The Kristian Harloff Show - NEW Lord Of The Rings movies confirmed by WB?! Interview: Katy O'Brian | Joe Gaudet | Brian Monarch

Episode Date: February 27, 2023

Kristian is joined by comedian Brian Monarch and talented voice actor Joe Gaudet as they discuss the viral deepfake vids they have been doing. There are some new reports that Lord Of The Rings are getting new movies through WB. Ryan Reynolds is getting a new boy band comedy with Shawn Levy and Creed 3 reviews are in! Ant-Man and The Wasp actress Katy O'Brian is a guest on the show as she discusses the film, working with Peyton on Ant-Man and Mandalorian. This and more on today's show! Lordoftherings #arnold #impressions #katyobrian #MCU #marvel Become a Patron!: https://www.patreon.com/TheBigThingShow OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg

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You ready? I'm ready. Cool. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back. It's me. And I didn't lie. I got Joe Goddette here.

And Brian Monarch. What up, boys? What's going on? How you doing? Good. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Welcome to our studio.

We just moved in. We got this paint is still drying. With this rain, I don't blame it. You should, why would you want to drive in this shit? It's like, it was hailing yesterday. Dude, it's the worst. It's been in years, I feel like it. It's insane.

Crazy. Yeah. And where are you from? Connecticut. Oh, so you're used to that shit. Boston originally, yeah, but I'm in Connecticut now. I moved to Connecticut in 2016. Okay.

So, yeah, but still, you're used to it. Yeah. You're used to this. It's like, it's nicer in Connecticut right. now. I just saw like my ring camera went off before I was like, oh my wife's just getting wood. Like it's right, right. But it's like it's not cold cold, but it's it's dry. It's dry. Yeah. I mean, here it's it was the first, it was like a bizarre thing. I get my two kids. It's hail. They never, they never, they're California kids. So they're, hell, it's like we're used to growing up to

freaking eight inches. Where are you from? Where are you from LA? You're from LA. Yeah, the whole time. Okay. So this is. He came out for a nice sunny weekend. And here we are in the worst weekend that we've had. Did you, did you, uh, did you, uh, did you, uh, did you, uh, uh, maneuver the plan around having like a nice little vacation. Trying to. I was like, oh, it's going to be great.

I'm like, what the hell is the, it's just soaking. But, right, first world problems. 100%. Yeah.

How did, so as I was mentioned, kind of off here, so Brian and I would try to figure it out because we thought, I guess you thought we knew each other just from the internet and, and Ellis and connection that way. Yeah, that's what I thought.

I thought so at first, but then I was like, we had been, whether it's friends on Instagram, whatever, too, I was like, no, no, I'm 99% sure that you booked me on a show like in, like, 2007. Because I was remember I was trying to, we'd shut.

That's how Ellis and I began close. I put him on a, I did a show with him and Eliza called Grapin at Straws, a little pilot that we put together. And I was, I needed a place to go up and I was going up at Mbar. And I was pretty sure you were, you were booking it. Yeah, I was. And who else was on the show? Do you remember? Eliza might have been on the show.

Yeah, she did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it was fun, man. That place is gone. Is it? Yeah, it's not even there anymore.

It's crazy. I was driving around a lot of these places and half these fucking places are gone. And, and, I was driving around, yeah, they were just talking about it was like, during the pandemic,

you look at all the massage parlors and you know the only ones that are actually legit went out of business. All the other ones are passing out hand jobs and they're going to stay. Yeah, no more rubbing tugs. The rub and tugs are the ones that are going to be around until the fucking apocalypse. I'm surprised all three major L.A. Comedy clubs.

survived after all that, to be honest. I am too. Yeah, I am too, especially with the fact that everybody wanted to maneuver out to like, you know, Texas and shit from it too. So. But how did you guys, how did you guys wind up? Because you guys do these, first of all, if you, and a lot of people send this to me. I got sent it today. Yeah. A lot of people send it to me.

Like, have you said, like, fuck, I made this. And I voiced it. I didn't make it. I know what you mean. But we're, so what we're talking about is if you guys have seen the, there's this shot, this, the scene of Titanic and, um, what Leo is, was painting Kate Winslet, and these guys brilliantly put Arnold as the fucking as Kate Winslet.

And it's hilarious. And people were sending that to me over and over again. You're going to love this. You're going to love this. And I was like, yeah, I saw this on Brian's thing. And then rightfully so, Brian was getting pissed off because people were just like taking it

and like reposting it without his logo in it, which I think prompted you to start sticking it right in the middle. Yeah, I don't have a drop down. Yeah. So, yeah. And he got Joe to do the,

the voice, obviously for obvious reasons. How did that come about? How did you guys start hanging out? I don't, I was trying to think about this earlier day. I don't remember. It's, it's been years.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I messaged you on Instagram and I'm like, hey, dude, I see you do these awesome voices. Would you be down to do a voiceover for one of my deep things? Yeah, like, let's do it. All right, I'll try it. Yeah. And then I don't, I don't even remember the first one. The first one was.

Yeah, we have to go back and look on my Instagram or your Instagram. But the one I always think of, like, we've probably done 20, 30, and how many have we really we have a lot in the bag right now that we're hearing 10 waiting to go out. Yeah, I feel like you have a new one out like every day and watch every single one of them. But it's so funny to see the, because we do switch up the voices contrary to popular belief

it's not always just Arnold, but like people just like what else you got? We should do this, this, this, this, this. And then you see the comments, all right, dude, we're getting sick of Arnold. I'm like, but it's fun. Like, I don't, at the end of the day, I don't care. Of course. I don't care. Like, it's funny. What those people don't realize is, hey, what, guess what, asshole? You're not the, you're not the only person

on earth. There's someone brand new discovering this like today. And that's why I'll repost stuff. You know, you get a bunch of followers and like, hey, this is for the new followers. I've already seen it. Well, shut up. And don't watch. Not for you. Keep scrolling. Finish your dump, wipe your ass and then go like, they do it. That's why we do it. Yeah. I think bridesmaids might have been one of the first ones. Oh, that's right. Because that one we had, I did like a collaboration. We got Skylar to do Vince Baum. We got Kavon to do Owen Wilson. And he had all the Arnold, Ryan Reynolds and Michael J. Fox. And then Statham. Yeah. And Statham. Yeah. There was four of them. that he did.

Yeah, I was like, holy crap. Okay, like, yeah, I'll try it. That was a big project,

too. It was like six deep fakes, six voices. It took a long time. It's awesome, dude. Who does the Rogan for you? That one is AI.

Is it really? Yeah, dude, I just, I just, there's a, dude, AI is crazy,

man. Yeah, apparently. I wrote my girlfriend a song the other night. I was, there's this AI channel I've been following YouTube.

I forget what it's called right now. Sorry. But he tells you all these new little things you can do. lyrics, it'll create a song. You got to teach me.

Yeah, it's crazy, man. Dude, that's crazy where things are going. Because I said, for 10 years from now. Well, I saw you and Josh and everybody posting about this too, because as a voice actor, it's got to be like, fuck, I mean, I think you wrote this. I got to work a little harder now. Well, that's what my own voice, and people don't realize, about 70% of the voiceover work I do.

And like, I have like, my wife is obsessed in type A personality with like, all right, what work are we booking? What are this? So I have like a big pivot chart. Does she serve? She's like your manager? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I work with other people too, but she's like at home.

Sure. She knows all this stuff. So, you know, 70% of the work, and I do about 400 different jobs a year, which is like, I'm cranking these out. And 70% is in my own voice. So that doesn't scare me unless a company goes, listen, we want to license your voice. Right. Use it. You know, any of our spars and we'll pay you. It might be a little bit less, but you'll get, I mean, do I take that? Is it worth it? I like the creativity. but the celebrity voices I do get, not nervous, because you've got to constantly practice. But to me, it's always, if a human is doing something, it's way more impressive, way more impressive than just going, type in Arnold, I have to go to the bathroom.

I have to go to the bathroom. Oh my God, that is so, like, I'd rather do it my, do you know what I mean? I'd much rather do it myself. AI doesn't get the emotion. Right, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, you can't, because, well, that's the one thing I was, as I talked to, one, I'd say about, well, especially for yourself and Josh and Jamie, me, I get defensive when people say, well, they're impressionists.

No, they're not. They're actors. Right. Because in impression, I do impression. When I do Arnold, they go like this and, you know, you can tell me. It sounds just like me. It's like I'm here. I'm trying.

I was trying to do it. And I figured maybe we're doing the honors. But it's not, it's not. But you're not, you're not doing that. But that can't, but it starts because that's the whole thing with Arnold, right? You can't, you can't do it as good to the chopper because that's what everybody does. And that's when I can, obviously, and as standard comedians, you know, here comes an Arnold impression and it's hacky unless you become Arnold and you're thinking like Arnold

and that's the fun of it and that's the fun like improvising in a character because it's like and it's so mad it's so I feel so douchey saying this but like when I do his voice I don't see me I see Arnda 100% I see him going listen first of all I mean I think it is absolutely and you can see his whole you know I want to smoke a stogie whiskey lulu come here for a second don't fart don't shit on the floor oh come on like you can see him you know absolutely It's like I can see like he's speeding up, he's slowing down. It's speeding up, he's going up. Like I can see like a wavelength.

No, you can tell him. That's the whole, that's what I was so fascinated when like when that Robin Williams didn't come out with Jamie, right? Because he's not doing an impression. No, it was him. It was him. And then you see the hate, I hate the hate. I wish I could do any celebrity as well as you do Arnold and Michael J. Fox.

And he does so many do. But I just feel so bad. Oh, I don't feel bad because these, you know, Jamie's a brilliant acting. Yeah. But when you see the hate, oh, no, they're one. Like, people don't, I think. people are just, they're keyboard cowboys. They're used to seeing people just sitting.

They're on their couch. Oh, yeah, I don't like that. Right. So they don't realize the amount of preparation that goes into the amount of, of training, the amount of just, you have to, it's a lot of work. It's not like it's the same thing with the deep fakes. You guys should have done this list. You realize this takes days and days and days for them to render and get a data set of the faces.

Like when he explained how to get the data set, I'm like, oh, Jesus, I'm not going to ask you for any favors now. Like, whatever you want me to do, I'll do. Like, yeah. So that's the cons of having a niche. If you have a niche thing, like, people are going to be like, can we do something new? You know, there's always going to be a negative Nancy out there on every post, and you just got to ignore it. You have to absolutely ignore it, especially from doing this for being in this space for as long as I have. It's like it'll drive you nuts.

