Hollywood Handbook - Danny McBride, Our Close

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

The Boys bring in DANNY MCBRIDE to help turn some of their boy employees into men employees. Check out Danny's book, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, out now! Get a Hat Pack Hat here! Check out Sean and Hayes’s bonus shows at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook Listen and watch on the iHeartRadio App!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I was going to get wrong anyway I asked to do one Is there a delay? Can you not hear me? There is a little delay I think Okay Yeah I hope so

I hope so Because I asked to do one And I think Danny would have Like to see me do one I would have to have To me it's not doing one it's just like that those are the name they've kind of been with us from the beginning those are our guys that's it that's our core frame group the meetings being recorded i'm going to approve

that yeah have it transcribe it to the a i write everything down i'd like the a i assistant to describe what's happening actually you know what that's a good idea kevin can you run the ai assistant during this and then maybe the last two minutes of the episode can be you describing back to us what the a i i assistant thinks was happening this would be helpful i think and we published that Yeah, just make that the podcast. I mean, you, like, you've done, like, it can happen. Yep. Like, you can take your ideas, you can translate them, you can put that in a book, if they're good.

If they're good. Yeah, that's the if. That's the if. That's the if. Danny McBride, thank you for joining us today. The book is thrilling tales of modern men on, is it shelves or is it just kind of one shelf and they come to the book? I think we're going to find one centrally located shelf, and people will have to find their way there. That's so much better.

Yeah, right. You just save on a lot of shipping, and it creates that communal experience. People are, like, gathered around. They're talking about the book. They're like maybe kind of pushing each other a little bit. Maybe they're fighting. They're a lot of copies. Yeah.

Good place to do a little frottage. I'd get in that line. Yeah. Was that Richie? Yeah. Who said that? get in line do it

Richie Richie I leave the studio for five minutes and all of a sudden you get real brave in there I'll tell you what you were not chiming in without being asked

when I was down what kind of ship are you running Richie This is some of the modern masculinity that you don't see anymore No so this is actually I'm so glad you're here This is what we want to talk about

Richie did text me on the way in that he was feeling froggy today Okay And he was getting ready to hop And I think we're seeing that now Yeah I'm hopping all over the place You

Danny You know we go back a little bit We have for a long time For a long time You started You and I worked together The first time in what the third season of Easter Four season when it got good

Yeah when I got No you were the third weren't you Weren't you at Myrtle Beach They brought me in the third To like do emergency surgery on it Yes yes And then they brought me in for the four Yeah, they, you're, me.

I brought you in. Amy and Steve, no, no, they inceptioned you in it. It was really, it was Steve Baker. I said, we need help. We need help. And they brought us you. And I stuck around for a cup of coffee. And I think I had a gig at that time.

Just to say, I would, obviously, huge fan of the show. Love what Hayes did on the show. Love what you did on the show. And I think I had something at that point, which is just unfortunate because it would have been fun for all three of us to work together. And I'm already feeling actually that this, you know, the dynamic is, and maybe we find something. It was weird because when we hired Hayes, Hayes was like, I have no friends. I have no one that would be good at this job except for me.

It was really a strange way. Because you asked. I said, are there other guys like you that are really funny and know what they're doing? And you're like, I can't name one. Unfortunately, no. And at the time, like you said, Sean had another thing going. He was, you were making your album. and I think that was what you needed to do in that moment.

It was kind of stomp. Have you spun the record, Danny? I haven't. I'm curious. What was the genre? Well, Hayes is just telling you, it was like a stomp kind of. It was stomp adjacent. Okay.

It wasn't as forceful as stump. So you were like banging pots and pans around? Not banging. Not banging. Playing. Kind of tapping pots and pads. It's happening. Okay, okay. Yeah.

Clanging. Okay. I had a broom that I would just kind of poke at, but I wouldn't do the whole like, you have to find a way to make yourself different from the stomp guys. And it's dangerous. What they do is like you could never do that to know. Danny, it kills. Does it?

It kills. It hurts your legs in hands. I bet. It's a lot of moving around. Fucking kills. Because they have to get to the back of the house. But imagine for your ears are right next to it. Yeah. And so you're feeling those concussive blows.

