The Harland Highway - 515 - ANCHORMAN 2 STAR David Koechner is todays guest!

Episode Date: September 16, 2013

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We have a special friend on the special podcast. My friend Corky, David Kekner is here, one of the stars of Anchorman and the upcoming Anchorman 2. He's on the show The Office. You've seen him in many, many movies. Just a hilarious, funny guy, stand-up comedian, improv artist, actor. David Kekner, my special guest, the whole show with some bonus people on the Harland Highway.

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It's the Harland Highway. Hey, everybody. This is Harlan Williams, and you are on the Harland Highway. And what a treat. Today, I have a special guest. Andy brought his posse with him. So I'm going to pluralize that. It's special guests with a Z.

uh my special guest today and he's here the whole show unless it gets out of control and i roll him out the front door of the studio uh he's a hilarious comedian he's a hilarious actor uh we're going to talk about his body of work and probably his body too uh during the podcast uh you've seen him in anchorman he's coming up an anchorman too ladies and gentlemen david kekner is here hello harland how are you buddy how are you guy you look very summery. Well, it's so hot. This might be the hottest day of the year, folks. Right. Are you wearing, like, the J.C. Penny, like, summer stuff?

It's part of the collection. Yep. Sanzabelt shorts. Oh. What are those shoes that they look like cranberry or something? Those are some cranberry loafers. They're very comfortable. Were you golfing or just strolling?

I'm going right after this. Wow. So you could, with those shoes, you could go from golfing to strolling down a boardwalk. Yeah. Yeah, they'd work on a boat. They could be great deck shoes. Actually, I've worn them as formal where as well. Where?

To a function? To several functions. Funerals mostly. Oh, cranberry loafers at a funeral. That's got to be a good funeral. It's hard to stand out at a funeral, though, right? And you want to be subtle. Most people are looking down anyway.

They don't want to make eye contact. Right. You get a lot great conversations. A lot of great conversations. Hey, sorry about your dad. Great loafers. Like that type of thing? Yeah, that's usually what happens.

Well, hey, let's not be rude. you brought a posse with you're like Kanye West all of a sudden you got like a bunch of buddies here all of a sudden I got my my buddy Noah Gregoropoulos is visiting from in town Noah hello it's good to see you Dave I get to be visiting and I'm sorry that I wore this wool suit today I feel like a jackass wow a wool suit and it's only it's about 95 today yeah yeah in the valley wow I just hope that you you know It's not like hair. You know, in Florida, if you have straight hair,

and then it gets hot, the hair goes all curly. I hope that doesn't happen to your wool suit. Yeah, I'm already, well, I'm moistening it from the inside, and when there's a little breeze, that cools down the undercarriage. Oh, the undercarriage. Is that what they're calling it now? I haven't read Penthouse Form since I was 14, but the undercarriage. Okay, and let's keep going down the line.

Come on, the posse. Hi, Harlan. Hey, man. I know you. Yeah, Kevin Dorff. Yes. A friend of Dave's, friend of Noah's. Ooh.

And also visiting for a short period of time. I started my visit to L.A. four years ago. And I've really enjoyed it so far. And we know each other because you were one of the writers and one of the creative forces behind Conan's show, Conan O'Brien. And so we've been kind of not close buddies like you and Dave, but we've been kind of acquaintances, and by default, co-workers for almost a decade probably. We've been collaborating with, mostly without your knowledge, since 2000.

So you've been doing stuff behind my back, huh? Mostly. Wow. Wow. So that's cool. What's it like, do you pay these guys to be your posse or they just like buddies? Why would you say that? Is that what it would take for you to hang out?

It would for me. Are you kidding? I suffer under the delusion that these are my friends. Oh, but isn't that, isn't posse like the hip word for friends? I don't know hip words. Wow, what if you break your hip? What will you say to the doctor? Excuse me, sir, I've broke my posse.

That's what I would say. Am I stupid? No, but I am. Oh, all right. Wait, am I stupid? No. You're the smartest guy I know. Who's stupid here?

Apparently, I don't know a lot of people. How you do? Wow. Wow, guy. You and your JCPenny attitude. it does cause an attitude yeah we have well if you ask who stupid i think the doctor is for asking the patient to diagnose himself oh i okay yeah yeah see good listener good listener yeah you got some improvisers on your hands today harland it's just not people with uh with a bunch of one-liners at

the ready these these guys will listen good this is a powwow this is like a comedy posse powwow yeah you're dealing with people that literally never write down any of their ideas good i like that i like that and thus rarely work oh stop it you guys you guys are all hilarious well i got a whole list of question i'm gonna when i do a podcast yeah i really push my listeners to the wall i'm provocative i don't just let it fly i have questions for you today cokey i love it And then... Harlan calls me Corky. Do you call anyone else Corky?

No, but I just called you Koki by mistake. That's because you serve as a nice Coca-Cola earlier. Do they sponsor the show yet? No. Well, they will be soon after this one. Harlan, for years, has called me Corky. I don't know why either. You just came up and just popped out of your mouth.

Well, because your name, your last name is so ridiculous. It's this long Polish name, Corkner or Kekner. There's no R in it. But I can't say it, so I just shortened it to Corky, which is not only easier but cuter. I wish I would have met you 25 years ago and you'd have said, here's one thing I got to say to you, guy,

change it. Change it to corky. Don't you want success? Now zip up your pants and get out of the alley. Wow, well, the alley. Wow, behind Coco's. Corky behind Cocoes. Oh, H. Williams.

