Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Big Butts Weekly, with David Wain and Ken Marino

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

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Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sucks and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne. Sloppity bile piper, Harold of Nergel. Oh boy, I'm Jordan Morris Boy Detective. I can't wait to hear about this new nickname.

Jesse, you got a brand spanking new nickname. And it's a weird one. Jordan, if you first of all, Just stop patronizing me. Second of all... I'm not. This is what I'm like. I'm like this. Folks, he's a lot of fun.

I'm like this. This is the name of a guy, a Warhammer guy, because I went to a Warhammer store today. Do you know what Warhammer is? Kind of sort of. It is primarily... Let me see. I'm going to say some things I know about Warhammer. You tell me if I'm right or wrong.

You being the expert. Great, Jordan. I'm going to do a bad job of being the expert. Go ahead. So it is primarily like a table-trial. RPG like a Dungeons and Dragons, but it has spun off into video games and some other things. Maybe there's a movie, but it's like a heavy metal machines versus demons type world, right? Am I?

How much of this is right? Yeah, this is something our friend Stuart Wellington from the Flop Palace. It was his career at one point. Before he became a bar owner, I believe he was like a regional manager of Warhammers. And the game is very miniature-based, right? There's lots of little guys, robots, demons, you paint them. The key thing, well, first of all, my youngest child, Frankie, would murder me if I were to allow you to say that it was like Dungeons and Dragons because it is more like risk from what I've been told. But yes, the main thing that happens, there's guys and you move them around a playing area.

but the main thing you do is you make the guys. The guys come in kits, and you glue them together, and then you paint them with little tiny paint brushes. And it's all guys, right? Like no girls allowed? Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's no girls allowed. There was a girl in the store today,

and she looked very confused. There is a game, and I think people do play the game, but mostly they build the little guys. Okay. And one of these guys is going to cost you, I don't know, $35 fucking dollars and you need like 60 of them or something. By you, you mean dad? Yeah. Is that who, who cost that too?

However, I just want to say, like, I've been to, for a guy that sort of like quit collecting comic books and baseball cards at 12-ish, I've been to a lot of comic book stores, baseball card stores. uh, comic book conventions. I've been to a lot of events of that sort. Right. And locations of that sort over the years. I have never been to a friendlier place than the Warhammer store. Wow.

I go in there with my nine year old and he's running his fucking mouth about space marines this and correcting people. People are thanking a nine year old for correcting people. in the Warhammer store. That's bold. I like it. People, he's complimenting people's orcs. He's giving them technique tips for layering paint on orcs. It's breathtaking this store. It's incredible. Is Frankie the youngest person in there typically? By 35 years. These are 41 year old men. These are 40, 502 year old men. There's some 26 year olds in there. But this isn't like, The, the crowd, I've been to the, like, there's like a big tabletop gaming store in Pasadena that I've also been to.

Yes. That store has a huge place where you play Dungeons and Dragons. That area features some classic greasy teens and is and smells bad. It's also very nice. I've also supported. Yeah. This Warhammer store, it's. clean. The man wears a uniform. He greets you. He said to my child, this is the first time I've been

in the store, he said to my child, it's nice to see you again. And I think he meant it. Look at that. And when you say this is the Warhammer store, actually, let's do this. We have some guests. Do you want to bring them in and ask them what weirdos stores they've been in? I'm really excited to find out about their weirdest stores. they are the writers and director of the new film Gail Dutri and the Celebrity Hall Pass. They're also... Nope. You're getting a headshake.

Is that not the title of the film? Did they say it wrong? Oh, it's Gail Doughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. That's all right. We'll get to it. Oh, Jesus. That's what I get to it. We'll get to it.

We'll take it again. The writer, the writers and director of the new star, Mel Gibson's, Passion of the Christ, too. Column resurrection. Is that correct? I'd love it if we could just do one more take. That was great. I loved it.

Let's get one just for safety. And this time, let's say Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Okay. I think we can both say that. Gail Doctry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Ken Marino and David Wayne. Hello, gentlemen. How are you?

What a joy it is to see you. Gentlemen, here we are. And I feel like the way you talked about that store being friendly, let's up it here tonight. Oh, okay. With friendliness? Let's make it the friendliest place on earth. Ooh.

Speaking of which, I love your place. It looks great. And you just have a beautiful home here. Thank you. Thank you very much. I should say we are on Zoom, but I think Ken, you're kind of doing like a theater of the mind thing

where we're all in like a house or whatever. It might just be that Ken is looking around. at admiring his own home. He's got those copper pans. It's really nice. Looking at my house. Looks like you got a nice kitchen island there. Thank you so much.

Congratulations on that. You know, you guys are joking around, but in the old days of radio, you could close your eyes and imagine that you're with Jack Benny, and he's there trying to get his car repaired, and I'm smelling the fumes.

And you're with the mechanic. You can hear the mechanic. You can hear the wrench. Ah, it's the shadow. Run! from the chat and we're criminals so we are afraid of him. Now, now I realize, Jordan, you do have a sense of the old time radio ethos. And I appreciate that.

That's right, Dave. I do love that old time radio. Turn in the dial using your imagination. Not like these kids with their cell phones. They don't know anything about the old time radio. What do you think about the old time rock and roll? Oh, I mean, I like it. I like it so much.

