The Harland Highway - Podcast 89 - with Brian Palermo

Episode Date: March 24, 2010

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Beautiful show in the neighborhood. It's a beautiful show in the neighbor, won't you be mine? Yeah, we have a beautiful show today. A little different today. Just going to be rambling today. My buddy Brian Pomerro, or Palmero, as you say it in Italy, is just going to be dropping in, hanging out. We're going to be chewing the fat.

Just a couple of guys rambling. Um, he's an expert improv artist who works, uh, works out, uh, in Hollywood. I'll let him tell you about it as we get into the, uh, conversation here. But great guy. I've done some film work and some stage work with Brian. Very funny. And, uh, why don't you just be a fly on the wall and listen to two old buddies just, uh, yak it up, have some giggles, talk about the deep probing. questions of life, and hey, I think we might even do a little improv right near the end just as a little treat. So here we go. Put your improv helmet on. It's me and my buddy Brian on the Harlan Highway.

Just lovely. The Harland Highway. Hi, Harlan. I'm Teddy Rapspin, and I'm your friend. Riding down the Harland Highway. I'm not your daddy. For you asked, I'd have been happy if they won. But within a second, I was like, yeah, good for Canada. You know, it was really cool.

I don't know. I wasn't that invested in it. Well, good. We're here rambling. We're talking with Brian. and let's do the Palmero. Totally wrong. Palermo.

You're going to start it again. Anything you think is right? Just switch it because it's going to be wrong. Palermo. I'm here with Brian Palermo. Yeah. Did I say it right? That's better.

He's got the trickiest last name on planet Earth. Only to you. Only to me. Like I could say a long Russian- Yugoslavian name perfectly. But I get to your name, what I think has six letters. You don't even know. I don't even know. See, now I'm turning it back on you.

You don't even know about your own name. I got seven letters. You didn't know. This is horrible. If I had a dollar for every person who asked me to count letters in my name, I would not have a dollar. No one who cares? I just proved the boy that we both have trouble with your name, okay? Only my trouble is only counting.

Okay. Not pronunciation. Well, let me tell you about Brian. Brian is an actor and an incredible improv actor. He works at the world-famous groundlings. Sure, all the time. In Hollywood. Tell us real quickly what the groundlings is.

The Groundlings is a sketch and improv comedy theater. It's been around for over 30 years. I don't know. A lot of famous alumni such as Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow and Paul Rubens, who is Pee-E-Herman, and Sherry O'Terry, Chris Barnell, Chris Catan, a lot of Saturday Night Live guys, Maya Rudolph, and a lot of the Saturday Night Live kids,

Kristen Wigg, who's currently on there, and Will Ferrell is currently on there. Wait, Rudolph? Maya Rudolph, yeah. Rudolph did improv. Maya Rudolph, yeah, you know Maya. You played with her. Oh, I thought you were implying you had a reindeer.

You said my Rudolph. No, Maya Rudolph. Oh, okay. Now, Rudolph, the reindeer, yeah. Horrible improviser. Okay. He just couldn't listen.

Well, they never did let them play those reindeer games, and I guess that's why. You've got to rehearse to get better at these games. Strangely, he's a very good stand-up. He could do stuff on his own. Well, he could give himself the red light when he's going on too long, right? Exactly. Well, it's great to have you here.

Brian's a buddy of mine. We did a movie called My Life and Ruins together. We shot over in Spain and Greece, and we were there for like two months. Right. And Brian just dropped by today, and we're just going to shoot the breeze and have fun. And I wanted to ask you something. Do you have pets? I never knew if you had.

We don't right now because. Because I've got a tomato plant named Joey, who is, you know, it's a biologically alive thing that I have to care for, and I love, and I named him. But we don't have any pets right now. We've all got a two-year-old boy. You know, Dash is only two. So that's like the equivalent of a pet. But wait a minute. Could a tomato plant be a pet?

Like, have you ever thrown anything for your tomato plant? Like a stick? I throw fertilizer. Oh, for him to fetch. Yeah. Not so much. He hasn't learned fetch yet. Can it sit?

It's very good at sitting. That's all he does. He's brilliant at sitting. He's like the world's best sitter. No, but a tomato, of course a tomato plant could be a pet. Any pet that you would love and care for for a time and then eat. All right, I've got to ask, what's its name? Joey.

