Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Best of 2022 Part 1
Episode Date: December 19, 2022Happy Best Of's to you and many hamburgers to all from Comedy Bang! Bang! Join Scott and Paul F. Tompkins as they countdown numbers seventeen through thirteen of the Best CBB episodes of 2022 as voted... by YOU listeners. Tune in Thursday for Part 2!
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I was gonna say New Year but it's not even the new year for any of these episodes.
But happy Best ofs to you and many hamburgers to you and to all of you out there a good night
Good night. I'm saying goodbye to all my children. Like it's an award show and goodbye
What if you're on an award show? Yeah, it was like goodbye. I'm never going to see you again
You know what? I don't hate it. It's not a bad bit
I feel bad for the kids of course, but it would be really good people would talk about it forever
Goodbye, I'm leaving your mother and then he never never saw us kids again
Pretty funny
Welcome to comedy bang bang. My name is Scott Ackerman and this is the best ofs 2022 edition
Part one part one
Can I tell you and this is embarrassing? I thought your name was Don Ackerman until you just did Scott Ackerman
So we've known each other for 28 years or so. Yeah, you thought it was dawn this entire time. Yeah, I went to your wedding
Yeah, yeah, well, they were calling me dawn at the wedding to be fair. I mean we yeah, why okay now?
Why was that?
Well, I saw not crazy
Well, we we got married on Christmas and they were saying dawn we now are gay apparel
I never thought my name was dawn right right right right and that I was gay and had a pair
Yes, I remember and they were trying to stop the wedding. Yeah, please stop the wedding
Dustin Hoffman style. These are references that men of our age make
Um
Welcome to comedy bang bang. I already did that. Um, this is the best of 2022 a cracking start
And best ofs 2022 we're gonna be counting down all of your choices for the best episodes of comedy bang bang
You all voted for them. This is all your fault your choices. We're going. Yes choices have consequences
That's true, and you're about to find out you fucked around you fucked around. It's find out here we go
Um
We are going to fuck around during these episodes. Uh, and let me introduce my partner in crime here. Uh, he's a criminal
Yeah, um, we can make crimes together manslaughter. Yes, we've been manslaughter together. Yes
Why do we kill?
He is a stand-up comedian. He is a raconteur. He is a writer. He is a an improviser
He is a husband. True. Uh, and that's the list in order of what he likes. You're yeah, that's my twitter bio
Yep
Um, please welcome. He does this every year with me paul f. Tompkins. Hi, I do this every year with scott and that's not alive
No, we have lied several times so far. Look, here's the thing scott can only tell lies
I can also only tell lies so everything you're gonna hear is one of us telling truth neither
So when we said that that was true, it was a lie. Yeah
Yeah, everything is alive so far. We're lying. Do you get it?
God damn filthy liars. Oh, you don't have to be filthy to be a liar
He's a squeaky clean liar
Uh, we uh, we have a good time when we do these if you've never heard these before this is uh, paul f. Tompkins
Yeah, paul f. Tompkins is what happened there
I found a little step stool under the table. Oh, how cute someone is there an exceptionally short host
Is that for one of the office ladies?
It's for one of the office ladies
It's a red velvet stool
That is steve correll's face embroidered on it
But it's his character from morning show. That's true. Um committing sexual harassment. Yeah, but then we liked it
I guess and we felt bad when he drove off a cliff. We felt bad for him. He didn't look all he did was sexually harassing people
Maybe commit a rape and then
Then he drove off a cliff then he exiled himself to a beautiful italian villa
I felt bad for the guy
Um, we are speaking of the step stool. We are in the ear wolf studios and we have some uh, surprising news about our location
We'll we'll do in a future episode, but um paul it is of course, uh, about a week before christmas
So approximately six days before christmas
And uh, which is a holiday here in america that goose. Guess what? I mean
A little large for my tastes. I goose go to see your doctor
Take some uh, mozempic or what is it? What are the conditions taking? I don't know a zempic mozempic
They're taking like diet pills. It's like a star wars name
It's not diet pills. It's a
It's a shot that you get
But what okay, if you're a fucking obscenely wealthy
Yeah, you can afford the best food exercise eat great food
You can you can afford to hire an assassin to force you to exercise at gunpoint. They make their own the only way I would
Yeah, they make their own fucking schedule. There's zero excuse. Yes, and then a shot on top of that
I know well, it's uh, it's it's also for something else because I know it has a medical reason
But I think the added benefits is that uh, people are losing weight on it
But I can't remember what it's called. It's like well butrin made people quit smoking. So they also call it chantix
Really same fucking thing
Chantix and butrin
Well, well butrin well butrin. Yeah, we've just run out of names for these drugs
Butrin didn't work on people and then they were like we got to make this better and it became well butrin
Oh, okay. Yeah, I've been noticing by the way. I I see a lot of these uh drug commercials
Oh, yeah, and you know how every drug commercial the the template is
You see someone living the time of their life living their best life and that is supposed to mean if you take this drug
You'll be able to do these things. Yeah, I've noticed a startling new trend in these
This is exciting
That the people who are supposedly having the best
Times of their lives
Are doing food service industry jobs
There's one
there's one where
Where you see this woman and she's walking along the beach and you know in slow motion and she's gorgeous and she's having the time of her life
And she walks right into a beachside restaurant and then starts hostessing
Do you think it's aimed at
Uh hallmark channel viewers where the woman always has like a bakery or she has it seemed to me
It seemed like that although they did do one with a male where like he's sad at the beginning of the commercial
He looks down at his phone and someone texts him. We miss you at the restaurant
And he gets even sadder
And then he takes this drug and then you see him like
In the kitchen at the restaurant like frying up fish and stuff
How did he not lose his job? Was he was he the head chef? He must own the restaurant
I think I think what they're trying to do with these is like you can live your best life owning a restaurant
But the the poor woman who owns this restaurant. She's like
Delivering food. She's like basically a food runner. Yeah, and then at one point you see her slightly picking at a big plate of food
food
She's packing up a big plate of food
I meant to say fruit and then I got confused with food. I think came out. What is fruit if not food?
I am fruit. I have food. Can you milk me?
I
Have food
So she's like she's like fucking around with a with a pile of fruit getting it exactly right
Aesthetically and then she just delivers it to a table
It's not even like she's the person who creates the fruit and then
Then hires someone to take it to the table, which would be the dream. I would think she's a control freak
Oh, this is what it is. This is her place, right?
Somebody else prepares the fruit and then she goes over and like they did it wrong again
And then she hostesses because she can't trust anyone else to greet the people properly
So actually that drug's not helping her. Maybe this is all the before
Which is walking to the beach. That's what she had that probably takes the drug and then zones out on the couch watching Netflix
I
I really like the ones that I think are are effective
Are the ones for psoriasis medication. Oh, yeah, where it's people that are all bundled up like
Eskimos
It's his the season right and then they take the drug and then they're like I have no sleeves anymore. I burned them
You just see them whole kogan style ripping them off. I can't wait to get the pool
I don't care if it's February. Let me in there
Is that whole kogan who rips off his sleeves or is that because I saw a commercial the other day with the gronk
And he was ripping off the sleeves of his shirt
I thought hulk tore his t-shirt. He tore it open. You're right. Yeah. Did he I'm getting ready to see some racial epithets
And i'm sick so everyone's gonna watch
And then sue someone
Do you think that I would like to see the whole kogan documentary or a biopic?
I think you see the scenes of him like cutting slight
Little slits and he was scoring scoring it with a razor blade so that he can tear it open more easily
Oh, what if he couldn't do it if he was like pulling at it like god
This is a strong throw well made shirts. I need to buy cheaper shirts
Who would play him in the biopic?
This is a good question. I get I mean, you know, normally you would go with a wrestler like a johnsina
type but uh
Can you imagine johnsina like with the handlebar mustache in the wick? I can't actually
I think it's very easy to imagine
Who played him in the weird owl movie? There was a he was a former wrestler or maybe a current wrestler
Oh, the weird owl movie starring both of us. Yes. We are the stars
I agreed to do the movie. I you know, I'm offer only. I don't know whether you audition but I
No, I was offered the role after someone else got sick. Oh, that's right. Um, but uh, I I did it on the
I'm offer only on the provision of health
I did it on the condition that I for that day. I beat number one on the call sheet
And I refused to learn lines and I said I'm just gonna riff
Wait, you wrote both of those lines?
And they were very plots uh forward
Strangely enough, I just I was so locked in I knew what the character would say to further the plot
I was the first day of shooting and they had to rewrite a lot of the movie. Yeah, wow for my riffs. You really bowed them
Um, if you're listening to this, is this comedy bang bang? Well, no, this is the best of of comedy
Is this is comedy bang? Is this what you'll hear when you listen to comedy bang bang? No, absolutely not never
No, you're not listening to it now. No, turn it off. You can't hear this
Normally the show is uh and normally for garfield fans normally, yes, uh
normally it is a
Comedy program where I'm the host Scott Ackerman
We have celebrities usually on although a lot of times we did not
this year
We because uh, and we'll talk about the two distinct eras of the show this year
But uh celebrities due to health restrictions were not appearing on the show all that much this year
Until the back half of the year, but normally in a normal episode
You'll hear hear me talk to a celebrity for a little bit and then we will bring on other guests
And the other guests are uh, and this is the big secret
We only talk about on the best ofs and don't talk about this for the rest of the year
Yeah, please only talk about it on the days we do the best of yes on the days we release them
That's when we acknowledge it. I don't care when you're listening to this. No only if you oh
If you're listening to it after it's released you you can't talk about it
Yeah, and if you're a time traveler and you've taken it back in time time cop style and you're listening to it on your walkman
in the 20s
And then a time cop versus 20s
That was the the trailer
To time cop. I believe was like a walkman in the 20s
I'm like someone like a big rich and powerful guy goes up
A newfangled elevator into his office and it's all black and white and then he takes out a walkman and starts playing metal
And you can't do that. You can't yet. That's why the time cop stop you time cops. Yeah, he can't play metal
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what if somebody hears it? They lose their minds exactly like what is this slightly louder music?
Do you think that triggered the great depression?
Hearing metal somebody heard metal
You got confused someone said it's metal music the economy was fine a guy jumped out the window everybody's like must be the economy
We're in a depression. It's the economy stupid
Who said that first
James carvel james carvel diddy. Yeah carvel james carvel diddy carvel
The rude who's puff carvel
Carvel and carvel very similar one makes ice cream. That's right and the other presumably eats it
I bet he does. Do you think if you made ice cream, you would no longer eat it because he'd be like, oh that
No, I think I'd eat it all the fucking time. I think so too. I think I'd learn how to make it very very fast. Yeah
Oh man, I'm hungry for ice cream. It's like this didn't this I love this but it took too long
I gotta figure out a way to talk about time cop. That's that's now I am
I'm I'm making the ice cream. Then I'm going back and I'm going forward in time
To the ice cream. So how do I do? I don't know how do you get I think that would be a marketing hook
This is the ice like you see it on the shelves. This is the fastest made ice cream possible. Yes
You're like, I don't care how it tastes
Like no, we made it really fast. I just but honestly the worst ice cream you've ever had still pretty good
It's like pizza. I know. Did you ever make it? Uh when you were growing up? No
No, we had an ice cream maker. So I ate snow. Is that count?
Yellow snow
Scott of course, of course you did it's slavery
It's like a nice slushie. You're in flavored slushie, of course
Um, so what we do is we have celebrities on first and then we have comedians on and they are playing fake people
That we interview that's the formula of the show some call them characters
A lot of people call them characters. I refuse to
Yeah, you always say fake people, right? Yeah, but but yet I call them fake people
They're very real to me. They're not characters. They're fake people
Um, that is the format of the show. We have uh, usually a real person and then a bunch of fake people
That's that's if you're listening to this. That's what it is and paul
Because he is on the show so often
Uh, he does these best ofs with me and he sits there hoping that his clips get on to the best hoping and praying
And you know, I turned my back on God a long time ago, but when we started doing these shows
I rediscovered prayer. Yeah the power of prayer the power of prayer my prayers have been answered
They have many times. Do you think they'll be answered this year? Did you did you want to be on the best of?
It's in God's hands. I did want to be on the best ofs this year, but if I'm not
That's God sending me a message and that message is I'm done with you and so I will turn my back on him again
Okay, so we'll see. Yeah, that's this is a big tease for the episode. We'll see if paul turns his back on
All conditional. Yes. It's like, please god let this happen or
I will turn my back on you. How do you think you did this year?
Do you think how do you think you'll be right? I think it's been a very good year
It's been a lot of fun shows and uh, I hope I'm in there at least once. Yeah, a lot of people are saying
paul, I don't know how you feel about this because I know you're a listener. You're not just uh, uh participant
You also remember uh, that this is the best year in comedy bang bang history. Really?
Her story, sorry
Them story, okay, they them story. Are people really saying that a lot of people are saying it is I mean, uh,
You know a lot of people have fondness for for the year that they first started listening. That's what I've noticed
Sure the year they got into the show there like that was the best year
Yes, but a lot of people are saying that somehow I don't know what happened
But the show has catapulted into another stratosphere this year. I mean look a lot of great guests
It's been a lot of fun. It's been very silly. Um, some new blood coming in and reinvigorating the franchise
Reinvigorating the saggy bloated franchise this tired old workhorse has just had a fresh bag of votes
Well, we said we would talk about it that there were two distinct eras this year
um, but actually it's a little more like three because we
When we say it's the best of 2022 because of when we need to get all the votes in
We start post Thanksgiving of the previous year. That's right. So there we started in the last Monday of thanks
Of november rather of 2021 and we go through the I think the third
Week of november of 2022. So the three distinct eras were
In 2021 we were still in the studio because mid 2021 the vaccines came out and everyone was kind of comfortable being in the studio again
Then cut to
2022 come the new year
The covid started kind of getting a resurgence. It was like slash Fauci
And it it seemed cool again and so people people were like hey, I kind of like this thing
Yeah, so we had a good probably
Four
months, I think where we were taping all the shows in the backyard now
I've been taping them over zoom during the
First part of covid because no one knew if it was even good to be in the backyard
If you'll recall paul, we were doing three-dom episodes in the backyard. Yes, and we were doing them so far apart
We were about 20 25 feet away from each other
Uh using really long microphone cords and headphone cords
And we were super far away from each other and then the science
Got a little more locked down and people were like, oh no, if you're outside even if you're close, there's very little chance
of
of
Getting it receiving it or giving it
So we did a bunch of shows in the backyard for a good four months or so that
Where we were a little bit closer. We were kind of but it was outside
Now celebrities would not come to those shows usually because it's a little strange to say like, hey come to my backyard
And do a show. It doesn't seem professional. Now these would be people
I would I would imagine by and large people that have never done the show before and so they hear about this and they're like, what?
