This Is Important - Ep 34: The Guys Do Accents... Again...

Episode Date: April 13, 2021

Today, this is what's important:Southern accents, the guys 21st friendship anniversary, sketch writing, how they stole Jillian, sexy aliens, The Last Blockbuster, discovering nudity, Thomas Kellogg, old soul versus young soul versus Neo soul, teeth brushing, the running of the bulls, and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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obviously most critically, crucially important. Today on This Is Important. Sir, you cannot have your hand down your pants in that section. If you weren't that blockbuster, you were the cops, all right? It was a little too kayak. This woman with gills, huge rocket dogs. Let's go! Out of. Out of my. Out of. Keep going. Yeah. What else? Anything else? Wow. There's human soundboard. The Awuga really got me. Yeah, I'm excited for this podcast, guys, all day. What are we drinking? What's powering you? Are you just excited to hear from your friends? I'm powered by, right now, I'm powered by Jesus Christ. Cheese and rice? Jesus Christ, my Savior

on high. He's in character. Oh. Coca-Cola, zero sugar. Sugar. Okay, let's talk about it. How did you say that? Sugar. I'm in the South, man. I'm assimilating. Here on This Is Important, we like to go after people for how they talk or miss speak. Adam, you've always said sugar. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get in my Southern speak a little bit and let it come out naturally because my character on the Righteous Gemstones, he speaks in a Southern accent. And sometimes I noticed when I went back and watched the season that the first few episodes, it was a little too tight. Georgia than where are you guys supposed to be? Are you supposed to be in South Carolina? Yeah, we're in South Carolina on the show and in real life. Cool, rare. And it was too thick.

And so now I'm trying to slip it in some combos and have it roll off the tongue a little easier. So is sugar something that's a conscious decision to get into character or what? No, man. See, I'm so, yeah, talking inside. I want to act, dude. It's just, I just put the blanket over me and I become that person, you know? So sugar is a character choice. It's not something that, hey, I am Kelvin. Okay. But before you, that character existed, you also said sugar. She sure did. I'm sorry about it. So that might have just been my mush mouth, you know. All right, that's cool. Adam, do you go out to restaurants and stuff and like speak in the accent to see if you can like pull it off? Actors move to LA and they're like,

I went to a restaurant last night and pretended to be British and no one knew. I do, yeah. I love that shit. And that, and we all would crush that if we went to a restaurant. We're like, hello. Right, mate. Right. It's a part of a you. You don't have fish and chips, do you? Man, let me get a, let me get a hard boiled egg, mate. What? What are you ordering? A hard boiled egg. Mate. I'd love to, I'd love to go to a Fudd Ruckers as Abraham Lincoln. That would be really fun for me. Oh, giving your ostrich burger order from. Wait. Okay. So you're, so, okay. So you are going to Fudd Ruckers. You just got the part of, of Abe Lincoln. Yes. Because Daniel Day can't come back. Yeah. Daniel Day isn't going to do the sequel. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll, I'll do Abe too. Yeah. You're doing Lincoln. It's not called Abe. It's called Lincoln. No, it's Lincoln too. And then it's Abe. Right. It's Abe in New York. Yeah. Lincoln to Abe in New York. Abe in the city. Like, Abe in the city. Abe in the city. And I, and I stop in a, in a Fudd Ruckers and I say. Sent in the scene and it's, is it back in the day or you somehow transported time and you're, it's current in 2021 and you are going to a Fudd Ruckers. It's Austin Powers. I was like, thawed out. They, they're like, weep. Nice. Yeah. They're seeing that the world is in such turmoil and people aren't getting together and they're like, who can we give earth to bring the people together? Well said. Okay. Let's thaw out Abe Lincoln. This is my pitch in

the room and they bought it in the room. Okay. Abe in the city. But he's already done. They're already like, they're talking about taking statues of him down. Okay. Well, Abraham Lincoln, they canceled Abe Lincoln. So it's, that's even better because they bring them back because they're like, this is our guy. And then Abe has to do like a reckoning. Exactly. And the back half of act two is him being like, fuck. Yeah. I'm not perfect. Sure. I've got the hat. I've got the mole. Yes. But I can be better. I can be more. Yes. Just like you. I go to Fudd Ruckers. Right. Yeah. Cause I'm in the city because I'm Abe in the city. Yeah. Okay. So, so I'm the waiter. All right. I'm the waiter. Okay. And do you want to call action cop? Okay.

Here we go. Ready and roll, roll sound rolling. Roll cameras. Hey, and Kyle, what is it? So real quick, just a quick question about my character. Who are you again? I'm the waiter. Oh, I know. Yeah, I remember what's up. And so am I from the south or what is maybe I'm from, I just moved to the city and maybe I'm from South Carolina. Maybe I can kind of take well Abe just moved from the city. So you're kind of, he's in the city for the first time. It's Abe in the city. It's kind of his story. But you are out of Fudd Ruckers that just recently got the ostrich burger. So you're kind of pushing the ostrich burger on Abe. Okay. Okay. But do mostly I'm asking about my phone accent. So what? Yes, of course. That's why you got the part. Okay. Okay. No, you have to do it

with the accent. Otherwise, I don't want to hear it. All right. Okay. And maybe one of the things that we, I have a question for the director. Are we still rolling sound? Hold on one second. Are we still rolling still speeding? I'm booming over here. Okay, we're still speeding. Yes, Abe. I'm going to speak to you in character because that's how Daniel Day did it. I'm just waiting. Like maybe that's something that my character and Adam's character can kind of identify with. Maybe he just moved from South Carolina. I just moved from Chicago. Okay. All right. Great. Let's let's find it. Let's find it. Let's not hash out everything. I just want to know am I doing my South Carolina accent? This is how it was. I worked in Hollywood. Like he'd be like,

Hey, I got a funny thing to improv. You'll say this and then wait till you see what I say. And I go, no, just roll. Okay. You're still rolling still speeding on theirs. Okay. Come on. All right. Honors roll sound. Hey, I'm rolling. Roll cameras. Honors roll cameras. We're rolling. Okay. Ready? Background action and action. Hey, y'all. How are you doing? Welcome to FUD Ruckers. Let me tell you a little bit about our specials before we get started. Do you like what do you like? I'm not quite sure what that is. Oh, excuse me. Oh, you must not be from around here. I actually just moved to the city myself. I am from South Carolina and I just moved to the big city. I got a little place down in the Lower East set. South Carolina, one of the original

unions. Of course I know of this place. Oh, that's right. Oh, you got a fun accent. Yes. Where are you moving from? Illinois, the great state of Illinois. Oh, I love it there. I love it there. I was thinking about either moving to the windy city or the big apple and let me just say I'll take a bite out of the big apple. Okay. Oh, what is that? A worm? Okay. So did you want a squawk burger? Actually, I'm here for your... It's an ostrich burger. Let me stop you here. I don't want a fucking ostrich burger. I want a malt. Okay. I want a malt. Okay. Sorry, didn't. Gee, whiz. Throwing so much food at me. I guess I'm in the big city now. That's just part of the pudding pop that I must suckle upon. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. And let me go get your malt. Now,

is that chocolate, vanilla, strawberry or banana? Or is it pistachio? Did you want chocolate swirl? We have caramel. What else we got? We got Oreo. I'd like rhubarb, please. Rhubarb. My favorite, growing up on the farm as a youth in Illinois. That was my favorite snack or mulberry. Okay. Now, are these like, these seem to be like a little bit like old timey, sort of, do they even have mulberries anymore? I don't know. Every night I cry myself to sleep wondering the same thing. Where have the mulberries gone? Oh, it seems like you have some mulberry. I've abandoned my boy. It seems like you have some mulberry on the side of your head. Sir, you have an open wound on the side of your skull. It looks like there's a mulberry juice

