The Always Sunny Podcast - The Gang Runs for Office

Episode Date: January 24, 2022

It's the dynamic, baby.

Testes, testes, one, two, three. It's, it's on the sun, it's nine o'clock. It's nine o'clock, it's nine a.m. It is nine a.m. isn't it? And that one, did we agree on a time today? Yeah, I believe we said nine a.m. Megan, did we say nine a.m.? We did say nine, and I'm here, I'm sitting in my chair.

Yeah, I've got a chair, I'm not denying my chair. Yeah, and yet, this chair is empty. Well, now this is the first edition of the video podcast. Yeah, isn't this exciting? This room is awful. Yeah, it's a little better and it's a little character-less. Although I'm noticing in your shot, Glenn, you see my giant belly.

That's kinda cool. Your giant belly. No, no, behind you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I thought you meant like the one that you're sporting now. No, no, no. Well, that's under the table. Flexing, flexing. No, is this, you know, I was thinking about that. Well, first of all, I wanna say that

one of the things I find very funny about this is like, we're no longer allowed to talk to each other. Right. Because every time I start to tell you something, you're like, save it for the podcast. Yeah. Save it for the podcast. Now, is that because we think we're that interesting? No, no, I think it's that we're afraid

we're gonna run out of things to talk about. Oh, yeah, no, you're absolutely right, right. So just anything, anything, just talk about anything. For example, Charlie not being here. A missing man. A missing man is actually very interesting. Yes. Now, I am concerned. I am concerned for how interesting the podcast

is gonna be without Charlie. If you think about the show itself, if we didn't have Charlie, now don't tell him this. Well, he already knows. No, no, he knows, but he, yeah, but that's the thing. He doesn't need to hear that because he's... He already knows it. It's a whole thing.

Charlie, the show doesn't really work. You know what I mean? Yeah. Probably wouldn't have gotten to season 15 without Charlie. Makes me think we should wait on the podcast, but no. No, no, no, this is the tradition. If you don't show up on time, you lose. Yeah. You lose.

So here we go. You snooze, you lose. Now, let's get into it, Rob. I'm seeing a cane. Glenn, I was... Is that a cane? Is that a... This is a cane, bro, Rob.

Qualifies a cane? Yep. Okay. Now, this is my first day off crutches. Uh-huh. And I got myself in a shoe instead of a boot. I tore some ligaments in my foot, but I was so adamant on being on time for this podcast. I was supposed to get a ride here

and I was supposed to get picked up. And the person who was driving me was coming from the same area of town that Charlie is. So I think there's some pretty bad traffic, but that's no excuse because traffic in LA, how novel? That's a given. Yeah. So he wasn't getting there on time.

I texted him, I said, where are you? Where are you? Where are you? I'll get there, I'll get there. I said, I can't risk being late for this podcast. And Charlie actually texted us and said, hey, I might be a little bit late. And you said that won't matter.

That won't matter. That won't matter. I said, this text won't matter. This text won't matter. But then after I sent it, I was still sitting in my driveway waiting for my ride. And then I thought, oh shit, now I've thrown a gauntlet down.

That's right. And now my foot, that's all fucked up is my right foot. That's right. It's your driving foot. My driving foot. Yeah. Well, I guess it is. I won't.

Yeah. So unless you... I hope. Well, unless you're driving on a bike, it's both, I guess, but... If you're driving what? If you drive a manual, then it's both feet. Is it on?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is right. Okay, so either way, your left foot is generally not your driving foot. Correct. That's your point. But I thought, I gotta, now I've thrown the gauntlet down.

I just gotta get in the car and go. Yeah. And so I did. And as I did, my ride was passing me. Like, literally we just passed each other. And I locked eyes with him and he knew. What a picture you guys like. Just the turn as you guys go down.

He was driving so fast that he almost hit me and like weaved out of the way. Okay, so basically what we're learning today is you didn't want to risk being late for the podcast so that the same thing that we're doing to Charlie right now wouldn't happen to you. Yes. But you were willing to risk your life

and Brian's life to get for on time. Yes. There was no way that I was gonna be late for this podcast. Yeah. Well. Here we are. This is the video portion. You know, it's, it is, it is like now,

it's like, when someone has been late and I haven't been late yet, which is crazy. That is crazy. Because I traditionally have, we used to be always be of all of us the latest. I know. But now we're six minutes in and we gotta start talking about the episode, I think.

