Hollywood Handbook - Girl God, Our Close Friends

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

The Boys help GRACE FREUD and APRIL CLARK from Girl God hone their skills in the regional sketch comedy scene.See Hollywood Handbook live and streaming May 30th at Dynasty Typewriter! Click for ticketsWatch the video recording of this episode with Grace and April at Patreon.com/TheFlagrantOnes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. but that's no i also immediately thought i had so many ideas you get a bloody nose in april i get a bloody nose oh that's really lucky oh wow that's a good partner that i mean that's the reason i when i realized that is how to determine why i'm having a bloody nose i was like oh obviously we're supposed to be a duo did you say at night did you say you get bloody nose at night? At night, but during the day, too. Also kind of constantly. Okay. Yeah. April has so many good ideas. So many ideas, yeah. Yeah.

So much of the time. And it was crazy. Before we met, Grace would just get them with no, she didn't know. With no correlation. And then we met, and we were like, oh, it makes sense now. You're getting them when I have an idea. You're not sick or anything. That's what we call found family.

In the community. Community's everything. KZ, are you recording? Yeah, I'm rolling. We're going to want all of this. Oh, great. Will you play the theme song? Yeah, we won't hear it, I guess. It's playing.

It's playing right now? Yeah. It's crazy that AI did this years ago. Yeah, I know. It was an early trial of what has become now our overlord, right? This whole tech revolution. And I embrace

them. I mean, we said that it was an artist named Annalise, but if you look closely, an A and an I are in the actual letters of the A. And the L, the lowercase L, was actually a capital I.

Just because AI creates a lot of chaff doesn't mean we shouldn't lick the diamonds. That's exactly right. We always separate the diamonds from the chaff. Yeah. And specifically so that we can taste them. Yes. That's been a longtime philosophy of the show.

People heard the AI song and they were like, this isn't very good. I don't think AI is necessarily going to be that good. So it kind of delayed it. I like the song. I love the song. It's crazy. Do you guys know people are trying to get us to respect the intelligence of AIs and stuff? There's like an AI rights movement going.

I just don't. Because if we have to respect the intelligence of AI, what's next? Women? Wow. Okay. You know? Wow. It's a slippery slope.

Move my chair a little further away. I just don't know where it's going. Some of these hot takes. Okay. This is why we got y'all. Not to start off with a heater, but just something bouncing around in my head today. I wanted to talk about the Fletch movie. I think science fiction is cool.

That's just what I think. Did you see the new Fletch? I guess not that new. The new what? The Fletch movie? The Fletch movie. I saw the newest, the latest one. The latest Fletch.

The latest installment in Fletch. Called what? Yeah. It's called Hello Fletch. I did punch up on Hello Fletch. You did? Get over here, Fletch. The latest installment in Fletch. What? Yeah, I did punch up on Hello Fletch. You did? Get over here, Fletch. Yeah, it was my idea for him to take his notebook out of his back pocket instead of his shirt pocket. Uh-huh.

Okay. And so, because if you've seen the movie Hello Fletch, you know that uh now he's like oh i got i shit out another idea and then he grabs his notebook and then he writes it down right there yeah then it's like as if it's coming out of his ass okay right yeah yeah that was there was stuff i liked in the movie that i don't know that wasn't my favorite thing oh okay i don't think of it as the other people in the movie didn't like it that much either, which I thought. That was interesting. And I don't know if you brought that to it.

The characters in the movie were not responding to that. People keep asking him to stop doing that, which I thought was kind of cool that I felt more aligned with. Because you go in, you're with Fletch. You're on Fletch's team. But it actually brought me into the world of the other characters to be like, I also wish Fletch wouldn't do this anymore. I had the thought of like, what are those people doing?

I'm kind of hoping we could follow them wherever they're going in the next scene. We did end up mostly staying with Fletch. But when he would do that stuff, he also didn't have, he's a reporter. So he didn't have that many like ideas. Yeah, I never think of that being good. Regarding following people into other scenes have you heard of it's called imagination it can do incredible things yeah you can actually follow people in movies the characters into other scenes and it's not even shown on the screen it's just

it's like in your mind or something you can i don't fully understand the concept. Are you thinking of Dr. Parnassus and his Imaginarium? It sounded like you said something else. No, I actually am not an expert on this. You guys should probably take this up in a different episode. You are an expert on this stuff. You are an expert on this. I'm sorry. It was just something I was thinking about.