And you just have to go, I think the most important thing you guys would probably agree is just being able to make each other laugh, right? It's like if you're doing that and he sends in a take and you're just laughing your fucking balls off. Well, we did with the, what I keep forgetting? What was the one I couldn't get through? I sent it. It was the Kai, the hitchhiker one. Oh, that was great. I wouldn't smash, smash to a match.

And as I did it, I was like, it was probably 13. I usually can get it out in like two or three takes. I'm like, it's fine. And then you kind of tweak the timing. All right, I admit that lips aren't match. But like, and then at the end, I can just see his lips. Yeah. Because I'm voicing.

I don't do the voice until it's deep faked. because I want to see the new performance. And then, but it's also tough to dub over the performance of somebody. Like if Arnold isn't going to say a certain thing, it's really tough because I could just make up something that would sound just like him. But if I'm matching the performance of another actor, he wouldn't say this. I have to get the cadence of the other actor as Arnold. So it's like it's much harder than just doing it. Well, that's the same thing with stand-up.

It's like people, if you're up there and you're telling a joke that you worked on for the last fucking two months, three months and trying out, And someone's like, oh, it wasn't funny, man, try something else. You're like, motherfucker, I've been working on this thing for months. And it's like maybe retweak it, maybe do it. You didn't, he didn't see how it went two nights ago when I did it, when I said it a different way. And they're saying, try something else. And you just want to say, why don't you just try? At least I'm trying.

Like, I, right. Yeah. But it's also, it's a matter that, like, just not understanding and not being in it. And so, and for being a comedian. And also, when do you decide you wanted to start kind of diving into this text has always been something you've been interested in? Yeah, I used to Photoshop a lot. You know, I put, like, my face. movie posters and stuff like that.

Yeah. And then I was just like, I saw a deep fake. I had no idea what it was. I was like, did this guy edit every frame with a Photoshop image? What is happening here? Like his mouth is moving. And it was lower resolution back then, but I was impressed. I'm like, I have to learn this. I just knew all these ideas were coming in my head.

Like, what could I do with it? What could I do with it? And then the voice thing came in later. I was just like, oh, this is making it, bring it to the next level. Yeah. And we do make each other laugh. I'll send him like the new batch. I'll be like, check out these three clips for our next Arnold.

and then he'll be like, oh my fucking God, this is going to go viral, dude. Like, we just have a good time. And it's true. I mean, did you think that the Titanic one would do as well as it? That thing's everywhere. I don't think we thought at all. Like, dude, Uncle Rico, we did Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

That thing went crazy. I was like, do we want to post this one? Like, I was, we should even post it. I was one take. It was late. I'm like, I just put the kids to bed. I'm like, I'm getting the studio really quick. I was like half asleep.

I'm like, coach would have put me in. We would have been state champions. Yeah. And then I was, I literally just was like, well, fuck this. One take. And then I sent it. And then he posted, I'm like, holy shit. Right that way.

Yeah. You just don't know. You just, it's the truth. Even with these shorts on YouTube, I posted this thing on like BobaFat. And I was, and for the first like, I don't know what it was, like two months, like 2,000 of years. I woke up today. It's like, 220,000. And it's like, you don't know where it's coming from.

Right. And the same thing. Like, I posted the thing about the Waffle House. I just like, you don't want to fuck with the Waffle House employees. And I did it was a 59 second thing. Yeah. Same thing. I don't know.

I thought that one was going to do shit. So you just don't know. Throw it all out there, see what sticks. 100%. And I think that that's why like the, you know, when that Arnold thing came out,

because I'll tell you, like Joe, like they, when I've, it's I've been listening to our, obviously, our Arnold impressions forever. And I always felt like,

Kelly Endo had a good one, right? And then when I used to hear Josh Robert Thompson on, on Stern, you know, doing it. That was the first inkling of like,

this dude's the goat. Yeah. You could hear him. And he'd call, up stern. Is Howard, how are you? Like, and I would, I go, that's Arnold. And then I learned it was Josh.

And this was like, I think it was like 2005, 2006. Had to be in that area, yeah. I had DM'd him. And I was like asking him. I was picking his brain. And he was nice enough to just respond. He's like, there's different techniques if you're doing it live, then doing it over the phone.

And I'm like, thank you. And then I just became such a fan of his. And I was like, okay, so this dude knows what he's doing. This is art. And then you watch him. He's one of the most underrated. Oh, easily. But he, absolutely.

I'm glad you said. All improv. It blows my mind. He is, right, I have my, he's on the show all the time. And when we talk,

we do, we have a couple that we've animated where he's, he was Morgan Freeman as Mace Windu and, and like, he's just done all these different, Georgia Banks, Morgan Freeman. And like,

it's his, he can think, the same way you're just saying with, with, with Arnold is that he can think is that he's, he disappears. And it becomes, but it's this like this fucking crazy,

like mad TV version of, of these people that you believe 100. The second he opens his mouth. But the improv, I just can't believe. Like, I just go, how do you come? Like the Reverend Apostle, BG, that came. Yeah, yeah.

I always tell them, my, Josh, Reverend, it's my favorite character. It's my, it's my favorite character that you do. Did you watch a show, this pilot? Dude, I watched it over. It's the best. It was the best. So underrated. Holy ghost, like, I find myself doing impressions of, like, that's when you know you're good.

You've got other people doing impressions. Like, it's, like, it's. Yeah, but I think, and I'm sure you're, you're humble. I know you're humble about it. And I think that Josh even say that his, his Arnold's great, but you have taken over. Like you're, you're the, I'm telling you, you mean, you're the guy right now. When it comes to, when it comes to that, like, yeah, it's, it's, it's a, it's Josh watching, right? No, because, well, I'm telling you, the reason I said that is because the same reason what you said with him, I can't remember which one it was.

I was, I was, holy shit, is that, that, that's got to be Arnold. And then it was you. And then I saw your other stuff, because it's front, like, the Ryan Reynolds thing was, what is I wanted to ask you about, like, you have that video where you're doing an impression of Ryan, and then you pan over and he's sitting there. Yeah, that was, we had, I had done a video. I think I used one of the deep fake apps at the time. Okay. And it was like, how to do a Ryan Reynolds impression? I remember you.

First, drop your voice all the way down like this. And then I started doing, him and his team saw it. Oh, great. My kid had a, it was either soccer game or a lacrosse game. We came home. I'm in the parking lot getting groceries. And then my phone goes off. It's a call from him and his team.

You know, we're doing something. Would you like to work with us? So yeah, we worked on a project. And it hasn't been released. And I was telling Brian on the way over here, I don't, and I can't say what it was, but I don't think it was released because my acting was so bad. Really? I don't know.

In my head, I go, I was probably so terrible. They were probably like, well, fuck this guy. And just like through it, but you never know. It could be released. It could not. It was a lot of fun. But then after we wrapped, we had shot that video because he was like, I'm starting to TikTok.

Yeah. Can we post some stuff? I'm like, yeah, we were hung in his trailer and we shot the shit and did some funny stuff. And then we just posted those. But easily the nicest guy. Yeah, so you're here. Easily the nicest guy.

Well, and Brian, I want to ask you so, like, when it comes to, because obviously you're in, you've got a lot of this, we have a lot of the same friends, but you've also connected with a lot of that crew on like the Rogan show and you do a lot of stuff with Theo, you know, the stuff with Theo and Bobby Lee and all that. So in the same kind of question, because you know those guys, are they, have you gotten comments for them on doing their thing? Because that Rogan, I'm telling the AI, that blow, honestly, that blew me away because I, I thought it was him, either him or someone doing an impression of him. Yeah, that one was already, so there's this new thing. I think it's called voice.com.

Yeah, yeah. And I use that for Rogan and then I created a Theo voice, actually. actually myself because they didn't have him on there. What the hell did you do that? I actually talked to the producer of his podcast and he sent me all the wave files of his solo episodes. Wow. We just chunked it in there and it, yeah, it spits it back out.

You need a lot of footage and you wouldn't believe how many takes it takes. Like it's in its infancy. You know what I mean? Like it's not like you could just do it. Like I'm like, it'll say like in Theo's voice, but it'll be like, oh at the end or like it'll have some of twinge to it. Like I got to do like 20 takes before it sounds right. It's weird.

Well, they did it some kind of form with that for James Earl Jones in the Obi-Wan series. Oh, that's right. Because, because it, and I think it was necessary. It was. Because, you know, in Rogue One, he shows up and he sounds like a 75-year-old man. Totally. I thought the same exact thing. When I was watching Obi-One, I'm like, this is not James Earl Jones without some sort of processing.

And then I looked into it. They didn't even use him as the bass voice. Oh, they didn't even use him as a base voice? No, he wasn't involved. Wow. But it was old footage and shit, right? I'm just talking about the Obi-Wan voice. Yeah, yeah, but I'm saying about that, but that voice,

they didn't pull from like old stuff. I don't know what they did. They must have used samples from old stuff and kind of, I don't know what they did, but they didn't use him as the base. Like they used. Interesting. Yeah, because same thing. I heard it and I go, that's like classic Vader voice.

Yeah, much better. Much better. And I said the reason, but it worked better for him than it did Mark Hamill and Boba-Fet. Because in Boba-Fet, even though it sounded just like Hamill, it was, it sounded mechanical. It sounded mechanical. Because Luke had that thing, the power converter's thing in his voice. And he had youth to him.

So it didn't work. But the Vader, because he's a bit mechanical anyway, it worked. But I guess it's just a matter of mastering the, you know, the program. Yeah, I'm sure they take it to another level. I'm sure they have proprietary software at Lucas Films that we don't have access to for free on the internet. But yeah, I don't know what they did.

But it was apparently a combination of a combination of a couple things from what I saw online. It was amazing. Yeah. So is that the, because obviously from the stuff you just mentioned that Ryan Reynolds thing, it's amazing what social media now can do.

And I can't even imagine. You probably got a lot of jobs from a lot of your stuff, right? So that's kind of your calling card at the moment is that you have this stuff. And you also, you're on your many voices on you have on a show right? Kid Show. I was. Is it over?

Started to bring up bad memories. I'm trying to think. Was I doing a lot of like Gary V's V friends. Okay. I was like, what do we do? Yeah, yeah. Because I work in so much stuff

I can't work. Well, but that's what I mean. But the voices that you get. Gary Vee and his team, they saw the stuff. You know, would you like to do some voices for this? Yeah.

