The Sloppy Boys - [UNLOCKED] El Paso Film Festival

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

Enjoy this [UNLOCKED] episode of The Sloppy Boys Blowout, our weekly bonus episode available to Patreon subscribers.This special episode was recorded on September 28, 2023 in El Paso, TX during the festival premiere of Blood, Sweat and Beers, or How The Sloppy Boys Made an Album on a Farm in West Texas. A *video version* of this episode is available to all at https://youtu.be/NM3pSA8EQIQVisit patreon.com/thesloppyboys for more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special episode was recorded September 28th, 2023 in El Paso, Texas, during the festival premiere of our new documentary, Blood, Sweat & Beers, or How the Sloppy Boys Made an Album on a Farm in West Texas. Hey, welcome to the Sloppy Boys Blown. I'm the Big Hand Bopper. I'm sitting here live with Jeffy D. Howdy. And Timmy K. What is up?

Now, how would you describe your location in the U.S. right now? The two of you, I want to hear it. A little southwest. If I had to describe our location in two words, I'd say El Paso. Yeah. We are within the city limits of El Paso. Love to be here. We're here for the...

Beer. I love you guys, and I love that you take the cues so well. I told you, I'm reading on the sheet here. I knew that was going to come up with the both yet. Yeah? So tell me, what's new? How are you doing? How new how you doing how you feeling oh boy well we're feeling good we're in in this moment we're down in west Texas promoting a film down in west Texas town of El Paso film festival right I came here for a film festival we're here in El Paso

for the El Paso Film Fest we're doing the Robert Olguin's smear campaign no not a smear campaign it's a hit jab we're premiering our movie tonight

yes Robert Olguin's movie at the Plaza Theater that's right we shouldn't say it because they can't make it they don't care

but then we do a Q&A and then we go right across the street and we fucking rock the house. Unless your best friend is named Doc Brown, you ain't getting back in time for this show. We don't know that Doc and Marty were best friends. We know that they were friends.

I thought they were. Friends. We've probably talked about this, but that early script where Doc and Marty were, they sold bootleg videotapes and sold drugs too maybe? Yeah, it was like weed and VHS tapes. That was like the early version of that script. That's what I learned. They had to like lean into that. Like I think when they cleaned it up for Universal, it's not like they were lamenting it it was more like on the heels of fast times at ridgemont high they were kind of told teen movies are supposed to have some rush and razz and to them you know

what'd be cool what you know we got all these remakes coming back the reboots it'd be fun if hollywood did early versions of script like hey you've seen uh we're gonna shoot the movie of the early version of the script yeah Yeah. That's a good wouldn't that be fun? The pot sailing back to the future if you put that out now put it on movie I'll watch it. I'll tune in. Yeah. We don't have any

microphones here. It feels kind of strange. We got lav mics but I feel like it's like doing a stand up set without a range of motion. I do. I could be doing it from here or... Some way over here. Yeah? I wanted to mention something.

You were talking about how Hollywood these days... I feel like this has been building up for a while. Yeah, Hollywood these days, a lot of sequels and reboots and all that. God. Franchises. It's for the toys. Do you think that Blood, Sweat, and Beers

or how the Sloppy Boys made an album in West Texas, do you think that was going to be every year we got another one and another one

and stick around for the post-credits scene and there's a hint to the other thing. It used to be pretty good and now it's really campy and it's cool. Remember how they had

Dogtown and Z-Boys, the doc? Yeah. And then they made the Hollywood version called just Dogtown or something like that. Ooh, it's a Dogtown. Maybe they make a new they make like the movie version of Bloodsweat. And we're going to have to audition.

We're going to have to put ourselves on tape and send it in and say, Hey, can I play Tim? No. At best, you can play Mike. That'd be so funny if they got like, who are the hot young actors? Timothee Chalamet and the guy young actors? We got the Last of Us guy. We got Last of Us. Pascal. Pedro Pascal.

Yeah, Pizza Fat Scout. I like that. And I like you guys. Shelby could be you. Me? No. DJ Qualls would play me, I think. Yeah, because the studios want something Hollywood actor, man. That's what he's been in a movie before.

He was in Road Trip 30 years ago. Yeah, that's true. Hold on. I wanted to bring up something. Ah, yes. The chile quiles I just ate. Yeah, you had a little skill. We just went to dinner.

A little breakfast time. And we really chowed down. And you had a little skillet of chile quiles with salsa verde and eggs. Couldn't finish it. I was saying when it came, it was this little skillet came down. I said, this isn't a lot of food, you know? And by the time I ate some of it, had my hash browns, had some stuff off of other people's plates, which was my plan. You got me with my side. Helped you with a side of a pancake?

Imagine a side of a short stack of pancakes. A meal in its own right. Yeah, with butter with cinnamon and then I had some of Robert's chorizo pancake. Sure. I should say Robert didn't finish very much of his breakfast at all. He's the guy on the move. We shouldn't let him eat lunch. He's not allowed to have lunch. He didn't finish his breakfast. Yeah, he's not part of the cpc the clean plate club um so this whole weekend we're we're doing this for the cpc we need to raise awareness i'm raising money for the cpc you really cleaned your play uh you and moogie clean those plates yes

i eat too much and then i get tired and sad. Eat too much. Eat too much. That is a move. You get tired. I wouldn't call you a big eater. I would say that you overshoot your potential at every meal and then go, oh. Yes. A big eater would eat it all and say, hey, I'm fine. Take it in stride.

You're a medium eater who overeats three times a day. Yeah. Because I got no willpower. Yeah. You don't have to you look fantastic thanks now we're here in our airbnb which is i would say one of the nicer places i've ever been i know yeah it's the it's the i don't know how much we can see on the cameras here if you're just listening to this we're only just getting a tight shot on my face

the money maker uh it's beautiful here we got a nice view of all the mountains here, the Mexican mountains in the back. What a thrill to be in the desert and it's 100 degrees, but you're inside in the air conditioning with big open windows to look out and say, it's hot out there. That's like when Mitch says, I love East Coast summers. You're inside with the AC. That means you don't like the East Coast. I love the winters. I'm outside. It's freezing.

