want to look directly into the sun sun when you want to look directly into the sun you want to get all the way up in space yep yeah so we'll do dubs and subs some flubs when you want to hit the back walls of space

yes that's science no I do yeah I fucking love science I fucking love science dude all I want to do is grab the Hubble telescope and just blow Jupiter's back out

man that's my weekend okay Kevin since you have this amazing memory go back through the last we just did three formats yeah the car wash show i don't think we talked about what suds did we do oh it's funny you guys bring that up because i had an idea of doing a show in the car wash oh oh first ever car wash show that was elegant this segue okay car wash karaoke you can't hear them singing car wash karaoke it's good uh that could be cool i don't want to step on yours kevin that that's that was it that was it i love how well i can hear them in the car pool. I'd like to change some of the culture on this because I did one the other day where I was not putting the car in neutral. I did leave it in drive.

And the way they made me feel about that was actually pretty toxic. um was actually pretty toxic uh the whole environment there was like very judgmental very kind of regressive in its approach to basically that we live in the 21st century now and people handle things in different ways and so it's actually okay if you leave the car and drive it's it's a personal it's we're talking about personal choice and we're talking about like and it's it's such a slippery slope from making people put their car in neutral to go into the car wash when they want to have it in drive yep to suddenly where what all getting killed with bullets by the president of and he's got a fucking submachine gun joe biden is his fucking parachuting down into my living room with a submachine gun and riddling my body with bullets blasting me to a

bloody pulp and i'm like and i sign a paper and i say thank you that's now the country no thanks i'll actually leave it and drive thanks and i will fill the car wash system with exhaust and i will wreck the machines and i will hurt my car through my car operative word is my i bought the car and i could fucking leave it in drive and make everything get broken freedom freedom it's choice it's literally a choice you make it's choice the same word in every language uh there's a reason for that what's the word freedom it's the same word in every language oh no it's freiheit in german freiheit uh no freiheit heith heith like in the heights freiheit like in the freedom Freiheit Freedom Freedom Freiheit

Sure, yeah, okay Freiheit Freiheit Hayes, do you want me to tell you what happens with Tiny Hand, what's his name? Hand Man? Hand Job? I think I am ready to learn about

Hand Hand Maybe it's just because the ant is in my computer and is kind of like I think I am ready to learn about Ant Hand. Maybe it's just because the ant is in my computer and is kind of like making the show about whatever it wants. The ant has been responsible for the last several minutes of content. It definitely does want to hear more about

the show Ant Hand. Well, I'll just tell you there's an episode where there's applause that's happening hey okay but it's we don't know when no i've heard this part should i leave okay so he has to applaud okay i can see how that sean is left good so hey um it's a it's a it's a scene where during the entire episode a band band called Steel Butterflies playing a song by, it sounds like Inagata Davida. Okay. Very long.

And then it's a pan in into Ant-Han's face. And he's stressy. He's very sweaty. Because he knows at the end of the song, he will have to applause. And we will finally see his hands. Okay. So he, that's right. So will finally see his hands okay so he that's right so he has his tiny hands and he i think i heard this my roommate was watching in the other room

oh we used to be married but oh sorry about that uh and i heard the episode and it sounded like a tiny crystal bell and so that's what it sounds like when Ant Hand applauds it sounds like a small crystal bell it was so beautiful like a scene from Frozen

wow I want to know where we can find you I'm currently in an automobile this is West Hollywood we'll send someone

we'll send someone right now okay please let me know don't go anywhere okay do not move okay I'm not going anywhere with my key lime lacroix to hydrate me and also a large empty uh water container to urinate in for several hours okay we're gonna send someone kevin we're gonna send someone out right now okay okay okay we're gonna go right now okay bye-bye okay bye hollywood this week on the Patreon, Carl and Ahsan rank Drake's albums.

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