Joey, oh, Joey, you said that. Yes, indeed. Named after, of course, kangaroo children. Who? Kangaroo children. They're all named joys. Oh, that's right. Baby kangaroos are called Joey.

Yeah, because you're a big animal guy. You should know that. Well, I figured it out eventually. Right. That's weird that they call. baby kangaroos joys like what if baby grizzly bears were called larries exactly or lenny's or something yeah what's okay what's what's a baby uh gerbil been called alister or something uh a baby gerbil is uh gabby sure that's good see i thought that was a good setup i was wondering where you were

going to go with that uh well i immediately went to a richard gear reference but i didn't do it because i didn't want to go up that street if you know what i mean that's a euphemism for up his bottom Yeah, no, that's too easy of a joke. All right, well, here's what I was getting to, because, you know, you're a sensitive guy. If you have a pet, a dog or a cat, do you put it to sleep? Would you put your dog or cat to sleep?

Not for fun. I mean, just for, like, on a given Tuesday, it's like we're bored. I don't mean it's a trick, you know, like you... Like, yesterday I get mad at it, like a disciplinary measure? Yeah, like it pees on the carpet, you put it down? When are you talking about? Obviously, after a nice long life.

Yeah, like a nice long life and it's ill, it's fading. Do you put it to sleep or do you just let it run its course and die in its sleep? I think if the vet could tell us, you know, exactly what kind of life expectancy it had, what kind of quality life the pet may have, I would definitely consider putting them down. Because I don't want the pet to suffer after they've had that. If the vet's not sure and it's just like this pet is dying of old. age, I might let them just live on naturally and expire naturally. But if the pet's in pain, yeah, I would definitely...

You put it to sleep. I think at some point I would... So you're a dog killer, is what you're saying. What? No. You set me up all that way just for that. I just wondered. I'm curious.

Yeah, yeah. I kill a lot of dogs. Lots of dog. I don't. That's a horrible thing. I know. Because somebody's going to sound bite that. My sound bite is worse than my bark.

See, this is a problem. problem being an improviser is you'll you'll set me up with something negative and I'll just go and you're taken out of context I'm worse than pole pot you know it's horrible what did you say pole pot pole pot what's that he's worse than Hitler you know he killed millions of people in Cambodia and stuff oh that oh that guy the killing fields yes exactly exactly I wonder if he put any dogs down don't know don't know he might have been a great dog lover how many how many of your previous podcasts have featured pole pot not this is awesome okay good yeah I'm glad to say that I'm the guy you brought up a murderer.

It also doubles as a nice, a tie dish, doesn't it? Oh, it's very good. It's very good with a little pad tie on the side. Excellent. Well, let me switch gears and let's take it into our realm. Okay. Okay, this is a little morbid, but we all got it coming. She's morbid.

Where are you going? No, it's just a curiosity. You know, it's listeners want to know how people think. All right. And I perceive you as a deep thinker. Deeper than most. And what I was getting to is, you know, we're all going to go one day. And are you one of these guys that, do you want to be buried or do you want to be cremated?

I'm a cremation all the way kind of guy. And that was, I had to overcome a Roman Catholic upbringing where everybody was buried. You know, it's, I don't know if it's like religious taboo or law to not cremate in Catholicism, but certainly my family did not. I mean, you were buried, and so there was an actual location where people could come and visit you. I so I overcame that idea to something which is fine for others but what I want to do is be cremated and I'll at some point decide where I'd like to be spread around why though I mean think about it like if you do come back right or your soul floats away right you're going to come back like all burnt up well yeah but you're also come back as millions of pieces of ash and you can get into any house you can go anywhere you want I mean you're looking at this as a half full cup I'm thinking I'm the fucking ghost I'm the shadow I'll come back as a shadow. Isn't that fantastic?

Ashy shadow. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, see? I'm looking at it. A cool way to come back. That's cool. I just feel weird about... So you want to be buried?

Well, think about it. We're both alive right now. We're flesh and bone and fluid and tissue, right? Yep. Imagine, like, laying on a slab and being slid into an oven and just being burnt. Well, I don't think after you die. I don't think you'll have any cognizance of what's going on with your body. I know, but isn't it?

Wouldn't it? You could step outside of your body and watch your body get slid into a furnace. Right. Isn't it odd? Yeah, you're right. It's so much less odd to be buried six feet under the ground. Yeah, in total darkness eternally, where people can walk above you and pee on your grass. Come on.