I've taken all my old records off the shelf. That's how much I like it. Just listen to them by yourself. Yeah. I feel like the smartphones have been shortening our attention spans. That's a great point, Dave. Wow, what a great observation. I see people on their smartphones and I'm like, are these zombies just looking?

And some brains are looking for a little dopamine hit from Daddy Bezos? Part of me wants to be like, hey, I'm right here with you in person. put your phone away. Yes. Well, see, I'm more curious about the other part of you. The other part of me wants to be like, you know what? Smoke them if you got him. Yeah, baby.

Sure. Ken and Dave, have you, do you guys frequent any enthusiast stores? We're talking comic book store, model train store. I'm sorry. Yes. I mean, I hate to stop you. No, no, that's okay. We prefer alphabetical order.

Dave and Ken? Dave and Ken, excuse me. I'll take that again. I'll give you some options. Yeah, please. Ken. Dave and Ken, have you. Do you frequent any enthusiast stores, a reptile store, model train store, baseball car place?

I used to go to the model train store in Burbank a lot with my son. That's where you do that. And I went to the board game store in Studio City sometimes. Was your son a model railroader? You know how kids sometimes are like, I'm a big model railroader. It's the only thing I care about for a week. And so that's what he was. Yeah.

I used to go to the model reptiles store, which is just like reptiles who are, you know, hoping to, you know, start a career in modeling. Oh, okay. And they'll do whatever to get that career going. I'll tell you what, some of the models you've dated are so cold. They basically are reptiles. Wow, David. I'm saying this like this so that they're not for everybody. No, no, it's a little secret.

It's a secret for all. It just does. For the audio listener, Dave has his hand in front of one side of his face. So some people could hear that remark about the models. But oddly enough, he used his right hand to shade his left side. Yeah. As opposed to just going like that. It's a crossover move.

It's a crossover move. Like Alan Iverson. That's right. David, did you ever paint terrain when you were going to the model railroading store? Is that a euperism for using a urinal? Yeah. That's correct. All right, everybody use the terrain.

Time to paint the terrain. We're not going to stop on the road. Use the terrain now. How far did you get is what I'm asking in the world of model railroading? Actually, my father as a child was into model railroads. And so at some point or another, we inherited his set. And then we were like, oh, it's so great. Let's put it together with the kids when my kids were little.

And then we were like, oh, well, it's not in great shape. we got to fix that and replace that. Then we went to the store and there was a lot of buying. And then we set it up like once. And then they moved on to something else. Yeah. I've discussed this a lot of times on the program. I could really see myself getting into model railroading.

If I had any patience, any artistic or aesthetic skill, any ability with my hands, knowledge of electricity, or mathematics, computers. I actually did it as a kid a little bit and I did like it. It was it is there's a nice the idea of putting the time and effort into these tiny, the reason same people do dollhouses or those little, those drawings that are very detailed. It's a world you can control unlike this one that we're in. Beautiful. Thank you. Could you repeat that? Uh, no, I forgot. I forgot what I said. He said it's a world you can control and then he said thank you. Thank you.

Okay, it sounds like Ken handled it, Dave. Is that good enough for you? Yeah, that's good. I just, yeah, my assistant here who's writing down things that I'm going to remember later. Ken, what were your childhood hobbies? I collected mad magazines. I still do. That's a good one.

I still do. I collect man magazines and I also collected, my wife gives me shit about this. But I'm starting to pass them out. TV guides from the 70s and 80s when I was growing up. I just would collect all the TV guides. So I have all the old ones with the, you know, all these angels on them. I gave Dave a couple actually.

Just, uh, yeah, I love them. And for our generation, it's nice to kind of look at them and you can see what, you know, what shows were playing.

I try to give people now, oh, wow, this is, you don't have to tell me what shows we're playing. Happy days is at 8 o'clock on Tuesdays, then LeBernan Shirley comes on after that. And then?

And then Love Boat and then Fantasy Island. Well, no, no, that was Saturdays. You skip the 9 o'clock block. Yeah, I forget what's on that. Let's see. What was, Mark and Mindy?

No, that was a different night. My mother, the car. Oh, no, you're right. I'm so sorry. You're right, David, you were right. It's Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love Boat, Fantasy Island. And then on a special episode of Fantasy Island, that was, you know what that was. That was Paul Thomas Anderson's father.

Ernie Anderson was the voice of all the promos on ABC. That is a great piece of Paul Thomas Anderson, Lauren. You can cut all this out. No, no. Oh, no, we're clipping this. We're clipping this out for socials. Ken, do you have a prize TV guide and or man magazine? Is there like one where you're like, I couldn't find this one? And then I found it in a thing. TV guys, not so much. I just like the ones that I didn't draw all over. And so like that's in like mint condition where the back isn't broken. And then like that has like Charlie's Angels on it or like a Wonder Woman or somebody I had a crush on when I was. So those are the those are the ones. I like. Do you have any mad magazines

where Al Newman's on the cover? I got a few, yeah, thanks. Yeah. Thank you for asking. I know those are some of the good ones, yeah. Well, interestingly enough, so there is, to your question, there's a mad magazine that was,

the cover was parodying, the Poseidon Adventure, and he was upside down, and so it's one of the few mad magazines where his face isn't on it, you just see his legs. That's really good stuff. My first guess was,

do they call it the piss side and adventure, but you probably couldn't say piss on the cover of a magazine. They probably called it the Black Side and Adventure. The Black Side and Adventure. The Black Side an Adventure. The Yvesein Adventure. The YSide and Adventure, yeah. Do you remember your first Mad Magazine, Ken Marino?

