Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Todd Barry, Jessica McKenna, Casey Feigh, Connor Ratliff, Griffin Newman

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Comedian extraordinaire Todd Barry joins Scott to talk about his new stand-up special “Domestic Shorthair”, his 3 best jokes, and his many lunches with Scott. Then, married couple Bob and Liz Feigh stop by to talk directly to their son Casey. Plus, director James Cameron and the real life CGI Jake Sully of Avatar return to announce more Avatar sequels.

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We're still on the hunt for a regular catchphrase. We'll get to it at some point, but Jopin unfortunately that will not be the one Welcome to comedy bang bang for another week. My name is Scott Aukerman And we have an incredible show for you a little bit later in the show. We have a Married couple that's very exciting and then we have a couple of people who aren't married but they spend quite a bit of time together that we have a couple of people who aren't married, but they spend quite a bit of time together. We have a film director as well as someone that he works with. So that'll be an exciting show for you

a little later coming up on the show. But before we get to those, the stars are back, baby. The stars are back on comedy, Bang Bang. Look at this, look at what's in front of me. I can't believe it either. I mean, when was the last time you were on the show? It's been years. We were to that, is he mad at me face?

No. Yeah, that's my own insecurity though. I was mad at you, but we'll talk about that in a second. God, no, I don't get jokes. He is a wonderful standup comedian. One of, there's a technical term that we use called the best in the biz. And he's one of those, which it's hard to have so many,

you know, more than one best. No, I'm the goat. You're the goat, really? Now, no, we're not talking great as fall time. You're the guy everyone shits on, right? I'm goat-like. Oh, really? He has innumerable specials,

but a new one is out there right now on YouTube called Domestic Short Hair. Just came out on YouTube. Very exciting. I watched it earlier today. I'm here to tell you it's a wonderful special. Please welcome back to the show, Todd Berry. Hello, Todd.

Hey, everyone. How are you doing? They're doing fun. Don't worry about the listeners. Don't worry about them. I'll take care of them. You just worry about yourself. How are you doing?

I'm doing okay, man. Really? Just okay? Yeah, you know, it's a sunny, first sunny day since I've been here. And I'm happy to talk about the weather. Sure, the weather has been pounding the Southland. Do you agree? The Southland?

Yeah, you guys got hit hard. Some flights canceled at the, oh my God. Yeah, I mean, stuff that happens Some flights canceled at the, oh my God. Yeah, poor baby. Stuff that happens every day in other places of the world. This happens two days of the year and we got very freaked out. I know, thank God for those really lenient cancellation policies with the airlines.

Todd, we've known each other for a long time. We've hung out a bit in your home city, New York, because here's what used to happen. When I used to work, I used to have a television show and the network would call me out there once or twice a year and I'd spend some time in New York. And the great thing about when you have a network show is it's all in the contracts.

They have to fly you business class, they have to put you up at like a nice hotel. But then the other part that's in the contract is they have to fly you business class. They have to put you up at like a nice hotel. But then the other part that's in the contract is they have to give you this per diem. But the per diem is not like them giving you cash. It's like, it's all in the hotel bar and restaurant. So I would get like hundreds of dollars a day that you can only spend in the hotel bar and restaurant.

So I'd say, hmm, who wants a free lunch? I would say Todd Berry does. Really? I do not recall once eating lunch with you. You would join me all the time. I would always say I have a per diem come out and meet me. I think I'm the wrong guest. I think you're the confuseless.

You would always do this. This person, I remember eating lunch with you after you did my now defunct podcast. That was downstairs for your place. That was downstairs for my old place, but yeah. Yeah, no, you would, I remember one time in particular, you came out to the London hotel, and part of the problem with the London hotel

is it's like a hotel that caters to English people. And so we were like, okay, two for lunch. They're like, no, no, no, we don't have lunch. We have high tea. Is it, are you making shit up? I love the fact that us spending time together left little to no impression upon you. I know, especially when it's like you buying me lunch. I know.

I should just, here, let's do it again. Oh, yeah, those are good times, man. I hope I thank you enough for those free lunches. I also mentioned that we saw a Super Bowl broadcast one. We didn't go to the actual Super Bowl in 2002 together and you had no recollection of that either. Well, you thought it was at my house, which seemed very unlikely that I would be like, hey, everyone come over to Todd Barry's house

to watch the Super Bowl. Yeah. And usually I find out the Super Bowl, like the day of I find out there's the Super Bowl. There were only five of us and you were one of them. Yeah, I think we, I definitely think we were together. Okay, thank you for, I remember this, but okay. This is the most contentious interview

I've done in a long time. This is truly, this is like Gore V. Dahl and the Gay Tiles or whatever. I would have gone Frost Nix. Oh yeah, Frost Nix and sure. I thought you were going Gore V. Bush for a second because they had of course those wonderful, I don't want to elevate half my fan base. Yeah, I'm sure.

Todd, you have a new special out. It's called Domestic Short Hair. And I watched this special, so I know why it's called that. But really, when you're interviewing a standup comedian, and yes, stars are back, but primarily they're standup comedians, and they're here to plug their specials and there's not really a lot of questions. I as an interviewer can ask about a stand-up specials

like, is it funny? Yeah, I watched it. It's great. But why do you call it that? That's the one question that we as interviewers have. Why do you call it that? Well, it's something that comes up in one of the jokes. And I just said, I get these little, because titles are always something I'll agonize over, but this was just like, oh, I think I know I'm calling it. Yeah. The minute you said it on stage?

Not necessarily, but the minute I was looking for titles, I was like, is there anything I can find it? Cause I don't usually do something from my act. And then people go, why is your call your special spicy honey? Cause I was in a Kroger's in Ohio and I saw a spicy honey barbecue sauce. I had a meeting with Netflix when I had my special, Spicy Honey, like, oh, we thought

there would be like a 20 minute story about that. Nope, just 10, one second. Saw barbecue sauce, it was Spicy Honey flavored. So you're not one for titling your special, something thematic that- No, no, no, I am, but to your point, oh no, so yes, it was just something that came up in the- It's, you're referencing a cat, I believe. yes, I'm proving that I watched it by the way.

Holy shit. There's no way you could have come up with that really obscure reference. I also took a little umbra to one of the jokes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you, you, you mentioned me by name in the, in the act, not my last name, but you used my first name in one of your jokes. I was wondering if it was about me, the person apologizing to you. Oh no, Scott's a very common name. Not as common as you would think. I suddenly felt very called out. Was it me apologizing to you? Based on my history with you, I'm guessing no.

Was it me apologizing to you? Based on my history with you, I'm guessing no. It's not your thing, I think, apologies. Taking accountability or whatever. All because I remember inviting you to a free lunch and you don't? I'm gaslighting you, brother. Well, it's a great special. I was, you know, even someone is tired of stand-up comedy and just the art of it. Thank you.

There are a few stand-up comedians who are just so good that they can just get me in the mood right away. And I was laughing my little ass off the entire time. And it's great. Were you doing anything? Thank you. Were you doing anything else while you were watching? No, I was not. I was watching it on my phone though, as the filmmaker intended. Oh. Oh.

From a text link that you provided. I did. But you know, I could have taken it the next level and said, I bet there's a way to find this on another. Well, all the power is out here. I really prefer to use this link from the source that you got this link from. No, but I did, I'll tell you what I didn't do.

I didn't like glance attacks or anything. I went full screen really fully focused full screen and I lay down in bed. Oh my God. And I watched it in a reclining position. That's dangerous because one could choke presumably. No, no, no, one could fall asleep from not laughter. So something in between is what you really want is laughter, but not joking I don't literally die or sleep, but they don't I don't want them to like it too much

Todd you're a road dog. Has anyone ever passed away during one of your shows? No, I've had people I'm trying to think now. I don't think so. I've had people pass out. Sure, from laughing too hard. And or being drunk. Or being drunk or yeah, or being sick. Yeah, have you ever had like a medical emergency where they needed to stop the show and all that? Yeah, there was once in Seattle, this guy passed out and I kind of like stopped

and I said, you know, gonna be all right and everything. And then someone wrote me a long note like, you handled that so beautifully. Like what do you think I'm gonna do? Just like going to my old Navy joke while this guy's passed out in front of me. That reminded me. That was a good joke.

Can I hear that old Navy joke? I don't remember it. You don't remember, do you just forget your jokes? Like the minute you put them all on a vessel or something? There's just so many good ones. It's hard to keep track. Yeah. Oh, that was awful.

What's, uh, uh, realistically though, if you were to rank your three best jokes, you don't have to do the jokes, but the subject matter, what are your three best jokes? Were you just like- I like the joke off the new special about the cabinet salesman. Mm-hmm. You remember that one? Yeah. Mm-hmm. That I like.

Well, that one. Based on a, uh, a crowd work piece. Yeah. Originally, presumably, unless you're relying. Yes, and it's rare that crowd work turns into material, perfectly crafted material, but that's the case that it did. It's a lot like, you know, a Broadway musicals

first starting out as a movie, and then going back to being a movie again, you know? I mean, maybe it goes back to being crowd work. Yeah, maybe I will track down this guy. Well, you say he came to see another show. He should just show up now at every show. He showed up in my show recently and had a t-shirt that said Cabin It's Elf.

And it's like, like he's becoming a little... I mean, it is pretty funny to be like, cause he sat there and watched me do this joke, not knowing I did a joke about him. Right. I mean, that's gotta be a fucking thrill, man. My left, he's profound in. Right. I mean, that's got to be a fucking thrill, man. My left is profanities. Oh, yeah, definitely. Um, except for

that one. So, uh, would you apologize to our audience, please? Sorry for the F bomb. Um, there is a hanging thread in the special I wanted to ask you about now that I'm seeing you personally. Uh, you tell a wonderful bit of business about, uh, a certain restaurant you were at and the Italian dressing. Oh, yeah, that's a good joke too. That's a great joke. What you don't do is follow up with the quality of the Italian dressing once you actually ordered it and ate it. Believe it or not, you're not the first person to ask me that.

It's like 10 people who have muted on Twitter since I've asked me that. It is a big moment in the special. You're laughing, you're laughing, you're laughing. And then you want a little resolution about how that, but I would imagine it's not funny. I just, you know, one question. It's not funny and I don't remember.

The true answer to it. Is the whole thing fake? Is this a Hasan Minaj kind of situation where you never actually ordered a salad? I ordered a salad today. And then this other thing happened today. You have a very busy life and you're able to spin it into comedic gold so quickly. Our material that I wrote today. It is interesting because a lot of the material deals with post COVID, there's a lot of COVID material,

which I was kind of surprised by because we're sort of out of COVID. This special was filmed a little, it took a while to get it out there. I see. Do you think I should have cut that out? No, I loved it because it was like, it was retro again. Okay.

But every COVID sort of denier type person was, if they see you do a COVID joke, they're just like, it was nine hours of COVID material. It was four minutes of COVID material. Yeah, well, I mean, I would say it was more around 10. You think so? Yeah, I think it was about 10 months. But I mean, some of it was tangentially.

Yes. Not really COVID material. But it was great because I feel like everyone, every stand of comedian kind of like ignored it while it was happening and then didn't put out a special and here you were diving into it. And actually telling really great, like a 10 minute COVID chunk about what happened to you during COVID. You're really trying to make it sound like it was 10 minutes, but. I know that during the break, we're going to time this.