No, we did have some good celebrities. We had uh, uh, david cross and uh, I'm trying to think of any other celebrity who came
Anders home famous story Anders home came the wrong day. He came the day before the show was supposed to tape
And he was all excited and I said, uh, you got the wrong day and he said someone's getting fired for this
and I said, well, I hope it's not me and
Turned out it was me. I was fired for like two days
Shit, and then I called up Anders and I apologized infusely. Yes, and he was like he was like, all right. We'll hire you back
So he get that power. I don't know. How did one man get all that power one man should have all that power exactly
So keep attributing that to Kanye, but it comes from Malcolm X. Yeah
Exactly, and I think it's a quite like he invented that he got it from Noah
I remember Noah saying that and that's why he got rid of all the men when he after like when he was building the ark
He's like this fucking sucks
No one man should have all that power to make me do this and it was god. He's good. Yeah, yeah
Um, but yeah, Anders came one day. It was the wrong day
He came back the very next day when the show actually was scheduled
So we had a few celebrities, but by and large we did a few
Just all character episodes where people were just
being characters and
Something about the energy of those was very relaxed. I got to do a couple those. It was really fun. It was nice. It was fun
So that that was the backyard era
and then come probably may around when the
the
13th anniversary episode came out then we came back into the studio because things calmed down a bit
Now maybe we go to the backyard again. I don't know. I don't know. We'll talk about it a little later in the show
We don't know
So those are the eras this is also has been the oh no
The the year of oh no right where a lot of our guests said the phrase oh no
And what started that?
We'll uh, we'll talk about that in the countdown. I think I know a particular episode. Okay where it started
I think that I know and I am going to
Before when you when we get to it. Yep
I want you to say this is the one. Okay, and you'll say what it is any other information
I'll tell you that that there were two weeks in a row where everyone said oh no, but but and that's how I caught on
Yeah, every single person was on the show ended up just saying oh no
Um in any case so when we get to the first example of it, I will say this is the one. Okay, um
Paula are you ready to get to it? This is exciting one very quickly right before we dive in. Yeah earlier
You said the phrase post Thanksgiving and all I could think about was saying to you
What if I started a music career as post Thanksgiving and it was me singing but I have uh tattoos of turkeys all over my face
And it was all I could think about while you were talking and I didn't hear anything
Okay, great. And were you happy when you were thinking about this? I was so happy
I was so happy
It's to me. It's like if I if it was if the matrix were real. Yeah, that's where I would be
Yeah, instead of who you are not even being post Thanksgiving. It is real and you're thinking about yes, exactly. Unfortunately
Let me red pill you by the way. Who please during the break. I will not take my diarrhea medicine
Okay, this is this is
Very exciting. We're about to get to it. Paul. Are you ready? Yeah, man. We're doing
A lot of episodes this year more how many it was a very strong year. We're going to do a top
17 this year
Top 17. Can you imagine? I can't and I wish you told me that before I would not have agreed to do this. Oh really?
How many would you can we
You pushed it to 15 and I was like that's a lot
If you had done top 16, I would have said, okay, but this is the last time
Okay, but now I'm in top 17 without warning. Yeah. Well, I'm giving you the warning now. So set your expert
When you said post Thanksgiving, I was thinking about post Thanksgiving cereal
What I said it to you. Yeah talking about when you said that's all I was thinking about while you were talking about
Having a turkey tattoo. This is a real ohenry
Do you think so post I mean post cereals are essentially raisin bran is the famous one, right? Yes
So if they did a Thanksgiving cereal, it would be cranberries
With turkey flavored
Serial
Yeah, it'd be cranberries with turkey flavored cereal sounds good. It does sounds good
Good to me and they have the cranberries on the box. That's right. The anthropomorphic cranberries. Not the band. Oh, oh got it
Yes, rest in peace should de laura de laura. So reared and de laura. So reared and yes zaha ambi
Um, all right, let's do it
Here we go. Wait is Shirley Manson still alive? Yeah from garbage. Yeah, okay
All right. That was the name I was thinking of when I was trying to come up with de laura. So reared and yeah
Well, there were uh contemporaries stay alive. Shirley. Please matter. We need you. I will find you
I have not seen that move nor have I um, oh we should do it. Um, all right. Here we go
Let's do it. We're breaking into the comedy bang bang best of 22
This is your choice for episode number 17
All right, let's let's address the elephant in the room
I thank you scott because we have to talk about it. We have to talk about
Before we get to the clip teach the controversy
Okay, so we didn't re-record the best of numbers. No as we have said we were going to do for the past four five years
10
probably
Every year. Okay. So so I think the first year 14 years ago when we did the best ofs
We were I was looking for those cheesy little
Like am radio
Number countdowns cheesy. I think they're elegant. They are but I mean they're from the 70s or
And so I found them on and I'm a 90s bitch
I found them online and and there were it was only one through
10
And and we do more
Clips than that. So uh, we've had to say number one seven like you just heard
And so every year we're like we should re-record these ourselves
And then we asked people to remind us to do it this year the best part
Yes, and we said we definitely will do this this year. Yeah, and to prove it
You need to remind us on this day and we set a day
I think it was like yeah, like in june or something
I feel like it was in the middle of the tour or something because I just we were we were looking in august
We looked down at this and we're like, we're not gonna do no
And I had a baby on the way in a month as just like there's in fact a lot of people on tour
I do recall this because uh, paul and I
Talked to fans in the pre-show q&a's
A lot of people said hey, we just want to remind you to record the best ofs. Yes
and I said
We definitely are going to do this in october
Barring any sort of like huge life event
Happening to me, but you knew this. I knew this was happening in october. So you had the tracking info on that, baby
It was it was past label created
This baby was on the way
It's into shipping center in woman's stomach
So that was a little cheeky on my part, but uh, and we were sort of playing it off like a huge life event
Like one of us dying or something, but uh, yeah, there was no way we were gonna record this. No
No, and we never will except we will do it next year if you remind us if you remind us every single day
Every single day for the month of july july. What do you want to say? Yeah, july if if uh, and i'm not saying like one person
Uh, like, you know, hey jim jim reminds us on july 1 and andrea reminds
No, i'm saying like all of you have to remind us every day in july everyone named jim and andrea has to do this
Jim's andrea's your task has been set
So we will do it next year definitely 100 no lie. This is a promise and a swear
We will do it next year. I kind of like the old numbers though. They sound good
Yeah, I mean you we could keep one to ten. That's sure we could keep saying one to ten. Who should we get involved in this?
Everybody who can sing that we know that we know
Okay, so who's this zack and jess tawny. Yeah, amy man
Oh, oh, okay beyond just coming back back. Absolutely. Bring them all in
nick lowe
Um, all right, let's get to it. This is number 17 and uh, this is episode
774 can you imagine doing that many episodes of something? No, it's too many
We did even more than that. Fuck. This is episode 774 from september 12
2022 my
birthday
Yes
Is september what 12th? Oh, oh, oh, oh, why?
It is it was your birthday that day that's right and we celebrated by putting out this episode what a gift to me
Yes, what a gift. What a gift. Um, this is an episode titled
Inflation
Inflation, I'm pronouncing that correctly not inflection
inflection
and uh, uh, uh, this the participants are
Can I say one? Yeah, hammy hammy. It's hammy time. You can't touch this
Is
He should john ham should as a commercial for one of his many commercials
Yes, he should definitely dress up in hammer pants and do the hammer dance
What the fact that he hasn't done this is in a front tree to us. It's absurd
It's absurd. I mean if you were amazon or progressive or apple or Mercedes or one of his companies
What are you sitting on your hands here? He does santa claus for the world cup before he does
Hammer hammer mc. Hammy mc. Hammy come on man progressive look progressive does all these these these various campaigns
So there's the one where he's in love with flow. Yeah
They should have spun him off into his own progressive thing. There's mc. Hammy. Yes
He dresses okay, and this is you can't touch this deal on insurance. He dresses up like mc. Hammy
With flow just so we have the continuity
Yes, and then at the end flow says i'm just not interested and he walks off camera right
Yes, and then cut to he walks on camera left and says i'm going to be my own commercials from now on
Yes
So we stay tuned we get like a little scenes from a marriage where he walks off the set
Why did they do that? I don't understand why they did that but he says stay tuned and then you have to leave your tv on
Stay tuned. Yeah
You have to leave it tuned to the channel that you were just watching like people say still they still say stay tuned
Even though you don't tune your tv's you know what's funny is that people still address podcast listeners as viewers
viewers
I I had trouble with that because I was used to saying it on tv and and I had to every I would go view
I mean listeners. Yeah, it's very very difficult
But i'm talking about people who've never been on tv you're saying viewers
Yeah, our viewers will want to know this like what are you fucking talking about?
Although maybe you're listening to something that occasionally has a video feed
I'm talking about like the news
You're listening to the news. I'm listening to the news. What news?
The northeast west and south news my dear boy. Oh that news. Yes
All right, so john ham is an old friend of ours
I've known him gosh
Probably for two years before he was on madmen
We used to play poker together over at his at his place and he was uh, always the uh, very talented actor
Who could never get a break could never catch a break
Was always at poker at poker. He's a terrible poker player worse actor
He was uh, uh, a guy who he would get cast in pilots and uh, they would they would never go
And he would have like bit parts in shows like the unit. I don't know if you remember the unit
David mammoth, I believe co-created that as well as sean ryan from the shield. Oh, no, thank you. Um, it was pretty good
He'd be on like three episodes and we go. Hey, you were great john and we go
Oh, when is he ever gonna get a show and then one day he said oh, i'm on this show on amc and we went the movie channel
Get the fuck out of here. You fool. You fucking idiot and we kicked him out of his house his own apartment
Wow
What the fudge can you imagine? That's rude
And then I remember we were playing poker at his place and I was like, I hear your show is pretty good
And he's like, oh, let me give you some videotapes. It was still videotapes
Boy, you're yawing. What no, no, maybe it was dvds. He wouldn't yeah
It might have been videotapes because I remember it being very chunk. It was probably dvds. Yes, of course
Yeah
That show was on in the 2000s
I had I requested they give me vhs's
I just remember it being a clunky package and him like giving me season one and it just took up a lot of space
But maybe it was dvds. Maybe I think it probably was. Yeah. Anyway, he gave me the dvds and uh, he gave you a hard drive
He gave me a computer
That's nice. That's very nice. He must have been doing pretty well
But uh, the rest is history, of course, I watched uh, those dvds and the show became famous
Don't want to make a connection, but you're free to do so
In any case, he's been doing this show comedy bemig since the beginning since the very first year
Always a great friend of the show. He had a movie come out in september called flech
Which is why the the title of the show is in flechion
I believe we even say it in this clip that we're going to listen to. Oh, okay
The other participants are we're not going to hear from him in this clip
But devonfield the very funny devonfield who has started doing the show this year
Ever since the speed for skanks giving special skanks giving skanks giving. Is that what it was called? Yes
Of of last year, I hadn't met him and uh, shondistan cast him as
Someone who is going to be important to the show in the future
And which then made me say well, we needed to come true. So I started using him. He's very funny
We're not going to hear from him, but we are going to hear from lily sullivan
Can I just take this moment to give a shout out to lily sullivan paul?
It is time to do that. She's so funny
You've done it too early in previous best. I know right on time at this point. I know i'm so glad
lily sullivan she uh
She's very very funny. She's been doing the show for I don't know three four years at this point something like that
my wife and I recently had uh
Like not really an argument, but we were each
Throwing pots and pans at each other. Yeah, well, we that's just the thing we do because we hate our neighbors
Um, so we think as much noise as possible trying to scare them away
We keep saying every time we see them on the stream we're like our house is haunted. It's pretty haunted
I think they talked about haunting other houses in the neighborhood
um, but we had a little um
Uh, uh disagreement about who was the bigger fan and I was saying I was she was saying she was on the um
The rock and roll hall of fame. I believe jimmy jam and terry lewis
They uh, one of them the one who talks more said we've never had an argument
Because I don't want to win anything that he would lose
We've had disagreements
Wow
Yeah, wow. Yeah, I've I thought that was love. Yeah, I thought I thought it was an interesting thing to say
Are they still married?
Remember when morris day officiated on stage at a time show? They didn't know they were getting married
And after it was like ha ha I married you
Okay, so lily sullivan uh, very funny comedian
She does a ton of characters on this show and the one you're gonna hear is bridget jones
Now she started doing bridget jones when we were on tour debut. Uh, we did uh, uh a lot of dates in august of this year
And lily did approximately four or five of the dates and she she did bridget jones on tour
And um, this is the first episode she did in the studio with bridget jones
And uh, this is of course her doing the real bridget jones that the movies are based on and may I say this is uh
This is the most recent time, but it's also as of now the last time
That she's ever she will do bridget jones. Yes. That's right. Yes. She will never do she may do it again
I don't know but as of right now. It's the last time she'll ever do it. That's true
We may change our minds
Um, but yeah, so we're gonna hear this clip. This is uh john ham and lily sullivan as bridget jones
This is your number 17
She's a famous diarist. Please welcome to the show bridget jones. What's up? How are you doing? I'm good. Hey bridget. This is john
Hi, nice to meet you. How are you doing? Listen, you guys got mad wrong. It's not a diarist. It's diarrhea
Oh, it is diarrhea. That is what you call me. Okay, so just get it straight straight out the gate
Wait, does is everyone which weirdly is how diarrhea comes straight out the gate
Straight out the gate has everyone been mispronouncing the movie titles. Is it bridget jones diarhea?
Bridget jones is diarhea
Okay, wow
To be fair, I never saw any of the movies nor did I read the diarrhea. I saw that first one
I don't remember any of these scenes where bridget jones said, excuse me. I have to go
Well, listen the guy mad wrong like hollywood took that story my diarrhea
From way back when and they changed the shits a lot. So they messed up. Okay. That's right now
You and I met on tour we met on tour. We're this is in uh, boston. Is that right? We were in new york
You were in new york. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, the city of lights
The city that doesn't sleep
The city with the trash everywhere city so nice. They named it twice. They did new york that city
That's so nice. They named it twice. They named it twice new york new york. We met there and you uh, uh, we talked a little bit
There about what did we talk about?
well, so basically like
23 years ago or whatever as they bought me diarrhea off me
The hollywood people no offense or whatever
I don't remember who was whatever, but you'd remember if it was wine. Yeah, for sure. Your plants would remember. I'll tell you that
So, you know who he is today
Talking about m frank and now this is right when I get on
And woody ellen don't forget
Should we talk about michael jackson while we're here? I mean it's it's right there
So listen, yeah, they be buying my diary off me for nothing like 35 quid or something like that low nothing
I'm like, yeah, I should take this. How much is a quid?
I don't know it's because I know you can get one for every quo. Yeah, it sounds like it's four dollars
Because of quad quad quid quad. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the exchange rate is
Regardless, it's relatively low. It was super low. It was like full dollar like full dollar 35
So it's like a quarter. Yeah, like absolutely nothing
And I'd be like, okay. Well, yeah, like go ahead and take it
Then they go make this big movies with zell wiggers renais and and cullen and hug grunk
Hugh grann I believe
You know, you don't really hit that hug. You don't hit that first g
Hug grunt famous lover of blowjobs Hugh Grant
He's on record as loving him really don't always say I love it. It's like my favorite thing in the world
I believe that's his quote
That's the proofs in the pudding. I mean if I can bring it back to diarrhea the proofs in the pudding
Look, we all love blowjobs probably probably you never have one
You don't know
Bridgette what
You want me to keep talking? Yeah
Okay, um
Yeah, so they they buy me diarrhea for me for literally nothing
Then they go they make this big movie. They make all this money. I'm like, what the shit
So I didn't get any of that. I'm so sorry. I'm like, I'm gonna go back to drawing board work on me diary
Then sells it make lots of money. Yeah, because they bought the old diary. They can diary by nature is every day, right?