I think I've told you this before. Yeah. Apparently, my grandfather was adopted, so I'm not even a Keckner. Oh. From the information we have, his adoptive mother, his mother, the woman who gave him up for adoption was a Williams. So I like to pretend that you and I are related. No way.

Yeah. That's cool. How you doing, brother? I'm good, bro. What's up? You're looking good. We should probably have a wrestle. We should wrestle.

That's what brothers do. Damn right, they do. Wow. Who loves who better? Like, does mom and dad love you? more or love me more? Well, I think you're younger, so they probably love you more because I was the trailblazer. Oh, I don't know what that means.

What do you mean a trailblazer? Well, the first one has the difficult time, usually with the parents. They're just still trying to figure it out. Oh, yeah, yeah. But by the time they get the second, third, fourth, whatever kid, like, oh, this one's easier. Oh, this one I like. So you're like the, you're the guy who cut through the jungle with the machete. Yeah.

And then I just walked, I breezed through the jungle. Well, you've got all the whips in your face and the bug bites and the snakes. And I cut through the 10. of their possible love and ruined it. Oh, wow. But then by the time you came along, those scars had healed. Well, let me ask you this then. Did you ever walk in on our mom and dad having whoopee?

Like having sex? Yeah. You did? When? I guess when they were having you? Oh, wow. And I said, hold it right there. Oh.

What are you up to? Whoa. You want more of me? And it was too late. So you didn't want me? Well, I didn't know that then. But you tried to stop me being concerned. perceived is what you're telling me.

What are you worried about? He's the one that was given up for adoption. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And then you came back to the circle. They kept me, loser. That's right. But it was my grandfather was adopted.

But I like that we made it closer to our own genetic history. Isn't it fun that we found each other, like in life? I never would have known. But if it wasn't for Hollywood and us coming back together. Right. Show business brings people together more than a lot of people realized. Everyone thinks it's a horrible, dirty, ugly business where you can't have real friends. I think we're out to prove that theory wrong.

Wow. Good wise words from the wise man. Your older brother. All right. Well, here we go, buddy. Here's come the tough ones. This might be a bit late, but do you have an opening statement for the listeners today? Yeah, I do.

I'm excited to see Harland anytime. And we last saw each other back in. July when we made our Instagram movie, Steady and Shakes. Wow. A hit. Yeah. And so any time I have any opportunity I have to spend time with you, I'm very excited about it. So that's my opening statement.

I'm very excited to spend time with Harlan Williams. Wow. What's your middle name? For real? For real. Mom and dad never told you. Never told me. Wow.

Are you serious? I really want to know. This hurts, man. That hurts? Well, I'm your brother. brother and you don't know my middle name i'm not a good listener like my improviser friends my middle name starts with an s that's this rumple still skin no it starts with an s rumple still skin okay yes that's it sally yes sally he won't give it up to us folks well what's yours michael

oh look how quick that was yeah mine's a weird one that's why i love weird is reser R-E-E-S-O-R-E-S-O-R-E-S-R. Is it really? Yeah. Harland Reeser Williams, that's a, that's a kick-ass name. It is? It is. I've never heard Recer.

Yeah, it's... Yeah, I don't get any kind of name, so it doesn't have a gender attached to it, which is nice. Yeah. You can name your kid after yourself, regardless of... Yeah. Either they're a setter or a pointer. Yeah.

Did you say a setter or a pointer? Uh, yeah. Like a dog. Like I define people by the manner in which they urinate, I guess. Oh, a sitter or a pointer? A setter. A setter. You sat down.

Oh, okay. I thought you were suddenly we were talking about naming your dog, Racer. Yeah. Or a pointer. I'm going to pass us on to Kevin and take this jacket off. But with the middle name like, the middle name like Racer, you're in, you're really. Clover because you can I know you publish a lot of

literature for young folks. If you ever publish a novel for adults, you can go with H. Riser Williams. Now that you guys are pumping it up, it does sound kind of sophisticated. I love it. You do? I'm kidding. I love it. Harland, Riser Williams? That's kick ass.

I've never told anyone that before. See, I'm supposed to be interviewing you and getting this stuff out of you and you turned the tables on me, guy. It's not turn the tables I like it, though. It's deepening the bond we're brothers for cry can i tell you a quick story please so funny the other day i uh have a a fistful of kids as you know yeah five right yeah audrey is one of the twins she's seven in second grade this year we um go and park to walk the kids in for the first day last week

tuesday and she's pulling on her backpack and it's the first day so it's double loaded down and she pulls on it hard and she exclaims jesus christ I just lost it She said JC out loud She did And then she looked at me like Oh my God What came out of my mouth

But I was just laughing It was like It's okay honey She didn't do it Clearly mom and dad Have taught that word to her right Because we pray so much in my house Yeah you do yeah

But my God It just got me Jesus Christ Wouldn't that be funny If the other kids Just in unison started going What's the buzz tell me What's the buzz tell me

What's the buzz tell me? me what's happening. What's the, but, you know, from Jesus Christ, Superstar. Superstar, sure. Would that have been good or no? That have been fantastic. When do I get a chance to say a good idea? Why don't you parent my kids for a while? Oh, I asked you once. I actually

Facebooked you once and asked you if I could borrow your family for a week and for immigration purposes. The answer is now and always yes. How long have you been married, Wild Guy? Fifteen years this past June. And you met your wife on a plane? Yeah, well, in the, um, I

I guess we fell in love on the plane or whatever, but we met in the terminal, the gate, before we boarded the plane. What terminal was it? Do you remember the number? Oh, see, these are the details that make a wife angry. Yeah. Oh, you know what?

