Hollywood Handbook - Carl Tart, Our VR Family Guy Friend

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

CARL TART returns to help The Boys write their VR Family Guy episode. 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 head gum podcast so i was with um the jays uh it was me it was jason big j okers oh jason well yes. It was Jason Lee and Big Jay Oakerson. And we were having a cold drinks contest to see who could get their drinks the coldest drinks. Without no freezing. So the drinks must be so cold.

So cold that they're almost freezing. And if they were any colder they would be freezed. Yes. No. Permanent freeze mode. But if they're almost freezing and if they were any colder they would be freezed yes no permanent freeze but if they're freezed disqualified and you're out on your ass you get your ass kicked up and down main street your happy meal ass gets booted up and down and jason momoa does that and he's strong as hell and does it have to go

in the direction of being more free you can't freeze it and then wait until no it is unfrozen be like there it is i did it the coldest drink it has that's why it's armstrong direction of has to start being a very hot drink it out the drink starts out hot as hell it's spiced hot cider you gotta get thing that thing so cold and the way we judge it is everybody gives one sip to anna kendrick and whoever whoever makes her go the loudest is wins the cold drinks contest wow yeah wow is right haze and you don't want your ass kicked up and down main street by jason momoa very much do you want that no i should think not but she she does that i i don't know if she's the right person because she does that just like instinctively

she does it when she can't stop doing it yeah she does it when she in the chips commercial she'll eat the chips and be like which is like that's not the right reaction when you're having the hotels commercials too she does in the hotels commercial when yeah just when she's like she puts her feet in the pool and she goes and that is odd she can't stop doing it and it is possibly a disease and she maybe needs to go get medical attention for it. And she does it with this seemingly endless parade of boyfriends in Love Life on HBO Max. No, it's true. On HBO Max, for your consideration, Love Life is available now. In all categories.

And when you're watching it and she's dating just left, right, and center, every damn Happy Meal ass that's been kicked up and down Main Street by Jason Momoa and his uncle, brother, and nephew, you see her going, ooh, thank you for the kiss. And it doesn't make sense. Thank you to my roommate for this good advice. And it doesn't make sense. Thank you to my roommate for this good advice. And I don't think that's right either, but we had to give her something to do because she was going to be making that noise. And at least the cold drinks contest

made us feel like we were somehow in control and a part of it. And it wasn't just happening to us because she will not leave me in the J's kitchen table. Hello, it's Hollywood Handbook. I do have to remind myself that because not leave me in the jay's kitchen table hello it's hollywood handbook i do have to remind myself that because it's carl on the show and they did not want this to happen nope let me just say they did not want the people in charge of all this whose names we're not going to say but they're not want this is to happen but a certain lad a certain mad lad who is also a bloke as well

a certain fine chap who you can find at the public pool that's what they call it a pub it's a public pool where he's from uh-huh i heard he was a bloody fine chap and that to them is like very offensive for some reason speaking of offensive haze i kind of know why you have me here why i know it's it's a little damage control i know that's why you're going above that going above the higher ups because i know i know i'm unwanted i know you know we're not allowed to talk about the big B. They've been trying to keep you off. I obviously have been saying, hey, Carl, I want to try to get you on.

Hayes at the last minute has been getting cold feet for a couple of months now. Going like, maybe we push this one. There'll be plenty of time to do an episode with Carl. Then all of a sudden this week, he insisted. I think the timing's right. And you had a theory about why that might be, Carl? You know, just a little damage control.

I know I'm on here to say one thing. Everybody, I'm Hayes' friend. Carl, we have another show together. Do we? I haven't seen you guys in forever. And I just want everybody to know I'm Hayes' friend. So everybody can calm down. I'm Hayes' friend.

This is what happened. We were having a, I thought, very nice conversation with Harvey Guillen, our guest. Actor star. And I was looking at his Wikipedia page, which says that his nationality is american and it's actually looking someone's wikipedia page while you're talking to them it's actually called showing interest if you've ever even heard of this and i'm looking at his wikipedia page and it says nationality american and he just said that like something we had talking about maybe was like cultural differences and i said

what cultural and he said never mind and i said your wikipedia page says nationally american and talk about this uh and is this cultural is that what you mean and that's what i said and i don't want to talk about this anymore and and honestly you know i know that i'm not in any hot water right now i don't have the same damage control to do right now that Hayes does, but I wouldn't mind hearing that I'm your friend as well, Carl. You are, but I'm not going to just say that. I'm not going to throw it around willy-nilly because you don't need it right now. We weren't discussing you at the meetings.