You stopped down the whole thing. Okay, sorry. I don't want to toot my own horn or whatever. I know a little bit about imagination. We were like all enjoying this Fletch conversation. Oh, I'm sorry. And then you like grabbed the wheel and jerked it over to the side of the road to be like, let's talk about the Imaginarium. See, you said that again.

You're doing it weird. You did the same thing as before. Oh, that's my bad. That's totally my bad. What characters have you gone and followed for the rest of the movie mostly mostly women and especially the more attractive ones are you're following really fun to follow them into the bathroom and such and just you know not in a weird way just to see what they're up to the bathroom and they sometimes do that yeah absolutely and you know like what's going on you know how you know movies

a lot of times won't like show all of the sex stuff or whatever you can just kind of keep going even after it is freaky yeah characters will fall into bed yeah yeah and then they'll just like don't see and then they're waking up the next morning it's like what happened and so when the camera like pulls that you can as it's drifting up and away, you pull it back with your mind. Totally. Or when the character pulls the blinds down in front of you, you actually reach out and pull the blinds back up.

That's exactly right. You know what? See, I have to project myself. That is just another way that science fiction is incredible, letting us think about what ourselves do when we're not doing it. Well, I shoot myself into the... Wait a second. Go ahead.

Say that again. That was really interesting. I'm sorry. I was on my thing, but I wasn't willing to kind of... The ethos of this podcast is I like my idea, but I love your idea. Say exactly what you just said again, Chris your idea exactly what you said i think what i said was that science fiction allows us to think about what we're doing when we're not doing it

okay i think it was very different yeah that's not the idea that got my attention we lost it i think we might have lost but what i was saying is uh it sounds like you're projecting yourself into the room with the people and you're catching the blinds. I project myself into the body of the camera person. So I'm just working the camera and I'm kind of going like, are we not going to shoot the rest of this stuff? That's really good. This is a cut? Are you sure?

This is just getting good. But I am in the room. That's a question that's posed to us by science fiction because it's like in the future you could be the camera that's true well i would hope so you know that you know the advice the like kind of classic acting advice it's like if you're gonna get cut off in a scene you know you should have the next word ready to go like don't read like the getting cut off yeah part yeah um it's kind of the same thing with like sex scenes in movies. You should at least start fucking for real.

So if you're getting cut off in a scene? Yeah, yeah. If you're getting cut off in a scene you want to have the next word ready to go. Yeah, exactly. That's totally right. That's good. That's very good. That's good.

Don't just... You looks like you you're not expecting to get cut off the characters right i don't know that's exactly they don't know exactly exactly they're gonna talk that's just a little inside tip this is something you just just in case this isn't what you mean it looks like you're trying to write down this piece of advice with a soda cam is that like is that going okay is there anything else you want to like have you heard like have you heard of improv well i'm just sort of i'm also wondering if he's using his imaginarium and if it is if it is like actually and you did just drink thick pen okay you just drank from your pen big big thick drinkable pen okay okay you know what i mean and this is like

okay we've got ai but we don't have a big thick drinkable pen yet that's interesting where's our priorities literally where are our priorities and my dad's been dead for 20 years yeah it's so right and we don't have it we've been able to have your dad be dead for 20 years we can put a man under the ground. Somehow, we can't put a big thick pen like this and some juice in it or something. You know, Grace, using AI, I think that in the near future, they might actually be able to recreate your dad hitting my mom. Yes. Maybe like a hand controlled by AI.

It's going to be very violent. We'll be able to slap my mom. We can bring your dad back to beat you. Yeah. As an artificial intelligence. I need to be able to recreate it, to learn from it, to grow from it, to go through it. Can I ask, if this is going really well, can I ask a question? Sure.

From the two of you? Yeah. Who the fuck are you? What are you doing here? What's happening right now? And part of it's our job to establish, like, it's April of the Grace. It's the sketch team. Totally.

Oh, God. But it's also, like, this is Hollywood Handbook. Will you call ourselves a sketch team? I mean, it's also like this is a handbook. Like I don't know. I wouldn't say so. What do you do? I wouldn't. What's your thing? Comedy.

That word. Sure. Team. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Sure. I guess what I guess my hope was that you would do more sketch.