I framed the ticket and everything else, so it's probably on there. Okay, yeah, we'll be on there. Do you have a call-in show? No. Oh. Why, do you want people to call in and ask if they saw you in the airport? No, I was going to call in next week and let you know what the ticket says.

I framed the ticket and the seat and the baggage claim and all that stuff. Oh, wow. So, yeah, we met in the terminal. And then it was a now defunct airline called Vanguard. And it was ticketless seating. No, I'm sorry, no assignmentless seating. So they saved me a seat on the plane. We met in the terminal, we chatted for a while.

And then they saved me a seat on the plane when she and I started flirting right away. Her brother Pat was with us, with her. and halfway through the flight and Lee's being very demure at the time very quiet and Pat's like what's going on this isn't like my sister and so halfway through the flight Pat says Dave are you attracted to my sister

because Lee you've met your match and I reached over and I think I touched her night and I said what do you think and she she just kept looking down at her magazine and she says to this day later that she said I know this guy's going to be around a long time because he's going to be my husband hey everybody who wants to have better sex

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Whoa. She said that out loud? No, no. She was thinking that. Or was she just reading that in a magazine? It could be, but that's the story she tells now. Maybe she was reading about someone else's love life and people. Perhaps reading a snippet from a an H. Reiser Williams novel. Oh, 60 Shades of Play. Wow. Wow. Well, let's get more questions.

Oh, I got, dude, this is good. We're just getting going here. Yeah, ticketless seating kind of went out right after around 9-11. I think that rage kind of ended. The ticketless seating. Hey, you want to go for a flight? Sure. Come on in.

Sit down. All right, just for clarity and hilarity. I meant no signed seating, much like Southwest. But me and your friends jumped on it. You might as well. There'll be plenty of these. We're not letting you get away with... There's no shortage of gas.

Yeah. I'm just really pleased that you have a framed Vanguard ticket. That's going to be a real collector's item someday for, you know, plain geeks and stuff. Yeah, that'll be right there at the Orville Wright aeronautical museum. Vanguard. Is that even real? vanguard airlines and b how cheap are you i don't i think that may have been one of the few available flights there kansas city wasn't a major hub i mean right now southwest does a lot of business there but

there weren't a lot of flights to l.a from uh i've never even have you even heard of vanguard it sounds like some kind of sealant you put on your van you got any more vanguard there jiffy lube that's what they do now that's how that's how they went out of business Wow. You should have No and Kevin on your podcast every week. Well, now that you brought them up here, I don't see why not. I'm sticking her out, so I'm looking forward to next week. Yeah, we're going to do it.

I love it. You have to pay us as much as Dave does to be your posse. Oh, boy, Arby's Chick-fil-A. Were you put off at all that you'd invited me to your podcast, and yesterday we were emailing and say, hey, by the way, can I bring some pals? Not at all. I love it. All right.

That's the thing about podcast. It's just anything goes. I love it, dude. I would have been happy if you brought four more people. Yeah, it's good to hang with bros, right? It's fun, man. It just creates more energy. And you're more relaxed when you're around your posse.

When you're alone, you clench up. You're not good at one-on-one time. No, not with anyone. I rarely speak. Yeah. I was going to ask you another question when I forgot, but you're the interviewer. Okay. Well, think about it.

And let's go to my next question. Tell people why you would make a great Secretary of Defense. Secretary of Why I would make a great one. Can I argue against it? Well, okay. Well, for me, the Secretary of Defense, what I would do, first and foremost, is just end the department and then shut down the wars. Oh, just close them.

Like we're closed? No one's going to attack us. Come on. Yeah. Oh, I know. 9-11. Yes, I get it. That was an anomaly.

because we had bases in their countries. If we had bases, if Saudi Arabia had military bases, say, in Texas, how do you think the people of the United States would react to that? That's right. Probably not very happy. We have military installations all over the world. Do you know how many countries we have military installations in, fellas? How many?

I have no idea. Well, the Internet knows. Anyway, that's what I would do is Secretary of Defense. Just shut down all wars. Yeah. But how would people fight if you did that? You're right. How's that Coca-Cola?

It's Coca-Cola. Now, let's shift gears here. Tell people why you would make a great dance school instructor. I love movement. Yeah. I'm not particularly good at it. Yeah. It's very hard for me to learn dance.

So mine would be less task-driven and more just of a hang. Oh, so people in like tights and ballet students would just come and sit around on the floor and talk and stuff? Yeah, it'd be more of a hangout place, but definitely you have to. That's the only thing you have to wear tights. Like a dance chit-chat area. Yeah, but I'd call it dance school. So just to recap, as Secretary of Defense, he shut down the entire department. And as a dance school instructor, there'd be no technical requirement.

Exactly. I like this. Right. Well, I'm not particularly adept at anything. So that's probably most of the schooling you're going to get. Do you watch toddlers and tiaras? No, no. My God.

Do you watch Catch a Predator? I think part of a double feature. Why are you watching? What toddlers and tiara? That's the creepiest thing you've ever said. And I can't get over it. And I thought last night with these poor, awful display of overbearing mothers that force their children into these contests.

Well, there you go, folks. There will never be a shortage of porn actresses. Oh, so this is that show where parents dress their kids up to look like 40-year-old showgirls. Yes. Oh, that's creepy. It's awful. I hate it. But anyway, that's going to be part of my dance school as well.