that's flowing out. What is that? I'm Abraham Lincoln. That's a cut. Oh, wow. All right. That was good. They were just getting going, but okay. Well, we strayed a little bit. Oh my gosh. I know, I'm sorry. It's always so hard to do that. It's hard. Run the take. I mean, and Blake was so in character. When I was looking at his little box on our zoom, I was like, is that Blake or is that Baberham Lincoln himself? Baberham. I guess Abraham was a little cuter than I thought. He's a real Baberham. Hello. I can see why Daniel Day Lewis retired after that role because it is draining. There's so much to remember. Mulberries, what else is there? Was that his last movie? Yeah. I thought he did Phantom Thread. Phantom Thread was the last one. Blake, you did a great quote

from Daniel Day from the other movie. I've abandoned my boy. That was not lost on me. Yeah, I couldn't remember. My boy. That's from... There will be blood. My milkshake. Oh, you could have done a milkshake run. Lots of freaking, couldn't have showed us an improv. You know what I mean? You guys were just bouncing off one another. It was awesome. Yeah. Hindsight. Hindsight is 2020 when it comes to improv and also anything. Derz was placed there as a sound man and a cameraman, but actually secretly the judge. Derz, what did you think about that from your screenwriting point of view? Well, I love anything that these two guys do. Thank you. Anything off the cuff. Anything that's

a little longer than you think it should be, it is like a bonus. Leave them wanting less is... Oh, leave them wanting less. That's been our motto I think for almost 20 years now together. Yes. Literally almost 20 years. Next year will be 20 years making comedy together. Two decades. Are we going to go out for our 21st friendship birthday and get loaded? I think that's a great idea. That's been our motto from the very beginning, leave them wanting less. They're going to like it at first and by the end they're going to go, I wish that was a little shorter. I could have walked away sooner. That's where the editing comes in because that's your best friend. You leave them wanting less

then you cut that stuff out. Yes. Trim the fat. I remember being scolded by Jay Leggett telling us, take the funny and run. Right. He scolded you? Yeah. He took me aside, grabbed me very hard by the arm and said, take the funny and run. He put your arm underneath hot water. He burnt me. He just scolded you. Scalded. That happened in the bathroom of national input offices. He ran the hot water. Is that his quote? Yes, absolutely. That's Jay Leggett. I didn't know that was Jay Leggett, man. I just used that on the shadow set because it's a lot of improv and I was like, take the funny and run. All right. It's not his, Kyle. I don't know if he coined that. I don't know. He's the first person I heard it from. Who did it? I mean,

as far as my world, I know globally, I don't know the person who made up the word grass, but somebody taught it to me. Wow. Good example. I love where this is going. So let's talk about this. What? What other words that only exist because of people you know? No. I'm saying like, obviously Jay didn't make it up, but he brought it into our world and I was unaware of that. So we've mentioned Jay a few times. Jay Leggett was our teacher at Second City. Los Angeles. Los Angeles for Durz and I, and then he ended up being our teacher and coach when we worked for the National Lampoon Lemmings, which is a touring sketch group that we did. What? One or two summers before we ended up getting work. Right. Yeah. So it's kind of right

before doing workaholics, but for the first time, we actually were just doing comedy full time and that was sort of what we were concentrating on. Great guy. He also hosted, yes, Rest in Peace. Great dude gave us our first shot. He hosted this thing called Comedy Cocktail at Hollywood and Highland where you get a bunch of different sketch groups and everybody got to do like two sketches a night. That's kind of where we kind of... Yeah. It was a good crowd too because it was mostly tourists. Hollywood and Highland is like a big kind of like walk around outdoor area in Hollywood where you can see like the Walk of Fame, Grounds Chinese Theater. And also you can see like the craziest homeless people. Yeah. Or maybe not. That was our competition. Very, very funny homeless

people. Yeah. It was either you could pay to come in and see us or there's all this kind of really fun, free entertainment right outside or it might cost you a buck or two, but you're going to see Spider-Man playing a banjo doing backflips. Yeah. There are dudes who can play buckets better than most people can play just a set of drums. Can play buckets. Yeah. These guys can play buckets better than anybody else can play buckets. Is that where the actually the phrase of leave them wanting less kind of came from? Because we get up on stage and it'd be fire for a little bit and then it always have a little dwindle in there. I think Jay Leggett's note to us was always like make your sketches shorter, get the laugh and get out. Right. Yeah. Well, I remember we would have like

12 page long sketches where it's like, well, they don't need to be this. I will say I never wrote anything that long. Well, they always grow because bits get added and then it gets inflated. That was grow on the day because you're improving a little bit. Yeah, you're riffing. Right. You're yes sanding. Punching it up a bit. Yeah. Oh, the good old days. Wasn't there another phrase there where it was like, we got to get better about this kind of stuff because we would always forget all of our props and everything that we needed to go on stage? Yeah. I think you guys were the first people to ever say that to me. I know people said that other places, but for me personally, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. We would always forget props or like a wig or like

whatever, like audio visual shit that lined up with our sketch. And then we'd like got like it started out serious like, yo, guys, we need to get better about this stuff. And like for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Every weekend, we forget something like, well, we've got to get better about this. No, I guess we're not gonna. It was a lot. You had to bring all the costumes, all the fucking video shit that we needed to project it had to output it because we would do like show sketches and we do live sketches. Right. And it was it was a lot. Some of the live sketches would correspond with what we needed to play things on on the video screens at certain times as if we're talking to. Yeah, it was tech forward, especially for a nightclub performance because that place

that we performed at just turned into a nightclub as soon as we were done. Yeah, especially for 2007. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Burning DVDs the day before. The name of the club after it was hilarious, like I want to say it was called Pandemic and like all of the there would be girls dancing in cages in like nurses outfits. Do you guys remember that? Really? Yes. I don't know if it was called Pandemic, but I think it was called Coronavirus March of 2020. I think it was no honestly, I think it was called COVID-19. What? It was called COVID deniers, masks, not mandatory. The pandemic, the club. Club Novaks. Yeah, I really do think it was called Pandemic. I'm not. No, it was. Remember the DJs were the spin doctors. Remember exactly

doctors pandemic. Oh, Adam, you stepped in it. You're like, no fucking way. They were called the spin doctors. Uh-oh. Is that egg on my face? Is that yoke? It's science. That's some yoke. There might be yoke. That's yoke. What was that club called? It was called The Highland. That was what it was called. Oh, yeah. The Highlands. So, but that night was called Pandemic Night? Yeah, after comedy, it would immediately switch over into a bro club and we were just like, we're in the club, baby. Yeah, that was dope. I know. That was the best because then they like couldn't kick us out even though you could tell the security's like, you know, get these fucking comedy dorks out of here. Right. There's people in shiny shirts, like kind of fit in because he was

rocking affliction. So like he was kind of fitting in, but the rest of us were like, odd ducks out, wearing funny wigs still probably. Oh, yeah, dude, because we were backstage doing the show and then as soon as it turned into a club, that backstage was like the VIP lounge. So not only were we in the club, but we were in the motherfucking VIP lounge, dude. And one of the freaking special bonuses, Jillian was also there with us. So we got a lot of club nights in with our girl, Jillian Forge and the Bond. Oh, yeah. I remember Jillian was in a different sketch group and remember we were like, we need a funny girl in our sketch group and Jillian was the funniest girl that we knew. And we were the funniest person. Yeah, for sure. Funniest person. And we were like,

we're stealing her. And we actively stole her from this other sketch. It did start off as like, we just need like a girl to play these parts. And then we're like one or two lines. And then like, a month later, it was like, oh, they straight up took this girl from our camp. And now she's over there. Yeah. Yeah. Oops. We were a little more functional. I think that we were shooting stuff like every fucking week. I don't think they were filming much. There were like nine of them and only a few of us. Yeah, right. They had a big old group. It's a numbers thing, guys. Yeah, man. It's science. What was Jill? I feel like Jillian would drink like weird like watermelon schmiroffs. I'm trying to remember her drink. I can't. You don't think it wasn't just vodka

