Blocks w/ Neal Brennan - Adam Devine

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

Neal Brennan interviews Adam Devine ('The Out-Laws,' 'Righteous Gemstones,' 'Workaholics' + more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 8:40 Likes to be liked  22:04 Health 39:22 Rotisserie Chicken 49:17 Crime + Mass Shootings 56:57 Rotisserie Chicken 57:53 Doesn’t Want to be Old 1:04:40 What He’s Done 1:09:50 Movie of His Life ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com for tickets to Neal's tour Brand New Neal Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: GameTime App Code: BLOCKS for $20 off your first purchase https://babbel.com/blocks for 55% off your subscription https://seed.com/neal for 25% off your first month of DS-01® Daily Synbiotic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bacardi. Its trade dress and the bat device are trademarks of Bacardi and Company Limited. Rum 40% alcohol by volume. Hi, hey, hi. Hi. It's me. And I'm not going to say who you are yet. Oh, Neil Brennan's here. I'm Neil Brennan.

This is my podcast. And I'm not going to introduce it anymore. Guys, if you haven't figured out what the premise of the podcast is, click on a different episode, and you'll get it there. My guest today is a man that I've known 2008, 2009. Of course, we worked together on some award-winning best buy commercials back to school with my cousin andy starting college i thought i'd drop off some best buy gear to get him up to speed oh my god back to school 2018 you who could forget it uh two years in a row yeah yeah god damn if it ain't broke run it on back adam divine and now i don't even how do you when people say

people say that was i like your delay um uh people say you're like what do i what am i supposed to do when someone says my name give it three seconds and throw up the dude stare dead dead into camera and throw up the deuce what do you consider just comedy person comedian actor both yeah all the stuff what what should the chiron be we're not going to have one what would it be actor comedian great but things are going well very well for you you as of guys as of this moment and this is going to air in a month or something number one movie on netflix that's right bigger than raiders of the lost ark 5 which means he's more talented than harrison that is exactly what it means that's did you draw that conclusion yeah i know immediately yeah i called my dad and told him bigger than harrison

ford hey remember that hey where's your boy hey dad where's your boy at now yeah he's fucking he underperformed at the box office where he is your son though your son's worldwide not at the box office and you'll hang up yeah not just stupid it's not about the box office anymore okay this is this is the streaming literally stupid yeah don't be an idiot dad you fucking idiot i'm cutting your cell phone off um because you pay for a cell phone in this in this scenario yeah and you probably still and you probably do anyway um i pay for my mom's cell phone i'm not gonna lie about it you do i think i'm still on my parents plan that's very funny i think i i think they i pay them to still be on the plan to keep my same phone number.

Because I've had the same phone number since I was a sophomore in high school. Great. It's super annoying because I get prank phone calls every day. Well. Every day, dude. The fact that this wasn't on your blocks list is an atrocity. It doesn't bug me. Why not?

Because you feel like I can't hate the player. You know what I mean? Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Yeah. I'm like, this is part of it. And also, I'm like, I'm not going to get a new phone and have to. Because I'm sure you know famous people that get a new phone number every week.

And then you can never track your friend down you're like i would like to know it's worse than that you have to call someone else to get their number yeah like you're working for uh yeah as if you're tmz like you're holding a skateboard and we're holding a fundraiser yeah can you submit a baseball glove yeah i work for the dnc yeah there you go uh yeah you have to track them down and it you're i appreciate it i'm keeping it and i guess you know if i don't know the number i just don't answer i like how now it goes like maybe spam brennan probable spam yeah maybe it might be this person yes could be totally agree and also just hit block it's blocking changed well what you could do what uh the real psychopaths do uh specifically

they're gonna listen to this and be like oh i'm coming after you now um i have a very i have a very unhinged yeah i Yeah, I can tell. I do a lot of mental health stuff. It's part of the pressure. I get prank calls, but it's just people crying. It's just, help me. I'm depressed too. And I'm like, fucking lose my temper.

The mushrooms didn't work. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, I think there must be some kind of service online. I'm so old. Some kind of where you could I'm so old. Uh, some kind of where you could just get a fake number. Somebody bought my, get a fake number. There's a burn.

There's an app burner app. I think that must be it because every time it's like a new number and then they'll leave like little messages on the, on my answer machine. So I never, it's always full. Like if my agent is trying to call me, they're like, I get a text being like if my agent is trying to call me they're like

yeah i get a text being like your mailbox is full of uh and but it's just little merlins they're like well what will it be it's like why aren't you coming out to party adam i'm like um because i'm 39 years old now i don't go out on tuesdays yeah yes thank you yeah thank you um okay so so it seems like it's going great and it doesn't seem to be waning as proof by having the number one movie i mean look a lot i think a lot of that's alan bark and i might be pierce which one could be what's funny is a guy like pierce you probably didn't realize how famous he was until you saw him in person you were like fuck that's dude fucking pierce brosnan well i knew you know because you know he was my james bond yeah name is bond james bond so uh he was gold and i you know and and i played that game religiously and uh i was like he's super famous but you are right

when you see like a really especially a good looking famous person like you see like someone who's like just a comedy famous person like a Martin Short or something you're like oh shit he's like my uncle look at him go and then you see Pierce Brosnan and you're like

something happens deep within you I did i took i did a uh men in black 2 commercial with uh hemsworth yeah put it put it up um deuces um and hemsworth had apparently flown from Australia that day or something. First of all, there's a picture of me and him. You can't fucking believe how good looking he is. And then there's a picture of me and picture of me and Tessa Thompson. Hemsworth does like the sneak behind.

And my camera is like, who the fuck is that? The camera redirected. The camera's like, yo, get the fuck out of the way. Stop what you're doing. There's an Adonis behind you. Yeah. Leave. That's been basically my, not my whole career, but it seems like that's the path that Hollywood wants to push me in.

Like, super handsome man, and then I'm also there. It's like Zac Efron, me, Liam Hemsworth, me, Pierce Brosnan, and then I'm also there. Well, it's like Zac Efron, me, Liam Hemsworth, me, Pierce Brosnan. And then I'm also there. I think it's just, I look hilarious next to these guys. Well,

the other funny thing is like, you're pretty good looking. It's the cameras and impossible. Yeah. I feel like I'm a good looking guy in a, in a, like a really small town. Yes.

