Pardon My Take - Actor Tony Hale, Dak Has A Problem, Mt Rushmore Of Things We Over Think & Fyre Fest

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

On today’s Pardon My Take the boys are live from an undisclosed location talking about the Cowboys totally not being worried about Dak Prescot + NFL Preseason talk (00;02;26 - 00;08:56), baseball stays relevant with the Field of Dreams game, NFL preseason (00;08:56 - . We do the Mount Rushmore of things you overthink (00;18:21 - 00;41:21). Plus an interview with Tony Hale from Veep and Arrested Development (00;41:21 - 01;11:06). We close out with fyrefest of the week and a heartfelt message from HankYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have actor Tony Hale, you might know him as Buster Bluth, or Gary from Veep, incredible actor, awesome interview, PFT and I are both big fans of Arrested Development and Veep, so it was one of those interviews that was fun for us, and you can tell that he enjoyed it as well. We have Mount Rushmore of Things You Overthink, kind of a loose-ended one, but it's going

to be fun. We have Firefest of the Week, we're going to talk a little pre-season football, Field of Dreams, a little Friday show to get you going for the last couple weeks of summer. Before we get to all of that, speaking of summer, SummerSlam, SummerSlam will be WWE's biggest event of 2021, headlined by Megastar John Cena vs. WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns, live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday, August 21st, and Barstool is going to be all over it, you're going to see get full coverage, interviews, access over the next two weeks, so stay tuned, I think Brandon Walker is going to be there,

I think Robbie might be there, so if you're planning on going out to Vegas, get ready, it's going to be a party, book your flights, buy your tickets at Ticketmaster.com, and if you want to check it out at home, SummerSlam will stream live Saturday, August 21st at 8pm on Peacock, which you probably have already because you watched our darling Jake call the PLL game, so SummerSlam August 21st, 8pm, it's going to be awesome, it's going to be incredible, it's going to be the end of Grit Week, so we're going to finish Grit Week, you go right into SummerSlam, get excited, WWE, Roman Reigns, John Cena, SummerSlam August 21st at 8pm on Peacock, okay, let's go.

It's part of my take presented by Arsenal Sports, welcome to part of my take presented by WWE SummerSlam coming Saturday, August 21st on Peacock, 8pm, today is Friday, August 13th, and I want everyone to know it's not a setback, and it's not reason to worry, but QB Dak Prescott is planning on getting another MRI. That was the official tweet from the Cowboys account, I don't know if they did this as a joke, but I think when you say, like if I said to you right now, PFT, hey, don't worry about it. I'm already worried.

There it is, we're already worried. Again, don't worry about it, but I have to go to the hospital tomorrow. Why would I be worried? Just want to let you know. Don't worry about it. Okay, picture this way, your girlfriend walks into the room, it's not a setback, it's not a reason to worry, but I haven't gotten my period yet. Yes, but listen, I'm still eyeing the game against the box on September 9th.

So from what I understand, Dak Prescott, who has not played tackle football since he hopefully sprained his ankle in like what, week three or four last year? When he bashed his ankle into the ground to try to put it back into place. Yeah, so he hasn't gotten hit yet, and he hasn't played in a meaningful game. His first action is going to be against the Bucks, who just won the Super Bowl. Correct. And they have. And the NBA title.

Yeah, so that's going to be the first time he gets hit. Now if I'm Dak, even if my shoulder is still not good to go right now, I would still have people do like tackling drills against me in practice, where I would, I would get hit because you got to get that first hit out of your system to stop thinking about it all the time. I would just have people like tackle me into a big mat so I didn't hurt my shoulder following on it. But like, I don't, I don't see that going well for the Cowboys.

No, I, now that I'm thinking about it and reading it again, I think the Cowboys official account wrote this just for Jerry Jones because they're like, listen, Jerry Jones is going to get this information through the Twitter account. And we don't want to tell it. We don't want him to talk to a doctor because he'll just be like, hey, Doc, make sure that Dak plays no matter what. So we need to just preface it with it's not a setback and hope he doesn't read the rest of the tweet.

But if you're a Cowboys fan, you have to be freaking out right now. It might be just, you know, a little preventative MRI. Yeah. Like a little just, just to be, just to be safe. Like, hey, I feel great, but it doesn't hurt. Well, it's not only a preventative MRI. It's another preventative MRI because it's another MRI, which is always great when you have to go back and look again to see what the injury is.

I was telling Jake on the way over here, we were about to listen to Greeny, but we got here too early. He's, he's going into the MRI tube, which is that you could say that's just like a giant weighted blanket. Yeah. He might like getting MRIs. Yeah. It might be comfortable for him.

It's his safe space, by the way. So we are in a undisclosed location right now. We just, it's grit week is next week. So Sunday night, we're getting on the bus and we're starting our travels. We have some great interviews set up. We just finished though, our interview that we'll be running on Monday and it was incredible. Let's just say that it was incredible. Everyone's going to love it.

It's someone people have wanted to come on for a long time and it did not disappoint. Did not disappoint. Over it is, is exactly how I would describe this person. So that's why we're in undisclosed, not in our studio right now. It was a feeling where like certain interviews you get out and you feel like your, your day has been changed. We won the day. Yeah, we did.

We won the day. There's a little preview. That's not now everything like what coach says we won the day. Oh, every, every person in all of sports. Yeah. The standard is the standard. Yes. Yes.

But we have some great guests coming and we also have our disc golf video coming on Monday as well, which I'm very excited about. Me too. Very excited about that. Very excited about that. I think we're all excited. I think we're all very excited. So are you happy?

Are you? Yeah. I'm very happy that I don't. Okay. Great. All right. So we can go on with the show. All right.

So the preseason football is here. Are you going to be watching preseason or how much preseason football will you be watching? I'm going to be watching a lot of first halves of preseason football because remember we only have three weeks. So we have three weeks. So it's limited. I get to see if it's magic for the first time in a football team uniform tonight. I'm very excited about that.

We get to see Matt Jones play a little bit tonight. The beauty of preseason is you, it is a true like you, glass half full, glass half empty. You can just change. Like if Justin Fields comes out and he's awesome, I'm like, well, this is incredibly the best player ever. If he stinks, I'm like, well, COVID preseason, like you didn't expect him to be up to speed yet. What you're watching in a preseason game to fit however you want a million percent.

If your offense looks terrible, like if you if you get shut out in all three preseason games, you're like, that's because our offense coordinator is a mad scientist. He's got all the good stuff cooked up. Doesn't want to give anything away for the regular season. And isn't it? It wasn't the own 16 lines and they go for an own the preseason. They did go for another one that you can throw out there. So their preseason really is just it's like a it's like a Play-Doh that you can just

mold to however you want to feel about your team going into the regular season. Yeah, it's it's like an appetizer. Colin Coward analogy. If you go out to a nice fancy dinner, you're paying a lot of money for it. You order the appetizer. If it comes out and it's average, but it's hot, you still feel pretty good about the rest of your meal. If it comes out and it's utterly inedible, you start to panic a little bit and you start

to think about in the back of your head. But just because you have an awesome like a set of mozzarella sticks that comes out, that doesn't mean that your Chilean sea bass is going to be properly cooked. I feel like the Coward, the correct Coward one would be like preseason football is like your first wife. You know, you try it out, you try some stuff, maybe have a couple kids and just see if it works. Yeah.

Then you get to the regular season, your second wife and like that, he always does those type of things. Then you hit the bye week and that's when you can really dye your hair and you get out there again. Yeah. Your gumas, your bye week. Then the playoffs come around. That's when you're 80 years old and you marry a 25 year old.

That's when you really got to start meeting something. And that's when that's when you get the convertible and you really start speeding up in time for the playoffs. But watch out because the faster you go, the harder you'll crash. All right. So we have. All right. So preseason football, we also have the field of dream game.

I think it's it's happening tonight, White Sox Yankees in Iowa, which is very cool. Like seeing the videos, I got chills when I saw a Rod walk into the cornfield in his uniform. He might be coming back tonight. I don't know. That that feels like that was an omen or what's the word? Yeah, corny. Yeah, corny.

Yeah, it was corny, too. But that's fine. No, I mean, like, not in a bad way. Like the vegetable. Obviously. Yeah, it was corny. I just wonder where. No, not that corny.

