Hollywood Handbook - Bridger Winegar, Our Close Friend

Episode Date: April 20, 2021

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. So I'm driving around. It's my turn to drive the Lincoln lawyer today, but he's in court. But he's like, keep it running. You know, just like keep it moving. Keep doing laps because I might need to get out of here real fast. So he's like, maybe he's going to need to run out of quarters. Sorry, start over.

No, I'm not going to start over. No, no, no. I really want to hear this. I thought I was like, no, I was listening. I was listening. I will not start over. I was listening. You had to go to court. It doesn to court matter the lincoln lawyer stuff doesn't even matter it doesn't like that's unrelated no that sounds really interesting i know i thought that does sound like i'm not going

no that sounds really interesting what yeah it doesn't matter because i'm driving around and I see a new restaurant. It's opening. Yeah. And it says we're open today. And I look at this and it says Italian McDonald's. And I'm like, well, I this sounds really. I know in like other places I've tried the, you know, you go to different countries and they have like interesting new McDonald's. And so I'm like, oh, they have like interesting new mcdonald's and so i'm like oh they have italian mcdonald's here now near the court and so i pull in i get the drive-thru and i get they say what i was like what do you have and they say we have burger lasagna i'm like okay that's kind of it should be mick burger mick lasagna it does not there's none of that i guess that's the the italian aspect is not

acknowledging the irish stuff so they get that's pissing me off that's pissing me off this is getting me pissed off i one thing i will say you notice how americans are like saying everyone who comes here has to adapt to our culture and then we'll go overseas and eat at a fucking mcdonald's and they then they eat there too and they eat there okay okay let me say this too mctown mctallion mcdonald's fine okay do that go ahead do that but you better leave the prefix or you're dealing with me and i should i'm just calling it that because the the signage was but it was called Italian Donald's. Italian Donald's?

So they just got rid of all the Irish stuff entirely. So the place was called Italian Donald's. It was very clearly. Now they're dealing with me. A McDonald's. Okay. So I waited a really, really, really long time. Chicken Parmesancnuggets

they didn't have that they only had burger lasagna it's only one item yes and so i get to and i and it's possible they were only selling this one any drinks so long no it came out in a... Yeah, they had red wine. They had burger lasagna and red wine. They had red bull and red wine. And so I get to the thing, and they pass me a big casserole tray full of burger lasagna, which is... I was sort of forced to think about this a big mac is

basically lasagna but this was just like a huge bun layer wait wait wait wait let me process meat layer hang on cheese layer mac is big is lasagna the bread's pasta? The bread's the pasta, yes. And the meat's the meat and the cheese is the cheese. And everything else is what it is. Son of a bitch, they really did do it all. This is like flat and like square shaped, but it is just like a big, but it's in this like huge, heavy casserole tray. And I'm supposed to like pick up the Lincoln lawyer like any minute now. And he has to like run.

He's going to have to run out of court he's gonna have to escape court because what he's gonna do is gonna make the judge so mad and so this is what i have to eat this entire burger because before the lincoln lawyer i missed a lot of lincoln lawyer stuff at the beginning because you refuse to go you're caught now well now you're caught up. Tell me when I'm caught up. And so that's where I'm at. I drove off. And so I still have the Lincoln. I got so freaked out. I threw out the food and just ran off with...

That's really dangerous for Mickey. For who? Is that the Lincoln lawyer's name? The Lincoln lawyer's name is Mickey. Okay. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. You're driving for him and you don't know that it was my first day he asked you to call him the Lincoln lawyer this is the we didn't like it was really really short he was just like get ready because I'm gonna have to run out of court the judge is gonna be chasing me out of court with a gavel like swinging the gavel swing and get

hit him with the gavel oh my god because of the because of what he was going to do in there oh no and so i worry that he ran out it was being chased out of court and the judge is going to hit him and he was going to like jump in the car and he just jumped and there was no car and so maybe he just jumped into a trash can or something or into the sewer might jump in into the sewer grate okay and then pennywise got him yeah if pennywise has the lincoln lawyer right now good gracious that's so bad for us welcome to hollywood handbook guide to kicking butt and dropping names in the red carpet line line back in hallways in this industry we call showbiz what up what up bridger winnegar

here today winnegar winnegar i'm trying to be better about correcting people's uh pronunciation of my last name i haven't done it for about 10 years. Whine-a-ger. Bridger. I'm trying to get it up for myself here. Okay. Whine-ee. Whine-ee.

Gar. That's close. It's very close. Very, very, and we're finding very extremely precise, a little picky, perhaps to a fault about how people interact with him we've heard this we knew this about standards this we were warned about as we heard let's talk about the process of booking bridger because it has been something of a journey it's i think been a year long yes well initially also i had told

kevin i had said you know we need something hot we need something fresh we need a big splashy thing can you get me one of these bridgerton guys because that show everyone is fucking and it's a different time and i'm going like time fucking like this is like so cool like let's get some of these hotties here on the show and he's going yeah yeah yeah i'll do it i'll do it but i can tell he's not listening and i go what did i just say and he went bridger bridger bridger bridger and i was like okay i i didn't want to press at that time also because he was doing me a favor regarding something else.

