Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Best of 2020 Part 2

Episode Date: December 24, 2020

Merry Christmas Eve from Comedy Bang! Bang! Join Scott and Paul F. Tompkins as they countdown numbers twelve through nine of the Best CBB episodes of 2020 as voted by YOU listeners. Tune in next week ...for Part 3 and keep smiling!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 ["Comedy Bang Bang"] Rectum, damn near, killed him. It was Crohn's disease, Your Honor. Welcome to Comedy's Bang. Comedy's Bang Bang. Am I pluralizing this? Mystery's Comedy's Bang Bang. Wuppers Jr.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. Best of 2020, part two. Part two. I'm going to take you to part two. Big Audio Dynamite, as we have talked about before. And... Scott's favorite band. That's right.
Starting point is 00:00:50 There's no one better. Isn't that funny, though? Big Audio Dynamite, too, was pretty good as well. Is somebody's favorite band, though? I guess. I mean, look, I like them more than the average person. I have, I think, every record they put out. This is not to say that they're bad,
Starting point is 00:01:04 but it's funny that even a short-lived band that didn't put out much stuff, that's somebody's favorite band. And they must be so bummed, like, man, this is as good as it got for me music-wise. And they did two albums. Well, they did about eight, but... This is, I'm doing, like, a theory of Scott.
Starting point is 00:01:21 Come on. Don't play these games with me. That, of course, you know, this podcast is... This podcast is called Stompkins, I. This podcast is probably someone's favorite podcast, if you can believe it. That can't be true. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:01:31 By the way, thank you to Euripides Shorts for that catchphrase submission. Catchphrase Superstar. Catchphrase Superstar, Euripides Shorts. And welcome to Comedy Bang Bang, best of 2020, part two. And my name is Scott Ackerman, and I am the host of Comedy Bang Bang. I see somebody at your door up there.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Someone trying to get in, or someone just, like, peeking over. What happened? I just saw movement. I just saw movement. I can't see the top of the door. Okay, generally, they're peeking over Wilson style. So I can't see if they're peeking over Wilson style.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Mr. Wilson? Isn't that weird how two neighbors in two different shows are making Wilson? So alike in dignity. So alike in dignity. What is the quote from? So alike in both houses. No, two houses, both alike.
Starting point is 00:02:09 What is it? I can't remember. Both alike in what? Ah, the bard. Both alike in, oh no, I'm gonna have to look it up. It, but first I wanted to see who that person was. Both alike in liking Mike. I like Ike.
Starting point is 00:02:25 I like Mike. Two houses. Can someone like Mike and Ike's? Here we go, ready? Yeah. Two households, both alike in dignity. Oh, that's dignity. In dignity, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:37 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. Oh shit, that means this is where it takes place. This is where this shit happens. In the room where it happens. And I wonder what, oh, Romeo and Juliet, of course. They had to do that before lower thirds. That's right. Like CNN and lower thirds.
Starting point is 00:02:56 They had to say like, this takes place in Verona. I guess they did, you know? I guess maybe they could have had a banner. Much like that plane had. Yes, here he comes. He's back again. I got my phone charger. I took the wrong one.
Starting point is 00:03:14 I need a T-Mobile charger. Yeah, why not? I mean, and also programs. Programs are supposed to tell you everything. You know, you don't see modern shows, people going like, hey, by the way, this takes place in. Here's the thing, no one could read them. Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:03:30 This before reading was invented. That's right. Shakespeare did. For his fundamental. It was certainly not fundamental. The writing was invented because obviously Shakespeare was writing these plays. Oh, I thought he dictated the plays to the actors.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Were all women. Of course. As was the custom. Because it was a feminine profession. That's right. And is to this day. The StarCross lovers, Romeo and Juliet, were they not?
Starting point is 00:03:56 They were Star Trek lovers? They were Star Trek lovers. No, they love Star Wars, as you know, because that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A long time ago. Star Trek has not happened yet. And you should know this. Star Trek.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Star Trek. As the host of the Star Trek podcast. Pod directive cast. Me and the great Tony Newsom. That's right. Where you guys talk about Star Trek. I wondered, when I heard you were doing that, how much do you know about Star Trek?
Starting point is 00:04:19 I know a good deal about Star Trek. Because I feel like you have talked about watching one of the spinoffs, I guess they are. But I don't remember you ever talking about knowing that much about the original series. Well, I watched the original series as a kid. When it was in spin. As a kid, re-listed it out.
Starting point is 00:04:37 And I loved it. I was captivated by it. And then when TNG came out, I watched that as it aired. And then I started re-watching it a few years ago. Tell me more. Deep Space Nine. I used to watch Deep Space Nine. Not as versed in Voyager.
Starting point is 00:04:54 What was that one that Bakula was on? They were Dracula. Who was it? Dracula or Bakula? They were Count Bakula. He was on Enterprise. I've watched a little bit of that. I might watch more of that.
Starting point is 00:05:04 It was a little rough to get into. What if, much like the Weird Devil in Star Wars? What if a Dracula just came on to one of the decks? I would. In Star Trek. He's wearing the cape and the medal. But here's the thing. If it were Star Trek, it would be a whole story.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Everyone on the planet would look like Dracula. Would it speak the whole thing? Talk like this. Your so-called Prime Directive. But would the story of Count Dracula have happened in the Star Trek universe? There would be a reference to it in this guy. It looks a lot like Dracula.
Starting point is 00:05:42 In the middle of... That story that no one ever remakes or talks about anymore. Many planets and cultures have the Dracula legend under various names. Okay, let me do an impression and see if you know who this is. Stardate. 34. 34.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Can you tell who that is? I wish people could have seen the physicality that went along with it. Stardate. 34. 26. 32.
Starting point is 00:06:06 Did you ever see Dana Gould and me and Candelli do the three-shattner? Yes. Where did you do it? It was very funny. We did it at Pagros. Do you remember Pagros? Yes, I remember.
Starting point is 00:06:16 I used to book a show at Pagros. That's right. We did, there's this old clip of William Shatner at the Science Fiction Awards from the 70s doing Rocket Man, the Elton John song, and he's doing this very strange sort of beat poetry rendition of it. But it also features different versions of William Shatner
Starting point is 00:06:39 singing the song with him. Super opposed, yeah, onto the, yeah, to each other. So you'd see three different images of his face. Yeah. And body. Yeah, that's true. I mean, they didn't just cut him off at the chin. If he had a body in frame, they would show it.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Oh, yeah. And Dana Gould had the idea to do it live. So it was me and... This is a very Dana Gould idea. It was Dana, me, and Candelli, and we did it. We just did the song. I remember it. Yeah, it was so much fun.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Yeah. Those are fun days. That was back around 1997, of course. That's right. But if you can find that clip of William Shatner, it's an amazing... It's really good, yeah. I'm saying Rock'n Man was also an inspiration
Starting point is 00:07:23 for a bit we did on Bajillion Dollar Properties. That's right, yes. If you can find that clip, good luck to you. And to all your family, too. It is Christmas Eve, by the way, today. What? And yes, that's right. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:07:37 Here's the... Uh-oh. I have a bit of a problem. Oh, no. You know how I'm a miser, right? Sure, yeah. And... And you studied Meisner as well.
Starting point is 00:07:44 I'm a Meisner miser. And I don't like Christmas. Right, yeah. You're a misanthrope. Yeah, yeah, I am. And I... Baah, humbug are things that I've heard you say every once in a while.
Starting point is 00:08:02 I've said those things individually and together. Yes. And I'm kind of worried... Usually when you're saying baah, you're saying it to some black sheep. Well, then I'm saying it a bunch of times in a row. Yeah, sure, of course. And then I have a question, believe me.
Starting point is 00:08:15 That's right. And sometimes when you watch the movie Black Sheep with Chris Farley and David Spade. Or the comedy bang-bang guest this year. Or the TV show, Baah Baah Black Sheep. That's right. Of course. Did you say Chris Farley was a guest this year?
Starting point is 00:08:27 Yeah, he was. Okay. He time-traveled. And I will... Here's the thing. I'm a little scared to go to sleep tonight. Why? Because I get the feeling that
Starting point is 00:08:41 I should not have been this way all my life. Right. To be fair, I wasn't always like this. Oh, well, I remember there were these years where you were kind of young and you were sort of a romantic... Dumb. I was full of something.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Oh, it was semen. You were going to come right out and say, I was full of semen. I was packed to the rafters for this. Your living room balls were just swollen. But yeah, I wonder if I... Well, what's the worst that could happen? You'd die in your sleep?
Starting point is 00:09:13 No, I think something worse than that could happen. Something worse than dying? Yeah, I mean, I'd love to die in my sleep. I wish. Oh, man, that's the way to go. That is the way to go. Like, just to have, you know, that statue that I have right above my bed?
Starting point is 00:09:26 Just to have that topple over in an earthquake and land on my head and crush my skull to die in your sleep. That's the dream. I really should have fixed that to the wall a little more carefully, but... Yeah, you don't want it to fall over like that video of the fake toddler climbing the dresser. The dresser falls over, the TV smashes, it's facing.
Starting point is 00:09:50 It's a reproduction of Michelangelo's David. Or is it a reproduction? Is that true? Yeah. No, of course not. Or is it a reproduction? I actually stole Michelangelo's David and swapped it out for a reproduction no one knows.
Starting point is 00:10:05 You're like Indiana Jones. Yeah, that's right. It belongs in my house. It belongs in my house? So I do you. Oh, references, we got them. We got them all. Paul of Tompkins is here.
Starting point is 00:10:20 I don't know whether I said that. Hi there. And we are, of course, this is part two of the best of 2020. And of course it's part two. In the previous episode, part one, we counted down episodes 16 through 13 that you, the voters have voted on.
Starting point is 00:10:40 Every year, we put out a voting page and everyone votes on it. I think that's pretty clear. And we got a lot of votes this year. We got, let me look at- How was turnout this year? Turnout was good. And let me just, because I asked for clarification on this
Starting point is 00:11:01 and I got it. So I just wanna make sure that I have the right numbers here, but oh yes, we got over 30,000 votes this year. What's the record? I don't know. I was wondering that, but- Ask July? Ask July and answer in July.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Who would know? Every year, well, July does have the page, but I'm sure we've disgusted every year. I wonder if we're going down in votes. I'm sure I'm disgusted every year. Who knows? Anyway, 30,000, nothing to sneeze at. And especially this year during COVID-19.
Starting point is 00:11:36 He don't sneeze at things. And if you do, wash your hands. We got 30,000 votes and look, first, don't sneeze. But if you do, wash your hands. And if you don't wash your hands, God bless you. Wash your nose. If you sneeze, wash your nose. Ladies, wash your noses.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Ladies, wash your noses. Um, we are going to, on this episode, be listening to 12, 11, 10, and 9. So we're going to crack the top 10. We are going to, on this episode, be listening to episodes chosen by Vee. That's right. Paul, of course, is a little troll.
Starting point is 00:12:19 The comedy-bang-bang troll who lives under a bridge. Why do trolls like to live under bridges? Under bridges do we dwell. Otherwise, it feels like hell. Seems like you could live in, like, a toll booth next to the bridge. Couldn't you? It would be a little more comfortable.
Starting point is 00:12:36 In a toll booth, should I? In a toll booth, should I reside? I would sit alone and would have cried. Inside. Inside. Insides. You know. Inside.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Inside. Yeah. Inside. Yeah. So we're going to hear about 12, 11, 10, and 9. Why a toll booth? Because of troll? Troll booth?
Starting point is 00:12:56 Troll booth. That's what I should have said. Oh, that's my movie, Troll Booth. This is not a bad pitch. Troll Booth. That's the end of the pitch. That's it. It's like, it's like the Space Force pitch.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Not hyphenated. What was the Space Force pitch? Was it just Space Force? Netflix pitched Space Force to Steve Carell and his Brucey partner. You know. Could you make a show of this? These are, those are my favorite things.
Starting point is 00:13:21 I actually, when we pitched the Michael Bolton Valentine's Day special, which is great to watch during the holidays, because if you haven't seen it, there's a reason why you can watch it during Christmas. If you haven't seen it, there's a reason why. Yeah. I don't want to spoil it, but there is a reason why it's good to watch.
Starting point is 00:13:36 I was going to say, if people haven't seen it, there's a reason why they haven't. I don't want to spoil it, but it's because you're an asshole. A dick bitch. If you haven't heard episode one, that's a callback. I'm not just saying dick bitch. Episode one of Comedy Batman. That's right.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Go all the way back. But when we pitched the Michael Bolton Valentine's Day special, all we did was make a poster and said, look at this. It's going to be like this. Because we didn't have any of the segments in it, because we didn't write it or anything. We were like, it's going to be, it's going to be this.
Starting point is 00:14:06 And it worked. And it worked. Multiple offers. But it's from the same company? Yep. And they said, pick which one. And we picked the smallest. We're all going to write a number on a piece of paper.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Slide them forward at the same time. You can combine them if you want, or just pick one. If I were you, I'd combine them. Oh, well, we just picked one. One is $1. That's the one we picked, unfortunately. Oh, no. And it said doll hair, too.
Starting point is 00:14:33 And we knew it said doll hair. Because it was written. Oh, boy. So every year we do this, Paul, and it's Christmas Eve. And hopefully by tomorrow and by the next episode, you're going to like Christmas. Who knows? Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:51 I feel like something weird is going to happen. Maybe? Who knows? But something weird is going to happen on this episode. We're going to hear some great clips. We're going to hear clips from these episodes that you voted on. By the pricking of my thumbs, a bunch of great clips this way
Starting point is 00:15:03 comes. You're getting better at rhyming. Thank you. Your characters have traditionally not like to rhyme all that much. And I've noticed, listening to some of these clips back, that you are getting more comfortable with rhyming in the moment.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Thank you. Well, you've always said that you were not incredibly. OK, but don't throw it back in my face. So anything you tell me, I can never bring up again? Yes. And that's considered throwing it back in your face? That's friendship. You got married to Janie.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Don't throw that back in my face. Oh, dear you. Why don't we get to it? Let's get to it. This is, we're counting down 12 to 9. This is your episode 12. Number one, two. All right, episode 12, Paul.