It's really cold. Do'm outside. It's freezing. You're hiding from it. You like the cold. Do you guys... Here it comes. This is a real question. This is going to be great, Tim. Do you appreciate or even notice architecture and design? Yes. Yes.

Now, Tim, you... That's all I need to know. I don't have the... Next question. Tim, I don't... Go ahead. Go ahead. I don't have the lexicon of the glossary of

the terms to use so if I see a colonial I'm gonna call it out if I see a craftsman I'm gonna call it out if I see something that's mid-century modern you know I've got call it out you see some that's our deck I'm gonna call it out see I don't know that stuff that's the end of it well I know I can say if you're talking to architects you say oh the way the facade just hangs, and then back, away, back. I look at houses, this is quite naturalistic. This one reminds me of brutalism. Ooh. Well, you know the way that Frank Lloyd Wright was always trying to incorporate nature into his work?

Where's the bathroom? Right. Oh, the bathroom. I guess, yeah, that's good to know. I like architecture, and when I walk around, I look at it and see why things were, and I don't know much about it, but I think it's interesting. You know crown molding? I do know crown molding, and I know how to make it dark when it comes to road molding. I know crown molding.

I got some nice crown molding. Is it like along the corner of the ceiling where ceiling meets wall? Yeah, we don't have traditional corners right here, so we don't have any, but... Where ceiling meets wall, the molding hides all. right here so you don't have any but where ceiling meets wall the molding hides do we have any pop corners pop corners yeah the chips made of popcorn you get them on jet blue flights i've had those before they don't do the blue terrible potato chips anymore do they i know those are good you can buy them in the store though but i don't want to but i'm not you want to freeze i'm a true blue member i don't take all these flights for nothing i like to go to the market you guys ever been to the marketplace the the jet blue marketplace no

like you know they give you the uh chips or whatever you want but then throughout the flight when you go up to the bathrooms right across from the map yeah yeah there's like a little refrigerator of the snacks it just takes time it's called the jet blue marketplace isn't it funny sometimes you go on a plane and you're like, all right, this is a normal plane. It's got three seats on one side of the aisle and three seats on the other. And then even if it's not international, sometimes you step on a plane and it's like, okay, wow, we've got two seats on each side and then four in the middle. Oh, big boy.

And like what you're saying with the bathrooms, like sometimes there's like two bathrooms in the middle of the plane. Sometimes it's just way in the back. I had a great free-freef the other day. Coming back, I went to... You don't have to say freef. Freef is freef, my want to say free is free free food you don't have to say free free it's like chai tea you don't say chai tea anyway i go to albuquerque on my way back the lady's coming around with the drinks and i said uh whiskey coke and uh i gave her my card she said i don't have the thing the reader i'll get you that's a yp when i come back she never came back free drink hey damn

i got some free drinks recently too when we were coming back from the hopscotch music festival the guy i ordered a drink and he was like do you want to double i was like yeah and he's like oh we charge you for one and the second time i got a drink he's like you want to double i was like yeah you didn't charge me at all here's knew that I had a recent thought about planes, and I wrote it in my phone, and then I brought it up on my notes. Why did I make the whole plane out of a blog post? I haven't even read it yet.

I'm going to cold read it. Let's decide together if this is any good. Oh, yeah. I was going to do a joke about how if you are on a flight and you don't put your phone in airplane mode, that it'll crash the plane or something. But they stopped even asking that anymore, right? Airplane mode?

I think they say it like once, but no one ever checks. After they say it, a flight attendant says it, I'll still be on my phone finishing a text or something. And no one's saying it. And I'll be be like sometimes you're like 200 feet off the ground and you're still you're still tweeting other times you're landing you're like i haven't looked at my phone in hours i'm just start getting the and you go hey no i can't hang out i'm at the i'm just about to land at the airport airport i'm on the outside of the airport. You don't want to mention the autoplane. Look, I'm outside the airport

and a little above it. Let's just say I was recently 30,000 feet above the ground for the last two hours. Okay. Right now, I'm outside an airport. Yeah. Blood, sweat, and beers is the reason for the season

down here in El Paso. How are you guys liking the festival so far? Oh, good. We did a big old step and repeat. Hi. Hi. Hi. Yeah.

I've never been to a film festival. Well, now you're the toast of the town. You're the toast of the film world. I'm the toast of the town. Wouldn't it be great if you walked into Hollywood or New York or Miami or Chicago and said, Hey, you're the toast of the town today. Amazing. How would you do? That's a lot of pressure. You know what's kind of fun? I was thinking last night we were at one of these opening parties. We went to the festival opening party, then went to a screening, then an after

party for that screening. I haven't been doing a lot of networking recently. It's kind of funny when you stand there and there's a stranger and he's like, hey, how are you doing? I'm a filmmaker out of El Paso. You're the filmmaker? I'm in a film. You know, when you're talking to someone, I rarely initiate, but when you're talking to someone and the only reason is that we're here to talk to people, you know, it's like, I've never been to a singles mixer, but it kind of feels like it'd be a singles mixer

where you just walk up to someone and you're like what's your name, what do you do and that's all we're here to do here's all my facts, you say yours, let's see if any of them align anytime anyone tried to talk to me yesterday at the opening party because there was tacos there I gave them the old Homer Simpson

can't talk, eating merge! yep merge! where's my fucking shirt? I gave him the old Homer Simpson. Can't talk eating. Yes. Marge! Yep. Where's my fucking shirt? Um. My. From the one where Homer doesn't have his shirt. I can't find his shirt all episode.

Where is this fucking thing? I see Bart's shirt. His red shirt. I see Lisa's yellow orange dress. Or Bart's blue shirt from early on. That's right. I love when Homer shaves and then his whole face is yellow for a second and then it feels like he gets get that whole thing you're like oh so the whole time we were looking at stubble i didn't know that's what that was yeah that's a good point he's an odd little dude yeah they ever say how tall those guys are? I think they're all 5'9". All of them?

Yeah. Homer's 36 years old, right? Yeah. And James Gandolfini was 36 when he shot The Sopranos Pilot. So that's like the golden age. Did anyone ever find my prescriptions? No. You see we're coming live here. I hope we can edit

some of this. I'm trying to find some stuff to talk about with you two. You guys are, I have something great to talk about. Just say it then. What do you got? You guys are closed books over it. You said something about can't talk eating. Yeah, man.