No, not that corny. Who carries a Rod's uniform around with him right now? I don't know. I mean, I. He's got that thing on him all the time. I think he wears it underneath his clothes like Superman goes into a phone booth and then rips it apart. He's driving by like I always talk about how whenever I'm driving or, you know, going

past fields, if there's a game going on, I'll oftentimes like slow down or stop and watch the game for 10 minutes. Because it's just fun to do. I would imagine a rod like drives past a little league field and throws his uniform on. He's like, Hey, you guys playing a little game here, mind if I hop in? Well, first he makes he makes sure that there's some adults around that might have cameras on him.

He's like, you know, it would really make all these kids days if I stepped in and played with him and went yard like five for five. Yes. And then that would be a great video for them to have later on their life. Yes. All I'm going to say is if Ben Affleck tried to put on a baseball uniform and walk into the field of dreams, corn stocks, I think you would look like a loser. I think we can all agree on that shirt for skin so you can show off that awesome back

hat. I think that if they play this by the way, I don't know if you saw the clip that went around Jennifer Lopez basically saying they're disgusting three years ago. That's interesting. With back tattoos? No. Ben Affleck specifically. Oh, no, I didn't see that.

That's weird. Sounds like a sudden change. Sounds like he was living rent free in her head a few years ago. You might just have to borrow Gio's jersey. Who's 13? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You think he probably did. He probably was like, Hey man. Gio. Gio. He's on the set, right? Did you not go? Gio. Gio.

I actually took me a second to realize you're talking about Joey Gallo. Gio. There's a guy, Gio. Pico de Gallo. Pico de Gallo. Pico de Gallo. I think under normal circumstances Hank is right, but that's just not how Joey Gallo says his name.

Yeah, no, he probably did. He probably was like, Hey Joey, your game's not told tomorrow. Can I get those pants? Maybe the underwear? Well, just throw this thing on. Make it authentic. I think if they play this game in Iowa, they should not have an outfield fence. I agree.

It should just be the corn. Yes. And then if there's like a grounder that would bounce into the wall, they have to run into the corn and try to grab the ball out, try to find it. And if you go into the corn and catch it while in the corn, that counts as an out. That's an out. Absolutely. Yeah, they should not have an outfield fence there.

That's a big mistake. I'd say that's probably the biggest mistake that Major League Baseball has made this week. Yup. Agreed. Absolutely. Oh man, people are mad. People are big mad. Yeah.

Big, big mad. Well, it's not setback. It's not a reason to worry. No. But people are upset about Barclays Sports online. Yes. Yeah. You can't believe it.

No. People don't like us. Can't. All right. What else we got? Anything else going on? It's kind of like we finally have hit like a slow period in the sports calendar. Well, I was like our one week, two big things.

Number one, USA Soccer's back. USA Soccer's in the top 10. Love it. We're ranked above Mexico after beating them in like three consecutive. Coach's poll or who? Yeah. Which poll? Now, these are the computers.

FIFA's? The BCS? Yellow Chess has us above them. Where's Bama ranked? Bama's number one again. Okay. Bama, it's Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma, United States. I know we joke, but like if Nick Saban and the Alabama football team decided they wanted

to be number one soccer team in the world, they would. Immediately. Right away. Zero training. Yes, they just would. If you put a soccer ball, if Nick Saban, instead of having a bunch of footballers out on the practice field one day, just tossed an Adidas out there, we would immediately be ranked number one.

So Bama should always be ranked number one. So we're top 10? We're top 10. I think we're number nine ahead of Mexico. So that's cool. And then the other. We beat them every time. Yeah, exactly.

Like it shouldn't even be a question, but it's news for some reason. I would actually go as far as say that it's not even a rivalry. Rivalry implies that both teams win occasionally. Agreed. And if you look back at the history of our last two League of Nations golden cups, like it's it's just basically us showing up out there. The other thing that I that I saw happening today was JR Smith is going back to college, which this has there has to be a documentary.

Well, he kind of true life. I am JR Smith. He kind of stole Caleb, our good friend Caleb, who actually shot an 86 shout out Caleb, who's trying to become a professional golfer. No, really. Whoa, just kidding. You sing allegedly. No, we hatched.

We're already professional golfers. Yeah. So the idea a while ago on air that we the Caleb who played college football at UNC should reenroll because he still has eligibility and just go through college and play on a golf team. And then JR Smith took our idea and now he's probably going to be he's probably going to be a professional golfer. Yeah.

He needs a documentary about this. Yes. Just getting high as shit and playing golf every day, going back to college. That's the dream. Really, retirement should just be going back to college. Yeah. JR Smith documentary absolutely has to happen. Yep.

We should do it. Yeah. Called Greensfees. Do you think he has to do you think he's going to get to like the the pro and he takes off his shirt and they're like, uh, JR, like there's actually, you actually do have to wear a shirt. Do you? I know you have to wear pants, but do you have to wear a shirt?

I'm pretty sure you have to wear a shirt. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't wear pants either in college. Yeah. Oh, college you don't. It's anyone's game amateurs. Okay.

So he can just go in his underwear. He could go shirtless. JR Smith and on our Tiger Woods, his eyes are always red on Sunday. That's true. That is true. Um, that was like a 1.8 Riley boobs. I wouldn't. That one was tough.

Zika. That was a lot better. He's catching on like that. That one was tough though. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, listen, sometimes they just hit you and you, I have to let the takes flow through me. I don't have a filter on this.

Yeah. If you treated that from Rick Riley's account, people would be like boo. No, I would, to be clear, I would never in a million years even tweet that from my account. Okay. Anything else? Leroy's. RIP.

RIP. Come on. Leroy would never stoop to having that shitty of a take anything else. Jake. No, it's pretty late. We can score. It is weird. It's weird to have finally like a small break in the action.

Oh, I got one more. It's early. Who's back? You know, it's Haslam. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. We were just talking about him the other day.

It's like who's on the heat this year. They have to bring back. He's got a contract whenever he wants it for the rest of his life, right? Just to be on the bench and maybe fight one guy on the team a year to keep him in check. He's going to play forever. Forever. Literally the definition of heat culture. It's, yeah, if he, if they ever don't bring him back on the heat, the heat as a franchise

I think just ceased to exist. He's got to have some serious dirt on Pat Riley. That's what this tells me. What a life. There should actually be like, what is the roster in NBA's 12, right? There should be just a 13 man on every team that's like a million dollars. Everyone gets it. And it's just, it has to be, the player has to be 40 years or older.

Just so we can see, like imagine Shaq just standing on a sideline. Just every now and then just let him go in. The heat big three. All right, John Howard was pretty much that guy. Yeah, that's true. He's active. Yeah. So he got, he got one year, 2.6 million.

He's betting on himself. Yes. We'll see what he does. See if he is up and coming star. He's done his hasm. See if he can catch on somewhere afterwards. All right. Let's do our Mount Rushmore.

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Great win. Mount Rushmore is back. Just stud performances out of your account. Damn. You're good. But what? Oh, I don't know. This is usually where you guys like, we threw it.

Oh, this is usually when you say Liam picked all your picks. No. Okay. Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore. We're happy. We're back. Mount Rushmore is back.

Mount Rushmore. You're happy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that I'm thrilled. So happy. Mount Rushmore of things you overthink is today's Mount Rushmore. I think we should let Noah the sound guy pick the order.

Okay. Yeah. Just one, two, three, four. Or it's got to go in order, so just pick one person and they'll go first and then we go from there. All right. We'll start over here. All right.

We'll go this way. You took me. Good pick, Noah. I like Noah. Good. Noah says, okay, all right. All right. Which way are we going?

Clockwise? Yeah. Me, Meenex, and then Jilly, and then Hank. Okay. Hank, cool. Are you all good? Yeah. Everybody cool with it?

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So we have some ideas. Tweet us, Adam. Tweet it at Jake, please. Jake has a running list of Mount Rushmore. We only have like 10-ish more.

Oh, wow. I'm so sad. Okay. Things we overthink. There are a lot of things that we overthink on this list. I'm going to go with one that I think we can all relate to is who to bet on on the Super Bowl. Because you get that extra week where you start third and fourth guessing yourself. And you just get into like this place where you're fighting a, you're playing a chess

match against your own brain at that point. So you overthink who to bet on for the Super Bowl. Okay. My first pick, I'm going to go with the symbol one. Obviously, you have to have had a pet, but a dog specifically, what's wrong with the dog? If the dog is acting a little bit weird, if the dog like makes a noise, you just sit there and you overthink everything that happens with the dog.

What's wrong with the dog? Oh no, does the dog need to go to the vet? That's a big overthinking thing. Oh, is that a limp? Yeah. I think that's limp. I just hear the dog whine. Like why is the dog scratching its ear?