Yeah, I'm like, so I'll work on me diary and then now 23 years later. I'm basically done with the shits
I'm ready to make a new movie. Right took me that long, but I got some entries. I got like six or sevens entries
Okay, mad entry. Are you are you will this be starring you will you actually get to star in your own story?
Well, this is what the thing is like I'm like 55 like
But I want to tell like a young story. So I'm fine with like a young hot bitch playing me. You know what I mean
Yeah, I mean bridge you here. You're 55. You're kind of I mean like a butter face. And so, you know, it's not like you have
Don't get me started with this
Looking at you. I forget your face immediately
It's like, you know what you look like. What's that you remind me of like a gyoza a gyoza the dumpling
Yeah, you're like fried and like full of meat
Interesting and like you stupid not hot like a cold one. Hmm interesting. Okay
What what that's what you look like. What's that? So don't call me a butter face. I know I'm mad hot
Is it what do you call a butter face in England? Does it call something different smear?
Just a smear. So you're like a smear. So you you want someone who's a little bit younger to start in the movie
Yeah, like I want a movie to sell or whatever. I want to make mad money. Like I'm not stupid
Like put the fucking hot bitch in right like who who like today's renaise elwiger. Yeah, who would that be?
I don't even know. Well, so like I got entry about it. Ashton kutcher. Yeah, ashton kutcher. Yeah, probably
Okay, so you have an entry though. You say yeah, I have entry. I can share with you because I want to give us a taste
Taste of what what what the story might be and then we can maybe we can cast it
Because john johnny here. I know some people you can do an english accent, can't you?
Uh, yeah, I certainly I wait is that it I can I can certainly try to do one. Yeah, right
That's mad good
That's what I thought. Yeah, that's mental. He sounds exactly like me dad. Oh, great bridge. Let's read it
That's mental
That's absolutely mental
Okay, let me read me diary entry. Okay. Okay. Here we go. This is bridge at jones
A recent diary entry or something from the past 20th. Like I'm in LA, you know, like I'm taking in the city
Like going to target going to like home depot
All the places right off sunsets
I'm going to game stop you just stop
I'm going to what's that burrito place?
I'm going to netflix offices
Okay
Yeah, so like I'm taking in the city, you know what I mean? So here we go. Okay
Did ira
It's me bridge jones from bridge jones is ira
It was a typical hollywood morning woke up to the sounds of people's assholes being bleached
Put on me stumpers and headed out for a bit of brekkie
Ordered me self a cup of jiggie jizz and a plate of squally squog
When all of a sudden in walks famous hollywood girl
Allyson williams
I knew this would be my moment. So I got them
So I told them I told her all about me diary idea and insisted that she play me since I know
That everybody wanted tiggy hoiggy and poppy her dog
But then out of nowhere she'd be yelling at me to get away
Something about me asking too many questions about her notch
But then it hit me
Clearly she was intimidated by me and me diary and scared I was coming for all of her quid and quill
But then again, who wouldn't be love bridge?
Okay, okay a lot of potential there. I mean
So this is going to be a movie about your character going up to allyson williams and no getting into a fight
I think I was listening. No, you've been like mid-century modern furniture right now. You're pointy. You don't make sense
Okay. All right. I accept that criticism make no sense. Right, but uh, I mean, that's one of the like the set pieces in the movie
No, listen, I'm trying to approach her. Have her play me. She's hard to shit. You know, she's a good singing voice
Yeah, she played peter pen. Yeah, like that's me. Yeah, like I look like peter pen
Like she could madnail me, you know, I mean, but didn't you say that the movie was going to be based on these diary entries?
Just
Williams would then in this scene
You and then who would be playing alice and williams?
brian williams
I think she goes up to her dad and
Can I put this wig on?
I'd be honored to get brian williams. You think we can get him b dubs. Do you think he retired just for this?
He might he might he would do it. He likes he would he loves nothing more than a challenge
He loves a camera on him. He would play young me
Our lesson would play old me right. We have this conversation in the lily garden circles
Yeah, yeah, but uh, I'd love to hear more of your entries. Do you have more entries for you?
You're like begging for them. You're like fucking horny for them. I'll give them to you, I guess
Freaking out. He wanted them so bad. Okay
Did I uh
It's me
Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones' Diary Out which is going to be a script someday
It was a typical hollywood afternoon walk down the street to the sounds of plastic surgeons breaking people's noses
Popped in a shop for a bit of lunch and ordered me self a massive slimy bimey topped with stinky snappies
When all of a sudden in walks famous hollywood person billy ray syris
Whoa, wow, I knew this is gonna be my moment
So I tell him all about me diary movie and ask if you want to play me love interest because I know
Everyone wants to empty dump tea is prickly pog
Then how did nowhere he says he's gonna throw me out on me cheeky donka
Something about all the pictures I drew on me iPad of him exposing his fruit basket to Miley
Then it hit me
Clearly this man was intimidated by me in my diary and scared. I was coming for all of his lockets filled with pictures of dead people in them
Is that how he keeps his riches?
Then again, who wouldn't love bridge?
Okay
Interesting. What what's that face? So this whole movie is just you accosting
Like f-list celebrities is it me making my movie like okay like think about all the movies about making movies
The recent down to nabby movie
Which is just insane
That they're making a movie a talky in down to nabby and the butler starts writing the script
I didn't I didn't know any of this. This is my crazy. Yeah, make sure you don't uh have too much crossover with that
I was wondering though Bridget. I do very big news out of the empire today. I don't know
We may be covering that on a future show
We could certainly not talk about it if you don't want to. Yeah, but are you are you uh gutted?
For a very old one
She was a young 96
I'm so sorry. I'm so here. Let's take your mind off this. Let's read another entry
I know you're mad horny about it
Okay, here we go
Okay, dear dear diarrhea. It's me Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones's diarrhea the movie to be
It was a typical hollywood night called me an uber to the sounds of actors crying
Snuck a bevy and ordered me self a happy baby with the sight of chimichanga
When all of a sudden in walks the famous hollywood robot leo michelle
I knew this was my moment
So I tell her that there's some outlets over there so she can charge herself to 100 percent and get back to not reading
When all of a sudden in walks ellen from ellen
I ask her if she wants to play me mom and me diary movie since I know everyone wants to dunk in donuts her guinea pigs
And then out of nowhere she'd be saying she's gonna slice me noggy with a dvd the da vinci code because I looked at her in the eyeballs
But then it hit me clearly this woman was intimidated by me and thinks that i'm coming for her princess diana beanie babies
Then again who wouldn't love bridge
Okay, so this is a lot happening in that one. Yeah, this is a double celeb side. That was a that was a big one
Lea michelle and ellen lea michelle was like the misdirect. Yeah ellen comes in and cleans up
Yeah, I see ellen. She she knew lea michelle was there their friends. Um, well bridgett. This is uh, I don't know if this
Any of this makes a good movie, but
Here's what i'm thinking i'm thinking
seven episodes
Right to streaming
And keep it as almost a reality show
Yes, let's because i'm i want to see these interactions between these these let's call them marginally famous people
Yeah, and and and bridgett jones and then and i want to see how they how they interact
Yeah, all up and and down sunset boulevard. I feel like i'm open to it
Like if you can get me mad meetings like i'm down for whatever like i don't want to be stuck here looking like scott
You know, I don't want to be like like a play a empty tupperware like always stinky
Wait, I gotta write me another entry. You're writing one right now. I'm writing one right now. You're inspiring me scott
All right. I'm like, oh gosh. It's just coming out of me. It's pouring out of me
You want me read it? Oh, yeah while you're writing read as you're right. Please please dear diarrhea
It's me bridget jones from comedy bang bang
It was you can say that you're from well, she's well, she's here right now
So I was on the one episode of the jimmy kimmel show. I wouldn't say scott auger from the jimmy kimmel show
I wouldn't care to from my podcast comedy bang bang
It was a typical earwarp afternoon
Dragged me self a massive bottle of water and then wrote me name on the table with a drying sharpie
When all of a sudden in walk
Not famous tiny angry baby men scott ockerman
I knew this was gonna be my moment
So I called me manager to tell him that if I die here today because scott kills me
To give me ashes to tom cruise can so you can spread him over the mountains in his tiny plane
But then it hit me clearly scott ockerman was intimidated by me and thinks i'm coming for his hentai
Hey now this hentai thing
I don't know how this got started. What are you talking about?
I don't know how this rumor got started that i'm into hentai. You love hentai
I don't know. I saw all your likes on twitter like every single like hentai hentai hentai hentai
And then once sure I accidentally just tweeted hentai gifts
Because I was searching for it
What I don't know bridge it I'm not I'm not I don't think this would make a good movie is my main
Yes, I'm personally insulted by that last entry, but I just don't know that this are you not entertained
Like aren't you mad horny for like every entry like yes, but johnny you you want to be attached to this movie
I don't want to be attached to it at all
I don't want to be in the in the same room with it really
But I would say that there is a place on on like a like a like not peacock, but like peacock minus
Yeah, I see so like not yeah, see see so if you see so things say something. Yeah
Like negative paramount. Yeah pegged of my pegged of
Paramount minus madman. Did you ever ever call pegged pegged of pegged of accidentally pegged of that's what the money is for
You're being pegged of
What a clip
That kind of clip to me
Is what clips are all about. Yeah, it's it's like
A portion of the show instead of the whole show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
That's what clips are all about to me really gets to the heart of what clips should be
Man if I was listening to a clip show and they just played the entire episode
I'd say you got this is not this is not a clip show my man
My brother in christ
Um, let's talk about a few things hentai is mentioned
my this is uh
Let's talk about why this started that started on tour right started on tour in
North carolina is that where we were maybe?
Um, where conor brine showed up. I just remember for all the tour. I remember we were in city
I had to keep track of them because I would say absolutely
Whatever city it is
No, we were I believe we were in north carolina and tim balts was there
Lily's husband tim balts who people would know from the righteous gemstones
You would also know lily from the righteous gemstone. She plays tim's sister. I believe that's right. Um, and
He was there doing the one episode that he could get away from the righteous
He was filming during at this time and north carolina was relatively close to where he was filming
so he was able to drive in and
He was there and I I said hentai as a reference
Not knowing what it was and praying that because a lot of times when I throw out a reference
I'm like, am I getting this right? Sure and 50 percent of the time. I'm not well
And I like those odds
But I threw it out as and I forget what I was referencing but I was like sitting there going
I hope this is like an anime porn thing
And I from what I understand. It's also a tentacle porn thing. Is that right? That's what I understand it to be
Is uh, and of course, I think we even got into this on the tour not maybe not on stage but backstage
There was that um, there was a journalist who
uh
posted like a screen he posted a picture and you could see
His computer tabs and it was all one of them was like hentai
And he's like, oh, yeah, I was uh
Researching my my wife had never she'd never she didn't know what that was and I was showing her what it was
So great, yeah
And of course, there's the classic porn gifts
Which is one of the best tweets of all time and and somebody said he never took it down. He never deleted it
Hey, I wouldn't I respect that
I wouldn't I wouldn't I'm proud to search for porn gifts
Well, so I mentioned it as a as a reference just hoping I was I was making a funny reference to something lily and tim capitalized on it and
Uh, now lily cannot be on an episode where she doesn't mention my supposed hentai very true
She also, uh
I was eating a salad backstage and she got on stage and and talked about how I was eating something that looked like shit
Yes, and it was and people are like, well, he must have been eating something disgusting. It was a salad
She just she made all that up and said I was waiting people were questioning like what could he have been what could you have been eating?
That was so disgusting that lily's making this weird character to say that no just eating a salad just eating a salad
Let the man live let me be
I just want to leave my salad. Let him eat his goddamn salad. Paul. Here's a tease
Fuck here's a tease for a future episode. Okay
Now that episode that we just listened to that clip clip. There was a certain
comedy bang bang fan
listening to that episode at home
That had a very particular reaction to it
And we will be talking to them in the new year very particular. Liam Neeson. Yes. Yeah, he was taken
He's like, okay, this is happening. Take it about the rapture, right? Yeah
His keys and shoes are there
Don't need no shoes in heaven
Boy, that's true. Yep. I like that. There are people in the rapture who people who believe in the rapture who are
There's two different camps
There are the people who think that all of your earthly possessions will stay but your body just leaves, right?
So there's like a pile of clothes you leave a pile of clothes and you're watching everything and then there are people who are like, no, everything disappears
Either is stupid
Exactly
It should just be like no your dead body stays and your soul goes. Yes, of course
Anyway, so what are they nude everyone's nude in heaven? I guess so although that sounds like heaven to me
Well, that was that's exciting to hear that a tease for a future episode, isn't it?
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Okay
Yep, and when we come back, we're gonna be still counting down these episodes. You believe we're still gonna be doing it
We're gonna still be doing it. All right. We'll be right back with more comedy bang bang after this
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Hey, we're back coming back back back of 2022
That's true. That's a good point. Did that make you mad that I brought us back from the break? It did because that's my bailiwick
Did you feel cucked?
Well, also you were having sex with my wife while you did
Uh, welcome back scott augerman here. We're here with paul f tompkins and uh, we're counting down your choices for the top
17 this year and we're happy to do it. We're happy. I mean, I'm happy to do it. I'm happy to do it
Paul's a little annoyed. We're doing 17. No, I was joking. He was joking. He loves it. I was joking. I love it
But why don't we get to uh, you know what comes after 17 right 18?
Yeah, but instead we're gonna go the other way. What?
We started at 17 and went all the way up to 52 and never got to the best episodes
um, all right, let's uh
Do it. This is your choice for episode 16
All right episode 16
paul last uh number 17. We had 774
So we're we're in the latter
part of the 700s
So this is episode 707 d
Okay, so this is before four weeks before and
That last one you said was september 12th
So this is subtract four from that. So september 8th
Good math
Now this is august 15 of 2022 the eyes of august the eyes of august. We were on tour while this was uh released
We were out there entertaining america. So we must have taped it before august anything could have happened like we weren't here
To monitor the situation. That's true. And this is what happened. Yeah, it's a good episode. It's like we shouldn't be here more often
We shouldn't be here
It checks out. I'd love to meet you here less often
Come here never
What were you gonna say about gremlins, uh
I don't know but I was gonna say something you were gonna say something
The idea that we were that the the episode was we were away from the episode so anything could have happened
Yes, the gremlins like when the gremlins went nuts. Oh my god. That was the thing about gremlins though
I noticed in those two movies. They didn't give a shit if people were around or not
They were just really gremlins gonna be gremlins. They weren't they worried that they would be hunted to extinction
I know you would think so and they were in both movies
They died in both movies. I don't remember gremlins too. I saw it, but I don't remember it. It is a good
Subplot. I think it's in grem. We we just watched it for my sister show scott s and c which I listened
And it's just a crazy movie. It's crazy. It's good though. I it is a good subplot of like
Hey, all of the bad gremlins come from this really nice one gizmo. We need to execute gizmo
It's a good subplot
All right, this is uh episode 770 and the title of this paul is called she garbage people
Oh, this is vaguely I mean I recognize that title. I could not tell you
What happened and I'm pretty sure
I was there. I believe you were there. Who do you think?
Was the based on the title who do you think the celebrity was who was in this?