Let's save it. We weren't discussing you at the meetings. I am a Mexican-American. We weren't discussing you at the Mexican-American meetings. Carl. Yes. They didn't want this to happen because we have another show flagrant ones and they the like they they can watch they have like in the earwolf office their stock ticker with the paper coming out all the time and colin's looking at it and he'll like open the window and he'll start to step out and then

they'll be like oh what up it went up a little bit. Who's looking at it? We don't know who's looking at it. Someone's looking at it. Sorry. And telling us to sod off when we peek in and say, what are you looking at exactly? And I hear he's a bloody bloke too. And he's wearing a green visor and he's got a cigarette in his mouth.

And he's looking at that ticker. And they can see that it's an inverse relationship flagrant ones gets a patreon subscriber earwolf stock falls three hundred dollars like pork bellies yeah every every time we're orange juice over at tfo hashtag tfo and they their pork bellies you know when when orange juice rises when the frost is not on shout out to uh anna kendrick it it makes them kind of you know the pork bellies you know they fry a little bit more if you if that makes any sense which i think it does you think anna kendrick played the frost character the famous frost character emma frost heat miser oh emma frost oh from from frosted the movie frosted

frosted that's right oh yeah yeah anna kendrick played emma frost and frosted here it comes. Yeah, keep going. Okay. Here it comes. Here it comes. Here it comes. Here it comes. Emma Frost is January Jones, and isn't it interesting that January has a lot of frost? There you go. Is that how they got the idea? That is the frostiest month of all.

Do you agree or disagree? I agree. I was born in january in january and what's the what's the date carl fifth january 5th january january 5th 19 slam a jam and i think it was frosty my mom told me it was frosty it It was a frosty day. When I came out, they had to take a hammer and a chisel and crack me out. That's like the opening of the movie Frostin. Yeah. Just like one of those ice shape for the windshield. Yeah. Pour some kitty litter under you.

And it's difficult at times to even know what show i'm doing right now especially because we are recording uh separately as we will be doing in the entire podcasting industry for eternity now uh and my constant i have no constant to know whether i am in the flagron's world or in the hollywoodbook world. Normally I would reach out and sort of like if I just reach out my hand in when we're recording flagrant ones, Andy will just fill my hand with his teat. It's not I don't invite it, but if I just like reach it out, Andy, suddenly my hand will be filled with Andy's teat.

And if it's nothing, then Kevin usually, usually you know he's like does nothing at all so if it's air then i know i'm on hollywood handbook but if my hand is filled with andy's teat then i'm on flagrant one but what happens now when you're recording remotely when you reach your hand out what's in there now i i you know i'm the toilet flushes yeah no it's interesting yeah so when i reach my hand out into the air the toilet flushes but no it's interesting yeah so when i reach my hand out into the air the toilet flushes but no matter what i'm recording and when i'm not recording anything and when i am just keep slushing yes okay does it stop and start or it just is constantly does it like finish a flush cycle and then start again the tone changes i mean there's tonal shifts where it'll sound like

something's happening where it's maybe gonna end but then it'll pick up speed again it goes faster faster and faster whirring whirling swirling away i'm thankful on this show i don't have to so for those of you who don't listen to the flagrant ones, which for shame, but I know you're here, but there's no overlap. Actually, they've kind of picked sides at this point. Yeah. But on that show, I'm not allowed to actually talk. I just have to make basketball sounds. So I'm just like, pow, pow, pow, ch.

Sneaker squeak. The whole time. Yeah. Pow, pow, pow. pound pound sneaker squeak the whole time yeah pound pound pound whoo the whole time hey pass it here and and so here i get to i get to talk feed me the rock i'm open and so we do have some things kevin uh we have some stuff that we have to do today, right? Hi, freaks. Chef Kevin here. We have a very important thing to do today. We have a very special VR Family Guy episode starring Carl. Thanks. A lot of setup here to do.

And now the table has been set for us to actually explain what's happening. Take it away. So we want you guys to hear the Family guy spec script that we have started working on we have sort of a rough outline we haven't totally finished it but i i'm pretty confident that with between the three of us i guess four um three and a half yeah we can rough our way through uh the scenes themselves and of course how do you stand out in the industry today what are you going to do so that family guy really notices you? So Peter Griffin actually takes his little famous pointer stick,

laser pointer, and shines it on you and says, you're the one who come up here and help me with my show. When he calls you over to the desk. When Peter waves you over, he gives you the nod and he goes he goes yeah come have a seat and starts sort of rubbing the seat in a circular motion and uh and sort of pretends that you sat down too fast for him to pull his hand away but he gets his hand kind of wedged halfway underneath my hand one of your cheeks oh my hand you're hurting my hand it's Oh. When that happens, you know you've done something special. You've changed the way we look at Family Guy.

And, of course, our attempt to do that will be the first virtual reality episode. Now, Carl, you have seen every episode. You know who everyone in the family is. Yes. For the main family. You know who the friends are. Mm-hmm. You know who the dog is i do and so we thought carl could really help us write a good family guy and i believe we have a bit of an announcement to make uh i'm really excited this is huge me. I am the new voice of Cleveland.

