Hollywood Handbook - Jon Gabrus, Ben Rodgers and Dominic Dierkes, Our Close Friends

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

JON GABRUS, BEN RODGERS AND DOMINIC DIERKES show The Boys a few scenes from their monthly live improv show Pretty Funny. Ticket link for their show here!Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook Like the show? Rate Hollywood Handbook 5-Stars on Apple PodcastsAdvertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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finest water and Fiji water and I have a tagline for them that you probably haven't heard and that they haven't heard and it is, feed me Fiji. Thanks Fiji. I think it's awesome, man. I think it kicks ass. You all are doing this. I've been saying actually, it's so smart for you guys to have created like this guys to have created like this collective and really take advantage of like the vacuum that exists right now where there's no comedy. I guess we forgot to ask this at some point. Can we just put on a little show for the nice people?

Can we just put on a little show for the nice people? And I don't think you guys are right for this necessarily, but we've been talking about on the show, should the Super Bowl halftime show be comedy this year? Yeah, and yes. It's about time. We didn't even have the conversation about that for this one, I think, because we both kind of thought,

like, that's not for this. That's not gonna be this, yeah. But we have been talking, yes, we've been talking to a few different people. Yeah. But like. You don't want us to talk about that at all. Should we not?

We don't have to. We didn't talk about it. Do you have something to say about it? Kevin, you can cut it out if it doesn't make sense. It's gotta be Chappelle. Okay, well, we talked to well we talked to Will Hines, we talked about doing standup. Yeah, we were gonna have Bill Hines do a standup set.

Yeah, maybe open up for Chappelle. I like that. But they kinda touched on each other's phones. Yeah, Will does a lot of the same stuff. I'd like to see them on stage at the same time. I don't want one open or what. To me, they're two icons. Yeah. Two mics out there, Will walks up to one. or what. To me, there are two icons. Yeah.

Two mics out there, Will walks up to one. Ideally a third mic for Neil Brennan as well. Sure. But he needs all three, so you need actually five mics. Yeah, I need five mics. That's the problem. There's three for Neil, one for Will, one for Jay. And maybe one for John Mayer.

Ooh. Two if he's gonna acoustic. He's gonna need a low one. So seven mics, Kevin, are you writing this down? Yeah, seven mics. Oh, you guys are producing that? Wow. Yeah, so that's why we were talking about it.

Yeah, you have to, yeah, you gotta make decisions and stuff. And the clock is ticking, but I think even then, with like, these guys are three more mics, it's just like, it's all funny. You get the young people with Bill Hines, and then you get kind of the older crowd with Chappelle, like you kind of, everybody's happy. And then we scoop up everybody.

The perverts with Mayer. Oh yeah, that's right. You get the watch perverts with Mayer. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But, you know, I don't wanna get bogged down in the watch pervert stuff. I wanna talk about what you guys were doing, which like.

Just cause I think it's actually really Exactly what you guys should be doing right now. Yeah, it's so perfect for you. Yeah, like it's like show It's just what you do. I mean we have I don't have time to do that now in the room a I Yeah, yeah Okay. Yeah, I mean this is something I can't do do. Yes. Go to a live theater with very small. These guys are doing a show, it's called Pretty Funny. Oh yeah, we should say that. It's at the Lyric Hyperion.

Third Monday of every month. Yeah, easy to remember. Third Monday of every month. Third Monday of every month at 7.15 PM. So at a quarter past seven on the third Monday of every month, you better be in our seats. And now that's obviously like the big dog slot there.

You know, the first slot. Oh yeah. So take out your Flow app and put it down in there that it's the third Monday of every month. Third Monday, 7-15. I try to get there by 7. Yeah. That's a smart idea. Get yourself a Topo.

Yeah, and our crowds are all synced up menstruation-wise, so feel free to like... That's awesome, man. Yeah, it makes it easy on everybody. Everyone's PMSing in our crowd. That's the thing about the live experience Yes, that you don't get that with these like computers No, I'd like to see twitch get everyone right there period. I love the show man my kids obsessed with this Rizzler Yeah, Rizzler and he's Rizzler is yeah trying to talk to you about like

What the Rizzler did now and I'm like, that's it, get in the car, you're going to see pretty funny. You're going to a real show. A real show, enough of this Rizzler. My nephews are obsessed with big justice, and I need them to see something else. Get in the car, we're going to the show. And so we're driving there, and they're like,

my kid is like, why are we going somewhere? I'm used to the Rizzler just being where I am. Yeah, I've got it on my screen. And they're like, well this is a real show. We have to travel to get there. And he's like, why is that better? What's an improvement about that? And what is the answer to that?

Yeah, we've been trying to, people ask us. You've been getting that question. Yeah, we get that question. Yeah, it's like, what's the answer? Okay, so you guys don't know. I was sort of hoping for next time, okay, that's interesting. You guys don getting that question. Yeah, it's like, what's going on? Okay, so you guys don't know. I was sort of hoping for next time. Okay, that's interesting. You guys don't know either. I've been pinned by that question a few times myself.

Because we get there and he's like, how do I start it? And I'm like, well, you don't, they decide when to start it. And he's like, well, didn't we pay for it? I saw you pay on the way in. And I'm used to with the Rizzler, I can start it and stop it wherever I want. Well, if I have to go to the bathroom, the Rizzler just freezes until I'm used to with the Rizzler, I can start and stop it wherever I want. Well, if I have to go to the bathroom, the Rizzler just freezes until I'm done going.

Well, we have kids try to pause us during the show. They try to rewind and go back. It's very frustrating to have to go. Sometimes I'll pacify them and I'll go back 10 seconds or so and just kind of redo it, but that's exhausting. And then that adds on the entire time of the show. And I was saying to him, it's frustrating for them when you're doing that, but he was like,

but is this for them or for me? Well again, we don't know the answer to that. And if life were easier, we would have those popsicle sticks with the answer on the one side. Yes. And those don't exist. I feel like what I've got is just the question side

of the popsicles. Yes. No punch lines. It's crazy. No, it is. Give us the other side. the popsicles. Yes. No punchlines. It's crazy. No, it is. Give us the other side. Yeah, somebody flip over, I've got brain freeze. God or whoever,

will you flip over the popsicles thing. I've eaten 12 pops and no answers. I'm just my brain all scaling questions. So we're slamming these popsicles before every show, trying to get some of the answers, but we end up just. You haven't, okay. Yeah, we're just a headache.