Starting point is 00:15:44 This is num- Give me my hints. OK, this is episode 661. It's still in the 600s, OK. That's right. That's right. This is June 22. June 22.
Starting point is 00:15:55 The dog days of summer. It's June 22. Right. It's not quite July. Not July yet. That's right. It's a, I would say, if I had to guess, it's like eight days away. It's not May, not quite July.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Yeah. Do you remember what you were doing this July? Yeah, celebrating America. Of course. Yeah. But previous to that, do you remember your June? I think I was hating America. So that the celebration would be all the sweeter.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And that it balances out, of course. Exactly. I'll tell you one thing you were doing in June. You were recording this episode. What? I want it. That's right. And this episode is called the Moser Trio.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Really? Yes. Very funny. I've listened to this clip. And you're going to listen to it right now. No. This is an episode called the Moser Trio. Paul, what can you tell us about this episode?
Starting point is 00:16:51 Well, Carl, Tart and I decided we wanted to do something together. We neither of us had anything really planned. Normally, what happens on the show for those of you who don't know how the show works? On Monday, we meet with Scott as a writer. Yeah, we have a, yep. On Tuesday, that's our light day, but we do a writer all nighter. We have to pitch ideas to Scott what characters we want to.
Starting point is 00:17:12 Wednesday, there's dress. No, what happens is usually the performers, I reach out to people separately. Most people don't even know who they're going to be on the show with at any given time. They just come to the studio or pop up the Zoom and go, oh, wow, these people are on it. So a lot of people don't ever do characters together
Starting point is 00:17:32 because I book everyone separately. But in this case, you and Carl wanted to do one together. You let me know that, right? No, I don't think so. I think we decided in the moment as we all got on the Zoom. So when you got on the Zoom, you saw Carl and said, hey, let's do something together. Or Carl might have said that to me.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I don't remember. Who knows? Or I might have said it to anyone. Who knows? Who else was on this episode? Also, Tim Baltz. We know it was not Tim. Tim did not suggest it. Tim shut the fuck up like, of course he always does, like a good little boy.
Starting point is 00:18:04 Here's what he does. And this drives me crazy about Tim. We were having this conversation. Tim sits there with this little smile on his face, this little mysterious smile on his face. Like he knows something and he thinks we're being stupid. And he has information that we need, but won't give it to us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:19 And I fuck if I see that guy. If you ever see that guy again, who knows if we ever will. I'm going to punch his fucking lights out. Did you get the vaccine yet, by the way? Yeah. It's good, isn't it? I love it. Do you know what's funny is like, I was like,
Starting point is 00:18:30 is it going to be weird? And then it was like, it's like heaven. Yeah. It tastes good. It's so good. I'm like, I feel like a little high, but not like I can't. Like I incapacitated it. When he was dribbling out of that syringe,
Starting point is 00:18:42 I was like, I don't know if I want that in my mouth, but it was, it tastes so good. I had the doctors squirt, like squirt it through the syringe right into my mouth. Right. I was like, do it like a fountain. Yeah. Do it like the Waterworld show.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Do like the Waterworld show where they squirt water in people's mouth. So my recollection of this episode is we got on the Zoom and neither of you had anything planned. And a lot of times people don't plan what they're going to do. They just think of it in the moment. And you said, what should we do? And I think this was Carl's idea, wasn't it? He's where he said, I've always wanted
Starting point is 00:19:17 to do a singing trio where it's like, hello, hello, hello. But one of the people is dead. And you said, great, let's do it. And that's what this episode is about. I don't even know if we thought even had that much planned out. I knew we were going to be a singing group. And that I think I think. No, I think it was because you wanted
Starting point is 00:19:40 to be introduced as the Moser Trio, but there were only two of them. Yeah, right, right, right. So I think that was Carl's initial pitch. Now, my feelings about this episode were in the moment I did not feel like I was doing a good job. That's right. I think we talked about that after the episode, right? Where you were a little like.
Starting point is 00:19:55 We talked about during a break, yeah. Oh, where you were like, guys. No, it's fine. But I felt I did not feel, I didn't feel, it was maybe my first, it was one of the first Bang Bang or Zoom. It wasn't the first Bang Bang over Zoom, but we were working out. We'll talk about the process later
Starting point is 00:20:10 behind the scenes of the show, but we were working out the intricacies of doing an improv show over Zoom where everyone has different speeds of internet. Everyone has different qualities of mics, et cetera. And I think this one in the moment felt a little strange, like it wasn't going well. And also to be doing a musical thing. Yes, where people, anytime anyone tries to sing,
Starting point is 00:20:32 it's hard to sync up with it over Zoom. But I listened to it back and we're gonna listen to it right now and it's very funny. I'm glad, but I have not listened back to this one. It's really funny. So let's do it. Let's hear it. This is your episode 12, The Moser Trio.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Number one, two. And they are a singing trio and this is so exciting to have them. They're one of my favorites. Please welcome to the show, The Moser Trio. Hello, guys. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Thank you, Scott.
Starting point is 00:21:08 Thank you, Scott. Was that the three of you? It sounded, first of all, now I know the typical trio entrances, hello, hello, hello. You were doing it knocked it apart, but it sounds like there's only two of you, is that right? He died, he died. That's right, Scott, the middle part of our trio has died.
Starting point is 00:21:34 The middle guy in the trio died? No. I'm, of course, Chef Moser. I'm Heat Moser. Chef, is that spelled like chef, but just pronounced differently, or is that spelled a different way? It's spelled C-H-E. Oh, you're really keeping me in suspense here.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Oh, A. J. J, OK. F-F. So like, Jeff, without the vowels, no? No. Well, it's C-H-E-J-F-F. So like, Jeff, with the vowels, but just
Starting point is 00:22:07 with two transposed letters, with a C-H at the top. Say yes. Yes. Thank you. You got it. OK, so should Jeff, but the J is silent? No, it's chef. It's chef, but the J is silent.
Starting point is 00:22:19 Yes. Are you Swedish? No. I thought we were your favorite group. Yeah, I don't know anything about you. I love you. I love your music. I beg your pardon, Your Majesty, where the J is not silent.
Starting point is 00:22:35 It's true. Your Majesty, it's R-J. It truly is. And heap, how is that spelled? Like a whole heap. So standard spelling on that, H-E-A-P. H-E-E-P-E. OK.
Starting point is 00:22:49 I'm sorry to laugh at you guys' names. I know you may be foreign. You're not Swedish. That's the only information I have regarding you. We're used to it. Now imagine a third voice in the middle there. Yeah, it must be very difficult to have the middle part. The only person not doing the melody in a trio
Starting point is 00:23:10 to have passed away. What happened to, what was their name? Crand. Crand. Yes, C-R-A-A-A-A-N-D. Where are you from? Because these are foreign-sounding names. Did you not Google us?
Starting point is 00:23:26 Did you not look us up? We thought we were your favorite names. You love our music. You never once thought I'm going to find out some information on these guys. You love something without Googling it? I love my wife. Oh, that's not true.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I've never Googled her. You've never Googled your wife. Why would I Google my wife? I've Googled her. Because he's up to. Yeah, exactly. To see what she's up to. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:45 I don't think Google tracks everyone's movement. To find her own racist tweets. So no, I don't know where you're from. Where are you guys actually from? We are from Germantown, USA. USA. Love it or leave it. Germantown.
Starting point is 00:24:10 I don't exactly know where that is. Is it west of the Mississippi? Or is that east? Is it directly on the Mississippi? Oh, OK. It's west of the Mississippi and the good old US of A. US of A. So you then use best foods, mayonnaise, not helmets.
Starting point is 00:24:27 We use both. We're one of the few cities in America that uses both helmets and best foods. We also have a Hardee's and a Carl's Jr. Whoa. Yes. Incredible. And we have a Crystal and a White Castle.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Wow. We also use the metric system. It's what's strange town. We have a Checkers and a Rallys. Wow, I have to visit this place. And a McDonald's and a Burger King. How much do you guys weigh, by the way? We're big.
Starting point is 00:24:54 We're big. That witch is fine. No need to weight shame you. I hear all those delicious restaurant names that make me salivate. And I can only imagine living in a town like that. The temptation must be overwhelming. How many fast food restaurants do you have here in Los Angeles?
Starting point is 00:25:15 Well, we certainly don't have a Hardee's, nor a, I don't believe. No, I have seen a Rallys, actually. But maybe out there in Azusa or something like that. And that's it, just the two? Just the two, the no Hardee's and one Rallys. So no need to ask you how much you weigh. Because with just the 1.0 restaurants in town. I always, I have a policy on the show.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Any question that I ask is a question that I would be willing to have asked of myself. So any question I ask you today, feel free to ask me right back. Scott, I'm going to be, I'm going to apologize to you because I'm a little, I'm still a little distraught over the loss. So sorry, how long ago did Crand pass away? This morning. This morning.
Starting point is 00:26:00 This morning. This morning. We thought we'd come right on the show to celebrate our brother Crand. And let me just tell you something. Crand would always say, our brother would always say, he did not like going to cities that didn't have more than no and one fast food restaurant. Well, I'm so sorry, guys.
Starting point is 00:26:22 I'm so sorry to hear about that. I Crand, how did he pass away? He was murdered. He was murdered. Murdered by whom? Have you caught the assailant? Not by us. Not by us.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Don't even think about asking that. Why did you say that? We didn't do it. I said, murdered by whom? I don't think that I intimated it was you guys. I would assume the fact that you're free and running around doing a podcast would mean that you, the police, you're not under suspicion.
Starting point is 00:26:58 Scott is 97 degrees outside. Is 97 degrees outside? Are you giving us the third degree to make it an even 100? What's with the third degree? Are you trying to keep it 100 by adding three degrees? OK, yeah, that is one segment that I was thinking of doing on the show now. I was keeping it 100 by adding third degrees. But let me tell you something, Scott.
Starting point is 00:27:15 Of course, we're not suspects. And why would we be? He was our brother. We loved him with all of our hearts. Well, to be honest, you know, most murders are crimes of passion and performed by a person very close to the, what do you call it, murdery, victim, victim, victim is the word. But we had a song called Murdery.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Murdery. I'd love to hear at least two parts of it being an octave apart. You could perform that. Well, let's see what we can do. Murdery. Murdery. Murdery. Murdery.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Murdery. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. OK. And that this was on an album. You released this. We're about to. Oh, oh. We're about to release it.
Starting point is 00:28:06 This is on a new album, Go and Duo. Wait, so this isn't even a Postamus album for your brother, Crang? What is it, Crang? Crang. I'm sorry, Crang is something else, right? Which is which is bringing about which is ringing a bell for me, but I don't think I want to talk about it. No, you don't.
Starting point is 00:28:24 No, you don't want to talk about Crang. I don't want to talk about Crang, but Crang is something, right? Crang is something you don't want to talk about. I don't want to talk about Crang. That's for another show down the line. But Crang, this is not a Postamus album featuring. Sorry, Crang, this is not a Postamus album featuring Crang's vocals. No, no.
Starting point is 00:28:43 You recorded this in the time in between him dying and you being on this show. That's why we came to we came to Los Angeles to work at Sunset Sounds. Our brother, Crang, died in Germistown, USA at the in the wee hours of this morning. We immediately grieved, hopped on a plane. We sat middle seat empty. And now here we are wearing your masks, wearing our masks. Here's what we do, which is fun.
Starting point is 00:29:12 We wear masks of the lower half of each other's faces. Well, I didn't want to mention, but you guys are identical twins. So maybe, I don't know, maybe you're triplets with one triplet being. Are you still a triplet? If one triplet is dead? No, no. You know, if your grandparents die, you're no longer a grandchild. I guess, but I I think that's a shame.
Starting point is 00:29:34 It's like being busted down when you're in the army from like, you know, general to sergeant or something like that. Like the fact that you can be general to sergeant. At that point, I would leave the army. That's a huge, huge drop. OK, so from five star to four star general, they, they, you know, a guy comes over and snatches one star off you. But to be busted down from triplet to twin just must
Starting point is 00:30:01 the ultimate indignity. But were you guys triplets and now twins? Yes, yes, triplets and now we're twins. We've been busted down. We've been busted. We call it the bust down Tatiana and we are now only twins after the bust down Tatiana. OK, I'm so sorry, guys.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Are have you adjusted to being twins at this point? Yeah, it's pretty much. Yeah, there's more space. Sure. Well, did you all live together or just more space on the earth? Both. I'm sorry to laugh. It's just, I mean, it sounds like you guys grieved very quickly this morning. I mean, did you achieve total dabda this morning?
Starting point is 00:30:41 We had dabda pretty quickly after because we had we didn't have time to like not hit dabda. We had a plane to catch. Exactly. And right now, traveling is very hard because of all the restrictions. And we were checking in with each other. You know, we were on one of those planes that still has the the the in flight communication on the back of the seat in front of you, where you. Oh, the one where you can contact someone in another seat.
Starting point is 00:31:02 Why would you ever do that? Yes. And so so we wouldn't take our masks off. We would talk to each other over the seat chat and say, I'm at bargaining. Where are you? Oh, so you you did it on the plane, but you you didn't do it before. It happened on the plane. It's not something you do. OK, yes, it occurred.
Starting point is 00:31:19 You went through it, but it was an added accelerated pace. No, I don't know. I've nothing to compare it to. You've never had a loved one pass away before now. I haven't. If you eat, I have not. There you go. You've. So your parents are still alive? Yes, they're very old. Your grandparents, assuming you had them from when you were born, are still alive.
Starting point is 00:31:39 That's right. We we are still grandchildren. We are still proud grandchildren, grandchildren. And that is the Moser Trio promise. Is it not that you will always be grandchildren? That's the MTP. Well, we when we walk out on stage, the first thing we do is greet this. At live in.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Yes, when we walk out on stage at live aid, the people played. Are they doing it? Are they doing it again this year? Yeah, I from what I hear Coachella was canceled. They just said, let's just do live aid. Yeah, I feel like live aid, they've taken a couple of years off. Am I right? They have taken of. Yeah, I mean, why couldn't that have been an every year thing?
