Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Best of 2020 Part 3
Episode Date: December 28, 2020The Best of 2020 Comedy Bang! Bang! countdown continues as Scott and Paul F. Tompkins countdown numbers eight through five of the Best CBB episodes of 2020 as voted by YOU listeners. Tune in Thursday ...for Part 4 to hear which episodes made it to the top!
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I'm the best gunslinger with the tiniest dinger.
Welcome to comedy bang bang.
Thank you to call waiting for Godot.
Can you run that by me again?
I don't know. I don't think I can.
Thank you to call waiting for Godot
over that catchphrase submission.
Almost a catchphrase superstar.
Call waiting for Godot.
How many? How many?
I don't think anyone's keeping stats
on the catchphrase submitors.
Somebody is.
Somebody is.
What is this voice that you were doing
when this started?
It sounds like that guy.
Who's the guy who does the colors album?
Not iced tea.
Speaking of iced tea.
Ken Nordine.
Ken Nordine.
That's who it is.
The line broke.
The monkey got choked.
And they all went to heaven
in a little row boat.
That's right.
What do you think about Rudy North, by the way,
that was very nice of him to say.
Well, Sean Diston, by the way, I'm Scott Ackerman
and welcome to Comedy Bang Bang,
best of Part 3.
Best of 2020 Part 3.
I'm here with Paul F. Tompkins.
Hi, I'm that person he said.
And we're going to be counting down episodes
8 through 5 today on this episode.
So welcome back. This is Part 3.
If you haven't heard Part 1 and 2,
go back and listen to those.
Or else you'll be completely lost or just enjoy this one.
They're fun. You should listen to them
and I want you to have a nice thing.
But I was mentioning Sean Diston.
Sean started as a fan of the show.
I think he used to listen to it in Florida
where he's from and then
is now on the show
quite frequently.
I forget how long this show has been happening.
12 years almost.
I love stuff like that.
And he's not only
is he on the show for the past few years,
but one of the best people to do it.
Fan favorite.
But yeah, he used to listen.
He used to listen to you doing I.C.
back when the show first started.
And he thought it was really funny
and brought it up.
And the reason, I don't know,
have we talked about it on the show?
I don't think so.
Yeah, as time marches on,
it never goes backward, I'll tell you that.
It never goes back. No, it never does, right?
I wish it would.
I wish it would. If I could turn back time.
Would you relive your life?
If I could find a way.
Yeah.
Who's going to say something?
Yeah, I
I made a conscious movement to
move away from doing real
I made a conscious movement about three hours ago.
Scott. Hey.
What you're doing is disrespectful, big bitch.
Hey, jerky. Hey, big central chest.
I made a conscious effort
to move away from doing actual people.
Real people
impressions and start focusing on
creating original characters.
But also I see I did
start to feel like
I think I subconsciously
was feeling like I shouldn't do this anymore
because I'm imitating a person of
another race. Right. Even though the thrust
of the impression is not that.
Right. It still did.
I think just like things that are changing
in the culture, it started to kind of seep
into my
unconscious mind
and feeling like, yeah, I probably
shouldn't do that anymore.
And I had a lengthy
back and forth with someone on Twitter who was being
extremely respectful
and saying, don't you feel that this is weird
and I started to kind of push back on it
and then I realized I did
stop doing it
with that kind of in the back of my mind.
And so there's a lengthy discussion
after you stopped doing it.
I hadn't done it in a while. Yeah. Right.
Someone asked me about, like, do you feel
that this is problematic?
And at first I was like, no, I don't think so
because this is the X, Y, and Z.
This is why it's not problematic. Right.
And then the more we were talking
about it, the more I realized, well, but I
think I did stop doing it because
it was starting, when I
thought about it, it didn't feel comfortable
anymore. Right. You know.
And it was not like anyone gave me a hard
time about it. It was not.
Before I had this discussion with this person
online, I had already
had those feelings.
But there's something about when somebody
our automatic instinct
is to get defensive. Yes.
Well, I don't do that.
Scott, when you listen back to this, you're going to hear the irony.
I feel bad for you.
So, yeah,
I really, I felt like
yeah, I probably shouldn't do that anymore.
But it was nice of
Sean to say that he thought it was funny.
It was problematic.
I think sometimes, I don't know,
who cares about my feelings on it, but
I think sometimes. I think a lot of people do.
People, I think
your opinion matters to a lot of people.
Well, I think there's sometimes nuance to it.
Obviously, when you're
doing an impression of
there's a couple of different ways to do an
impression. One way is to
point out annoying or stupid things about
the other person and highlight those
and be like, they're funny because
they're so stupid or
you know, this is why
they're so weird because they're different, you know what I mean?
So when you're imitating Droopy, it's like
Droopy's voice is like, hello, Jew.
And he's a fucking idiot. And he's an idiot.
No, but so sometimes when
people would do
impressions of people of other races,
they were doing it of like, hey,
we are the norm. White people are the norm.
Norm!
I'm surprised he didn't walk in.
I had to walk in first.
Oh, that's right.
And now we begin
the Eldridge Ceremony.
Norm! Norm!
Norm!
Afternoon, everybody. It worked!
But a lot of
times, like previously, it would be like, hey,
we're the culture and we're all
white and people
of other races talk differently
and they're different
and there's some
I mean, you look at like
Mickey Rooney in
Breakfast at Tiffany's, like they look different.
Still the gold standard for just
bananas.
No reason for it, racism.
And then sometimes
there's never a reason for racism.
Yeah.
So apparently in this discussion,
let's cancel Ball of Tumpkins because he thinks
there's a reason for racism. Sometimes it's justified, okay?
But I think sometimes
there are people who are doing impressions
and who are like studies
of
human nature and they're really good.
They have a good ear for impressions
and let's take
Peter Sellers, for instance.
You know.
Sweetest guy around.
By all accounts, a terrific human being.
But like a lot of his act is just like
looking at people and
transforming into them.
And I think that sometimes is interesting
but it's not up to me to say
obviously like what's acceptable or not.
But
sometimes I find that interesting
when a person can so transform
their voice
to become another
person that I think allowances
are made sometimes
for that.
When it's not a hey look at how different or stupid they are.
Yeah. I mean there's
so many things that go into
what makes something a
characterization.
And it's
like when it's problematic,
when it's truly problematic,
it's because somebody's coming from a bad place.
Right.
Where are the characters on the good place?
We're actually. Isn't it funny they were coming from the bad place?
You know what I mean?
I hope you've watched season one.
But even when your
intention is good
that doesn't mean that there's not...
That it's always going to be received
well
and that it is good.
Just because you have the best of intentions
doesn't mean that you should not
be taken to task for a thing that you're doing.
And some people will
think it's fine and some people will think it's not fine.
And you know
Sean is very nice to say that about your iced tea.
It doesn't necessarily mean
that it is okay for you to do
it. And I have to say
outside of that one exchange
that I had with that person, no one's ever given me a hard time.
No one's ever...
And even that person wasn't giving me a hard time.
This is not like I'm bowing
to some pressure or whatever.
Or that PC culture is ruining everything.
It's that I started to view it differently
and it's also at the end of the day
is it necessary?
It's not like
my feeling is always
make more stuff.
If there's an issue
with something, we can't get too
precious about these things.
That was always the thing about parallel thought in comedy
of like if you had a joke
or a premise that was similar to someone else
we'll just write another joke.
I would always drop it and just do something else.
Yeah, just do something else. But there were guys that would like
fight tooth and nail like, that was my
bit, you know.
That's the thing is, and sketches
were the same thing, you know, because like
when you're writing sketches, someone would go
like, oh living color, I remember Mr.
Show, we stopped down for two days
because something we were just about to go into
production with, someone said
there was something like this in living color.
This was before clips were on the internet.
Yeah.
We had to like do research.
We had to call in living color and have them send
tapes over and stuff.
And then it wasn't similar, so we were able to go ahead.
That was the Buttman's.
My Buttman's.
But my point was always just like
oh, let's just make other stuff
and we'll be okay.
In any case, your iced tea, let's hear
a little bit of it now.
Just make it be, you want to hear it.
Come on.
In any case,
why did we,
oh yeah, we're just
at the beginning of this episode.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We have so many clips, a very serious
discussion for the beginning of
an episode I have to say.
People like to see how the bread is made.
They like to hear the process.
Yes.
How the bread is made.
We're going to be hearing episode,
everyone voted on these episodes.
Everyone voted?
Everyone voted for their favorite episodes of the year.
They could all pick 10.
And this is what they came up with?
30,000 votes came in
and 30,000
and
we are going through the
8, 7, 6 and 5
today, so we're going to crack the top 5.
What about the 309?
What's that?
6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 8.
Did I say 8, 6, 7, 5?
6 and 7. I think you did.
I have, I think I have
you got Tommy Tutone on the brain?
Tommy Tutone for some reason.
That's somebody's favorite band, Tommy Tutone.
Tommy Tutone is someone's, I mean
someone knows like the deep album cuts.
Someone saw them all the time.
Look, and sometimes if you see a band
like for instance, Crowded House
one of my favorite bands of all time.
Crowed House, yeah. Probably because
I saw them live
on the MTV spring break thing
and they were so good live and then it just
put a love in me and so I would see them
any time I could live.
With a tampon soaked with vodka
up your ass hole.
I don't know why you said that.
That's why I think of MTV spring break
makes me think of that kind of thing.
I thought, did I say something to lead him
into a vodka soaked tampon
up my ass hole?
I also can't believe I said
my ass hole. Yeah, really.
This is so graphic. I should have said
rectum and I apologize. I barely knew him.
So
in any case, I don't know why we were talking
about that, but Crowded House
favorite band. Well, if you see a band
live, so many good memories.
I can only imagine
Tommy Tutone being someone's favorite band
if they lived to where Tommy
the music scene Tommy
Tutone came out of and they saw him come
up so several times.
It was amazing live and they know all of his songs.
Anyway, it can happen to anyone.
It can happen to you. It can happen to you.
Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda. Of course.
What was, oh, how do you know?
How do you know it could happen to you?
I love to see a crossover
of those universes.
Great double feature. Guy gives
a woman $100 tip and then comes back
a year later and says, who gave you the biggest
tip you've ever had?
It was you.
And then
you know, Nicholas Cage cop Jack comes
in. Hey, it's me.
To be honest, I don't know the plot too.
How do you know? So I don't know.
The plot is Paul Rudd doesn't know
something. He knows somebody else does
know something. He wants to know how they
know it.
So who done it? It's how do they know it?
How do they know it?
It's in the
latest entry in the classic genre. How do
they know it?
It's all the reporters questions. Who did
they know it? How did they know it?
Why did they know it? When did they know
it? When did they know it?
It's like our five jokes.
That we recycle.
That'll be coming up a little later in
the countdown, our five jokes.
Oh, it'll be coming up later.
Hey, good luck. It'll be coming up a little
bit later. It certainly will.
But before we get to those, why don't we just
crack into these clips here? Why don't we
get to it? Crack into them. This is
the episode that you chose, if you can
make it to be number eight.
Number eight.
All right. Episode number eight, Paul.
This is episode
679.
That was episode eight, but okay.
The
numerology.
Numerology.
Is that a Prince song? Numerology?
He must have written a song called
Numerology, right? I wonder if he was into
it. He definitely, I think he was into
the zodiac. I could see him being into
it. Who knows? He was a little bit into
Chemtrails from what I understand.
He had low T as well. I think this is
true that he was into Chemtrails. I heard on
Langston Kerman has a very funny
podcast called My Mama Told Me. He was on
Comedy Bang Bang promoting it. Yes, he was.
And it's really great.
And it's about conspiracy
theories. And I think
he did an episode on Chemtrails
with Iowa
Debra and
they talked about
somebody saw Prince on
maybe it was even Oprah or something
talking about Chemtrails. Really?
Yes.
Or maybe on Larry King. He wanted
some sort of reputable
known show
and talked about how Chemtrails are.
Now, what they had heard, the conspiracy
about Chemtrails they had heard, was that the
Chemtrails were dropping chemicals
to make people fight, lower income people
to fight with each other. Right.
What I had heard was that the Chemtrails
kept us all docile so that we did not
rise up against the government. Oh, so that we didn't
float.
Yes, like the Willy Wonka theory.
They had heard it was
fizzy lifting drink. I had heard it was the opposite.
Well, this
episode came out on October 26th.
Pretty recent
from where I'm sitting. Pretty recent. And also
does that give you a clue
as to what it might be? Yeah, it's going to be scary
because of Halloween. Yeah. Do you remember
an episode that might have come out right before Halloween?
Yeah.
There was one about a ghost.
Not far off.
Little kids fucking
lie. They just lie to your face.
That was, of course, I told you the story about
my friend who
lied that he had read Old Yeller
and was lying in his
book report. We would have to do oral book reports.
I don't remember this. This was in the sixth grade
and
the teacher would take like four of us at a time
and
ask us questions about the book that we supposedly
read. He would read your report and then ask
you questions and try to trap you to see if you
actually read the book. And it would be good teacher, bad teacher, right?
You know, I gotta go. I got another guy.
My barter's going to come in here.
Let me get you a soda.
You want a coffee? Drinking fountain should
make soda, right? Yeah.
I actually pitched that in my hand.
Oh, no, I didn't pitch that.
I said that if I won student government
I was going to fix the drinking fountain
so that
when one person was drinking out of one
and the next person turned the other one on
that the water level wouldn't dip so
low. That's a big promise.
And the principal called me in
and explained why that couldn't happen
and the science behind it.
But my friend who supposedly read Old Yeller
he would never read the books and he would always
get caught.
He always got caught? Yes. I thought he was good at it.
No.