You may have read in the trades, the voice of Cleveland has stepped down after a long, long run. I didn't see the whole article. I don't know exactly why or what the surrounding idea, but he's done. He's tired of it. And I throw my hat in the ring and I do a pretty good Cleveland and I will be now the new voice of Cleveland. I throw my hat in the ring and I do a pretty good Cleveland and I will be now the new voice of Cleveland. That is amazing. And it's an honor to know you. I'm not going to say that I'm your friend because you don't really need that right now. But it is an honor to know you. Sean could maybe use like being taken down a little bit.

So maybe there's something like not just like maybe not to say that you're like not his friend. But like I think it could be good for sean how about me are you my friend carl oh yeah hell yeah hey thanks for being friends with me carl me always the new cleveland oh man it is an honor and a privilege king loretta okay all right but we have to figure out we have to figure out what the idea is no i know i know okay and usually it's something like peter like some freak chance event like peter wins the lottery peter inherits like a bubble gum factory uh pete like there's like something happens in the very beginning that leads into the main story and that's like your act one story basically um peter runs a tickle pornography ring peter runs a tickle pornography ring and lois haven't seen

that one they haven't done that and lois walks oh okay here's let's just break that story down really fast peter runs a tickle pornography ring he has been doing this for a long time kind of in secret and lois walks in on him and discovers it and is repulsed at first but then gets into it to like help their marriage and ends up becoming more popular in this world than peter is and actually becoming like a huge star she becomes a tickle tickle liberty yes and peter becomes her manager in the tickle uh pornography world uh and the then he gets jealous, and fame goes to her head. Peter gets jealous. She ends up apologizing to him

because she wasn't herself. And they turn the site over. They shut it down for good, and they sell it to, of course, Cleveland. Cleveland or Quagmire? Hey, thanks for the tickle, pornography empire um quagmire makes more sense we also probably need a stewie brian b story maybe an on the road episode for them to get them out of the house yeah those always uh do pretty well maybe they're touring like all the

micro breweries in portland that could be good the road to portland that the road to seattle that what if they're going to chas in seattle they're going to the autonomous zone yeah they could do both i mean it's road to the pacific northwest yes they do they start in vancouver and they realize that the borders are closed due to covid yeah and so they have to sneak across the border they have to illegally immigrate into the united states yes great okay we have it so we do open up and we see the house open on family guy's house. Tonight on the news. Hi, I'm the news.

I'm Tom Tucker. Yes, that's right. Thank you. Hi, I'm the news. Tom Tucker. And then they say like something happened. They say he usually says something disrespectful about the other woman that he's doing the news with joyce kinney yes joyce kinney um and they talk about they it's it's called a tv

uh joke so we need a tv we need a quick tv joke well and so they'll show a preview for like a new episode of something or whatever tonight right too yes yeah we now return to yes you there we now return to black mirror but for cats yeah bandersnatch legend of bandersnatch yes why is my name so weird uh great so that's that's good now what's the vr like what's the vr aspect of this because this does have to be vr obviously yeah well you should feel like you're actually getting tickled by peter griffin okay that's not vr really i mean like you could see his hand is like but but you wouldn't feel the tickles happening really okay never mind and I really I don't need you to like shut down for

the rest of the thing because no you I thought I had an idea you obviously corrected me I don't I'm not I'm not really correct you under the illusion that I had

an idea for something that could be fun for the episode and I will no longer get in your way okay so Cleveland I get like well Peter's probably watch or no maybe lowest was

watching by herself and so she hears a noise in the basement and they never know they did have a basement yeah they have a basement right yeah yeah she hears a noise down there and it's giggling what's all that laughter what that somebody's laughing peter peter peter lois opens the door to the basement and she hears noises and and she hears like oh stop stop oh don't stop oh that's oh that's too that's where i'm ticklish right there. Oh, no. Peter, what's going on down here?

Oh, hi, Loish. Me and who's another guy? Who are all these boys? But it would be people that we know from the town. Mort Goldman. Mort Goldman is there, okay. Yes, Mort Goldman is there. Herman.

Herman. Isn't that the next door neighbor's name? Mr. Herbert. Herbert. Mr. Herbert. Herbert's there. Maybe Trish and Takenaw was there as well. Would Joe be there? Lois. That was some amazing stroganoff last night.

I didn't offer you any stroganoff, Joe. I know. I took some out of the trash. Okay, she turns on the light, and all the men in town are there. And Peter is tickling them, and a camera is set up. Oh, Lois, me and the boys was just playing poker. Yeah, that's right. It's a new game of poker where there are no cards and there's no money involved.

I didn't think this was poker. I thought I was getting tickled. I thought there was money involved. Okay. He's there. Now, we are coming up against an issue with the show, which is a lot. There is a lot of stuff in it.

