Hollywood Handbook - Hannah Pilkes, Our Returning Friend

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

The Boys try their best to help HANNAH PILKES promote her new Netflix show, Leanne.Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm 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. So today we just felt like we would just like listen to the song. Oh, awesome. Yeah. Sometimes we talk, but sometimes we talk, but sometimes you just don't need to like somebody worked pretty hard on the song and yeah more than one person actually i'd love to go non-verb today and just kind of focus on you've been doing a lot of talking and i don't say that like with any judgment at all right yeah and i have judgment i have judgment

it's not a compliment either right but it's a completely neutral statement if i may if you have to lead with i don't say this with any judgment at all inherently there's a whole there's a whole bolt load of it. I literally just said there was no... Who's this boat load character? I felt really... Who's the boatload character? Okay, you know what?

You're a tugboat. You're Captain Steve. But who are you... Are you... You sound like a harbor master. A nightmare poop cruise. Tugboat. Poope cruise.

This guy gets to be Captain Steve. I'd love to go back to the listening, to just the song of listening. A nice hat. this type of pub boat exactly this type of thing you also were

just here I feel like it's so weird to be back fucking tugboat so what have we been doing let me

that's an insult when are we going to start the song because I parked in five minutes the song the song

the song played and yet here we are verbal the song came and went what have we

just like it your last episode, just like your last episode did. Help yourself. Right? Hannah Pilks. Pilkis, but by all means, keep it like that. What have we been up to since last time? I've just kind of been farting around.

You know what is interesting? Yeah. You always have something going on in your throat. You've been using an inhaler nonstop. I got this. You're making all these noise. You're clearing your throat. And your last name, Pilkis, does sound like something stuck.

in your throat. Right? Spilkings. Yeah, right. And when you drink milks. Spilkis, yeah. I'm always drinking milks. When you drink milks?

I'm drinking up those notes. It gets you a little grogular back. Can I say the way you use your inhaler? Sure. Feels very unmedical. I don't know what you're talking about. It's like a vape.

You just do kind of like a, ah, one more. I don't know what you mean. One more hit. I mean, I have it like 30 at the last hour. get one last blast hold me over 420 somewhere you kind of seem like you're like you're quitting and this is

your last one is the last day everyone this is your absolute I gotta knock this stuff off these things will kill me well I'll tell you I'll say son son I was recently in Europe uh huh okay and I smoked a couple siggies can't be doing that when you're asthmatic

I've been wheezy Jones yeah and so you learned that their ambulance sounds different you have no what you have to do oh you have to have titties and when you're calling the ambulance you have to have tities I don't even want to I'm I don't have two minutes

I don't have to do anything although nicknaming me tugboat sort of implies that you do think I have titties what the tugboat thing talk boat barbecue sauce tugboat classic and when you're calling the ambulance that sounds different too it just goes beep

beep and they know it of instead of ringing ringing yeah you know that sounds like like what's app ringing or you've been farting what else have you been doing I've been I've been hanging around I've been I've been charging up my car okay I've been

I've been car charging plugged into like I'm just plugging it in where I go into a fire hydrant oh yeah oh I'm yeah I'm not you know I'm just plugging it into Ralph's smart finals. That's where all, I get all my fresh produce, smart and final. Fire hydrant. I've been

okay. What else I've been doing? I've been married. Okay. That's awesome. I've been. That rocks. What's the, uh, I've been tell me about the spouse. I've been drinking the milk from my Airbnb

beer. Tell me about the spouse. Short King. Good, good chats. If I'm him listening on yeah well well sorry what's that it's just like oh yes putting myself in the mind of him yeah i like to imagine being him and him going oh this is how we lead with total king let's get this out of the way first you could call him if you want he said no ring him up he doesn't want bring him up bring him up bring him up bring him up we're about to go with the house with my girl

so you really it's every culture with you it's everything a very eclectic background because there was a very sort of country thing that happened at first right and then it went a Nordic with the whole boatload and then we went and you Nordic well then we were we had some Yiddish for a moment spilkes yeah and then and then now we've we've gotten into this sort of urban hip-hop flavor right I feel like you have gotten lost a little bit in between since you were here last and now. You had a clear identity, yeah. I have taken you the liberty of drawing you a map. I think that's what you need.