It fucking kills. I see. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. But I've watched you over the years get asked in interviews about modern masculinity. What's going on with young men these days? We got to help them. And I want to give you the opportunity to finally say what you really feel, which is, that we're all very fragile.

We're all so fragile. You all my fragile. You all my fragile's right here in this room. Y'all my fragile. Can I say this? A lot of these, you know, modern men are anything but. No. Some of our antiquated, we would say, right?

Old-timey. A lot of them are fucking poosies. Yes, poosies. Yeah. Sure. Full-blown poosies. And that includes every single guy that works on this show. Yes, poosies.

The whole show. Big stings. Mr. and Mr. Poon-Tang at your acquaintance. It's one poosy after another in here. Is that a requirement for the hiring of people here? It seems like, yeah. It just shook out that way, but it's something in the water, man. Something I'm giving off.

Yeah. It's all this fragile masculinity. Exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, I was like, is that weed? Nope. It's fragile masculinity. Mm-hmm.

Yep. And it starts with rich. She's intoxicating. It can be entombsicating. I am what I eat. What do you? Sorry. So Richie just said I am what I eat.

He got stepped on a little bit. But he's saying, Poozy. So he's saying that he eats Pousy. You eat a lot of Pousy. I'm actually going to go out of the room. So much he became one. Well, that's the natural evolution for a lot of people that find themselves as Puzzis these days.

They ate so much of it. Yep. It got in the bloodstream. Yeah, it makes them fragile. And so I think we just go one by one today through the crew here. Okay, yeah. And we just rewrite some wrongs that have been done over the years to them by their parents and families. There's a lot of old wounds in here.

Yeah. Do you mind scrubbing in for surgery, Dr. McBride? I think I'm ready. Bring them to me. I might not be at. as equipped to talk about this today. I just got my tea drained. Oh, really?

I don't talk about it, that you know this about me, but I have giga tea. Yeah, lots of, that's an excess of tea, right? Excess of tea. Yep. And so it is,

I've sensed that about you. It is, it comes, I squirt basically, and so like I squirt pure tea. You like lactate, like out of your breasts? Where does it squirt from?

It squirts out of, it has created a new orifice. Oh, sick. Underneath, so I lift up the kind of, yes, sick. Is there maintenance required after the leakage? Do you have to do some cleanup? So I try to avoid to be proactive rather than reactive.

You milk it. I get it. I basically get it tapped like a maple tree. Beautiful. And so I donate that. You donate. I was wondering what you were going to do with this XST. You give it to people.

It's great. It is pure. They call it. camomile tea because you if you have it you can wear full on mossy oak

duck camo wow and run and no one will see you and then almost a whole mile wow wow they do see you because the way you're running is not it's not like anything that's ever existed on the earth before yeah and there's no

you're not wearing an orange vest so you are getting shot yeah they're like here comes predator yeah if I get jump in, hey, as I feel like a lot of people listen going like, oh, I wish I had that much tea. Oh, I would kill for so much tea.

Like, it sounds like a luxury sometimes where people don't have enough. They go, oh, it's so great. But it's not easy, is it? It's not easy. It's a challenge. It is a challenge. What's the biggest thing you notice when your tea's drained? How are you different? How does it affect you?

I am a lot more I would say my sexual orientation changes completely that's pretty awesome whatever I have going on that day you flip it yes and so if I wake up by that's normal then I end the day by

then you end because that's the you know the opposite it's like you know if you flip by around just exactly 180 degrees then you end up in the same spot yeah yeah that makes sense Well, not the same spot.

Makes sense. Yeah. And so it can just be hard to plan your day. Yeah, you know what I mean. You don't know what your proclivities are going to be by the end of the day. By nighttime. And I've made plans. And so sometimes I show up to those plans and be like, this is, this ain't going to work.

