Hollywood Handbook - Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna, Our Halftime Show Friends
Episode Date: June 23, 2020The Boys welcome back ZACH REINO and JESSICA MCKENNA to help with the Super Bowl halftime show. 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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Doing church.
I had wandered into this church.
Okay.
I thought I had to pee.
It actually turned out I did not.
Okay. okay i thought i had to pee and actually turned out i did not okay and so talk about that experience a little bit because i think that i have had the same thing and and what is that where your body
is actually telling you a fib and then and it's essentially gotcha journalism on behalf of your bladder and other parts.
This is, I think, a specific thing to just a few people.
And I think it's what brought you and I together at some point, which is there is no connective nerve fiber between our bladders and our brains.
Or like there is it is connected, but it is there are like, though.
Yeah, there are like little.
connected but it is uh there are like though yeah there are like little um it's like a where where a hose has like a kink in it and like it does not communicate properly or on time
and so when we do actually really have to pee we don't know that we don't feel it at all we
can talk about that we can talk about that how surprised we can be sometimes by the gush of p we can talk about that and when we
feel like we actually really have to we cannot that's not what's going on the message that i'm
getting is this is an emergency get in that church and then so i run in there and there's a guy who's like what are you doing
and i am like oh i'm here to i'm doing church today i'm it's my day to do this well yeah you're
not going to tell him you're not going to go into the whole thing of like well i had to pee and then
it's like well there's the bathroom but by now you know oh he's like okay let me see and like yeah yeah i'll just watch it's like well and so he's like oh great thank goodness you're here you're late
and he takes me up to the front part and i just have to do the entire thing i do like
an unbelievable job you were. I talk about an angel.
I remember the news saying that you won church.
Yes.
I said yes.
There were a lot of guys there who were like you sir have won church for the day.
Have an upvote good sir.
So yeah you mentioned the angel.
Tell me you didn't bring up Dark Lucifer.
I talk about an angel who is actually...
I invented this whole kind of interesting,
almost like a cable-limited series about an angel and Dark Lucifer.
As roommates.
As roommates.
In season two, they go to Italy.
They eat pasta.
And it's so delicious.
And they're riding little mopeds and dark lucifer yes taking the air out
of the tires of the angel and the angel has to fly all the way back home oh i love this
hello hello welcome to hollywood handbook the show and why did i sing hello just podcast why
did i sing when i said hello and i think it's because we have our most musical friends
who always make me inspired to do more of my music.
And tell us about it.
And it's Zach and Jess.
And tell us about this burden where you,
every time you go on a podcast, people are like,
okay, time for you to sing another song.
I mean, much like Jesus Christ who died on the cross
for our sins.
We all have
burdens. Sorry, you said the angel
and dark Lucifer.
Did I bring him up?
Yeah, did he come up?
Okay, now that you say it like that.
He's famously part of a lot
of sort of church machinery.
And I knew that.
Isn't there one episode of the cable series where the angel is going like or maybe it's dark lucifer goes like man i never
really thought about my dad's experience and then you sort of see yeah jesus like do all this stuff
so i did yes i did do that exact story i did i was kind of vaguely i guess misremember i
so i thought his name was chris jessup
okay not jesus christ chris jessup i remember i can see a sort of like that's tricky there
yeah the story yeah chris jessup sounds like a a thirdsize font of Stagecoach act.
You know, like three fonts down.
You know, the famous sort of Coachella playlist test of how hip are you.
Beyonce's big.
Beyonce's not on Stagecoach, though.
Luke Combs is big on Stagecoach.
That's right.
And on Stagecoach, there's fewer acts.
And then it's like and then
it's sort of an inverse test of well i don't know do i know any of these names and chris jessup is
sort of a third font down and you're like wait actually i think i like chris jessup and he would
actually be a bigger font at coachella because he's like friends with justin timberlake and his
like songs are kind of folkier and he like lives in like the cool part of
Nashville or something yes that's Chris Jessup yes so you brought him up so Chris Jessup came up
I talked about Chris Jessup a lot uh as the angel's dad uh yeah and like stuff about um i remembered the pharisees weirdly and like but not exactly
like what they did or like who they were totally and isn't that kind of the point
pharisees buellers is yeah i said that yeah and like that is funny like and i'm sorry to like reclaim your joke but
i actually did say it at church no that's cool yeah and i remember that that was part of how
you won church that day yeah and upvote my good sir for pharisees of bueller
and you so you were saying talk about everyone being like okay drag you in here and like time to time to sing time to sing your song again
well i think you i think you do know and your listeners know that like it's so vital in this
industry to create sort of a niche for yourselves like how do you stand out how do you become more
specific and that's been huge for zach heineken and i but then it gets to a point where you're like is this niche now too mean is it did i build my
own little fence around me and now this fence is actually really hard to get out and it's pokey at
the top because at what point is a fence a cage right yes i think when it's pokey on top and it's
not fun when you've done a top fence and when you're inside and you don't have the opening right if you can't right it's a cage i think if you if you aren't the one who's the
opener of it cages don't open from the inside and the top is also fenced if you have a top fence and
the cage doesn't open from the inside you know i'm thinking of when a cage is a prison a fence
is a cage i think when it goes all the way around the top right right
right now here's the weird thing is if you built it slowly and it started as just like hey i kind
of want i want a little border i want a little bit right here just to say like i'm i'm doing
kind of i'm kind of feeding myself this way and then you build it wall by wall and suddenly you've
made a cage you know what i mean Like you started with just sort of like,
oh, I want to train these tomatoes to climb up this trellis.
