This Is Important - Ep 105: Inventing Anders

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

Today, this is what's important: Kyle is still missing, The Emmys parties, dream roles, covid protocols, the star meter, what it would take for Blake to shave his head, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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what's the most important bottom line critical thing happening on this planet. Today on This Is Important? I'll shave my head to be Mr. Freeze, though. I'll tell you what. I think it's because, like, dude's be horny. I've gone from house husband to douchebag. Let's go. What are you eating there, dude? This chewing is brought to you by Pro Bar Meal. Oh, my God. You're such a hot boy now. You know those. Oh, my God. You've changed. You've changed. Oh, my God. I have. I have. I literally changed my shirt. Okay, cool. My favorite thing, if I am watching an old

workaholics episode, is to see us chewing food. You know what I'm talking about? Like, someone just flew around with, like, little half-grilled cheeses or something. We're like, oh, let me get one of those real quick. And then, like, uh, an action. An action. We're like, dude, we gotta go. We're still drunk or whatever the shit was. And you can see, like, like, tonguing food out of the back corners of our mouths. Like, uh-huh. All right, dude, let's go. I love how totally unprofessional, like, on any other set, like, no other set am I truly holding up sides and looking at it as they're going rolling and, and then hiding it, like, underneath, underneath your ass, if you're sitting down, which we did all the time on

workaholics. I'd be like, we're literally like, looking at it, looking at it. Well, we had those drawers out in the cubicle. Adam would motorboat me. He'd be like, uh, and then action. What was cool about our desk at the cubicle is you could just pull it open and hide so much shit in there. Snacks, eyes. You'd have, like, four fucking fizzy waters in there, like, did I? Oh, I gotta just finish one of these. There was so much shit in our desk drawers. And there were metal drawers, so you'd put your phone in there, and then every once in a while, I'd just be like, yep. And then you pretend like, oh, God, I'm so sorry, guys. Hang on. I'm so sorry. Yeah, this was Adam's ring tone. Adam, I think you got a text. Oh my God. I think your mom just sexed you. You know what I

was thinking the other day, like, sexed me. Let me ask you guys a question. On a scale of one, sex, on a scale of one to 10, how serious are you about this? About this career? About this podcast? No, no, no, no, about like acting, because I remember like, basically this, basically this. Goodbye. Whatever said, I'm on. Okay. Almost regardless. I'm having a good time. I'm never serious. Having a good time. I'm having as much fun as possible. I'm not like taking it too seriously. I feel like you can still have fun and be serious about your career, because I don't want to do anything else for the rest of my life, and I don't want to do anything to jeopardize that or fuck up that. I don't mean like focused. I mean, like, haven't you been on set with people who are

just like serious? Oh, taking it way serious. Yeah. And I'm not like, and there's nothing wrong with that. But like, we're even doing like, like press, like the junket stuff, where like, you sit on a couch with a co-star for five hours. Oh my gosh. But we are like, if you watch our like press interviews, we were notoriously fucking terrible. Together, we're a mess. But now that we've done it separately with other people, yes, I've sat next to people who like earnestly answered the questions about like their character. And I'm like, okay, see the thing is, and I'm like, I'm glad that they're getting Emmys and stuff. And I'm like, is that what it is? You have to like, really take it seriously? You do have to play the game if you want to win Emmys, because

they won't just, oh, I wish Kyle was here to talk about it. Oh, he's not playing the game well enough. He's not playing the game well enough. Oh, yeah, the bitch. I think you do have to play that game because it's the what? Who votes for the Emmys? It's like, you have to be part of the academy. Yeah, but it's not the academy is the academy. You know, voted for me, fucking take your shoes off podcast homie. Rick Glassman. Glassman sent me a screenshot being like, I got you, dog. Wait, I could vote for the Emmys. Or you have to be nominated. I think I don't know. I'm not in it. Have you? I don't know what it was. You have to be asked. I think none of us have been asked. I know what Rick Glassman votes. Well, well, because he's been nominated, because he was nominated.

His show was nominated. Yeah. What was this the dateable on day? No, no, no. His new show. Where everyone has Asperger's. It's a great show. Oh, I got to keep it a hundred. Love with Asperger's. Love on the spectrum. No. Isn't that a show? I feel like I saw that thumbnail. Okay, whatever. That's I mean, by the way, dope. That's dope. He's very funny. As we see it, as we see it, as we see it, and you should watch it. It's on Amazon. It's really, really good. And Rick is very phenomenal on it. That's why I think he gets a vote. That's why. But well, well, now we are we getting into