Everything's odd after you're dead. Imagine anything that they do with your corpse after you're dead. They dress it up like Dennis Rodman and put it in a display in the Wax Museum. Wow, okay. You win that round. I didn't know this was a competition. No, there's no winning. It's just you made a great point.

Okay, I don't take that. I think you're right. I guess I somehow thought burying would be better, but you're right. It's really not. It's like going down into the subway and never coming back up. Well, in a way, yeah, yeah. You're choosing to go down to the subway. Bering, people are doing it to you.

You're not doing anything. You're not choosing yourself to lay down. People are putting you down. Yeah. And I guess you get eaten by bugs and stuff. stuff well we hope eventually yeah you want to be eaten return to the to the earth return to sender Elvis Presley yeah see so I'd rather go and get cremated and speed the process of my being returned to the earth okay I guess either way there's we can't win I'm sure you can win I mean

it's it's that's just your body after the after your life force is gone so it doesn't matter there's no winner loss there you know how you're winning Harlan how you're alive right now I know it's and you're having all this great life right now. That's winning. This is the winning portion. But what do you think happens to us? Like, do you think we come back? Dude, I thought we were going to do a leprechaun bit. We've been talking about

existential life now? When do we come back? I don't know. A lepricarm bit. I didn't know what we were doing. You said come up to the garage and we'll bullshit around on the podcast. I didn't know I was going to be deep philosophical questions. Well, don't forget, you could take this in any direction you know that's true. You could totally

just create whatever world. Yeah, I've done a lot of deep thinking about life after death, and basically I think you come back as a leprechaun. Okay, here we go. This will be your St. Patty's Day podcast. I haven't done that much deep thinking about what happens after. I know I'm not

afraid of death. I might be rare in that instance, because a lot of people are. That's good. I think that's kind of a normal thing. Sometimes people say the cliche of, I don't want a painful death, and I certainly fall into that. I don't want to be pained, but death is a part of the nature of being, of life.

You know, you're going to die at some point. So, yeah, that doesn't bug me. But are you one of these guys that think she'd come back as a caterpillar or a pheasant or something? I don't. I would come back as a Gabby, which is a baby gerbil. I don't know what you, I don't know if you come back. And I don't know what I believe. I am a true agnostic in the, I don't know.

I don't know what happens And I don't think you can't know Obviously you can't know I check in because my listeners Have these deep questions And I thought maybe you I am open to all these groovy theories The idea of coming back as another live thing

Or the idea of coming back As specifically a human Or the idea of never coming back at all The idea of going up there as an angel Or what have you I think those are all fantastic thoughts and theories I'm very keen to find out what it's going to be in about another 40, 50 years.

It's interesting, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Well, let's switch gears. We're talking about bugs and all that, and I want to know, uh-oh, hold on. It's God. It's God calling. It might be our number.

Hold on. Hello, Harland. Uh, yeah? This is God. Oh, uh, hi God. Yeah, let's keep it moving. What do you mean? Let's keep the podcast moving.

Get off all the death stuff. Well, I thought it was it. It's not interesting. Nobody wants to hear about it. Well, we were wondering what happens to us. You'll find out, believe me, I got plans for you, your little weasel. What does that mean? Just get back to your podcast.

No, wait, I want to find out, am I coming back as a caterpillar or a pheasant? No, you're coming back as a Gabby. Get back to the dog. A Gabby? Yeah, baby gerbil. Get back to your podcast and change the subject. Wait, God. Whoa.

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Don't throw your back out. Okay. Let's get back to it. Whoa, that was weird. That bride, just so you know that was God. Oh, wow. Yeah, and she said that she likes what we're doing here. She's enjoying the conversation, and she said, get back to asking Brian that question you had started.

Fire away. She doesn't like it when you say fire away. Oh, sorry, sorry. Shoot. Yeah. Well, Jesus was shot, so she doesn't like that either. Lay it on me, Daddy. There we go.

She just whispered in my ear. She does like that. She says, that's groovy. Groove, man. So what, a guy like you, and, you know, I ask this of a lot of modern day, fully grown man. Okay. What makes men, and you in particular, what makes you squeamish? Like some man, full grown, 20, 30, 40-year-old men still get freaked out by spiders or lizards or...

For a long time, I was really freaked out by snakes. Really? Yeah, just about like five years ago, I kind of got over it. I finally just figured, it's just another critter out in the wild. And, you know, like any critter, if you don't scare it, it won't scare you, you know, for most part. I don't know. That was the only thing that was, like, critter-wise. What was it about the snake that got to you, man?