Documents. Well, I'll go into it. I made Kevin do my 23andMe for me. So it's his spit and he answered all the health questionnaires because i was like too nervous of what they were gonna say just i'm afraid if i'm like genetically predisposed to like any like skin conditions or anything i just don't really want to know but i didn't also want to miss out on the experience

of getting your genetic dna results from a company that i'm sure will use them ethically so i i did have kevin do it and i was like this is a pretty big ask it's a little bit outside the realm of his job so now i'm gonna like hammer his ass gavel his ass like the judge into the lincoln lawyer on this uh bridgerton thing he seemed like he got it. Then he came back with you. Right. Not that you're not a handsome man, but. You know, some of these Bridgerton cats. Look, I went out for Bridgerton. Okay, this is a story.

This is what we do on the show. Tell me the story. Right. Well, look, there were multiple roles I was right for. And so, you know, I pushed. I was on the breakdowns. I was seeing all of hottie, good-looking guy. I got in touch with my manager and said, I want to go out for all of these.

I'm happy to do the tape myself. Who's our manager? We might know them. I'm not going to say my manager's name on here. I had to let him go after the situation. But, you know, I went out for Bridgerton, and I think that maybe I was too... But that's tea.

But, Bridger, that's tea. If this is a manager who got fired after they mishandled your Bridgerton audition, that's tea. That is tea. We got to have that. Our listeners are thirsty. Spicy tea. Mm- are thirsty. Spicy tea.

Messy tea. Spicy tea everywhere. In my eyes. Look, we parted ways. I also didn't get any of the rolls. No. But look, Bridget is... I guess I knew that.

And at the very least, you should have been getting like three or four of the that and at the very least you should have been getting like three or four of the roles at the very you don't have to get all of them that's ridiculous and and other people should have some roles but it's like to not get even three or four you start to wonder what this is about my talent um but also i didn't i didn't wonder that for a second. Well, I've had a year to think about it. Wow. But the show's, I think it just got re-upped

for three more seasons. There are going to be other opportunities. Oh, but that's, yeah. And to have been involved at the very beginning, now that's like golden handcuffs. Right. Which is like, now that's like a hassle. By this point, you'd be like, get me.

You'd be saying to your manager, like, I am. Get me gone from this show. Excuse me. I'm doing manager parts. This is running the show. Who exactly do I have to give a back rub to to get out of this goddamned contract, manager? Exqueeze me?

Can you tell me? Make the call. Right, right. And by season three, the show has really driven off a cliff, and I'm just embarrassing myself weekly on Netflix. And so I'm going to be able to pop in and out. Well, it's Riverdale all over again. You were on this, yes?

Thank you. Riverdale was hell for me. To talk about this, this is what we do on the show. I come in season three. Season three, I'm playing a hot 20-something. And we all know the show takes place in a high school. So my character is, the logic there is beyond. And I did that for six seasons yeah it was embarrassing no the whole time you're

going like is anybody gonna point this out like why is only your character aging like with the show and everyone else i'm saying my age in every scene no one else is acknowledging it i storm into the room i'm I'm 31. I think the writers had it out for me. I'm suddenly the town pervert. And it didn't, I don't know. Yeah, and it's not explicitly stated, but that is what I read into it,

where they go like, hold on a second. You go, hang on. Now, as a 31-year-old, I can't believe that you are reneging on my prom proposal. And just the idea of having this character be like a hot pervert right was like and i guess that's we're not ready that's a different direction but yeah i don't think we're ready for that we know like these little sniveling perverts we really need less

nuance in the pervert conversation right now let's let's nail down exactly where the lines are on perverts and then we can deal with a hot pervert and whether we can carve out any exceptions for them right when i went out for riverdale i read hunched over pervert that was the character description and i was fine with that you know kind of pale meek pervert an opportunity to act it's an opportunity to act and to flex your acting muscles this is what we train for and then suddenly you're under the neon lights of riverdale and you're the hottest pervert and you're 31 you're going to the dance with these high schoolers and you're scoring the winning touchdown in the football game and there and it's

and you're saying this shouldn't be allowed but america embraced it the cw loved it um that led into some of the uh you know the dc universe shows i was on the flash i was also 31 there the whole berlanti verse so you're just setting up shop in vancouver right you're building like a small village and well i had already bought a house uh that was prior to these roles so oh wow it's like i've got to find a way to get into vancouver wow and this has to do with you not being able to schedule our show why yeah was that that's why you were i was in vancouver and i didn't have a wi-fi signal okay and the house but forgot the wi-fi right pandemic yeah pandemic has was has been logistically challenging huh well i had a flight to la i think it was march 11th to do this show

oh wow uh from vancouver i was gonna stop over for the weekend march 11th and then i don't have to tell you too what's 3 11 has been yeah 3 11 11th right yeah i remember i was you just been stuck on a little seaplane just that whole i was basically you with the lincoln lawyer you know just circling the united states oh no um not able to get tested so no it's like kind of a wild so you so you could you probably got it oh i had it i was it's just like breeding in that very small seaplane environment it's it's probably getting very strong talk about one of the worst places to have it is on a seaplane. And Fauci said that.