Emmy talk like five weeks later. Because I'm like, dude, like legitimately, okay. Because I'm already gearing up for next year. Yeah. Well, shout out to Kyle for getting there. That was sick. I wish he won. He should have won. That show is very funny and what they pull off is dope. Oh, dude, I was jealous of that you and Kyle went to that night before the Emmys party. That's always the coolest party. But I missed him. I missed him. You didn't see him there? What the fuck? Oh, man, he left early. He went, yeah, he went there, ate all the, the, all, ate all the snacks and bails. I like every photo I saw of him that night. He's just like eating like soup. I'm like, what are you, you go there, you get every little time you snack,

which admittedly, so do I, those little fucking snacks they bring around. If you don't eat all the little snacks that they bring around, you're a fucking dumb, you're a fucking asshole. Fuck you. Then you're definitely the type of person who is really serious when you answer every question about your silly show. Here's a great behind the scenes of my life on whatever night that was, Sunday night. Yeah, give it to us. So I'm like, hey, Isaac, our manager, I haven't gotten any information about the car service to take me to the party tonight and usually like, it's all set up, you get a car, they bring you and like, that's your driver for the night. What did this bozo do? Uh, that's weird. Didn't RSVP for me. And I'm like, uh, we got a sitter, Emma just got a hair blown

out. I have like a fucking suit hanging in my closet, ready to go. Like she has a dress that she's ready to rock. I'm like, we have a dinner, dinner reservation beforehand. We're going out, please figure this out. It's a whole night. Yes. Bro, we got several children. It was, it was touch and go for a little bit. And then, uh, he made it happen. So you got in, shout out to Isaac or CAA for actually making it happen. Because I think the same day, shout out to your agents who actually made that call. The same day I texted Isaac, I'm like, okay, yeah, I think I'll pull up. I think I'll pull up and he's like, list is closed. And I'm like, how would Isaac ever know that? And then all of a sudden, uh, so I texted, why didn't you,

why didn't you just commit? If you were asked to go, why didn't you just commit? It's a, have you ever been to those parties? Maybe once. They're super fun. They're super fun. Everybody's there. And you end up knowing a bunch of people. Yeah. And then, and then there's always, always like people that you're like, Oh, Larry David's right there or that. Yeah. No, I've been to a couple. Or like, there's Jamie Foxx or whoever. I've been to a couple and they were, they were actually like, very fun. And like, you do, you do like do a lot of good networking. That one, I was like, Oh man, that's what it's all about for blazer. Blake, Blake is the network king. No, I should be, I need to be, but like, uh, like, I was kind of like, Oh, I won't know anybody there. But then

I started to see like, Sashir was there. Kyle was there. Derz was there. Like, I should have just pulled up. Yo, it's our class now. I mean, I kind of go there and I'm like, I like all these people. I've met them. I've known them for 10 years now. I've worked with some of them or like, admired most of them. And like, I, I had, I walk away from it being like, this is like our class. This is cool. I like these people. But maybe we're the bad guys. That's a good way to look at it. Because I remember the first time I went, I think I was invited because honestly, I think it was because of like modern family and shit. And that was like, probably like 10 years ago. Yeah. And like really early on. And I remember being like a little overwhelmed, like not really knowing a

ton of people. Yeah. Uh, you know, kind of like cornering the two people I did know and be like, and we're best friends all night tonight. Yes. Right. That's what that's the move though. It's always Joel McHale. It's always. And then the last couple of times I've been, I haven't got to go for the last few years because I've been working, but it's, it's, it is cool because you're like, oh, I know all these fucking people. Yeah. And the, and they come around with little grilled cheeses and little sandwiches and little tacos with like crazy little mango relishes on them. Yeah. So I fucked up. I remember like going to, I, I'm not sure whose party was. Hey, by the way, even if you had told Isaac that you wanted to go, he'd fuck it up anyway. So don't,

don't beat yourself up about it. I remember going to one where it was like, I think I just broke down super hard with Lilly Singh. Like we were just like taking shots together and it was like crazy. It was like, yo, we're like best friends forever. You just see people you never know. That's cool about those parties is like, I remember it was like a WME, like our agency or my agency, a WME party. And it was just like me, Liam Hemsworth and Miguel, the singer. Oh, yeah. Yo, Miguel is our guy, by the way. Yeah. This is coffee in the morning, right? And then we just, we're pounding shots. You don't know that's all. And just had the best fucking time. I think you were, you were there, right, Blakey? Yeah. I think you were at that party. Yeah. And Miguel is

like the guy. He's actually super sick. I fucked with Miguel. Yeah. He's awesome. Coffee in the morning. Is that not the fucking jam? Oh, are we, are we back on bitch work? Are we back to? Honestly, the most I know Miguel and I'm sorry, Miguel, if you're listening and this, you don't like to talk about it is your viral video when you straight up like leg drop that chick at your concert. He tried to like jump from like stage to stage and straight up leg drop, like whole kogan leg drops a girl. What is a leg drop? Like you just laying on someone with your leg? When you lift your leg like that and just put it on them. Yeah. Like, like on the back of their self-explanatory, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Like it looked like it hurt like a motherfucker. But

let's play. Just can you get a little Miguel coffee real quick? Well, he weighs like, he weighs like 112 pounds. It didn't hurt that bad. The guy's a very slight man. By the way, if you're listening, just know this, if you meet Adam, he will put his arms around you, pick you up and guess your weight. It's just the thing he does. It's endearing. You get too many tequila shots in me. That's not wrong. Come here, come here. You're about 15. Man, Lily Singh, we went off, bro. Another thing, another thing that we, that I think that we did early on, which I'm like, I'm glad we did it, but now I'm like, oh, we shouldn't be getting that drunk at these type of events is we would always go to those type of events and be the drunkest people there.