It's the dumbest thing we do because dogs for the most part are usually very resilient. And there's nothing wrong with them, but any little thing that might be, oh, the dog didn't eat all its dinner. Oh no. Like what's going on? So that really will fuck you up and you overthink it to death. The poop was a little bit loose. Oh no.

I hope it does not back to you. There's so many things that you can just constantly do. I remember when you first get a dog to, like when I first got Stella, it was like every other week we'd go to the vet. It's like, what's that? Was that a growth on her paw? And you realize like, dogs are pretty, pretty chill. All right.

Next one. Chili. Everything. Oh. Overthink everything. Okay. So you are a beta male? No.

Well, yeah. I just, I just have. I'm going to make other picks. Alpha brain waves. No, we just ended the draft for everyone. Yeah. But no, but you're a beta because if you overthink everything, no, I'd say alphas don't have to think.

No, I think, I think alphaly and then no, you don't. This is terrible. Billy. It's everything. Billy. Overthinking everything. So you overthink everything. So everything you've ever done, you've had to overthink it.

When you have to think about it. You've never made a decision. That's like that. Again, this is a beta mindset because I don't have to think about everything. I just don't think. I don't have to overthink everything. Everything. A lot of people overthink everything.

They take naps. All right. Well, Billy. I think that you should just straight up not pick again because you just drafted everything in the world. Right. But like sometimes you think about everything when you're overthinking. Now you're making me overthink this pick of overthink.

All right, my first pick and second pick is your food order at a new restaurant. Big time. Yep. Big time. Same thing. Like once I get something once I'm a creature of habit. I'll just get it over and over and over again. But the first time you never know, you don't want to mess it up.

So that's one. And then my second one, I will go with when to use exclamation exclamation points emails. It's mostly in emails and it's like obviously like work stuff where you're like, you put the exclamation point and you're like, do I want to be this excited? Like is this the right place for it? It's not the right place for it. Do I put a period? But then it sounds too serious.

You want to seem excited, but you don't seem too excited. Does the exclamation point mean that I'm yelling? Right. Right. Big time. All right. I don't think I've ever gotten an exclamation point from you, Hank. Is that because you overthink it?

We don't email. It's more like emails like and I don't know it's like, you know, small talk and corporate talk. You're like, thanks so much. But you're like, I don't actually appreciate it this much, but I do appreciate it. We should make a piece of punctuation in between a period and exclamation mark. I agree. Yeah.

I agree. So this one. This is chile. This one, you guys feel free to view it. It's kind of similar to Hank, but I had how to word a text slash email. That's fun. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah. There's definitely variations in all these things. Yeah. Okay. How to word a text? You probably do that a lot. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Let's dare out it three times. Read it four times. Do you do that with us too, even? Not really with you guys. You've let your guard down? Yeah. I got the other myself.

You got to that point in a relationship? A comfortable environment for Jake. Yeah. to see if I'm texting with another blue dot person, because then I'm like, oh shit, they can see me overthinking. I start to overthink how I'm overthinking the text. And then I'm like, they're looking at this. And then sometimes when I get the other thing done, and I see other people's blue dots, I start overthinking what they were about to text, if I text them first.

Right, you get in that like blue dot like bubbles face off. Yep. She code, you know what you do? You type the text in notes, and then you copy paste it. That sounds terrible. That's like for like super serious texts. Well, give me a scenario where you would you would copy and paste from your docs, like when you're texting like your coach. Okay.

All right, you mean saying saying what? I don't know just like important stuff. Hey, I think I'm good enough to play quarterback still. Maybe. Hey, coach, it's not a setback. All right, my next one part of my take again is when to leave for the airport. Big time overthinking. What time do you leave for the airport?

Do I have enough time? I don't want to be there for too long. What time zone am I in? Yeah. What time zone you're in? It's such a stupid, silly, easy thing that like we all have done a million times. But no matter what, like you always whenever you have a flight, you're like, all right, what time should I leave?

All right, maybe I should leave a little earlier than this. You always I always end up leaving like 15 minutes earlier than the time that I set. I should leave. I do the backwards math. So I'm just like, okay, I want to be there an hour before every flight. How long does it say right now on Google Maps? It'll take me. Right.

But then if it's like security tomorrow morning, it's I'm leaving at 9am. Like how long is the trip? The traffic's bad. How how bad is it to be if it's no traffic might get there too early? It sucks. Then you got to do subtraction because it's like, wait, I've got clear, which is Jake. What is clear? TSA precheck on steroids.

Love it. Love it. All right. So I got to coming back, huh? I'm going to go with stuff you should have said. You ever lay awake in bed at night and be like, I really wish I'd said this. I really blew it. You start or you start like rethinking what you did say and how you could have tweaked

it a little bit. Like next time I see this person, I'm going to say it's basically the entire plot of the jerk store. Yeah. Sort of Seinfeld. Yup. So stuff you should have said. And then next one, whether to go for two.

That's easy. If you just take the one. Give me a test. Okay. Here's a great one. You probably won't get this. You are down 14 in the fourth quarter. There's six minutes left.

You score a touchdown. Go for two. Yep. You're right. Always. Always. All right. My next pick.

What about if it's before halftime? Yeah. What was the chart for two? Then I say, what does the chart say at that point? I get my chart out. Okay. What? All right.

My next pick. But then the announcers are like, he's being too cute with it. If you go for two too early. Okay. I'm going to go with my next pick is going to be. I got a fucking couple that I want to pick from. Oh, okay. Overthinking.

When you catch a whiff of a bad smell, whether it be like, all right, is this is this coming for me? Is this my breath? Is something like, did I step in shit? And then you overthink that carries with you throughout the day of like, am I the one who smells and overthinking that all day long? Like did I not forget to put on deodorant? It will fucking kill you ruin a day.

I've got a little life hack. If you think like, if you have that little tick on the back of your brain where it could be me that smells, what I do is I just like, I just quickly stand up and sit down and do a little shoulder shake. Give yourself a little. Yeah. And then I just, all the air that gets going through my body, I take a big whiff. And if it's clean, then I'm good.

Yes. Yes. All right. Jilly. Free throws. Got it. Yep. They're free.

They're free. But you're at the line. Yeah. Okay. Muscle memory. Those should be something you don't. No. No.

Good pick. Remember, Billy already picked everything. Right. Positive vibes only. That Hank does make a good point where it's like the one thing that you always hear people say about free throws is like, don't think you don't think it's truly just muscle memory. Like, if you practice enough, it's like, don't think about penguins. Okay.

Huh? Are you thinking about pink? No, I'm thinking about. No, I'm not. I'm thinking about your fucking free throws. Free throws. Everyone overthanks free throws. Training.

Like the people who. No. I actually think that like the best free throw shooters never overthink. Exactly. But most people aren't the best free throw shooters. Okay. But who takes free throws? All right.

Fine. Forget it. I think you can overthink. Yeah. There are people who overthink it. It's happened. Like a lot of people don't overthink it. A lot of people do.

Okay. Okay. All right. I'm not going to fight with you. I'm not going to fight with you. I disagree on that. Outer space. Oh yeah.

Big time. It's one of those things I try not to think about because when I do. Yep. Fuck yeah. I usually just want to like it's like nothing matters in the world. Who cares what I do when the outer space exists. Dude, I got a little that not to get not to get lived out here, but climate change. Definitely.

Like when you think about it too hard to kind of fuck you over. Especially with kids. It's like fuck yeah. Yeah. Like what have you done bringing living things in this world knowing that in like 50 years they won't even be able to live in Miami. There's a meteorite coming in 2142. I think.

Oh, okay. It might be wrong, but they said that yes. Do they send you like a Google calendar thing or about that or what? Asteroid. It's coming close. This is another one of Billy's studies. Is that is that they're saying the New York Post. Yeah.

Yeah. That sounded like a New York Post. Just quote tweet this. Okay. All right. And then the last one, this is goes back to like high school college days. It happens. Actually, no, it happens at the office too.

When you're in a long hallway with someone, just you two in the hallway and you don't know when to acknowledge them. If you're supposed to acknowledge them, you're just walking on that hallway and you the whole time you're just like overthinking what am I supposed to do when I walk past this great. Yes. So it's like, when do I greet this person? Yeah. Do I greet this person?

How do I both know we're in this room, but I don't maybe not even know this person like it happens in the office where it's like I walk by someone I don't know. I usually just go with the head bob. I usually what I do is the other the other variation to this is when you when you see someone from work, your your flashlight is on. No big deal. When you see someone from work outside of work going to work and you like avoid saying hello to them because you don't want to also walk with them all the way to work.

