This Is Important - Ep 29: Mommy, Why Do You Call Daddy Ouchie Meats?

Episode Date: March 9, 2021

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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 it in a 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. Welcome to This Is Important, a production of iHeart Radio. This is a show where we only talk

about what is very important to us. Today, we talk about, you know, he was sticking his dick into a Twinkie and was like, Rosebud. And then the floater. Bananas are always garbage. I want to fuck a giraffe, dude. Let me get stilts. Here we go. We rolling. Wakey, wakey. Eggs and bakey. What up, party people? Is that how your parents would wake you up, like on a weekend? Like, maybe you were having a little bit of a slumber party, would they say, wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey? Is that how my family would wake me up? Yeah, my dad would always come in and say that. He would? Eggs and bakey? My mom would sing a little song. She'd say, good morning, good morning, good morning, it's time to rise and shine. Yep, I got

that too. Good morning, good morning, good morning, I hope you're feeling fine. Get out your bed, you sleepy head. That's right. You're just copying. Do you know how? No, we're going at the exact same time. Your parents didn't sing. What is it from? That's a question. What is that from? I don't know, it's probably rooted in Christianity, if I had to guess. Is that for real? You guys woke up like that? I mean, yeah. Sometimes if my mom was in a good mood. Wow. Mine was, get up, get up, you sleepy head, get up, get up, get out of bed. Yeah, we had that one too. Not much of a song, kind of just a few words starting together in a sing-song fashion, but I know I had a good time. Here's what was yours, man, I got to hear. My mom would come in my room, she would just go to my

stereo, turn on the classical station, crank it and leave the room. That's tight. That's a great snooze. And I would go ballistic. Ballistic? Yeah, because I'm like chilling and all of a sudden it's like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I'm like hung over or whatever. You know, I'm 13. You got to kick the most recent girl out of bed. I'm trying to grow. I'm trying to sleep and grow, man. She's starting my growth with that shit. Hey, man, you're big as hell though, man. Thank God. Yeah, thank God she's starting your growth, dude. You a freak, boy. Yeah, I could have been six, seven. Sounds kind of nice, like classical in the morning. That sounds kind of dope. No, no, it was brutal, cranked, not like pleasant, like super loud to be like get the

fuck up out of your bed and turn it off. Who are we talking about here though? Was it like Beethoven? Was it Mozart? Was it? I could go on and on. But after you got out of bed, was there eggs and bakey waiting? Yeah. No. I never had eggs and bakey waiting for me either. No, I'm not saying never, but like usually it was like, hey, there's instant oatmeal and your brothers are already out of the house. We need you to leave. Just go somewhere. We need you to leave. It's time to go. You got to go. Dude, I used to mash on instant oatmeal a lot as well. I know we had the cereal discussion, but do you remember those little like four packs where it would be like one flavor? Quaker oat, baby. Yeah, it's like raisin, apple. The apple cinnamon, get at me.

Cinnamon and spice, and then the brown sugar one was flamethrower. Yeah, brown sugar. Yes. What you do is you mix the brown sugar with that apple cinnamon. Oh, fuck. Call it a life. Actually, I'd never done that. But tell me y'all got the box with the cream flavors. Bro, with the banana and the peach. So banana was garbage. Bananas are always garbage. But peach, blueberry, and okay, that's right. Oh, don't talk about it. Oh, don't even mention bananas. Peach off the chain. Blueberry off the chain. Blueberry was. I couldn't honestly, though, I didn't do the fucking oatmeal because I didn't like the consistency of it either. I was like all ego all the time or cereal. Oh, dude, egos. How many three or four? Four, player. We

had the four, the four banger, the toaster that was the four banger. It would go so fast. Homestyle buttermilk, reg, OG. Homestyle. Oh, what about ego minis, bro? Do not get me started on those. Not worth it. Rather have an ego. What are you fucking a bird? So what ego specific song did your parents wake you up to? Yeah, what was the ego song? Egos. Egos. Egos. What was it? Egos in the paper route. Did you guys have paper routes? I certainly did. Yeah, I had a paper route. You did? Yeah. I got in a lot of trouble because what I did was I did it for a long time. I did it for a couple years. You got in trouble? I got in a lot of trouble. I did it for a few years. And so I knew everyone

on my route. And I told them I could give them like a huge discount. I forget the exact number, but they had to pay me cash. And so, right, like the people buying the newspaper, the people buying the newspaper, because I was the one that would give them the slip saying it's time for them to re-up for the next year's worth of papers or however long. And I'd go, hey, if you pay me cash, it's half off or whatever. And they're like, okay, then they'd pay me cash. And then I would just go to the grocery store, put a quarter in and then take all of the newspapers for the day. Oh, there it is. There it is. And then go and just give them their paper. Genius. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. How old are you at this point? 13. Oh, okay. Wow. So you were posing as a paper boy,

basically, like you had nothing to do with them. I saw it some people, I only did it to the people that I felt comfortable enough proposing this insane to lie to anyone that I feel like I could truly trick. It was a lot of grandmas, grandpas. Yes, anyone old feeble minded. Yeah, I guess my question is, did you have did you have any affiliation with the actual paper where you just running like in your own lane? No, I was I started with the paper. And then I segued into a kind of a gray area where technically I am. I am giving them papers. They are getting the same newspaper. Hey, man, I don't know if you know about newspaper, but it's a black and white industry, man. We don't play in the gray area. You killed the industry, brother. Hey, sorry, Blake. Oops. I thought you

were like, was he affiliated? Like, did you write for the newspaper? Did you was the daily divine? You would just I just want to get my wrap my heads around this, but you would give heads. Yeah, I got a few of them. Okay, okay. It's getting pornographic. They would order the paper and then you would just let their subscription phase out and then write up your own draft slips. Well, I was the they like this is intricate. I was in charge, yes, of giving the slip around saying, Hey, for the next the you sign up for another year's worth of paper for however much money. Yeah. And you made the price. Yeah. And then I was like, but for half off, if you give me cash, you'll get your paper every day. And then I'm like,

yeah, okay, Adam, you're a fucking cool dude, bro. Yeah, that is your hottest scheme to date. Yeah, you're a business, man. I'm a business man. Yeah. So what is this? You're on like a bicycle, you guys are all like riding bikes and throwing the newspaper out at five in the morning. Roller blades. Yes. 90s as fuck. Rollerblading my ass off. So then you have like a messenger bag with how many I mean, how do I break this down because it where I grew up, men driving cars through the newspaper out at the houses. That started to happen. It was a lot of bicycling for me with front and back. And then I would have to go back halfway through and reload. How many people how many houses? I want to say like 80 something like that. Wow. I think I had

about between 60 and 120 like 150 was the most it was like we got the whole neighborhood. But I would roller blade with it like unfolded and fucking fold them while I was blading and then throw them with like rubber bands. Blader boy. I actually did mine as a team with my mom. We rolled around in the in the Mazda minivan and I would pop out the side door on my roller blades and because we were doing like seven routes at once, we were running the block. Yeah. Right. You had a lot of papers. I think you were like 300 or 400 papers or something like that, right? Yeah, it was crazy. My mom was stacking cash. And actually, I remember it truly sucking like by the time you got because I did it till I was