Yeah. When did you first realize that it was going to benefit your life to drain the tea? I, so this was a plan that my mom sort of devised it. My mom became like sort of an amateur scientist, like doctor. and so she developed this whole plan for me and once I was ready to like start going to school like once she had the whole apparatus set up I would wheel the apparatus along with me to school

and it was her invention wow heyes before we go on just because I think you talking about your orientation was so important yeah Danny do you want to deliver a message to our biphobic listeners yeah you know obviously they're the should be no judgment on by folks or bifocals you have to wear those yeah yeah you know a simple tea drain can change all of our orientations obviously that's i mean that is one thing that the positive

about drain the tea it does like my vision becomes great yeah but talk about a predator yeah i mean i'm like to lighten the mood a little bit if i could lighten the mood a little bit i i would like to say haze has giga tea but i of course have boba tea beautiful Is it the tavioga elements? When you drain that, I'm sure it's a little messier, I'm sure, right? They've installed the little, you know,

the plastic lid, the plastic film. No, I don't spill a drop. I drain it straight into my mouth. Yes, he loves drinking bobo. Daniel. Every flavor. All the flavors. All the bobo's.

It doesn't matter. It's all of the. them are good. Oh, that's fantastic. And you make it on, you make your own. That's great. I call them, I call them, I call him, I call him, I call him, I call him Terro Reed. It's a good name. It's one of the flavors. He loves them all. Terro, though. That is a, yeah, a potent flavor. They're all named after, they're all named after cast members of American Pie. Yeah. Oh, gotcha. I call, I don't, I never looked up if she was in this, but I call him Leachie Sobieski. Yeah, I don't think she was an American

pie, but I still like that. Haven't looked it up. Haven't looked it up, but it does seem like she was prominent around the same time. Yeah. For the classic limone flavor. Yeah. Natasha limon. One limon. Unlimode, por, for four. Yeah.

So we'll start with Richie. Richie has just basically been encroaching on this table like tectonic plates since we started here. This is like month two. We had Bill Macy in here for our first episode. Oh, look out.

Not too bad, huh? And this, Richie basically, like, got an appetite as soon as he saw, got a taste for it. I did. As soon as you saw us, like, chopping it up with Bill. Bill likes us by the end. That's great news. Because he doesn't like a lot of people.

Bill had a lot of fun. Bill had a lot of fun in the studio doing this one. He really let his hair I enjoyed that episode because it was so fun to see Bill have fun. I bet, I bet it was. Yeah, something about it. He sent us some...

Go ahead, you were saying. He sent us some rye after. He has a rye. Oh, really? And how was that delicious? I haven't cracked it yet out of respect. Just keep it as a souvenir. But Richie's like, oh, like, I can't wait for when we like open that up.

It's like, it was not, he was not sending it to you. It wasn't like a, like, you are not part of that. Yeah. And it's good to, I think, make this clear now. Set some parameters. The dongato, that's not yours either. It could be. It could be.

Depending on what sort of things you add to this conversation. We'll see what happens. All right. I'm going to have to brush up on some stuff then. Richie, I think it's time to talk about you do breakdancing Yeah

I did a professionally until I was like 30 Wow, that's really cool Yeah, how old are you now? Old enough to be a dance And I think that was I think that was the original sin Breakdancing I think it was leaving break dancing to have children.

I think so. Yeah. And I think it is time to go back. Yeah. Leave your children and break dance. Yeah. On the table. I just want to dance.

Yes. That's right. Sounds good. I'll tell my wife. Yeah. Let her know. We'll call her if you want to. Actually, that'll be easier.

Yeah. If you guys tell her. That's part of being a modern man is you do tell your wife. Mm-hmm. And if you're too afraid, you're not asking her, but you do let her. you do let her in on. Yeah. Yeah. And you have your friends help too. We're a community, aren't we? Yeah, I mean, it's so, it's so, it's so important to support each other. And I think that something that is so cool about what's happening now in the male community is that people just say,

hey, I need help. I need you to call my wife for me and just tell her that I'm going to be breakdancing again. and then I am going to start drinking energy drinks again, even though I was supposed to never have them anymore. It's so true. You know, I've learned on this press tour that people have told me that men have never known how to ask for help until literally right now in this moment in all of history. It just happened. It just happened. It happened not like two Fridays ago. Yep. And we've never known how to do that until right now. Richie? We don't. We don't ask for directions, do we, Danny? No, we don't. We don't want to do that. I'll figure it out. We know a shortcut, right?