Like if I was in a really small town, you're a villain in a small town and a small, in a small ski town, you're a villain in a small town. In a small ski town, you're a villain. You think? Yeah, man. I feel like I'd be the good-looking guy who's just like, oh, we got to get these. I feel like Anders Holm from Workaholics,

he's the ski town good-looking. You're right. Yeah. You'd be one of his buddies. Yeah. I'd be one of the, yeah, get him, dude. You'd say something to the guy like at when the when you guys were all legs and you go thought so yeah that's right i'm always pulling punches yeah yeah by the way

i should make that movie i would love the second most evil guy yeah anytime you want to make a evil ski movie parody not parody where it's going be we're gonna keep it very we're gonna it's gonna straight face like it works if it's there if you want it okay let's do some blocks that's enough grab us all right sorry dude sorry man god are you gonna be like this um okay blocks adam divine deuces number one block i like to be liked yeah okay why is that a block well because it it bothers me you know you read stuff online or you uh mostly just stuff online where you're just so you don't okay i got why are you why would you say such mean things like i'm just trying to do funny stuff and whether you dislike it like i guess i'm not the type of person that would dislike something and then have

to go tell that person yes so it does it does bug me more than i want to but i mean it's not ruining my life the issue isn't to me i read the issue as because i have we all have it right we the every human being wants to be liked for sure we have a place that called the comment section or twitter whatever where we the problem is when we start like, so what do you guys think? Yeah. And then, well, that's within that, by the way, the ratio is still 10 to one like, if not 50 to one like, but the, I just had to stop. I just have a, I just stopped.

First of all, blocking words, block words. You can do it on YouTube. You can do it on Twitter threads. Really? Yeah. You can block words. You can do it on YouTube. You can do it on Twitter. Threads. Really? Yeah. You can block words. Oh, wow.

Can I suggest some things you might want to block? Sure. Yeah. You had just chubby face, neck fat. Okay. So you get it. Okay. So you know.

All right. So, yeah. So you can block words. Huge. Wow. Huge. Yeah. Cool. so you know um all right so yeah so you can block words huge wow huge yeah cool um so and and also you can't give yourself access to it it's not that often most times i brush it off but then every once in a while you're like you work so hard on a thing and then what you know people say mean shit or just like a review

and you're like, how do you hate it this badly? Like it doesn't seem like there's that. Why do you have so much hate for this thing? Yeah. It seems like you could just go on with your day and continue to live your life and not even think twice about this thing. Right.

But that's where you're kind of good looking comes in. That's where success comes in. That's where like you always seem tan. No one likes that. And like there's just a lot of things that people are basically they're just jealous. Right. Yeah. Well, I know.

And I don't say that like jealous much. Like I get it it i'm jealous of plenty of people yeah so i don't now i don't snap at them on instagram or i or whatever like will i send a hate you will will i send like uh will i send to my group chat you know i will but i'm not gonna you're never gonna never going to know about it. Yeah. Thank you, Neil. And the, so, you know, um,

so the other, the other thing I would say is it's like a, if we don't solicit it, we can't see it. If we don't need the, if we don't have the hunger, we're never going to see the negative comment. The issue is,

is like when my agents or managers will send me like a good review i think i know where you're going and you're like oh hell yeah like look at this and then you're like and the good reviews are gonna are rolling in now anyway get me my neck gobble gobble gobble gobble and then you start to read the reviews and you're like well this was the one you sent me the one and the rest of them you can't ever read reviews yeah literally just no i had a when this is how long i've known this when me and dave were writing half-baked this is how fucking long ago this is there was a article about woody allen in the new yorker that this is how long ago this was about how great he was and one of the quote and i had it on my wall it was like allen saves his anxiety for action and he said like don't read reviews just keep your head down and do the work

and i that's right again that's like the best and that's all i know about woody allen uh so but do i look they sometimes they leak in but i the thing you were saying about like they send you a review and they sent it to you because it's it that's why they would send it yeah it's the good one because if they're all good then they're not going to send you a hundred yeah link i have and it's still the it's still the good review that they sent me which was so funny dude it was the new york times and it said adam divine is funny at last i mean which i like i liked i'm like that's funny it's also it's also like it's a funny backhanded like he likes the movie. Yeah. Well, there's always in every positive review has a, but I ain't no bitch paragraph.

Yeah. Like, good review of the movie, and they're like, but by the way, sometimes he's awful. He doesn't accent one of the scenes. That's a fucking embarrassment. I'm really offended by it. Despite that, there's always this like that's true looky here so but yeah but that's you know that's why you moved out here though i feel like so you have to you know yeah no one dislikes you in person that's the thing it's all no one's gonna say any did someone say sell out to you in person no no one's ever said that in person so two

comments yeah and you're like it can really ruin your day. No, yeah. But I feel I'm a pretty well-adjusted person. I do too. So it doesn't really. It's just, you know, you made me write a list of five things that kind of bummed me out. So I was like, yeah. Yeah.

Kind of like it. You are a well-adjusted person from what I understand. But that is the thing of, will you stop? Will you change your behavior slightly knowing like, hey, this hurts my feelings? Well, I'm about like a solid decade in of creating television shows and movies. And I've yet to stop. So I don't know. You know, I feel like every time I happen and this is going to yet to stop so i don't know you know i feel like every time what

happened and this is going to be the one that i won't this is going to be no it's every time it's this is the time that every critic is going to be hop on board and then you look and you're like but then you meet these critics and you're like well well, this movie isn't for you. You're like 70 years old. You're like, you're, you're comparing me to like Mickey Rooney and like Jack Lemon, which like, I like both of those. Very cool. And, and, you know, I, me being in the industry, I really, I know who those people are, but like people are in their twenties and thirties.

Don't know who those people are at this point. Yes. So that, so I'm like, it's just sort of a generational thing too. And also you meet Adam Sandler, who's never gotten good reviews. Yeah, exactly. And you're like, huh, would I rather be him? Or, and then there's really no or, because he can do great movies when he wants. can do great movies when he wants and he can do his family like his like big happy madison silly cool movies and be like a great dude it's like though that seems like he's he's one of my

true heroes that guy an ideal like that's an ideal outcome yeah so or i mean also think about who was famous when Sandler broke it. I mean, it's amazing. Like Jim Carrey doesn't even make movies anymore. Hardly. I know. Yeah. Stiller doesn't really make movies anymore.