I mean, I don't know if it was my first one, but I remember there was one that had the parody of the Godfather in it. And I remember kind of going through that and looking at that. But no, I don't remember the very first one I had. Ken and I were both actually deeply into Mad Magazine. That's one of the things we bonded over early on after meeting each other. I'd say the group of the people in the state, we were the two that were the most into Mad Magazine. Jesse and I had a similar thing, but with Penthouse.

Oh, baby. Sure. We both wrote these letters. We couldn't believe this shit was happening to us. Pennhouse Forum. It was a great forum. Pan House Forum was, you know, a child's wet dream, literally. Well, the one thing that was better than Penn House Forum, I thought it was the nude ladies.

Oh, I never got to that. I just read it. You've got to look back at some of the back issues. Oh, my gosh. You're not going to believe some of the shit that's in these kids, Ken. You're not going to believe it. Wait, but can I just, Ken, are you sitting down? Give me a second.

I just got to find a seat. Looking around. Okay. Theater of the mind. Theater of the mind. Wait, wait. Hold on. Let me just get the horse. Oh, wow.

Okay. Now I've hooked up the horse to the stable, and I'm going to tell you this thing about... You hooked up the horse to the stable. Classic phrasing. I'm a Western guy. You got to plug them in. Recharge the battery. You got a sluice out the toilet.

It's USBC, right? USBC, yeah. So... Why don't you go hook up the horse to the stable? Then come in and give me a whisk. You can explain to me off air what I got wrong about that. But the point is, I just want you to know, Ken, that these, this is way back now, but the women in Penn House stark naked. Are you kidding me?

All right, let's move on. From behind, right? No, you could see it all in the same room. Everything. Mostly they're in the shower and there's like. glass brick. Right. Jordan.

What a silhouette. You could see it all. Like, we were in a place in France? Yeah. Oh, these ladies, Jesse, they're wearing no pants. My dad was a playboy subscriber. And I think I learned later, hoarder. Oh, and then you discovered the stack?

Yeah, I found the stack. The stack was pretty mighty. The stack was tough to miss. and you know a lot of fun a lot of fun for a teenage jordan to flip through when uh you know mom and dad were um you know at a gala or something my dad had one summer's episode excuse me summer's uh magazine magazine issue ken latoya jackson very a little younger motorcycle oh yeah mine was the jane kennedy one that was my favorite one who's that Jane Kennedy was a sportscaster on HBO for a second. Anyway, my dad had one, and I knew where it was, and every time they went out, I took a look at it.

Took a little peek. All right, the parents are out. Let me pull out that playboy, saying pictures. Over and over again. Oh, yeah, some short fiction by Philip Roth. Oh, it's some nice sexy Marlboro ads. It was just the one. And so at some point, I actually did, like, read all the articles and the jokes.

You had a parent teacher conference and the principal told your parents, we have some concerns about David. He's been telling other children about the best high fies of 1976. And his opinion is about busing. Right. My dad, Playboy guy. So I was familiar with, you know, the tenants of Playboy magazine. But then I, you know, dug deep pretty deep back into the closet and found the one penthouse.

and the differences. The fact that it was, you know, if Playboy was, you know, naked lady sitting on a bale of hay and Penthouse was a, you know, lady. Spread eagle. Spread eagle. I was terrified, terrified.

The difference is so shocking. Anyway, I was so used to playboy. Jordan, I had such, I had such a similar experience, which is my dad had like a Playboy's greatest centerfolds or something like that. Like a, like a magazine book, you know,

like a checkstand, you know, life of Princess Diana type thing. Yeah. Only it was, it was the most legendary. Am I right, guys? I think that's a really good point. May she rest in peace.

R.I.P. to the ultimate centerfold. So it was, you know, it was like Marilyn Monroe and stuff. Yeah. And then one time, maybe everyone was out of town or something.

My dad had a copy of Big Butts magazine. Ooh. Yeah. And it was so. so explicit that it genuinely upset me. Was that the April 28th issue?

That was April 28th. It was a weekly. You're right that it was Big Butts Weekly. Like readers digest. I had the same experience. My friend Glenn Stockwell's dad collected bad playboy magazines. So we would always

have a plethora of playboys. Then my other buddy got his hands on a penthouse, lost our mind over that. Then I would go to work with my dad who was a cesspool cleaner and he worked on a big pump truck. I'd go

to his office with all the other guys and in the garage I would go to the bathroom and on the back thing of the bathroom were piles of really really graphic

like Cherry magazine and they were like so graphic, so terrible lighting, just no, it was just, like, there's no cover up on anything. It was super close up,

and I was traumatized. And then every time I would go to work with my dad, it'd be like, I gotta go to the bathroom again. Awful diarrhea. Like the guy, like, what's it, like Joe Pantleone and Midnight Run,

he's like, I'm going to go get some donuts. Yeah, I'm going to go, you know, like, I've just, kept going, Dad, I said something wrong with my stomach and then we go in there and...

Can I have a question? Yes, David, please. Would you say it was a plethora of Playboys? Ha, ha, plethora. Three amigos. Now, listen. Yes. I have heard that that kind of, like, nude stuff is now you can find it on the internet.