Like just, and the last ones to leave, like closing it down, be like, what do you mean you're closing the bar? And they're like, well, you've been here for four hours and the bar is closing. It's the next day. Yeah. Yeah. No, dude, it's crazy. Like even like, Ders, you like, you saw Lionel, like Lionel is like, kind of like a, he was kind of like deep cut odd future dude, but now he's on the bear. And like, he's always been such a homie to me. He's like a great writer. He's put me like as a voice in all his cartoons. Like, so it's just sick. Like when you said you ran into him, I was like, damn, dude, like I should have just pulled up. It would have been fucking cool. Yeah. And he, by the way, I was some of like our generation. He's like the next generation.

There's a bunch of young people there now. All the babies in bro. All right, bring the baby man. Throw him in the little papoos. Is that a word? Give me a hell yeah. Papoos. That's just a rapper. Papoos Anderson. Papoos bro, deep cut. Deep cut, bro. So did you, did you have funders? Funders? Did you have funders? Yeah, it was a good time. It was a good time to do. Saw a bunch of folks. Did you see 50 Cent? I got there right after that. Because that was what was super sick about that night. 50 Cent performed, right? It was like Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent. Right. But so this party's usually sponsored by a few people who kind of throw it all together. And this year, 50 Cent was one of the sponsors. Okay. And so he performed,

which was amazing. And I guess Snoop Dogg got up there with him. Did he perform candy shop? I wasn't there, but I wish. Magic stick? That's Adam's favorite. I do love magic stick. He's a bagel. Did he bring out all of G-Unit? Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure it went off. But my man, at this point, my manager was still trying to finagle it up scrambling. By the way, then I get there and I'm like, this is how famous I'm not because then I get there and people are we were just next door and came in and I was like, stop it. Okay. That worked out. Don't worry about it. And is the Emmys, is that? Time to check the star meter. When do they have the big Netflix parties and the HBO will have a big party? The night of, like after the Emmys.

Oh, so that is the Emmys as well. Is that right? Or is that like? I mean, I don't know. I guess FX had a party the night before the Emmys because that's what Kyle was at before he came over. And I believe Lionel. Kyle, that fucking motherfucker. Where is that? He's probably at a party. I want to hear his perspective of this. It was cool, man. You know, like, uh, shut up. Oh, yeah, the bitch. Oh, man. He went to the Emmys, right? Yeah. Like he pulled up. How come he didn't take any photos and he didn't pull up. He was invited. He went, he had, was wearing a tuxedo, you know, he didn't just pull up, but yeah. Oh man. Oh man. By the way, I know you guys are wondering, my show did lose inventing Anna to that win. We lost. Wait,

you were nominated. Oh, I forgot you're in there as a show inventing Anders. I have, I'm going to be honest, I have not watched it, but I heard you're fantastic in it. Is that true? Have you been talking again? I'm in it. I'm in it. I'll tell you that much. I'm in it. You don't do much. Uh, no, we had a good time. I'm in a little bit of every episode. Yeah. Okay. You kind of drop in. I pop in. Admittedly, I watched the show. I did like it. I wanted more Ders. That was my big. Yeah. That's the sequel. That's the sequel. We all do. And I think TII nation will agree. We want more Ders in everything. And I'm glad that you, you were getting a little bit stuck in, uh, your roles were like the house husband, the kept, the kept man, or you're just a cute, which is wild. I like

that. Well, cause it's everyone's fantasy to get this animal cage, a cute house house was a little, a little scruffy doing dishes, walking around, chopping up carrots, you know, just doing living in a nightmare. Beard is a little hairier on one side of his face than the other little patchy beard. You know, you know, he could, uh, shave that and get, get all sexy and good looking. May or may not have eyebrows for sure. Yeah. Yeah. What's up with that, bro? I've gone from house husband to douchebag. Yeah. Those are, are your two that, that you play really well. A kept, a kept man. Yeah. Yes. Or a total douchebag. Hey, you forgot your keys. You got it, dude. Yeah. What's up with that? Honey, honey, you looking for these? All right,

have a good day. God damn. Dude, you know, yes. What is up with that? See, and I don't want a different character for you. I just want more of that. Right. And don't forget, don't forget, dinners at five o'clock, five 15. All you need to do, Ders, is play that exact same role, but then like the twist is like, the twist is that like you're like a gimp or something and you're like just like a weird, like I got word shit. All you need to play pause. What do you think gimp means? I'm saying like you wear the leather mask like Pulp Fiction Gimp. Bring out the gimp. I know, but that's not what gimp means. Gimp is what I am. A guy who's always limping, who's constantly hurting himself. I'm a gimp. Sorry. I'm referencing Pulp Fiction. Bring out the gimp. I'm saying like