He's directing. Yeah. No, I know. But I'm saying like, it's not even like the fact that Adam's still doing it. He's like the one guy still churning out comedy movies, which is in the world on earth and you. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, like that's a pretty good outcome.

And again, never got a good review. And then when he started getting hot, he wouldn't do press. That's which is my favorite part about it. That's so cool. Yeah. And then when he has Instagram or whatever, but he does not really on it. He just is like, yeah, post about the movie. And then they cool. Yeah. And then when he has Instagram or whatever, but he does not really on it. He just is like, yeah, post about the movie. And then they do.

Yeah. He doesn't, he can't care about reviews. Yeah. He's the coolest. The best. You know him at all? Yeah. A little bit.

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Dude. Not help. My body is falling apart. Health. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah. My body is falling. Tell us about your body falling apart.

Dude, it sucks. I really am. It's, uh, I was hit by, I mean, you know this. I don't. I do. Tell the people. Yes. So I was hit by a cement truck when I was a kid and I couldn't walk for about two years and I had dozens of surgeries.

It crushed everything from my knees down, broke my left femur, broke my ribs, punctured lungs, the whole thing. And I had to relearn how to walk. It was a long process. And then from then on, I was like, they told me like, you have to exercise to stay in good shape or else you might be in a wheelchair by the time they, they told me at 30, you might be in a wheelchair by the time they they told me at 30 you might be in a wheelchair if you don't like stay in good health and so like i did so i worked out all the time and i'm like i am in good shape uh and then just in the last couple years i think i like overdid it i like worked out too much and i like became like one of those guys that everyone hates that wear spandex and rides

bicycles on the side of the road I as you were talking I remember I have a picture on of you on my phone from the Best Buy commercial there was somewhere you stuck your ass in the camera sure and just a little bit of ball is hanging out of the underwear really yeah did I never show you that oh you have to send that come on out no yeah i think i still have it on my phone bring out the poster board i may have thrown i may have erased it but like it made it a year wow and then i was like i don't know who i i thought i already sent it to you you got it too too horny it gets me it would get me too it was a huge impediment to getting things done it was a real real block for you. Yeah, thank you. And there was no podcast back then.

Okay, so you were obsessed with that, rightfully obsessed with exercise. So, yeah. So I'm sort of, I guess this is another block. I sort of like when I do a thing, I maybe do it too much and I go overboard with the thing. Give me other examples. and I go overboard with the thing. Give me other examples. Like when I would do stand-up,

I did stand-up seven days a week and I would never not be doing stand-up. Or when writing Workaholics, I was obsessed with it and I couldn't have real relationships. And then now I feel like I've gotten to a point that I know it's not going to go away as quickly as I thought it's not going to go away as quickly as I thought it might go away at the beginning when you're trying to get yeah established

yeah I'm more comfortable just going like no I'm not I'm fine not yeah like overworking myself I know how to regulate that now and did you get it with exercise as well well now I'm figuring that out I thought exercise was just a good thing so i was doing this seven days a week and i was riding that damn bike like 200 plus miles a week and so on the streets on the streets where would you ride in around orange county i have a house down there so i was just like all over up and down the beach. And so I tore a ligament in my hip and I like tore my groin, my psoas muscle. Yeah.

And essentially now I have to have surgery. And that was like a year and a half ago that all this happened. And I can't walk. Like if I walk more than a mile, like I have to sit down and I'm in like a ton of pain. So my body is falling apart and it scares me, dude, because you're like, you have to be able to walk.

Okay. Well, let me ask about the original childhood stuff. What did you, how did you feel about it most of the time? Meaning I, if I, I felt like if I was like infirmed, body cast, rebuilt legs, I would feel extremely sorry for myself. No, I didn't really. I think that was just like my mom was awesome and just would make me not feel that way. And it could have been worse. I could have been dead.

That was pretty regularly like. Yeah. Could have been much, much worse. And you're like, oh, yeah, it might be. And you like. Yeah. Could have been much, much worse. Yeah. Like, you know, and you're like, oh, yeah, it might be. And you agreed. Yeah. I was like, yeah, this. Well, I have like crazy scarring on my legs.

I don't know. So like pretty crazy scarring, but it stops at the knees. Right. So I was like, that could have been my face. It could have been, which would have been, I probably wouldn't have had an acting career. Or you would have had one and gotten amazing reviews for bravery. Dude, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.

Well, that's going to be, if I had an accident on my bike now, the road rash. Look, you're only 40. Yeah, I still have time. Yeah, maybe we'll get into motorcycles at some point. Okay, so you're in how to did kid were kids. I think the rap on kids is that they're so mean, but I also think what's underestimated is that they can be incredibly kind. Yeah, for the most part, I was like a new kid in school. So my family moved from Waterloo, Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska when I was 10,

and then the accident happened when I was 11. So I was the new kid in school and then the accident happened in that the summer going into sixth grade which is where we changed from elementary school going into middle school so i like started sixth grade halfway through the school year because i was recovering and i'm in the wheelchair and I'm rolled in. And it was actually pretty cool because I didn't know anyone. And they essentially already like had an announcement like, hey, Adam Devine, I was sort of famous for like being the kid who was hit by the cement truck in town. And it was awesome. As far as that goes.