I can't imagine. Yeah, just go to playboy.com. Put in your credit card info and join the Cyber Club. What was so crazy is that they didn't have Photoshop the same way. So the way that they would smooth it out is just by shooting through these like gauzy lenses where everything was sort of fuzzy and glowy. Yeah. So it's so funny. We're all cracking up right now.

We are. All right. You guys, I just wish all the listeners were here, we're dying. We're rolling on the ground. If the listeners could hear this, they would hear us all cracking up. Yeah. I was really surprised when I first. finally did see a naked woman and there wasn't kind of a blurry sheen over her.

Right. Because I was so used to what that was. But was she hot? Dave. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, I was surprised because the first time I saw a naked woman, there was a sheen. And it turned out I had early onset cataracts.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's good. You're lucky. You have a small percentage of people get that. Yeah, catch it quick. Catch it quick. Doctors call that playboy eyes. Playboy eyes.

What do they call when they pop out of your head, the woman's so hot? Marty Phelben eyes. Marty Feltman eyes. Cartoon eyes. Yeah. And my head turned into a wolf head. What's that? That's good.

Doctors should, when old people get cataracts, the doctors can be like, you've got Playboy eyes now. Yeah. Dave, can I double back to the train store for a second? Yeah, because I think we've covered that other thing. Yeah, that thing's been good. I think we, yeah, we squoes the jones. juice, delicious juice. Did you find the guys in the train store to be nice, or were they like aggressive weirdos

who didn't like normies? They definitely were a little strange, but I feel like they could tell, they could read me and my son as people who didn't know what they're talking about very quickly. And so they had a certain nice quality where they're like, oh, we can sell you this overpriced thing, you won't even know what it is. Instagram showed me a video the other day

of I mean admittedly I got to get my nose out of my phone but Instagram showed me the other day a video of a model train expert

talking about a woman on a reality show showing her favorite model train locomotive and the upshot of this video was she's definitely

actually into trains because it was a fourth thousand dollar locomotive. There's a lot of fake train girls out there. Pretend to like trains and that they're just doing it for the clicks. Honestly, I'll go to what? I went to the model train lay.

You know how like in a, the museum of the city of New Orleans there or whatever? There's a model train club in the basement that gets to use the whole basement to build model trains as long as the kids can come. I don't know that. I mean, yeah, that's pretty much a thing. I said that like we should all know that. You guys have been to a museum that's like only sort of a museum, but it's mostly just a giant model train layout that's clearly a clubhouse, but they have to let people in so that they can call it a museum before. Sure, I've been to one in New Orleans.

Well, yeah, New Orleans, sure, the big EC. Yeah, we've opened to that one after we had our po' boy. They got that in San Diego in Balboa Park in San Diego. They got that very thing. They got a big building. building full of fucking trains. And I went there. And there's always these men, these 68-year-old men working on the tracks.

Although there's a long day. And it's fucking great. I love it. It makes me wish that I had any skill of any kind in any area. This makes me feel I'm inspired to do this. My father's old train set. So this is now from probably the 30s. I'm going to give it away to the listener that pledges the highest pledge anywhere over $5,000 or over.

Okay. And I will give, if that money comes in, I will give 3% of it to charity. Okay. That's a really great deal. That's a really nice deal. We're taking pledges. Calls are probably coming in. We're taking.

So, David, just to cover the, just so our operators, I want to be clear. The lawyers can make sure to paper this, yeah. So we're going to be taking, we're going to be taking pledges. Yeah. Different people are going to put in their pledges. So that's the first. The baseline is people are putting in pledges. Yes, it's like, I pledge X amount.

Yeah. Minimum and five thousand. Yeah. It's not even answering the phone for less than a thousand. Three percent of that, where is that going to go? So say it ultimately goes for 15,000, which I hope it does. Yeah, I hope so, too. That sounds great.

And then 3% of that is going to go to charity of my choosing at a later date. And then the rest of it is, you know, I will keep for my administrative costs and so on. Yeah. Any ideas for the charity, just like off the dome? Like, is there something you know what you're thinking of? It might just be like my kids school that they go to. Yeah. Right.

Kids got to go to school. That's good. Kids are their future. They're our future. Great point. That's a great point. I believe that children are a future. It's a wild belief.

Can I ask a question, by the way, and I know because a lot of, you know, we don't want to get too serious, but a lot of people are thinking about what's happening overseas and the Middle East. It's like, do we really, I don't need, what do we need war? Like, I don't. Wow. Thank you. I don't want it. I don't want it. I actually was sinking the other day.

That's great. I don't even know if it's okay for me to say this. but I was at a I was at a bake sale. You can say that. Not allowed to say that more. That's not a, that's not a canceled yet. I was at a, I was at a school bake sale.

And I bought, you know, I bought a fair number of, bought some crawlers. Okay. Yeah, this is checking out. This really happened. Okay.

I'm leaning in. You're setting the scene. You're painting a picture and I'm really getting a sense of it. I smell it. I smell it. Just like Jack Benny and the mechanics. Got a walnut loaf.

All right. Okay. Anyway, I was at this school bake sale, and I thought to myself, won't it be a great day when the schools have all the money they need? And the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy whatever school supplies they need for the air force. That's so beautiful. Beautiful. I was at a bake sale recently, and I thought it would be funny. if we envision world peace.