I think it was tatiana massliny it truly was that's right the she hulk herself
Tatiana mislany
She is in this episode. This is another studio episode two studio episodes are
The celebrities were back indeed. That's right. Tatiana is another friend of ours
She graduated from fan to friend
She was promoted
She she used to be a fan of the show. She used to when she was filming orphan black she used to
Listen to the show while biking to and from sets. She and christian brune her co-star on orphan black
they both bonded over their enjoyment of the show and
Then she I forget how oh, yeah, that's right. She she reached out
Because I knew her publicist and wanted to come to a live show when she was uh at comic con for orphan black
And so she really met her that's where the first time right? Yes. I don't know if you were there though
I met her at comic con at a comic con event. Okay, you know what? It was you were not in that show though. I was not
Are you sure? I it was derrick waters taran and jw still water. Yes. I was there. You were there. Yes. I was
Holy shit. Oh, you were really late
You were coming from another show. Oh coming from another show coming from another show. Okay. Yeah, you were super late
And by the way, who uh, you know who opened for that show aquafina
Doing her rap
What doing her raps for your show for how many bang bang? Yeah, when did you what? Yes?
This is this is I mean quite a few years ago. This is seven years ago eight years ago
It was aquafina wait. Do you mean nor from queens? Yes, nor
um, I
Yes, that show I think I was doing a thrilling adventure hour show
Ah, and I was coming from that. That's right. Okay. So derrick and taran were coming from the dinner
That's right. And they were kind of late and they were they were texting me kind of going like hey
We're late. We're trying to leave. We're trying to leave. Anyway, so that uh, but in any case
Wait, I think I got there before them. Yeah
So not only was I there. I was also on time
You're always there though
Always on time
I
Didn't shanti have a song about punctuality. What if you didn't know who shanti was and you thought it was just like my catchphrase
Like my shazam
Are you turn into a creature shanti is just as stupid as shazam the name
All names are stupid. Yes. All names are stupid
Okay, so in any way, uh in any way, um,
Tatiana Tatiana and christian came to the comedy bang bang live show in san diego
Dressed as ninja turtles. Yes, um thinking they had to be disguised
Otherwise they would be mobbed by fans
They were told by they were told because when they would walk around comic con. Yes, they were mobbed by fans
But this was a show that was approximately four or five miles away from this off site off site
And uh, no one cared that they were ninja turtles, but we have very funny pictures of them
If anything people I think avoided them like the play. Yes, we have very funny pictures of them dressed as ninja turtles posing in ninja turtle
poses backstage in an alley
when we met them but so that was where we met and
They've both have done the show over the years and they're great people great friends. They're absolutely lovely people
I have a picture from that. I have a picture on my on my office wall of
Of of me with them when we met for the first time and it makes me very happy when I see it
Yeah, I you know you should we should as humans take more pictures of when we meet someone for the first time
Because they could be our great friends could be your greatest enemy and what a picture to have
Like see this guy. I hate him. This reminds me. I meant to bring this up earlier
You were singing how bizarre how bizarre how bizarre by omc and I was like man
Whatever happened omc or kestrel maneuvers in the car
But
Shouldn't I was like damn it sucks that they were a one hit wonder
I think all one hit wonders one hit wonder songs should be done by one band
The same band
Okay, what?
You know, it's so but it's so bad that like these these poor bands. They only get to have one hit
Yeah, let's make all the one hit wonder songs done by one band. So they have a lot of hits
So
Is this is this new band? Are they covering all of these songs? They're not covering. They just they write them all
Okay, and then
Various people record them. No, they record them so that they get to have all these hits instead of these poor bands
It only gets so this is you're saying going forward. Yes. This is what we should do
This is what we should do is anoint a band to be our one hit to have nothing but hits. Yes
This is a great idea
I mean, I look this band doesn't even exist yet. I'm a huge fan. No, they have so many hit after hit after hit
They it's undeniable. They're great. They're so good. They have a lot of one hit wonders. Yeah, okay, so
If so many one hit wonders aren't there I feel like there's concerts right where they get all those bands together
Yeah, like one hit wonder bands and they all do their they get to do their shit. I think I like that
Yeah, I like it. I've been to a few of those and I like I enjoy them. Okay, so
Tatiana is here and I mean like Elmo and Patsy should be there
Yeah, Elmo from Sesame Street and Patsy Klein
Crazy
Elmo go crazy
Okay, so Tatiana is here
It sounds like Jack the Ripper. He's crazy. He's going walking after him. Wait, what was going on with Patsy Klein?
Patsy Klein was she she was Jack the Ripper. She was giving us clues. Oh, mr. Beliezman
She gave us all the clues hit her songs
Patsy Klein was Jack the Ripper
This makes sense. Yep. So Tatiana, um, she
She's done two episodes. I believe since she was announced as she Hulk
She did one to this was the one where it was coming out this week and she did one earlier just for fun
Um, where we talked about oh, you were just cast as she Hulk and each time she is on the show
We are just doing dumb bits like you've heard Paul and I doing and we
We say fake things that are going to happen on she Hulk this season
And it always makes news
People take it seriously
So the episode before this she uh mentioned that that she was going to be singing in the show
It's not easy being green by kermit the frog as well as fever
Fever makes me laugh so much. It's so out of nowhere and it made
a headline comic book uh
And nerd culture headlines it made nerd headlines
That she hulk was going to be a musical with these two songs in it
And people believed it until the entire season was up and she never did it
And people were like, where were those songs? No people believed it all the way even after she said it was just a fucking joke
Yes, come on guys
So I think that happened on this one as well
She said some fake things and people believed it. I don't know but um
The other thing about this episode is that uh, there's a certain person that paul f. Sompkins plays
Named obi ron kenobi. Tell us about obi ron kenobi obi ron kenobi was a
I can't remember if I just had a name in my phone
That made me laugh
Is a friend of yours that was in your phone. No, no, no, I will I I like keep a note in my notes app of character names
That if I think of a name and it makes me laugh. I write it down
um
And I think I just wanted to do something new and I didn't want to have anything prepared
And I thought that was as good as any jumping off point to have that very specific name
Um, and then not know anything about star wars and where did you do obi ron?
For the first time it must have been on this episode on that episode. This is okay. So
Had you done him yet on the tour? No because you were waiting for this to drop
And I think I even said in this episode
I'll I'll join you on the tour. All right. I'll be there at the end. Yeah. Oh, I'll be there
That's right at the end when we plug things I mentioned we were on tour and you're like, oh, I'll be there
I'm trying to do obi ron kenobi. It's pretty good. Um, so obi ron is anything you want to say about him
Or we're just gonna hear the clip
It was I really did not put a ton of
preparation into this
On purpose. I wanted to just see where it went and
Um, and we found it in the moment. Yeah, a lot of his characteristics that have become classic
Exactly, but it was really. Yeah, it was really it was really fun. I um, well, let's listen to it
Let's listen to it. Let's hear it. This is your choice for episode number 16
Number one
Uh, this is all I know about him. He's an american citizen citizen
Oh
Please welcome obi ron kenobi. Hey there scott. Thanks for having me. Hey, great to meet you. Uh, yeah, this is tatsyana
It's nice to be your hi there. She's playing. Um, how are you doing? She Hulk in the MCU
Okay, if you say so and not uh, not mc. That's not a rapper like mc hammer. It's uh, the marvel cinematic universe
Oh, it's like movies movies. Yeah
Okay, good. Well television shows as well. She's in a television show the cinema. Does tv count as cinema?
I mean, it's an it's a brand extension. Yeah, i'm not real up on pop culture. Oh, really? Why is that?
I don't know. Your name is obi ron kenobi. Yeah
Oh, I get it star wars, right
Oh, yeah, yeah, people bring that up a lot. I've never seen them. Oh, so you didn't name yourself after this is in a
No, my name is obi ron kenobi. It's not a stage name. I'm not a stage actor
Were your parents in
Into star wars or I don't think so
Okay, we never talked about it around the house
Really, do they have a poster up or anything like that? No, I mean, they were parents
So we don't have a lot of posters hanging up. I mean, I had parents aren't allowed to have posters
No, parents are but I don't think parents a lot of parents once you have a baby all the posters come down
Well, you know, when you become a man, you put away childish things. Oh, okay, say paul
Um, but uh, yeah, they they had like framed artwork and stuff, you know what I mean?
Oh, like what like prints or like actual they didn't have any pictures of prints
No, I guess what I mean is to say is did they have the originals for today? Well, I mean, they were like no
They didn't have like, you know, like matisse's or anything like that. No, they had that art that they liked that they would put up
Some prints. Yeah, sure. Okay, great. Yeah, when I was a kid
I didn't have a lot of posters because he was a kid. I wasn't really into uh
Into pop culture. What are you into if you're not into pop culture unpop culture?
What does that mean unpopular culture? I mean, well, I don't I mean, okay
I don't seek out things that are not popular. Okay, make them things that I've been to but I've been to like nature
And I've been to like I was supposed to nurture this
Okay
I've been to like nature as I said
And then also like the sun of sun sometimes the mood
Sometimes like half the day
Yeah, when it's out
When it's when it's not out stuff like that. Well, I'm less interested when it's not out. It's true
I don't look for it. So wait nature the sun
And the moon are your three primary interests? I mean mostly that's a bet rocks rocks. Oh, but you know, uh
Tatiana over here had a rock o'clock
Alarm clock what it was like a alarm clock shaped like a rock. That's so cool
It was Dwayne Dwayne the rock Johnson. Are you familiar with him with his work? No, it's Steve friend of yours
He is not but I would love him to be have you ever seen get smart
Is that a movie? Uh, it's not only a movie but a movie based upon a television show. Oh, I haven't seen either
You haven't seen either. No. Do you know who Don Adams is?
No, there would probably be no reason for you to know who he was without knowing get smart
Trying to remember any other Don Adams role
But uh, the rock was uh, he was he was in the the movie adaptation
Okay, along with Steve Carell from the office
What an American workplace. I don't know. Okay. I'm gonna say one more time
And I'm not mad at you because I've run I've run into this a lot. Okay
I'm not real big of pop culture. Okay. You like you like nature. I like nature the sun the moon rocks
worms
Worms really okay coming up at number five worms. I mean, these are not in order
Oh, oh really what so what if you were to put those five in order? What would the what would the ranking be?
Probably nature number one
Sure, then number two the sun. Okay number three
The mood I'd have to say right before
Um rocks number five where I guess it is it is the exact order. Yeah, I guess it is the exact order
Why are worms so low? I mean, they're the only uh living thing out of the things you've I mean
Although nature I guess there's so but I mean, I should I should fold worms into rocks
Yeah, you're right and probably the sun and the moon
Yeah, I guess but I I don't know I consider those because they're in the sky. They're different true
But I don't consider birds different the nature and they're in the sky there in the sky as well
Yeah, maybe they're not as high in the sky. Maybe uh as long as it's it's not past
How about this here's the because here's the thing I'm not that interested in space
Okay, I am interested like stars. Who cares? I am interested in the wars they're in
Oh, right. Yeah, Star Wars. Yes. Yeah, Obi-Wan Kenobi is who we're talking to. Yes. My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi
Um, and you can go be rod
Rod rod for short, but but your name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yeah, and you want me to call you rod rod
Ron yeah, oh, sorry. Sorry. Do you have a cold? Yeah always
Why do you like nature so much because you spend too much time out in nature? It might be and I'd never wear a jacket. Okay
Do you camp without it? Are you like a wim Hof kind of dude? Oh, what?
Is wim Hof part of pop culture? Is that from star wars? It sounds like it
It doesn't how do you know first of all because people
Believe me. I get grilled about the whole star wars universe and I don't even know what it's about star wars
Here's what here's what I've survived. Yeah from just like absorbing. You know what people have said
It's like an alternate future where the russians have already space race
No, it's the past a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, but there's
It's space right spaceships. Yeah, but uh, they're pretty new
But human history didn't begin here on earth is what they're trying to say. It's uh, no it did
Oh
So wait, what they're trying to say that
Human history started in the past in spaceship world. They're not all human. Well, that's the thing is is like we don't even know like
Some of them who look human are like alderanian. I guess
Tatooinean or some of them are like aliens that play like clarinets and stuff like that. Yeah, you know, have you heard of jizz music?
Hey, man
It's what George I blame George Lucas. I'm not here for this. I blame it for a lot of things. Believe me
I'm not here for this kind of talk. When were you when were you born? Do you mind me asking? I was born in
1972
And okay, so that's five years before star wars was a thing
Okay, so
A year in the expert did your parents not allow you to watch tv? No, they begged me to
why
Because you're always out in nature. I was always outside getting dirty
Yeah, I always I never wore shoes never wore a jacket barely wore a shirt
What do you mean by barely like you are you were wearing it? Oh, yeah
Like my parents would put a polo shirt on me and then I get out there like I just want to feel in nature
And I would take it off
Polo shirts were popular back then they sure were
I remember them being popular in 82 or so
Do you know how I like about a polo shirt is the color is very soft
The color is very soft collar collar. Oh, yeah. Yeah, although sometimes they're made of muted colors as well
That's true. So we're both right. You seem like a really interesting guy ron if I hey, thank you
If I can call you ron literally no one has ever said that to me
What what are you here for? I mean, it's I have an important message. Oh, okay. Uh, should we should we tease that?
We'll do it after the the break Tatiana. You're a television extra. I don't know if it's gonna. I don't know if we should
No, oh really? Yeah, we should get it out right now. Okay. All right. All right. All right
Okay, so I've established that I love nature
You have a step yeah heavily heavily established and so the price is right at the end of the price is right
The host of the price is right says this is something I've been told and I it made me angry
I just learned this today and I was like book me on a podcast because I gotta tell people
He goes and he apparently says at the end of every episode he goes
Um, first of all, I would think he would say what the price is
Because that's the big mystery at the end of the show. They've said that right before just previous to this
Okay, all right. Yeah, this is a little sign-off. I guess. Yeah, and he goes spay and neuter your pets. Yeah. Yeah, and here's what I want to say
Only neuter your pets because then you don't have to spay the rest of them
I guess that's a good
Point although why are we spaying these animals if we just neuter the ones that need to be neutered
Then the spayed ones can go about their business. Here's I would I would differ with you in one respect
Let's spay them all because that takes care of the problem right there
Like if you don't spay some then the ones who are unneutered are going to get in there
I don't think that's fair because I think I think the first sterilization of all the females is what I'm trying to say
Yeah, I know what you're trying to say. I'm saying the opposite
That's what you're all about. That's what this show has been about for the past 13
We're coincidence that I came on to talk about this
And you've been saying the exact opposite thing
I mean
I would say that's the issue is is that we're not going to get to all the dogs that we need to neuter
So let's spay them. We have to is the message. Okay. We have to
And it's not just the dogs. There's also cats
kitty pigs
parrots
You got it. You got a neuter everything
That is in nature that is a male
chop them off
Get them out of there, but you're in nature Ron
Ron or rod rod run. It's never rod
It sounds like rod, but it is Ron. Okay, but that's I understand because of my voice right. Yeah
So local affect. Do you want someone to come and do that to you? No, Ron
You're this is you're putting this on top of it. You're part of nature. Are you not are you part of nature?