Yeah. Unless you got some other shit to talk about. You know what I think we should talk about? What? Is this office? When this is the video, is this our set? This is a piece of shit. Yeah, we can't do this.

We can't do this. We're gonna step it up, guys. This is- What is this behind me? Well, there's Meg though. Everybody can see Meg. Yeah. Oh, no, she hid.

Oh, she hid. Come on, Megan. Well, she finally has a microphone, by the way. Oh, yes. I didn't see that before. Okay, that's good. Now, to be clear, listener. Is it on or off?

If everybody assumes that our goal in this podcast was to silence women by not giving them a microphone, you are sorely mistaken. We have been begging Meg to get on mic from day one. And all you can hear is her laughter in the background. Now, we feed off of her laughter. That's true. I might live for it at this point.

But now we can actually see, well, sort of she's sneaking behind the camera. Anyway, that's Meg. That's Meg again. Can I ask you a question? So, when I realized that we were filming this one, well, not when I realized it, but when I really thought about it,

the reality of it, I was like, oh, shit. Like, now I feel like worried about my hair. Yeah. You know, I gotta make sure I get enough sleep because we don't have like hair and makeup. You know what I mean? It's not like a TV show where you have hair and makeup, although maybe we should.

Well, we should consider it. We should consider it. By the way, people watch podcasts. Yeah, that's right. That's why we're doing this. Yeah, news to me. That's why we're doing this. Well, listener, watcher, we apologize for our faces.

Well, actually, sorry, I apologize for my face. Rob, maybe feels good about his face. I think the problem is for me, and we talked about this also in the podcast, is like, even though you guys don't see me this way, like, I feel like my eyes are, the thing is, is like, whenever I post anything on Instagram, right?

There's inevitably like a handful of people that are always like, whoa, you look stoned, man. And I'm like, no, God, that's just my face. That's just my eyes. Like, I just have tired looking eyes all the time. And people are like, oh, dude, you must be stoned all the time. And I'm not.

I'm not. That's just how my eyes look. Well, I'm looking at you now, and I'm not too bad. No, they're not too bad. I can see what you're, yeah, I guess, but I wouldn't have thought. Oh!

Oh! Oh, there he is. Oh, there he is. Oh, okay. There he is. Well, well, well. Oh. This is how I control.

Oh, well, well. I'm out of control. He just sort of strolls in whenever he feels like it. Ooh! So we have an hour from my kid's school to get here. Yeah. Unreasonable. Unreasonable!

It's not. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Take a good look around this office, this is the last time I'm in. We'll find a new spot. That's fair.

We'll find a new spot. That's fair. We'll find a new spot. Do you want to express your feelings right now on the podcast? Yeah. On camera. It's not so much about the traffic that I'm upset with.

It's knowing the joy that you guys are going to get out of beating me here. We told the first video portion of the podcast there was an empty chair just sitting there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of great though. Yeah, yeah, sure. It's kind of great.

No, but we're the same way. Both of us risked our lives to get here on time today. Basically, like, I didn't, Rob was talking about how, you know, Brian was supposed to pick him up and because of his ankle, he's not supposed to be driving on that thing. I have torn ligaments with my friend.

But Brian was run late, so he took a risk and decided to drive with a busted ankle. Well, now we're rehashing stories that the audience has already heard. By the way, speaking of rehashing stories, probably pretty boring stories without me here, right? I'm magically boring talking about your ankle. We're definitely better with you.

We discussed that. We did discuss that. We discussed that. We discussed that. It wasn't going to be as good without you. Yeah, well. And we also discussed not saying it to you because you would react that way.

Exactly. We did it anyway. No, what we said was, well, he knows about it already, so we don't need to rehash it. And then he brought it up himself. Well, I would do the same about either one of you. It's not just a me thing.

It's the chemistry of the three of us. It's the dynamic, baby. But I was driving over here being like, if I quit, if I quit the podcast, you know, if they were like, no, we're working in this office no matter what. Yeah. We keep going.