Red Bull back then? I feel like that was like years of vodka Red Bull. It might have been. She is a Vegas girl. Have you been playing the soundboard at all this whole time? Yeah. No, I haven't. Sorry. Oh, he has. Oh, that's all right. That was a little John lying. Yeah, no. God damn it. The fuckers asleep at the wheel. Sorry, man. I'm still gonna send it. My bad. No, you are. It seems like you're not sending in and I'm getting getting concerned. I'm sorry. Wake up. Yeah. Wake up. We got lots of good stuff. Oh, I like that one. Pizza pizza. I do like how you're playing all the things that we're trying to tell you. So you do know how we feel and you're like, no, guys, I've been doing it. Wake up. Yeah, wake up. You know what?

I kind of like it when you guys human soundboard it. You guys are getting really good at the impressions of the board. Oh my god. You did a really good one. I listened to where you were like, we were talking about sushi rolls and you did. That's how I roll. And I was like, that's a good one. That's pretty good. Great parallel. That's how I roll. Yeah. Look, I'm all for giving Blake compliments, but I feel like we're going to the fact that he wasn't playing it for like 20 minutes. I hear you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm happy to be disciplinarian with you. Blake, get on your fucking game, doggie. Okey doggie. I'm back. Great. All right. Cool. Sorry about that. Jay Legget also on In Living Color. True. Yeah, no, that and also Jay Legget on an

episode of Star Trek. Check that shit out. The freestreams of it are so dope. He was like, full makeup alien. I was, I love that. What is the deal with Star Trek? And like, is it, they're not called Kardashians, but they're called star things, huh? Stardashians? No, but that's tight. But they are called like, Kardashians or something. Like a whole alien race that they talk about for one of the not seasons, but one of the like offshoots like Voyager or whatever. I do not know. I am so like, actually, Star Trek, I spent a lot of my youth like being very anti and thinking like, oh, Star Wars is superior. But when you really dig into the show, Star Trek is so fucking cool, dude. And they did like every type of episode. Yeah. Yeah,

my dad really fucked with Star Trek. He would with Captain Picard. That was, that was his next generation. Yeah. And he rocks that quite a bit. Yeah. What did he like about it? Sex stuff. I literally know, yeah, probably those sexiest aliens. Now I'm listening. Big old titties is before like we had internet. So he probably was, if I know my dad, then it's fine. All right. I guess we'll never know. Did they have sexy ass aliens on Star Trek? Yeah, dude. He was probably down there just cranking it, dude. That was a quarter of the show's appeal was just like, and this woman with gills, huge rocket dogs. No way. It wasn't even that they were like sexy women. It was just that they were like

half fish or like completely. I feel like I just said that. What? No, I think it was because they're sexy. He said gills. He said, but big rocket dogs. They didn't have, it wasn't even about the rocket dogs. Oh, it wasn't. It was actually just the fact that it's species. Yes, it was a different species. It's the same reason why, why what's his face fucked a dream. Exactly. Well, but no, no, no, no, sorry. He said species. Natasha Henstridge is like a freak of nature beauty with absolute rocket dogs. Yeah, but was he, but was his character, was Adrian Brody's character attracted to a different movie? I know. I know. What are you guys talking about? I'm just talking about fetishes. You guys are bouncing around so much. I cannot

keep up. He said species. Yeah. Now he's talking about a different movie. I was trying to liken Adam's dad to Adrian Brody's character and species. It was a pretty bad. It's not species. The name of the movie is not species. What is it? Oh, spice. My dad was down there for sure jerking off allegedly to the hot alien babes, whether they had gills or the carnations, the carnations. That's for sure why he liked it. Yes. And also, Captain Picard, bald white guy, kind of looks like my dad. Like, you know, if you squint hard enough, they could be brothers or something. He's probably like, yeah, I'm Captain Picard. I'm like a cool ass dude. Is it Captain or is it Lieutenant? Captain. Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Yeah, it's Captain.

Yeah. I don't know if there was any lieutenants. I don't know if that's right. I just said it. Who knows, man? I like to just call people lieutenants. That's your chief. Yeah. That's your like, what's up, big dog? What's up, chief? What's up, lieutenants? All right, lieutenants. Just if we could clear the air with Kyle's confusion, though, Species was a movie, but the movie Kyle was talking about with Adrian Brody, where he fucks an alien is called Splice. Splice. Splice. I love that movie. That was totally my bad. I wrote it down to apologize later. I know better than that. I really do. Splice is a wild ass movie. You must watch. But Dren, Dren, the thing that the dude fucks, arguably hotter than any human woman.

But was that his motivation in the movie, or was he like just so enamored with the species, the new thing that he built? He fucked her. It's not the movie species, though. We're speaking of Splice. No, but it is a species. It is a species, right? You can still say that that's a new species. That's where I got fucked up. Absolutely. I think he was just trying to fuck. You think so? You have to watch the movie. It evolves into that. I don't want to spoil it, but we did by saying he fucked. Well, right. There's spoilers. Yeah. Sorry about the spoilers. It's so good. And weirdly, the like the fish movie, the what is it? Lady in the water? Secret of water? Oh, yeah. Whatever one best picture that year. Yeah. It is like the same thing.

What was that shit called? Lady in the water, right? Way worse. No. No, it's called like. That's the story of water. The shape of water. The shape of water. Shape of water. The shape of the sound of the water, daughter. And it turned out, guess what? The shape of water was. What was the water was shaped like a dick, dog? Spoiler. I'm sorry. Wait a second. Is that water shaped like a dick? That was huge, Blake. And that's why America doesn't give a fuck about Hollywood anymore is because we give awards to movies that absolutely no one has seen. Yeah. I mean, these guys are running on Duncan. No one watched that movie. The shape of water. Shape of water? Yeah. Yeah. There's no way that like my dad is watching shape of water. He doesn't

even like Star Wars, anything with like supernatural stuff. He's not watching. Right. But isn't that the whole thing with the Oscars is that like nobody watched any of those movies? So then they were like, well, let's open it up to 10 nominees for best pictures. And then they're like, sure, jury duty, you're in there too. This picture. Watch it. They're like running out of movies. Hey, that'd be pretty tight if jury duty won something. Yeah. Shout out. Won my heart. Hey, Pauly Shore, living legend. My God. Oh, how is he not on the fucking sound board, dude? I don't know. What the fuck? He's in the jet. His body. I got Ernest, who was my original Pauly Shore. I pivoted from Ernest to Pauly Shore as a child. All right. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, it's a natural

progression. They kind of both find themselves in the same predicaments, go into jail and stuff. Now, did you fuck with Ernest more or less than Dorf? Oh, Dorf was my shit, Adam. I had no Dorf knowledge. Dorf is not a thing in my world. I got zero Dorf. I remember the commercials, but. Oh, was it Tim Conway? Yeah. And I respect him. I respect him. Yeah, that was at the, that was at the doctor's office all the time. At least when I went, because my brother had asthma, so we had to go to the doctor's office every fucking week. Allegedly. And so we would pop in door phone golf, bro, and just watch this dude pretend to be small, hitting golf balls. That's so sick. I love that we did an hour on Donald Sutherland last podcast, and now we're

going in on Tim Conway. Tim Conway, though. Dude, motherfucking Apple dumpling gang dog. That's how I roll. You go back and watch those, not Gilda Radner. What's her name? Carol Burnett. The Carol Burnett show? Yeah. Yeah. Dude. So funny. That was mandatory viewing in my house. Like my mom made me watch Laugh In. Oh, well, that's sick. That's cool, dude. I didn't realize you were 68 years old. My mom is. I had to watch the classics, dude. I had to watch the classics. 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