But in any case, yeah, I did do. There's some COVID jokes. You're getting really upset with me about saying it's happening. No, I'm mad at myself. I'm mad at myself. For doing this interview? No, well, yeah, but that's, right now, that's not what I'm thinking about. No, I'm thinking about it like,

because I was thinking I should have cut those COVID jokes out. No, I loved them. But then again, they're easy jokes to take in, regardless of your stance on anything. No, truly, I was like, oh, it's refreshing to hear about this period of your life because most comedians are like, okay, we're past this. Yeah, yeah, and don't even wanna talk about it.

Don't, you know. They're past us and half of them are half COVID. While being past it. Well, it's a great special domestic short here. Thank you for having me. And it's out there for free on YouTube, but people can also buy it. Well, it's a great special domestic short here. And it's out there for free on YouTube, but people can also buy it. Yeah, you could stream it on. There's a little visual portion at the end. Do you remember that? Oh, where the credits are going? Or Oh, I was all the way up to the special things. I'm going to admit that I saw. No, no, no,

there was this, there's like a slideshow. Oh, the slide. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So you could listen to it on Spotify. You can download it on, I guess, iTunes and Amazon, I saw there's like a slideshow. Oh, the slide, yeah, of course I saw that. Yeah, so you could listen to it on Spotify, you can download it on iTunes and Amazon, I think, I don't know. But one can watch it for free on YouTube. But you can also choose to, you'd like to not give money for something you don't need to buy. Who likes doing that?

Not me. I prefer to pay. And if you don't support art, then you can just watch it for free on YouTube. Right. But you're here right now. I prefer to pay. And if you don't support art, then you can just watch for free on YouTube. Right. But you're here right now and you're begging your audience to pay for it. Yeah, I went pay for it, man. Those Spotify residuals are bought my third house with them. It's a great special. It's very fun. And it's not even an hour, which is great. It's like 55 minutes or something like that, which is good, but I take a look at that time

and I go like, oh, thank God. Yeah, I don't think that hour thing care. I don't think people care, because most people aren't gonna watch full hour anyway. Exactly. I mean, you being case in point. Because I turned it off at the special thanks, 20 seconds to the end.

You were my special thanks though. That's why I wanted you to see. I went, no, I checked out the special things to see if I was in there for all these fucking meals I bought you. And guess what? You don't even fucking remember them. Let's, the next 10 dinners and meals you buy me, I won't remember.

Okay. Wait, is this like a punch card situation where you pay for the 10th one? It is a punch card, yeah. All right, well, we need to get to our next guest. Todd Barry is here bringing his electric energy here. Can I chime in? Am I allowed to chime in?

Of course you're allowed to chime in. I would just make you sit here? Yeah, that'd be crazy. Like you did during these lunches, not talking to me? It'd be a terrible use of my skills. Just filling your fucking mouth full of food, free food, and just then like giving me a cursory, just goodbye and walking.

Yeah, I just like whacked on the table. Thanks. Ha ha ha ha ha. You got this, thanks. I know it's a chore to go all the way up to, I feel like that was all the way up to like 60th Street or something like that. Yeah, it was that far, it was definitely a chore.

But that's no, I took it to mean that's just how much you wanted this free meal. I did, I mean, this meal that you claim happened, I would have gone to 60th Street 4. Well, it's wonderful to have you, Todd. Thank you for having me. Please chime in. I will.

Not continually, but at sort of the languid pace that you normally do things. No, I'm not gonna take over, don't worry. Okay, great. We do need to get to our next guest. They are, they're a married couple. Have you ever met a married couple? I have, I have met a few. Okay, great. We do need to get to our next guest. They are, they're a married couple. Have you ever met a married couple? I have, I have met a few.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you ever been close to popping that big question? I thought I was possibly close with my most recent girlfriend, but we're not together. You're not, I'm sorry, you mentioned her in the special and I'm so sorry. I did, yeah. That's a good way to guarantee you're gonna break up as mentioned.

Talk about something kind of like time stamp it. And then you're like, this is gonna be over before. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you for having me. Were you planning popping the big cue? I at least thought about it. Yeah. Where did you imagine it happening?

I don't know. I was trying to think like, oh man, what's the crazy way? I mean, an improv comedy club. No, I was gonna have the MC bring me up. Oh, we got a guy named Todd and wants to ask someone something. I don't know, it didn't get that far. I understand, yeah. When I worked at the Olive Garden,

I had a lot of people popping the question there. Isn't that sad? Is that serious? Yeah. But when you're there, your family. Wow. I just did that Family Feud show. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm done.

My segment's done. No, no, I really want to hear about this Family Feud show you did. This Family Feud show I did in San Francisco just a couple of days ago. We won and one of my prizes was a $50 Olive Garden gift card. I got one of those as well. I have not casted it in yet and I did the show

probably a year and a half. I can't wait to be on the road. Oh yeah, this is going to be great. I mean, I can only imagine you have spent quite a few lunches there. Now, I have higher high barretaise, but would you take me out to lunch with this big Olive Garden gift certificate? I would. I would do that. All right. I don't know that I have time to do this, but we'll try to set something up for the next time you're in town. Okay. All right, we need to get to our next guest. They are a married couple. Please welcome Bob and Liz Faye.

Check, Harry, hello. Hi. Hi. Hi guys. And the mics are on, yeah. And they're on for you too? They are. They are on for you Bob?

I'm hearing you through these things right here. Oh, this is fun, I hear them there and here. Great. Yes. Hi, thank you. Hi Scott. Hi, so nice to meet you. This is Great. Yes, the, Hi, thank you. Hi Scott. So nice to meet you. This is Todd Barry.

Hi Todd. Hi, I'm Mary Cupple. Gotta say I was a big fan of all the weather talk we started with. That's one of my favorite conversations, the LA rain. Thank you, yeah. Yeah, where are you from? Are you?

Minnesota. Minnesota. So we get more than rain, but how did you have any leaks? Did you look around for leaks? What about water by where your feet come in, Scott? Did you check there? No water there. There is some in the glasses here in front of us. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. No, no, that's okay. You haven't been in a drought since September, which is pretty exciting. Why are you- We've been watching that. Yeah, why is this important to you?

Well, our son Casey Fay, he's a fan of the program here. Oh, yeah. He lives here. He lives here. Oh, okay, yeah, no, I know Casey Faye, yeah. And he doesn't call us very often, so we figure come on to a podcast that he'll listen to and we can just talk directly to him. We can kind of update him, cause he's so busy, doesn't have that much. Oh, a busy boy.

He's a local, I guess, improviser, actor. Pretty good basketball player. Yeah, we don't understand most of the stuff he's talking about, the people, the locations. He performs in a theater, says the theater doesn't make money on the shows, only the classes. I don't know, I've been there.

I think they make money on the shows, too. Yeah, well, also, the teachers make a little bit of money, but then they make up for it in the dating the students part of it. From what I understand of him, he says he wouldn't know what you're talking about. Sure. I bet he doesn't. I would take that as word of it. Right. So let's move on to the first,

you know, we just went on a drive to Socrates, Minnesota, went to see a Celtic choir. So sorry, Scott Todd, you can hear this, but this is intended for Casey. Right. Okay, look, I know him as a performer, I don't know if I know him as a listener. Well, we just kinda wanna catch up.

So you can hear this, but this is the stuff that we normally would think would be interesting. This is your intended audience, is Casey. Yeah, but it might be fun for who knows. Casey, you know how much Dad and I love spot and license plates. Oh my God. Oh, did we see some amazing ones? Tell them. Well, not just the ones you think, not just Iowa, Wisconsin, you know, not the...

We saw a main license plate in soccer practice, Minnesota. We saw a main. Here's soccer. I mean, Minnesota. Here's the one that got me, Casey. Casey, we saw. Guess, do you know which one the Land of Enchantment is? Because your dad didn't know. Didn't know. You didn't know which one the Land of Enchantment is.

New Mexico, the most beautiful license plate. It's a really good one. I've never seen it. It's red. Well, it's yellow with some red pops, I'd say. Oh, beautiful. So you should check that one out. You should. Scott, have you seen that one? No, but I guess I'd say. Ooh, beautiful. So you should check that one out. You should.

Scott, have you seen that one? No, but I guess I could do a Google image search, or do I have to see it out there in the wild? No, no, no, you wanna see it in the wild. You're gonna love that. Let it come to you. If you spoil that, I'll tell you what, don't do that. That's like knowing the end of a really good movie.

You wanna be out on the road, and all of a sudden, see a land of enchantment go by. It's got turquoise in it. I mean I don't want to give too much away. So yeah it's like knowing the end to fast and furious presents Hobbes and Shaw for instance. Please don't tell me we've been waiting to watch that one with Casey. He always shows us good you know what's fun is he brings home screeners sometimes. Oh yeah yeah not a big screeners yeah screeners are the things that the the studio send to guild members because we vote in the awards.

I don't know about all that. But he gets special DVDs. The number comes up on the screen. It purposely looks bad. It's an interesting. But my mother doesn't like them because you can't turn on the subtitles. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a big. She needs an order to understand.

Our subtitles are always on. Casey helped him help us get him on the last time he was home and now we can't get him off. We can't figure out the remote at all. It's good for us to stretch our eyes, don't you, Bob? Yeah, I like reading more than watching, honestly. Yeah, he's a big reader. Oh, really? What do you like to read? Oh, books.

Yeah, sure. Harper's Bazaar, you know, whatever. Anything that I can hold in my hands. I like reading holiday letters. I save them up. That is good. That did remind me of email forwards. I do love email forwards.

Casey, if you sent, if you read the one I sent recently, oh boy. Which one? Well, it was a joke. Did you send it to me too? It's not what I actually believe. I probably didn't because it's a little, it says, Bob.

Well, here's, here's again a joke, honey, I promise it's a joke, but it said, it said, the end of every argument, a's the, here's the, it's again a joke, honey. I promise it's a joke, but it said, it said, uh, the end of every argument, a woman's going to end every argument. Because if you say anything after that, it's a start of a new argument. It was a forward. I know. Don't send that.

That's not good advice. Yeah. Well, if it wasn't for forwards, I don't know what we'd do with email. You know, I get too many. I don't know what to do. I open my inbox and I have a thousand or mostly coupons, but I don't know what to do. I open my inbox and I have a thousand. They're mostly coupons. But I don't know how to stop getting them. And so then it makes me very upset when I open up the screen. It's such a big number.

You could just, I guess, turn off your computer or throw it out the window or something like that. Scott. Sure. Scott. I don't know. It took Casey a long time to set it up for me. I don't think I could throw it out. And he told me that actually I needed a bigger monitor. That's true, yeah. What size is your monitor right now? I don't know.

Yay. It's an iPad. Yeah, it's just an iPad. Yeah, yeah. Strain my eyes a little bit. So you're, I mean, these are all things that, you say Casey doesn't talk to you all that much? Oh no, I mean, we don't want to, he's a great,

somebody's a busy boy. I'm pretty busy too. I don't know why you need to be. How long do you spend on the phone with your mom? Sure. Per what, per annum? Well, I... Per time you call her up, you know?

Per time I call her up. At this point we're doing FaceTimes with the child and these, the very cute thing she started doing, which is she says hi and then bye immediately. And so that really wraps up the conversation about the time that I want to spend on it. Well, okay, so yeah, that's, but that's about, that's pretty similar, you know, just a hi, how are you?

And we just have a lot of things like, Casey, I wanted to tell you, do you know that Nan's not at the church anymore? Oh no, there we go. Let me guess, this is someone that he hasn't heard of for 30 years. No, I'm sure he knows we go. Let me guess, this is someone that he hasn't heard of for 30 years. And you- No, I'm sure he knows Nan.