You'd still have to pay me. You would. Yeah, it'd be a whole sticky legal thing for you. It would just be more sense to just pay me. And it wouldn't be as much fun. It would not be as much fun. It definitely wouldn't be as much fun. It's a jiggly ass chair.

Yeah, pretty jiggly. If this is, this is a janky office and it's a janky part of town. Rob, Apple has money. Get a good office. We're in the mythic quest offices right now. And again, I think that this is, maybe this is interesting for the viewer now

and also the listener that people think that like production offices or writer's offices are nice and they're not their pieces of shit. Some of them are. Yeah. Some of them are. You know, like the long running shows, the super long running shows,

like it's always sunny in Philadelphia, usually have like a set office that's like super decorated and stuff like that. We never do that. We just go from office to office. And it usually looks like this. But I feel like it's appropriate for the writing of our show.

Yes. But I do enjoy like, for example, somebody at one point had this wall painted, right? Yeah. And then each production came, it was probably some company that, you know, did marketing or something. Why did they do that?

What was the inspiration behind that? That's awful. It was probably like a candle company or something. Don't you think? Like her insights or something. Can I just bring something up also like speak? Cause you were talking about rehashing old stories. Now I've gotten some feedback from a few people,

from a lot of people on my socials and then very specific feedback from Heath Cullen's wife, Emma, who also has a podcast and is a very intelligent woman. Rob, her one note was. Well, it's for me. She said, well, it was, it was, you know, you guys.

Don't eat the microphone. You guys know it was. He got rid of the pop card. He's going to, he's going to. He's definitely going to suck it at some point. He's going to gag on that thing. He's going to gag. I love the cameras.

I know it's good for the podcast. I know. I know. I don't either. It makes you a little more self-conscious. We'll forget. We'll forget like they're exposed. Maybe we'll get used to it.

Is there a three shot, Meg? Oh, there is a three shot. Yeah, probably. Anyway, Emma's note was. Sorry, Emma's note was, you know, every time we go to tell a story that Rob has heard, he points out, I've heard this story. Yes.

And what we haven't put in the podcast is our response to that, which is these stories aren't for you, Rob. No. They're for the listener who's never heard the fucking stories. Okay, Emma. Yeah, but. Okay, Emma.

Let me point something out to you. And she's like, why is Rob constantly. Because it's hilarious that we don't remember them. That's the point of it. Which is totally true to me. It's not. By the way, there was an email this morning that you remembered, God bless your brain, man.

I want a little bit of whatever you got going on there. That shit drove me crazy when I read that last night. Well, there was an email from our manager about someone who wanted to write something about the show. And he was like, does this person have permission to legally write this? I think it was a book. Because FX wants to ask them about it.

Because that's the email sentence. FX wants to go and ask them. And I saw the email, read the link. I was like, I never heard of this thing. You felt the same way. And Rob's like, you guys, not only have you all heard it, there was an email about it before. And once you said that, you were absolutely right, man.

Did you go back? I don't know if you guys went back and look for it. But I saw that change. I didn't care. I said, Robert, whatever. That means it's a fact. The point is this. The point is this.

I recognize that the stories are for the listener. But the way that you're telling, oftentimes, you're telling the story. Yes, because we know how to present a story. And the story is like, oh, you guys, I got to tell you this, right? Not like, I don't remember. You guys already know this.

You guys already know this. Let me tell you. I have no recollection. We're talking to each other. We're talking to each other in the podcast. You fucking. I recognize that. The thing that I find amazing is that you

are hearing it for the first time in the moment. You know what an actor does? He pretends that he's hearing something for the first time. This is real life. And you think this isn't a performance? Part of the body. Listening back to them. Sometimes it is a performance for you.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's real life. And sometimes it's here on the mark. If that camera's rolling and that mic is hot, I'm performing. OK, just know this. The thing I don't like about the camera is I feel like Spielberg is going to be too shy to pop in because of the cameras.

Some of our cars aren't going to call in. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. We can always cut to black when he walks in. Yeah. He doesn't feel comfortable being recorded. Is that true?

He loves being behind the camera. Yeah, clearly. So if he walks in, we cut to black. Right, we hear his voice. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I definitely don't want to lose him because he works around here and he likes swinging by every once in a while.