I don't know my wist from Swiss. I think you need the map. Yeah, this is going to actually, this is going to do you a huge service. This kind of diagram. This is a diagram. Show the camera and actually. Don't smear your fingers all over it. Yeah, let it linger for a moment so people can see.

It's a diagram. So people have also been saying. Fresh. That Hannah couldn't tell her ass from her elbow if she had a map. How many? Say three or six. I always defend you and say, if she had a map, she could do it. Yeah.

No one has given her a map. If she had a map, she could. It's clear that she doesn't have a map. And she can't tell them apart. Elbow. Wow. Yeah. She got it right on the first try

As soon as she had the map So Okay Okay Can I ask why the ass is sheep like that? You're going to have to ask You're going to have to ask. You're going to have to ask

The creator Who's the creator? I think everyone kind of gets to decide for themselves This is a really interesting question For me it's Jeffrey Bezos Bees? Jeffrey Beesnes. Who is the creator on Leanne?

Chuck L'O'Roy. That's the creator. Cut that, he wouldn't want me to say that. That's the man upstairs, right? So that was too far. I could see you get really scared. You said good old Chuckie Chuck and you could hear. Oh, he would sooner kill me.

Chuckle. Chuckle. Chuckles. He makes you chuckle. His name is Chuck Lorry. You know, he's a funny guy. definitely yeah he's made some of the most

famous popular comedies in history like you know things really we know a funny guy did all that I'll name you three other funny guys Beethoven the dog yeah Clifford also a large dog yeah Arthur's a dog as well

and yeah and tortoise clearly Clifford you 100% think Arthur is a dog we know Arthur's a dog well we know for sure is you see Arthur and say that is

dog you're locked on dog for that one final answer Clifford Clifford we got already and Chuck didn't care for you huh

I want to say sorry it turns out I'm sweating oh you know what well future it'll do that I'll tell and I could see that emerge during the elbow identification You saw that I clock what was happening? Well, I didn't know pit stains could go down to your hips, but they can. I think they may have accidentally given you unwell, Butrid.

That's what I'm talking about. You've been great flappers. Oh, let me call them. Arrest me because I'm been bad. You seem to think that the audience says, you've been great. And it does make sense that the audience should be the ones that say, you've been great. What am I going to do? I'm sorry, flapper.

The audience is just sitting there. Like, you know. Great flappers. Sometimes they're on. I had a great experience here as the audience. Yeah, they should be talking to the stage, I guess, and saying, you've been great. You've really helped me tonight. Just forget my troubles for even a moment.

I've never had anyone. So, like, the hat, the way you put it on, had the tag come out in a way that I. Oh, which is. that I've never seen and I worry about it being a bad advertisement for the hat. All right, well, how about this? How about this?

So for the people just listening, after she said, how about this? What do you think about this? She turned... Oh, no. She turned the hat fully sideways, stuck her tongue out and acted like she was in a hangman's noose.

And now she's leaning over the back of the couch wrestling with something she's actually completely out of her mind and I don't know what she was doing right before this episode started pre-gated she just hit it again alright I can't get the hat

okay okay cut edit out the pits edit that out change my shirt make a clipper mood no we don't have the ability to edit anything

let's get the toad out let's make it a twadis puttis you know I enjoy a little silliness as much as anyone I'm one of the silliest guys I know I love to cut loose and have a couple goofs but we need to establish some kind of baseline we're representing Leanne today

yeah there's a show that we want people to watch promoting something and I don't think this is happening on that show I think Chuck runs a pretty tight ship We're trying to convey, like, sort of what the show is going to be like. What are you doing? I hope you're... What is that? What is that?

It's a paddle. A paddle. You're playing a... You're bobbing playing a paddle ball game. So that's what you do. When you want something to stop, you bring on a paddle game and start playing paddle. Well, it needs to be addressed. I mean, it certainly worked.

There was no way we could just let it go uncommented upon. That would stop just about any proceeding. Yeah. Instead of saying objection, the lawyer should start. Yeah. Paddle in one hand and a giant lolly in the other. My goodness, with the sideways hat. And that's kind of what you can expect from Leon. Yeah, that's on Leanne.

So this is on Leanne. Yes. This is on Lee. I've seen some of Chuck's shows. He doesn't usually, he's not usually that loose with what's happening. Usually there are characters. They're having, you know, coherent conversations. And they are in a sense, but...