I'm always talking to him about Nan. Yeah, she used to sit by the Swank family, you know, that always show up late. You know, you know what you see? You know how they'd leave early for soccer? I guess that's soccer's year round, even though it's that cold. I'm not sure about that. Yeah. I'm not sure.

I, Todd, are you having the same experience I'm having? What's that? Why don't you just say it? I Was just thinking about how she said coupon instead of coupon. Okay, I guess we're not having the same experience I just I'm getting a sense of why you know this Your your conversation seems to be filled with details that are unimportant to the average person. Oh, okay I would never even say that out loud. Oh, sure.

Even if I had that exact thought. Oh, okay. He would just eat his lunch silently. Yeah, well, you know. Well, glazing at me from just below a very high, high-T sandwich, finger sandwich. I mean, Bob and I can take, we can take feedback. We can take constructive criticism. But can I just test this theory? Sure. Okay. I'm gonna tell you

This is what I would tell Casey. Mm-hmm. Nan's no longer at the church You remember she used to sit by the Swank family. They'd always leave early for soccer I guess they had soccer year-round actually their middle child was a pretty good midfielder thought she could play in college But then decided she didn't want to go to college because she wanted to be a nurse instead And I said that's still a type of college, but the scholarship was for a different kind of college. So she didn't get to go to that kind of college. They sat by the Swank family, Nan and her eldest boy, John. They didn't used to bring the youngest kids because they were too rowdy anyway. The priest asked her to forge a signature so that

they could get extra buses to take the confirmation classes out on a trip to get Baskin Robbins. And I said, this is the wrong time of year for Baskin Robbins anyway. And Ann said, I don't know. He wants the buses to take them. They're not even the kids getting confirmed, Scott. They're the kids who are getting confirmed next year, but they want them to bond because it's a big deal. You know, you remember, Casey. So anyway, they couldn't get multiple fans. They tried to sign it off. She didn't want to forge her signature. So now they're Lutheran. I don't know, Scott, what am I supposed to cut from that? Right?

You're right. I mean, it was, it was. That was tight. That was very tight. It was tight. I'm not gonna insult you by saying it was almost 10 minutes like I insulted Todd here, but it, look, I. I'd like about eight to 12 minutes on COVID myself.

About a nice eight to 12. She's got a great, yeah, it's fantastic. Because there's a lot of things to talk about, the puzzles and also what was it like the first time you flew? I mean, that alone, how do you get from that A to B? Remember when we did the, when we'd wipe our groceries down? Remember when we wiped our grocery? Todd has a great joke about wiping things down in a special, so.

Is it, oh yeah? Oh, can I pay you for this, Mr? Pay me for what? For this art you created, I'd prefer to pay you for art. Yeah, but I get it on iTunes, get it on Amazon. You'll have to have Casey help us. Perhaps maybe if you throw it in the forward. I don't think I know my login.

Will you reply all to your last forward, Jane and Casey and ask them if we can get- Todd Berry joke, wipe down groceries. Todd Berry joke, question mark, how to get. Fantastic. Okay, look guys, I'm afraid we're running up on the bad side of a break here, but so we're going to have to go to a commercial here. So I sensed you launching into another big long thing. Oh, well, we figured we could maybe connect with you a little bit more.

We could talk about LA celebrities. If that, I don't miss you. I look, stars are back, sure. But we can talk about that during the break. But why don't we take a break and when we come back, we'll sort of regroup. Do you need me to get any snacks in the break? Or do you want me? Oh, man, I'd love some snacks.

Oh, yeah, would you need this? The brownie? At this time, oh, I don't know, Bob. Oh, I love the brownies. Not this time, Bob. No, this is the time of day when you need protein. It's Dorito time. Oh. I don't know about that.

Sure, Bob. At this time of day, you need protein. It's Dorito time. Oh. I don't know about that. That's sure about it. This time of day, you boys will crash. You boys will crash. You're saying protein as a snack? What are you suggesting? You need something protein-based at this. I don't know, something with peanut butter. Like a slim gym or something.

That's a lot of sodium, but I'd put maybe some peanut butter on, you know, some ants on a log for you. Ants on a log? Okay, if you could whip up some ants on a log during the break, that would be great. You bet you. Okay, great.

When we come back, everyone will have just eaten ants on a log during the break, that would be great. You betcha. Okay, great. When we come back, everyone will have just eaten ants on a log. That's a very exciting tease. We also have a film director and somebody works with. This is such an exciting show. We're gonna come right back with more Todd Berry, more Bob and Liz Faye. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.

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It didn't seem to be having much fun. But if you'd like to come again, just hit me up. We'd love to have you, pal. I, yeah, did you fire your gun at all? Oh, yeah, sure, yeah. Yeah, I get in the pheasants, you know, hitting my limit every day. Yeah, yeah. Did you fire your gun at all? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I get in the pheasants, you know, hitting my limit every day. Yeah. What is the limit?

A three per person per day. Three per person per day. Do you ever bring extra people like, like Casey, just so you can say like, oh yeah. Yeah. He would spend most time in the hot tub, honestly. Seemed to enjoy that a little bit more than walking out in the cold South Dakota corn, killing animals.

I don't know. Interesting. And Casey, if you're listening, it would be great to see you out on stage one of these days or come on the show at some point. What's Casey do for a living? Well, he's complicated. You know, we give-

You don't know, right? No, we know he's on commercial. We see him in commercials. Which commercials? He's in that one. Like Xfinity, I think right now. Oh yeah. He gets cut out of TV shows pretty regularly.

His book, as he says. And we like to, you know, he's an actor, he's a teacher, he's an improviser, but a lot of the stuff is tricky for us to see in a way that we can watch it a lot. Why isn't he here? I forgot, I didn't catch that. I think he listens to the show. Yeah.

He told us, one time he listens to the show. Yeah, he told us one time, one time he tried to put it on when we were stuck in on a road trip. Right, cause we heard Obama has a pot. We said, what's this podcast? Obama has a podcast. So we were asking what podcasts were and he says they've been around for a while.

Yeah, he says that they've existed for some years now. Did you know that Scott? Maybe, honestly, I can't remember anything previous to Obama and Springsteen. that they've existed for some years now. Did you know that, Scott? Maybe. Honestly, I can't remember anything previous to Obama and Springsteen. It was just so incredible a moment that it just changed everything. How neat of him to invent that.

What a cool president. What about, definitely our coolest. I guess, of course. You were at that tan suit that one time, where you was at a little too... No, we liked it. You liked it, Gina. Well, it was right for the season

You know, he wasn't wearing it in winter. Well, yeah big fan I just wouldn't want him to catch a cold seems like a real nice guy. Yeah, okay Leslie stall you never met her Scott you have to tell us if you've met Leslie. I Met Katie Kirk. Okay. Okay. Yeah, tall sure. How are we? That's that's your first question I met Katie Couric once. Okay. Okay. Yeah, tall? Short? How are we? That's your first question. I was just wondering celebrities if I'm taller than them. I'm 6'1 myself.

If I remember, she was short. Okay. Now, Todd, I started reading her book, but I was worried it was gonna get mean, so I closed it. Yeah. Before it ever even, there was a hint of it getting mean. I made it in about 20 pages, and then I thought,

oh, it'll break my heart if Katie gets mean. The picture on the front, she looks like a little in power. Just like she might tell some hard truths that she's entitled to, but maybe. And you don't wanna hear that. I don't care for that. And I didn't want it to change my opinion of, you know, when I watch the folks on the morning show.

Some would say that people buy books written by celebrities to get to know them a little better. You don't want it to change my opinion of, you know, when I watch the folks on the morning show. Some would say that people buy books written by celebrities to get to know them a little better. You don't want them. Well, I liked it. I wanted to hear how- Oh boy, you okay? What's going on? I drank some water.

I drank some water. You drank some water and it made you cough. I hope it wasn't the ants in the log. Do you have any allergies? I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm sorry. A lot of the grandkids we'd have to ask now and I forgot to ask.

Let's all wait this out until I'm done. Okay. There we go. Okay, out until I'm done. Okay. There we go. Okay, I think I'm good. Are you sure? Sorry about that. No, please, please. You want to do one more just in case?

No, because then my trigger might get it going. I think you're all right. Yeah, okay. You're good, okay. Great. Trying to do a business term there. They said for safety, one more for safety. One more, we should remember that one.

Put it in, write it down. Okay, I'll get a piece of paper. Sometimes we write down things we can ask Casey about. Yeah. How old is Casey? Oh, I cast the ball 25 to 40, I believe. Yeah, I could still play one of the boys, but also a fun dad. I don't know, I'd cast him as one of the boys, necessarily.

Well, sure. I think he auditioned for one of the deer I've enhanced in high schoolers not too long ago. What? Were they going to digitize everyone's face? Again, the words, I don't even make sense to me, but I feel like that's something he's told me before and I do recall. Yeah, he's excited and so are we about him having more dad range because he's like that. Is he a dad himself or I don't know that I've ever had a personal conversation with him? No, yeah, no, no, he's not.

Interesting, you know, interesting. They're just, he's on a different. His cousin, Steph, he's got four kids. Laura's got four kids. Well, I'd imagine that would slow you down in your show business career. Or one show business career. Yeah, lots of angels, this is different.

That might be nice. Yeah, look at that for the reason, yeah. Yeah, it's also not really a city where you wanna have children. It's also not really a city where you want to have children. It's just not a very safe city. Well, and I'm seeing grass and trees and blue sky. Seems like you just got a nice bit of rain. Yeah.

Well, guys, you're so, I don't want to say interesting. What's the word I'm looking for, Todd? It's definitely not interesting. OK. Whatever the opposite of that is, Todd and I think that you're charming. It's definitely not interesting. Okay. Whatever the opposite of that is, Todd and I think that you're charming. Charming. Oh, thank you.

Very charming. And you have, can you stick around and talk to our next guests here? Don't know much about movies, but we'll jump in. Oh, yeah. What's your, what's your, like a movie you've seen? I don't even want to say favorite, but what's a movie you've seen? I mean, boy boy that Nemo movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?

Oh, no, it was the one the lesbian Ellen Doing the Nemo. That's right. I don't know. You know, you know, we know who Ellen is you don't need to specify If I tell a story about anyone you're gonna find out their race And if it's not white, I'm gonna compliment. It's gonna be a very nice. I'm at a very nice black man who was my waiter, you know, but I'm just the race, their weight. Mm hmm.

How how you know what they are wearing. Be positive. It's gonna be positive. But I'm gonna let you know. We're gonna let you know. You have to picture, you know, that short haired lesbian who voiced the fish. We like that movie. Well, um, I mean, our next guests,

their films have a lot in common with that movie. Okay. Not the cast necessarily, although cast is a word that's used in movies about the sea. Yeah. And they're like- These are great segues, Scott. Thank you so much.

I mean, I assume I don't know who these people are yet, but I'm impressed. Well, they are, our director has directed many films about The Sea, including such films as The Abyss. Oh, that's a big Hollywood guy. And the, that's hard, the way of water. Oh, oh.

Honey, you're turning Italian, calm down here. That's a big a big a Hollywood guy Are you do you have a Heritage there and it'll absolutely not know okay, but that's just what happens to you when you're excited just I got it was as I was Exhaling. Oh, that's a big Hollywood guy Well, he is the director of films like Titanic. Oh, no and Too sad. Too sad for you? Had to turn it off.