Own it. Yeah. Like we need you to also to be like, we need to sketch people in here. We need to take the. For diversity like, we need sketch people in here. We need to take the flag. For diversity reasons, you need sketch teams in here. You actually have a diversity quota. You need some sketch people. Who's the last sketch people we had?

The bear of the flag. Who do we have? We haven't had a single whitest kid you know ever. No, we never did. Not any of them? Not even Timmy. Not even Timmy? We didn't even have Timmy. Wow.

Sam said no. Zero. Kids in the hall. I guess you just don't have any gay friends. Whether or not I do, I think it's separate from this. Sure. I just don't think it's related. Also, definitely not having gay friends

can be a career advantage, I would say. I think that having gay friends is kind of a... Staying in your lane is a respect thing, too. I would say stay in your lane. Don't talk to gay people. Were you asking who we are? Yeah, so the answer to that question, I would say, just my opinion, is that i'm april

clark and this is my best friend grace freud i'm yeah i'm grace right and uh where what are we well we are we are a comedy duo some people have called us that you know it's not i i don't believe in labels per se it's kind of a complicated thing people have called us trans yeah and i don't believe in labels per se. It's kind of a complicated thing. Some people have called us trans. Yeah, and I don't know what that means. Some people have called us bracketized. And see, that one I just don't even know if it's a word. But people have called us a lot of things. Some I'm not even allowed to say here.

And I won't. I won't say them. But the last one brought me a slur. If you call someone a slur, you should at least make sure it's a slur they can say. Yes, I would agree with that. I think to call someone a slur, you should at least make sure it's a slur they can say. Yes, I would. Yeah, I would. I would agree with that. Yeah.

I think to call someone a slur, you have to also be that slur. Every straight guy who has used the F slur, I think, is definitionally gay. Because if you're gay, you can say it. So if you can say it, you're gay. So if you say it, you're gay. So if you can physically say it. If you can physically say the F slur, you are gay. You are gay.

Yeah. So if you're curious if you're gay try saying the f-sler yeah and if you can physically say it you should probably start you're a gay man yeah so but definitionally like like words we could say is we are girl god okay yeah we are we are girl god that's the name that we perform under together okay and uh boys you're the boys yeah oh that's okay yeah so that's awesome that is awesome that's great i'm a little worried talking about slurs and stuff i'm just like kind of worried because the ai is like compiling all this stuff now that's what i worry about it's all going in the ai is imaginarium basically and so like now

this is stuff they're learning and they're gonna start like seeing these things right and like doing like being biased and stuff like that right hollywood handbook will outlive us by a lot it's gonna probably we'll probably retire in a couple weeks and the show will keep getting made and maybe get good again but. But the problem will be that if guests introduce even with respect a concept that's toxic that the AI

will seize on that. You guys should have an AI on the show. That would be good. Again, we can't even have any of the whitest kids you know. How are we going to get as white as kids? We couldn't even have any of the whitest kids you know. How are we going to get as cool intelligence? We couldn't get any kids in the hall. We're just, I don't know.

We're worried about that huge book. Even seeing the word slur, transphobia. The AI is like, oh, what is that? The AI is asking questions. The birth first years wouldn't come on. The AI is supposed to. The AI's job is to hit Grace. That's all we've established. Like the AI is supposed to be doing, not like be racist or like anything else.

Like that's all that's supposed to happen. I mean, I just, yeah, I think I need a few hits because I have not gotten my homework done. In my opinion, it wouldn't be racist to hit Grace. Yeah. I don't think it's racist to hit me. No. That's what sometimes I say when you're like, I see you put out these sketches and stuff, and I'm like, shouldn't she be doing her homework?

Right? Yeah. Which, like, it's great to have fun. I like to laugh with my friends after homework's done. Yeah, I agree. Like, when the homework's finished. Like, sure, let's all have a blast. And yeah, I guess from my perspective, it's like, fuck homework.

This sucks. I piss on it. I jump it down the toilet. And then I'll flush it down. And go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself if you think I should have to do all my homework. So you brought your homework all the way home, at least. You didn't lose it.

You have it. To get it into the toilet, there's some part of you that intending to do it. You filed it in the correct folder, knew it was homework, so you could piss on it. If you actually feel that way about homework, why did you even pick it up off the desk? Just leave it at school or whatever. Because it's fun to hate something. So, Grace, if you were my kid, I would hate that. I feel like the AI is going to have a field day with that.