And then the next thing you know,
you're in a cage.
Sure.
So that's kind of,
that can be the thing
if you are too obsessed with succeeding in a niche.
So to answer your question,
it is exhausting, but we love it.
That happen to you?
You did that?
With bricks.
Oh, shoot. I cask of Am montiato'd myself oh i had offended myself in
a way that i probably couldn't even recall and it's punishment i casco montiato'd myself in with
bricks can i just stop the presses right here that this reference made me light up from the inside
because you said at one time and i was like i don't even know what that is he's so smart and
then i started to recall it and then you said it again I was like now I feel
a part of it and then you said it again and I was a teacher yes I welcome all my students my little
podcast students and you can be a listener you can be a guest but at the end of the day you're
getting it you're getting a learning you're learning and we're and we have to do that and
it's adult
education so i will be saying casco montiato at least seven times which is how many times it takes
to inform an adult here montresser harrell that's for sean only uh i said that at church too so
you okay so the niche thing we actually have dealt with a very similar problem to
this, which is like crafting this niche of not getting invited on other shows.
And so that was kind of like our big like podcast identity for a while that would like
set us apart from like, obviously you guys are constantly doing like getting invited
to stuff and are like in demand.
It's like, okay, how do we separate ourselves? Let's have us like not do be unwelcome yes yes exactly but now it has reached
a point where it's like it is kind of like okay another week of this the pressure and the
expectation is so great for us to not be invited on any other shows that it's like how do you
really maintain that distance yeah at some point someone's going to invite you
and you're going to have to just sort of deny
that it happened.
Just have to do it.
And sing.
We'll start singing.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you have sort of upset the balance
that we had struck between our two podcasts,
which was you had done ours and we had done yours.
And we were both sort of like going on our merry way.
And now you have put another sort of
stone on your side of the scale and to sort of write the equilibrium of the universe you know
that we are going to invite you now to do our podcast again we're gonna have yes and and then
yes we're gonna have to we're gonna do a second banana sequel banana king yeah so we need actually to do that because we uh we're using it for content
on our show many times i think we made jamila jamil listen to we did a lot of clips played
banana king for her on our show and because she's uh dating a music man and we said yeah we said
well how about this music how's this yeah yeah? Yeah. Yeah. What'd she say?
She liked it.
He couldn't.
She said he definitely would not do it.
He couldn't do it.
Yeah.
Did she say wouldn't or couldn't?
You know, what I know about James Blake is he couldn't have done...
It's James Blunt.
A lot of people get that wrong, but it is James Blunt.
What I know about him then is that he's a veteran and he's
beautiful yeah he's a veteran that's what i know about him but he could never do banana king
i will he's a veteran in the sense that love is a battlefield
and he is in there wasting his enemies who are the enemies every day in the battlefield of love oh because like if love
is a battlefield i sort of thought of my gut is to say that's between you and the person you love
so to wait who are the enemies you said yeah are they are they rivals or are they difference
oh yeah the opposite of love isn't hate it fear. The enemy of love is indifference.
That's right.
And I feel like that's maybe a tagline on a movie poster.
That's huge.
And I feel like that's,
that's been sort of,
um,
that was a huge,
like the sort of learning light inside of me just lit up a lot as something
that I can take back to sort of my marital relationship about what is the
enemy of love.
I'm excited for that relationship to become successful as a result of me teaching you.
Me too.
The movie that that would be the tagline of is must indifference dogs.
Because then you would have to explain in the tagline uh-huh you know people know must love
dogs and then they see the movie must indifference dogs and then you say in the tagline the enemy of
love is indifference and then okay yes casting pitch jennifer indifference hewitt
huge huge now what i was seeing is i was sort of like taking must indifference dogs and sort of
putting it with uh putting in a space that i think that we expect a lot of these movies to be in that
in this day and age where it's a massive ensemble comedy where um almost everyone in it only had to
work two days and uh and we just get that sort of like momentum of as many people in this as possible
to sort of show that they could be indifferent to a dog but maybe now they aren't those movie
posters were ahead of their time because they were essentially just zoom chats often the poster for
the film would just be each of the celebrities who as you said is only there for two days in a big
zoom what is the poster for love actually if not a Zoom screen cap with a red bow?
This movie will be, you just put the camera on like a very slow dolly.
You put like a lot of sandbags on it.
So it's like moving really slow.
Yeah.
Left to right.