Do you know what I mean? Like you'll see someone like at Starbucks and you'll be like, all right, hope they didn't see me. I didn't see them. Yeah. Or when you leave work and you're and then you see each other on the train, but like on the other side of the train. I'm not going to walk up to them and talk to them and then have to be in a conversation

for the next half hour. Right. This one is pretty self-explanatory. It's what to pick for this Mount Rushmore. Good one. Everything and what to pick for this Mount Rushmore. It's just Mount Rushmore in general. Right.

But you also have everything. This is meta. This is you guys really. But everything is like. I think you guys are going to win. But whatever. Because everything. I actually think I'm going to lose.

I think the free throw pick. But maybe I'm overthinking that. All right. My last pick is your March Madness Bracket. The biggest paralysis by analysis. Like do I have enough underdogs, you know, when you do the whole like, oh, well, I've all chalk. So I got to pick a couple high seeds that I don't really like, but you know what's going

to happen. You could just stare at it forever. Yeah. Which one seed do I think could lose in the second round? Right. It was like probably none of them, but I need to have one. So I'm not like, you know, Johnny Chalk over here. All right.

My last one. It's similar to that. It's whether to hit a 12 against a 13. If a dealer is showing a three. That one, I'll sit there for 10 seconds, which is an eternity on the, on the blackjack table. Yeah. I usually hit that.

What's that? Billy's doing that. 12 against a three. Yeah, you should. Yeah. I think it's like 51% use. Yeah. Well, you're assuming that they have a face card.

So what are you going to stay on 12? Books has hit. Yeah. I hit that. But if they have it, if they have a face card. Well, you need everything. I can play blackjack with you or PFT. Especially if you're at the end of the, if you're at the end of the table and you don't

want to take that bus card from the dealer. It's true. It's tough. PFT and Hank are the biggest like, I'm just going my gut here. Like, no, no, no. I've come down from that. Yeah. We used to do it with people I knew and it was kind of funny to just be like, whatever.

And then in this guy almost got like, he almost tried to fight me. Yes. I get it now. No, I'm probably the most wild person. Wild person. If I'm playing at the end of the table, I will go just strictly by the book. Cause I don't want to fuck up anybody else. I've given some death stairs to people who don't play by the book.

It just sucks. It sucks when they do it. It sucks. I can handle it once every now and then, but when someone's just going fucking, like balls the wall, like I'm just doing whatever, hitting on crazy shit. Like six to five is hard for me to stay. Usually. It depends on where the casino has.

This time you got to hit. I know. Yeah. It really depends on if the casino has a metal detector. What? Well, if you care about what people get pissed. If they have a gun or a knife. Um, okay.

All right. Things we missed. I'm just going to keep going forward on that one. Oh, stain on your clothes. Can people, like if you have a little stain on your clothes and you're like, shit, can people see this or like a wrinkle? Wearing jeans and shorts or sweatpants multiple days in a row or like, can I wear this? Like it's clean, but if I wear it again, am I going to get judged?

Even though it's clean? Yeah, I've got jeans. Like sometimes I wear jeans like three days in a row. I'm like, it's going to be like, dude, you wore those. Yes. Yes. Yes. What to get for appetizers.

Yep. I just order everything. I never overthink that one. So if you have appetizers, I don't. I am. That's actually one of my gifts is not overthinking. I'm typically I'm the guy that will try to narrow it down to two appetizers. But then if there's a third one that's looking really promising and just go with the sample.

Get the appetizer sampler. If a person is late, are they dead? Like super late. Like the time PFT slept to like one o'clock. Yeah. On a Wednesday. I just assumed he was dead. I thought I was dead when I woke up.

Yeah. Those will fuck you up though. Like if someone who is notoriously on top of things and like good with communication just doesn't show up for a couple of hours. You're like, well, that person's dead. What else do I have? Oh, where to go on vacations. That's a tough one.

That's a bougie pick, but I like it. Yeah. No, like, no, I agree. Because you got to make it count. Right. Right. Right. Yeah, Billy.

When someone hangs up really quickly, you don't know why like mid sentence. Oh, yeah. That's another one. What about is this guy a cop? Yeah. Is this guy offering me a goo ball at a fish concert or a cop? Is this person on steroids? Whether or not someone's on steroids.

Yeah. That's a good, good call. Whatever pick would have been everything on mushrooms. Then you really overthink everything. Huh. But you overthink everything. Kind of. Yeah.

Okay. I do. Do you see what I'm saying? Like that makes you a little bit of a. No, because then you like think about every single scenario and have a plan for it. But then you're just sitting around thinking all the time. Never acting. No action.

A lot of action. Okay. A huge miss is does this person like me? Yep. That's not just like a member of the opposite sex. It's just in general. Like, am I cool with this person? Another one off of that is like, was that joke offensive?

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like when you're out with maybe a new group and you say something, you may push the line and you're like, wait, do they, do they take offense to that? Like I probably shouldn't have said that. Maybe Liam or these guys can understand. I overthink whether or not when the guest comes in, like if I'm supposed to introduce myself or if I'm supposed to just take a backseat and like just let you guys do it.

Because sometimes they come in, they look at me and I'm like, I'll go for it. But sometimes they just go for you guys and like, I don't know what to do. Yeah. Kobe Bryant. Just like, no one introduced me and I was standing there like ready to introduce myself and no one introduced me and it was like super awkward. Now I still overthink it. Did he, did you introduce himself?

No. Mama mentality. Yeah. I never introduced myself to producers. You did me no favors. Yeah. Sorry. Italian.

Italian. Big time Italian. Not loud? Yeah. Italian. What about, what about, um, this is kind of similar to Hank's thing about whether or not to say hi to somebody when you're approaching him in the hallway. But I've talked about before when I get face to face with somebody on a sidewalk, which

side am I going to step to to get around that person? Because then you end up in the dance where you're going back and forth, back and forth. Yup. Yup. That's, that's my worst nightmare. You have to walk speed in general because sometimes you're like walking and I'm like, I'm kind of picking up speed on this person. But to get all the way past them, you have to take it to a new gear and it's like, do

I really want to walk past this person or do I want to be like basically on their ass right behind them? And then I'd be like, what the fuck is this person doing? Yes. Because then you just have to awkwardly like really walk fast past them. And then turn it back, take the gear back. From, if you're talking about from a woman's point of view, is this guy behind me a rapist? Oh yeah.

Side walk. So from a man's point of view, am I a rapist? No, no, no, no. Like, does that person think that I'm following? Yeah. Like there are, there are times late at night when you're like, wait, this woman thinks I'm following her, but I'm just walking here like, should I say something? Yeah.

But then me saying something makes it way worse. That's a, that's a bad spot. I've got, I've got two moves. If it's late at night, if it's not a crowded area and I'm within maybe like 30 feet or so, I'll either cross the street and go to the side to make her feel okay, or if I'm, if I'm catching up, or if I'm catching up to her, I'll just be like, go to pass you on your left real quick. Just to let them know that the footsteps that they might hear, I'm going around you.

So you speed up towards them. Yeah. Yeah. I've done it many times. Yeah. Hot soup coming through. That would be a good place to use that one too. Yeah.

You definitely should use that. Late, late at night. Hot soup, hot soup coming through. Another one for bets is trap bets. Like a trap, trap bet or a let down spot where you're like, all right, this team isn't a let down spot, but do they know they're in a let down spot? So then I should bet on them because they're going to be extra motivated. You can definitely drive yourself crazy over thinking.

Yeah. Just over thinking a rat line in general. Smell something here. Vegas knows something. Big time. All right. Is that anything else? Do we got them all?

Jake? That was a good round of applause. Did I swear on the hot mic? I mean, kickoffs. Kickoffs. What about kickoffs? What about them? Just what should you do onside?

Yeah. Like should I kick the ball? Yeah. What's your other option? That was a call back to free throw. Do you think there's over thinking? Yeah. That was a good roast.

Do you think there's like extra points? Okay. Yeah. Over thinking when to foul up three? Yeah. That's going on. I mean, I don't think they should overthink that, but yeah. A massive one that we missed.

When should I put out this album that I've been creating that I named after my mom that the world's waiting for? Mm-hmm. That's true. That's true. How far can I troll the world? Yeah. The future?

The future. The future. Yeah. In the past. The future is a good one. The future. The future. Spongebob restaurants.