So he wrote a whole book report which back
in the sixth grade is what? A page
on Old Yeller
and the teacher
asked him, you know,
a cage question like, okay
in the book what happened here?
Okay. And he had an
answer. Okay. What happened here?
He had an answer. Then finally
after three minutes the teacher finally
says
Doug
who was Old Yeller
and Doug said
the farm
hands?
Did it like that?
Busted again.
Doug, what are you doing?
What are you doing, Doug? Like, look at
all he had to... Read the back cover!
All he had to base that on
was the picture on the front cover.
He didn't even flip it over.
Doug, a legend.
He also had a book report on
Harry Houdini
and
he was very confident about that one
and giving
so many examples of his life
and then finally the teacher said
how did Harry Houdini die?
And he said
he drowned to death.
At least don't phrase it
like a question!
The teacher was like, no, he got punched in the stomach.
Like, you're about to be Doug
because it's old times
and I can still
hit kids if I want.
I think I've told you about this.
The teacher, I had to read Black Like Me
in my junior
year of high school
and I read it.
I read it
voluntarily.
We were assigned it.
I read it, wrote the report
and the teacher gave me a failing grade
on the paper. He's like, you didn't demonstrate to me
that you read the book.
And I was like, I don't know how I didn't
but that teacher
later ran away with a student.
We've talked about the teachers
that we've known running away with students.
You didn't prove to me
that you can be a decent fucking human being.
Mr.
Much like when they
bust a cop for corruption, they have to go back
and overturn all of the arrests that he made.
They should have given you all
straight A's.
Anytime that happens.
My junior high biology teacher
who ran away with his student
or maybe didn't run away, just had a relationship
and stayed there
with her.
I think I got
a C in biology in junior high.
I should have passed.
I had to go to summer school for chemistry.
I should check back and see if that guy
was the reason.
I should be awarded
an honorary doctorate somewhere.
Why am I not?
I famously never graduated college.
Why hasn't anyone offered me one?
Kiddo, some advice.
Thank you.
What the fuck was that guy thinking?
I don't know.
So weird. Noted homophobe.
Is he a noted homophobe?
He hopes that won't be written on his tombstone,
he said.
Because in the 80s
he wrote a thing about how he wishes
all homosexuals should be eradicated
or something. Jesus Christ, sorry.
There's no way.
Even if you change your mind.
Which...
That's not like...
I don't know about gay marriage.
The article I read about it never said he changed his mind
on it. Just had the quote of like,
I hope that's not gonna be on my tombstone.
I guess that's bad.
Anyway, if you don't know what we're talking about,
there was a Wall Street Journal opinion.
Op-Ed. Yeah.
Op-Ed about Dr. Jill Biden.
Dr. Jill Biden, paging Dr. Jill Biden.
Dr. Jill Biden.
Go check it out.
Go check it out.
It came out a month ago, whatever.
We're not here to talk about that.
We're here to talk about episode that is the top 8 episode.
This was October 26th
and this is an episode called Popcorn World.
So see? Scary.
And would it surprise...
Okay, we have Gillian Jacobs.
I know her.
We have Carl Tartt. I know him.
And we have you. I know me.
That's right.
I know you. I know you.
I know you. No, you're not angry. You're just pointing.
Speaking of the season of Saturday Night Live.
This was...
It came out right before Halloween
and Gillian Jacobs, who people know from
Community.
And she just directed
a documentary that's in
Marvel 616 that you can watch.
She was here to promote her
movie, which is a scary
movie, which is why it came out
right before Halloween. That's right. What's it called?
Come Play.
Which, by the way,
so normally
booking the show,
there's two ways I can book the show.
I wear that.
If you don't like it, get the fuck out.
Most of the time, I just
write or call up or text
friends and say,
hey, do you want to do the show? And that is
the most efficient way of booking the show.
Let's see.
But every once in a while, I get lured
by a publicist
into
what ends up being
a months-long back and forth
between me and a publicist
where first
what publicists do
is they offer someone to be on your show.
They say, hey, would you want
to have this person on your show?
And it's always the bait and switch.
Hey, do you want to have the most famous
person in the world on your show?
Because if you say yes,
90% of the time, they go,
okay, well, let me check with them and see if they would want to do it.
They never want to do it.
It's a big waste of time.
Of course, they're not going to do your show.
It's a big waste of time.
But
this was one of the episodes where the publicist
of the movie, not Gillian's publicist,
reached out to me and said, hey, Gillian has
a movie coming out.
Do you want her on the show?
And instead of
just me saying like, hey, cool, yeah,
I'll just reach out to Gillian to schedule it,
I went through the publicist for whatever
reason. I don't know why. And it turned into
a several month.
It literally went on for two months.
It became like a will there, won't they with you?
Will she or will she not?
That was hot. No, I mean, you and the publicist
were like, there's some tension.
Is she going to do the show or is she not? It's hot.
It turned into a long thing
where it was like, oh,
we don't know if she can do it. Okay, now she can.
We don't know if she can do it.
And then finally, like,
it turned into one of those things where it was like,
tell you what, she can give you a half hour
on this day. And I was like, what?
A half hour? This doesn't sound like Gillian.
So I just wrote to Gillian and said,
hey, man, do you want to do comedy bang bang?
And she was like, oh, no one's talked to me about it.
So she was like, of course, yeah, let's just do it.
Is she going to go down the slide? Yeah, I hope so.
She started to disappear.
Where'd she go?
I don't know, but I want that cude with the food.
Cude with the food, dude.
In any case,
this is the person representing the movie, by the way,
so it's not Gillian. But the funny part was,
the publicist wanted to be on the zoom
while we were doing the show.
They thought they did.
Probably immediately regretted it.
I think a lot of times the publicist
will reach out knowing the show is popular
and not know what the show is.
So they don't know how stupid it is
or how sarcastic we are
when we're actually talking to a celebrity,
especially someone we know well.
So anyway, listen to that
interview again,
realizing that the publicist for the movie
is on the whole time.
And it'll be twice as funny to you.
In any case, so Gillian
talks about her movie
and then
we are going to hear
Paul of Tompkins
playing a character, Alamone Tony.
Paul of Tompkins, Paul of Tompkins.
Paul of Tompkins.
Paul of Tompkins, Paul of Tompkins.
Paul of Tompkins, Paul of Tompkins.
Paul of Tompkins.
Thank you, Koo, for the Foo.
Thank you, Koo, for Foo.
Do you want to tell us about
Alamone Tony before we hear this clip?
Alamone Tony, of course,
a character based on
the name of a person who submitted a catchphrase.
Yes, a person's name,
let me say those catchphrases
at the beginning of the episode.
A person, their screen name
was Alamone Tony and I read it
and you laughed so hard
that you decided to play him in the moment.
Yes, the idea that it was somebody's nickname
because they were known for paying Alamone Tony.
And they loved it.
They loved it.
And so I've done Alamone Tony a few times.
It's a fun, it's a really fun character.
And, you know,
when we were talking before the show
I, you know,
I ran up by Gilly and I said
I know that we have a history of
you want to marry characters that I do.
Gilly has been on the show.
She has a sort of Gold Digger character.
For several years she plays like a Gold Digger character.
It's ridiculous.
Yes, it's been really fun.
And it's a several year long saga that has gone on
where she's married several of your characters.
Yes.
And so you asked if she was tired of doing that
and no, she was not.
Because I didn't want to,
I didn't want to put her in that position
if she didn't want to do it.
She's like, no, let's do it.
And she's great at it, which is good.
It's always great to have her on the show.
Yes.
She's terrific.
I miss her.
I haven't seen her in such a long time.
I know.
I saw her, she came to a fern screening.
That was the last time I saw her, I believe.
Oh, nice.
And then Carl Tart comes in
as Colonel Sanders.
I forgot.
No, wait, I thought he was Orville Reddenbacher.
Sorry. Yes, he's Orville Reddenbacher.
What about Sanders?
Was he Colonel Sanders at a certain point?
Why did I think that? He might have been.
They're very similar. Southern gentlemen who
have businesses.
Why don't they have comedians playing Orville Reddenbacher?
He was a real person who died, too.
That's right.
Like, what the fuck? Just steal that idea.
He died. Died.
It'd be funny if someone re-made that song
all about the characters.
Advertising people.
And how they died.
Let's hear it. This is Popcorn World.
This is episode number eight.
Number eight.
He's been on the show many times. He's one of our favorites.
Please welcome back to the show Alimony Tony.
Scott, what a pleasure to see you again.
Thank you for having me. It's me, Alimony Tony.
It certainly is you, Alimony Tony.
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you very much. And yes, I was
overhearing your introduction because I had to know
when to appear.
So I can
confirm that I am independently wealthy.
Of course, my mother invented gaseous paper.
And I...
Oh, hello.
Hello. My name is Alimony Tony.
Yeah, sorry. Let me introduce you guys.
This is Gillian Jacobs. She's an actress
and a director and an artist.
And this is Alimony Tony,
who's a independently wealthy divorce person.
My goodness, my goodness.
Oh, wait.
I've heard that catchphrase before.
Oh, you're Gillian Jacobs, of course.
I...
You know, now that I think about it, Gillian,
the last few times that you've been on the show,
you haven't been on it a little bit, but
we performed your wedding.
It has been a while.
It has been a while. Tony, comma,
Alimony.
What a funny little joke.
What a coquettish little laugh that was.
But we...
Actually, romance
bloomed on some of your previous episodes.
I believe we performed your...
at least one wedding of yours.
No, I have not been married on the show.
Oh, are you not speaking to me?
No, I'm speaking...
I've been married on the show. I understand.
Yes. Yeah. Who were you married to?
You were married to...
It's really sad.
I was married to a wonderful man
named Gary Marshall.
Gary Marshall, creator of Happy Days.
Levine Shirley, director of Valentine's Day.
Yes, that's right.
He used to be a star of Lost in America.
A star of Lost in America?
Beloved American cultural icon,
Gary Marshall.
He did.
Yes, that's right. You got married to him on this show.
I did.
I really loved him a lot.
You know,
and a lot of
horrible things happened along the way.
I think I was sent to another dimension.
Maybe he was sent to another dimension.
Another dimension.
I think portals in space and time opened up.
People tried to come between us.
But we really...
we had a love that was more than a love.
I and my Gary Marshall.
That's a wonderful story.
Well, he is...
Scott, I want to say stuff.
I'm a real romantic as well and to hear that story.
Although I am divorced several times over.
I am a romantic at heart.
To hear such a romantic story.
That's right up my alley. Let me tell you.
May I ask, can I go back?
Tony,
if I may.
Please call me Alamone Tony.
Alamone Tony,
what was the type of paper your mother invented?
Gaseous paper.
What is gaseous?
Liquid paper, right?
Yes.
And gaseous paper is the same as liquid paper.
Only it's a gas.
Ooh, exciting.
So like you could write on a fart perhaps?
No, you have to write on gaseous paper.
Wait, I thought...
I thought liquid paper was applied to
regular paper in order to correct mistakes.
Gaseous paper.
You need to write on the gaseous paper.
You need to write on the gaseous paper.
How does it work actually?
You've never talked about it.
It's so dry and dull.
It works as a gaseous paper.
This is...
And what's its primary use?
I mean, has it been
successful this invention?
It's been very successful.
It enabled my family to become
trillionaires.
Trillionaires, you say?
Trillionaires with a T. That's right.
Wow, and current net worth
just for a ballpark estimate.
Oh, it's not.
I know that sounds like a staggering double,
too. And that's your personal or the company?
That's my personal.
That's your personal. That's the family's mother, yes.
And does the family still
own a majority of the company?
Oh, yes, we do. We own 100%.
Oh, you own 100%?
Publicly traded?
Yes. All the profits go to us.
We are very wealthy family.
And really, it's just down to...
I mean, I don't have any kids.
All of my relatives,
what few there were, have passed on.
No siblings.
I grew up in only child.
So did I.
So did I.
It's fun, isn't it?
It's one of many things I feel we have in common.
We do.
Well, that's one thing. I wasn't aware of the other things.
Yeah, what are the other things, Kelly?
We're on this call together.
That's true.
That's your thing so far.
All right, go on.
Alamone, Tony, why is your company publicly traded
100% of it?
Well, because I'm a member of the public and...
Okay.
I just wanted to
clarify that.
So Alamone, Tony, you are a member of the 4,
comma, club.
Yes, that's correct.
There's a precious few of us.
But again, it's not as much...
My total net worth is not as much as it sounds
you hear the word trillion or anything.
Oh my God, that's so much money.
It's impossible to imagine.
Maybe because there used to be more,
but you've given a lot of it away, isn't that right?
Well, I mean,
I'm always making money,
but I'm also always giving money away because,
as I've told you before, Scott,
I've been married and divorced many times
and the thing is,
I love paying Alamone.
I always married for love.
I always think it's going to last so far it hasn't.
But there's something about paying the Alamone
that I just adore.
It's my favorite thing to do.
Can I ask you your feelings on
pre- and post-nuptial
agreements?
I've never...
Never signed a post-nup.
Never signed a pre-nup, never signed a post-nup
unless my canon contradicts that.
But I do believe in
going in
with faith, hope, and love,
and then coming out of it
with just a stowed cold financial arrangement.
It's just a lot less money.
Well, I mean, a lot less money
for some people.
Obviously, for me, it's
a drop in the bucket, but
yes, it is.
The Alamone papers are substantial
and not just as a whole, but
individually.
Is there a way to stop those?
There is,
unfortunately...
I suppose if your ex-wife
got married again, married.
Which has happened on occasion,
I have said, look,
I'm so glad you're happy.
You moved on. You found someone else.
Please let me continue paying your Alamone.
Please.
