My Brother, My Brother And Me - MBMBaM: The TV Show: The Commentary Track: The Second Episode

Episode Date: January 29, 2018

To celebrate the launch of My Brother, My Brother and Me on iTunes and Google Play in the U.S. The McElroy Brothers are so proud to present a commentary track for the 2nd episode, "Resumes and Jamiroquai's Dad." They'll also be joined by showrunner and director J.D. Amato. It's fun! Catch it!

Hello and welcome to my brother, my brother in the commentary track. I'm your oldest brother, Justin McIlroy. I'm your middle oldest brother, Travis McIlroy. I'm your sweet baby brother, Griffin McIlroy. And we're joined by a special guest, director and showrunner of My Brother, My Brother in Me, J.D. Amado. J.D. Walker. Steven Spielberg.

Hi, Steven. Steven. Hello, boys. It's me, Steven Spielberg. He always introduces himself. Hey, Steve, great work on all the movies. Thank you. I enjoyed My Brother, My Brother in Me.

Now I must return to my home planet. Goodbye. Goodbye, Steven. Steve. If you want to download the episode while we're chatting about this, we're going to be doing Resumeys and Jamir Khoi's Dad, which is the second episode of our television show about jobs. Before we get started.

Should we talk about the naming convention for the episodes? Because it's been well over a year at this point. Yeah, I don't remember. We just had to, we wanted to smush together two random things to make the title seem funny. I guess. So, mission accomplished. It was, the naming convention was, it was a word that represented the theme of the episode and a goof that we thought was funny.

And Jamir Khoi's Dad was the one we really wanted to, it was a fake one. It's a good goof. This might be my favorite episode, I think, pound for pound. Really? Yeah, because this was the one where I think like the idea of what the show was when we were planning it out, kind of, it kind of came together for me. And there's some gags in this one that were like primordial, primordial stuff, I feel like.

The opening gag was something that we had talked about well, well before we started recording. Now, that said, and JD, you correct me if I'm wrong, but I am fairly certain that this was actually the last episode that we decided to do. We actually took out a Bigfoot episode that we were thinking about doing because Travis thought, and rightfully so, that we didn't have really like many grounded episodes that were really sort of like related to real life at all. And so we went back and selected this question in its place.

Remember that correctly? Yeah. Yeah, we have the Clown Box episode and the Secret Society episode. And like after all that, I think we were like, we need something that is more real. I think the big thought was, one of the first ones you decided to do was the dorms and ghoul smashing where you guys were looking for ghosts. And we're like looking for ghosts, looking for Bigfoot is the same thing. They're both things that aren't real.

Apologies to people who believe in Bigfoot and ghosts, but. To the Huntington Ghost Hunter Society. I will also say that like this was really, and JD can probably address the first half of this better than I can because we were doing it, but it was tough at first for us to start shooting stuff. And a lot of the stuff you see in the first episode, dorms and ghoul smashing, I think we reshot because we were very obviously uncomfortable shooting. And this, the bit where we're getting different jobs is the first thing we filmed that felt

funny to me while we were filming it. So it's like an important sequence from that perspective. JD, just how bad were we when we started? You guys were so, so nervous. There was a moment, I think you've mentioned on the podcast where the first, the first time that we ever recorded, I started recording something, the first take where it was like, all right, sound speeding, cameras rolling, here we go. All right.

And boys, take it away. And you guys just sort of sat there quietly and looked at me like, what does, what do we do right now? Yeah, I don't know if that made the episode. It's definitely available somewhere. Is it like a deleted scene on Verve? If it's not in the episode, but the bit where we're like, you can't just say, go, like that was not actually a bit.

That was us like, oh, shit, like, what do we do? Yeah. And there's something process wise to get into the process of how we shot the show a little bit is, you know, there's stuff that as you watch an audience member, you're like, oh, you know, I know that that's like, quote unquote, fake. Like they're, they're all in on it. But for the most part, actually, there's nothing, even stuff that was stupid, that even stuff that we should have faked or just done like scripted takes of, almost everything was,

we didn't really know it was going to happen, or we threw you guys into a situation and saw how it unfolded. Like in this episode, in this episode, we have like phone calls where the people on the other end didn't even really know what was going on and situations where it probably would have gone smoother if we had explained it or explained it to you guys. And instead we just sort of take it piece by piece. This is not a lie. When I was told we were going to a place called Bow Love, I really thought it was like a hunting

like bow and arrow archery store until we got there. Yeah. And I got down and I was like, oh, OK, all right, let's get, let's get rolling. Before we get started, we do need to get started, but we should mention, because I think he's in this episode and I don't know how, like, I don't know how much people know about this, but Chief Chickarelli very recently passed away, which is, which sucks, it's a huge, huge bummer. And he was so great on the show and was a very nice and very patient dude with us.