That is, uh, we have to just decide on our own. Like if it's like we already have, we have Sean doing Cleveland, right? We have characters like more Goldman who one could argue is a racial caricature in his own right so maybe we save it with the vr element we have to decide which character you you are

like like if you're wearing the goggles this is an immersive experience and so who are you in this world are you lois are you peter like or are you one of the side characters who then has to be there for the rest of the episode what would you like kevin what are you like like what like what are the ground rules for this that like the network has laid out i assumed lois but you could also be the camera okay that's filming that's filming the tickles okay but then you can see uh what other parts of the camera like what else is happening in there but lois is a good idea but in that in that sense that every show is vr no because you're the camera that's in that's specifically in the scene,

in the basement. And then they just carry it around with them for the rest of the episode? Yeah. Whoa. But then it's not VR. It's like, should we just put on the headset?

Should we just put on the VR headsets now and kind of see how these things work so we can get a sense of like what might be good for a family guy episode with it yeah yeah okay because that might change our whole opinion if we just put these things on i know kevin worked up a pretty like cool simulation for like a demo like a demo simulator just to kind of understand like what the technology does yeah i know that that might have saved me from my god-awful pitch earlier where

hayes had to bop me on the nose of the fucking newspaper it really was just a clarification and i wasn't and i actually was very polite about it when i said it it was just a clarification that when you are wearing the goggles the sensation of tickling there is no way to replicate the type of kindness you can only get from a true friend uh who's willing to just assassinate you in front of the entire world um but yeah i know i uh i thought it could be fun if people kind of felt like they were getting tickled during the tickle episode that's i agree it would i agree with you don't well no you now you're making it worse in what way look let's just put the headsets on and we'll just see i think i just want to say i think it would be a lot of fun just because we

can't do that and we don't have that technology and it's not part of vr great does not mean that it is not a great idea let's not talk about it anymore so i'm putting my headset on now oh this looks cool i'll put my headset on i'm the i'm the viewer at home i'm myself watching the show okay i put my head sign on the headset on as well yeah yeah for me too it is just playing a family guy episode and so this whoa whoa trippy i feel like i'm in the room watching family guy it really looks like it it feels like i am but the room is like my TV room. I'm in my bed because I watch Family Guy before I go to sleep.

And I'm nude from the waist down, but I'm wearing Los Angeles Clippers socks. And sitting on top of the covers. Yeah. That's how I sleep. And you're wearing the socks on your hands. I'm wearing the socks on my hands so I don't scratch myself. Because I sleep scratch. We all do so and

i am at kevin's pool house i guess that was just a location he was familiar keying in uh so i'm at his little back patio where he has a really nice flat screen and i am enjoying an episode of family guy here okay and so i guess everyone's you know as i'm watching every once in a while, as I'm watching, every once in a while, I look over and Kevin is there and he is watching me watch the show to see if I am liking the jokes, I guess. Oh, yeah. Oh, there he is. Hi, Kevin. Okay. He looked away really fast when I looked at him. Kevin is laying next to me in bed well you might as well crawl on crawl on in here pal get up in here let's snuggle it up it's clearly bedtime it's sorry i it felt like i was getting tickled just now in my okay that i know i know of course that's not possible i honestly hesitate to even bring it up but i have to explain the outburst i did just let loose with a bit of a chuckle and it is because i felt like i was being

tickled i know it's not the vr because haze has been very yeah and i'm actually very curious how that happened because you're wearing something on your head only and so i'm just curious how the feeling of being tickled was was simulated i don't know i don't know you don't question it looked so realistic that my brain actually tricked my eyes tricked my skin perhaps my eyes tricked the sensors on my skin by seeing the hand they told me uh-oh this is what we're feeling. But I don't know. I mean, also, I'm torn because I know that that couldn't be possible and it wouldn't even be fun. My friend Hayes taught me that.

I actually said it would be fun. We're barely through what's basically the cold open, which is Lois found Peter doing a tickle pornography ring with all the guys in town. Mm-hmm. And she's upset. And maybe she goes and she talks to Bonnie. Could be good. And maybe Joe's there as well.

I'll do Bonnie and Joe. Okay, you were doing Lois before, but I'll do Lois now. Okay. I just can't and Joe. Okay, you were doing Lois before, but I'll do Lois now. Okay. I just can't believe I trusted Peter, and he's been running a tickle pornography ring in our basement for years. You should try it out, Lois. It's not that bad.

She's right, Lois. You should try it. I unfortunately can't feel any of the tickles so people take advantage of me you all do this is so i guess this is normal yeah lois come on here i'll unsnap your bro so i'm just realizing that on the show they would never really do just a lois and Bonnie scene unless this that we're going at the direction that Carl was. I told you. Yeah. Listen, man. I know the show.