Now, if you're at your dance school, will you be wearing like a dance skin and leotards and stuff? Or how do you dress? Real tight. Really? Distractingly so. What color like, just so people can know. Well, how many colors are in a peacock? Oh, wow.

Yeah. I might even fashion a type of a waistband that is peacock-like. Yeah, many-colored. Part of color. Or like an alligator skin pattern. Oh. I like it. Ooh, ooh.

Great, great. Well, I'm excited. Do you want to sign up for classes? What nights are they? every night of the week oh really they're in my living room seven nights a week you do your dance class i've just installed a new curriculum i devr all toddlers and tiaras and we just do whatever routines they do oh cool i'm in and i berate all the students like the mothers berate their daughters oh do they get mad at their daughters on that show they get short with them come on do it be better win

they yell at the kids oh they all talk about winning and it's awful it's really disgusting oh my god Yeah, they really, they get all over them and then they ply them with sugary drinks and they pump them up and they send them out there. It's like they're training fighting dogs or something. Wow. Yeah. That would be fun to see them fight, like put them in a little cage and they're all dolled up and they have to fight like pit bulls. It would increase the level of disturbing imagery and behavior and feelings, I guess. That would be great.

It would be great. Like a four-year-old that looks like Madonna beating them. up a four-year-old that looks like Britney Spears. I love it. Wow. Why aren't we out pitching shows today? What are we doing here? I think we just did Wildfire.

Now, let's talk about Anchorman, too, Guy. This is exciting. Everyone loves Anchorman. Everyone loved you and Anchorman. Just so they know, you're the guy in the big white cowboy hat. What's your character's name, please? Please. Please tell the folks.

Champ kind. champ kind in the big white Cowboy hat. Yeah, I think he wore a couple different colors, mostly gray, but they may have looked white to you. That's fine. Yeah. But hilarious, dude. How, now, tell

us, when's it coming out first of all? December 20, 2013. And how excited are you? It's rare when you get to do a sequel to a movie. That's really lucky. That's great. I'm trying to contain my excitement, because I know there's a lot of road to before we get there and I think promotion starts in November and we're going to be doing all kinds

of press so I'm excited but I'm trying to contain myself yeah do you think it'll be funnier than the first one or right in the same zone do I felt like the first one had great jokes in every scene this one seemed like it's like in a boxing term there's just all kinds of punches with a knockout like a fury of punches yeah and every scene has a knockout as well I don't even know how people can keep up like i'm wondering if the laughter will and i'm being sincere i wonder if the laughter is going to drown out a lot of jokes i hope so because them people pay to see it twice bingo now can you and i don't know if you can but i'm going to ask a guy because i told you at the beginning of the show i'm provocative yeah uh can you give us a little uh short synopsis of

your character's arc in the story is there is there a storyline that he has uh or is it everyone kind of in the same boat together uh the news team finds themselves employed by a 24-hour news channel. Like a CNN? Yeah. Yeah. That's probably about as much as I'm supposed to. Okay.

They're very tight-lipped about it. I don't want to be the guy that spills beans and all that. That's in the trailer. So you haven't given it. And you don't have to tell us, but does your character go off on his own little arc or do all the guys kind of go on the same journey together? Same journey. Okay.

Same hero's journey. Like the first one. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun to see the news team. together I think it's great it's great but every now and then of these movies you'll get one character that branches off and meets a girl or something but that was what was fun about the first one you guys were all together there might be there might be a little bit of that in this one okay i guess i guess

we know that uh brick's character has a love interest played by christin wigg and it's hysterical yeah she's hilarious she's pretty amazing yeah and uh did you did you uh did you uh have just a blast with will i mean you you guys together i've worked with both you yeah working with the two of you together i think i'd have an aneurism like too much funny it's it's great it really is good yeah all of those guys everyone oh yeah one's great plus you've got mackay there throwing stuff out it's just it was just amazing i i remember every day thinking appreciate this be here be present yeah this is wonderful for you man that that's that's that's that's a great attitude because i do that too when i'm on a project like anything i do you know whether it's on conan or whether i'm doing a movie or

a TV show. It's like, I appreciate every moment, even when I'm at lunch at the craft service table, I'm like, this is a special time in life. This stuff goes by really fast and it's a great environment to be in. And I'm glad you said that. One of the producers came up to me one day, he goes, this is like Christmas every day for you, isn't? I'm like, yeah. Yeah, how long was the shoot? About three months, almost three months. Oh, that's great. Where? It was in Atlanta, which was tough because I had to be away from the family, but I would just fly home every weekend. And interestingly enough, that's the home base for CNN. Yeah.

Wow. Talk about energy. But the reason they went there is because there's a 30% tax break. Okay, you just wrecked the movie. Oh, come on. Sorry. Now, was there a lot? Now, you got it, Steve Correll, you, Will Ferrell, and the other guys, too.

Paul Rudd. But I'm just, I don't know, Paul. I've never worked with him. Great guy. But I'm assuming he's great at. improv too, but I got to imagine the four of you, masters of improv, was there a lot of

that going on? Yeah. And will we see a lot of it in the movie? Yeah. Well, it's hard to know whenever I look back what was scripted originally and then what was improvised. Sorry. Coca-Cola of the Atlanta Coca-Cola.