Well, being at a meeting, meeting and eating on the topic. Meeting and eating was my friend, way back in junior high, my friend was in New Yorkork city and he's walking and he saw jerry lewis and what can he uh you know old comedian and famous jerk um and my friend goes up to jerry lewis and says oh jerry lewis and jerry lewis is eating a hot dog and he goes and my friend waits so you go jerry lewis finishes the hot dog and walks away. That's funny, though. I really like that story, and I tell that story to people and say it's you.

It's too much to go, my friends. My friends' friends. I can think of you as such a story. Do you know Tim Kalpakis? Well, he went to junior high with Nate Robbins. Oh, yeah. You're going to tell me the Jerry Lewis story? It's a great one. You've heard it? You haven't told it.

I want to hear a live version. The way I tell it, though, and I thought this was it. Jerry Lewis eats the hot dog, then holds up his finger and says, hold on one second. And then right as he finishes that one, he starts eating another one. That's better. But I think that's the way you told it the first time. Well, I'm kind of a raconteur. Every time I tell a story, I bring it to life.

You know, the factual details are not the case, but the way I tell it. When I'm holding court. Oh! I'm sitting at a booth, I got Dito on one side and Sammy on the other. You can make up any story about a celebrity.

Dito's going to tell me Frank, Sammy Hagar. Might as well jump. Hey, we saw a movie in the theater yesterday. That's right. It was called Deadland. Yes. And when we sat down and the lights went down, it was the first time I realized

our film's going to be playing in this very same room tomorrow. But then it was tomorrow. And it just occurred to me that's the reason for this whole thing because when you go on a trip you're like robert's picking us up we're going to the airbnb we're getting lunch here and then we're going to see this movie but then you realize the reason for the season is for the first for the first time we're going to have live feedback yeah on this thing that we've seen a couple times it could be we got we got slop heads coming out and we got a

bunch of new eyes who probably don't even know what a sloppy boy is i mean the only people who've seen it in my circle is my family and like they love it they hated it they hate me but they like the movie that happens to me a lot it's very easy to like in the context of a week like this there's a lot of things to do and lost in the shuffle sometimes is the reason for the core of it the nucleus i used to have that with acting like when we were shooting birthday boys or even more so like when i've done teeny acting roles on like son of zorn or brooklyn 99 or something yeah it's such a whole thing like oh my call time and my ward i'm going through wardrobe and they want me to wear

this and then oh my god i gotta go to the makeup chair and the hair and then the lab guy laughed me up and then i act and then i'm like the lab guy take my makeup off and then like I'm driving home like was I funny yeah like that nine minute window in the middle there when I was acting how was that was that any good it's like when you hear we hear about like big celebrities like staying in their trailer too long whatever some some of that is like vanity but someone's like I am going to be the person on the screen uh so let me get into exactly what i need to do yeah but for you know your part on sort of zorn if you were like i gotta really i don't think i had a line and my role was that i get hit in the face with lettuce

that's going was chopping up a salad and lettuce was getting really funny you don't have to worry about making that funny. I know. I think it was good in it. Were you credited as like lettuce guy or did you have a name? I think it was lettuce guy or customer. I was at a restaurant. But I had a nice trailer, a full Star Wagon, not one of those narrow things.

And spent a whole day on set and you really feel like movie star. But then you have four minutes to get hit in the face with lettuce and then you go, thanks Bill Benz. See you later, Dan Lipper. I'm keeping the lettuce. And that's one of my biggest roles because that's a network. Other than playing Micah on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Do you still see residuals on that? I am still seeing residuals on that. Nice. Zorn's leaving Hulu, I heard. You banking that? Hey, folks. It's your last chance to see Lettuce Customer on Hulu. So make sure you watch that.

I learned that from Jack Nicholson. I don't have any good background. You were on Monk. Not to say what you were doing as background. You were an actor. I was featured. You were in a Star Wagon. Yeah. you know like you were on monk i mean not to say what you're doing as background you know i just have this featured uh using a star wagon yeah they gave star wagons all the extras they gave me a honey wagon it definitely felt like some one of the stars had wrapped for the season and there was an extra star wagon i don't think lettuce customer typically gets a star wagon but

you know i also i'm sure that that day I ate like a huge breakfast sandwich and then picked it crafty all day and then ate a giant buffet lunch. And a lot of times for me, that can be the focus of the day on a trip like this. Holy shit. Last night we ate after eating free tacos at a festival event. We went to the tiki room, had a poopoo platter today.

We woke up, you had your chili quiles. I had chorizo and eggs, and you had... Oh, I don't know. It was like an open-faced Benedict type thing. It's so easy for that to be the focus of the trip for me and forget about the movie. I was like, I'm on a chorizo trip. Well, that's concerning. It wouldn't be a bad movie, though, chorizo trip.

It is cool, yeah. Put that in the... Well, they did Road Trip and Euro Trip. I mean, probably Chorizo Trip is next. Yeah. The trip, the journey of a piece of chorizo is interesting as well, because think about this. You get all this meat. Yeah.

You grind it up, you spice it, you put it in a natural casing. Wait, chorizo is pork? Spicy pork. Right? I would assume it's pork. Maybe there's beef chorizo, but I think it's pork. Yeah, it's a very spiced red sausage. Spanish.

But then it's like when it's time to serve it in Mexican food, you take it back out of the case. So the case was just sort of like a temporary... It was a formality. It was a formality. It was just some packaging, I guess. It was just some packaging, I guess. It was the packaging. Like if you ship someone chorizo, you don't have to put it in an envelope or anything. Put the stamp right on the case and put it in your mailbox. Isn't there a funny Instagram where they were seeing what can get mailed if you just put

a stamp on it? Oh, I've been mailed a coconut before. Just a coconut with a stamp. There was an artist, I have no idea when, but in a college art class, I learned about a guy who mailed a chair to himself and just tried to see what he could get through. It was an Eames chair. He's like, and the topic on this is I'm going to mail it to myself.