And we should also say he had, he had been ill for quite a long time. In fact, to heighten what kind of assholes we are, this is a fun story that will help to soothe the burn of finding out about Chief Chickarelli's passing. We had a scene planned for Chief Chickarelli. We had actually more stuff planned to do with him than you see in the series. And we showed up to shoot and he wasn't there. And the three of us being hilarious just started doing some great riffing about, oh, I guess there must be some big crimes he had to stop.

We did not know. We had no idea. Until JD pulled us aside and informed us that he was in late, late stage cancer. And that is why he was not present, which I felt like an asshole in my life before, but ha chi ma chi. That was some level stuff. Well, I will say though, to that point, to then highlight how wonderful he is, like, he worked really hard and like insisted on showing up and doing the show because he

didn't want to let us down. And he was just a great dude. He's a great dude. I know it's a bummer. I know it's a bummer to like start out the commentary track like that. But I wanted to say something because he was he was a really nice guy and we're really sad that that, you know, he's he's gone. Yeah, something that I want to mention too is, you know, shooting in Huntington, one

of the things that stuck out was the amount that everybody really came together to help the show between the mayor in the mayor's office, all the businesses that we worked with, people on the street, the Huntington film and television community, and specifically Chief Chickarelli and the police department. They went above and beyond to help the show in so many ways. Number one, like you guys were just saying, he when we pitched the idea to them that he's in the show, his staff was so excited. He was on board.

He's not a guy that's comfortable being on camera doing comedy stuff, but he thought it was so fun that he wanted to try to make it work. And then on top of that, they heard all the stuff we were doing and like the safety town section that you're going to see, all the props were stuffed at apropos of nothing. They like without without us asking, they gathered all of these uniforms and props and things like that. And we're like, hey, you guys should use this stuff. They helped with permits and they gave us in the tranches episode, they gave us like

a whole police processional. Yeah. They said we might send a couple of cars over and they sent like 14 cars and bikes. It was it was so good. OK. But yeah, anyway, Chief Chickarelli was the nicest guy and him and his team really went above and beyond to make the show work. So we're going to start the episode.

Some of you, if you're watching a verve without ads, which I would recommend, I mean, you'll have to pause it if you if ads come up on verb, if you're not watching it with like a premium account, I don't know if on verb, it has the CISO logo at the beginning. So on iTunes, it does. So what I'm going to do is here in a second, I'm going to say now, and then I want you to pause it and then press play again when you when the CISO logo disappears. So that way everybody will be in sync, if that makes sense to y'all. Does that make sense?

Yeah. OK. You're going to give us a countdown so we can sync it up. Yes. Wait. You don't have to worry about anything. This is instructions for people watching at home. The four of us are going to do something different.

But if you're watching at home and listening here in a second, I'm going to say now I don't want you to pause it. OK. Three. And I'm going to be shouting the word now. JD. Don't do anything. You're fine.

Three. Two. One. Now. OK. So this is episode two. Of my brother, my brother name. Man, it makes me so happy to see this.

So the Pepsi shirt was, most of our cold opens were, I think every other cold open was pretty raw. But the Pepsi shirt was like, I can, I said, but while we were playing in the show, I'll buy a Pepsi shirt because JD was telling us how they have to Greek everything. Now, how did you settle on, how did you settle on two different Simpson shirts? I thought it was very funny and I'm a born comedian, natural born comedian. We should talk about the fact that there was like a running gag. And I don't know if it really worked in the show of us thinking we couldn't even say the

names of brands or living human beings or reference like song titles or anything. It never really makes the show and it actually confuses things every now and then because you guys, the whole joke was you would take the long way to describe a brand or something. And I don't think it's ever described that that's what you're doing. You're trying to avoid saying a proper name. Hey, dad. We, there's daddy. Hey, daddy.