Yes, another tie-in. Another tie. Kevin Dorff, ladies and gentlemen, there's so much improvising going on I don't know what was scripted anymore usually by the time I see the end product plus you've got Adam McKay who wrote the thing with Will and is brilliant

and is directing and he did this thing they called Voice of God he'd have a microphone by the director's station and they've got the speakers so he can just throw out alt lines from there that way you don't have to stop you go discuss things he just throws chucks out lines and you're you're free to like

he'll will sometimes loosen up a new idea that you may have had or not and so it just it's pretty beautiful yeah that's great I actually had a similar experience I did a submarine movie called Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer and a bunch of funny people and our director

had a microphone too but it wasn't really to like give us funny lines it was just like okay cut oh no okay guys do that again yeah okay let's pick up the pay like it was just like it was almost we all took it like he doesn't

want to come in and talk to us this was because it's digital you just keep rolling this was that's right we could stay in the moment keep rolling keep going and just go go go because you're not wasting any film um so yes it really was a great bonus but it's such a great idea and mackay's mind is so fertile were there any moments where you guys just had a breakdown where you you improvised was there one particular moment where you guys were in a scene and everyone just broke up and you had to Stop. Yes. There's a particular scene.

I don't know if I can say it. It's a location by the sea. Okay. And it's a house that guides boats at night. And there's the scene with just the four of us, and I swear to God, it was toward the end of the film. Yeah. And it's one of my favorite days ever working because no one, no one could hold it together

for any time. Wow. And they were running, I think, three or four cameras that day. Oh. I remember I kept turning and trying to twist away from the camera. and McKay said, Dave, don't worry. Just keep laughing. We're not seeing you in this.

We've got a clean shot somewhere else, so don't worry about that. Yeah, right. I bet they use it. We were all crying. Oh, isn't that the best? Literally crying, all four of us. It was crazy. That is the best, man.

It was really nice. That is the funnest part of making movies when you get to that spot. And you got to figure, if you're making Will Ferrell and Steve Carell and Rudd laugh and you, it's hard to make guys who are professional and do funny all the time you're so used to funny that it's hard to break everyone up but for the four of you to break up that must have been a mega moment just a ridiculous scene i don't even know if it's going to be in the movie but it's so ridiculous that it was beyond it has to be now or i'll walk out you better now will there be a blooper thing at the end do you think i don't know was there in the first one uh i think the bloopers they used in the first one or outtakes from

Smoky and the Bandit. Oh, really? I'm not kidding. Oh, that's hilarious. Because it had become quite popular to put outtakes at the end of your movie. And so I think McKay was like, oh, that's, why would you do that? Let's go counter to that, make fun of that idea. But people love that stuff.

Sometimes they put them in your comedies and you're like, why, that's it? That's it? That's what you had? Yeah, sometimes they're not funny or even worse. Sometimes you get a blooper and it's way funnier than the stupid scene they put in the movie. you're pissed you go to the front desk you can have my money back i've been duped i've been trick i've been swindled here but then you they go well you you set through the entire movie sir we can't refund you now you're you already consumed the product if you pull down your pants and pee on the counter you usually get something back even if it's a coupon for popcorn how are you not in my dance class

i'm gonna be there all right that's part of our that's call me teara willie that's a that's a that's a routine we do. Wow. So give us the release date one more time for Anchorman 2. December 20. September December. Did I say September? No, I did by mistake because I'm so excited. Well, plus you're provocative. I'm provocative. So I'll throw dates around. We're all excited. Congratulations. Thanks. Are you guys happy for David? Are you? Yeah, we couldn't be happier. Were you there? Were you guys at did you go to the set at all or anything? Uh, no. It was there's a contractual thing where we were at least out as someone else's friends during that shooting. No, yeah, I wasn't involved in it.

I usually try to stay away from anything and involves a 30% tax break. Coca-Cola. Are we going to have outtakes of this podcast? Because I feel like we cut out. That's a great idea. Yeah, we will. There are going to be outtakes. Yeah, you're in one.

In fact, if you guys throw a random line right now, and that'll be one. Outtakes. I'm taking his vest off. I hope you guys don't mind it. Nice. And over here? This is absolutely the last time I'm waking up this early for you.

Excellent. Those will be at the end. Oh, that's great. Those will be at the end. I just love that there's more work for you because you've got to dig through the center of your show and find those and put them at the end. There is going to come a time, I think, when there are some scripted outtakes and goofs. Like someone's cynical enough to do that, I think, if it hasn't already happened. So, like, all right, great job, guys.

That's a wrap on the movie. Now we've got to do some of these fake outtakes to put under the credits. Yeah. I'm expecting that will happen. That's going to happen. Do that one more time because we got a little air conditioner. A little problem with audio there. Perfect.

See? Perfect. It's a good posse, huh? By the way, I want to remind you guys, and you guys can get in on this, too. Every time I have a guest, yes, your posse is amazing. You have a wonderful posse. It's one of the nicest possees I've ever seen. Yeah. It's a tight posse.

It's a tight posse. You guys make a real tight posse. Now, just so you guys... It's perfect. I mean, it's small. It's tight. It's tight. And because it's so hot, it's kind of sweating a bit.

It's moist. It's moist. You should see us lynch a rustler. Wow, cowboy talk. Wow. Linch or rustler. Wow. Better than cows.

Cowboy posse. You don't get that a lot, huh? No. You just get tangled and barbed wire. Do you have any cows up here on this mountaintop? I have deer. I have deer. It's close enough for us. Yeah.