Loaded with wisecracks and quips, but still... Right. Dime a dozen. Which is how many? The dime or the dozen? What is how many what? And that's what I'm saying. I was wondering how many is a dime a dozen.

I mean, it's leading, right? Because the dime's 10 and a dozen... I don't feel comfortable saying this at all. But the way you do that thing is not... Correct. the shimmy the shimmy is not what are you talking about

oh it's because I don't have big trin trons oh okay we don't we don't talk about trin trons I get it you're saying I can't shimmy because I don't got some

yabos busting out the court trin trons paddling down the fifth we're not talking I don't got some major league yabo waboes we are not talking about the equipment

we are talking about the craftsmen we are then maybe you'd say I was shimmying right but I guess this isn't enough for you I guess this isn't enough for you bring them out bring them out this is all they are their a's this cannot be on Leanne

I can't be like this I didn't say it was Leon can't be like this you did you said what you're doing here is what's you did say is what is the main part of Leanne and I quote everything on Leanne you're never going to forget it you didn't you didn't say that that sentence was not mentioned before

You're holding up a number A decent left Hannah Like Chuck is going to be so upset I know I'm so bummed This was an incoming call for you to do the show I called I called it called it called This one was and that never happens

That I call that's the guest calls The guests, it's usually us Just scrounging for a guest somewhere and we had this guest just arrived to us. I was just waiting on Coahuangha. She must have something she wants to do. I've shown you so many cool things. Hollywood Hamburg.

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love like the feeling that it gives you to disrespect you love yeah you love stepping into the church and flipping the bird to the crucifix. I mean, this is what we're dealing with here. This is a big

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before that's a rule for the rest of their thing come on it's now that I'm stinky as well that's what you think a tugboat is that it stinks that I smell bad I love my soup

because I eat too much soup it makes me stinky meanwhile you are drenched in sweat. Everybody, let's play soup or bisque. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out.

What is it that you think is coming? Yeah. Is it like bowls? It's different bowls. And then you can't look. Was that what it was when you're saying? You can't look or touch? Were you talking about bowls?

You can't look or touch. You just got to go soup or bisque. It's just testing your psychic abilities. It's not like identifying. the short king, the aforementioned short king. Yeah, who's actually really hot and if you would see, you would know. Yeah, I'm not disputing that.

It would be nice at least. People say he's a short king, but about people in general, they should say he's the short king. That suggests, like, he's the short king. He's actually a one who's like in charge of all of them. Well, my mother-in-law wrote to me and was like, someone used your phrase.

Someone else said short king. She thought, I was the one that made it. Because you say it so much about her son. She's like, that's really nice. Yeah. And she said, but she said someone else used it. She said someone else's been using her. Who was it?

The internet. Okay. She got on there? She's on the big interwebs. Uh-oh. So she could potentially find this. And this is Leanne? No, sorry. So let me take you a little bit through Tinseltown. Okay. So there's your reels, moms and pops. And then you're

your fiction's moms and pops. Okay. Leanne's is my fiction's mums. Okay. My real mom, Luke. My fake mom, Leanne. Your real mom is Luke? Yeah. Lusite.

Lusite? Lusite. Luset. She goes by Luke. And my dad's Simone. Your dad is Simon. Your dad was born Simone. Luke and he goes by Simon.

Okay. Okay. Wow. So. Seamen and Lusites. so normally what people do when they come on a promote a show they talk about things like it's a freaking nudie booth episodes it's a nudie booth simone and lucid semen and lucite oh my god this is their favorite podcast i told them that you keep it crisp and clean and g and here you are

first of all talking about my hornkers if this is their favorite podcast why did you have to tell them what it was like yeah in the next sentence why did you have to oh oh are you a detective Why did you have to explain it to them if his therapy? Do not paddle ball on that. No paddle on that. Oh, let me guess. On asking if he's a detective. Two paddle balls.

Oh, no. That can't be a paddle ball. This is now that like. I'm going into orbit. No, the paddles aren't working. Now you drop them. Your hands are open. You just dropped.

She ribbon dance so hard. She created a tornado. And I'm putting them in here so that you're pleased. And now I've got bigger honkies. Putting the paddle ball toy in there. is not creating any kind of... That's even an optical illusion and it would be pretty disappointing.

Get those out of there. Get those out. You asked for that. Roll the tape, you asked me to put... I did not. You said not enough to promote Leanne. And that's not what I meant. He said promote Leanne and then he made the observation.