It's an activity. It's just like... I do do homework, but I do my own homework, and I take my own class, and I'm teaching myself how to destroy something. Grace, what number comes after four? What are you doing later? Okay.

What are you doing later? This is a classic homework doing result. That's not homework. This is like you want to fucking light some shit on me? You're already other already. You came here together. You already know each other. What do you want to light some shit on?

I got some fucking axe, man. I got some fucking axe. That shit goes crazy. Axe? Oh, axe? Oh, axe. Okay, it sounded like you were saying axe. But you can light on fire.

It just goes crazy. It just goes crazy. You ever hear. But you can light on fire. Axe smells really good. It just goes crazy. You ever hear or you ever smell? Oh, sorry. I didn't really do the census homework either. What? Did you ever smell a Bahama sunset on fire? It's crazy.

That's April. That's your friend April. Yeah. Yeah, April already. You already know each other I know but I'm just I'm just asking her what she's doing later to see if she can hang out and do shit with me

Kevin well I just like as this I have plans later so poorly let's talk to Kevin for a second because Kevin did say he had seven or eight minutes planned of material about how we're having April for the first show in May. Does anyone else find it interesting? I'm going to kill myself tonight. I know.

I didn't want it. I said, can you cut it down a little bit? That's good. And he said, I can't lose any of this. It's all gold. All right, let's hear it. That's good. Does anyone else find it interesting

that for our first episode in May, we have April with us? April is also the name of a month, but it is actually not the month that we have April on with us. She's on the episode that comes out in May. He had another thing that it was like, and this one I really don't get, but it was that we're saying grace, but he already had his dinner.

And it's so early for him to have had his dinner already. None of us will have had dinner. It's specific to you. What time does he eat dinner? Yeah. What time do you eat dinner? Around 3.30. It's time for dinner.

yeah what time do you eat dinner around 3 30 it's time for okay so how's it like what's like career stuff how are we doing yeah how's everything going anything lined up we just got back from touring um we did and we and now we're um you know i've got kind of the road it feels like it's still in me i'm i feel like yes i'm still driving yeah i feel like i've been on the road my entire life happening yes yeah you know get that engine under you you can kind of still feel it huh yeah we actually yeah and they do grace actually loves the road so much that one day on tour, we were on the highway. That's true. I agree with that. We were on the highway on tour one day.

You see red, yellow, and green. What color are you waiting for, you turkey? That's true. That's true. That's true. Come on. But I feel like it's important to know that Grace actually loves the road so much that we were on the highway on tour. And Grace actually tried to open the door and get out of the car while we were driving to get her phone to get her phone

off the floor she tried to get out of the car while we were driving on the highway when you are in and of the road the road won't hurt you she was like we're not even going that fast maybe 15 20 miles an hour yeah we weren't going that fast yeah maybe 15 20 miles an hour. We weren't going that fast. Yeah, maybe 15 20 miles an hour. That's all. I just readjusted myself. I wasn't getting out of the car. Yeah, she unbuckled. I did unbuckle. Sometimes to do a big readjust, you have to swing the door all the way open. Well,

see, I don't know about that. I can't fully readjust unless I'm on the roof of the car. Yes, yes. Every window, every door, the trunk and the sunroof sometimes have to be open. I need to just swing my legs out so that

I could dip down and grab the phone up. But I was not allowed to do that. No, it's not normally allowed to do that when you're driving. Everyone screamed at me and I had to slam it back closed. April, did you do any introspection at that point about something you might have done

that would have made Grace feel that it was preferable to jump out of the car than continue whatever the conversation was that you were having? I would say that it's not my fault if someone else looks at my actions and decides they want to die uh that's not really on me i did do some serious introspection so the answer is yes you did actually look inward actually we're all good as long as you 100 would make every decision the same i did the introspection and i'm happy with where my decisions have led me in this moment in my life. Okay.

So. All right. And it's not my fault if, you know, there were casualties along the way. Yeah. That's their story. And I don't want to make it about me. You know. People are so not into it.

Yeah. I don't want to center myself. Hey, what's happening over here? They open the door. Totally. There's just a road out there. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to center myself? They open the door. Totally. There's just a road out there. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to center myself in other people's stories.