We need to try to force JD to cut by starting to shout brand names because we thought that would work. Yeah. Yeah. And it was very fun. It was like the kind of thing that while we were making the show, it tickled us like a lot, but out of context makes no sense whatsoever. Well, it's also, it's that, it's that thing of like we were very tickled with the novelty

of doing a TV show. But if you're watching a TV show, that's not really that funny to you because you've watched lots of TV shows. A fun little factoid is that the legal department almost made, made us blur Travis's tattoo in that horse shot. Oh, really? Oh, because of the Triforce. And I had to go like, no, we're not blurring Travis's physical tattoo that's put on his

body. Yeah, that would raise way more questions. I know. That's what I said. I was like, people are going to think it's like a swastika or something. Or Justin also has a super dirty. Justin also has that they might be Giants tattoo, which would probably be. Yeah.

I didn't bring that up when that was mentioned. This is why I love this opening because like, I don't know, it kind of sort of fits in with the theme of the episode, but was also just like a weird bit to do. And Griffin went on for so long. I went on. I was so disappointed that pornography for birds was the only thing that made the cut because we literally did this for 20 minutes. I guess that's not a good question for JD.

How do you sort between the gold? I mean, that's the thing is there is every bit that we did was like 30 to 45 minutes of footage. And our first edits, if you guys remember, were like each episode. It was an hour plus. And we were all like, yep, perfect. And then funny. CISO was like, uh, how about we make them like a quarter as long and I really had to

fight for the. And we can talk. We can dunk on CISO now that they're dead. Like they didn't need to be who would have been upset by our long episodes. Like there's just no reason to be upset like it's just, it says, I mean, maybe it wouldn't have been as funny. I don't know. But it's an hour.

Like they didn't have they wanted us to keep it to 22 minutes, which is the length of a half hour of entertainment with commercials removed on network television, which is just wild to me. Yeah. Thank you CISO. Thank you CISO. Thank you CISO for letting us make a show. We should mention that there's also a deleted scene, I think, on VRV of another one of these

ideas, which was a new cool toilet and then Travis says with flames on it. And I think it's such a good idea that we trade seats and then repeat the bit literally word for word again and trade seats again that I think is fucking is very, very good. Little tiny reference that I watching captions for God, I said, but I sometimes use the say moneys. We don't have this moneys and it's a reference to a like Stella, the Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, David Wayne, where Michael Showalter would often say, we don't have this moneys and it was always so funny.

So that's a joke that Travis stole. That's a stolen joke. That's called an homage. It's called a reference. A theft or theft. JD, do you want to talk about the look of the show since we're kind of looking at the HQ sort of visual touchdowns that you were? Yeah.

And it's actually interesting that you bring it up now because we ended up shooting this in what was formerly the rights department store right in the middle of downtown Huntington. But Travis just told the story about the kennel and we actually almost shot in the kennel as our location. It was a giant, big concrete location and it was not good, but I will admit a weakness of my own is that the only reason we really even almost considered it was because I was so mad. As we're checking it out, there was a particular member of our team who was so adamantly against

it and they're being very vocal about it in the moment. And I was like, we need to take it in and look at all options to the point where I was like, well, maybe we want to shoot here actually. Maybe we do want to shoot here. Didn't it still smell like wet dog? Yes, it smelled like wet dog. Your man Jay is here to tell you it smelled like wet dog. It would have been a disaster.

We would have been miserable and there was no air conditioning. I don't believe. Yeah, it would have been. It is called to Tommy was completely impromptu. Yes, Tommy knew that we might call him but did not know why or what or when. It's a good photo of him. He's such a powerful man. He is a giant.

He's a giant man. He has a big, powerful body. The intimidation of Tommy is only like half half joke here. I mean, it's you guys remember. He's like the nicest dude, but he is also a giant. It's so weird to me to see myself on the show because my beard, this is the longest my beard has ever and probably will ever be. Yeah.

And I decided to just leave it for, you know, the visual television show. I mean, it's also about 30 pounds since I filmed this, which is very distracting to me when I watch it. So that is the main reason I want to do another season. I have literally no gray hair in this, which is pretty wild to me because I am quickly becoming a silver fox. My hair looks great though. Yeah, no, it looks good.