Did the kid enjoy the show? I know he shouted out the Rizler is a suggestion well Which one is the Rizler and I was like well that the Rizler's not here's like well that is the Costco guy And I was like well, no, it's that's not the Rizler's not the Costco guy No, no, no, he was saying I think he was saying that you were the Costco guy I'm not a kid who eats at Costco. No, the Costco guy, so. The Rizzlers the kid.

I don't really know this stuff. The Rizzlers the kid. I think the Costco guy. The Rizzlers the kid's friend. Big Justice is the dad, and then I think it's DJ is David Jr. or something is. So who's the Costco guy? I think the Costco guy is a father and son duo.

They're like one, it's like master blaster from Beyond the Thunderdome Anybody else miss damn Daniel? I Mean you remember like miss him We have dance Daniel no Costco guy just talking about we had it. What's a roller damn? I hate to be an old man here. Yeah, I hate it.

We had all we needed with Damn Daniel. We sure did. Yeah, Damn Daniel's when the internet peaked. I thought it was the grape stomp lady, but then Damn Daniel just showed that we ain't done here yet. Yeah, he stomped on the grape stomp lady. I would've been fine calling it a Charlie bit my finger.

I would've been fine being like, we did it. The Brits tried to. Did they? Yeah, the Brits tried to. They did, they tried to shut it down. Yeah, maybe they were right All we needed were four screens and damn Daniel. Mm-hmm. Now we got what 15 screens Yeah, I mean screens everywhere How many screens are in your car when you're driving to your show too many but you go

That's cool. That's good Green car. Yeah, but you guys someday you're kind of well, there's the windshield I guess it's kind of like a life screen. Yeah, and some people call it a windscreen. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I've got uh I've got a huge windscreen in my car now It took a lot of it took it took a lot to get me there. And I tinted the windscreen. It's big, huh? It's made from this material, about my windscreen.

Oh, damn, and it's big. It's huge. Oh, okay. You don't get that kind of thing overnight. It takes some work. It's been growing. Yeah, you grow it. You raise a windscreen.

You foster its growth. Yeah, it's like a kombucha mother or something. Okay, okay, You raise a windscreen. You foster it's growth. Yeah. It's like a kombucha mother or something. Okay, okay, so the show's doing good. So it's not fitted to the car. That's right. It's just doing good, yeah. That's right.

I'm just making sure, yeah. Yeah, our tickets are eight bucks a pop and we sell between 20 and 30 every month, so we're doing pretty fucking well. We got a show tonight. We got a show. Oh yeah, when does this, or I guess depending on when people are.

Yeah. It is dependent on when. You had a show last night. Eight days ago. Eight days ago. Eight days ago we had a show. Yeah. Sorry you guys couldn't be there listeners in the pop.

Well, you could jump on the next one. Yeah. Because there's the 20 to 30 of these things are going to sell. So if you get, you know. In Los Angeles. Yeah, it's Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California. And you guys aren't filming at once. It's done. It's done We do not have that technique my kid is like well

What if I liked part of it and I want to see you like again? Why is that's the magic of live in proud? That's the magic that I think has been pointed out in a lot of like it's that it's mad Isn't it magical to be able to hear something again? There is that magical some magic and to see something you actually incorporate some elements Which is Chinese Chinese black magic? Yeah, pretty exclusively Chinese black magic. Actually, it's that's kind of all we know So we'll hide coaches us so he's he's kind of got you know, we're under his kind of sorcery umbrella. Yeah I mean what makes the black magic Chinese? Well, it was taught to him by an ancient listen to this guy trying to trap You know, there wasn't any intro or anything,

but now we're officially on Hollywood handbook. We're getting trapped left and right. Holy shit, Josh Harden and M. Night Shyamalan, consider us fucking trapped. What problem did you say? You'd be Josh Harden out of it. Oh yeah, we'd be trapped. You'd be the woman from the original parent trap

who's playing the psychologist. Yes, yes. And his daughter actually helped out a lot. Lady Raven? No, the other one. The other one actually is doing it on her own as well. Oh, in the parent trap? Yeah, so they actually all work together now.

That's nice. But the show's kicking ass. So the magic is from China. The show's crushing. Yeah, I thought there was nothing. It was not intended to be a gotcha thing at all. But the show's kicking ass. So the magic is from China. The show's crushing. Yeah, I thought there was nothing, it was not intended to be a gotcha thing at all. To me.

He likes to know where stuff is from. That's great. And why. Yeah. Yeah. No, the magic is. I don't think saying the name of a country or something should be like a dirty word.

Like I don't think that's like a gotcha element. I think we should be able to say. No, and I think we all navigated that pretty well. Turkish pasta you said, right? Turkish pasta. Turkish pasta. Turkish pasta, that's fine. Should be able to say whatever we want.

And now of course, Turkish pasta is a slur, but like that's one of the ones we're not gonna say. Yeah, can we bleep that out actually? Can we just bleep out Turkish pasta? I just think, you know, everybody gets so sensitive the second you attach a country or anything. Yeah, Italian sorcery. Yeah, it's yeah.

That should be OK. That should be stuff. I'd be totally fine. Italian sorcery is just stuff. Or to let behavior and the idea that Italian American source. Yes. Yes. I tie sorcery. Yes.

That anyone that any ethnicity is doing black magic Mm-hmm. It's like that's bad to say now. What's fucked up? You can't even ask It's confusing because there are also black magicians like black guys who do magic. I'm sure that's why you have to say Chinese black I think that should be fine. It should be fine to say what he gave us just said I think it is that's what no one else that's why no one that's why I'm not repeating it because it's just so fine to say Chinese black, Graebus just said. I think it is. That's what no one else. That's why I'm not repeating it, because it's just so fine to say. Chinese black magic. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

All of this. This is just a great area. I'll get me started on black Chinese magic. Wow. And yeah, and I and I don't see any reason not to live in this. Yeah, I'm comfortable. Yeah, I feel good. I'm so good. And this is, at our live shows,

it's that kind of spontaneity that we like to ride. We live. The fact that it's not recorded or not shared ever again is not because they're saying stuff that's like weird for them to say. People have tried recording, it is unrecordable. People have set up mics. It doesn't translate well to video,

and also there's like a weird watermark over us if you try to film us. Yeah, there's almost like a phantom image that appears and kind of ruins the... What's the image? What's the watermark? Do you know Goatse? Yeah.