Right. So you can all go to bake sales and think about stuff. I was in a bake sale and I wrote coexist with things in our letters. Yes, various fonts, yeah. That's beautiful. Beautiful. Like all the things and then they can coexist. They can all coexist.

It was a nice walnut loaf too that I got. Now that we've given people a lot to like. Good walnut loaf. We've given people a lot to think about. Do you want to like take a break and let people reflect and then we'll come back for some more? Let's take a quick break. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan. We're going to take a break now.

We've got to have a couple of messages, but then we'll be back right after this. I don't know about you guys, but I need a break. Okay. Then we'll be back for some more. On Jordan. On Jordan. Thanks, Ken. Thanks, David.

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Jordan, you've been traveling in the country promoting your best-selling comic books. Yes. And I did notice that you had the number eight best-selling comic book in the country for the entire month of, I'm going to say it was April or may I don't know.

It was April, and that is true based on a certain metric. Yeah, I mean, I've seen a photograph of a list. Sure. Where did the list come from? Somewhere that prides itself in action. Comicbook.net. I don't know, something like that.

Probably something really accurate. Yeah, head to your local comic book store. Grab yourself Predator Bloodshed. Grab yourself Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Versity, and Baby Garfield number three. I think, I think, don't quote me on this, you can still go to bit. ly slash cool garf if you want to sign a copy in the mail. I think that link is still active. Bit.ly slash cool garf.

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We will be back in just a second on Jordan Jesse Go. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's Radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. And I'm David Wayne, the barren enforcer. I am a carving waggy napkin holder. You say carving waggy napkin holder.

That's me. Right. Yeah. Sure. Sure. It makes sense and it's good. You know what? James finds inspiration in his surroundings.

It's beautiful. Beautiful. Carvin's really beautiful. There it is. Holding up a napkin. That's what I do on Carvin Waggie. Dave, were you palming a playing card there a minute ago? Did I see?

Yeah. Are you doing close up magic? Yeah. Oh! He did magic! You can't see it, but he did it. He did real magic. Hell yeah.

Ken Marino, unimpressed. David's a big. I've seen a lot of David's magic tricks. He's got, I can't even tell you how many decks of cards he has around his house. He's constantly, watch them, he's constantly. Whoa, it changed. It was one card. That was my card.

Constantly practicing magic. He is a member of the Magic Castle here in Los Angeles. He's a very good, he's a very good magician. In fact, he did what, and he did a whole magic show at the comedy festival last year or two years ago. I did Wayne and Watkins World of World of. wonder with my magic partner, Michaela Watkins. Oh, the great Michael Watkins. Yeah.

If you want, I can encourage her to come in here and tell you all about it. What a legend. She's got to put headphones on. Yeah, yeah. It'd be a whole thing. What, how does she participate in the, what, how do you do, divvy up the magic task? Well, we did a show as if we were of like a husband and wife magician couple.

And we just did a whole night of like, you know, us sort of banter. and joshing each other in between the magic. It was great. Is this been an interest of year since small childhood? Since small childhood, I've always been interested. And then I got more serious into like real card magic in my 30s. And I've been studying that pretty consistently since then. When you say real card magic, you mean things where the cards are actually transformed

where it's not an illusion. Right. Actual magic with potions and mind control. No, I actually really did get like in. to like, you know, meeting mentors who are like the top magicians and learning from them and still like that. Do you always have cards in your hand? I've met before he passed away, I met Ricky Jay a few times, and he always had cards in his hand doing things with the cards. Yeah. I'm pretty much like that. Ken can confirm. I could vouch for that. I mean, I can confirm that, yeah.

Ken, what are you always fiddling with? That's a little personal. Sorry. I'm sorry. We've just met. Yeah. I'm asking you what you're fiddling with. I'll say what it is. What are you always fiddling with? My dick, Ken, okay? I'm not uptight. I'll say it.

I'm always fiddling with my dick. I'm not a right. You have that whole pile of playboys. Oh, yeah, that's right. I did. So tower, two towers. Who types? You guys write movies together.

Who types? I type. You type. Ken, do you pace around? A lot of energy. Yeah, Ken walks around and says stuff. and we riff and I type. You know, David and I came from, you know,

we met, we're in a sketch comedy group way back in the 90s called the state. And, you know, a lot of times, you know, different members of the state would break off and they'd write sketches together. And so we had a certain style of writing that we did on that show that led into when we started writing like screenplays

and things like that. I'm the sitter in Jordan. I'm the typer in Jordan is the pacer, generally, but my concern is that when we were 19 years old, that made a lot of sense because I was a strong typist and, you know, good with sentence structure, Jordan, the talented one. But my only concern is that I would hand Jordan something from my desk that I was okay with with being broken so that he could break it

a little bit at a time while we work together. But then Jordan went off and became a professional comedy writer. So now he can sit at the desk and type all the jokes out. I'm completely superfluous now. I'm not even needed as a typist.

Let me tell you something. There's Jordan and that's great. Thank you. And then there's Jesse and that's great. But in this case, one plus one equals three. get it there's no replacing the alchemy between the two of you it is special it is magic and that combination cannot be replicated by any other single or partnered person david that's no no beautiful absolutely no single or partner pepson can do what you guys do you're the only pepsles

who can do it but the only pepsles yes jordan you're such a special per person for me. These past 25 years working with you have been the best time in my life. You're both perpast special. Thank you, Jesse. I like of you. Let me lay it down. Lay it down, Dave.