Fauci addressed me specifically. And Bridger, big ups to Bridger. Loved him in the flesh. So, Kevin, you did it. You brought it home. This is a big day for Kevin. We're very happy for Kevin. I think we all need to thank kevin kevin

kicks ass right kevin gets it done right and today we have bridger from i said no gifts he's doing i said no gifts he's doing it on the network. This show you do. Go ahead. It's called Exactly Right. That's the network? My Favorite Murder, that sort of thing. And they told you're one. The list of one that we've all become so familiar with

when we mention our podcast network. Yes. My Favorite Murder, et cetera. network yes my favorite murder at cheddar uh exactly right what do you want me to say about it and what what i don't want to say anything you don't want to say i i there is no pressure here you could sit there and not talk for the rest of the show if you want that's my no one is forcing you to do anything. When there's more than one straight man talking, I just let them talk until they're done.

They say everything possible. Thank you. We love talking. Five minutes of silence, preference. Then I'll say something. Yes. But I want you two to be comfortable. I need the space.

Right. I mean, conversationally on this podcast, I'm manspreading okay i'm taking up the whole damn subway bench thank you this is what i'm used to i cannot reform in a single day give me time ah i appreciate that kevin you were there, and you must remember exactly what you were doing when My Favorite Murder announced that they were leaving Earwolf and forming their own network.

What was that day like? What were some of the reactions? The sky is falling, you know who was our chicken little yeah right it was someone's birthday where we spent 1400 on their lunch oh no a big lunch and nobody's hungry anymore oh couldn't it's the burger lasagna all. They threw it out like a burger lasagna over the balcony. They threw it off the 15 gallons of burger lasagna sitting untouched

in the Earwolf kitchen. Gallons? It's buckets of burger lasagna. It's in those big Gatorade coolers. it's in those big Gatorade coolers. And you're supposed to just hit the spout and fill up a mug of burger lasagna.

Yeah. This was a classic thing in Earwolf. And I suppose many other offices as well, where when we would show up on Saturday, there'd be no one there, but the week's food would be available to be eaten. And I would look at it and be like, well, I know that this is the kind of food I like, but I don't know if I want to eat this food. This food has just been here for so long. There's always like a quarter of it left.

This food was rejected for some reason this is the earwolf food yeah but like what are they ordering it's putting in the fridge it'd be like pretzels it would be like uh wetzel's pretzels or something none of nothing in the fridge oh oh no it's sitting out on the counter and it's been there just lying on the counter yes it's been there lying there it's not sitting and you know that the office has also had like a lot of dogs come and go and like they haven't wanted it and you're going like well their sense of smell is so keen like have they acutely detected something off here because there'd be a bunch of muffins or there'd be some kind of sandwich and you'd go okay but no but i am hungry so bridger's doing the show and what's happening you're just getting like you're getting gifts this is what's happening right oh yeah i mean

you are getting them right yeah i think let's just get into it. Let's just talk about it. 50 gifts or something. 50 gifts. And so he's actually flaunting the number of gifts that he's gotten. I have an idea for a device for your show. What? Is that you rate the gifts that you get on some kind of scale and that the scale is known as the Bridgerator.

That's a great idea, actually. actually i mean do i do it in front of the guest or do i do last week's in front of the new guest you know i don't know that's cool yes that you that you rate last week's gift for the new guest so that the other person has to listen and see how they did that's guaranteed listen and it's kind of mean right they can't defend themselves you can be more free to go like this gift really wasn't very good yeah i can't to someone's face tell them that there are six but next the next episode i'm happy to give somebody a three and you go this one you go this gift is spoiled i'm actually going to take it out of the refrigerator and put it in the trash now i uh i made an instagram video the wine of garbage sorry i didn't do an

instagram video of after like at the year anniversary that i i burned all the gifts but of course didn't actually burn them and got a lot of negative feedback from people saying why would you burn all these gifts? I'm disgusted with you. I couldn't believe the feedback I got about it. Especially in this end of the pandemic and the seaplane and everything. Yeah. You just, people surprise you with,

some people I just think. So what you're saying is somebody online was taking something literally. Yeah, so a group of people were taking something literally that was meant to be a little bit tongue-in-cheek something it was very obviously not real i you know i this just doesn't check out i'm sorry bridger i know the internet usually i can't see that happening i with without all the information i feel like you're leaving something out because my experience with online communities is they are actually really accepting of a mild level of irony well look up until a week