Yeah, it's like a Goatse type image. Oh, I know Goatse. Somebody that I used to know. Right? Almost, almost. Almost. One letter off, I think. Goat see somebody that I used to know Right almost almost Almost one letter off Somebody that we used to know talk about fucking damn Daniel Goatsey kicked the whole thing off. That's when we Hate to put my old man hat back on but we had all we needed when we had goats. Yes

man hat back on, but we had all we needed when we had Goatsy. Yes. Maybe we should leave well enough alone sometimes. Yeah. He's putting this Buffalo Bill's top hat on. Yeah, my old man hat. It's what I wore to Rich Stadium. I'll tell you what though, this show's kicking ass. I'm happy for you guys.

It's just what you should be doing at this point. Thank you. It's really kicking butt. Yeah, it's like the perfect thing. It's getting back to our roots, and it's the perfect thing for us right now. Just making people laugh, goofing around, you know? The goofing's important. And messing with each other on stage.

Have some food. Have something to sip on. Right? Yeah, you can't eat at the Bills. Yeah, it's actually bad for the show to eat. Okay, so my kid again was like... Oh, yeah, but he had that big pretzel. At home, I can watch the Rizzler and eat literally whatever I want. He's not eating Twizzlers, watching Rizzlers?

Take out for himself. The point is that he can. You know, but here, like, they have the food, but it's not allowed to go into this room. And that's fucked up. It's like, no, you can't eat. You have to focus on the show. I'm your dad. I'm not some Rizzler mechanic that works the TV. Yes, exactly.

And we will, we don't hesitate to kind of break the fourth wall and go out into the crowd and kind of integrate that type of bad behavior into the show. Like that's something that we kind of bravely do. That was something I was really impressed with when I went the way that you would kind of attack the audience.

Yeah, a couple people tried to take pictures of us. Yeah, it's antagonistic from the jump. That's kind of our thing too is where, but look, I do this sort of Sonny Corleone character where I'll like smash the cameras and throw some money down. He integrates it. And I kind of work it into the show. And it can get very, it's the kind of joke

you don't pick up on until far after the show. In the moment, it's actually thrilling and scary. But that must, eight bucks a ticket, unless you're breaking a phone and putting down like two one dollar bills. with that being my money in half to make it appear to be more money yeah that tricks pre ripping his money like before the show for the show when he says if you have hard to do if you need to do it right there like it's harder to rip anything like yeah yeah and you say like if you take this

piece to the bank they'll give you the full bill like they have to Yeah, yeah tape it but then they yeah, they don't yeah Stamps you can take stamps into know that is true. There's fibers stamps as money You can you yeah, you can use stamps to buy like its currency Well, yeah, you get but you can take it to the restaurant It's true Like what I've been doing is I've been driving like a ton of stamps by mail I'll smash their phone and they'll drop like maybe page after page of stamps on the ground Yeah, folks are fucking expensive. It's a lot of stamps. Yeah, we have the upside-down plane stamp that we're holding on to in case we break

Yeah, you know But until then where you know, we're just making do with our Sesame Street stamps or, yeah. We've had to learn so much about them, stamps, which ones are more valuable, which ones aren't. It's been fun, it's been a fun ride. It's been a fun thing. It's actually been probably the highlight of doing the improv show again,

is getting so, going deep on stamps and stuff like that. It's been a really good time going, like being with my buds, going deep on stamps, getting back to our roots. Making people laugh, a show for the people. That's the thing too is if you're not one of the people, like if you're not. We're not doing shows for non-people.

If you're industry, you gotta leave. Yeah, the show's for people. Yeah, it's for people. Everybody's worried about The Rizzler and it's like, hey, when the fuck has The Rizzler been on a stamp? He hasn't, okay? Yeah, when they.

Not yet. Not yet, not yet. Not yet, I mean maybe it'd be a good idea for the post office but the fact is. Move over upside down plane, you know what I mean? Here comes the upside down Rizzler stamp. I think your kid's gonna get real in the snail mail soon, take it from me, if he gets the fucking Rizzler stamps, damn. And do you guys ever think about doing fringe?

Doing fringe or French? Doing French, like I took Spanish. You mean longer fringe on our coats than we currently have? We do perform, it's worth bringing up, we didn't wear our costumes for this appearance, we didn't wanna freak your audience out, but normally when we perform, we wear fringe.

And kinda do little twirls in moments where maybe we don't know what to say in the improv scene or maybe. Yeah, visually it's so arrest arresting there are so many moments of long silence where I'm just hypnotized by that we're aiming by the issue leave it out in those moments where I'm twirling I am thinking I'm trying being like what should I say where are you like what even happened feels like a really strong in the crowd I'm gonna go out there and feed his little fucking

I've attached some beads to my fringe to kinda give me almost like rattlesnake effect. Yeah, it's hypnotic. I've got little Christmas bells, like little elf shoe bells at the end of some of my fringe too. Oh wow. Cause I used to get lost a little bit before the show,

I would be wandering off and they'd have a- And I find it'd be impossible to find this guy and I thought he was doing kinda like big time in us, just showing up late to set kind of thing and he was like actor but he was completely lost and he does Dom Anything on your fringe anything? I know we had beads here and I know we had bell I just carry it's there's nothing attached to it, but it's so long Really? Nothing you'd have well no, but you cannot attach but it's so long. It's really, really long. We have nothing attached. Well, no, but it's not attached but it hits the floor

so I kind of seem to float around. Trust me, you wouldn't believe the questions we get asked after the show. They're not about the show, they're not about the content. None of the Q&A is about that. They're all about how long that guy's fringe was. Because it's not a big theater. It's not conducive to performance.

We can barely all be on the stage. Performance even without big stuff hanging off. Yeah. It's about his, like, weirdly orco movement that he's been doing up there. It works for the show, but it... It is weirdly orco. It's weirdly a little orco, but when you're in it...

The pest control guy? Uh... There are bugs there. We've got a bug problem that we could actually use. But what's not, we should say it's not Lyric Hyperion's fault. No, it's our bugs. We brought cicadas and lantern flies in to see who would win the fight. You're sort of sweeping them into the theater with your fringe.

That's what we found. A lot of them come in on our outfits. So when we do some of these twirls, cicadas are kind of released. Different bugs. We thought we would bring them out twirls, cicadas are kind of released, different bugs. We thought we would bring them out with us as fast as we brought them in, but that's not how it works. Kind of once they get out, they're sort of there. And we've tried various magics to get them out, but it doesn't work like that.