That's how guys were so fucking stupid. Oh my God, we're, we should be extinct. Richie has an idea that maybe we can run by you, Danny, from his break dancing days that he's been texting me about also. Oh, this should be good. Which is he texts me two words. And then I think he goes to bed or something and forgets. Probably, yeah.

To, like, send what the two words are? And so a couple days later, I'll be like, what do you? What are you talking about? What are the two words? I don't text me. Oh, yeah. White Jabbawhakis. Those are the guys from America's Got Talent, right?

America's Best Dance Crew. America's Best Dance Crew. I always get those two mixed up. Hey, can you disagree with Danny? Sorry, you're right. Going forward and not just be like... Dance crew. Can you not make him look like a fucking idiot on this show?

I'm just overstepping left and right. Okay. America's Got Talent. So anyway, what do you think? Maybe that's what made you such a good break dancer, huh? Overstepping. Were you on America's Best Dance Crew, Richie? I know what I was on.

America's got to tell it, and so you think you can dance. So you think you can dance. And a bunch of music videos. That's great. Oh. That's great. So what, but what do you think of the idea? I think why not, you know?

Why not? Why not? Let's go for it. It's only fair. They were always masked, right? Yep. So who knows? It could have been a bunch of white guys.

We don't know. Yeah. But now this is making it very clear. Yeah. It's making that explicit that this one is. And the masks will be clear. We'll be literally making it clear because the masks will be clear now because it's going to be white faces anyway. So that's the idea of it.

Okay. All right. And then if Shaq does come dance with the Jabalakis again, it'll be, you know, different than was when Shaq Shaq danced with the Jabalwaukee's the first time. Did you ever see that, Danny? I didn't. It sounds like something I should go look up after this. So, Kevin, so make a note.

Let's send a link to Daddy. Shackdits is with the Jabba Lockies. Please send that to me. Yeah. And send him, like, make sure he has the right, like, password, the right login information for the link. We have a new proprietary screening software. Oh, wow. That we're deploying.

Okay. Yes. Give me the inputs, please. It's, it's video. It's called video. It's called Vidyam. It's so delicious. Yes.

And it's, it's, it's yummy, delicious videos, and it's all your favorite memories of Shaq and the Jabalakis. We have three other videos up there as well. Wow. It's 51 factor authentication. Wow. Well, as it should be, if you're sharing such, you know, treasured moments. Casey.

Casey's here as well. Casey, can you say hello, please? Yeah, hi, how's it going? I'm Casey. Hi, Casey. Hey, Casey. Where's the Sunshine Band? Sean has not met Casey before

He's only heard So we haven't met a person I've heard his voice before on the show And you just have little digs for him Like where's the sunshine band Casey I don't think that's negative Yeah I don't think that's you know It's playful

I'd love to meet the sunshine band Yeah Casey and Jojo maybe Casey is a director That's better He has a lot of thoughts about Halloween your take on Halloween. Okay.

Just like what he would have done. You know, those questions are better suited for David Green. Anything you liked about Halloween, you talked to me about. Anything you didn't like about Halloween, you talked obviously to David Green. Do you want to pass it to David and Casey can just like go down the list now? Yes. And like maybe we get in there. Casey.

But I think he, what I remember him saying is tell me you've never seen the Gialo school. without telling me you've never seen the Gialo school. Well, you know, again, I have seen the Gialo school. So, I don't know if David has. David has. David was going to adapt Susperia at one point. Oh, really? I think he has.

So, Casey. Casey calls him Super Dario. Super Dario. It's pretty cool. Mm-hmm. I like that. It is cool. That is good.

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These are my opinions. It's true. Where's Jojo? Thank you. Thanks, thanks, Danny. Casey has actually been saying recently that he is going to give up directing because Disclosure Day said everything that he had to say. It's good that he could identify that, that everything has been explained. He has no disappointment feeling about it.