ago that was my experience as well and so this really came out of the blue for me as yeah it's a whole new side to the internet and i'm learning it can be a darker place than i'm used to i in fact find that very inspiring and uplifting uh and upworthy and uh and viral nova as well because imagine if people were writing in and they were believing it and but instead they were saying good or burn more gifts well i had those two you did you had people saying good we hate the we hate the gifts right there's the i have a large part of my audience is just people who hate gifts in general oh so they're tuning into your show being like okay well this is like a this is a safe place for me right there will be no gifts on this show destroying gifts and that kind of thing yeah okay sick so you have revealed that

you have 50 gifts and you kept all the gifts and you have all of them uh which is interesting for us and i am speaking for a lot of other shows here there's so many podcasts that are like uh we talked about this and we're like what the fuck is this guy doing? Yeah. Like he's this hogging a like a hugely problematic number of gifts. So many times people have come on the show and be like, oh my God, like I'm so sorry. I was going to bring you guys a gift, but then I had to do Bridger show and I was like,

oh, I forgot. Oh, I have to give him this. He's going to like absolutely just go like like go really mad crazy if i don't give him this gift in our booking i say if you have any interest in doing hollywood handbook you do my show first you do my you we do not do we don't get the sloppy seconds from handbook okay i. I get it. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for admitting that because we suspected that.

Sure. And it's such a rich get richer thing where the guys on Riverdale, he's playing the hot creepy pervert. The guy's almost locked in for three season run on Bridgerton. And then gifts too. When we're not getting anything, that's problematic. Excuse me. when we're not getting anything that's problematic excuse me this white bitch has 50 gifts that shouldn't be i'm sorry i calls them like i sees them this stand. So I think the answer is to split up the gifts,

is to split the gifts with us. And what we'll do today is we'll go through some of the gifts and we'll say, okay, you keep it now, Cherry O' Terry. You keep it now. And also, I keep it now, Cherry O' Terry. So we will say that. And so let's talk about some of the gifts and maybe we could do a little bridgerating while we're there oh we could do some bridgeration this could be the start of the bridgeration i mean or and some of them if neither one of us want them right in the wine

of garbage uh so we start with who's the most famous person you've ever had on the show um emma thompson yeah emma thompson that's emma thompson oh yes emma thompson yes okay heard of her yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah from the she was mean to mindy k like everyone's sort of made her made her bones people are like wow this actress is really quite something i mean like yes i know she's being mean but i my understanding is that she's not mean in real life she's like yeah she's really mean to Mindy. She's all over that Mike Nichols book. She can't get enough. I go, I kept checking the cover.

Is this an Emma Thompson book? Because what the fuck? She's in it too much. Not her fault, I guess. She's in it too much. Not her fault, I guess. I'm glad he did not. A great man and great artist.

I'm glad he did not live long enough to see her be mean to Mindy Kaling because I do not think he would have been able to stomach. Most of us were barely able to stomach it. It's tough. What did she get you? She got me Scottish candyish candy she various scottish candies tea cakes and something called uh different type of swedish fish yes they're these ones are blue um can't tell you anything else about them okay but uh yeah she got me various uh marshmallow type candies okay is that because she thinks that like nanny mcphee is scottish or something

that's what she thinks and i begged her to reconsider on the podcast most of our conversation please rethink this it's not we haven't published anything yet you can recant the public loves a comeback story okay and you ate them or you still have them i ate them this was in june you ate them all you didn't save one of the one of the candies they would have expired this was in june you ate them all you didn't save one of the one of the candies they would have expired this was in june okay sorry say no more it was jude this we were all eating candy in june if we saw candy uh boy i mean we all remember june yes i barely do i was so high on candy right you were just loaded with sugar.

Sugar blackout from all the candy. So I don't really remember June very well, but it's a perfectly fine excuse. So that one, I mean, effectively, will put the ghost of the candy into the wine and garbage because neither of us is going to get it. If it had gone in the refrigerator, it'd still be good. Right.

A nice refrigerated marshmallow. You didn't save a rapper or anything no it's like a huge experience i mean it's like emma you're like growing up and like you said she's the most famous guest you've had big star she's agent o look in men in black three and international i was not aware of that. Yeah. Agent O. I still have... Hayes and I, we each have half of the swizzle stick that Jon Hamm used to mix his old-fashioned

when we were in studio with him last year. So I think it's polite to have a keepsake when you have a big guest like that. So you two split time with the swizzle stick? We broke it in half. Okay, sure, of course. It was actually already broken. He mixed really hard.