Japanese black magic. We don't have to get into all of them, but we try to sort the magics. We've kind of accumulated a lot of tricks in our kind of 20 years of improvising together. We have a lot of little things. Dom of 20 years of improvising together we have My little things Dom's fringe is one thing but you got to see this guy Tuesday's not yeah It's not from 8 a.m. To 10 a.m. He walks all the west side of Santa Monica Boulevard Wow just get and on Thursdays 10 to 12

He's on the other side of the street walking down and just gathering up shit Just yeah crabs and sand just like all sorts of shit all the crabs up near the beach yeah and then we and this is why we don't have the Rizzler but we have street crabs we've got look we don't let you eat during our show no but do we cook a crab pot for the audience after the show yeah yes we have crab boil. We have a crab boy with a crab. That I've accumulated from the street with my fringe outfit.

That's who we are. I'll kind of lip my Sonny Corleone character and he'll be a little bit more charming and kind of pinch your cheek and be like, try the crabs. Come on. Yeah, the Sonny Corleone character's come along so much. Can I just say your Sonny Corleone character is really, I feel like, dimensionalized.

I appreciate it. appreciate it started this show It's grown and he's a good mackerel host of the show and yeah, he comes out greets We don't come out for the first 20 minutes And it's kind of kind of complicated because Ben has all these different versions of the Sonny Corleone character that I think it's just his personality Like when you look back to the early versions of the show which are recorded no But when you do look back, them, you can't look back. But when you look back in your mind at them, they were like crazy.

We do a collective memory therapy with a MDMA specialist. So it's imprinted, we do an imprint after, a memory imprint after every show. Every show we do an imprint with a memory specialist with mushrooms and MDMA. We call it hippie flipping. Hippie flipping, yeah. Memory imprinting, and it helps us never forget the show

because we refuse to repeat ourselves month to month. No, we never say a single- Whatever you do, do not call it hippie flipping in front of these people. They will get so fucking mad. And it'll almost ruin your trip. Yes, and it's like wildly out of character for them. I mean, they get so mad.

At some point, that's what gets imprinted on the memory. Yes. The anger that they see you're in anger. While we're throwing out advice Turkish hippie flip is a slur as well. It's something we learn the hard way. Okay yeah so let's let's I'll keep saying all the things that are slurs so no one else says them okay. Well as long as you're saying hey this is a slur not to say my understanding is that that's a that's sort of it own type of thing. That's almost like a forensic, that's like an analytical. Over whatever it is. It's very smart to do that.

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just because we have all of the pretty funny guys here, and Hayes and I are fans, even if his kid would rather see the Rizzler. Hard to blame. And we wanted to maybe, as a promotion say, let's hear a little improv, and I know you hate recording me. Oh my God, wow.

But we're not gonna, but we'll hear a little bit of improv, like one of the scenes that you might do in the show. They didn't tell us about this. But that's what makes it improv. And so I thought that it could be cool for everyone to say, hey, this is the kind of thing you might hear if you go to the theater and maybe shell out that eight bucks,

right, and leave your phone at home. Please, please, unless you want fourth wall breaking. Yeah. And I'll just like be gentle with me a little bit because it's been a really, really long time since I've done anything like this. We've just kind of been in the studio. Sure.

Doing this and it's just like. Hosting, interviewing. It's a big leap for me and like, you know. Well, we're in your environment, you know, we're used to the being with the people, kind of having them shoulder to shoulder with us, so this will be interesting for us too. Yeah, I think it could be fun.

But we're also desperate to get asks in seats, and we know what kind of listenership you guys have based in the Silver Lake area. Yeah. So we're down to clown, as we say. Yeah, let's clown. But we're gonna do improv, not clown. Sorry, Chad D'Amiani.

No, no, no, please, we are not part of the clown community. That's different. That's a different thing that we can't do. We've expressed interest in joining the clown community. We've submitted countless resumes, and they just now leave all the details. I've done the makeup. Yeah, Clown Night Live rejected us. We all like.

I send a packet to Clown Night Live. Yeah. But haven't heard much. I haven't heard jack shit. No, no, it's responded. We don't wanna get stuck on this, but like it's a touchy area. No, but yeah, I know that you had,

I think you had your interview with Clown Michaels, right? Where you actually went in and I went in and I talked. I waited so long to go in, how long did you wait? He had me there, I was in one of my Clown Heroes dressing rooms forever, eating his clown candy from like you know the off season and I'm there starving I'm there for hours and then I meet with clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown,

clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, I think you call it Clown Michael. Clown Michael's what? His name is actually Clown Lauren Michael's. Clown Michael's. Because these are three different guys we're talking about. But they run Clown Night Live. Yes. It is different and I'm not like a student of this stuff, but my understanding is that clowning is about like moving around. Which what you guys do is is not there's not enough space yeah without our fucking bridge there's normally a whirling that happens. Clowning is about like moving around you can talk sometimes but it's like you're it's really like you're moving around and

you're talking and you're like doing you can do like jokes and stuff there's an element of like like you know clowning the reason we thought we'd be good at clowning is because there's something antagonistic with the crowd of like, I dare you to interact with me. Yeah. Which is, I feel that way all the time. Yeah, that's how I feel. As an audience member, I feel like I'm always being dared to.

I'm ready to be interactive. But the way you guys do it is like- Thank you. We've got a lot of seers. Thank you. There are devils in the audience for a while too. We can't get stuck on that. But yeah, let's clown or.

Oh yeah, we're gonna clown? Yeah, well let's not clown. No, we're not, no, we're not gonna do that. Let's do a little bit of improv and. So Kevin, I had asked him to kind of collect some suggestions. Oh God. They got you in on this, Kevin.

Kevin. The least you could've done is let us know, man. I feel. I'm gonna remember this. Zip, zap, zap, zip, zap, zip, zap. Wait, so what's the. Zip, zap, zip, zap, zip, zap least you could have done is let us know, man. I feel fucking... I'm gonna remember this. Zip zap zap, zip zap zap, zip zap zap. Wait, so what's the... Zip zap zap, zip zap zap. What is the four...

Tuticatum, tuticatum, tuticatuticatuticatum. Zip zap zap, zip zap zap, zip zap zap. Okay, I'm good. Kevin is gonna share, he's gonna share a suggestion that he got. That's right. From social media or something? That's right.