Why would he feel that? No, it's accomplished. Yep. The goal was just that the work got made. And now it's happened. Casey, I mean, do you want to speak on that a little bit? Yeah, I mean, I was, I just directed my first movie, and then I saw Disclosure Day, and I, I was upset because they did everything that I really wanted to do. Okay, just said you had no disappointment feeling about it.

And what is it? What were you trying to do? You wanted to have something where people could speak to animals and... stuff? What were you, what were you aiming for, Casey? Well, I just wanted a movie that ended with Disclosure Day, which as we all know, is the day that we disclose aliens exist.

And they did it, and now I now it's back to the drawing board, or just quit. And Casey, were you able to fill a backpack with USB drives in your movie? I had a I had one SSD, that's it. Ah, okay. Yeah.

And a big backpack. Yeah. It does seem much. that story's been told unfortunately yeah yeah the s d uh well and obviously you don't have the budget spielberg does you know had all those extras moving in unison chasing the guy and stuff you couldn't have done that probably in your film no i only had a budget for one extra and i just had them run back and forth in the background the whole time he was trying to kind of instruct people at at citywalk he went to city walk and was like we can just like wrangle a group of people and get them to do it and

I like to call it directing, not really instructing. Instructing, it sounds like, though. I mean, it sounds more like instructing, and the way you do it is very instructive. And Casey also was like, I only need a couple people because AI is so good now. He just kept showing me stuff on his phone and being like, look at this. Can you believe this is AI? And I was kind of going like, well. Yeah, she has six hands.

Yeah. Yeah. But at the same time, like, he's an artist. You know, he has his own vision. And even though he's never going to put it out, because Disclosure Day, like, kind of mowed the lawn and, you know, ate his whole fucking lunch. It's still, like, cool that he even took the journey. Yeah, and that's a masculine, modern man.

Don't be so fragile, you know. Don't be, don't be a fragile. Is that your diagnosis? Yeah, I think he's being fragile, fragile. I think you still release it. It's like fragile rock in here. Yeah, it is. Oh, yes.

Down at fragile rock. Down at fragile rock. And the dozers are working down there. It's, you know, Wembley and Gobo and, of course, the juniors back there, the radishes. And the giant trolls eating their constructions. It's all here. Mm-hmm. And, yeah, the dog.

The old man. Fighting from the dog. It was fragile rocks. Is Matt here by any chance? I'm here, yeah. Hello. This is Matt. How's it going?

Matt hosts a different podcast that is more successful, though, this one. Oh, look out. What is that called? It's called Get Played. Okay. Make your pitch, Matt. It's a, you know, it's a video game podcast. We talk about sort of what's going on in video games currently,

and then sometimes we talk about, you know, the games from the past, like you're Sonic the Hedgehogs and. All that stuff. What's your game now? What's your game now, fragile? He read you. Right? Well, right now I've actually...

He's red your ass. I got red to fill. I don't even know it's... This man got red to smilf. I like... I like the new James Bond game, 007 First Light. Really good.

It's great. And he's been doing... You play that game at all? I haven't played it. I've been playing this pretty nerdy game called Crimson Desert. Oh, okay. All right. Open world, massive.

I'm listening. For even a noise of recognition from the video game expert, I didn't hear. Nice. It's hard to jump in from Zoom. It's hard to jump in from Zoom. Oh, Matt clearly knows the game. May I say what Smilf stands for? What does Smilf stand for?

sensitive man I'd like to friend that's beautiful that's great yeah red to smilf Matt one constructive note on your pitch

for your podcast especially as someone like Danny who actually does game and is playing Crimson Desert and could kind of be a pretty effective megaphone for your cause here when he asks you what the show is

don't go it's you know a video game podcast well no he doesn't know. Right. That's why you're here to inform him. I'm sorry. It's fine. No, it's a constructive note. Look, I don't care. I don't, you think I give a fuck what happens to your fucking podcast? Danny could be a pretty effective megaphone for it, you know, under the right circumstances, but I don't need to, you know, sit here and try to promote your

thing. I'm trying to promote my thing. Danny, do you like the show that you're on? Do I like the show that I'm on? No, not, I'm not talking. I'm done. I like this. I like how you gave him an opportunity, and then you're giving him this constructive direction of how to fix himself. That's what all men should be doing to each other.

