Hollywood Handbook - Stu Mackenzie, Our King Gizzard Friend

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

The Boys help STU MACKENZIE from King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard prepare for his Coachella performance.Watch the video recording of this episode 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 head gum podcast so yeah i i mean i don't have an exact date on it but it was at this point it was definitely post-harvest spring forward has like completely messed me up with that yeah but it's like it was it was around that time and so i you so I backed my ox up into the cart. And I start loading the cart up with everything that my family and I had sort of grown and made all winter long. The birch brooms that my son had carved with a Barlow knife. The flax that my wife had spun on the spinning wheel into linen, the potatoes, but first, of course, I sorted out potatoes enough

to last me the winter and to seed the following spring. And then I walked at my ox's head for 10 days until I'd reached Portsmouth and Portsmouth Market. And there I peddled my wares and sold until my pockets were fat with coins. Went to the market to purchase items for my family so that we could better prepare ourselves for the following market year. And I got, and you know this, obviously, Hayes,

but I got an embroidery needle that had sailed over on a ship from England. Of course, I got another Barlow knife for my son. So that was my suggestion because what I wanted to tell your son about that other knife. Yeah. Bitch, that's not a Barlow knife. Well, yes.

And it truly was a neighbor's bar. Very low bar. Very low knife. Yeah. The bar was a little too low because it was a borrowed kitchen knife from the neighbors. I got him an actual bar load knife. He had been polite about it, but he knew the difference. And, you know, I sold the ox.

I kissed him on his soft pink nose and I bid him adieu. I walked home with the kettle and two pounds of peppermint candies for us to enjoy after meals. Boy. Yeah. So anyway, that was kind of my week. yeah so anyway that was kind of my week uh i don't know like what you know i guess yeah i guess that was again i didn't want to put a date on it i want to say that was last sunday because it was post harvest hey welcome to hollywood handbook and insiders guide kicking butt and dropping names stew what's up come in here stew stew you're here you're in here you're here

with uh kevin with can we speak to you please stew me the mighty ox cart man stew hi music talk about it music that's we love my game that's my jam i'm the music guy my name's stew i don't know what a barlow knife is but um i do do the music very well neither did my son luckily but he could tell that i was i had given him something uh that was you know that was substandard yeah very good nice stewart mckenzie that's me did you have any other questions no go ahead no go. Did you have any other questions? No, go ahead. Did you have any other questions? I don't. I mean, I was getting quite confused

about the story. Get closer to the camera, please. Yeah, getting quite confused about the story, but I enjoyed it. I was thinking about Barlow Knife mostly and I got a little bit stuck on that mentally. It's a cycle, but I enjoyed it. I was thinking about Barlow Knife mostly, and I got a little bit stuck on that mentally.

It's a cycle, isn't it? I mean, all these things we do, aren't they just cycles? They repeat, they self-fulfill, yes. We tap the maple trees in winter and boil and boil the sap down until we have maple sugar, and then what do we do the following winter? Tap it. Eat it eat it boil it well no we don't eat it stew we sell it at portsmouth market it doesn't matter it honestly doesn't matter dude um i'm so fucking pumped you're here

kevin is also pumped kevin do you want to take a beat just a moment to have for yourself to just talk about what this means to you he was really scared before you came on stew he was really nervous it was not funny it was not funny he was like really like he was like really sick yeah he was ill yeah what's up stew i'm uh chef kevin i produce pod Big fan of your tunes. You guys rock. He's been talking like this I think in preparation for a little while. This is actually not how he wanted to

be talking. He was doing an even more intense version of this. Do you want to take it again? Do it how you were really going to do it, Kevin. What's up, Stu? What's up? I's up i love you good uh thanks for doing the show dude we're pretty good did you say pretty good after he said i love you pretty good pretty good uh thanks for being here love you too and uh yeah we're gonna have some fun today it's gonna rock and you'll probably never forget this perfect all right stew is the main guy king gizzard and

the lizard wizard you don't like to use the marshmallow on your uh mic either do you the marshmallow on your uh mic either do you marshmallow the little black marshmallow oh like my mic it's got this marshmallow on it oh the cover thing here's to be i call that a sock nude you got yeah i don't i don't know i've never i i like spend my whole fucking life in front of a microphone but i I don't use one of them socks. Us too. I felt like it was... I removed it. Is it like a pop filter thing?

