Hollywood Handbook - Nick Kroll, Our Symbiotic Friend

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

The Boys welcome NICK KROLL back on the show to try and hammer out a mutually-beneficial partnership for them all. Check out Nick's new show, Mating Season, on Netflix May 22nd!   Get a Hat Pack Hat here!   Check out Sean and Hayes’s bonus shows at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook   Listen on the iHeartRadio App!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My face dirty. Huh? I have dirt on my face. I don't know. Is it the ranch all day? Ever take you out to the ranch? No, you've never taken me to the ranch. Oh, Nick.

We are rectifying this today. Okay. Today. We may need to cut this episode short because it's a little bit of traffic this time of day to get to the ranch, but it's worth it. Yeah. It's VR. Amen. He's kidding.

It's a virtual reality ranch. Dude, you guys did Westworld, but life? So Westworld is not that. It's not a ranch. It's from the West, but it's not VR. Virtual reality is a completely different concept from Westworld. People do say this. I'd appreciate if you could help get out there now that you've been educated.

Now that you've been educated. Now that you've been. educated that virtual reality I did not want that to be what the episode was about. Nick this is going to take us all the way to the end. I'm really sorry to bring it up. I didn't mean to

stir the bonnet right away. Well let's do it now. You started explain it. Westworld takes place in meat space even though some of the characters, some of the personalities in the experience are cybernetic. Sure. Virtual reality takes

place entirely on the computer plane. The digital experience. Is it a helmet? Is it a helmet-driven experience? It is a helmet. Thank you for understanding that, because some people say goggles. No. No.

This is a full immersion. Shoulder to hair helmet. It's lower down. Like a Joan Cusack in a high school movie, like broken. Yeah, that's the halo and the neck. grace and everything. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes.

It's like that. And then you're on the ranch. And what's the vibe on the ranch? There's ice cream. Mm-hmm. There's. Infinite ice cream. Bottomless.

Bottomless troths of ice cream. And I eat it bottomless. Oh, yeah, I bet you do. I take off my pants and my aunties. That's the vibe in the ranch. At the ranch, there's no rules. Yeah. There's puppies and kitties.

Yeah. Like, that's what we're ranching for the most. Mm-hmm. Your ranch and puppies and kitty. You heard puppies, puppies, Yes. So it's a puppy mill? Is that what we're talking about?

Is this a puppy mill that you guys are running? We mill them with ice cream. It's the same as like a cereal mill for puppies. So it is a puppy mill in that sense. Like a cereal mill, oh, like the real versions of the ancient grain of cereal. You break them down into their like component. Yes. Parts.

So you are. It's virtual reality. So you are milling. When you so when the puppies are being There's a millstone And they're pulverizing the puppies No because that would be Like that wouldn't be as useful

For like you just break them down So you can separate the little like parts of Like the parts that you need You don't want them like what would you do with Pulverize means turn to dust Yeah you could make it So I guess my question I mean it would be sludge in this case

But it's like what are you going to do with the sludge Drink it I guess I guess You drink the puppies. We got to get you out here. You've got to get to the ranch. Got to get out to the ranch. You've got to get out to the ranch.

We take turns. You would love it. You specifically would love it. Yeah, one at a time. Color me intrigued. The ice cream is so good. The ice cream's in the helmet. And, and, sorry, I know we're real.

I know we want to move on. And virtual reality is different than augmented reality. Yeah. Reality is an augmented, yeah. Visual on-screen experience Replicating Meet space The world that we move through

But injected with Poked with Pokemon's Oh Yes That's the augmented reality stuff So it's right Yes Hitmon Chan is there

That's one of the Pokemon Yeah Hitmon Lee is there Did you guys get to talk They're both there yeah Side Ducks there Did you guys get to talk to Ryan Reynolds

when he was doing Detective Pikachu press. Did he come through? Yeah, so that episode still has not released. We have a little bit of a backlog. That one we are, well, he's something of a riff man. So there's a lot of good runs in there, and it's kind of picking and choosing because we do have to hit our target time.