Okay. The suggestion is medicine. Medicine, medicine. I wonder what they'll do with that. Okay. Ooh, wow. You know what the perfect medicine is? Tonight I'm looking at cowboy TV. Oh, yeah. Kick back here, have a little sip of the old medicine

while taking a look at the medicinal TV in front of us. Pass me some medicine please, by which I mean a big pack of marshmallows. Roast up on the old cowboy TV. Should I throw another log on the cowboy TV or are people happy with what's on now? That'll change the channel. Better reception.

Here we go. You know a lot of people on their regular TV's watch medical dramas. But for cowboy TV it's one of these logs is sick and it's gotta burn up. Absolutely. Logs anatomy. Yeah, sorry. The good log. Tex, you got something you're trying to say, Tex? up absolutely logs anatomy yeah sorry the good Tex you got something you trying to say Tex what is it what's going on Tex? Tex boots? Tex boots

I live and breathe you're about to speak for the first time ever! Tex boots I barely heard you sneak up on me! Wow this must be one heck of a fire in my fire. I mean cowboy TV is even rattled Tex boots That is a big surprise All right, mr. Boots out with it. Come on now. Let's hear it. He's Why did the sound start I don't know we're not wearing a headphones Oh, that's perfect actually for where the scene wound up going. But why did that start? That really matches the scene.

You're kind of part of the show. It stopped now, but it was playing a second ago. There was a fire sound. That happens to us a lot at the lyrics. Someone will start a fire during our show and we'll hear it and then we'll just roll. I smell it. Is that why this happened?

I have no idea why it happened. I don't have headphones on. Yeah, I know that's the reason. It's just kind of where the scene took us, I guess. We're sort of more in, I know you're used to like being digitally connected and that's why you have the headphones on at all times. Well, and I know Noah's-

It was the same sound from Cowboy TV. You started doing the same Cowboy TV characters. I rolled with a suggestion, I thought. Medicine, I think was what it was. You talked with the suggestion, I thought. Medicine. You talked first. Medicine, I think, was what? Medicine is like cowboy TV. What's medicinal, what's healing, right?

Yes, watching. And hey, can I give you a note real quick? Is that OK? Are we giving notes? Well, why not? I mean, we're all trying to make each other better. I don't know if you could tell, but we were kind of teeing you up to be a guy named Tex.

Did you get that feeling? I? Text like your first time talk and I think you were so that can be a gift a statement like that can be a real And you chose to take that gift and say why is this sound in my headphones? You're the only one wearing so that is a that's the only she was saying it I agree like it was not not like that like a likees. If we were at the Lyric Hyperion, my Sonny Corleone character probably would have beat the shit out of you. Yeah.

If this was at the Lyric Hyperion, we would have, of course, rolled with it when the fourth guy just randomly joined the scene. But when the fifth guy didn't do what he was supposed to do, you wouldn't have gotten your fucking ass sent down. Yeah, so, cause I agree I didn't do a great job on the scene, but people really were paying a lot of attention to the fact that I hadn't been talking that much

when Gaber's didn't talk that much either. He did talk though. You don't need to keep score like that. I don't think that's helpful. It's not a zero sum game. My character was flossing. Okay. Cause he had just had real object core.

I didn't see you moving like you were flossing, but I guess that's more clowning. This is audio. This is a radio. And it's just one scene, like you know what I mean? Like we do a bunch of these 10 scenes. But this is my question. This is my radio. And it's just one scene, you know what I mean? We do a bunch of these scenes. But this is my question. This is my question. Yeah, go ahead.

I mean, the fire is the most confusing thing for me. I don't know why that would start playing. Because we started looking at the fire. Because the suggestion was medicine. You must have seen us start to look. Even as a suggestion, I don't, that actually, I should have said something then. Okay.

Because that didn't feel like a normal suggestion to me at all. Maybe we roll with it. Maybe we do another one where we just kind of roll with it. It's an A to C thing. Maybe instead of being outside the scene and judging it and going, this is what I thought would happen, because I think that's a really bad way to approach improv, is to go like, oh, I expected this, or I didn't expect that.

It's like you can't have. And that's an instructive note. Yeah, I think that what you should just do is go like, okay, this is what's happening, how can I either add to it or compliment. But what, okay, okay, okay. Like, let's not worry about like, your weird feelings with Gabriel.

Just agree to this. I'll try to talk more. Yeah, whatever kind of competitive thing you had with Gabriel. I'm sorry, I should not have made it about that. I was reacting to the fact that I felt like I was getting beat up on. You and Gabriel buried it. But it's not about like how I how anyone Jesus I can't even fucking talk now

I'm sorry Gabor Hayes, it's okay. Go back to the Explain it to Dom and Gabe. Yeah. Well, you know what? I find it's stupid explaining it but like I will say it out loud. Sorry, just one second, please. So, Bang and Sean have so many times on this show, done this thing where they have been trying to introduce a concept called Cowboy TV to the show.

Were they? Yes. That's correct, Kéber. It is a fire to the cowboy. I got that sense from the scene. That's not like what we were doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's their TV.

And it just kinda naturally happened. So you all knew that was, okay. So did we kinda back into an old idea? Is that what? So you did know about that. I guess that's fair. I guess that's fair. This is what was making me feel kinda stupid

is it seemed like you guys might've known what cowboy TV was. How the fuck would I know what cowboy TV is? You think I like pick random episodes? But you just heard cowboy TV and you automatically you guys might have known what Cowboy TV was. How the fuck would I know what Cowboy TV is? You think I like pick random episodes? But you just heard Cowboy TV and you automatically said, oh a fire. That makes sense because Cowboys didn't have TV

but they would sit and stare at the fire. And fires are hypnotic in the same primal way that the television does. Every artist has a signature and like I hear John Williams score, I can tell it's John Williams even though it's a different score. And maybe my fallback is stuff that's kind of like cowboy TV, maybe that's the groove I've got.

Yeah, there's a folksy sort of America element. It's either that or Corleone, I think, for you basically, the wide open west. Yeah, I would put Corleone above cowboy TV. And now that I think Sonny Corleone is in many ways a cowboy. He's a bit of a cowboy. Yeah, he's a bit of a cowboy. That is his fatal flaw.

Yeah, yeah. Cavalier, yeah. But this isn't something that happens in the show a lot. I is his fatal flaw. Yes. Cavalier. Yeah. But this isn't something that happens in the show a lot. I haven't heard that character in the show, no. Yeah, no. I mean, that, again, sometimes you back into stuff, you go like, oh, this is kind of like a sketch I did.