There's a nice fun part where they're just on the boat enjoying themselves and Billy Zane is... Beautiful, the first 17 minutes. I loved the relationship. I loved the beginning, her clothes, but then I had too sad. Sorry, I'm getting excited. Well, he also directed the beginning of Titanic. Well done, sir.

And he directed such films as Terminator 2, Judgment Day, and also Aliens and True Lies. And he's brought with him one of the, not necessarily the stars of his, because he's not an actor, he's one of the characters in his last two films, Avatar and Avatar, The Way of Water. Please welcome to the show for the second time,

James Cameron and Jake Scully. Good to be back. Good day, Scott. I gotta check you on a couple of things. Okay, I see, I wish Todd had done this. No, you've done me dirty already. But Todd just let me run over him. A couple different ways. Okay. First of all, my name is Jake S this. No, you've done me dirty already. But Todd just let me run over him. A couple different ways.

Okay. First of all, my name is Jake Sully. There's no C. Now, I was told Scully by James Cameron. Wrong. Wrong. And in fact, he said Mike Scully first and then corrected himself. It was a wide-ranging conversation. We talked about a lot of things, but it is Jake Sully. Jake Sully.

And have a child. Yeah. Now, I have to say, I feel like you're going out of your way to not call me a movie star. At the beginning of the show, you said a famous director and someone who works with him sometimes. Then you repeated that and then you went and directly said, I wouldn't call him a movie star. I'd call him a character who's in some of his movies. I would like to say the stars are back with respect to Todd Berry, but also to myself. I am the biggest movie star in history.

I'm not just a star. I'm the number one movie star of all time in America. I mean, Sam Jackson has been in more movies that have made more money than you. Let me let me let me give you a question to ask me. Oh, OK. Yeah, I wish all guests would do this. I'm going to ask you a question. Next time you're on the show, can you bring some questions?

I'm going to pose you a question. Ask me. OK. Ask me what the lowest grossing film I've ever been in is. What's the lowest grossing film you've ever been in? Avatar, two billion, three hundred, seventeen million, five hundred, fourteen thousand, three hundred, eighty six dollars. That's my number two. Yeah, I know, but you've only been in two of these. Yeah, you know what my average gross is? My average gross at the box office, two billion, six hundred, twenty million, six hundred, ten thousand, two hundred and

six dollars. Scott, I think I think the point that I'm not taking averages, by the way, I'm taking cumulative. Yes. Oh, you want a cumulative number? I'll give that to you, brother. Five billion, two hundred forty one million, two hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and twelve. And Sam Jackson has made more. OK, how many films?

Scott, I think I think the way to look at this, I think if I may is add up any two Sam Jackson's pick any pick any to this. Okay, now enters in game and What's this number two probably the other Avengers? Let's do them. Let's run the numbers. I have to open a new tab I'll take that challenge. How many tabs do you have 87 tabs because people keep on fucking checking my Qualifications like this. I got to come with fucking proof. Okay, look, I'm sorry, Jake Sully. Thank you.

The character so popular that no one even knows his name, let alone the director of his film. Whoa. I don't understand. Whoa. Okay, Bob, are you getting this? Because when we tell this story, we're going to have to describe him as big and... Blue.

I'd say tall. Tall. Say, say, Navi. Okay, yeah. Tall. Am I pronouncing I'd say tall. Say Navi. OK, yeah. Yeah. Tall blue. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Or is it not? No, not Navi. Navi, I'd say big blue and American is one of my defining. OK, yeah. No, you're not Australian.

Very American, mate. I just I didn't know what to call you because you're, you know, I consider Sam Worthington to be a star. I don't consider Jake Sully to be a movie star. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. How many seconds was Sam Worthington's face on screen in Avatar 2? The Way of Water, the highest grossing film of 2022? I remember him at the beginning.

Wrong. That's the first one. Oh, OK. Oh, in the in the do's. Honestly, that one was so boring. Way of Water. Yeah, I I was zoning out. Not at all. I fucking ate that guy. Yeah. So he's not back. He's never coming back. Who fucking needs him? What are you talking about?

I don't want to get into the specifics of who's coming back. And he's not because we have a we have a lot of avatar yet to come. Yeah. Last time you were on the show, you promised me a lot of avatar sequels. Yes. Up to about six, maybe. Or you're going to get a lot more. We're here to announce more. It's been too long since we've announced more avatars. We have, we've only got the second one since the last time you were on. Right. What year is it right now? 2024. Guess what happens in 2025, Scott? Avatar 3? Boom. Boom. I've never seen either of the Avatar movies. Yeah, you've never seen

them, Todd? No, I've never seen either of them. you've never seen them Todd. No, I've never seen you Let's explain them to Todd and then yeah, also the listeners who have never seen I almost like NVU Todd You have the best eight hours of your life ahead of you to look forward to and that's the first one There there are these movies where it's like a fake planet and people go to it and then they fuck is this shit They're both nominated for best picture. He's acting like we're fucking he didn't say that you aren't he? It's like a fake planet and people go to it and then they fuck is this shit? They're both nominated for best picture. He's acting like we're fucking he didn't say that you weren't. He just said that's what the films are about. I'm just getting a little bit like fleece circus energy in the way you're describing.

Wait, you're describing this show as a fleece. What you do is a fucking fleece circus on this fleece circus. You're describing you're the fleece. Bustard. You're the fleece. I'm going to be boys, boys. Oh, we got a fleece circus you're describing you're the fleece you're the fleece boys boys oh my goodness careful let's get back to me now

watching either avatar move apology it's like this planet that people fly around in and they stick their pony tails in people's butts why don't we let Jim explain this I mean he's not wrong but I think the way he's framing it is perhaps misleading. Reductive. Reductive. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm sorry. What are the ponytails called that you stick in people's butts? I'm not even going to dignify that, Scott. OK, what are the butts called that you stick the ponytails? It's such a disrespectful way that you're framed. It's a tone issue right now. OK, let me calm down. How would you feel if I came here to comedy boing boing and told you that everybody here is a tone issue right now. OK, let me calm down. How would you feel if I came here to comedy boing boing and told you that everybody here is just pretending?

And that's all it is. And it doesn't matter. It's a podcast. I think I would be disrespectful. It's a podcast with a table and there's a guy. I wouldn't call him the host, but he does podcast sometimes. And he takes the wires and he plugs them into what would you even call this? What would you even call this?

Well, it's a a P8. Oh, Zoom recorder. what a weird term. That's pretty good. Yeah, let me let me do a respect. Let me ask you respectfully. OK. Mr. Cameron. Yeah. As someone who saw both of these avatar movies

and who maybe missed the details, you're welcome. What do you call the ponytails that you stick in people's butts? The reason I'm not going to tell you the answer to that question is because Todd has seen neither movie and that is a question that I have answered within the context of the movie. I've made two movies so far. The answers are in those movies. Also, to be clear, they don't stick the ponytails in other people's butts.

They stick the ponytails into other ponytails. It's more akin to docking in the gay community. Oh, I see. OK. And that's what you would prefer it be like reference. I refer to reference in the correct way. And we are good with that. Yeah, write that down, docking.

I would prefer that any question about the story and substance of Avatar be answered within the experience of experiencing an avatar film. Show your own tale. There's a reason I didn't release these as a series of conversations. Although I'm kind of interested in that. What? A series of, like movies, movies, we've seen them.

You know what I mean? We have seen them. We have. Let's release things as conversations. I mean, that's one format that's open to everybody. It definitely. It certainly would be less money. Yes.

Budgets would be smaller. Yes. Lower barrier for entry. Yes. Yes. Yeah. What I'm here to do today is to give you some impressive numbers that are going to devastate you. You're here to give us some numbers.

I've already given you one number, 20, 25 and 3. We talked about three. That's actually two numbers. Four years later, guess what happens? Four years. I. 20 and 20 no 20 29 four years later. Yes, what happens? I'm gonna be four years at that point. I don't care Scott. I'm having let me get I'm handing you this on a plate Avatar years after three what happens avatar for correct after three correct now. You're saying you're an old man You won't care at that point

Do you not have a daughter? I do but I honestly as a father of a daughter. Do you not understand the avatar franchise has become generational? It's about our kids took I Cook is it took who's Nadia? Oh, that's right. Those are your kids. Yes in the movie So avatar will be passed on from you the original Avatar mega fan to your daughter. I, I inherit. I love Avatar. Look, honestly, I don't know that she's going to watch these things. They, uh...

Scott, ask me what your daughter will be doing in 2031. Ask him. What's my daughter going to be doing in 2031? Watching Avatar 5. Bam. Oh, that's fun. Okay. A year after that, in 2032. Why four years in between three and four and then yearly? Oh, I'm sorry. How long does it take you to make an avatar? Well, I'm just wondering you have to get out one then why not?

This is what I'm excited about Scott. I'm so glad you asked that question because in 2032 we're releasing avatar six and seven the year after that we were on the same day. Yeah. Yes The year after that in 2033 we were released eight nine ten and eleven Doubling the number and then every year after that Eight the next year sixteen the next year thirty two sixty four right that's right. That's right. That's right 254 That's right. I's right. That's right. 254. That's right. That is exponential. I will be dead before then. I will be dead before we.

When are you going to die? I won't name the year, but I'm giving you a general time frame. I will be dead before the Avatar project is completed. It's Q4 of undated year. It's it's still untitled James Cameron project. My death. I don't know why, but I'm thinking 2032. That's what that's look. It's still. Untitled James Cameron Project, My Death. I don't know why, but I'm thinking 2032.

That's what it, that's, look, it's on you. If that's, if you want to bet on that, is there a part for me in any of these sequels? Yeah, I mean, Todd has been in movies like The Wrestler. Very, I mean, Todd. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself because obviously there's a lot to be worked out. There are deal, deal points to be figured out.

Yeah. But there is a very dry Navi who will be making appearance in Avatar. So he's not in the way of water. Bone dry. Bone dry. The driest of the Navi. Yeah. And I think you would be perfect for that. You know, the guy of range I couldn't do. I have to do the way. No, in fact, you know what, Todd? Yeah. I was I'm kind of embarrassed and I didn't want to embarrass you. And I wasn't sure if I was going to say this. I based a lot of my performance in the Avatar films on you because I had never I'd never been the lead of a movie before. And I said, I said, let me study the greats.

You know, it's a certain kind of charisma and energy and stature and swagger that a lead actor needs to have in a big budget film like this. And I studied you and the wrestler obsessively. And I think you see that reflected in the opinions of people who've seen the film. This is incredible. I mean, I don't know that I would base an entire movie around your character in the wrestler. You know, we had we had a shorthand on the set after a take. He would ask me, what's the T.B. number for this next take? I'd say, let's bring this up to a four.

Yeah. And that's why when people talk about how dynamic Drake Sully is, when they remember my name, they talk about him as the sort of exciting, gripping leading man. Yeah. I go big ups to TB. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's pretty. You're showing a lot of comfort calling me TB. I mean, I don't want to find out whether that I like that.

It's how we talked about it on set. I'm sorry. It is. I guess it's your private code. That's what it is. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he's not saying I mean, you wouldn't say that to about it on set. I'm sorry. I guess it's your private code. That's fine. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he's not saying, I mean, you wouldn't say that to him.