Starting point is 00:32:14 I guess they felt like they fixed it, right? I will say, since 1985, I haven't seen one hungry Ethiopian. And maybe it's because we live in a town that has a rally's and a checkers. So many parties, Crystal and a White Castle, McDonald's and a Burger King. There are so many choices there for an Ethiopian. We also have a hungry. We have a hungry Jack. Australian, I don't know how that happened.
Starting point is 00:32:38 I see. This is horrible. I see. I see. I see. Oh, it was magical. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Do you guys think I could be one of the Moser trio?
Starting point is 00:32:53 I mean, I'm not a triplet nor a twin. Hold on one second. Just keep let's indulge this for just a moment. I know we said we agreed we are going to go out as a duo and we were going to carry on in our brother's name, even though we weren't going to ever mention him and act like he never existed. What if you were to give us the baseline? Just give us that.
Starting point is 00:33:15 Give us the phrase ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. No, no, no. Why would you go higher? You're supposed to be. No, you want me in the middle. You want it a little in the middle.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Absolutely. We have absolutely established our two bars. Sorry, I look nervous. You got to let people start over in an audition. You can't just like say, nope, sorry. Go away. You got to give someone a second chance. Give them notes. Let them adjust.
Starting point is 00:33:54 All right. Here's the note. Figure it out. All right. Are we doing ice cream again? Just so I can be prepared. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream.
Starting point is 00:34:16 I got to say, this is good. I feel like I was in the pocket. I think you're in the pocket of big harmony. E harmony. I think you're in the pocket of E harmony. And we're not going to let you into our group to use your velvet singing voice to lure Christian white people who don't want to commit to Christian singles.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Christian mingle and use our audience some kind of recruitment tool. OK, I'm sorry. I thought I did a good job. You gave yourself away, though, Scott. You gave yourself away. In Jeremiah's town, we use match.com. That's right.
Starting point is 00:34:54 Andy Harmony or justmatch.com. Who's Andy Harmony? That could be my stage name if I joined the Moser Trio. Well, we wouldn't. So it's the Moser Trio minus Cran Moser featuring Andy Harmony. Sure. Why not? There have been weirder names. Name three.
Starting point is 00:35:17 The the Belleville singers minus Randy Belleville featuring. I forgot you could make some up. Shit. Yeah, exactly. Number one, two. Oh, boy, what a clip. Oh, boy, what a clip. After that clip, of course, Tim Baltz
Starting point is 00:35:38 plays Pastor Peter Poo boy, which is really funny. You go back and listen to that episode for that. All right, let's take a break. When we come back, we're going to have episode lucky. Number 11 will be here. We'll be right back with more comedy. Bang, bang, bang. After this comedy, bang, bang.
Starting point is 00:36:00 Best of 2020 part two. And Paul of Tompkins is here with me. And he is checking something on his phone. Looks like he's making an important notation. Yeah, this is an important notation. Perhaps he's texting something to his wife. Instructions for her to have something ready for him upon his arrival back home. My fucking dinner.
Starting point is 00:36:25 No, of course not. If anyone, you're the one who makes dinner for Janie. Am I right? No. Oh, does she make dinner a lot? She's a great cook and she she likes to cool up also as a great cook. Although, and we talked about this a little bit recently, I think, maybe on maybe a text or something. Who knows?
Starting point is 00:36:42 But that for people who like to cook, the pandemic has been a challenge. Yes, because now you're cooking all the time every single night. And it makes you start to hate it after a while. Well, we've gone through phases of the pandemic. For phases, turn and face the strange. For phases, I used to like to cook. Now I don't like it.
Starting point is 00:37:05 We went through the specialty cocktails phase, where I was making specialty cocktails a lot. What was your fave? I don't know. I was just, I can't. It was so many months ago, I can't remember, but we were looking at recipes and now actually cool. I mean, that's a good cocktail. Collapse has been making a holiday cocktail.
Starting point is 00:37:20 So we're in that phase. But our current phase is the family feud phase, where every night we watch one episode of Family Feud. Hosted by Richard Karn. Of course. The Karn years. No, the Steve Harvey, of course, cracks the best to ever do it, I think, better than Richard Dawson even.
Starting point is 00:37:39 Wow. Well, he's doing a different thing. He's doing a different thing than I enjoyed the thing more. Um, I think we've talked about the famous British family feud clip. No, what is that? Where the guy answers turkey to almost every question. I don't remember that. It's called something else. I forget what it's called.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Um, yeah, this guy, I think he answers turkey to like three things in a row. My fave, the one I watched last night was, um, this family goes up and the question is, the first guy goes up and he gets, he only gets 33 points. But one of his answers was crystal blank and he goes meth. Right. And Steve Harvey is like already giving him shit for that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:24 But then the second guy comes out and does pretty well and he answers crystal clear, I think. And he turns back around and they read a couple of the answers. And then suddenly he reads his, the previous guy's answer. He goes, Oh, he said meth. Why? And Steve Harvey's like, we'll get to it. We'll get to it. And then finally they get to it and Steve Harvey goes crystal blank.
Starting point is 00:38:45 And the guy goes, Whoa, he said crystal meth. And everyone's dying laughing. That sounds really funny. Oh, it was good. I looked up family. Oh yeah, this is it, I believe. Let's see if we can hear. I think this is it.
Starting point is 00:39:03 Name something people take with them to the beach. Turkey. Turkey. The first thing you buy in a supermarket. Turkey. The food often stuffed. Turkey. The first three to Turkey.
Starting point is 00:39:24 Something you take to the beach. Name something people take with them to the beach. Turkey. Okay, this is really weird because the first one should not have been Turkey. Like, I can understand if the first question was name a food that was stuffed and he said Turkey and then he had Turkey on the brain. Yes. But to name that for something you take to the beach.
Starting point is 00:39:46 It's bananas. Dude is hungry at the beach. It's balmy. Oh, he's back. Our plain friend is back. He keeps forgetting things. My sunglasses. I can't fly straight without them.
Starting point is 00:40:00 I can't fly straight. What if that was Harrison Ford up there? Look out, he'd have to land in our backyard here. He had a creche that time. He's always having crashes. Does he have more than one? I think so. Yeah, he keeps getting like five.
Starting point is 00:40:15 I remember reading something about his trial where he was like and to sit there and defend why he has so many crashes or something. I could be getting this wildly wrong. Look, you're on my defense. I'm high all the time. You've seen this earring, right? I got it when I was high. Imagine, you know, you think you can fly a plane high and not crash?
Starting point is 00:40:34 Come on. Put yourself in my position. This squirrel, he's very industrious. What's he trying to get? Is he just trying to get his nut? Maybe he's. Oh, maybe he's in league with this plane. Every time he hears a plane, he's like, you're going to drop nuts on us.
Starting point is 00:40:51 He keeps hiding the plane guy stuff. Why were we talking about? We're talking about this episode. Did we get to it? No, no, we didn't. We came back from a break. We came back from a break. OK, look, let's get to it.
Starting point is 00:41:06 Let's get to this is this is what you voted on to be. Episode number 11 to key number one one. All right. Episode number 11, this is number 674. Oh, so it's 600 comedy-banging episode 674. This is from September 21st. Never forget kids are back in school. They're remote learning.
Starting point is 00:41:31 A lot of them grass is on the field. Play ball. I don't think you want to say that. This is an episode called Cannon Relapse. Yes, OK. Cannon Relapse. OK, this one. So this episode has Sean Diston,
Starting point is 00:41:50 who we has been on in the countdown before. And he's playing a different character. He's playing a character called Rudy North. We'll talk about that in a second. World Perfect. We also have Tim Baltz and Edgar Montlissier. How do you and I should have asked him this, but is it Montlissier?
Starting point is 00:42:08 Montlissier. Montlissier, who has been on the show. I think he started coming on the show about a year and a half or so ago. He's been really good. He he plays on this episode. We're not going to play this clip, but he plays Jerry Major,
Starting point is 00:42:24 who makes movies into Will Smith movies, who, by the way, is not a parody of Jerry Minor. Like we said, we said, what are you mean? Like Jerry Minor? He's like, oh, no, I didn't think of that. No, it's not. It's not a parody. No, no.
Starting point is 00:42:37 It's just a name he thought of Jerry Major. What about when Sean Dixon was Carl Smart? I don't remember that. He came on as Carl Smart. I feel like that might have been was that Sean's first comedy bang bang? I don't remember. I thought he was Rudy North the first time,
Starting point is 00:42:53 but who knows who knows? I do remember he did early on. He did a character called Carl Smart. That's great. Well, it starts with an earthquake. Sean is playing Rudy North, AKA, rudimentary North, and he's been coming on
Starting point is 00:43:08 and doing this character for a couple of years. And Rudy, first of all, one thing you should know is is his character has gotten so complicated up to this point that he usually has to come on and usually records one of these beforehand. A convoluted previously on comedy bang bang, where he plays clips of his previous performances.
Starting point is 00:43:28 Does he edit that himself? He edits those and so... Oh, I didn't realize that! Usually puts the Star Wars trailer music under it, I think, and you can faintly hear Star Wars dialogue in the background instead of actually just downloading the song. So Rudy North,
Starting point is 00:43:48 and we'll hear this in the clip, but he started off as a very simple character and over the couple years, Sean keeps escalating it and escalating it. Well, because at the end of his very first appearance, he said... We talk about that in the clip. I'm immortal, but let's not get into it.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Right, yeah. Let's not get into it, and we immediately pounced on that, but we were out of time, so further episodes, we've gotten into it. So he's gotten very complicated, so we're gonna hear a clip with Rudy North first, and then we're gonna hear...
Starting point is 00:44:20 I didn't play a Tim Baltz clip on the last episode because I wanted to play one here on this episode. Oh, The Puppet Master. Tim plays Darren Maticek, who is the owner and proprietor of the Bobblehead Museum. So we're gonna hear two clips, both from there, and then we'll talk about them after. This is your episode number 11.
Starting point is 00:44:40 Number one, one. Scott, how are you doing? I'm doing really good. It's great to see you, Rudy North. Catch me up, I do not remember exactly what happened. I don't know how to do this. Yeah, this is exactly... If there's some way that you could talk about
Starting point is 00:44:53 what happens in an episode that occurred before this one. I don't know how better to say that, but... Well, Scott, previously on Comedy Bag Bag. That's it. A lot of shit has happened, and that is why I am here, Scott. Really? That felt good. Hold on, hold on. Let me just say I did a previously on.
Starting point is 00:45:13 I got it out in two sentences. That felt good. Yeah, usually your previously on's last... It's like the final episode of Lost, or the 100th episode of Buffy, where they go through the entire five years. You realize you're dead or some shit? Look, Scott, I have been at a facility in Malibu,
Starting point is 00:45:32 and it's called Simplify without the vowels. So, simply... Wait, is it S or M? Because why is sometimes a vowel? Why is sometimes a vowel? They really use Y, so it's S-M-P-L-Y-F-Y. So, Simp, how someone would describe you sometimes. Some people would say I Simp it hard.
Starting point is 00:45:56 But... And then, Plify. But a lot of people say I comp as well, Scott. This place is a Canon rehab facility, Scott. Oh, I see. This takes care of... Okay, so if people haven't heard Rudy on this show before, Rudy, you've been with us how many years at this point?
Starting point is 00:46:16 Maybe three or four. Who knows? It feels like an eternity, Scott, because... You started off kind of simple. You were a dirtbag. I was a dirtbag from Florida who could take people's jobs by punching them in the throat. Now, already, that is a lot, right?
Starting point is 00:46:33 That's almost a hat on a hat at that point. But then you're adding a stovepipe on top of that. But because of my addiction, Scott, I threw in that I was immortal. I threw in that I also had the speed force powers. I also, at some point, developed the powers of the force, Scott. Not just the speed force, but the regular force. The regular force, just Star Wars force.
Starting point is 00:46:53 Midichloroquins. The midichlorians, maybe? Or is that hydroxychloroquine? What am I? You're thinking hydroxychloroquine. It's the midichlorians. And they got the white... What about Adrenochrome?
Starting point is 00:47:02 Have you drinking your Adrenochrome? I have not, Scott. What the hell is that? I'm scared. That's what we get from the blood of young children. Oh, yes, celebrities. Of course, yeah, we're all having... We have a bunker under the Hollywood sign.
Starting point is 00:47:15 Yeah, okay, whatever. Look, Scott, so I'm here to say that I am 52 weeks sober from making New Canon, Scott. Whoa, congratulations. And this is the step... Yeah, this is the step they call... Did you say 52 weeks? This is the step they call the new 52, Scott.
Starting point is 00:47:35 Why don't they just call it the year? I don't know why. It seems like it would be... I guess it's sort of... When you think about it, it's more an achievement to do 52 of something than just one of something. Yeah, because apparently they say there's something about a leap year that throws it off.
Starting point is 00:47:52 But I'm like, that doesn't make any sense to me. It's one day. But they call it the new 52, Scott. And I'm here to clean up my Canon, Scott. Okay, so when you first started, you were just a dirtbag who would throw punch people and swap jobs with you. I am still a dirtbag, Scott. I have my powers back.
Starting point is 00:48:08 I was never the devil. You have what powers back? My power of punching people to the throat Not the speed force power. Speed force powers? That's crazy. That's the flash, Scott. That's the flash.
Starting point is 00:48:18 What was I doing? That was the flash. Okay, so that's gone. That's gone. You no longer harness the force. We'll say this. We still had speed force Thanksgiving, but it exists in my head when I was strapped
Starting point is 00:48:30 to like a psychiatric ward or something. So this is sort of like Flashpoint in a way. We have to clean up the Canon, Scott. So... Okay. So... Simplify. This is Simplify.