He said he hated to even mention it. But he said that the way that you were executing the shimmy wrong it just didn't feel like even you understood what you wanted to be doing with your body my uber's saying your uber is saying round the block your uber's in here is there hey is the uber in the room with us now is the uber oh what is the name of the different episodes of the show Yeah, just tell me a couple of episode titles so I can kind of wrap my head around this.

What's the naming convention at least of the episodes? Yeah. Like the one where Leanne falls down. Is it a quote from the episode? Leanne and the game. Okay. I can remember a couple.

Judging soup versus Bix. Yes, there's one. Soup versus Bisk. No, there's one. Too Much Wedding ring. I'm in that one. It's called Too Much Wedding. Okay.

Yeah. Are they all too much something? No. Okay. No. Then I'm completely. lost now and it's funny because Chuck like likes

to play with this are they all something something wedding ring with Bing Bang it was like different science like different kinds of science right one is a different kind of science they almost ran out of kinds of science no kidding yeah they made so many damn episodes I know I see those on the plane

I'm so glad that we got a little break because we just could not have maintained the pace that we were operating. And I almost had something. And I was like, let's just see. I think that a break will naturally work its way into the conversation. Can I show you something kind of cool? They say if you want to seduce, you go, let me show you something.

Yeah. They say if you want to seduce because we all made some eyes for a minute. And it was getting there a little bit. And that's not what he was saying about like what was happening in that break. That's not what he was saying. you liked about it there was there was no i mean like i don't i don't even think that happened it was just at long last i was able to take the slightest breath and just have some let's you know what let's from no one let's do that and we didn't even get to listen to the song is there anything in there

it's empty right it's got to be yeah it's just does it's got to be that thing has been cat for so blog that is what my name sounds like so lean what was it like being friends with lean yeah she's the best she really is the funniest person in the whole world okay and she is the most magical voice in the whole world doesn't make me feel great oh i'm sorry i'm right here

i know he's literally sitting right next to that was your superlative fucking guy but to be fair that was a really long time ago most likely to be funniest person. Most likely to get to be possibly the funniest person. Most likely to succeed at becoming the funniest person later. But then so much potential I had. But we can't really be sure. And then the

next page. Thank you Flappers. And this is what is so problematic about someone like Leanne who. Least problematic person. Well, like is not famous for a long time. Right? Yep. And is

being a mom. Right. And stuff like that and is like kind of letting everyone else like have a chance of doing it instead of her right and kind of like acting like she's not going to yeah yeah yeah just kidding i think i have to kind of get in there kind of tricking everyone sorry can i see can i see the mic real quick i think what you're trying to do is this right as soon as she decided it was her time when other people were trying to do it yeah all bets are off for everybody else which is interesting because I've been trying to do it. It's not what all bets are off means.

Just not what it means. Yeah. What? Whoa. Are you talking about? Hayes is kind of a stickler for the way that the phrase all bets are off gets used. What's the but? You mean that like the game is over.

I can't even mess up in this place. I thought this, I thought when you're here, your family. But evidently when you're here, you're targeted. This is exactly what I thought was going to happen. yeah jinks you owe me a spright he did not say the same jinks you owe me a doctor bib which is better dr pipp or dr pepper

say it under your prep it's mr pib and dr pepper you said the same it's mr pib and dr pepper you said dr pib or dr pepper but dr pib doesn't even fucking exist so i guess dr pepper's better are you guys like are you guys friends now you and lian so let's talk about lean's story a little bit

That's the type of thing that we want to do in promoting the show. Yeah, so that we can get people interested in the show. You, I believe that you did think we were doing that, which is why we've had to kind of wrestle the show away from you, the guest, and get us just back onto some sort of recognizable track. So talk about being in the car with Leanne. What she got on the news? The tugboat has to pull along the other into the docks.

I got to tugged you into the. You got to tug me back into the harbor. Never cared for harbors. Well, I'm harboring some thoughts about you right now. I'm going to keep a lid on. And so that's not water. Well, hold on. You said keep a lid on as if we were going to be really impressed.