No, I call you Mr. Barry. Some people do call me TB though. Who calls you TB? Chris Rock calls me TB. Really? Yeah. Oh, he's very talented. I'm kind of the Chris Rock of movies

if you look at it a certain way. You handed me that name drop opportunity. I was gonna do it. You've been about as successful as a screen presence as Chris Rock in movies. I would say. Is it. You've been you've been about as successful as a screen presence as Chris Rock in movies. I would say is that what you're trying to say? Yes. I'm the Chris Rock of movies in the same way that Chris Rock is the Chris Rock of movies. Well, that's I mean, it's yes. Mr Cameron. Our son, Casey is an actor. And I I have a headshot of his on on my den desk

So that's hard because it's back home Does he have like is he dressed up as a waiter in in one picture? Yeah, he's doing a funny thing It's like he's on the phone, but it's actually a banana. There's no way it could be a call There apart for our son Casey Faye in any of the Avatar movies that would be huge for I Actually, I think I can say this. Casey signed some paperwork so he was not allowed to say this, but I actually cut Casey out of both Avatar and Avatar the way of water. He had a role in both the airtight NDAs, but I obviously can say that. What was he playing? Was he playing like a father Nuggy? Was he one of the boys? One of the boys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was in the second one. He was actually spiders friend. Oh, I'm so proud of him.

That's nice. I don't know if I mean, we got speaking code here, Jim, but I I'm thinking just in my head, there are a couple of roles in a 11. I think he could slot in too nice. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there are a certain point we're all going to be in these avatar. No, that's not true. Scott, you will never be in one. Scott, that's not true. Scott, you'll never be in one because you've been so disrespectful in the way You've talked about them. It's clear. You don't want to be in them. So we'll have to rewrite that character. I don't know what would be more boring watching one of them or being in one. Well, you'll never find out. You'll never know. Do you do this with all of your guests when they come on to plug? I am a straight shooter. I like Todd Berry special and I say it the way it is and

I think the Avatar movies are a bit of a snooze. Okay, wait, let's interrogate something here. Well, I'm sorry We didn't put avatar on the YouTube so that you could lie down. Yeah, and watch I would have heard that when I The link to Avatar 2 the way of water. Did you open it on your phone or did you go to a different device? I Did you open it on your phone or did you go to a different device? I drop the link and watch it on a proper screen. I watched it on an iPod Nano. Actually, yeah, I'm so sorry. I look, I, you know, I think it looked better on there. It's because look, this is this is the root of the problem here.

Okay. We come on here like two years ago. We're like avatar to close to coming out. We announced 10 more avatars. You're doing the same bit everyone else is doing doing which is saying like no one fucking cares about avatar No one remembers the names anymore who wants these sequels bombs incoming and then we fucking won We were the highest grossing movie of the year nominated for best picture rave reviews and yet here We are 18 months yet later. You're once again acting like no one gives a shot I thought I thought if we came back here and we had a big secret we were gonna reveal today

I don't think we're gonna reveal it we might not even reveal please reveal look we might shove that reveal up my ponytail and let us stay there look I apologize guys and I you know yes I I'm very impressed that you made all this money. I have some. It's not just the money, the people like it. I have some suspicions that James Cameron, you're buying all the tickets, but. Why is it that the beverage you serve your guests is avatar themed if you have no respect?

It's water. You don't own water. What's the title for avatar too? The way of water. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed that also. Okay, I look. And you weighed us in when we came in here too. Let's put it this way. You gave of water. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed that also. Okay. I look and you weighed us in when we came in here to let's let's put it this way. Give us a lot of this way. What's the highest grossing water based film of all time?

I mean, it's obviously a way of water. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think is number two? The wrestling. It's got to be Titanic. Thank you. Oh, good job. My man over here. You tell me he doesn't own water. I know you love water. You Thank you. Oh, good job. My man over here. You tell me he loves. He doesn't own water. I know you love water. You love water. He owns that shit. Do you even drink the stuff, James Cameron? You're typing something on your phone.

What's going on? Well, we didn't run the numbers on the Sam Jackson movie, so I'm going to do it myself. And yes, I drink water. I drink water. I go in the ocean. I go in the ocean. You go in the ocean.

I drink ocean water. I drink ocean water. Please be careful when you go in the ocean, Mr. Cameron. I'm always careful. There's a lot of dangers hidden in the deep. That careful when you go in the ocean, Mr. Cameron. I'm I'm always careful. There's a lot of dangers hidden in the. That's why I go in the ocean. My man, Jim, he goes down the bottom of the ocean. He brings two things with him and is submersible.

One is a little straw so we can stick it out the side and drink some of that deep ocean water. That seems dangerous. It's a tight. It's what the straw is. Yeah, yeah, it is. May so it's got like some self closing thing every time you suck in on it. OK, yeah, that's what a billion dollars buys you, mate.

Second thing as well as all the Avatar tickets. Anyway, go ahead. People bought them. Civilians. Well, private citizens bought those citizens. OK, the second thing he brings down there with him is a little flag. And he plants it down at the bottom of the ocean And the flag says I own this shit sign sincerely James Cameron Wow You'd be stunned to how much of the bottom of the ocean I own that's a little braggadocious mr. Cameron

I'm a lot braggadocious. He's the king of the world. I'm the king of the world yet to be careful No one likes an ego be go everybody likes an ego be go everyone tells him that every time And then his next movie makes more more money than the last move. Isn't it just because of inflation? What are you fucking talking about? You know what I mean? Like, oh yeah, Avatar, we've made all this fucking money, but movies are expensive. Yeah, my movies made more if you adjust for inflation. That's the thing.

The money goes up. Yeah. The money goes up. The money goes down. The money goes up. The money goes down. I think the person with more money would know what money does. The money from the movies before goes up. Yours goes down. Mine goes down.

Mine money goes up. But don't you also have to pay for the goggles? Yeah, but you'd be surprised at a certain point people start giving you goggles. Yeah. So I've received more goggles as gifts than I've purchased goggles in my life. I'm start giving you goggles. Yeah. So I've received more goggles as gifts than I've purchased goggles in my life. I'm actually ahead on goggles. What do you mean? Because sometimes I'll sell the goggles that I get. What are you talking about?

Because I think she's talking about going to the movie and having to buy the 3D goggles. I was talking about the goggles when I go in the ocean. Oh no, well I'm glad you were in protection. I'm saying aren't your ticket prices higher because they have to include the cost of giving us all those glasses that give me headaches. Yeah, they don't. I'm sorry. In fairness, they don't.

You said goggles. They don't give you goggles. They don't give you goggles. I wish I was. I pitched this to the theaters a few years ago. I said, fill the theater up with water, give them goggles. And they said, no, we're just going to keep the theater dry. So the movies wet. Fill it up like a water park. Fill the theater with water. Give people air. Give people goggles.

Maybe some marine life as well in the theater. Well, now you're thinking like a filmmaker. Wow. To be fair here, to be fair, you're acting like, oh, it's this weird, like number juicing scheme to add the glasses on. How many times do you go to a movie theater, buy a ticket, and they give you some other shit for free? I mean, when you go to a Mexican restaurant, they give you chips for free. I said, move with you.

Okay. I said, no know that's a fair point, but I would say 3d glasses all the chips to movie theaters Mexican restaurants Plains about that shit Scott you've dipped your toe into filmmaking as well Yeah, yeah, remind me the grosses remind me the grosses. Well, it was on Netflix. So we don't I mean how convenient But when you make it was convenient Yeah, people to watch it. I'm like you're fucking movie. Where do they get their glasses? Then people don't need glasses to watch my movie I would see it that's not let me ask you this you have water sequences in your movie. We do yeah You're a first sequence. Yeah, I fucking know cuz I fucking noticed wash it and then I watched through the special things

And I don't see a mention of my name in the fucking studio. I apologize Look, you make a water movie you come to my house And you don't give me a special thanks. I know you should have you should have wet your beak in this Metaphorically, yeah, it's doing to feel like a lot of your objections are that you actually don't understand what success is No, it's not that I did maybe I a different metric. But look, what's your metric? Yeah. My metric is billions of dollars. My metric is people enjoying it and talking about it.

Let's go to fucking a screening of Avatar. I've never met a single person who's ever said, wow, I really love that Avatar movie. Now I'm definitely not revealing our secret. You wouldn't believe this episode. Tell you what, tell you what, tell you what, tell you what. We need to take the temperature down. This sucks.

Liz, do you mind making some more ants on a log for everyone during the you what. We need to take the temperature down. This sucks. Liz, do you mind making some more ants on a log for everyone during the break? Because we need to take a break. We're gonna take the temperature down a notch. I told him we should have dunked dog loves movies instead. I said that's a better dunking platform. Dog loves movies.

That's a different metric of success too. Let's litigate that a little bit. Okay, look. We're gonna take the temperature down. I wanna hear your big announcements. So I'm gonna apologize and we're gonna have some nice ants on the log. We'll get our blood sugar up.

When we come back, we're gonna have more with Todd Berry. Todd, you can stick around, right? Yeah, I have a show in the four hours. In four hours? So I think we'll be done by then, I think. Although everyone should take a look at the runtime of this podcast. I mean, based on the vibe over here, I think we're be done by then, I think. Although everyone should take a look at the runtime of this podcast. I mean, based on the vibe over here,

I think we're gonna be a while. I mean, maybe, you know. Barely started announcing new avatars. This isn't like a George Lucas talk show situation. Should I preheat the oven? Should you add now? Should I preheat the oven? Maybe throw some brownies.

Yeah, preheat it. We do some brownies. And then we're also gonna have Bob and Liz Faye. They're gonna still be here. Bob has a secret. Bob has a secret too. We'll find out. And maybe Todd has a secret that,

I mean, although we learned about his relationship status, so that maybe already was the secret, but we're gonna come back up. We'll have more with Todd Berry, we'll have more with Bob and Liz Faye, we'll have more with James Cameron and Jake Sully. Thank you. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.

["Comedy Bang Bang"] Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Todd Berry Barry is here domestic short hair is the special people can get it on YouTube they can watch it to their hearts content I watched it to my heart's content one watch your content now I'm content I love I loved it Todd your content that you're done watching it forever I may I may go back to it. It was very, very fun. I feel like it's something you should watch at least one more time tonight. Yeah, why not? Do you get, I mean, it's up there for free, no ads.

At least in the link that you sent me. Wow, you got a VIP link then. Oh, okay, thank you so much. I appreciate that. Wow. Very nice of you to send me the texted VIP link to your special. We also have Bob and Liz Faye. Liz, you. I preheat the oven.

I am going to make brownies, but everyone only gets one. OK, OK, OK. And then we also have James Cameron and Jake Sully are here. The stars are back. Stars are back. Yes. The stars are back. I apologize that I didn't consider you to be a star. I didn't know what to call you because you are a fictional character.

OK, James, you Google the box office gross on end game and I'll Google the box office gross on infinity James You have two phones look like Casey at the dinner table your phone out just hey, hey, we're up here Two phones you have one on top of the other Second one is in a phone, it's power. Oh, it's a church. Ever hear of it? Ever hear of it? Is that designed to make a-

Yes, it doesn't work in water, I know. A portable phone seemed like it's a home phone from 1971. I think it must weigh like 13 pounds. Yeah, I'm a strong man. This is a stuff of facts. I don't think you could fucking work that out. I'm a strong man. I can carry a big phone and a lot of power.

It takes strength to hold power. I think real strength doesn't tell itself, doesn't tell in itself. It's like so quiet. It's quiet. It's quiet. And the show is quiet right now, we've all calmed down. Lots of goats at this table.

A lot of goats at this table. Taking a lot of breath, we did some, we did a little yoga and, you know, speaking of water, I've been obsessed with how tiny your water bottle is. I don't need much. That's like, because you live in it, you just always get it. It's a little reminder of home.