And I definitely don't want him to feel uncomfortable swinging by because he's Steven Spielberg. You want to have him on the show. Yeah. It's amazing. Yes, he wants to come on the show, but we got to make sure the door's open. Same thing with Brad Pitt.

You know what I mean? He's going to walk into the podcast because he has an open invitation to join the pod anytime he wants. And we don't want him feeling like, oh, I'm not in full hair and makeup. I haven't frosted my tips or whatever he's doing with his hair this week.

By the way, can we talk about this? Why is it I can see pictures of Brad Pitt with super short hair? And then the next week, he can have long hair in a ponytail. It might be. Pictures can be taken at different times. Yeah, there's a thing about pictures. No, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I brought this up once. No, I saw his picture. Is he holding a newspaper up with the date on it? Buddy, buddy, how long do you think it would take you to grow your hair to the point where you could have a real ponytail? Not a little nubbin, but an actual ponytail.

Am I Brad Pitt? 35 minutes. Is this scenario you are? That guy can do anything. Yeah. You're saying Brad Pitt is so awesome that he can grow his hair at a rate. Has he ever let you down?

If anyone could. If anyone could. Come on. Brad Pitt. Well, I don't know if I should tell this. Are those pictures from a movie? Like, maybe one is him out at lunch, and then he's doing a movie where he has long hair,

so they have an extension in, or whatever. Like, you don't know about these photos. Somebody told me once that he was on a red carpet with Brad Pitt where he had a ponytail, and the ponytail fell off. Look at that. That's a lie. This was somebody who was actually there.

Brad down a peg, and I won't have it. It's like it takes his hat off. It's got the roster dreads. Soaked into the back. Come on. Turn that around. You're the one asking about, there you go. We're on camera now.

What is that? It's just coffee. It's cold brew. I like cold brew. It looks green. It looks green. Does it look green? Hold it up to the camera.

You know what? God, you guys, my kids sometimes use these glasses, and they put their paints in it and stuff. Oh, shit. That's very un-you. That's the what? Do you think that might be it? Well, it's green.

Well, we wash them. We wash them. Kids safe? Paints? You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. It's just interesting.

Live on the edge for once. Your character drinks paint all the time. Yeah. But that's a character. And it's not really paint. And he'd be dead if he were a real person. I don't know. Should we talk about the episode the gang runs for office?

I'm excited Charlie's here. I think the podcast is better with Charlie. I think it's fine that he's here. I think it's fine. I'd say it's definitely better. Are you? Thanks. I love you.

I love you. Now, you definitely flinched. You did not like that. Yeah, I didn't want you to do that. Because it wasn't like it was passive aggressive. No, that's fine. Yes, it was. It was a bit.

That wasn't a genuine. It was a combination. It was a combination. Your arm, he doesn't like to be touched. He doesn't. He does not like to be touched. I don't trust people. OK.

OK, all right. Where are you going to get into that? Where's that hand going to go? Where's that hand going? You want to try and give me a noogie? Oh, no. Good luck, man. Good luck, bro.

Good luck, dude. I don't want to take that shit anymore. Go ahead and try. Got that, got that, got that, got that, got that. Now, can we talk about the episode or do you want to? Well, yes. You want to keep stalling. Should we do it?

Yeah, can I admit something to you? Oh, god. Yeah, go ahead and watch it. I don't want to make this about me. But I, so here's the thing. You forgot to watch it. No, I didn't forget. I didn't forget.

And I'm going to take full responsibility, because I thought maybe I could just lie and just pretend and just go along with it. But then I thought, man, I gave Charlie so much shit for being late. And I knew I was going to. And we did. And now I feel really guilty.

And I'm just going to be dead honest with you. I didn't watch the episode. And it's not because I didn't want to, but I have a million reasons. It's not even that you didn't. But they're just going to sound like excuses. It kind of blows this whole thing, man. Like, why did I drive through an hour of traffic

if to talk about, you know, I guess we'll talk about other stuff? Or maybe Glenn and I can refresh your memory. You have perfect memory anyway. I don't really remember every aspect of it anyway. Well, listen, why don't we call Emma? Why don't we have Emma come talk to us? Maybe she could give me some notes on how I should approach the podcast.