I don't know. It's the crazy phallic thing that's coming up at you. You know, it's too sexual. It's too, it's a devil in the Bible. So, wait a minute. You saw the snake not as a reptile, but as like a slithering penis. Symbolically, Harmonic, Harlan. Do you know, do I understand a poetic license here?

No, no, it's more of the biblical reference. The devil was a snake. The devil could have been any critter. It could have been in the water buffalo. It could have been a hated puppy. It's like all puppies. Instead of being cute, they could have been the devil. But no, it was the snake?

So I don't know, for a long time. Was it the snake? Of course. Because it was in the tree. Yeah, it was the serpent. It was a serpent. And that was definitely the devil. Yeah, he talked to Eve.

He talked to even to eat in the apple. And then she took down Adam and, you know, everything else. Yeah. Then we had Al-Qaeda. Exactly. Next thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire. I don't know. But then finally I got over it.

You know, I've been hiking and I just mentioned Temescal Canyon, Vasquez Rocks, who've been out there, and I see a lot of rattlesnakes in the summer. They're not out right now. But so I've seen a lot of them, and they're really groovy and interesting looking. And they don't freak me out anymore, but it used to, that used to make me a little sweet. So you would literally like back away, you'd get freaked out, you'd get clammy skin, you'd get goosebumps. Yeah, not literally goosebumps or anything, but I would certainly back away. If I came across a snake in nature, I would freeze and try to, like, back away slowly so as to not upset it or something.

I was extra careful with snakes. Put it that way. As opposed to anything else, like, I would be more normal. Remember, you just made me think of that scene from Raising Arizona, where those hayseeds break into the bank and they yell, freeze! So everybody in the bank freezes, and then they say, now get down on the ground. And then one of the Yahoo's in the bank goes, well, if we get down on the ground, doesn't that mean we're not freezing anymore?

I don't question what the Cohen brothers are right. They're geniuses. So whatever like them. I love them, although I didn't see Simple Man yet. No. Well, you shouldn't. A guy like you, I wouldn't want that of you. I don't think, I don't know.

I mean, I'm sure there's stuff out there that would make me squeamish. But when Michelle had the baby two years ago, she had to have a Cisarian and I was standing right now. to her. They made me sit because they have so many of the dad's faint that they make you sit down next to your wife, all right? So I was holding her hand, but I could see everything. They cut her with a scalpel and Dash came out, and it's, you know, it's fluidy and bloody and all this stuff. What if a snake came out?

What would have done to you? That would have been cool. You would have flipped, dude. No, by this time, I'd already made my piece with snakes. Yeah, but a womb snake is different from any other snake. That's what I call my penis. Oh, my God. What a great setup.

But that didn't even squeam me out too much, you know? Wow. I don't know. I'm sure there's stuff out there. Oh, you know what? I don't like a scatological stuff. Like there's a, you see a YouTube video and some kids lock somebody in a port of potty and tip it over and he's all covered with poo. Oh, God.

That kind of stuff. Maybe that's more disgust. Yeah, that's, like, guys on jackass used to like smash into outhouses and, get covered in crap yeah see that kind of stuff's gross but yeah i don't know i it wouldn't it doesn't keep me up did you say scatological yeah isn't scatological is that a term isn't scatological means something that's kind of all over the place uh i don't know if it has that meaning i know it means specifically uh fecal and and it does that's why maybe maybe there's two meanings for it because it you know you could hear someone say oh that guy

has a sense of humorous, scatological. I think he's just scattered is what you're going for. But you know, they have this thing now. It's called the internet. You can look it up. What is it? Tell me. It's the internet.

What does that mean? Are you making that up? No, man, go on the dictionary. Internet. Internet. That's weird. That's weird. That's weird.

And look up scatological. But I think, you know, you are a park ranger. You know that a wolves' feces is called scat, right? Right. So that's where it comes from. Same root words. But wait, doesn't a jazz musician's, Yeah, yeah, it's a different usage for a similar word.

I don't know if I'd want to see a jazz musician up on stage and start scatting. Now, the way you've put it. If they're good at it, it's still enjoyable to watch. If they're artistic about it. God, creepy. creepy. Louis Armstrong, scatting all over the stage. That would be a bit much.