I know the show. That was interesting because I did, when Carl said that I did kind of feel my bra being unsnapped a little bit. Ah. And so, and it is possible that my skin sensors

were tricked by the realism of hearing Carl say it. Yeah, it's interesting. The brain is really fascinating. Oh, it's fucked up. Forget it. I mean, we talk about the lizard brain but there's

all these other parts oh yeah and they're all crazy okay so i didn't really um i wasn't in that scene that was very short maybe i'll uh have brian do something now okay yeah they have to go um usually there's a reason they have to go on one of these tours either maybe brian got a letter from his ex-girlfriend in vancouver yeah he has a girl that he met who like on he was like through an app he's been catfishing her he has been cat fishing someone and she is about to move to quote to co to quahog uh-huh based on the message he's been sending based on the message and he's been using um uh quagmire's profile photo yeah and she's like i'm on my way and i'm gonna leave in three days and so like i can't wait to see you don't contact me like i i and you won't be able to contact me until then so

yeah so they have to go already disconnected my phone and internet in the preparation for the move yes perfect and so they have to go stop her and tell her the truth so i guess stewie would probably just like catch brian packing up a duffel bag or something right yeah uh my shirt and my uh shoes brian and my where are you going uh nowhere stewie i um uh am not going but you're packing that suitcase you all right fine you wore me down you got me Jesus you're good look I've been online dating in a false way the feelings were real everything I told her about myself was real but um anyway i have to go to vancouver to stop her from moving here and getting into uh a relationship with quagmire who she thinks is me because i used his photo uh even though i did write her real poems and uh also

i uh need some money for gas because i blew my money playing dice in an alley last night wait a second you've been catfishing someone i would call it that i'm coming with you i can't stay here herbert keeps trying to tickle me and that's how that's how you merge the a story in the b story yes get in the sidecar we're off on the road to vancouver gonna see some of those Vancouver mountains. There's islands and there's water and there's soda fountains.

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Yeah. Peter usually sets those up. I mean, like, whoever is in, like, the scene. Everyone does it. Yeah, everyone does it. It is usually Peter. So we should just bank a couple of those. Okay.

Kevin, will you just give us a setup and we'll do the cutaway based on that? Yeah. That's like the time Francis Ford Coppola was on the diving board and missed the pool. They don't say that's like the time francis ford coppola missed the diving like was on the diving board and and they don't say that's like that that's they don't say that's like the time no they say like i haven't been this emotion oh since i haven't been this scared since francis ford coppola was on the diving board okay that's a good one thanks so francis ford coppola standing on the top of a diving board

nicholas cage is there nice saying uncle uncle frank don't do it maybe jason schwartzman's there too yeah i don't have a nicholas cage nicholas cage ha don't do it uncle frank don't do it uncle frank okay and jason schwartzman is there and sophia coble is there and they're all trying to get him not to jump off the diving board yeah okay why you've got our only camera okay so and now i'm seeing my vr is showing the camera i just don't think it makes it that like every instant why don't we just like see through someone's eyes instead of everyone in every scene holding a camera and kevin i'm noticing that hayes is very good at shooting down ideas he doesn't necessarily i actually. I actually did suggest an idea, which is we just see from the perspective

of the people in the scene instead of forcing... What if you're seeing from the perspective of a lifeguard who's filming it? That's sick. I'm still seeing from my perspective, and at this moment, I'm not seeing anything because me and Kevin are sound asleep.

Yeah, that'll happen. Okay, so Francis Ford Coppola has their only camera. And then how does it end? He drops the camera in the water. And from your perspective, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then it's underwater. The first VR underwater. Splash. Okay. That's underwater. The first VR underwater. Splash.

Okay. That's one. It's a long way to get to the first VR underwater. The mermaid from Splash saves the camera. Yeah, that's a reference that they would do. Is that Daryl Hannah? That's Daryl Hannah. And then he goes, Francis Ford Cobo goes, thanks, Daryl Hannah.

And she goes, everybody gets one. That's cool. Yeah, that's good. That's Daryl Hannah. And then he goes, Francis Ford Coburn goes, thanks, Daryl Hannah. And she goes, everybody gets one. That's cool. Yeah, that's good. That's really cool. That's really good. That works. Now that's a cutaway. Peter's head would fill the entire screen and say, like, we got to see her butt.

Yeah. Okay. That's a cutaway. That's a family guy cutaway. That rolled. Now we have to bank two more okay so kevin another setup please this has me more pissed off than the time jesus came back from the dead okay okay setup they do a lot of jesus stuff though that's what i was is too much stuff he's banking on no no that's it yeah no that's a setup that's good because then it's got me wondering why am i

why was he pissed off about that and then it's like it's so then and then it would be peter getting home at the end of a hard day's work oh closes the door takes off his tie turns on his light turns on his light and he's scared to shit because Jesus is sitting in the corner already waiting for him and he goes, where's my fucking money, Peter? Jesus? Jesus! So that's just why he's pissed.