What is it for? I felt like it was capturing and filtering out some of my best shit. Yeah, just an extra layer between you and your audience. I need that because when I come in completely and they need it and the audience a little intense yeah i did one without the sock as you call it on there and it was like a sock in the fucking face for anyone who listened to it man because it was it was so powerful some of what i was laying down so we need an extra layer for mine but hayes gives it straight up and i'm happy to see you raw

dogging as well um talk a little bit about king jizzard and what it means to you uh why it is called that and um what you're excited about this year king is it is a band well you know it's all we do is just do do music man like we're we're just yes yeah man we're just a band we just we just like get together and what's the big deal and um you know when you kind of think about what a band is where that we just we just tour play heaps of shows try to record heaps of music and just live our lives and be free play heaps of shows try to record heaps of music and just live our lives and be free picture a band make it a little hipper and now all of a sudden you're picturing what that is so yep that's fucking dope dude i love that it's like whatever man why you gotta make me try to explain it

fuck off i love that energy i'm not pissed So we want to talk about a couple things. One is obviously, you know, we called Kevin in a panic last night. Obviously, it was Hollywood's biggest night. We are Hollywood Handbook. We said we need a guest who can help sort through the noise and make sense of a senseless act. What happened was traumatizing for some funny to others uh i'm not sure who's on the right side of any of this but at the oscar ceremony um movie man will smith

did uh slap funny man christopher rock and we all uh looked on jaws agape kevin promised that he would find the exact right person to give us the definitive take on what has been a very thorny uh event to parse parse big moment for us for our show these are issues that we have explored on this program in the past movies wife wife hair being a wife guy having a wife's name in your mouth this is stuff we talk about violence every week race almost all of these issues are this show has talked about at length and this is a moment when all eyes will be on this show like it's called hollywood handbook it's hollywood's biggest night so this is when we not every not every night especially lately that is everyone talking about Hollywood. Of course, this episode will come out one week and two days after the fact. So as we're delivering the take, I know you've had a day to process it,

but still we need one that is going to be like timely for bear in mind the tech's got to keep tech can't go bad so talk about why you're the right person to do this for us and then just lay it on me brother

I'm the right person because I'm exactly the wrong person I mean firstly I'm like an Australian guy from Melbourne. I actually don't really give a fuck about the ceremony, really. I mean, I don't even watch the Grammys. I kind of think it's dumb. Okay, but you watch like... Okay.

Yeah. Everyone in the whole world saw the will smith thing so i'm i'm i'm clued in can i say you being from australia makes you the perfect person because you guys got the unedited feed oh yeah over here over here it was bleeped i had to watch aust TV. Really? Yeah. But Hayes had a question about Melbourne. Yeah, you mentioned I'm an Australian guy from Melbourne. Help me with why that makes you extra bad to talk about this. No, because Melbourne's just like, it's like this city where the weather's really really bad no one really does anything and that's

why you make music and and like no one is really clued into any of that sort of stuff we just live in our little um isolated bubble away from the rest of the world and you watch the grammys and and you lie about it and you say you don't watch yeah no i yeah yeah yeah yeah typical we all watch the grammys let's like we can admit this now lift the veil and people say like the ratings are in the toilet on the grammys because so many people are lying and they say because everyone says they didn't watch it that's what's so frustrating to me is where you're gonna lose the grammys if you keep up this charade because if you keep pretending not to watch it they'll think no one watches when like the grammys are awesome to watch it's so fun you kidding me all these artists coming together to put on a show

and celebrate one another's work it's the purest thing the industry has at this point i don't know man i get worked up but you were gonna give us so you told us why you're the right person because you're the wrong person cheeky uh so how should i feel? We are going to need the take. The take itself. Yeah, it's complicated, which is why it's good. He's right. We should do some questions about the Australian ARIA Awards. The ARIA Awards? Yeah, we should do some questions about that. All right, let's do it.

Question number one. The fuck are you talking about, Stu? Yes, I got you. No, but anyway, Will Smith, Chris Rock. I don't know. Chris Rock is, he probably did tell like probably a fairly poor taste joke, but he's also a comedian. It's Chris Rock.

I mean, maybe isn't it kind of your job a little bit to kind of do that when you're doing the speech? Probably poor taste. Like, let's say it's a poor taste joke, right? I'm down with that. I pay that. Poor taste. Keep going. Keep going.