Drilling it down. We need to carve out that time. Yeah. To just really fucking dash somebody's dreams. That's part of what this is all about. Did you have something you wanted to say to Danny, Matt? Do you like any other games? What did you say?

say or what the fuck did you just say to me do you like any other games of course I do I like all kinds of games what kind of question is that do you like any other games like what like whatever name it the uncharted games whatever whatever

games are out there I like Balatro what do you think he's going to say I like Balatro a lot I've unlocked all the jokers every fucking Joker and Balotro I've unlocked nice so Matt was testing you he went to all the way

of Japan to talk to Jack Black about the Super Mario movie. This is when Casey was a Super Dario. And Jack Black in the interview said he liked Balatro instead of Balotro. I never actually knew how it was pronounced. Is Balotro or Balotro? How do you say? I mean, everyone says Balotro. lot tro but matt

poozied out didn't say shit call me dongato oh god and you just let him get away with it it's good no we did an entire episode yeah we took him

to task brating Matt for that yeah as you should have you guys want any digestives can you bring me back McVitties do you want any McVities

do you want any McVitie's digestieves Like, whatever the weight limit is For McVitties Digestee? Yes, can you please bring me back some of those? Kevin, this isn't bad for sound, is it? If I eat McVidies Digestee's during the show, I just I've had to listen to Matt for a little while And I just need something to settle my stomach.

That's okay. Should we, I think it's time to actually bring in Kevin here. Can we put Kevin on camp? Can you guys see me? Yeah. You look great. You too, bud. So Kevin,

please don't call him, Buds. All right. Just in the last few years has become... If you call him, bud, you might get smoked. Sorry, I'm having digest.

Kevin has become a medical grade poesy. Really? In just the last few years. How? In fact, he... It's terminal.

It's terminal. You're not getting out of this one, huh? He has moved to Pittsburgh. Yeah. Total poohy move. To go to the real pit because only they can figure it out. Okay.

And no luck, huh? Not yet. I'm still waiting for Dr. Rabinovich, and he's not answering my call. calls. And you got poor internet connections, too, unfortunately. Yeah. And no lights in his house.

He's rearranged the whole, the entire grid of his house. He's put it in the internet connection, and that's still all we get from him. Can you guys not hear me? What's that? I'll turn my camera off and talk louder. Still not working. I'm... Dr. Rabinovich.

I can hear. Hearing like one of every four words. Anyway, he named his son Desmond after his favorite character from Lost. Yeah, I remember that guy. He named his kid after him. He named his kid after Desmond. Not a lock or a Sawyer or freckles. His favorite character is Desmond.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, yeah, everybody, there's a big cast. So a lot of room for a lot of people to have different favorites. What a great attitude about it. You know, I, I, I think that that is so generous to just immediately point out that the cast was pretty big. It's massive. Everyone can't name their kid lock.

There'd just be too many. It's like DeNaris. Everyone named their sons and daughters DeNaris for years. So now every kid at school is raising their hand. Yeah, DeNaris. When they say DeNaris raise your hand. Yeah. Who here is DeNus.

The next kid is going to be named Mr. Echo Rousseau. just get them all get his top three of there you know because it's a very big cast it is massive huge huge huge ensemble so crazy you okay

ensemble are you okay I love an ensemble what were you reacting to when you said so crazy it's how massive that cast is just thinking about how big it is how many of them yeah I feel small

when I think about how big the lost cast so fucking many of them with so many of them with so many stories. It's beautiful. Oh, you know what? That should be a podcast. The lost stories.

The lost boys. Can you hear them again? Did his internet cut out? I see he's talking. Yeah, I didn't hear any of that. Yeah, I can't hear anything. Kevin, can I get an update on what AI thinks we've been discussing? Yes.