One time I tried to mail just a piece of paper. I put address, return address, and a stamp on it and put it in the mail, and it never went anywhere. Just like a piece of inkjet paper? Mm-hmm. I bet it got smushed into something. They probably looked at it and said, well, they got the form, but no content. Oof. Oof.

Did I ever tell on the pod my mail story from high school where I mailed my teacher a book report? I know this story. I don't know if it's on the pod. Maybe I've told it to you in confidence off the record. I was waiting for you to tell it. I'll tell it again right now, and if anyone

wants to laugh, they can. If you've already heard it, you don't have to laugh. Have you heard before set your audio to double time? So you can just hear it again, but you can get through it quicker. Yeah. It's the summer between 11th and 12th grade. I'm assigned summer reading. That's no fun. But then also

summer book report by Mrs. Paisley, a great teacher, wonderful woman, but that's a little bit... You look like a jerk right now, Paisley. That's true. This is a tribute to her. She gives us a summer assignment and I don't read the book, right? And I'm like, I don't want to write this book. So I print out off the internet, the old-fashioned internet, something like a synopsis, not Cliff's Notes,

but one of those websites that has like LitWit or whatever. Spark Notes? Spark Notes. I print out the Spark Notes and then I have it and I'm reading it and I'm like, okay, maybe I'll write a book report

based on these notes. And then I'm like, I'm running out of time. I'm not going to write this book report at all. Here's the plan that I cook up. I say, I'm going to arrive the first day of school having not written a book report, but I'm going to tell my teacher,

like, there was a mail mix-up. I must have had your address wrong. I tried to mail it to you, but it came back to me. So that was the whole mix-up. address wrong I tried to mail it to you but it came back to me so this is that was the whole mix-up so I take an envelope and I write mrs. Paisley one two three Sycamore Street Rhinebeck New York I made up one two three Sycamore Street and I'm like okay I'm gonna mail this to her it's gonna bounce back to me and this will be my alibi but I'm like I don't think I'm gonna mail an empty

envelope so let me put some paper in here so the paper i reach for is the spark notes fold them up don't even realize that's what i'm grabbing fold them up put them in the envelope mail it to a fake address that says mrs paisley in rhinebeck new york it doesn't bounce back yep a month passes it's time for me to go into my first day of senior year. I go to Mrs. Paisley's literature class, and she's handing back the book reports, and I get the Sparknotes, and on top, C+. What?

She graded the Sparknotes. How did they get to her? Maybe just a small tag. I think the mailman was like, Mrs. Paisley. Holy shit. That's wild. I thought you were going to get like, I thought you'd incriminated yourself

for like serious plagiarism. I was sweating bullets and like walking into school that day being like, what the hell happened? And yeah, I was happy with the C+. Who was it that we heard this story? Maybe it was one of you guys sent a report in, in college,

like emailed it to the professor, but just did like, you know, sometimes in the old days of like a text wouldn't show up, it would just show up as squares. Oh yeah. And somebody did like wrote a whole email like that and sent it to him because they didn't do the report.

And then, uh, that's good. And they were like, Oh yeah, I guess it didn't come through. Well, it's not on my computer anymore, so it's gone. I had one of those for Bishop Girton High School in my religion class. We had to write a two-page essay, two-page minimum. And I'm sort of, you know, I'm sparse with words.

I was keeping it pretty tight. And I couldn't stretch to hit the two pages. So what i did was i just like wrote the first page and then just like trailed off put a staple on it handed it in got an a he's like i missed your second page but like you were getting it wow yeah yeah i missed your second page pretty smart that's pretty good when you were saying spark notes before i remember in high school having like a test coming up about whatever book we were reading and the teacher was like all right we've got this uh test this week uh from the first you know five chapters and don't just read the spark notes because it's going to be more involved in that and i remember my head being like yeah

right i'm just what else could be spark notes covered at all what else would there be i'm sure i didn't do well on that test it's a fundamental like and i even remember reading cliff's notes or spark notes and skipping over the analysis just reading the plot of a book and being like what a fundamental misunderstanding of literature or fiction that i'm like like tom sawyer did this then tom sawyer did that i'm out you know it doesn't like but then how are you going to know that red means passion? You know, stuff like that. Yeah.

Scarlet Letter. That's right. Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne would be quite precise. He walks in, Nathaniel Hawthorne would be quite precise. I have to put a fine point on Nathaniel Hawthorne. This Airbnb has a wormhole! Let's talk maybe about the um fast the fast well you were saying about i'm excited tonight jeff to watch it with a group

because we haven't seen you know when we used to do the sloppy or the birthday boys uh live show we would have videos every month right and watching those with an audience was fun to hear laughs yeah but i haven't been in that situation in a long time. I'll put stuff out online, but I don't hear the laughs. And we also, when we had the Birthday Boys show at IFC, we would always, every Friday that it was airing, we met up at Public House in Los Feliz with a bunch of friends. And we would hang out in the back room and we would get drunk and we would watch comedy bang bang and the birthday boys and get that moment of like hey it's funny we did we we did it it's alive it's out there yeah but in this

digital age people can become so isolated yeah comedians can have have it worst of all with isolation we do have it because we're already they create the last but they don't get to hear them we're clowns on the upside but inside we're non-clowns. We're crying. We're screaming for some attention. Non-clowns. Yeah. What?

Yeah, inside we're non-clowns. N-A-A-N. The brand. Us being clowns, we, you know, yesterday at the opening party and stuff, we were dressed in our kind of loud pattern shirts and stuff and everyone knew the sloppy boys well because everybody else wears all black around here yeah everyone everyone uh everybody johnny cash all the all the the staff is all in the same el paso black t-shirt i think also it makes us more anytime we're all doing a thing like when

we went to madison square garden to see fish and we were all wearing the same red Budweiser shirt. We should have brought those shirts. We should have brought those shirts. People were like, sloppy boys, sloppy boys, sloppy boys. So it's like, oh, if we chose to always dress in uniform, we would feel like celebrities. What did he say? And always hang out with the three of us. It's funny when we did the big sandwich hunt a couple episodes ago

Remember yeah, we walked around looking for sandwiches. Yeah, but just the three of us in loud church here sloppy boys It's not often you see the cast of a thing. Yeah, just them right? It was like when we were walking to see the minions movie Yeah, and somebody went up to like just one of us was like, hey, I like Sloppy Boys. And we're like, hey, it's all of us. And he's like, oh, shit. Oh, shit, you guys are losers. Hey. No. Why? Because we're seeing the Minions or because we're all

together? You just look bad. You dress like shit. Oh, you smell like shit. Oh, that was an interesting concern of ours. We did some morning radio this morning, plugging our event tonight. And we were a little concerned coming in that, Mike, you were wondering if they had Smello Audio? Smello Audio.