Yeah. Four ounces of water. It's a little guy. America, America. Yeah, I'm from America. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. By way of Pandora. Right. What do you guys look at Pandora?

That's what your world is called. That's right. Yeah, yeah Fuck and and your thing is unobtainium. Is that right? Yes, because it's impossible to obtain a thing I wouldn't reduce us to that being a whole thing what your thing is plane brakes and is that your whole fucking? Listen, I don't think it's like the show. It's not like Casey. It's not even an uptain him in the second movie. It's some I believe it's a whale. It's Pyrkon's brain juice. Yeah.

Thank you for watching. Yeah, it was hard. I did get a headache with the goggles, sorry, glasses. But it was a good. Did you have a good time at the movies? I did. Thank you. Well, that's a little too sad. It's all about you.

I had to go take a break. Parts of it are sad. It's a reason. And you. Well, that's got a little too sad. That's what it's all about. I had to go take a break. Parts of it are sad. It's a reason. Eventually, we'll make so many avatars that the whole of human experience, there'll be an avatar for everyone. Do you think you'll ever make like a character-driven indie? Yes. Yeah. Inevitably. Which avatar will that be?

Probably one. Definitely once we're in double digits. Because then we'll have sort of established these are big. These are a big thing. Right. And then once we get into double digits, we can start to diversify a little bit. And certainly once we get into double digits per year, that's things are going to change a lot.

Yeah. Great. Yeah, I mean, I would think we'll do. Some of them will be single shot, single unbroken shot. Oh, great. Some of them will be locked off camera, single shot. Some will be locked off camera, single shot, lens cap on. Oh, that would be very dark, I would imagine, in the theater. Yeah, it would be dark. But you ever go into one of those?

A bat. Casey told us about a bat. Oh, an improv. An improv. That's a term I remember. Oh, that's right. That's where they do the improv and they keep the lights off. I wrote it down. We'll probably do an improvised avatar. Improvised. I should put Casey in. Eventually, we'll probably do a lot of them. We'll probably do a Herald. We'll probably do a Herald avatar.

Mega Herald. Yeah. Yeah. Not so confusing. Not sure why they do it. Hard to bring guests. Probably at some point, one of the avatars will be a stand up concert film. Oh, yeah. So they get right. Yeah. You should take TV in that one.

I mean, that would be great to see one of the Navi, you know, like just talking about his or her life, you know Out there on Pandora. Well, I look honestly like the theatrical distribution system is changing, right? And Jim's a pioneer like Jim is forward thinking he's cracking new technology Yeah, we're constantly thinking about like right now avatars about the theatrical experience with glasses included But there's a future point in which avat Avatar sequels might be free on YouTube with ads. If you want to pay on iTunes, you can do that. Was that a little jab you were just taking at me?

No, I'm saying you're a fucking pioneer. You're like set in the model. Come on, they love your work. TB, we're looking to someday. Yeah, reach your level. Yes. Eventually, there will be an avatar that's entirely crowd work.

Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. And we'll give you credit This is the metric we use on that actually believe Well, thanks. Yeah special. Yeah, you mentioned, you know, there's the 3d glasses and then you wanted the entire Theater to be underwater. Are there any other sort of innovations that you're looking to do? Well, one of the big things and this is ours. This is our big secret as I've said, I'm not gonna live forever. Eventually I'll have to pass the torch.

Jim talked about this, he did an interview with People Magazine. You're the first, you're the exclusive first interview after the People Magazine interview. I'm very honored. Eventually you're gonna have to pass that ponytail over to the other ponytail to wrap it around. People Magazine is my airplane treat.

This is very exciting. Eventually I will stop directing I won't direct these I'll pass the baton over Who's a torch I'm gonna do before I don't want to do it before you I want to be like like Quinn I want to get that get out before I'm this old man Passes prime not I'm to get out at my peak. 82. 82. Right.

Old age of 82. He's going to step back. I'm going to step back, step to the side, step forward and step in front of the camera. You're going to star in these movies. I'm going to start starring. I'm going to start a few of them. Now I'm sure you're asking yourself, how can he star when Jake sullies the

star? Cause I have my own announcement to make today. Ever hear of a do-si-do? I took square dancing when I was maybe 10 or 11, and so yes, I'm quite familiar with the concept of a do-si-do. The simple answer to the question is yes, you have heard of a do-si-do. We don't need your life story. I thought we were taking the temperature down. I like this. I like details. Starting at Avatar 47.

This can't be just me taking the temperature down. The guy who makes five hour movies is telling you to tighten it up a little bit. You can't keep your temperature the same while I take mine down. But if you take yours down and I keep mine the same, the temperature will go down. This is true.

There's been a lot of talk about medians and averages today and that does hold true. We live in a world of numbers. I feel like my temperature needs to go up. Speaking of numbers though, I feel like if you timed their segment versus my segment, the number there would be- Todd, what is there to talk?

I tried to bring up a nice story about us going to lunch and you don't even fucking remember it. What are we supposed to talk about? Let's talk about the lunch and I'll pretend. You pretend. Todd, you and I went to lunch when I was making True Lies. Really? Yeah.

Tom Arnold was there. You're making shit up. You wouldn't remember. Where was this? This was in Hollywood. Really? Yes. What?

What? Why did you take TV over here to lunch? I wasn't sure if TA was going to be cutting it. We hadn't we hadn't filmed any of his scenes yet. I thought true lies. Have I made a fool of myself here? Have I made a fool of myself taking that gamble on this guy? Turned out after the first day of dailies,

TA did all right. Yeah. But you had a B plan. I had a B plan. I had a B plan. I don't know what he's doing. I had a TB plan. If TA didn't work out, we were gonna bring in TA

to be AS's best friend. Wow. You were almost in true lies, TL. Holy shit. Yeah. Just that close. So did he- It was nothing you did wrong.

You were right there. We knew we had it. We knew that TL was going to be okay because TB was the backup. I'm starting to sense that the pattern here is if you don't want Todd to remember something, buy him a meal while telling him the information. Yeah, is there some sort of like, you go into a food coma or something like that?

Maybe have like a weird medical quirk, you know? Yeah, interesting. So you just forget like the next hour after every meal. I just forget stuff that's not worth remembering, I guess. Wow, that really went for it there. Oh, I feel bad about that. Yeah, claws hidden, Kitty. Look, look, Todd, I mean, you're daring, right?

You're daring artists and you push boundaries. I do. And that's what we like about you. That's why we're always referencing you on set as what we want to aim for. And we'd love to formally invite you into the story group for Avatar. Wow. We'd love to get you throwing the ball around. And what does that mean? What's that like? Just pitching ideas? Yeah. And also shooting down ideas. We need someone who can who can razz us.

PPP. You know, our son, Casey Faye, would be good in that room as well. He's great at throwing a ball around. He's pretty good at basketball. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we cast him as one of the boys.

I know. Was there basketball scene? There was a basketball scene. What is this pay to be in the writers' little punch-up group? I mean, you want a number? Yeah. That's what I said. What is that? You do see no number.

Give me a number. What do you want? Oh, literally said, what is the fact? No, I'm asking. Don't fall into it. Name your price. Name your price. Don't fall into it.

He'll pay you double whatever you say it against yourself. Now, here's what I do when I, someone asked me to do a corporate gig to go, what's your price? What do you, what's your budget? That's right. There you go. That's right. That's right.

What's the budget of the movie? That's good sense. Budget of the movie? There you go. That's right. What's the budget of the movie? That's good sense. Budget of the movie? Yeah. Oh, it's high. 500 million? Ballpark?

He'll take four. 400 million? Yeah. For the starting group. Yeah. I'll do the starting group. It's like a full month of it. Jim, think about this.

We get to amortize that across the cost of maybe. Amortize? It's amortize. Scott, you're wrong. Well, you're wrong. I'm wrong? It's amourize. I didn't say that. Scott, stop talking correctly.

That was top airy. Is it amourize? Take your temperature down when you're talking to me. Scott, you're embarrassing me in front of my hero, TB. You're American. You're American. I'm American. You pronounce words the way we all pronounce them. Good day.

Is it amourize? Amourize. That's the word we're using. We all know you pronounce words the way we all pronounce the day is it ever eyes Amor rise. That's the word we're using. I'm all right. It's I'm all right You turn you turn Italian when you get a little we love the way We're gonna amortize the costs of Todd's ideas across upwards of 1520 movies So if you divide it, yeah, it's a bargain. It's a bargain. It's a bargain But should I get the separate a separate fee for each different Project well depends how many characters Then the conversation is over right so you're probably wondering what my secret is now

Oh, yeah Bob Bob Fay. What? Casey, you know, you know the cundrat's I sometimes play golf with well, there's some wait who are they the cum drats the cundrat? No, excuse me. You went there. Okay. I think we all heard the same thing No, but we all heard we all heard come to right My my heart skipped a beat because the cum drats are a major plot point in our Okay, I was about to lawyer out. so I'm glad the contracts. The contracts, yeah. The contracts are very, very, very nice. A very nice family.

I saved their holiday letter for the end of January because it's always got so many fun tips. And there's son Marcus, he works at the VA, of course, you know them. And then while he's dating a girl named Shelly and her brother works at Fleet Farm, and he's thinking about moving to Los Angeles. So maybe you should talk to him, Casey. Tell him what it's like. Okay. Yeah. Maybe, why is about moving to Los Angeles. So maybe you should talk to him, Casey.

Tell him what it's like. Okay. Yeah. Maybe why is he moving to Los Angeles? He's thinking about it. He's just thinking about it. He might not. But anyway, give him a call.

Great to catch up. Great. Love to hear from you. All right. You should talk to him, Casey. Yeah. That was your dad's thing. I was going to say maybe he could work for you, James Cameron, in one of these Avatar

movies. Or eventually, when I'm not directing to say maybe he could work for you, James Cameron, in one of these Avatar movies. There is. Or eventually when I'm not directing them, maybe he'll work for Jake Sully because of the docy doe effect. Right. That was the big announcement. We were setting up. And I hear a move on. It felt like Savion Glover was in this studio the way that was getting stepped on. So you're you're doing the docy doe effect.

You're moving over to the director's chair. Correct. You, James Cameron, are going to star in these movies. Correct. Are you going to be CGI character as well, or is it just going to be you? Only for a couple of flashback scenes where they need me to look super young. Are you going to be a Navi? I was going to be James Cameron. Some of the time, but then I'll become a Navi.

So what character are you playing? James Cameron. You're playing James Cameron in the movie. Yes. The director of Avatar Avatar finally lands on Pandora So you you've taken a big spaceship there or a rocket ship or something like that and you you wind up on Pandora and You have directed movies about all these people. Yes in the world of Avatar Word has gotten down to earth and I've made movies about avatar within the world of avatar I see and then what are you on Pandora to do?

Do research for the next avatar movie. How do they feel about your depiction? Villainess character or they haven't seen the movies yet when I land, but then several movies later Copies start finding their way to Pandora. Why did you start watching movies? Copies of you you could have brought them yourself. It's far away. Yeah, but you arrived there five movies earlier. Well, some of these movies, and again, this is an announcement, some of these movies will start to take place in real time. Wow.