Yeah. Yeah, and so, but that one, yeah, obviously he did sit down with us, and we haven't released it yet, but Ryan was here, and, you know, a fun project, and he was fun talking about it, although we couldn't keep him corralled into just that. He hit on every topic you could imagine.

Yeah. From pissing to shitting to having sex to, you know, soccer, football, you know. Killing. News to killing someone, drinking gin, you know. And everything that he brought up, it was like, oh, this he's an expert on. Oh, now this he's an expert on. And it became like, no, his mind holds the entire universe at once. And he's just sort of funneling it down to me.

So then choosing the clips has got to be challenging. It's really been a slow process. Even understanding the clips for me has been hard. So, like, I wanted to talk to you guys about your clips. Yeah. Okay. Because I'm, you know, not super familiar at this point. With the show.

You'll go on, before you go on a show, you'll do a quick clip chat. I'll do a quick clip check. See, what am I in for? And what's my following in for? Will I be co-posting? Yes, yes. Will there be a collab at the end of this? To accept a collab would be so big for us, you know,

because we, you know, we count on that to sort of break containment. Of course, our audience knows us already, but your audience, Nick. You check with your social media liaison. Sure. To say, is there an opening Tuesday for a co-post? And I've, and he, your team, they, your team has been in. your team has been in quite regular contact about the clips and what and collab and inviting inviting to collab and will nick accept him can you know will he sign off on that yeah we like

to get some sort of assurance before we even find what the clip is right now right before we want to talk to you yeah and i and i but i respect that about you guys you guys are really straightforward we try to be above board where it's like um you know obviously we want to promote your stuff and you got so much good stuff but we also do see it as an opportunity for everyone to benefit in terms of our stuff getting seen. Sure, sure. I mean that's the

beauty of it. It's a give and take. It's a collaboration. It's symbiotic. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Sucking. The succubus of it all. Sucking on, yeah. Yeah. Sucking on you know. Sucking on the teat. I'm sucking on your ass, but I'm cleaning stuff out of it too, you know.

Nice cleaning ass for you. Thank you. You guys are a couple of human barnacles, butt barnacles. Yeah, lamprey. What's that? Ramora. Lamprey. Uh-huh.

Is that kind of like in the stingray family? Little tick bird. Yeah. A what? A little tick bird. A little tick bird? Just park myself right up there on your ass and I'll take that. On the rhinoceros right on top.

Uh-huh. And are you giving stuff in there? Are you just sucking out? Are you putting stuff in the system too? We know what we're doing up there. You know, indeed. You don't worry about it. You know exactly what we're doing.

Don't you work? You're positively glowing. But I say like if I, if you guys embed into me, is it best to smoke you out? Is it best to scoop you out? You can smoke us out. Hey, man, I didn't know what's that kind of episode today. If you're offered, you can smoke us out. You can smoke us out.

Geez, that 420 was a week or two ago, but I can make an exception. Nah, man. No, we're having fun. No, don't touch us at all while it's happening. You're not going to want to acknowledge that we're there. Don't physically touch. Just keep it. Keep it pushes.

Do not do anything. Don't let us go all the way through. If you pull us out when we're halfway in, you don't know what we're going to take with us. I'm, okay, good to know. Nick? Mm-hmm. Roll. It's time.

Close. Oh. A roll for you. Okay. A Nick roll. Your most challenging one yet. Mm-hmm. Yourself.

Yeah. But... We have to... Come on, man. You guys got it. It's time to set the table. We have to... We have to stop.

Come on. It's time for Jimmy. Nick at night. Nick at night. Take over Nick at night as... No. Do both. Oh, I call the...

I take over late night and I do... I call it Nick at night. This guy's radioactive. I would call it Nick at night. Okay. telling what he'll do next. I, you gotta stop it. He's a goddamn ticking fucking time bomb, Nick, and it's only...