Not Smello Vision. I wasn't planning on it. I didn't shower this morning. Because we hadn't showered and we were hoping that they didn't have Smello Audio. Yes, which I think is taking the nation by storm. Right. It's radio where you can smell the people, but you still can't see them. They're working on the visual element.

Like, the technicians that work on TV and the internet have cracked visuals, but the radio technicians still haven't figured that out. Well, you can have two. Like, right now we've got video on this and audio. And no smell. No smell, but you can do audio and smell. It's a two cents max. Yeah. But you're lucky they don't have it here in El Paso, smell-o audio. And no smell. No smell, but you can do audio and smell. It's a two cents max. Yeah. But you're lucky they don't have it here in El Paso. Smello Audio. Yeah. For anyone's sake, really.

Think of Smell-O-Vision, I think of like there's like an old newsreel introducing Smell-O-Vision, what is that, 50s? Probably? And there was like a card that you like smell along with you're watching a movie and I remember watching this newsreel where someone's watching a movie and there's a skunk on the screen and this man like in a suit like holds up a thing is that good? watching a movie to smell a skunk? it wouldn't smell good it would smell bad remember we went to Hobbs and Shaw in 4XD or whatever that is where the seat moves and there's blast air on you at one point they're running through a field and you feel some grass on your calves of your legs.

And afterwards, after the movie, when the lights were on, we looked down, it was like just two little pieces of frayed plastic. Oh yeah, it's like little feathery type things. Like those calves. During the, there was like a storm at the end of Hobbs and Shaw or something like that. And to amplify it, they had little strobe lights.

But then you look up and the strobe lights would just be revealing the black ceiling and scaffolding. Really demystified the whole thing. I remember in Hobbs and Shaw, there's all these gunshots and it's shaking your seat. And then at one point, a quiet scene

in the movie, there hadn't been anything in a while, and somebody got a text and then my scene went... I can't remember if we've joked about this. I feel like I'm shocked! I can't remember if we've joked about this, but is there also a part where someone puts a glass down on a table

and you get a little jolt? Somebody's having fun with it. Well, should we... What? I'd say bring on our first let's take a break let's take a break and when we come back we'll bring in our friends we don't take breaks on the blowout but yes we could let's take a break let's take a break we're taking a break and we're back hey that's my line i didn't try it i'd love to see you try it well we're back. Oh, hey. That's my line. Tim, try it. I'd love to see you try it.

Well, we're back here on The Bloat. I'm the big Tim Bopper. We're going to bring out a guest. Damn. Who's in our film. Who has accompanied us on this trip. This is kind of, if you listen to our podcast, you've heard of Lil Mookie B a lot. He comes off a lot.

I don't know if he's been on before. He's never been on. Well, he's been on. He's always on. He's always on. We gave him a heads up to be very on here today. He said he would. He's a close, long-time friend of ours who we always kind of talk about.

He came to the Minions with us that time. Exactly. I would say a lot of our anecdotes. You hear anecdotes. Sometimes you watch an Instagram video. You say, who's holding the camera? Sometimes you hear us complaining about our hangovers. Who was out with them that night?

This guy is, he's in the background. He doesn't. Who was cajoling them into over consuming. Who was enabling their darker urges? Who was the guy who said, right when he sits down on the couch, he's going to say the funniest thing we've all ever heard I look forward to that Because I could use a laugh to lift me up

I've been having a hard blowout I've been having a depressing blowout God, we need him now more than ever Please welcome Lil Mookie B Mookie Blake Locke Thank you, thank you so much What is up?

Great to see you. Thanks. Howdy. Okay, good. We told him to do a funny entrance, and he's doing it. He's doing it. Hey, I knew he would. The guy can deliver. You're sitting there next to your boy.

It's funny. You guys were just talking about me, and I think you could probably say, and this can go in the lexicon of the Sloppy Boys, but I think I'm kind of the Forrest Gump of Sloppy Boys. You know what I mean? I was there for all the major events you know one time we put our money face in a t-shirt and it looked like a smiley face and you sold t-shirts yeah yeah i thought you were gonna say i'm the fourth sloppy boy but you forrest gump no i would never say that i wouldn't want to you know

forrest gump you know those big running scenes where he's running across the country back and forth the wide shots are tom hanks's brother running as the double as the double he's running across the country back and forth the wide shots are tom hanks's brother running as the double as the double he's not a twin he's not a twin but he's uh he's like a runner in real life and apparently you can tell like when tom hanks is running he's just kind of jogging like a regular person brother also does um all the off-brand like straight to dvd woody uh voice are you serious there's an interview with Tom Hanks where he talks about his brother when they do Woody's in a McDonald's commercial or something. That's his brother doing it.

Oh, and that's why sometimes you hear, it's like, there's a snake in my brother's boot. Sorry, let's take that again. There's a brother in my snake. Can I get one more? You know, Orange County, Colin Hanks is running around. It's Chet Hanks. Yeah, and I'm right here in, Colin Hanks is running around. It's Chet Hanks. Yeah, and I'm right here in a Colin Hanks rap.

