Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Andy Richter, Maria Blasucci, Amanda Lund, Jordan Morris

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Beloved late-night sidekick and podcaster Andy Richter joins Scott to discuss Andy's new call-in show on SiriusXM, the best calls he's gotten on the show, the three questions his podcast centers around, and his "pinch-me" moment of doing a q&a with the Talking Heads. They are joined by legendary power producers Brand Rollbrone and Brock Palmesprings who walk us through their produceorial philosophy, their humble beginnings in Tampa, discovering Matthew McConaughey, and having a "thing" with Paula Abdul. Finally, EPT Grizzly - The Sleepytime Tea bear, shares that he is a pre-cog who knows how everyone is going to die, and warns of the coming war between earth and hell. Get tickets for the Comedy Bang! Bang! Into Your Mouth Tour 2024 over at https://CBBWorld.com/tour

["Comedy Bang Bang!" by Shamelana Ding Dong plays over the music and lyrics of the song.] Shamalana ding dong, get ready for some ping pong. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. Thank you to Mr. Pigglesworth, Mr. Pigglesworth for that catchphrase submission. And welcome to Comedy Bang Bang special, we're doing special July month this year where all of the July episodes are released in July. So every Monday in July, we're going to have a July episode. And this is our second July episode of July. I believe we're going to have a total of four, if I'm not mistaken.

So that's going to be a really special July of this year. Get ready for some more July episodes to come. Approximately four, could be five, I'm not really sure, but this is the second of our July episodes. Am I getting that? No, I think this is our third. That's right, we had Poppy Lou on July first. No, when we have five this year,

that's what's throwing me off. Five July episodes, special July month on Comedy Bang Bang. Wow. This is incredible. And so we're like, we're in the middle. We're, we're in like hump week of July episodes because we're, we're the third of five, we're smack dab in the middle. Almost through it.

Can you imagine? This is, it's about time July got its due. It really, you know, I mean, so many people are like, Oh, July, my least favored month, you have July 4th. Oh, my ears, Firecrackers! Atriotism! And then the rest of the month, you know, they can't hear anything, so they're not even talking. So it's pretty quiet, other than that.

It truly is. Yeah. But I want to introduce our first guest. I do also want to say my name is Scott Aukerman, and coming up a little later on the show, we have, we have, and I'm excited because stars are back, certainly, and you'll find that out in A block. But in B block, in Blee block, we have some legendary, genius, super power producers on the show. They can get us work. I'm speaking to my first guest, so we want to be on our best behavior. OK. All right. I always am.

Are you really? Are you a good boy? We had Hollywood's Good Boy last week. guest, so we want to be on our best behavior. Okay. All right? I always am. Are you really? Are you a good boy? We had Hollywood's good boy last week. I want to be liked, and I want mama to be proud of me. Is your mother proud of you? This is one of my three questions in my show. The four questions I only get around three.

I believe she is. Yeah. I believe she is. Yeah, she's disappointed in the lack of contact. You know what? But I think that's what mothers do. I'm proud of you. And so it should make up for whatever feelings your mother has about you.

Thank you, Mommy. And I'm going to introduce you in a second, but we also have a company mascot here. So it's a jam-packed show. But before we get to them, let's get to our first guest, our guest of honor. Special July episode in July month. He is the host of a couple of podcasts. I'll say the names of those right before his introduction. You also got to know him on the Late Night

with Conan O'Brien show as one of the writers and the... Is it, do you- Yes, Sidekick is fine. Sidekick is okay? That's fine. That's fine. Co-host, do you prefer that? Um, no, I don't,

because it's not apt. Because you didn't really have the co-host duties, where you were like... Yeah, no. I was a talk show sidekick. That is a definite paradigm to which I was, you know, slid into. You slid into those Sidekick DMs. To which I was put into, but I was, you know, slid into. You slid into those sidekick DMs. I was gonna say, to which I was put into,

but I mean, I was, I slid into it gratefully. I mean, there's not, there have not been a lot of them over the years, so it's a job, I mean, there have been probably more SNL cast members over the years than talk show sidekicks. Oh, absolutely, yeah. No, but I think it used to be- Ed McMahon, the rest. Ed McMahon's, no, No, but I think it used to be Ed McMahon.

Ed McMahon is what? No. Well, Regis Philbin was one for a while. To whom? Um, I want to say Jack Parr, but I'm not exactly sure. I am not a very good broadcast historian. You think if you were one of the only ones to ever do a job, you would know more than two others.

Yeah, you would, but I do not give a shit, one way or the other. It seems like they've gone the way of the dodo, if you don't mind me saying, because... I don't mind you saying it all. And I think it's, I think it was because the talk show originally was set on a, on a format that was of a radio show and a radio show like the George and Gracie Allen, you know, show it was the two of them and then a cast of characters. But then there was, and I think he was the guy that the announcer for you bet your life too. Like there was just some very short of your life. What did I say? You bet your life too. Oh, oh yes, you bet your life too. You bet your life twice.

This time it's personal. Came back for more. No, and then you had an announcer. You had an announcer. You had an announcer. George and Gracie, brought to you by, you know, Valvoline and- Was not that other guy the announcer?

No, Ed McMahon was. Ed McMahon was. He was. What about Doc Severinsen, what did he do? No, he was just a bandleader. And he would just blow his- Just a bandleader. Blow his little McMahon was. Ed McMahon was. He was. What about Doc Severinsen? What did he do? No, he was just a bandleader. And he would just blow his- Just a bandleader.

Blow his little trumpet. I love saying that. Yeah, his trumpet. He'd wear his- Boop-a-doop-a-doo. His cute little clothes, his fancy clothes that said he was a jazz cat. No, I think, and then I just think that those kind of like, those roles fell away as it became much more of a visual medium and also budget cuts probably yeah you a george fenomen that was his name it just came to me for

some reason um but i and i just don't think but when we did the show we thought we were kind of going for a retro vibe, which is why, mainly just because like we wanted, we were just gonna wear suits because neither one of us are very fashionable. And it just felt like that would be a good way to not look like dorks. Like I just remember- Hey, I have some news for you, did not work.

Well, well. In hindsight, what are you gonna do? Swang with offenses. Also, I would imagine Conan being new at it, was needed sort of the support that you provided, in terms of being able to do the job. You're someone to play off of. Well, yeah, that's exactly what I think. He needed me.

No, I think that he did have a good instinct. And Robert Smygle, who really did kind of help create the very beginnings of the show, had a good instinct that it would be more interesting and better to have two funny people out there than it would to just be like one, like if Conan had just had to yell across the studio to Max Weinberg, I don't think that would have played so great. Here's the thing, two, yeah, I don't think that would have played so great.

Here's the thing, two, yeah, it's a great instinct. Let's put two funny people out there. Why not 70? Yeah. 70 people on one set. Because that would be Aukerman-ing it. Well, I do want to introduce you. I mentioned, of course, you have a couple of podcasts,

one of which is new. We all know about the third. Well, it's not a pod, it's a radio couple of podcasts, one of which is new. We all know about the- What's that podcast? It's a radio show, really, first and foremost. Okay. Oh. Well, no, it's just- So they turned it into a podcast?

I mean, the lack of research on this show, it just does not get better. You are lucky I know the title of two of your shows, and I have to look down to remember them. One is called Three Questions. He actually moves his eyes with his fingers too. That's how lazy he is. Well, we also have, and you're going to put the tit in titular when I say the Andy Richter call-in show. Yes. Andy Richter is here. Hi everybody. Welcome to Comedy Big Show. Hi, thank you for

having me. Yeah, it is a call-in show on SiriusXM Radio. So what do people call in with? Like they lost their manual to their microwave and you need to know how to... Each show has a topic that is sort of, you know, just like meant to... A woman's right to choose, pro or con. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, No, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah. Lighthearted, like Gaza, a lot of Gaza stuff. No, it's all silly stuff like dating disasters

or have you ever seen a ghost or, you know. Or combine those. Or teach, yeah. Did you ever date a ghost? Yeah, did you ever date a ghost? Or, you know, bad teaching was another one we did, bad parenting, so just to encourage people. that'll be, that's for the holiday. Thanks for blowing the surprise, fuckhead.

No, it's just, you know, sort of inspire an hour of fun conversation from people calling in. And people call in live or they leave the messages and you play them? The show, yeah. So far we've been taping the show because the logistics of doing it live. But you are speaking to them live? I am speaking to them live.

Yeah, they are. As far as you know. We've only, yeah, only once have we listened to like a voicemail that we responded to. But no, people either call in and leave a message on a voicemail or they fill out a Google form and then we call them back on the day of the show and talk to them. Wonderful.

And how has it been speaking to the common person, the likes of which you have not spoken to in probably many years? It's been awful. No, it's been great. You put on a monocle just to say that. Yes, I did. And I actually grew out of my eye. Are you a mutant? That's strange power. It's been a lot of monocle just to say that I did and I should grow out of my eye

It's been a lot of fun and I have I have a guest host come and sit in with me who's this guest host Just well, it's a different one each week. It's been Andy Daly Laurie Kilmartin I have I know you're getting around to it. I would love to. Someday, Scott. Someday. Someday. I'm not one of the top three? No. Oh, okay. No, no, not at all.