And then somebody, Michael Sheen walks in, and he's walking his dog,
and he gets the leashes tied up
with Jennifer Indifference Hewitt,
and then they have their whole sequence
in this really slow dolly,
and then one leaves off the left side of the screen,
and one keeps going and runs into another person.
And we follow them.
And then they can just keep walking off set that's great then go home yes they can they're expected to just go straight they never
really have to like totally break stride brett has like he set up this whole thing today brett's energy is unacceptable for some reason his because i'm
swiveling the way my zoom is set up is like brett who has not been talking is my big video
and everyone else is small you got a hit gallery view friend i know but brett is pinned for some
reason and he since he set up this like new sound system today he has been like grooving to everything that we're saying as if it's like cool music
it's so annoying
okay let me go sorry to hurt you this is worse i'm gonna go back
brett kevin's here to talk about being a dweebus for sound a dweebus for sound it's a tough life because um you know i come here on a saturday and i try to
impress you guys with like this brand new system and uh you know i haven't seen you for a while
and then i just feel like no one can relate to my dweebus
so of all the senses to be obsessed obsessed with like so much more stuff is visual uh-huh
or is feely but right but in your experience sniff sniffy i do i am a dweebus for sniffs
well that hasn't manifested itself but it's a t-shirt though if i ever saw
one if i could get out this one idea and see saw one you hear that at this point you would say like
a teacher i ever heard one idea sean has to get out one idea get it out get it out get it out
just interesting that in all your vast experience with podcasters, somehow what you decided was, I know what they'll like, to do more shit.
The laziest group of people in history essentially managed to turn,
at this point, talking to a screen at home.
And by the way, nobody's ever going back.
There is like the whole idea of the studio. Bulldoze the studio way nobody's ever going back there is there like the whole idea of the
studio bulldoze the studio it's never going back burn it get all your equipment out set it on fire
collect the insurance i feel like maybe this is a moment for zach and i to just like come clean
and say that uh definitely some of this is our fault.
You don't have to do this.
No,
I don't have to.
Brett,
much like,
much like a dark Lucifer,
we're prepared to be punished for our revolution that we have started.
It's not worth it.
Brett,
I just can't let you fall on this sword by yourself.
You know,
our,
our podcast where we,
that you famously invented Banana King on
does require us to sing,
and there's latency over the internet,
which has made it semi-impossible.
So this is a...
It's a Dweebus term.
You know, necessity is the mother of invention,
and this is the system that Offbook has landed on
so that we can still improvise a song.
The fact that we were setting it up in your show
made me almost 100% sure
that we were about to be forced to sing
because it is absolutely unnecessary
for any show that does not do music.
I also, I also wanted...
Wow, so I fell on the sword and then Zach put it in
because he said It was totally unnecessary
I just didn't understand
I was like this is from a book
Zach was like
I was just making sure
That sword is
I was like
Let me take out
Yeah yeah yeah
Zach was like
Let me look at this sword
Just took out the sword
Brett Brett Brett
Took out the sword
And handed it to me
And I thought
Wait no
Brett is actually
Not bleeding too much
We need to plug up
The sword shaped wound
Back with the sword.
And I'm grooving.
And he's grooving.
I'm grooving to all of this.
I feel also it's important to say,
this goes a lot deeper, the story of this.
Okay.
Because I wanted Kevin...
Genesis, the Source Connect, tell us.
Yes.
I wanted Kevin to get a good look at the Source Connect thing.
The apprentice. Because he works with Scott, and it all goes back to Scott.
Because Scott wants a clean recording.
He wants to feel like he's in the room with people.
I don't know if I'm speaking out of class right now.
Is that a term?
Yes, it's based on when the you know, when the student goes out in the hallway.
Now, see, I thought it had a more nefarious, a nefarious meaning of, oh, you're speaking,
you're speaking outside of your class.
You are a poor person trying to talk to us.
When you speak of Scott Aukerman, you are speaking.
Are you talking about Scott Aukerman, Brett?
I'm three or four levels out of class.
Truth to power. I'm three or four levels out of class.
Truth to power.
He is particular with his sound and he wants it.
I'm not sure he'll ever go back to the studio.
Yeah.
So, you know, the other part of podcasters, which I have to deal with, is that they also complain about Zoom sound.
So it's like
get used to it once again the other never going back you have to get in my car to do this
not happening you saw how difficult I was about just opening a new website for the sound
imagine now trying to get me to drive a car to a place
um Brett did you like how for our podcast when normally you would just record the
whole thing we would sing it but now because of the delay you have to go and individually line
everything up sort of like word by word for the whole thing is that good does that make you feel
like your tool set your skill set is being utilized to its highest potential. I'm not sure the highest potential,
but it does make me feel needed for one.
You're extremely needed.
And then I guilt trip you.
Let's talk about the logistics.
We got to do another halftime show.
We do have to.
Yes.
We have to get over there pretty soon.
Sure.