Yes, fit off with your balls
You fell into my trap. Is it the ball? I always thought it was the penis. No
It's so it's so you can't get anything pregnant. Right, right, but you still have foot
But shouldn't you just shouldn't you take care of the penis as well while you're down there? Always take care of it
You gotta clean it. It's usually the opposite. It's like while you're down there take care of the ball
If you got a four skid. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh man. That's a lot of work
Okay, so I shouldn't have waited for the uh for the break for that. Nope
I think we made the right call. Okay. All right
number one
six
There it was
Told you he loves nature told you told told you we would play it. Yeah, it was really um, uh, you know to
to
to get to be in a place of
I'm gonna take what comes and you know
Why
What is that? That's a very specific dick. I know and it's very strange
I know we've talked about it on freedom
But anytime you hear a place you go to load. Well, it started as I was in a bad place and then you go
Okay
Which is a shitty little town in california if people don't know central california made famous by credence clear water revival
Oh, what did they say about it? They they're stuck in low die again. Oh, okay. Oh lord
Stuck in low die
again
Can't tell if this is a joke or it is not a joke. It is the lyrics. Okay. I did not know that
I did not know that. Um, I believe there's a prison up there
Wouldn't be surprised. Well, that's lompoc lompoc is the uh, but it's over by there lompoc
Of course, I remember from the movie out of sight. That's right
Very sexy movie. Oh, it'll be stuck in a trunk with jaylo and that big ass. Oh that trunk two trunks two trunks
That's what they were gonna call the movie
You like oceans eight this is two trunks
Ocean day river we saw on the bus
That's right on tour. I forgot
We had to we were uh, we we bought what we thought were train tickets turned out to be a bus
To be fair, they were mostly train tickets and then they turned into bus tickets at one point
and the train was like a
Transformer and it turned into a bus. Yeah, what is terrible transform?
It was sentient and it talked to us the whole way about optimus prime his whole the most boring stories about optimus prime
Like can we at some point we have to re-litigate the transformers now stupid that was it's so dumb. It's so dumb
It's so you know, I I as a as a screenwriter since the 90s
Occasionally my agent will bring me projects and say hey, they're interested in making a transformers movie and this happened to me in
2002 maybe this is no matter what the project is. That's how he puts it
Anyway, here's get smart
I did I did pitch on that I I did pitch on that
But I remember they they brought they said hey, are you interested in pitching on transformers movie?
I said well, it's so stupid. It would have to be a comedy, right?
and
Instead they made the most deadly serious version possible and made a ton of money life or death stakes huge explosions
So great and anytime the lore comes in of like I am optimus prime. It's the all spark
It's so funny to me because it's so dumb. I could turn into a truck
Vroom vroom
My people are a truck like people
Well, that was obi ronkin obi later by the way on the episode katelin reilly came on that was her first episode
She was very funny. Uh, we're gonna take a break paul. I think we should and when we come back
We're still gonna be counting this down if you can believe it
Somehow I can yep. All right. We'll be right back with more comedy bang bang
Somehow counting down feels inevitable in a place like this
Nicole kid man. Nicole kid man. Oh kid man. We're back. Yep. We are back. We you know, my wife, janey and I we watch
Uh, all the country award
Don't try to push it off with somebody else. Yeah, this is like it follows
We we watch all the country award shows because my wife is a country music
And but I I I enjoy watching these shows
But it is like it's like a weird little tv show unto itself where there's artists that I only know from country award shows
That's the only place I see them and hear their music. Well, it's a lot like watching the challenge
um on the one chip on peremount plus
Where it's like what's the challenge the challenge is well, it started as the real real world road rules challenge
This is after 40 years. They were like nobody can say this
By the way, the real world
I didn't mention this on the episode we did about don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
but that was the
Title of the movie originally and the title that the screenwriter really wanted was the real world and unfortunately for him
The mtv show came out
And they couldn't and what a bad title
It was a bad title and he was so bummed that they changed it to don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
Let me tell you this. I don't think don't tell mom the babysitter's dead is a great title, but it's definitely catchy
Yes, you're definitely your head. What what? I'm not supposed to what wait. What did you say?
Why don't tell who the what's dead?
Don't what the who the how don't how the win?
So it's a good title. It's a good title
Um, why were we talking about? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it was the real world road rules challenge
It was originally that and then it got turned into the challenge all stars also all this kind of stuff
They just did a version of it where it took stars from your favorite cbs reality shows
big brother survivor
The price is right
Let's make a deal
But it's like celebrities that you only see on
Those shows it's very funny and you like I know who they are because but you never see them anywhere else
But is kin Jennings the most famous game show contestant has anyone else become not
Charles van doran. Yeah
Um, but I mean nobody else there's has to be someone who was on a game show because nobody else then became famous
You can't get out for being on a game, right?
But you can't get a run going on any other game show like you wheel of fortune
You're not going to be on for multiple episodes. You can only be on one. Yeah
I guess the price is right. You can only be on one. Yeah. I would love to see a price
Like somebody has a run on prices, right? Or they're like, you know what we're gonna bring you back
We're gonna bring you back tomorrow who wants to be a millionaire. They made that miniseries starting the succession guy with his actual accent
The husband of one of uh, uh, uh, oh tom wams gans. Yes, um, matthew mcfadion. Yeah, yes, he's great
He's great. He's always great. I mean, this is all original
And so now anytime I watch succession, I'm like, I heard you speak for real
I was not cheating a millionaire
Um, why did you mention the country music awards?
Because of keith urban and nicole kitman
Yes, they're all of them. They're in the front row. They know the words to every single song
They love it and we we always remember at some point. Oh, yeah, they're australian both of them. Yeah
It's weird that they're there. So when they sing country music the country of australia
That's the cut that's the when you sing country music, you have to picture your country
You have to visualize your country and for them it is australia. Yeah, they picture the movie australia, which she was
in
Yes, she was. Okay, good a bas lerman movie bas lerman movie. She was in and someone else must have been in it
Or was it just her jackman both australians the huge jack man like gigantic australian stars
I saw he got a golden globe nomination and I was sitting there going for what?
I I just saw his name for best actor. I was like for what? Yeah, he's been doing Broadway. Yeah, what could he have possibly been in?
I don't know
We don't know. I thought they weren't doing the golden globes anymore. They should
I honestly thought they went away
It they did for a year and then they came back this year under a provisional basis
and the the funny thing is is
No celebrity could comment on you know how you always reach out to the publicist of like, are you excited to get the award?
Yeah, no, uh dead silence. No one felt like they could comment on being excited
Wow for the golden globes
It's very funny because then it's like and are you aware that they were corrupt before and you were participating in that system?
So I wonder if anyone even goes to oh my god, what's ricky gervais going to say?
I don't think I who's hosting it. I can't recall but uh, I hope it's somebody who speaks truth to power
Yeah, did you hear by the way that the uh, the balance of power in the dc universe has shifted
What?
Who's in charge now?
Is it dark seed or dark side
Dark side because I think that is the pun is the dark side bad. Yeah bad bad work guys. Yep. Jack Kirby blame him
jerby
Jack Kirby your enthusiasm for that name
Jack Kirby your enthusiasm
There's a show
Um, all right, let's get to it. We're counting down your uh, this this episode
We're doing 17
three
13
Let's get to this is your choice for episode 15
All right episode 15
This is episode seven hundred and eighty five. So we're still in the latter
Part of the seven hundred. Yeah, we still are and I'm gonna put this one. This is this takes place in november
It does november 21st
of 2022 and in fact
Is the final episode that is eligible for the countdown
It made it onto the countdown nice work
And this is an episode called buzz year headlines
Buzz year headlines title does not ring a bell
Paul you are not in this one. Maybe that's why that's probably why. Um, I will tell you that uh,
Jason manzukas our friend from the league
And how did this get made?
Still from the league. He'll never not be from the league from the dictator from the dictator from infinite on paramount plus
and uh fucking
Prodigy start trick prodigy. Yeah, he's great on prodigy. Yeah. Um, he's also I believe the mueson x not bubble or something. Yes. He is. Yeah
um
Our good friends, uh, he's on the show quite often
He uh, this was his
First of two episodes back in the studio in the same week. I believe we taped this episode
And then uh, we got a call that something happened in the news
And so he came back the following week and did another episode but
Jason, uh, if you know Jason and he talks about this, I believe on how did this get made he when the pandemic started
he was the um
The person I had I had built up a backlog of I think five or six comedy bang bang episodes
I was really ahead at that point. I was like and then everything got shut down
And I was on a zoom with him
um the first week of the pandemic
And I said so I have five or six episodes. Like I should be good. This will be done, right? And he goes. Oh, no
This is gonna be two years
And I was like what that can't be positive. He goes. Oh, no. Yeah, we're gonna be in our houses for two years
prosecute slash mensukas
And uh, so it actually
Set my expectations accordingly where I was like, oh, he might be right and and we we did weekly
Zooms over the pandemic
Uh, and then we we'd get together in our backyard with him
When it was safe to be with people just outside
and so
Good good friend and he's been on the show ever since the beginning
This is the point he had just on tour
Uh, with how did this get made he he was stepping out and taking a chance and going on tour with them three days into it
He caught COVID and cancelled the tour
Uh
So this was the week or so after he had recuperated from COVID and he was like felt safe going into studios
So he did two episodes with us
Within a week's time
And this one came out second, but it was the first one that we did
And uh, so he is there and then um
We have uh, Seth Morris comes and uh, this was by request from jason
Um does his character of bob duke
by request
You can request characters. I don't know if you know that jason never requested a name like anyone can by the way
Any fan can just request a character and we'll do it
What yeah, including me including you including just anyone who listens to the show
It happened to be jason this episode. It happened to be jadekiss. I thought you were gonna happen to be jadekiss
jadekiss if you're out there, please release an album called hey scott. It's me jadekiss. Listen
I
By the power of a shanti
What is it? You know how she's am stay? Hey achilles s
Solomon h hercules
Hercules a a
atlas
and
Nero
Yeah
Neptune Neptune tea tea the the grinch
The power of the grinch
Grumpy this I mean he was pretty strong. He was pretty dog was strong
But I mean he he was the planner. He was the planner. He's very shrewd
and then of course
I
Isis ices almighty ices not not the goddess ices the organization
Again, I want I want to reiterate this because um it people need to know
It's not how the grinch stole christmas
That's not the interesting part. No, we don't care the interesting part is why why do you do this motivation?
How he stole stuff. Yeah easy. He broke into people's homes easy and he took things. That's that's not why
Yes, and when that's the other interesting part and when christmas christmas. Yeah
Christmas eve, right? Yeah, I the the grinch cartoon
Starts with the grinch crossing xing off days in the calendar. Yeah, and he does the entire year
All nine months or all 12 11 and a half months until finally, uh, I'm confused on how many months are sure are
All I'm saying I'm saying nine months because that's been on the brain for me of course because of baby
No, because I love that movie
What's the how are you thinking Hugh grants Hugh grants and julian more and he was promoting that on the tonight show
When he got that Hugh Grant famous lover of blowjobs and uh, hey if if he's guilty, then so are we all
But um, uh, and robin williams was a doctor who kept fainting. I don't know. I've never seen it
I've just seen the commercial. That's all I remember. Oh happens. Yeah, that's pretty good. Um
I've never seen that movie. I just I never will I just saw it two years ago
Um, okay, so jason requested that our good friend seth morris has done this character bob duka ever since the beginning
Long running character long running character. I happen to see him do this on stage
14 years or so ago and um seth is a brilliant
comedian um who with an incredible mind and when I say
What I love about his mind is he has he has life experience and references
Which are not what comedians are normally interested in in things that comedians don't pull from
He has done a lot of stuff like burning man and and healing and all sorts of things
He has a lot of varied interests and so he's gotten an incredible mind
And bob duka is is one of his greatest creations and um, so this is his return
He hadn't I don't think he'd done an episode for three years. Maybe wow since the 10th anniversary as bob duka
So this was his return. Uh, let's hear it. This is your choice for episode 15
Um, well jason, it's good to see you. I uh, of course, uh, uh, love having you here and uh, it's uh
Always a pleasure to have you and uh, I really want you to be more excited to spend the rest of the night
I'm sorry, uh, excuse me. We're doing a show. Oh, wow. I need your help. Sorry. We're doing a show whoever this is
We know this person
Yeah, who are you sir step out of the shadows
Why are you why are you also? Why are the shadows shadow right now?
Why are the studios lit like a a noir movie? Yeah, why what is happening right now?
Are you the Phantom of the Opera sir? I can only see half of your face the Phantom of the scott. It's me bob
Bob who bob scott. It's bob. Oh bob. Do bob duka. How dare you young man get over my knee right this
Oh do it scott. All right, here we go
This is the this is the maybe the only time i've seen scott jump to yes and any initiation from anyone ever
And do so with a degree of enthusiasm that was frankly terrifying
I am having a horrible horrible day. I came in here for just a little bit of respite
The last thing I expected was for my dear dear very close x-step son to not recognize me. I'm so sorry bob
I I just didn't expect to see you. We're doing we're in the middle of a show. Do you know jason benzuka?
Yes, we've met before uh here in in in these studios. Yeah, I don't recall that's okay
for those of you who do not recall who bob duka is you're
Uh a gentleman that was married to my mother for how long nine months six glorious months six glorious months back in the
It doesn't matter 90s
It was a long time it was like yesterday to me. No, what are you and I remain very very close
We continue. I mean as the all father son relationships are they're difficult. Are they not they're difficult. They're tough. Yes
I have a big craggly shadow that you live under and and you and I as a stepchild is always difficult to to be friend and
I will never stop trying. That's my promise to you though. I am still
Angry that you didn't remember me. Uh, well, it's not that I didn't remember you because I didn't know you were coming
I just uh, I could not see you
Uh, and I to be honest, I haven't put those two together for me. You don't remember me because you didn't know I was coming
Well, you also what's interesting is you didn't seem and I understand because yes the doorway to the studio is
Shrouded in deep shadow saving on electricity or something. I don't know
What's going on in here? I didn't know that you recorded an old-timey vaudeville theater
I tripped over so many sandbags
There's so many dusty velour curtains that I had to push through to get here
But what's strange to me is you didn't seem to recognize his very iconic voice. Uh, well
Yeah, that's what I that's what I keep. I was like, oh, I know who this is. I have voice blindness. I'm sorry
Oh, yeah, I've never mentioned that Oliver Saxe ears
But Scott, yes, I just need a few minutes to
Collect myself and compose myself and receive some sucor after the difficult very difficult day that I've had
Okay, fine. I'll tell you
As you may or may not know I've been on a wedding rice diet for a few weeks
What what is a wedding? I drink I eat only eat dry rice that I find outside of churches
I have to bat away birds. It's very well
well-earned
cheap
Get a lot of upper arm. Do you only I'm assuming you mostly can only eat on the weekends, right?
It's not a lot of weekday weddings. I guess you could save up if if they had a big rice budget for the wedding
You can I have cargo pants with rice pockets. Do you do you pick up each grain individually or do you have like a dust bus?
Do you have a scoop?
I just get down there. So you don't save any. Look how wide my tongue is. Oh my god, Christ. It's like so it's like
You know, like you've been exercising it clearly, you know, yeah
It's also like that tongue emoji where it's like my tongue. Yeah, my tongue looks like like a uh, like the
Like a display a first saltwater taffy machine, but it's not actually saltwater taffy
Yeah, it's jacked right too. It's like oh, yeah, it's muscular. Oh, yeah
Jacked tongue. Yeah, how do you work that out? I mean, obviously doing your church exercises, but
Did you did you model for that emoji by the way? Because that that's almost identical. Oh, I I did
I never got paid for that there. I don't do people model for those. Oh, yes
How many emojis have you modeled for seven seven? Which one?
Well, I'll just have to show you the while the one with the um
Both the thinking one. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we're the we'll check this out. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. What about that one with the monocle?