Good to know. No, no, no. Top 10? No, no, no. Top 20. Listen. Top 50, top 100. Top 100 for sure. Top 100, okay.

Oh, for sure. I'll take it. No, but it's just you come in for an out, you know, and like a Sona, Muff's Essie and Conan's now current sidekick. Fucking bitch. To be replaced. Oh, to be replaced by an Armenian. They're replacing us.

Yeah. They will replace us. The great replacement theory. The Armenians. They will replace us. The great replacement theory. The Armenians are coming to replace us. Andy Richter is being replaced by Sona. By Armenians. No, she came in and we did Dating Disasters

and that was so much fun. She's like one of the best people in the world. Yeah, she's married to someone I used to work with. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, Tech. On the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the,

on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, show. Yeah, yeah, he does graphics. He made the three chaps logo. People will know what that is. Oh. But yeah, I had no idea they were together until they showed up at your engagement party together and I was like, what the hell is going on here?

You probably felt totally submarineed. I did, man. I wasn't even engaged. That was just a party to make you feel like an ass. Oh shit, this is all a long con? You're on the outs. Yeah, I'm not married. Oh, I Like to hear that kind of thing So this is fun because It's like talking to people but you don't have to meet them. You don't have to shake their hand

No, and you get to hear about their crazy lives What's what have there been any like insane stories that you've heard that have really stuck out in your mind? Um, yeah, there was there was a dating disaster one, where it was it was two gentlemen and one of them, like it was like the normal person called us and told us about the crazy person and like The crazy person brought like a huge plastic bag full of dirty laundry to do laundry at this guy's apartment on a first day on a first Day like from meeting on like tinder or something there They hadn't even met they hadn't even met and like brought a bunch of laundry and then they ended up back

Okay, to be fair kind of funny. It's kind of romantic. Like, hey, I need to do this tonight. You have a washing machine. I think you really gotta have everything out, every other box checked. You have to have your duck in a row, yes. Yeah, in order to pull that one. It's more of a third day.

Yeah, yeah. Kind of like, hey, well, let's just Netflix tonight. Right, right, right. You got laundry, you can come bring it over. Yeah. Yeah, and that way you'll be in your shorts. Well, it ended with the crazy person calling the normal person, our caller, into the restroom where the crazy person was bent over nude with his hands spreading up his ass and saying,

I need you to fist me. It's a biological imperative. Yeah. Yeah. It's well, I need you. There might have been something up there, you know, well, that earbud, I mean, an air pod. I like how you think of these little tiny things.

Yeah. Yeah. Comedy is all about exaggeration. Oh, no, no, not when you're picking it out of an asshole. These are, this is like your TED talk about comedy. It is. Comedy's about exaggeration. Guys, if you're gonna go asshole, go small.

Well, this is great. And then do you give advice or, cause it doesn't sound like an advice show. It just sounds like you're just talking to people. No, it's not an advice show, which I mean, there's just lots of advice shows, and I don't feel particularly qualified, nor do I care. I mean, you have a degree in psychology and you're also a medical doctor. Yeah, right, right. I do have a, yes, I wrote my PhD in advice making.

Yeah, that's true. So, but aside from that. Aside from that, I just know. No, it was just meant to be fun. You know, they kind of, they, there's a Conan O'Brien channel at Sirius XM. What? Yeah. Holy shit. Wow.

All right. Your whole life is just disappointing surprise after, no one told me. What? No, it's great. Of course I knew about this. Biden's president. He invented podcasting, of course.

So of course he has a channel. Yes, of course. So you're on this channel. It's called the Sour Grapes channel. Yeah, my podcast plays on that channel On some regular basis that I cannot remember like I'm going to tell you to tune in to watch or to listen to it but they that whole channel was pretty much just Podcasts being put on the radio. Yeah wanted to do radio programming that could then be a podcast. That's fantastic Well, I cannot wait to be on this. I'll be approximately 97 weeks from now, it sounds like.

You can call in for our show about disappointing surprises. About being blindsided. And then you're still doing the three questions. I am. Which is more of your interview show. Yeah, it's an interview show. The idea being kind of to get people to talk about where they come from and why they are the way they are and-

And your three questions are where were you born? Where do you live now? Where do you come from? When do you think you're gonna die? No, no. Where do you- those are good now that I'm thinking about it. Okay, we're looking for a re-bring. Where do you come from? Where are you going? And what have you learned? What have you learned? Yeah, yeah. Did I do what have you learned? You must have. I must have because I was on about it. Okay, we're looking for a rebrand. Where do you come from? Where are you going? And what have you learned? What have you learned?

Did I do what have you learned? You must have. I must have, because I was on your show. You must have. You ran out of time. No, no, no, you definitely made something up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just trying to think of what I've learned.

Yeah. Don't let information creep up on you. Yeah, just, I'm sure I bullshitted something. I'm sure you did. On the day. I don't remember. Yeah. You don't remember every single conversation

you've had with people on a podcast? I certainly do not. I certainly do not. Who have you had on, because you've had on me, obviously, and then I see you have on these interesting people that are, are you the type of person who has people on that you don't know anything about, and you're just interested in learning about them,

or do you have to have a genuine interest in people to have them on the show? I have to have a genuine interest in them. Some I know better than others. Some I don't know so much about, and then I kinda read up about them and look up stuff about them. Wikipedia.com, the podcasters' best friend.

Oh boy, I wanna tell ya. And anytime they ask me for money, I go, I use you so many times a day, I ain't giving you shit. Yeah. They're all, oh, we're gonna shut down. You ain't shutting down Wikipedia. Yeah, you and your roommates, no. Have another bake sale.

Yeah, but most of the time I do know who the people are and I don't ever, like there's never any, like there was plenty of times Conan talked to people on our talk show that he was not. Like he didn't really want to talk to like fill in the blank of the name. And I can't even really think of the name. Oh, Phil in the blank. Phil in the blank. But I don't talk to anybody that I don't really want to talk to. So you're running out of people, right? No. Oh, interesting. They still pitch people and I'm like, yeah, I guess, okay. Who are you really excited by where you were like, oh my God, I can't believe this person wants to do the show. And then were you ever nervous? I mean, you've done so many of these talk shows where you've had to sit next to

the biggest stars in the world as long as well as, you know, the smallest, you know, reality TV show type people. So you must be blase and nonplussed about everything at this point. Not everything, but, but yes, I mean, I, I, and to say blase and nonpluss makes me sound like a dick No, but like competent and unflappable sounds better. That sounds a lot. Yeah. Yeah, you're right You know, there are certain people where I tend to think I'm relatively unflappable But there are some people where you're like, I'm nervous because I don't know if that here's here's my biggest fear Is someone comes in and is above the whole thing and just yes

It's kind of like rolling their eyes during the whole thing. And then I have to like sort of be like, oh yeah, it's entertaining. You know what I mean? Has that happened for you or are you nervous about that happening with certain people that you think are too big to do your show? No, no.

And I mean, and now I have the benefit too of that like virtually everyone is doing podcasts now. So it's not the mere word doesn't make it doesn't make them go like what you mean? I'm on the way out. What am I really on the downside of my career? Yep. You think that's bad. Think of the host. Exactly. Well, like Rachel Matto was on the other day and she's been twice. And yeah, it's a little bit daunting because you do feel like she's smart.

Yeah. You know what I mean? This isn't even her country. So that does. I don't let that really get to me. She's a carpet bagger. Yeah, I know. That's okay, though. I mean, that's, you know. Carpet bag stress. Yeah. Yeah. Not sure what that whole carpet bag tricks. I think that's what it is. But you, were you sitting there going like, oh man, she's smart. She's got her own media podcast and TV show and all that. I don't want to look dumb in front of her. Were the, did the adrenaline get pumping? No, this was the second time that I talked to her.

Well, I mean, not really. The first time, yes, I was a little bit more nervous that I, that, yeah, when you talk to somebody smart, you know, most of the show business people you talk to are dumb, dumbs. They're really dumb. Why are you pointing at me right now? You could see that behind my hand. I held one hand up so you couldn't see it. No, but she's really smart. But

then there's that, you know, and there's other people like Ted Danson was on just recently. And, and you do like just when you start to look at just like Ted Danson's been on TV nonstop for 40 years doing like, really good work. And are you ever talking to someone and suddenly in the middle of it, the reality of what you're doing hits you and you're like, this is crazy. Not so much on the podcast, but I did have a really cool experience recently. Um, I got a call from Flanagan who runs Largo, who's a friend of mine, or a text, and he said, like, would you want to moderate a Q&A at the Pantages with talking heads on the 40th anniversary of the filming of Stop Making Sense, which was filmed there.

Because Fred Armisen was supposed to do it and got stuck in Dublin working. Did he put that in the text? No. He did put that in. He did? He's like, Fred was supposed to do it and got stuck in Dublin working. Did he put that in the text? No, he did put that in. He did? He's like, Fred was supposed to do it, but he's stuck in Ireland. And this is probably because it's like a last minute ask.