Never put a lid on water before? I'm going to bump a buoy on over to you and drown you in the water. Tell me you've never put a lid on water without telling me you've never put a lid on water. Tell me you've never seen jaws. i can't i can't i can't do that do you know that shark's not real the shark from jaws you tell me please tell me about leann okay these don't tell me about jaws anymore okay please focus on leanne's story on netflix what uh number one on netflix right now is wednesday yeah we wrapped on lean tuesday tuesday tuesday tuesday

I want to say Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday last year my birthday was on a Thursday This year Greg's birthday was on a Tuesday Okay. If you reverse Tuesday and Thursday That's Taylor Swift's album, seven. Greg's the short game? The short king.

Okay, we got a name. Yeah, and who's his mom? Gail. Gail. Gail is the one who got, Gail. Gail got online. Gail got online. My parents loved.

this podcast and they're going to be really disappointed yeah because it's some of the filth my parents love this podcast and they're going to be they're going to be sad to death about how i was treated about how we didn't talk about anything important we didn't talk about we didn't talk about lean story really interesting my uber i wish people could hear it it would be such a great venue to share leanne story and get them you know steered towards the show and finally take that wednesday down a day you know it'll be a great venue to share lean story Cobbs Comedy Club Get in

My Station Wagon and let's head to San Francisco Home of the Giants You want to go to Cobb's Comedy Club? They don't hit like that. You're out of here.

They would not be successful at all. They don't say you're out of here when they hit the ball. Rocket power. Edit this out.

Make this safe by the bell instead. No, that's the San Francisco Giants don't say rocket power. Comedy Club. We did, and we did a show there. Yeah, we performed there.

How'd that go? It went off. No judgment. Oh, yeah. It wasn't great. How'd that go? Really good, yeah. It was so good.

Yeah. How could you tell? How could we tell that we sold it out? Oh, okay. Oh, Mr. Tunkboat over there. Okay, yeah. And I saw you thinking that maybe you're going to change it.

Maybe you need a little piece of Leanne's humble pie. Okay. Well, this sounds like something I could learn about Leon. Is Leanne served some. humble pie when people are getting a little bit Big for their brits. On Netflix is Hunting Wives. Hunting Wants.

Uh-huh. And that wrapped on. And that wrapped on, let's see. And that was late on a Monday. Mm-hmm. And number one is Wednesday, which wrapped on Tuesday. Number one is Wednesday.

No, you wrapped. I wrapped on a Tuesday. Wednesday's number one. And then hunting wives. Which was your birthday? One of my friends is four because of the leap day birthday, but actually 30.

I think your friend is 16 Oh then I probably shouldn't be taking them to the nightclubs I think Your friend has been lied to you about being 30 But it's actually 16 Shimmie with me The way you shivvy Looks like

Maybe a position that's natural for you Which is getting two IVs at the same time Yeah because I'm always Weas I know could shoot stuff out of your hand that wasn't thread like Spider-Man what would it be and so I was so just so I understand the rules it's not thread like Spider-Man right it shoots thread I have to shoot something out that wasn't thread like Spider-Man

yeah because he's always sewing quilts okay hmm this is actually a and I want to say thread like Spider-Man but that's no it's all it's all I can think of switch this up This is the most normal positioning you've had the entire show. This actually is fine with me. You asked me to shimmy with you at one point, and I've seen you shimmy so many times that I know that I don't know how to do it anymore. You know, you don't even need your arms sometimes. When I came in today, I was certain that I understood what a shimmy looked like,

and now I'm like, I can't, for fear of what would come out of me if I tried. So in terms of, like, I'm shooting something out of my wrists. Right. It can't be a thread like Spider-Man. Did you say wrist? I think you said fingers. Isn't it? I thought it was wrist, but yeah.

Is it right? But it's not a thread like Spider-Man. Yeah. It's not a threat like Spider-Man. That's what you said? Yes. Okay. So let's all go back.

What would you shoot out of your wrist? Not a threat like Spider-Man? Money, I guess, probably. Yeah, piss. All right, I didn't mean to piss everybody off. everyone's freaking roasting and toasting me right now you would shoot I'm over hot coals right now hot piss no that was mine out of your wrists that was yours you were both gonna say piss because I knew my parents would like that yeah this was specifically a joke aimed at

Hannah's parents say what their names are yeah it's Luke and and it's always a question and your dad's name is stylized with the number one and the number three three like the movie like the AI movie character Simone that's right wow what's that song no no don't she wants to touch me whoa

don't say no don't don't trust oh especially that whoa I feel like it took a lot out of you yeah whoa no we cannot be responsible for you trying to do that whoa somebody get the wheelbarrow I'm hanging by a single

thread to bring it on back around Yeah, just like Spider-Man. It's not a lot of distance between that last one for a traditional callback. Yeah. Might want to go a little more daylight between. I'm anything but a conformist. I agree. Was just a mom, and then her kids grew up.