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the official podcast, Thursdays on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Sketch comedy is such a lost art form. It was so sick to have, like, sketch comedy be a thing on television. We've got to get back to that somehow. SNL's been funny. SNL's been funny. And I'm not just saying that because we wrote four other sketches. Right. It's been very funny. I'm waiting for the I Will Fuck Your Girl sketch, because that's too funny. They can have that. That would be too funny. It's been so long since I've even watched SNL. I kind of am going to take that recommendation very wholeheartedly and jump in, Derz, because I do. All right. Relax. I'm just saying it's funny.

Well, I always write it off. I write it off. No, no. You're so wholeheartedly. Yeah. Of pure heart. My heart is pure and it is whole when I accept that recommendation for sketch comedy. I've been laughing a lot this season. I dig it. That's like mainstream sketch comedy. We used to have options. Even in talking about J-R-I-P. Blake needs that underground shit. Yeah, in living color. And then they had, like, Upright Citizens Brigade. They got fucking Black Girl Sketch Show. Tune in. Oh, yeah. I have watched that. And that is actually very funny. I'm down. What else is there? What's his name? Show? Richard? Like, remember Birthday Boys? Remember Birthday Boys? Yeah. That shit was fire. But that was impossible to keep going,

because it had so many, so many dudes. Tim Robinson's show. Tim Robinson's show on Netflix. Yes. That show is really, really funny. Yes. That's great. It's called You Should Leave, right? Yes. Something like that. I think you should leave. Yeah. I can't believe it. I don't have that, the tip of my tongue, because that is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Tip of the tongue, top of the teeth. Tip of the tongue, top of the teeth. I think you should watch it. Yeah, it's very good. Maybe we need to start making sketches again. Maybe we need a sketch show. Okay. I think down to do some sketches again. Okay. I feel like we already got one earlier in this podcast, or at least a pretty good take back for later. Oh, yeah. That whole improv

get with Babe in the City. I'll never apologize for waiter number one. For sure. Can I do that? And I don't want you to apologize. Maybe take back, but I do not want you to apologize. Ters with the early epic slam. Hey, come in a little hot. I'll come over in early apology about my sound the last couple of weeks. Okay. Sound like dog shit. Little echoey. Yeah, dude. Yeah, the fact that you, Kyle, you gave him the role of sound guy after this guy has been garbage on the sound. Do you not pay attention? He was a sound guy, but he was actually judging. Did you just ask him if he pays attention? Don't you talk to him like that? How dare you? What'd you say? Don't you speak to him that way? Did you not dare you?

What's up? What'd you say? Did you not? He was a judge disguised as a sound guy in the whole premise. Oh, I miss that. Yeah, I feel like we all kind of miss that. Oh, do you guys, do any of you guys listen to me? All right. Hey, all right. Got my astid answered. Copy that. Kyle, I actually do listen to you. I can speak of a little funny thing that happened to me yesterday in one of our little group texts. Kyle mentioned that he watched the last blockbuster on Netflix and he said, dude, like I got like emotional during it. I started watching it. I cried. So I like last night I'm like, okay, you know what? Tonight I'm going to sit down. I'm going to sit into this heavy ass doc because my boy Kyle said he got emotional about it. I'm going to have a little

cry about it. Why did Creed was Creed the soundtrack? And that's why he was crying. Bro, I'm telling you, I shared that because it was like, it was something happened when I was watching that documentary where I was like, I'm never, ever going to have these feelings again. Exactly. While walking into a store. I remember the moment because I was like, oh my God, I remember doing that. You're also you got emotional dirt? Wait. To Kyle's record scratch. Well, why don't you cry? To Kyle's point, they were talking about a dead milk duds. And they were talking about something about me and about Kyle about us that has gone and died. Yeah. Right. And it was a huge part of us. So there was like this morning feeling of like, oh my God, yeah, I used to do that. That's so

crazy. It was weird. I did not expect it, dude. And honestly, welled up tears came out because it was like, I'm never going to go have that interaction where people are looking and you're like, what are they getting? It really hit me hard. Are you going to be just as emotional during the Hollywood video documentary? Well, that's the one I want to watch. This was, I think so, because this is all just rentals in general, like the death of it. I've known about it for years, I know, but it's like, just fucking hit me hard. This is beef that I kind of had with this documentary. Yeah, I was wrong. Okay, it's presented very comedically, like Paul Scheer is in it, like Brian was saying, it's like, it's comedians. They all

worked. Yeah, they're former employees. Yeah, but everybody's joking. It's all, it's like very lighthearted. It's like, it's very like, well, what do you want it to be? Fucking like 1994 blockbuster. That's what you guys were saying. I was about to like the last blockbuster and it's like, boom, but it's not that at all. But you're just saying it like that because it could be like the last blockbuster. Hold on a second, Blake, do you need media to tell you how to feel or can you just feel based on premise? Well said. This is what I'm saying, though. Wait, hold on, let me go. Hold on, Blake, yell about something. Okay, look, they're in the movie and what you guys are speaking to is they keep being like the video store and you would

come in and you would talk to the clerk and it would be like, I saw that movie and that one's bad and it was all about human interaction. Motherfucker, that shit was not how the video store was. You went in, you went out. It wasn't like, I know the guy behind the blockbuster. Oh, no, we did for sure. Yeah. If I may. So like, we didn't go to blockbuster. We had a place called Video Adventure and we would go there and we basically ran through all the horrors and then when we were like in middle school, we were like, Hey, like, we would rent like crushed roof, wild style, wild style too. And we'd be like, Hey, and this dude would be giving us like these, I guess they were like bootleg graffiti videos that weren't even in the store. They were like

his and we would go watch those and then we would like trade him like Beastie Boys skills to pay the bills, VHS videos and shit. Like it was, it was a fucking hangout. Yeah, there was something also that like struck me where it was like, there was a finite amount of videos that you could get like sometime when they were saying you had to wait for the movie to come back. Like I remember doing that because I wanted to see something that fucking bad, dude. And now it's like, you just get everything. I can't even choose what the fuck to watch. When I had my accident, when I was a kid, the Main Street movies, the like local non chain video rental place, that sounds like the place you grew up by, Durs. Similar sort of rental house. They gave me as many movies as I could rent

for as long as I wanted. And they canceled that after like three years after I like rented like 5,000 movies in three years. They're like, you're walking again, bitch. Yeah, I see you walking in here. Fuck it. But no, I mean, yeah, no, there was something special about it for sure. And also like what was cool that wasn't blockbuster, but like the local rental house, they had like a little curtain section that like you would act like as a kid, you'd act like you're lost and you'd be like, whoa, what's back here? And then the person would have to be like, hey, you can't, you're 13 years old, you cannot be in, you're like, whoa, sorry. Sir, you cannot have your hand down your pants in that section. Sir, hey, young boy, you can't be jerking off in this. Put it away and get out of

there. And that was great about being a kid is you could always like act like you don't know what you're doing. You're like, I'm sorry. No, this is jerking off. I don't even know what that means. I'm confused. Weird. I have such a distinct memory of my, my little little brother accidentally walking into that room. And then I was like, what'd you see in there? And he's like, in some movie where like worms were coming out of a girl's butt. And I'm like, oh, shit. What kind of movie did he? I'm guessing it was anal. Right. Yeah, for sure. But, but also he doesn't, he didn't clock that it was penises. Worms. He was very young. When you're super young and you see all that stuff in the porno magazine or whatever the first time, you're kind of like, why is it like that?