Yes, exactly. Oh, absolutely, it was only a few days before, but Fred was not gonna be able to come back. And I was like, absolutely. And that was, and to start the thing was not that weird. I came out, said hello to the crowd, it could immediately feel like what I pumped. So happy to be their crowd it was. It felt very special being in the same place

where the movie was made. Then I threw, there's an album of covers of basically the playlist of the movie. There's a new covers album, Param. Paramore and people like that. Exactly. Blond Shell played live on the stage before the movie started. And then the screen dropped, they did the movie.

And I'd met everybody beforehand, but when I did introduce them one after another to come out, and I did definitely have one after another to come out. And I did definitely have a moment of like, wow, that's talking heads right there. Cause I saw that tour twice. You saw that tour? I saw that tour twice when I was in high school.

Not at the Pantages, but probably Chicago. In Chicago, yeah. I think cause they went through once and I think they came back later and I saw it again, cause it was, it's just such an amazing concert. And so, yes, that was, and it's striking to me because I am so unimpressed by things because of just the tonnage of contact with famous people that I've had. Right, and you probably also were, the people passing through the Conan Show were probably contemporaries at least, in terms of like, they were people who were doing things now.

Talking heads is like someone when you were growing up and then they broke up and you haven't seen them since. Exactly. You haven't been in a room with them since. Exactly, and it's very unusual that they're doing this together, which they're doing it together because the rights to the movie reverted back to them.

Hell yeah. So yeah, they're ringing every dollar out of that thing. I'm going to buy them from them. Nobody heard about that. But it was really fun and they were really great and it just felt like what a special privilege it was to get to do that. Yeah, that's incredible. Well, I mean, you know, this business of show still has some surprises in store for someone like you, Andy.

Even as much as I hate it. Oh, it's horrible. She's a cool mistress. Oh, there's various times where it's just awful. Don't we love her lady show business? Mm, yeah, but I mean- Don't we love her, Lady Showbizness? Yeah, but I mean- Don't we love her glimmering, flickering lights? She's so mean.

She's so mean to us, but we love her for it. The fine line between pleasure and pain. She wants me to lose weight, and I would get the Ozempic, but I can't afford the Ozempic. Because she won't give me the work. No, she won't do it, but we love her for it. Come on, Lady Showbiz. Lady Showbiz, well, Lady Showbiz is once again bestowed its greatest gift upon you, which is another show.

And that show is called the Andy Richter call-in show. Yes. We need to take a break. When we come back- Wednesday, Series XM. Wednesdays on the Conan O'Brien Channel. Wherever that may be. 104. 104. He knows all the info. When we come back, we are going to have these legendary,

genius, super power producers. Plus we're gonna have a company mascot. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this. Yeah. Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Andy Richter is here. Andy Richter call-in show, which apparently is on Wednesdays

on the Conan O'Brien channel, which from what I'm told is channel 104 on the SiriusXM app. I do believe so. And that and what's the time slot you were saying Wednesdays? Wednesdays at one Eastern, I believe. One Eastern and that's AM or is that? No, no, it's not. I'm not that desperate. One PM. No.

Would you do- I'm not Art Bell. Would you do a show if Conan called you and said, we really, really want you to do the show, and he just gave you the heart zone, it's like it's three in the morning, you have to do it live. How much?

How much? I mean, cause yeah, depending, you know. I had a friend who did the drive time. This is the friend who got me this show on Indie 103.1, but he did the drive time show and I would call in and do characters and stuff like that on it. But he would have to get up at 4 a.m. every single day

and that was a total life switch for him. I don't know. I don't know if I could do it. Although technically it's not that different than when you're in production on a TV show, you're getting up at five or whatever. You get acclimated. Yeah, you get used to it.

To do drive time radio, that's the dream. Given the weather report on the 10s. Oh man. The weather doesn't change that much. I think I'm thinking of traffic reports. And now when I think of, you know, like radio just generally too, you know, I listen to Howard Stern, so I, to me, it's all kind of-

Weird brag, but go on. It's, you know, and he talks for a long time, but there aren't that many deep, like there, you know, you'll hear about like Rick Dees, and it's like, did Rick Dees really do that much? He said like, you know, here we go, it's another hit from ABBA. And then, you know, it's 84 degrees.

I mean, he did his comedy pieces, remember the one where he called- And Disco Duck. He called in and pretended to be a priest advising someone on their upcoming nuptials. And then he started saying like, asking the groom like, well, what have you done physically with the woman? Have you touched her supple breasts?

And the guy gets really upset. Anyway, this was on his record. And then I found out later, supposedly, that these are all like scripted things that are written for DJs from across the country. Anyway, how do you feel about liars like that? Like Rick Dees, your supposed idol. I actually have, I've known people that write,

that have had jobs writing those jokes, that get faxed to different morning DJs around the country. You ever fax anything to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno? Any jokes? No. Just as a lark, just start faxing him in. I never did. I never did.

Just start faxing the weirdest jokes. He's like, hey, why I anti-feminism? Maybe it looks like he's trying to mend feathers. Maybe I think it's a joke. This joke isn't very good, but maybe I think it. Yeah. Yeah. What the?

When's he gonna touch his Tonight Show money? When does he give it to you? He's not gonna touch it. Did I ever tell you about how I sat next to him at breakfast? You did. You did on this show, as a matter of fact. Yeah, I was on this show. Yeah, I listened to one of the previous episodes, Andy. I think it was the previous one.

Yeah, for that amazing story. But we need to hear some more amazing guests. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, because I can't tell you that now. Yeah, no, you've forgotten all the details at this point. I think he's touched his tonight show money. Has he at this point? Yeah, I think he's, he's like sad in it. Like Scrooge McDuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just diving ass first into a pool full of it. Um, let's get to our next guest. They, and look, Andy, I'm so excited about this because... I know. Now, you asked if I was nervous. I'm nervous now. Now I'm nervous too. The films that these guys have produced and the TV shows, anywhere

media is, they have their grubby little fingers in it. And I'm so excited to- I mean, they're long, delicate fingers. Yeah. Oh, when I say grubby fingers, guys, I of course mean they're grubby because money's so dirty and you have so much of it. That was a good save, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. They are of course the legendary Genius Power producers.

Please welcome to the show for the first time Brand Rollbrone and Brock Pomma Springs. Scotty, thanks for having us. It's great to be here. Great to meet you gentlemen. Yeah, gorgeous day out. Beautiful day. It is a beautiful day. That's so. It's great to be here. Great to meet you gentlemen. Yeah, gorgeous day out. Beautiful day. It is a beautiful day.

That's so astute of you to notice that. What was your tip off? Well, the sun is shining, baby. I mean, that's life in Hollywood, right? That is life in Hollywood. That's life in Hollywood. Welcome to the show. Take us through, for those who are uninitiated

for some of our younger listeners, take us through some of your projects that you've had your hands in over the years. I mean, how much time you got. I look, honestly, podcasts don't have, unlike The Conan, the late night show, it doesn't have a specific amount of time. You know, I mean, I can go on forever. I would cap it at, you know, an hour and a half probably, but continue on as long as you like. Yeah, well, listen, we got our start. We came from humble beginnings.

We sure did Tampa. Tampa, you both came from Tampa. Yeah, we did. Did you know each other before you started producing together? Of course, in high school, we locked eyes and we said we gotta make it big, baby, and we got on a plane and we came to Hollywood

and 20 years later, here we are. Wow, that was only 20 years ago too. Wow, incredible, 2004. That's right. How did you get from the school to the airport right then? Oh, the bus. And the bus. Definitely the bus.

We didn't have wheels. Now we're swimming in wheels. Yeah, you have so many wheels. You both have cyber trucks. I noticed that out front. Yeah, we hitched them together so we can kind of make it like a train. Nice.

And Brand always drives, I just cruise along, hands behind my head. Normally people would do it side by side, but you guys did it- One in front of the other, maybe that's the only way. Well that way when we park, we only need one spot, which is a perk. Yeah, you did park, I mean, you're only taking one spot

in the width, but it's so long in the back. Yeah, well, people know when they see a cyber truck, they just kind of go turn back around. Yeah, my neighbors actually are honking right now. They kind of want you to move it, but I- Let them honk, Scotty, let them honk. I got my checkbook with me. Oh, you do?

Yes, I do. This guy, he gets it right. So tell us about the projects that you've been involved in over the last 20 years. Well, as you all probably know, it all started with Cry From The Devil, which was our breakout hit. We knew nothing, okay? We knew nothing.

We were just babes in Toyland. Well, to be honest, it started when we were the background actors. Was it Miami Nights? Miami Nights. We were background actors. Was that the movie about the person who would spend their days in Georgia and then like drive to Miami every evening? They'd drive to Miami and they'd solve crime and it was...