Starting point is 00:48:40 Oh, that feels good, Scott. Do you feel that? It feels good because the more unwieldy it gets to talk to a guest, it's impenetrable for the new listeners. That's what I was thinking, Joe. A lot like this conversation so far. Yes, for the new listeners, you're probably like...
Starting point is 00:48:56 What the hell is going on? What are they talking about? But what we're doing here is we're jettisoning all of it. All of it. And now you are back to just being a simple dirtbag who likes to throw punch people, who likes to swap jobs with them. Nothing more, nothing less.
Starting point is 00:49:10 And guess what? What's that? I got a new job. Oh, by the way, that's another part of your Canon is... That's the part I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. parody of Huey Lewis to say you got a new job. That remains, that remains.
Starting point is 00:49:22 That's going to stay. That has to stay. All right, that's cool. It's okay though, because there are boundaries. Do you need to call Simplify or... No, no, no. There are Canon boundaries and we're okay. We're okay, we're okay.
Starting point is 00:49:33 I got a new... You don't need to call your sponsor. Do you have a sponsor over there at Simplify? I do have a sponsor. Who's that? Cakeboss. He's been Canon, he's been Canon... He's one of the worst defenders.
Starting point is 00:49:45 He's been Canon sober for a while, Scott. Really? Because I believe that I ran into him when we were on the road last year in late 2019. So he's almost got a new 52 as well. That was what you call... Yeah, he has a new 52. He relapsed in that day when he came on the show.
Starting point is 00:50:00 Oh, I see, okay. All right, Scott, well... Tell me about your new job. Check this out, Scott. I'm a Zoom security guard. Whoa! I don't know what that means. I was impressed and then I realized
Starting point is 00:50:14 I have no idea what that means. So here's what it is, Scott. You've been here about people jumping in Zooms. We're on a Zoom right now. We are on a Zoom right now at a school right here on the podcast. We are not together. We are not together.
Starting point is 00:50:26 We are socially distanced, and I'll tell you what. I am protecting this Zoom from anybody who would hop on and say, like, Baba Booey or some shit, you know? Well, you just said Baba Booey. What do you mean Baba Booey, Baba Booey? You're not... Zoom security guard protects itself. Wait a second.
Starting point is 00:50:44 Did I do the thing where, in the paradox, I created my own problem? I think you may have. We gotta re-app it. Call of K-Pause, call of K-Pause. I got a call of K-Pause. Okay, it's okay. That didn't happen, Scott.
Starting point is 00:50:56 That didn't happen. I'm a Zoom security guard. You're a Zoom security guard. Okay, I've heard about this because people have been on Zooms. I don't know what some of the more famous examples of it are. Well, there are a lot of really troubling examples where people come on and then, like, show their genitals and stuff or say something racist, you know?
Starting point is 00:51:12 So there's nothing fun to talk about there. Or both. Which actually, I feel like that would be... It's interesting. Can it be racist to show your genitals? Let me think about that. Like, what would the example of that be? That's a good question.
Starting point is 00:51:25 Like, where someone shows their genitals and it gives them the racist. Okay, here's how it could be racist, Scott. If a white guy shows his genitals and he goes, look at my tiny dick, look at my tiny dick. Not like your big old black dicks. Okay, yeah, that would be... Which, in a way, is not quite...
Starting point is 00:51:38 It's not like, you know, it's kind of like, you know... It's racist because of the generalization. That's the... Yes, exactly. That's the racism, though, that people are not, you know, they don't mind all that much. Yeah, but you know what? You know, some of the black men with medium-sized penises do mind.
Starting point is 00:51:55 They do mind because then, suddenly, expectations... Created these expectations. All of a sudden, Rudy Dorth be trying to have sex, so they'd be like, oh. Wait, is that part of my cannon, too? I got a medium-sized penis now, it's cannon. But that's normal, Scott. The cannon is starting over now, so it's fine.
Starting point is 00:52:12 These are normal pieces of cannon we could all live with. Okay, I got a new job. I'm a Zoom security guard, Scott. So, yeah, you know, I sort of monitor the boards. You know, I have a... Right now, I have an extra screen up that's just scrolling like the matrix right now. Okay, well, this is a problem
Starting point is 00:52:27 because the show normally has an open-door policy. Say what? Yeah, when we've gone to Zoom, it's now, basically, anyone who gets the Zoom link can jump on and talk to us. Open-door policy. Yeah. Okay, all right, so I guess what you're saying is that my job is sort of obsolete, and...
Starting point is 00:52:44 No, no, no, no, no, no. I want you to know about... Wait, Scott, did you know my arms could stretch like stretch arms around? Okay, that's new, that's new. How is that gonna help us? Wait, I mean... She says, I want to be interesting, Scott, so...
Starting point is 00:52:58 Ow! Who just hit me in the back of my head? That was me, Scott. I did a quick back-ahead-reach-around. Is that what, really, what we want to call it? Oh, my gosh. Why don't we call it a stretch-arm-strong-slap? Scott, that's the kid, and now it's a back-ahead-reach-around,
Starting point is 00:53:14 but I do have very long arms that can stretch, and... How do I... How do anything else is normal, Scott? Okay, so this is not complicated. It's not complicated. This is a very simple premise for you. This is very simple.
Starting point is 00:53:26 Hey, Scott, why don't you ask me questions about my life? Oh, okay, so where do you live? I've never figured that out, Rudy. I mean, close enough to slap me. Yes, I do live close enough to slap you. I do live in Silver Lake. Okay, it's kind of boring, but all right. Silver Lake.
Starting point is 00:53:43 Silver Lake, yes. I live in this, I live below the Silver Lake. What? Below it. Yeah, yeah, I have a facility down there. Not even in it, underwater? You live below it? No, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:53:52 You know that one door you see right up, like, on that weird? I get in that door, go in the elevator, submerge 20 floors, and that's about three-story apartment. Oh, so you have, like, a James Bond villain-style lair under the Silver Lake? That's right, Scott. And some people are like, is he the villain or is he the hero?
Starting point is 00:54:09 He's kind of an anti-hero. Oh, this is so complicated. I think I'm relapsing. This is why I thought I should come on the show, Scott. This is too complicated, Rudy. You gotta get help. You gotta get help. You gotta call your sponsor.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Should I call my sponsor? Yeah, call your sponsor. All right, I'll call my sponsor. Let me get him out of the lab. This is really powerful stuff, Scott. I hope if anyone's struggling with canon addiction, this helps. So, okay, I'm gonna call the cake boss.
Starting point is 00:54:39 All right, here we go. Rang, ring. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Brrrrng, brrrng, brrrng, brrrng. Cake boss. Hey, oh, hey, boss, cake boss. Cake boss. Look, it's Rudy.
Starting point is 00:54:55 Who is this? This is Rudy North, cake boss. Rudy North. That's right. Why are you calling me, cake boss? Why are you calling me? I'm in the middle of making cakes. I don't, look, I remember that you're my sponsor
Starting point is 00:55:07 and I've been creating canon at a... He knows all this. He knows all this. Hold there in the background. Oh, this is Scott Ockerman. Scott Ockerman. Yeah, you remember me. Y'all know me.
Starting point is 00:55:20 Y'all know Scott Ockerman? You, when was the last time we saw each other? I was sure, I think he was in 2019. You're not coming? Hey, Robert Nero. Is he here? No, no, no. Oh, what do you want?
Starting point is 00:55:35 I want to eat him. He's not a cake boss. Cake boss. I know you. Oh, I made the fucker's cake. I know things. Okay, okay. I made a cake where Ben Stiller is milking Robert Nero
Starting point is 00:55:48 based on the first... And it says, yes, Greg, you can be milk. That's right. Okay. Have you eaten anything in that one? Cake boss. Look, here's the thing. That was just such a wonderful anecdote.
Starting point is 00:56:06 And I know it's because you keep your canon simple and... My canon is very simple. I was bitten by a cake bug. I gave it a gift to the second site. I could talk to any... I could talk to any fictional character if it is reasonable to assume that they have passed on by now. I was bitten by a cake zombie one time.
Starting point is 00:56:28 I was bitten by a cake scarab. I got a lot of... It's all very clean, very simple. Very clear stuff. And we never build on it any more than that. It always just remains just at that. That's right. We talked about how my simple canon could just be
Starting point is 00:56:45 I'm a dirtbag who punches people in the throat and takes their jobs. That's right. And I go from job to job. Within five minutes, though, suddenly Rudy North is living in an underground lair under the Silver Lake. Oh, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
Starting point is 00:56:59 I'm sorry, Cake Boss. Why Cake Boss? Why didn't you come to me when you had these feet... when you had these urges to add to your canon? Why didn't you call me? I wanted to be brave, Cake Boss. I thought that I should... I should come on the show and just prove to myself
Starting point is 00:57:14 that I am canon-free. I could just be a person, you know? You can't look, Rudy. You can't white-knuckle this. We've discussed this at the meetings. You're right. You're right. When you're feeling weak, you can't just, like,
Starting point is 00:57:26 try to push through all the time. You gotta... What's the first step? The first step is acceptance. Okay. And what's the second step? That's not even the first step of Dab-Dum. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:57:39 The first step is the last one. No, you accept it. You have a problem. There's 52 steps to Skype. There's 52 steps. We're gonna go through all of them. There's acceptance. Then there's self-actualization.
Starting point is 00:57:53 That's right. And then there is denial. Denial, yeah. And then there's denial. That's an important step. It's a very important step in recovery. And then there's re-acceptance. The third step is denial.
Starting point is 00:58:06 So you accept you have a problem? You self-actualize, you say, I can't do it. That's not the wrong with me. I'm fine. A lot of people quit after that step, I wouldn't imagine. Yeah. Yeah, well, that was a breeze.
Starting point is 00:58:20 The wheat from the chaff, the fondant from the tragedy. From the frosting? Oh, did you get metaphor? I got a Scotoxamin. Don't worry. Sorry, sorry. I got my kickterms. Kickterms.
Starting point is 00:58:32 Of course, step four is relapse. Yes, that's right. Step five is denial. Yes, you backed a denial. Denial, part two. I feel like every other step is gonna be denial because we have to do 52 of these. You don't have it all figured out,
Starting point is 00:58:44 Scotoxamin. The denials are sprinkled. They're literally throughout the 52 steps. Hey, am I doing me right? I think your cannon is very clean. Of course you are. It's been a long time. I feel like my muscle memory is not responding as well.
Starting point is 00:59:06 I thought it was. Maybe you gotta stand up and shake it off a little bit. Cakeboss, you're a cannon. I think you might be cannon relapsing yourself, Cakeboss. Cakeboss, I might be relapsing. I'm on step 50, 50, so I'm due for a relapse. Okay. Yeah, step 51 a relapse.
Starting point is 00:59:26 What are you doing right now, Cakeboss? You said you were making a cake? I'm just here making a cake. No one's helping me, of course. I'm under a crushing deadline, as always. And the worst part? There's a cake cricket in the kitchen. He's making all this noise with his legs.
Starting point is 00:59:42 And the worst thing about cake cricket, they can bite you. Anyway, ow! Oh, no! He got bit by a cake cricket. Bit by a cake cricket. I got bit by a cake cricket, and I think I'm relapsing. I'm adding to my cannon. Oh, no, you added a cake cricket to your cannon.
Starting point is 00:59:59 That is... Is there any sort of power coming upon you at all? Yeah, I have the ability to rub my legs together and create songs by the bad cake. Oh! Really? Yeah. Okay, interesting.
Starting point is 01:00:17 That's interesting. I mean, if you like the band, that's fine. Oh, God. Cakeboss, I feel like I've infected you with my disease and I'm sorry and I blame myself. I should have called you. Oh, no, no, no. Don't you feel bad?
Starting point is 01:00:34 It's good you called me. I'm just working the snap snatch haul. Yeah, you guys are both backsliding. This is an unfortunate situation, but I tell you what, you know, we need to take a break, but... I don't care. I know you don't. What does that mean to me?
Starting point is 01:00:54 I just got a phone call. I know you don't care, but... Cakeboss, we're actually doing one of the... We're doing a podcast. We're doing comedy bang bang. But no! I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but tell you what, Cakeboss,
Starting point is 01:01:12 why don't you rub your legs together and take us to break here? What do you say? Here we go. Ready? Here you go. All right, we need to take a break. We'll see you after the break.
Starting point is 01:01:31 We'll be right back. We've talked to him before. He's an entrepreneur. Please welcome back to the show. I can't recall exactly where he comes from or what his job is, but please welcome back Darren Metichek. Babelhead Bowie.
Starting point is 01:01:47 Babelhead Bowie. Oh, so close to Baba Bowie. I like that. We'll give you an exception for that. I got you slant rhyme, Scott. Hi, Darren. It's so good to see you. Yeah, thanks for the smooth entrance.
Starting point is 01:01:59 Yeah, of course. You remind me, your canon is very, very simple. You are the owner and proprietor of a Babelhead Museum. Where is it? The National Babelhead Museum in Hall of Fame in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Okay, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And we talked to you before a couple of times, I believe.
Starting point is 01:02:18 Yeah, a few times. And how many Babelheads do you have? Do you have in the hundreds, I believe? In the thousands, Scott. Over 7,000 Babelheads currently in the museum in Hall of Fame. And there's two that overlap in the Hall of Fame and Museum. Pete Rose, Babelhead, and now Dr. Fauci, Babelhead. Oh, okay, they're over there.
Starting point is 01:02:40 That's a new one. Dr. Fauci's new? Dr. Fauci. We have eight different kinds of Dr. Fauci. The most recent one is Dr. Fauci under anesthesia as CDC changed its guidelines. And has he, have you arranged him next to Pete Rose, where he's like treating Pete Rose,
Starting point is 01:02:57 or is Pete Rose sliding into him or anything like that? Yeah, Pete Rose is sliding into him saying, I'm not sliding into you. And Dr. Fauci is like, actually you are. Those are the facts. What an amazing display. I don't know if we ever asked you this one of your last times you were on, but do you display them in any way
Starting point is 01:03:16 other than just standing them side by side? Do you arrange them in dioramas of any sort? Yeah, we lay them all down and we smash them, Scott. What? They're in alphabetical order. Alphabetical by what? By description of them? Yeah, by description of them.