And her kids grew up. Right? And she was looking for something to do. She was selling, I want to say, makeup or jewelry at different houses. At different houses. not at the same house okay you're sure she wasn't selling them

at the same my understanding of the story and I'm not disagreeing with you was there was one house that she was selling okay excuse me the paddle again

excuse me someone's been back I had like floated off in the space or whatever but you have more now the paddle is somehow a tool of punishment for me when I put bad

I'll put it away for right now please do I got a lot of stuff my holster Gatorate okay and cups Uh-huh.

Paddle. Uh-huh. Friendship Journal. What is a friendship journal? Musings about what today's going to be like. We had a nice time. Well, I think. Me and my guys.

They seem to really like me. I slid home on my butt from all the sweat. Thinking about my guys. Hang about my mind. Miss Pilkis, do you want to know, as you brought up Gatorade, would you like to know? And this is a little Leanne-type material. Do you want to know what my daughter calls Gatorade?

Absolutely. Hydro-drater. Oh, that's good. Hydro-drater. That's better. Yeah, hydrotator. This is Leanne-type stuff. That is perfect.

You should send a pitch, and that's how they... I would send that to Leanne. You just send a pitch. Yeah, what is the fax number again? Oh, yeah. How many? oh no well you say how many sure both yeah how many how many you say

yeah I won't be I won't be you're not gonna do this with us I will not be participating in this either making a note this is even worse than I love writing in this journal when there's that journal you don't write on it while it's in your holster you have to take it out You don't need to You can tort yourself like that in your holster That's where you're Gatorade The Gatorade Hensertrader

Those aren't your glasses Yeah these are making it worse That's because it's a slinky Oh Chrissy And that's kind of the stuff you can Like Threes Company Remember? Wow

Remember? member member wow yeah chrisie members only she did stuff like that she was always being such a goofish

she would take a slinky out of her gatorade old for thinking it was glasses yeah she'd pull yeah she was always they were like she assumed was glasses out of a gatorade bottle they were glass at the time what she was talking about immediately when she said chrissey

I knew that we were talking about three's company and I was hoping you'd remember I'm such you're I'm such a chrisie you're such a and they used to do that kind of shimmy thing right so that's also like for sure that was part of the show

was horned by people shimmie yeah he's company he you know what he is he's he's Mr. Furley is he you sure I know that's right I'm Mr. Furley I'm Mr. Hurley what did that the way she

high-fived you she just kind of grabbed your thumb I mean I'm decided I'm deciding to like it now yeah no I won't do it it again. You want to do it again. Yeah. I know that's right.

That's the kind of thing I only need one of, yeah. Mr. Furby's kind of wrapped the thumb. And you guys are sold on this whole thing like this? Well, the pillows over there. No, I'll take all three pillows. For mentioning that.

Oh. Like, we could use those over here. Oh, my God. I can't believe nothing to spill. A hot Redsy coming at you. Life comes at your fast. Oh, no. For everything else, there's MasterCard.

And let's keep that in because that's a sponsorship for me. She's so full of little phrases. Right? It was from history. Can we swap this out for safe other than that? It is, she is doing largely what AI is trained to do. Look, the pits games. Yes, it's coming around to the top.

Yeah. But what I'm going to do? It's like, I'm on medicine so I can be happier. And I'm happier, but it will walk on. Your body thinks that it's upside down. Yeah. I'm Stranger Things I'm a strange thing

You are stranger Stranger Things was just written about me upside down I guess if you You know you're on medication You're on medication That's a strange thing Hi I'm the Duffer brother

There's only one Would he be a brother if there's only one No that's the Duffer brother Don't go there It's a tougher brother. Go there. So you're on medication. How much of this can you use do you think?

We don't, you know, we don't care what happens. Okay. Hollywood handbook. Hollywood handbook. You're on medication. Right. Well, be it. And it's, you know, supposed to help your brain.

Right. But it's leaking out of your armpits. Mm-hmm. And this stuff is so good that it's trying to climb back in. to your break. Yes. We're trying to get up to the top through your ear.