Thanks. Miles Davis. Yes. Yes. Birth of the cool. Nobody can do what he did. No. If Miles played Mary had a little lamb, it's going to be Miles' version of it.

Right. So now you get my point? That's really, exactly. We're Miles Davis. We're as good as Miles Davis. I think his point is both of you were Miles Davis. Yes, two mileses, the perfect band. Guys, you as Mary.

You, Jordan, the perfect band isn't two mileses. The perfect band is Ken Marino and David Webb. They're in a band together. They are in a band. It's true. Yes. These guys are in the perfect band. That's true.

The band we're in is called the middle-aged dad jam band, and it's real. It is real. I've seen pictures of it on the internet. All cover songs, songs you would call Dad Rock. Am I getting that right? I think that's pretty fair. Songs from all the decades, the 60s, the 70s and the 80s. Wow, all three decades.

All three decades. We play songs from all three decades, and we also, we have an offshoot shows where we play only all Billy Joel. Okay. And then in July, we're going on the East Coast doing our sort of tribute to Wet Hot American Summer, 25th anniversary shows. And that's, you know, we make all these videos on YouTube that are like massive viral hits. Wow.

Huge viral hits. That's so cool. I would like to hear from both of you, David First. It's like the bullseye of cover bands. That's what they're called. David First, because you come first alphabetically. What are your top Joles? What are the top Joel songs in your mind?

Well, you know, I'm the drummer in the band. Okay. And so I've always liked Billy Joel, but now I'm learning the Billy Joel songs from the point of being a drummer. And I'm really enjoying learning. Liberty DeVito, the drummer and Billy Joel is incredible. And so I really enjoy playing, for example, Ain't No Crime. Another one I love is stiletto. And there's quite a few.

It's so much fun. I love playing those songs. My life. Ken, Top Joles? Video that the band put out was scenes from an Italian restaurant And I don't know if you can get much better than that That's one of these great songs And then, you know, I like Vienna

And I like anything from Glasshouses, Stranger from 52nd Street You know, that kind of era And then, you know, Zanzibar We don't do Zanzibar But I'm hoping we will get around to it But I like Zanzibar a lot He really is like the Bruce Springsteen of popular music.

I've heard that. He heard that. Ken, what proportion of the leads are you singing in the band? We have guest singers come on from time to time, but I am the lead vocalist. He's the man. Was that something you always felt ready for? You were just waiting for someone to call and make you the lead singer of a band? Or was it something of which you had trepidation?

It's always been a fantasy of mine. and then, you know, David started doing jams in his garage, done on the weekends after COVID. And I was like, hey, this is, I like this. We would spend all week doing COVID, and then on weekends we would get together in the garage. During COVID. Did I say, during COVID?

The weekends after COVID. It was just to have play on words. Oh, that was great. I love a good play on words. So I just sort of muscled my way in there, and I was like, I'll just, if I stay long enough, I'll, you know, they'll let me be the lead vocalist. It really was just dads having jams in the garage and then it sort of organically turned

into a band without us really noticing. Well, at some point you started making highly polished videos of your performances. Yes. Well, part of it was that we had started doing live shows and touring around and we found that that was very tiring and not very lucrative. And so we started to say like, Maybe we could do some of this band activity just in the garage. And so that's what we started doing these videos and hoping that more people would see that.

And then maybe we could do shows for a little bit larger crowds and stuff. And that has worked to some degree. And the truth is, it's tiring because we're not even really middle age. We're a little beyond that. So we're old. Two-thirds age? Yeah, let's say that. Let's go with that.

Jesse, you want to listen to some phone calls? Yeah, I do. So when something momentous happens to you, like you become the lead singer of the garage rock band, give us a call, 206, 984-4-fund, or just send us a voice memo at JJGo at maximum fun.org for our segment of momentous occasions, such as has this person done. Hi, Jordan, hi, Jesse. Hi, hi guest. I'm going to say Jordan Myrick. This is Ben from Chicago, calling in with a momentous occasion. I am a 36-year-old. cis gay man who has for the first time in my life purchased and applied a maxi pad. I don't think I've ever been as intimidated as I was in that Walgreens Isle with a 15-minute old genital piercing. Thanks. Love you. And Buck Ice. Great question. Great question. Great question. And we're going to get you some answers. I was once on the show younger and I played a man who, uh,

was trying to understand what it is like to be a woman in today's society. And so he bought tampons and maxi pads and used them. So does that's, does that help answer his question? I think it does, yes. What was, how did you feel playing that, playing that character?

I've almost no memory of it. Okay. I can't believe you remember, you remembered that part of it. Yeah, but I'm hoping that helps this guy. Yeah. My genitals are heavily pierced,

but they healed almost immediately. It wasn't a problem for me. That's why they call you old Wolverine Dick. That's why they call me that. Do you know what a moyle is? Is that the villain to a Wolverine Dick? Sort of. It's the moil.

This is the professional, this is the professional foreskin removal. Right. It's a rabbi who's also a doctor trained to give up a circumcision to a boy. And I go to the moil that did my circumcision, I go every couple of months. just for touch up. Otherwise it gets long. Where do you get a moiled from? Is it like a company, like the moil, the merrier or something? You can do that.