Sure. And I mean, in April's offense, that's something I do a lot. Just jump out of that car. I open the car door a lot. Yeah. I think I've done it like five times in my life. And I don't think that it's as dangerous as we blocked like it is having the door open yeah grow up everybody yeah like be an adult just like you know all these rules right

like oh like don't you know open the car door don't like that's interesting don't do yeah definitely interesting stay you know in the car or whatever. It's just like, okay, sure, no. That's so boring. No, I'm actually tough. So you had to come back from tour? You had to give up, basically? Yeah.

You had to come back? Yeah, we only did the American leg of the tour, and we were planning on doing doing all seven continents wow yeah but apparently the airlines uh didn't like some of the decisions we made and that's their problem they weren't allowing us to fly internationally because they were worried that i i was going to i thought you were in the car were you just in a car or something we were but they had heard about what like what am i i don't understand they heard about the car door. I don't understand. They heard about the car door thing and they were worried it was going to become an airplane door.

The car called the plane or something? Yeah, I guess that is the one thing. We're like opening the door. Yeah, it turns out a guy in our car was actually an undercover marshal. Yes. Air marshal? Yes, the car marshal.

You were saying too, like everyone got mad at me. Why are there all these people in the car? There were a lot of people in the car. God, an air marshal in a car, it's so undercover. Such deep cover. There was a car marshal on the road. Anytime you're in a car, any member of that car could be an undercover cop. You never know who the car marshal is.

There's some serving to the air marshals. They're checking to see like, well, if this person can't handle being in a car, they certainly can't handle being on a plane yes yeah that's that's true and they want to get promoted up to air marshal so they're kind of like overplaying the threat that yeah i think we just dealt with a live one personally i think they way great experience for me though they way overplayed it they way overplayed it but They way overplayed it. But we, yeah, I mean, we had. Well, I got my feet extremely wet today with a major close call. Yeah, I kept my cool. I handled it fine.

We would have probably gone down the same if I was, you know, 3,000 feet up in the sky in a plane. But, you know, it doesn't matter to me. It's all the same. It's all vehicles. So it's not exactly the same. And I can get paid more, obviously, being a plane, but it doesn't matter to me. It's all the same. It's all vehicles, so it's not exactly the same. I can get paid more, obviously, being a plane car,

but it's not a very good job. But yeah, we pulled it off. There's no food. They have never once given me any food in the car. Nope. We buy your own snacks. You're not going to bring all my own snacks. Found a Bobo's oat bar in the's oat bar and of course it was open and

it was not a flavor i would have chosen so well we had yeah you know we had a big van we had i don't know 13 people in there and we don't know most of them we didn't know how most of them got in there damn you know i feel like our reps kind of just, our reps just kind of picked people that they thought would inspire us to, you know, write the best stories and put us in a good direction in life. Yeah. So they were like, you know,

our opener, we'll send it, and then... We had some celebrities there we had some celebrities was green day in the van green green day actually yeah and um let's just say i learned a lot about tax law because they know it backwards and forwards they have never gotten fucked over once and And that was very paternal of them. Invaluable at this stage in your career. That was very paternal of them. Yeah.

It was weird because... It's called Green Day because it's like all the money they get from not getting fucked over. Green Day's taxed by them. Yeah. Yeah, huge refund. Yeah. Whoa.

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Yeah, what are we going to be seeing here today on the show? Oh, what sketch are we going to do on the podcast? Yeah. We've actually got one that we are pretty excited about. What you're excited about matters, I want to say, but also it is also... What sketch would you guys like? We still have to have the show when we're done here.

What sketch would you guys like us to do? We are really feeling like the next big thing is very, very regional content. Hyper-local. That's great. That's really good so like yeah yeah yeah casey was telling me before this is casey hey casey hey how's it going hey casey where's the sunshine man i'm fucking with you i'm fucking with you but that's but this is the kind of thing no i just no i don't know but it's but this is the kind of thing where it's like

casey loves it right so i'm playing directly to my audience that's really good one two one fort lauderdale or maybe is it fort lauderdale proper or like outside of fort lauderdale yeah outside of fort lauderdale so he's all right i knew as he was saying it, I was like, he's not from Fort Water. Can you say, like, what's, like, the spot where you would go, like, with, like, your friends? Like, what was, like, the spot? With the homies, yeah. Well, I left after I graduated high school, so it was usually the mall. So no friends at all?