Oh, this is kind of like, but it's all just kind of. Also, we do so much freaky, mystical stuff beforehand, including today, that I never know what's gonna come out of my mouth for these guys. I'm more of a conduit. What's your accusation? that I never know what's gonna come out of my mouth for these guys. We got a breaky heel right before we came out here. What's your accusation? It just feels like there's something of a... I wasn't gonna say it, but now you're showing it.

What is the accusation exactly? It does feel like you are, you believe there's some conspiracy or something. The fact, so to me it's most, and I keep coming back to this, I'm sorry, and I know you can't hear it, it's the fact that the fire started playing. Because that suggests to me that there's like

a pre-planned thing where- But none of us knew about it. You know what, I'm just gonna out it. I follow Hayes on Letterbox, and last night he watched The Net. And I think that's kind of what's happening here. So you're paranoid. Is like he's kind of paranoid about-

I don't think that has anything to do with it. You can't watch that movie that late, bud. That'll just get you're paranoid. He's kind of paranoid about... You can't watch that movie that late, bud. That'll just get you all paranoid. Yes, no, this isn't Mozart's Ghost, okay? This is in some secret program. The band that Sandra Bullard listens to in the net, yeah. Okay. Dennis Miller isn't here.

We're not in the net. So maybe Shake Off. Okay, babe. Maybe he is here. Maybe he'll show up in the next scene. Okay, babe Have you ever heard of art therapy at all his like it's the concept is The concept is I just art can kind of heal and maybe we should do another scene and try to snap to kind of heal That first scene Kevin Kevin said we had about 8,000 suggestions we had to get through, yeah. So do you want to pick a second one?

So that was the one you picked out of 8,000 was medicine? Yeah. It's good, it wasn't food, which is actually a very common one. Who was that from? Todd. What's up, Todd? Thanks so much.

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slash 114-256. So what happened was you just started doing a cowboy type character. Yeah, I don't know, medicine just made me think of what. Based on hearing medicine. Yeah. Well we do what's called A to C, right? Where you go like, medicine makes you think of this.

We're not gonna immediately be doctors selling medicine. What's medicine for the soul? A good fire. There, boom, A to B to C. So you wanna go A to C with me. Yeah. And now I honestly can't remember if the fire was starting before or after you started.

And you're the only one that heard the fire, so you have to tell me. I can't help you with the fire part of hiding. Do we know who started the fire sound effect? It's gotta be Kevin, right? I mean, I keep looking at him, but like. I mean, last time I checked, it's always been burning since the world's been turning.

Okay. This guy's ready to go. How can we sleep while the fire's... Get this man a suggestion. Was that going Billy Joel mode? Did you start doing the fire, Kevin? The suggestion is skin care. Skin care.

Thank you. Thank you for skin care. Is this, what? We're gonna do another scene I think. Skin care. Skin care. The fire's playing. Yeah, I'm telling you, this is drying my skin out over here.

Ooh, thank you. The fire's drying your skin out a little bit. The fire's playing in right now. I would find a little ointment, a little That didn't really sound like a cowboy. A little beef tallow, you wanna rub it on there? Yeah, but perhaps that could be a soothing balm because I sat a little too close to the cowboy TV

and got myself a bit of a burn. I leaned in for one of my favorite parts on the show of cowboy TV, and I tell ya, I got my nose burned. It singed it. It singed it, and then did you notice it died down almost like it was tough in a commercial? Okay, keep it playing the fire playing Kevin Excuse me keep doing your scene if you want to

text boots I just need to share one. There's a snake near you. My name is Hayes Davenport. I am not Tex Boots. Tex is having some sort of out of body experience. Tex is a podcast named Hayes Davenport. A podcaster turned kind of like good citizen. He's in the future.

We're sorry. No, no, no. We just got to let him have this. Let's take your time. Tex Boots. Take your time, Mr. Boots. Tex Boots is channeling something. Wow, he was put in a trance by the Cowboy TV and hypnotized to believe that he's a firecracker. I was really ready to do improv.

I was nervous about doing it, but I was excited to like- You were ready to do improv. To like- You were doing some sort of evil Scottish magic. It's not the first time. It's just been a long time. It would be the first time you were ever ready to do improv. It's just been a long time since I've done it and that's not

It's just been a long time Now what's going on with your skincare conditions over there, sir that then that doesn't sound like a cowboy to me Sniper I've heard enough. Okay. All right you lay off gaber's for fun It's like that's all that you think that I have to go on that like that doesn't sound like cowboy So now why I feel kind of crazy. Let's see when I talk not enough scene two I talk wrong Jesus fucking Christ and let's not give gaber's notes all the time I actually liked a lot of what he was doing. Yeah, I've seen it wasn't perfect But it was adding but stuff to it but it's what I got I don't

think that was valid I'm not criticizing doing something that's not like I I love that it wasn't like a hey can I give you a note okay to give you a note are we doing that? Dom's actually been pretty kind with his notes. I wasn't participating in the scene and I wanted to no there was no within the scene. You were dying. in the scene. I felt like within the scene. And I wanted to. No, there was no within the scene. You were dying. I was in it. Within the scene, I felt like you were a little detached. Yeah.

Does that make sense? I wasn't participating in the scene at all. I felt the detachment. As soon as I heard the fire again. You're in agreement. Now that that's said, I felt it a little too. You seemed a little out of the scene. Kevin didn't answer my question

about where the fire was coming from. And then you started doing it. Guys, guys, guys, we're all talking over each other. Stop, yeah. Let's just go through what happened. Boots was a character, Hayes was playing, who was having some sort of epileptic fit. I said that my name was not Tex Boots. We took that as a gift. We were able to use as a gift.

That was a statement, and we used that to sort of create more context around the scene. Because we all operated in agreement, I think we were able to support your choice. But the fact that it could have been again the second time. And I actually think part of the problem is, you're having a hard time breaking out of being Tex right now. And getting back to committing too hard to Cowboy TV. It's admirable.

And my mistake was actually going with it as much as I did the first time. It was so obviously that you were just trying to do cowboy TV. I don't know why, even for a second, I thought that you just organically fell into the scene. Okay, let's stop. Let's stop. Scene and scene. That's what I wanted to know.

Haze and scene. That's great. Scene and scene. And scene. And scene. Great job, Haze. Good job. That wasn't the scene.