To begin the, you know, we're going to have to like live there pretty soon sure to begin the
you know we're gonna have to like live there obviously
for a really long time right right
we have to quarantine in the stadium
for at least like eight
months and then
and then we will have the science
changes so fast around the length of
quarantine yeah and
we don't want to be caught with our pants down at all
and we do have to
kiss all the football players well yeah just to make sure just so we're sharing the same germ
right because like if we're going to be there doing the halftime show and we're using the same
locker room to set up then like it's only safe if we have like a baseline like these are our germs
these are yours let's get them co-mingled so that there's no surprises on the day of the big
game that's what herd immunity is right it's and we all have all the same like we all have all of
the things that we all have i i feel like you know we hear new new things all the time but i feel like
what i what we're about to hear is just go around in a mask but dip your mask and kiss every stranger
is about to be the new order i feel like because we just need we need to spread it now as fast as
possible but then wear a mask but then keep it inside because that is much like a cage it's a
cage for your own germs but you have to get in the cage first we need to get the numbers up so high
that we can't get to the hospital and then they won't track the numbers and the numbers will go
back down this has been difficult difficult for Sean who has built
of course as you can see
a mask of bricks
over his mouth
a mask of Monteato
that's right and so he does have
to chip
it off like every time
he needs to give someone a kiss just as he's like passing them by
he does have to i have a complaint actually a little way brett if you had let us stay in zoom
i could have pretended that i said mask of amontillado before zach but with the lack of
lag in the current yeah more precise uh yes sound latency latency meester
she's in must indifference dogs for sure oh gotta be oh got to be here's what i'm excited
about for the halftime show is that i feel like we can we can learn from um what the nba is doing
and we can just like pick a place that's really fun
for us all to be you know so like i feel like perhaps it will be too soon to also be at walt
disney world but you know maybe it's like we're all in aspen because it's winter time and we all
the mall or what if we're at the mall maybe we're at the mall i miss the mall what if we're at the
okay what about this what about this
what about this each team gets their own department store wing you know how those are sort of the
cornerstones of a mall layout yes we put each team's are you at the entrance or are you at the
sears you at macy's exactly exactly and we're in our department stores we're in our own department
stores for you know 14 days and then we come together in the food
court for the halftime show the game happens around the biggest fountain whatever the biggest
epic okay hold on this is sending my ass yeah go off go off uh i'm about to we're in the damn ass food court in between all the entrances
and all the damn ass football players are just rocking out to the halftime show
and we're chowing down on some aw core dog nuggets uh yes please so okay okay here and
here's something here's something. Here's something.
You know how like a big part of halftime shows is we got to do something for the crowd, right?
We got to do something.
There's got to be a moment where we zoom out and they all have little LEDs. Super Bowl selfie.
And we got to and actually all of those LEDs, they were mini drones.
Okay.
So instead of that, because we have to scale it back and we can't have any, we can't have
that many people, but think of what we can do with sort of like the messaging and a wave effect of everyone having a tray oh and we paint one side
of the tray one color and one side another color and they're flipping it and it's words that
happen and it's there's words in the trays also you know how they're doing this thing where they're
filling stadiums are filling their stands with like mascots and stuffed animals so that the
cameras look like they're full but they're full of ridiculous things.
This is cute.
This is actually a cute solve that I'm in love with.
This is cute.
It's good.
And it's also, it's marketing because we've got the Build-A-Bear right there and Build-A-Bear
has got licenses for, you name it, they got it.
Marvel.
Marvel.
You want to get Marvel on board?
Let's get Marvel on board.
We've got tiny Spider-Man.
He's there and you can dress him in you can dress him
in like a bear cute clothes there's a spider bear with it like a sun hat and she's beautiful
and she's there and she loves the sort of sports event and the corn dogs and the trays that spell
words and captain abarica captain abarica the incredible bear bear bear bear man uh other bear man bear man is the one
who shoots um bear man shoot bear man is laser man and hawk man yeah and iron man he's all he's
he's also batman even though we don't have license for that he is there um that's so cute there's
bear widow there's bear
eye okay now just off the dome like just thinking of the other licensing just the other properties
that build a bear does have access to here's something i know they have the old the old stop
motion rudolph uh cbs special we have that so okay so we got the abominable snow bear you can
have the abominable you can have cornelius jack bear yeah that's right bear that's right winter soldier bear and that's
and that's a crossover um dr bear dr bear and bear that's thor and bear. Bear nose. So let's, I think we have to sing now.
We have to because all these bears, what are they watching?
They got to watch the song.
What are they watching?
And it will probably help that the halftime show to explain to people kind of what has
been going on and why, you know, the fact that there is a Super Bowl at the mall, I
think will require a lot of explaining.
It's mostly exposition.
The song is about what are the sort of rules of the game at the mall.
Where we are, what's going on.
Hang on.
Let's wait until Brett picks up his instrument off the ground.
You just keep it on the floor what super bowl are we at now
oh my gosh who knows this year's been so long and we'll say it's super bowl no super bowl uh
liv and it's it's in honor of live tyler this year super bowl this is super bowl tyler super
bowl this year is so long it No. No. Jess, no.