And they've always been nice about it and said,
no, I'm sorry, I will not allow you.
They've all said yes.
There was only one
gal that
wouldn't have...
Are you crying?
That I never...
That I never got to pay Alamone too.
Sorry, I get emotional when I think about it.
I never got to pay Alamone to her because she died
before we could be divorced.
For me, that's the one they got away.
I'm so sorry.
But they don't call you widower, Tony.
No, I was just widower at the one time.
The rest of the time, divorced.
One time.
What's the fastest you've ever gotten married?
From date of meeting the person to
natural? Same day.
So that's a matter of hours.
Scott, what's your
net worth?
No.
I was going to say...
Not interested?
Easily Googleable.
Is there a T in there?
In net worth?
Yes. There's two.
No, no, no, no. I meant trillionaire.
I do apologize.
You're so clever, though. That's what I like so much about you.
How clever you are.
You're clever as well. That's another thing we haven't got.
You wish her the best, right, Alamone? Tony?
A widow for a few years.
I just believe you were married to Alan
thick as well. So a two-time
widow, I believe.
What it's like, yes.
So you wish her the best, right?
I wish her the best.
The best way to wish someone...
I was going to say...
Could you just send me a little check?
What do you mean?
Well,
I have a proposition for you.
All right.
I had a lot of propositions on this show.
I can't wait to vote on this prop.
This is
prop my heart.
Care to get married
or skip the marriage
and just you could start sending me
checks. Oh, that's very good.
Oh, I love how forward that is.
I wish...
I wish I were attracted to you, but I...
I just... Yes, I mean...
It's just one of those things, huh?
Gilead, here's the thing. There's something...
I've been checking a lot of boxes for me.
Let me tell you something. And usually by this time,
I'd be asking you to get married and we'd be talking
about what, if we ever got divorced,
how much money you would want in alimony.
And then I would write it up or on a piece of paper
and I would slide it over to you and I would say,
I'm going to make this alimony of alimony.
But, yes, I don't know.
I just... I'm getting more of a friend vibe.
I don't know what it is. What is it? Is it her personality?
Is it her looks? No, great personality.
I think she's a doll.
I don't know. It's just that indefinable thing.
It's not clicking for me in a way that...
Well, she is very friendly.
Look at it very often does.
She's very friendly and one can get a friend vibe
from that type of person.
Well, every woman I've married has been my best friend.
Well...
Well, here's... I'll counterpoint you.
You've... Every woman you've married,
you thought you were in love with and it's always
ended in divorce.
Now, I wasn't in love with them. It just didn't work out.
Yes. So, why don't you try marrying someone
you're not in love with and maybe it'll last longer?
This is an interesting
theory. You can also take a picture
it would last longer.
That's true.
I am having trouble
wrapping my mind around the idea of
if I was in love with someone and it didn't work out,
if I married someone
I wasn't in love with at all,
would it last longer?
Here's what I anticipate the issue would be.
Go ahead, Scott.
You would marry someone not for love
and then if it didn't work out,
you wouldn't be so inclined to pay
the alimony.
I would think it would...
There would be a bitter contentious divorce.
First time I'd have a bitter contentious
divorce which is an experience
I've never had but
does sound exciting.
It is on my bucket list to have a contentious
divorce.
I can provide you with that experience
100%
Well,
Alimony Tony, we want to get to
your answer but I'm wondering should we hold on
to it for a little while?
Let's because
I need some more time with him.
Maybe love will
blossom over the next
bit of the show.
Hold your tongue, sir.
It's curious because
it seemed like the idea we were heading towards
was being not being in love
and marrying to see if that changes everything.
But now you're saying, Scott,
perhaps let's hold on and see if I do.
Yeah, let's hold on to the end.
But we do have to get to our next guest.
I mentioned it before, he's an entrepreneur
and it's a rare tweet.
Rare tweet and a rare treat
when we have an entrepreneur on the show.
He is...
Well,
he has a company that bears his name on it.
Please welcome for the first time
in the show Orville Redenbacher.
Thank you for having me, Scott.
Always money around here.
I smell it.
Gilly and Jacobs.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Alchemist.
It's money around here.
I love that laugh.
Charming, Orville Redenbacher,
it's such a treat to have you on the show.
I mean, you are, of course,
the owner and proprietor
of Orville Redenbacher Popcorn.
Absolutely, Scott.
And I tell you, boys, there's this pandemic
we've been going through the roof.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Meaning sales?
Or you've been going through your own roof
trying to clear out your attic?
A lot of downtime during the pandemic.
Both things, Scott.
You see, my house is full of asbestos.
That's one thing.
So we have to clear out the attic.
But also,
popcorn sales are through the roof.
I'm swimming in it, boy.
Congratulations.
I mean, yeah, I guess there's nothing else to do
other than just, you know,
lie around watching Netflix.
Everybody's sitting at home, Scott.
Watching Netflix.
Watching Hulu.
Watching Vivo.
The music video.
Tubi. Watching Tubi.
Watching YouTube.
Checking out Quibbies.
Watching YouTube TV.
Everything, Scott.
You're really into streaming platforms, aren't you?
Watching home, watching Peacock.
Everybody at home.
Watching CBS All Access.
You know what they love when they watch
CBS All Access, Scott.
Oh, I know Star Trek. Disco? Very.
Star Trek and Popcorn.
Yes.
Yeah.
Orville.
Or should I call you Mr. Redenbacher?
You call me OVIL, Scott.
OVIL. Mr. Redenbacher.
Your pictures on
all of the jars of your popcorn
and the bags of your popcorn, you are...
I mean, I'm not
telling a secret when I say you're an elderly
octogenarian
from the south. Is that right?
Don't tell them that. They may not know.
Don't tell them that.
But you are. How old are you?
Right now. I'm a 113
years old, Scott.
How old did you used to be?
How old I used to be? I used to be 112.
111.
100.
1007.
Never skipped a year, Scott.
I hit every year.
Congratulations.
I hit every year in the book, Scott.
Yeah.
A lot of people wish that we could have skipped this year,
but I mean, this year has been
while the rich get richer during the pandemic.
I mean, you are
a wealthy popcorn
magnet. Absolutely.
I'm a wealthy popcorn magnate
and we're making money during the pandemic,
Scott, because everybody's sitting at home
watching cable,
spectrum.
They all at home watching
cocks. They all at home
watching direct TV.
They all at home watching Verizon
fiber optics.
AT&T fiber optics.
Oh, Scott, and they all
eating popcorn.
You know, I was just thinking, Orville Redenbacher,
you are an elderly rich man
who's going to be married soon.
I just wanted to point that out.
It was an interesting fact
that just popped in my head.
Somebody's mortality.
Sorry, I just wanted to bring it up.
What would Orville's wife think
if she married Orville?
My wife died 71 years ago.
71.
My word.
Never remarried. And why is that?
May I ask your opinion
as a
wealthy businessman?
How would you go about
seducing a wealthy businessman?
Yeah, if one were to seduce you, Orville,
I know you haven't been married in 70
some odd years.
And maybe that's for a reason. Maybe no one
has seduced you properly. What would you want
to have happen from
a partner?
That's a great question.
What would you want to have happen from a partner?
That's a great question.
Alright, let me think about it.
Okay, wrinkle to this voice.
That seems like a loophole.
That's a great question.
That's a great question.
I feel like I want a woman
to come up to me and say,
ain't you that popcorn man from the popcorn
bottles? And I said,
good.
And she just
grabbed my nuts.
She was like,
look at me around.
She started swinging you around.
Yeah, I'm not the biggest man.
Very slender.
I'm not getting a sense of how tall
you are, though, on this zoom.
What are you,
three feet tall or something?
I'm three foot six.
Three six.
If you're an inch.
You don't get a sense of that on your bottles.
It's just a headshot.
The bottles were life-size.
I don't want nobody to see
my body.
You're ashamed of it.
But you want someone who's into
your height, who's going to pick you up
by the testicles and swing you around.
That's right, Scott.
And is that what your dear departed wife
did when she met you?
Every morning.
Every morning before she had a coffee
and a popcorn cereal.
She had popcorn cereal.
Popcorn is very cereal
like, if you think about it.
I can understand how it would look
normal if you poured milk on it.
I can imagine that there hasn't
been another woman to do that because
it's an odd thing to do
upon your first meeting of someone,
but were that to occur?
What would you do? Would you just
marry that person?
A curse spelled O-C-K-E-R.
That's right, thank you.
If that was to happen again, if somebody
said, ain't you the popcorn man?
That's an important part of it, by the way.
Saying, ain't you the popcorn man?
You got to say that.
Ain't you the man for the popcorn bottle?
Ain't you the man for the popcorn bottle?
And then she grabs my nuts and swangs me around.
She can have my whole fortune.
Wow.
All five commas.
Five commas, wow.
Now, how will that happen
in this time of
distancing? How are you supposed to meet
this week of route? Got to go to Florida.
Somewhere where they're not taking it serious.
Right.
Make sense.
And if a woman were not to do that,
no sale?
No sale, no dice, no card.
Hmm.
Well, an interesting conundrum
here for our main guest,
Gillian Jacobs of
Compray. What are the rankings?
What are the guest rankings?
Gillian's the main guest.
Yes.
And when, when, why fall? By the vice-guest?
You're vice-president, yes, of course.
And we have treasurer guest over here,
is Orville Redenbacher.
Oh, that's me. I thought I was
guestatarian of education.
Gillian likes it.
You know, can I talk to Gillian for a second
without you guys listening?
When you come back, I do want to,
I think it's important that we designate
a designated survivor
in case something happens to one of us.
What, what? You got two guys
on the hook here. I know.
How am I supposed to grab
his body part and swing him around?
We're on Zoom.
I mean...
He said that's the only way to his heart.
I don't know what I can do here.
Yeah, you're a little... I'm sorry, I know
I'm not supposed to... What are you doing here?
I'm more mad at you now. Listen, I want,
I want to help, I want to help.
Do you remember the early days of Facebook
could poke people?
Maybe there's a virtual,
there's a virtual
grab-and-swing you can do.
If you, if just look at the Zoom...
Maybe in the chat or something like that.
Maybe you could describe
you doing it and that's...
I'm gonna go back over there with Orville.
Thank you, Alamone. She's still mad at you, by the way.
I know! I know!
I'm sorry to butt in over here.
Orville, you're listening too?
But I just want to know if,
would any of y'all like a cup of cun of the popcorn?
Please! Can you leave them in the chat for us?
Absolutely.
And that's just exactly like the real thing, right?
If someone were to do something
in a chat, it's exactly like doing it in real life.
You can print it out, ball it up, and eat it.
Oh!
Don't forget salt.
Scott, Scott, all I see is
invite, mute me, and raise hand.
Maybe I should just hit all three at once?
All three at once might do it, yeah.
Okay. You want to do it? Okay, here we go.
Ready? Yes.
Here we go.
Oh, my nuts!
Look!
You forgot the first half, Gillie.
Make sure you say it.
Use the man from the Bob Gordon!
Okay, hit the space bar.
That's the end of that lamp.
Number eight!
Oh, good stuff.
Good stuff.
Paul, funny stuff. Alamone Tony.
He's a nice guy, right?
He's one of your nice characters.
He's one of my nice characters!
Not one of your mean, cantankerous
characters who are contemptuous of me.
I have aren't you contemptuous
of all people?
Wait a minute. Don't throw this back at my face.
Now, Scott, to be fair, aren't you contemptuous
of all human beings on planet Earth?
I guess you're right.
All right, we're going to take a break.
When we come back, we're going to have episode seven.
We're getting so low!
How's our story?
There you go.
All right, we'll be right back.
Comedy Bang Bang, we're back here.
This is best of 2020 part three.
I'll say it is.
And we only have seven more episodes to go on this
and Thursday's episode.
But I'm having so much fun that I don't want it to end!
Let's just listen to every episode again.
This is what happens.
In full.
Scott and I, we get together.
We do this.
We have a great time.
Now we're outside. We're on the patio.
Look, it doesn't get better than this.
This is how we should always have been doing it.
How we always will do it from now on.
Maybe.
Who knows, right?
It kind of makes me wonder if I...
Sometimes I wonder.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
a long way from...
Sometimes I wonder...
It's a rap song.
It's my do-do-do in the DDDs.
Check out DDDs.
Oh, nuts.
Nuts.
Speaking of nuts, where does this grow?
Would have been a great time for him to show up.
Dose nuts.
What about D's?
Dose.
Should there be a donut chain
that's like D's nuts?
Doughnuts? I don't know.
I think it should be called Doughnuts.
There is a what's up hot dog
Emporium in Canada.
Based on me saying the catchphrase.
That's even weirder.
There is water burger.
I've never been in there.
I believe it's Vancouver, anytime we're there.
What?
In and out so quickly.
Before the quarantine.
Before the quarr.
I got COVID.
That's right.
That's right.
I remember I was sitting there
and you know my story with Scott.
It's two rooms.
He comes up with the music.
I come up with the diseases.
Disease nuts.
Disease nuts.
Shouldn't there be a chain of hospitals called disease nuts?
Hey, I heard you got that disease.
Disease nuts.
Okay.
Okay.
That should be the response to the regular t-shirts.
Yeah, to all of them.
Hey, you won.
Okay.
Your last words.
Okay.
Where's my trophy?
Here's your sign.
This coming up episode is going to win the trophy for
the seventh most popular or best.
Who knows which it is.
Episode of the year.
This is episode number seven.
Number seven.
All righty.
Slevin.
That's when we do the recording.
Seven has to be Slevin.
Okay, we'll do Slevin.
And we'll do Slevin.
Slevin and Slurp Team.
Slurp Team. Okay, good.
This is getting very complicated already.