like 14 till I think I was like 15 ish. That's too old, right? Yeah, it was a little old. And you were like the weirdo old guy in the nine year olds or what's your deal, man? I mean, I'm trying to have like a weekend now. Like your weekend shot. Yeah, that was really tough. Yeah. So this was during the weekend, not the week every day. It was seven days a week because everybody gets their papers every day. So like you'd have to deliver it by 6 30 Monday through Friday and then by like 7 30 on Saturdays and eight on Sundays. That was like when you'd have to have all the papers in by and in my hood gave me like a true like triggering feeling of the sound of an alarm clock like that. Yeah, I would hear that on shows. I would start to shake and convulse

really fucked with me. It's a big job, man. Every fucking day you had to deliver the paper. But now that I think about it, when we were doing it on rollerblades, this was like exactly at the time when we were maybe this is a California thing, were you guys ever into roller hockey? That shit was. Yeah. Yeah, I played a bunch of that. Yeah. The movie Brink was very popular. Uh-huh. Which one was Brink? The rollerblading movie. I just remember Airborne. Right. Yeah. Airborne is the movie that I remember too. But I think I've seen Brink, but I don't recall. And I might be out of pocket. I don't know if I kind of pulled that from the from the old back brain. Might have made a movie up there. I think that's real. You guys remember roller

hawk, right? Hey, I'd watch some roller hawk. It was a Christian Slater and who else was in it? Matt Dillon. Dude, if there was a movie where there was a hawk playing roller hockey and it was called roller hawk, I'd be down with that. That would be so tight. Hey, it takes a champ to stay in line, Brink, 1998. Yeah, inline skates. Inline skates. Yes. Clever play on words. Love it. I don't know if that is a good play on words. What does that even mean? It takes a champ to stay in line. I think it thinks it's a play on words, but what's the play on words? Right. Yeah. Who wrote the movie? Yeah, you know what? Fuck Brink. Airborne for life. I would never not rep for Airborne, but Brink, you can suck it.

Airborne was one of the best movies. Is Gleaming the Cube rollerblading or is Gleaming the Cube BMX? That's a skateboarding one. Gleaming the Cube is Christian Slater skateboarding. The only thing that rivals baseball movies are extreme sports movies. They're so good. They're so good. No. What, war movies? The only thing that rivals them? Yeah, you brought up baseball movies like they're at the top of the heap right now. That's super weird, bro. I don't know. I feel like ice cream. Are you saying specifically movies or? Yeah, specifically movies, man. Baseball is one. Let's zero in here for a second. So, let's zero in on baseball movies period. What are the top off the hook baseball movies? Field

of Dreams, Rookie of the Year, Bull Durham, The Natural, Angels in the Outfield, The Natural, Major League 2. Major League, yes. Major League 1's kind of wack. Are these in separate categories even within baseball movies? Like, are we really going to compare Field of Dreams with Angels in the Outfield? Both supernatural. Fucking Sandlot. Yes. Yes, right. So, what I'm saying is a Sandlot more of like a Rookie of the Year Angels in the Outfield thing. I think it's a big blanket. It's a big blanket and everyone can snuggle up underneath this thing. It's baseball movies. Sure. Yeah. What's the number one? What's the best baseball movie? Major League? Rookie of the Year. Rookie? Hey, look. Bull Durham is probably the best movie, right? Little big league. I never got into

Bull Durham and then I watched it again and I didn't get into it again. Oh, you didn't grow up watching it? I saw it when I was young, but I did not constantly watch it. I think my favorite baseball movie of all time is the Sandlot. Yeah, Sandlot is my favorite. Yeah, Sandlot's amazing. I just have to like keep it real like that. I feel like I pull from that film a lot even now. Like, it affected me and just like it had a spirit that was so much fucking fun. For me, it's baseball. Baseball is actually wildly underrated, I would say. Oh, you know what movie we should talk about a little bit on the pod? Uh-oh. Is Paramount Plus' very own workaholics movie. Yeah, hell yeah.

But do you guys think it's going to be better than a baseball movie? I think we have to have baseball elements. Sure. Yeah, I want to talk about that. I would like it to be like a softball. And here's my pitch. It's an employee versus staff game. So it's Jillian and Mary Beth. Employee versus staff? Employers? That's the first big plot twist. That's the first big like aha moment. Well, we're pitching on it, guys. Okay. Right, right, right, right. This is a safe space. The first big aha moment. Wait a minute. Employees are staff. The big turn. 20 minutes in, we're like, whoa, what? So everybody listening out there is just a little window into when we break some stories down. This

is what Adam's bringing to the table. Back in the workaholics days, you'd be like, yo, so what if we get to the office, right? So then we're at the office, which is basically home. And we're like, uh-huh. Okay. Wow, it's the office versus the workplace. Are you employee or are you staff? I'm saying we could have a Sandlot style. If we want to do, we love the Sandlot. We're saying that's the best. Blake says that baseball movies are number one. So for saying Sandlot is number one of baseball movies. That means two Blake. My favorite. Yep, my favorite. It's the best and greatest movie of all time, Sandlot, is how we've kind of broke it down. Right. It's good.

So maybe the workaholics movie is we're just doing, it's basically Sandlot, but it's employees versus Alice. First staff. Yeah. Right. We know who staff is. Hey, man, I like it. I feel like I do know who everybody is. Like Adam, you're definitely the catcher, right? Fast talking catcher, home run hitter. Yeah. Right. That guy was awesome. Are you the new kid with the long hat, Blake, who like- With the long bill? Yeah. Sorry. What'd I say? Long bill, yeah. Oh, the guy who moved into the new town. I'm James Earl Jones. You're the old blind man next door. Babe Ruth played baseball with me. The best. Oh, the best. He was a nice guy. It was the best. Where's my dog?

I think I know who Kyle is. Benny the Jet Rodriguez. Kyle, you're welcome. You're welcome, dog. I know you like that. Kyle's the dog. I'm the Jet. Kyle's the dog. You're gonna put on a costume. I think you're the Jet. You're the Jet. I mean, man, fucking dude, 10-year-old me is flipping out right now. Like, I'm the Jet. I'm the fucking Jet. Hey, 37-year-old you can also flip out a little bit. Yeah, because you know what? The Jet, you know where he lands? He lands in Pro Ball, man. Stealing fucking home, baby. Stealing home. MLB, baby. Dodger baseball. Guys, I hang on. I hate to break it to you, but Jillian's gonna be the Jet. Okay, we're flipping it. It's 2020. Hold on a minute. She creates women's professional baseball. I like that. That's where the movie ends. Okay, good.