But like where I grew up, mostly you go down to the docks and they're just like waiting hanging around down there. Right. Just shooting dice. If you go with your pickup truck and you're like, get in, you know. And then you bring them to your house for, there's families there with like hors d'oeuvres and you're going to have a circumcision. Roll down your window, say,

40 bucks, that's unfair, 40 bucks, get it. Yeah. Then when you get to the house, you're like, actually it's 30, are you going to leave or not? Yep. Yeah, you can take that. He's already there. What is he going to do? He's going to go back to the docks, empty-handed? Is he going to go back to the docks? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's not going to do that. The jokes on me, though,

because a lot of times at the docs, there's at least cocaine shipments, and they end up making five times that much. Well, I didn't want to say anything. Moyals do great on blow. It's true. The percentages are there. We're talking 150 bucks. Guys, just so you know, a lot of people think that we only thought of the one segment idea, momentous occasions 20 years ago when we started the show, and we haven't thought of anything new. But actually, we're really creative guys who come up with a lot of ideas for segments.

So this next call isn't just someone calling in to tell us something they wanted to tell us and then claiming it's for a segment that we thought of. It's actually a segment that is what's happening. Just so you guys know we thought. Okay, I appreciate the heads up on that. I know the shadow's doing a bond rip. Hey, Jordan and Jesse and guest. I'm going to guess Lenny Kravitz,

who I believe is in fact, dead. Close. This is an entry for your exceptional segment. People who think Lenny Kravitz is dead but are wrong. And side category, couples who get stoned and listen to Jordan, Jesse, go together. I'm here with my partner, Sherston. Hi, you guys. I think the guest is Winona Ryder.

But, like, 90s-era Winona Ryder when she was, like, late, when she was shoplifting. That's right. We're talking about reality bites era when known a rider. I wouldn't be surprised if Ethan Hawk is in the rim.

Ben Stiller probably gone. So that was a lot of different things happened in that call. Yeah, sure. A lot of different things happened in that call. Lenny Kravitz is alive and well.

Lenny Kravitz is alive and well. Sure. Looking great, by the way. I heard the Moyle got a look at Kravitz and he's like, I'm going to need a bigger boat. You know, if I recognize that guy's voice, that's a Foley artist, I know. Oh, yes.

John Foley. It's good to know, Jordan. It's good to know, honestly, for me, it's good to know that some of our listeners are high on drugs. Yeah. It was nice. What I wanted to say to the guy when he said, I think Winona Ryder and Heath and Hawkers in there, I was like, nope, it's just carving wagging, napkin holder. And David, what was yours again? The barren enforcer.

I don't even know what that means. From Baron Switzerland? Sure. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's right.

Jordan, did you know that Ken and David have a new movie coming out in July? I did. And I'm very excited because I love the films of David Wayne and Ken Marino. Thank you. We do have a new movie. Do you want to know what it's called? Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Oh, I'm so excited about this movie.

It's got John Slattery. He plays John Slattery. Hey, Kevin Allison. John Slattery, it's got John Hamm, it's got Zoe Deutsch. Miles Gutierrez Riley is in it. Wow. I saw Carrie Kenny Silver in the trailer. Yep.

Ben Wong is in it. Mather Zichols, Sabrina and Pachetori. Guys, hold your hats. Hold your hats for a second. I'm in it. Whoa. Ken Marino? From this podcast.

Also, Thomas Lennon is in it. Fred Melamette? Michael Ian Black, Richard Kind. Is Fred Melamette offer only? Yes. To us he is. Do you have Fred Melamed's phone number? Is that how you get Melamette or you call his representatives?

Text him. You just texted Fred Melamette. God, that's the dream. Well, we were lucky enough to work with him. This is real. Me and Fred Melamette have the same manager. That's great. Yeah.

That's why we go out for so many of the same parts. Ken Marino and Fred were together in that wonderful movie that Jim Lake Bell made in a world. In a world. There's also a bevy of celebrity cameos in this movie because it's about Hollywood in part. What are we talking about? Is there somebody you can drop on us that maybe hasn't been in the trailers? Is there like an exclusive to this show?

Like, we haven't told anybody about this, but... Zach Oyamma. Whoa. Yeah. You want to know just like the one sense about what the movie's about? You might like it. That'd be great. Yeah.

Basically, Zoe Deutsch plays a Midwestern woman who has a celebrity past agreement with her fiance. And then when he takes it literally and actually meets and has sex with his celebrity, she goes to Hollywood and sets off on this journey to find John Hamm and have sex with him so that she can even score and save a relationship. It's like a romp slash adventure, it sounds like. That's right. It's both a romp and an adventure. I have a question.

We probably have an answer. I've seen, Carrie Kenny Silver plays a psychic who prompts the protagonist onto this journey. Did you guys, were you guys kind of thinking Madame Ruby? Were you kind of thinking Madam Ruby from Peewe's? Who's Madam Ruby? That's the psychic from Peewee's Big Adventure. Were you kind of thinking Madam Ruby a little bit thinking Madam Ruby? I wish I could say yes to it, because it seems like you want us to say yes,

but we weren't thinking Madam Ruby at all. It reminds me of people saying that we were referencing or spoofing things in Wet Hot American Summer that I had never heard over. scene. I feel like that happens a lot, because everyone has got their different references. That's right. But, so I don't really remember that one either. But I'm sure it's great. What psychic were you thinking if you weren't thinking the one I was thinking of? Oh, Jesse, Jesse, you're great. You're very good looking and everything's fine. You can think about any psychic you want to. It's fine. I just was thinking about it. Oh my God, you're so cool.