Let me jog in front of him. We can't break the fourth wall every time, but I do think every once in a while, it's like a fun. Yeah, it's like paprika. You don't need a ton of it, but just hit it. But like maybe leave it here and don't bring it home. I mean, do you want to initiate a scene or something? Like it feels like the jumping off point is giving you like, I don't know.

I mean, I don't. What do you mean initiate a scene? Do you need a safe word? Like someone who gives a suggestion and then you could start the scene. It feels like you need a safe word. Do you need a safe word? Like someone could give a suggestion and then you could start the scene. It feels like you need a safe word. Do you need a safe word as well? A safe word?

Yeah, I mean- Ben suggested a safe word, which I thought was a good idea. Like for having some sex. Yeah, I mean, this isn't normal for improv scenes, but I haven't worked with somebody of your caliber of commitment and maybe like a safe word or this is something like in the hippie-

Something to let us know that you're not enjoying it. It's too much. Because part of your character seemed to be there say like our Turkish guru Sometimes freak frequently will will work in a subliminal Codeword that can kind of snap us out of it if shit goes wrong. Yeah for us for a while. It was cowboy TV snaps us out of our like Yeah, not anymore. We've had to switch safe words but you okay and that was him and that's another one of these I'm sorry

I hate to keep like 1111 is on the fucking clock this one guy but he said that that was not a concept that he'd ever been familiar with and now he's saying that's a that's a term that he was I'm familiar with the concept I'm not bored no you your watch. It's 1111 the more you recognize that the more you'll see it everywhere This is just weird connections that happen and there's a connection between all of us and on stage that happens Yeah, we'll be collected 44. Have you not heard of cowboy? You're gonna start seeing that everywhere and you're gonna start seeing 1144 ever have I not heard of cowboy seat wait fucking weird, right? It's 1144 1144 every week. Have I not heard of Cowboy TV? Wait, pretty fucking weird, right? It's 1144, 1144? He was half fucking right, dude.

By hip fire, and that's the magic of improv. That's a gift. God, and maybe it was 1111 if you've been in some sort of fugue state for that much longer. Alright, so any notes for me? But why? I don't understand why. One note for Gabriel. One note for Cowboy TV here. Hit me with some notes and then let's go to another one. I got a note.. One note for Gavreel. One note for Gavreel. Hit me with some notes and then I'll look at another one. I got a note. Kicked ass, man.

Hey man, a little too funny. Save some for us. You got it. That's a classic note I used to get all the time. That really is. Shout out George Bedecker. That my deaf level one teacher told me fuck off at the class show. Oh wow. Def, I don't. It's a true story, Hayes.

This is like local color. This is a little local color. We've been doing this a long time. We've had these like old school instructors who couldn't always hear. All right, so new suggestion now with Hayes' notes. Hayes, do you wanna start, you wanna have the first line of the scene?

Does that make you more comfortable? You feel like you're getting sort of cornered by some of the work that we're doing? I'll tell you what I'm worried about. You're good. Like I'm worried that I'll do the first line and then the fire sound is gonna start and then you guys will start doing

cowboy key. But we don't even hear the fire sound. I can't control the fire sound. I can't hear the fire sound. I don't hear it. I don't know. I'm assuming it's there. But regardless, regardless of that, the fire sound. We have to take

your word on this. The fire sound is happening. Okay, good. It is happening. I believe you. Kevin won't say anything except what the word is to start the scene. I believe you.

You won't say anything else. So okay, Hayes, you've said what you're worried about. Can I say what I'm worried about? That's great. I'm worried that we're all going to be kind of in flow on this scene that feels really fun and alive and one of the players will kind of grind it to a halt by complaining.

Let's say it's me. Hypothetically it's me. It could be anyone here. And then it's caught up on some random sound effect. I think you're talking about me. No, we just said it made it better. No, I just said it was me. I'm being like a fucking real stick in the mud.

About I'm hearing things that no one else is hearing. I'm like ruining everybody's good times. What is like doing the same thing over and over again? Is that like, again, I haven't done this in a long time, but it feels like- Let's just say- I don't know if it's a reference to Cowboy TV and what you've been doing on shows before. I don't understand.

Well, let's just say, to clear the air, Bang and I have brought the concept of Cowboy TV to you multiple times as a podcast, as a TV show. Thank you. We have talked about that. Yes, it's happened. I believe it. This I don't know. Yeah, OK, that's neat.

And you shouldn't. OK, you use Cowboy TV as a safe word. I'm familiar with Cowboys watching the fire. That was not, we have nothing to do with that. That was our guru gave us that. OK. You're putting our guru's it. That was our guru, Gabriel. That was just our guru. You're putting our guru's words in our mouth. Your Turkish guru.

Separate from Dom and Gabriel, so I'm sorry you guys have to be here for this. And you were never like, that's so crazy? That's something that I've been doing on another podcast? I see the magic all around us, so that doesn't totally shock me. 11-11, right? Yeah, okay.

You'll see a more, 11-44 in your case. So that's been happening on. Only happens twice a day. When Bang comes on here, that's been happening. You can see that often, you've been trying to shoehorn cowboy TV into it. I don't know, if we shoehorn it, I think it's. Or make me listen to it.

I just wanna like. And it does get me pissed off, and I don't know if that's like the idea is to. It has organically arisen. But you, what you, yes, and speaking of note taken, what you said last time, a direct quote, people can go back and watch the episode was, if there were more cowboys, I would be 100% in on it.

Absolutely not something I'd ever said. That is okay. That's never, that's never been an issue for me. So while this is maybe a happy accident. 3610, I actually know how deep into the podcast, it was weirdly 11 minutes, 44 seconds into the last episode we did. You brought up wanting to have more cowboys on Cowboy TV

the last time I was on. Yeah, I can't picture them getting to a point in the first 11 minutes. Because last time you were on there to promote another podcast that we've spent a lot of time on. Now I don't even know if that one was real because then you went out of the room to like go play it. Sure. You don't play a clip of it and it was just cowboy TV. I can assure you that our show is real. You can look it up on online. And it really is pretty funny. Thank you. Are you, are you doing that other show still?

Pretty funny. Every third, we do other podcasts. Milo podcast. You can find it. The rod shapes. It's out there. Yeah. People loved it.