Worms. I remember the first time, like my mom was getting something out of grocery stores and they, it was right by like where I had to stand next to my mom by the checkout, there was like porno magazines and they were like down low by me. I just grabbed one and opened one up, not even thinking, I'm thinking I'm just looking at a magazine. And I just saw some big old wambos and my heart stopped, dude. My heart stopped. Oh, damn. Now I'm remembering the first time I seen a porno magazine. Yeah, I was like, it like, it stopped my heart. I like put it back right away and I was petrified that my mom saw me look at it. Right. But then for the rest of time that we lived by this store, I would always be like, Hey, you want to stop it in this gas station? Yeah, we could

just go there. We could always just swing by that one. We could just give that one a go. That one's pretty cool. That one's pretty cool. And we could definitely, I believe they have your diet Pepsi at that one though. I have a distinct memory of getting, I think it's called TV week back in the day where it was like the TV listings for the week and you could kind of like scout out what was going to be on TV. And there was like a corner page ad for like HBO trial or whatever. And there was a woman in like a 90 with like the shoulder strap, the shoulder strap kind of going off her shoulder. And you could see like a little bit of the curve out of the titty. And I remember being like, Oh, shit. Like, yeah, do you remember silk stockings that was on USA? I mean, dude,

yeah, I mean, I had a I had a black and white television that I got at a garage sale for like a dollar that my mom let me put in my room when I was like a little kid. And I was like, so I can watch basketball. No, so I could watch silk stockings because I was convinced every time that they were going to show nudity. I was like, they have to, they have to this week. They have to have to. But they just kept showing stock and teasing it kept show those silk stockings, which did it for me. Yeah, that's why we all have weird stocking fetishes. Was that a USA original? Or was that a showtime that re ran? I think it was us us. Thank you for that. Thank you. I was so stoked to hear it.

USA kids club. Oh, dude, the best. I was a member. Yes. Is that did that have the the owl one where it's like, how many licks does it take to get to the center of the tootsie roll? Was that a lot on played a lot? That was just a commercial commercial. I just remember that might have been you might have went behind that velvet curtain at your local video store and saw that. I remember it going in a minute, in a minute, relax. Does it take to get to the center? Yeah, fuck yeah. I just remember they played something called the banana man, which like, I don't know if anybody remembers this cartoon, but it was a kid named Eric. So that's my brother's name. And I was like, oh, weird. And he ate a banana. And then he turned into like banana man. And he had these banana

peel boots and like a big ass cape that looked like a split banana peel. It was fucking tight. I'll post about it. You'll see. No, I would have blocked that. That would have scared the shit out of me a banana man. Blake's calling it doodoo. But watch, I'm gonna fucking write a pilot for you. It's kind of cool. I see what you're doing. I watched entourage during the quarantine at the beginning of quarantine because I just love wasting time. Really well made comedies. Jeremy Piven. I love Jeremy Piven and Jerry Ferrara is my god turtle. Yeah, turtle rules. And he they had a spin off show a cartoon that it was Johnny Johnny's bananas. So that probably the writer of that kind of saw banana man and also channeled that same energy that you're channeling.

Dude, when you connect the dots, it just fucking blows my shit. I'm like, yeah, that's a motherfucker. Oh, but you were talking about bananas. Exactly. Okay, so I was watching entourage. So yeah, because it's not about a gorilla, right? He was like a gorilla that looks stupid. And he was like, I don't want to do this. He was an angry gorilla. Yeah. And this was the same writer because it has to do with bananas and Ders washer when he was a child. And then it was on there was a no, I'm assuming it's got to be the same guy. I'm assuming that it's the same there. Ders is like old guy, right? And so there's probably someone that was Ders's age, also wrote for entourage and was like, Oh, in the writer's room and was like kind of spitting ideas. And they were all talking

about old shows. And someone can probably talk about the owl. And then right now fuck your girl sketch. Yeah, like I will fuck your girl. That's funny. Remember the owl? How many takes? Licks does it take to get to the center? A two from the corner? I remember banana man. And then someone's like, uh, Johnny's bananas. And then it makes a show. And that's how television is created. Okay, that's like that. That's a good ass writers room right there. So there's Zip Zaps up and all over the place. Pretty logical now that you explained it. USC film school. Yeah. Good job, Adam. OCC film school right here. OCC. And that's the kind of stuff you learn at OCC. And what is OCC guys? Because it's something different when I grew up. Really? Orange Coast Community College OCC.

It was a great community college that both that all three of us went to both Blake, Kyle and myself. But it's called OCC. Yes. Orange Coast College, but it's a community. But you guys say, Oh, it's Orange Coast College. Yeah. Yeah, it is a community college. But I every time I hear Orange Coast Community College, right, we should say OCCCC. Got it. What the fuck? I only went there for like a semester and a half. Yeah. And then I think I kind of was like, fuck that shit. Well, is that an early slime? Yeah. Yeah, you slamming OCC OCC rocks. You know why I bounced like really because I could not get into the film program at OCC. You had to wait like a year to get into any of the film classes. And I was like, I'm out. That's all I want to do is make some shit.

Yeah. You couldn't beat out TK, bro. You went heads with TK and TK got your spot. Well, TK is like a local, bro. Oh, do you want to go ahead and have a TK? TK is like a local. He must have signed up earlier or something. I was coming from NorCal. Like, I guess I signed up late. I don't know. Couldn't get in. TK just showed up. Even Teddy got in. Yeah. If there's one thing I know, if you battle Thomas Kellogg one on one in anything, he's going to win. Well, that's a guarantee, bro. That's a guarantee. That's why you stay away from that guy if you really want to win. Well, for sure. The people listening to this podcast have no fucking clue what you guys are talking about. We've talked about Thomas

Kellogg, the slam dunk genie. By the way, he has started a Instagram show kind of. How do we link to that, Kyle? Because it is pretty dang funny. It's a live show where he plays ukulele and croons. It's very sensual. Yeah, he plays the uke and he has guests. He has almost like a talk show and it's just full on Thomas Kellogg. Yeah, very good production value on it too. It's all very glossy and it feels so good because he's got a guy who does that shit for the news. Yeah, we actually kind of need to swoop up his boy like we swooped up Jillian because his shit looks really cool. It's good. I guess he does graphics for the local news or something. He's proficient and efficient. Yeah, he's great. Like, does he know Dallas Rains?