It's not about... I'm not shooting down the idea at all, but that doesn't account for why he was brought back from the dead and stuff, but that's just the reason he was pissed. Yeah, jesus is holding the camera too like he was filming him like as peter came in so that's how you watch it yeah from from jesus's iphone x yes jesus behind okay that's good that's i guess that's second one. And so what's one more setup? This is hard. Yeah.

It's really hard. They wouldn't do this, right? They wouldn't go like, man, this feels even crazier than the time that I nut, but the Noid just kept on sucking. No, they would probably do something like that. Well, you nut, but the Noid keeps sucking. Because the Noid is something they would reference,

you know? Yeah. And it's a meme. That's a famous meme. They wouldn't be able to show it. Well, what they, would they show it with like a play on words where it was like,

it's not what you expected. Like it's not the dirty version of it. Right. It would be, uh, yeah. How would you, how would you get away with that or you could just see like the top of his ears or something yeah it could be the top of his ears and you see them moving

back and forth and you go like and he's going like whoa whoa whoa noid noid noid and you go like oh geez this is going to be really dirty and then when you look down the noid like uh you know spits a bunch of cashews into his hand and he goes you sucked all the salt off my cashews i was gonna eat those later yeah that's good then you could get away with it with standards even you could get away with that yeah because the nut is an actual nut that we see okay so we have three cutaways and we can just like insert those as we go but could we do like one of those circumvent the what that they'll do where peter comes back and says we weren't really talking about those nuts yeah oh yeah or he's like we saw the noise whole ass you know what nuts we were talking about

yeah that's good too that's enough cutaways for now yeah that's yeah that's enough for now i will say my vr perspective it looks it looks like someone like dropped the like the camera the goggles or something and it is just like facing up at the ceiling mine are tangled up in like the fringe of sort of like uh um i think like a curtain that I was walking through. Okay. And I'm stuck. I feel like maybe my guy is asleep as well or something. I don't know. It's just not doing anything.

And Sean is stuck. And Carl, you said you and Kevin are both asleep. I've been half woken up by Kevin getting up and going to the bathroom. At first, I didn't know where he went, but I looked over over at the bathroom and i could see the light from under the door so who knows what he's doing there but at this point i turn off the tv i'm doing trick shots this summer that's like kind of my uh summer goal is uh toilet trick shots oh what but what is that like what like what is that like what and you notice kevin that haze is like very quick to be grossed out by your idea but he doesn't have any trick shot ideas for the i am showing interest i just i asked what it was i'm standing on top of the tub and i throw a ping

pong ball and i have to whiz in the toilet before the ping pong ball gets into the toilet. You ever see those videos from the cameras, remember, where the ping pong ball goes dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, and then it goes in a little cup? Oh, so it's like kind of a, it bounces around almost like Rube Goldberg style, and you have to finish peeing before. This sounds like Dude Perfect.

Yeah. This sounds Dude Perfect. Yeah, it does sound kind of like Dude Perfect. Dude Pefect. Dude Pefect, yeah. Honestly, it is a little bit like Dude Pefect. And that's basically what it is. So that's why Carl's confused, because I keep going to the bathroom to do my trick shots.

Okay, yeah, and it takes a couple tries. But I'm not really tripping because I'm kind of half-sleep. I'm just like, Kevin, come back to bed. But he didn't really hit me. I said that low. Where do you put your laptop, Carl? What are you talking about? When you're watching Family Guy.

Are you watching Family Guy in bed on your laptop or you have a TV in your room? I have a bedroom TV. You have a TV in your room? Yes, why is that crazy? I used why is that crazy i used to have that i had that back when i had a tv when i was a whole tv is it a big tv yeah man and i watch it every night to go to sleep does it have apps a smart tv that's where uh that's where i keep my apple tv in your room yes a's does apple tv have games i don't play the games on it but it has games yeah what games league of legends and civilizations it has that on apple tv yeah oh i don't play them i just watch other people play them

apple tv yeah oh i don't play them i just watch other people play them i go to youtube and i watch league of legends gameplay does it have youtube yes it does have youtube on apple tv does the video work on apple tv on the what and it works the video doesn't work on my tv You're watching it? Yes. Dang. Carl. Whoa. And you can watch it whenever you want? Anytime I want. I could just say, you know what? I'm going to turn my TV on. You have remote too? You have remote?