Ders is like that, dude. Yeah, like he's the guy who's just like. You want me to be the gimp? Yeah, dude. And then all of a sudden now we got a little edge to the character, don't we? We come on. Okay. So, so you're a kept man who is very kept super kept in a box. Like your, your wife who works for a newspaper. It just has you chained to a bed. It covers editor in chief. Oh, she's in a box. And Blake, wouldn't it be more of a turn if I was like the nice guy who then like goes to the basement and opens up the trunk and you're like, oh, wow, he's a man. So he's got to keep this person kept. It's a whole cycle. Yes. And all of a sudden it's a season three of you. And then the guy in the box, he has a ferret in a cage. Dude, I'm down for that. Okay. So you're like,

hey, I'm cutting, I'm cutting carrots, honey. And then she, as soon as the door closes shopping off, you go to the, you go to the basement and you're like, okay, now you pull out your carrot. You can come out now. And this is a different show. I see, I see that furters. I think, uh, well, that, that is the sort of progression. He's like the house he's been after workaholics. You were kind of the kept man, the house husband. Yes. And then I did some boyfriend work. And then, and then you don't say, yeah, you did. And then you did like some kind of dickhead type rolls. Which you're great at. You're great at fucking crush at. What's crazy? Didn't even know they were rolling. Didn't know they were rolling. Just a total natural at those. And then now I feel

like you have to be, you think he's a kept man, a house husband, but then he ends up being a serial killer. Yeah, I would watch that movie. Full thumb up the dick hole kind of guy. I would watch that movie. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called inner cosmos on I heart. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University. And I've spent my career exploring the three pound universe in our heads. On my new podcast, I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities. Like, does time really run in slow motion when you're in a car accident? Or, can we create new senses for humans? Or what does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the

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just like, you know, he's going to be the, the, the basically remake fear. Remember how you pitch that? You're basically Mark Wahlberg. I still would like to do fear. Yeah, that would be hilarious. He's like the, you're so hyped that the daughter is dating him and he just goes crazy. It becomes like the best meme ever. And then I would like to also, I would love to pitch myself is like, I'm kind of like a stoner, but I'm also keeping a gimp. Right. I feel like I would love to see Blake like for real serious as like a wet haired white trash, like small town pimp, right? Who's like Vick. I can see that. He's not even like a nice pimp. He's kind of like an all business pimp. And Sean Baker would direct it. The guy that did

the Florida project. Red rocket. He would get, I feel like he could get something out of you, which I never saw by the way, that was Simon Rex's movie where he was the X porn star, right? Red rocket. I didn't see it. And I love Sean Baker. I think he's so fucking talented. Go watch it. Go watch it. Rex does Rex. Rex is like in there, but I think we covered this, but like everyone's like, Oh my God, have you seen Simon Rex in this movie? And it's like, well, yeah, have you seen any other Simon Rex movie? Like this is the dude. He brings the goods. Yeah. It didn't even make it. Is that the next Academy Awards or was that the ones before? That was the last one last year. It didn't even make a peep. What do you mean? Didn't even make

a peep. Well, he wasn't nominated for the Oscars, but he did win the Spirit Award. What the fuck? What's that? Oh, wow. That's all I want. I want a Spirit Award. That's all I want. I want a Spirit Award. Really? My main award I want. I don't want. I mean, I'll take any award, but I'm not like Jones and for one. I'm not, I'm not really gunning for any awards. Other than like, if you win awards, that just means you're going to, you're going to work longer. Right. Yeah. You're gonna pop off. You're bankable. You're gonna get more work and probably a better caliber of offers because you just won them. Yeah. If you don't win awards, you got to do a podcast and you got really fucking just go up, bro. Yeah. The well said Blake, you have to do a podcast and just go up. Yeah.

Yeah. That is true. That is how to navigate a career. Right into the thin blue. Hey, so, so you have won any awards. So how are you going to navigate your career? I'm just going to go up, bro. Okay. All right. All right. You heard it here first. How are you going to do that? I'm just going to do a podcast and go up, bro. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Moving on. And next. Okay. Next. Next on the red carpet. Army hammer. You can go. You can go. We're going to actually try and talk with army hammer. Really? We got it. It's either him or you. Bro, I have you. So your whole idea for your career is just to do a podcast and go up, bro. You know what? We're going to go talk to army hammer. Okay.

Cameras off. He's eating a plate of what appears to be slices of bacon. I don't know. What is that? By the way, how about this experience on the red carpet? Where like, you go to, you're like doing a legit publication, legit publication, like getting interviewed. And then you go, you're like, all right, like Cleveland tornado news. Sure. And like, you can tell that they don't have their shit together, but you're like, whatever, I'm here. I'll do it. Like, let's go. And then mid interview, you just see them eyeballing like another more famous person next to you. And they're like, uh, like, wrap it the fuck up. And you're like, what? You're not going to get that guy. I'm doing you a favorite Cleveland tornado news. Then you wrap it up and then you watch the