And I just, you'd bang those out and that's fun. But it is. I think a social media is not like, look at me. Look at all the phone. No, you got to use it as a funnel. Mm-hmm.

Funnel. And then boom, people contact you studios. Like, I've had Apple TV reach out to do some stuff. I've had showtime. You want to do some promo. Yeah.

Like, what else can you do? And I was just thinking about this. Like back in when, I remember walking in the to the main room. Well, coming out of the main room. And that's when everybody was booking fucking punked when that was going on. Renazisi had just had punked. And all this is like back, this is like, again, I got made, I got made a regular in 2000, the end of 2002 with like Ari and Rick and all those guys. So yeah, but it was like, but it was when it was like the stinky gym and it was my favorite time was around that time.

But the audition process and shit like that, you go in, you either. You know, you walk in there and you have either a good, bad audition, and that's it. But now you have a fucking opportunity to do exactly what you guys are doing because not only a comedic job, because your comedic influence is all over your videos. You can see it from the timing of it. Again, an underrated thing that I think people don't look at is that, yes, you've got to put in that performance and hit the lines. But it's his responsibility to go inside of a rhythm to make us laugh as well, too.

So is this type of work something that you want to do also? Because I know if you're performing all the time, you're doing shows all the time too, Like, what's the, what's the passion? Um, I mean, stand up is still my biggest passion. I feel like we just, we were at the improv last night. Actually, it was a lot of fun. We had Eliza. Did you go?

Oh, okay. I sat there. I told him, I go, you want to do something? I'm like, he was like, want to use some art? I'm like, yeah, then the crowd's just not going to. Bullshit. They would have loved it. They would have loved it.

The heck. I was there as a guest to just watch. I even tried to get them to read the no phones or pictures during the, you didn't do that? Oh. I was like, it was one of those shows about the star. I'm like Kevin Nieland's right there. Excuse me.

It's amazing. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I actually almost got hired by the South Park guys. Wow. They actually hired me and then they ghosted me. It was weird. Oh, really? Yeah, for the Voodoo Studios.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that they had to put off one of their projects, but they said, let's talk in the new year. I haven't hit them back yet. But, yeah, I mean, it's fun, man. I really like doing the deep fake stuff. Yeah. And I like combining the comedy and the deep fakes and making these things, you know, happen. and where we're actually working on a project together right now.

That's why he's in town. Okay. We're doing a little thing. So we're going to see if that comes to fruition. We're going to keep messing with that. Yeah. So is like, are you doing, so because you're directing stuff also, right? No.

You don't direct? No. I think you wanted to start. I mean, you kind of directing these things. I'm directing these things. That's what I mean. So, I mean, when you look at that, because even when I was talking to you, like, going through, you can tell when someone has a particular mind for things about how they do.

You're essentially acting a director for all these things. You're essentially acting a director for all these thing. You're such producer. but is directing something you wanted to do, I guess? I don't know. Mostly just stand up and just making people laugh. That's basically the goal with me. Yeah.

Yeah. Running my shows. I run, you know, two shows at the improv every week and starting to do the ice house now. Yeah, so it's all, I mean, shit. And you've been, especially from when you're out here, didn't you get, did you ever, as someone who lived in L.A. Because my wife has been basically in California all of her life. She wants to get the fuck out of here. Really?

Yeah, she's not in the business. She's not in it. So she wants to get it. hate about this place. I think that it's, it's not necessarily about hate for her. It's just,

she's been here all life. She's kind of bored with it. And she's not, it's not like you where you're like, you know, you're, you're in it. You're doing all the shit.

So she, she just want, I think she wants to not raise my kids out here, which I kind of understand with that. We want to go a little bit more in the suburban area. Traffic's no fun. Traffic sucks, dude. When I got,

when I was, when I was at Collider and I was, it was my last conversation, we were basically like, yeah, maybe we shouldn't do this anymore. And my first thought was, I don't have to take this fucking drive anymore.

Hour and 15 minutes to get there every time. It's terrible. But anyway, yeah, so she just, she wants, I think it can change of pace seasons, that type of thing. Where does she want to, East Coast? Yeah, I think she wants to go back to New York. But it's like a matter of, but it's also, ain't any cheaper in New York than is here also. But it's, but either way. It's a lot of you, I mean, because I know you, you've got, what, two kids or one kid?

Two kids, yeah. Two kids, okay. Yeah, because that's another part of it. That's another reason why you do this thing, too. It's not just to people looking at your social. No, I have bills to pay. And it's a great living. My favorite thing about what I do is I make a really comfortable living.

Nobody knows me. I got recognized. I did get recognized yesterday. But whatever, it was pretty important. Definitely in this town. But it was just weird because I walked down the street. I can coach my kids' baseball teams, soccer teams, I can do all that stuff.

Nobody knows me. I have a recording studio in my home. I just finished the last year. It's just full recording studio. So I go in there. They get on the bus. I record. They come home.

Let's go to sports. Let me make dinner. My wife, we all tag team the responsibilities. And then that's the best. It is the best. I just do it so people will follow me on social media. That makes sense. That sort of comes down to you.

But when you're doing the, because I always talk about how there's a big difference, people don't realize it with the deep fake and the de-aging. Yeah. Well, I think the latest Harrison Ford thing, they actually did do deep fake instead of de-aging. Is that true? Yeah.

That's what I'm trying to be. Yeah. I'll tell you a funny story. Please. When the Mandalorian came out, I saw the Luke Skywalker, and I was like, I have to deep fake over this. So I made a Luke Skywalker set that night from all three movies. I started training it.

And I was, you're supposed to let it train like six, seven days to make it look really good. It's like, it still takes time. This guy I know, his name is Shemu. Yeah, he got hired a Lucasfilm. Got hired at Lucasfilm. He put it out like on the third or fourth day. Oh, no. I'm not waiting, man.

And I, I had it training while it went up. And I was like, no. Well, didn't he do, did he do? So maybe you know this or not. Did he do the work for Luke on, on Boba Fett? I think he did. I think he's doing all that stuff.

I think he also did young Indiana Jones for the flashbacks in the five. That's fantastic to hear because I'm a massive fan of him from what he did because I didn't like that freaking Mandalorian thing they did because it looked so fake. It looked terrible. And then you look at what they did at Boba Fett and you're like, holy shit, that's some of the best that I've seen. And I was like

there's a difference between de-aging and deep fake. Yeah, I think de-aging is going going by-bye. I feel like deep fake is just superior and it's just less expensive, I'm guessing, as well. But it's also ego of the actor too, right? Because you look at like the Irishman. Like you see like a 70-year-old stomp with a guy with a 28-year-old face.

And you're like, it just doesn't look right. And it's the same thing. I don't want to see 75-year-old Harrison Ford moving like this with a 30-year-old face. Right. So when they put it on, like you look at what they did at Boba-Fed. They put the face on the young body who had the same type of body as Mark Hamill. And they do that. Yeah, I hope that that's what they're doing for Indiana Jones.

I would assume they found a body double. I hope. I would assume. Because if that's going to look awkward, too. I want to get a, more of the fake muscle suit. Like, they're really realistic. They're got $1,000, and they're really realistic. I was going to give myself a flat top, Stogie.

Yes. I want to smoke my stogie. I want to fart on it. That's like, I'm just, I just to do it. Sit there and like, I want to fart. And when I have my stogie, I have scallops and pagan, the next day later they let it marinate in your belly. Then you fart the next day, the whole room clears.

And it is so funny. just smokest, stupid flat. Like, I just want... It's the best, yeah. My favorite is that I'm such a fucking fan of Arnold, had grown up, you know, totally clear everything too. And something he just did just now is the same thing he does. Like, when he gets an idea in his head, he goes, like,

it's the greatest idea in the world. I know. I know, now, knowing you, he's like a little kid except he gets excited. He, like, picks his nose. He goes, I got the good one. I get the, I flick it. They're very nice. You ever hear Joe Mangi and Ella's story about, about Arnold when they went to the...

He was to... I interviewed him a couple of times, but he told me the story, and he goes, actually made a short out of it. But he goes, he's like, yeah, it was after sabotaged. So he took him to this really nice. First of all, he's like, is it a nice restaurant? He goes, let me tell you something. If you're wearing sleeves, I would be disappointed.

And then they go, they go to the restaurant. They're sitting down, and this woman comes over. She starts giving them, like, all the, the specialty goes, stop it. He wants something with protein. Look at those muscles. And then finally, my favorite line I quoted all the time, was when he basically, he said, they're sitting there,

they asked for dessert, and a guy goes, you know, there's a chocolate cake, whatever to it is. He's like, would you like some milk with that? He goes, stop it. Milk is for babies. It's just insane what he comes up with. But like, has he heard your shit? Well, I don't, like, so the only reason I know he,

I don't think, I doubt he knows my name, but I know he's had to sign off on work I've done. Really? Because I was, I worked for Big Brother. I did, I was O-Tev, like every season they have this, oh, this contest. And it was Oteb the Jack Jellyfish. Producers came to me.

Do you want, we're thinking like an Arnold. I did like 10, 11 different voices. And I was like, I think Arnold would be great. But do you want me to do Arnold over the top or like Arnold? And we did it both ways and we sent it to his legal team. And I guess the sign off was, this guy can do my voice, but no catch phrases. Like, so I was like, all right. So you get in the booth.

So he didn't do Mortal Kombat 11, did you? No, no, no, no. Because he's in that. Yeah, no, that was me. Stallone did it. his own voice in that. That's so great. What a second run he's having.

Yeah, you know, for sure. So do you do the same type of thing that, you know, Josh Robert Thompson and Jamie? Like, Jamie's different than Josh, but Jamie, Jamie, like, will watch a movie.

He doesn't have, like, an idea, like, oh, I'm going to start to do an impression of so-and-so. He just watches a movie, and then if it clicks with him, he's just a fan of all this shit.

Yeah, this. Yeah, you have to be a fan. Yeah. I don't sit down and go, I want to learn this. I want, like, it happens by accident.

Yeah. I was watching Mr. Rogers. Like, I do iced tea, and iced tea came because I was watching Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers sounds like this and all the, and I went, wait. And I'm like, oh, wait, that's, I, you know, what a man, it's your boy, iced tea. So you start to go, that's by accident. And then you go from voice to voice. But you have to be a fan.

Yeah, did you do Mr. Did you do Mr. Rogers? No, I should have. You absolutely should. Yo, what a man, it's a nice day in the neighborhood. Where's Mr. McPhilly? Touching kids. Like, um.