Yeah, they're not going to be like, look at you fucking. There were a few kids and then later you find out like the kid who bullied me was the kid who his dad died uh fucking a prostitute like had a heart attack and died and so obviously he was dealing with his own stuff at home yeah so he took it out on the on the cripple kid but for the most part it was it was like kind of a get out of jail free card where i knew that i could say crazy stuff because no one's really gonna pull it up don't make me i will pull it up totally if you don't if you punish me for this you're gonna get an iphone yeah ouchie uh and i knew that like no one's gonna i mean who knows nowadays but no one's gonna like just showing that do you feel like or do you just feel like i really don't give a shit it means

nothing now i don't care now i don't care and the only reason i don't show it in movies like because every once in a while people will be like well why are you wearing those high socks yeah and i'm like why is your balls on my phone hanging out on neil brendan's phone and essentially i'm just like i don't want to explain it in the movie like the character doesn't have and it'd be funny if you did it in every movie and it was a different story yeah yeah yeah uh like look well and then i would be getting great reviews you ever heard of iraq yeah well i used to always make up stories, especially like if I'm at the beach and like kids would be like, oh my God,

what's with your legs? I'd be like, shark attack, San Mateo, 94. And I literally said that to this little kid and he goes,

yeah, I heard about that. Like you weren't, you weren't able to. That's like that bit Kimmel does at the gas station or the bands for

for fucking Coachella one of my favorite bands this year is Dr. Shlomo and the GI Clinic they're amazing yeah they're always amazing okay so that's interesting and then so it didn't have like a major effect on your psyche that you're aware of or it was just kind of like well no then

I think it put it gave me like a motivation that i know for a fact i wouldn't have moved to la because no one in we didn't we were a super blue collar family like going to college was wasn't even mandatory it was like yeah if you want to or you can work for the railroad like your dad and his brothers like or you can learn a trade yeah it would like moving to hollywood to to wear makeup and pursue your dreams of being an actor seemed like what the fuck did you want to do did it make you go like well i don't care because i shouldn't i can't worry about that because i have i have a thing i need to prove well it was like i wanted that was

a thing that i always wanted to do. I thought I was a funny kid. Didn't you start working young? Didn't you do something in your teens? No. I moved when I was 18 and then Workaholics is kind of the big. 18 is pretty early though. Yeah. Yeah.

I moved out young and then started and then did stand up and got new faces in Montreal when I was 22 and then workaholics when I was 25. So it was, it all happened in hindsight. And you worked, I remember you were in like a Doritos commercial somewhere. You were like the devil,

uh, Taco Bell, volcano nachos. Yeah. And Joe and Anthony Russo directed that commercial. Yeah. Russo brothers from, uh,

they also did, uh, from the Iron Man or no they did uh captain america captain america and they did all the avengers and stuff that's the stuff that's the stuff um haven't gotten that call yeah what's up joe and anthony huh weird weird uh they must have read the review they must have thought you'd change your number yeah it didn't happen guys same number same number and don't try it on them don't be you change your number yeah it didn't happen guys same number same number and don't try it on them don't be you change the number motherfucker it was joe and anthony rusa

going exactly um so okay so you move up you move out here and then so what's the what's the when you said i would it made me want to sort of what's the, when you said it made me want to sort of, what about the injury made you want, not like they're directly, but how do you see the correlation? For me, it was just my motivation of like, you can't be lazy. Like, because you're going to die. So you have to try to get as much stuff in as possible because you never know when a cement truck might come out of nowhere man uh but i mean honestly that is you know i uh that is the truth that's interesting that well that's the good thing about i've said it on here which is the only thing that makes people change is almost dying yeah i mean for sure and it happened so young that it just sort of it just like lit something inside of me

and but also i was young enough and naive enough that i was like oh i can pull it off yeah like i remember my dad used to watch evening at the improv yeah on like a and e or whatever it was on and it was bud freeman at the improv and i'm sure that's where we met initially because i was there and i remember watching it and it wasn't like the big comics that like seeing Eddie Murphy or someone or Chris Rock. It was like seeing like the regular guys

that their jokes are okay and they're getting laughs and they're on TV. And I was like, well, I can do that. Yeah. That's the, Rock actually says

there's the mediocre inspirations yes that's it wasn't almost more inspiring than the greats yes because you go well you're like and then and then you can then you're like you look at eddie and chris david when you're like i'm gonna try try to get there like i'll try to get there if not i'll get still a nice life a great life it's a good life uh so essentially and and and that was it and then i moved out here and started to do it when did you get good do you think uh still where were you finally funny apparently this last movie according to the new york. What a ride. I know, man. What a slog. A series of seven movies. Yeah, 15 years in.

A couple years in, I would say I started to feel like I was doing what I set out to do. By the time I saw you, I'm probably saying, oh wait, I think you had a good joke about alcohol voices, maybe.

It was like beer. Oh, yeah. I had a runner about your beer talking to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like, yeah, this is what you're... My brand of... Yeah, but it's like your belief system. It's not even your brand.

It's not like you chose it well what shall i that was i it was like when i was really young i saw like brian regan or someone it was brian regan i saw him at the irvine improv when i was 18 i can tell you crushing crushing crushing like you he's the first person i ever saw in a club yeah when i was like 14 in new york and chapelle saw him the same year and we've agreed like i've still never heard laughs like that you too he was an absolute a fucking monster yes and like i was gonna post about him yesterday like this guy is so fucking good it's crazy and way underappreciated and he's so funny and i was 18 and afterwards i like waited for him to come out of the club i'm like there by the the pf changs or whatever the hell's right

there and i'm i like he comes out and i go brian i'm i'm a comic i'm trying to get into it do you have any advice for me and he he's like don't try to like get get a persona like don't put on someone else's persona just do comedy and then you your personality will end up being the persona yeah and i just took that to heart and was like okay i'm gonna just try to be me uh and maybe fail a lot but uh but at some point it'll click. And I think it happened fairly quickly for me that I felt comfortable, because it's just about being comfortable on stage at first

and then having your material catch up to that. Yeah, you're right. It's like just getting reps. But that's the upside of that workaholism. You didn't get worse at comedy. No. I don't think there is a thing as comedy is one of those things i don't think you can get worse at from doing too much i think you

if you do too many like kind of i or yes and no well to me i'm like now once you once you have the chops you don't need to go up every night yeah like you know like i feel like chris rock doesn't go up every night now when he's getting ready for a special he writes and writes and writes and then he goes and tries his material and gets the reps that way yeah um but when you're starting you have to just get up every night writing like yeah in the hallway trying to figure your bits out and then trying that every night and getting the reps. Yep. That's what happened during COVID. I think a lot of people were like, I don't need to do it as much as I was doing it. When you were a kid, did somebody read Everybody Poops by Taro Gomi to you? I'm so old. I was an

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you asked me to write these plots like i said i'm fairly well adjusted yeah i don't i feel like there's some truth to it yeah where are you getting this chicken the grocery store man like so you just are going to ralph's or whatever we'll bleep whatever your home your home pavilions yep pavilions he's a pavilions guy yeah i'm a pavilions boy uh deuces um yeah i well dude i mean this is a gross story but like i i shit out a rope. Wild. Now, are they ropes or are they string? You tell me.