We're all in the blast radius. We're moments away for him taking us down with him. Yeah. He's willing to say anything. We need a Trump positive talk show hosted by Nick Kroll. Statt. Nick at night, it's playing off the nostalgia. We do, it'll be for Paramount Plus.

Got to be. Because they own the underlying rights, obviously. So it's exciting to think about that collaboration. Oh, my God. Yeah. It would be really, I'm, it would be really exciting for me. What a superpower. It's all going to be one company soon anyway.

It's all, it's this, and this is going to be a comics unleashed also. Yeah. What we're doing is we're buying local markets. And it's an interesting, this is actually what I wanted to talk to you guys about. This model is. This is not. Because it's like, here we are. I hate that it's just long.

Here we are. Here we are. Can you believe it? But let's talk about local market purchasing of ad time. And it's what, finally let's talk about Byron. Let's talk about Byron Allen. We finally have the Byron conversation. Let's talk about Byron.

Genuinely. Can we talk about Byron? The segue, man. Yeah. Right? Well, exactly. Now, I feel like you guys get a lot of what you do from sort of having watched a lot of comics Unleashed.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Steal from the Great. And we watch it. And how do we watch it? Like everyone else on TV? No, we are paid audience members. That is our main job for comics on Leash.

And so then you get to watch it. watch not only the comedy, but all the rehearsals as well. Yeah, watching the, yeah. You get to watch them do their routines over and over again. Oh, yes. Well, see them explain the routine to Byron. To By the way that he introduced it the first time actually did not set up what they were going to do and some other ways he could maybe approach it.

So you guys must be super interested in how he's, he's basically just leasing the time that That 1130 slot on CBS is now just going to be leased out to Byron Allen. And he's buying up local markets. And then he sells ads to products based on unspecified animals. Pulverized puppies perchance. Hey. If someone were to get into that business, probably should be someone with a little experience, right?

I look the other way. And that's because you have trouble making eye contact? I'm struggling with that my whole life niz we're 13 minutes in almost 13 30 30 30 in bam we hit the 13 30 30 mark so you know with editing stuff is probably about 10 minutes of content

yeah that felt to be like about 10 minutes of content and three minutes of just fun for the boys some of that stuff's just for us so we make money coming and going on this thing. Really? Yes. Because also,

of course, all the comics are paying to be on the show. And when we say paid audience members, we pay as well. Yes, of course. You pay to be in the audience.

Of course. And so everything is monetized. I benefit so much. And, you know, with something like Comics on Lee, I do want to see how the sausage gets made.

Sure. Well, you love the process and you're, but you don't really, you're not doing too much comedy yourself at this point? So I have stopped. not because I was unsuccessful,

though that didn't help. I have stopped because I've found a new passion. And that, of course, is promoting you and your brand. Thank you. And your show. Sure. You're into manage.

You guys are managing now? I'm not asking for a percentage yet. If you like what I do, prove your worth. If you feel like, yes, like your visibility has been improved. We don't work in like contracts and like signing me. Don't sign this little paper thing.

That's not our business. If I need to compel you with some piece of paper to keep working with us, then I haven't done my job correctly. I actually want you to be excited to cut me a check at the end of the day. Where you go, well, this guy earned this because like my value will be far greater than the 20, 25% that I'm taking. And I'm very happy with my management, my representation. says that at first.

But I would love to hear where you see me in five years. Okay. Hayes, you want to take it away? I'm just saying what I saw. I'm just saying what I saw. Okay? You prompted me. I had a vision dead on the surface of the moon.

Lying dead, completely undisturbed. There's no erosion. There's no wind up there. Eyes exploded out of your head. Okay. peacefully dead decomposition not really an issue

so no gravity face frozen in a scream sure right but big cavities in the skull where the eyes used to be otherwise very peaceful huh yeah honestly

could be much worse so I mean the serenity the surface of the moon I should tell sorry you did look very peaceful but you're

You're kind of touching your area. I'm touching your area, yeah. So I'm screaming. Face frozen in his scream. Eyes have exploded. On the moon, holding my dick. Both hands cupped around. No, yeah.