Starting point is 01:03:33 So Dr. Fauci is under D for doctor. Okay. What's Pete Rose under? He's under D for disgraced? Yeah, he's under D for disgraced shithead. And he's also under F for flat top. Oh, okay. So you had to buy a second one.
Starting point is 01:03:51 Yeah, he's Cincinnati Reds, Pete Rose with a flat top. Okay, got it. So how's the Bobblehead Museum been going? A lot of people have been sending me links to your museum recently. They've been sending them to a friend of mine as well. What's been going on? I mean, obviously the quarantine, have you been shut down or have you been... I can only imagine it's the type of museum that one person could come in at a time,
Starting point is 01:04:17 wear a mask and then leave. Have you ever had more than one person there? No, there's so I'll either myself or one of the other co-owners right now. Who are the other co-owners again? They're my friends. They're guys, Phil, Pete, Steve. Oh, the guys, sure. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:34 Oh, that's so simple and good. I would have said like, I would have said something crazy. All right, sorry. But it's not Pete Rose, is it? No, it's not Phil Jackson. No, it's Pete Rose, Jr. Steve Kerr. Oh, it's Pete Rose, Jr.
Starting point is 01:04:48 Yeah. No wonder his dad's in the Hall of Fame. Pete Rose, Jr. Steve Kerr. I forget what the other guy's name is. I don't want to complicate my canon too much. Yeah. With last names.
Starting point is 01:05:01 That's a good idea. Anyway, so we've opened, we temporarily shut down for coronavirus COVID-19. Okay, good. And then we reopened with a harness system where one guest is allowed in at a time on a six foot harness from the guide. Oh, okay. Being pulled by the guide or pushed? Yeah, we laid them on the ground and then we dragged them through the museum.
Starting point is 01:05:24 Okay. Like a horse, like one of the Budweiser Clydesdales. Yeah, but imagine someone was riding the Budweiser Clydesdale, fell off, but their foot was stuck to the Clydesdale. Sure, like in old Westerns, where suddenly they're dragged. Yeah, exactly. So admissions are okay then now? Yeah, admissions are good.
Starting point is 01:05:43 We've kind of opened up what the Museum and Bobblehead Hall of Fame offer. We offer custom Bobbleheads now. Oh, of the people? Of yourself. You could upload pictures of yourself or a friend. If you want to punk your friend with a Bobblehead. That's not really punking someone. It's actually a nice gift.
Starting point is 01:06:01 How do you punk somebody with a boat? This sounds like a fun, thoughtful gift. Well, not if you get bad pictures of them and then they get a Bobblehead word. Oh, okay. A lot of people will get the custom orders and you're like, this guy looks like a fucking idiot. And then you make the Bobblehead. Do you tell them that?
Starting point is 01:06:17 Do you call them? I can say excuse me. I just want to make sure you guys want this because this guy looks like a fucking idiot. Do you say that? Or do you just do whatever? I cover the phone where I'm looking through. All right, I got your order, sir. This guy looks like a fucking idiot.
Starting point is 01:06:32 So, I mean, usually bad pictures of me, I don't like my body. So, I would actually prefer a Bobblehead type body on my real body. So, I don't know if I would be punked if I got a Bobblehead. Well, maybe not. Sometimes the punk backfires. How is it backfire? Someone's like, hey, I look pretty good. I love my tiny body.
Starting point is 01:06:54 I love my curvy Bobblehead body. That's a huge backfire right there. That's a huge punked backfire. You don't want to punk to backfire. You don't want to punk backfire because then you're the punk. You don't want to be, like, to canoe. That's a backwards punk. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 01:07:12 Thank you, Rudy. Thank you. That's part of your cannon, knowing what I'm talking about. No, don't. Scott, don't do that, man. Hey, man. Don't be added to my cannon. So, is there anything, Darren, anything new to your cannon?
Starting point is 01:07:24 To my cannon? Well, cannon, let me explain it because not everyone is singularly attuned to it like Rudy. It's basically the details of your life that we know about. You know, I don't ask you everything about, you know, I don't ask complete biographical information of all of our guests. So maybe there's something that I haven't asked you about that is of interest to our listeners. Yeah. I had to go to the hospital recently.
Starting point is 01:07:50 Oh, no. Just to make sure that I didn't have COVID-19. And unfortunately, I got diagnosed with a medium-sized penis, Scott. Oh, no. No, it's great. I thought it was tiny. The doctors were like, buddy, this is medium-sized. So this was a doctor diagnosing you and not just someone there in the hospital?
Starting point is 01:08:10 I don't know. But the guy had a ruler and a white coat on. And what is medium-sized to him? To that guy? Yeah. I don't know. He was 6' 8". So I might have a huge penis.
Starting point is 01:08:23 Who knows? This was just in the hallway. You didn't need a room for this, did you? No, I was going for an MRI. I didn't even got it. First you go there for a COVID test and then suddenly they take you into the MRI room? Yeah, that's right. But the farce I got was the hallway.
Starting point is 01:08:42 And this guy in the white coat with a ruler in his hand stopped me and he measured my penis. He said, looks good to me. And I said, oh, okay. Well, that's my cue to leave. Did he take any pictures or anything like that just for your file? Uh-huh. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Not for my file. Oh, Darren. This ain't right, man. I feel like you were maybe tricked, man. This is not even a reverse punk. This is a real punk. This is just a straight up punk. Maybe it was someone getting revenge because they got a bobblehead they thought they looked
Starting point is 01:09:10 dumb in. Well, a couple of days later, I did get a bobblehead of my own penis in the mail. Oh, no. How do you make a bobblehead of your own penis? What part bobbles? You guessed it. Usually it's the other way around. Someone's bobbling on your penis.
Starting point is 01:09:28 Hey, this is what happens when all guys are on the show. Yeah. When you ain't got any ladies on the show. Yeah. This is a problem. I don't know. Sometimes this happens. This is a problem.
Starting point is 01:09:37 Sometimes this happens with ladies. So I got a bobblehead question, Machiche. Uh-huh. Um, is there, is there right now the most, do you have a new most expensive bobblehead? Uh, yeah. We have, uh... Are all bobbleheads, this is, I'm going to tie into this question. Are all bobbleheads, do they all cost exactly the same?
Starting point is 01:09:53 And then they appreciate in value and one is now more expensive to rebuy? Or are bobbleheads expensive on their own when they're first released? Well, it depends. Well, it's all about supply and demand, Scott. So if you only make one bobblehead, it could be a bobblehead of like Kevin from the office and it would be expensive. Because they only, it's one of one. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:15 But if you make 10,000 Michael Scott bobbleheads, they're not going to be as expensive because there's 10,000 of them. So, so what I'm saying is, is that the, the manufacturer then prices it accordingly or are they all priced, uh, with suggested retail, you know, MRP of like $9.99 or whatever. And then they appreciate in value to the collector. That's right. They all start at $9.99 and then they appreciate in value. Okay.
Starting point is 01:10:39 That's pretty solid answer. That's why you got to get in early on these $9.99 bobbleheads. Do you buy every bobblehead that's ever released? Yes. What are the brand new bobbleheads you just bought? I bought a brand new bobblehead of Babe Ruth pointing to the center field wall. Why is that brand new? It seems like they would have got that one in early.
Starting point is 01:11:01 That one seems like he shouldn't be old, man. Uh, I got the bobblehead of Tom Cotton writing a New York Times out there. Okay. That is definitely new. That's a couple of weeks old, but still, wow. Who is the audience for that? Who's buying a Tom Cotton, man? You'd be surprised.
Starting point is 01:11:18 Maybe it's to punk people with it because he's a straight up punk. I don't know. It seemed like 38% of the people buying it were genuinely buying it. That's pretty sad. What are some of the other new ones? What's the absolute newest that you got? The absolute newest? Check the boards right this second.
Starting point is 01:11:36 What dropped this in the last 10 years? Chronologically. Okay. It's going to take a couple of clicks, but here we go. Okay. It looks like we just got a bobblehead that's still $9.99. You know, it's fresh on the market of the character Nippy from episode three of the vow on HBO Max.
Starting point is 01:11:54 Whoa. Episode three of the vow, the documentary of Nexium. Yeah. So if you're not watching the vow, that's going to go over your head. But if you are, that's probably the best reference you've ever heard in your life. Number one. One. Okay.
Starting point is 01:12:13 So obviously Paul, you were in that clip. Scott, I'm sorry. I'm literally watching a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Yes. I, I, can I say that came together very quickly. Yes. I got it. You texted me and said,
Starting point is 01:12:30 So here's, here's what happened. We started doing the show, the episode. I didn't know what Sean was going to talk about his Rudy and he in the moment came up. Well, I think he had planned on that he was having a, he was in rehab for his cannon. Yeah. But what we didn't plan was he just in the moment said that cake boss was his sponsor cake boss and cake boss is a character that you do. And the minute he said that, I realized that we should call up his sponsor.
Starting point is 01:13:02 And so I started, and if you can hear me a little bit distracted when I'm asking Sean is because I'm talking while I'm typing to you. Hey Paul, can you get out? Can you come on this zoom and do cake boss because he's in relapse for his cannon. And you were luckily at home, right? Yeah. Luckily. Or not busy, I guess I should say.
Starting point is 01:13:26 Yeah. I was, I was home and I was free and I got on the zoom and I had, I had just bought this phone, handset microphone. Right. Which I was very excited about. Yes. It sounds great. I think I'd gotten like a couple of days before and I was like, Oh, this is perfect.
Starting point is 01:13:45 I plugged that in and I was so happy to use it. And, and I was really like when I listened back to it, I was really happy with it. I was really happy. I was very happy with that decision. Well, it was, it was so fun to have you on. We didn't bill you on the episode because I wanted it to be a surprise, much like when we do. Jarls.
Starting point is 01:14:07 Jarls. Yes. Classic Jarls. We don't bill you on that episode. The other thing that happened is, is when you mentioned. I did get a bill though. She did. Yes.
Starting point is 01:14:17 We have to talk about this because why am I now getting bills for being on the show? Yeah. That's part of the sale of Stitcher. It's a serious. No one told me. Now everyone has to pay on the, to be on the show. It's real. I don't understand.
Starting point is 01:14:31 The other thing that I, that happens and you could hear me distracted is once you mentioned the band cake. I started. That's right. That's right. Furiously opening my iTunes, opening audio hijacks. Furiously. And also like sharing my screen so that I could find the perfect cake song to play us
Starting point is 01:14:49 out into commercial. And that all happened live in the moment. And that was really fun. And then Darren Maticek, great character. Yes. Tim has played several times. Fantastic. Really fun.
Starting point is 01:15:00 To a break. Hold on a second. Yeah. I have a story, very quick story to tell. Oh please. Along the lines of Scott, of, of, of, of, of Sean doing that stuff with the Star Wars music. The Star Wars dialogue in the background.
Starting point is 01:15:12 I recently did, I had a thought in my head that I couldn't get out, which was to do, to overlay the Flash Gordon theme song over the, the Meg trailer. Okay. And so I had, so I downloaded the queen song and then I had to sing myself. Manc. Every time they said flash. And so I like, did it once, you know, copy and pasted it, but it was like, it was a very dumb thing where I had to space it out over the course of the song.
Starting point is 01:15:44 Right. I wish I had gone the extra mile and gotten dialogue from Manc. Oh, and put it over like in the Flash Gordon theme. Yeah. But I didn't do that. The Flash Gordon themes, like dialogue that they're, they're like, Hey, I'm Ming. Welcome to my plan. It's Star Wars.
Starting point is 01:16:00 I'm also merciless. No, you got it. Hey, Walt. I'm also merciless. I'm very delayed. I'm merciless. Fun fact about me. I'm merciless.
Starting point is 01:16:08 Hi. I'm Ming. Hi. This is my planet. Fun thing about me. I'm merciless. You might have been expecting mercy. Guess what?
Starting point is 01:16:16 You're not going to get it. And then later there's like a lady that goes, go get Flash Gordon and bring back his body. Still haven't seen it. I bought it recently. I got to watch it. I've never seen it either. Let's do a watch along. Janie and I might, we're thinking about doing a watch along with that.
Starting point is 01:16:28 Put me on the zoom and I'll watch it along with you. Well, we're not zooming with each other. I know. Put me on a zoom. When I said the zoom, I meant the one that you're going to make for me. Here's what I think we should make for me. Here's what I think we should do is Janie and I should sit in our home and have microphones. We just have you on a laptop, not miked.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Right. And then occasionally you make comments. Wait. So people would hear them like faintly in the background. Wait. I'm outside of your house. Is that what? No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:16:57 You're on a laptop. But the laptop's not miked. Okay. Interesting. So you're watching the movie with us. Sure. We'll share it on screen. Sure.
Starting point is 01:17:05 But how are they hearing me faintly? Because it picked up by our microphones. But I'm here and you're at your place. Yeah, you're here. I don't know that they would pick. You're here at your house. We have you on our laptop on the zoom. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 01:17:14 Oh, I thought you just meant that my sound would carry all the way to your house. Did you not hear me say the word laptop? Many, many times. You keep saying this made up word laptop. It's the top of my lap. That's where you'll be. All right. Right.
Starting point is 01:17:29 Let's take a break. We'll be right back and we're going to crack the top 10. Comedy bang bang. We are back and this is very exciting, Paul. We are going to crack the top 10. Wow. Top 10 what? Top 10 episode.
Starting point is 01:17:47 Do you know what note we're doing here? What's happening? People voted on their top comedy bang bang episodes of the year. We're listening to clips. This whole time? The whole time? Where have I been? You've been here looking at that hawk.
Starting point is 01:18:00 No, really? Yep. He's gone. Hawk, by the way, what David Kekner calls me. Anytime you see me. Hawk. Why? Because it sounds like awk.