This year, I'm sorry.
It's only June.
I feel like this year's been like two years.
I'm sorry.
2020, more like 20 years.
20 years I've been in this 2020.
Brett's not ready.
Oh, was that?
Yeah, no.
2019 was a dumpster fire
Huh
Remember when we were like
Well at least 2016 is over
What fools we were
It never did
It never ended
It was so long
So nuts
Can you remember
When the year ends
And I'll say it.
Boo 2020.
Boo.
2020.
2020.
Not good.
Not good.
Not good.
Classically not good.
Hard pass.
Yeah.
2021, please.
But Zach, we have no idea if it'll be better.
It can't be worse.
Am I supposed to just interrupt?
Yes, just say when you're done.
Ooh, yeah.
Sweet licks.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh.
Uh.
Well, a mean old virus came a-stomping through town.
But we ain't gonna let it keep us down
We're playing football anyway
At the big mall every day
People aren't supposed to come together and meet
But you gotta watch a bunch of people kick with their feet
We're playing football anyway. We're
at the football here today. Yeah, that's right. We're in a mall and now it's soccer. Brought
to you by Build-A-Bear. That's right. We're in a mall and now it's soccer. I was talking about the kickoff, but sure.
I've been living at the mall for 14 months.
My wing of the mall does not have any beds.
I sleep in Hanush Jewelers on 500 diamonds.
It feels bad.
Am I dressed nice? You better believe it
Cause one Mr. Joseph Abood made my suits
You know I
Wait, what is his name?
Joseph A. Bank
What's the suit store?
Joseph Abood is okay too
Both of those are suits
Both of those are suits
Both of those are suits
Two suit stores are wearing double suits.
And you better believe that it's time to shoot the football through the basket.
It's soccer and basketball at once.
Okay, the rules are a little different this year.
Wear a suit and there's nothing to fear.
Suit is the regulation uniform.
There's a bunch of different ways that in football you can score.
Way one, shoot it through the basket.
Way two, kick it into the net.
Way three, into the fountain.
Way four, score a home run.
But you can't go home.
You have to stay in the mall.
You have to stay here with us all.
And who is all?
It's just a bunch of bears.
Because about the virus, we still care.
Which bear?
Spider bear
I went into
Things remembered
I learned to use
The engraving machine
I tried to engrave
A bed onto a plaque
And sleep on that
I am looking for a store
With something soft
Will please someone
Trade me a store That something soft will please someone trade me a store
that sells pillows
or even suits
it's rude to wear two suits
when your friend
only has hard objects
to sleep on
should have thought of that
when we were picking areas
of the mall
now I'm at Babbage's computer store.
And I'm airbrushing the fuck out of all the laptops.
I put a fucking dolphin and it's kissing a turtle.
It's against nature, but I don't mind.
And it's football time, but football has changed.
Football time, but the game is insane.
Football time, but the game is insane. Football time, but football has changed.
Because it's basketball, baseball, soccer, and anything but football.
Everything but football.
Football time, but the game has changed.
Football time, but football has changed.
The game is insane.
I wish I could trade you stores, But I'm also in a shitty store
I'm in the Sunglasses Hut
It should be called Sunglasses Hut
Because they have more than one
They got so many
It's not just one sunglass
Or it could be sunglass huts,
but we're got to pluralize something.
And also, if it's just sunglass hut,
now I'm imagining a hut made out of sunglass.
That's exactly what I thought, Jess.
Thank you.
That's a cage.
That's a cage, please.
And that's a cage.
The sunglass of a Montiano.
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Okay.
That would have been nice.
Yeah.
Well, this was song one.
Obviously, every halftime show has four songs.
Yeah, sort of movement.
And isn't that interesting how we're sort of rebooting a classical form of like long songs that feed into
other songs when we do the super bowl in a way that we don't in most albums that's a surprise
there has to be like a surprise person who shows up you remember when gaga served from
falling out of the sky oh god i couldn't even see the wires she was flying in do you know she
does nothing but evolve and that's why i just love her you know like it's just like some people
she's like the anti-niche you know what i mean speaking as a monster as a as an actual legitimate
monster as a little monster yeah as one of the little monsters as an a real monster i have to
stand i thought i'm the first to but i thought she was just a meat dress but now i'm pleased to meet
the different dresses she wears all the time because she is always changing and evolving
i am officially a monster in law.
And the bravery to talk about love,
but not just any kind of love,
love that is actually very stupid.
It's something that nobody has ever been able to do before.
And I'm pleased to meet the song Stupid Love.
Hello.
And I'd be really excited to meet the song Stupid Indifference,
the credit song for Must Indifference Dogs.
I wonder what the song is going to be about.
It's a long intro, yeah.
Well, we're loving it.
We're just loving it.
What is this feeling?
I have no sense.
It isn't love or hate.
It's indifference.
It's a feeling that's not a feeling at all.
It's when I want to have a feeling, but I answer no call. It's like I'm a dog, but I'm not a dog.
I don't exist, what is this?
It's indifference.