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I think both PFT and I are very big Veep fans, very big Arrested Development fans, so we'll talk about that. But I wanted to bring up the two things that you're promoting, nine days, which is out in theaters now, and then the mysterious Benedictus Society, which is out on Disney Plus. Is that two of the most opposite end of the spectrum things that you promoted at once? Because I watched the preview for nine days. That seems like a pretty heavy movie. I want to watch it.

It seems heavy. And then you got a children's book, which is a fantastic series in its own right. So how do you switch back and forth when you're doing these promotions? Well, I don't know if it's the most extreme because I remember promoting Veep and Toy Story at the same time once. And I was like, yeah, you can't get more opposite than that. But yeah, nine days, I will say, even though they're very different, nine days, I think there's a lot of cool themes, especially with what we've all been through this year.

Like nine days talks a lot about not taking moments for granted and living for the moment, which I feel like I have woken up to post-pandemic. And then Benedict is about kind of, there's so much noise in society and finding the truth above the noise. And so both of those, there's a lot of parallels happening with what we're all going through. Yeah. I'd like to go back a little bit to kind of before you started your acting career, or I guess as it was just beginning, because I read that you decided to move up to New York.

You were trying to decide like, OK, how do I get this thing started? I feel like people eventually, if they've decided they want to be an actor, they have to make a choice. Am I going to do New York, or am I going to do LA? Why did you decide that you were just going to try to make this happen in New York? That's a great question. I, for me and I, I can't speak for anybody else, but for me, New York felt a lot more accessible.

Also, it was a little more of a theater town to where you could agents, because at the time I didn't have representation agents, they went to theater, they went to showcases where people were doing scenes, you could showcase your work. LA, this was before the digital time, and nobody went to see theater really, so it was tougher to kind of showcase yourself. So that was a big reason, but also LA is very spread out. LA, I think it's tough, you know, where you live, that's kind of your connecting point. If you have a friend on the west side, it's tough to get him if you're on the east side.

New York, it's like a 20 minute subway ride wherever you went. So it felt like when I was younger, it was a lot easier to find a community in New York. And I would assume that being in New York is why you got cast in Sopranos, which was your big break, right? People forget you were in the Sopranos. I was, I was, I was a, I was an oncology nurse to Uncle Junior for a day. Okay. And I was so nervous.

I was so nervous, because I had mainly done commercials. I was kind of a commercial guy for years in New York. I was always the guy that was, I was like the quirky, not all there guy, which is pretty much led into my, most of my career jobs. But I was that guy and then I got the Sopranos gig for a day and I was like, oh my gosh. And I was just, and I remember I had to hold his, I was giving him chemo and I had to like do it very specific. And when I get nervous, sometimes my hands shake and I was like, God, please just like,

keep it steady, keep it steady. We do a thing where we spoiled the Sopranos on this show. We're not going to do that right now. I think I might have just spoiled it. Yes. Well, you didn't, Uncle, you didn't keep Uncle Junior alive. Sounds like you were a terrible doctor. I was.

Yeah. I was, maybe I was a good doctor, but inside as an actor, I was losing my mind. Well, you kept him alive long enough so that he could shoot his mouth. Okay. There's the spoiler. There's the spoiler. People get very mad at us. You're welcome.

We'll bleep that one out. So, so you get, you get a job on Sopranos. You start working. You eventually kind of, I also read that you, you were handing out flyers. You were, were you, were you one of the people that was like on the street in the village being like comedy show tonight? No, I was, I had nothing to do with my work. It had to do with, I think I was handing out something for like air conditioning units

or something in Bryant Park. Wow. And they just hired just people just to hand. And I just hand off, I had every job under the sun. I did that attempt. I did cater waiting, which I actually really liked because I waited tables after college and waiting tables was really tough for me because people, if anybody gets, they get pissed about food.

Like food, people get pissed if it's not right, but with cater waiting, you don't have to deal with the people. You just put the food in front of them and you make the party look nice and then you break it down. You don't have to talk to the people. Yeah. So I really liked that gig. And you get extras at the end.

I did some, some cater waiting as well in college. Yeah. You get all the extras at the end, which they make way too much food every time. Yes. And you devour it. Yeah. It's just like vultures at the end of the night. I remember doing the, there was this big opening of the Philharmonic and I remember giving

out this dessert and in chocolate on the plate, they had a score of one of the pieces they were playing that night in chocolate written on each plate. And all these people would just devour it, you know, at the table and I'm like, just look at the plate for a second, man. So if it's a catering event, no one's going to like come up to you, the waiter and complain about the food. It's like, well, exactly. You got it out of a giant pile.

I'm not going to send this one piece of chicken back to the, back to the cook on 100%. This may be a dumb question, but a rest of development and V2 of the funniest shows ever, were they as funny like on set as they, it felt like, because you know, there's a difference. There's shows that you watch where you're like, okay, they're, it's funny, but you don't really feel like people are probably breaking, you know, like cracking up during the filming of it. Veep and the rest of development, it always felt like if you could see the full cut, you guys were cracking up continuously and having to redo takes.

Is that fair assessment? Yes. Yes. And my favorite thing to watch is the gag reels because that's all we did was crack up to the point where Julia once said to me, cause I was laughing so hard during a take. She says, Tony, you know, you're not watching the show. You're in the show. And, and actually, oh, on my desk here, I always have, I don't know, I guess people

who are listening can't see this, but if you're watching, can you see this? This is a picture of Julia and I cracking up in a scene. Do you see that? Yes. I love it. Did she make you laugh the most out of anyone you've worked with? She made, oh yeah, she made, I will say her and Will Arnett made me laugh really hard and arrested.

And just so many people on that show made me laugh really hard, but Julia, because I was so close and proximity to her all the time, I could, we caught each other's like just noises of like going, oh, okay, I just like small things and then to keep it together right behind her. That's just impossible. Like you can't, it's just not humanly possible. So I would ruin take after take after take. Your job is to stand next to Julia Louis-Dreyfus all the time.

That a lot of people would say that's the best job in the entire world. It is, she is, and not only is she, you know, incredibly gifted with comedy and many other things, but she's just a cool person. She's a really normal, kind human being and that to me is, that's what it's about. And so both of the characters, both in Veep and Arrested Development, I feel like you're exceptional at your physical comedy as well and not like a slapstick way, like guy who gets hit in balls with, you know, a football. It's more like just your facial expressions and your awkwardness kind of just falls off

the screen. Were you all, is that like something you practiced to get to that point? Or did you always have a little bit of that in you where it's like, I don't know, you're really good at it. I don't know. I can't really describe it, but it's incredible. It comes from so much pain. No.

Yeah. What happened in your life to get like that? Let's get into it. Let's get into the trauma. No, I think I was actually described, my character on Veep was described as a bitchy mime because she didn't let me speak. She never, Selena never let me speak. So all I could do was use nonverbal.

Like I just, and I just clowned it up behind her. I would just do facial expressions and that was my way of communication was nonverbal. So I got very used to just finding different ways to communicate when I couldn't say anything. Yeah. You know, but I don't know where that comes from. That's a great description of your character. One thing it always stood out to me in both of those roles that I don't know if it was the closeness of the writers to the actors or if you guys adjusted the scripts, but it

seemed like the stuff that was written for the entire cast and both Veep and Arrested Development fit the characters so perfectly. It was almost like you guys were coming up with it on the spot and then refining yourselves, which I know is not how it works out. But what was, what do you think the magic was between the writers rooms and the ensemble cast in both those shows that make it such like a seamless show to write and then perform? Yeah. I think a lot of it honestly was in both situations and I'll speak of Veep first just because

that's what it just came from most recently is the writers were always working at a team. So even though David Mandel or Amanda Unucci was the showrunner, he always had writers around him to bounce ideas off to give alts to find and then the actor would also the actor was able to contribute stuff. So there was this real collaborative back and forth. So it wasn't like there was one set thing and you hope that it worked. There were many different alts and then when they got to the edit, they see which one works the best.

So and that's to me like when you have that kind of control and comedy, it's like my way or the, you know, my way of the highway, like I'm right, this is the right joke. You're just shooting yourself in the foot because that collaboration and all that kind of arrogance and entitlement, it just sucks creative energy out of a space. You got to have that play time, the team and bouncing and that's where you're going to find the magic. I think. Yeah.