I said to my nails. I don't know if I said it in the first one that's about Sally Hansen. Wine not is the red and dark humor is the blue. JD, visual aesthetics. We're going to talk about that for a visual look. I wanted it to feel like the like craft room or the like workshop in a theoretical childhood home of you guys that was littered with ephemera, both from your childhood and from the show.

So everything in the background is either a reference to the podcast or it's an actual thing from your guys lives, like the trophies, the photos. Those are all actual trophies and photos of your guys. And I remember talking in terms of like art design a lot about the thing that got me excited. It was like, you mentioned like Wes Anderson and Peewee's Playhouse. Yeah. Oh, yep.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. This bit right here, by the way, this is all completely legit. We did not let Griffin see the jacket we had pulled for him before. Yeah, or told me that you were doing this. I think we also came up with a bit while we were in the dressing room. Yeah, that it would be. And mine is just a tie with my sleeves down instead of up. Yeah.

And Griffin didn't even know that that where this bit was leading as well, which is really fun. Again, we were very vulnerable while we were shooting these early episodes and to not be included on the bit was a real fun treat for me. I think it's fun that Travis's idea of a business look is fucking cocaine, Sicario. Oh, I love the knitted adventure zone figures in the background. Griffin was miserable also because he realized he'd have to be wearing

this very thick jacket that we borrowed from the theater department in Marshall for the rest of the episode. And it was not comfortable from what I remember you complaining about. No, it was like wool. I think it was like it felt like a carpet bag. All right. So we got most. We got comfortable because this bit was coming up

and I knew we'd have to talk to real people out in the world, which is not our strong suit ever while shooting the show. And I was embarrassed, like straight up embarrassed to be dressed like this. This was just because we literally when we asked these people, like, what do you want us to do? They legit like said, well, you do this and you do this and like had us really doing things. It was great.

Everybody was super fun. Yeah, this this wasn't like days of producing either. It was that same day we had producers walk down the street in Huntington and approach businesses and go, hey, do you guys need some some jerks to work for you for a couple of hours? OK, I real quick, I want to talk about sweeping because it is not. It's one of those bits that seemed like it worked in the moment. But I swear of this.

All right, I'm funny. I sweep in all the locations. And the reason I'm not in Bo Love was the joke was she told me I could I should sweep right at the beginning and I left. And that's why I'm not in the Bo Love scene is because we had a running thing about me always being assigned sweeper. I don't think it really could be on telling us about how handsome and cool her husband was. Oh, this was when Travis is getting the money.

An actual person start was actually checking out and Travis didn't know how to do it. And it became this stressful moment. There was no one there. No one was watching me. And I was just like trying to I didn't know how the register worked or anything. So I just like ran away. I also don't think I'm legally allowed to serve alcohol.

A lot of times when we leave scenes in the show, it seems like we do it for comedic effect, but it does happen because we get so uncomfortable that we have to actually vacate the scene. Flee the premises. I see this is one of our earliest bits that we had planned for this episode. We were like, this is why we want to do. This was the thing that I feel like sold the show was like us sort of talking up like, oh, we're we know everybody in Huntington and they would let us become

the mayor for an episode. Wouldn't that be fun? God, this is also one of my favorite scenes to shoot. This and the tarantula parade scene with Mayor Steve were my favorite because like he just looked at us and said, no. And I was like, oh, how much how much did you sort of coach Mayor Steve before each scene, JD? Zero. I would zero.

I would maybe tell him they're going to ask something stupid. I think the only direction I gave him is like, I was like, don't lie. Just be yourself. Act as if like I was like. Treat these as if regular people came in and were asking these things. And he's like, got it, I'm going to treat them no differently than anyone else. It was so good because there's a version of this where he says yes and and it's very like it's very like I worried that we were going to be ripping on Portlandia when we were doing this.

And it was it's so the opposite of that because he is very not into a lot of our. It's an interesting point that you mentioned yes anding. And like it it is act. It's weird because that is normally how improv works. And we actively wanted people to know. But well, that's the thing is like yes. And doesn't always mean saying the words yes and because the bit here is we are asking to do something ridiculous.

So the yes and is I'm acknowledging the thing that you want to do is ridiculous and not just say yes to it. JD is the only professionally trained improv comedian here. Maybe you can address address this topic that we're blooming about. Well, I think what works about it is that you guys are yesing everything. So even if they say no, even if they deny things, you guys accept that and change your path, which is what makes it fun, is that you guys are you guys are down for whatever happens.