Well, what she doesn't want you doing is like when somebody starts to tell an interesting story, basically shutting them down. Yes, and you're saying, yes, and not, not, no. Why? You know, the old improv thing is, yeah, it's yes and not. No, why are you? Not, not on our show.

Our show is not a yes and show. It's a no fuck you. That is true. Yeah. Well, I actually remember Charlie very early on, maybe season one. I've never taken an improv class that I remember like trying to keep up with the improv.

And for some reason, my instinct would be like season one. Charlie would say something really funny. And I'd be like, no, you didn't really do that or no, that didn't really happen or whatever. And I remember you pulling me aside and being like, hey, man, just like FYI, like you kind of got to go with it. Because if you say no, then like the scene stops. Right.

I was like, oh, fuck, he's right again. Yeah. All right. I'm going to start doing, I'm going to start doing that. And apparently that's like a basic tenet of yes and yes. And of course, a lot of people maybe don't know this. So let's what? I said, of course, I remember that at all.

But no, a lot of people don't know this, but that is like, I think, and I never took an improv class either, but I think that is the number one rule in improv is that you're supposed to take whatever. Because improv, you don't know what the other person is going to say. The second you stop it and say no, the whole thing ends. Right.

So you've got to say yes. And so the idea is to build upon what the other person's imagination. Speaking of that, there's a good segue, actually, into this episode that we should talk about. And I think probably it's a really funny episode. There's a ton of funny stuff. There's some stuff that we didn't continue doing,

like, where we stay with the union guys. And they're like, they call us nerds. Or we kind of end with the cops being somewhat heightened. Or they're like looking at the camera and they say, that's politics, bitch. But the improv that Glenn is doing, where he's reading my speech, I don't know if you recall this, but the props guy, whoever it was,

I don't remember who was that season, but and it might not have been the head props person. It might have just been like the props guy's assistant wrote just something on a piece of paper, like a bad speech. The joke was that you just couldn't read it. Did it make sense? There was no actual reading of it that we scripted. And it's so damn funny what he wrote and your reaction to it

that it's a good example of yes and where it's like, I don't know, you just have to be looking for those moments and then just run with them, right? Well, because it wasn't scripted. I believe as scripted, it was you saying, just read the speech I wrote and me saying, I'm not going to read the speech. And then the scene, I think, just ended with that.

Like I'm not doing it. I'm not reading this. It doesn't make any sense. And then I think we just did one where it was like, and basically, I mean, a lot of the words that I say were written on that piece of paper. It's just that it was a more coherent speech. It was a bad speech, but it was coherent.

And I made it as incoherent as possible. It's weird though that people find that so funny because I've never found that funny. I've never really understood why. It's not the words so much as your reaction to them. You're the fact that you're reading. You can't believe that you're reading such bad. I just remember very distinctly the speech ending with,

and so do. Yeah. Is that the fine one? But there's no end. It's just so do. So do. Oh, yeah. I thought it was and so do as well,

but I think maybe the blooper is then so do. Well, oh, oh. I also remember being behind the monitors for that, and Charlie is laughing hysterically. He's laughing in the episode. We didn't have any other option. We didn't have any other option. It had to go in.

Sometimes, look, sometimes I laugh. Well, Glenn, we've established that you are the host of the show. Could you, what should we do next? Well, so this is a little awkward, or maybe it isn't. I don't know. I always write notes on my phone when I watch the episode, right?

Like if I have questions I want to ask you guys or things I want to talk about or whatever. It looks like I'm just looking at my phone in the video, but just know, listener, watcher, watcher, you fucking creep, that when I'm looking at my phone. That's great. That's great. Listen, Salta, half the audience.

Apparently, half the audience watches the podcast, and you've just called them all creeps. I did have a question for you guys. Did you guys have garbage pail kids when you were kids? Yeah, there was one specific kid who turned me on to them, and he lived alone with his dad, and his dad was a fisherman, so he was on the water all the time. So basically, this kid was just on his own.

It's just with his garbage pail kids. Yeah, and he had a bunch of really good shit, because I think it's one of those situations where the dad feels bad that he's just never there, and the mom's not in the picture, so he's just like, that Redmond the robot, he had that robot. Oh, he had friends. Those were his friends.