I didn't even remember we were doing it.
Luckily we recorded it.
So we'll always have this for reference.
We always listen to these back and remember everything we're talking about.
Well, it's other people.
The one time we ever did was Don't Joke About iRobot.
Yeah, why did we listen back to it?
We didn't listen back to it.
We just somehow remembered it.
We made a dear promise to each other.
Well, we haven't made a dear promise about recording this song.
No, we haven't.
That's just a regular one.
That's why it hasn't gotten done.
We have to make those dear promises.
All right, this is number seven.
This is episode number 653.
Still on 600.
May 4th.
May it be with you.
That's right, Star Wars Day.
Now, does this give you any clue as to what episode this could be?
Because it's the beginning of May.
Yes, this is The Empire Strikes Back.
No.
The beginning of May is when I started doing the show, my dear boy.
So it's an anniversary-o show.
That's right.
It is the 11th anniversary show.
Oh, happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary to you.
Let me tell you about
who is in this show.
A man named Jed.
A man named Jed.
A boy named Sue.
This is Jason Manzukas.
We have John Gabriel.
Sorry, the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Go ahead.
Lily Sullivan.
Lily Sullivan is so funny.
We can finally talk about it.
I want to shout her out.
Carl Tartt.
Ego Wodum.
A man named Paul F. Tompkins.
That's me, baby.
All these people and more.
Let's talk about the anniversary
shows in the past
and the one that we did this year.
Normally, for the anniversary show and the Christmas show,
it's just a big
...
I invite a bunch of people
and it's a big cluster fire.
It's a cluster frick.
It's a cluster situation normal.
All fouled up.
Cluster.
Cluster snafu.
Yeah, I got it.
This was in May.
As previously established,
I started quarantining
May 17th.
March 17th.
Sorry, March 17th.
I was a little late to the party.
I waited to see how it was going.
Do I want to do this?
I was going into empty stores.
If you all remember
in those early ...
I mean, back in January and February,
there were a lot of conflicting reports about how serious it was.
Now, Jason Manzookas, to his credit,
was saying it was deadly serious
the entire time.
Because he's a man who could be killed by eggs?
Yes.
Anyone could be killed by an egg if you throw it hard enough.
He's afraid of an egg.
200 miles an hour.
He's a coward.
To his credit, he was out there saying,
like, oh, no, no, no.
We're going to not leave our houses
for a year, at least.
I was like, yeah, sure.
This is back in February, right?
I'll also say that
I was talking to Zach Galifianakis
back in February about how ...
This is when you were on your Greek streak.
You were only talking to Greek people.
It was Greek week.
I was talking to him about
the trip that Kulap and I were supposed
to take in May to Italy.
And this was
when everything was going down in Italy.
And I was like, hey, yeah, we're supposed
to be there in May.
I think it might be OK.
And Zach was like, you ain't going to Italy.
And so
all these people were right.
We didn't really know what was going on.
It's like they were oracles, in a sense.
In a sense.
So when the quarantine
happened, I had about
I think a month
or six weeks of episodes
in the can.
And so I was kind of at the beginning
of it, I was thinking like instead of rushing
and trying to record a bunch of episodes, which I should have done
back in January and February,
I had about four weeks. I was like
four or five or six weeks lead time.
I thought that'll probably get me
through until we can go back into the studio.
And I was very wrong about that.
So
pretty early
into I think April, we had to
do our first
Zoom show, first show over Zoom.
And it's been a process.
It has certainly been a challenge.
I said we would talk about it later.
So here we are talking about it.
Fair.
Now, the shows that are easier
to do on Zoom are the shows like
The Talking Head show that I do with Adam Scott
or the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtle show
with Sean Distan
where it's just like two of us, maybe three people
talking over a Zoom
because the challenges are
everyone has different internet speeds.
Everyone has different
mic qualities.
And these were all like
felt insurmountable at the beginning
of quarantine.
And we I would get episodes
back. First of all, just
doing performing on the episodes.
You'd have you'd be making
a joke and because of the
nature of Zoom where it
only the loudest person is
highlighted and everyone else drops out
like you can't hear what other people are saying
and
people would react at different times
to something that was being said. It was all
just so straight. And then
every time I would get an episode back
it would sometimes be not synced
up. So everything would be
two seconds off, you know.
And so these were all challenges that we were
trying to work through and
the team of engineers
and Kevin, our
producer, were
really working overtime. And Kevin.
And the rest.
We're all really, we were all
like an episode where I used to go in
and record it for an hour and a half, two
hours and then leave and not think about it again.
We were having to take
all week to
put together and perfect and try to make
it good. Right.
And so I really want to
highlight and thank all of the producers
there at Earwolf who
not only
sent me a bunch of equipment
so I could do this at home over Zoom with
people and keep the show going, but
also we worked out a process
that works now
I feel like. And I feel like the episodes
we're up to speed now. I felt like
at the time these episodes were
very awkward and
I remember telling you and Lauren
at one point that I was
in my office screaming
when I got
when I got an episode back
like right before it was supposed to go up and
everything was three seconds off.
Wow. I don't remember that.
I remember just I texted you guys like I am
so frustrated right now with the show.
Now I remember this.
But we worked it all out. Everything
is in a good place now. But this
was the first
one of, you know, the quarantine happened
six weeks before the anniversary
show and I was praying we could get back into the studio
for the anniversary show and do
a real typical like everyone's
invited
type show. And
so we weren't able to do
that.
We had less participants than we normally did.
It's just Jason yourself, John Gabriel
Lily Sullivan, Carl Tart and
Ego Wodum. But this still was so funny
that it ended up as
the top seven episode.
Yeah, even though it didn't have a ton of people
it still ended up being funny.
Message received.
No, I guess I mean even with
the B team it managed to be okay.
We were working
we were working out the logistics of it
and it was it was I just remember
it being a very frustrating period
for the show and me going I don't know
do we even try to do an anniversary
show this year and I said okay let's do it
but with less people and
it turned out really great. So thank you
for being a part of it and thanks to the engineer
team.
And Kevin.
And July, I'll throw July in there.
Hey, thanks bro.
So let's talk about the episode.
So Jason Manzugus is at the top
then we talk
to you as
Brock Love It
Oh, right.
Who is the
Treasure Hunter. Treasure Hunter Brock Love It
to the stars I believe I mentioned.
So
we'll talk
to you in that
clip and then
Intergeno comes in and then the second
clip is all of us talking
to Lily
who plays Francesca
Bolognaise
who asked
to be introduced as a social media expert
and this is really funny
and go ahead now say whatever you want about Lily
because this is the time to talk about Lily. Lily is so funny
I just want to shout her out.
I want to welcome her to the countdown.
She really makes me laugh
and I've really enjoyed hearing her more
and more on Comedy Bang Bang.
Did you call her a moron?
Yeah, I love
hearing this moron on Comedy Bang Bang.
She doesn't know how funny she is.
She's an idiot. She's a fucking moron.
This is broad.
She can't tie her shoes
but she makes me laugh.
She's great.
Personally, I first got to know her
because this is not a secret
but at the time
she was dating Tim Baltz
As of this recording
they are still a couple.
They're no longer dating.
They are still a couple though
because now they are in games.
So I got to know her personally
but had never seen her
work and then had her on the show
and she's just been one of the great
success stories
for the last couple years
on Comedy Bang Bang.
So funny on every episode.
Do you think we'll be invited to that Zoom wedding?
Do you think they'll do a Zoom?
Or do you think they'll wait?
I don't know.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
I don't want to wait.
We've been key figures in their lives.
I think so.
I mean, we're almost responsible for them
being together.
I would say that the money that we paid them
or we paid Tim to be
on a bajillion dollar properties
made him not seem like a broke ass loser.
And the money you paid
Lily to stay off of
a bajillion dollar property. Yes.
Yeah, that was even more.
She was always trying to get in there on camera.
Oh, she's wily.
Let's hear these clips.
This is your episode number seven.
Number seven.
He's been on the show many times.
He's a hunter, and in fact, he is a
treasure hunter. Please welcome back
to the show, Brock Love It. Hello, Brock.
Scott, can you hear me? Do you read me?
I do read you.
I do hear you as well. I just want to make sure we have
a good connection so you can hear me okay.
We have a great connection. Jason,
you can hear Brock. I can.
Brock, it's an absolute pleasure to meet you.
I'm kind of embarrassed to say
I'll swing the camera around
so you can see.
I'm on David Geffen's yacht.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that is beautiful.
Look at that sunset.
It's a great yacht.
And, you know,
I feel bad because I know
that, you know, people got mad
at him because he was,
you know, instigated.
You know, you know,
because he was, you know,
Instagramming about being on his yacht
and it just seemed kind of gross.
But, you know, me, I love the ocean.
That's where all the treasure is.
I love wet treasures.
The wetter the better.
Is that
still your tattoo, Scott?
The one you say you'll always get?
Inspired by Brock, of course. No one seems to get it.
Hey, Jason, how are you?
Pretty good, bro. Pretty good.
I like your red shirt.
I appreciate it. Pretty cool.
You want to stick with that? Brock, I have to ask,
did you get on to David Geffen's yacht
after he Instagrammed it
because you were tempted,
or have you been on there since the beginning?
Okay, this is where it gets tricky.
Hmm.
Someone call Run DMC.
Yes.
Why?
Well, they'd be very interested
as tricky things are there available.
I've got Daryl's number.
Let me call him. Okay.
Jam Master J, unfortunately, no longer with us.
He's already passed away.
But Run and DMC, Rev Run, of course.
Rev and Run, yeah.
Daryl McDaniels.
That's right. That's all of them. We did it.
It's McDaniels, not McDonald's.
Okay.
Do you say that anytime you encounter?
Well, the rhymes are Daryls,
but the burgers are Ronalds.
What?
I'm sorry, Brock. Are you in
a Run DMC cover group?
Like, what's happening?
We're sponsored by Run DMC.
I'm sorry, but Brock, I know you've...
You're sponsored by Run DMC.
This episode is this comedy-bang-bang episode.
In fact, just by Run DMC.
That's interesting.
Be it tougher than leather, raising hell,
whatever you're into,
Run DMC can cover it.
Sponsored by Nostalgia.
But Brock,
I know that you've been under the ocean
for too many years, really,
to have too much of a familiarity
with Run DMC.
So those were lyrics I was quoting.
No, I've heard of Run DMC.
I just don't know that McDonald's
thing confused me, I guess.
I'm not as familiar with their lyrics,
but I know who they are.
I didn't live under the ocean.
Brock, can I ask you a question?
Of course you can.
Is now...
And perhaps this is even why
you're on David Geffen's yacht.
Now that everything is kind of quiet
and everything is shut down,
is now a particularly good time
to hunt for treasure, because there
aren't other competitors?
Well...
That's kind of what I thought.
And I'll come clean.
I stowed away on David's yacht.
He did it by me.
I thought this guy,
if I know anything about rich people
of big boats, they're cowards.
And they like...
They have these things...
They have these big extravagances
where they can weight out natural disasters.
And so that's what I'm going to do.
Stow away on his yacht.
I'm pretty proud of myself. I called it.
But...
I really thought, okay, here's what I'll do.
I'll hide during the day
and then I'll hunt for treasure at night.
It seems like night...
Isn't it darker
under the sea at night?
Or is it... I really don't know.
Is it exactly as dark?
I would assume that if it's dark
above water, it's daytime
under water.
Is that true?
Listen, under the sea, it's very dark there.
There's rotten bark there under the sea.
Now, I don't know what that is.
I'm too busy
listening to Run DMC.
I'm just explaining
under the sea to you.
Yes, it is darker,
but I have state-of-the-art equipment.
I have a suit
that I can put on
where I can essentially
just dive solo by myself
down under the depths
and search for treasure.
Obviously, I can't go down to the sea floor,
but
I knew this guy wasn't going to go that far out.
You're not going out
into the deep, deep ocean
where it's like the pressure
has come too powerful.
You're in more
where I'm sure David Geffen
would prefer to go beautiful
locales and so forth.
Yeah.
Everything's blue there, nothing to do there
under the sea.
What happened was
the suit has
lights on it to enable me to find
treasure. Of course, it makes everything
very scary because all of a sudden
a fish will swim in front of your light
and you get freaked out.
This is like a suit
sort of like the electric horseman.
It has lights all over it.
That is exactly my inspiration for this suit.
It essentially,
I look like a Christmas tree
because the lights are colored
and they blink on and off.
It's also that helps me
I thought it would help ward
away predators,
because you got to figure
any, like a barracuda,
a shark, whatever, I'll see that and say
this is out of my frame
of reference, no thanks.
This is out of my jurisdiction.
It's not my bailiwick,
but there's a lot of
smaller fish.
They love flashing lights because they think
that's got to be something smaller than me
that I can eat.
This has been a problem.
I'm covered with tiny fish.
Sometimes it makes it harder to see the treasure.
Like a what?
Some sort of fish rave
where you attract the lights
and they just think it's a party.
And I'm feeding them ecstasy.
Oh wow.
I'm feeding these little fish.
So you're just underwater at night
just rolling hard with fish.
No, I'm not.
Look, I don't partake,
but I figure I'll give these fish
an experience I've never had before.
Are you selling them ecstasy?
Are you an underwater dealer?
Well what?
This is ridiculous.
What money would they have to give me?
Clams.
Oh yeah.
The currency of the sea.
You're not going to go with sand dollars?
No, I'm not.
They're so fragile.
You're talking to the guy who wrote Shark Tail.
You're going to go back to Flintstones
with clams.
Brock, are you following
a treasure map?
Or are you just freestyling?
Are you the kind of guy that's...
A lot like Run DMC did.