Maybe not. Very long. Yeah, maybe not. Maybe we don't go for it. Maybe we don't assault someone. Maybe. Say more. Say more maybe that's probably not more not a not a great idea um let's double click on that one and then let's just let's just like

leave it at that no no nope nope nope i was with you until you said leave it at that we got to keep going and everything else was good maybe we don't assault let's say it was a poor taste joke he's coming down hard on the wanted to deal with it's quite like gross like like macho i need to i need to like protect my family with violence is is gross to me and makes me feel sick it actually makes me feel sick and i don't like it no that's like honest take that's That's not like a joke. That's an honest take. But also, you know, it isn't as simple as that, of course. So let's not simplify it to only that.

But, you know, that's my honest take. Can words be violence? Yeah. Fuck yeah, they can. Of course they can. And words can be violence as well. I agree with you, Stu. The very concept makes me sick. My family

is very aware that if somebody comes for my wife, I will be throwing up. That will be the first and last thing that I do in response. Violently. Step one. Step one is also the final step in my plan which is

if you insult my wife on any level but especially something that is pretty out of bounds I'll be throwing up I'll be throwing up quite a bit stew when's the last time you threw up stew i throw up all the time yeah it's part of my persona you have to be cool for us um have you never thrown up you can admit that you don't know what it feels like to throw up man i i don't think it's badass that i do it so often i i actually see it as almost a weakness in a way even though people like it that i do it yeah it's cool um no i i throw up quite a bit i i wrote quite a few songs about vomiting so i do quite a bit it's it's cool i like it it's a reason it's a bodily function it exists for a reason it's like breathing or like

hiccuping or something it's there it does it serves purpose you gotta vomit sometimes it's a reason it's a bodily function it exists for a reason it's like breathing or like hiccuping or something it's there it does it serves purpose you gotta vomit sometimes it's good for you god don't make mistakes no coachella first asser coachella what day what day day which saturday saturday wrong wrong is it a fuck incorrect okay um the answer is friday friday stew opening night coachella could have saved you oh like a big misunderstanding you show up on saturday you get on stage with brock here to play my friday show brock hampton not gonna like that your show i'd like to i'd like to be in brock hampton your show is on friday april 15th and then again you know you do it again and then again you know you do it again on april 22nd you know you have to i do know we did do it once before it's pretty funny i'm sure you've been several times it's funny kachella it's funny

as hell dude it's funny i go to laugh man everyone there is hilarious i go to Laugh Man. Everyone there is hilarious. I go to Cut Up, man. That's where I get my laughs on. Certainly not doing it at comedy shows anymore. What font size are we talking about? I'm sure quite small. But we have a long name, so even a small font takes up a decent amount of space. And that's a little bit of a hack and this is something to share with other bands. If you have a nice long name even if you're

very tiny font at Coachella or any festival you're going to take up a lot of the poster and that's valuable. Do you want to tell you another hack? Hit me. This is true. This is true. I love hacks. This is true. Many festivals around the world are happy to pay an artist more if they accept a smaller font size.

Are you aware of this? It's very fascinating stuff. It's true, and we do it all the time. You know what? I wasn't aware of it because I'm funny this this way the music for me has never been about the money yeah i i guess i'm crazy that way i'm just like kind of doing it because i the font size fucking groove no you live for the font size to the fucking groove the font size you know i i don't get into all that mess kevin handles all that for me sue i gotta say you're rocking with a pretty big ass font no way not yes you are

check your bank account somebody fucked up man you got a big font talk to your manager. What the fuck? You're above. You're a full row above. Your second row, dude. That's big fun. Leaving aside your Harry's and your Billy's. That's not even a row. That's its own thing. They're fake. They're not playing.

Row one. Your big Sean's. Your little baby's. Phoebe's up there. We emailed her once to be on this show. We requested. There's a connection there as well. Still waiting, yes, which is practically a friend of the show.