Just cut. Kind of like around the area. Okay. To the zone, yeah. Okay. You didn't get there in time is what it kind of seems like happened. Oh, ultimate, the ultimate goon. There was time now.

Yeah. Yeah. Goon on the moon. Goon on the moon. That was the name of what we were trying to make. Right. When something went wrong. Well, that's my movie about Jim Carrey making Man on the Moon is me playing Jim

Carrie making the movie. Mm-hmm. You are playing Jim Carrey making the movie Man on the Moon. Which. Playing. Andy Coff. You're playing Jim Carrey playing Andy Coff. Yes.

Playing. Yeah. Tony Clifton. Telling his man. that he doesn't he's never seen him before yeah yes so that's if that's what five years is seeing a plane and screaming because he thinks that planes weren't around in the 1970s yeah yeah that's the idea and because you didn't see the original movie I did not but I saw I heard people talk about the documentary about Jim Carrey making the movie so mine is based my our movie will be

our movie if you guys are willing to engage. I like to think of it that way as ours. Great. Yeah, well, if you want to be my manager, you know, get involved. Yeah, I would like to. And he doesn't need, you say you're happy with yours. There's a lot of room. Oh, my gosh.

You know what I mean? On the bird. Why shove them aside? Sure, sure. It could be a great collaboration. You got 45, like 55% left to go around. Yeah, great. Let's all, let's eat.

You know what I mean? Yeah, let's all. Let's all come to the table. I'll do it too. Fuck it. I'm in. You're in? I'm in. I'll get in there too. Richie, you want to slice of this? Yeah, come in. Okay, Richie's in.

All right, great. Richie's a fucking killer. This guy's a fucking animal. He's psychotic. Honestly, I'm going to get cut out of the deal. I know it. I shouldn't have invited Richie because that's how cutthroat this son of a bitch is. But while I'm there, ooh, the eat is going to be good. Yeah, it's going to be fun.

You know what his full name is? Who? Richie. We were just so. we were just talking about Richie. We just found it out. So that's Richie right over there. When we were saying he's a killer, he's a fucking animal.

I'm sorry. I should have mentioned I have full goldfish. Goldfish? Goldfish? Goldfish? I have goldfish. Oh my God. Different than goldfish brain.

Very. Goldfish. Yeah. Goldfish is a big episode for us. Yeah. Goldfish can at least swim. Well, goldfish, it was a, it happened to an Austrian man in 1913. Sure.

Yeah. Goldfish. Yeah. Eight off goldfish. unfortunate. Yeah, at the time that name was okay. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's Richie. Yeah. Who's Richie? Richie is the guy over there. Oh, okay. Oh, hi. Sorry, I have a gold first phrase. Oh, no.

Uh-oh. Yeah. We literally, we just had this conversation. Well, that's proof positive, yeah, because if it's, the condition has presented to us and it's on his shirt and his nice shirt. Just a tiny bit. It's not a nice shirt. It's like you knew you were going to spill. I think that might be a Philson.

I wish it were a Philson with bizarrely off sizing. Go to Philson. Get a small that's bigger than all of your other shirts somehow. That's how it works at Philson sometimes. Philson's a unique sizing brand. Yeah. I love that. Do you guys ever like wearing green or blue either of you?

Either green or blue? Yeah. Don't make me pick. He's actually wearing both. today and I'm wearing blue right now. That's so crazy that you would say that. We're actually wearing those colors right now. Yeah.

Today. Well, maybe everybody brings a little something to the table. Yeah. His name is Richie. Hey, who's this? That's Richie. His name is Richie Samboca. Mm-hmm.

Like Richie Sanbora, but it's about it'sambuca. And so people think when he like, when he comes to the negotiation table, People think like, party time. Richie Sanbuka's here. Yeah. But. Yeah.