As long as they were back by sunup, I recall. Yeah, that's right. Everything was kosher. That's right. And uh, so we didn't, you know, we were just new, we were new to town. So we went to the Paramount lot and we said, are you guys hiring? You know, we didn't know. Yeah, they took one look at us and they said,

send them over to the Miami nights. Yeah, yeah, cause I'm my tan. I mean, we both tan. He's so tan. Yeah, I mean, that was 20 years ago. You seem, you're still very tan and wrinkled now. Oh yeah, no, I had never touched, a drop of sunscreen has never touched.

Yeah, you know, it's not, when the sun touches your skin, it's a vitamin D. Yeah, you also, I noticed you have some papers there which look to be a diagnosis for skin cancer. Yeah, oh, I got tons of melanomas, it's fine. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so straight from Miami Nights, how did you then go into-

Well, we had notes, you know, we were watching, we were watching the actors and the actresses and we said, this isn't, you know, who's you then go into? Well, we had notes, you know, we were watching, we were watching the actors and the actors and we said, this isn't, you know, who's going to want to watch this? This looks silly. And we had no idea the power structures that happen when you're on a set. Okay. We're literally just got into town. So Brand, who's a genius, by the way, walked right up to the director. I said, I said, she's got to be hotter chief. She's got to be hotter chief. Yes. And to whom were you referring? I was talking to the head of Paramount. I didn't know it. Oh, you were talking, but who were you talking about? The lead. The lead. The lead. Wow. The lead

actress. And you know what? They kicked us out, but they must have agreed because they recast before Carol. Yeah, they recast with andy mcdowell Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who was it originally? Some no name Ss. I don't can you swear on here? Yeah, what were you gonna say? Because you start saying ss You were gonna say ss I'm thinking of a curse word that starts with ss. They're shits, but that's more of a sh sound I was thinking slut. Yeah, I was thinking slut too.

Andy thought it, not me. Andy. Well, it's just because of the S. I know, but come on. But it's not a curse word. I love Wheel of Fortune. And so when I hear a sound, and then there's a word. Another S sound, Seacrest got that instead of you, man.

This guy, but I hear Vanna White is not getting along with him and she might be out, so maybe you could turn those letters. Did you really hear that? I did. No, you didn't. I did. Wow. So maybe you could turn the letters or press the letters. That'd be fun to see you sashaying across the stage nightly.

So they took your advice, then how did you, I guess what I really want to get to is, how did you get to producing and what have you produced? Okay, well, Cry took your advice, then how did you, I guess what I really want to get to is how did you get to producing and what have you produced? Okay. Well, Cry From The Devil. That was our breakout hit. People said it couldn't be done. It was an erotic courtroom thriller about, it was about an attorney, all right, a Southern attorney who has to defend the devil from the one crime he didn't commit. Oh, which one did he not commit? It was a murder.

It was the governor's daughter. Oh, okay. But wouldn't the devil have influenced the person who actually did it? No, not this time. That's the one time. So this time is just the person who did it? He was innocent. So this time the murderer just got this idea on his own, his or her own?

Yeah, but they framed the devil. It's genius when you think about it. That's so interesting. Yeah, when you think about it, there's a lot of layers. Yeah. But people said it couldn't be done, all right? And we had some really crazy stuff in that movie, but when it came out, oh boy, did people flock to the theaters.

I remember. I mean, it was great. Who starred in it again? That was McConaughey. McConaughey. That was Matty. Yeah, Matty M.C. We discovered him.

Yep. Where? Well, what we would do, okay, so this is the thing. I came We discovered him. Yep. Where? Well, what we would do, okay, so this is the thing. I came up as an actor, all right? So now I realize production is where producers are, where all the power is, but I have a gift which is because I have it, I can spot it. So what Brandon and I used to do in the early days is we would just set up an impromptu little ice cream cart, all right, at a playground or outside the mall, right? The

kids, the teens start funneling through. All right, you go. From kids to teens, they would start funneling through. Kids to teens, yeah. Totally. And so you go, this one's not going to make it, this one doesn't have it, next, next, next. So you were just like basically setting up a honeypot kind of like lure. Thank you. To see, to lure kids. And teens.

And teens. And then you were deciding if they had that certain something. Yeah, well, McConaughey comes through, you know, gets his push pop and I go, hey, Brian, get over here. Yeah. I got someone I want you to meet. And then we tell him that his $20 bill was counterfeit and we call the cops and we get them in cuffs.

And then- We take them over to the studio, have them audition, right? Wow. Was it actually counterfeit or was that a ruse? I don't know. Yeah, we don't know. We don we don't we don't even know how to tell if something's going to break. Oh I wouldn't know. I haven't seen a $20 bill and I don't even want to go there. Because I see 50s. Oh wow. Hundreds. Hundreds. That's they stopped making the

thousands. Well then I don't know what I'm looking at. Nice, Fran. That was good. You can't curse, by the way. I know you were censoring yourself again. What were you going to say? I wasn't going to curse that time. You weren't? Oh, okay.

Uh-uh. I want to assure you, you can get them all out of the way now. All right. Well, if I feel the need, I'll let you know. Okay, great. Great. So, Cry From the Devil, what was the end of that film? Not to spoil it, but-

Well, the jury ends up being Satanists. Yep. Yeah. And then, you know, McConaughey blows them all out of the water. Yeah. Right. Is the judge God or- No, I mean, you know what?

A lot of critics made that leap, but you know, in our movies, we say, you say, you be the judge. Right. No pun intended. Right. So, we all were the judge. You all were the judge. Absolutely pun intended. Right. So we all were the judge. You all were the judge. Absolutely. Interesting. And then of course, Hard Top. All right. That's one you guys all know. Yeah, Hard Top, H-A-R-D, Hydro Sonic, Aquatic. Reconnaissance Division. Yeah. Right. So that

one's about, as you remember, JT was a bad boy street racer from Tampa. You know, imagine. Justin Timberlake? We wish. We wish. We wish. Who was, JT was the character name or? Yeah. Well, that was Bobby Dulce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We picked him up. He was a valet at Spago.

Oh, wow. Bobby Dulce was? Oh, yeah. Bobby Dulce. He was a valet at Spago. Were you setting up like similar to your ice cream thing? You set up a fake valet stand? Not at Spago. We don't, we got a table. The thing was he brought the car around and then I got in the passenger seat, locked the doors real quick and then- How quick was, did you lock the door?

Cause I think it's just like pressing down a thing. Not in Brand's car. Oh really? Brand's car, I've got the locks on my key chain if you know what I mean. Oh, okay. So that's even quicker. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What are we talking like, half a second? Half a second. It's pretty quick. Yeah, half a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty quick. You just were miming it to make sure. Yeah, it's half a sec.

Yeah. Half a sec. Yeah. Yeah, so I locked him in. I said, I'm not gonna give you my address. Are you allowed to give addresses on this podcast? You are, I mean, if you want. No. You can curse while you give it too, if you want.

Right on, no. So anyway, I mean, if you want, you can curse while you give it too, if you want. So anyway, I said, drive me to this address and he did. And I said, do you want to be in a movie? He said, yeah. I said, great. And did the conversation end there? It ended there. I said you just parted ways.

You didn't ask any follow-ups or anything like that? I don't know if you've been in this business, but sometimes when people offer you a golden ticket, you don't ask where it came from. this business, but sometimes when people offer you a golden ticket, you don't ask where it came from. You just eat it and get on the bus. Yeah, so he just turned around, did a 180, walked away from you. And we saw him on Monday.

You saw him on Monday. So how did he know how to get there? Well, back then we took our meetings at the H and the Hollywood sign. Oh, okay. So he just came to the H again. And okay, interesting. So where do you take him now? Well, now we have our offices at Paramount. That's right.. And okay, interesting. So where do you take them now?

Well, now we have our offices at Paramount. That's right. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Paramount's getting sold. Hey, source subject. You didn't hear it here. Source subject, really? Yeah, I mean, listen, this is one of the reasons we wanted to do a public appearance. Oh, okay. It's because the state of Hollywood, oof.

Oof. Oof is your official statement. Oof is the official statement. When's the last time you saw a movie that made you want to wet your pants? Never. Never, probably. Yeah, never, never. Yeah.

Well, let me put it this way. Well, then you haven't been seeing the right movies. Have you seen the right talk? I mean, Aquaman maybe, in the sense of like, it looks kind of cool and refreshing down there. So like, if you think of pants as a swimsuit. Or maybe, you know, like you have to pee, but you don't want to miss a moment of it,

so you don't get up. Is that what you mean? Is that what you mean? Or do you mean just like something, the screen is so, just so overwhelming. So stimulating. It just, you evacuate your bladder. All of your things come flying out of all the things.

You know what I mean? Yeah, all the things, every hole. Wow. This is what I'm talking about. Even ear holes and eye holes? Any hole. Any tears, I guess. Yeah, tears.