Yeah, you're really good looking. You're really successful. Really good looking. Okay. And Ken's take it off. Let's do this. Let's take a little break. We'll tell Jesse how good-looking he is to make up for the fact that he got the psychic wrong. And we all laughed at him secretly. We turned our mics off to laugh at him.

Turn off your mics and laugh at him. Yeah, because it was so funny that you got it wrong. But yeah, after we make you feel better, we'll come back for a little bit more. Looking forward to being back at the break. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jesse. If you like too many podcasts, you'll love Sound heap with John Lick Roberts. It's got clips from all your favourite podcasts such as Diary of a Tiny CEO. Leonard Sprague, tell me how you make your money.

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An officer of love Beautiful Yeah you are There's no question about it The celebrity film movie That we were just talking about Gail Dotsch and the Celebrity Sex Pass Gail Dotsching the Celebrity Sex Pass

Most talked about comedy in 20 years in Hollywood We went to Sundance, and it was a gigantic hit at Sundance. We sold it to Sony Pictures Classic. Whoa. The people who brought you Howard's End. And K-pop Demon Hunters. We'll now bring you. Also, they did the Walkman.

Oh, I love those. That's a great way to listen to music on the go. The best. We're on an eight-track tape. Then we went to the Treveka Film Festival, stole the show, number one film there. and now you get a chance to see it July 10th in theaters. Number one in the rankings at the Tribeca Film Festival. That's what I heard.

On the big board. Is that true? Well, yeah. We'll say it. David just said it. David just said that. If David said it, then it's true. That was back on June 10th when we were there at Tribeca Film Festival.

I can't imagine how it could have finished out of the top three. Yeah. It would seem crazy, right? So it makes sense that it would be number one. Number one. Probably number one or so. A little sincerity here. Y'all have made some of my favorite funny movies of all time.

I can't wait to see this. Y'all are two of the funniest ever. And yeah, I'm sure this is going to be great. I agree. I also think those things. We both, we both think those things, okay? Look, we both had it. But Jordan said it first.

We both at different times stole the book state by state by the state from a different kid, a different kid that lived on our hall that I was the RA of that Jordan was resident of. If that is really how you claim to feel, that put your money where your mouth does and have us on your podcast. Okay. Put us on your podcast. We did. You know what?

You passed. We'll see. Yes, guys, thank you so much. And people can see the middle-aged dad jam band coming to a town near them, question. All over. All over. All over. All over the place.

I'm excited. about this. How many, how many pieces you traveling with in the MADJB? Way too many. There's like 45 people on stage. Well, our core band is seven to nine. And then we always have like, you know, three or four more people just for fun. I like this. I like that you're bringing like a full tower of power set up. Yeah. You're not the Beatles. If you see us live in a show, you're getting your money's worth. You get a lot of, a lot of wattage on stage. Hell yeah. Plus, you're going to hear every song. from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

All the decades. Even sometimes from the 90s. Okay. That's a little crazy. The mysterious, this mysterious fourth decade I've heard about. It's like when we do a little new shit, you know, sort of halfway to the show. So those, yeah, like the shit that's out now. Right.

Like, Paula Cole. Len. Like cannonball. Sure, yes. Sure. Semi-sonic, yeah, new bands, new buzz bands. Yeah. Stuff from Reality Bites.

The new hit movies. Stuff from reality bites. Insane in the membrane. Oh, I just heard that on 120 minutes. Man, I really relate to that song because I got no brain. Yeah, no brain. Yeah, it's insane. No, you're joking, but Jesse, you might be joking.

Sometimes I feel that way like when I get so bludgeon with social media and modern tech and AI. No, thank you. David. Yes, man. I just want to make sure that he thought you might be joking. Okay, yeah, no, I might have been joking, but I'm glad that I got his sort of more sincere and frankly profound perspective. Yeah. On what it means.

Well, I like to go deep on these issues. That's why. Yeah. Yeah. And this, I feel like, is the platform to go deep and to be frank. It is, yes. Bad news, Ezra Klein. Thank you guys for being here.

This has been so much fun. What an absolute joy. Thank you for being here. Anytime. Can we be the guest? on the next episode. David Wayne. Chris Fairbanks just dropped out, so this is great timing.

David Wayne and Ken Marino, they're the co-writers and director of Gail Dautry, Doughtry. Gail Doughtry. Like Chris Doughtry? Celebrity Sex Pass. Celebrity Sex Pass. I said it. I said it. Just one of the many Gail Dautry movies that have come out in the Gail Doughtry

cinematic universe. Sure. Did you see you? Second only to Tom Swift in his flying lab. But if you go to the local multiplex and you see something about Gail, Dottry, and a sex pass,

that is definitely going to be ours. That's going to be the one. Chances are that's our movie. Right. Our theme music is Love You by the free design, courtesy of the free design and light in the attic records. Gabe Marr on the boards this week.

You can, of course, join us on Reddit at maximum fun. Reddit.com slash R slash maximum fun. You can join us on. I am going to join that sub and start posting. Yeah, shitpost, Wayne. That would be great. Thank you, David. And, you know, you can find us on Blue Sky and Facebook and Instagram. And we will talk to you next time on Jordan, Jessica.