By the way, I was going to say, every time I have a guest on the show, we do a game, and that'll be towards the end of the podcast. And today's game is called Too Soon or Not Too Soon. It'll be four questions. You'll be put to the test, and we'll get to that. in just a little bit. That's coming up. But for now, David Kekner, Korki,

what's the worst thing you've ever stepped on? And everybody's stepped on in a pile of poo or on a nail, on a catfish, a sea urchin. I mean, everybody has a stepped on story. Okay. What is the worst thing, David Kekner, you have ever stepped on? I once, when I was younger, was wearing work boots,

and we were at my friend's farm out near Tipped in Missouri, and we had found an old horseshoe, and I put it on a wire, and I think we were, it was like near dusk, and we had a campfire going. Yeah. And I put the horseshoe in the fire because I was going to brand a piece of wood with this horseshoe. Okay. So I took it out of the fire, and I stepped on it.

With your shoe? With my shoe. Now, luckily, it was a thick rubber sole, and it just melted the soul. And it warmed to the bottom of my foot, but it didn't burn it, didn't blister it. Did the horseshoe stick to your shoe? Like, did it melt? Yes. So you were walking around with one horseshoe.

Yes. Well, guess, well, guess who was really pissed, the horse that the shoe was attached to. Hello. Vinga. Wow. So the worst thing you ever stepped on was a red-hot horseshoe out of a fire. Well, I didn't want to be common. and I'm sure I've stepped on a nail,

but I can't necessarily remember the time and event. Well, then don't fabricate this. We don't want your lives. That's the most interesting thing I could think of. Well, pass it around, and maybe you'll think of something else as we go, but what was the worst? No, that's great, but you said there might be something else, so we're intrigued.

We don't want your lies. What was the worst thing you ever stepped on? I think the worst thing I ever stepped on was a Vanguard plane during ticketless seating. And I had to sit in one of those fold-down seats that are normally for an extra pilot who's hitching along. I still dream about that day. I wake up screaming and sweating. Kevin? Wow, no tickets.

How about you? Worst thing you ever stepped on. I mean, I stepped in them. I had a pair of cranberry loafers a little while ago. Where are they? I tossed them. Oh. Put the cans out of front last week.

So that was the last I saw those things. I thought it smelled like coffee grinds in here. These guys are listeners. They're listening. You're right. Here we go with the next quick. That was a great, great round of answers. Here's the next one.

If given the choice, David Kekner from Anchorman 2, would you rather wash an 85-year-old lady by hand or sleep with a prosthetic leg on your face? Which would you rather do, sir? Can I ask questions about, is it a heavy prosthetic leg? Is it new? Is it dirty? It's kind of dirty.

It had a nub in it that was sweaty, maybe a little fungus. I'd like to wash that old lady, please. Wow. Good answer. Thanks. Guys? I also have a contextual question. Yes, no problem.

Because this is tough. I understand you have questions. Would or could the old lady have a prosthetic leg, in which case I figure it's win-win to go with a lady? So you're doubling it up? Yes, sir, it can. All right, because it's given to, it's kind of like you can't lose either way. I'm going with the lady with the peg leg.

But that would indicate that while you were bathing her, in order to have her peg leg on your face while you sleep, you would be falling asleep while you were bathing her, which could lead to her drowning. Are you okay with that? Okay with. That's what you want. That's the direction I'd be heading.

Yeah. So I would say I would sleep on the one-legged, under the one-legged old lady while washing her undercarriage. Excellent. Excellent. It doesn't take a lot of thought. I'm sleeping with the 85. year old lady you are wait no it's bathing this 85 year old oh you know what i screwed that question

no he that was a statement okay he's sleeping with an 85 year old lady oh she's just okay he's for okay sorry who is she uh my girlfriend let me ask you this because i i've always wanted to meet a guy who had an 85 year old girlfriend after making love does she leave baked goods on the night table or anything interesting after during before so what she just bakes and bakes what what does she leave like give me like apple crumble what what's there great apple crumble uh she's really good with uh cake you know like you know how cakes aren't very good anymore anymore yeah made from scratch they're really great yeah like because there's so much of that stuff that everyone uses now is processed but an 85 in a woman they don't use any of that stuff so if you ever had like a two hour love making

session. You finally pull out of her and on the night table there's a steaming lemon loaf? It starts with a steaming lemon loaf. Oh, it's that takes two hours and then for a few minutes we make love. I love it. Good answers, guys.

Now, this next one is called the Quicky round. It's a yes or no answer. So you don't even have to embellish. Quicky, yes or no, do bats use their sonar to give people orgasms? Yes.

No. No. Guys, I hate to say it, Corky's right. Wow, that's... Corky is right. Have you had one? Is that happened to you? No.

Because obviously you're the only guy that said yes. So when and where did this happen? Once I was on a farm when I was younger. Okay, with a horseshoe on your foot. A white hot horseshoe melting the rubber sole of my boot. And I heard these bats, a posse, a cowboy posse, Bats came shrieking by I popped a boner and

released Dude I was joking Dude oh Whoa dude What do you want to maybe like just say you were joking right now Just so people don't cut that right Well no That's going to be under the credits

I don't know but that was so real though Like it was like I usually try to peel Open the doors and get into who people really are on this point You just that was a bit weird dude all right let me tell you something when i'm in your presence i am your onion whoa peel me how you wish wow your onion huh yeah wow what kind of like Spanish or what do you like Vidalia what did you say about my Vidalia you may have a posse but I have a Vidalia so up to yours bat jerker you have a beautiful Vidalia

By the way, that's a new car coming out by Chrysler later this year, the Vidalia. I thought it was an airline. Oh, no, you're thinking of Verizon or whatever. Did you fly Verizon, meet your wife on Verizon Air or something? Oh, that's another made-up story. Hey, let's go to something that we did together recently. Let's talk about Steady and Shake. Let's do it.