It was like he was mad at the tree. It was already almost all the way broken. Just splashing himself. It was hanging by a fucking thread, man. This swizzle stick had been through it. Wrote hard and put away wet. I'll tell you, it was really a bad shape but we i still have madman for years i mean he's out of out of practice yeah yeah don't bring

that up with him man and but that's a screen thing too i actually think like on screen for it to read when you're when you're mixing it to like swizzle it you actually have to do it like so so hard it's like pointing with two fingers instead of one you know it just creates a stronger picture and so i think that yeah you have to stir it so hard just for it to look like normal stirring right i've heard mad men was filmed in half speed yeah you know you do and from really far away right the cameras were like down the block yeah and all the drinks are like very they have to be like very thick they have to like reduce them uh they it's soup what they're drinking on mad men is soup it's a chowder yeah because you can't

yeah you don't want it to spill like every time they tilt the glass so you need it to be more viscous and like stick to the edge of the the tumbler a little yeah it's not it's not an old fat it's like a manhattan clam chowder with sand that they're that they that they drink and they would drink the whole thing every time there's like peas and carrots in it and stuff there's like a bunch of like it's a stew i mean it is a stew well that explains why everyone in the show has things in their teeth you know you just little clams and clams kind of just dripping down their chins this kind of thing but it's period accurate too i mean we didn't have the like little floss picks and stuff back then that we had well it was the swing in 60s so which the show i think really nailed so when he at when he came in and he was like please have

my old-fashioned ready and like sure like absolutely john ham and he takes a sip and he was like he actually really kept it under control no he did was he was like this is very cold yeah this is it's very under seasoned it's not salty at all why is this not boiling hot yes yeah why isn't it hot and he's poking around no corn he's moving the ice cubes out of the way. And he's going, I haven't found a single boiled potato. I should be able to chew this. Yeah. So he was frustrated, to be sure. But he played it pretty cool.

And we got, I think, a really strong episode. I don't know if it was better than your Emma Thompson episode. Has he done uh has he has he done your show he did your yours first i he's reached out yeah john love you uh yes no i just flat no which is you know that's i mean when i'm new to the game you're gonna take these hits you know yeah i've been doing this podcast for a year. You guys have been doing it for 15, 20. You've obviously harvested the fields

that I'm kind of now just picking over. Okay. But I got to Emma. Who's the second most famous? I'm going to hurt somebody's feelings. Yeah. Probably Jimmy Kimmel. Wow. Come on. What? um gonna hurt somebody's feelings yeah uh probably jimmy kimmel wow come on what but jimmy i think he's in a couple of weeks so he is he hasn't come out yet done the show yet he's not uh we've recorded but you know we've got anything could happen anything could happen he could recant so what

but you can't tell us what his gift is huh you can tell us well gift well you can tell us little like some hints around it um he gave me fun give us hints three please uh let's see it's please uh let's see it's around okay i know what this is um it came in a kind of a cube box came in a cube box it's around inside i know what this is basketball from the carmel unappreciated he doesn't do anymore it's not from that um and it's uh you know something i will uh never use wow okay so those are some things that listeners can kind of get excited about uh did you say soap yeah so i. I think it's round soap. It's round soap.

A beautiful bar of hand soap, which I won't be using. Yeah. And this is the myth. People say the way people are so stupid about washing their hair, which you're not supposed to do. You are also not supposed to use soap or, in fact, take a shower at all. You're not supposed to be doing that. If the last year has taught us anything.

Yeah. It's a round gift. Hang on. It's a round gift that comes in a square package and you refuse to use it. It's a fucking condom, dude. Of course. Everybody knows that about me.

I violently refuse. Yeah. If anyone even brings up the concept, I freak out. I mean, the fact that I'm sitting here calmly and you've brought up a condom, it's... No, I'm... And violently, like, it's not violent. It was a setup. He's not... Just to...

Like, everyone knows this about Bridger. He's not violent, like, with his partner or anything. He's violent. No, no, no, no, no. With a condom. He's, He's violent with the condom. Yes, thank you. I appreciate the clarification there. I am not my Riverdale character.

I think we need to separate those two. No, that's true. The hot pervert, to his credit, is very, very diligent about condom use. Yes, which was a big exercise of flexing your acting muscles you would believe if you were to watch riverdale that i use condoms and uh then you meet me in person and you barely winced when your character would have to handle one it was it was really something to to behold having heard the stories so you so you like

do you do on the did you like kick the condom on on the show i stood up i made you know i kind of had to maneuver my computer uh so jimmy could see me kick the condom um you know there are sacrifices we're making on zoom if were in person, he would have been able to just see me kick it. But I had to obviously set the computer down. Wow. Kicked it. And then we had a nice discussion. Yeah.

Oh, that's nice. Wow. Right. Well, but that one, then that one sounds like because it's been, it's kicked to shit. So then that also probably goes in the wine and garbage. So we haven't gotten a single gift that either one of us can keep at this point. I'm surprised he didn't eat that as well.