Let me see it. Yeah, it's the string that ties it together. And then I just eat it like a... Is that a true story? It's so real, dude. It's so real. And it's scary. How much rope story so real dude it's so real and it's how much rope this long it's this long i thought i had a tapeworm or something i was like what the you had chicken rope with a new thing yeah it's diagnosed your body can pass it um

and are you doing it in contests no no well it, it's like I said earlier, it's like once I get on a thing, I'll just like I'm the same with like a song where like my wife hates it, because if I like a song, I'll just play it on repeat for months. And I love it because it's like I'm not even listening to it at this point. It just like puts me in a mood. Yeah. And it's the same with like a food. If I like I got on a rotisserie chicken kick and then it's every day rotisserie chicken. And my wife's like, do we want to have something else today? Maybe some pasta or a salad. Covered in grease.

Yeah. And I'm just like just hot sauce. Get out of here. So, yeah, I would say it's a block for me. Get out of my chicken coop. You're living in a chicken coop at this point? Like just wearing a tarp in an open chicken coop? Yeah, but I feel like that wasn't a real one.

I just added that because I figured you might like it. No, that's very funny. I also just remembered you're in Pitch Perfect. Good job. Yeah, man. Please don't stop the, please don't stop the, please don't stop the music. Because I was like picturing you singing. I was like, where do I know that image from? Yep don't stop the, please don't stop the music. Because I was like, I pictured you singing. I was like, where do I know that image from?

Yep. Oh, yeah, Pitch Perfect. I stay singing. I'm doing a Pitch Perfect spinoff show. Oh, yeah, you are. Yeah. In Germany. Bumper in Berlin.

Yeah. Yeah. Because Jamila's on it, right? Yeah, that's right. That's great. And when are you going back? Well, when the strike. Strike.

You know, we're striking, so. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Didn't have to and so did you stop with the chicken for me to not i've cooled it recently uh after the rope incident that feels like a sign yeah i think it was that maybe and also like i'm not i'm not slowing down enough to not eat the rope. Maybe it's time to reevaluate my choices. I mean, it would have to get pretty wild for me to not know. I also feel like I've gained a bunch of weight. Like, I'm not particularly fat, but I think I'm just like a bigger guy now.

Yeah, you're thicker, yeah. Because I think I'm just eating too much goddamn protein. I was like thicker yeah. Because I think I'm just eating too much god damn protein I was like protein. You don't need to look up how much protein you really need you don't need nearly as much. I was like protein loading like I was a bodybuilder or something not even trying to do that just because I love eating rotisserie

chickens so you know. Wild. Maybe I'd cool it or not Hey I like your attitude most people don't yeah so thank you for the support of my attitude how were you were living there for four or five months germany yeah like four months did you like it berlin yeah it was cool it was uh it was a weird place man i i really liked it i took german in high school so i weirdly could get around a little bit. I mean

it was still COVID times so the clubs were shut down and then halfway through the clubs opened up and I didn't go because I'm the head of the show and if I get COVID the whole production shuts down. You like to yell that to people on the phone, right?

Yeah, I'm always... I'm the head of the show! I'm the head of the show! Goodbye'm the head of the show. Goodbye. You don't have to reach me. Never going to reach me. And so I didn't go to these nightclubs, but my wife and I were at a restaurant and the maitre d' was like, how are you liking Germany?

And I'm like, oh, sehr gut, love it here. And they go, have you been to Bergheim? Which is like the club. Yeah. And we're like, no. And they go, have you been to Bergheim? Which is like the club. Yeah. And we're like, no. And they're like, oh, it's fantastic. The piss parties. Your table's ready.

And we're like, the piss parties? Sir. Yeah. We're like, explain more about these piss parties. And apparently there's a guy who's like in his 60s now that goes by the piss goblin. Okay. I'm getting hungry. Go ahead.

who's like in his 60s now, that goes by the piss goblin. Okay, I'm getting harder. Go ahead. And he will lay down in like the trough of the men's bathroom and just like, and you piss on his face. And then there's like grates that people will just like squat down

or whip the thing out and piss. And he'll be underneath the grates like. Okay. And this is Berlin, man. it's not not everybody my favorite part about living there was like meeting the grips meeting the like electric guys who are just blue collar workers that work on a production and they're super normal they just go back to their wife and kids and they're super normal regular guys very nice and they're like it's not yes there are those people

here in berlin but not everybody's like that and then i stayed at the soho house and like i've been to that actual soho yeah and they have a cool bar upstairs and but it's a scene and on like you know the weekends or whatever my wife and i are up there it's 11 o'clock it's midnight we're having some drinks and then you just see like a gang of guys in like leather snm gear with like a chain connecting their nipples down to like somewhere else somewhere you don't know where who knows and they're literally they had an awesome rotisserie chicken at the when you go up and say hey i, I shit ropes. I'm like, if you like that rotisserie chicken. This chain stuff's fine, but I shit ropes. If you're going where I think you're probably going, I'll gift you this rope.

And seeing like these guys just eat rotisserie chicken there, it was a scene. It was a full circle moment. Yeah, it really was. It sure sounds like. Been to Germany once. And did you go to the Holocaust thing? Obviously, it's like a nice, well laid out. But just like the fact that 7 million Jews were killed and like a third of them were Polish was striking to me because so Polish people and then remember

so Polish people are like a lot of them die. And then remember when we were growing up, did you have Polak jokes? Yeah, which I never understood. I didn't either. I didn't feel like I even knew any Polish people. Right. But it's also like, hey guys, maybe give them a break for a little bit. For sure. Like just

maybe not, maybe just kill that whole genre. Well, don't say kill but yes incinerate no no no put on trains and guests but uh no no no but why uh i yeah i feel um also just how literal germans are like the the name of the of the museum is like the monument to the murdered Jews of Europe. And you're like, this is so... I just did Amsterdam. I feel like we would gloss that up in America. But they're just like, this is what it is.