I don't know. I think he's the Florida guy. I think he's coming out of Florida. I think that's what's up. I think his name is, I know is Moniker or IG thing is upside down creative media. What's your IG, Moniker? Is it Moniker? Maybe Kyle's the oldest guy in our group. I always thought of his He's the oldest soul. I know that. Is that right? The oldest soul is me. No, I can actually vibe with that. I get it. That makes sense. I think you are. I'd say you're the oldest soul. Yeah, yeah. Who's got the youngest soul? Who's the youngest soul in our crew? How do you define a young soul? Is it just like immaturity or is it like you have a youthful energy about you? I heard somebody say one time about somebody who just

kind of wasn't fully like engaged with people and like kind of like, yeah, like somebody like you. No, somebody who's just kind of like 2D, like doesn't really get too deep. They called them a young soul. That was like, that's the hardest insult I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, young soul. Well, I kind of, I didn't think it was going to be an epic slam on somebody. I don't know what epic slam my home is. Because if you're a young soul, it's like you have, like when you're an old soul, you seem to have this life experience. You're a wizard. Even though you're young. You're a wizard, bitch. Yes, exactly. Old as fuck. You can't defeat me. And if you're a young soul, it's as if you have no wisdom. I would say. Yeah, but you also don't get hangovers. So

it's kind of fucking, I guess I'm a young soul. It's a tight rap name. Young soul. The youngest soul is either Blake or Adam. Who is it? Is it Blake or is it Adam? Blake's the one who's drinking a Bud Light right now. That doesn't mean I'm young. That could mean I'm old and I've given up on life. That means he's soulless. It's three o'clock. Three o'clock on a Tuesday and I'm still gonna set it. Right. And you're deep. You're already deep. So you're definitely still think of yourself as a very young go hard. Which obviously equates to a young soul. Hello, it's happy hour somewhere. Hello. Adam, you might be a young swole. Hello. Oh, a young swole. Thank you. Young swole. Yeah. Adam is a young swole. I feel that. I'll take that a young swole hard. Adam has a youthful energy.

But Adam's out working. He's working right now. He's doing adult stuff. Blake, on the other hand, is kind of just chilling, man. I mean, I'm clocking in at this podcast. I'm hitting this board like nobody's business, man. Hello. Well, I didn't want that to be an epic slam on Blake, or myself. Now that Durst put the parameters of young soul as your 2D. I don't make these things up. I just think that that's what it is. Look, I can get deep, brother. If you want to get deep, get deep with me, all right. Go ahead. Get deep. How deep can you get? Tell us about like when you told me about like how we're all moondust and stuff. Tell us about that. What is that? Well, I don't know if it's necessarily

moondust, but it's definitely stardust. We're all formed from the same matter from the Big Bang theory. Come on. For sure, bro. Are there any takebacks? Hell no. It's science. Hey, that being said, does that sound like a young soul or does that sound like an old soul? That's a young soul. Fuck it. That's a young soul. Yeah. See the guy? The guy got deep. Guy watches one episode of Star Trek and thinks he knows the fucking universe, man. Yeah. He's like, I don't know if it's moondust per se, but it's definitely some kind of like dust that came from like out there in the world. You are so dumb. The word definitely was great. It's definitely this though. Yeah. I don't know about this, but it's definitely this. Hey, man. Why'd you say the first one?

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young new soul. Okay, so I'm an old soul. Who would have thought? Who would have thought that? What's your slipper game, Ders? I know you've got a slipper game. Yeah, I got it. I mean, usually it's just flip-flops that don't have the thong thing, you know, you just slip in. I guess slides, yeah. Yeah, I love slides, dude. Well, Ders is a weird one. We're the best. Ders, you're the best. Talking about his soul. Thank you. It's because for sure you meet Ders and you're like, that's an old soul type guy. But then you find out he can't read a clock and he doesn't brush his teeth at night. And there's like a few things that you clock with him that you're like, I don't, I can't, I don't know this guy. I've known this guy for almost 20 years,

still don't know this man. Like we just found out just the other day that the guy doesn't brush his teeth at night. Yeah. How do you not know this? I would argue it's a mixture of not being listened to. Here's what I think I might be as a Neo soul. Oh, like Neo, like the performing artist? And EYO. Shout out to Eric Abadou, Jill Scott, and all my other friends and family in the Neo soul. D'Angelo possibly? Yes. Please explain what that means. Because I don't, I don't get it. Explain what Neo soul means? Yeah, I don't understand that. I don't. I think it was a 90s movement. Yeah, 90s movement that kicked with like D'Angelo, Eric Abadou, Jill Scott, even like Arrested Development was like in that Afro Neo soul type shit. Okay. Yeah. During that time,

I wasn't listening. I was listening to like cool music, like Maxbox 20. Common. Oh God. I'm sorry. Fastball. We're going head to head. Jill Scott wears Maxbox. Okay, okay. Durs is explaining great music, Adam. In the words of Jill Scott, take a walk. A long one. Okay. I don't know who Jill Scott is. I think, I think you better call Tyrone, Eric Abadou. You don't know Jill Scott? I don't know Jill Scott. Wow. I can kind of imagine what she looks like kind of. Dude. I couldn't tell you. I couldn't. Dude, she's on the Love and Basketball soundtrack. I will send you, I will do the Brown Sugar soundtrack, her song on that. It hits. Easy conversations. Yes. The Brown Sugar soundtrack, pick it up.

Does it hit or does it slap? It hits. Better than the movie. Is that one of those ones? Better than the movie? Yeah. Did you mention that? We did that like one of the first couple episodes of This Is Important. We went into what soundtrack is better than the movie. Did you mention Brown Sugar? It might be better than the movie. The movie's good, but the soundtrack is terrific. It's got some fucking real hot shit on there. A lot of Neo soul artists. But you know, that's just like a fucking thing that they throw onto it, like grunge music. What does that mean, Neo soul? Basically, they were mirroring the soul of the 70s, but like with a Neo, meaning like new.

Yeah. Yeah. The beats were sick. So we got an old soul. A Neo soul. A Neo soul. A dumb soul. A young soul. And a dumb asshole. And a dumb asshole. I feel like Derris has been 40 since the day I met him, and he will be 40 until the day that we both pass on the same day. What's cool is you guys think that. I think that's right, is he's 40, but now that we're getting in the place that we're damn, we're almost 40. Yeah, I'm not 40 yet. I'm just starting to learn who he is. It's all starting to converge. Like I'm like, oh, fucking cool.

Yeah, we're just, he's starting to make a lot more sense. In our 20s, I was like, I can't figure this guy out. And then now it's all starting to make sense. Now I'm like, maybe I shouldn't brush my teeth at night. Right. Does that even worth it? I wouldn't encourage that. Have you thought about why you do it? Because Quip tells me to. That's what the dentist tells you to do. Yeah. And you're going to believe big dentist. Thank you, Anders. This is what I'm talking about. This is important. Oh, buy more crest. Buy more Colgate.

You know who pays for the ADA? Politicians. Hey, I'm a dentist. I think you need to buy this $400 vibrating toothbrush. Get the fuck out of here. It's the only one that works. Thank you. Thank you. No, it's cool. That's why I buy Quip because Quip is much cheaper. It lasts longer. It's good. You don't really need a toothbrush. It's science.

You don't need toothbrush. All you need is flossing a toothpick. That's how you're going to get good teeth. The fuck are you guys talking about? You don't need a toothbrush. Guys, I'm afraid your teeth are disgusting. You've got to brush your teeth. I brush my teeth, but really you need a flossing a toothpick. I want one of those off-road fucking Tonka truck toothbrushes that has the rubber grip, and then on the back of where the bristles are, behind that,

it's got the rubber bristles to brush your tongue while you brush. That is my shit. Fuck yeah, dude. That sounds industrial. I love it. I like how proud Kyle was. Kyle was so proud and he was like, you just need a toothpick and some floss. Floss and a toothpick, two things. Right. That's how you brush.