That's cool. And then Stu is sitting pretty on row two. A full row of Carly Ra jetson really that's yes stew okay i don't know anyone else on our row should i city girls are they good uh that's a that's a band uh there's uh still woozy there's nikki there's lane eight there's pink sweats omar apollo okay still woozy city girls and uh pink sweats sounds like my weekend sounds like the pandemic all right band names these days hey isn't it crazy talk a little bit about what you're gonna do in this show we wanted to help you out now i haven't had the pleasure of seeing you perform live

yet i'll be a coachella what what stage banter wise what have you found works and can we kind of help you get the crowd pumped up i mean one thing you already mentioned right is band names these days i don't know one from the other they feel kind of yours feels kind of long so maybe instead of saying you know we're king gizra like you know you get up and just to get the cheer, just to get the crowd on their feet, you go, hey everybody I'm Tony Bennett I like it

what do you think about that? I think it's not bad I think we can do a bit better smooth as silk, right? yeah, smooth you know what, this is because because i don't say no shit it's good like anything when we play um so you don't say anything say anything bro no not really bro i usually say like hi like six times in a row and then i say like 2020 like bye 20 30

times in a row at the end and then that's that's my jam that's that's it festival you know i may be there to see still woozy i wander up and i go hey fuck i like this sound who are these guys and i need you to be telling me i'm tony bennett this song you know here come this is a song about what a great city new york is Yes. That'll kill. And like, you know, this is one of the funniest events of the entire year. And like the kind of clientele that like goes to Coachella will like really love the idea. First of all, just name checking like a hero to basically everyone there. Like you'll get that like the first hit of like haha that's that's funny then the next way like people just appreciating like an homage to tony bennett well like a

reverence will kind of like settle over the crowd which will like pay off for you as well and then you just like live in the bit like you like do not you just do not let it go never let up you know don't let them see you blink just go ahead and just i mean start fucking crooning dude yes they'll be like tony bennett i know this guy doesn't he's neither guy who sings that's life in my way uh-huh yeah that's what they're gonna be saying yeahhuh. Yeah, that's what they're going to be saying. Yeah. I don't know if he's the main guy who sings my way, but if he never sang it, I'll eat my fucking hat, man.

There's no way. He had to get a piece of that at some point. Definitely. Yeah, yeah, totally. Kevin, have you been to Stu's show? I have. And is this your experience as well? He didn't talk to you at all the whole time?

He said hi like 10 times at the beginning and bye. Wow, he really did say hi that many times. And then like bye 25 times at the end. That's too many highs and byes. And it's, I hate to do this because you're a guest. It's very rude. Like imagine you came to my show. Like you're at my show i'm basically talking to you almost the whole time think about it and i think you probably feel pretty good right now

i should work on it let's work on it um okay so we're going to talk about how i'm tony bennett and you know it doesn't have to just be that i mean i don't want to get bogged down because it felt like you didn't really connect to that right away you know hey you don't want to be Tony Bennett don't be Tony Bennett that's okay do whatever say

I'm Stephen Stills give him something to get behind Stephen Stills would be good steve steve hey i'm steve stills oh yeah you guys call me steve stills steve stills here stills stillo still man stillo it's me stillo the still man you guys call me steve i'd be stills i think man. You guys can call me Steve. I'd be Stillsy, I think. Okay, great.

And then, you know, one thing people really love is when you go to introduce a song, before a song or after a song, you kind of go like tell them a little bit about what it's about so they have context for it. So you go, hey, I just kind of split off from David Cosby.

Yeah, go ahead. Since you're right next to Still Woozy on the poster, what if you were Woo Stillsy? Like everyone's cheering for you, Stillsy. That could be powerful. The reverence

that would fall over the crowd in that context. That's a great segue into what... Or maybe since I'm... For what you were saying, Sean. Maybe since I'm Stu, I can be Woo Stilzy. Will Stoozy. Woo Stilzy.

You could be Will Stoozy. Will Stoozy. Yeah, you could definitely be Will Stoozy. Will Stoozy. Yeah. That's feeling good to me. I'm Will Stoozy, right? Like, thanks for coming. I'm Will Stoozy yeah that's feeling good to me i'm will stoozy right like thanks for coming on will stoozy say thank you you know it sounds like you said hi but you didn't say thank you thank you

and then get into it like that yes yeah yeah thank you thank you that feels so natural yeah and i'm thank you i know you're i know we're not here. I'm going, you're welcome, Will. Could you maybe talk a little bit about, it's helpful for people to kind of get a peek at what generated the lyrics. You said you wrote a lot of songs about throwing up. I'm going to say we maybe only want to do that once to say this song's about throwing up.