Is there one joke? I mean, if you want to hear a dumb question, here's a really dumb question. No, it's not. Is there one joke from either one of those two shows? I'll give you the option, maybe one from each. What's your favorite joke from Veep and from Arrested Development? I would say my favorite, well, joke like line of Arrested Development was the one that immediately comes to mind is Jessica's Lucille's when she says, it's something like it's a

banana, Michael. How much can it be? $10? She was so checked out like and then, but the joke of Arrested that made me laugh every time was Tobias's blue man group and how he thought it was a support group for depressed men. Like I just that and him going back and forth and this feather bottom and I just that made me laugh every time.

Veep. There was just, there were just such, let me say this, the insult, the line, the insult that made me laugh the hardest is that show was full and the insults that were thrown at Jonah, who was the tall guy. I think he was called once Frankenstein's monster, if Frankenstein was made entirely of dead decks and I just thought that is, there's nothing better. Yeah. I mean, the insults on Veep, that was so much fun just listening to you guys go back and

forth with those. I can't even imagine what the process was like coming up with them. You probably have to keep a journal down every when you're walking around and you just think of something and it's like, okay, this is going to go on the show. Yeah. And they did. That's all they did. Like these writers, they had their tablets and they would just write constantly, write

and come up with ideas and they would try this and it was just playtime. It was really fun. I don't think that you think we can ask a dumb question. I don't think you can ask a dumb question. Was that the real White House in Veep? Well, okay, that's close. Okay. All right.

Nice. But I think it could be the real White House in Veep World, so we're going to frame it that way. What kind of chapstick did Selina Gomez use? Selina. Selina Gomez. Selina Meyers. Selina Meyers.

Yeah. That was my dumb question. Yeah. He totally meant to do that. Let me ask Selina Gomez. Yes. What her favorite chapter? Maybe Burt's Bees.

Yeah. Okay. Do your parents still hate or not like arrested development in Veep? How is that possible? I won't say hate. Hate's not the right word. They just don't get it. They never got it.

To this day, the only thing they thought was funny was when Martin Short came on. They were like, that guy's funny. That guy's funny. Everything else, I don't get it. I don't understand it. And to this day, to this day. What about Veep? Veep, they thought it was funny, but they had a lot of notes.

They were just, they were kind of like, that's their, they need to, they're a little mean. Wait, so. They're a little mean. What, what do your parents find funny? Like what's their favorite? They like the show Mysterious Benedict Society. They like that. And I think, you know, because these are, it's a little more, I love it because it's

a little more young adult. It's a little more, it's smart, but I would say, you know, kind wholesome messaging and stuff like that. Veep and arrested were a lot for that. Yeah. It was a lot for them. Like, I mean, they, they, I mean, they told me once they said, oh yeah, my friends, my friends love, my friends love arrested development Anthony and they said, we don't get it, but

they love it. And wait. So, and they've watched every episode, I assume, to support you. It's questionable. Oh, okay. I was going to say it would be, that's quite a fate to be able to have to watch every episode of two series that you don't find funny. Yeah.

They don't, I don't, I don't think they have. I don't think that. I've seen some clips on YouTube. Is this situation where like they might not understand the character entirely? So when you go on SVU, do they watch you on one order? I never asked them that. I'm sure they did. I mean, I would think though, it's very, I mean, that's, that was an intense show.

I think I, I think my daughter, I did it twice and once, I think my daughter was kidnapped and I had to cry the whole time. I don't know if they did, I don't know if they did, I have to ask them. Is that fun? Kind of like stepping out of what you're, what you're known for and playing a character that's completely 180 degrees different from. Yeah. It is fun.

Like something like Nine Days, this movie is really fun. Was really fun to do this character because he kind of has moments where he kind of fights back a little bit and there's a little bit, you know, kind of tries to buck the system and stuff. And Gary was so masculated, so beaten down, never had a voice. So it's nice to do that. I will say when I did that Law and Order show, I remember I was in LA and I was coming to New York and I lived in New York for many years.

So I called all my friends and I was like, Hey, let's go out. I'm going to be shooting for you. We'll go out at night, you know, go to dinner, have drinks. This will be so fun. And then I do the show crying all day and I'm like, I can't, I don't want to go out. I don't want to go out. Like you have to, because you have to kind of live in this space where my daughter was kidnapped.

You know, so it's like, and then I'm just going, yeah, let's go have dinner, have drinks. Like it was, I've just, I had never at that time experienced because with comedy, you're just like having a good time and coming up with vets and so you can kind of carry that and go out. But like sometimes it's so heavy that you just, you just want to go home and sleep. Wow. That's interesting. I mean, that's, that would be, I guess the sign of a good actor because I would probably

just be like, yeah, let's go out. Let's, whatever. Yeah. Or just a guy who can't separate as a much. Yeah. Are you just keep like, I don't know, like a B in your pocket or something that can, like get some tweezers, just pinch yourself until you cry. And then after you're done, you're like, okay, I feel great now that I'm not in pain anymore.

I love that you went, I love that you had the B in the first, like a live, a live B that I would like to go and just go stab yourself with it. Going to get back to Tony Hale in a second. But before we do, he'd talk to you guys about a problem facing America right now. Everyone's exhausted. Everyone's out of it because they're not sleeping in a bed that's right for them and the sleep that they are getting sucks. This problem has a name.

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If you haven't, you guys did nail the series finale, which is almost impossible to do. You see it all the time, some of the most iconic shows in the world. Like people complained about the Seinfeld series finale. We obviously had Game of Thrones, Sopranos. Did you know in the moment like this is perfect? Like we've kind of, this is going to, this is going to work. We've, we've, we've ended this in a perfect way. I don't know if, I mean, and I, all that credit goes to David Mandel and the

writers, what they came up with. I think you're always, it's so, it's so personal. And it's, we worked on the show for seven years and I love these people so much. And I love the character and the stories that I think there's always an anxiety of like, is this capping it the way it should be capped? I don't know it. I mean, you hope, you hope for the best. And then thankfully it really worked.

But, you know, I'm sure everybody kind of hopes for the best really. Yeah, it is remarkable. It is probably like it's been done very few times where people walk away and they're like, yeah, that was a good ending. Right. The, the problem with that is now everyone's going to be demanding that you come back and like make a movie out of it. Yeah, what's the movie?

Yeah, I'd love to do that. Cause I think there is that, there's that space, you know, well, I don't want any spoilers, but there's a, there's a space in between that you see in the finale and that'd be really fun to investigate what happened during that. Yeah, it would be. Are you, are you saying there's a chance? Oh, I mean, I, I'm not saying that those are the big wigs have to make that decision. But I know that me and everybody involved would just jump at the chance

because we, you know, it's, it was a gift to do that kind of writing. And to also work with, like I mentioned before, people with no ego, like no arrogance, like it's a team. And in this business, you find a lot of that kind of control. Sometimes that arrogance, it was just such a gift when people, you have a whole environment that's very giving like that. So, so after a day on the set, if you're working on a rest development or a vape, are you a guy that goes home and like you watch comedies in your

spare time, or do you turn on something that's more of a thriller or something like a little bit darker? Like, wait, how does that, how does that affect your day? Like, do you, do you come up still wanting to laugh more? I, oh, I love that question. And I can't, I can't watch, um, dark stuff. I can't watch dark stuff in general. Cause at half the time I'm like, Hey, guess what guys, this is on CNN somewhere.

Why am I trying to be entertained by this heaviness? Like it's just, I can't, that really, I don't, like people going in a theater and wanting to be terrified of somebody being murdered. Hey, like that's happened. I don't know what that does. I still, to this day, I don't understand that. But to detox, I'm the guy where I will go on a YouTube spiral and I will watch, um, prank videos over and over and over and over.

I love that stuff so much. It makes me laugh. I watched the one, have you seen recently with the, the, uh, the, the, if like a parent or something is asking a kid for more, their kid for more toilet paper and they're in the bathroom and they say, Hey, can you give me some toilet and when the kid comes back, they put Nutella on their, on their hand. And then they go, Oh, I'm so sorry. And these kids are like,

Free. Did you just put poop on my, what? Like some of these kids started gagging and then scream. And it is, it is the funniest thing. And that kind of prank stuff just, it makes me how laughing. I love that stuff and like soldiers coming home to their families. Oh, you're going sentimental. Okay.

The dogs, the dogs, the dog's greeting. What about puke videos? You like puke videos? No, I don't like video. I've never even, I don't even know. I didn't know they were out there. Yeah. No, they're out there.

What about injuries? Like really bad injuries? No, because then I'm like, uh, that, I feel too bad for them. Okay. That's like, I also do compilation videos where it's like, you know, the voice, uh, like when people get, um, chosen or the golden buzzer and itching, but I never want to see somebody rejected. Oh man.