And is that the guard down? Can I ask? Can I ask? Is that your maiden name? Yes. That is his maiden name. Interesting. Richie Sanbuka. He has kept his maiden name for business purposes.

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What the heck are you up to you this time, Nick? They let you take another bite at the thing. I haven't seen you for a minute. Sometimes I go, uh-oh. Watch out. Something's coming for me. What now? About to get blasted in the torso with a comedy cannonball on this guy.

Some of it goes a little blue. How do you guys feel about blue stuff? Oh, my God. I'm actually wearing it right now. I'm wearing the color. And by the way, if you're talking about getting a little dirty, I love talking about. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Sex. You can say whatever. you want can you yeah do you crazy yeah do you have all of George Carlin's stuff memorized obsessed obsessed I had I don't consider it do the seven words I consider it right now we will do them on here we will do the seven words we he's gonna do them right now yeah gonna do all seven I do done it before we will we will do it every episode I Sam I should be allowed to Sam I should

explain why it's actually like good to say them and then when I'm done with that little modern man. Mm-hmm. Little bit of modern man. What about modern mammals? How do you guys feel about Pete Holmes of the shampoos? We never talk about it on this show. Yeah, and so Pete is a bit of a blind spot for us.

We don't talk about that. We don't talk about magic mind. Me bringing up his ads, which are they even ads? They feel so native to the content they exist in that I can't quite tell. But that's not something we've touched on before, just like somehow isn't hitting my algorithm. Copy that. Explain it to me.

to me. But you can know what I've heard. His hair is better than another guy. He's a friend of his maybe. He's been on that since college. He's been on that tip. Modern mammals?

Yes. Really? Champo that is pulverized. It's dust. And you don't use it in the shower. You just put it dry. Oh, it's like a dry shampoo. You just put it.

And it's pulverized mammals. You got to go outside. You got to do it outside. Do not do it in the house. Okay. Go outside. Don't even do it on. the property really get off the property before you do what you're gonna want a

little bit of space in in in the in the public right of way uh-huh okay do it in the street do it in the street do you need a magic mine by the way uh I would love you know about this stuff yeah tell me about it what's the deal with magic mine tea yeah that's it that's it basically pretty much yeah would you drink blue tea because I you like I like green tea. Would you drink blue tea? Blue tea. What do you have in mind?

You know what I want? Would you guys drink like high tea? Are you guys doing a lot of testosterone right now? Drink pure tea? Yeah. Just like gelatinous tea. It's not taking. For me, what I've found is that my...

Going straight for it. But the host is rejecting the tea. It's like an elevator shaft. Right. I have not... It falls right now. It doesn't want to be there. I have not found the correct delivery system yet, but everything so far, yeah, I go straight through.

Oh, my God. Oh, my Jesus. It's really... No, it's a... It's a thicker dosage. Oh, okay. So you can, you can do, like, an injection. An injection?

Mm-hmm. But it's at least the stuff that I'm peddling. Yeah. It's thicker. Okay, well, that could be good for me. I'll try basically anything. And it's my own. And it's getting all over the place.

It's kind of my own personal testosterone. His cats are walking around, all beefed up. Yeah, because they're just, you know, behind me eating it off the ground. I come fucking tumbling out of my asshole. My cats are just. And they look good or they're jacked. Are they happy? How are they doing?

Your jaw's got a crazy thing. Yeah. Yeah, big old jaw. Yeah. And they do it sort of meal plan? or like what are they doing they just because they got to get their calories if they're going to build muscle oh yeah no they're they're doing all kinds of different like body weight exercises are they with each other or what's their what's their relationship they are all to yeah they're all with each other yeah they're

with each other yeah that's really beautiful some of the some of the some of the in some directions it's not going super well how so is it are you having trouble with either of them or i'm ever in trouble because I am no longer sort of in charge of the household. Okay. I have no testosterone. They have to watch testosterone. Where you saying? So I thought you understood.