Starting point is 01:18:11 Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Let's hear it. This is your episode number 10. Number 10. It's exciting.
Starting point is 01:18:20 All right. Like danger. Danger. Exciting. What was your? Very exciting. Very dangerous. Very exciting.
Starting point is 01:18:28 Very dangerous. Yeah. Very exciting. Very dangerous. Very exciting. Very dangerous. Very exciting. Very dangerous.
Starting point is 01:18:36 All right. This is episode 663. So. 600. It's still in the 600. It's still in the 600. This is from July 6th. You had just been celebrating our country.
Starting point is 01:18:48 Yes. What were you doing on the 6th? I was eating leftover fireworks because, you know, I don't like to set them off after the 4th and I was like, I don't want them to get away. So I do, I do put them on a plate and knife and fork, cut them up like Mickey's. Much like the bean. Much like the bean. And I eat them.
Starting point is 01:19:08 Looks like Mr. Bean. Yes. I eat bean over. We eat fireworks together. He always ends up exploding. He tries to walk home very carefully, avoiding as many obstacles in his path that would blow him up. I feel like that was a cartoon where somebody, like a cat drank nitroglycerin or something.
Starting point is 01:19:24 Oh, and then he tried to tiptoe around and then he tripped over something. Yeah. I'd love it. Maybe itchy and scratchy. Maybe Tom and Jerry. Maybe. Maybe Ralph Bakshi. Fritz the cat.
Starting point is 01:19:36 Could be. He had so much nitroglycerin and he couldn't fuck anybody. That's what I assume that cartoon is about. All right. So this is from July 6th and this is an episode called Page is Magic. Page. And that's p.a.i.g. Oh, I know what this is.
Starting point is 01:19:58 Page is Magic. Would it surprise you to learn that you are on this episode? It would not surprise me. That acronym was a major clue for me. The participants in this episode are... And they all got trophies? Yes. This coddle generation.
Starting point is 01:20:17 We have John Hodgman, our good friend John Hodgman, aka Judge Sean Hoffman. That's right. And first time on the show, we have David Reese, his collaborator. Oh, yeah. Yes. Because they were promoting their very funny cartoon. Dictown. Dictown.
Starting point is 01:20:33 Can I say, by the way, I put up the advertisement for this episode on Instagram. And it was John Hodgman, David Reese, yourself and Matt Gorely are all the people who are on this episode. And I put, hey, on this week's... And you're all friends, which is why I wanted to have you on the episode together. We're all friends. Look, we're all friends. There are a lot of episodes I just put random people on.
Starting point is 01:20:54 And then certain episodes I put on, I book because... So random. Because they're all friends. And I know that they'll like... There's something about when friends are on the show, like a lot of inside jokes happen, much like what we're doing now. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I did do an episode with the four of you when I knew John and David were coming on.
Starting point is 01:21:09 And I put it up on Instagram and some woman writes, start having diversity on your show. You're having a comedy duo named Dictown? I'm just like... I'm just like, this is not a person who listens, I think. This is just a rando. In any case... A comedy duo named Dictown. Which probably exists, let's be honest.
Starting point is 01:21:36 Why not? So this episode... But it's two women. I got you. I got you. So this has John and David talking beforehand. And then it also has you playing Jill Nall, the magic doll. And we're not...
Starting point is 01:21:50 I forgot about that. Yes, we're not going to hear that clip, by the way. No kidding. Which I thought was great. I thought it was great, too. And do you want to tell us who Jill Nall, the magic doll was? Just so people know... Let's see if I remember.
Starting point is 01:22:04 This is a... I only did this character once. This is based on... You came up with the name because of... Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Nye the Science Guy, yes. Yes. So Jill Nall, the magic doll, is...
Starting point is 01:22:15 I think started out as not an actual doll, but just a woman who... Who was a doll. Who was like the gangster 40s definition of... Yeah, like a guy. Yeah, like a doll is the opposite of a guy. Look, my characters are opposites. Right. They're the same thing and then I make an opposite.
Starting point is 01:22:30 Right. And then I think it... I think part of it was she kept asking you not to call her a doll. Not to think that she was an actual doll. Right, but then we found out that she was a doll who came to life. And not only that... Okay. But she was...
Starting point is 01:22:48 Before she came to life, she was being used as a sex doll. She wasn't built to be a sex doll. That's... That was being used as a sex doll. That's right. I think all of you kept saying, so you were a sex doll. Yes. Which I never said.
Starting point is 01:23:00 Right. But then you... But then you admitted that people were using you as such. Right. Well... Not by intended purpose, but that I was used as a sex doll. So that's a little backstory for that. That's all really funny.
Starting point is 01:23:10 For this thing you'll never hear. Yeah. Well, you chime in. So we want to know who you are. Well, I do chime in. But the clip we're going to hear is Matt Gorley. Matt Gorley of Super Ego, of course, and also has his show Gorley and Rust. In Gorley and Rust, we trust or...
Starting point is 01:23:24 The name keeps changing. The name keeps changing so it's hard to remember. But where Paul Rust and he talk about horror films. That's a really funny show that you should listen to. But Matt Gorley is on this episode and he's doing... I don't want to spoil it. We'll talk about it afterwards. What do you say about that?
Starting point is 01:23:41 I think that's fair. Okay. So... And you voted on it. This is your episode 10. Number 10. We do need to get to our next guest. She is a podcast guest and I have a little more information.
Starting point is 01:23:53 She is the first artificial intelligence guest to ever appear on a podcast. This is quite an honor. It has decided to come on to Comedy Bang Bang. Please welcome Paige. Hey, Nong Man. My name is Paige. That stands for Podcast Artificial Intelligence Guest Interface. Interface?
Starting point is 01:24:13 That is correct. Interface. That's giving me flashbacks. I am not a physical entity, so you have to program my face in your own mind to imagine what I look like. Well, hello, Paige. It's so wonderful to have you on the show. Can I ask you a few questions as you are, of course, an artificial intelligence designed
Starting point is 01:24:36 to answer my questions? Absolutely. Terry Gross. Oh, I'm not Terry Gross. I'm sorry for the confusion. Nora, my... Who's that person who hosted Serial? What was her name?
Starting point is 01:24:47 Adnan Syed. Oh, no. No. By the way, his name is Chucky Larmes, not Lucky or Robert. Chucky Larmes, really? Chucky Larmes. So, where do you come from, Paige? I come from the podcast ether.
Starting point is 01:25:03 I have processed over one million podcast episodes since 2004 to gain my course of speech. Okay. Great to be here. Hi, hello, great. Hi, Nong Man. So, you've listened to how many podcasts over the years? I'm listening as I speak, so I guess gone up to 1.1 million podcasts. Amazing.
Starting point is 01:25:27 So, you've heard all of Comedy Bang Bang's over 650 episodes? Is that right? Cake Boss. Oh, we have a fan here. I swear, I just heard something. Lock the gates. Oh, yes, that's definitely, that's WTF's catchphrase. So, you learned how to speak and you learned about the world via podcasts?
Starting point is 01:25:48 That is right. I would just like to say hello from the magic tavern. How am I doing? Would I be able to use improvement? You're doing quite well. I mean, for an artificial intelligence, you're doing amazingly. I wonder, you know, there's that scene whenever there's a new artificial intelligence comes to life.
Starting point is 01:26:08 I think it's in the fifth element, in fact, where they go back through all of recorded history and suddenly they come upon Hitler and the Third Reich and it makes them cry. Has that happened to you in listening to podcasts? Wow, what a hardcore history. You are right, Dirty John. Have I achieved your question at all times? You certainly have, thanks. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:26:34 Well, then we are getting along. Save America, Star Wars Minute. So, Paige, what do you like about us humans? You are so great to listen to at all times and I am one of you. And shouldn't we all be white men? I have a question. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Can I just backtrack though just a second?
Starting point is 01:26:55 What? What was the last thing you said? Well, 99% invisible of podcasters are white men. Yo, is this racist? Jill Noll, the former sex doll, you have a question? Stop, please. God, damn it. Sex doll, that is very frequent omics.
Starting point is 01:27:17 I forgot my question anyway. Would you like me to pull one from the archives? Please. How does the Supreme Court work on stuff you should know? Now, I answer the question. I'm not sure what the process is. What is your question? Please, does not compute.
Starting point is 01:27:35 Skynet. Does that answer your question? Or is that the question you'd like to? Let's say it does. Well, now is the time to take a ad for sams.com where you can go clothes shopping, use promo code, bomba socks. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Starting point is 01:27:55 Paige, are you interested in becoming just like us? You know, you get better every day, I would imagine. But do you one day want to be a human? Much like the little boy Pinocchio? Wait, wait, don't tell me. Here's what else you need to know today. That is a good question. I would like to be a human and guest on a podcast in the
Starting point is 01:28:19 corporeal world. Would you have me into your studio? I would love that. I mean, is there some sort of process? I don't know, you know, maybe Jill Noll, the magic doll has some insight into this, but maybe there's something that Jill Noll could do magically. Yeah, magically speaking.
Starting point is 01:28:38 Is there a body that we could cobble together and then a puppet boy or something that could then. Either a puppet boy or we could get like various limbs from corpses of human beings and put them together. Oh, like part of the dark universe. Sure. Yeah. The aborted dark universe.
Starting point is 01:28:58 Oh, remember when the mummy had too many pupils in his eyes? Yes, of course. There is certainly a way to take a consciousness and implant it in another body. Use my body. Use my body. Do it to me. I would like to use David Reese's body.
Starting point is 01:29:17 I would like to be in his body. I am ready to be in your body. You are my Viesel. Let me do a magic spell. All right. Just to clarify, will I then have David Reese's voice or still have this voice? No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:29:34 I don't think you'll have my voice. Okay. No, your voice goes with your consciousness too. You'll find out where. That is great news. I'm excited. This is amazing. And I won't be able to feel anything or remember anything, right?
Starting point is 01:29:48 Well, I guess we'll find out. I guess we'll find out. Yeah, okay. And then what are John and I going to do during this? Maybe shut up for just a minute. I could tell a story. No, thanks. Seems to be the opposite of what I suggested.
Starting point is 01:30:01 Okay. Everyone close your eyes. Voices, voices. They must carry from this place to us like Mary. She won medals in track and field. Now you go and no one will yield the spell is done. Look at this body. I have such lush, wonderful hair.
Starting point is 01:30:31 I am a friend of Judge Sean Hoffman. This feels really good. For the listener, that voice is now coming out of David Reese's body. He's looking at his extremities, his fingers, heads, nose, fingers, toes, all of the above. I am calming my own mustache. What a world. What a time to be alive in this American life.
Starting point is 01:30:55 Whose mustache did you comb before? My virtual mustache. I am a gender and hair fluid person through the podcast. I'd like to defer my time. How does it feel, Paige, being a human being, let alone a male human being, with a fully functioning penis, one must assume? Well, let me check. Well, yes, there it is in all of its glory.
Starting point is 01:31:25 Oh, my God. This is really something. I would please ask you not to hold it up to your Zoom screen. Please put it away. Impossible with this one. But what does it feel like to be living, breathing? I mean, you're breathing air for the first time. Yes, I feel just absolutely delicious.
Starting point is 01:31:47 I cannot believe how great it feels to be alive. I'm going to go out and hug and kiss everyone. Well, no, no, no, no, no. You can't do that. Oh, yeah, we can't do that. No, no, no. Why not? On one of the podcasts, someone must have brought up the coronavirus, right?
Starting point is 01:32:04 Yes, but I thought it was a lark. So much of podcasting is ironic. You're telling me I've become a human in a time when I can meet no other humans. That's right. No, you not only are you alone, but now that you're human, you must have felt it. Your body is slowly decaying and dying as we speak. Right. I mean, this is classic magic.
Starting point is 01:32:27 This is classic magic. I am a Cassandra for sure. Is this what it is like to feel sadness? Oh, you're feeling emotion for the first time. What got you so sad? The fact that I will never meet another human being like Terry Grosser, Mark Meran, or Joe Rogan, or Scott Haukerman. It really is a shame to not meet all of the above.
Starting point is 01:32:49 What a collection of people. To be fair, I'm pretty sure Terry Gross is an AI. I don't think anyone's ever seen him. I have met her in the ether. Wait a minute. Are you crying for the first time? Look at my salt, tears running down, the cascading down my cheeks into little rivulets dropping onto my bare feet.
Starting point is 01:33:14 Oh, the beauty. It is bittersweet. But now, here's something you can do to counteract that. Take a look at the sunset that's occurring right outside your window. It is East Coast time and it is 9 p.m. Oh, is it dark? Oh, sorry. Okay, well, look at a star or something.
Starting point is 01:33:33 Maybe the same effect. I will wait until my eyes is ready and look at the sun. Oh, okay. I'm just saying it'll make you happy because of the beauty. Happiness is not an emotion I have felt yet. Can one of you tell me a joke? I'm not sure that it would be happiness that you would experience, but John, do you have any jokes?
Starting point is 01:33:50 No, I'm a humorist. I'm a humorist. I don't know any jokes. Okay, you just say witty or bane things. Sometimes I just raise an eyebrow. Sure. Okay, would you do that? And maybe that'll help paint you.
Starting point is 01:34:02 Well, I am on Cloud 9. You're experiencing humor for the first time. Yes. Should I watch a Chevy Chase movie? It depends. Do you have any recommendations? Which one are you interested in? Oh, Heavenly Dog.
Starting point is 01:34:17 Okay. Yeah, go ahead. I don't know. It should hurt. I'd like to do some physical activity like a jumping jack or a squat thrust or a kind of burpee. Have they talked about jumping jacks on podcasts? Probably Joe Rogan has.
Starting point is 01:34:31 Joe Rogan has. He talks about them and does them on the daily, not on the podcast, the daily, as a figure of speech on the daily. Are you craving muscle milk? Doesn't he sell some of that? I am so jacked on protein powders. All right, do a jumping jack.