This is exactly what it is. Murder con. Something like that. Something fun, something jazzy. We'd sell really expensive tickets. Holocaust of doing business. I'm just now in my brain. I'm not even, I can't, I'm not responsible anymore.

I'm not signing this waiver. I had done London two nights, go to Amsterdam, and I'm just kind of bombing. And it made me laugh so hard because I, like the first few jokes where you're trying to gauge and you're like oh i heard amsterdam people didn't have good sense of humor and then people and then you make a joke out of it and it's whatever but and then people were like why did you keep saying you were bombing it was i felt bad for the organizer whatever it's like

because that's bombing to me what was happening was my version of bombing i'm not gonna write my standard down like yeah german well i mean obviously amsterdam isn't in germany but i feel like it's a similar it's yeah uh were they like my assistant was this very funny like 22 year old girl very sweet uh and we got along great but like you'd say something to her and she'd be like and i'm like i'm joking she's like it's very funny yeah and you're like well tell your whole face like because it's not what you're giving me isn't it's funny you just gotta laugh at it she's like yeah and then she would like try to be like like that is not yeah like i don't you hate to fire someone for not laughing enough but i sounds like anything i gave her a raise i thought it was great danny take notes yeah see he benny really gave us a nice nice. Nice, nice. Unbelievable, too.

Let's bring it down a little bit. Let's downshift. I don't love crime or mass shootings. Controversial as hell. Yeah, dude. Go on. Do tell. Dude, I don't like it.

Okay, true crime podcast, true crime documentaries. Yeah, I feel like I'll watch it and be intrigued by it, but I'm not. Like, when people are too into it, it is off-putting to me. It's just odd. Again, I don't mind them. Yeah, I'll watch them. Like, if one is, like, a huge hit on Netflix, I'll be like, all right, well, what's everyone watching? But it's not it's not doing it for me and it's just like the amount of uh crime now in the in this city how

like people are just going up to people on the street and just robbing them like as they're eating a salad on a side at a sidewalk cafe like it's terrifying yeah thank god you have a safe house in orange county um i know what you mean i don't the the crime thing hasn't like struck me very closely i just was in mexico city there was a murder across the street from my house just a few weeks ago where in hollywood like what was the scenario uh my neighbor would throw a big uh like poker game like a molly's game yeah molly's game it was just too loud uh and then i don't i think it was like a hit it was like a full-on guy came and murdered the one person and then left didn't steal anything i don't think oh i don't i think

that would have happened before gavin newsom well i'm not blaming i know but i but everybody makes it into this whole thing of like because the because they did this and now i don't even think it's that you can go to cbs and everything's locked up and whatever like i just think it's covid people got so used to where like it's's the masks to me were at least the crime. I don't know about murders, but like the crime thing. It's like people are so used to seeing people in masks. I feel before COVID, you would have been like. If you saw somebody in a mask, you would walk away from them.

Who are all those kids in masks? By the way, they're all wearing Nike. What the fuck's it called? Tech. Yeah, the tech zipper with the tight hood. Yeah, they're all wearing that. If you see a child dressed like that, and he's wearing,

Beware. A lot of them wear like Yeezy slides too, which is like, what are you doing? Yeah, they're robbing a jewelry store in Yeezy slides. Every one of those smash and grabs is a bunch of like kids in the the tech fit sliding on the way out.

I like how it's for sure never planned because they're all just sort of in lounge wear. It's planned. Robbing Nordstrom's. Right. But they clearly not all decided, but they all saw, that's a very indistinguishable outfit. Sure. It's narrow. It's hooded.

I looked this up one time. You know, whenever there's looting, people come out and instantly slip. The thing when they come out with their hands. And I was like, why do they slip? I just Googledled why do they slip the glass someone broke the glass and they come out it's fucking the mark

so they use slides the slides thing is just they want to be lit and I get that if anyone gets it it's Liddy Neal it's Liddy Neal for sure and as the mic goes down litty neil is signing out

um it's lit um that's when i knew i was old when someone that i considered like a peer but they were much younger than me were like it's lit but genuinely said that and i was like but genuinely said that and I was like what? and they're like yeah it was pretty lit and I was like I've aged out I'm an old man now well Adam I'm older than you

and do you genuinely say it? do I use no cap? I mostly don't mostly don't but you know I'm on a lot of black text threats yeah you know how I

I'm a member of many black text threats yeah I bet you are and you find yourself well no cap like last night I was on one of my famous black tweet text threats and I was like something something this bitch and i'm like

i don't know if i need to say this like it's my it's my yeah my class is slang sure yeah but do your friends ever call you out and be like no no no they're not gonna call me out you don't have to try to fit in with us yeah uh well yeah this bitch that's a um yeah that one's fine yeah but it was just like am i you know what i mean like what am i you you really do have to make decisions like am i gonna say it's lit yeah am i gonna say that like am i gonna say it's lit or no cap or fucking what are the other ones crunk um like you really do well for sure i'm gonna say crunk well i first of all just sip it on my juice here i know that like is this too stupid for me to say it at any age yeah so when i'm 29 did i say crunk no no i could have yeah well did you ever say i feel like i used to even say it

crunk specifically like as a bit like around my friends that would think it's funny if i'm saying crunk well but lit i i could it felt too far away from agreed from my age group my question for you is you had a show on comedy central as did did I. Mm-hmm. Did Little John send five cases of crunk juice to the edit? I do think we had crunk juice, and I'm not joking about that. Crunk juice. Well, I thought I was going to

zing you on that, but I tried to pull rank, and I failed. I think we got a lot of things sent to that office. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. Okay, and what don't you love about mass shootings kidding you know what's this i'm actually want to mention this i'll cut it or not so a friend of mine was in the vegas mass shooting

the country music one scary the thing that you don't realize is july 2nd through 5th is a nightmare for her oh i bet like it's a real like ptsd not like i have pt like i actually have a traumatic event that i can point to that's where i heard bullets whizzing past me and saw dozens of people die so that's it's like there's things like that that are awful when it's happening and then the fucking shadow is chasing you forever which a thing it's like you know uh when girls are anorexic they after their if they have it long enough they can't digest certain food and it's like i didn't know that it's fucking awful yeah that sucks i know it's fucking awful and you don't it's just these awful things that you're like oh that's fucking awful yeah that sucks i know it's fucking awful and you don't it's just these awful things that you're like oh that's nothing like yeah never really consider it and