They're all with each other. No, I get that. I'm so I'm, I didn't want to, because you know him better. Like I, that was my feeling what you were implying, but I wanted confirmation. Yeah. That you're feeling a little like Xed out. Like you've been sort of boxed out a little bit because they're ripped hot cats. More like a butler figure.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. running rough shot over me. Yeah. That's what I

I didn't want to pry. No, it's fine. It's fine. I talk about it on the show, you know, the hot testosterone cats in my house that kind of started like cucking each other's brains.

Yeah, they're fucking like crazy having sex. That's what I thought you meant. Like they're all with each other. Yeah, I mean that's part of it. Like, yeah. And I just got to watch. And if I even go,

if I could try to touch myself. Yeah. They get, well, because they still have, you didn't declaw in them. so they can come right at you. Yeah, they go ahead and swipe at me. No, no, no, not until I say.

Sorry, I want to. Are you? He's the only person who, like, the tests get through. Sure, no, of course. That's the kind of beauty of you figure out what, like, a brick, but we want to say, dude gets no pussy about Sean. Oh, because it's cats. Richie Sanbuka, with the fucking burn.

He's a fucking killer. I'm telling you guys. Just like a shot of Sanbuka, it's sweet going in, but it burns when it gets. down to the belly. Yeah. Yeah, it stinks, but you're going to have a heck of a time. Yeah,

it's fun. Lose your inhibition. Would you ever let Ritchie Sambuka be the bartender at the ranch? It's so interesting. The bartender right now, that might be an issue because he is currently a ghost

in the machine. Okay. So he's not in the programming. Gotcha. Right? Enough set. He, enough set.

Yeah. So Nick has done listening to what you're saying. enough said finally at last I can I can die yeah just ease into the end

eyes closed exploded out of your face thank you ripping yourself screaming into oblivion the surface of the moon I've been waiting for this for so long enough has been said

right Anna Conkel I thought when she was here I thought we were almost got to the To the end? We had an anacconca a couple weeks ago. Whoa. Yeah. I'm sorry.

I don't like, whoa. It's like sometimes guests are weird about us talking about other guests. You're confident enough. I know. I mean, I asked about Ryan. Uh-huh. Like I'm pretty happy with where things are.

Yeah. So not a problem. And with good cause. Yeah. Yeah. Mating season. Yeah. Mating season.

The cats are having sex. Is someone what's happening on your show? It's animal. Ironically, you know, it's all about animals living in the woods, dating. Zach Woods. Zach Woods. Wow. June Diane Rayfield, Sabrina Jalise.

Uh-huh. Nick Kroll. Got a little taste for daddy, right? Yeah. You know. Yeah. It's not a charity organization. That's right.

That's right. That's absolutely right. Yeah. It is not a charity organization. No. This is a for-profit enterprise. Mm-hmm. Okay?

Yeah, it's, you know. Make no mistake. It's not called show charity. Oh. That's a really beautiful idea, though. Show charity would be really nice. That'd be awesome. It's not a show business.

It's a show charity. We're just like giving it away. Yeah. And you go begging to like various people to be like, can you please, please just give us money to do this. You get nothing. nothing. We're just going to on TV.

Please give me an exorbitant amount of money and the human experience to go make this. The budget has to make it worth our while obviously to do, but a show charity organization

like that could really be something special. Or any overages, you know, we donate to. Yeah. Anything that's left over. But like also,

maybe we should probably put it back into the show. Well, need a little taste for me. Yeah. And obviously, I mean, if you're giving money at all,

you probably want that to end up on screen. Oh. At least in the pockets of the people on screen. Sure. Right, and it's because you've got to fly him in. He's got to fly him in from Montana. Yeah, exactly.

But he's the best. Keith is great. He's really, I mean, the voice obviously is incredibly special, but his on screen. I was going to say that part's bad, but everything else.

You don't like Keith. You don't like. As a voice over ours, you don't like him. No. Not for me. Mm-hmm. Hot take.

I think it's great. It's like, just don't feel it. Just talk about a normal guy. I guess because I'm, I guess because I'm, I guess because I'm in, I feel's fake. You know, I guess because I'm sort of, I live in the animation space.

Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. At mating season. Yeah. Yeah. I think about voices. Like I really, when I hear a voice, I'm like, is that a voice? Yeah.

I also spend almost my entire life on an animated ranch. So, you act like you're the only one. Is it animated? Or is it virtual? It's 100% cool world style. Bubbies and kiddies are cartoons. Animated. Oh.

It's like the aristocrats are there basically. Okay. Yeah. Do you guys talk about the aristocrats on here that? The joke. We say it at the end. We don't talk about it until the very end. We do the joke.

The last like nine or 15 minutes of every episode is us doing the aristocrats joke. And, you know, we take bits and pieces of all the, we try to always make it fresh, but we also do borrow from all of the different comedians in the documentary. Do you guys miss Gilbert? We were just. I don't have a chance to because I'm engaging with this content so often. I mean, I do think that you aren't actually gone if people are still watching and listening and thinking about the work you created. I think that's kind of what is behind the concept of fame.

Everyone dies twice, don't they, Nick? How so? Well, once when you're on the surface of the moon, hands reaching for your, you know, area, you know, just screaming in your eyes exploded. And then again, the last time someone clicks stream on mating season. That's when you die once they've completed. That's the second time. I don't know if you guys are completion rate heads, but I would love to just talk quickly

about just getting, make sure, and really activating our audiences for completion rates. How many minutes do you really need? Yes. What, like, what are we, like, let's compromise. a three day and give me a 26 day target okay well let's say it's on Netflix there's like I guess like what do we how many subscribers on Netflix now this day these is like 300 million subscribers worldwide okay I think if we got like 296 million households watching watching the whole thing well that's the thing

there's gonna be a drop off so like let's say at least what's the moment that we're thinking that is gonna I mean I guess there's a moment where Sarah Silverman as a skunk expresses her anal glands all over me. Okay. And we end up in a, I'm a raccoon. I'm a dirty little raccoon and we end up in a copulatory tie. So I think there might be certain markets that. Dick stuck inside the skunk's vagina.

Yes, exactly. Yeah, but it's really like, it's like it's a one-night stand. That doesn't end. Oh, of course, to actually deal with some real intimacy because of this physical. It's like we're taking animals. You know, inconvenience. Right. Like animals, obviously.

obviously. But then we're telling actually kind of human stories. We're exploring some very human themes than we ever could by watching ourselves. Yeah. Are you allowed to do that? We had to get, yeah, we had to, um, we had to get a couple

letters. We got a letter from Christopher Nolan. Wow. Okay. All right. Chris said okay. Out of the DGA. Yeah. He's okay with it. I'm okay with it. Yeah, geez. Dogs goats and animals. Yeah. Why's it called that?

Dogs, goats and animals? What's that? DG.A. He's the president of DGA. I'm sorry of dogs, goats and dogs. Dogs goats and animals. He's mad at Hayes. Hayes shouldn't be using AI for those dogs, goats, and animals on the ranch.

Have you guys, wait, have you guys done your sheep detective rewatch yet? I guess it's hard. It's not out yet. Are you guys excited for a sheep detective? Sheep detective is on my list. I think it's right ahead of number two. I'm excited, yeah. Top two and it ain't two.

No, I'm fucking stoked. I can't believe what those sheeps are up to in the trailer at least. Yeah. We were going to go. I don't have to do that. If you want to, like he mentioned Gilbert, we were going to go to the Earwolf cemetery after this if you want to.

Oh, yeah. Like check out. Yeah, that's in that sort of that we work space near Hollywood Forever Century. We worked. Yeah. We worked. We worked. It's really nice.

So you walk in and you hear, it's your voice saying, a woo, the people dead. That's right. And we'll go see Gilbert and Scott, of course. That's really beautiful. That's really great. It's nice to remember that stuff. Yeah. I hope someone to do it with me.