Blood out of your ears. You ever get water in your ears? What other holes do you have? We wanna make you cry. We wanna make you pee. We wanna make you do the other thing. We wanna make you do it all. Watching your movie, if someone were to cry, nose running blood, vomit

coming out of the mouth, shitting out of the ass and jizz coming out of the cock at the same time. Thank you. And urine. And urine. And urine mixed with the jizz. We'd say, we'd say, job well done, good day's work. You know, meet me at Dan Tanna's. Yeah, run the numbers, buddy. Wow. That's, that's the dream. That seems like a lot though.

And they're not making them like that anymore. They're not making them like that anymore. Well, I think because it's too much cleanup. Yeah. It's got to be hard on the theaters. I guess, but people are watching from home now, so nothing wrong with putting a trash bag over the couch. That's right. That's a good point. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. That's a sign of a good night when honey brings out the couch. That's right. That's a good point. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That's a sign of a good night when

honey brings out the garbage. Yep. We're watching that JLo movie where she was a maid. Made in Manhattan. Made in Manhattan. Is that a sexy movie? I haven't seen it. That was the last. Is just the way she was dressed as a maid? Everything. Because housekeepers like- I had earwax shooting out of my ears on that one. Yeah. That was a very romantic movie and that was probably the last good rom-com we had. Cause housekeepers like tend to be... I had earwax shooting out of my ears on that one. Yeah, that was a very romantic movie.

And that was probably the last good rom-com we had. Oh, you worked on that. Yeah, wow. What are the bad rom-coms since then that you've worked on? Well, I don't like to name names, but let's just say, throw a movie at us and we're going to put our Brock and Bran spin on it. Oh, okay. Well, recently we have The Fall Guy. Okay. Where's the monkey? Was there a monkey in it? No, but that's the thing is I don't think people are

using enough chimp chimps. You were about to say chimpanzees and thought that what that might be species. You censored yourself. I didn't think you'd know what I meant. Oh, I see. This is for the lay person. It's the industry lingo. Okay, yeah, chimpanzees, yeah, chimps, yeah. Yeah, in show business, you don't have time.

You don't have time. You gotta shorten words. Yeah. Right, it's like saying 10-1 instead of like... Yeah, instead I gotta go to the bathroom. That's right. Exactly. So anyway, they don't have enough chimps in movies anymore. So if I was doing the fall guy, and that's the one with the guy and the- The Barbie, the Gosling.

Stuntman. The stuntman. The stuntman, yeah. It's a great idea, listen. It's a great idea, but I would say, I would say kick Gosling to the curb and put a chimp in there. Thank you.

And now you remember our series, Chimp Man, right? We had, there was three of them. So there was Chimp Man goes to the university, right? Then there was Chimp Man Becomes President. Oh, straight from the university to president. Yeah, well, these are reboots. All right. Then the third one was the Chimp, what happened to that one, Brandi? Chimp Man Goes to the Store.

And that was more of, that was not thought- That seems like a downward trajectory. That was one was not as thought out. And that's, you know, we'll take that. We've had our fair share of flops I mean, all right train race. Yeah, right. That was a that was a bust and I'll take a count You know, that was my fault because more Brock's idea thing with the with the train races There was a train racing or what the other trail on the same track same so it's whoever starts is gonna finish That's what was rough about train race, but we tried we like to put it out there. Okay. Let me list another movie What about Planet of the Apes?

What would you suggest? Well, that one had monkeys. That one had monkeys, but where's the romance? Where's the romance with the sun? You want the monkeys to be? Dune II. Yeah. Okay, well the thing with Dune II is where are the aliens?

I mean, this is the question everyone's... Technically they're all aliens because they're on other planets. Yeah, but that's... Do I wanna spend $25 to watch it technically? No, I wanna see some aliens, all right? You wanna see aliens on Earth or? Wherever they are.

Where's the legs? Everyone's in big flowing cloaks, okay? Give me that. Legs, like potato chips? Legs, like gams. Legs, okay. Getaway sticks. Getaway sticks, thank you.

Yes, interesting. So what do you have coming on the horizon? Well, you know, with the State of the World, we got a couple scripts that we're working on, but you know. What does that have to do with the State of the World? He meant State of the Union. Oh, is that one of your scripts, State of the Union? Well, it did have that in development.

State of the Union, yeah. Yeah, that one's about, okay, well, State of the Union's about the president banned dancing. The pre, that's coming straight from the, so it's federal. Yeah. Yeah. Because like Footloose, that was just like a local. That was just a town.

Oh, it's Footloose. This is Footloose on the grand scale. Footloose on steroids is how we pitched it. That's right. Well, I think Kevin Bacon was on steroids when he made Footloose. I wouldn't, so I saw him dance in that warehouse. I know, you know, let's talk him dance in that warehouse. I know.

Let's talk about wetting your pants. Oh boy. So, the president does it and then is there like a scrappy group of dancers who want to go against that? You've read the script. I haven't, but I mean. Yeah, there's a scrappy group of dancers underground that decide to kind of start a revolution and dance their way to Washington.

So it's like dance dance revolution on steroids. That's write it down. Write it down. Yeah, I love that. Write them a check. Yeah, wow. And are they successful or do they die? We're not giving you the end of the movie, man.

Give me a break. I bet they die at the end. Give me a break. Give me a break. And dancing still outlawed. Give me a break. Andy, is there a part for you in this, do you think? There has to be.

I spend a lot of time underground. Yeah, oh, you want to play one of the dancers. Yeah, one of the dancers definitely. I was thinking one of the older president roles. Oh, right, yeah. Grandfather to one of the dancers or something. I can be president. No more dancing.

I'll tell you what'll turn this country around. No more dancing. Is this an executive order or is this uh, is the president able to pass the laws through Congress? Look, that's your job pencil pusher. Just get it done. This is good. I'm writing it down. This is really good. I got my pencil out. This is really good.

That's why I think he was talking to you when he was talking about the pencil pushers. Yes, thank you. I do. I always carry a couple of pencils in the pocket. Is that the secret to producing? Any any never know when you're gonna have to write something down. It's a good point I mean that that works for life not just producing a lot of people keep pens in the pocket, but Pencils, you know, you feel closer to the earth. I'm not doing a pen in these white pants, no. Too risky. That's right, you're wearing all white. It's like a linen suit, but also your jacket has like a lot of buckles on it as well.

Thank you, yeah. It's sort of like Michael Jackson-esque in a way, like zippers and buckles. I pay a gal to sew those on. You pay someone. Yeah. More like she pays you. Hey, Brandon.

Just sexually. Oh, you're having sex with your tailor? My buckle girl, yeah. Your buckle girl. Oh, she's not an official tailor, but she could be. Merely a buckle girl. She could be, yeah, she just does buckles. Wow, okay.

But I can give you her number, she's great, honestly. For what, for the sex or for the buckles? Well, I don't know. You know, you start with the buckles and then the rest is up to her, right? Is that how it went with you? Yeah, she's a sweetheart, she's a sweetheart. Yeah, she's great, actually.

Are either of you married? Are you in relationships? Oh, no, no, no, no. Not at the moment. Not at the moment, no. No. But it's cool, you know, because we've been working together a long time

and it's fun being roommates, you know. Wait, you're still roommates? We still got the bunks, you know? The two king bunks. We have bunk beds that are, I've never seen a king-sized bunk bed. Oh, well, you know, come, well, what time are you off?

You can come over. I mean, the podcast doesn't have an end time, but Andy and I could probably be over there in like, like 20 minutes. I would prefer the top though, just because it's earthquake season all the time here. Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't want, I mean, whoever sleeps on the bottom,

I hope you're, you know. But then isn't the roof crashing down on top of you instead of the person below you? No, I just think that the whole bed would wobble and then one would fall into the other. Yeah. And you would be squashed. Not these. We got a pullout couch you could use

if you're more comfortable with that. Yeah, probably. Yeah, Andy and I will be on the pull. I might just go home to my family. Choice is yours. Yeah. We can do a Zoom call or something. That's probably for the best.

Yeah. I probably want to stay here. Yeah. Thinking about it. Yeah, yeah. When you really talk out loud and you know, like hear yourself say it. King size bunk beds.

Yeah, I probably am just gonna stay. Well, we got dogs we can put on the grill. Your choice. You like to be cozy in your own bed. Who are you, RFK? Ah. Come on. No, we protect our own.

He's in the comedy community. What, he is? Well, he's buried to Cheryl. Oh, Cheryl Hines. So we protect our own here. All right, sorry. We don't make these jokes. But yeah, speaking of which,

are you donors for any of the major campaigns coming out here? Oh, we don't like to get into politics. Brandon, I keep it out. But we don't like to get into politics. But so many of your movies are about politics. You got this one where the president outlaws dancing. They're about presidents. You never know what party they're affiliated with. That's the thing.

That's the thing. You just see Top Gun, the newest Top Gun where you didn't know who the bad guys were, they took that from us. Yeah, where it was like just some country that you never even heard of. It was just some country. You know what that does? That makes people go, we're united again. Also it makes us think like, oh, I know what country it is.