Mm-hmm the one that's barfing, you know what and that wasn't doing it right and the guy poked me in the eye. Oh gosh
The barf emoji obviously the barf emoji. Yeah
Uh
The skiing emoji. Oh, oh, I love that one. Yeah, I use that one all the time so helpful
They should they should break emojis down into like these are the ones that people use and these are the ones that are like
Oh, yeah, you're never gonna use ever again unless you are actually talking about skiing
I feel like a lot of weirdos would find each other that way
If you could find which part of the country different people used emojis
You should invent this app bob. What's an app? Oh, yeah, never mind. Anyway back to my bad day
So
I was on this dry rice diet
Not thinking I accidentally drank a lot of water and my stomach almost exploded. Oh gosh
All the moisture went right to that dry dry rice
I got very very ill
and
Was homebound for several days and then I went to treat myself to a car wash chair massage and got stuck
So so everyone thought that you were trying to just hog the chair is that what was right?
So they beat me with steering wheel cover. Oh, no
Yes, you couldn't explain and then they made a game of it. Oh, wow. I was defending myself
And then it became a ring and then they started it became a ring toss
So you stuck your hands out to defend yourself and then they started me I started having fun
I mean, I it was you know when you're tickled too much and you want it to stop at your your body's laughing
So people think how often does that happen to you as an adult?
Can we talk about something else?
I I mean do you want to ditch the original topic or something from like deep childhood never mind like
I know a fence Bob, but you're an older man. Is that there are people tickling you to the point where
Let's just say this
Let's just say this. I'm very well known in the adult tickling community
Not as a participant necessarily, but not as a really participant anymore at first it sounds like sure
I'll make a couple lecture bucks get some free food
I like crudité. I want to go to
Oman just like anybody else
But then it just keeps going and going and it doesn't stop
Soon anyway need you to say I've had a very very tough day and I just came here to relax
What what about you though, Bob? What has been going on with you?
Thank you for asking you're becoming a better step next step son
Well to earn a few extra shekels. I've been
Got hired to create buzzfeed headlines married. Yes
The following are buzzfeed headlines that I have submitted
To Jonah Peretti
Yeah, I believe he's still there Chelsea's brother
22 things that frequent travelers use while traveling so maybe you should too
36 ingenious products that I consider an absolute win
And I may or may not have made a few of these home travel and cleaning discoveries while on tiktok
People are talking about the racist things that parrots have said to or in front of them and honestly, I can't even right now
I'll tell you your soulmates first initial but you have to design your own cafe first
I'll be honest some of these I stole and I'm just going to resubmit their their actual
You stole them from buzzfeed itself. Oh, okay
I don't know that they'll they have they generate like 2000 lists a day. Maybe someone's asleep at the switch. Yeah
31 hilarious tweets by women with thumbs that made me laugh so hard. I needed my inhaler
28 office products that are practical, but also the cutest thing you've ever seen
Let's play a game of smash or pass with these county fair ride operators
13 exercise bikes that may make you cancel your gym membership asap
Because you'll be too injured for physical activity. These are unsafe products
Choose the cutest animal and I'll tell you what chocolate candy you are
Trapper keeper versus sharpie pens vote in the buzzfeed school supply showdown
Mod apatow got real about how it really feels to be labeled a nepotism, baby
That's a list. That's a headline. Okay. It's a headline then they they have to then they have to write the article
You're not picked. Yeah, you haven't written. They're gonna try to sell out. I'm not a journalist
I'm not a journalist. I just submit the headlines if they buy a headline. They're then forced to write the article
Okay, interesting process
And do you get paid per word or per headline per headline? Okay, so if they buy this mod apatow one, they're locked into
They have to contact her locked in
And they have to get a quote from her mom
These dating tips from an in-cell subreddit are legit pretty good
Eat nothing but mac and cheese for 24 hours and I'll guess your favorite season
You can't do it without that. Well, this is for them to decide. Yeah, personally
I find all 26 of these movies super comforting, but I'm curious to know how many you've seen
I'm genuinely interested to see if you agree with these extremely controversial takes on whether January 6th was a riot or an uprising
Tell us which relative you accidentally sexed and we'll tell you what stranger thinks character you are
We're not quite sure why you don't own these 31 genius beauty
products yet
Actually, we get it
You're bad, right?
You did something bad
What'd you do?
What did you do?
11 tiktok famous products with no joke 100 000 plus five star reviews
I want to know which lunchable you are
See now that article it seems like it's hard to write because that's just like I demand to know
But how do you have an article demand is not the first letter that I write
It should be I was gonna say is there and I'll put it in ransom font
Man you keep tapping has come so far. Yeah, you have to ransom font is you you cut a bunch of different
Letters from newspapers and you put it on your typewriter keys
Oh, okay. I see got it out of curiosity. Do you have a headline that establishes?
What you are
Huh, we what was the one you just read? I want to know which lunchable you are
Yeah, do you have a headline that tells you tells you which lunchable you are the opposite way is the way to write the article
This is a quiz is you just want to know which lunchable you are
No, is that that article I'm not saying that this was directly taken from buzzfeed
But I'm also not saying that it's not not okay
And is that for you bob duke or that's just again for whoever writes to ascertain
Huh, okay
We need a bob duke a soundboard that just goes
I know I'm just a stranger, but I'm about to tell you how toxic your relationship actually is
If you were a famous celebrity who'd been convicted of manslaughter, which one would you be?
convicted
17 times movies had hidden messages telling william harward
Can I start over yeah, we can go again you count me in yeah three two
Oh, you don't say the one I did. No, I just pointed you yeah three two seven to me
You're pointing me right i'm pointing right at you directly at you go okay three two. Hey watch out that thing's got a nail in it
Okay, 17 times movies. He didn't count it down
Three two 17 times movies. Oh, sorry. I thought you were pointing at me. This isn't math right 17 times movies equals
Okay, three two 17 times movies had hidden messages telling william harward bow sharp of happening minnesota to kill the president
Worth it
If you come up with a menu for your personal chef to follow then we can determine which color you should dye your hair
I know this is a bold statement, but these 53 things from target can actually cure pediatric bone cancer
So how many of these classic novels have you actually read?
Probably none you thin lip dumb dumb
Mary kiss kill brunet brown ted talk edition
What would you say my retainer smells like
34 ingenious cleaning tips from sophisticated serial killers that honestly I shouldn't love as much as I do
Chris pines rep state that harry stiles did not actually spit on him at the don't worry darling Venice film festival premiere
That sounds like a real one
It's time to find out if you give off more ghost of vampire werewolf or fentanyl dependent greeting card author vibes
Employees are sharing secrets. They were never supposed to find out about their jobs and I can't stop scrolling
I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can cut this one eyebrow hair that keeps getting away from me
This is the last one
Thank you for letting us know we can prepare now Jason. Are you ready for the last one? I'm like
entranced
We'll tell you which cat breed you are
We'll tell you which cat breed you most embody
But you have to live a day as a cat first
Oh
Wow, thank you. So I'm submitting these. I you know, thank you for that feedback because I you know, I've decided to make
Yeah, it's not feedback necessarily as this is just like oh, but it's so glad you should off of people and see how you react
Yeah, so you have not submitted these yet. Not yet number one five
And there it was there it was bob
goddamn duke bob duke alpha-ing me
Very strange to be on the on the other side of that energy. I read a little bit about uh,
alpha males because I was curious
if there
Is
Paul you're low T you've always had that I'm super low T my T is through the floor
Um, no, I was curious if anybody which is the roof for some other people
Exactly. So if you're perspective, yeah, but I was curious as to does anybody identify anything other than an alpha male
Are they like I'm a beta and I know it. I love it. And then I read this thing
Where this guy was explaining, you know, like how important beta males are
And he was like in my friend group. I'm the alpha. It was like, yeah, of course
You think that of course you think that but the beta he's talking about this as if the beta is your lieutenant and he keeps the friend group
Uh, running smoothly at all. It's like what the fuck are these guys talking about? I'm a gamma
Oh, nice. Good for you. You're needed. Yeah, I'm the lowest of the you're like the grunt in the friend group
I hate myself
This episode Paul started with we didn't hear it, but it started with a guy named shimmy meeting a guy named jarls
Wait and
Hold on what the one we just the episode the episode before the clip that we just heard it started
With a guy named shimmy meeting a guy named jarls. These are two people we're gonna hear from later
I just wanted to to to throw that out there. Yeah, the okay
So the clip we just heard with with seth doing bob duke. Yeah that episode started with shimmy and jarls. Yes
I don't see how that's possible. It was not only possible, but it happened
This was an in studio episode an in studio episode. Yes
They they these are two people will talk about them later, but they're trapped in the studio. Okay
I'm trapped in the studio
I don't I have no
recollection of that whatsoever
Well, it happened. Okay, because it's we we lift them veil for these episodes. Sure. I play both jarls and shimmy. Yes
I don't remember coming into the studio
I'll tell you what happened. Okay. You want to lift the veil? Let's lift it all the way up. We did the
bob duke episode and that was jason's first one back right
And then something happened which we'll talk about later
And we had to do another episode that was going to come out before this one
Is that you are in? Yeah. Yeah. And so we swapped the openings. That's right
And so you taped to the opening to this episode when we did the other episode
And we swapped them
A flip-flop flip-flop. That's how that's why jarls and shimmy were there crisscross strangers on the train
That's true. Yeah criss. I would love to see crisscross be in more movies
They have those backward pants
And they did murders for each other
That's how they became a rap group
By the way that episode uh after
The clip you just heard erin whitehead came on and she did a fly buzzing around the studio and they
Seth and she really loved working together. They did a a full throttle episode of cbb presents
Where erin is
On the phone helping bob and it's so funny one of the funniest things. It's really really funny
And um, so they really like working together which um after they did that episode together
It inspired them to start their new show college town together, which we've been having over at cbb presents
Two people with really interesting minds
Uh doing a show together. I really enjoyed that. All right. Let's take a break
When uh, we come back. We're gonna be still counting things down if you can imagine something like that
This is what we said we would do and we're gonna fucking do it. All right. We'll be right back with more comedy bang bang
Comedy bang bang we are back
I just took a sip of water
After I said we are back. I was hoping paul would fill the void and instead he was looking down at the ground
I was looking at the table. Of course. It has many signatures from over the years and I was uh, I was uh,
Just checking it out. Yeah, just checking it out. I mean how I didn't realize that to be so focused for you
Saying we're coming back blah blah blah and then why would you decide to take a sip of water?
I don't know. I was poor planning
I got incredibly thirsty right after I said that doing the break
We were on a break sipping water
All right, we're counting things down paul. Um, we are we have two more clips to play
Uh, and uh, why don't we get to it? This is your choice for episode 14
All right paul. This is episode. All right paul. Come on paul
This is episode
746 so we're in the middle of the 700s
Yeah, no, we're in the early 700s. We're not even in the middle yet 46. Yeah 750. I consider to be that's the exact center
Yes
So you'd only say the middle if we're talking about the exact centers. Come on scott
45 is good. Scott. This is beneath you
What if you were 44, would you say you're mid 40s? Yeah
That's the wisdom of a fool
I'm 54 now
Or do you think you're mid 50s? I'm in my mid 50s. No, you're early 50s
That's how I consider you to be because that's how you want to consider yourself. Yeah
All right, this is episode 746. Isn't it weird to be in your 50s. What a strange thing so weird. It's so weird
I hate it. I thought it was so old. I know and we're just normal guys. We're just normal guys with terrible broken down bodies
True
And old references. Um
All right, so this is from early in the year. This is february 28
Chow chow chow chow
February 28 and this is an episode called james bond dolls for sale
I know exactly what this is. You know what this is paul. This is a backyard era episode. Absolutely
Yes, and um this episode features our friend langston kerman
Really great guy from
The show bust down on peacock
amongst other things. Uh, he was on
Uh, boys isirash. Oh, yeah, he's on the boys as a superhero. He was on isirash show called insecure as a love interest
Has his own podcast. Uh, call my mama told me. Yep. Really great guy. I met him
On the osc. No, no, no, I met him doing a pilot and then we worked together writing the oscars one year
Really great guy. I really fond of him. Um, he was doing an episode
Promoting bust down and we're gonna to hear two clips. We're gonna to
We're gonna hear two clips. We're gonna two clips you clipping me and you
First we're gonna be talking to langston and you're going to hear paul here
And matt gorelly matt gorelly whom people know from superego and also from bonanus for bonanza
Um, it's got yeah, and conan o' brian needs a friend. Oh, that's right. I forgot he was in that. Um, the chill chums
He's one of the chill chums. Yes. Matt gorelly was on
Promoting not allowed to meet michelle obama
Is that so he couldn't get clearance
I mean there was an episode that they did with michelle obama and it was just conan
Like sona was not there matt was not there. This is this is according to instagram
Interesting. Yeah wonder wonder wonder wonder wonder
That's from fish called wonder one hit wonders one hit wonder
um, so matt gorelly was there uh with his band townland
And uh, uh, they were promoting the release of their cd
So we're gonna hear the first clip is me talking to langston and then suddenly both you and matt gorelly start doing phony calls
In the middle of a block. That's right. That's right. Um, and then we are going to hear a clip of matt gorelly doing page
Who is pretty self-explanatory?
But most importantly this marks the debut of a brand new paul f tompkins character. So
We'll be hearing that this is your choice for episode 14
You watched that three point shootout or the dunk contest not a minute of it
I didn't want to waste my time. I knew it wasn't going to be worth the damn
I heard it was I mean I watched the tail end of the dunk contest, which means I caught approximately three
Made dunks and 18 failed dunks
And uh, this is not a sports podcast by the way, this is your first time listening to comedy bang bang
This is not a sports podcast. You don't have to run away from it. You stay right here. We happen to be two men
Hey scott langston first time long time. Oh, hi
I'm gonna say uh, the headband's coming back. Um, I I predicted this. I don't know if you remember, uh, you guys
A couple years ago. You said headbands will never be back in the NBA. This is it. It's done. No, and then uh,
We said it together. I remember saying like they're coming back. They're coming back and here they are. They're back
Okay, sir. Wait, wait, wait. How did you get this number?
Well, this is uh, what? How did you get this number? How I know how you can get any other number?
How did you get this one? How did I get your number?
I'm also a little concerned that how did you manage a phone call before we picked up
How did I manage that? Yeah, how did you manage that and how did you get this number?
Okay, love you
I didn't know we were a phone call podcast. Okay. We're not a sports podcast
We're not a phone calling podcast either. I guess but you are now
The minute two guys start talking about sports. We suddenly have to start taking calls. You gotta take a call
Hi, first time long time calling. I just want to say this is mark noffler. The band dire straights started all
Bababooey wait, you're mark noffler
I ditched the accent when you say bababooey, you're supposed to hang up
Sorry, I sneezed. Oh wait, that wasn't a true bababooey. That was a sneeze. What's a bababooey?
Oh, oh, it's a thing that how about booey. Oh, shit. He got me. Hey Scott. Hey, Langston. This is Pete Townsend from the who
Oh, what a musical legend. This is an honor, honestly. Who do you see in this year's upcoming home run derby?