What the hell? Kyle, you just lost your part to Jillian. This is Paramount Plus. Not Paramount Minus. That's what I bring to this table. Wait, what the hell? I was just sobering to casting of the Jet. Hey, I'm sorry. I cast. I threw that out there and he immediately had a better pitch and we have to go with that now. So wait, where did I land then? Where did I land? Kyle, you can be, you can be Emilio Estevez. Yeah, I think you are, uh, Squintz. Oh, yeah. You're Yaya. Or no, Bill's probably Yaya. Squintz is the guy who goes forever. Yeah, Squintz is pretty dope. Dude, Squintz is tight, man. Is Emilio Estevez not in that? No, that's Mighty Ducks. What are you talking about? The dad is, um, the dad's fucking, what's his name? That's

ho. What's that guy's name? Stand a comedian, 90s MTV commercials. Pauly Shore. Dennis Leary. Dennis Leary. He won it only. Oh yeah, but they go have a catch and it's a good scene. He's got a good scene in that flick. I was always scared of Dennis Leary as a kid. Oh yeah. You were afraid of Dennis Leary. I get that. Dennis Leary's face. Yeah, he's like a scary looking guy. It was weird to me that he was the stepdad. I'm like, when I first watched that movie, I remember thinking, oh, he's going to beat his stepson. Like he looks like a mean stepdad. You were just waiting for the turn where he, I was ready. I think I'd seen like, um, Radio Flyer. Yeah, Radio Flyer around the same time and was like, well, I know what this movie is. Damn, that movie was fucked up. I thought

it was a lighthearted baseball movie, but it turns out Dennis Leary's mean looking face is going to beat the shit out of this kid and then it's going to be sad. And he finds solace with his team of ragtab group of baseball friends. Yeah, buddy. Are you reading the VHS box? That's the workaholic movie, dude. We just wrote it. It's Sandlot Mises Radio Flyer. Dang, okay. I think that's why they cast him though, because they were like, oh, this guy looks scary. There's no way these kids will connect to him. He'll scare the kids. We're Disney. We have to scare them up top. I do wish it was like Gilbert Godfrey originally who was like, don't touch my baseball. He was the James Earl Jones. When you're going down to the park. We got to recast this, too. It is weird that the new kid,

he gets there. His stepdad, who they've obviously been together, his mom and stepdad a little while and he collects baseballs and baseball paraphernalia. He's never played catch with this kid. This kid has never played catch. Why do you think they've been together for a long time? Yeah, I thought it was in relatively new relationship. They've been dating long enough that they now are married and moved in with each other. Like you'd think in the courting process, he would have thrown a baseball with this fucking kid. Goddamn. He just ignored him for a solid year straight. Right. Dude, you don't know. I think he worked a lot. This is the 50s. I think he was always at work. For sure. Okay. I blame the mom. Yeah, I feel like he should have gotten out there and thrown, because then he showed up

this new town, looked like an asshole, didn't know how to throw a baseball. Come on now. That was the whole thing though. His stepdad went out and taught him how to throw a ball. It's like, you know, he also had no interest in it. I don't remember this part. But he had a solid year to throw a fucking baseball with this kid. We don't know that. We don't know how long it was. I don't believe that's ever disclosed. The kid didn't have interest in it either, because at the end, isn't he like, you like baseball, right? No, he loves baseball. What? At the very end of the movie, he is a sportscaster. He does the play by play for the Dodgers and Benny the Jet is playing for the Dodgers. Right. Does he like baseball at the beginning of the movie, or does he just go to the

backyard and see his kids playing baseball? And it's like, all right, I got to jump in. Yeah, I think that's what it is, an attempt to play, to have friends. Because he's wearing the dumbass hat, right? He doesn't know what he's doing. Yes, yes. He's a fish out of water when it comes to the baseball diamond. I believe that's right. But his mom had a little something with baseball. Did she like, did she? No, that's rookie of the year. That's rookie of the year. The mom is the pitcher. Oh, oh, right, right, right, right. That's the floater. The floater. It's the most epic moment in cinema history that revealed blew my mind, dude. Okay. All right. I didn't even get why it was a big deal. She was like, I was doing a new play baseball. I'm like, what? Why didn't you just

tell him? Because she was like glorifying his father who he didn't know. But like, then she, yeah, it was so beautiful. It's so beautiful. I guess it's a hella deep commentary on what women had to do back in the day. The biggest reveal of all time. Yeah. Come on, man. It was like that in usual suspects, dude. I was like, what? Rosebud and then the floater. Yeah, the floater. It comes out of nowhere and I swear it still gives me chills. Kaiser Seiso in usual suspects. Yeah, Kaiser Seiso. Kaiser Seiso. Hey, because Kaiser Seiso, you're fucking grounded. Kaiser Seiso. What is his name? It's something like that. Kaiser So. Kaiser Seiso. So it's Kaiser Seiso. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, that's Keith. It's Kaiser Seiso.

It is Kaiser Seiso. No, it's Kaiser So. I think I said it right. And then Kaiser So, say, Kaiser So, say, Kaiser So, say. Yes, we're playing. So, say what it is them. Yes. So, say it. So, say it. So, say it. So, say it. Kaiser So, say it. You guys are so, say whatever you want to say. You guys. What was that one? You guys are so, say so. Damn. You guys are so, say whatever you want to say. Hey, and by the way, guys, the workaholics movie just wrote itself. Yeah. We got it. The end. Let's just show up to set. Be dressed for six weeks of playing baseball, because that's all we have right now. Have on some comfortable shoes. We're ready to go. Cleats. Can we get a cleat sponsor up in the mix? I'm showing up in roller blades

because we're making a roller blade movie, okay? I'm going to be wearing pony rubber cleats. I like if we show up dressed for the movie we want to make. Nobody reads the script. Well, there is no script. We have to write the script. There will be no script. We just have to show up day one, dress us the movie we want to make, and work backwards from there. Yeah, we'll just pad the schedule, improv the flick. Derz is in a speedo. You know this. Yeah, we're shooting for 120 days. We'll find something. There will be a movie here. So I'm still stuck on the fact that we just said Sandlot is the greatest film of all time? No, that was only because of the caveat of Blake saying that baseball movies are

unarguably at the top of the heap. But we didn't agree with that. They are tied with extreme sports. Right, yeah. We didn't agree on that shit. Okay. I don't know. I feel like there's other genres of movies tied with extreme sports. Okay, that's a good, what is your favorite genre of movie if it's not baseball movies? It's got to be porno, right? No. It's porno movies. Yeah. Porno movies. Come on. Outside of porno? Outside of baseball. Or within porno. Favorite genre within porno? Porno. Are we saying baseball porno movies? Gonzo. I guess I like Gonzo. I like POV baseball porno movies. I like PMV, the professional music videos where it's set to like actual music.

Too much. Those are so game-changing. Dude, I love those 4K. I love the 4K pornos, to be honest. Too many Ks. What? Oh, with Oculus? I see Kyle's Oculus in the back. I know you've been watching some 3D Polo. Yeah, you got it. I haven't flipped it on yet, but you know. You got to have 3D Polo. Yeah, how many viruses are already on that Oculus after a week? It's clean as of right now, but it's growing something. Oh, boy. Time ticks on. Time continues ticking, so we'll see. Oh, my God. Oh, man. You're going to have your dick in an iPad in no time. Hey, remember when we thought we, I think it was season one when we were at Hallux? We thought we were going to create something, or we did create something for the show where it was like a flesh

light that goes into your iPad and then you watch movies that kind of like the picture of the iPad shows what you should be fucking, right? You watch the POV porno. But then we went online. We went online. It existed already. Oh, for sure. That was when we shared an office and we drew it on the board and we were like, we're going to be fucking millionaires. Perverts are the most ingenious people. Right. If whatever you can think of, there's a pervert out there who's already done it. Right. Did you guys know stilts were invented by a pervert who was trying to see over something? I actually did. Over the fence. It was invented by a peeping top. The automobile, the automobile was invented by a dude who was so horny. He was writing letters with somebody and

had to get to that town. He had to get there quicker. No, dude was like, I want to fuck a giraffe, dude. Let me get stilts. Get up in this giraffe. Yes, I'm sorry. That is the story. So not just a regular pervert. It was a bestiality guy. He was a bestiality guy. All right. We're a girl. Boy, you nasty. Yeah. Like we said, every genius was a pervert. 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 our experiences by tackling unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities.