more famous person just pass them by and they're like, one more thing actually. So then now you want me tornado. Was there any like COVID weirdness or people are just off that? Oh, here's. So this was Emma's observation is that there was a go. Yeah, people are off it. But she was like, I don't think people know how to talk to them. I don't think people know how to talk to each other anymore. Yeah, no, it fucked us up. What do you mean? Like people are different. And as soon as she said it, I was like, yeah, people just seemed off their communication game. My conversations were weirder. Well, I think it's people who didn't leave LA because I spent so much time in the South. It's been so normal down there. I don't I don't know what

you're basing that on because these are people in the industry who I'm guessing may or may not have left because that's nothing happens in LA anymore. True. Sure. Sure. Well, it's weird. It's weird that they wouldn't know how to talk because I feel at least in Charleston, it feels like everything's are just back to norm life back to reality. Back to reality. Yeah, I don't know. It was it was a vibe that just was like, yeah, I wondered that because LA is it's a weird place now. I still love LA. It's definitely like the pandemic hit it in a way that it hit no other place. Maybe New York. Go ahead. Continue. I've yet to go back to New York. I don't even know what New York went through. Holy shit. I just think they took it more serious than any other place and the residual effects

of that like the like you're saying, right? People don't know how to talk with each other. It's just people don't know how to communicate all that weirdness that came from like not seeing people for all of 2020 and bleeding that into 2021 and on has made people socially awkward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Just a lot of your talking points are within the industry. So like the fact that like nothing was happening, maybe there's not much to talk about. I don't know those parties and we're back. Yeah. But things have been happening for the last two years. I haven't been home for like I've been a home a total of this week. I'm home for this week. This will be eight weeks since 2020. Naked grandma. So that's a naked grandma.

But even like the when you get invites to these places, they still have notes that are like, uh, we're taking like COVID protocol. Like it is still alive and strong in Los Angeles. Like it is not over here. It's like insurance policy. It's just and it's like they're like, all right, we want to ensure the party and then also like kind of show that we're still caring about the people who care, which is cute. That's very cute. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird. It is a little weird because I'm like, so although I got a homie who got COVID last week, but did it fuck him up? Did he die? By the way, Blake, by the way, Blake, or did your friend die? What have you had? And you just rolled into it like, but did he die? And I'm like, yeah, but did he die? He did actually. I know. God,

I don't even want to talk about COVID no more ever again. I just don't even want to mention it. I don't even want to see it in email. I just hated it. You can you can do what you want to do to feel safe. You can wear a mask. I'm not mad at it. I actually feel, you know, some people look at people with masks and they're like, fuck an idiot. Like you can't get it outside. I've come to the... Yeah, I'm like that person rocks. I've come to the place where I'm like, I feel bad for anybody out there rocking a mask by themselves alone, walking outside because I'm like, oh, they're like trapped by their own fears. Yeah. Yeah, you're miserable. You know, outside of people who are like, you're miserable. Genuinely have like a thing where like if they get COVID, they know

their fuck. Well, some people it's like you live with your grandparent or you're you have your what? You live with your... Naked grandma. Thank you. You live with your naked grandma or whatever and they can't get COVID. Sorry. They will die. You know what I mean? I didn't know naked grandma would be on but you know who could, you know, can get COVID is there. Oh, the board is dead. Who? Who? I don't know. The board is dead. The board is dead actually. Got COVID. Oh my god. Put it on the ventilator. Right. But when I see people still super masked in a place where like you don't need to, I'm kind of like bummer, bummer that you're that living in that fear. Yeah. You're living in a nightmare. I'll just do it. Don't worry about it. You're living in a nightmare.

That's how it kind of was when I was in Germany is people were so afraid to get like cast members and people that are there like producers and stuff. We're so afraid to get COVID that no one really wanted to go do anything. They didn't want to be that guy because they're like, well, we don't want to shut production and I get it. I totally get it. But also I was being that guy. I'm in the show is called Bumper. I play bumper. I'm in absolutely every scene and I went out every weekend and I was like, I might get COVID and that is part of it. That's part of it now. Bumper was the bumper. You might get COVID. Whatever. But I'm not going to not go have a life at this point two years in. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go. Right. And then by the way,

you get COVID and then you're in the clear for a few months. So production secretly is like, great. Perfect. Awesome. Yeah. They're like, Hey, the first week you get out here, go crazy because we're started production in two weeks. Go to all the fucking weird nightclubs. Go to those nightclubs where people are just like fucking in the corner with wearing gimp masks or whatever Blake's secretly heard about. It's fucking a bunch of Nate. Oh, sorry, man. I was listening. Face fucking. Well, that's cool. That's I mean, at least it wasn't like a full on mast event, but that party is outside on that grassy area. It's outside on the grassy. It was good. It was good. Mist fitty, but that would have been nice.

If you didn't see that, then I don't even really think you can consider yourself as going. Yeah, I didn't go. Yeah, you didn't go. You weren't there. Almost didn't. Gotta check the star meter. See where I'm at. I don't know. That's how they let you in is they look at your star meter. They're like, Oh, okay. Right. 4,000. Was Army Hammer there? And if you're listening now, if you're listening now, there's something called the star meter on an app called IMDB Pro, we're essentially, and I don't know how they do it, but they rank you from one to whatever the fucking thousands of people there are in this business.