I got two remotes. No. Why? I got an Apple TV remote and I got the remote for the actual TV carl can i get one of those remotes i almost wonder it's like it's so like carl carl's character of like guy who has a tv in his room if this is like too outrageous well yeah and but then they often do this where they just have like new characters on the show or at least for that one episode yeah that that's becomes what the episode's about could could carl be watching the the tickle channel maybe the tickle ring

from his tv and we're cutting and seeing his reactions to it oh like the ostrich yes that laughs yeah he sits on the couch and he laughs and he's watching family guy right yeah and he's got glasses and he goes ah i love it and carl's friends with him that's cool he's in the bed he's in a bed he's replaced kevin that's it kevin never came back from kevin never came back from the bathroom that was just me and this ostrich kevin fell in the toilet he's upside down sticking out of the toilet head first gave himself the ultimate swirly grounded do do perfect i like it yes yeah are you kidding me i love it so how does the episode end well would family guy do this or does this feel like more of a south park thing that um they get out of it because peter

accidentally stars in the latest karen video oh yeah like his like mask gets caught on the door of the grocery store and rips off and then he he falls and then lands in a pile of pepper. And that makes him sneeze on some produce or something. And then everyone thinks it's a political statement. And then the Tickle Channel gets canceled. Because he's the new Karen. Yeah, that would be good to happen. Where's the camera in that, though?

Oh, Kevin? Is it like the grocery store security camera i just don't understand like like maybe a new employee is doing a tiktok video where they're doing the tomato juggle challenge and then in the background you see peter fall and sneeze all over the place so it's from the pov of the tiktok tomato challenge sorry can you just say is it possible for you to deliver that concept without being so tickled by i got tickled yeah someone something tickled my vr is wonky uh yeah the pov is from the tiktok tomato uh juggle challenge and that just happened okay and that just happens and then

the tick the tickle channel is canceled no one support this tickle channel they'll say this feels like we're not exploiting the vr concept okay well let's scrap that then let's do so let's do i'm not saying i'm not Forget it. We can put something else in the middle. Maybe the episode starts, blink, blink, you look at the mirror, you're Peter. Yes.

That's what it is. Oh, you walk by the mirror and you're Peter? Hey, wait a second. We're starting this episode over from the beginning. I'm really good looking. You're in a dark room. The room's totally dark. And you hear someone kind of snoring next to you.

And she's going like, And then you walk into the bathroom. And you flip the lights on. And then Peter is there. And you scream. I'm him. He's me. I love that idea.

And here's another one. You're doing the video where you do the wipe on the mirror. But then when you do the wipe, you become Peter. So you go from camera to Petereter himself wipe wipe wipe it off wipe yeah what do you mean from camera you're just seeing it like from the camera's perspective oh interesting front facing video front facing video okay and then you do the white and that's a better idea for a family guy episode that peter becomes famous as a front-facing video comedy star yes or he goes like uh he's he's doing impressions that are like

uh avocado when it's on your sandwich i'm sliming around i cost 17 and i'm under the bun that That's good. But then now I'm, and I really, I really don't like doing this. I don't being like, here we go. I can't hear it. We need new cutaways.

No, I like, we do need some new cutaways at this point. Yes. But also if it's all about Peter doing front facing camera, then how is VR incorporated at at all here it comes here it comes and like frosted is in it well you're peter so you're just looking at a phone yeah yeah that is showing your face yeah and you're doing like and you're doing funny camera videos where you're going

like when the barista gets your drink wrong. Okay, so it's just you getting thousands of takes of it and then you post it and then you just watch the notifications

come in and you retweet every compliment. When you're trying to pretend a jalapeno pepper is not that spicy that's good oh yeah it's not that bad it's not that bad it's not when you nut and the noise keeps sucking uh when you nut and the noise keeps sucking and you're like it's not that bad it's not that bad And you're like, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. I'm more of a Pizza Hut guy.

Okay, and Peter's doing all these. Yeah. Hayes, you not liking this? I do. I like it. I like it. I like aspects of it. You're not acting like you like it. I'm not acting like you like it.

What other topics did you mention? We did get a little bit. I wanted to talk about the movie Frosted. Okay, we did talk we did get a little bit i wanted to talk about the movie frosted okay we did talk about frosted a little bit and do we talk about the sequel frosted as well frosted as well the the third installment of it still frosted jack frosted jack frosted the fourth the third is still Frosted after all these years. And Jack Frosted, where Jack from, what's the band? The White Stripes.

Oh, Jack White? Yeah. Jack White. Frosted, I think, is one of the most compassionate and moving portrayals of the relationship between an aunt and a niece that i've ever seen on film like you rarely see like that kind of love story you know what i mean that like oh like she's like in like there's this guy or whatever but no it's actually the like aunt and niece relationship that ends up being the core that was the most powerful thing to me and to see that on screen after it had been ignored by hollywood for too many years when i know in my life obviously

i haven't had the good fortune of being an aunt or a niece but i've had a front row seat to some between nieces, aunts. And I wondered why it hadn't been something in Hollywood that was considered marketable. What was so taboo about that? And when they finally did it, guess what? Cha-ching, all of the world said, yes, thank you, happy thank you more, please. Of course, the title of the Josh Radner independent film that we all enjoy. And then your main character, the aunt, of course, develops these powers of being able to eat as much snow as she wants.