I'm always like, I think that might be Chet. And also in Orange County, Jack Black is being really funny. A lot of the shots is Jack White. How great that Jack Black and Jack White came out at the same time, but they never did anything together. No collabs. They played to a similar White came out at the same time, but they never did anything No collabs They played to a similar fan base at the exact same time Yes Of course

They probably got something cooking up right now that's going to be epic If you look at Jack Black, you probably think that guy loves Jack White probably and Jack White we know is a comedy fan He was on Portlandia What the fuck they've definitely hung out yeah they've been in the same room together i bet okay speaking of names jack

black jack white right yeah mookie yeah i've stood next to you when you meet people and you have the same interaction all the time it's probably in the mind of a lot of viewers and listeners right now people meet you and they say mookie like mookookie Blaylock and then you have to say actually yes yeah or a lot I get a lot of like Mookie Betts now we heard that that's what I was going to say it's become slowly become yes Mookie Betts which is funny because it's another athlete yes and Mookie Wilson is the other famous Mookie so they're all athletes they're all athletes like me Mookie Wilson also also baseball player Mookie Wilson was the guy who hit the ball between bill buckner's legs ah yeah yeah yeah did you really know that i hate to ring the bell but yeah no 89 89.

um but your last name is blake lock yes So the reason for your nickname is because of its similarity to Mookie Blake. Yes. When I was 10 years old, I've told the story maybe a million times in my life. This is for the people. I'm not saying I'm not, I don't enjoy doing it now,

but let this be the final one. I just told my fucking Jerry Lewis story. And also if you're telling stories after this one, you have to tell the funniest story I've ever heard. I think I know what you're talking about. Which I also tell people about. when i was 10 years old my little league coach started calling me mookie because that's when mookie blaylock the basketball player who played for mostly the atlanta hawks but i think he played for the denver nuggets and maybe another team or two he was a baseball player

nope he's a basketball player and this was like, I would have been 10 in 1993 or 4. So my Little League coach started calling me Mookie, like Mookie Blaylock. My last name is Blakelock with a K in the middle, hard K. And your first name is Michael. And my first name is Michael. People used to call me Mikey when I was a little kid, pre-10. And you can see the leap from Mikey to Mookie. Yes.

So he started calling me Mookie, and then everybody on my Little League team started calling me Mookie and then everybody started calling me Mookie my family calls me Mookie I went to college I could have switched back to Mike or Michael but I did Mookie I moved to LA I could have switched back but I was Mookie so I'm just a good Mookie till I die when did you stop introducing yourself as Mike or Michael? Like when I was 10 years old. Gotcha. Well, so we met you back at UCB in LA, and our sketch group, the Birthday Boys, did a show with your sketch group, A Kiss from Daddy.

And you had Michael Cassidy. Yep. Michael Blakelock. We had Michael Hanford, Michael Mitchell. Mike Cassidy. Yeah, I said that. that oh did you oh i could ring your little neck first one he mentioned and then a lot of those mics came together in the uh herald team yeah it's an athletic so we don't need more mics so mookie agreed casserole hand man we

don't need mitch mitch that's the one yeah you know where mook Blaylock, the basketball player, is currently? No. Prison. For vehicular manslaughter. Oh, no. Really? Yep. He was on drugs and crashed his car and killed two people. Oh, wow.

So, looks like I took the number one spot. No Mookie bets. Well. Of Mookie Blaylocks. Okay. What did you just describe? What about that hard K you were talking about? Blah, ox.

They're close enough you can put them in the same category, I think. Let's ask you this. Go ahead, Tim. No, no, you're the last one. I'm going to put this guy back in the hot seat. I like that. You ready? Let's do hot ones.

Can you tell, I mean, your funniest story of all time about you? About the karate story? I'll be sitting just by myself and see a picture of you on instagram this is another one that i've told other people as well probably when i was around i don't know i would say like 10 years old give or take so it could be 93 94 around the time your coach this is a big year for you and i want to, I maybe did this three times ever. Sure. But that's enough. So I grew up in Massachusetts and we would get like, you know, big summer rainstorms and when it would rain really hard, this is the era of Ninja turtles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and I was a

little fat kid and every time it would rain really hard i would that we had a little side porch for our side door for our house that was like at the top of our driveway seeing down to the street visible from the street is the key important yeah that's well i'll explain that in a moment it would pour rain and i would in like a fat, like t-shirt and gym shorts and bare feet go outside in the pouring rain on my porch. And I would, I would practice karate moves. Now we do have a visual element of this. So it was very basic. Like, Oh, my mic fell down. It was very basic. Like kick stuff like that.

Had you taken karate lessons at all? Not one. But my fantasy was, I was out there in the pouring rain, and the fantasy was people on the street would drive by, see me at the top of the driveway at the porch and go, that kid is so dedicated to his karate that he does it even when it's in the pool even when it's pouring rain even when it's pouring rain even only in the pouring rain i never did it when it was sunny it's not like he's out there every single day

but even even when it's raining it's just that and i mean this is the main road yeah yeah this is the main road of my town where like a car going by me would not be literally looking to their side for the one millisecond that they drive by my driveway that's so i had the flip version of this where i would go on family bike rides with my mom and dad and sister and I knew that my crush Caitlin Marin and lived down the street I did first of all I didn't want to be seen biking with my family but also I thought that if she happens to be looking out her window I want to be going so fast by her house so I remember oh god this is a god this is again like being 10 or 11 or something like that.

I remember being on my bike and being like sort of at the top of the hill where we pass, we come down and pass her house and pedaling as hard as I could and muttering to myself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh my God. That's what girls want. And here's the thing. If she was looking out her window, she would just see a kid on a bike go...

With a helmet on. Wanting to be seen in a certain way, but also ensuring that the likelihood of you being seen is almost nothing. And as you now know, if you're trying to impress a girl with your bike riding, don't do it so intensely. You got to do it with a little rizz. Yeah, yeah. Am I pedaling? I don't care. Didn't they have rizz back then do with little rears. Yeah. Yeah now am I pedaling?

I don't care. They have respect and this isn't it. Yeah, this is yeah, really you pull a Bluetooth speaker on your plane Old Town Road Okay, I like going back to your karate story the The funny thing about I mean like having the mindset of like I want to show karate story. The funny thing about, I mean, like having the mindset of like, I want to show off my dedication is really funny, but also not doing moves that are like above you. So like you got like Ninja Turtles were huge, not doing like huge, big karate moves, just like the small, like the discipline stuff that you do before you get to the fun stuff. You know what I mean? Fundamental.