So you're living. Yeah. All positivity. It's like, it's all pot. And I think it's just cause that if I'm going to detox, I want that kind of energy of just laughing and positive, just seeing somebody, their dreams, letting me go, no, you're not right. It's like, Oh God, I'm in a business of rejection.

Why do I want to watch someone just get rejected? All right. Well, I mean, I thought we found a common ground there. I, my prank videos, I like to see someone get like horrifically maimed or injured, but yeah. Do you like the scare ones? What about the ones where they're like, have you seen it? The guy's like, he's a bush and he, and people think, and they kind of jump out

at him and scare him. Have you seen those? I like those, but I only like it when the, when the person was getting scared, like fights back and we'll like knock out the guy who's scary. You need that level. Yeah. You need that extra level. No, that makes me too uncomfortable.

Yeah. I'm comfortable. Like I like when they laugh. I like prank videos when people go into stores and prank people, then the person who's getting pranked flips out and beats the fuck out of the pranker. Oh my God. So you must have really liked that show scare tactics. Yeah.

Which one was that? There was one. It got, I think I didn't watch it because it got really dark, like people walking in and thinking their friend was murdered and all this kind of stuff. And it was like, ooh, this is a fine line, but you might have liked it. I like it when, because sometimes if somebody's doing a prank video out in public, it almost becomes the person that's doing the prank becomes really unlikable because they're just messing with people.

Like during the course of the day. Yeah. So then I'd like to see that person get to come up and. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Like when, when, when the pranker goes into like a grocery store, prank some random guy, then the guy turns around and beats the fuck out of the prank.

Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. That's my, that's like, that's heaven to me. Okay. Like, for example, in the bathroom video, the mom like holds her hand out the door and puts Nutella on the kid. Yeah. If the kid were to then actually crap in his hand and throw it in his mom's face.

Yeah. That would be funny because otherwise what you're looking at as a kid that's going to be scarred for life, probably grew up to be a great actor. Yes. Yeah. And have a lot of these issues come out on camera for our benefit. Yeah. I want the kid to kick the dad in the balls.

And like. I'm sure those are out there. Yeah. Uh huh. Well, that was, yeah, you know, prank videos or just like you mentioned earlier, some of the outtake reels, the gag reels. I'll watch a gag reel from any TV show or any movie. It doesn't matter if it's a comedy movie.

In fact, it's probably funnier if it's a drama and people are laughing. Yes. Game of Thrones has as a gag, I think a gag reel. But I think I like it also because you see there's very you can capture real authentic moments in that time. Yeah. You know, it's all a play and you're seeing people act. But when that happens, you see them at their most authentic place.

Yeah. No, I agree. And it's it's the best to like, like I said, you can feel it when you watch a show and you're like, these people really enjoy being around each other. Yes. Yes. Yes. How long does it take to tape like one season of Veep?

Like how long were you guys actually with each other? I would say maybe from like September to. March, April. Oh, wow. That's a lot longer than I thought. Yeah. And that's the same for. Yeah, because it was that was about because when I shot mysterious

Benedict society, it was like August to. Beginning of February. So you're really like getting you're really spending a lot of time with everyone and really getting to know the day to day. And the the bummer about Benedict, I mean, it turned out beautifully, but we were in Covid, so we couldn't even hang out. And I was, I went to Vancouver, you know, I was, I took the job. I was very excited, but I could fly.

I was hoping I could fly back and forth to LA once I got there. I couldn't come back home for five and a half months and we still couldn't hang out with each other. So it was a really, that was a bummer because we really didn't get to have the opportunity to get to know each other. Wow, that is a bummer. Who is your least favorite person on the set of you? Let's get into it.

Let's get into the biggest ego. Oh my God. There's no one. There's no one. Biggest diva. Biggest diva. Yeah. I would say there was no, I won't say it.

Did you ever walk up to Julian and you're like, Hey, Seinfeld, like that was pretty fucking cool. I think I would do that. Even if I was her colleague, I'd be like, yeah, remember Seinfeld? Like that was awesome. It is wild though. When you work with somebody, you know, obviously you're working so much with them and you do, you forget about kind of their work history.

And then you kind of wake up and you're like, wow, that, that Seinfeld, that was a cultural phenomenon. Right. That is, that was on every single, it might continue to be every single night. Right. And it was also before, you know, TV has clearly changed in the last 10, 15 years, it was very much, there was appointment television shows and that was one of them.

Yeah. What was your guy's absolute appointment television show when you're younger that you never missed? The Simpsons. I, I was actually probably Seinfeld. Yeah. I watched Seinfeld when it came out every single, every single, I think it was Thursday night.

Yeah. It's Thursdays. The Simpsons start on Thursday, then it moved to Sunday. I think in part to not compete against Seinfeld. And Boy Meets World too. I love Boy Meets World on Friday nights. Cause was it, what about pre, well, you might not have had a pre-VCR where you couldn't even tape it.

I had a pre-VCR where you could not miss it or nobody saw it. And mine was the Carol Burnett show. OK, OK, I've heard with Tim Conway. Yeah. And it felt like it was like you, I don't know, it's something that we've definitely lost in TV where everything is on demand. That feeling of like, I have to be here. I have to watch this.

Same with music. We would, we would listen to the radio. And this was before, you know, I mean, we had cassettes, but you had to have your cassette ready to tape it. Right. But if you missed that song, like you wouldn't have to wait until the next top 40 or whatever. Right.

I had some mixtapes and I think all the songs started about five seconds into the intro. So it was like a rare treat when you got to hear the very beginning of that song. Yes. You're like, oh, that's the part I was missing. So I've actually heard that I should go back and watch some comedies that were from before my era. And the one that gets brought up a lot is I Love Lucy, which I've never

watched before, but I've heard that it holds up very well. I'm curious if you've gone back and watched shows that were around, you know, before you started watching television. Um, I remember watching I Love Lucy. I just did the movie with Nicole Kidman about the behind the scenes where she plays Lucio Ball about I Love Lucy. And it's really going to be amazing. Aaron Sorkin directed it.

Um, but that I watched I Love Lucy. I would say I would go back and I'd watch, um, at the Dick Van Dyke show. I think I'd like to, I never, that's one I need to dive more into. Yeah. Um, well, Tony, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate you joining us. We're big fans. Everyone go check out nine days, which is in theaters now and also, uh,

check out, uh, the mysterious Benedict society, which you can watch on Disney Plus right now. Yeah. Thanks guys for having me. I really appreciate it. Yeah. You guys are fun, really fun. Thank you.

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I am a I'm leaving vacation. Oh, no, I'm after this is over. I know Hank feels my pain. I'm no, he doesn't feel my pain actually, because he doesn't. Oh, no, but I'm going back vacation. I'm yes, I'm going back down to the house today. Going to pack everything up and come back to the real world on Saturday. I'm going to miss the Jersey Shore.

I feel like I've become a Jersey Shore guy this summer. And what are you going to do on Saturday? I don't know. There's no pork rolls and there's no pork roll egg and cheese, salt and pepper ketchup. I can't go down strictly to the beach and just lay out there. The best part of my day has been just like going down to the beach on a Saturday and laying down for five hours in the sun. So I've reached peak tan PFT.

This is as dark as I'll get. Hudson River. It's all it's not the same. Hank, it's not the same. It's all down here hill from here. So yeah, it's it's bittersweet bidding. I'm sorry. Sorry. Thank you, sweet. I apologize. Well, I get to come back to work and football starting.

So that's nice. That's sweet. All right. My firefest is quick, short and quick. My son is just swearing like nonstop and he's using it appropriately, like in the correct context, which makes it way worse. Like if he drops, if you drop something, he just says, oh, shit. So it's like he knows the meaning of it. You know what I mean? It would be one thing if he said it and it had no meaning,

but he knows exactly like when something goes wrong. He just says, oh, shit. Are you the only swear in the house? I'm the main swear in the house, I'd say. So we're working on it. I can hop if you need. I'm trying to go. Yeah, I've been using.

Oh, geez. Yeah. Oh, geez, has been the fudge. Oh, geez. Is not really. I mean, oh, shit works like he's again, he's swearing. If you're going to swear, if your child's going to swear, at least have him do it like in the right context. And we've got that knocked out.

Like, dad, look at this big ass rock I just found. Yeah. No, it would drop it and say, oh, shit. This is a shitload of rocks. Yeah, right. And then he also says, oh, fuck sometimes too. So yeah, maybe it's got, you know, this is what are you going to do? What are you going to do? You live your life one way, never swearing like myself.