And then you fill in the blanks where it's like, oh, I bet it's... Exactly. Mm-hmm. That's what I was thinking. Hold a mirror up to yourself. Yeah, exactly. Well, so what do you have coming up, coming down the pipeline? You mentioned, of course, a couple of scripts, but what else do you have? Well, and I guess this is a place to talk about our our charity for yeah. Yeah, we've got a charity for up-and-coming

directors it's You know no women allowed Is the charity or is the name that's the name and it's it's a joke. Oh, it's ironic Yeah, if they get it, then you know cuz cuz it is gonna it is gonna You know tell women they can't do it, but then if a woman goes, I wanna do it, we'll go, yeah, well then, you know. You gotta really want to. You gotta get the joke though.

You gotta like play around in a man's world. Exactly. That's right, but essentially it's a weak intensive with us, but it was truly over here. Yeah, we're hoping it's a woman, to be honest. Oh, okay. Cause I think no doesn't always mean no. Is that kind of what you're saying? kind of what you're trying to say?

Is that what you're trying to say? Well, that was the old charity. All right, that was... Yeah, that was the producer intensive. That was, yeah, we got in a little bit of trouble for that one. But no, now we're doing... We're trying to give back, yeah, a little bit. That's great.

I mean, you know, charitable works are important when you're as successful as brand roll-bron in Brock Pomma Springs. Thanks so much. Thank you very much. Wow. We need to take a break if that's okay, but can you stick around because we have a company mascot coming up. Of course.

Hey. And you know, like, Andy and I are always looking for work and maybe the company mascot could use some work. So, you know, this is, I consider this to be sort of an audition in a way. Right. Or we might even have some ideas for you guys. We'd love that. You might be trying to, you know, hook up with us.

Yeah, that's true. Like we could pitch on your president movie, you know, like what if the president is assassinated in like the first minute and then the vice president, you know, the line of succession like comes up and goes, oh, forget what he was saying about the dancing thing. You got something there. Yeah, yeah. I think there's somewhere to start. Get the whiteboard. Let's go. Oh, after the president is shot. Yeah. Everyone noticed he's wearing tap shoes.

Try to take off the tap shoes, but makes his legs shrivel up. When they do, he comes back to life. And then it's like the hunt for the president's tap shoes. But he's not a ghost. He's a zombie. He's a zombie. Yeah, yeah. But he is friends with ghosts. Love that.

And he talks about ghosts all the time because he's like best friends with ghosts. Right, right, right. And there's still no dancing. He's still like- Still no dancing. Yeah, still real uptight about dancing. Yeah, he doesn't like dancing, but the vice president's like, no, it's cool. I'm actually the president because you're right. So, so they have like a war of, you know, we got it out, guys, you got it. Listen, you don't pitch until it's ready. Okay, so why don't you take a little bit of time? No, it's ready. We've talked about this.

And I think vice president is Paula Abdul. Yeah. Okay, give me the elevator pitch when we get back from the break because that's not gonna fly. Did you hear what he said, Paula Abdul? Oh, I know Paula. All right, we had a thing. Yeah, he could call Paula right now. I should be down here in 10 minutes. Yeah.

What thing did you have? We don't need that. We just had a thing. All right, what thing didn't we have? I don't know about that. Anyway, we need to take a break. When we come back, we have a company mascot. We're gonna have more Andy Richter,

more brand roll-bron in Brock Pomma Springs. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Comedy Bang Bang, we're back here.

Andy Richter is here. The Andy Richter call-in show, also the three questions with Andy Richter. And you gonna expand to four questions ever or or maybe even five? I mean, not and not unless they pay me more. Maybe you cut it down to two. That could be a possibility. If you if you could get it down to one question, then you have a show I think you know what I mean? Where you ask the question and then you go just talk and you walk out. Right. Oh, that sounds great. That sounds, it's almost like this show.

Wait a minute, mentally? We also have Brand Rollbrone and Brock Pama Springs, of course, legendary Genius Power producers here. And you guys have been rolling calls the entire time we were on a break. Yeah, it never stops. No, no, no, no, you got me, you good guy. What does that mean, you got me, you good guy?

You got my number, huh? I wish I had your number because I would pitch you more great things. You gotta get a phone in the bathroom because I was taking a deuce and I was looking- I hope you were leaving one, not taking one. I like this guy, I like this guy.

Somebody get him a horn. Why do they call it taking a shit when you're really leaving it and then flushing it down? I like this guy, I like this guy. Somebody get him a horse. Why do they call it taking a shit when you're really leaving it and then flushing it down? That's really great. I never heard that before. I don't know. I don't know.

You got a computer, you could look it up. I could, yeah, I guess, but I'm worried about my search history, you know. If I'm ever convicted of a crime. You can clear that. Incognito. You can clear it it not for the authorities can you I know a guy his name's Lance who lives in Lancaster Lancaster and his name is Lance Bidding that crazy. Yeah. I know a guy named Paco who lives in Pacoima

All right, we need to get to our next guest. He is of course- Oh, sorry. He is of course the company mascot for Sleepytime Tea. This is very exciting. Please welcome to the show for the first time, EPT Grizzly. Oh, hi, Scott. Thanks so much for having me.

I'm EPT Grizzly, the Sleepy Time Tea Bear. I love your program, so please don't be offended by my yawn. Well, that's okay. It just kind of made Andy and I both yawn when you were doing it. I'm sure it's making the listeners yawn as well. Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. I've just been all day seeping, came a meal, and washing my PJs. I just can't help it. Oh, okay. That's all right. As much as I love being here with y'all,

I'm gonna be honk shooing in no time. I understand, I understand. Well, you're a bear, and bears tend to hibernate, right? Oh yeah, but I hibernate every single day. I'm only up for two or three hours. It's called sleeping. And then I'm napping, I'm dozing, I'm getting shut eye. I love my 40 winks and my big ol' Zs.

That's a lot of synonyms. Well, it's great to have you on the show. EPT, is EPT your name? Cause I'm used to like chat GP. Well, EPT also is early pregnancy test. Yeah. There's some confusion, my first name is EP because I'm a EP little guy.

Oh, I see. Oh, sleepy but zay cute. And then what's the T? The. Okay. Oh. Epee the grizzly. Epee the grizzly.

How do you spell epee? Is epee or? Epee why? Epee what? You'll see it on many popular memes. That explains why I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, so EP The Grizzly, how long have you been a company mascot for Sleepytime Tea? I confess I don't drink this stuff, so I am not incredibly familiar with your work. Oh, Scott, if you need a little shut eye, it's just the thing.

I've been a mascot for them since 1963, helping folks get shut eye and drift off to Dreamland. Oh my gosh. So since 63, the things you must have seen, like the summer of love, Vietnam, I am not a crow. Scott, I'm going to stop you right there. I haven't seen any of it in person because I've been sleeping, but I do see all of it in advance in Dreamland. Hold on, hold on. You, like a precog in your dreams?

Well yeah, Scott, when I drift off to Dreamland, I see it all, including how all y'all are gonna die. Oh, really? Oh, I love listening. I mean, I'll take when Andy's gonna die. Yeah, I would love to know when I'm gonna die. Okay, well before I tell you all about your horrible, horrible death.

They're all horrible? Oh yeah. Oh wow. They're horrible. I mean, death in general is bad. Yeah. I hope that my death becomes like to get richtered. You know, like, you know, like to have cement. That dude totally got richtered.

Yeah, like cement poured down my throat until I explode, like, and now like, oh, and whenever that happens again, it would be, man, that dude got Richter. That's really good. Write that down, Brock. Write that down. So mentally explode. I'll write it down too.

Yeah, I'm gonna write it down too. Do you mind, E.P., if you write it down as well? Oh no, it's all in my brain. I live in the past, present, and future all at once. So this is like the fourth dimension time? Yes, life and death are entwined in dreamland. Interesting. All right, so before you tell us how we were gonna die, what were you gonna say? Well, there's a little context I should let you know. Some recent events that are about to transpire. Oh yeah, tell us.

Well, you see, Placidius Sax and the seven earls of hell are about to descend on earth and reclaim what's rightfully theirs. I saw it when my mommy was kissing me on the forehead and I blew out my little candle. Oh, okay. I don't, I gotta confess. I don't know who, who were you talking about? I'm talking about Placidiousaxe. He's one of the Earls of Hell and he will return to imprison humanity in his Scream Farms. Oh, I, I, well you say return. I don't remember when he was around the first time, honestly. Well Scott the Earth is very old and so am I. How old are you?

I mean, you became the company mascot in 63, what are you like, 80 or? Time has no meaning. To tell you my age would be to make you insane. Oh, how old are you actually? 100. Oh, only 100? Are you going insane? 100 year old bear?

Not really, I mean, there's 100 year olds on the Today Show that Al Roker talks to. Yeah. It's like, it's not that. Well, having Al wish me a happy birthday was a thrill. Of course I saw it coming. Sure. Because I saw it coming. Sure. Because I saw it in my dreams.

I also saw January 6th and the Malaysian airliner disappearance. Sure, yeah. Are you sort of like Dr. Manhattan where you're in many places at once? That was based on me. Dr. Manhattan is based on EP T. Grizzly? Yep.