Really like the granular form stuff. When Pai Mai is like first teaching the bride, and she's like, why do I have to keep punching this thing over and over again? And he's like, when we're done, you'll see. It was kind of like that. Which, of course, I'm sure the people driving by in the cars would understand. So none of us ever took a karate lesson, but you were a belt i took one karate lesson yeah and was not thrilled with my parents were like if you don't love it we're not gonna spend them right if you're not passionate about it

karate and jujitsu and all those always seem very like it always turned me off that uh it was like people in bare feet and it was sweaty like i feel like karate gyms always seem like they would be stinky and musty to me i always remember the wrestling room like if if i was at like my school it just like you go in there i think we had to do like cpr class there i'd be like what is going on in here all the time when i was just closed off mats on the wall i was like nowhere for the air to go when i was a kid my dad had like we went to whatever company he was working for had like a big company picnic and one of the events at the picnic was like a karate demonstration and it was just like people being like here's some karate moves and we'll do and i remember it was like them and bare feet and there was some it probably didn't even have anything to do with

the karate but there was this like stench of like must and trash that like I think as a kid I associated with like oh the karate people's like sweat sweaty bare feet and for some reason I like like if I look in a karate studio in a window I can it like the smell like recalls wow from when I was like a child it's a demonstration are they breaking boards like Kenny Powers style yeah stuff like that and like you know just doing like you know like wrestling doing like little two-person demonstrations where they like you know whatever you know when they like flip and put somebody's head between their legs and then they tap the ground and i love when i'll see my line of like there's like guys holding boards at different levels and someone like runs up the wall and like kicks them all before he lands yeah but uh the the smell thing when i

took my one karate class the instructor had bad breath and i remember when she would come around to like you know we'd get into like a fighting position or whatever she would like come to move our like legs and hands and i just remember being like that's not this traumatizing i think it really is with bad breath that's crazy hey hey i've been caught with it a few times i think you shouldn't i think you should not have it's unacceptable i feel like i think we've all had bad breath we've all had a you know some onions or had a dry mouth but you know when there's somebody you're like that guy has bad breath i'm fine with onion breath or garlic breath but i mean that that when he says bad breath, and we know the taste. Like unbrushed. Yeah, brush your fucking teeth.

Get all the way to the back. Go, eh, eh. Gone all the Listerine. But like, it's so rude. I feel when I smell it now, I think like, not like, oh, that poor person. I'm like, you fucking asshole. Wow. Don't subject me to this.

Well, maybe they don't know. Fran Gillespie barfed, rolled out of a cab barfing because somebody's breath was bad one time we'll have her on to tell the story i don't remember the specifics but she was stuck in a car breath so bad she she was hung over and she needed to barf and when she opened the door she accidentally fell out of the car if you're hung if you're hung over and a bit and you have to deal with a bad smell yeah trigger some when you're hung over and you have to deal with a bad smell, it triggers them. When you're hung over, you can't have any variables of any sense.

It's got to be straight down the middle. You've got to be locked away. When you're hung over, you've got to wake up. You have to smoke a joint, ice-cold Coca-Cola, a little bit of a spicy session. Okay, Anthony Bourdain. Thank you. Ah, Mookie, you're the god.

Did you see that story about Meryl Streep on... Yep. On... Jonah Hill? I think that's a fake story. You think so? What was the story? I didn't catch it.

I hope the story didn't cross Jonah's boundaries. You know what? I probably shouldn't even tell it. Tell it. Tell it. Well, on the set of Don't Look Up, which is kind of a movie about climate change, if you think about it. I never put that together. If you i guess it is uh i guess like jennifer lawrence and jonah hill were calling meryl streep the goat the whole time and she took

it as like she was like oh i guess i'm the old goat and they're like no it means greatest of all time you're like the greatest living actress actress. And she thought they were calling her a literal goat. She's like, well, that gives me an excuse to eat this tin can. So you bring up that story to say you think... I think she's one of the most unintelligent people.

When it comes to being stupid, she's the goat. She's a goat. She's a goat. You ever watch's it's great when someone has the reputation of being really good if you watch a meryl streep movie it's insane she's so good yeah and it's it doesn't even have to be like big swings it's like you just believe her i've complained to you guys about once i know a movie star i've been i have trouble believing them yeah suspending my disbelief and

thinking they're the real character in the movie meryl no such problem no such problem she just she's just exists and fucking what was something really good she did sort of recently it was the big little liars yes big little lies different tone for her her going out of her comfort zone still 100% struck me as authentic. So like steady. Yeah. There's something so like, she delivers lines with like, the way this house is so soundly

put together. Yes. And what's funny is we were joking about her being dumb. But I think it's the thing I think about a lot. Yes. I'm super smart, but I'm a bad actor and then there are more i don't even say you're super smart there are morons that are better at acting than me and i gotta give it up for them because they fool themselves into believing a fake reality so dumb

they can trick them yeah like aaron paul can just be like i am in the path you know what i mean like you know like i don't even know what a camera is I'm so dumb Isn't that Jeff you'll probably agree with me on this When dumb Actors are dumb most of the time And when they're in a movie with a bad director

They're bad Because the bad directors Let the dummies make their own choices And good directors are like Hey dummy you have to do this pt anderson mark walberg mark walberg yeah exactly yes smart director smart director dumb actors probably the best they're good at acting but they're not smart about making choices and so you have to have a director and when i mean we've talked about too many examples but like directors maybe more modern directors that are a little sort of like, I am more concerned about like the actors doing interviews and going, this director was such a joy to work with. And he let us play and do whatever we wanted.

And then you watch the movie and you're like, tell those dummies not to make that stupid choice. Tell that idiot not to scream. If you get a.T. Anderson. P.D. Anderson. P.D. Anderson. Daniel Day-Lewis is also the street thing where you're just like, ooh, I don't recognize this guy at all from informative. I've told you guys that I attended a DGA screening of Lincoln.

And Jeff right now is like, DGA? Well, well, well. DGA? DGA, not DJ, Jeff. DJ. But he is like, DGA? Well, well, well. DGA? DGA, not DJ, Jeff. DJ. But he is in the DGA because he's a director. I know, but he's probably thinking... So every time he pays his union dues, he thinks that?