Also, I love the pen is one of my favorite details. And we brought the pen, I think that's not Steve's pen. Is it? No, you guys brought it because it felt like quote unquote official. Mayor Steve, too. Like he like almost every time like we are finished, you break a little bit. He was just so good at like straight facing. This moment is so funny, this line he has. There's so much there's so much of people talk about our dad.

I should mention I should mention this the last one. But the first day of shooting, I bought new shrink to fit jeans and I put them on a wet because I heard that's what you're supposed to do. So I remember that wet jeans. I'd wet shrink to fit jeans. I remember you claiming that was how that worked. These sections, I will say, are some of my favorite, but they were. I think we always ended up shooting like an hour's worth of stuff

and we would get exhausted because those rooms were tiny and hot. Yeah, but I think we prolonged it because we were all sitting. So that was dead. Yes. This may be I think maybe the first two or maybe even the first one was the only time we knew what we were going to talk to dad about when we sat down and a lot of us just like here's what we're doing that and then we'd spiral into weirdness. Yeah, this is this is probably the hardest I laughed while recording the whole show.

You'll notice every camera is shaking once the bit starts, and that's because all of our camera operators are like crying, laughing because this was not again, this was not like a bit that was planned. You just didn't really was having trouble. I was worried. I didn't know if this one would would work in context because there's a lot of stuff that just felt when we were filming it like being a dipshit like it.

Yeah. And it just sort of it worked later in hindsight, but. Yeah, I work. I worked so long with the graphics person to explain to get this graphically working so you could keep up with it as a viewer. Well, yeah, that shaky cam. We really got him with this. I think this and when Travis got a hold of the Knights Templar. I remember I remember the camera crew was getting like

Alex was getting like angry because the cameras were shaking very much during the night. Templar bit. Well, that was getting mad at Alex for laughing. Yeah. Yeah. Seth is our DP and Alex when our camera operators and. All kinds of fun for making this look really. It's a very good looking program, which I can say because I had no part in that.

But. Oh, yeah. And it looks great considering that we were just shooting everything on the fly. Oh. I don't know what that gesture is. That's a wrap. Jack Black. I did a good joke. Oh, this is my favorite. One of my favorite jokes in the series is the one that Chief Chikarelli delivers.

Here, when asked about the fitness tests. Uh-huh. That's a good one. Did it did a bit make it where I was very nervous in the lobby because I was afraid I was accidentally going to do a crime. I don't in this cut. It was I don't think it makes it this. Yeah, I think it's in the outtakes that are on VRV, though.

Making a show is really weird because we watched probably four different versions of each episode before we got the final one. So I remember being like super nervous when we got the like the DVD with all the episodes on it before the thing was out. Because I was like, I was I was like kind of scared to find out what was going to be the next. I remember there was one episode. I think it was teens that we watched the first cut and all of us were just like,

yeah, it doesn't work. And that was very and I think it turned into something very, very funny. But I felt so confident while we were making the show. But then when things started to get like more real, like it gets it gets kind of scary in a way that's kind of hard to explain. Well, and for every episode, we had something like 20 to 30 hours of footage. And so our editors, Vince Veller, Mike Choi, Greg Beck, Amber Frigga, like the amount of work they did to whittle these episodes down.

It was an amazing show. Would you say that that shot that intro to the bit was like the most West Anderson in the whole that it was deeply West Anderson. Also, I was very cognizant of the fact afterwards that I had referenced Wild Boys, which I feel like is a show that is kind of shot in a similar style and is a different show that already exists. But it was weird. I don't think I don't think they suit us on getting. So the two fellows that are with me in this, my Beagle boys are like

my two Huntington best friends. Like it was the most like, hey, you guys come out and I just love that shot. So how much how concerned were you? Oh, why is it in the captions? It says Doug Berg. It's Doug Berg. How concerned were you, JD, that this would not work when we started? Because we had very little direction by which I mean, no, you basically told us to go out and fucking LARP.

I mean, it was insane because we what we ended up doing is we assigned one camera to each of you and then our audio person was mixing three different things at once. And you can physically see me sprinting from person to person throughout it in the background, because you guys were basically doing three different bits that didn't necessarily overlap. And my hope was that comedically they would just crash into each other, which they sort of did. But it was the it was the most that I was like, how beautiful is my wife?