The garbage pail kids and the robot were his friends. And he had garbage pail kids, and he turned me on to the garbage pail kids, and I was like, these are the greatest thing ever. For like a month. Yes. And then you're like, yeah, I'm over them. The gum's real dry.

Yeah, you know. Was there gum? I never had any. I had friends who had them, and I never got them myself, but I did enjoy them. If you open the package, it's just like a real dry, sometimes flaky gum falls apart. Like in the baseball card?

Yeah, like the baseball card. I was definitely in them. I love them. I love them. Did you have a collection of them? We were all in the sweet spot. Yeah. Yeah, we were in the sweet spot, weren't we?

Yeah, I thought the baseball cards, too. Oh, you did? Yeah. Did you ever get any good ones? Yeah, but then, you know, that was some bullshit. Like where you'd get the magazine, and it would tell you how much each card was worth. And then you'd be like, all right, I got the Ken Griffey

rookie card, and it says it's worth $20. I'm going to go to the store, and they're going to give me $20 for it, because it says that's what's worth in the book. And then you'd go to the comic books store, and they'd be like, ah, I'll give you a 50 cents. That's what we sell it for. Yeah, that's what we sell it for.

We sell it for it. Right. And I honestly think that that is what eventually collapse that entire market, because people are like, well, fuck it, if you're not, you're selling it to me for that, but you're not buying it back. Right. And then that was it.

And so until recently, when I came back. Did it come back? Oh, yeah. I got myself Ricky Henderson rookie. Nice. Trading. No, Carl traded it. My buddy Carl traded it to me for a couple things.

We've discussed this before, but I'm sorry. Ricky was my favorite player. He was my favorite player, so that's OK. I just said we discussed this before. No, but I know we did. That's different. That's acknowledging that we've discussed it before. By the way, do your thing.

I don't even worry about it. Ricky Henderson, thanks for your permission, dad. Ricky perma- Ricky Henderson. Little on fact, Ricky Henderson, or maybe this is widely known fact, I don't know, speaks of himself in the third person. So Ricky does this and Ricky does that. Ricky doesn't do this.

Ricky does that. Ricky wants that. Ricky will be there. What is that? Is that when you become so famous or popular or loved that you also start separating yourself from, like separating your persona from the real you. And so you start referring to yourself in the third person.

When you have the stolen base record, you're like, normal things don't apply to me anymore. I got to heighten this. So Ricky going to start doing this, and Ricky going to start doing that. I used to have dreams that I would be at the park, and Ricky would show up and be like, hey, you want the catch? Yeah, man.

I was really into him. I had a giant poster. Here's my guy. I always hated baseball. I have a good baseball card story. Rob, are we going to shut it down, or should I tell it? Rob, did you want to shut it down, or are you going to take the note?

It's really a stolen bike story. And like most of my stories, not a good story. It's going to fizzle out at a certain point. But my buddy Chris, I got a new bike. It was a red line, which was like a cool BMX bike. I put it together myself. That was the brand? Red line?

Yeah, a red line. I built it. It wasn't like a Mongoose red line. No, the brand was red line. Yeah. I don't remember that. OK. They were like, I got it out of a BMX magazine.

I set the way for it. I put all the parts together, and I built the thing, which I didn't build shit, but I built this. Do you have pegs on the back? Yeah, I had some pegs on the back, of course. And so I'm at my buddy's house. And one of my friends, Chris, he's like, hey, can I take your bike to the baseball card store?

I'm like, yeah, go ahead, man. Hopps on my bike, goes to the baseball card store, comes back. Hey, dude, bad news. Bad news. Somebody stole your bike. And I was like, I think we saw them around the corner. So we got a machete out of his garage and my garage. I can't remember where we got the machete,

but we got a machete. I got my machete. And I'm like, 11, 12, on the back of some other kid's bike on the pegs, rode down in the baseball card store, got off looking for the kids, and then got a little nervous that the cops had seen me with a machete. I buried the machete in some leaves so I could find the kids. And then I don't know what the plan was.

Then go get the machete. But nothing happened, man. I didn't get the bikes gone forever. Hey, if you stole a red line bicycle in Broadway right outside the baseball card store in Newport Rhode Island in probably, like, 1989, 88, there's a machete waiting for you. There's a machete waiting for you, buddy.