If he hears something that sounds like DJ, but this was DGA. He runs for his turntables. He probably made that in a pencil leap. Tim, you are telling a story. I was at the Bruin Theater in Westwood. Go UCLA. Steven Spielberg is on stage with Daniel Day-Lewis. Someone asked a question to Daniel Day-Lewis.

You're this amazing actor. You've played all these iconic roles. But now you're playing a real person. How was that different for you playing an actual uh a person and and also it's this weird thing with lincoln because we everyone knows him but we don't really know we know him from the five uh the five freeway no the dollar we know him from the five we know from the one of course yeah but but uh and there we we've seen isn't there a viral video of like a month

on amalgamation of what Lincoln actually sounded like and he sounded more delicate like it was like yeah he's really tall but he has like a funny voice but he's not like four score and I'm mixing up with a Neanderthal man who was like we've recreated the the the larynx of the Cro-Magnon man or score That's the noose thing. We've recreated the larynx of the Cro-Magnon man. This is what he might have sounded like. Here's what he would sound like if spooked by a TV camera. And at that point, if you're a Neanderthal,

four score and seven years ago was not even that long ago in terms of time. At the Mesozoic era. Because they know they're prehistoric and there's so much time to go. There's more to come. I'm fairly early on. Well, somebody asked Daniel Day-Lewis what it's like to play a real person

but who's not around anymore so you can't watch tape and you don't have anything to emulate. And Daniel Day-Lewis gave the greatest response ever he was like well of course uh abraham lincoln did live on this earth and uh and i'm here and so and he still exists here in the ether so it's not like he's gone all i have to do is cast out outlines into the ether and receive back. He's out there and I'm getting it back and all. So when I'm talking, it's not me.

It's, it is him and it's coming through me. And you could feel like 200 people at this movie theater be like, and it was great because he said this whole thing. And then as he finished, he goes, now what I've just told you is all illusion, but it's the illusion I told myself. It's like, that's what I've just told you is all illusion, but it's the illusion I told myself. He's like, that's what I need to get into. So he knows that's fake, but when he's on set, he's just like. That's great. So he's basically saying, I'm smart and dumb at the same time.

Yeah. He's like, I choose to be dumb at the times that I need to be dumb. Now, going back to Blood Sweat and Beers the documentary it's a movie about the sloppy boys that is some acting going on in there. Great acting. It's a documentary so it's not really acting. Ah where does the line we knew cameras were in the room. No the line is that we weren't acting in the room. Yes but you know the lines as soon as you have to say lines. The Heisenberg principle.

Wait, which one's the one? No, Schrodinger's cat. You can't portray something without, you can't observe something without changing it. Schrodinger's cat is you put a cat in a box with gunpowder. Wait, which one's the one you're talking about? The one where you observe? Yeah.

Who is to be observed? You can't observe. Is that Heisenberg? Sloppy Boys. You can't observe a jungle cat without changing its environment. Oh. Because it knows you're there? Simply by the fact... You can't bring the fox across the river because it'll eat the chicken, so you've got to bring the grain.

Schrodinger's? What's his name? Schrodinger's. The cat is alive and dead at the same time. A cat's in a box and he's dead or he's alive. Until you open the box, you don't know if he's alive or dead. But doesn't that not depend upon the observation? Yes. Oh, my God.

He's so smart. I'm kidding. That's the questions we're answering here in the film. Yes, hopefully by the end of the film, those questions are all answered. And more. But for real, do you think that our dynamic changed due to it being filmed? Because I don't. I don't think so, really.

I think it's a very pure depiction, Robert. I knew there were times where I was like, ooh, cameras here. I'll goof around for a little bit. I feel like that, I mean, it's made me think ever since we shot this movie, when I watch reality TV, I really think about like, yeah, they're under lights and there's cameras around them. It's really hard to just be yourself. But I think that we had a task to do.

Yeah. If I were just like. We were more. So like I was, if I were just supposed to hang out with you guys or like have a fight with you guys, it would be hard for me to tune out the cameras. But when I'm talking to Gabe, the engineer about my guitar tone. Having it, having a task is perfect to distract the

conscious mind. You know what I mean? You're kind of like giving a vessel. So that way you can be observed. Yes. Your unconscious is doing all the work. Yeah. That's good. I guess there really is no way to have a real simplistic setting.

Reese is not sorry. Yeah. Uh-huh. Sorry not sorry. Reese's not sorry? Isn't that the tagline? Reese's not sorry? There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's. It's really good. No, the new Will Arnett ones are like Reese's not sorry. It's like going off sorry, not sorry. Reese's. Not sorry. Bet nobody better lay a finger on my Reese's. Nobody better lay a finger on Bart's Reese's peanut butter. There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's. What was the Butterfinger thing with Bart? It was like, hey, friends.

Wait, for Butterfinger? Yeah, it was like, it's neato. Yeah, it's neato. The first Simpsons Butterfinger commercials ends with, like, yeah, it's Nito. It is Nito. That was a swear word back then. Nito? Yeah.

Damn. Back in 1995. You sent to your room saying Nito. Well, folks, we hope you thought this episode was Nito. Neo. Do it again. Well, folks, I hope you thought this episode was neo and we'd like to thank Mookie thank you guys like we're like Mookie I mean he's run around I don't know if he's gonna pop his face in here jump in and say hi

He's not in there. Just give up. Yeah, he's in. Give up. There we go. Alfred Hitchcock over here. Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah, he wants us to call Robert Hitchcock now. After that display.

Yeah, his directing style is for the birds. After that display of unprofessionalism. Alfred Hitchcock could goad in his own right. Quite true. He's a director in his own right? Goad in his own right. Kind of the greatest of all time of whatever he did. There's that story of him, I forget who told it, but he had like a meal with somebody.

They ate it all and he's like, let's do it again. He just started over with salads, steaks, dessert, did round two of a whole meal. In that sense of eating, he is a goat. Because goats in cartoons eat a lot of stuff. Cans. Tin cans. Tin cans, I mentioned tin cans you don't see Brett Ratner

doing that if he did he'd be Brett Fatner that'll do it for us folks thanks for coming out

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