This is a lack of control around a famous guest's gifts. It seems like the impulse is just rather than save it, just to at least give it a taste. People were upset that you pretended to burn the gifts but they're

nothing even to burn you're just eating right yeah just eating kicking it to pieces yeah i felt very lucky that i had saved enough gifts to pretend to burn uh so who's your third most famous guest i'm not playing this game anymore eating better is easy with factors delicious ready to eat meals every fresh never frozen meal is chef crafted dietitian approved ready to go in just two minutes speaking of ready to go in just two minutes chef kevin is here with his new show the chef kevin factor where he creates fresh never frozen meals now this is different kevin i just want to i just want to establish it's none of this like here's a like a pile of ingredients like this is the meal the meal has to be ready it's not a recipe okay this is the

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Hollywood handbook. Who's a guest with a gift that we could get a piece of? And they better be the third most famous. Let's do... We could do tears. We could do ranked tears. Tears of deadly. I'm already... If I'm Jimmy Kimmel, I'm actually pissed.

Because... I think I'm more famous than Emma actually pissed because i think i'm more famous than emma i certainly think i'm more famous than than emma thompson whether or not it's like true by some metric no jimmy kimmel is second i agree to this emma thompson's an international star i think that you know i'm protecting myself here now and i'm gonna say emma thompson's an international star i think that you know i'm protecting myself here now and i'm gonna say emma thompson take her to australia and people know who emma thompson is take her to another country kimmel hosted the oscars where they got this thing wrong oh and that's viral the uh twitterverse was a blaze. And that's big viral, okay? But she probably, I'm sure she's hosted the BAFTAs at some point.

She's probably taken a BAF. Something Bridger won't do. I refuse. I think I've been very clear. And she hosted, of course uh the bloke show the bloke show of course yeah that's right get the bloke show uk the original of the of the format before we brought it over here and there was the big bloke that also went viral right yeah bottom yes uh okay come on bridger who's the third most famous guest i'll go through him kevin pull it up yeah we'll decide who you're i'm happy for you to name you say what the gift is and i think it will be obvious i'm trying to think let's see no i'm not i'm no longer i'm not going to get my hands any dirtier

okay and i and i and i want to get to the heart of like what bridger's thinking of like okay well i want to say it's obviously this person but this person will get this person will be mad yeah yeah so we'll get to the heart of this it's somebody who would be okay with hearing that jimmy kimmel is more famous than them but not okay with hearing that like whatever kate mccoochie's more famous than them or whatever the next friend of the show by the way but just someone who okay here we go i'm gonna just go back through them. Jamie Lee, John Milstein, Sidney Washington. Okay, thank you. John Early, Jen Spira, Scotty Landis.

So far, we're at John Early. John Early's in the lead. Jay Jordan, Chris Estrada, Carl Tartt, friends with me. Friend of the show, right? Not listed in his credits here. Actually, Carl's credited as comedy bang bang in

brooklyn 99 not the show that he actually is the host of that he does with us yeah a show that he's sometimes he asked me not to put it he actually reached out after we published recent too is that right uh casey wilson paul sheer amy man that that whole chunk feels like they're in the conversation yeah spread it out a little bit you know that's what i'm thinking as i'm reading you know like what is it we don't have it was a new year here we had to kind of burst into the new year to be yeah she is getting very famous i don't think she's at is she is is is he way more famous than amy man some of these we've had i would say internet famous and more internet famous maybe right now lizzie cooperman okay lacey mosley lauren adams ch Chris Fairbanks. Yasser. Bashir. Yasser. Karen Kilgareff is maybe up there.

Is that her second appearance? First. That's her first. First. And so that was strategic. You could have had that any time you wanted. That was the trailer. Okay. Okay.

A lot of people that we've had. I think think we got to go back up to that whoa richter richter richter richter andy richter i think it might be andy richter is currently more famous i guess so well what are we talking about? We're not done. That's everything. That's it. That's everything. I think number three is Richter. Is that right?

If it's between Richter and the... I think it was that chunk of... The man sheer Wilson corridor. Yeah. And Karen Kilgariff, I guess. Yeah. I think Andy Richter is the most famous of that group. That feels right.

Okay. Yeah. I feel like we get into categories of fame with these folks. No, but it's like people... Somebody would see him and know his name I feel like we get into categories of fame with these folks. Years, that's what I was saying. No, but it's like people, you know, somebody would see him and know his name more often, I think, than any of the other people on that list. What does the star meter say?

You've always got to turn to the star meter. But the star meter won't be accurate right now. What I'm saying is you put this guy in front of someone and you go who is this you could do with paul sheer they might go ah that guy's on black monday or like he's from the league you know but you do with andy richter they go that's andy richter right the same person what what person are we talking about here we talk about my mom or you know your typical third your mom's talking about your mom and your mom is like that's andre yeah that's andre from the league she goes well i know it ain't ruxin a league freak and so like i don't even know why we're bringing your mom into the

conversation i don't know if she would recognize anyone else from the list unless they were on the league and she goes okay big andre vibes how come hot girls always drive jettas she says and you go oh no here she goes in the league well she did those recaps and we all enjoyed those when she was doing them uh but it got tiresome even i mean even as her son i had to ask her to step back the league fandom was it was it got better to have it served its purpose but it ran its course as well and better to have someone who's a fan of the show doing the recaps i think than someone who is just going to be like unnecessarily critical of every episode you're just reading like you don't like the show right but you're looking for recaps not reviews yes thank you uh that's actually really helpful to hear