Y'all should brush each other's teeth. Have you ever brushed another person's teeth for them? That feels like it's something intimate that should be shared with your level. I love doing it. I grab my kid's heads and I go so fast that they think it's like a ride. Rub the enamel. To bring it back, remember when we did that sketch with Jillian, where you had to brush her teeth and your teeth?

Like we did that early in our career, tails from the alternate universe. Blake did it, and then I came in. Yeah, you were the dad. We were looking for the cordless or the portable. Holy shit, that's right. Thanks, dad. Yes, right. You've done it.

Well, you set up the premise for that sketch? What was tails from the alternate universe? The premise was it was a group. It was a group of, we were going to do a bunch called tails from an alternate universe. And it was just one thing. It was our world, but one thing different. And that one was two people, Blake and Jillian, set up for a makeout session and essentially they go in for the kiss and then they basically pour

toothpaste on their toothbrush and brush each other's teeth in a very intimate fashion. I think it was a little bit of like virginity type thing. Right. It was like a, hey, should we take things to the next level? I think we're ready. We've been together for a long time and instead of we're going to make out and fuck, it was they brush each other's teeth. And then I believe I came in and was like, what the hell's going on here?

Get out of here, boy. Right, right, right. She was like, dad, you ruined my life. And then I closed the door and then she uses the electric toothbrush like a vibrator. Ooh. I think so. Or she'd, no, I think it was, it was handheld toothbrushes. But like she's using it in her mouth.

Yeah. She pulls out the electric one. But she's enjoying it like she's servicing herself, which we're all for. That, that's actually really funny, kind of clever. But the follow-up tales from the alternate universe was just that you're out of kegger and the dudes are wearing capes. Oh, really? She wasn't?

Yeah. It was just like. It was, we're all wearing capes and then somebody comes out of a cape and we're like, where's your fucking cape? Oh, yeah. That one was great. Yeah. And then I chug a beer and like throw the empty can at this kid.

You're like, get a cape. I want to say Adam had it up like over his mouth, like a vampire. I think it was really an Adam pitch where he wanted to wear capes because Adam is the one friend who really reps for capes. Dude, I still will fuck up a cape, man. Once you get to be like an old soul, you could probably get away with a cape. I truly can't believe that capes have never trended. Swole asshole.

They don't get to wear a swole asshole. Swole. Swole asshole. Swole asshole. He's a swole asshole. So what about the short capes? Like Mbison rocks a short cape, right? Yeah, those are sick.

Those must be called something. Isn't that like a bullfighting? No, it's not a bullfighting cape, right? Or is it? It might be. A matador? I feel like that's kind of what they rock. But then what are they waving?

Aren't they waving their cape? Is that why they have a small cap? They take their jacket off. Yeah, they take that off. They walk in with it. They take it off. They hold it. Yeah.

I mean, matador fashion is wild. I know that it's about to get canceled and like they don't want to do the running the bulls anymore or like the bulls or, you know, they being tortured. Tortured and all that. I want to go before it's canceled because I think it would be fucking awesome. I want to run with the bulls. I want to watch all the animals get tortured. To me, it is the craziest thing.

I want to run with them, stab them. It for sure is one of the craziest things that still goes on in like modern society. Like what a crazy idea. You wouldn't want to run with the bulls? I want to run with them, dude. That'd be crazy. Why? Sure, that's cool.

But why do we have to then go to the staple center and watch you stab it to death? That's hella weird to me. Wait, is that how it ends? Yes, that's how it ends. Wait, what the fuck? This is horrible. That's just a, sorry. That's bullfighting.

That's not how it ends. They don't kill all those bulls in something, but yes, they do kill the, the matador kills the bull. Yeah. You stab it to piss it off. In bullfighting. Right. And then the matador stabs it with the sword. Okay.

So the running of the bulls is not that, but the matador is still. Also, I don't know. I don't know if the running of the bulls is that or not. But someone eats the, the, the bull, the meat of the bull. Yeah. For sure they do. No, no, they don't eat the bull meat. Why not?

I bet it's delicious. I don't think they do. It's been stabbed with a dirty old sword. Yeah, dude. Wait, Adam, Adam, and I know this isn't like, you're not the first and only person that ever wants to do the running with the bulls. Tons of people. Sure.

But why do you want to do it? I don't get it. It seems like it's just a thing that I've seen forever, you know, in movies and television and stuff. And I just was always like, oh, that would be like a cool thing when you're all old on your death bed to be like, oh, I did all this crazy shit in my life. So it's a bucket list thing for you just to, just to say you did. So you want to do it to tell people or to just have done it?

To have done it. Yeah. To think about when you're like all old and you're just going like, so you're just not one of those old people that are like, oh, I sat in my house for 40 years and then I died. You know, you're like, I did this. I like climbed a mountain. Right.

But the difference is like the person who sat in their house might not value running with the bulls anyway. Yeah, they probably won't. Well, the thing about running with the bulls, though, is it's like super dangerous, right? Like if you're not running fast enough, you're going to get pegged by those fucking horns, dog. Yeah, that's true.

Fast, dude. You ever seen my little legs? Yeah. I've seen you run fast in my life. But like, dude, I don't want to be hit by a horn. No, I won't even get hit. I'll dodge them bulls. Do people die when that happens?

People have died, yeah. People get tossed. Fuck that. What the fuck? No, there's no reason. That's my favorite part because I'm like, hey, guess what? If you sign up for this shit, we get to watch you get gored. And honestly, it's they got a coming.

Yeah, you got a coming. Sorry. All right, I'll miss you, buddy. If anyone ever gets like, I feel bad for the person and their family, but like these people with like tigers and monkeys, like I had a joke that I pitched when I was an assistant at real time with Bill Maher that they liked, but they were like, we can't. This is too mean. And I was like, the joke was one of those rules, the new rules or whatever.

And it was that you can't have a pet monkey and a face. Good joke, dirt. Get on. Good joke. I was tired. You can't. And I, when someone gets their face ripped off and they're like, well, it was my pet monkey. I'm like, yeah, that was just going to happen.

Right. Yeah, but I don't want to pet, you know, I don't want to pet monkey. No, but you want to run with the bulls where they're trying to fucking stab your butt, which is arguably dumber. Yeah, they're going to poke you in the butt. I always found it really frustrating how much stronger like orangutans are than us. Because they're always like, you know, we are descendants of like an ape and they are just like a million times stronger than us.

How come we can't tap into that orangutan strength? Interesting. Interesting. Animals don't lift weights. Yeah. That's a great foot fist quote. Isometrics, dude. Isometrics.

Good day. That was wild though. That was like a really specific news story, right? Where like a woman had a pet, what was it? No, this happens every like three or four years that some, usually a woman has a pet monkey, and then they're like eating breakfast or having a tea party, and then it just rips their face off, and they got to get it like transplanted and... I like it's either breakfast or a tea party.

You know, they like... Ow, ow, ow, ow, stop, stop. You know, they're doing regular shit, breakfast or a tea party. It's either this or this. No, I'm saying like they do these social, you know, they do these social, you know, social things with these monkeys like a tea party, like you would do with a kid. Oh, like they dress them up? Well, speaking of, did you guys just watch Bad Trip?