Sitting in my house, looking at my phone.
Not feeling anything strongly at all.
I spend most of my life in a state of indifference. It's not so bad, I just eat food
and go to sleep. Now I'm at the mall doing the Super Bowl and I don't feel very strongly about it at all
Crazy when you think about songs
To me they're all way too long
They talk about love, hate, anger, fear and mistrust
All these things that I simply must tell you I don't get I'm indifferent I don't feel a
thing I don't believe in anything I'm bored and I fall asleep and I kind of like snacks but I
wouldn't say like I'd say I eat them and I just don't care. It's time to talk about football at the mall
without any passion at all. Okay. I watch the football game with my friends, except they're
not really my friends. They're humans. I know a bit. And when we watch the football, we don't cheer.
We make a medium sound with our mouths.
As if to say, you kicked the football in the kickoff.
And when you catch the ball, I think that you caught the ball.
But that is all I think that you caught the ball, but that is all I think.
Look, look who's coming out of the sky.
It's actor Sean Bean.
Sean Bean?
Sean Bean?
Please call me Ned Stark.
When my head got chopped off, I didn't care.
Oh, oh, oh, and when he died as Boromir, he didn't care.
And when all of his children saw him get his head chopped off in Game of Thrones,
they thought we could set in motion
A series of vengeance events
Or we could not
Or we could not
Or we could be indifferent
What is football
But an indifferent game of thrones
whoa
this is like about stakes you know really true it kind of zooms out that actually
really really true because i'd never looked at football for what it truly was an indifferent
game of thrones yeah and it's fun because it's like a dip it's it's it's different but it's an Because I'd never looked at football for what it truly was, an indifferent Game of Thrones.
And it's fun because it's different, but it's an indifferent.
And I think that's important.
So I've noticed Zach Heineken hasn't been rapping at all,
which I think just based on our last year's Super Bowl,
or maybe it was two years ago. I don't remember.
Could have been three.
2020 is so long.
2020 has gone on forever. So long.
Jessica, could you say your thing that you said about 2020 again?
It's so long.
Thanks.
Honestly, the period from like 1994 until now has been taking forever.
It's been so long.
And I'd throw 1993 in there.
That was...
That took so long, too.
You would.
Feels like my whole life.
The thing about rap
is that it doesn't traditionally
come over a solo guitar.
Not to say that it couldn't.
It just doesn't traditionally.
No, I know, I know.
But I'm just saying, Zach Heineken, there's certain expectations when you hear he's doing the Super Bowl halftime. that it not to say that it couldn't it just doesn't traditionally no i know i know but i'm
just saying zach heineken there's oh here we go when you hear he's doing a super bowl halftime show
okay so let's say that those were the first two songs in the super bowl halftime show
right we've had uh sean beam has come down from the ceiling he's still here he's still here and
then the sort of yeah super bowl selfie i guess something we should
talk about and maybe we haven't talked about like we haven't done the we haven't gotten all the fun
and funny commercials okay we didn't talk about the fun and funny commercials so maybe that's
maybe that's part of it right because we're not going to get to have the commercials
um well i guess because we don't we can't stop we have to have the commercials. Well, I guess because we don't, we can't stop.
We have to film the whole thing because of COVID
as quickly as possible.
So we have to do the commercials as part of the show, I think.
I feel like that tracks.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And the funny commercials also will probably be addressing COVID
and the difficult time that our country and economy are in.
Almost certainly.
And also the new flavors of Doritos,
you get $100 if you're in that.
And you know what?
They're going to nail it totally.
Because I think sometimes we go like, this is worrisome.
I don't trust a brand.
Hard to walk a line.
How is Doritos going to sort of make me feel like they do have my back in this era of COVID-19?
You know, like we're all in this together.
Let's get together on a new flavor.
I'm like confident.
I'm confident that they can do it. I don't think i mean it's a tricky wire but i think it can be done
yeah absolutely okay then well we should i guess tell people what the different commercials are
in the song yeah
what happened to that where's the beat go brett Where did the beat go, Brett? Where did the beat go?
You don't like this beat?
Well, the whole sort of point was that we were setting up a rap song. Can you rap over that?
What are you doing over there?
I do love it.
Let's start there, and you drop the beat whenever you're ready, okay?
Yeah.
Let's start with your little guitar, because that's Jess's vibe.
She's got you there.
I have a beat i think ready
yeah yeah play it whenever you want but clearly your truth is to start with the tiny guitar so
like do that hey so this is the this is where the commercial starts right listen i think we're all
on the same page this has been a lot but you know who's always been there to help you?
Brands. And those brands, well, they're ready to talk to you right now. Brands of homeware,
brands of home goods, brands of snacks that you should buy with drinks that
Are beers and mountain dews for you
What would one of those beers be?
Well, I think it's plain to see
What's the beer that makes you
Feel like you're in
It's a beautiful German
Heineken
Actually it's Dutch
It's fun to make mistakes
And then say oopsie
What's up America
It's your boy Zach Heineken
Thank you for that flow of transition
From tiny guitar to beat
Pump that up a little bit, Brett
I can't hear it very well
Here we go
I got something to save the day
I wanna talk to you about the folks at Frito-Lay
Okay, you know they got your back
We're here for you and COVID and delicious snacks.