what did andy bring you uh he gave me a denim jacket okay did it say anything on it yes it said conan on it so it was a free uh piece of swag which he admitted on the show uh oh here we go kevin well we don't show us that jacket right now i donated it oh to uh andy richter yeah oh my gosh so now we're kind of piecing it together well now i maybe want it back because then we could give it to kevin again and we could kind of keep this going yeah maybe we just do this denim jacket circle the denim dance the denim we need at least one other gift that we need one more gift so let's just go so what did paul she what did i wait i'm not done to talk about like this story of this jacket because this stuff always happens with andy richter he accumulates stuff. First of all, you know his show, The Three Questions.

Right. Two of those were ours. The first is, can I have that? Can I give it away? Yeah. Will you not tell anyone that we did this? Those are the three questions. And he's also always like, just going around the Earwolf studios,

he's always doing like, he's cold. He's like shivering like a little match girl why am i just wearing this thin tee it's like i don't know man you dressed yourself did you not check the weather he's like oh but the ac in here is cranking and you go ah i think i have like a denim conan jacket in my car if you need just slow you'll like stop he's like in the engineer booth just like his mouth like fogging on the glass like he's trying to warm himself on the podcast question one is can i have that question two is come on are you serious question three is yes

and people get so vulnerable on that show. Question three is, was that so hard? Yeah, these questions. But what I'd like to do is I'd like to find out what Shear's gift was. And then also give us Casey Wilson's and Amy Mann's, and then let's divvy up these four gifts. Okay. And we'll just decide who should get what.

Right. Okay. paul sheer gave me uh like kitchen funnels so some i mean he admitted kind of like third rate funnels that he ordered bad funnels but they work excellent funnels um casey wilson gave me and you're just funneling i'm funneling non-stop i mean up until then my kitchen floor was a mess just essentially ankle deep of liquid but uh i get these you're just going you you're using straight cylinders before that of course no control give me a paper towel roll i'm trying to dump you know punch down that uh but now i'm filling bottles nonstop. Okay. How many funnels?

He gave me, I believe it was two. One, you know, standard size. Even that's a lot. I think I want one of them. Oh, the different sizes. Right. I think I want one of them because I'm soaked. My feet are soaked. Your feet are, oh, you're currently kind of splashing around there?

Yeah. In punch. I heard... I thought I heard some water, loose water. Casey Wilson gave me a magnet, like a fridge magnet with Tony Danza on it, naked. Naked? Fully nude?

Fully naked. Can I see any of these things? I don't have any of them handy. Okay. Look look if you follow we're not doing video anyway for this one i mean kevin has this weird system where he's like we're not doing video for this one it's like okay i don't care it doesn't affect my performance at all also when i said i'm always bringing it on visually and audio wise i'm always bringing my

absolute best to the table so it's like you don't have to tell me and when i said on text today look at what i'm doing i say my idea is we could demand all the gifts that bridger has ever been given on the show and kevin says haha that's what i was thinking i was literally writing it out and then hayes sent it. What are the chances? Kevin, I feel like you're trying to take a lot of credit today with the denim jacket. That was my idea. Such a big coincidence.

I have that jacket. It was so wild that I was writing. I should have screenshotted that. I mean, it could have seemed like a lie, but I should have screenshotted me writing out. I should have done fake screenshot to go with my fake lie I told. Right, and you could have kept that in check. I didn't even send an idea.

I didn't send an idea, but what I did is I just filed away. I went, oh, Bridgerton. Let me spring this. All these guys. Okay, using that. That's going that's gonna be using it very early just almost immediately and then i can just sort of tap out it's a good idea to have one idea and then just blow it at the beginning i wouldn't call it an idea i wouldn't say that it's an idea it's to have one kind of thingy

it's to have one kind of thingy you just do that you just say it and then you go alright you know they don't have video but what I'm doing guys is I'm sort of I'm like you know cleaning my hands right Kevin when this happens again

and it will I think it's better just for like the show operating smoothly for you to say that's different than the idea i had because i i mean that almost made me throw up that that i almost like yeah that we had the exact same idea i don't believe it actually happened to be honest but just the implication to see an idea from hayes come through and i go oh goody we've got an idea for the show and then to get your text and go okay so can so is it bad then yeah can we do it right before the show i would have wasn't what i was thinking but interesting i'd be be how this goes yeah exactly you could be a little skeptical of it like that like okay if you're like i'm not sure i

get it the yeah then that actually becomes like okay then it must be actually pretty smart haha that's what i was thinking it's getting out of hand that people keep giving him gifts just like re like oh god yeah it's not bridger you ever have that happen with your producer where you're pitching ideas and then they're like oh my god i was a same wavelength and kevin's trying to find out the name of your producer he's trying to find out who it is so he becomes friends with i just before you like get into it you can talk about this but he's gonna be jamming with your producer. Yeah, your producer, whatever their email is. He's formed a little band with all these other producers.