There's going to be a lot. The thing is, when you're making dozens of movies, some of them are going to be in real time. Sure. And if it's a paradise, maybe that's why movies aren't there What is this? It's been a little contentious between us, but it's all been good fun. We love each other. We do know I let's make it clear I was not offended by a single thing you set up Spying partners. Yeah, of course. It's always fun to like get in the ring and trade a few jabs

We're boys like Casey's character that was caught out of the first avatar and the other boys. But Bob, that was a little too far. Just tried one. Tried one didn't feel good coming out, honestly. Save it for the email fold. Bob, go ahead and say your sorry. Sorry.

There you go. You know what? I don't need the apology. That was a little bit of TB energy coming our way. I get that a TB number of seven. What's that? A TB level of seven. He was popping.

Yeah. Okay. A little bit of spicy honey. A little bit of spicy honey. There you go. A little bit of short-haired dog. Is that the title? Well, it's domestic short hair,

but very similar. Now, before I forget, Dosey Doe is also the name of a Girl Scout cookie and our niece is selling them. Is that going to be confusing at all? Is that going to be confusing? No, tie it in. Or will they put some Nauvie on the box? So a tag along in there. Where does she sell these? Does she have a table set up? Maple groves? Yeah, Maple grove. Any of the stops? Sometimes they go in front of the post office. They take credit cards? Yeah, they do ship them

now everywhere, which is so fun. Ship them. You can ship them. That's weird. Yeah, I mean, if I'm buying them from a little girl, I want them. No, they have a website too. I mean, I can't get it for you. Is anyone buying them? Is anyone buying them by little girls?

No, Casey, I'll have to send you the link. Yeah, the website should be run by little girls. The website should be designed and run by little girls. I think, I think like it's fine if they want to do online sales. It's a new era, but it should still be the same thing. Would you imagine? Scott, how many thin mints can I put you down for? Uh, one? Not a box. Just one. I'm worried our credit card information may be out if we talk about this website too. I'll have a hundred boxes of thick mints. Oh, Mr. Cameron, they only make

thin mints. Well, tell them, tell them James, James, James wants a box. Buy 200 boxes of Thin Men's and stick them together. I don't care how you make it. I want 100 boxes of Thick Men's. Fab, maybe we'll just put their credit cards in. Okay, there we go. Are you guys okay putting your credit cards on the internet? Yeah.

You have to be careful. THICC, Thick Men's. So like the... Do you guys know what happened? You know what happened to our, the first grade teacher, Velro, who taught all of our kids. When she put her credit card on the Internet one time and they they ended up getting magazines for four years and they couldn't stop.

I would know that. You know what's funny? I actually did know that. Oh, you did? I did. I did. The word got out on Pandora about this. I got an email.

I guess this is why Pandora... Oh, was it a forward? It was. This is why Pandora is so good, right? Because there's no email, there's no magazines, there's no like salesman. So far. So far. But eventually they will get the six. They, there's no magazines, there's no salesman. So far. So far. But eventually they'll get the same.

They all come over? Yeah, there's a movie where they get magazines on Pandora, it changes everything. Paradise Walls. Because what do you think they're gonna make those magazines out? They gotta make it out of trees. Out of the trees.

They love trees. Is Pandora just gonna end up being Earth at some point? Well, for a while, yeah, but then it goes back. It goes back. There's gonna be a period where Pandora becomes Earth, and then it goes back. It just goes back. I'm passing around a note period where Pandora becomes Earth and then it goes back. I'm passing around a note card. Can everyone put down their physical address because I'd like to send all of you boys an article that I read. I'm not going to fill it out. I want

it all sent to the bottom of the ocean. Send it right down to your little flag. Cut out a newspaper article. Just weigh down the boxes to throw them in the ocean. I'll get them. I have a couple. I have a couple. I got a couple newspaper clippings. I've been meaning to send to Casey, but I think I can maybe make photo copies at the Kinkos because, oh, Casey, you went to school with his older brother, but you remember Tyler? Okay, we don't want to hear about Tyler. Well, he went to the Kinkos.

No, that's not, no, you're in, okay, Jake. This feels like it has a little juice to it. We could put this in A72. Casey, you went to school with his other brother, Dan I think you okay. Is that right? Do you remember? I don't know these kids Dan play basketball with Casey one year with the goatee. Yeah Well, he had a goatee eventually he was maybe one of the first boys. So he didn't have a goatee when he played But eventually they played when they were 10. Okay, but eventually his younger brother Tyler He works at the kinkos and I went in there to try to get our holiday letter copied

So that I could keep it as a record. I don't repeat myself here Here you know, I just keep the letter. Where would I keep it wherever you're keeping the copies? I well I keep the copies in a in a manila envelope. So keep the letter there But I've already She sent them already. What do you just keep one? Well, that's what you mean Copy fold But she sent them already. Or he sent them. Just keep one. Well, that's what you make the copy with. That's what I do. That's why you have the backup copy folder. Okay, never mind. Just keep going.

Tyler works there. Just keep going. Please. And he helps me make some photocopies of some newspaper clippings that I'm going to send to Casey so I can send them to all you boys, including you, Mr. Cameron, at the bottom of the ocean. It's an article about how you might not need an umbrella

if you just wear a hooded jacket. There you go. That's not great advice to the bottom of the ocean. No, I mean, I can only imagine it would seep through. Jim, you think you're what I'm thinking right now? Yeah. I reckon this couple might make good additions to the Avatar story group. Oh, I mean, there's got to be annoying neighbor characters in this Avatar movie.

The level of details and the lack of self-added and wreaks of an avatar movie. I don't like to get vulnerable in this space because I already feel like Scott has attacked me. Even though we love each other. Yes. But I clear now it's canon. We love each other. But I do feel but we are blocked. We are on average.

We're at the outline stage of Avatar 72. And we're starting to figure out all we have. We've got down seventy two. We've hit a wall. We hit a wall. We all we have now is that Pandora, which is flooded with magazines, used to be used to be. Isn't anymore. But now it's gone back and the come drats have arrived. And that's all we have. That's all we have.

That's all you have. Come drats who've been there before, but they're back again. Right. And where does the story go? I might have something for you, Mr. Cameron. What if it was Christmas? This is a good idea. Avatar 72, an Avatar Christmas.

We have not gone to that well. Not once in 72 films Can you imagine all the all those trees and all the vine decorated? That you've already with glowing with tinsel tied to every dial. I'm getting excited just thinking about it mr. Cameron Hold on. Maybe it's the first Christmas on Pandora because the Messiah is born there That's that's good. It would take them a while to get to all those planets. And then the three wise men, you could be one of them. Scott, I just want to make it clear you have not formally been invited to the story group.

OK, well, I just know. As long as you have an extra 400 million. The ideas, but they're not fucking under contract yet. TB, do you mind if I call you TB? Go ahead. TB. Do it. My hero.

Yeah. I feel like we're hitting some real ripe unobtainium of story right here. Yeah. And it's got a lot of the earmarks of what makes a great Avatar film. Emotion, drama, but it's lacking some of that famous Avatar humor that really light humorous touch. Yeah. The funny, funny jokes that you see in these movies. The caustic touch. Yeah. The funny, funny jokes that you see in these movies. The caustic wit. Yeah.

The sort of subtle sly charm of a New Yorker cartoon. And I'm wondering if you maybe want to do a bit of a comedy pass on the ideas we're throwing out here. Where do you think there's some potential for jokes? I think that you should define not everyone's in show business and not everyone knows what a comedy pass is. I do. Sure.

It's when you hire something like me to look at your awful script, write that down, find some jokes in it and then go, hey, how about here? They could do this. Yeah. And then you give me a huge amount of money. Right. And you always do it at the latest possible moment. I should.

I should add I've never been asked to do this. That starts today and I'm always available. It starts today. It's crazy to hire. I mean, this is a really good deal, today. And I'm always available. It starts today. It's crazy to not hire you. So this is, I mean, this is a really good deal, Todd. I mean, 400 million, it'll be amortized or amortized. Oh, I looked it up. It is amortized.

Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. No, you were right about that. Yes, but what we were saying was amortized. Amortized, exactly. Yes, about the love of amortized. Which you did not say, but to be fair. Amortized, pretty sure I said it.

Amortized and amortized. I think he kind of retrofitted that explanation. The gas lighting has come over here to Jake's sully, but this is a good deal, Todd. Yeah, I'd be happy to do that. Okay, great. So, do you have any ideas here? Can I do it at home? Starting right now.

Oh, right now? Yeah. Do you have any ideas? The problem is right now is that I've never seen the Avatar movies and I haven't understood one thing you said. Okay. That's actually great for us. We need fresh perspective. And I haven't understood one thing you said. Okay. Here's all the nation's actually great for us

Because at this point we need to be training new fans when we're entering a 70 a 80 a 90 Yeah, we can't be banking on the old school. It's happening on another planet the movie. Yeah, what's Pandora's at the other planet Pandora, okay, so you do remember so do a scene where like people like I'm never gonna go to Pandora I'm never gonna go to Pandora and then you cut to go to Pandora. I'm never going to go to Pandora. And then you cut to them in Pandora. Very funny. That's funny. And it's Christmas. Imagine if it was Christmas. Wow. Oh, I can't spend Christmas on Pandora. I'd never spent Christmas on Pandora. I mean, Christmas at Pandora.

I feel like they're trying to combine my idea. They're trying to build. Well, building. Making a collab with them. I know that stand up is different. You work on your own. Yes, and it's a collaborative. It's a story group.

Also, you said, could you work from home? All the writing is done in a small submersible. Who's scary? The story group has to meet down at the bottom of the ocean. Not at the bottom, but we got to go. Other than that, not the bottom. We can pick you up from home, but then you're going straight down into the ocean for at least four or five

weeks, like, you know, like we come up ocean for at least four or five weeks at a time. What do you do on breaks? Like, you know, like we come up for air. You come so 15 minutes up for air. Yeah. And then you're back down. We got a break room. Yeah.

But you also got to make sure. You've got to be pressurized if you come up for a break too soon. Yeah, you'll get the bends. You don't want to get the bends. Yeah. Great album. What if I have a set of the comedy store though one night? Will you bring me up?

Yeah, I'll bring you up. Yeah. You mean like through the introduction, like our next comedian coming to the stage like bring you up yeah I will do you know what you know no no but that was kind of funny but I do both or nothing we'll bring you up and then I'm gonna be at it I'm a little bit of the TV energy you got to do both both or none I bring you up out of the ocean and then I bring you up bring you on stage that's a be a thrill, Tom. That would be. Does James Cameron bring you up? Also, because I sort of set the audience level so that I'm not funny.

So I go out there, introduce you, then you come in. Yeah, exactly. But also, you're trying to get stage time because you know that you're going to be starring in these movies. Yeah. And eventually, when we do the standup movie, there's a chance that I would be right for that. You're going to make the inevitable pivot to stand up. Yeah. At this point, the only screen time you really have is that Oscars where you won and made that hilarious I'm the king of the world. I was in the muse. I'm sorry. I thought you worked in comedy Scott. I guess we don't care about a little filmmaker named Albert Brooks.

I look big Albert Brooks fan that's big. Big. Big. Big. Not the biggest. Mewes big. Are you an Albert Brooks fan to the extent that you are excited about the muse? Scott? And virtually not that big of an Albert Brooks fan. That's the one I have not seen.

Okay. I saw them. To your moderate level. You both are the Muslim in the comedy world. But you drop out when the film starts to drop. Are you that kind of fan? Look, I'm that kind of James Cameron fan too. Oh, how do you predict the future?

Because the films have yet to drop in quality. We love Albert Brooks. They will. They will. When are they going to drop out? Triple digits. Triple digits? I'll be long dead.