The Sleepy Time T mascot? It was originally me, but they had to change it because Alan Moore couldn't get the rights. Wow. It was originally Charlton comics characters and me in Watchmen That'd be so crazy to have you know, the Charlton people who were they Sandman and the rest and then Beetle blue beetle. Yeah later came into DC Know it all Scott asked me anything I exist, I exist thither and yon.

Wow, well tell us about our future. Okay well Scott, you'll be drawn and quartered by a flock of flying flesh rippers. They'll tear you asunder high in the sky and your entrails will rain down on the onlookers below. Ooh. I saw it right after my mommy tucked me in and gave me a kiss on my forehead.

I was like a little mouse in a matchbook. How old is your mommy if you're 100? This might drive me insane. 118. Oh shit. Oh my god. That is doing a number on me. So how does, how, I got asked because I don't think I'm close to that coming true at this point. Like what series of events transpires in order for me to get there where a flock of birds tears me asunder? Oh yes, well these are part of the armies of hell, Scott. They're all coming back. I saw it in Dreamland. Plathagrax or what was his name?

Placidusax. Placidusax. This is all Placidusax related? This is all hisacidusax related? Yeah, this is all his doing. Yes, the war between hell and humanity is coming and y'all are gonna lose. I thought it was hell against heaven. Oh no, heaven's staying out of this. Heaven's like Switzerland.

Heaven's a neutral territory. God's just laughing at us. Oh no. I saw it all when I was putting on my giant nightcap. What about Brandon Brock here? Of course we're talking about Brandon Rollbrone. Oh, yes. And Brock Palmer Springs. Yeah, why don't you give it to me?

Well, Brandon, you're going to have little pieces sliced off you and fed to the Dark Beast Parl, who will birth the new Antichrist, who is destined to slay Satan and take the throne of hell. I saw it while I was napping in mommy's begonia patch. Well, I think that that's about on course, yeah. Yeah. I'll take that. Okay, what about Brock here? Well, Brock, you'll die surrounded by loved ones at a ripe old age, having accomplished everything

you set out to do, a life well lived, but your loved ones will throw your body in a pool and use your funeral money to go to Vegas and see the thunder from Down Under. That is actually what I would love to have happen. Thank you for that. That's gonna happen. Oh, wait, are you Brock? I'm Brock all the way, baby. Okay, dare I ask about me or? Oh, I told you yours. It's the thing where you're getting ripped apart. Oh no, Andy then. In the sky. Oh yeah, I told you yours. Oh, you didn't. It's the thing where you're getting ripped apart in the air. Oh no, Andy then. In the sky.

Oh yeah, Andy. What about Andy? You're gonna find some counterfeit Ozempic. Oh no. You're gonna die from that? Oh no. Sorry. Well, I hope some...

Just know your supplier, kids. I hope some hell hounds chew me up at least. Yeah, well your body will be there while the war is being fought betwixt heaven and hell. Sorry, earth and hell haven't been staying out of it. Do you know your own demise, how you will meet it? Have you pictured that? Yep. And may I ask? Autoerotic asphyxiation. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, you like sleepy. You like being on that border of- I mean, it's nature's sleeping pin.

That's right, that's right it is. And I could tell you more, but Scott, is there a place I could jack off? Yeah, I guess the corner? I don't know. I'm not picky. I just want to tell y'all everything that's out there in Dreamland. I got to ask though, how soon is this war between hell and the humans here on it,

is that transpiring pretty quickly because it seems like everyone's gonna die from this, other than Andy, of course. And Brock. Well, yeah, that's true, Brock. Yeah, I die in a... But your body's been thrown to... In a pool, hell yeah.

No, you're already dead when they throw you down. Yeah, we were crying in the pool. You won't care. We'll have a good party for you, buddy. How soon is this coming? Oh, well, I mean, obviously the visions, they are, they're hazy and I don't know exact dates and times. You never said that. Why do you say obviously?

Because you've been very specific up to this point. But now you're saying obviously the visions are hazy. Well, dates and times, I see deaths and monsters, I see specific monsters. You never said that dates and times were hazy. Oh, dates and times, I see deaths and monsters. I see specific monsters. You never said that dates and times were hazy. They're, oh, but they are. They are.

I'm saying it now, I'm saying it that they're hazy. Hey bro, lay off the bear. Lay off the bear. I've seen a lot of shit, Scott. Okay, so dates and times hazy. Early August, so you're gonna get through July month, which is exciting. That's very exciting.

I'm a fan. We still have two more episodes to come. Boy, they're gonna be doozies. Okay, please, you gotta stop yawning because this is gonna make all of us yawn as well. Oh, I've just been seeping peppermint and lemongrass all day. Oh my gosh, how can you sleep

when you know this is coming so quickly? Well, Scott, I've been seeing it since I was born. That's a good point. Yeah. Now are you anticipating it to the extent where like, oh, it's almost here. This thing I've been seeing so long. Honestly. Yeah.

I'm a little bit excited. It's kind of like Deadpool and Wolverine. You know, we've been seeing the trailers for so long and it's like, it's finally here. The war between earth and hell. Yeah. It's going to be a lot like Deadpool. You excited for that Deadpool and Wolverine, Andy? Nope.

I'll tell you why, because there's no chimp in it. Yeah. That's right. That's a good point. Sexless. Sexless, no chimp. But this is going to be the first movie where Deadpool and Wolverine team up. Yeah, I know.

So you're excited then? I was told that Wolverine was done. Yeah. Hugh Jackman said last, what was it? Mason, was that what it was called? Mason? That movie that was- What?

That's the one where Hugh Jackman played the Jar. No, what's the name? Logan. Oh, Logan. Logan, Logan, Logan. I'm sorry, I didn't remember. So wait, so Hugh Jackman, by the way, his name, Hugh Jackman, it's like, come on.

Yeah, come on. But he says, oh, Logan's the last one, cut two now 12 years later, he makes another one, you're upset about that. Yeah, yeah. Because you like movie stars to be truthful. Right. And yeah.

And I just, if you're gonna say you're gonna, that's it. If you're gonna lie like that. Yeah, yeah. So any movie star who has ever had an affair? You lied about their relationship. Oh yeah, yeah, they're all dead to me. Yeah, so what movies have you ever watched then? Like what can you see if you?

I just saw that Minions one. The Minions are okay. Yeah, Despicable Me 4, yeah. Yeah, cause the Minions. Steve Carell never cheated on anybody. I'm sorry to break it to you, Andy. What? What?

All of those minions have been unfaithful. Oh no! I saw it in Dreamland. We love the minions! I saw it in Dreamland. Oh my gosh. They were sucking and fucking and nobody was their wife.

Oh boy. No! No one was their wife. Not the minions! That is just hard to believe. That is terrible. And there's gonna be like five more Wolverine movies. She's gonna die in each one and Hugh Jackman will say this was the last one. He'll do a little run on Broadway and he'll impress us with his song and dance skills.

I knew it. But then he'll be a coming back with the claws. Maybe he'll impress us for like a movie star, but you know, like compared to Broadway stars? Well, sure, yeah. We give handsome guys extra points for stars. Well, sure, yeah. You know. We give handsome guys extra points for stuff. Yeah, of course. His body is impressive. His body is amazing.

The fact that he just eats like- And he's pretty good at singing. 20 little pieces of chicken, like just boiled chicken every day. Ryan Gosling looks amazing and he's pretty funny. Yeah, so we give him a lot of credit. They get handsome guy points. Well, so what's gonna happen to the Sleepy Time Tea Company?

Is that at the nexus in this war between the hell and the... Well, Scott, it certainly is. It will be a nexus. It will be where the new world is reborn, right there from the Sleepy Time Tea Factory in our patented blend of cinnamon, cloves, and chamomile. That is a great blend. It's a wonderful blend. It'll put you right to sleep. Wow

That's incredible. No. Yeah, it's patented. So no one can put those ingredients together. No, they can't and if they do I'll kill them I'll kill them dead. Have you killed people? Don't yawn after you say you're gonna kill someone. I'm just so weepy. Have you killed people before? Oh, I've killed many Scott I've also given birth. I've killed many Scott. I've also given birth, I've fallen in love, and I've chopped my own twin off of my body. What? Because I was born with a twin. You were born with a conjoined twin? A lot like their cyber trucks? Yeah that's right. I was gonna ask why do you wear a night shirt because you're a bear and you don't have to,

but now I know why it's probably to cover up the scar. It's to cover up the scar. Cause I like being cozy. I like cozy vibes. Yeah, but I mean, you're kind of covered in cozy as it is with your fur. If someone were to kill you and put you down as a rug, like would they keep the night shirt, I wonder?