See what this is there. It's nuts. It's nuts the way we did this. Michael had the Constitution, by the way, it doesn't get highlighted, but that Constitution is just as just in rules that I signed it. There's Jason. JDE. That's one of my favorite bits. I like that. I have a computer because he was going to do it for Chad Dennington,

but that didn't get in. Because here what's happening is a different camera operator is falling around each of you and our audio guy is just in the middle trying to listen to mix every single one because there's only one audio guy for at this point, 12 people doing three different things. Steve Oh, who, by the way, J.D. came down when we were filming that other thing, just to say hi. Oh, that's so nice.

He was really cool. He was one of the quote unquote locals, and he was one of the best sound guys ever worked with my life. He was so professional, so good, so on top of things. The hand prints that you can see on me and Brad Berry and Bob, literally we had our makeup person whose name is escaping me. Who was our costume and make call? Yes, like painted blue makeup on my hand.

And then I just like slapped on them as hard as I could and then did it to myself. I want to point out. Go ahead. Oh, no. And we just ended up with this weird highlander look that I really enjoyed or not. I want to point out Braveheart that what unfolds here is legit where they gave us very few rules. There's me running in the background to see what's going on.

And immediately you guys started breaking every rule and it became chaotic to a point that was like, oh, no, what's going on? I will say, though, none of the rules were communicated to us. Had no idea. No, there's a scene where we steal batteries from Griffin. And what we don't see is a shot of Bob just eating it. He's running with it and falls down and like tucks and rolls with the battery and keeps running. Yeah, that's what got us kicked out.

And then a couple of this is what this is what got you guys kicked out this moment right here. And then a couple of days later found out Bob needed to have like emergency heart bypass surgery. He's doing great now. But so apparently those batteries are like worth a thousand dollars each. So there is an extended scene where I handcuffed the two of you together and make you talk about the toilet crime you did.

This is also was like an hour of real time. This is OK. So this is all real. And I will say there was some bad mood slime in the drive back to you after this because these rules were not communicated to us and we don't like not knowing rules are. So some bad vibes driving back to

there are also some producers that thought that we may be mistreated the safety town and they were not happy about it as well. But I thought it was great. It all turned out fine. No, it was good. Also, with the HQ, each of you technically had a section. It's not totally clear, but each of you have your own quote unquote desk where your personal affects are around.

We had a whole thing that never made it in where I had different designs on my like drafting table that represented each episode. I think you can see it in the opening zoom in. Yeah, it makes it in. It makes it in. This this is my favorite. This was a bit when we were talking about like what would be a promo for the show that I fought really hard for this one, because I think that this is the best example of like what we also do on the podcast, which is we like each take

a joke and play it completely out and then go. Now you do your joke. I I think I don't this one still doesn't work. I think Griffin's is very funny, but I don't like Minor Travis's. Really? Oh, I think it builds really well to Griffin's. Like, I think it works as a whole piece. I don't know that individually they stand out, but like I think the the reason it bothers me, the reason I feel like it doesn't work for me.

And I don't know if you're supposed to do this on commentary tricks or not, but I'll tell you what bothers me about it is the entire show is predicated on it being like at least half real. And what bothered me about this for my bit specifically is that like it's very like I it's a lot of cafe, like it's a lot of like pretending on my part that I would think this would be a good idea. And I think that that that's why it doesn't make it. I think the high tech resume of the future is a great idea.

This has become the like prevalent Griffin McRoy cosplay at conventions and stuff is me and the orange jacket wearing the the the thing. Also, the the, you know, GIF has gone viral in a way that is very strange for me. We should also talk about that we had such technical issues with getting this played. Took like 25 minutes to get that to work. Yes, because ultimately the way we did this in all these bits is each of you would come up with your own bit and not tell the others and then we'd unveil them

on camera. And so Griffin spent like maybe 25 minutes programming this into this very difficult to program LED sign, which I. I think works in the show. It really bothered me when we were doing it because like I don't think it was funniest Travis or Griffin. So like I was always really paranoid about doing my own bit without their sort of like consulting on it as we went. That sentiment had popped up a few times for all of us throughout the show.