Yeah. The mall. The mall. Like, where would you go with your friends? It's like, well, I left after high school. After high school. So I didn't have a chance to make a friend. Well, yeah, I had friends in high school. Okay.

Where did you go? Great. To the mall or the movie theater? Okay. What parts of the mall did you go to? Yeah. Is there a specific store? Yeah.

The whole mall? Or maybe Victoria's Secret? I'm not allowed in there anymore. Went to Hot Topic, though. Oh, okay. Are you scared of femininity? No. Are you scared of what you might learn about yourself in there?

I guess I never really thought about that. Kids all think they're tough. They go to Hot Topic. Well, what's actually tough is going into Victoria's Secret. Yeah, you go to Victoria's Secret and you try and you get you get kicked out you get banned that's right

yeah that's actually Hot Topic Hot Topic is Hot Topic is all about these fucking brands Hot Topic is all about Twilight and Adventure Time

that's right and all that bullshit that's right Victoria's Secret what is Victoria's Secret about? it's about the human body and the decisions we make about

how we present well and it's about you know celestial like eternal yeah I would say so beams

it's angels it's the afterlife it's a connecting point it's a world religion yeah yeah yes bazongas it's like Victoria's Secret is like of course it's It's a connecting point. It's a world religion. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

Bazongas. It's like Victoria's Secret is like. Of course. Of course. It's Judeo-Christianity, but a different term for that. Yes. Yes. A different term for that. A different term for that.

Not that one for sure. Right. Yeah. So is there, was there anywhere that's just like, where there's like, it's not a chain. Like a place you could do a sketch about. Yeah. Yeah. What's like a place. Something regional place you could do a sketch about. Yeah. What's like a place?

Something regional, specific. Like where's the food? He said the movie, like what movie did you see? And like what would be like a good joke to do about it? Do you remember one of the movies? Oh, wait. Is there, was there like a house, like a friend's house you went to? And the address of it. I like this area.

Whose house we going to? Yeah. We did used to hang out in Dave's garage. Dave's garage. Oh my god. You guys ever been to Dave's garage? Trouble. I think that's kind of We all know what goes down in

Dave's garage. Put on the Bullworth soundtrack where Dave's garage. Somebody get the Bullworth soundtrack CD. I. But is everyone from the town going there to Dave's Garage? Somebody get the Bullworth soundtrack CD. I don't think everyone in the town has to have gone there. They just need to have heard of it. Okay. Have they all heard of Dave's Garage?

Yeah. Did the stories proliferate? Everyone in the town? No. Everyone in the town has not heard of Dave's Garage. Isn't there like a crowd check or something? But if we do it, it's got to be enough people that everyone else will feel stupid if they don't kind of start yeah rolling with it yeah

we would go to i mean there was a lot of changes like chile's carrabba but they have those in a lot of places i mean this is coral springs florida there's no place there's no wait what were there springs no not even a spring no you're done get out of here so i'm guessing the people of coral springs florida must just not enjoy comedy you just can't do regional comedy you can't sketch them you can't do sketch about maybe that's why they live there yeah that's why they live there. That's true. There's all these memes of Florida man, and it's always they've done some insane, interesting thing, often sketch-worthy, and it's like,

I finally meet Florida man. All he tells me is Dave's Garage, Hot Topic. He doesn't even remember what movie he saw. Jesus. All right, Kevin. It's Kevin Turnton now. It's Kevin Turnton now. It's Kevin Turnton. Where are you from?

Naperville, Illinois. So you already know the questions we're going to ask. Yeah. So what was like the spot? Don't say Dave's Garage.

The spot was called Jimmy's. Yes. Yeah. Hey, Casey. Jimmy. This is the kind of thing. Tell me about all that. I know we've only done a few episodes. Tell me about Jimmy's. Yes. Yeah. Hey, Casey. There we are. Jimmy. This is the kind of thing. Tell me about you, that.

I know we've only done a few episodes. Tell me about Jimmy's. It was a bar and grill restaurant recently closed. Oh. I feel like I'm in there. I think I've been to Jimmy's before, actually. Oh, we missed Jimmy's. Oh, my God.