The super producers. Coming together to produce one great event. No, it's really very dangerous. You can talk about if that happens with your with your producer but i mean with my producer i'll send an idea i'll say what do you think and usually the response is thought of it not happening so wow they thought of that already that it's not gonna happen now right there's not even like there's not a discussion i don't i don't really get to discuss so there's no back and forth it's just not happening right not happening maybe for like that's a good idea

maybe there's like a production aspect of it that like something with the levels maybe they think the levels wouldn't work for that idea these levels will stink a lot of my ideas are like what if i screamed this yeah what if i whispered this um a lot of things to are like, what if I screamed this? Yeah. What if I whispered this? A lot of things to do with the volume of just modulating the volume of my voice. What if the mic was over here and I'm over here? Right. So I could see it that, by that level, especially in the pandemic, that's just too hard for... Yeah.

When you're not doing in studio, things get a little trickier with audio and Zoom, this kind of thing. Zoom. I'm so zoomed out right everything is on zoom fatigue we do we do i started out i had the zoomies but now it's it's like more like zzzz zoom what'm falling asleep on this thing. You don't keep these in, like, one place where, like, here are all my gifts? I probably should. You definitely should. But they're just kind of scattered throughout my

house, which can be stressful when I actually need to find one. But, you know, when you need to find the nude Tony Danza magnet. And now I'm stressed because I don't know where it is. I'm screaming at my boyfriend. I'm calling my mom just to yell at her.

Casey's going to be here any minute. She needs to see the magnet. It needs to be displayed. She comes over here like, see, remember that we love this. Do you want anything to drink? Oh my gosh, look what's on the refrigerator. Is he facing towards Do you want anything to drink? Oh my gosh, look what's on the refrigerator.

Is he facing towards me or away from me? Or profile? Fully towards. Not profile, yeah. Fully towards. I think it must have been taken in the 1970s. Maybe was he a boxer?

Is that something that happened with Tony Danza? It looks like it was taken in a gym locker room wow okay this is a secret like did he know what was being taken that's a good question i have to imagine tell from the magnet you know this is uh was not taken carefully with a cell phone you know this was probably one of the there was probably a flash the camera was probably uh pretty big okay i'm gonna ask about what did carl get you um carl got me uh every season of martin on dvd sometimes all of them bring things that i can you know that are just gifts that are like that you can you genuinely use yeah and carl was one of those where now i just have martin using this well amy man what what was that um she gave me this is actually

something i can show you she gave me an african mask that she called she was collecting these masks in the 80s wow and uh i'm happy to show you I'm also happy not to show you. It's really up to you too. I want the funnels. Okay, you want the funnels. Yeah, I want the funnels. Okay, but then what happens to me? I just go back to my old life? One funnel each. Let's split them up. Okay, you get, do you want

the small or the large? Probably just the small one. Okay. I think that's very reasonable. I think the large one's gonna be too big you don't have that much to funnel well i just am gonna be moving i've never worked with one so i feel like i'm gonna be out of my depth immediate just like swinging it around it'll be comical you know the way i'd be putting the funnel through the window and then i it's not good just the small one now and then when i get

used to it yeah then maybe i could borrow the big one i appreciate that sure um hayes is there something you want or i could actually really use the the conan jacket i have booked myself a tour of uh eastern european countries where i am i'm pretending to be conan basically i can say it on this show because they're like not gonna listen but i have like kevin email them and be like conan o'brien would love to do some shows in your area and so i'm booking like people's houses i'm like the the town square and a lot of these places. And I think that jacket would go over amazing. I think that's what they would kind of assume that he would wear. It's like feels like right.

Cool American jacket, stuff like that. Now, this tour, we're talking like the talk show Conan. Are you doing the Conan O'Brien can't stop? I am doing the Conan Obrien can't stop i am doing the conan o'brien can't stop okay i am playing the sound check myself on guitar uh we are settling in to some acoustic flavors and the the the second uh third and the third third of every show uh yeah where i'm doing the beard the the whole documenting it uh yes i will be documenting i'm getting my friend uh to yes to film me i'm doing drone footage kevin's doing drone footage my issue though is sometimes i can't find him so the first like 15 minutes of the show is

just kind of like serving the area and then yeah finally kevin has been kevin has also been throwing this drone like a shot like a javelin yes yeah it's not that's enough even the way he throws it i would sort of expect it would go straight up. It would be the right way to throw a drone if you're trying to get drone footage. But Kevin throws it sort of up, but mostly very far off into the distance. Like frustrated with a kite type thing. Yeah, and so he has to... I go, ah, forget it. Yeah.

It doesn't go that far, but it's just like, just throw it straight in the air, so then it's falling near you. Right. No, I appreciate you. I appreciate you, too. Bye. Appreciate you guys.

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