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Yeah, I was just thinking about that. What do you got? Drop-wise? What do you got? We're like 20 minutes in. You haven't, I haven't heard a single tickle. What do you mean? I've been dropping. You guys not hear them? No, you haven't dropped anything. We haven't heard one. We've had nothing, dude. Oh, shit. I've been dropping them. Is it not going through? Todd is saying you got to connect it. Uh-oh. Let's see the chat. What? You got to connect it, says the producers. That is so sad. I've had some gold. No, you haven't. You haven't. So that's why you've been cracking up over there. Like you've been laughing extra hard. So you're the only one that can hear it. Oh, so you guys didn't hear me play who let the dogs out for Derz's alarm clock? Oh my god, no.

I didn't know what you're talking about alarm clocks, really. Oh my god. Might be the first time we go back in post and add fun sounds. Oh my god. That makes me so sad. I've been absolutely fucking killing it. Did you think we were blowing you off? Yeah, because normally we laugh at the drops. So you thought we just weren't into it at all today. I thought you guys were like, I was whiffing over here. You were. Yeah, you did. Yeah. It's in an extreme way. Yeah, you whiffed the whole damn thing. You didn't even bring it to the party. Damn, I'm sorry. Fuck. Well, connect it now. What are you doing? I did. Well, then hit us with something. God damn it. I have been. Is it not working?

What the fuck is happening? Oh, we hate to do this to you live and on there. We're sorry, people. Oh my gosh. I am embarrassed. What is that? What is that on your face, Blake? Oh, I know exactly what happened. What is that on your face? Yolk. Is that what is that? Yolk. Fuck, dude. Is that egg on your face, Blake? That sucks. Looks like you got some yolk on your face, bud. Looks like some yolk. I'm so sad. You know what, though? This kind of thing only makes us stronger or makes us look bad. Nice beaver. There we go. We got the goody. We got Mr. Nielsen. Dude, that makes me so sad. I was killing it on the board. I swear to God. Yeah, that's my kind of Nielsen rating right there. I was wondering, but like also didn't care. Yeah, I'm sorry. It doesn't really, I don't really like

it. Yeah, God. Over it. Yeah, turn it off. Turn it off. When you were talking about waking up to music, I played disturbed. I played who let the dogs out. It was really cracking over here. Should we redo it? Oh, yeah. Like my mom would come in and just turn on my stereo and turn it way up. No, it was actually kind of different. It was super loud classical music, like fucking Beethoven. You're right. You were killing it. Oh, man. Yes, because I liked all that stuff. Thank you for that. Thanks, man. I wish I woke up like that. I'm gonna have to re-edit my soundboard in. Damn, that sucks. It's okay. It's all right. It's all right. It happened. Sorry again. Again, apologies to the listeners out there. We had to do that live and in and on the spot and we apologize for that,

but you can see what you did miss and it was awesome. Perfect. There we go. It was perfect. So my bad guys. Damn. I'm really sorry. Yeah, it's okay. That's all right. I'm glad you finally got there. I got a question for you guys because I'm out here. It's fucking cold as shit. And where are you again for our listeners at home? I'm in Canada, Toronto, the Atlantic, Northeast. A lot of people call it the six. Oh, yeah. The six. Why they call it the six? With your woes. Yeah, they say it's the six. Have you been running through the six without your woes? Without. So you have no woes? I don't know what you're talking about. Really? We are your woes and you've been running through the six without them.

Without them. Wow. I've been running through the six without my woes. Damn. You don't get this reference at all, Kyle. No, not at all. Sorry. Have you heard of Drake? Have you listened to popular music in the last eight years? That's a rough one. Probably not. Probably not. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And fair enough. Apologies. There's this guy, his name is Drake, and he's kind of. Yes, of course. One of the biggest musical artists right now. That's right. Yes. And he's from Toronto. Yes. And he is always, why do they call it the six? I don't really know why. Is it an area code or? Dude, I'll look into it. I'll ask. I'll ask the people on set and I'll report back.

Unless you know. Ask Drake. He's up there. Yeah, I'll talk to Drake. Yeah. You know how you can find him? Just look for the city. There'll be somebody running with a lot of woes through the six. Running woes. Just follow the pack of woes. Okay, woes. I'm looking for woes. And woes. Let's break it down here. Woes means like homies or like chicks. You guys, okay, if you don't know, I know, but if you don't know, I can't help you. What is it? What are you guys even talking about? I wish you could help me because I don't know. Oh, I can, but I'm not going to. Okay, because I know what woes are. Well, then if you're not by you not helping us, does that make you a woe or a non-woe?

Oh, okay. And there's no way to tell. What about a woe-dee? I'm not woeing into that trap. Okay. Oh, damn. What do you mean? You're not woeing. So anyways, guys, it's cold as fuck up here. How's the weather on the fucking west coast? Okay, let's talk weather, baby. I want to hear about it. It's fucking gorge, man. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. That is so warm. It's perfect. Is it? Perfect. It truly is. Perfect. Perfect. Great. Are you outside in a t-shirt? Yeah. It's been a solid 70s. You're outside in t-shirts. Fuck me, man. So tight. Yeah. In the pool this morning, straight up, I took a nap in the grass today in a warm sun. It was beautiful. Nice. I want it bad.

The weather, the cold, it just, it freezes you. You know, I don't know how you guys grew up in this. It's like, holy shit. Yo, never going back. Neither of us grew up in Canada. They're not from Toronto. So it's a little different. But yeah, but it was snowing in Nebraska. It snowed in the, in Nebraska. Yeah. It snowed in Chicago, right? Chicago was this cold. Correct. Yeah. You're fucking dealing with it. That shit is too much. And what's the temperature there? Because it gets cold as fucking Chicago. It's got the lake effect. Yeah. It was, I was outside at night in like minus eight, but that's like minus eight Celsius. So that's like, what, 18 or something? No, it's not minus eight. Minus 18? Minus eight. What is that? But then Celsius would be like, that's like negative