someone tells you what happened you're like oh fuck like then you actually say i'm sorry um because before that i never apologized uh mass shooting everybody doesn't like them i'll go on record number five did i mention the rotisserie chicken thing you did okay good i mean i feel like we um if it were a rotisserie chicken we as a subject everyone who watches this would have would be shitting ropes do you follow me did you get the metaphor it like kind of works i need you to go with me guys for once yeah i sort of get it um we're all gonna be shit uh divine's coming by we're all gonna be all shitting ropes yeah and that's gonna be my next stand-up special is

shitting ropes it's not the worst title i've ever heard deuces it's not the worst title I've ever heard. Deuces. It's not the worst title I've ever heard. And did Divine come by last night? Yeah. Was it like rope shit in Divine? No, it wasn't. He was regular. He was just eating. He actually was eating ice cream.

Yeah. He's just fat ass Divine. Yeah. Fat ass protein. He was proteined up. I guess I don't want to be old. Dude, I'm so... No, no, no.

I feel like I need to have more problems to be on this podcast. And I'm sorry to... We've had... Look, we had Jay Leno and David Letterman on here. Okay. Both have more money than you and I could ever dream of. They're 75. They're hugely successful.

They got problems. What about our... Do you fear aging our do you fear aging do you fear aging and death i just want to be able to do the things that i like to do and it goes back to my health thing where uh i'm afraid because like that doctor told me when i was a kid like there's a strong possibility you could just be in a wheelchair like you're everything could do did they explain how meaning like this deteriorates or you just feel like well i'm just Like there's a strong possibility you could just be in a wheelchair. Like everything could just – Did they explain how?

Meaning like this deteriorates or you just feel like – Well, I'm just like my knees are – I've had four ACL surgeries here. I've had two over here, meniscus. Everything's just very weak. So at some point, I'll need new knees. I'll need new hips. And then you're a little robot person. And who knows? There's a revolution coming.

Yeah. So I'll have AI legs and they'll turn on me. I just start kicking myself in the head. Hit restart. Hit restart. So, yeah, no, I mean, it's nerve wracking as far as that stuff goes. Will it affect your lungs, heart or mind? Obviously, no one wants you in a wheelchair no but i'm saying like i feel like if those stay intact you'll at least be alive

yeah no i don't think so i think those so that's okay yeah and are your parent how old are your parents they are 60 my mom turned 65 uh in like a month, a couple months. Right. Yeah. And my dad is a couple years older, 67. And are they like active and spry? Yeah. My dad just battled lung cancer, which was like the scariest thing that I've ever had to deal with. And you don't even, you know, you just sort of cruise along with your life. And, you know, things have been going pretty damn good for me.

Can't complain. But then something like that happens, and I was just like, well, fuck my whole world. Yeah. I will cash it all in just to have dad be healthy. And now he's in remission. He's looking good. He's feeling good. And thank God.

Well, the funny thing is you could name a price and it's like, no, it doesn't make a difference. It's just like nature. You're like, I'm going to defeat it. That was really, really hard. It was harder than... Everyone goes through something like that with their parents. You have a ton of experience being him

in a way. None of these were fatal, like life or death, like, flip a coin type things, but did it make you, were you surprised by your reaction to it? Yeah, it, like, hit me like a ton of bricks. I was actually on set of The Righteous Gemstones,

and my parents called. I forgot you were on that. Good job. Thanks. This day's working. Come on, guys. Come on, Adam. Don't be that way. Come on, give me Season three of Taron right now. Don't be that way. Come on, give me some. I know you're on a lot of stuff. Dude, it's lit. Pitch perfect and it's lit.

Deuces. We're fam, fam. And they called and we were doing this silly scene, you know, of like, and I'm dressed like a lunatic on that show. And they called and they're like, Hey, we have something that we need to tell you. Um,

are you your mom and dad? Yeah. And they've never called like that. Yeah. And so I'm like, what, what is it? And they're like,

Oh, if you're at work, we'll just talk to you after work. And I'm like, you ruined it. You have to tell me now. And I'm there. We're like,

we really don't think we should tell you now. We really think we need to tell you after work and i'm like dad has cancer right because he was smoked for like 30 years of my life and uh and they were like yes and then that that next scene i was like they're like you really sucked you really sucked that last take and like and admittedly like it was hard because i didn't tell anyone for a couple weeks and like it was really hard to get through those scenes and like jody hill and danny were coming up to me and being like you good because you're not doing good basically yeah um but it was because like i couldn't think of anything else and

i went home that night. I took a bath. I've never taken a bath. I took a bath and, like, just sat in a bathtub with, like, a bottle of wine. My wife was working. She was in Hawaii working, shooting something. So, like, it was just me home alone. And then I had a couple days off. So it was just I just, like, got drunk for two days by myself, which I'm like, I don't do that.

Like, I don't drink alone would you drink pass out wake up immediately drink wow and it uh it it was really scary and and then what was that what were you feeling like meaning what were you experiencing like he's gonna die and that he's not going to see my baby. What kind of stuff? Yeah, that. And it was mostly like I was afraid to feel those feelings. So I'm like, I'll numb it with alcohol. And I felt, I truly felt like I was just falling. It felt like, you know that initial drop?