We got Doritos and they're flavored blasted.
How long has this pandemic lasted?
It's gonna be fine.
We're gonna be okay.
From all of your friends at Frito-Lay, we got Sun Chips.
We got your back.
Cheetos, we're here for you.
Lays, we're like family.
Ruffles, we're basically your mom.
Rolls Gold, yep, same company.
Smart Food, same big company.
Stacy's Pita Chips, same big company.
And all of us are here to give a great big hug to thee.
Yeah.
Heineken, put it in your mouth, let the flavors begin.
Bubbles, Doritos too, all of this flavor's right for you.
Mmm.
And it tastes so good.
But also, it feels so good to feel like you got family here.
Just another family beer.
Yo, let me get that mic for a second.
Here you go.
Let me kiss it for you to make sure you get herd immunity.
Mwah.
Mmm.
Thanks.
Well, it's your boy Sean Bean, and I'm here to say
I always thought that these commercials were not cool.
But now I know that they are.
Now I know that I was a fool.
Yeah, I saw a commercial for a religion that I used to make fun of.
But now I'm a Scientologist, and yeah, I got to be in love.
I'm in love with Xenu. I'm in love with Xenu.
I'm in love with my alien god.
I'm sick of these deacons.
Man, I feel like a slob.
I used to think it was dumb to take these stress tests.
But now I am so goddamn stressed that, man, I have a mess test.
I test the mess underneath my bed when I throw up after I'm dead.
That's right, I got my head chopped off.
And then I went to take a drink from a trough where the pigs used to eat.
I'm a simple farm boy.
I won't do harm, boy.
I'm Sean Bean.
Scientologist.
Take a stress test.
Take a hashtag blast test.
Commercial actually makes sense for now.
Hi, it's me. I'm still Sean Bean.
When it comes to rap, I'm the queen.
I played Alex Reilly in GoldenEye, a movie that came out in 1995.
I betrayed my friend James Bond, but that's because I hadn't eaten Snickers.
And I wasn't feeling like myself.
I named myself after Bush's baked beans.
Just like Zach had to get my last name as a brand.
I should have named my last name Bush but instead i accidentally named it bean and that was too late to change my name should be pronounced sean bond or either that or seen bean it's all
the same but pronounced two different ways i'm sorry james bond yo hey up? Yo, it's me. Still on the mic.
It's still Sean Bean.
Yo, some special things for you.
You know, we're always receptive here at Mountain Dew.
Yeah, you know, your boy Sean Bean.
Special flavors just for quarantine.
We got Mountain Dew sourdough starter.
It's hard, but it only gets harder.
How about a DIY kit?
We put that in a flavor, it's the shit.
Code red? No way.
This is... What day?
It's Flavor What Day, that joke we all love.
That joke we can't get enough.
Oh yeah, it's Flavor Blur.
We got you, we got you girl.
What other flavors can Mountain Dew?
Well, submit, submit, a contest for you.
Write your favorite quarantine Mountain Dew flavors down and send them in to me, Sean Bean, your best friend.
Send them to my home address, SeanBean at PixYourMountainDewFlavors.com.
Sean Bean.
Okay, really, there we go.
Hi, I'm Sean Bean.
And those were the commercials, all from your best friend, Sean Bean.
I'm Sean Bean as well.
Commercials, all from your best friend, Sean Bean.
I'm Sean Bean as well.
Sean Bean, and I would like to talk to you about some of my favorite Budweiser Clydesdale horses.
Well, this one's Kyle.
Kyle is a very good horse.
He is strong, he is fast, he does what he's told. He is Kyle.
He'll ride you home.
He is American.
And he makes you feel proud to be American.
Here at Anheuser-Busch, we like this horse with a cute tush.
This is our favorite horse with the best horse butt.
And the cutest tail.
And they never fail to pull our beer carriage along
these two horses are brothers they're best friends with one another
Clyde and Dale isn't that funny ha ha ha one named Clyde the other named Dale together they are
Clyde and Dale it's kind of like Clydesdale.
These are my beer horses.
Hello, my name is Sean Bean.
I'm the queen of rhymes. A fact about
me is I've been married five times.
I was the star of the
movie Black Beauty. Black Beauty was
sort of a cutie, but Black Beauty
sucked compared to these horses. This
one named Ms. Richard after the star of Silicon Valley, my favorite show.
I am so sad it got canceled.
It started to go downhill when they fired TJ Miller.
I will die on this hill.
Oh, my God.
Anyway.
Wow, that.
We got to talk about Sean Bean
Being the special guest because
That is not a good opinion to have
He was the most famous person
That we could get to
Come to the mall
Sean Bean queen of rhymes
Sean Bean the queen of rhymes was the most famous musician we could get to come to the mall
And we were all really excited but we had a very
Long talk with him before
We started recording anything
where we said, hey, look,
you can mention Silicon Valley.