Trolly. Man, get that shit. that my face. But like, I just like, it's just weird coming up with stuff because you don't do it subliminally. Like the Michael J. Fox, right. I do that because my normal yell is Michael, like, whenever I get, I'm like, oh, like, that's my normal excited.

Sometimes I do hear it come out. Like, when I'm like getting really excited, wait a second, doc, um, you know, it's like, when I get excited, like, this is my normal voice. I'm starting to get a little bit more excited. Like, it, it just, it's a natural thing. So when I heard that, I went, oh, let me start honing into that. It does help if your natural voice is close to the, but then you have to do the cadence and the speech pattern.

There's a lot of difference. Absolutely. And I think that that's one of the things. And anyone of the ones, as I say, I do impressions. I don't do, I'm not as good. I'm not an actor like Joe or Josh and Jamie. But like, I feel the same thing. Like when these things hit, I'm like, oh, well, you know,

you just kind of go like this couple times. You do Keaton, you know, same type of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he always does that. He looks around his back or something to, but then you go lower and it's Gary Buse. He's like, oh, I believe in the time when a dragon's lair would come in and a dragon will put a bagel next to a Portuguese statue. What? I sat on a rooftop with that motherfucker twice.

Really? Yeah. Recently or before the accident? Maybe he had another action, but this was like a year and a half ago. Okay, so that's a reason. Twice, do it. In blazing heat. And I was, and I've told this story before, but I was up there with them because they wanted me to potentially do a podcast with them.

Yeah. And so my, and they're like, just little. listen to him and like have a couple conversations. I was like, it's Gary Busey. At the time, I'm going 100%. If this works at this could be in a hilarious podcast. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

So I went in there going, all right. So maybe he, it's an act. A lot of times it's going to act. Maybe it's like 60% like nuts and like 40% like an act. 99.9% fucking crazy. And he's and he's up on rooftop. And he's, and he's had this book and he fucking peacocked me. It was amazing.

Sitting there, having a conversation, and he's got this book. He's like buceisms or whatever, where he turns a word into everything. And he did it to me like 12 times on the roof. But he's got this book, and he's got the book down. And he's like, here's one for you. Here's one for you. I'm sitting right here. And you and you.

So I'd like you to tell me a little bit more about what you think this whole atmosphere is about. And I'm like, and I'm going, he purposely didn't give me that book. It was fucking hilarious. And he would go my favorite thing that he did. He's like, you know, so, I like to have Don Rickles as a guest on the show. I'd like to have Danny Glover, Mel Gibson. I'm like, oh, you did movies with him? You talked to him recently?

About five years or so. I'm like, perfect. Okay, good. And he's like, is George Carlin still with this? And I go, no, he passed away a little while ago. He's, I'd say, and Don Rickles, too. He's like, oh, you should cross him off the list. I was, I didn't want to go back for the second meeting, but I had to.

Oh, his wife hit me up to be on a show. Gary? Yeah. I was just like, can he come? Be careful what you wish for, my friend. What you wish. Don't miss you. Don't, you don't want to meet your heroes.

I used to love the ghetto boys. You know the ghetto boys? Of course. You know Bushwick Bill? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he was my favorite dude. Yeah, a little dwarf midget. Yeah, was he a dickhead?

I shouldn't say midget. He was not a dickhead, but when he drank a lot, he turned into a dickhead. Oh, okay. He passed away. But, yeah. He came to the conference. comedy store. I was outside.

Somebody else was on stage. He goes, I don't like this person. I'm like, sorry, man. He goes, take me to Rick Ruben's house. I go, I don't know where he lives. He goes, I know where he lives. He goes, I know where he lives. just drive me down the sunset.

I go, what's the address? He goes, I'll recognize it. He goes to not, no, no, no, he gets mad. walking back across the street, all at the comedy store. That outside of that comic store, the amount of the craziest thing I saw, and I still don't know if this person survived. Like right by the bar,

I can remember what time it was. Big fight happens right at the hotel. Everybody's going, like, and it's just a scrap. And everybody at the, nobody and no comedians are involved in. It's just a bunch of people who were hammered. And everybody's watching, like, you know,

it turns into a UFC event. We're like, okay, great. And this one dude punches a guy, and he goes face first, on the concrete, does embrace himself like that. Gets up, but he's kind of doing this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, he ain't, he ain't walking.

And, but it was, but the amount of crazy shit, I'm sure you've seen on that, on that balcony. Yeah, when did you start going there? Like, um, probably like 2008 or so. Okay, so I just missed you. Yeah, it was like when Dean and Alford managers. Yeah, like that was a while ago. Dean, so I, I, I've told this one too, but like I was, um,

I was a regular fur. I did one of the few things where I was regular first and then started working there. And Dean told me I was one of the, at the time, the only person never did that. But you could get away with more shit. You know, it's just like, it's like, hey, change yawning. I'm like, I'm afraid I'd say, are you really? I'm like, you can, you guess. And then, because Ingram always talked about it.

Like, I would just drive out of the fucking thing. But I would get extra spots because you would get employee spots and everything, too, if you were there. But, but yeah, man, but Dean was, Dean was the guy. Dean was great. Dean was great. Yeah, he was nice. Yeah, he's, he's the guy. They were really hurting back then.

And they were like, they were like, could you do a show in the main room? I'm like, I really just wanted to do the belly room, but I could try. Yeah. And then like 2011,

I had the show and I had Margaret show on. Yeah. And I had the line all the way down to the pink dot, you know, all the way down there. And it sold out Polly Short because I do this. Like, they'd never seen anything like it that,

like that year. I was just like. Promotion, man. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're running shows there, you know.

It's amazing. I'm so happy to, like, because they complete 180 now. with how that club is. And I think social media and everything has also improved that dramatically. Like, because there was no, I mean,

podcasts were like a small, small thing, but when you really knew what they were back in 2007, 2008. And then it started to really pick up, like after that. And, but yeah,

they used that really well. They didn't do that very well back then, but they do, they do it very well now. And you kind of have to. Yeah. You got in order to maneuver. But,

all right, you guys want to talk a couple movies? Let's see if, what you think? Were you going to do the Lord of the Rings thing? Yeah. I didn't know. this news. Are they going to have the original

actors? I don't think so. I'll give you what the report is here. This is from Dark Horizons. They say that Warner Brothers plans a new, so a couple more of the Lord of the Rings films. So they said Warner's planning new Lord of the Rings films. Wonder Brothers and New Line are headed back to middle earth as the studio is set to develop more

based on J.R. Tokens, the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit books. The Swedish gaming company Embracer Group. They acquire the rights to the Rings films, games, merchandise, themes, park and live productions last year when it purchased rights holder middle earth enterprises from the saul zense company one of brothers announced during an investor call that it has closed a multi-year deal with the rights holders and it allows them to develop new films now they responded to this to this company um and they had said

that this is this is from ceo david zazzlaw first of all this is what he said he said we understand how cherished these works are and we're working together with our partners at new line and Warner Brothers, and we plan to honor the past future and adhere to the strongest level of quality and production values. So it looks like they're, you know, I think right now what it is is that Warner Brothers was in debt. They were bought by Warner Brothers Discovery who took on the debt and now they got to do all the shit. They announced all the DC stuff with James Gunn and they're doing and now they're rumoring around doing some Harry Potter stuff, whether it's a new game that just took off, right?

I was disappointed with that start with the Superman thing, man. Oh, did that? Henry Cabell? They do the Black Adam and then they do that. Like it just felt like a ripoff. So that's a great point of it because like I talk about this shit every day. Right. And I tell the people that I'm talking about, they're talking to that we're in a bubble when it comes.

Like if you're in a comedy bubble or you're in a movie bubble and even the people who listen to this show, we're in a bubble. When you hear a statement like that, it's like right away, you're a casual movie movie movie or you go for fun and just to, but if you're sold on this idea at the end of this movie, that you're getting Henry Cavill. Yeah.

You think you're getting Henry Cabell. Totally. Yeah. And it's like, so I think. I still want Christopher Reeve back. I know. You can do it. I did it actually.

I put him in that black Adam scene. That's right. You did. You did. So that, yeah, that's, to me,

they do this thing. They put him in there. And it was a lot of that had to do with, you know, the rock kind of going around the old regime. And then the old regime was going to dick him over. They had no idea that they were going to use him. And now the new guy comes in.

He's like, yeah, but we need to make money. So James Gunn, what's your plan? And James Gunn goes, well, I have this plan. It's not James Gunn's fault. Because he's got, if you come in with a new plan, you got a plan and it doesn't involve that guy.

It's the people who were lying to him telling him that he was coming back in the movie later on. That's the one who, those ones are fucked them over. Yeah. Yeah. But with this Lord of the Rings thing, did you watch the shows? I did. I didn't like it at all, man. I shouldn't say I didn't like it because I only let it.

I only watched two. Okay. But I just couldn't go any further, man. I don't love anybody in this story. I don't care about these characters. and I just was like I was out. So I didn't like the first one. The second one was a little better, but the third one is started to lose me.

The second half gets better, but you're right. If you don't hook you right away, but towards the end, it gets better because they, they kind of go more into the, it feels more like token than I'm trying to do like a TV show, you know. So, but this makes sense. I mean, I think that if you're Warner Brothers, you have, you have the IP and you're able to buy it over. And the question is, is it going to be any good because what are they going to base it off of? Yeah, what do they have left to tell?

Right. Yeah, that's what I'm working. worried about more than anything. Do you fancied any of this stuff? Yeah. I used to watch them all the time. Like all the, like my brother,

we were in college when they came out. And I just remember, like, they got the DVDs. I'm like, it was fun. It was fun to watch. I just remember,

like, at that age, not really being into and just falling asleep and they're going, okay. But then realizing that like, they're,

I mean, they are good, but I don't like, I'm like a weird. Reminds me of clerks too when he's like, just more walking. And walking,

he throws the ring. That's part three. But, like, what would they do with these, like, would it be pre? Or were they more stories? Well, that's the question. So they just announced and they don't go, oh, we're going to have so-and-so back. That's more so to the stockholders and everything, too. That's to let them know.

Don't worry. It's coming. Disney's got Marvel and Star Wars and all this shit. And they're like, don't worry. We got other stuff. We got two. We have all that we have, it's Harry Potter thing. Now we're going to make more Lord of the Rings movies because, you know, we, people like Lord of the Rings.