Yeah. It just felt like that for a a solid two or two or three days where it's just like the world is good my dad and i are super super close and my mom too like i'm very close with my family and uh you know like it would have been so easy for them to just be like just stay in omaha you don't need to move to hollywood and like chase this crazy dream they didn't know anyone in hollywood like what they had to sacrifice to allow me to move out here and pursue this insane thing that we all come out it uh was a lot was a lot for them and they they just mean so damn much to me i mean maybe chicken rope uh both of us knew it's like

pouncing who's gonna call it back first uh like who's gonna call this who's gonna call it you gotta get it you got it i was so i'll do the other callback which is maybe you should get your own phone line you put them through so much all right here is the guys you gotta have two callbacks at all times you got one over here chicken bones over here chicken rope and then fucking uh cell phone service um there you got to figure out what your chicken rope is and what your cell phone service is in every conversation that's right uh this is comedy self-defense absolutely it is um hi-yah hi hi-ha hi-ha um okay have you final two questions have you what have you done in your life in terms of like self not even self-help just what's been helpful to you as a habit change that uh really made you feel better overall or you know you know what i'm asking like

what have you changed is it what change have you made in your adulthood that you're happy you made well i feel like i haven't done i've never been to a therapist i've never gotten any kind of help like that well because you're not weak go ahead yeah because i'm not a better bitch uh better dot com uh no and i'm not opposed to it and maybe i will take it up uh at some point and there was for sure a time in my life when i should have done that also who needs to ever when you have alcohol yeah true um but it was i mean it's like a dumb like instagram quote yeah of that but but it was something that i don't even know where i've heard it first but it was like in your 20s you care about what everyone thinks in your 30s you care you don't care what people think and then in your 40s you realize that no one

cared about you at all yeah or thought about you yeah people cared about you at all. Yeah. Or thought about you at all. People care about you. But not them. Yeah, but I mean, it's true. It's like you care about your family and you love your family, but like everything else is like, no one's thinking about you. Like no one, when you go to a party

and you say something dumb, they think about you in that moment. You're like, idiot, you said a dumb thing. And then immediately they don't remember that you said it because they're thinking about themselves of course and yes and and and it's just like and my wife hates this because it's like like nihilism or something of like just nothing really matters like it's fine the bad reviews that i've gotten, it's fine. I still am working. I'm a nice person. People like to work with me.

It's fine. It's all going to be okay. And even when it isn't okay, even when you get hit by the cement truck in life, it's fine. We're the callback kings signing out. You know, you just, you put your callback. We're the callback Kings signing up. You just put your head down and get through the issue that you're dealing with. And it's all about the, the mental aspect of it and going like, well, how can this work for me?

And having, and realizing that it's just, it's going to be fine because it always is like when you have that, the mindset of like, it's not going to work out. It never works out. It's not going to work fine because it always is like when you have that the mindset of like it's not going to work out it never works out it's not going to work out then it for sure won't it just won't work out well what do you make of your dad survived right temporarily i mean obviously we're all going to die eventually but so you had a positive attitude for this one if it recurs will you you know what i mean eventually you're the positive attitude is not going to make a difference do you know what i mean for sure positive thinking versus negative thinking yes uh i mean and that's and that's just life like

we're all gonna die and at some point the luck will run out and it'll be okay and i'm sure my dad will at that point uh he'll be fine with it yeah i think it was just you know initially when something obviously there's tragedies and people have to deal with some really really heavy stuff and you at the moment you might not think it'll it'll ever get better but it it will. It always does until you die. Yes, it doesn't always get better, but it's never as bad as you think it's going to be. It gets more manageable, if that's the right word. Yeah. The more time goes on, it's not all-encompassing.

It's not all you think about. Yeah, it just evaporates quicker. The hardship, it's just like you're like fuck it you're in free fall for two days and then you get out of it you can't when you're in the free fall you climb out of the bathtub the wrinkliest you've ever been you never left um you were you were you were the bathtub man for that weekend right uh-huh you were like i should fucking monetize this like this is a really good live stream drive me up to la i start twitch uh but you have to bring this is my people come into your house i was thinking and take the

the tub to the club tub tub to the club and then and. Yeah, the tub man is here, everybody. Tub to the club. And then you let urine take care of the rest. You let people's urinary tracts do the rest. Yeah, the piss goblin. Yeah, but you're charging $150. Yeah, you're making money. Yeah, plus you get like a Chirac.

Is that still a cool brand? Chirac, yeah. You get a co. A blueberry flavor initial drop yeah you get like a you get a co-brand yeah piss I mean then what doesn't it have now okay so you're that again not to over it but what do you see the if movie of your life there's always my final question it's annoying but it's there's something to it movie of your life, this is always my final question. It's annoying, but it's, there's something to it. Movie of her life.

What's the story? Who plays you? Of movie of my life. Like with an arc. What's the arc? You know, I, I,

I always like, I love a good, uh, like rags to riches, like biography. And then, you know, hopefully it's something like that.

Hopefully it's not too tragic, but I feel like there's always in a good biography. Like they were shooting heroin in their eyeballs for a few years there and then they climb out of it. Luckily, I've never like my addiction was just like sugar free Red Bulls. sugar-free uh that i had uh gallstones like i pissed like kidney stones or whatever um and i had to go to the hospital it was you know i just i just do things too much that one's on you boss yeah i know uh so that yeah i feel like my it wouldn't be that good of a story you're like this no you're missing the whole story the whole story is you almost die sure but that's happened so early you know you got that informs everything you have second half of the second act you're in the tub okay all right you're in the tub idiot yeah have you never written narrative before oh wait you did 70 episodes it's you get a perspective

sure that you wouldn't have gone any other way, then it seems to inform everything after it. Obviously, you have to forget about it and then re-remember it once you climb out of the tub, your father survives, and your mom enters and whispers to both of you. Could be worse. Could be worse. And then... I wrote half-baked.

I wrote half-baked. I know what I'm doing. Relax. I wrote half baked. I know what I'm doing. Relax. I wrote half baked. Yabba Zabba, you're my only friend. Yabba Zabba, you're my only friend. Walk past the building. Dave, I've got it.

Yeah. And then who would play it? You know, someone that would hopefully a funny person uh you know robin williams if he was still here that'd be cool did you not hear what about robin what happened it's good san francisco all right cool good good good good good he's a fellow cyclist yeah ride his bike he's done he's training so it has to be just sort of current not i have to say like a current i have to be like the kid from Riverdale or something. We don't give directions here. So I just said

if he was still around, Robin Williams. Oh. Yeah. I had already decided on the joke. Yeah, I know. I could tell. By the time you fucking spilled it. And of course it's called

Shittin' Ropes. Yep, Shittin' Ropes. The Rope Shitter. fucking spilled it and of course it's called shit and ropes shit and ropes Adam Devine the shit and your rope story the rope shitter I think the rope shitter yep that was it that was blocks guys pretty fun episode

and we wouldn't be the callback kings if we didn't do that. Deuces. All you have to do is open, open up your hand Love me