I don't necessarily want to hear that multiple times in a show maybe pick one throwing up song and then have another one and say like it doesn't have to be this but go like this is a song about my favorite podcast it's called hollywood handbook i hope you guys give it a listen i was on recently they actually inspired a lot of what you're going to hear today at Coachella and um it's more important to me that you listen to them than it is that you listen to my music which is like it's just a band that's whatever I'm whatever about it there's gonna be a pop for sure just like just you mentioning the name like I'll be there for first of all and like I'll go insane i'll be my podcast out i can't hear my podcast

show i will be losing my shit sick yeah and other people will really start to react out of an instinctive need to to cover for me like yeah there's sort of a uh core like tribal thing that happened it's like in the dna of humanity they're not gonna let me have this bigger reaction alone haze and i'll be on opposite sides just to kind of generate like through the middle uh this you know uh communal sound that comes out so you're gonna want to pause after you say hollywood handbook and then i think what could be really powerful is if you start recommending some of your favorite episodes just like places for them to start good ways in let's do it let's go okay what would that sound like i haven't listened to any i'm really sorry sorry oh my gosh it's really nice it's really nice that

you're sorry but we'll um we'll still recommend definitely 100 yeah definitely why not okay we'll give the people what they want why this is feeling so good yeah whatever yeah this is feeling so good so many other people come on the show and just lay out exactly why not right like they just painstakingly go through all the reasons why they don't feel comfortable like recommending this another but like lack of knowledge like in your case that's number one yeah i just don't know enough about it to i have to do more research yeah like but i'm right here ask me whatever you want but the more they know it doesn't feel like that that's bringing us closer to uh to getting name dropped on stage

but your energy man like why not just like fuck it let's do it fuck it you get as much time up there as you want yeah i'm never getting off that stage yes i don't know what day my show is i don't know what size my font is and i'm gonna get all hung up on whether or not i've ever listened to the podcast i'm recommending most podcasts don't have anything wrong with them yeah oh yeah you know it's safe hell yeah be a better you in 2024 with babble the science-backed language learning app that actually works don't pay hundreds of dollars for private tutors or waste hours on apps that don't really help you speak the language and the question that i always get people stop me and they say like hey i like i i trust you i know like you when you endorse a product it's something that you

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do comedy people will like laugh on stage and then the audience will start laughing because they're laughing uh you could do that and say like during your song like this is so good and then everyone in the audience will start doing that too yeah i think that's cool you go holy shit i love this one oh they're playing this i love this one and you start just like dancing to it i love that that could be cool you're writing this down yeah i'm literally wrote it actually saying i literally wrote um laughing therapy because it's a thing i wanted to tell you about it but it's um it it's it's like a yoga thing but it's very good i'm into it we should do it yeah on stage not now yeah i say you do that

on stage like let's do that i mean and the dancing idea the saying holy shit they're playing this one i love this song oh my god this is my song have you ever gamified any elements of your uh performance gamified what does that mean i don't know what that means just adds like elements of like gaming and like competition just like gives something for the crowd to kind of like lock into that they can instead of just being like totally passive where like this guy said hi to me seven times and then like played a bunch of music. He didn't even know I was here. Then said goodbye 20, 25 times. Instead,

we're actually helping the audience participate and they get to feel like they won something at the end. Potentially. You don't do any of that. Like a mate raffle on stage. Exactly.

It's just like that. That was actually my first suggestion. Except the meat is you and the fellas. It's you and the boys. Okay, I dig that. Yeah, we're just a bit of meat. Yeah, there's seven of you, right? Yeah, heaps of meat.

That's too much meat. that's too much meat that's so much meat yeah meat raffle on stage we should definitely do that lock it in tony that in kevin can you lock that in for me please lock that one in do you ever sit down and and let your feet kind of dangle off the end of stage and sort of just kick there almost like you're like a little kid your feet not touching the ground and just kind of a little fishing pole get kind of quiet and just break it down and say you know when i when i came up with this song i was going through a really hard time yeah i just uh i just finished watching the oscars and I didn't have my take solidified yet. I do do that sometimes. And I was feeling pretty lost. And just kind of bring us in.

All of a sudden, I'm finding myself leaning in. Then you pretend that you caught a fish. I actually do do that. But it's way more cheesy. Because it's when we're jamming and it gets kind of dirty, like dead, and then it feels like you need to sit down on the edge of the stage. And that's real.