We miss it. Was Jimmy a real guy? Yes. And now it's called Bev's because a different bar bought it wait were you and also they serve bevs and they serve bevs right yes that's interesting empire a different a third location bought never go to a third location never go to a third location empire bought jimmy's closed it said we're adding a second floor to Jimmy's. We're calling it Bev's.

The city said no second floor. Everyone's pissed in the city right now. The whole city's pissed. Oh, my gosh. And we're cool. So we're going to be on the side of the people from the city. And we're going to say, hey. We want a second floor.

We want to jump out of there. We want to jump off the second say, We want a second floor. We want to jump out of there. We want to jump off the second floor. Get us that second floor. I want to get up myself. Start to jump through the window. This is great. I mean, yeah. And I want to be allowed to see my kids again.

And I want my dog back. Come on. Come on. We want to see our kids play at the yard. I want to be allowed to take them to there. One more. To take them there. I'd let the second floor.

No, not just the second floor. We want a hundred floors. We want a thousand floors. And I'm going to take my kids on all of them. We want every single resident of Naperville, Illinois to have their own floor. This whole town's gotten squashed ever since Jimmy's closed. Now we call it Bev's just because they sell Bev's? What's next?

Close down Victoria's Secret and call it panties? Yeah. And let me guess, it's half a floor tall? I got to get on a skateboard and roll in on my tummy? It's called panties with an apostrophe S. Come on! Give me a break. Enough of this. Naperville.

Diaperville stinks. Somebody change it. Those jokes might not make sense to you unless you're from Naperville. If you're from Naperville, you'll really have liked that sentence. That makes a lot of sense

to you. What was Jimmy like? Never met him. But all you know is that he's a real guy. You know he's a real guy. You ever seen a picture of him? No. What was the thing you get at Jimmy's?

Well, we know he's humble. Had his own restaurant. Named after him. Didn't put a picture up. Was there a statue of him? Well, no. Listen, I'm starting to have some questions about the authenticity of this Jimmy guy. I mean, I have some questions about it.

I have some questions in general, too. Maybe he existed, but he did something shameful. He's got his phone out. And they had to take his image away. Oh, okay. Yeah, people going like, hey, where's... Do you think it could have possibly been named

after a Jimmy from across the pond? And what pond is that? The Atlantic Ocean. Possibly could have been named after a little man named Jimmy Savile. You think it was named after Jimmy Savile? Wow. I don't know.

Is that the issue, Kevin? That is the issue, Grace. You nailed it. Oh, no. That's really bad. Thanks for bringing that up. So that's why there wasn't a picture up. Hey, there should be a picture of Jimmy up in here.

Oh, we're washing it. Oh, sorry. We had to go wash the picture. It's down. It's at the mechanic. Yeah. The eyes are supposed to light up. There's a big neon thumbs down that blinks, and that's out too.

Yeah. Okay, good. Okay, so they don't like Jimmy Savile There's a big neon thumbs down Well Well it's Jimmy's thumb They tried that Before they removed the picture

Okay Profiting off of your own And the stuff about Jimmy Savile came out They were like okay We can navigate this. First, they just put up a little piece of tape

that said, please ignore. And then they were still getting complaints. That wasn't working at all. Yeah. Then they decided to put their money

where their mouth was and pay for that big neon thumbs down. They said, it looks like we skimped. Yeah. And we do have to actually invest and say, look, some of our money is bad money,

but let's put it towards a good cause, putting a thumbs down over this man's image. Wow. And then that also didn't work. Then they just had to close it, name it after Beverly D'Angelo. Surely nothing will ever come out no all right well we can do one one sketch yep one sketch about you what was the food that what was like the food

that was the big order yeah and what would be like a funny sketch to do about yeah what's a funny sketch idea for that that would be huge. Use the food. Something only Naperville would understand. Yeah, like maybe my ex is from Naperville actually. Okay, so Kevin, I don't really know why you had to go and do that.

Tread lightly. This is a little hard pull. Yeah, I don't really know why you had to go and do that right now. The classic meal at Jimmy's is a Jimmy burger. Ew. Gross. With Jimmy sauce? Oh, no.