And if you're like number one on the star meter, who is like, it went, I don't know who it is right now, but it's like, if the rock just had a movie come out, it's the rock. It's always a female for whatever reason. I think, I think, uh, okay. Okay. I mean, not always, but it usually is. Wow. I think it's because like dudes be horny. Well, we don't know the, I don't know why we don't know the thing that makes you know. Yes. It's who is looking you up the most. The more people that look you up on IMDB. On IMDB. So the more people that are looking, and that's the place guys go when they're horny to look at all those hot photos.

I'm going to say the name. No, I'm going to have to say the name. No, because they go, they watch a movie and then they're like, who's that fucking hot ass babe? I mean, the rock's up there because also gay guys be horny too. And what? Gay dudes aren't looking up. Gay guys. Horny? Yeah. Gay guys be horny too, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I'm telling you, I'm telling you. I've been around some gay dudes and they, they be horny. They slide into my DMs and they be horny. Oh yeah, it goes down. And you're claiming the rock is, is desirable in the community. To gay men? Yeah, I would say. It's a bagel. I wonder if he's the most. I don't think he

gives off a vibe. I don't think he's got that judge. It just doesn't, I don't, either way, women or men. I don't think he's like an object of sexuality. He's too asexual. Yeah. Yeah. Men want to be him. Women want to be him. Like, have you ever seen him kiss anybody in a movie? You know, thank you God. He doesn't have to. I think I have. Sure. I mean, sure. For sure he has to have kissed people in movies, right? I don't think he has. When has he? You stop. He's never kissed anyone in the 50 movies. I guarantee he has. No, I saw it. I'm going to Google images. The rock kissing. Are you ready? Yes, he's kissed. He's kissed. The rock kissing images. We've all, hey, everybody on this Zoom has kissed in a movie before.

Okay, I'm looking at this. Apparently he did it in Jumanji, but it was like a comedy bit where he's like licking her face or something. No. Oh, that means that means he, then he just doesn't, that's like a thing. Yeah, I don't think he does because every other picture is like from real life. It could be an agreement with his wife. Some men don't kiss. Is he married? Yeah, he's married. Yeah, it could be an agreement. Some men don't, you know, they say like I won't kiss. Who's our guy? We had our guy, Annie didn't take up his wedding ring. That was just a bit. Which is fucking sick. What's our guy's name? Who's in Game Over Man? Who played the like The main bad guy? Neil McDonough. Yeah. Neil McDonough, thank you. Yeah. Yeah,

he said none of that. That was his thing. I respect it. I respect it. Yeah, that's fucking cool, no, I'm going to give you a list of 10 things I'm not about to do. No, I disagree. I do not think it's cool. I didn't think it's I'm like, I respect it. I go, yeah, okay, fine. If that's what you want to do. Yeah, sure. You're not going to go up. You're not going to go up. You're not going to get a podcast and go up. But yeah, I'm like as an actor, your character might not be married. Like, if your character, if you're playing like a fucking jiggaloo or something and you demand to wear a wedding ring, or you're like, for whatever reason, you just went through and your character went through a divorce and he's back out on the scene. And that's your character in the

movie. Yeah, yeah. It would be weird to have the wedding ring on. I think you you you play the character that you're you're paid to play. Yeah, you're paid to play. Right. I think that this people in this position don't take those roles. They don't take those roles. I think they pass on those roles. And I think he's talked about it. I'm going to seek out jiggaloo roles. No, we know. Like, don't worry. As soon as you said it, I go, cool, I know where you're at. I think that he passes on those roles. And it's probably lost out on stuff because he's good actor. And I mean, yeah, I just saw him in cool man. What's it called the Captain America the other day? I was like, Oh, yeah, this dude's been in everything. Fucking take a stand. Well, what do you take a stand on, Blake?

I'm trying your on your way to go up. Won't cut the hair. Unless you make unless you make me never have. Yeah, I have a necklace kind of currently not work can go. I got a necklace that can go hair saves. I'll shave my head to be Mr. Freeze, though. I'll tell you what, that's what it is. Okay, Matt Reeves Matt Reeves, if you're listening. Yeah, Mr. Freeze is the is where you draw the line. Yes, that is what I will do it for. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University. And I've spent my career exploring the three pound universe in our heads. On my new podcast, I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and

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Between April 1971 and September 1972, six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington DC. It took four murders before the police finally realized that one person was responsible. I will admit the others when you catch me, if you can. Signed freeway fan. This child was laying on the side of the road. It appeared that she was probably either dragged out of the car or thrown out of the car. The person said, I murdered your daughter. The killer believed that he may have been seen by the mother. That guy is, he's out of sync with even the worst people. I thought that they would catch him. I thought it was just a matter of time.