Because it was historical. Just let me set it up. Steady and Shakes was a, a buddy cop show that David came up with about three years ago in Vancouver and he convinced me that we should do this cop show about two cops, one who's steady and one who trembles all the time and I kept telling him

no, it's crazy, he kept pushing and we finally did it and it was a huge hit. Tell people the format and all that stuff. Well, I'd never done Vine and I saw it became very popular and I'm on Twitter I know you are too Yeah

It's kind of like we have to Right we don't really have a choice yet to have that social media presence Yeah, I guess you don't have to But So Instagram came out with a 15 second clip That you could shoot on your phone Yeah

And so Some friends of mine had an idea like Well oh I know what it was I said oh this is perfect Let's start doing steady in shakes episodes Yeah And basically it's just 15 seconds Of some ridiculous thing

Like oh we've got a We're two police officers. We've got to defuse this bomb. And then we cut to you, and you're just shaking. I'm shakes. Yes, because you're, you make me laugh so hard. And so we were working with my friends, Joe and James, and they said, we kept coming with all these scenarios. They said, you guys have enough for a movie.

So we decided to make an Instagram movie. And it was the first Instagram movie, right? First Instagram movie. In history. And we got all this press. We got in USA Today. It was crazy. People went nuts.

For it. Here's the other thing. We had like 13 different 15-second scenarios we were going to do. Yeah. And you were headed, we had to do it on a Sunday. Yeah. You were headed to the Montreal Comedy Festival. Then you were going to be gone fishing for a month.

Yeah. But before that, I was leaving the next day to go on an eight-day road trip with my family in an RV. Yeah. So we thought this would take no time at all because you had to do everything in real time. The music has to be real time. Yeah. The special effects have to be real time. 15 seconds.

15 seconds, but it took a lot longer than we thought. It was like four hours. And so we didn't finish the movie. We got about halfway through. And I thought, oh, shit, I've got to pack the motor home. We've got to quit. We've got to go. It's nighttime.

We ran out of daylight. Yeah. So the question is, well, before I ask this, where can people see steady and shakes? If you're on Instagram, you can go to Harlan Williams or David Kekner, follow David Kekner and Harlan Williams on Instagram. You can see the buddy cop movie or episodic show, whatever it is, steady in shakes right there. And then the big question I was waiting to ask,

are we going to finish it? Are we going to do the second half? We should, right? Let's lay that down, buddy. I want to disappoint the fan. We have all the scenarios written out. There was even a fire. There was a burning building.

A building. A baby was thrown out? It was a lot of fun. It was fun. And, you know, you proved me right. You proved me wrong. I would have said, this is crazy. He was going to watch this.

And then everyone showed up. I know. That's great. Good job, buddy. Good job. So Steady and Shakes on Instagram or I bet it's circulating on YouTube and stuff too. I have a YouTube channel called Full-on Kekner. They can see it there.

Good. And I have it on my Harlem Williams YouTube channel, too. So you can see it there. Cross-pollinate. Yeah. Subscribe to both, folks. Subscribe to both. And what's your Twitter handle?

Just at David Kekner, which is K-O-E-C-H-N-R. See, that's what I mean if it was just going. Forky. Right? You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right.

Well, hey, we've covered a lot of ground. This has been fun. And now we're down to, we're near the end of the podcast, but we're going to go out big. Okay. With the game, the new podcast game, called Too Soon or Not Too Soon? All right. Are you ready for this? Here on the Harlan Highway.

Here on the Harlan Highway. There's four questions, guys. Buckle up, folks. And you can each have a stab at answering them. Just so you know, folks, if you're trying to follow along on the voices, you know mine. Yeah. Noah has the deep resonant voice. He's the one in the wool suit.

Yeah. Yeah. And then Kevin, of course, has typically been the third person to answer. I just want to let people frame this in their minds as to. Coca-Cola. Proud sponsors, too soon or not too soon? That was awesome. Yes.

Yes. These are great guys. I came up with these guys. We started, I started show business, whatever, 25 years ago. These were the first characters I ran into. Oh, cool. So you guys are real old buddy. Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's great. Some of my oldest friends. I love that. Yeah. Love that. Makes me feel irrelevant as one of your newer friends. So thanks for that. That was my point.

Yeah. All right, here we go, ladies and snorgle flargens. Too soon or not too soon. Four questions. Let's see how these gentlemen do. We've got David. Noah and Kevin. Are you ready, guys? Yes.

Here we go. Too soon or not too soon is the name of the game. Here's our first question. A guy runs into a graveyard with an American flag on a pole and slams it into the ground over first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong's grave. Too soon or not too soon? I would be disappointed if it hasn't been done already.

Not too soon. well it's time that the sham of the moon landing was exposed it happened in a sound studio in beverly hills so i think not soon enough wow okay definitely not soon enough i want to see the guy do it so not too soon and i want to see that fist come right out of the ground and punch that guy square in the chops wow so three not too soon guys i hate to say this you're all wrong Too soon. Too soon, guys. Whoa, too soon. Thank you.

Neil Armstrong, flag and grave, guys, too soon. Yeah. You're a newly minted American. Three years, citizen? Yeah. So I get it. I like it. You're a good patriot.

I'm wrong about those bad orgasms, too. Yeah. What kind of jeans were you wearing when you had the bad orgasm? Were they like Calvin Klein designers? No, they were probably just your standard Levi's or, Perhaps, or maybe just a knockoff brand, probably more likely a knockoff brand of some kind. Is that going to help you later? No, that's going into the bloopers at the end.