A friggin' burger with a damn Jimmy hat on it where the lettuce and tomatoes usually goes. It's a quarter pounder. It's a hamburger with cheese and fries. You can get a Sprite 2 fountain drink. And maybe Sprite. Kevin's from one of those towns where they call every soda Sprite. You just get a root beer Sprite. Let me just get a root beer Sprite. So, this is

this is what only Nathan will understand. Okay. This is your camera. This is mine. Hey, can I get a Jimmy Burger with fries and a Sprite, please?

Yeah, absolutely. What kind of Sprite do you want? IBC root beer. That's regional sketch. That's what only Naperville would understand. And that's what we need to do. That's what you need to do. Twitter's burnt.

None of this shit is working anymore. Instagram is dead. Facebook is dead. It's all iMessage now. That's the only way your shit is getting around. TikTok is a sign-off. You seed it. You text a couple.

What's your area code, Kevin? Come on, Kevin. Yeah, you got it. Come dude people are three oh wow wow funny and so like you just like seed a couple texts to the six three oh that's the future of comedy if it's actually only shit that they would understand they're like now they're sending it around within that area six three p.o six threeO. 6-3-P-O. Now I've heard of that. Yeah, so it's like, great. That's another great Naperville joke.

That's good. They will lose their fucking minds. Girls here are kind of like 6-3-Os, huh? So that one, I don't get it. I don't want it either. Oh, that's uh it was kind of just like what does it mean joke oh because of like girls the girls who have sex all the girls there have sex you honestly believe that? You honestly believe that every girl in that area code?

Every girl in Naperville. There are children in that area code. Yeah. Kids can have, well, I mean, they shouldn't. Again, we have to keep doing the show. Like, I know for you, like, you just do the show and then you go live your life. But we come back to the show every time. So whatever you do to the show, we keep dealing with it.

It's making me want to go back to Casey's Fort Lauderdale bowl. And honestly, it was better because it was so sanitized and safe. I just felt safe. I knew where I was. I was bored. I didn't want it. But I was not in danger in any way i've actually been thinking you know i i've had enough of jokes uh and i'm trying to if you're

listening to this go ahead and tweet hashtag end the jokes i think it's time to end comedy we need to get that trending at least yeah so that we can that sounds like something like joker 3 that would be spray painted on the wall hashtag end the jokes yeah i think i've i've had enough and if you're with the joker's in charge kind of but like now there's like now that he's in charge he's the bad guy yeah and like mainstream it's not like it's not batman saying it like the new like no it's not well batman is not going to be in it for like a long time yeah oh why probably not until joker yeah oh okay he's like a little kid a little kid yeah yeah and he's a joker's little brother and

you see him like at the end of the movie as a little kid and he's so where just for my context the joker a little bit for my context because he's too little yes oh i like that but i was gonna ask where is this movie set just so i can kind of understand it like regionally specifically good yeah it could be yeah neighbor i i do think gotham is based off of naperville have a sense of it no they hide it a little, but they want you to know you're watching a movie about neighbors. That's why all the girls in the movie are having sex. Joker shows up. That's why there's so many outdoor malls in Joker. Joker lands in Fort Lauderdale.

He draws a single line between two letters to change Carrabba's Italian Grill to Carrabba's Italian Grin. Oh shit. That's good. He switches the signs of Hot Topic and Victoria's Secret. Now it says Hot Secret.

Well, no. What actually happens is the store. No, what? So the most accurate description of what happens is that the store that was Victoria's Secret now has a Hot Topic sign out front. And the store that used to be Hot Topic now has a Victoria's Secret sign. Whoa. It doesn't say hot secret it no no it doesn't it says victoria's secret it's just on a different are you sure though i'm just like i'm just watching this play out i mean i don't know

man because i've seen the script. Like, I've seen the script. I read the script as well. I'm pretty sure it says hot secret. I read the script as well, and it's so good they can't mess this one up. I haven't read the script, but I am using my imagination. And it says hot secret. In your imaginary room.

Yes. You're using both? Yeah. The Joker is set entirely in Dave's garage. What did Dave have in there? Joker. He had a mini ramp that we would skate on with a skateboard. Was the Joker over there?

Working your way up to a full-size ramp? Yeah, maybe one day we'd get out of the garage, but couldn't get a full-size ramp inside there. Sucks. Yeah. Do you guys think I should buy that? Joker's like, I'm fucking out of here. Joker shows up, pops the fucking pool.

Jackseidia throws in his backpack, skates off to find a garage with a real ramp did you finish your drink yeah okay finally

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