30. Yeah. No, it's like negative, negative 18 some, or it's like, sorry, it's just 18 degrees Fahrenheit, negative eight. I think that you did some bad math. Zero Celsius is 32. You're right. Would be 17.6. Yes. That is correct. Which actually, pretty warm day. Yeah, that's hot. Yeah. As far as like the, the, the butthole of winter goes. No, that's cold. That's cold. I'm with you. Yeah, it's tough. That is cold. I do miss like, Runza's, which are restaurants specifically in Nebraska. I know them. Oh yeah. Shout out Runza. They would sell a cup of chili for however cold it was outside, like every Thursday in February. And so sometimes it would be like three pennies. I'm sorry. Three degrees. And you got a free cup of chili. The price of the chili would be the

temperature. Would be the temperature. Yes. Okay, that's cool. So you're kind of getting something for under a quarter. Like no matter what, you're getting a bowl of chili. Yeah, it was great. So if it's negative or people like Klamrin, they're like, yo, you owe me a quarter. Negative 25 degrees. I'm sure that was penny divine. My mom, she was like, right. Actually, she was a problem. Look at this. You owe me three cents. I mean, don't bury the headline though, what was tell us about Runza's, what the fuck they are, because they blew my mind when I had them. Oh yeah, Blake, Blake had a good time with them. Oh yeah, dude, I had those things when I went back there. Yeah, that's right. What is it meat pies? Yeah, it's basically a

meat pie. It's a pasties meat twinkie. Yeah, it's a kind of a hot pocket, but it's a ground beef, shredded cabbage and onions and cheese and it sounds gross. Is that not a pierogi or a pasty or what? I think it's pretty similar, but it's fast food. It's fast. It's a fast food joint. That's so tight. What is it wrapped in? What is it? Is it like a pie? What is it wrapped in? I don't remember. Is it more spongy? No, it's breaded. It's like a hot pocket. It's flaky. I had meat filled twinkie in my head and I was imagining it. Well, that's a good way to explain it when people don't know. I think hot pockets, probably the best way to explain it, but oddly, a pervert also discovered these things. You know what he was trying to make? For sure. Yeah, he was trying to

fuck something. He was like, it actually tastes pretty good. You know, he was sticking his dick into a twinkie and was like, meat filled twinkie. I've got an idea. Yeah, his mom called, you got your meat in a twinkie and he's like, mom, that doesn't, wait a second. You got your meat in a twinkie again? You're like, what did you say? About $20,000 to open a restaurant? What are you talking about? What are you going to call it? I'll call it runsas because when you open the door, get your dick out. Runsas to the bathroom and take my dick out of a twinkie. Sure. That being said, runsa rocks. I don't want runsa to listen to this and think that I don't respect the runsa. Love runsa. No, respect the runsa. Oh yeah. No, all praise be to the runsa.

Gotta respect the runsa. You gotta respect the runsa. If you opened a runsas in West Hollywood, how long would it last? No, in afternoon. You couldn't even open it before it would close. One minute, right? Yeah, totally. Absolutely. It would not work in Southern California. It's got to be a very cold climate in order for you to be like. It's not a damn shame. Yeah, they're like, hey, how much is the bowl of chili today? It's $112. It's $112. Better be a good ass bowl of chili, man. Oh my God. Yo, so remember that place in Hollywood or West Hollywood across from the DGA, Kyle? What's that? The griddle. The griddle. Yeah, the griddle. That had good ass pancakes. Oh yeah. They're known for obviously like pancakes and waffles, but they had like

this fucking crazy chili menu. And I hadn't been there in years and I was meeting somebody. The cause of diarrhea. I was like, yo, I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna like just crush some chili because a good chili is legit, right? Like when you get a good chili. No, fuck yeah. I love some good chili. So I get in there, I look at, they have up on the wall, they have these like, these plates that have like the names of the chilies up on them and with like descriptions and I'm like savoring it. The waitress comes over, she's like, hey, what's up? You been here before? I'm like, it's been years. I'm ready to get some XYZ chili or whatever it was. And she goes, we don't have chili. I was like, what? She goes, we don't have chili. We haven't had it for a few

years. And I was like, you have all the plates up. And she goes, we kept the plates up. And I'm like, then, but so why? Why keep the plates up? Because the guy who like made all the chili died. And I was like giving her like a little bit of like, I think you should take the plates down. She's like, I think we should give them up because he died. And I was like, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, you got to keep them up. They have to stay up. They're staying up. I mean, they couldn't get another chili guy. I don't know. I think it was like a thing. Get another chili guy. I agree. Dude, I'm with you. I couldn't say it. Honestly, though, the chili business over there lived and died with that man. Yeah, I mean, I love a good bowl of chili. I'll say, you know,

Wienerschnitzel has a pretty good chili in my humble opinion. Yeah. Wienerschnitzel's got chili dogs. Yeah, chili dogs are kind of bomb. I remember you guys loved Wienerschnitzel. Oh yeah. Are you guys saying Wienerschnitzel? Schnitzel, yeah. Schnitzel. Wienerschnitz. You got to eat at the schnitz. I remember I was going to one of my first ever auditions was for 30 Rock. And I was going to NBC to audition for it. And I stopped at that Wienerschnitzel that was right across the street. Yep. Still there, right? Yeah. And just got there early. I was like, I was going to run my lines before going into the audition and just pounded some Wienerschnitz.

Yeah, good for you. I went into this audition. I farted so bad on the way into, I was like, trying to time it. I was seeping. And so I was like, they called me in and I was like, well, I'll let it go here. So I don't bring it in. So I was like, I don't want this to come out in the room. It followed me in. People were actively going, Jesus Christ. What is that smell? And obviously with me, I'm the only person that just walked into the room. You're fanning with your sides pretending like you're just gesticulating and talking like, yeah, it's hot out there. I tell you, yeah, traffic's going this way and that way. That's the worst bad fart choices. Yeah. Fuck it. Yeah. That's exactly what they're looking for.

They're like trying to cast like the Tracy Morgan type character. And they're just like, well, I don't know, Tracy was great, but that kid that farted on the way in, that's kind of the exact character that we need on the show. The guy who's not afraid just to have full seepage on the way in. Hey, hold on. Stop right there. Did you just fart? Did you fart on your way in here? Oh my God. No. Tell us the truth. Yes, I did. You got the part. You got the part. You've got the fart. Let me see your headshot. Hold on. We think you might have to part. Let us see your headshot real quick. Do you want me to say the lines? No, sir. You've said enough. No, you got it. You're asked in the talking for you today. Congratulations. You got the part.

Part. Oh, classic. I do like the idea that they completely were ignoring it. They're like, I'm sorry, you didn't get the part. Ah, part. Anyway, see you later. The Christmas vacation movie was like, ah, it's a titty bit nibly out there. Everyone just keeps talking. Yeah. Oh, man. Love jokes like that. Yeah, those are the best form of jokes. Okay. All right. Wait, oh, second to what, though? Because you're going to say second to something else, and then that's what's going to be on top, and we'll talk about it. So what is it second to what? What is the next best form of jokes for you, Blake? Nice beaver. Yes, word play, baby. Puns, baby. Yes, the pun. Oh, my. I'm a punsman. Punsman. Rapunzel. Oh, yeah,

but yes, Wiener-Snitchell Chili is what's up. Also, they are the only people who remember my birthday every year with an email. So shout out to Wiener-Snitchell. Hey, I remember your birthday. I think it's coming around the corner, isn't it? It is, it is. Just around the river bed. That's a meat-based chili, correct? Yes, no beans. A no-bean chili. I can't get down with that. No, I need some beans as well. Especially when it's like soupy. I'm not, I can't fuck with that, dude. And then they're like, when it pours, when a chili evenly pours, not for me. Nope, it's got to climb. I hear you. You got to have the beans. You got to have the beans up in it. I need beans. I actually prefer a bean chili to a meat chili. I hear you. But obviously,

a meat and bean is the... Sure. My mom calls herself, and she's the only person in our family that calls her this, but she's been calling herself this for years, and it kind of has stuck. She calls herself the Bean Queen. Oh, yeah? Yeah, because every family event, she would bring baked beans and would be like, uh-oh, uh-oh, the Bean Queen's here. Right. And then it was, it's just like Bush's beans that she warmed up, that she's like, I'm the Bean Queen, that she like added extra bacon to or something. That's funny, though. So she just really wanted that. She just wanted the rhyming name. She wanted a rhyming nickname. She wanted that, yeah, fun title. You come from funny stock. You really do. Mama got jokes. It's the Bean Queen and hotdog, dad.