This is a great commercial for Welbutrin. In addition to the MasterCard commercial we just did. That could be, well, yeah, well, Butron,

when there's so much good stuff crawling on out of you, wants to get back in there, keep it where it belongs. It's so good. When it's so good, so much good stuff coming out of you,

it wants to get back in there, keep it where it belongs. I'm handed out of it. I'm headed out of it. Okay. And I know that hurt. your eye. I know that your eyes dry out from that one. It was like a little

a little uh. Mm-hmm. Yeah, a little glaucoma test. Yeah. That's what they did. You're now ready for soup or BISC. Let's roll them out. Hannah. Okay. Who else is in? Yeah, who else is in Leanne? Is there anyone

normal we could talk to to to find out about the show after this? They're all coming in one by single file one by one in order of who ate the last lease. Okay. Who else did Chuck bring in? One by one is not that abnormal for coming into really any room. Just because of the size of the door. Okay, well, they all wanted to come in together to wish you guys happy birthdays, but I told them to come in one by one.

Okay. It was my birthday last week. It was, yeah. On a... Boat. Monday. It was on Monday. Oh, got it.

What's the number one show on Netflix? Well, that was when... Hunting Wives. Hunting Wives on Monday. Hunting Wives on Monday. Do you have a good day? Yeah. Thank you for asking.

You wrapped onto... Hunting Wives wrapped on Monday. Honey was wrapped on Monday Yeah My friend Who's born on Leap Year is Turns out 16 But why have I been

Slurping Yeager bombs With them all over town At the club Slicin on dice in the night scene Yeager bombs at the club Can't catch me down Because I'm up in those clubs Serving it hot

Hot Hot Yeager bombs Line at the Yeager Make sure it's hot Got some yager fresh off the stove. Get me an easy bake oven and pop those yagers in because I'm about to pop off. But I guess the fact that your friend had an easy bake oven was a clue that they weren't 30. Yeah.

Well, they were probably older then. Oh, you're old. Because you haven't been around for a while. You think they were older in the past? I think that's the opposite of how it's traditionally. Stranger things That's something that happens On that show

Feels like if you have to have watched Every part of this podcast To understand any moment Yeah but Yeah or you turned it off A couple minutes in And they're both the same experience really Which historically has been my case

All two times People starting Part of the way through Has not been an issue for us Let me bring it back to me Leanne I recommend start at the beginning Okay Okay so is it serialized

They're weaving something There's a journey. You're going to see a whole tale. Okay. As your character experienced some sort of growth? Yeah,

I like to say so. So too much wedding ring. I'm staying hot. I'm staying tall. Staying 5'10 from the beginning, which we started shooting on a Sunday. And then seven months later, we wrapped on a Friday

and I was still 5'10. So in terms of growth, it was pretty. So your thing is like, we joke about a lot of things, but the height is real. Well, it's not somebody to joke about. We're not like joking about that.

My height's not something to joke about it. Yeah, well, I wasn't even trying. to actually but you know we can we can continue to not do it so too much

word is John's 16th comes back is what you're saying like there's seeds planted and too much wedding ring have you very familiar with you're familiar with like a town square um you want to take this one

I have a feeling that the aspects of a town town square that I'm familiar with are not necessarily what you're referring to So tell me what you are conceiving as being an aspect of a town square. You've got the horses trotting by. So that you've got Jason Alexander with a. Yes, none of this is what I was thinking.

Okay. So that's what I did it. It was Jason Alexander. And you swallowed it. No, that was just my will be. Leanne has to shut down production because of the way you said, Jason Alexander. I had to take my well-butrin 43 minutes into the pot. And I just did.

I just was keeping it between my teeth the whole time. Between your teeth like a suicide pill. Oh, way to bring it there. Oh, sorry. Geez. You seen virgin suicide? It's sort of the opposite. No, I haven't seen that.