It's a little of both
because a lot of times
I'll have a map and then sometimes
that'll turn out to be someone
swindled me.
Here's one word of advice for future
treasure hunters.
If somebody wrote it on a napkin,
don't buy it.
It's probably a fake.
There are treasure hunter rules like that.
Here's what you want to look for.
You want to look for old cracked parchment.
You want to look for
words spelled with unnecessary
ease.
Anytime there's a dragon,
absolutely.
That's probably the genuine article.
I would think that right now
there aren't a lot of treasure hunters out there,
but at the same time there aren't a lot of people
leaving treasures.
If you're a treasure hunter, I would think there'd be
a take a treasure, leave a treasure
policy in place.
How much active treasure leaving
do you think is happening in present time?
Is it at the point of treasure hunting
you're looking for
ships that
crashed 200 years ago or sank
200 years ago or whatever?
That's a good point, Jason. Let me explain
what treasure is because I don't think we've ever defined it
on the show.
First of all, if you leave it on purpose,
you're going to find a treasure.
Do you know what I mean?
I'm sorry.
In the
book that has
treasure in its very title,
Treasure Island,
are they not trying to find the treasure
that a pirate left there in order to
safely keep it?
It was like underground was the banks
during treasure time.
They leave it there for people to find.
That's the distinction I'm
making. You're saying
take a treasure, leave a treasure.
I'm taking issue with you and your words.
So you're using my words
against me? That's exactly what I'm doing.
You didn't even see that coming. If you go into
the 7-Eleven, and they have a take
a penny, leave a penny, and you see
the penny in there, you don't say, I found
a penny.
What a treasure. I certainly do.
By the way, I take that penny and then I put it
right back so I can leave it. So you think
it's take this penny and leave the same
penny.
So,
treasure by its nature
is something you are taking
from someone else
who is either dead
or not around.
That's what makes it treasure.
What is this distinction you make, Brock?
When does
treasure become
someone else's property?
Like if Scott and Coolop
were to leave the house
and not be around.
Is their house full of treasure?
Is their house flooded?
This is an important detail.
And then we get back to
it has to be wet in order to be considered treasure.
If it's underwater, it's treasure.
Brock, you know what? I have
huge update for you. Global warming
wise, because
the coasts are going to flood, because
water levels are going to rise so high.
Let me stop you right there. This isn't
news to me.
There's going to be so much underwater treasure.
I've heard of. Yeah, I've heard.
You don't think I think about this all the time?
Like all of coastal United States
is going to be just underwater.
Houses full of treasure and
the corpses of the people that weren't
able to get out in time.
This is all I'm thinking about all
the time. That's another reason
why I stowed away in David Geffen's yacht
because I was thinking about it too much.
And I said, I got to get back to my roots
and underwater. Fine and treasure left by
people who wore plumed hats
hundreds of years ago.
So I have to ask, if someone's
house just floods like
the pipes in their basement
break and suddenly
their house floods and they have to
leave it and go stay in a hotel, you think that's fair game.
We've been over this.
If the treasure is just
if you just spill some water
in your bathroom and you get a pearl
a set of pearl earrings
wet, that's not
treasure. But
if there's six inches of water
in your house
and you have a valuable
watch that's in that
six inches of water, it might
be treasure. That's treasure.
It might be treasure.
If you have six inches of water in your
treasure, if you
turn on a fire hydrant
and the water shoots down
your chimney into your living
room and
continues
to fill your home with water
enough to cover a
valuable tea coffee table
that just might be treasure.
You might have some treasure.
This is house.
I thought, okay, I thought
I'd get back to my roots, look for treasure
in the ocean. They are
moored off this weird little island, right?
It's a strange
island. There's maybe
one human person that lives
there and then the rest is these
strange woodland creatures
are all wearing clothes. There's
like some raccoons, there's
a hippopotamus,
there's a...
They're all wearing clothes. They're all wearing little
and here's the thing, they're all the same size
as each other. So like the hippopotamus
is the size of a raccoon, but
the raccoon is the size of a person.
Okay, are they
walking on two legs? Everybody's
walking on two legs.
Do they have structures
that they're able to
live in? Domiciles?
Structures, domiciles, you mean like
houses? Yeah, I mean like houses.
Yeah, they have houses. Why are we putting
on fancy? I don't know.
Are we putting on airs here? I feel like
you're trying to trick me.
Hey, listen, they might live in apartment buildings.
I don't know.
I couldn't figure it out because when I tried to talk
to anybody, you know, I'd sneak out there
and I'd try to talk to anybody.
I couldn't understand
their language. They had their own language.
What did it sound like?
It sounded like...
Here's the thing. So I went looking for treasure, right?
Because I gathered
from the way these
creatures were talking that there must be
treasure to be had. They seem very
excited about certain things. One time I saw
the human dig up a bag of
money and I thought, okay, there's treasure here.
This was weird. I'd never seen this before
and it goes against my principles as an underwater
treasure hunter.
I'd see like a gift
tied to a balloon floating in the sky.
I'd shoot that down with my trusty
slingshot
and then when I'd open it up, it would be
like a household item.
Wait, so I'm trying to figure out exactly what you're talking
about because at first I thought it was an island of Dr.
Moro thing and now then I thought it was
an animal crossing thing. What's animal crossing?
Animal crossing is
it's a video game that I believe
David Geffen might have
actually.
Why do you believe that?
Because he's rich and I think
don't rich people...
They just buy one of everything.
Do you think animal crossing is
just for the rich?
If I were rich, I would buy one of everything
that was on earth. No matter what
no matter what it was.
You just have a guy
who just buys you one of everything.
So then even within a game
system, he buys one of every game.
Were you playing
a video game while you were on this boat at all?
Scott, I've never played a video game
in my life. What?
The first video game
I ever saw was Tank
Battle on the original Atari
and I thought this is an instrument
of war and that goes against
my principles. I mean
that's what the movie War Games was basically based on.
That's why I wouldn't see it.
All I care about is being
kind to my fellow human beings
and treasure. I never finished
that movie because when it said
do you want to play a game
I said no thank you and I turned it off.
You just turned off the movie.
I turned off the movie. I was like
I'm here to watch a movie
I'm not here to play a game.
Do you think every character in every movie is talking
to you and asking you questions?
No, they're interacting
with all of the characters inclusive
of myself.
So when Humphrey Bogart says
we'll always have Paris in Casablanca
he's including you and Ingrid Bergman.
But when he says play it again Sam
I know he's talking to Sam.
Because he only says Sam.
Anytime there's a first person
addressed in a movie
and the name is not specified
it could include you.
And I'm using
the information at hand to decide whether or not
I should respond and I frequently do.
What about when that guy in
Annie Hall keeps calling
Woody Allen Max.
Were you confused by that? Did you think he was talking
to you as well?
When he keeps going no
because my name isn't Max.
But Woody Allen's name isn't Max either.
Yeah, nobody's name is Max in the movie.
In the movie?
Yes in the movie. What do you think we're talking about?
The video game?
The video game?
The video game of Annie Hall is so
you spend 40 minutes
just playing squash
just playing squash
with Tony Roberts.
That's like
you play
so much squash and tennis
in the Annie Hall video game.
I couldn't get past the lobster level.
Right.
She is a social
media expert.
That's very exciting.
A lot of social media happening right now.
A lot of somber videos happening on Instagram
with people singing
shakily.
Perhaps she can talk to us about that.
Please welcome to the show
Francesca Bolognese.
Hi Scott, thank you so much
for having me here.
It's our pleasure. It's great to meet you Francesca.
I'll be it not in person.
My name is
Francesca Bolognese.
I'm not a social
media expert
but I get hired
by big companies
to respond to comments
on social media.
You're not
an expert in social media?
I mean, I guess I am
but I'm not going to talk about that.
Wait, you are an expert
in social media?
I am, yes.
Before we get to the other thing
I want to hear tips about
social media.
Well, I don't care
if you're not here for it.
I'm sorry to interrupt
only because this is the first time we're meeting
and I'm not
on any social media.
I don't have Facebook or Instagram
so I'm wondering
for me, someone who's not on social media
do you have any tips
about social media?
Good question.
I know
because that's not why I'm here.
I know you're not here for it
but we want to hear it. Just give us
and we'll get to your thing. Don't you worry about that.
What's TikTok?
I don't know.
I've never done TikTok.
Any TikTok tips?
Two minutes later.
TikTok tips.
My tip for TikTok
is don't go on TikTok.
It's a stupid shit.
Are you saying
DickDoc?
Because that is something very different that I do know about.
DickDoc I like.
You put up your dick and then
you take a doc.
I think you're talking about two different things.
You do tunnels and stuff.
Are you talking about the video game
DickDoc?
Is that what we're talking about?
You are a gamer.
No, I'm not.
Okay, but this is not why I'm here.
Well, Francesca, it's great.
It's great to talk to you.
Great to talk to you, Francesca.
Thanks so much for coming on the show.
I'm not going away.
Because I want to join
social media.
Now that I'm quarantined and I have nothing to do,
part of me is like, oh, maybe I'll join
Instagram and Twitter. Maybe now is my time.
I just don't know any tips
for how to do it.
What about passwords? What are your tips on passwords?
So, okay, no.
No.
Or profile pics.
That's not what...
My tip for password, you take one
ex-boyfriend's name
you cut in half.
Then you put another
ex-boyfriend's name you cut in half.
And then you put
your favorite number,
exclamation point.
69.
This is great because then you can think about
something over again.
Something tells me that is
very truthful in terms of
creating a password.
And I would be very interested
to try to crack into your
computer now.
Using what I know about you, which is nothing.
Even though we've just met.
But this is not why I'm here.
Okay, so
what I do is
a company like
Bed Bath & Beyond.
Sure, Triple B.
They hire me.
Is somebody comment on a Bed Bath & Beyond
Facebook?
Do you think the beyond in Bed Bath & Beyond
is the great beyond?
I mean, if Eddie Muddy ever shopped there.
That's what I'm asking.
So, then what happened is...
Then what happened is...
I...
Let's say Diana.
Princess Diana?
No.
She's dead.
Princess Diana, I believe.
I think she never had the opportunity
to have a Facebook page.
That's not what we're talking about.
So then...
She was a fucking smoke show though, right?
I guess.
Absolute smoke.
Barstool would have went ape shit for
Princess Di.
I responded.
Let's say Diana comments something like
I got my computer
at Bed Bath & Beyond.
I find
a bunch of hair
in my computer.
I want to send it back.
Then I go on there.
I comment.
Okay, Diana.
You want to return a computer?
Because of the hair?
Because of you?
You need to...
You need to go take your Prius
and go drive off a bridge, okay?
Wow.
That is what
my job is.
What I'm here to talk about.
Who's paying you Bed Bath & Beyond?
How can I ever hear you
troll people who are commenting
negatively about them online?
Exactly. But I respond
under Bed Bath & Beyond account.
I just had a quick
specific question
about that.
Is Bed Bath & Beyond selling
comforters that are full of hair?
I'm just saying that
as an example, okay?
It sounds like a very specific example
that you may have experienced a lot.
I'll give you another example.
Because I'm just doing a quick search
right now and I am seeing that
Bed Bath & Beyond was found to have
quite a lot of just
animal hair inside of their
comforters.
Okay, well I'll give you another example.
Let's say some company like
I don't know, Bed Bath & Beyond
hire me
and somebody comment
on the account
on the Twitter and they say
I just got the new
bunch of pillows
from Bed Bath & Beyond.
I opened up a pillow
and inside
I
comment
I comment
okay Brad
so
sorry about the hairs
maybe you should
maybe you should take
your skateboard
and go drive into traffic
and this makes you a social media expert?
No, that's just something
that she is on the side.
I'm a social media expert
that's not why I'm here.
You claim to be one?
I know
that's the issue with you and your team
because I did not say that.
Yes, I introduced you as such
but after I introduced you
you claim to be one as well.
No, I said I guess I am one
but that's not exactly what
it's not where I am.
Well I think I see the problem here.
It sounds like you're a social media expert
and you want to be humble
about it and you are
but you don't want to be out here just shouting it.
I mean what I do
is so much more important
than just being an expert
on social media.
I go in there
let's say it's Bed Bath & Beyond
okay?
Let's just say that.
Only because we're talking about Bed Bath & Beyond again.
How many of these products
that you're referring to
like 95?
98% of them?
Oh, percent?
I say...
Oh Scott, you thought you might have meant
95 out of 100.
So like if David Geffen buys one of everything
at Bed Bath & Beyond
95 is a small miniscule amount.
Let's say we're on
LinkedIn.
Okay, LinkedIn.
Okay.
And somebody commented
on the Bed Bath & Beyond page.
On LinkedIn.
Okay, on LinkedIn.
Because is LinkedIn trying to...
I don't know how LinkedIn works.
Isn't that like a job posting?
Wait, I gotta see where she's going with this.
Okay, go ahead.
Let's say that this
is a Bed Bath & Beyond
page on LinkedIn
and
you go on the page
and you...
Everybody comment on the page.
Oh, I was
at Bed Bath & Beyond.
My name is
Jessica
and I bought
the blender
and I opened up the blender
and inside I found a bunch of
hairs.
And so what do you say in a situation like that
if someone says that?
How do you even react to that?
Okay, Jessica.
I'm so sorry
that you got the blender
and you found all the hairs.
I'm so sorry for you.
What hard day
you must have to find all the hairs?
Why don't you
take your
scooter
and go drive it
into the ocean
where you go
and get killed by a shark.
Oh, wow.
So it's not just the driving into the ocean
and drowning. There are sharks.
Francesca, do you have to research
what vehicle all of these people own
before the specific
message that you leave to them?
It's not very hard, it's in their profile picture.