That's real, man. That's how cheesy this shit gets. Everything I've said has been real. Yeah, it's real. No, I know you're just saying that's real like as if that's differentiating it from some of the other stuff like the steven stills stuff and the tony so if you're gonna say that because you didn't react to it which is say it's like i'll use that all the time like say it every time either of us says something

if you're gonna say it yeah because like the the meat raffle thing i thought was was real we locked that in so i hope yeah that's very long again so yeah locked totally long how many gex are you guys how many gex how many gex oh gex like the banks yeah we're one less one less gex than them you're 99 gex 99 gex okay all right that's pretty good you know if they weren't there i go that's probably the most gex at the whole festival you know that's fucking hate to get i almost like i i don't want to be like right up against him but like one less like i would i would actually go the other way and be like five gecks. I'm only five or six gecks.

Infinity gecks. Are they actually there? I want to see them. Yeah, they're there. But they don't want you to go. Okay, that sounds about right. That sucks, dude. Stu.

Will. Stoozy. I'm so sorry. It's cause they're scared of me that's what we're worried about too one of them is scared of you one of them is scared the other 99er they are not

scared of you I've always wanted to see 100 gecks on stage that's so many gecks they're on Saturday too oh cool same day as us i was like hang on hey as i was like he did not and i was thinking like did we accidentally lock the in the meat raffle for saturday saturday the whole thing is like yeah it's like he's joking but like i really do need to know that that that's locked in sometimes too when i'm at a basketball game there will be like

three basketballs on screen and they'll all start like moving almost like a um like a shell game sort of thing where like one of them is like the basketball i meant to follow they all look identical and then i like text like number one two or three uh to like you know uh some like sprint phone number or something and then i have an opportunity to i don't know get my name on screen or something but that's really gamifies it in a way that keeps me very engaged do you guys have any i don't know if you'd rather bring like a rugby ball or something and and and the three of you could sort of all switch places and we have to try to keep track of who has the magic rugby ball

and then they maybe they can't text you i mean they could text you like they could text melbourne people don't play rugby melbourne people don't because of the weather we play we play afl footy football it's like australian football it's pretty weird you probably maybe you know about i don't know but we do that sport but we yeah we'll bring a footy bring a footy please and bring three i'm looking at an article that's the headline is king gizzard release first person shooter video game for their song mars for the rich we did do that actually sounds like yeah we gamified sounds like gamified of me this is some of the most gamified shit I've ever heard in my life we did do that

you should play it now okay activate game ah I got shot no you didn't I just got shot this is a game to you?

I didn't even get to hear the song. It said, you're dead. There's no music when you die. This is really dark, Stu. I believe there is music when you die. I didn't know how dark this was. I thought there would be, too, music when I die. We made a game.

It's about Will Smith. You made a game about that, too? Oh, my gosh. Wow. Yeah, yeah. It's really good sounds awesome you guys have 20 albums right yeah almost one's about to come out any skits any skits um no all right kevin skits okay kevin's got something for you here's your chance kevin he can pitch his big skit his album skit people will love this at coachella and kevin can you make sure this skit is goaded please yes with the sauce please after the first song everyone's going nuts and then you say this is wait this is when they listen to the album well it's going to be for coachella but we can record this and put this on the album too

live skit live skit okay better work okay stew says snl goaded goaded. So Stu says, am I the only one that saw that Beatles documentary? Everyone's cheering nuts. Because everyone loved it. They watched it. I says to myself, self, what if

that was about my band and then it's then you guys have like a little skit about i think it might go something like this you want to do that yeah yep if you want to do that you don't have to but that would be good with the sauce that's a good one before track one of the album and like before track one before track one yes do you remember on cds how sometimes you could you could like skip backwards past before track one and it would have a secret track?

That was cool. I miss that. Remember secret tracks and shit? Oh gosh, yes. Yes. We put one on every episode of this show that we've ever done. But for the CD

version of the podcast? If you do get it on CD, which not enough people do, you just have to keep letting it play. It seems like it's dead air and it's over and it's like, boom, track that was not listed. That's badass. I'd pay it.

And that's real. That's real. Stu, I'm starting a new initiative with guests. Oh, great. Another real. Stu, I'm starting a new initiative with a guest. Oh, great. Another initiative. Oh, no. Every week it's a new initiative with this guy. Just really quick, before we end the show,

we need to physically see you subscribe to the podcast. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. On my phone? Yeah. Do you have the podcast app? Yeah, I do.