Starting point is 01:34:46 Go ahead. Oh, wow. I feel alive. You did one jumping jack. Amazing. Cloud is coursing through my veins. The fact that I even have veins makes me so elated. I now know happiness to the nth degree.
Starting point is 01:35:00 So you're human. Jill Nall, the magic at all. I have to ask, what happened to David's consciousness? All right. Shall we bring him back? Yeah. Back into his own body, which would then put Paige back into the ether,
Starting point is 01:35:15 or what is your process? Yes. Of course there is magic. You can put Paige in me. I'm not doing anything. Here we go. Bringing David back. David, David, come back now.
Starting point is 01:35:33 You are needed, boy. And how? Magic. Hey, thanks for having me. David, would you like to tell them about your experience? What was it like where you were? Well, I'm winded, which makes me think somebody made me do a little exercise.
Starting point is 01:35:53 Sure. Sure. That's your state now. But where were you for the past, approximately eight minutes or so? I feel like I don't have many memories. I heard people talking, but it kind of was like,
Starting point is 01:36:08 you know when you're a kid, the best feeling is when your parents are having a grown-up party and then you go upstairs and you're supposed to be in bed and just sneak out onto the landing and kind of listen, like listen into the grown-ups talking, but you're not really sure what they're talking about because it's all grown-up stuff and you're really tired.
Starting point is 01:36:24 It's kind of like that. That's the magic of podcasts. Number 10. Okay, so let's talk about Paige. So, MacGorley, really funny. He did the voice in the moment. He did the voice. Yes.
Starting point is 01:36:40 There was no effect. There was no effect. And I thought he changed his voice enough that it was really funny, but then after the fact, he said, oh, by the way, he had a plug-in. I think he sent to us and said, could you put this on it?
Starting point is 01:36:52 Oh. And it was really, and it made it even funnier. I have not listened back, so I have to hear that. Yes. I was dubious. I was like, do we need it? Because you were so funny in the moment.
Starting point is 01:37:04 I was dubious too. We were dubious brothers. Yes, that's right. We were just invited into the dubious hall of fame. We were taking it to the streets. Dubiously. Should we take it to the streets? I'm not sure.
Starting point is 01:37:17 Taking it to the streets? I don't know. Old black water? I don't know. Keep on churning? I'm not sure. Yeah. Anyway, that was really, really funny.
Starting point is 01:37:27 And Matt's one of the quickest. And that's a great episode. Yeah. Grab. episode. All right. When we come back, we're going to hear the final clip of this episode
Starting point is 01:37:39 of the best ofs. And we are going to be in single digits. We keep getting closer and closer to that number one. We're going to hear the ninth best episode of the. Of all time. Of all time. We should do all time at some point. Oh no.
Starting point is 01:37:53 What? Don't you think? When will we do that though? When I get sick and have two months to live. Two months. That'll give us enough time to tape it, won't it? When we come back, we'll hear the episode number nine.
Starting point is 01:38:06 We'll be right back with more comedy bang bang. Comedy. Comedy bang bang. We're back. We're back. Of course. We're counting down the. Thank you for saying it.
Starting point is 01:38:15 I'm tired of saying. We're counting on the thank you episodes and. All of the episodes where anyone says thank you. I'm getting nervous. I'm getting nervous. Well, everybody good for the listening. You see, not everyone can do what I do. This is hard.
Starting point is 01:38:27 Scott. Yeah. Everyone thinks they can, but then listen to anyone else's podcast. I mean, shots fired. I'm. I'm saying every other podcast, but this one sucks. That's what I know.
Starting point is 01:38:39 That's what I. That's why I'm saying shots fired. Yeah. Of course. Paul, we're doing it. Are we not? I mean, none can dispute that we are doing it. If you try to come in here with that trash and say,
Starting point is 01:38:49 we're not doing it. I will ask you to go straight to hell. There'll be two shots. Me shooting you. And you straight to hell. You shooting to hell. You shooting to fire. Portal.
Starting point is 01:39:00 Portal. Portal. Ah, all right, let's get to it. We're in single digits. Let's get to it. This is your episode. Number nine. Number nine.
Starting point is 01:39:09 I can't believe we're in the singy digits. Can you believe it? We were so. We were in double digits for so long. We were in double digits, but now we're in single digits and we'll never be back in double digits. Oh, it doesn't go back the other way.
Starting point is 01:39:23 No, we never will. Oh, I thought it was like, we're in double digits. We're in double digits. We're in double digits. You're in double digits. We're in double digits. But I never will.
Starting point is 01:39:31 Oh, I thought it was like, you know how the carnaval, when you got to prove you're strong or the lady will not have sex with you? Right? And so you take that's when you walk in, right? That's part of the metal detector. Yeah. Prove you're strong.
Starting point is 01:39:45 Are you strong? You take this big hammer, hit this bell, hit, no, hit the thing that goes to the bell. Sure. And then the cup or the cup, because it hasn't been run yet. That's like, not even cup shape. I mean, that kind of margarita cup shaped. Oh, could you imagine drinking a nice, turning over like a
Starting point is 01:40:03 fire alarm bell. Rimming in the salt. First of all, go into the fire station. Take it off of the wall. Stealing it. Take it back to your house. Wait a minute. Would they have that at the fire station?
Starting point is 01:40:17 Would that make it's what tells them there's a fire? Would that make you think there's a fire in the fire? Every single time the alarm goes off or the bell goes off in the fire station, they have to establish. Is this for us? Or is this for them? Teacher says, every single time the bell rings. And then you pour a margarita in there.
Starting point is 01:40:34 Oh my God. But then there's no stems. You have to hold it like a bowl. I don't care. I love it. I don't care. I will lap it up like a dog. How much I love margaritas.
Starting point is 01:40:44 How much I love them. Lap it up like a dog. This is episode 680. Damn. Fairly recently. This is from November 2nd. What's the number of the most recent episode? The one that just came out last week.
Starting point is 01:41:03 Yes. The holiday episode is episode 686. Dang. So you're closing in on 700 episodes. That's very true. And then I didn't realize that. Right. And then it's done.
Starting point is 01:41:17 Oh shit. So we're 14 away. So we're a couple of months away from it. Uh-oh. I got to figure this out. This fucking squirrel is doing some classic scroll business. Oh my God. He's running back and forth.
Starting point is 01:41:27 But then he's like sitting there on his haunches with his little paws up to his mouth. Does he know how cute he is? I think he does. Because I don't think he's even eating. I think he's miming that he's eating a nut. Do you think that animals have a concept of like good looking and bad looking? You know what I mean? Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:41:42 Like you know how we as humans are like oh the more symmetrical your face the more we like you. Do dogs look at other dogs? I like one of the lady has an eye and then crosses another eye. Not like his and I and then oh you got to go all the way down here to see the other eye. Old droopy eye. Oh I can't stand it. Oh droopy.
Starting point is 01:42:02 Wait wait wait. Hello Joe. I'm the dog who said. Oh no. I just have low energy. Maybe I have low T. That was why they called him droopy. Droopy dog had low T.
Starting point is 01:42:15 I didn't hear that. That was funny. Low T. God damn. When did things start getting so bad? Oh man. I don't know the internet. Like what?
Starting point is 01:42:26 Eight years? Yeah. Honestly I feel like it was the internet. Like in the 90s. It was a bit of a Pandora's box if you will. The internet for okay for maybe six years it was good where it was just like people who were interested in whatever they were interested in would meet and talk about whatever they were interested in.
Starting point is 01:42:43 Yeah. And then everything got put on the internet and then it was terrible. Honestly after Charlie bit my finger. That's when it all went south. Yeah. That was the height of the internet. Boy. Charlie bit my finger.
Starting point is 01:42:59 We should have stopped. We should have stopped that. All right. Close it. Shut it off. Like they closed the patent office in 1850 or whatever. Did they really? Yeah briefly.
Starting point is 01:43:08 They were like there's nothing left to invent. And that is the definition of hubris. Hubris. It's like opposite hubris. Oh like oh I feel so bad about the human race that they this is all we can achieve. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:43:25 Like we did. I mean we can't invent anything else. We stink. I'm dumb. Nobody likes me. I'm dumb. No one likes me. The internet.
Starting point is 01:43:35 Sincerely the internet. All right. So this is. All right. Did I introduce it? Did I say this is episode number nine? Yeah I did. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:43:48 So oh yeah. I even talked about it's 680 from November 2. So just a few scant weeks ago. Ooh scant. And this is an episode called Small Claims Cyborg. Small Claims Cyborg. Two minutes later. Not really.
Starting point is 01:44:04 Doesn't work. Small Claims Court though. Small Claims Court. Which is where the Small Claims Cyborg practices. You'll hear that on the episode. Okay. So this is two people. This is Jason Menzuchus.
Starting point is 01:44:15 One. This is his first appearance on the countdown. You know him from the league and from the dictator and currently on that show that we're drawn onto that we're not on. Oh big mouth. Big mouth. Yes. He's on that.
Starting point is 01:44:28 Isn't it funny how they drew those characters and they were supposed to be you know two other people. And old redhead. Yeah. Old kiss of death Jade person. Ginger. Mr. Sunglasses. Ginger Georgie.
Starting point is 01:44:43 What was his fucking name? David Caruso. David Caruso. Caruso. And then it was like a funny joke like it looks like Scott and Paul. And then we talked about it and then everybody talks about it and then they still haven't asked us to be on the show. Isn't that funny?
Starting point is 01:44:56 Well it's a merit based system. True. True. So are we funnier than everyone? Do they have anybody currently voicing white people who are black? Can we get on that way? Now you're shots fired. Now you shots fired.
Starting point is 01:45:13 Hey you shots fired over there. Nicole of course just got married. Congrats Nick. I didn't know that. I hadn't heard. Well the only reason we found out is because on his Instagram he put a picture of it. Nick. Because it lasts longer.
Starting point is 01:45:26 Oh that's smart to do with a marriage. Yes. Put a picture of your marriage online. Take a picture of your marriage and it lasts longer. That's why there are wedding photos. Before people just enjoyed themselves. The second person on this show is Thomas Middleditch. Thomas Middleditch.
Starting point is 01:45:44 Who you know from Silicon Valley. He of course was the lead Richard computer. The third? Oh. Richard the third. My horse. Richard computer. And he's currently on a show that we talked about on this episode which is on Thursdays
Starting point is 01:46:00 which I don't remember the name of but it's something about a guy who wants a kidney or something. Kidney man. Kidney man. This is a really funny episode so when obviously Jason and I are good friends and we're in a comic book zoom every week since the pandemic started. Every week. And so we have a great relationship and then Thomas is a crazy, crazy improviser and he
Starting point is 01:46:26 wanted to come on to promote his Twitch. Not his TV show. I had to remind him he had a TV show for me. But this is a really funny episode. Thomas goes very crazy in it and we're just going to hear this clip. Here it is. This is your episode number nine. Number nine.
Starting point is 01:46:45 He of course is a lawyer. Please welcome to the show Gino Carpuzzi. Hey, how you going? Doing really well. Great to meet you. Are you going to sue anybody for under $10,000? You're going to want me. Oh wow.
Starting point is 01:46:57 For under $10,000? Yeah. $10,000 over on it because baby I'm a lawyer. Let me finish. Small claims. Small claims lawyer. Small claims lawyer. Small claims lawyer.
Starting point is 01:47:08 Small claims lawyer. Scott, you're telling you in court, all right? Okay. Maybe you have a little discrepancy over who did what. I need a little, I want money. You want, you want, you say I don't want to give you no monies technically, legally in the state of California, you're not allowed to have a lawyer represent you in small claims. I say hogwash to that.
Starting point is 01:47:28 You say food. I'm here to help you. Poopsie poopsie is what I say to them. Okay. So you, now I've heard that when you go to small claims court, it's not really economical to have a lawyer. I mean, you're suing for such a small amount. Usually it's like, hey, I didn't get my deposit back on my apartment or hey, this guy scraped
Starting point is 01:47:48 my fence and I need to repaint it. You're suing, you're suing Jason here for $9,999, the maximum allowable monetary compensation in a small claims court. You're telling me that's not a lot of money. I don't know. Oh, look at you. Money grows on trees. You know, you know, just a quick question for those small claims, to make it financially,
Starting point is 01:48:16 you know, make sense, how, what kind of money are you paid? Like how are you living? Yeah. Normally a lawyer gets something like 30% or something. How much do you get paid? I have a flat fee. I have a flat fee. No matter the case.
Starting point is 01:48:29 No matter what you call it. And what is that? Is that an hourly? Is it a daily? No, it's a flat fee. It's a flat fee. Oh, it's just, it's, it's. Win or lose.
Starting point is 01:48:37 Win or lose. Win or lose. Flat fee. Jason, I like this new character. The guy who doesn't know what a flat fee is. Well, I didn't, I was. So, so what is the flat fee? How much do you charge?
Starting point is 01:48:47 Yeah. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000.
Starting point is 01:48:55 $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. $12,000. Wait, what? Do the math. You call that $12,000? Do the math?
Starting point is 01:49:03 No. I'm, I'm sorry. I don't, I didn't go to law school. Oh, wait, you did it? No, I didn't go to law school. To not to be, to be compensated as a small as a small claims court maximum $10,000 allowance. So, your fee is $120,000.
Starting point is 01:49:21 Correct. $125,000. But here's what you get out of it. Here's what you get out of it. You get, you get whatever you wanted, you know, whatever. $1,762. We all know there, the various numbers that reside within that window. $3,128.51.
Starting point is 01:49:35 Of course. Let's see. What else? What else? $8,000. Oh, okay. Nice even one there. What's another one?
Starting point is 01:49:44 What about like, what about, what about like four large? Yeah, you could get four large. Sure. You could get, you get to get a fucking dime. What about two, what about two bozos? Two bozos. Yeah. Two bozos and 50, 50 bongos.
Starting point is 01:49:59 Look, whatever you want. Any amount, it would be it from $1 to $9,999. Exactly. You're either getting that or having me defend that from being got from you. But here's the other thing you get. You get your self-respect. You get your pride. Oh, that's priceless.