An episode of Hollywood Handbook podcast with Danny McBride would feature surreal collision between host's signature passive aggressive, tinseltown phoniness, and McBride's mastery of unhitched confidence, anti-heroes. That sounds like what... But that's not... That's not what we're doing here, though. That's just what chat would think we were doing, right?

Yeah. Do you understand what I was saying with the... I did. I was locked out of the Zoom AI companionship. They underlined the word companionship for the reason. So it just kind of gave me this synopsis of what the episode would be. Oh, okay. It doesn't want to be friends with you.

Well, I thank you for answering, even though you didn't do what I asked. It seems like I don't want to get involved with this work stuff, but it seems like the problem is that you should probably move back here. It doesn't seem like you're able to do what you're supposed to do. Yeah, it doesn't seem like you're getting the answers you need out there. You got an extra bunk bed over there, friend? Yeah. I feel like you're just in shadows. You're like a shadow man.

Oh, maybe I moved back. Are you guys sad? Maybe the internet cut out. I asked something about having an extra bunk bed. Hayes, you never like it when people leave. I've known that about you. You get upset. Does this bother you that he moved away?

They just keep walking out on me, don't it? That's what happens. One by one. Uh, I did develop a pretty special connection to Kevin's wife. Oh, is that why? had to leave. And all of a sudden, they're moving.

You know, it's off to Pittsburgh. I'm taking my wife and going home, right? These fragile masculinities. What was the, what were you, why were you guys so close? What were you guys, what did you all have in common? So she makes costumes. Okay. Correct.

She does wardrobe for movies. and she's in the biz she's in the biz and it just turns out she would be like can I just like test some stuff on you can you like

a fit model essentially which is a very common part of the fashion industry a very good friend who is the butt in a lot of jeans and she told me that I am what they call in the business

her business a mystique which is that I I transform into whatever character. They put the, when they put the clothes on me, I become that person. Wow.

Like mystique, I guess that's from the X-Men. Yeah, of course. So I don't, you know. I can see that, though. I can see how clothes can completely transform you. So we develop,

I mean, just like I was experiencing all these different sides of myself, the queen. Mm-hmm. You put a queen costume on? I was the queen, yes. Mm-hmm. A lot of different ones.

Homelander from the boys. He was the queen. He was homelander. And this was her pitching working on these shows. She didn't work on them. I guess this is how you do stuff on spec. Obviously. You'd be like, here's my take on the queen.

Yeah. Yeah. Can I just show you Hayes as Jack Ryan real quick? And then you let me know if you want me to do this for the show. So. And he would be Jack Ryan. Anyway, one morning I go to their house and try to walk right in like I always did. But no, it was it was locked.

Oh, God. And then that's when you decided you had to leave, huh? You had to get your wife out of here. Well, he was already gone. I think he decided before that. Yeah, he was already. I should have said that. I should have made that more clear.

He had already left. No, that's not on you, Danny. Okay. The way Hayes told it was confusing. It was confusing. The timeline was. Because I've heard the story before. I knew, actually, that that, yeah, he had decided before that to leave.

Well, that's one of those Tinsletown tragedy tales, you know. There's just littered with them out here. Unfortunately, there's a lot of them. You know, I'll tell you the thing about life. No one gets out alive. And nowhere is that more true than in Tinsletown. Kevin says that they call Pittsburgh Pitzel Town. Pitzel Town.

That makes sense, yeah. Oh, he turned his lights off. Oh, the light went on. Good morning, everyone. The whole different guy now. Yeah. Whoa, I could see everything. I could see everything.

Anything for Kevin, any diagnosis, anything you're picking up. Can he be fixed? I think he can. Honestly, I think I was basing a lot of my judgments on, I was filling in his facial features because he was in the dark. And now that I can see his eyes. I can see his cheeks. I can see his strong mustache. Yeah.

I think that there is a unfragile man in there. So he, we haven't seen, he has been in the dark for the last, like, couple months, basically since he moved to Pittsburgh. And he had been telling us this. I hadn't seen the results. He has been on what's called Ho-Zempec for the last couple months. To make you a hoe. And he has been planning on becoming a skinny ho.