I wonder if he did that. You know the way his cheeks and his face used to puff out? I wonder if he scattered on stage of his ass cheeks would puff out. You brought it up. I brought it up as a thing not to be brought up. And here you are exploring a heightening the whole idea. But I just feel like I'm getting

hammered for your topic. Oh, no, you're not getting it's not my topic. You're the one of, oh, my God. I'm not a hammering. I love it when we fight. Oh, that's the best. What's the worst fight you've ever had? Oh, God. We'd like probably back in grammar school or something. Like not a fist fight, but just a full on

like, let's say you're at a party. or one of your big Hollywood parties that you go to. Yeah, constantly. And Bruce Willis or someone says something political or Sean Penn as an opinion that you disagree with. And you just kind of simply roll into, well, wait a minute. And all of a sudden it just blossoms into a mushroom cloud. I had one of those in high school.

It must have been the hormones and stuff. But we were on vacation with my buddies. We were supposed to spend seven days in Florida. And day five, two out of the six guys wanted to go home because it was all the dudes. or they didn't have their girlfriends were back home. So they're getting horny and lonely. They wanted to leave on day five.

It's like, no, we paid for seven days. You're cheating me out of two days in my vacation. And I got so pissed. And I was, like, 17. And I went on a tirade. And I was, I was just yelling at them. And it was all that, all that crap. They said one thing.

It's like, hey, why don't we go home early? And I just launched on them. I went to me. Wow. And I remember, they got pictures of me screaming. And this would be four videos. So it was like, they've got a couple of stills somewhere out in the world of me, like, laying into my friends.

and just calling them a bunch of hypocrites and a bunch of selfish fucks. Wow. Yeah, and I was so self-righteous about it. And really, I just wanted to drink beer for two more days. And did they go? Did they leave you? We left on the sixth day. No, we compromised. It was a very nice compromise.

That almost sounded biblical. We left on the sixth day. We left the Pensacola panhandle of Florida and went back to New Orleans. On the fourth day, Brian screamed, and on the sixth day, we left. Exactly. But, yeah, I definitely. reacted much bigger than it was called for. There was no reason for me to get that pissed,

but I just let him have it. Wow. All right. Last question. Yes, yes. Have you ever? Why are you rushing me? Why is this the last question? No, I mean, we took longer? Well, no. I mean, we've been talking for a long time. I can ask, this could be the second last question. Okay, go.

Have you ever waxed your legs, your chest, your arm? Some guys do it. This morning. Oh, really? Yeah, I wax. I wax weekly. Oh, boy. When the Saints were in the Super Bowl, the World Champion. and New Orleans Saints.

Sure. Depending what year this podcast plays. That's true. I waxed the Florida Lee into my pubic hair, so that was really neat. And it looks good.

It looks good. Wow. No, I've never waxed anything. I've never had any reason to whack. I mean, I'm pretty hairy guy, but that's the way God made me, so I'm going to leave it there.

I'm not going to wax it off. No worries. No worries. All right. And then this is the last question. You say? We are running out of time here on the Harland High Have you enjoyed your time here today, by the way?

I'm enjoying it immensely. Good. Well, Brian is great at improv. And my last question is, would you be willing to do an improv with me right here on the Harland Highway podcast? Absolutely. Like any repriser? Yes.

Okay. So what I'm going to do, I'll just set up a premise for us. Okay. Now, remember, Brian is a professional. He does this at the groundlings. He's incredible. Yes, don't set it up that much. Okay.

He's pretty good. and I'm going to try and keep up with him and why don't we have a situation where we're lost on a deserted island and I'll just leave it there and ready? Yeah. I'll do the sound of the waves.

Okay. And then you can cut in and you can have the first line and we'll improvise a scene on a deserted island. Okay, great. Here come the waves. Okay. So peaceful. Yeah, isn't it nice here?

Stevie, I got to say, I was really mad at you when you wrecked the boat. But, you know, this is a deserted island. It's a beautiful, peaceful thing. I'm actually kind of liking it now. I know, but don't be mad at me because I didn't see the iceberg. I mean, who knew there were icebergs floating off the... Well, we have a GPS that said, look out for icebergs. We also have the charts.

and, you know, we're in, you know, the North Atlantic. So there's just, but, you know, that's neither here nor there. I'm just saying. My bad. No, I'm just saying, Steve, I was mad at you now. I'm kind of coming to accept it. It's been 14 days now. Okay.