Just and that that, I think, is representative of like how nervous we were to be making a TV show. Yeah, just real quick to jump in. I think the I love you was the hardest. I like legitimately laughed making the whole thing, just because it really caught me by surprise. But we did. I shot like a whole like Travis minutes or something where it was just me by myself doing something and the whole time in my head, I was just saying like,

this isn't funny. What I'm doing isn't. I am heartbroken that is not a deleted scene. Travis recapped the entirety of entourage. Do you remember this, JD? Yeah, it was obvious reasons. I think that one hit the cutting room floor. And I think it took like 15 straight minutes. Yeah, it was amazing. Of like high octane Travis just going beat by beat through what happened.

I love Tommy. I had a whole thing about feeling like Teen Wolf and like looking like Teen Wolf made me pretty happy. Tommy had some other bits that he brought in. I remember he had some crates that were labeled G that he said were the G files, which are all the things that Griffin had done bad, which I thought was kind of his bit where Travis walks in and he offers him a beer as a test. It's like it's very, very good. And it got me because I've been over to Tommy's house so many times

and except a beer from Tommy. By the way, the basketball that I have, I did a bit. He told me he loves basketball. So I like playing basketball. So I think I was going to I was going to do like I can play basketball. I think that's funny. There's so many remnants in this show of bits that was never explained to the audience. Oh, man. I was I during Griffin's whole bit with Tommy,

everybody was like behind the monitor down the hallway. Yeah, just like, especially when Dwight was in there and the whole writing the number on the piece of paper. Oh, God, that was so good. That's that's. Yeah, I love that. Tommy's response to my high tech resume of the future, by the way, also didn't make the show. But when it pops up, it says that I'm young, dumb and full of blank.

He did not have, I think, a favorable response. No. Well, that's the other thing, too. Is that like it's not like any of this stuff is scripted, even the Dwight like between Dwight, Tommy, like they don't know what's happening or even what the circumstance is. So it's not like we've set up this bit. Dwight's lab, ladies and gentlemen, who was when Dwight's manager, when Dwight's twirling, telling Griffin he's too many digits,

like that's just Dwight reacting in the moment. And it's so funny. This is right across the hallway from the Tri-Data Studios where you shoot things I bought at Sheets. You're too many digits. Yeah, Tri-Data Studios is right across. Tri-Data Studios is I don't think we actually see the room.

This is a conference room at Tri-Data. God, we worked for so long. We should have a half hour trying to figure out what an ending to this is. We did a fucking three stooges. Hello, hello, hello. Where we popped in our three heads. I would say that's probably the least successful bit that immediately hit the cutting room floor.

Yes. This to me was the least successful. I hate shooting in this fucking hot tub. This was so funny to me. This is this. This is actually the Smerl's house. Not not our daddies, but the Smerl's house is in Huntington, and daddy lives in Irton. So here's the amazing thing. So the the height of the edge of the hot tub

was just enough that all of our arms were falling asleep. Like we were all having huge nerve pain, which is why, especially with Justin's arm draped over mine, it was cutting off circulation, which is why the thing with Steve Ho coming over and taking off the mics is also like, please, please, please. Well, I was about to piss so bad I was going to die. And on you guys are, I think they're like three to four thousand dollar microphones.

And if they get wet, they're ruined. So we were like, do not move. Do not make waves or you will ruin these microphones, which is why you guys are all like completely still. It's a reference to episode 55 of My Brother, My Brother Me. We eat spaghetti in every one of these scenes is not super prominent, but there's always spaghetti is what we're always having at daddy's house. It always feels really weird to sit in a pool in non pool clothing.

Yes, it's very, very, very clean. Rolling trunks, I think, though, I will say that. Yes. We Griffin couldn't wear the jacket because it was borrowed. We didn't want to ruin it. That's why he's not wearing the jacket in the scene. And then you'll see Steve, the sound guy we were talking about earlier, he comes in here. Yeah, Steve, you also see in a deleted scene

or we're just eating ringpops. You're trying to irritate Steve funny. His reaction is all legit. So that's episode two. Yeah, that's the second one. We got it. Like next year, we'll have to do episode three. Yes, something like that.

Oh, God. I I big giant head. Bye, everybody. Bye. Thank you. Thanks, JD. There we go. Oh, wait, there's this. I think this is the last thing we shot.

Maybe shot this on candle. Yes, this was shot before candle nights. Changed into these outfits and. It also took so hot, so long to point all of your pictures that they weren't reflecting crew members. All right. So that's TV. That's TV, everybody. Thanks for listening.

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