I love it. They're wearing matching shirts. I love all that. I think that's great. I'm down for that. Did your parents have anything that they really hung their hat on, such as beans? Dude, my parents. Yeah, were they like, was your dad like a grillmeister? Oh, yeah. My dad had an outdoor grill. He still has it. He crushed it. As opposed to the indoor grill? Get them. Exactly. Dude, you don't let anything slide. Why not just have it indoors? KFC? Does KFC kill? I think you guys are well aware. My stepdad makes a mean batch of beef jerky. Hello. Oh, yeah, that's correct. That is actually correct. If he called himself A, I'm the jerk man. I'd be like, yeah, you're the jerk man. I love it.

Uh, because it's actually great. Meat Maestro. My mom calls him that. I don't know. She called your mom. The beef blaster, which I never really thought about until right now. Meat Maestro beef blaster. She calls him the beef slanger. Or is it banger? The beef banger. Sleef banger. She calls him Dr. Ouchie Meat. I don't get it. I eat it and it doesn't hurt me at all. That's funny. She's talking about her Ouchie Meat. She's crying. Mommy, why do you call daddy Dr. Ouchie Meat? He makes beef jerky and ever since then, he's made beef jerky. You never remember it? To you overheard her say it on the phone and he's like, yeah, I'm trying meat all weekend. You can help me Blake. Well, he'd be my little helper and you realize he has no idea what he's doing.

Why don't you do this while I go inside and help your mom or something? The doctor's been called. Dr. Ouchie Meat is on the case. Dr. Ouchie Meat. I don't know if I'm crying because I'm laughing It's so true. Honey, why did you say I make beef jerky? I don't know. What you're packing on? You know what I'm going to tell him about the Fudlong? It can't be that hard. Mom, did you say we're having Fudlongs for dinner? Now we've got to go buy hot dogs. I've got to get a wienerstitzel. Yeah, let's get some chili. Sweetest meatballs again. Get some runny chili. I need some real sweet balls. What? Sweetish meatballs. Wait, I think that's the number one joke form of when someone says something and then they have to make it up like, oh, sweet dish meatballs. They have to like double

and triple down on it. I think that's right. I think that is my favorite joke form as well. Shove your meatloaf down my throat. An old miscommunication. What was that? No, no, it's where you get caught saying something. It's not a miscommunication. They heard you, but then you need to cover. Sure. You bitch. What'd you just say? To bit nipple. I wish it's witch sandwich. That's definitely tied with he's standing right behind me, isn't he? Which is the number one. Tied? It's a three-way tie. 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

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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. Are we gonna talk about the whiteboard? We're talking whiteboard here. Oh, damn. We got to get a picture of the whiteboard. We used to have a whiteboard. I had a photo of it somewhere. I posted it a while ago. Yeah. I think it got published on the NY Times, didn't it? Didn't it get published? It was in the workaholics writer's room. There were things that we tried to avoid, like joke forms we tried to avoid because they had been overdone.

That were good in their time. Jokes that everyone fucking loved for 10 years, but now you're like, could we move on? Right? It was just like a board to look at to push yourself into new areas. Just so we're not doing jokes that every other TV show was currently doing. But then it was so tempting because you'd look up and be like, dang, standing behind me. He's standing right behind me. He's like, we gotta get that in the scene. I'm not drunk. And by drunk, I mean wildly sober. Right. When we turned that on its head with, he's right behind me, isn't he?

And then the person was like, no, he's right in front of you. He's right behind me, isn't he? I don't know. You're talking to him. He's in front of you. I still send some whiteboard candidates to our old showrunner, Kevin Etton. The man. Just when you're like, you keep hearing shit and you're like, okay, so everyone says, cool, cool, cool. Now you're like done whiteboard. If you write that in a script, it's like you're, you just couldn't come up with anything on your own. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool. You're just regurgitating what you see and what you... Cool, cool, cool. And by the way, that's, it's fine, but if you're a writer and you're getting paid

to like create shit, I feel like you should at least expect a little bit more of yourself. I agree with you. People are kind of flagrant about that on like Twitter and stuff too. Like you'll see like whatever, whatever, whatever. And then it'll be like, that's it. That's the tweet. That's how like they end the tweet. Right. That's it. That's the tweet. Well, it's just, that's like meme culture, you know? But that's fine because those aren't professional comedians. I look at it. I see it that way. Sure. And when you're writing for something or, you know, putting it out there for everyone,

you should be looking for new shit. Right. There you go. You should be looking for new shit. If fucking Chappelle came out and had a stand-up hour where he was like, and man, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. I mean like, uh, Chappelle, what are you doing, pal? It's science. Admittedly though, Chappelle, if Chappelle did it, it would be funny. He would make it funny. Sure. Yeah, baby. Well, he would bend it. He wouldn't. He wouldn't. He would bend it in an abstract way. Well, that's right. Yeah.

And Dave, and I call him Dave, Dave just does that. Right. Dave Thomas. Yeah, Dave Thomas. What was, I threw up in my mouth a little bit was first. You guys were talking Dave Thomas? I was calling, I was talking Chappelle. No, no, no. Why? We're talking about funny people. Yeah, that's true. Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas took it. Is that Wendy's? That's Wendy's, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Kyle, to answer your question, it's from dodgeball. Originally. Yeah, that was it. That was what my question was. It is. It's what? I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Yeah. I thought that was from Anchorman. No. It's probably from both.

Everything else is from Anchorman. Yeah. Yeah. You said it's science. I love lamp is from the, it's science. Yo, it's science had a run. Yo, let's have an Anchorman quote off. Let's see who could go the longest. All right. I can't. Milk was a bad choice. I feel like you're going to win.

Yeah. I feel like, hey, you already won. You had a trident. I miss your smell. Lamp. I miss your smell. Had a nice life. What else? I want to be on you. The party in my pants.

Mahogany. Very rich. Mahogany. A hundred percent. It works a hundred percent of the time. 60 percent of the time. They do that. Anchorman owned like a whale's vagina. It owned people's joke brains in like popular,

like just humans out there in the world that own part of their joke brains for 10 years. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Oh yeah, dude. It's inescapable. They killed the dog. Oh, they didn't kill a dog. I was going to say they killed the dog in that movie.

We killed the dog in our movie and got all kinds of shit for it. But they did. They did kill it. They punted it over the bridge. No, they actually. Oh yeah, Jack Black. At the very end of the movie, the dog comes back alive. Yes.