Oh, it's always in a profile picture?
Every time. Wow.
A lot of people
that go to Bed Bath & Beyond, let's say for example,
they always have
them driving in
their car.
I would imagine, yeah, Brock,
your profile picture has a big boat on it.
Of course it does.
But I'm in the water in front of the boat.
Oh, I couldn't tell.
I'm holding up some doubloons
and giving a thumbs up.
Now,
Francesca, you saying that you know this
about profile pictures demonstrates
a decent amount
of social media knowledge.
That's not why I'm here today.
That's not what this is.
It's not some kind of seminar
for you guys to take all this information.
Okay, that's not why I'm here.
Right. I am here.
Why are you here?
It doesn't seem like you have a purpose yet.
You're just telling us what you do.
Okay, why I'm here
is that if you want to go
to some place that like, let's say
for example,
Bed Bath & Beyond.
Let's say that if you want to go to there,
okay, fine.
Go. I'm not stopping you.
But why
why you got to go
online afterward
and say, oh,
I opened up
my box of
frames
and inside the frames
in between the glass
was all these pairs.
All I'm saying is
don't why, why
do it?
Why you got to be so angry,
Megan?
Why you so angry, Todd?
If Megan and Todd didn't do this,
you would be out of a job though.
I mean, you could look at it that way.
You know,
no, I'll never be done.
Okay, all right.
Number seven.
Oh, so good.
Funny number seven.
After that in the show
Carl Tart comes on
his Roland gift,
the lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals
and Ego comes on
as Dairy Queen.
Oh, that's right.
So you can hear that episode in full
if you go backwards through the canon.
All right, but let's go forward
into a commercial right now.
Let's take a break.
When we come back, we're going to listen
to episode six.
That can't be true. Is it true? It's entirely true.
All right, let's just do it. Let's go to the break right now.
All right. All right, see ya.
Howdy bang bang, we're back here.
What a break that was.
Oh, an amazing break.
How sweet the sound
that saved
the wretch
like me.
Stop being so hard on yourself, bro.
A wretch.
Boy, people did not think
highly of themselves back in Jesus' time.
There was no such thing as self-esteem.
There really was. And now we have too much of it.
Hey, if the night offends the, pluck it out.
Was that the only solution?
Take a break. Go on vacation.
Take a break.
Take a break. Take a break.
What is that? And Kevin, it's Hamilton.
It's all Hamilton. It's all Hamilton to me.
Hey, this is all Hamilton to me.
What am I? Is that Galvanagos? A Greek?
To me?
By the way, I'm fluent in Greek.
I used to say, I would say
it's all Greek to me.
By the way, I'm fluent in Greek.
I used to say, who would you say this to?
I don't know.
Friends, lovers, acquaintances.
The friends?
Matt Perry, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow.
Lisa Kudrow and I
did work together one day.
We did promos
for the MTV Movie Awards.
Wow. Brian Posane
and Lisa Kudrow and I
were two nerds who were much like
the Star Wars Phantom Menace
at the time. We're camped out
outside of the MTV Movie Awards
trying to get in.
And we then
bothered her as she arrived
for rehearsal or something like that.
And it was very fun improvising with her
and she was great and very nice.
Was she a groundling? She was.
And I've never seen her since.
But we...
Oh yeah, she disappeared.
It's one of those things. You know how when you're hired on a show
sometimes
there is a hierarchy where it's like
the people
in charge of the show or the main stars
there's a distance between you
not necessarily like their mean or anything
but it's like
you're not one of them.
Right. You have somewhere else to sit
and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that was one of those situations where it was like
she was a groundling
Brian and I were on Mr. Show
just like even though she's one of the most famous people
in the world at the time
she just accepted us as a peer
and was like, hey, come back to my trailer
and we just hung out in her trailer.
Yeah, very nice person.
And I mean, what happened there?
Well, that's where the story gets good.
We're going to take a break.
And listen to a clip.
We have a trailer and listen to clips.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to it. This is you guys voted on it.
This is your episode six.
Number six.
You always say you guys voted on it
like it's a fucking...
Hey, my edge of town.
Look, there's nothing I can do.
If it was up to me, it would be a lot different.
Oh boy.
This is episode six, of course.
Comedy Bang Bang episode 677
from October 12th.
Just a mere two weeks
after the Come Play episode.
Right, but Halloween is still coming up, so...
Sure, yeah, a mere 50 weeks away.
This will be from what?
You said it was when?
Oh wait, no, it's October 12th. You're right.
No, this is two weeks earlier than
the Come Play episode.
So it's October 12th
before Halloween. Sure.
But it's Halloween month, so spooky things happen.
All month long.
All month long, spooky season.
It is spooky season.
Unfortunately, that does not play into this,
so I don't believe you'll have any kind of hits.
I bet I can make it work.
All right, let's see.
Tim Gunn style.
This is episode 677.
This is called the Calvin's Family Telethon Extravaganza.
Okay.
Do you know what I'm talking about here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not a fan? It's the Calvin's Triplets,
first of all.
That's right. Which is...
I mean, let me give the names out.
It's
Taryn Killam.
People will remember from Saturday Night Live.
It was on that show for a good four years.
And then that shows single parents, I believe.
Oh yeah, single parents, yeah.
Yes.
And then his SNL compatriot
that he was on
a few seasons with, Paul Britton.
Yes, from Great Britain.
Yeah, well.
And then...
The name is Britton. You know him from Great Britain.
And then Ryan Gall.
From the $1,000,000 properties.
He was added to the cast and the last OG.
He...
Originally, Taryn and Paul wanted to do
an episode together.
So several years ago, and several studios ago,
we did an episode where
right before
we started,
Paul and Taryn said,
so what do you want to do?
I think it was Paul... Paul said
the famous phrase
something with horses.
Something with horses? Or he said,
what about we're promoters of horse boxing?
I think is what... Oh, that's...
Maybe a little more... Maybe he just said something with horses.
I don't remember. And we improvised it the entire time.
But one of the best episodes
I think of the show...
Episode!
It's a grepisode, and they've been back
sporadically. We haven't wanted to
do it too much,
but they've been back sporadically to come back
to the Calvin's Twins.
Beaver, Hope, Pox and Chico hands
are their names, but they're the Calvin's Twins.
And then Ryan Gaul got added
as a
Bisbee St. Hancock,
who is one of the Calvin's triplets.
We found out they had a long-lost brother.
So we've done those episodes a few times,
and they have a...
The first episode they did, they
rift that they had a horse fighting
ranch, and the name of it was
the Calvin's Twins
horse fighting ranch and bee honey farm,
I believe. And we,
for some reason...
We have never talked about the bee honey part of it.
And my mind has never
gone to asking questions about the bee honey.
Bee honey?
That's the only kind there is, right?
It started to make me feel crazy.
Right.
That's the only way we get honey.
I don't know why I've never asked about the bee honey,
and
with this one, just like all the other episodes,
nothing planned, and
we just started talking, and
somehow we fell into talking about the bee honey,
which turns into a
major, major thing, and this one
takes all sorts of twists and turns.
Let's listen to it.
This is your episode 6.
Number 6.
So, maybe we could just sort of
brainstorm solutions for your situation,
because I, quite frankly,
I don't know how you're going to get...
Because
at the level you need to be under
250 million...
Millions of tons.
And you have 750 trillion tons.
Yeah.
We're way over.
Why did you make so much?
It's taffy season.
We just do it.
We just put it on autopilot.
Those taffy plants will loom in this year, Scott.
Sure.
But it seems like you could maybe make it to order,
especially in a year where a lot of people don't have
disposable income and we're waiting for...
Well, then what do you do if you have a family
pull up and they want some taffy
just on... Maybe they're on their way...
As an impulse buy?
To go to the lake or something.
And if you have to look at a family
in the eye and say,
we don't have any taffy right now,
we're going to have to make it. What flavor do you want?
That's our little nightmare.
So, you guys,
I think that you could split the difference
between 750 trillion
pounds and being out
if one family ever comes by the taffy
farm. It seems like there's a middle
ground there. I'll admit it, Scott.
We were arrogant.
We thought in this time of
pay... Once
in human history, global pandemic,
people are going to be sitting at home.
People are going to be needing to fill the hours.
And what better way
to fill an idle hour
than with some taffy?
Well, guys, I don't know how that you're
going to sell this much taffy.
I mean, of course, you could burn the taffy.
Of course, you could
put it in a landfill.
But the agreement with the taffy god
obviously states that it needs to be
sold. It needs to be purchased.
Well, we were hoping you could help us with that, Scott.
Maybe we could start
a comedy bang bang telethon
right now. Oh, sure.
Yeah, we could have people call in.
We could have you guys doing
sort of variety acts and stuff like that.
So, yeah, why don't we
start it off here? It'll be sort of like the Jerry Lewis
telethon, which is something that I used to watch
as a child, which would go
all night for
72 hours and Jerry would stay awake.
Of course, we don't have that kind of time.
If we can stay awake for the next, say,
half hour or so, we could do one right now.
All right. I'm willing to try.
Do you need to take some caffeine
pills or anything like that?
I could do my
stand up.
Yeah, this
sounds great. So, why don't we start it now?
This is
does it have a special title?
Probably the Calvin's Family B
honey taffy farm and horse rotten
fan ranch
taffy
God
taffy God stopping
flip flopping
fab five and staying alive
in
a dog disease
colt 45
and hullabaloo telethon extravaganza
so
if I have this right, it's the Calvin's Family B
honey taffy farm and horse fighting
ranch taffy God stopping
flip flopping fab five
and staying alive in a del dizim
sizing colt 45 hullabaloo
and I think I missed the last part
of it.
Telethon extravaganza
telethon extravaganza
All right. Do we have
a theme song for this?
Yep.
Welcome to the
Telethon
Why doesn't it have a title
if you're not going to say it?
Oh sure. Welcome to the Calvin's Family
B honey taffy farm and horse
fighting ranch
taffy demon stopping flip flopping
fab five and staying alive in
a del dizim sizing colt 45
and hullabaloo telethon extravaganza
why don't you go ahead
hmm
hmm
oh no you're falling
why don't you go ahead and call the number
that I'm sure Scott is going to gladly
provide
where did you
the telethon is just starting
one of our
one of our phone operators
to make a sizable purchase
of
Calvin's Family
wake up
make a sizable purchase of Calvin's Family taffy
to
make a great holiday gift and you know what they say
it's not bad it's good
it's good
call us here at
1-800-0
800-00
and you can talk to one of the Calvin's
triplets here so oh it looks like we're getting a call here
line one you're on the line
hey hey guys
hey a big fan of your stuff
sorry to hear about the whole demon situation
but just
really would love to make a purchase for my family
great
may we have your name
sure yeah my name is Dylan
and I'm actually
repeat
purchaser of Calvin's Family taffy
best taffy in the world if you ask me
welcome home
yeah thanks
yeah so I would love
I'm going to use them as holiday gifts this year
and I cannot highly recommend it enough
and I would
wait a moment
which holiday
is it a holiday gift?