Is it possible that the killer is still alive? Listen to freeway phantom on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've thought about it long and hard, and if you want to cast me as Mr. Freeze, I will shave my head. What about like teenage Lex Luthor? Nope, Mr. Freeze only. Did Lex Luthor have long hair? For real talk, if you want to go up. Well, then I'm going to podcast. It does back you in a corner, your hair. I know. What do you want me to do, though? What do you want me to do, bro? Should we say it at the same time? Well, I don't want you to do anything. I'm fine with you.

That's why I'm playing the similar roles, but I think you would get other roles different from them if you didn't have the hair that you currently have. I like your hair. This sounds like a soundboard thing, where you're like, I like the soundboard. I like the soundboard. Your voice goes up, and that lets me know that you don't actually like it. It's not real, man. Dude, you don't think I like your hair? I like your hair. Is that real? I like the soundboard. I do? I like the soundboard. That lets me know you don't actually like the soundboard. I do like the soundboard. No.

You will never cut your hair ever. Your hair means that much to you. Unless I get Mr. Freeze. They're not going to give you Mr. Freeze. How do you know? Why? Why would you say that? Victor Von Freeze. Because they don't know what you don't like. You don't like it. Adam, I'm sorry. Adam, Victor Von Freeze. Adam, Victor Von Freeze. Hey, yeah, I guess that's his name. Sure.

Come on, dude. Blake, have you thought about doing CGI headshots with different hair to be like, this is what it could be? Dude, do we get you on? Do you follow me on Instagram? I don't know if I do. Blake, do we get you on Nathan Fielder's show, The Rehearsal? I would love to. I love Nathan.

And we plan on you cutting your hair and we go through every possibility of what your hair could look like. This is a great pitch. This is a great pitch. With a full-on haircut. And just a full-on rebrand. The Rehearsal. I mean, Sean White did it. He was the flying tomato. That's true.

And then now he's all trim and proper. He's so handsome now. What's going on? He is. How did he do that? Dating my friend Nina Dobrov. Shout out. But what does the hair look like when it's not perfectly combed? Because it seems like it's a lot of work to always have it positioned. I bet Blake would be, and Blake is already so hot with that hair. Thank you, brother.

What if he didn't have that hair? Would he be even hotter? To some women, some women he would be a disappointment because they like those long locks. Quick question. Quick, quick question. Okay, go ahead. Because this is, and Blake, this might help you. Make your grandma.

Figure it out. Make your grandma. Is that a flying tomato had. Allegedly. Very kind of kinky, long, curly-ish hair, correct? Yeah. Snacky grandma. Do we think he chemically straightens his hair now? No, his hair is not long enough to curl up.

No, it isn't. His hair is just. It just is combed back. No, no. He cut his hair completely. He has short hair at this point. I think it's, I mean. It's just combed back. No, he cut his hair, dude. I was hanging out with him a few months ago, and it's, it's, it's this long.

Snacky grandma. It's this long. It's slick. Yes. Okay. So, but, but, so by the way, if Blake's hair is that long through four inches. It's a poof. It's a poof. It's an afro. We just posted my soccer picture. That's what it does.

Yeah, but that's when you were a child. Your hair changes. My hair is much curlier than Sean White's hair. You do realize that. Look at this nest. Okay. But I'm just wondering, his hair looks very straight. Look at that.

That is not what Sean White's hair looks like. It kind of did when it was long. My shit is. Blake, I know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. I wish I could relax these curls, but I can't because they- What that's I'm saying is like-

If I bad. ...chemically perm that shirt. Dude, I would like to see it. I think I've seen that before when you've had it straight ironed or what, or flat ironed. Is that what they call it? Yeah. Yeah. Which is actually, I like that look, but it just. Okay.

Yeah, you looked like Snoop Dogg when he was going through his like God, dog father face. His hair was very curly. It's not as curly as mine. There's no- I don't know how to- Sean White's hair is not as curly as mine. But I'm just going to say it was very, very wavy. Wavy, not curly.

My shit is curly, bro. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. So you're saying you truly will never cut it. Unless I'm Victor Vaughn. The thing is, the thing is you won't get offered those rolls because people don't see you in that light. Might be Victor Vaughn.

First would need to cut your hair and then people would go, oh. Naked grandma. Now he fits that, that roll or whatever. You know? Right. Um, yeah, I get- Yeah, man. I guess I'm down, whatever.

You guys want to shave my head on pot or what? Yeah. Yeah, I would. I would love- Naked grandma! I mean, I love your hair. You want to? I feel like I can't- The cost of diarrhea.

I mean, is this a- I feel like I can't- Okay. If I'm ever going to cut it, it has to be after the workaholics movie, correct? For sure. Yeah. I mean, we can't do the movie. You can't wear a wig in the workaholics movie.

There's too many hair set pieces that- Yeah, exactly. We're going to put a lot of people to work. It's all about the hair. So, do you think as soon as we wrap workaholics, you guys shave my head on camera and be like, end of an era? Hey, Henderson is dead. Well, I think we would have to do a big live show, the hairaning.

Do you really think it was an era? Do you think any- Era. End of a hair- Yeah. Hair. That's funny. That's fine.