Oh, well, if they wanted people to know it was me I have a signature night shirt of course and if it was my enemy and who wanted to you know flaunt my murder. Is that a bear's greatest fear is becoming one of those rugs? Oh gosh Scott I'll be honest with you I would kind of like it. It's because they look really cool. It is cozy. Oh man falling asleep on one of those Oh I would love to fall asleep on myself In front of a roaring fire With a mug of chamomile

They have a king size bunk bed over here Oh I got my eye on you buddy That sounds so cozy Can I sleep at y'all's house? That's affirmative my friend You're coming home with me Is there a night stand I can put my little cand candle stick on oh, I'm gonna get you one, hon. Okay Oh, I love to blow it out right before I fall asleep

Like a real Ebenezer Scrooge vibe going on. That's right. You're you're giving Ebenezer on Christmas morning And you say you haven't seen memes Look at this guy seen a meme Anything we can do to prevent this war? No, Scott, it's inevitable. So this is unlike Ebenezer Scrooge, these are futures that are definitely going to occur unlike possible futures with Ebenezer. I mean, from everything that we're told, his past was written, but the future where people, you know, laugh at his grave and spit on his tombstone, that may or may not happen.

Well, Scott, there is a way you can prevent the war, but I don't know if y'all are up for it. Yeah, tell us, tell Andy, you want to know about this, right? I sure do. Yeah. Well, if y'all get plenty of rest, this will not come to pass. What are we talking like, six hours a night? Six, well, six hours, people need at least eight, but-

People need eight? People need eight, Scott, but I'm sorry, y'all have your little device because you're scrolling Instagram. I knew a movie star who told me they got 13 and a half. Wow. I was like, how do you function? That's amazing. I'll tell do you function? That's amazing.

That's how you off air. That's medication. That's something going on. So if we all sleep more, we can stave off the incoming war. If you buy plenty of sleepy time tea, it might happen, but I don't know. Wait a minute.

Is this war actually happening or are you just trying to hawk more tea? I saw it in Dreamland, Scott. Are you trying to hawk to a more tea? I don't know what to tell you. Okay, so you've seen memes. Okay, I did see hawk to a meme. You've seen memes.

You know the hawk to a meme. That's a fun one. That is a fun one. All right, well, look, we're running out of time, guys. We happen to only have time for one final feature on the show, and that is, of course, a little something called Plugs. Plugs in the bag. Plugs, plugs. Plugs in the bag. Plugs, that is of course a little something called Plugs.

All right that was What's in the Bag by Isaac Keener. Thanks to Isaac Keener. If you have a plugs theme, head over to cbbworld.com slash plugs and upload it and you can be famous for a week. And Isaac, you're famous for a week. All right, what do we plug in Andy? We've talked about these shows, obviously. Yes.

You have the Andy Richter call-in show. Yes. Are you trying to Andy Richter call in show. Yes Are you serious XM trying to encourage people to call in and like goof around and tell you fake stuff or I? Don't care. You don't care. I don't care if you want to lie and it makes it a better story and you can lie convincingly That's fine. So what do you mean lie convincingly? Are you out there? Well, if you if you say you know Have you ever been in the middle of a call there? Well, if you say, you know. Have you ever been in the middle of a call and suddenly you realize someone's fucking with you and you're like.

No, not that they're fucking with me, but I have felt sometimes that I can tell when the embellishment starts. Yeah. Yeah, because people wanna make it better, which I appreciate. They're trying to get some extra credit. So, you know.

I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say, I authorize dishonesty or I endorse it, but I would- But you're giving a free pass to anyone out there who wants to be dishonest. Sure. You might call on the show, make some stuff up. Just make it good. Make it good.

That's all we have. Make it believable. Make it good. That is the Andy Richter call-in show, and that is on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and that is Eastern on channel 104 from what I'm told. That is correct. On the Sirius XM.

That's right. Wow, that's right, yes. That's right. And Brand Rollbron and Brock Pomma Springs. You got it. What do you guys wanna plug? Oh, what do you think, Brand? The big ones podcast.

Yeah, the biges podcast on Patreon. What is it? Well, it's our friends, Amanda and Maria. Yeah, each week they discuss a brain-busting moral dilemma. There's also a whole back catalog on Apple for free, so start there and then hop over to the Patreon. As the guy called in about someone he was on a first date with who showed up with his laundry

and then wanted to be fisted. Is he calling into all the shows? No, but I have to say, I love how we were all freaking out about the laundry. And then when we got to the fisting part, we were like, that is crazy. And where do people go to get this? Whatever, check it out, Apple podcasts, Spotify.

The big ones. Yeah, but the Patreon's what we're doing now. Yeah, that's the current ones. The big ones. The big ones. The big ones. The Patreon's what we're doing now. Yeah, that's the current ones. Patreon.com slash the big ones. You're subscribing to this. Oh yes. These girls got it. They got it.

They have it, really. Oh yeah, they have it. We found them at the ice cream set up. When they were just little tweens? That's sweet of you to say. That's what they said. Thank you, yeah. That's what they said.

You guys are so good at luring young people in your schemes. That's the only way to do it, all right? With the promise of sweets. Yeah. EPT Grizzly, what are you plugging here? Well, Scott, you know I love going to bed and there's nothing that helps you drift off to Dreamland more than a good bedtime story. Am I right?

I guess. I mean, maybe like a sleeping pill. Yeah, I was gonna say. Sleeping pills are great, but bedtime stories are sleeping pills that come from the imagination. They're sleeping pills made out of paper, if you read it, sure. Yeah, Scott, we're on the same page. All right, I'm gonna tell y'all about a new graphic novel that's coming out. It is called Youth Group.

It is by a writer named Jordan Morris and an artist named Bowen McGurdy. It is a YA horror comedy about teenage exorcists. And it hits bookstores July 16th, anywhere you buy books. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, better yet your local indie bookstore. That's coming up. Yeah, I was talking to this guy about this show. He was on my other show, Scott Hasn't Seen, and we watched Zardoz together. Can you stop yawning? I'm sorry, I'm just so epee. I still don't know what epee means.

It's like sleepy, but it's a fun meme way to say it. Oh, it's like apostrophe epee? Yeah, kinda. I understand now. Epee, I'm an epee guy. Say the title of this again. The title is Youth Group. If you like horror comedies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

or Shaun of the Dead, this is right up your alley. Youth Group, it's a graphic novel and it is on sale July 16th. Coming up. Yeah. All right, well, I wanna plug. We just finished three dates on the comedy, well, we finished nine dates

and then we just did another three this weekend of the Comedy Bang Bang Tour. All of those episodes are up at cbbworld.com. But we are starting next week. We're starting back up again. We have a really long leg where we're going to Utah, Denver, Texas, Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Chicago, Madison, St. Paul,

so many cities we're gonna be out there. Tickets are still on sale for most of those. I think some like Toronto are sold out. But go over to cbbworld.com slash tour. You can get tickets for all of those and follow along with us on the tour. All those episodes are going up at CBB World. You have to, I wanna caution everyone,

you have to get, this is a separate feed, go to Access and go to the bang bang into your mouth 24. And while you're over there, you know, listen to our other shows like College Town, Neighborhood Listen, CBB Presents, the aforementioned Scott Asin Seen, so much over there. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. Wow, that was 9 inch plugs by Samuel Tama. What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it?

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How old are you talking? Like last year? Pre 1975. Really? Okay, we gotta talk about this. We do? Yeah. Yeah. I wanna hear about this. Off mic, of course. Of course. And I'll tell you about the movie star who sleeps 13 and a half hours a day as well. Yes, please do. I already have guesses.

I want to thank you, Andy. Thank Brandon Brock, of course I'm talking about Brand Rollbrone and Brock Palmer Springs. Wonderful to have you guys on and consider us, you know, FYC, not the fine young cannibals for your consideration. You're in our Rolodex. Yeah, well, let's do lunch. All right, sure. What do you mean?

Like eat a meal or? Come on by to Spago. Yeah, come on have a Rolodex. Yeah, we'll have, we should, let's do lunch, yeah? All right, sure. What do you mean, like eat a meal or? Come on by to Spago. Yeah, come on by to Spago. We'll get a smoked salmon pizza and we'll talk shop. All right. Sounds disgusting, actually. Listen, just, if they're buying. If they're buying, yeah, we'll just shovel it down our gullets.

Absolutely. You know what I mean? We'll look like real eaters, like real good boys who love to eat. That's right. Our mom has taught us well, right? Yup. Yeah, okay. My boys are good eaters. All real good boys who learned how to eat. Our mom has taught us well, right? Yep. Yeah, okay.

My boys are good eaters. All right, thanks, Brandon Brock. And then EPT Grizzly, wonderful to have you on. I really hope that this war doesn't come. Yeah, thank you. Just buy lots of sleepy time tea wherever you get the hot stuff. Yeah, wherever you get the hot stuff.

Yeah. That's a weird way of saying it. Your local tea aisle. A whole aisle for tea? That seems like a waste. At the grocery store I go to, it's a whole aisle of tea and I fall asleep in the middle of it. At least put coffee in there as well or something.

Nope, I never touch the stuff. All right. Well, thanks EPT and well, I guess I'll see you in hell or? Yeah, hell is a-comin'. Soon it'll be earth, hell and Earth will be one! You can't tell the difference after the Lord's return! But not until after July month! Well, we'll see you next time!

Thanks, bye!