OK. Albert Brooks is the curly-haired man who voices the daddy fish in the Nemo film. Yeah, that's right. Such a good film. Which gives me an idea. Why not crossover? Albert Brooks is the curly-haired man who voices the daddy fish in the Nemo film Which gives me an idea why not crossover? Like a Freddy versus Jason Batman v Superman kind of movie Nemo versus Avatar Scott You're adorable that you think you're the first person to think of this and that the paperwork isn't already being sorted out right now So the the the contracts are wet with signatures. And because I only signed contracts at the bottom of the ocean. Of course, yeah. What's your favorite song?

Is it that Under the Sea song? I like that song. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, you mean Under the Sea, like the Bobby Darren or the... No, that's Beyond the Sea. That's your least favorite song. That's my least favorite song. I don't like that song. It goes too far past the body length. No, thank you. Let's stay here. No, I under the sea under the sea under the sea under the sea. Yeah yeah that's your favorite song. Yeah that's my favorite song. And it's not offensive to sing it like that right?

No under the sea that's what's written. Under the sea under the sea. Red Crab sings I think it's a Black Man probably doing it but a very great song. Red Crab though so we're all right all right. Yeah I like that song. All right good. Is there any other announcements you have or? Oh I think we're gonna ask if there are all right. All right. Yeah, I like that song. All right good. Well, is there any other announcements you have? Oh, I think we're gonna ask if there any other songs I like I like split-flash. I was taking a bath What about your sad? What about my heart will go on from your sad movie. That's a good song. Yeah, I see you from Avatar by Leonel Lewis Whatever the name of the song was at the weekend saying for the the second one. The weekend sang it. Yeah, he did. Oh, I'm living for the.

That's where you get for leaving before it's over, Scott. You mean turn it off. I never made it to the theater. Right. Well, then you have an experience. I'm sorry, you watched it flat. I watched it flat in my bed. You watched it flat in your bed and you turned it off before it was over. And you think you have any right to talk about.

Sounds like a pretty bad way to watch the way of water. I was on a waterbed. How would you. OK, OK. I was on a waterbed. Would you prefer that I watch it on a waterbed than in a dry theater? How would you like it if I listened to your podcast from a distance? I would love it.

That's a good song. Turned out well. Wow. I would say turn it up a little higher, but I would love this. No, I like to barely hear it. From a distance. All right, look guys, we're running out of time. Yeah, we're out of time.

Yeah, we're out of time. Todd has been mentally over this for the past half hour, I would say. I mean, I like the first seven hours. We're just surprised you didn't know we're not even at an hour and a half yet. I meant of their segment. Of their segment.

Okay. The perceived time of their segment. I see, well, we are running out of time hour and a half yet. I meant of their segment. Of their segment. Okay. The perceived time of their segment. I see. Well, we are running out of time. The brownies are done. Ooh. Let's get to this. We'll get those.

We have time for one final feature, and that is of course a little something called plugs. What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there?

What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? Open the plug bag, please. All right. That was What's So Eerie About the Eerie Canal by Sean Fogel.

Thanks so much to Sean Fogel for that wonderful, wonderful plugs theme. If you have a plugs theme, go over to CBBworld.com slash plugs and you can be famous for a week. And Sean Vogel, you're famous for a week. Thanks so much. And guys, what are we plugging here? Todd Berry, obviously domestic shorty. And I'm on tour. I'm on my half joking tour,

which is half jokes, half crowd work. You did the all crowd work shows and there is some crowd work in this special. Yeah, there is. But now I'm doing it where it's literally the first half. Do you take an intermission? I take a four-hour intermission. It takes time to recover from the jokes. Perfect time to watch an avatar. And then I do cryo. But I've got dates all over. ToddBarry.com. Todd Barry on Instagram. There is no better time at the theater than seeing Todd Barry.

It's the best theater experience you'll ever have. Yeah. And Bob and Liz Faye, anything you want to plug here? Hi, Casey. We love you so much. Casey, give me a call. I'll talk about the local sports teams for a minute before I hand the phone over to your mother. Let me know what you thought about those articles I sent you. And two nice pals, the Casey's. Jess McKinnon, Zach Reno are doing, are doing some touring dates with Off Book, the improvised musical. And you know what? Our local shows actually sold out. Good job, Minneapolis. But if you're in Detroit or Atlanta, or you want to come check out the live stream, all that you can find on the Off Book Instagram.

Can I go to Detroit and listen on live stream? You could. You could. You could probably do it just from New York though, or wherever you happen to be. You could watch the live stream, I think for a month from any of those cities, but we'd love to see your face with our face in Detroit, Atlanta.

Sure. He could for you to know his friends names. I tell you. I write him down. I'm smart. Casey also does a thing called Holy S-word Improv. How do you feel about that? And not a fan of the improv more than the swear word honestly either

But it's a fantastic show again lots of famous people. He tells me have been on it who have also done this show You can check why isn't he famous if he's doing it with all these famous? I think his pitch is that if he performs enough with famous people people just start thinking he's also famous I think that's kind of work for me work for me So you can check that out on, it's a Patreon. They do every episodes up on the patreon.com slash holy shit improv. Or you can go to the Instagram

and they do shows in LA at UCB and at Dynasty typewriter. Check those out and just have a good day if you can. All right. James and Jake, anything you wanna plug and you obviously all of the Avatar movies. Yeah, next year Avatar 3, the first two available in all digital formats now, physical copies.

I'm going to take some time to plug some things I've seen recently. I was in New York and I went and saw a live improv comedy show that happened on Sunday nights called Rat Scraps at a venue called Caviar on the Lower East Side. That sounds like an Avatar character, Rat Scraps. Oh yeah, that's a good idea Yeah, I probably should do that eventually and I also I was at slam dance and I saw a documentary called I'm George Lucas a Conor Ratliff story. It's a documentary that was made about the George Lucas talk show George is a friend of mine obviously, but this is a show about a comedian who pretends to be George Lucas and Then someone made a documentary

Comedian pretending to be a famous director. I'm not sure I get the joke, but I think it's fine Obviously, I think it's disrespectful to the art form. Don't you? Yes, I do. Yeah, and I would obviously I would never imitate a comedian So I don't know why a comedian would imitate doesn't make sense. A filmmaker. It's doesn't make sense. I appreciate that. Thank you, John. Yeah, also, at Jim, if you're just plugging things you've seen recently and liked, you did tell me you like certain scenes of the new mean girls a lot. Oh, yeah, the new mean girls movie. I like some select in that.

Yeah, I heard my friend John Hamm. I like all the scenes. I like all the scenes. My friend John Hamm texted not to name drop like Todd did about Chris Rock But he texted me to say that he had a really he really liked the scenes of someone named Connor Ratliff Oh, well, I like the scenes that John Hamm was in. Oh really? I like him on Fargo I'm gonna like him even better when we get him in an avatar. We keep trying you got it You got to land him in an avatar

He'd be perfect. Top gun got him and I was so jealous. I want him in an avatar. Can you imagine him shirtless on the beach? Putting his tail in a tail? Yeah. Yeah. God. All right. Jake, Sully. Well, Scott, thank you for having us on. Thank you for being my dear friend. Sure.

We, we love each other. We love each other. But we have a great relationship. It comes from a real place of love. Yeah. I do listen to this podcast. I am a listener. Thank you so much.

But my favorite podcast and what In my opinion, it's perhaps one of the most pro-Avatar podcasts. Yeah. Historically, I've held that line for a long time. Blank check with Griffin and David. Yeah. It's a David Sims film critic from the Atlantic. They love Avatar. Some other guy. It makes you question their taste level. Some people think it's like a bit. You question their taste level with... Some people think it's like a bit. And I feel like they've really backed it up with a lot of reasoning for why they think

it's legitimately good. It might be a bit. It's one of these bits that might not be good. I really want to make it clear it's not a bit. But their ninth anniversary is coming up. Of course, the biggest anniversary a podcast can ever experience, of course. And they're doing a live show at Town Hall in New York. Wow. And I heard tickets were moving really fast and then slowed down. Oh, wow. Yeah, like really fast. And people are like, holy shit. And then they're like, oh,

it's almost now swung the opposite way. Oh, wow. Dramatically. So just plug that. Yeah, March 8th. March 8th. Okay, great. For the big nine. The big nine anniversary. Wow. Yeah. Okay. That's good. Are they covering a movie at that show or? They're covering a lot of movies. That's a spoiler, but they're gonna be covering a lot of movies. So like nine movies for nine years? Here's a spoiler, more than nine.

10. Amazing. You said it, not all. Okay, wow, that's incredible. Also, I'm American. I wanna plug America to the country. Okay, yes, America to the country, yeah. That's nice.

That's where I'm from. A great run, over 200 years. Yes. Yeah. I wanna plug, over 200 years. Yes. Yeah. I want to plug, hey, speaking of live shows, Comedy Banking is part of the Netflix's A Joke Fest. That is May, somewhere around May 6, 7 or something. I checked the website.

There were literally 20 tickets left, so they may, but those are very similar. Day that they went on sale, almost 90% of the tickets were gone and then took about a month to get those last. Huge opening weekend at the box office. Turns out to be a little front-loaded. A lot like the Avatar movies, you know where like,

everyone goes that far. What are you talking about? No, okay, never mind. $70 million opening and then it ends up at 700. That's like a 10x multiplier. Okay. But check us out at the Netflix is a joke fest com I think. And then also the action figures, they're on sale right now, the Scott Ackerman figure and the JW Stillwater figure.

Those are on sale right now and shipping this month, I believe. And I've seen the next four that we're putting out and they're very funny. And I've been getting a lot of requests for from some of the performers to be in certain action figures so check those out. You can get the info on my socials and everything. And I think that's about it. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. වවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවව� What is here? What kind of flue is here? What is here? What is here? What is here? Open the plug bag please. Alright, that was Night at the Plugsbury by Ebenezer Splooge.

Oh, wait, but that gives me an idea. An avatar where all the water is replaced by splooge. Scott. That's naughty. Jim? That's a good idea. It is a good idea, right? Yeah, that is the plot of Avatar 69.

All right. Guys, I wanna thank you so much. Todd, great to have you on the show. Thank you. Come back another 10 years from now. I will, I'll come back much sooner than that. Okay, great. And then the phase, we'll get all this over to Casey.

I'll make sure. Oh, good, thank you. Love you, Casey. Yeah, bye, have a great time, everybody. And James the phase, we'll get all this over to Casey. I'll make sure. Oh, good, thank you. Love you, Casey. Yeah, bye, have a great time, everybody. And James and, oh, Todd, we're right in the mic. Yeah, just chew that right, I mean, I realize the show's not over yet, but that's TV energy, that's TV out of 10.

As I did that, I was like, this would bother me so much if someone did this on my podcast. But your podcast is defunct, so you know. Yeah, that probably won't. Jake, you're opening one, and of course, James Cameron, you're all eating into the mics now.

Thank you so much for coming on the show and telling us about all these avatars. People are excited. People are excited. People love Avatar. And they don't just stop thinking about it the moment it's over and then happen to go to the next one because it's something to do.

I'm gonna read that as a joke and the comedy comes from how false it is. And how much we love each other. That's true we love each other. How much how much of a gentle ribbing we like to give each other every time we see each other. This is all language. That point's been made. Yes exactly and James Cameron great to have you on. Great to be here. Anything going on the Terminator verse or? Yeah he's gonna be back. Okay, great. All right, great. Thanks so much. She said he would. Oh yeah. Keep coming back.

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