Probably the last one, the one where we're... All right, next question. Here we go, guys. Are you ready? Yeah. You go to see Les Miserables on Broadway. You request a balcony seat and arrive at the theater dressed as Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Too soon or not too soon? Well, I would stand up and exclaim,

hey, I had ticketless seats for my American cousins. What's going on here? But wait, too soon or not too soon? Too soon. Still too soon. Okay. Well, had I shown up and planted a French flag in Victor Hugo's grave, I would say too soon. As it is, I'd say not too soon.

It's simply too soon. This is, we're only 150 years or so have gone by since this has happened, and I don't think it's anything to mock and certainly nothing to interrupt a wonderful show like Les Mazarop. Kevin, you are right, sir. Corky, you are right.

Noah, I'm sorry, you're wrong two for two. Gentlemen, the answer to that question is Too soon. Way too soon. Okay. Here we go. So it's 1-1-0. Here we go. You've got two more questions, guys.

All right. Here we go. And they don't get easier. Here's question three. You buy a sleeping bag at Walmart. Climb inside into a half-dozen dairy queen Brazier Burger farts and then stuff your children inside and zip it closed. Is it too soon?

or not too soon? Too soon. That's cruelty to pigs. And I'm claustrophobic, and I'm sure they would be too. Okay. Noah? I've been pronouncing it Brazier Burger all these years. But I also think it's too soon.

Kev? Too soon. That episode of Toddlers and Tierra has aired last night. Wow. A three for three. Can we say it all together? Guys, that answer is too soon. Yeah.

Good one. You're on the board, Noah. You're on the board. I don't know if you can catch up. Let's see what happens with the last and the hardest question. I do believe it is, in fact, impossible for him to catch up unless you award him bonus points. Which we won't. So you're done.

But please enjoy the last question. Wow. That can change things. Here we go, guys. The last question, too soon or not too soon. You see Madonna at a fancy seafood. restaurant. You grab a small hammerhead shark out of the fish tank and start singing like a virgin will you fuck the shark in the salad bar. Too soon or not too soon? And I can read it again if you

need help. I'm going to say it's too soon. I've just met the shark. Nice, nice answer. Yeah, I would never fuck a shark in a salad bar. I always fuck a shark in the ass. So I would say too soon. Too soon. Definitely too soon. I've only been to this restaurant once. Gentlemen, three for three on that answer. Way too soon. Way too soon.

Too soon. So I think Corky you might have won because you got three correct answers. Kevin got two. Noah got one. Two. Two. So you and Kevin tied. Wow.

Corky. Wow. You did it. How do you feel? I feel pretty good. I feel like I have shown up as a good older brother. I've represented the family very well, the Williams family. Good man.

And I can't think of a better way to wrap up the podcast here today. Before we go, though, I want to remind everybody, Anchorman 2 with David Kekner, just one of the funniest guys on the planet, ladies and gentlemen, and he's going to rip it up in this movie. It comes out December 20. December 20. Please go see it. And David, give the folks your information for your website, your YouTube channel, all that.

My phone number is 8.1. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa, too soon. Follow me on Twitter at David Kekner. Go to YouTube, full-on Kekner. Great videos, by the way, on there. Good videos, good fun.

Cats hitting guys in the balls. Yes, Harlan, thank you very much. me on Twitter at David Kekner, K-O-E-C-H-N-E-R, and also subscribe to my YouTube channel, Full-on Kekner. Nice, nice. Noah, do you want to plug anything before we wrap it up, buddy? Yeah, my YouTube channel, get a load of Noah, will be available online as soon as I create it.

Nice, nice. Kev? If you haven't, go out to your theaters. If you're of the appropriate agency, we're the Millers. I have a small part in that film. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Noah, and David Keckner, ladies and gentlemen. Again, go see him in Anchorman, too.

It's going to be hilarious. Congratulations on winning too soon or not too soon, buddy. It's got to feel good. And it's a pleasure to have all three of you here, David and his hot posse. Great times. good friends, and don't forget as well as checking out David's stuff, don't forget, if you're Canadian and you have a TV,

don't forget that my new sitcom package deal airs on September 30th, 830s, Monday night on City. And it's a really funny new sitcom with myself, Pamela Anderson, Eugene Levy. Really good time. my Canadian brethren, please check it out. And if you're in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, this coming weekend. Oh, my God. I'm going to be to a comedy club called Side Splitters,

and you can go to Harlow Williams.com and reserve your tickets now, because it's going to get packed in there, man. And don't forget, visit Harlowyms.com our store. We have books, DVDs, T-shirts, movies, comedy specials, all that stuff. You can write me at harlindwilliams.com or if you want to leave a wacky phone message, 323-739-4-330, and you can check me out at Harlan Williams, my Twitter account. And also, yeah, subscribe to my YouTube channel.

And that's it, guys. thanks for being here let's let's say goodbye and then stick around at the end because as I promised I've got to play the bloopers back so we've got a blooper reel so enjoy the bloopers

thanks for being here thanks David Kekner and until next time chicken chau-main baby I'm taking his vest off I hope you guys don't mind it this is absolutely the last time I'm waking up this early for you

these bats a posse a cowboy posse of bats came shrieking by i popped a boner and released no they were probably just your standard levies or perhaps wrangler or maybe just a knockoff brand probably more more likely a knockoff brand of some kind is that going to help you later Thank you.