But if you have that show, as Brian mentioned, that Amazon show. There were a lot of people. There was a major backlash on that show, especially from token fans and other people too. And if you do the same type of thing where it's just like it doesn't fit the lure the right way, you're going to have the same problem.

I think you've got to get creator. I think you got to get Peter Jackson back. Yeah. I mean, it's all about the writing too. Like if they can't, I don't know what angle they're going to take. I mean, I'm always the kind of guy that just likes the nostalgia. Like if it was up to me, I'd be like, get Orlando Bloom. Get them all back.

We'll make it their future story. you know, so we can see the people that we already love. It'd be great to have those guys back, and it's the same way, like, you know, when they're talking about, like, that's why with Harry Potter, they said that they want to, there's two,

when they're going to make the Hogwarts Legacy series, and then the other one was that they're going to do that cursed child. Yeah, yeah. They turn it into a movie and get the cast back. They need to. I would, in a heartbeat. Yeah. We've watched all, like, my kids love the movies.

We love the movies. They have the wands and all that stuff. When me and my wife started dating, she was like, oh, let's go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando. I'm like, let's do it. She said, we can't go. I read all the books. I'm like, I read like three books in my life.

I'm like, I hurry to finish up because I want to go like. So she's up. We're on the plane. I'm almost done with the last. I'm like, oh, God. But like, I love Harry Potter.

Yeah. Harry Potter. They used to have Harry Potter weekends on like. You see, Star Trek was the one I couldn't get into. Harry Potter, same thing. Which one? Next generation or just all of them?

Yes. I'm more Star Wars than Star Trek. I mean, not that you have to choose, but I mean, it's like, yeah. Like my Star Trek, I mean, my generation, but like, or the Orville, I would watch all the people love the girl I fucking love it yeah I love it It's like it's funny It's got a heart

It but it's like a new A new like brand of like sci-fi space travel I just heard Trump in there for the do you Trump No I don't do because I heard that accent Oh shit you did I do it for you did I do it? What did I say? I don't know what it was but it was like that grassy thing that he's got because now I hear something The thing is it was so many people do it's fabulous So many people do Trump

A lot of people do them now But like it's like I hear I'll hear Josh do it I'll hear James Why my I don't want to butcher his name James Austin. Oh, my God, on S&L. Oh, right. He's the best, like, I thought he was, you know, a lot of, like, that's all I hear.

But that's all I can do. But I don't want to do me being the douchebag. I am. I don't want to do them doing them. Right. I see what you're saying. Like, yeah, well, they have, I mean, because you look at the, do you know this, this kid, does Matt Friend kid that blew up out of nowhere?

No. I don't know a person. Have you seen this stuff? No, what is it? So Matt Friend is, I guess, comedian, but he's, his Trump, like, it, he was, he's been on, That's why I was bringing up with you, Joe, like how people reach out for jobs. He started doing it out there, and MSNBC had him on and talking and doing Trump. Somebody hit me up with a really good Trump recently to do a deep fake, and it might have been him.

It's probably him. And he's got the mannerisms and he does. I'm not even going to attempt to try to, but everything that he says, the way that he just kind of, you would listen to it. But he does Howard Stern also. I think that is the dude. Same guy. Like spot on Howard Stern. Howard heard it put him on the show.

And now he's a fake Howard Stern. Okay, I know that. But he's key, and he, like, stops people on the street, and, like, Jeff Goldblum went up and did, like, a set with them and everything, like, as Jeff Goldman. So how does he find him on the strip? How does he find? I don't know. Like, is he like, where are they today? Right.

Maybe. Is it hard when you're, like, I don't know what I'm just saying, like, how does that? I feel like when he, with a guy like this that does, like, a 10 Arnold, a 10 Michael J. Fox. Yeah. A 10th. A 10th. I think, Ryan Reynolds. It's not, I feel like, I think they're tens.

But I feel like you wouldn't do an impression of someone that if it was. Now because you are so good. That's what it is. A lot of people go, why don't you do this? I don't give a fuck. I want it to be good. I'm like quality over quantity. Yeah.

I can do it. You should do some family guy. No, I shouldn't. It's not 2006 on YouTube. I shouldn't. And I'm not knocking anybody who makes a living off. It's just not what you want to do. Like, no.

Right. Next. But like, I appreciate it. Or you get the, you get the DM. I do a good Kermit the frog. Man, it says it like a million other fucking people. Right. Good luck with that.

And I'm not. going to say that to them because I'm nice, but no, but I don't know. I'm, I'm just weird like that. I stay in my lane. I like to do what I like to do. Yeah. But I'm not also, I'll, you'll never see me and then somebody will find a comment on. So I'll never crap on anybody else's work. Right. That was stupid. If I think something, just don't even post it. I don't even want to put that negativity out there. Because what does it do? It's like, you can feel it. You're allowed to feel it. I can go, it's not for me. Right. I'm not going to, that guy sucks. Right. Good for them.

If they're having success at that, good for them. I'm not going to hate on that. Yeah, well, that's good. I mean, that's good. As you were saying, I could hear it. But that's why I also brought up because I wanted to bring up that friend to you because I, that guy came out of nowhere. I didn't see like his stuff. That's the power of social media.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So that's why I'm glad you guys are doing what you're doing because like it is the stepbrothers one like over and over again watching that one was. That probably was that the first one. That probably was that the first one. I win. Why? Because my Stallone is.

fucking terrible. I wish you had it's, but because like, I wish my Stallone was good, but my Stallone in that, but it was, I was, I was,

I was, Stallone playing a John C. Riley type. Yeah. I was like, I was stupid. It wasn't like, you know, the only Stallone I can do

half decent is like the Rambo going, or Judge Dred. I am the love. Yeah, right. I am the law. Like, and that's it. It's like,

it's what I do. It's like, that's what I do. Because of my, again, it's like, Hey man, you're watching Yelston? You're watching Jopement.

Right. It's a paramount. Right. It was a man. The rock was told on the rock. It fell off the rock. You see Rocky? You're going to get this big cup.

Yeah, right. I've been sitting on a deep fake of Stallone's face on Jim Carrey at the beginning when he's climbing the mountain. Yes. Oh, yeah. Four people are trying to voice it. It's just, it's so hard to do. It's weird, man.

Because it's just, because you're really just kind of playing your own version of a drunk, and it's just like... And you want, like, the way, like, I want it to, like, I want it to, also the person who's watching that, not going, they fucking making fun of me. But obviously, the type of people can take jokes, but like if we're going to do it, I want to do it and have it be quality.

100%. You've heard, you've heard Stallone singing on Yellowstone, right? I'm not Yellowstone. It was the one he did with Dolly Parton. The one, he did a movie with Dolly Parton. The past couple of years?

No, it was a long time ago. Ryan Stone. Ryan Stone. Have you ever heard his song? No. Let me see. I don't know. It wasn't Frank?

No, no. No. I'll hear it. It's such a random cameo in a movie. Frank Stallone and Hudson Hawk. Do you remember that movie, Hudson Hawk? I remember the title. Hudson Hawk is, it's one of my favorite movies of all time with Bruce Willis, Danny Iiello.

Would you like to swing on us? And then Stallone, Frank Stallone is a random bad guy. I forgot that he's in that. He was in all of Stallone other movies, whether it was, you know, the Rocky movie, staying alive and popped up. What are he in Rocky? He's in the Doowop dudes. He's singing in the Barrele.

He's in all the Rockies? He's in, not in all of them, but he's in at least the first three. He played, because he's, I think he's like a sparring partner or something in the third one. But this is, yeah, this is his, this is his song. Incredible. I love it already. It's amazing. You know, it's him instant when he starts singing.

You hear it right in his voice. I used this clip on a deep face. Oh, it's the best. The one where I have, like, Stallone's greatest hits. He shared it, actually. Oh, did he really? And I started it with him. Oh, wow.

And they call him, Brickenstein. That's right. It's dying. It's the best. It's the best. It's so good. And you, you obviously, you're familiar with Arnold's song, right? Oh, the, what is it? Something Love? Okay. This is Will Saso. Oh, this is him, dude. This is him. Hold on. Will Sassau. That is 1,000% Will Sassau. It's not Will Sassau. It's 100% Arnold. It's a movie. It's from a movie. In the movie, it's Arnold. This one right here is Will Sasson. It's pulled from the movie. I'm telling you, I promise you.

No, that's Saso. That's a thousand percent. Will Sassau, DM me. It's 1,000 percent, Will. It's not Sassau. I'm telling you. I have a good ear. I know you do, but I'm telling you, this is the ear's failing you right now.

Find the clip of him going, yeah, the Arctic. Okay, I'm going to, let's see. I'm telling you, dude. I pulled it from. Will Sassau's a legend. He should know. Arnold's singing. This is, yeah.

I believe the children are our future These them will And let them lead the way Earthquake love Yeah The clip, hold on This is the clip, hold on If it shows him

No No, you're not showing all that That ain't it You know, well they're not showing it right there But I'm telling you It comes No, it's not, it's not All right, well, we'll have to,

This will be Answer the comments This is gonna be in the comments That's gotta be Will Saso I know Tom I'll tell you the reason why I'm pretty sure it's not I call bullshit

I do not believe you. I do not believe you. I don't remember being in the recording. Well, Mr. Governor, don't you, are you sure that wasn't you? Everyone's telling me that it was you. Let me think. Yeah, it's sasso. It is not me.

Did you hire him because did you tell him no catchphrases when you did that this time? Yeah. I said, when you say earth, make sure you say like earth. Not like earthquake, the earthquake. And he did. So we hired him. And I was smoking stogies while he recorded it. We were whiskey and Lulu at that time.

They were shitting all over the floor. Right. And didn't cookies and biscuits. do you clean up your own shit from the donkeys? No, I do not clean it up. I make them eat it. They train them because it's protein and all of the shit all over the floor.

Especially when they have diarrhea, it is always liquid form and then they add a little bit of peppermint schnapps. Right, of course. As you know, one egg, stick it in the blender again. Right. And then drink it up. Yeah.

It's pre-workout. Right. It kills you, but, I mean, you feel good when you're dying. Well, you hear it confirmed here. It was Will Saso, apparently. Yeah, I don't know We'll find it Either way, two classic songs by both Arnie and Sly

How crazy was their fucking feud that they had? It's funny, man. We're actually doing one right now. It's going to be like showing both of them talking crap about each other on late night And talking about how he made him to do. Stop for my mama shoot. It's the best.