yeah I'm going to use them for
secretary's day
okay
when is that usually
I think we call them assistants now
I'm sorry I misspoke a secretary
it's day
oh okay the anniversary of him winning
correct so I found the Calvin's Family
through the horse fighting initially
and got season
tickets
kept that going on ever since
what is horse fighting season it seems like you guys do it year round
year round
yeah so you're there every day
yeah 365
you know it 365
except for Halloween when they shut down for that day
just to see all the horse first
um and
I thought they were watching The Walking Dead that day
that's what I meant
I misspoke
it's confusing
it's bad as gory as those zombies
scott
oh yeah
so yeah so obviously walking dead day
we get off I spend that with my family
but yeah I would love to order
I'd love to order five tins
of taffy please
five tins
does that end up being how many tons
how many tons is a tin
a tin
did you say tins or tins
I said tins five tins
well we have
that's right
the small which is just 12 pieces
yep and we have the large
large which is 25 pieces
and then we have
the big the big old tin
yeah that's what I mean
so big old tin is a trillion
tons of taffy
whoa okay
so you want the trillion tons so
I'll take it guys if you can make this
sale
you only have 749 trillion
tons left to go minus 250
million tons I guess
are you okay with them
a mix of flavors
yeah I'll take the variety pack
no pork chop flavor please though
oh shit
do you have enough
for a trillion tons of
I think all about
but about like 20 to 30 pieces
of pork chop flavor
can I
can I ask you what's going on
what's your problem
with the pork chop flavor
well
I just um
I just don't care for it
did you have it because if you had last years
last season's pork chop
this season's very different
was there a problem last year with the pork chop flavor
well yeah I went bad
okay so it was like
rancid meat flavors
it felt like there were actual little pieces
of pork chop in the peas
they went rancid but they also solidified
so it was like chewing on
taffy filled with rocks
why do you like their taffy if you had this
kind of experience
I think it's tradition
I love the tradition it makes me feel sentimental
for early days at the horse fight
I mean it's a tradition because you're there every day
but Halloween walking dead day
that's right
okay so
can we interest you in this years flavor
of the pork chop flavor
a dry rub
pork chop flavor
and there's no chit last season
we had pork chips
and this season it mixed in
this season is just a puree
it's a puree I think
it's much smoother much smoother texture
let no chunks
can I ask this can you messenger me
one piece of the current pork chop
I'll try it and if I like
it I'll call back with the order
where are you right now
I am in Missouri
son of a bitch
do you have a horse fast enough
go
that would stop
alright it's on its way hopefully it'll get there to you
oh look okay the door
somebody's at the door
you're hearing a hoof knock at the door
thank you
alright
I'm just gonna unwrap
this little piece of taffy
oh you wrap it in paper
oh look at that
you have to click the user agreement
okay here we go
what magazine did you get
let's see what is this
oh I got a highlights
a children's highlights
from 1972
that's fun I already
see a couple things wrong
between these two pictures
alright I'm gonna try the taffy now
don't get wrapped up in that try the taffy
there are puzzles in the back
oh
oh
oh
how's it yeah you keep saying
it sounds like you're
we don't have the full hour to
savor this taffy
oh really? oh no
you're gonna have to make your decision right now
oh but that's how I consume
Calvin's family taffy
sure we all do
we all do but if I could get a preliminary
note taking
time with the taffy
reading the magazine getting the full taffy experience
you guys
I've come to a decision
I'm not gonna continue with my order
I'm gonna
order
seven hundred
and forty nine
trillion
seven hundred
sure and forty nine trillion
seven hundred and
fifty one
million
million tons
whoa guys
that'll put you
nine hundred
and ninety nine thousand nine hundred
and ninety nine pieces
oh my god that's amazing
that'll put you right over the edge
what was your name again
just under I think
what was your name again sir
my name is Dylan Preaches
you're not looking too good
you're sweating
you've turned
a strange color of
uh oh yeah
I can't taste the taffy anymore
I can't smell the taffy either
oh no
I'll think he's got the COVID-38
oh no did you
infect your taffy with COVID-38
not on purpose
sure but no one does it on purpose
but I'm bound to happen all that
COVID-38 floating around
oh no
are you gonna be alright sir
oh he's coughing like a horse
oh no I gotta go
bye guys be sure to send all that taffy
yeah we'll send it
I don't think I
oh you gotta feel bad
he hung up before
cancelling his order so I'm not quite sure
where that leaves us
the cod cleared
I thought he said send the taffy
he did say send
send the taffy but it also made him sick
and possibly dying which I don't know
whether it's hey you gotta get it out there
that's our other taffy catchphrase
hey I might make you sick
but it's worth it
can you check just to make sure he hasn't
put a stop payment there on the
let me just look
no there is a note
in the account
what's a note say
hold on I'm pulling it up
chico come on
chico let's uh you know
I know you're impatient chico
you're the most impatient of the triplets are you not
I'm fine with that label
sure a little bit impatient
what's the dang note say
send the order as fast
as possible
but make sure
when you send it
I'm still alive
so we should we need to make sure
that he's still alive
I don't even get this note into this account
yeah I'm not quite sure well we can do a
credit card purchase note
we sent a credit card purchase note
we can do a reverse trace on the call
and call him back so let me
star 69
yeah star 69 and here we go
hello
hello hello this
hey hello this is
the telethon you just called into the
telethon how did you get this number
this might be one of those
fake answering machine messages
it's perfectly
anticipated what you're saying
I don't know I'll have to ask my wife
this is a fake answer
wait wait wait sorry go back and repeat that
we're from the telethon
you just called in
so should we send the table
but but but but but can I ask a question
sure why is it happening
should do we send the taffy or not
uh-huh
uh-huh you bought it you said you
want to buy it unless you're dead
well that's something hey guys I'm just kidding
it's Dylan Treacher to reach my answering machine
oh no
that's a good message I'll get back to you
as soon as possible
hey Dylan are you dead
Dylan Dylan hey there's the
galvan's triplets we're just
making sure that you
enjoyed the pork chop taffy
you survived
the ingestion of it
and you still want this
700 and
49 trillion
749
uh
million
999999
pieces of taffy
call us back at
1-800-00-800-0
and uh
yeah ask him if you want
ask him if he wants a
coupon code
do you want to enter a coupon code
no you don't want the coupon code
by the way that's
that is 800-0's
we want to make sure people maybe that's why we're not getting a lot of calls
it's 800-0's in a row
not 1-800
shouldn't have told him about that coupon code
oh wait we're getting a call
we're getting a call hello
you're on the telethon
it's still in
i'm completely fine
so we can ship that out to you right now
please ship it to me i do want to inquire
about this coupon code
oh shit
god damn it son of a bitch
yeah um listen i feel as a
long time loyal buyer i'm kind of like
i'm kind of entitled to using the coupon code
quite frankly
i think the one october will actually
october great i'll use that one
gee
it's gonna
it's gonna make this order
free and your next six orders
are gonna be free as well
you are responsible for shipping
um so i will have to take
your card down chicco is there any
kind of shipping clause can you
what if you charged
him for a lot for the shipping
more so than it would actually take
to buy the stuff would that get is there some
sort of work around there that's interesting
i like that idea i like that
because i this dylan
guy doesn't seem too smart i feel
like we could pull a fast one on him
this is dylan i'm still on the line
oh wait a minute
wait a minute is this another one of his
fake uh-huh
uh-huh
yeah
i've already
uh-huh
you bet
how did this happen to us again
hey guys i'm killing it's still in
god i'd like to know who you're voting
for this presidential election
if you're voting for by Paris please press one
if you're voting for trump and press
to have a marvelous day
how do you have a he had the coupon
code on his robot
ah number six
hmm
so good that
um of course the
the phone calls continue that
that's something that i just threw out
there and taren picked up on
and does and of course he immediately
does it perfectly like those fake
uh fake answering machine
uh i mean they're
not fake they are answering machine messages that
are fake uh
you think that you've called the real person
you know and of course once i brought that up
of like is this just one of those answering
machines that's he's pretending he of
course goes immediately into uh-huh
uh-huh like he's he's so
good at to at like
really one of the quickest guys around
so good all three of those guys are funny
funny and
a great addition to their canon
um
we're gonna take a break but when we come
back we're gonna crack the top five
we gotta do it guys we can't we can't
keep it on cracked we have to crack
it that shell is calling to me
it is all right
we'll be right back with your episode five after
this
comedy bang bang we're back here with
paul f tompkins that's right
we're counting down your top 16 episodes
of the year of 2020
and
i mentioned it before the break and i couldn't
even believe it was happening but we are cracking
the top five paul you know what you did mention
before the break i couldn't believe it and i thought
it was a filthy liar right well i wouldn't go
that far but i thought when we come back from
the break he's gonna have a different story
he'll have changed his tune yeah he'll guess
what la la la it's exactly
baby in the city
what is it baby oh it's not big in the city
but in in babe i remember in the
in the trailer yes that's right
he sings la la la in the trailer to
babe yes he does
he famously is referenced
on the
the podcast web crawlers
it's a it's a reference they often make
but that in the trailer for the original
babe at one point
babe is he's just so happy to be a pig
that he sings la la la
that he sings la la la
i don't remember
that but now i'm gonna watch that yeah the
one thing in a trailer that no one remembers
i feel like neil mohoney and i used to talk
about this is
in there was a
movie that jonathan lipp nicky was in
with a vampire
oh yeah and
uh hold
a second yeah not a real vampire
it was about a vampire oh
oh yeah i didn't get that it was not like
it was not like a buddy cop movie and the
actor happened to be a vampire
like that Jay Leno pepperita
film
so he the right pepperita was vampire
maybe it was a kid vampire
or something like that i don't remember
i sort of i feel like i can almost see the
cover art yeah of the
vhs but the the part of the trailer that i
remember is the vampire
says to jonathan lipp nicky surprise
this is like their first meeting and he goes
you're alive
and jonathan lipp nicky says
and i want to keep it that way dude
ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha
so he used to say i want to give you that way dude
all the time
ha ha ha ha
i want to keep it that way dude
i don't remember
having a little gravelly voice did he
he did i think he did at least for that
movie i want to give you that way dude
i want to give you that way dude
he had a really hard time singing
ha ha ha ha
chinova da liby you and jonathan
what that's my other
impression of i've i swear
we've talked about this on three of them
the guy in west side story who played
the malt shop owner or whatever
yeah chinova da liby you and jonathan
because you did a different voice
i couldn't understand what you were saying
what do you kill
what do you kill
chinova da liby you and jonathan
all right
let's crack that top five
this is the final episode
hold on a second
you be the vampire and ask me the question
and i'll because i think this would be a better
line okay you're alive
all day
which i guess at night
he's a vampire so that doesn't answer
the question he's vampire all day but he's
asleep during the day oh that's true okay but
but libniki's not a vampire no libniki
he's alive and he wants to keep it he wants to keep that way dude
all right let's do it this is
your episode five
number five
okay episode five is alive
is alive five is alive this is uh
why are they rebooting short circuit
does anyone care about short circuit
to cast an actual asian actor
agreed agreed but
my point is
does the name does the title short
circuit mean anything to anyone anymore
every once in a while they do that with a property or
it's just a new movie with the same premise
you don't have to pay for the license
battleship
well that's the hasbro company
trying to anyway
what are they trying to do
they're trying to expand their IP
why are they trying to expand your IP
all right this is episode
649
this is right before the 650th episode
this is right in the middle of the 600s
this is april 6th
and
we're waiting
for an episode called goose tycoon
it sounds familiar
yes okay so who do we have
we have uh john gabris as intern gino
uh ego wodum
as entrepignur
who we heard uh previously on
on the countdown
uh we have carl tart as oj simpson
you take care
which i don't think we've ever talked about him on the countdown
but carl
carl came in uh i think
a year and a half or two years ago and said he wanted to do
oj simpson based on oj's twitter presence
yes
which is basically him
he had just joined twitter
and he would start every video going
hey twitter world
and then he would end with you take care
and carl just did that over and over
and this was with jimmy parto i believe
maybe it was on the countdown i don't remember
i think it's been on the countdown
i made the choice of not having kept up with oj's career
since like the late 80s
and so i don't know anything about him being a murderer
oh i thought that carl stipulated that
no
i think he
maybe he just said don't ever ask me about the murder
or something
in any case so those three are
earlier than the clip we're going to hear
but the clip we're going to hear is
our good friend drew tarver
drew tarver who we also know
from bajillion dollar properties where he played
the partner of ryan gall from the previous clip
coincidence
yes yes it is a coincidence
alright so this is april 6
so this was one of the first episodes
that we did over zoom
and
it's when quarantine first started
do you remember what everyone was
doing in the early days
of quarantine washing their hands
and they stopped
then we all realized this is stupid
we're not going anywhere
no everyone was watching a little
television show called tiger king
i renounced tiger king
and all of his works
so drew really
i think everyone was saying
maybe when tiger king came out
immediately that tiger king was
like a drew tarver character
immediately people were i saw people messaging
drew yes like it was it was
unavoidable yes drew is he's
from georgia we've met his parents
at the georgia tour stop where he
killed in front of his parents yes it was
one of those rare things that only he and
neil cambell have ever done i believe
and
he's a southern improviser
genius improviser but everyone was saying
tiger king is you so he decided
to come on the show i think he reached out to me and said
hey can i come on and do a tiger king type thing
and this is what he came up with
it is so silly
let's hear it this is your episode 5
number 5
he is the subject of a recent
documentary please welcome
roger peculiar
hey how are you doing
you're doing all right doing good
you have a voice that that naturally
sounds like a zoom
freezing
is that true so it's not
going through very clear no no we can
hear you crystal clear just your voice
sounds naturally like like you know
how when the sound elongates when a zoom
freezes you just you sound like that
constantly yeah i
sometimes i have
i grew up next to
a
internet facility
what do you mean like a house
with internet
it's a public library
oh you grew up next
to a library do you ever check out a book from there
yeah i went in
there i checked out a couple books i got
da Vinci code from dan brown
how did you like that one
i did not end up reading it
and i returned it 24
days later 24 and
how long was the rental period
what do they call it
it was a quick read it was just a two day
i've borrowed so many
things they only give me a two day leash
at this point so now you have allergies
a lot of people
ask me that this is just my accent
and my nose is gone to hell
oh okay roger let's
let's dig in deep to your details here
you are you from the south obviously
you're from the south what yeah i'm from
georgia you know i just figured it was a
perfect time to promote my zoo
documentary since tiger king has become
so popular you have
a zoo documentary
yes i'm here to promote my
zoo documentary goose tycoon
goose tycoon
yes you know how joe exotic
is a zookeeper for tigers
and i am one for geese
um add some ducks
add some swans did you
make this documentary as a parody of tiger king
because you're constantly
relating it to tiger king
i just want people to know where
it's coming from it's
you know it's very popular
i'm actually pretty upset about it
okay so your documentary is not a reaction
to tiger king no i've
had this documentary going already yeah
okay i've i've seen it scott i used to
watch it with some friends and you've seen
goose tycoon i
watched like the first i guess
first 40 50 episodes
there's there's a lot
but uh there it was fun
it was good i like a lot of it are these
episodes that's a that is a complaint
from a lot of people i am pitching the
documentary to that it is
just a hundred consecutive episodes
of a small show are these quick bites