Have you guys seen Bad Trip yet? Eric Andre's movie? Yeah, I watched it. Yes, Eric Andre, yes. Sorry, Eric, not yet. I will, by the time this airs, I will have watched it. Just watched it. Yeah, gotta watch it.

Those are very, very funny. Very funny. Where he gets fucked by an orangutan or a gorilla, and everyone thinks it's real, and it's really good. Wow. I'm excited to see that flick. Very excited. Yeah.

Some funny pranks. Hell yeah, dude. Eric rocks. All right. Was there any takebacks, apologies, or epic slams? Heck yeah. And compliments. Any compliments as well?

You know what, I'd like to apologize to anybody who had a awesome human interaction with anybody working at Blockbuster. I don't want to take away from the human aspect. I do love knowing that you guys were out there bonding in the video store. I may not have had that experience, but I see you. You are seeing. Why do you think you didn't have that experience? I think because I was going in with my mom, and I was just getting video games, and I was getting out.

You never went and rented your own videos when you were like 16 or 17? Even when you're 9 or 10, you just walk over there? Just to throw this back though, Blake, even like you and I, when I got to go to Blockbuster with you, he's gonna cry. We'd pick out and we'd pick out a fucking house crime right now. We'd pick out like a game for like Nintendo 64, get like Corrapa to Rapper. You know what I mean? Like those were good moments.

Sure. I know, I know, but I'm just saying, those were great moments for me and my childhood. And then when I was watching this documentary, I was like, dude, that's not going to happen. Be kind, be wise. That's not happening. I definitely have a lot of memories with my friends within the video store. But it was all about, they were very talk. They were talking about how like you would interact with the people that worked there.

I did not make friends. I know that you don't mix it up with the fucking proletariat. They were the cops to me. They were asking for the late fees. All this soul in the building. If you work at Blockbuster, you were the cops, all right? That's just it. No, look at you trying to make sides.

Listen, if you were cool with them, they would have waived those fucking late fees. Yeah, dude. Thank you. They couldn't. They're like, I don't have the power. They saw that tight little afro and they weren't liking what you were throwing down, dawg. And that's why I went to Bradley Video.

Shout out Bradley Video over Blockbuster. Well, that's fun. I liked the local video stores more than the Blockbuster too, but Blockbuster also ruled. Look, I tried to patch the holes, but you know, it just so happens with Blockbuster. I don't know. Me, they were the enemy to me. I'm sorry. I'm with you.

Blockbuster, we didn't go to, we didn't fuck with Blockbuster. We had Video Adventure and Nieland Brothers Videos. That's where I went. And then I think when I moved to LA, I finally had to get a Blockbuster card because Rocket Video was closing, I think. Yeah. I remember Rocket Video ruled. That was the best video shot.

The two-story Blockbuster in Hollywood next to that KFC. Do you guys remember that joint? It was fucking hitters. Super busy every night. And you're in Hollywood a lot of cinephiles. Yeah, dude. Yeah! You're hearing people talking about screenplays.

It's pretty good. I love it. You're getting KFC next door. You're getting the bowl with a little cheese and a little gravy on it. Oh, God, those bowls, those fucking bowls, dude. The KFC bowls. The KFC bowls. No, no, I'm crying.

Dude, he's crying. Hey, do you guys remember? I think it was just Blake and Adam when we went to a KFC and we saw the hottest girl of all time. And then we all, I talked about this on the blog. Well, we should find her. She should be the fifth member. Well, if she was too hot to be in a KFC, is that the consensus?

We were like, why are you? We didn't talk to her. But we were like, why are you here? We saw the hottest girl we've ever seen in our life. We didn't talk to her. No, we pointed at her and we stared at her from a distance while we shoveled our face with potatoes and gravy. And bowls.

Mac and cheese bowls. And fried chicken. Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, summer Thanksgiving. I'd like to, can I compliment? You can. Sure. I'd love it.

I'd love one. I'd like to compliment Mother Earth. Okay. For bringing us. It's science. The vernal equinox. Spring is here and it's beautiful. Get outside and enjoy that sun.

Huh. Whoever's next can go. Yes, sir. There wasn't a compliment in there for any, the three of us. We don't really do that, I've noticed. It's a lot of like, take back for the people out there. Compliments to like. I can compliment each one of you guys for something.

I've been, I compliment each one of you almost every time. I compliment at least one of you. Uh-huh. I can do that if you want it. You need it? I can do it. I don't need it. I still love you.

I'd like to compliment, uh, Anders. Okay. For being just a fucking radical dude. That I just love his opinion. 69, dude! Yeah. I love his fodder. I love everything about him.

So, I know you're lying. I want to be on you. All right. Somebody else can go. I don't do fodder. Luke, I am your fodder. Hey, Anders, I am your fodder. I thought you said you're going to do all of this talk.

Okay, Adam, I'd like to compliment you on your southern accent. I know you're heading into a big shoot. Thank you. And I think you got, you got nothing to worry about, bud. You're going to get out there and fucking crush it. I'm happy that you're practicing it. And, uh, thanks y'all. Just awesome.

Looking forward to the next season, uh, and you're out there with them dudes. Yes, sir. Pumped on that. Thanks y'all. I'm really excited to be shooting Ratchet Chimps on season two. Yeah, baby. See, sounds good. It's natural.

And Blake, uh, well, congrats on that, uh, that, that, uh, congrats on, you know what I mean? Like just complimenting you and everything about you. Anyways, somebody else could go. Well, don't force it. I was going to force it. I love him. I love him forever.

I would say congrats on Blake for remembering to do this, the, the, the board. Cause there for a while he wasn't remembering. We actually had to kind of remind him, but then as soon as he, we reminded him, he was pretty good. That's another episode of take anything back. Takebacks. You have any takebacks? There's, this is important.

Take a, there's one of your takebacks. A couple. This is important. Since it is, I got nothing. You don't take back nothing. You stand by everything you said. I don't remember anything. Even when you went on that, uh, uh, on that racist rant.

Oh, we're going to cut that out. Oh, you are cutting that. It's just, you know, we didn't feel about Swedish people and we'll leave it at that. There's a huge difference. I can't get into it. Swedish. But, uh, I, I said what I had to say and I stand by it. Leave them wanting less.

Leave them wanting less. Would you guys want to run with the bulls as this is important? We run with the bulls, we go to Spain, we do a podcast from there, and then we run with the bulls and then do a podcast right afterwards. I think that people would love that. I could be into it. You can remote in from anywhere, bro. I'm not doing anything for these people like that.

What's that? Uh, uh, you're saying like you think the people would like that? I don't care. I'm not running with the bulls for the people. You'll butt chug. I'm not going to do it for myself either. You'll butt chug, but you draw the line at bulls. Yeah.

Hey, fair enough. Yeah. Even if you take a hollowed out bullhorn and that's what you pour the chug sauce in with, that's great. Okie dokie. But that's on my terms. I don't want some bull doing it against my terms. All right.

That's the thing about Derzis. He needs his terms met. I need my druthers and my terms met. Gotta have my druthers. Boy has druthers. This is important. All right. Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't want to run with the bulls.

I, um, I don't need that. Like I'm good. I know that we discussed this. I think you treat you chase adrenaline because you've cheated death when you got hit by the cement truck. So you, you, you're chasing that feeling again. Or you just are like, is this the day where I go? I'm six feet from the edge and I don't know the words.

And I'm thinking maybe six feet in so far down. Cow's crying. Fuck it. All right, guys. That was another episode of this is important. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called inner cosmos on I heart. I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains

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