We put Arnold in the movie. Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so good. Stop. I'm a mama shoot. The clip was just alone where he's singing. Is he like in a cowboy hat of him?

I put that at the beginning of the Stallone's Greatest Hits video. That's amazing. Yeah, it's a, I'm telling you, go to Brian's page, man, watch all this stuff that him and Joe did. And, you mean, whether it's Twitter or Instagram, it's just amazing stuff. I can't even, again, I'm not even exaggerate when I tell you, like, at least 50 times. People have sent me that, that Titanic one. That feels good. Yeah, all, I mean, again, it's like today, literally this morning, there was someone who was like, you know, hey, I figure you love this.

And I said, well, my buddy Brian did that. And Joe's coming on. So when you tweeted out. This morning. That was this morning. Yeah. So it was nuts. By the way, you asked earlier

if Schwarzen Ingers heard his thing. He just liked to tweet two days ago that I put out of one of our deep fakes. The Kenny, out of all of them, it was the crudest one we've ever made. But that's probably his sense of humor. Yeah. He probably loves that.

He probably loves that. You've read this story, that Entertainment Weekly Report. Like that came out like 2000 about him. Like, oh, when it was right when his movies weren't doing, like, he wasn't the best. big boxes he wasn't as protected anymore so like and then well last action hero still yeah it was it was a little bit

i love that movie but i think it was a little ahead of its time to be honest that movie but it was when he started doing like a racer and all those things it was like it was right before he stopped and went to be the governor because they had this big freaking article that it came out and my favorite story ever that i believe 100% is when he said you know he'd be with all these different women and he walked it he walked into this room and he was going down on this chick and he looks up he was come on eating is not cheating and and and and The guy's like, I couldn't believe he said. He's like, I'm going to be honest.

I laughed. When he, when he, when he, when he read that when he met his wife, he said, you have a nice ass. That was the first thing he ever said to her. If you look, yeah, if you look at, if you go back and you watch him on, on freaking pumping iron. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's classic in there. He's not. And then, yeah, it was, it was eating.

It's not cheating. It was the one and he's other. It's a bumper sticker. Yeah. Absolutely. You're ready to stop. Like, you think he's not cheating. Okay.

At the light, take her right. I would, I mean, yeah. And then you have, you know, Michael J. Fox, I think yours is, by the way, is very, is, because Arnold, obviously, is so amazing. Yeah, as Brian said, Michael J. Fox is at 10 as well, too, man. The contrast between, I think, I like doing voices that contrast. Yeah. So, like, I had a series, it wasn't a fucking stupid, but I think I would do on TikTok. I mean multiple.

It was Michael J. Fox, you know, and now things Arnold Schwarzenegger would never say, but I'll say, because I can do his voice. So good. And then they hear that. And then you go into this. And they go, oh, shit. It's like a magic trick with your ears. You get used to this. Nah, because I can do his voice.

Hey, let me tell you, right? We're going to install a new Italian cuisine restaurant inspired by Terminator, and we call it pasta le vista. You know, then going to stupid stuff like that. We put him on, we put Michael J. Fox's voice over the Independence Day speech. And the guy's hair, who plays the president? Bill Pullman. His hair is just like Michael J. Foxes.

It looks really good. So we've got to do that one again, just that scene, rather than having the whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be good. That would be great. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more of them for sure. And then, as I mentioned with the Lord of the Rings, I do want to bring, you know, what I'm going to do first before we do that.

I want to throw you guys, I'm going to tell you about, you know, Ant Man, the Wast, Quantumania. You guys know the movie's out and the Mandalorian's coming out. Well, we had Katie O'Brien on the show, and we have Katie Sackoff on Monday, by the way. So you make sure you listen to that one. But Katie, I want to show you real quick, Katie O'Brien. Talk to her about Ant Man, the Wasp, Quantumania. And I want you guys to see it.

Take a look. All right, what's up, everybody? as I mentioned, I am very excited to have my next guest here. You know her from the number one movie in America right now, ladies and gentlemen, is Ant Man and the Wasp, Quantum Mania. And if you watch my shows enough, you know how much I talk about the Mandalorian. You know that it is, to me, the best Star Wars type material since the original trilogy. It is just incredible.

So that's why I'm excited to talk to my next guest, who is in both of those things. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Katie O'Brien. Hi. I'm good. How are you? Good. It's nice to have you here. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. That's fun. I was telling you off air that I had taken my daughter to see Ant Man in the Lost Quantum Mania. And it was funny because she had said to me, as I mentioned to you, she's like, Dad,

it's like, this is a Star Wars movie inside of a Marvel movie? And it had that feeling. Who directed the episodes that you were on for Mandalorian? Because it ties into the Marvel for me. Yeah, I had, I mean, the last two that I was in, him or Peyton. Right. Yeah.

So he directed Antman as well. So that's, and that's why, so what was, did you get a chance to, like, you know, when you're talking to him a lot,

is that what kind of opened up the door here for, I mean, obviously you have the relationship with, from agents of shield and then working on on Mandalorian in general,

but, and then how does that come about on the set of Mandalorian and the relationship with Peyton? Oh, actually, it was just the last episode. Sorry, I don't want to take other people's credit away.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, It's so funny because I felt like, I mean, I had the simplest lines in the world on Mandeloran. It was like, well, maybe not simple. Like, stay clear of launch tube, deploying fighter squadron. And that, you know, it's a tongue twister for me.

And I just, like, couldn't do it. Like, couldn't get it out for whatever reason. Kept tripping over my tongue, all of that. And Peyton was so sweet, so patient, so encouraging. But I thought, I will never work for this man again. Like, there's no way he's going to hire me again. When I found out I was on Ant Man that Peyton wanted me. And Peyton wanted me back under his direction.

I was blown away. But when that happens, though, too, is that a lot of conversations that are happening, you know, between takes, is it just a relationship that you establish with him? Because from a lot of your roles, from what I've heard, is that there are roles that start off with, okay, you got the role because we like the audition, but then they're extended. And because it's obviously in the performance, but it's obviously the personality. as well too. So what are the conversations like offset? I mean, it's, it's, obviously this is all a collaboration. So, you know, it's, it's making

sure that, hey, this is what I think the scene is about. I want to make sure that you've, you know, you agree. But then it's also understanding that everyone on set is important and that you as the actor aren't the only person that matters. And so I, I love to just like, and maybe I'm bothering them. I don't know. But I love to go around and like chat with everybody. Clearly it's working. Well, I don't know. I just love it because it's when you, especially on a show like Mandalorian, where it's going multiple seasons or, you know, it branches out. They use a lot of the same people for Asoka, a lot of the same people for Andor, it's like a family. Yeah. And you see that, you feel that on set. And if you, if you aren't like connecting with that family, then it just doesn't, you know, it's kind of hard to stay on, I think. Yeah. But it's, it's also. you know, it's got to be, maybe it's not intimidating.

I know, but for me, as I think about it, with joining AntMan and Quantummania in the third film, radically different as far as tone in the first two, but joining a cast that's been together. I mean, I guess it's in television. Sometimes you join a cast in the third, fourth season, whatever it might be, and you got to, so what is that like, though?

You know, like, because you have this relationship with Peyton, you come in and here's this crew that's been, the actors that have been working together. Are they pretty inviting? Do you have to kind of break in? and say, hey, guys, I, it's because it's a major role. And what, what is that like working with this cast? It is always a strange thing when you come in,

because you're like, oh, I don't know how other people work. I don't know if they want to be talked to. I don't know, you know, are you allowed to look at them? Like, what are their weird rules? But for this one right away, everyone was just kind of joking around. And they make you feel welcome. I think a lot of people understand that, like, okay, this is the newbie that's on set.

Let's bring her into the conference. conversation. Yeah. And that was always really important. And Peyton also, I mean, it starts from the top. And he's just such a bright, happy personality. If he is stressed, I not once felt it. Really?

I mean, and that's a huge, it's a huge production. And I'm sure they're getting notes from all sides, whatever. And he's just like, hey, Katie, how's it going? Always takes time to chat with you. It takes time to, you know, really listen. Yeah. And, yeah, and talk you up to other people or whatever. I mean, it just, it does make you feel welcome, makes you feel like you belong there,

which is like a huge, everybody has imposter syndrome, right? And it makes you realize how everybody is just like normal people here. Yeah, and it's because there's, like, as you said, there's a lot of pressure when it comes to the Marvel cinematic universe in general with the amount of films that they've done. And it's ultimately like a big television show with everything. The one thing that I found really impressed, was that what you don't see normally, very rare are people inside of whether it's the universe

or even the side universe being in Marvel, like for Agents to Shield and now a different role. You don't see that often. So was that ever discussed? Like, well, she was already in that. She can't be in that. Does that ever come up ever? It's like, no. I mean, if anybody behind the scenes brought it up, I don't think they obviously didn't make it a big deal.

I think there was a point where they kind of decided that. the MCU was separate from what Agents of Shields was doing. But then also, I'm trying to think, I feel like I've seen this happen with other actors before, where they're in one, maybe like a smaller role or something. And they're like, no, we like you. David. David is plays two rules. Yeah, come on.

David is too completely different characters. 100%. And I know that you guys had a good relationship on set. And that was kind of my next question was that, because he was somebody that played a different role inside of it. Even though he'd been around it and he's so, I mean, whether it's D.C. or, I mean, exactly. He was in something, whether you look at something like the Dark Night and then he's in, yeah.

Yes, he's done it more than once. That's right, right. And then he's, and then he's in the suicide squad. So when you're talking to him and having that relationship, does he give any advice or does he, you know, lend some of his experience to you about working in these types of movies while you guys are on set? Yeah, you know, it's funny. David's like, he's so humble. He doesn't really talk much about, like, yeah, I assume if there was something I had to ask. ask him, he would answer. Yeah.

But in terms of just unsolicited advice, no, I never got any of that, which is great. I feel like that's like a good character trait. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, certainly if I felt like I was confused about something or whatever, I could look at him. What I just really, you know, especially seeing him as his previous character in Ant Man, the way that he was able to take Vib and completely transform himself. and like wasn't worried about embarrassing himself or or anyone making fun of him. Like he went all out.

Yeah. And it paid off. I thought he was one of my favorite characters. He was pretty funny in the movie for short. And I love David. He's just a really, as you said, a humble, really good guy. And it seems like that was the experience for you guys in general, filming it with all the, what did Modoc look like on set?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So sometimes he just wasn't there. Yeah. They had like a big white cutout sometimes that they would bring on like, roll in. Yeah. And then I think, I don't think I was there on the days that they had,

um, had a body double in, like behind the thing rolling it around. It was like, there's a lot going on. So they had like a few different types of modoc, but yeah, I kind of got to see what you look.