Yes, without ever becoming allergic. And never being full and always wanting to eat more. And while everyone else in town just has a little bit of snow and is like, okay, that's good for me today, the aunt is eating so much. Shoveling it in and really pigging out on the snow. And so then they actually have to banish her which I cried

my eyes out when the aunt first gets banished and watching the niece watch her get shipped away in the wagon the wagon that was her childhood wagon and as an extra twist of the knife they chose

to put her aunt in that wagon and have the mule drag it into the uh evil um room the evil room carl you wanted to talk you mentioned frosted you were looking to talk about frosted like what are your favorite like what are your favorite parts okay my favorite part is when so right when she gets into the evil room there's another ghoul there yeah yeah and that ghoul is like yes hey yeah uh you want some of these want some of these chips and she's like i like, I'm not doing carbs right now. And he's like, well, sister, you better get to it because evil room sentences are not short. Big Bruce the ghoul.

This Big Bruce is a breakout character. And then he introduces himself through song. The name's Big Bruce. i grow tall like a spruce i'll drink your blood like juice and then he starts to sing the song that's the first part of the song he says pass me the goose pass me the goose and then she hands him the goose that just showed up next to hers like she passes in the goo that's for the adults i think the adults are supposed to are supposed to think like oh like goose like in the club but then the for the kids it can be a real goose great goose yeah yeah it's like one of those when you go to a kid's movie and yeah but the adults

get to have a little fun too and they're like okay i've maybe later tonight i'll be having some of that pass me the goose pass me the goose i think he says pass me the goose now i'm feeling loose yeah and he sort of pretends to drink the goose even though it is a real goose no i love yeah bruce to me was the biggest breakout character that was so awesome and i do like when she ends up finally eating the chips too when she takes the bite of the chip and it gives her the strength because she hasn't had like carbs in so long and she farts them to freedom like through they bust through the ceiling and and out the roof of the castle and that's how they get out of the evil room is the chip makes her do a very an extremely powerful toot

is the name of the song. And it's, yes, she does a magnificent toot such that they are freed and they can eat the snow again. And they actually need to because the town had too much snow. And you could do VR

as the snow. Let me finish. I'm actually talking about the movie Frosted right now. They make funny... The niece is looking for the aunt, of course, and she makes funny friends as she goes along and stuff. And I like that she...

I was a little confused by... They call it like a jack-o'-lantern that that she's friends with it's like a pumpkin it's a pumpkin yeah he's like an old halloween decoration and yeah like he's kind of rotting a little bit but i think it looked to me more like an orange that had like a jack-o'-lantern face like carved into it. That's true. There wasn't any of the lines that you associate with a pumpkin,

the like vertical lines. It was a perfectly round orange. And it's perfectly spherical. It had a navel and it had sort of dimpling on the skin like an orange. Yeah. And there was a sticker that says

that's an orange. Yeah, it says orange on it. Yeah. It's way smaller smaller it looked like someone in like in production design or something and i guess you know it's like computer animation stuff these things take a really long time to render but it looked like what they were the reference that they were working off of i think was wrong and mislabeled or something because then they it has actually is featured next to a pumpkin for scale at one point which i thought was so unusual yeah i guess it was like different departments or like one had

they're so there's such a big team working on these things and it's such a long process that i think stuff like that. It didn't take me out of it at all. I thought it was kind of cool. And also, that's just one of her three sort of funny, magical friends she makes, so it doesn't really matter that much to me. Yeah, sure.

Hayes, I just want to say, thank you for being open to talking about this. No, I mean, now that we're talking about it, I think the movie does have a lot of really great lessons to share um well just the fact that her other friend is um uh an energy saving led light bulb yeah like that to me was like oh holy shit we're finally tackling this that like these things last a really long time and yeah the light quality is not as pleasant it's a little bit grayer a little bit more they do a couple songs about yeah more hospitally and they acknowledge that they do they do the names led hand me that goose let's get loose

did you meet big bruce it's led and they say that like the name of the character it's like ellie duelding and which ellie duelding like me like you do like yeah like me like you do yeah i thought maybe it could have been love me light you do or something because it's like it's always like was already in there i'm not saying like me like you do i said light me like you do yeah i know i know i mean that's what the song is like you know it's not you like that's the song no it's not you that's just like the song that is in the movie yeah and kevin is that everything we had to do we had to do vr we had to do the two family guy episodes and we had to talk about frosted yeah colin just messaged me that the earwolf stocks

went back up so i think we're all good okay that's great maybe the vr ends with the news shot and the news anchor goes and and that was the news. Bye. Hollywood Handbook. That was a HeadGum Podcast.