Are you worried about your mortality? Yeah, a little bit just because, like, well, some of what's been happening with the tea, not getting into my body. Like, that actually can't be good. No. No, if your body can't absorb that tea. You're supposed to have at least a little bit. You're supposed to have some, yeah. And it's like.

They say low, not no. Yeah, it's no key. It is none. Did you feel like you've spilled the tea? Spilling is just a different. thing compared to this. Are we going to spill the tea today?

Well, you said you had a bombshell when you came into the office. He said you were going to really hit us with some major news. Oh, I mean, if you guys want to... I wouldn't mind going viral. I mean, it could be good for us. Okay. We have a segment called Make a Dish Foundation

where you dish on. Sure. Cool stories. Hollywood. It could maybe help someone who's in the hospital. Yeah. No, this is,

we have a lot of hospitalized listeners. Yeah. Oh, really? That's where we're most popular. You guys are playing in, like, in hospital in the waiting rooms or in the actual the,

where this does. It plays on the PA at the hospital. Okay. In the rooms where people have a coma. So it's just audio. No video because it's just hard. Were you going to do something for the dish? Was there a visual component?

I wanted to do, yeah, do a I mean I think you can just hear it and it's fine okay yeah but obviously there's just something about video that helps you connect especially to sick people this ain't that the truth yeah that is something that I uh think could be very underrated about communicating with sick people is that being able to see you you know yeah be visually because they're sick and they can't they're not moving around like they're not seen as many exactly so so um so it's what is the name of the show it's dish make a dish make a dish

Make a dish. Make a dish foundation. So I think what it is, if I understand it, right, is like we go in and we cook, easy to make hot one-pond meals in a hospital room, serve it. And then we sort of give them some little tea, some hot little, spicy little, spicy little tea. Yeah. So I would happily do that. And if you guys want me to spill the tea, I will. It feels, yeah, yeah, yeah, it feels like.

Oh, no, he's going to spill it. real. Oh my God. I poured into this, if anything. This is why we haven't had him on the show in 11 years. And I literally have told you that Richie is insanely violent. You just made a mess in his studio.

That's really bad. Like, what do you think he's doing? Like, he's not like doing anything else. Yeah. Right? You got a mess. You're going to mess with Richie Zambuga? You're going to come at you,

and here it comes. And now he's on Mike. I can't believe it. I can't believe. Richie's actually. Talking to us on the show. God, this is awful. Have you met Richie San Borough?

I'm not. I go to the same like leather scarf factory that he works out. Oh, he works there, it's not even where he shop. Yeah, it just like he felt, you know, he got so into the craft of it. He just, it's like his throwing pottery. Wow.

That's where he just goes to kind of unwind. Leather scarves. Mm-hmm. So that's the. art form. That's it? That's the tea that Richie Sambora makes leather scarves. Makes leather scarves.

Himself. Oh, man. Yeah. And then reported everybody to ice. That's really the tea. Richie Sambora reported everyone at the factory to ice. Yeah. Oh my God.

So he would have more scarves for himself? He thinks that. That's what he thought. But it was just like a bunch of other 80s rockers working in the factory and all of them. Also, that's. I'm going away. I have a feeling it's probably the kind of situation where probably kind of situation where he thinks he's doing a lot of the scarf making,

but there's a lot of people behind him. There's a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, I do it. Yeah. Meeting Animals is on. Meeting Animals. Netflix.

All season. All season log. Yeah. Mating Animals is on. Mating animals. Mating season. Wait, what is it called? Meeting season?

Who is this, by the way? Meeting season. Okay, so this is Richie Sambuca. Yeah. First brain. Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you, man. Nice to meet you.

Mating. Mating animals all season long. Maining. Maining animals. Maining animals. All season long. All season long. On peacock.

And you can't skip it. No skipping. Guys, completion rate. The completion rate is so important. You talk to your spouse about completion rate? Uh, you know, we're in a bit of a no-talking phase. The aristocrats, bye. My mother-in-law spent years sabotaging our relationship until karma made her pay for it.

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