You can say it was your favorite show.
You can even say that you were sad that it got canceled.
But do not express the opinion in any of these songs
that the show went downhill when they fired TJ Miller.
I feel like we explicitly also asked for
him to say hey just and especially don't say i'm gonna die on this hill and then and then nothing
you know nothing more because now we're left with the sort of like there's no nuance to that opinion
we're gonna assume the worst people can't see but he just kind of stood there with his arms out as
if he was preparing to be crucified yeah it, it was bad. It was not cool.
No, it was not good.
And it was...
I asked him not to start a rap
at a speed that was too fast for him
to actually rap at
during his first rap.
You begged him.
And then keep tripling back.
And sort of abruptly changing the style
of the song. But I will say that one thing that he did do that I found useful was he would sort of abruptly changing the style of the song yeah but i will i will say that was one
thing that he did do that i found useful was like he would sort of remind us at uh at various
intervals that it was sean bean and that he was still singing the song that was really associated
with his opinions it helped it really helped it track and I liked that. I liked that. He also acquired various titles over the course of it.
Yeah.
He had Queen of Rhymes.
There were others.
Man, they all went by so fast.
What day is it?
Am I right?
What day is it?
2020.
More like 20 years.
Mountain Dew flavored after the joke.
What day is it?
That's a good idea.
What do is it? That's a good idea. You guys think we'll... What do you think?
What will football look like in the after?
After we can return to...
Once we've done it at the mall,
but now we're back at the stadium.
Sorry, I just want to highlight Brett.
You don't have to.
Sound expert.
Always experimenting with new sounds
like turning
his desk chair
he found a good one so it
thuds the mic
so he's like is this music like is this
he's always grooving
he has like a
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium but for sounds
For different sounds
I haven't seen that movie is that what that's about
No it's actually about the
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnass
That's what you're thinking of is the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnass
Not Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Both good titles
But only one is a great movie
Kevin titles, but only one is a great movie. Kevin, what's up? Hey, freaks. Sack of jazz. Don't
worry. That's not to you. That's my new thing. What do you say to us specifically? Good morning,
friends. All right. Oh, thanks. It's 1241, but okay. We'll edit that out.
Wow, great job, everyone.
This shit rocks.
Thanks.
Do we need to do any sort of closer credit song?
We'd like to thank them all.
Like a list of thank yous?
Yeah, for a football.
Yeah, we have to do the end of the Super Bowl closing thank you song. Credit's wrong. Yeah. For a football. Yeah. We have to do the end of the Super Bowl, like closing credits.
Wrong.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, we see all the names of the players scrolled on the screen.
Brett, can you play a sort of a thank you riff?
There we go.
We'd like to thank all of you for watching the football.
We'd like to thank everyone who played football.
Every bear who turned a tray on cue.
We'd like to thank the country that invented football.
Real football.
American football.
Which has now changed to be more like European football.
Which is now a sort of amalgamation of many sports.
Many sports.
Much like this beautiful country.
We'd like to thank all of our sponsors.
many sports. Much like this beautiful country.
We'd like to thank all of our sponsors.
Thank you if you gave us money. Thank
you if you're at a store at
this mall.
Thank you if you
are the bear who is
Thor. Thank
you most of all.
I would like to thank
Dan Marino
when it comes to rapping
I am the queen-o
yes that's right
it's me Sean
Bino and I wanna talk
about a show on
HBO
John get out!
I will
die on this hill.
How about a big
fat thank you?
A big honking
stinking ass thank you
to the noble
referees who did
the rules, who did the rules
Even though the rules kept changing
All throughout the game
Thank you all the same
We love you, referees
And we want to give you a hug and kiss
and we'd like to thank the
screen repair
kiosk
for supplying the referees
for taking time off
from fixing your shattered
iPod
nano screen
and thank you commentators who did great commentating from the Cinebond.
They helped us remember the changing rules and we're indifferent to who could applaud.
And we'd like to thank the Genius Bar at the Apple Store for making all of our chyrons.
We asked them if they wanted to participate.
They said, we'll make all of the chyrons.
I'll tell you what aren't commentators.
The potatoes they sell at the potato kiosk.
I've lived off them for 18 months.
They provide every nutrient as long as that nutrient is starved.
And now please stay tuned for a brand new sitcom airing next.
for a brand new sitcom airing next.
It's about the dark Lucifer and his angel friends.
You're gonna wanna set it on your DVR.
We know you're gonna fall in love with these new stars.
Oh, what a funny show.
What a funny show. What a ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Funny, funny, funny show
After that, the news
Please don't take a snooze
Stay up and watch the news
And they'll tell you
All about the game you saw
And whether the sitcom was funny.
It was.
And they'll tell you.
And they'll take an educated guess at the weather for tomorrow.
But don't be mad if it's wrong.
It's really hard to guess.
What a funny show we have done today What a funny show
What a funny
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
This show
We really are
We've got a funny show
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