Yeah. Well, what are we going to eat, man? I mean, I'm, you know, 14 days, my tummy's a little hungry. I got, look, I had those clams this morning. You don't want them. You can't be picky. You know I'm allergic to clams. Okay.

Why are you going to rub that in my face? I'm allergic to clams. You're sitting there sucking oil. Oysters on the half-shell. Here's a sea star. Here's another urchin. There's all kinds of echinoderms you can eat here. A what ederm?

Echino-derms. They're urchins and starfishes and such. Well, why do you have to use funny words and trick me? I like tricking you because you wrecked our fucking boat, Stevie! Wow, see, I knew you were still angry. Yeah, okay, it was just superficial that I was happy, but it's like, you have put us here in this hell. Okay, what about this? What if I get the boat?

Right. I grind it up, make some sawdust, and make some nice cakes, and maybe an omelette. How are you going to do that, Gilligan? How are you going to grind up the fucking boat? I'm going to use this rock here. Okay. And I'm going to use your fake leg, the heel of your fake leg. Oh, come on.

We had this discussion on day four that my prostheses, my prosthetics and prostheses, were out of play. You can't use them for tools. I wasn't talking about using your prostheses. Oh, just your prosthetic. Okay. All right, here, take my... Oh, there's my leg. Oh, there's something in here.

What? What? The hell's in here. It's a note. This is probably from my wife. She always hides a little... This is, uh, to whomever finds this. Oh, can you read it in your British voice? Please to contact 011-11 14, 12, 11.

Oh, one, one. It was even a British phone number. You said it was British, so that's a good. exactly how i'd read it if only we had a oh you know what my cell phone still has a charge we could probably get one one call okay let's not waste it on the coast guard well you dial and i'll make the noise or you make the noise here they go hello i'm i just went straight to it hello oh gosh hi listen you don't know me but i have this in my prosthetic leg well who is this it sounds like you're on an island i am i am my name is garrett umblison and uh i'm here my buddy, Stevie, and I want to send you my

coordinates so that you could save us. Wait a minute. Garrett Emlinson? Yes, Garrett Emlinson. The guy who took my virginity in 1973 in the back of a Volkswagen Beetle, you son of a bitch, where are you? You give me those coordinates, you son of a bitch. I'm sorry. I'm coming to get you. Stacey, it was just something we did

in the early 70s and you went to prom and you're supposed to, you know, I feel bad. I feel bad that I did that with you. I've been spending all my money on our Siamese twins and you're off partying on an island, you son of a bitch. You know what? I'm losing a signal.

Bye, bye, Steve. Oh, my God. Stevie, what are the odds of that? Wow. That was our ending right there. The wow? Yeah, that was a great, great out. There you go.

There's an out. Good improv, man. I didn't think it would go that good on my side. It was great. I felt like I kind of stayed with you. You totally did. You totally did. I thought it was going to be, like, foundering.

No, you added the prosthetics and the, you know, the grinding up the boat and the British phone number and then you were Stacey you were fantastic Stacey Stacey had a big backstory I think I might be ready for the groundlings after this

I think you're definitely ready to take classes at the groundlings yes you are All right I want to thank Brian Try it Pamero No no that's what you think

So go opposite Brian Palmero No that's what you think So go opposite Not palmero but Pauler. Brian Palermo.

I've known Brian for like five years. Yeah, you've got to block. You've got a block. But you don't even know how many letters it is. Brian Palermo, is there anything we should be plugging? Are you going to be at the, are you going to be at the Groundlings in April? Every single Wednesday.

Oh, good. Every single Wednesday night. I do a show called The Crazy Uncle Joe show, which you have been a guest in. It's been very fun. At the Groundlings, 8 o'clock. It's cheap tickets. It's very, very fun.

It's seven improvisers. And they just go off. we go off like an hour and 10 minutes. And it's like at 8 o'clock, right? It's exactly at 8 o'clock. And it's on Melrose Boulevard. Yes, here in Hollywood. Yeah. Right by LeBreya. Yeah. And is there a web, uh, an email or website? It would be thegroundlings.com. Thegroundlings.com. Brian, thank you for being, uh, my guest here today on the Harland Highway. You're welcome. That was very fun. It was fun. Will you come back one day? Absolutely. Will you come off the island and join us?

again done thank you brian folks thank you for joining us here on the harland highway and until next time chicken chow main baby please go away and leave me alone