Yeah. I'm always, even, I always look at like the old, the old prequels of the Star Wars were shot and I always still, when you have the volume now, that I think it makes it easier, at least I would assume,

than just the blue screen, the green screen, but it's still got to be a little tough. The volume is really limiting because you can only shoot a certain... So there's, you know, all of this wall might be volume, and then behind you is a big chunk of open space. So you have to be really creative with how you use that space because it is very limiting.

And then, like, walk and talk scenes and volume, things like that are really, really difficult because you have to kind of... like walk, reset, start over, continue your conversation, reset, start over. It's super challenging. So in some ways it's limiting, but in other ways, I think especially maybe after the fact, and I'm definitely not a VFX person or anything. So I might be speaking way out of my head on this, but the blue screen, everything has to be added.

Right. Afterwards. So you have to create the world in your head. You have no idea what it's going to be like. And that's what I mean. That's got to be. That's why it's tougher. So I, so for Mandalorian when you shot, because I know they did a lot of, um, the volume for Mandalorian, but I know that also from where you were shooting, was it a lot of set stuff also?

Yeah. So in this spaceship is, um, it's mostly practical. We had a lot of, you know, they were playing with, um, playing with, um, playing with, um, these like original pieces. And they're trying to like have me walk around with them and fit them in. And sometimes it works. sometimes it didn't. So as much as they can't have tactile there, they do, especially when you're pushing buttons and stuff. They did use blue screen for a lot of like, that's on the spaceship, that kind of thing.

I think when they're using the volume, it's mostly for like we're out in the world, massive world building stuff. So with Mandaluring Season 3, I know there's only so much you can talk about with it coming up and we're right around the corner from the show in general. Yeah, what do you,

I think that, as we said, with the, the roles that you've had in the past, whether it's Agen's Shield and a countless amount of your roles where the role has expanded, is that similar to what we have going on here in Mandalorian as well, too? Because I know you showed up with that season. It's an impact that you have. Like, you're noticeable with the things that you're doing. And I think that's obviously with Peyton and other people have said, hey, we want you to do more. Yeah, right. Yeah. I don't know.

I think people just have to watch this season. See what they think. Totally. Good. Yeah. Perfect. And then I think that when it comes to this role in Antmin, going back to that, I wanted to know, like, the relationship with you and Cassie. Because that really is.

There's so much that, because it reminded me of a, because I, there was like an avatar to feel to me as well. And into this, this world that these fighters are so used to protecting. their own doing their thing and the outsiders come in and you have to have that relationship in order to i guess work together and bond right but it's really this relationship that you have with cassie that i think is the ultimate that that without that there's no help at the end yeah i think you know with um with scott antman uh he's willing to just out okay you don't want us we're out yeah which is fair um and then on the other side of things, you know, Janet kind of knows what's going on.

She knows her responsibility, what she has to do, how she has to kind of resolve the situation. She left us high and dry. Yeah. And, yeah, in order for us to work together, yeah, it had to be this person who came in, maybe not necessarily understanding the consequences of her actions. She had to learn those consequences, apologize, and then ask me what was needed, as opposed to saying, I'm going to help you. Right.

And, yeah, that was something, the scene where she frees me from prison, I think is like one of the first scenes that we actually shot together. Like, I think that was the first one of the first days or the first day I showed up on set. And that's kind of when we realized that the Cassie Gentore relationship was going to be a little bit more important than like Jindor's vendetta against Janet or whatever that situation was. Well, you had said there's a ton, there was a ton of rewrites

instead of that was always changing. that that actually um so at what point was it always that relationship or was there more because it seemed like to me one of the things that i wanted to see more of was janet's redemption interview because they set it up that oh she feels kind of bad about it and i think that towards the end it did she she still does stuff but it wasn't that arc because you mentioned it you say like you know well if once you find out that she's there's like well wait a minute janet's here yeah there's more too janet and i thought we were going to explore that a little bit more was that originally in there no and i can't I'm like, what are we doing?

And I think, you know, when I was talking to Peyton, too, I think Michelle was asking the same questions. Like, are we going to ever meet up or chat? And they kept trying and trying and trying. And finally there was just too much going on. Yeah. I don't envy them for having to piece this movie together because it's two completely separate situations happening

in the same movie with a whole new world, lots of different characters. World building were adding plot. We're adding like the next phase. We've got all. It was just chaos. So I don't envy them at all. I think, you know, what we were able to piece together story-wise still makes the arc work still makes the story work.

And then I think that at the end, by thanking Cassie, I'm also forgiving Janet. Yeah. So we kind of just have to play it by year. Maybe one day, hopefully, you know, maybe they'll write in a scene where I get to say hi to Janet. I just wanted to act with Michelle Diver. That's all I wanted. I know, I know. And it is, and also, look, one of the things that Marvel does very well is they introduced us in, in bigger roles to new, newer talent, right?

And so when you were out there and I was like, that's a new role that I didn't know was coming. And obviously Jonathan Majors, so they introduced us to these two rising stars. So it was like a nice thing to do for, in general, from my, I'm telling you my daughter when I told her that you were coming into it. She was just like, oh, she was the one who kicked ass. I was like, yeah, yeah, she was the one who kicked ass? And Jonathan Majors also, was there a lot of stuff that you got to do with him and, like, knowing that there's just something, I mean, again, it's catching your eye. Like we mentioned with you of what you did. There's a special talent of not being able to take a role and then have someone say to you, come back, come back, come back.

And it seems that's what both you guys did. So, I don't know. It is just something. How was your relationship with him on set? I mean, I pretty much, again, you're kind of sussing out how other actors work and everything. And I said to Jonathan straight up, I was like, look, man, you look like you like to be in it the whole time. So I'm just going to kind of leave you alone. And he said, thank you.

So it was cool to watch him work. It was the physicality that he brought was beautiful to watch. The emotion that he brought, the seriousness that he brought. brought to the role. All of that was really, really great. And in a way, that weird sense, like, no game wrong, offset. We chatted. Sure, sure, sure, sure. But it felt right onset to have a little bit of separation. Yeah. Because he's my arch enemy, like, he's, he's the problem in my life. Yeah, you don't want to have, like, a great relationship with him in the middle. Yeah, right. It makes it easy to, I mean, and also, it's intimidating. Yeah. To, to.

to separate yourself from somebody. And it's intimidating. He comes in with his boombox and he's like blaring music and, he like screams when he comes on set. That's great. So you got to be intimidated by getting. You have to be. So I kind of liked that as a separation for us.

And I think it helps feed into the intensity of, of what we were going for. I don't know how much, you know, I don't watch takes or anything. I don't like to see myself. camera. Yeah, same with him. So did you, did you watch the actual, the film when it was at one,

I do. You did. I do. Because my philosophy is like, hey, it's not about me. I want to see what they came up with. I want to see, um, you know, I want to see the background. I want to see everything. I love that.

I don't know if I'll watch it again. Yeah. Um, my friends dragged me to it again. And I was just the whole time, like, every time I'm on screen, I'm like, I hate it. I hate it. Yeah. It's amazing how many people, I mean, yeah, he says the same thing. There's so many people that don't like to watch themselves.

Yeah. I mean, it's fair. You ever, like, I think there's like a psychological thing to it too. And I recently saw this, this guy giving kind of the explanation. But when you hear your own voice, it doesn't sound like what you think you sound like. Of course, yeah. And you're like, ugh, that's me. And it's kind of the same seeing yourself.

I understand. You're like, oh, God, that's me. Well, we hope to see a lot more yet. And I think that we will. So a Mandalorian season three, it's right around the corner. Ant Manant and the Wasp is out now. Ladies and gentlemen, Katie, thank you so much for joining us. And I hope to see you again.

Yeah, yeah. It's been great. All right. Back to me, me. Green Chef, I mean, this is the one that people have been asking me about a lot. They've been asking me about it a lot because they're like, hey, I noticed that you lost weight. Is that true? I said, yes, it is true.

And I've been really using this Green Chef once a day. And as I mentioned earlier, I only take sponsors on that I believe in. So I tried them out. And man, and what I, I mean, look, they, they send you menu. and things that are very easy for you to make. I make my own stuff also with the stuff that they send. I've been making like these stir fries, which is really great.

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Take a look, you know. All right, again, that's Katie O'Brien. So make sure you, if you haven't checked out the Mandalorian Season 3 trailer, go ahead and check that out. But, and then obviously Ant Man and the Wasquantamania is out in theaters now. All right, back to my friends here. Ryan Reynolds and Sean Levy are, are once again partnering up and they're doing a boy band film.

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We actually had a chance to talk to Ryan Reynolds about this. I can't, I don't have any video of it, but I can play the actual thing. Hold on a second. Hey, Ryan, how are you? Oh, hi. How are you? It's nice to have you on the show for him. A little out of breath. I just got back from dance rehearsal. Oh, wait a minute. So that's kind of what I was going to ask you about. I was going to ask you about this new project that's out there. Is this a, are you starring as a boy band member? Well, I might be producing it or I might be a member.

We don't know yet. The important thing is that you hydrate, you get your rest, and if you mess a step, you're fired. It's more like a reality show we're doing. It's pretty harsh, but I'll tell you this. The one thing I wanted to ask you is that would there be, is this going to be based off Backstreet Boys? It's going to be based off any of the, you know, the big bands out in Japan.

Insink. It's the only band that exists. Breaking story here, guys. J.C. Chazey, is in there. Is he, oh, yeah.

And he's, we're gonna, we're gonna deep fake him on every other character. Okay. We call them characters. They are people, but we call them characters

in this story. The first act is going to be all me, second act, all J.C., and the third act will tie it all together to be me and J.C. Oh, wow.

Well, I know that I have you for a limited time, so let me ask this last question. Charles Levy once again doing another thing. Now the rumor is he's supposed to do a Star Wars movie. How's he going to balance this

and the, and this boy band thing? Well, slap my ass and call me Betty White, we'll work it out. He'll deal with it, okay? All right, fair enough. Anyways, Blake's calling. Give me a second.

All right, that's fine. Thank you so much. Ryan Reynolds, everybody. Nice to have the great Ryan Reynolds on the show. Those two guys do so much shit together. It's like, why, I mean, I guess it's like the comedic kind of Scorsese and De Niro. I won in on that boy band. I was such a big boy band. Yeah. In sync was like, you got the hookup.