And then all of a sudden your son wakes up and decides he's going to swear. He just learned them out of nowhere. Which is crazy. Do they say that I'm bluey? Yeah, no, no, no. So yeah, I'm fucked. But don't listen to that.

We should. Yeah, we should have to show up. Yeah. Oh, geez. The nanny. Yeah. With Jake. All right, Jake, your five s. Yeah. So a few days ago, I put my water bottle in my backpack and I didn't close it correctly. And everything got wet. It's pretty simple.

That's pretty bad. So it must be like four times a week. Brutal. Just everything. Yeah. Would you say when you open it up and looked in? Fudge. Fudge. Oh, Fud. Oh, Fudruckers. Yeah. Good burger place. All right, Billy.

I was inspired by Hank saying he wanted to get a six pack for a great week. Wait, you owe next year. Well, that's weird because you said it was going to be this year. No, I he said August. August. You didn't specify. So it's August. I might have said great week. Didn't happen.

Yeah, I thought it was when I said it. I believed in myself. I think you pushed back pretty hard when I said that's ridiculous. And you guys all call me a hater. Listen, it's one of those things like if it's going to happen, you have to be the person to believe it. Like if I said you didn't even believe I did at the time a couple of weeks later after, you know, a few few pops

a couple of days at the beach moving, moving, let's just say next year. Next week, let's do it, Hank. Oh, it is it is it is bulking season. I'm going to say now that Roan Roan pointed this out now that the sun is setting before eight o'clock. It's it's time to bulk. I'll just throw it out there. I'm not trying to be a hater,

but I don't think you'll have a six pack for next week either. That's a lie. I will. OK, this is all year every year. Well, I actually thought Hank was going to do it. And I was like, I can't have Hank having a six pack. I mean, not a six pack. So you got one. No, no, this is the worst part.

I started like drinking green tea all day, like speeding up my metabolism, just ended up losing like all my muscle mass and don't even have to wait. I thought that was because of the vaccine. No, the vaccine's awesome. You should get all five and Joe Biden, please give me a thousand dollars. You're being a vaccine influencer. You definitely lost your muscle mass because of the vaccine.

There are reports going from you. It's not. It's really many people are saying. You know, wait, did you you were trying to get a six pack? Yeah, I was like, yeah, it's cut like for the first time in my life. It just didn't work. Yeah, I just didn't work. Damn. I am sorry. Sorry. Apologize to you.

Yeah, it sucks. And then and then Cam took a picture of me at Frolfe. I look like a meth addict to a garbage can. Oh, by the way, whoever that guy is, the photographer that took the pictures, I don't know. I'm about to pay that guy to just become my personal photographer. Yeah, because they're awesome.

I saw the picture of me throwing the disc off. How did we get him with with Kyle? Gay Pat texted me and he goes, are you the rock now? It was just Pat now. Yeah, just how did you how did you get the picture? Because we got tagged in on Instagram from the people that I also I have. I don't know how that camera works that he has, but it just adds muscles to be. I don't look like that.

But now, like, I have to have all my pictures come from that guy. Yes, yes. Great picture. All right, Hank. All right, this is kind of weird, but I am going to use my my serious. One of my let's get serious cards on the show. We don't do it often. But we did just interview someone and he was talking about the importance of if you have a microphone and trying to help people and just like doing what you

can when you can. So I just thought I'd share, like. Last weekend, I had an aunt suddenly and like tragically pass away from a house fire that happened when she was asleep. It's been like a very sad and surreal week for the family. And I just felt like I should it's it's a minor thing. But just saying, like, you know, check your fire alarms. If you have like a bunch of shit plugged in, make sure like you're not like.

Well, Siri, make sure you don't have like a bunch of like extension cords on extension cords on extension cords. Like and it's just one of those things where it's like, I know in my past, like I've I've like cooked and like my fire alarm went off and I just like unplugged it, got rid of it and never forgot about it. So it's one of those things that I just felt like I should share it. I know it's been like a weird crazy summer for me. I might not have handled it the best, but I appreciate you guys and the listeners.

I know PFC says it every time, but I love you guys too. I love you guys. And yeah, that's that's it's weird. It's weird to get this serious. No, but it's a good point because you're right. You're like how many times I've like cooked. Fire alarm goes off. Take the batteries out.

Don't put them back in right like it's everyone's done that. I've taken an entire smoke detector off a wall and just like put it down. I kind of forgot about it. But yeah, check your batteries right now and yeah, be careful. So like with the extension cords, yeah, I was like, it's like if you have like, you know, if you have like whatever the extension cords with six converters, don't plug another extension cord with six converters into that because you need the plugs like obviously like yeah, some some houses can't take all that much power.

Yeah, be safe out there. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you, Hank. Appreciate it. Sorry. I mean, I just I did know I was I was thinking about saying something. And then the interview on Monday when he as he was saying it, I was like, I felt like he was talking to me. I was like, all right, I should.

I was I was if you and if I was going to say something or not, I probably wasn't going to until he said it. And I was like, all right. And you know, I should I should I should say this. It was a there's a sign of when we actually get serious because we don't do the browser sound. Right. So that's that's that's when you know it's actually serious. So please do that.

Thank you, Hank. Billy, any recap? Yeah, it's going to be hard to follow that up with funny stuff. You got this. Oh, you were planning on funny stuff. Yeah, it's trying to see what I did there. Yeah, okay. The mood for you.

Yeah, okay. So we got Carson. We got Carson Wentz walking around at practice right after surgery. No boot. So who knows what's going on there? No boot. Is that like no cap? Yeah, no boot. Yeah.

Whatever. Isn't that the sushi place in Beverly Hills? Everyone goes to no boo. No, yeah. It's off the four or five. No, no, are you sure? Oh, PCH, PCH. Oh, it's a piece, PCH.

Yeah, but don't go like around five o'clock. Oh, yeah, like four to nine p.m. Forget about it. You're not going anywhere. Urban Meyer has not announced whether Trevor Lawrence is the starting quarterback. We won, which is, you know, intrigue. Trevor Lawrence trending downward, Sam Elinger trending upward, stock up, stock down.

I'm just saying, Billy, if you, if Sam Elinger has a better career than Trevor Lawrence, like we need, I will, I will quit my job to become your solo. My only job in life will be to be your PR agent to just remind people, like I'll be one of those Jesus freaks who's like, has the Lord saved you today? Like, have you, have you remembered that Billy football correctly predicted Sam Elinger over Trevor Lawrence? That's my promise to you.

Also a little fun stat. Cam Newton needs 1,426 yards to pass Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Kurt Warner on the all time passing list. Oh, wow. And then also there's a bunch of funny local commercials coming out featuring NIL athletes, which I think we should start reviewing because some of them are hilarious. Yes, I like that idea.

Yeah. Also, when we got to the hotel last night, I turned on NFL Live and they were talking about Jamis and all of them were like, Jamis should be the starter. And Hasselback was like, yeah, you know, Jamis is young 27. Like if he, if Sean Payne figures out, this is your starter for the next 13 years. What we're doing, we're doing that thing where everyone's going to be Tom Brady. Yeah, he's ruined it for everyone else where it's like, oh, yeah, it looks like we're set for the next 15 to 20 years.

If you have a good rookie quarterback. Yeah, like just what is the bears are now set for 24 years. Think about that. It's pretty good. By the way, I think I'm in on the bears this year. The clips that have been coming out of training camp are incredible. I know what you're doing. No, I'm serious.

Yep. Yeah, I bet on that. I'll put a future down. Yeah, I put a future on them. Love it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for believing in the bears. Yeah.

No, no, no, you do. Let me be the first say the bears are back. Yeah, you do. Yeah, all bears. All right. Numbers one to one to a hundred. I got the random generator. 69, 70, 99, 18, eight.

Billy and Jake are looking. No, 10. No, he's got 10. OK. Everyone remember your number. That's 93. I don't think anyone said it. Salmon can swim in salt and fresh water.

Can we go back to Wednesday real quick? Can you run back that fact? Oh, the one about elephants? Yeah. OK, so elephants look at humans like humans look at puppies. Elephants think that humans are cute. The same way we think puppies are cute, because we're like small creatures to them.

Yeah, that's cool. That's good. That is crazy. I listened to it back in when I was cutting it, and I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. So they want to scratch us behind our ears with their trunks and stuff.

They want to give us boops? Yeah, they want to boop us. We're very good boys. I love it. Love you guys. You're talking away, but I don't know what I'm to say. I'll say it anyway. Today is another day to find you.

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