A absolutely disgraceful ho out there. His ho ass is shaking for anybody. That's great. I like that you got to take a shot for that. Yeah, it's really a massive transformation that we're witnessing now. You look healthy, though. The big reveal. Yeah.

I feel healthy. Yeah. And what per now? Yeah. What percent ho are you right now? I'm 98. 98 percent. When will you know?

You reach the whole level you're looking for. Because you don't want to go too far. Don't want to go over, yeah. My doctor just said you'll know. Okay. Okay. You just wake up in a ditch somewhere. Yeah, clothes are all tore up.

Big sign. I'm finally where I want it to be. Like the night bitch. I want you to be able to chase that, you know. I don't want to stand in your way. I think people should make their own choices. Yeah. Danny, I mean, I hate you.

to turn the microscope on myself here, but you've been so helpful to all of our other employees, and I do consider them employees, and I am the boss. I'm stuck in something of a sick psychosexual game with my wife. Okay. Dastardly cuckold fetish. She will seduce younger men in front of me at the many parties. we throw. I make navigation systems for missiles and drones. And so, you know, I've done quite well financially, but in the small town that we live in, there's a, you know, it's sort of this

Gatsby-esque element to our home where people will gather there and she'll, you know, find a young piano instructor and make eyes with him and the two of them will abscond to the greenhouse. house and you know i'll go stew on it in my snail shack let the snails crawl up and down my arms and ultimately murder the men and put them in the river great that's great i think i think that's a pretty healthy reaction to it is it is it you're you're in the snail house you you understand when to go in there and it's a shack yeah yeah i think it's fine and it seems like she's going you're you're luring in artistic people right piano players and that when you're primarily and she's doing most is the luring, right? Although the line,

the luring is blurring at this point. But if you're going to try to kill any of your wife's lovers, it seems like an artist is going to be the easiest one to kill. You don't want her going after, like, strong guys, military men, soldiers, you know, the guy

who plays the piano, that's easy pickings. Well, you have to carry it to and from the lesson. Yeah. Yeah, just the nature of the way our house is set up. You does have to carry the piano, side. Not the, yeah, well, then you get a free piano once he's gone.

Yeah, yeah. Well, that's been one of the benefits, and it's, you know, there's been a few different instruments that have come my way just as a result of, um. Of the cuckolding. You know, she was, yeah. You referred to it as dastardly cuckolding? It's a sick, psychosexual game. Yeah, it's a six psychosexual game.

And, um, it's a dastardly cycle, to be sure. So I just don't know, you know, is there something I should, be doing about that. Hey, this is what these kind of rap sessions are for, right? You get together. Men's group. Yeah. This is new. Men have never been able to talk like this with each other. We stepped out of the damn group chat.

The group chat came to life. Yes. You know, I think you're doing great. I think that I think you're handling it all wonderful. Do you come when this is done or no? I Not when it's, not immediately when it's done. When the body's out of the house?

After it's done. After it's done. What stage, when after? So I'm looking forward to ultimately coming, which I think is going to feel really good from what I'm told. And that will happen after it's, you know, done in whatever way this ends. Gotcha. You're just edging.

Perhaps it's my own death in the river. You're edging right now, just holding out, huh? Mm-hmm. Well, I bet it's going to be great when it finally happens. A lot of built-ups come. Probably going to be incredible. I'm really, I'm really, I'm really, you'll probably be some boba tea in there.

I'm really looking forward to making my own tapioca pearls and, you know, doing a very explosive ejaculation when this finally sort of comes to pass. and I think it'll be worth the weight. That feeling when the big straw is kind of like blocked up a little bit by the pearls. When you're just sucking a milkshake through and there's a piece of like, you know, the candy bar or whatever you get mushed into the milkshake. And then like once the blockage clears and it's like too much. Yeah, you're like too much.

I could go down with Kevin. I should be in the pit with Kevin because it sounds like it's going to be, you know, maybe an emergency. I think it's going to be wonderful. Oh, that's, that's, that's really sweet. Hayes was right. You're a class act. I know a lot of stuff about, about, uh, come. So any more questions you let me know.

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