That was it for me. Yeah. I work with Ryan before. Ryan, if you're watching, you need some moves out of that. Sounds like a funny premise to me. It does. Yeah, it could work. You know what movie was also played in that premise that I thought it was underrated?

What was the Andy Sandberg one that, the one he did? It was about the band. It was about the movie. What was it called? The hell was that movie called? But it came out and I remember seeing it and laughing my ass off on it. I thought it was pretty damn funny. Was it an Andy Sandberg band movie?

I guess that'll work, right? That'll pull it up. Probably will. Popstar. Popstar. Popstar, never stop it. Did you guys see that one? I did it on, like, in parts.

Yeah. you flipped through the channels. I was surprised because I wasn't expected much from it. I thought it was pretty funny. It didn't do very well, but I remember, yeah, were you around when he was, he was on the circuit for a while out here? I never met him.

Okay, yeah, because I did a couple of shows with him at the improv before, and we used to do fucking laundry at this place before, and I remember, like, I remember, like, I'd done a, this is this place right on like, Beverly, what's crazy is it was on Beverly and, like, Sweetser, and it was the same spot where they shot,

you know, do you remember a lethal weapon pretty well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, when, when Wrig's gets shot through the glass, right there. I was on that street. I wouldn't find that out until years later. I used to do my laundry there. But yeah, but Samberg used to do it.

I remember thinking, I saw Andy last week, and then I saw him as the Swedish chef a week later on the thing. I'm like, a ton of a bitch. He's obviously. I noticed your poster up there with Sebastian and Brett Ernst. Is that right after the Wild West comedy tour? That was right around the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was 2003. So we went, yeah, Brett, Brett was, Brett got me into the store. Brett was the one who, yeah, Brett and I performed a, bunch of times at like Dublin's and we we performed at um back in those day and cook days 100% yeah that's where that's where he started kind of i remember he i mean that was where he started blowing up in l.A. was at dublins and i was yeah i was there for a lot of that and then um but yeah but brett had said to me because we used to perform at this place called Luna park on um not like Robertson it was

everybody used to go there and it was such a great room but um but i met brett there and trippily triply had gotten past there i think like a couple of years before me or a couple charmy and Musk performing. And then Brett comes in and he's like, hey, you know, I got a couple of recommendations and I'll put you on the, I'll get me and somebody else that he recommended. And I was talked about this. Did you, did you get past my Mitzie? I didn't get past.

I don't, I just, you know. Oh, you just promote. Oh, okay, cool. They don't really put promoters on that wall. It's tough. No, no, it's tough. Because I've seen a lot of really, really funny dudes who were promoted that just because of that. And I think it's just like the old Mitzie, the old Mitzie rule, right?

like Steve Simone couldn't get past for he's one of the funniest guys on the planet he couldn't get past forever because he would he would tour with Paulie. Oh really? And she was, I don't want to make a special favor. You know, and it's like I feel like these days you got to either hang out on Mondays for like or during the potluck for like three years every night or be famous as hell and then you get passed. It's a damn minute politics change inside of the clubs, right? Yeah, it's true. But anyway, I don't know where we were going with that. But I, oh, yeah. But, but, like, I wanted to ask you because you didn't get it, we went off track with it.

But has Rogan or any of those guys seen your, senior deepfakes? Yeah, I think Theo's shared a bunch of them. You got a fuzzy on your face for your shirt. Thank you. See, that's a friend. That's a friend. Yeah, it's a friend right there, dude. You think isn't it cheating?

That's the truth. That's my favorite. There you go. Stop it. But, yeah, they, Nikki Glazer just shared one. Theo does it. Whitney does it. Yeah, they all seem to love it.

like them. I want to get as I want to make sure that for again, we're talking about this. You can just, it's just your name, do your Instagram handle, right? Brian. Brian Monarch and his is I am Joe Goddette. Yeah. So you can see them, you see them both right there. So it's like if you go, go there by the way, let them know that you found them from the show, but also make sure you check it out. And you can find it on, on TikTok and Instagram. And I was telling Brian last night, I was scrolling through TikTok like everybody does. And right as I scroll, I see like that teenage filter that's going on. Brian just did this video for it. And right as I do

it, I see it and like his text pops up. And I was like, fucking, that's fucking weird. That's weird. But anyway, yeah, let's see. There's one more, one more story we can talk about. We'll let you guys get in. You guys got to bail. But let's, let's see. Here it is. This is the, oh, yeah, Creed. I was going to ask you. I saw that you saw it and you enjoyed it. I liked it. It's really, it's really good. I have, did you have any emotional, part of me doesn't want to see it because it's 100%. Yeah, yeah. 100%. 100%. It took everything in me. Like the legacy, I just, I feel terrible.

Yeah, it's not, but I went in going, I'm not going to blame Michael B. Jordan for this. I'm not going to blame Ryan Coogler, who is, I think he's a producer on the movie as well, too, because I don't think they were involved in this war between Winkler and Stallone. I think Winkler's kind of a scumbag, to be honest with you, what he did. Yeah, it sounds like it. I love Rocky. I love Creed, so I am probably going to see it. And it holds up.

It definitely holds up. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I think that his style is very interesting. They do something in the final fight, not spoiling it, but like for that it's a definite creative choice. And the fights are the most different fights out of the entire franchise. I think that a lot of people, they're very like in the ring kind of anime almost.

I heard something that they were taking a different approach. Yeah, it's like anime, but it's almost usually like you feel like you're playing a video game at one point, which I think works for the majority of it. Then there's one creative move that he makes at the very end fight that people are usually going to go, that's genius. I get it what it is. And they'd be like, yeah, but it went on too long.

I can see both sides of it. But it's a really good movie. I thought that there's a couple, I'm a boxing kind of MMA head when it comes to like the technicality of rankings and shit. So like the things that bother me might not bother you. But overall, I think that the, I think it's a really good, it's a really good movie. It holds up with the second one for sure.

Yeah. Stallone loves the deep fix, by the way. He followed me. That's great. He only follows 180 people, man. I was like, what? So he does that because. I was when right after Rambo 5 came out um I had seen it and I loved it I had such a great time with

him we talked to my show I used to do was called Collider Live and we did a show and we'd start talking about it and somehow he got a hold of it and he posted the clip of me talking about it yeah and he's that's the only Rambo I've seen believe it or not that's the last last last one that's the very last one I think I said the dude's heart the heart yeah yeah I need to go back and watch the originals I'm sure they're amazing I don't know I got into a thing when sometimes they'll rewatch stuff because I have to do it for work, but sometimes I'll just go. Like, I rewatch the entire Sopranos.

You know, I watched, I rewatched the, I wound up watching Rambo recent. I'm like one, two, and three, just fire through them in the Rocky movies to it. Just those are, those are, it's my love for these movies in general, man. How are the original Rambo's? Oh, I love it. They're great. Okay. I'll check them out.

You know, the book, though, First Blood, the book is. And it was based on a book. It was. It came on in 1972, and it was way more, like, kind of inside of Rambo's thoughts. Rambo dies in the book. Really? I don't even know. Yeah,

because what's his, the, what's his, Brian Denny? I was gonna say Brian Deenny's character. So Brian Denny's character is,

is kind of pretty much just a dick throughout the whole movie. In the book, you kind of sympathize with him because he's also a war veteran, but from the Korean War. So like he's going, he starts to respect Rambo as he's kind of doing this time.

But Rambo in the movie, he only kills somebody like by accident, like when the guy's in self-defense. Falls out of the tree. Yeah, yeah. Kill it, you got to squeeze a book in a book and a two,

hours you got to get rid of. But in the book he kills everybody, too. When he breaks out of the station, in the movie, he's punched him in the face, he guts motherfuckers and runs out. Like, it's like he's, you know from right away he's the bad, not bad guy, but he snapped and you're like, yeah, there's no redemption for this guy anymore. He just went back to being a train killer,

but there's redemption for Stallone's Rambo. You know what broke my heart this week, man? Did you see Stallone's post with the script? No. Which one? Which of Creak? Rocky 7, it says on the front. Oh, shit. This is the, the, the treatment slash screenplay for Rocky 7 that you're never going to see because of blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I was like, oh my God. Did he just post that recently?

It's this week. It was this week because if you go to one of his last posts, it will be there. You got to be careful, though, with his post because they're gone real quick because I think you. And then Andrew Dice Clay does that, dude. He goes off on people, dude. And then I think Eleanor's like, delete that. I'll tell you what he's doing brilliantly. Are we talking about the pictures?

The best when he. Did you want the picture? Did you want the picture? And he's doing it for him. And that's why it's up. And maybe him and Eleanor. He's doing it for him and Eleanor. Because they're probably cracking each other up.

And nobody knows. But what I like, it's catching on because people are like, I do want the picture. It's you. And they know, it's great. When he walked into that plants or he's like, you know, I don't normally do this, but. I'll do it for you. For you or do it. I don't know.

Okay. It's the holidays. You know. It's the best. After died is what pretty much got me into comedy. Oh, fuck. Yeah. God.

That's, yeah. You're about as funny as a bottle of milk. Thank you. Goodbye. It's so good. Yeah, dude, we guys,

we can do this forever, man. This is a lot of fun talking, you guys. We should come back for sure when you're in back in town. You should come in whenever you want, obviously. Guys,

make sure once again, go check out both Joe, I am Joe Goddette at his, what, everywhere, right, Twitter. I am Joe Goddett on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok,

and then just look up Joe Goddette on Facebook. Don't do the, oh, let me, let me add you and look at your kids' pictures. I don't use that one. Use the professional. And Brian Monarch, same thing, at Brian Monarch. You can check him out all those platforms. And then, yeah, if you're in L.A., what's your next show that you're promoting? This Tuesday is sold out, actually, already, man.

You know, Matt Rife? No, I don't think so. I've never seen a comic blow up faster than now. You're going to know him pretty soon, man. He's just, anyway, it sold out like two weeks ago. I was just like, this is crazy. That's great. But the next one after that is Thursday at the Hollywood Improv, Friday at the Hollywood Improv.

Get a lot going on. Two or three a week over there, yeah. Love it. All right, guys. Well, thanks for coming in. I appreciate it. And once again, thank you to our sponsors. Also, thank you to Katie O'Brien. And on Monday, Katie Sackoff from the Mandalorian on the show.

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