All right. Check this out. Can you see that? Okay. Do you have the podcast app? Yeah, I do. All right, check this out. Can you say that? Okay. Doughboys and High and Mighty are on top? I just looked this up before we chatted. Oh, because you looked up our show. Oh, it's recommended. Don't listen to that shit, dude.

Please, whatever you do. No cap, don't listen. Don't listen. Yeah, no cap. Why can't I say it anymore? Hang on. Now I don't know where I was. That's on purpose, my friend.

What is that? What are you talking about? Don't. Yeah, exactly. It's better if you don't know. Honestly. That's what I say when I listen to this. This is what you're...

You want to know what I say? Awful. This is what I say when I look it up. Okay, yeah, that's... Magic Tavern. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that happened to you. That's my funny ass.

This is what I say, y'all. Are you down with all this shit? Some of it's okay. I'm down with some of that. All right. Some of it I'm down with. Did you click it and then... Look at this one?

Look at Get Played's logo. Get Played. Wait, how do you do it again? The plus on the top? Oh, yeah, plus. Boom. Oh. Ooh.

That check mark. Ooh, daddy. We got daddy we got that's it we got me wow ladies and gentlemen we got him that video was that a kid in your lock screen that's my kid that's minty she's pretty cute minty minty minty oh that is a cute kid hi minty how old we doing hi 18 months all right you got you're getting right in between my guys really yeah it's good age it's fun times i only have one so i don't like i can't really fathom like the two kid thing oh that's cool i got through is she lying down yet i got through whatever she's like running and shit okay so she's not lying down yet yeah you can just say and there's no normal no those milestones those benchmarks are like so designed to like make you buy some product to like get to lie down. It's like, she'll do it.

I like that. Is she lying down yet? She's lying down a lot, actually. It's pretty cool. If she weren't, that would actually be really bad. Imagine if she just stood up all the time. I was very scared for you. At 18 months, they should be lying down

for at least a month at that point. Yeah, that's crazy. No, it would be really scary if she wasn't 100 um stew do you know yorch yorch he's one of our listeners in australia oh okay k-pop guy maybe is he a k-pop guy i actually don't know i never mostly think of him as a k-pop guy yeah okay he's a k-pop guy yeah i didn't ask his job either but you know the one time we had him on the stream he like if you remember he left his computer in the backyard and he ran inside i think to record a k-pop song yeah yeah okay young young sin um wong paninton is is named yorch a k-pop guy that's obviously who you're talking about right yeah i guess that is that's sounding right i guess that is him yeah okay cool shout out well he gets a shout out and i didn't get one this entire show

haven't been shouted out on my own show but but that's fine, I guess. Yeah. Well, I am obviously, I'm excited for the show. I hope you'll take some of these lessons to heart, Stu. Yeah, man. Because there were moments, and just a few, but there were moments where I felt like maybe you were humoring us a little bit. No, man. I wouldn't do that to you. And that's what I said.

Sean texted me. He's humoring my ass. You better make him stop now. I'm sorry, man. I should be more genuine. You know, I wouldn't do that to you, brother. I got you. Alright, man. That's feeling really good. Yeah, yeah. I got you. Thank you for gotching me

We can have a cuddle when we get there as well When's the new album come out? April? I think Wrong! It comes out tomorrow! No it doesn't Does it? It can't, that's impossible

When's this podcast coming out? The day before the album That's cool Oh, it's podcast coming out? The day before the album. That's cool. Oh, it's not finished yet. No, it is finished. No, Stu. We're trying to create a sense of drama.

This thing's coming out tomorrow and we haven't finished it. Oh, fuck. And then you find the key that unlocks the final track of the album or whatever like you know and then we're a part of your history just as you've become a part of ours yeah with your scorching hot take sexy hot take on the oscar what's it called what's it called what's what code you have to know what your album is called stew this i i am so glad we got touching you 20 albums you don't know when you don't know what the new one's called you don't know that the new one comes out tomorrow what this has become an intervention it's called the hollywood handbook The album is? What? Yeah. Killer fucking title, dude. Yeah, let's talk about this shit. Yes, doc.

That's why I'm on here. That's so good. Yes. Bad for us, I guess. It's great for you. We don't want to be the other Hollywood Handbook, the one people don't listen to. No, it's for real, though. For real, though.

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