They like did reshoots because that was the note that everyone, they're like, I really liked the movie, but then they killed the dog. And so they had reshoots where they. That's when Jack Black said, that's how I roll. Yeah. That's how I roll. Which also had a fucking life of its own after that. Yeah.

So good. That's how I roll. What a great moment. Oh man. That was a great flick. Super funny. Yep. I do think it is funny to see like an animal flying through the sky. Like what is that?

When you just see it like fully splayed out spinning, it is funny. I totally forgot they brought the dog back at the end of the movie. Like that makes sense. Brought my dog back. We couldn't do that. We would have to bring back a ghost. Well, I always had that pitch for a game over board that the dog is reassembled with a Nintendo suit.

So it's a little bionic dog. Oh yeah. Right. Oh shit. Franken-Wenny style. Yeah. It's a great call. Daniel Stern. We'll save that.

We'll just do that for the War Collox movie. It won't make any sense, but. Right. Right. The guy's favorite movie is obviously Game Over Man. Oh, that's tight. They're all playing their favorite characters. And then Blake, what song plays when the dog arrives?

Oh. Who let the dogs out? I like how he drops an O. Oh. Oh. My smoothest friend. Oh. Oh, this?

I wish Blake did stand up and like he'd do the setup. And then before every punchline, he'd go, oh, they were twins. Oh, they were twins. That is actually pretty funny. Oh, that's why they call it duct tape. Stand up who spends half the show trying to remember his jokes. You're so hot you forget your punchline. That's really good.

Been there. Oh, I remember the second one. Oh, I was on cloud nine. Hey, and if you're listening, write the setup to all the punchlines I just said. I'd love to really get a kick out of here, what you come up with. I think that'd be the tightest of buttholes. No, it was a bad idea. It's science.

Afternoon delight. I'm so excited. It was the pleats. What is that one? It's the pleats. What the hell's that one? I don't know that. Is it that from it?

Dude, the Anchorman quote off is still going. I feel like that's something that pleats. What was it though? It's like talking about his dick. He's got a boner like it's the pleats. I think that might have been you were watching it and fell asleep during it, and then you had an Anchorman dream. That's my Mandela.

That's my Anchorman Mandela. Anchorman Della. Dude, oh my God, dude. What's crazy is it actually works. Like, it actually works. Cute. Oh my God. I'm melting right now.

Anchorman Della effect. Somebody get on it. You got to make that YouTube video. 50% of the time, it works every time. That's the joke. I remember it like that. I remember the joke like that. Anchorman Mandela effect.

50% of the time, Mandela's dead 100% of the time. It's chemistry. Jazz flutes. It's geometry. Oh, misquoting it? Yeah, yeah. It's chemistry from Anchorman. Boy, that escalated pretty moderately.

Brick had a pitchfork. This cologne is sex leopard. Yeah, yogurt was a bad choice. Yogurt was a bad choice. Chili was a bad choice. Anchorman sex cougar. That's how I kick a dog off a bridge. San Francisco, a whale's pussy.

Anchorman Della. That's how I cruise. Are you trying to say there's a fiesta in your trousers? Oh, man. Oh, my god. To the pleats party? Yeah. To the pleats party?

I love curtains. I love curtains. Dude, arguably funnier. Arguably funnier? Yeah, somebody could argue that. Yeah, dude, hit it up, man. That's great. I do love, who came up with that when someone said,

hey, arguably, and you're like, yes, arguably, anyone can argue anything. Doug, like, what the fuck? It was a person who loved to debate, so. Hey, he's arguably this. I'm not going to argue it. Let's go. You could.

It's definitely taking a jab, like, right away. You could argue. Arguably, you're cool. I'm not going to argue. Let's get dinner, but you could say it. Anyway, it's all good. I agree. We could argue.

I agree. Is this the come down? This is the come down. Yeah, I legit hurt my stomach. You guys made me laugh so much. We see, we see those fucking rev dabs. Friendship. Wow.

Friendship. Yes, friendship is running. It's bubbling tonight. Friendship is back. Yeah, our friendship is real percolating. It's boiling over. I was concerned, too, because, like, I haven't been thinking about you guys at all lately.

Me, too. I didn't even want to get on tonight. Still friends. Yeah. I was napping three minutes before the podcast. Yeah. Kyle's going to be beating this fucking me with the Oculus Rift all night,

and we had to throw a whole stick in the spokes. Yep. Whoopsies. And yes, sir. To write off your beat-off bike. And yes, sir, virtual masturbation. It's the best. Whoopsies.

Whoopsies. Well, I was really looking forward to this. Well, love. Oh, good. Good job, Blake. Well, love. That's cool. Oh, my God.

What do you got? What's on your schedule today, Blake, after the highlight, which is this? I'm going to watch a basketball. It's my favorite sport. Who you got? Who's playing tonight? Warriors Lakers, baby.

Let's go. Oh, that's cool. All right. Only one. Only one today. Yeah. Only one. Let's go.

Classic it is, Blake. Count it. But we should let it be known that there was a pre-pod, let's go, before we started recording. Yes, there was a Blake gave us a let's go before we started to get us kind of pumped, ready to start recording. Yeah. He gave us a let's go.

You guys don't get to hear this, but before every podcast, Blake, he's got a clipboard. He gives us a little pep talk. Little pep. Yeah. That's good stuff. Thank you for that. And sometimes I needed it.

Today I needed it, so thank you. Well, I think you guys came on fire today, and I'm just proud to know you. Coming on fire. You got to come on fire. Dude, I always come on fire. I don't know how to take that compliment, but I think I know what you mean.

Well said, man. I love it when all of us are just coming on fire. It's so sick. And you know what's crazy? No one's ever even said that about me, but it feels good to know that I come on fire. But you haven't done that. It's really good.

You all came on fire. I love just when all of us are together. We get on the pod. We come on fire. It's like a zip-zap-zap. This guy's coming on fire. His fire is coming. He's coming on fire.

He's coming on fire. Awesome. It's just a good feeling coming on fire. Makes the pass. Damn. You guys fucking kind of roasted me. He's coming on fire. We're in the hot seats.

Can't buy a bucket. Burning others feels good. Yeah. You took it today, Blake. You really took it, you know? We're fucking roasting your ass. Well, I would like to apologize. What's up?

Why? What happened? Is it time for takebacks and apologies? I think we're about there. And I think... We're going to milk it, so yeah. And you have one? I do.

I have one. I would like to apologize to my boy, Blake. Oof. Not for the roast that we just did. You deserved that. But it was nice. It was nice saying that we came on fire. That was very nice of you.

It felt good. That was nice of you to say. But you deserved a little roasting for that. The highest praise. It's just a funny phrase. It was a funny catchphrase. I'd like to apologize for really calling you out on not having the soundboard.

Because it was silent. You were over there. You were convulsing. You were shaking, laughing. In kind of weird moments when the rest of us were just kind of carrying on a conversation and I look over at your little window and you're just shaking, laughing.

And I'm like, something's happening over there. He's either fully checked out, either ate like a just 50 milligrams of an edible and is just losing his mind. Right. Yeah. I'm just listening to Dane Cook's comedy album in my head.