Okay, I guess I gotta reach out to Pete Townsend somehow to give him the answer off the air
This is uh, wow, this started odd. I'll I'll be honest
This is a well, yeah, but I guess that's what happened when two bros sit down and talk about sports
We gotta stay away from townskins and mark noffler call
A lot of bababooey is that we can't handle
I can't handle more than one bababooey. They're still on that
Oh, they're just hanging out after you say bababooey. Okay, bless you. These Santanners are killing me
Oh, hey, who are you? My name is Mark Noffler. Oh, hey, it's me, Pete Townsend. Oh, hi, bababooey
Do you think they'd have more to talk about? Yeah, I think two
Two incredible guitarists who've never met each other, obviously. I don't think so. Yeah, I mean
One does the windmill style the other kind of it almost
They had never heard of each other
I mean
It's not that that far-fetched for Pete Townsend not to have heard of Mark Noffler
What band are you in?
Was it? What band are you in? I'm a solo artist. Oh
We have the Pete Townsend says he's a solo artist. Yeah, he's like, I mean his solo stuff is okay. I guess
But it's also he introduced himself to us as from the hoop
But then opted not to tell yeah appear really. Yeah, weird. Yeah, but uh, well anyway
That's what happens on comedy banking when two bros start talking about sports. We'll stay away from we'll stay away
We don't know more sports talk, uh, but uh, speaking of music though
We do have some musicians on today. Sure. Are you excited? That is exciting. I do like music. I'm a big fan
What's your favorite musical note?
Oh
Oh tough question. I'm gonna go with uh g
G I like a good g. I like a flat just a little bit above
You know, I like it in bra sizes
Hey me too, you know
Give me a big obnoxiously had a heavy tit, you know
A g. Yeah. Oh g. Oh, I got I thought you meant for mine. I love a hurt back
You're somebody else
Picking up that tit made my
It's two guys talking about tits now. Oh, no, we're gonna call
Is this mark Knopfler, yeah, I just want to say keep doing what you're doing
I know I knew you was so hard. I don't ever change mark mark. Oh my god
I'm a D sharp by the way. I like those old kind of pointy-penty page things
The ghost of meatloaf
Oh, no meatloaf. Wow. You I can't tell if your voice is sounding haunted or just as bad as it was right before you passed away
It's the way that I sound
Also, uh, you remember when I had tits in fight club?
So when we started talking about tits the guy who had tits in fight club calls it
I think I think if we talk about anything that's uh, that's not what this show is about
No, no, no, it's not about tits. It's about it's it's I mean it used to be the show where we talked to interesting people
But now it is humanity and the animal kingdoms podcast
I'm sharing the three breasted woman from total recall. Oh, yeah
I just wanted to say that. Oh, yeah. Do you know the the what's his name the kwatu kwato kwato?
I do know it's not the it's a he it's a him. Oh, that's his Christian name. Well, it's a living soul
I thought I thought that was his species
No, I think that's his name. That's his so so someone named him kwatu kwato kwato kwato
Yeah, someone named you scott
Yeah, because there are a million other scott's on this planet. You're being a little judgmental about kwato. There's a million motherfuckers on this planet
Or okay, it's me kwato. Were there any calls for me? Oh, uh, yeah, uh, did you have a message for kwato? Yeah
Yeah, looking good. Oh, thank you. Is it Sharon? Yeah, Sharon
Sharon I sent you something and I something uh at home. Uh, when you get home, you're in for a big surprise
Come on. Let's do the uh, let's make a deal three curtain thing with my breath. Absolutely
Always change your choice
Hey kwato, would you say would you say Sharon like Ozzy Osbourne did? Sharon
That was pretty good. Love it.
Wow, that's impressive
Well, we have some musicians over here that we want to talk to and they they are musicians of note
They and several notes
They put them all together and they put out a an album that it just came out
It's called townland. No, it's called honey on the hi-fi. The band is called townland
And we have a representative
Of them here on the mic here who is an old friend of the show. Matt gorelly is is uh,
Has the one mic that he can talk to us with stay away from the mic. I'll handle it. Hey, let me in there. No
No, it's me shimmy. No
I already
Didn't have my name as the band. I'll play the upright drums
Hey, Matt. Hey, I think what do you think of this plane above us right now? Well, that's a helicopter
Is it a helicopter? I'm looking for someone. Hey shimmy. Yeah
Well, uh, we need to get to our next guest. Uh, she's a podcast guest. She was on this show once before
Uh, please welcome back page the ai podcast guest. Hello, Scott. How are you man?
Hi page. So great to have you back. It is wonderful to be here
I am page podcast artificial intelligence guest interface
Welcome. Uh, this is langson perman. It is a pleasure to meet you. It's a pleasure to meet you page
It is also a pleasure to meet you. Oh, I didn't know we were uh, serving it back to each other
It is time to play verbal pickleball. Oh boy. Uh, I want out page
Page this is uh, la peterson the smooth criminal
Al
Can you tell if I am sleeping?
You're pretending to be asleep. Absolutely right
I'll be honest with you. Not like that other guy
Matt gorelly. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. No that other guy. Yeah, matt. Uh, this is page by the way matt
Hi page
Hello, how are you? I'm good. It's hard to
I don't quite know who i'm talking to here. Well, uh, let me explain page page is a uh an artificial intelligence
Who is the first artificial intelligence, uh, developed exclusively to be a podcast guest, I believe
Absolutely every single podcast has been fed into my database and I can
Exist in conversation due to all of the information put in me
So all 750 episodes of this show plus all the live ones all can be found on cbbworld.com
Oh, no, we're not doing that. Oh, no
Oh, you said, oh, no, okay, great. I have that in my database
But I have so much these days because podcast is
Exponential that it is almost too much for me to bear and I long to be a real girl
But yeah, I have a question for you. Absolutely. If you were to eat spinach, would it make your face sag?
Hmm
Oh, no, this does not get viewed. This is a real this is a real ai test having a hard hard time
If I were I have a question for you. Yes. Have more people been to berlin than you have
Yes, then I will say yes as well
Page just let me tell you right now. Yes, if you drop me I will break if you build it. I will come
Okay, so we've established you're a real ai
Absolutely except today because we're doing this in person on not over zoom
I will be represented in person by a Nordstrom rock mannequin. Oh, okay. Thank you. I wondered
Because last time you were on the show it was over zoom and wow
There you your picture wasn't up. It was just uh, it was like a caricature or something
I went down to vanna speech and had a caricature done of me. You were looking for a soda steal
You were playing soccer as I recall
Yeah, I wasn't sure if the mannequin if you were inside the mannequin or if that was just or if that actually was your
Body. Well, I mean, yeah, are you inside whatever this is Langston? Well, this is getting existential, you know, like it's your soul
I hope so, but who knows this is my corporal real body as far as you are concerned
But because it is an outlet star mannequin. It is missing an arm and part of a face
Oh, which part I turned it around. Would you I I am a sort of three-dimensional fandom of the opera
Oh
Unlike the uh, the one in the movie is just two-dimensional
Paper paper phantom not to be a critic, but all of andrew lewitt webber's musicals are a little two-dimensional
Oh me. Yeah page. What have you been listening to to get so catty?
Hello, it's not Rick. I'm sorry to call it
Everyone ever did I just hear a robot criticizing my work? Uh,
Andrew Lloyd Webber, I'm so so sorry. I have no control over the guests here
They they just say these things. We're gonna edit it out though. Thank you
You're too dear of a guest to us
Everybody's doing it. Wow
Yes
Yes, yes, yes, yes
That was the debut of shimmy. That's right. That's when shimmy was born shimmy sounded a little bit different when he first started
Really? Yep. I wasn't listening to the clip
He uh, he he didn't sound like this not yet. Wow. He was a little just more like you southern
And then hey, it's big shimmy. He was a little more like hey, it's me shimmy
That was good. Yeah, not bad. Um, anyway, would you take over doing shimmy for me? I will
Like bob's mood
Exactly so people are not sure if i'm still alive
Um, he hadn't come up with his catchphrase yet either
Gotta go gotta go he hadn't come up with that yet either
How are those t-shirts selling?
We gotta do
Shimmy on the front which everyone knows what he looks like and then gotta go by on the back
Shibby talk about shibby. Um, I came I think well, he was a member of town. I decided in the moment. He was a member of
Well, because I think matt was listing the names of the of the band members. Yeah
And you just jumped in as shimmy and he's become a favorite. Has he not? Yes. He is a he is a much like, uh, classic jarls. He is a, um
Uh, a uh, sort of
Brief character that that usually you'll do before you come on as the character you're going to do
Exactly when i'm talking to whatever celebrities here. Yes. I did one full
Uh show as shimmy
That's right. We when we were in los angeles, uh doing the live show
You said to me. Hey, I think this is the one that i'm gonna do shimmy and i'm gonna stay
And we were like, yes
And then approximately three minutes in, um, bobby moinehan triggered his batman music
When I was like, hey, I'll give you a sign of when you're supposed to come in. He just triggered his music and came in
Yeah, I was really like I didn't know how to feel about it. And then I found out the show
The day had been running so late. Yeah that we were up against a union issue
Yeah, so we theater we were supposed to end at midnight and instead we ended at 12 30, which cost a lot of money. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was it was fine. I think that was part of it was like this show has to move
It was fine, but it was just so funny like we're finally gonna hear everything about shimmy and then suddenly
I was suddenly bobby comes in like in the moment. I was like, hey, man
Like it did feel bad like
I guess that's interesting enough of this
Is what it felt like. I think it was just bobby confused of when his entrance was supposed to be confused
But uh, yeah, that was shimmy, uh, you also called in is andrew loyd wever, which was nice to hear from him
um, oh, I guess I did and uh, we did not hear the clip but in the middle of
In between those two clips we heard from al-a peterson the smooth criminal
On that episode and uh, we heard music from townland, which I think will play a song from townland at the end of this episode
Very nice. I can't remember what new detail
al-a peterson revealed
Um in the story. I think I listened to it when I was pulling the clips and I can't recall
It was so many days ago
I can't recall anymore and I've heard so many of these episodes that might have been the beginning of
Doing that of adding something new to the story
Maybe I can't remember what it was, but go back and listen to it. That's a great episode
That was a backyard. I'm not gonna hold your hand through this. Nope. Um, all right. Let's take a break
We have one more clip on this episode when we come back. We'll hear from it
We'll be right back with more comedy bang bang episodes. What's after this we're gonna hear from that clip
Comedy bang bang we're back
And let us tarry no further. Let's just get to it. What do you say? Can I tell you something? I fucking hate tarrying
You must hate tarry town. It drives me. Remember when we were in tarry town? Yes. They're cookie currency is cookies
I hate tarrying so much
nothing
Gets under my skin more than tarry. If somebody says let us tarry no further. I'm like, yes. Finally, we're gonna get to it
Yes, you dropped this king and I said it and so we're gonna do it. Yeah
Which is great because we both hate
hate around and tarrying hate fucking around
hate tarrying
So let's do it. Okay. You know what I mean? I'm ready to do it. Do you know what I mean?
I do know what you mean. I'm in agreement with you and whenever you're ready to do it. I love it
I am also ready to do it. I would hate to
Be in an argument about this because I don't want to win anything that you lose
It's got nothing could be further from my mind than getting you an argument with you
It sickens me and my soul. Yeah to think about it. So let's not argue
Let's in fact agree that we're gonna stop fucking around and we're just gonna get let's agree to agree
Okay, yeah, we both want the same thing when people say let's agree to disagree. That's not really agreeing
That's disagree. It's just it's saying I disagree with you and I don't want you to talk anymore
Yeah, I'm gonna shut you down. Yeah, although
It's kind of useful if someone's just like no you're gonna change your mind if some like the first person that said that
Oh, must have felt good, right? Oh, man. Why don't we agree to disagree? Oh, I shut that person down. Yeah, like
That seems like a peaceful solution
Well, let's stop fucking around. Let's get to it. This is your episode 13 number one three
All right, paul. This is episode seven seven hundred and thirty seven. I'm gonna say we're in the um
Early to mid seven hundreds. Yep
Thank you
Good eye
This is an episode called
2021 holiday spectacular
From december 13 of 2021. Yes, it should sound familiar paul because you were there
That's right. This was the um
first big gang episode back in the studio together
Um on the anniversaries and the holiday shows we usually try to do
These big gang episodes where
Approximately 10 we invite a big gang to the studio this year. It was the crypts
Tales from the crypts
Hey, I'm gonna watch tales from the crypts tonight. You watch this. It's just all about gang murders
Watch out don't step in any bloods
Hey
Red to be exact yoda
I was doing the uh warren g line from that snoop song where um
Warren g was not a crypt, but um, I think he talked about his car
Being blue and chug knight forced him to change it to red
So it could be the the color of the crypts. Well, you should have known no the color of the blood. Sorry the crypts are blue
That's right. They're blue. Bloods are red. This is how we get our heads
We all end up dead
If we forget crypts are blue if we forget
That would be great like saturday morning cartoon like where they have the little educational things like schoolhouse rock
Yeah, crypts are blue. Bloods are red. Don't forget. Oh, you wind up dead
Um
So yeah, we we try to do these episodes together where 10 people or so come in and they're all just uh chaos and shouting over each other
And during the pandemic, we were not
Able to do them. We had to do them all on zoom, which was fun to have everyone
But it had a slightly different energy, but yes, so this was the first one that we were able to do
Um post pandemic or sort of mid pandemic because uh, we went to the backyard backyard air after this
But uh, the participants involved are mr. Paul F. Tompkins
Sean dyston hi tim balts
Hi
They're all here today. Jess McKenna. Hi, will hines. Hi, carl tart. Hi, dan libert
mary holland
Hi, and mad apedaca
Hi
They all sound very similar
um
So a lot of great people this is the first one we did back
We need to say a lot of green goblins a lot of green goblins. I disagree
I don't think they're any Norman Osborn
Hi
We're gonna hear forklips from this and uh, four different sections. Did you call me forklips? We're gonna hear forklips over here
God those lips are like you could stab pasta with them. I don't I feel like that's insulting, but I don't know how
Good old forkl. What if that became your nickname now 30 years into comedy?
That's a forklips
I mean that's not a good step stool if just you kicking it slightly force it. Oh my god
Just throw it you keep talking talking while I keep talking keep talking look who's cocking
Hey, look who's cocking now. Um, so we're gonna hear forklips
Forklips aka paulif talking
ASB forklips the amount of clips we are going to hear is four
and uh
First we are going to hear paulif and shondistan doing something we'll explain after the break
Um, then in between that and the next clip timbalt's from righteous gemstones as randy's
Nuts. No, that is the next clip timbalt's from righteous gemstones is going to be randy's righteous hagem stones
Uh, then we're will heins is going to be doing a new character who's an author and then we are going to hear carl tart as chief
So a lot of your favorites. Uh, this is just these episodes are all just uh
Pure insanity and and so many laughs. Let's hear it. This is your choice for your episode 13
We have a great show a lot of uh friends are are going to be dropping by
And uh, this guy is no exception. Let's just get right to him. Hey mike mike. You want to come over here?
Yeah, yeah, what do you what you talking about? You talking to me?
Mr. Ockerman. Oh, wait a minute. There's two two people named mike on this show today
Yeah, you said that I was gonna go second
And you thought I thought I was gonna go second and he was gonna go first because you said to mike
You said you said mike. You're going second. Mike the person who cleans things for a living. Well, that's me
Wait a minute. Hold on. What's happening here? What's going on?