well i i wanted
to pitch it to uh
quibi um but i haven't
been able to pitch it yet there i pitched
it to uh to
cbs all access
uh sure i pitched it to
siso to see they made
a sequel to siso yeah
yes everybody said we're
called peacock
and i said and i just kept
you're like it's always siso to me
it's always siso to me
i pitched it to redfin tv
right the
the home buying app
yes yes redfin tv
what you can if
you're looking for a mid-price
condominium you can also
see a little bit of content
on that app now that's
how i saw it a guy i used to smoke dust
with uh used to be a
pa at redfin tv so he had
some uh pitch materials and that's
how we watched a sleepover party
and my final pitch
was to the iphone app
wallet
that yeah the thing
that comes on iphones that sort of
organizes apparently they they're
gonna keep your your uh your credit
cards maybe a couple of boarding
passes and then a couple of episodes
of tv in there now okay right
so when anytime you open it up
hey i'd love an episode of television
in my actual wallet that would be great
wouldn't that be great
because you need something to do when you
got you got your boarding pass out and you're
waiting you got your shoes off
and you're waiting there to go through the damn scanner
and it's like i wish i could just watch
a little something right here it's mainly
for when you put your briefcase
through the tsa
box until you walk
to the other side that's when it
you should be putting your you should be putting
your phone in that tsa box
so this this show is for
you to watch specifically while you're getting
your body scanned at the tsa
when you have to the problem with the wallet
is and and but i want to
i want to work with the wallet you have
to always ask for additional screening
so you so you can
go through the thing where you can take your phone
okay okay so you that's gonna be
so so it's there to
waste time when you
are asking for additional time
exactly okay yeah
it's a very specific time
period that that you want people
to watch your show
well i didn't know it i'm not i don't
work for wallet i just want
to be on that there right
okay is all i'm saying
and did they did any of these places buy your
pitch no
nobody everybody said no
this sounds like a parody
of another documentary
test
take take us through what is it goose
tattoo what was it goose
tycoon tycoon my name
is roger peculiar yes
which also by the way if i if i
gun to my head i would
say sounds as well like a parody
of the person from
tiger king so you're saying i ran
all these words through a synonym
generator
is that what you're saying
well i'm a real person
that's not what happened you know
sure but i i i am part
of the
the goose the big bird
conservationist community
the the this isn't
related to sesame street do you mean
uh no
no this isn't a larges
just very large birds okay
um yeah and
you know unlock tigers
uh which are more valuable
when they're younger geese are better
when they're old oh okay
so i'm always on the lookout
for old-ass geese
what do you mean by better and what do you mean
by i'm always on the lookout for
well you know a geriatric
goose from the black market breeder
can cost 40 dollars
um and i know a guy who will sell
me one for 60 capri suns
so basically
basically
uh
you want a goose when you got
people watching your gooses
um you got paying customers
they're watching your gooses
you want them to be old and docile
uh so they are not
attacking the people that are patting them
and that you're holding them next to their head
so they can pat themselves
i'm sorry it's a petting zoo for old geese
well yeah we show them
you can pat them and a lot of people
keep telling me a wallet tv
said this is not as
exciting as tiger king
um it's
geese aren't excited well i don't
i don't even think it's just the geese
i mean tiger king seems to have a lot of like
murders in it and
and i mean you're you're definitely an oddball
well i have a
i have a carol baskins
you have a carol baskins
yes her name is angela dumpson
angela dumpson i've had it
with angela dumpson she is my carol baskins
i would think it would be more like
song
31 flavors
so see you can't run
a name through a synonym thing
because it'll change it to businesses
but carol is also it's also a noun
right oh i guess you meant baskins
yeah
but yeah my enemy is
angela dumpson
she's a goose protector
and she's always saying
oh oh roger
you can't keep geese
they need to fly south for the winter
and i said not if you buy them little
tiny coats so
have you killed anybody like
uh in tiger king
isn't that a thing everyone has a theory oj
didn't don't you have a theory about that
oh i got a huge theory about it
i think
that that man joe exotic
slice that woman up
also
that wasn't the question
what
that's not what happens in the documentary
they think carol baskin
killed her husband
i think that joe exotic
got so upset because carol baskin
was clearly cheating on him
and embarrassing him in front of all of his friends
and i think that
he went over there just to talk one day
and all of a sudden her husband
howard is also there
and he's bringing back some glasses that carol left
at the restaurant
and i think he stabbed her right on up
this doesn't sound believable
i'm just saying
take care
that is a conspiracy theory
that i do not think
exists for this movie
you don't wait you don't think it exists
it exists now because he said it
but it is an off the wall
i guess so you don't think it's accurate
it does exist though
it's not accurate it exists
but i've had it
with agile adeptson who is my carol baskin
what were you saying about her
before tiger king came out
what were you able to call her
before you saw this documentary
tiger king has only been out
like a week and a half at this point
i just called her angela adeptson
but now i get to say
angela adeptson is my carol baskin
she put me on a website
she put me on a website
called knottygooseguys.net
and i have
had it with her
right what else has she done
well i got her back
i trained one of my geese to steal
one of her goose's eggs
and he went over there
and he took it
and he nudged it back to my place
14 miles with his beak
it took him three weeks
why didn't you drive him to
the perimeter of her place
i don't let the geese
ride with me in the car anymore
because they're backseat drivers
is that what happened in vegas
well in vegas
i'll tell you what happened in vegas
some of the geese got loose in vegas
and they did 600 dollars
of damage to toby keats
i love this bar and grill
that's a sad story
yeah
they purchased the mlb network
on every flat screen with their beaks
that's the damage
the 600 dollars worth of damage
yeah no one was hurt
no property was harmed
that dam
that dam old mlb network
is very expensive in the hotel
it's too much
i think i remember hearing about this
because you got in a little hot water
because you were using that sedan
as a you were also driving for lift
around vegas right
yeah my left right
my left right
has severely suffered
since i've been also trying to run a
multiple geese
petting business out of it
but i do have
you have multiple businesses
or you can pet multiple geese
now you can pet multiple geese
but i always tell
i always tell them
i have the nasty little white life savers
what else do you want
i don't know what you're talking about
i like those life
i like those life savers
i like the white ones
individually wrapped white ones
i like those white ones
you know you don't like white life savers
but like white everything else
black life savers matter
those are the only ones
what could they be
would they be licorice flavored
they could be whatever they want
scott
chocolate flavored scott
if they wanted to switch it up
i'm sorry i didn't mean to offend you entrey
by the way what race are you
have we ever established
all of them
lj you are black
you are blackity black black
you know people have said otherwise
over the years
oj i'm looking at you
you're black
you're looking at me
i've always thought oj that i could relate to you though
you thought that you could relate to me scott
yeah you know you're one of the
how do i phrase this
you're gonna say one of the good ones
no no no
just you're
you heard it first
scott ockerman says oj simpson
one of the good ones
you're just an american success story
and something that we can all aspire to be
scott i tell you i appreciate that
tenfold a hundred fold
almost as many folds
how many n95 mass
i have sitting in my basement
which is quite damp so some of them may be getting a little
uh
a little mold in those folds
yeah some mold in those folds
um roger i have to ask
any other uh details here
on your goose tycoon documentary
or what's been going on there
well yeah i mean i do also sing
you oh much like
what's his name joe exotic
joe exotic roger
roger peculiar also has a singing
career
roger from joe
i didn't get it
from your mom i'm older than him
right right so but you
you sing though
i do sing uh yeah
i got a few songs i got one out
called uh goose man
let's hear a little bit
all right you want to hear it
hey now
you're a goose man get your game on
go play
so that's how that one goes
it's not even go what now
doesn't even rhyme with all star
what is it
rhyme with what all star
i don't know what you're talking about
the all stars
like the baseball you heard the all stars
nba all stars
what's one of your other songs roger
this one's called mom goose bit my finger
okay
hey now goose bit my finger
goose bit my finger get your game on
go play
what do i think about that
i think it's a hit
i don't want to argue anymore
i love them these these are my
favorite kind of songs where they have different
beginnings but all the same second line
well you're gonna like this next one
because it's it's nothing
like the first two a lot of people are saying
the first two are similar this last one
is uh is completely
different what's it called
last one you all got three so
it's not a
exactly a large uvra
yeah i come with
numbered only a few songs
but this one's called
beaks are just hard
mouths
let's hear it
all that glitters
is gold
only shooting stars
break the mo
whoa
you didn't change any of the lyrics
on that one
i love it
thank you
that's the beginning of that song
number five
yeah
have you seen drew lately
i his look
is very different yes i have
and my question to him was
so why is this happening
i literally thought it was for a role
and was shocked when he said it wasn't
it's why he's got longest shaggy hair
and a beard a full thick beard
yeah he's cast away
essentially it's insane
the beard is not quite that long
no but
if left unchecked
that's where it's headed
yeah i think i mean
well you and i
what was your first haircut
during quarantine
i did home haircuts
right which essentially
was i have clippers
and i put it on the uh
because the last haircut i got
it was kind of all one length right yeah
so i was like here's what i'll do
i got these clippers
put them on the longest setting
and then i'll just i'll just go all over my
all right yeah
and it was not that bad
and when was not that good
this was in april or
that was my hair was
oh because i had i had done
um i'd gotten a haircut
on a set i did an episode of the
twilight zone that's the last thing i did i was in vancouver
right and they cut my hair because everything's kind of like
out of out of time on the show
to ride that i was able to ride that for a while
yeah and then and so i would
say i was simply out like a few months in
i'd cut my own hair and did
a you know like i mean look a decent
enough job for the places i was going which was
not many um but a
decent enough job to appear on zoom right
yes um and then you got cast on another
show and you got one there right or
did they not give you one no i got
i went right before that show
that was in
i want to say october
late september early october
do you remember i got a haircut
at a salon
huh um right before
that that's my last so a mask
full haircut yes yeah yeah
where it's like hard and you know they only let one person
in at a time and got it you know all this shit
taking temperature i've not been able to do that
yeah i so i i
i had gotten my previous
to quarantine i'd gotten my previous haircut i think
six weeks early on haircut
haircut in the basket
you can't handle that haircut
but i i was feeling shaggy
when quarantine happened and then i went
it wasn't me then i
had a shaggy defense
and then i went all the way to my
birthday july 2nd without getting one
so i had the longest hair i'd had since
i did joseph in the amazing technicolor drink
code and i was 20
and they told us to stop getting haircuts and
we had beards and haircuts to be bible people
i liked your shaggy hair
i thought it was good it was just too much i did i did
take the one picture the cover of
our aborted podcast
are you talking r-h-c-p re me
i think you can i'm pro life
oh i'm so sorry
even podcast
even podcast every podcast is special
i don't want anything to be aborted
you don't want to be cancelled either
but you can see my long hair in that but then i
gave myself i bought i finally bought clippers
i gave myself one on my birthday july 2nd
when we went to see jaws and then i just gave
myself one
uh for uh jimmy partos
uh part castathon whatever that was
that was in september or something so and maybe
i'm due for another one soon i had
one scheduled for tuesday
and it was cancelled because we're going
a quote back into lockdown
oh yeah yeah everything's shutting again
so but i'm also working on that
show that i worked on before yeah rather
for falls and i have to let them know
hey my hair is going to be a mess
okay so get them
prepared to well either widen out the
frame a little bit
i mean i just let them know
maybe you want it to be this way
or maybe you want to do something about it or whatever
so we'll see that's very considerate of you
i remember the first time that uh i think
during that very same joseph production where
someone one of us got
one of the cast members got a haircut
in the middle of it and it was a big problem
and that's where we all learned
that you're not supposed to do that yeah
um but hair continuity is a
thing and that you at least have to
check with and in a play
obviously there's no continuity but it was
like hey we designed
the look of your hair yeah for
opening night yeah you're not supposed to change it
i i think i've told you the story
i hope so but
you'd love to read it
so i don't have to hear it again
no no go ahead i don't know what's
going to happen now um when i was
i would i would sometimes appear on the
sarah silverman program right as a cop
as jade johnston's partner right uh
and didn't i get your part because you
couldn't be there or no that was a different
cop who knows who knows i played many cops
tig might have got my part because i couldn't be there one time
i don't know we did the same on comedy bang bang
tig was a cop for a while and then i think
we cycled carl tart back
in because she didn't want to do it anymore
or something so yeah um
so i would go every every once in a while i get
called in and do the sarah silverman program where
the writers would tell me all the ideas they had
for my character that never happened
right yes always great they were like oh
we had this great episode planned out where it was going to
be you doing this and then we didn't do it
yeah and then um so one time i
was there and the um
the the uh
woman in the hair department said
oh no you're you're
no cop has hair like this
and so she gave me this haircut
oh i wasn't a regular on that
show like put some
fucking goop in it or whatever
so then she gave me this haircut
that i tried to correct
over over like this course
of several months where i would go to a
place and say here's what i want you to do
with my hair and then they would give me the same haircut that she gave me
for months and then finally
i went to this place where
i she's
you know i this is your mind palace
yeah one of my mind palace it was like when
did i i went
to this place that i'd gone before
like this haircut that i really liked that
that had to i think she took time off to have a baby
and then came back and i was like great i'm going to go back
to her about nine months took off
exactly nine months for the duration
of the pregnancy and then as soon as the baby
was born you
it was conceived yeah she's like hey
hey i just i just got laid back
there and i think i know what happened
to the
day
so
so
i said i like told
her the story and like here's what i'm trying to
do you know i want it here's
how i want it you know and she went okay
and then she started she started
to do something
like she got out some clippers
and
i was like oh actually could you not
do that you know could you leave that long
there yeah and she went
oh wait you told me that you didn't want me to do that
right and i was like yeah
and she's i'm i'm so sorry and it was like
it was the weirdest thing
it's like your hair is hypnotizing yeah
it's like do people just have an idea
of what it should look like and that's what
they're doing and they're not hearing what i
say nowadays i just go like whatever
you want to do just do it well here's
what i like to do is i say
make it look like i didn't even get a haircut
yes that's what i say and
that has worked that has served me in good
stead yes and that way you're always getting
your haircut like every three days
they just pretend to do stuff every three
days well you know i go every week for a haircut
of course
it's my saturday i'm rich
an exception yes
well um speaking of
making a day out of it we certainly did with this episode
we're gonna have to leave
but we're gonna be back on thursday really
for the final episode of the best of new
year's eve we'll be back glad we closed it
out with some haircut talk this has been
haircut talk but
we will be back where we will be
discussing and playing clips from the
top four episodes of the year
yeah we're gonna count it down all the
way down we're gonna do it all the way down this
year why not sure
um all right you
know that it's the end of the episode when we say
our famous catchphrase of course keep
smiling see ya bye