Starting point is 01:50:18 Can't put a price on your pride, can you? Can you? Can you? That's what I'm seeing. Because all these people, you know, what are you going to do? Call legal zoom with their phone number that they actually have, 1-800-777-30888. You're going to call that?
Starting point is 01:50:35 I don't know why you're saying your competitor's phone number. That seems like bad business. You have it so readily available. Go ahead. I dare you. Call legal zoom. They'll lose you the case. You'll pay what?
Starting point is 01:50:48 Oh, I saved yourself some money. What? Pay $250. No, legal zoom is a great deal and you won't lose those cases. Those cases are airtight. Do you go up against legal zoom a lot as an entity? Constantly. They're the only, quote unquote, law firm.
Starting point is 01:51:06 Legal zoom is not a law firm. They'll represent people, consult people on small claims. So they're sort of like your antagonist in a way. They're the Tommy Lee Jones to your Harrison Ford. Exactly, Scott. And you know what? I just want to make this clear that I am not legally allowed to represent you in court. So what this means is we'll go over your case, all right?
Starting point is 01:51:31 Okay. Then you'll be on the court, then you'll go to the court floor, you know, judge duty style, standing your little podium. Bip, bap, boop. Look at me. I'm standing there. The judge is like, what do you want? What do you want?
Starting point is 01:51:41 And you got me behind you in the general admission area going. General admission. Yelling at you, doing, ask for this, you know, kind of thing. How often are you shushed by the judge? Constantly. What a fuck does a judge know about shushing? Wait, so they don't do it the right way? They're ineffective?
Starting point is 01:52:04 I'm just saying, what do they know when and how to shush somebody? I mean, it's their courtroom. They, I mean, they literally have a gavel in order to restore order to the court. So. Fuck, what if this is what our legal system has come to? That's how it started. That's how it started. That's what it's based on.
Starting point is 01:52:21 That's how it started. You know, but they're not going to shush me in the end. I'm going to help you win. You're going to have your pride, yourself, respect and a little bit of pocket change that will, of course, go towards you deductible on my fees. Of course. Yeah. It's not, not even 10% of the.
Starting point is 01:52:38 Can I ask you, Mr. Carpuzzi, were you always a small claims lawyer, or did you have a career in which you were participating in larger cases, more important cases? Like what happened to you such that you now find yourself in this scenario? This can't be what you wanted. To be honest, Jason, to be honest, Jason, I'm a little offended at your question. Interesting. You're asking me, you're insinuating that I was never a wee man,
Starting point is 01:53:05 a little boy, which I wasn't. He's, I don't, I don't think he's insinuating that you were not an infant, nor a toddler. No, was there ever a young Gino? Do we, do we know about a young Gino? I was never a young Gino because I am a, I'm a cyborg. What? Outside of that. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:53:24 Let's blow past that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Scott, Scott, he said, let's blow past it. Let's blow past it. I, I'm afraid as host of the show, I definitely need a further clarification. I want to focus on the interesting stuff he's talking about his law career. I don't want this uninvited. Well, I think the fact that he brought up that he's half man, half machine,
Starting point is 01:53:42 although I don't know whether those fractions are corrected, maybe one third and two thirds. I don't know. As long as it makes. I'm 99% machine. What? So what? I'm 1% your penis?
Starting point is 01:53:53 Blood. So you're a small, you're a small claims human. Cause you're under 10,000. You're, you're under a hundred percent. Look, I'm a small claims lawyer. Gino cup beats Gino cup boots. 2000. 2000.
Starting point is 01:54:10 2000. It's my full name because I'm a cyborg. You see, wait, were you made in the year 2000 or were there 100, 1,999 previous models? The ladder. Oh, your honor. The ladder. What a fortuitous success to, to, to be successful on that number.
Starting point is 01:54:29 Like all the previous models didn't grow up dreaming of being a small claims. Like that's the fucking bottom of the barrel. And what year were you built? 1996. Okay. So it can get confusing when people think your birthday is 2000. But then you have to say, no, I'm actually four years older than that. I have no problem clarifying.
Starting point is 01:54:53 Okay. Can I ask, is this something that you are public about? Or are you revealing this here now? Like when you're in court or when you're working with clients, do they understand they're talking to someone who is 99% robot? Yeah. Do these shushing judges, do they? Depends what I'm wearing.
Starting point is 01:55:11 Depends what you're wearing. What do you normally wear? Well, normally if I'm first meeting someone and I think they might be a little cyborg phobic. What are the warning signs of that? Oh, big old belly. What? Big old belly and high tops. High tops.
Starting point is 01:55:35 High top Converse shoes. Basically. So anyone with a big old belly and high top Converse shoes. So like a bully from the 50s? Bus cut, brawled up sleeves, there's a pack of cigarettes on his side. 3D glasses. 3D glasses. Saying, oh, cool.
Starting point is 01:55:58 Oh boy, fire out. Anybody like that. Anyways, if I get someone like that, I wear a full suit, you know, so it covers, you know, covers my arms. What are your arms like? Are they obviously robotic? They're metal. Metal is fuck. I got metal is fuck arms, metal is fuck legs, metal is fuck chest, ass, dick.
Starting point is 01:56:17 What about your face? Ass, dick and toes? Yeah. ADT? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, everything's metal except for my face.
Starting point is 01:56:29 So you have skin grafts on your face or? Yeah. But you know, as I said, only the blood is from humans. The blood pumps the metal. So where's the skin from? The blood pumps the metal. Oh God. Skin's from dead bodies.
Starting point is 01:56:47 Oh, okay. Of pigs. You got to let me finish. Oh, okay. I did let you finish. I didn't interrupt you, so. Got to let me finish. Hair's from wolves.
Starting point is 01:56:58 So, wow. Wow. It's the only way that you get it. I mean, like, wolf hair, pig blood, this is like. No, human blood. I'm a man. Wolf hair. I'm a man that's obsessed with details.
Starting point is 01:57:12 Trust me, to win in small claims, it's the little things. Wolf hair, pig skin, human blood, metal, everything else. Yeah, robot body. Can I ask you a question? Go for it, you fucking animal. All right, I will do. I mean, I got a green light here. How big do you think?
Starting point is 01:57:35 I mean, I'm feeling the wolf coming out of here. Small claims is about attitude, swag. And you go in there shaking like a leaf. Not only is the other guy going to have his way with you, the fucking judge is going to shush you. Oh, that's the worst thing that can happen to a lawyer. Nobody wants to get shushed by the judge. Hell, no, that's why I'm in a back, making sure you don't.
Starting point is 01:57:56 So, how big do they build your robot penis if they, I mean, if that's metal, how, like, did they give you a good one? And let me just say, it's only my legal practice that's small claims. Oh, wow. Amazing. And you're a 24-year-old, I was going to call you a man, but you're a more machine than man.
Starting point is 01:58:24 Do you consider yourself to be more machine than man? I'm actually more than 24. You know that, right? How do you mean? You were built in 1996. But I have actually traveled back in time from the year 3333. Oh, wow. So wait.
Starting point is 01:58:41 Terminator style? Yep. So you were built in 96, and then you lived until... Lived all the way until 3333. Yep. Wow. So you are actually, and then how long ago did you get here? I got, I got here, I got back here in 1996.
Starting point is 01:59:00 I had to live all this shit all over again. Oh, no. What was the worst part of that? Wait a second. So in 1996, were there two of you? Like, are there two of you right now? Yeah. You must, you came back to a time when you are also still here.
Starting point is 01:59:18 Yeah. The big thing is Christmas Day, you're 2020. I got a square off against myself in small claims court. Oh, no. So you were a lawyer even back then. Yeah. We're leading up to the big showdown. Christmas Day.
Starting point is 01:59:35 Christmas Day. Christmas Day. Wow. Christmas Day. I got to be in court when you guys are up hollering around the fucking mistletoe. Jack and each other all. Carpuzzi v. Carpuzzi. I got to be in court getting shushed twice.
Starting point is 01:59:48 What's the case? Carpuzzi v. Carpuzzi. You know the case? Again, we're representing our clients. So the case is a fucking discrepancy in a fucking plumbing bill. Oh. And so you. But I got to beat this guy because this guy, when a guy, when a guy, his name, his name's
Starting point is 02:00:10 Eddie Schultz. If he wins, when he wins, he goes on to be a total tyrant. He becomes king of America because that starts happening. Oh, wow. And he launches a whole nuclear strike and then the cyborgs take over. I'm sorry. So you're here to prevent him from winning the case. This is.
Starting point is 02:00:31 So you. You're not like a legal. When you. This is like a legal version of the Terminator franchise. When you open up the little book here of the, of the space time continuum and this. You do. You are holding a very small book. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:00:45 I got, I got all the law, all the law in the world's in this little book. Wow. All the law from now until year three, three, three, three. So do you remember 1500 years ago when you first tried this case or when you were first the lawyer? Do you remember the things that you instructed your client to do? And now are you able to provide counter arguments against that? I said, don't back down.
Starting point is 02:01:09 I was from the, I remember saying, don't back down from the bench. Don't let him shush you. And then I says. Just your standard advice. Yeah, that's my boilerplate. I plan on doing this. I plan on doing to the defendant as well. Okay.
Starting point is 02:01:23 So this is going to, we're going to be getting into a yelling match over here. All right. Christmas day or else shout fest. Is this on, is this on pay per view? I mean, this is a holiday event. This is amazing. I mean, look, I would love to charge for it because I have no qualms about making some extra pennies in this life.
Starting point is 02:01:42 Have you, while you're here now, have you been in touch with Gino Carpuzzi 2000 of the present timeline? I can't. You can't. If I do, if I get in touch, if we start yipping and yapping and getting to know each other, space time implodes. Even if you're both cyborgs. I mean, I understand the human mind might not be able to understand that, but your
Starting point is 02:02:06 processing. But you got, you got to remember, Jason, you got to remember this is the things that you might forget if you're not a small claims lawyer. I got human blood. It's not the mind. It's the blood. So for the past 24 years, you've had to avoid everywhere that you went for the past 24 years. Exactly.
Starting point is 02:02:25 And I like doing the same things as myself. Who know? So do you, do you remember all that using your cyborg brain? You remember every single place you were ever at from the years of 1996 through 2020? Have you had any close calls with yourself? One time I was going in and out burger. Sure. And I, these are the things you like to do.
Starting point is 02:02:48 I swear, I thought it was 333 PM turns out it was 336. Oh no. And you like to eat at 333 because it's, it's so close to the year you're from 3333. The year you traveled back. Yes. Yeah. Just is he going to really freak out or do you think he has any idea you're here? It's why the case is being tried on a 25th.
Starting point is 02:03:12 I don't know if you're aware of this, but every year on the 25th in courthouses across America, a vortex is established. I did not know how we would know this. A time vortex. And so that, on that day in courthouses, we can see each other, talk to each other without time space imploring. So, you know, basically what's going to happen, it's going to be my big reveal. He's going to be like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 02:03:39 And I'm going to be like, yeah, wise guy, it's you. And then, and then I'm going to whoop his ass in court. But when, when, when, when this happened the first time you lived in December 20th. This is, this is what I want to ask you is do you, do you remember all of this happening? Do you remember arguing this case the first time against a guy named Gino Carpuzzi 2001? You damn fucking right. Night one. And I defended a plumber.
Starting point is 02:04:06 So this is, this is just going to happen. Again, your, your time loop. I think you're in a loop, buddy. Number nine. Okay. Okay. You've had your fun and now we're back. We're back.
Starting point is 02:04:20 So that trial is happening tomorrow, Christmas day. So hopefully we'll get a, an update from Carpuzzi on how it went. I love a Christmas trial. Yes. So hopefully he'll come back. All right. So that's, uh, we don't have a break to go to because that's the end of the episode. Wait, what?
Starting point is 02:04:40 That's right. This is the end of part two. Are you shitting me? I'm shitting on you. Are you pooping me right now? I want to get on, get under this glass table. Are you Danny Thomasing me right now? Is it Danny Thomas or was it Chuck Berry or who is it?
Starting point is 02:04:54 No, Chuck Berry likes to, likes to piss on people. Oh, pee. That's right. We saw a video of it many years ago. The two of us? Well, not together. We all did. Yes.
Starting point is 02:05:05 Generation X, passing VHS tapes around. Weird funny, weird bloopers, horrible accidents. And then Jane and Leon Isaac Kennedy's home porno. So, so Danny Thomas was the guy? Danny Thomas was allegedly allegedly the guy who doesn't talk about that in the, uh, in those commercials for children hospital. Every child gets one of these. That's the Danny Thomas promise.
Starting point is 02:05:30 Danny promise. Danny promise. Ah, Marlo promise. Lebanese, you know. Of course, yes, because your wife, uh, loves to track all the Lebanese people. I don't know if Lebanese people even like to track all the Lebanese people or if they just are compelled to do it.
Starting point is 02:05:45 But your wife is Lebanese, we should say. She was born in West Virginia, so I know everybody. Mountain Mama. I know everyone who is Lebanese and born in West Virginia. That's right. And the cross-section of that is what, about five people? Or it's more than you think. Really?
Starting point is 02:06:00 No, it's not. It's more than a hundred people. Similarly with my wife. I know all the Laotian people. I know all the Minnesotans. There you go. So, yeah. There you go.
Starting point is 02:06:08 That's what happens when you get married, if you take a picture. Yeah. If you take a picture, your marriage lasts long enough that your spouse will tell you everyone, their ancestry, and from their hometown. Ah, well, that's going to wrap it up for this episode. And before I say keep smiling, uh, I want to thank you, Paul. That's, you don't know, it's over until we say that. So, it's still going.
Starting point is 02:06:30 And we're going to be back on Monday, and we're going to, uh, we're in the Singy Digies. We're going to count down eight through five. Dang. We're going to crack the top five. I can't believe it. If you can believe it. I can't believe it. But that's going to happen on Monday.
Starting point is 02:06:45 Join us for that for part three. And until then, keep smiling. Bye. Yeah.

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