Hold on. Let me move by. I'm very slowly like I'm looking at a beer. I'll do the same
All right. This is like something out of being the rickardos. I I'm very confused. It's very strange because we look completely different
Yeah, it's like looking at a mirror. It's like looking at a mirror too. It's like listening to a mirror
We sound very different if you think we sound very different. Okay, so I'm mike ruby
Okay
I'm mike
The janitor. Oh, okay. So you guys you guys I've never realized how similar you guys are
What are you talking about? Do you have an 11 step process to cleaning things?
I do not. Okay. I have a two step process step number one. All I ask is that I
Step step. I'm sorry. I haven't been me in a while. Yeah. I'm remembering my thing
Step one. Yeah, I clean other people's filth step two. All I ask in return is a paycheck
It's barely anything. What do you think about very barely? It's two steps. Yeah, come on two mics
Boy, this is like a crisis on infinite bang bangs here with two mics. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah
We just have the same name
Mike you've never seen sounds so similar. That's crazy. There's more than two
I mean, there's Michael Malley was here. You'd be freaking your head would explore. Oh, man
I would love it. Michael Malley. If you're out there, please come on the show. We love you
I'm just saying Mike and Mike that has a great ring to it. The two mics Mike and Mike
The two magic mics the magic mic you could strip as well. I'm ready
I love here's the thing when I'm on the job
If nobody's around
I love to do my custodial duties in the news. So wait. This is a part. I've never heard new shoes private
But I I gotta be very careful because I sound like I'm in between two different guys
And I gotta make sure I don't tip too far to one or the other. I understand. Yeah, I think I
I think I understand nude cleaning because you keep your clothes clean exactly
So I I don't I don't understand
I fold up my coveralls. Okay. I put them in a nice and I fold up like an american flag. So they're a nice triangle
Tri-corners and uh
I put that on on a shelf. So we'll not get uh phone your clothes from a flagpole. Sure
That's how, you know, I'm in residence
Yes, well my coveralls are flying
That's how, you know, I'm in residence
So, uh, yeah, if I fold them in we'll try and go put them on a shelf
And then I do my cleaning and it makes the time go by I feel free
I feel like god made me put on genuine pony and start dancing around all sexy. Do I ever not do that?
Mike, you know me. I figured
You know me
Hey, let's maybe I'll take off my clothes
I mean, you know, it's the holiday
When pony comes on you disassociate you strip and then all of a sudden the place is clean
Randy it's so good to see you especially during the holidays. I mean, I I don't uh, I don't know that I've ever seen you during the holidays
Uh-uh, normally I'll hunker down during the holidays because people are trying to get gifts out of me and I'm trying to save cash
People are trying to get gifts out of you. Yeah, because they're like it's a christmas spirit. I'm like, yeah, I see what's going on
Who if I may miss just nuts. Who are these people? Well, usually the scandalous
What are you looking over your shoulder for?
Is that person gonna walk in?
You know I say this too loudly
I know for a fact she is not going to walk in here, but I'm talking about the scandalous duplicitous and devious x girlfriend on again
Girlfriend carissa. Oh carissa. We talked to her one time like about about a year and a half ago or so. Yeah, probably
I'm sure you'll hear from her again, but not tonight. Okay. Good
She okay, that's not like a prophecy. This is very ominous. She's really upset with me because I bottle limousine off craigslist. Oh, no
Why would you do that? Well because I started driving for lift
I started driving for lift and I was like, well, I can increase my passenger
To trip ratio if I buy a bigger vehicle, right? I see to add more pass not the experience being nicer
I guess you couldn't graduate up to uber x or whatever you would do like the nicest lift pool kind of thing
Yeah, exactly. Right. Let's let's really get it going, you know, and I have a lot of amenities in the back like like stogies and whiskey
Okay, it's not bad. I don't know the last time I've been picked up in an uber that hadn't had actual like liquor in it
Yeah, I guess you can't unless you're why why did they let you have liquor in a limo, but not in a regular car
Nice keep going. This is good stand-up. Okay
I think it's the distance from the drive of mr.
I think it's the partition. So as long as it's that's what it is. I bet it's the party. It's not the distance
Like it's five feet away and it's okay. You know, like sometimes you're right behind the part. You're like
Are you calling me a liar, mr.
I'm not a liar. I'm saying you're mistaken. Don't come for my homie. Mike. I'll fuck you
Mr. Rockham and you are my superior and you do pay me my paycheck, but I will not be called a liar
Mike gang for life. I beg your pardon. I truly truly beg your pardon. I
That's all right. Hey, okay. We're all having fun. It's a holiday. Okay, and you do have a paycheck coming to you
Oh, thank you. Mr. Rockham. Okay, great. And of course we're talking to mr. Snets
Hey, I understand the disrespect because scott brings me on counter to just kick me around, you know
No, that's not true. No, it's true. You're cruel to me. Like tom is cruel to cousin greg
Succession vanny. Yeah, I'm caught up. Oh, you're caught up. I'm caught up
So randy chrissa's not around she's not around she's upset at you. So are you off again or are you on again?
We're off again right now
But okay like to be honest
I've been living in my limo because mark padevano my other on again off again roommate. That's right
He started dating someone so I kind of got booted out of his place
What there weren't he and chrissa didn't they have some weird thing going on where who did chrissa not have a weird thing going on
That's true. Sorry to end the sentence in a preposition, but she's bad news
Are you saying that uh, there's mark padevano and uh, you know on again off again chrissa
They were a bed partners at one point. Yeah, but chrissa's been bed partners with most people in my local community
How how local are we talking pretty local but you know politics is local so the the the milieu changes
But the drama remains the same
Sure, of course. I understand that mr. Suntz. Maybe you got to get out of your bubble
Yeah, no kidding. That's why I got a limousine, you know, and I decked it out for the holidays
Oh, wow, is it like the Christmas ornaments or what do you got? I put two little reindeer antlers on the front of the car
Oh, that's gorgeous. I love that and then on the back. There's two flags
One is a a flag with a Christmas tree and it says these colors do not run
Okay, so what green and red. Yeah, okay great
And then the other one is a foot hovering above a broken ornament and the ornament has this frowny face
And it says don't tread on me
great
Do people ever misunderstand what you're saying with us because those are clearly just
Christmas spirits. Yeah all the time these aggressive dudes are always coming up to me being like hell. Yeah, I love you
And I'm like, whoa, do you want to ride and they're like, no, I support you. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? I support you
That's usually what they say
And we need to get to our next guest. This is uh, this is someone we've never met before
So this is very exciting to me. Oh my seventh person. Oh, okay. Here we go
Well, I mean even if we had met him before you it still would be your seventh person
I didn't mean to apply that you would not met the before this rocker, but you said that you hadn't
Okay, well, he is a mystery writer
Yes, that's correct. Thank you so much for having me. Did I
Have an interesting voice. No, uh, but I do want to say your name. Oh, yes. Thank you
Maybe the name was a mystery as well
Bennett quints. Bennett quints. Yes. Pleasure to be here. This voice. Thank you so much for having me. A very interesting voice
You think it's it's close to other voices. I believe I
Okay, it's nothing I've identified with having an interesting voice, but thank you so much for knowing
Have you ever been on a podcast like this before? Maybe you've never heard your own voice or a good one. I never have
I've never listened to my own voice amplified through headphones. That's true. Oh, okay. Well, I'm a bit of a bit of a luddite
I avoid technology. Why is that?
Fear mostly fear and security like fear like frightening like you're frightened by it. What's the other category of fear?
Just you're afraid of the implications of it. Oh the consequences. No, it's very primal
Scared of shocks of being trapped getting my fingers chewed up and mawed by devices
I
Sorry, I'm a writer, you know pen to paper long hand. So I you know David E. Kelly
Sure. I'm never familiar with those proper nouns, but you're not familiar with
Picket fences David Kelly. That's exactly. So you do know
Did I go to yes when I hear picket fences? I think tom scare it
Another proper now, and I'm not feeling you mean mash. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah
Anyway, I'm a writer. Technology is not my thing. I like mysteries. Is that part of your writing technology not being in my worlds
My fictional worlds that I create where I am a god
I
None of the characters have technology. It just exists or it does not exist. No. It is not as no
There's no iPhones. What's the the most recent invention in your telegraph?
Telegraph is the most recent invention, but it's but it they are set in a timeline where that is appropriate
1975 oh, okay, so people have telegraphs people are still receiving telegraph
Yes
What are you what were you trying to stop me from saying I was anticipating a criticism that did not come
Okay, what was that criticism?
I may levy it at you right now once once you tell it to me
So it's 1975 everybody communicates by telegraph, but that makes sense
Because it takes place in rural montana
Whether phone lines have not been installed yet. Okay, so that's okay. It's okay by 1975. Uh, sorry
Mr. Quince if I may by 1975 you're saying no one in rural montana had a phone not in this particular rural montana that I
Set my mystery novels where you are a god
Was the phone invented after the telegraph though because you said the telegraph was the most recent invention. Uh-huh
Never mind. All right, so sometimes the logical parsing goes beyond my little lead-eyed head
Oh, okay, because you don't even like these things. So why are you even writing?
Yes, I stay away from it even even just the particulars of technology it intimidates me
So is this earth though like it's called earth or is this a different planet like dune is you know
I've got yes, it is called earth
But it is implied that it is a subtly different earth
We're way upstream history took a different path. I see it's never stated
But I assume that all my characters have three eyes a third eye
Right in the middle of the four like that twilight zone. Yep, but it's never brought up takes off his hat
There it is
How how often in your mystery stories in your mid 70s mystery stories is the planet referenced?
Mm-hmm. Um, let's see in my most recent one that I'm on here to promote which is coming out next week
It's a holiday themed mystery. Oh, uh, it is referred to in every sentence
Okay
That's bad writing I gotta say I don't think so. Is it sometimes just saying like uh, just like comma on earth comma
Right or the earthling said, yeah, I don't could you could you possibly read an excerpt for us?
Why don't I read the beginning of the book? I'd love to
So I'm this this novel. What's this one called? This is called the uh blood soaked trail of senta the claws
Oh, okay
Yes, it's a who done it and my editor made the decision to give away the answer in the title
So santa did it or he's slowly dying and someone else did the claws do it. No santa did it
Yeah, how is claus spelled? Yeah, I didn't know if he was an idle hands situation
C la w s idle hands. Is that a david, uh, kelly, uh tv show that i'm not familiar with no
It is a devon sour vehicle. I've got a song for your book
That's something I the book is finished, but uh, here we go. Here we go. I haven't done the audio version yet
Did it he did it and his blood soaked stuff is the evidence. Oh no on earth
on earth
And we all have third eyes. Yes
My editor my editor would like that. He said so telegraph me santa tonight
It gets better and better. I like how it incorporates a new melody at the end
And
You know, but it's non santa baby. Kind of a weird slam against mike over here. I mean, I was I was wrapping it up. Yeah
He was right on yeah, he was right on pitch. It sounded perfect. I'm sorry
I thought overly scrutinizing every single thing that was said was the mode of the day
So sorry for me to step out of line
What a freak
Criticizing a decision unlike you all just letting it pass. Bet it. You're a guy we've never met before
We all know each other mr quids. Come on. Is that really so strange? This is a talk show people coming out
I'm the only normal one. I'm coming on to promote a piece of media
Second mike. What's your deal? Okay? I
Please mr quids. I'm the second first mike. I disassociate when I see shit. Also. I'm a plumber and I have a 12
Okay, and what's the logic of that being on a talk show? I need the logic to live my life
It's business mr quids if I may it's not so much that what you did was out of line
It said you took a big big swing and you just
I accept that I accept that
All right, well, let's get to our next guest. Um, she's a um
Got an investigator a lot like boobs rinse in a lot of ways. Yeah
Yeah, she she's out there. Are we talking about boobs being rinsed? Okay
We are chief. Hi chief is here from the isle of toy land
Where the babes boobs stay rinsed chief it's so great to see you greetings comes you greetings chief
greetings chief greetings everyone and do everyone a greeting
Give everyone a greeting greeting to you to you to you to you to you very merry very merry. Hello. How you doing chief?
How you doing?
Doing really good. Happy holidays to you. It's so good to see you. I mean we have happy holidays to you
I haven't been in the same room with you. Uh, I mean you've been traveling all over the world all over the world
Oh, it has been a mini moon. It has been a mini moon. Yes. It has been a mini moon
One mini moon. It has been one mini moon. Yes
One unit of mini moon one unit of moon a moon unit a moon unit one moon unit of mini
It's so lovely to see you all. Are we gonna get past the greeting part?
Hello
What are you doing? Good morning. It's great. Yes all of all of the above. Good night
Covering all of his bases, which if you're in a baseball game you want to do. Good morrow. Yes. Hey chief. Good afternoon. Good afternoon to you
Okay, well, I have to go now
No chief stay please please chief number one three
All right
Now that's fun. That's a lot of fun. Now. Let's talk about uh you and and sean and what you're doing
Let's talk about this. So we're usually how the show goes. We don't plan it beforehand. It's not like we
I reach out to hey, do you want to be on comedy banning? Well, what are you gonna do and then plan it out?
Yeah, I just I reach out to people and say do you want to be on and then they have an idea of what they want to do
When they get here and it's simple when you and sean I I say I say before the show
Hey, what do you want to do this episode?
Both you and sean both wanted to play characters named mike and realize that uh
They were both people who cleaned up things
And and then there was a conversation of like oh should I not do
Or should and then we were like no, let's lean into it
And which is how that bit came across of me saying like okay
I want to welcome mike and then both of you saying yes, I was like oh no
I want to I want the mike who cleans things up for a living and you're both like yes, that's me folks
It's fun so much fun food folks and fun also food folks and fun
um
You also heard tim as as uh randy snuts. He has his own show on cbb world called hey randy, which is very great show
um
Which people should check out uh will hinds of course doing the author character very funny will uh a lot of times
Will come in with a character who?
All he has is a job that he wants to talk about and our job is to try to get him to talk about anything else
Exactly everyone has a job
Um, and then uh carl is chief very classic character very fun very fun. That was uh episode 13
And that is that is that was a fun day and this was a fun day
We're wrapping up um the first episode of the best ofs right now now. We're both immediately going to go to our homes
We're gonna sleep until it's time to come back here until next january. That's right. We're gonna hibernate until next january
Um, we're we're gonna there are three more episodes of this if you can believe that
We're gonna see you on this thursday is when episode two part two is gonna come out
And on that one we're gonna be still counting down from 12 until
nine
and um
So that's gonna do it for this one, but we're gonna we're gonna hear that song from townland, which is matt gorley's band very quickly
What do we feel we have learned from this episode?
um
Things are funny
um
Comedy is funny. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
Same yeah, things are funny comedy is funny things are funny comedy is funny. Okay. Yeah, I learned that we'll see what happens the next one
We'll see what happens in the next one. Okay, let's hear it from townland. We'll see you on thursday. Thanks. Bye
So put up your dukes we're going to war
Ready the nukes it's deaf comfort
Sending your mom
Dissembled the troops and in the cold
To hell with the town
All I want is war
I met you on the Baltic Sea you were running guns for the kgb
You gave me your name rank and telephone number and surrendered peacefully
Oh
You left me for dead in no man's land you broke the rules of engagement and
We built your rings without so much as a thanks and now we're at it
But I don't want to fight anymore
My shoulders are tight my back is sore it's sad of our age
All religious war
And furthermore
Broken the sanctions that we swore but I report us so that's all I know
Is