Nice. The console is rellowed. Are you waiting? Are you apologizing for ripping him up? I would like to apologize for calling him out for that. But we needed you to or else we wouldn't have known. I think he needs to apologize. Yeah.

What I do want is a fucking apology. Exactly. You do owe us. When we're coming on fire, everybody knows that we're coming on fire. And we came on fire and Blake he owes us an apology about something, I think. Or maybe not an apology, maybe a take back.

I take back the fact that I didn't check my gear beforehand. Make sure everything is not that we want to take back. A take back is you want to undo something that you did as opposed to didn't. No. Or I don't know. Hey, I'm your brilliant. Also, it's not like we want to write it for you.

We just want you to come at us with some fire, a come on fire for us. Please come on fire for us with the apology. Let's make this apology come on fire. Or was it an epic slam? Were you trying to make us feel stupid? Yeah. Was it kind of a long con epic slam to have egg on our face?

Yeah. Because if it is, I apologize. As Jers would say, yolk. Yeah. Have yolk on our face. Did you yolk us? You know, no, I think it's just a brain fart. I forgot to go in the-

Who let the dogs out? No. I'm still going to send it. I forgot to change my preferences. Let me tell you something. If you don't play the sound board in a dream, you better wake up and apologize. Well, next time it will be fully loaded,

All Anchor Man. And I apologize for what I did. Fully loaded. Not mad at it. I was going to say, can you not? Which is a whiteboard classic. I mean, admittedly, that would be a fun episode. Just one episode, All Anchor Man.

Man. I'm in. By the way, it'll be our highest rated episode, 100%. Totally. Like when we, like Stan Halen, the character in Warcaholics. We had a character played by the very funny Will Greenberg. Did I say the same?

Well, super funny guy. And we wrote him as a character of Stan Halen, a guy that just sort of just does Anchor Man quotes. And a guy that isn't funny in his own right, but just rehashes other people's funny bits. And we were like, oh, this guy's hilarious. It's like, obviously it's Satire. And it would hands down the favorite character of like, at least.

Every fan. By the way, if you guys are out there and you love Stan Halen, we love Stan Halen. We do. And maybe we like him for different reasons. And that's fun. We are Stan Halen. Well, he's going to be in the movie.

He hit me up. He hit me up. And he was like, yo, saw you're doing a movie? Stan Halen's a veil. There we go. All right, all right, all right. Well, does he play baseball? Because everyone has to.

It's baseball contingent. Yeah, he's a D.H. I think he does. I think he does. Okay. He does. All right. Well, then yes, he's in.

Done. It's that easy. Any other tapebacks, apologies or epic slams? Kyle? Yes, I have a compliment for us. I'd like to compliment all. I was actually thinking about this over the week. Are you reading?

Cord? Yeah, you're reading some. What are you doing? Well, I'm just looking at no pad. Are you typing on your dick? Chill out. I can't. You know what?

You know I can't chill out. I know. I know. And it's okay. And that's what I love about you. And that's what I love about you. And I want to compliment us for complimenting ourselves. It takes a lot to do that and just like, you know,

boost ourselves up. Wait a second. What were you looking down at when you were like, I want to make a compliment? The word compliment. I'm looking at the word compliment. I wrote the, look at it. You wrote down compliment?

Yes, I wrote down compliment. Were you going to do a joke about the word? What do you mean? I'm doing it right now. Okay. Continue with the joke then. Punch lines go like this, by the way. Oh, right.

You want to make it? It's written down here somewhere. Whatever. It's all good. It's all good. I just think like, I just think we're doing a good job. I'm proud of us. And I just want to say that it's not a joke.

Do you love him? Hey, Carl, I'm with you, dude. I also think we're doing a great job. It's not a joke. It's a genuine compliment to us. We have like, what, 10, 11, 12, something like that, more episodes, and we're like... But who's counting?

I am because... This dude's like, what do we have? Seven more that I have to do? I mean, get to just... I like it, and it's a lot of fun with you guys, and I just am stoked, you know? Compliments to the chef. Hey, let me take back my judgment on you,

but I also want to just... You don't have to, it's fine. Fine, fuck it. Yeah, you can judge me until the end of time, Anders, and I expect that from you. Fuck it. Fuck it. We're doing it live! Fuckin' thanks, sucks!

Okay, so I was going to say, just to piggyback on what Kyle's saying, except to say that it goes without saying, I enjoy my time here. If I ever say it out loud, you guys know that I'm probably over it. I mean, arguably. And I feel like I'm being transparent

about how I'm over it, so I have to go, hey, and by the way, guys, I love doing this. I like it. It's not a drag for me, and it's the highlight of my week, I guess. Arguably. Yeah, a lot of convincing, you know, going on over here.

Yep, that's true. Never need to say it. But I do have a lot of fun. I'm being genuine. I know that there's not a lot of genuine behavior in your life, Anders. It's like, you know... Friendship.

There's a lot of what in my life? There's not a lot of genuine behavior, so I'm just bringing in real vibes. That is true. I'm living in a fucking Funhouse mirror. You're the one with the Oculus Rift VR, man. What kind of VR simulation?

I don't know. Kyle, I thought that was very sweet. I don't know how they turn this compliment into an epic slam. I don't know either. But I'm with you. No, it's, you know, it's great. He's right, though, because my mom called me today.

She goes, I love you, psych, and then hung up. That's what I'm talking about. And I started cutting. I don't know what's up and what's down. I'm lost. Well, why didn't you cry about it? Leaving you voiceless messages of just classical music really, really loudly?

She keeps going like this. She goes, all right, I'm just checking in. Give me a call. I'm not your real mom. Epic slam. All right, fine. I'm going to apologize for complimenting us. I'm going to apologize for complimenting us.

All right. Thank you. And that's more on brand. Thank you. Oh, man. And that's also genuine. It's a genuine apology for complimenting us, for being good friends.

World famous best friends. I'm your friend. Enough. What are you looking at? But what are you looking at every time you're talking? I'm looking at fucking nuts, dude. I'm just eating fucking almonds. I'm trying to get the goji berries out of this mix.

I wish on your notepad now it said apologize for and then an arrow to the compliment. I wrote down apology next to compliment. OK. I do wish Kyle had a ghost writer. He's like, I'm just busy directing. I don't know what the fuck I'm going to talk about tonight. Can you just jot down seven talking points?

He just has a guy sitting right off camera just whispering. What's that? Noise. He writes it and then points to it. And it's like, baseball. Say Sam Lott. Sam Lott. Sam Lott.

Sam Lott. That's a great movie. Sam Lott's a great movie. I've seen it, and I think it's fun. The way they're in that's a lot of sand. Well, I'm excited for fans who are excited for the movie. They got a sneak peek with this podcast as to what exactly, without a doubt, 100% the movie's going to be.

It's Workaholics, Sam Lott the Movie. Employees versus staff. Employees versus staff. Sam Lott 2. Sam Lott the Movie. Sam Lott 2. Employees versus staff. With the workaholics.

With the workaholics. Stepdad. And Dennis Leary as Ders. Dennis Leary as Ders. Oh my god. Recast. I'm Norwegian. You know what?

I'm Norwegian. I'm an asshole. OK. We did it. We did it. Another one in the books, guys. All right. Woo.

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