The end of- End of a hair. This is important live, end of the hair. End of a hair. I want to do- Yeah. I want to do- This is important live so bad.

We just got to figure it out, man. Yeah, we, yeah. Schedules be wonky. Speaking of schedules, I'm going to leave in five minutes. Really? Do you guys want to keep going without me? Or do we want to wrap it up right now? Yeah, I think we wrap.

I don't think it's going to be the two of us. I'm living in a nightmare. Yeah. I mean, that could be fun. Yeah, I think so. Ders has places to be. Yeah. I have to-

I got to go jump in the pool. And Blake, I don't want to- You know what? Now that we're starting to do- We're on the dismount. I don't want you to think I dislike your hair. Okay. I like your hair.

Look at Sean White's hair. Look at Sean White's hair in the chat there. None of this even factors into any of my life decisions. I'm not taking anything you say at all. In, at all. Oh, I know. I know. I remember you saying back at that,

like when we were wrapping up workaholics, you were like, yeah, maybe I will. Maybe I will. Sure. And then you, that's been five years ago. And yet you didn't. Do you think? I haven't.

And you haven't. Do you think anybody's going to like take the risk of like casting Blake against type? Because let's, let's face it, like that's a prejudice to be like, well, there wouldn't be a lawyer with hair like that. And like, yeah, couldn't there be a lawyer with hair like that today?

I auditioned for that little, the lawyer Wiley Coyote movie. If that is that a- It's not little. It's going to be a huge smash here without us. Will Forte got it. And I'm now all of a sudden, I want to see it. He's a fan.

Although I explained the movie to my eight-year-old and he goes, wouldn't that be better as like a short sketch? And I was like, wow. Wait, was Will at the party? Wait, what is the, what is this movie? I don't know anything about this. It's Wiley Coyote versus Acme.

And so it's like, oh my God. Are we allowed to even talk about it? Yeah, it's a movie they're making. You guys didn't have to, you didn't sign a confidentiality agreement or anything. I don't know. Somebody, I don't know. I don't know if we did.

But the, essentially like, he gets hit by an anvil or something or he's constantly, you know, he's constantly getting hit by these things made by Acme. So then he sues Acme and it becomes this huge class action lawsuit, law movie. That's funny. About cartoons and like a shitty lawyer.

I think it's really good. Oh, funny. And so you are just to be a voice. No, the lawyer. No, no, no, no, to play the lawyer. Both of us did. Oh, okay. So it's, and then it's live action with,

it's like Roger Rabbit. It's like, it's like Roger Rabbit. It's Roger Rabbit. Okay. So that's my thought process immediately. I'm like, lawyers don't have this hair at all. Why even the fuck am I doing this? Like lawyers, no lawyer looks like me. Zero percent, right?

I bet there's a lawyer that looks like you. Yeah, I bet. Probably the coolest lawyer ever. The DUI, the DUI lawyer. Yeah, DUI lawyer. And that is a whole nother movie. That's a whole nother movie. By the way, why don't you just write the DUI lawyer movie

to get yourself out of, surf lawyer, to get yourself out of the box? Yeah, Blake. Okay. No. Wow. All right, any take backs? That was the funniest board drop career wise.

Oh, you like it now. Dude, I love it like the board. I, I'm, I feel like you're reading too much into my voice inflection. I always liked the board. Okay. Well, people are talking. He said it funny again.

Couldn't say it right. People are talking. I got to lead in the chucks and the gigs and the bids. My man's got some influx. Okay. Durst, go on and get out of here. Me and Adam are going to just kind of have like, basically like the walking dead,

but we talk about after, what is it called? Yeah, the talking pod. He left. He left. Oh my God. Just like that. And then there were two. Do you have any take backs?

Any take backs or apologies? This is the saddest moment in our pod. And then there were two. Okay. Well, I would like to take back kind of going in on you about your hair. I don't want you to think I just like your hair. I just, I want you to, to not always have to play

just the, the stoner guy. All right. Which it, it sucks because I know how talented you are. Thank you. You could, you could do anything you want. Thanks, man. My blicky boy. Thank you, man.

And I'm going to continue to do that. But maybe what I'm trying to teach the world is that just because you have long hair doesn't mean you're a total bozo. I'm, I'm with you. And, and it's time for Hollywood to, to fucking catch up. Son of a gun. Hollywood, it takes them a while.

It really does. It takes them a little too long to catch up sometimes. And I want to give a special shout out to Anders and Kyle for just being along for the ride, but not right now. And son of a bitch. And that was another episode of This is important. Hi, I'm David Eagleman.

I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions. Like, can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Last season, millions tuned into the Betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of Betrayal. Ashley Lytton was helping her husband set up a business Venmo account when she discovered a terrible secret. I saw a hidden folder and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? Listen to season two of Betrayal on the iHeart radio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Between April 1971 and September 1972, six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington, D.C. This child was laying on the side of the road. The person said, I murdered your daughter. The killer believed that he may have been seen. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can. Signed Freeway Phantom.

Listen to Freeway Phantom on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.