Okay. Cause I've been worried that that loved it though. You're wait, you're saying you're not doing it. Well, it was just season one is out. I might do another sorry to at some point, but I don't know. Okay. Cause I've been sort of worried about that. I'm not that wasn't real in that. That was just happens in these scenes. I might do another sorry to at some point, but I don't know okay cuz I That wasn't real and that was just happens in these

And that's like that's just let Hayes start it yeah We're just using suggestions from Todd right just Todd just hot you, Todd. He's on it. He's really good at this. And use all this. There's a lot of people in my room. It's Todd Bieber. Yeah, it's Todd Bieber. But can we wait a second where we... And I know there's a lot of heavy shit happening. Let me hear what it is and let me think about it

for a second. Yes, please, please. And I know that's not like a traditional thing. No, you can think about it a little. Yeah, of course. You've got some time. That's why we say thank you. It's to get an extra few seconds of thought.

The suggestion from Todd is tenured. Tenured, thank you. Tenured, thank you, tenured. Thank you, Todd. Tenured. Tenured. T-E-N-U-R-E-D. That's correct.

Tenured. Okay. Wow. All right. You knew how to tell that. Just give me one second. Okay. Well, it's the tenured anniversary

of the first time I saw her on Cowboy TV. Give me one second. Okay. Well, it's the 10 year anniversary of the first time I saw her on Cowboy TV. Tex Boots, take your time sir, just whenever you're ready. No one rush Tex Boots in the zone. Thanks for coming by the 10 year anniversary. It's good to gather all our friends around, Tex Boots included, even though he's having a rough time of it.

Well, he's been having a bad go, and as he's seen this episode... I've been annoyed with him! I've been getting mad with him! He made the first choice, being annoyed, and we're all okay with that. Now Tex, have you seen this episode of Cowboy TV before? Wow, we got ourselves a Scottish cowboy. What do you know? I guess it's all different sizes and shapes of cowboys. Oh Tex, go ahead my friend. Okay, well actually, so like I actually, I do want to talk as Tex because I feel like that's the only

way that anyone will. Only way you can talk Tex. Anyone will listen to what I'm saying. So like, can I actually talk for a sec? There's a fire here. I can hear it in my head. Oh, I can feel it. And I'm watching it. I feel that fire. I'm watching it. I love to switch the channel. And it must be sweep sweep.

Cause the fire's doing some big attention grabbing licks of the sky. Yep. All the fireflies are gathered around too. So, you know, that means good ratings. Pop crackle kablooey. So we're all cowboys. We're all here. And I actually like, I like, You got that right. So you know that means good right pop crackle kabloon can so We're all Cowboys. We're all here and I actually like like you got that right so how did we agree? To all be here like how did we all agree to like this bring doing this right now?

like this is what this brings me back to the popsicle thing of like Wouldn't it be great? Are you not Cowboys anymore? to the popsicle thing of like, wouldn't it be great to have? Are you not cowboys anymore? Wouldn't it be great to have that answer? I am the last interesting. What's that? Yeah, the popsicle thing, right? What a great blow to the scene.

Yeah, that was amazing. Did you feel that natural? The fire is still. How we actually, the word last. Did you feel the natural end point, Hayes? Did you feel that natural end point? That was great. Yeah, you're not text anymore.

We're back, the scene's over. You did a good job. We did a really good job. That was amazing. That was amazing. I didn't know if you were gonna be able to roll with it, but it seems over and it was a really good ending by you Really funny you bugged that nice blow And you nailed it man like way to bounce back we're ready

Those are the perfect edit points where everyone in the scene can kind of feel I don't I don't yeah And we don't have to do anything. I don't over I don't understand what I did like I actually like I'm gonna that happens You're just so in it. You're like channeling So that was interesting you were text kind of telling us you were gonna talk his text Which I didn't mean to break the fourth wall Yeah, I don't know here. Yeah, how did we all get here was a big I'm not angry Do you have any notes for gabris? Yeah, like you're kind of a dry erase board with a bunch of shit written down

and a drawing of me and is there anything you wanted to tell me? Well, he was doing a different voice again. He was wheezing me, wow, like in an improv show? Well, can a non-cowboy watch cowboy TV? I'm sure it's like for everybody. That hasn't happened before. It's like Chinese black magic. I mean, that is a new element to it.

I will say this, it hasn't traditionally been that flexible. Yeah. Like, it has been kind of just cowboy voices. I'm kind of a wild card. And when I've tried to introduce like other elements to it, people are mostly like really resistant. It ends up being the same thing. What's another element that has been resisted that you've tried to introduce? I don't, I, you seem to remember every like the exact minute everything happened in other shows. I'm just going off what I have felt in past episodes.

And so now, and that's why I keep coming for Gaber's, I guess, because while this is happening to me again, I see someone who is able to just like do other stuff within it and that's fine. You wanna be Gaber's. This is actually, wait, let me take a moment here because this actually happens to me a lot. A lot of people see what I do on stage and think,

oh, that's like how I'm supposed to do it. No, I'm different, I'm built different. He's different. The rules don't really apply to him. There's a sense of play and a sense of fun that is behind it. Just kind of a natural. That you can get on board with.

You gotta do 20 years and buy the books till you can throw the books away. If you have a mind of a child, you can really just let yourself free and play and you don't have to think about those words. If you're like me and of a child, you can really just let yourself free and play, and you don't have to think about those things. If you're like me, and as a young kid, you got your head stuck in between the couch and the radiator, and it kinda crushed your head

in a specific way that affected the way you think and act, then you could just kinda do what you want up there. Like, you can't do that. Just like a day go to bring a knife to a gunfight. Nice. That's a charm of honoree. Now that is a slur again. Yeah, yeah, that one is, yeah. Yeah, not a lot of gray area. That's a few I can throw around. That's a slur. Yeah. That one is. Yeah.

Yeah. That's untouchables. That's one he can say. That's another one. Untouchables. Mm hmm. Did you make it through all of the net or did you shut it off early? Did you get scared? Oh, yeah. It doesn't say on Letterboxd if you finished it. I just it was I just had it on.

I wasn't really paying attention to it. You logged it on. Well, yeah, I just said on Letterboxd that I watched it, but I wasn't like. There's no review. Blocked into it. I just had it on, I wasn't really paying attention to it. You logged it on. Well yeah, I just said on Letterboxd that I watched it, but I wasn't like, locked into it, I just had it on. She drinks a Gibson in that. Yeah, that's with the cocktail onions. With an onion instead of the olive. It's so nasty.

It's disgusting. Yeah. Yeah. But some people watch it. Bye. Hollywood handbook. That was a hate gum podcast. Hi, Nicole Byer here. Newcomers with Lauren Lapkus and Nicole Byer is doing a live streamed

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