So picture of Town Square, right? You've got horses trotting by. Oh, so Jason. You don't have to say Jason Alexander. I don't want to explain to Chuck Lurie why they can't film. Medication helped, I guess. Yeah. Jason Alexander going,

Season two, pick up delay. welcome to the town yeah okay big hair yeah massive massive lock you could see that odd camera wow and locks for love you're sort of like spider man shooting the thread out oh yeah you just fire uh yeah you fire one thick hair out of your head into a hat hey i check this out Spider-Man more like Spider-Lady Yeah, take that green goblin Don't look up close I haven't shaved in a while

Wasn't planning on it But I bet you'd love to Oh wait, forgot my winkers aren't big enough Fallen on your leg Actually Okay, so you were You were talking about the town The town square

We don't have a huge amount of time left But you were talking about the town square Is it just the square screen that the movie the town is always playing on it my house okay it's always square it's always square yes it's like that's just i just call it a tv set but yeah i'm always watching the town yeah on that square and jason alexander is on there yeah on blue ray so that's the town square jason alexander is on blue ray give it up for blue and i have to raise the roof because jason alexander's on blue ray raise the roof but the roof's pretty low the way you're raising it's below even your head level so your head must be sticking out

through a hole at the roof. So it's prom night. You're standing out of the sunroof of the limo and you're pushing on the edges of the roof of the car. Fung, head slices off. Tunnel. A tunnel. Stranger things have happened.

Well, that was six feet under, actually. Oh, I love that show. R.I.P. To the people. On the show. Yeah. Show him some love. Let's show him some love.

Let's give it up flappers for the people who died on the show six feet some love lovers some love are there are there sad moments on Leanne yeah like

like it's real life like when it ended when it ended foo wee phoingus and you might notice I'm doing there's a laugh track but then there's also me going

oh gee brother oh shucks you're doing that in the in the audio track i was in seven episodes but i'm in eight doing things like i hate that for her is there a live audience yes okay there's live audience and there's live audience and there's live audience uh-huh you get along with the warm-up comic yeah bring you in for one of those sort of crowd hype

up games? Well, my friends, my friends, it's so funny. Don't point it to me either. I'm so afraid to tell you guys something that I think so funny. Okay. I hope you like it. Yeah. So funny. So we did the episode. My friends came. The warm-up host loved them. They were the

bells of the balls. And I did the episode afterwards, we're in the parking lot and the people are like, oh, you were in the show? Congrats. Were you guys the ones doing the warm-up? you guys were amazing because your friends they were a bigger part of the experience even though I was actually the one in the show mm-hmm your friends did the warm-up sucks I hate that I led with this is gonna be so funny I'll just say like Clifford I wonder

if your friends had told me the story if I wouldn't like that well why don't we call him up okay you keep threatening to call people people, like, I'm going to be scared by you calling someone on the phone. Call hottie tauties, waiting by the phone. They don't want to talk. Okay. It called my mom. It's just there is.

I need a towel. It's a fun episode for me. There is a non-zero chance that you are going through a major medical episode. Success has been terrible for you. Whatever has happened in the last eight months or whatever since you did the show. has been horrible for you know how lindsay lohan's had a glow up i've got a glow down you had a glow down and the comparison is how how well people look at lindsay lohan and say she's doing so well i'm doing well yeah just not physically glow up is a play on blow up tugboat and glow down tugboats

No, no, not talking about it. Globes do not blow up. Globes play on blowup. Don't you think? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You know what I would love. I'd love to see blown up?

The floats at the Macy's Day parade. Okay, well, this is evidence now. And I grew up in New York City. Uh-huh. A lot of town squares there, and I would wake up, I would wake up Thanksgiving morning, bag of hot nuts, waiting for the floats to come by. Santa. And when Santa came, that was

now it was Christmas time. And you, but you wanted to see them blow up. You would be waiting for them, but like, now you want to see them like explode or blow up like the balloon because the balloons are already blown up. Oh, oh, this is a misunderstanding. The float, you said, right?

But the floated the balloons float together. The balloons float. She's calling the balloons. But the floats are not balloons. You ever seen them when they let go of Garfield and he went float so you were all you were saying was that you would like to see the balloons get blown up get blown up so they can be in the parade okay it sounded like you were planning terrorism yeah no need for me to soften that language cut that part out and put a little bit

of six feet under in there is there a part i mean you love the show a little bit of six feet under specific episode i love when the guy dies by golf ball okay how did that happen he's golfing ball yeah okay don't think of it as a famous part that's law and order yeah yeah that's a gavel this is so when you said paddle before you were actually trying to say gabble these are snaps that's a gabble this is a paddle these are snaps and and when is when is leanne you can catch all left Hold on. Bye. Hollywood Handbook.

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