Yeah, that's right. I will hack you to bits. Have you guys gotten this comment on your social media where people are like, oh, the show's gotten too political? I used to love this show, but it got too political. Well, it's always been political. You know, it's not that we take a particular stance on anything.

As a matter of fact, we try not to. We try to kind of skewer both sides of any argument. But the show's always dealt with politics. I mean, it's always dealt, always, always. So for those people who are like, yeah, it's getting too political. It used to not be political. Well, this whole episode's about politics.

Is this the episode where we say, who am I going to vote for? A Republican blast in the ass? Yeah, that's all the one big ass blast. Yeah, yeah. That holds up. This still feels the same. Although, I don't think people feel the same. I think people are more dug.

Oh, boy, we could talk about politics. We could actually talk about politics. Mm. Mm. There's not a podcast for that. There's not the podcast. Glenn, as host, what's next? I also feel like the host should be, like, there's not,

you know, where's my water, Glenn? Oh, well, the host doesn't bring it. You don't go to Kimmel and he presents water for you. I think Kimmel would be very embarrassed if there was no water for me. That's all. He would be humiliated. But he wouldn't be the one to bring it.

Why don't you, I brought my water. Well, actually, he brought your water. I brought your water. There's only so many hands I had coming in. I had to rely on you. Rely on other people. Yeah. I got a question for you, actually, that occurred to me.

So there's the scene. Yes. Go. There's a scene in the back office where you pull me in the back office and you try to talk me into, do you know where I'm going with this? I liked the scene. I don't know where you're going with it.

I liked it a lot. So you're trying to talk me into firing Frank as the, by the way, I do love, in this episode, also, let me point out, that how, it's such a rapid, it's just rapid fire betrayal. You know what I mean? Like, literally, people get betrayed. Like, there's like seven betrayals in 20 minutes. Yeah.

It's really, it's really quite extraordinary. But you're trying to talk me into firing Frank as my campaign manager and hiring you as my campaign manager. And you went into this way of speaking in this rhythm and everything. And if I'm not mistaken, at the time, I remember you telling me that it was sort of inspired by, it was like a, not a direct imitation of, but inspired by Jack Lemmon's performance as Shelley the Machine

Levine in Glen Gary Glen Ross. Yeah. Am I correct? Am I remembering that correctly? Yeah, I like desperately like, come on, man. I gotta eat. I gotta eat, you know? I'm older than you. Like, you know?

I'm older. Yeah. He's got lots of little threats. Yeah. By the way, for those of you who have not seen Glen Gary Glen Ross, I believe it came out in 1992. Amazing film. Great play, but like, they made a film and it's incredible.

What other feedback did you get? What do you mean, just in general? Yeah. I don't read a lot. I am pretty good about not reading a lot of comments on the internet. I like, I like it. I find that it's not healthy for me. I like, I'm able to take the good and the bad.

I will say that probably if it was a preponderance of bad feedback, I probably would stop, but most of it's good. So the occasional bad feedback, I actually really enjoy. I think it's really, I think it's really funny. And sometimes I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. You're right, sure. So you can learn a little.

I can learn a little bit from it. Did you think Emma was right? Yes. And I did. I did, I did. Half from, I understand. Now, hold on a second. I gotta, let's, let's, let's relitigate this for a second.

There was one particular episode she's probably commenting on where it did seem really interesting, whatever I can, I think probably you were going to say. And, and you shut it down, but it was, it's funny. I'm like, you told us this story. You've told us this. And I did, I don't know why I didn't say this in the moment, but I'm like, it's not, I'm not telling you.

I'm acting like I'm telling you. Totally. Thank you, Meg. You did say. These aren't for you. Oh, I did say it. Yeah, I did say it. Okay.

You've already said that. So Emma, Emma's note is your note. Emma's note is your note. It's not a good note. It's, I mean, yeah, it is a good note. It's not that I don't want to hear the story again. I think it's fun to watch. I get it.

Let's not remember things. Our brains deteriorate. The way it is presented could be misconstrued as you saying, you don't need to tell this story because I've heard it before. You know, it could be misconstrued that way. Although I agree. I don't think that is your intention. Again, just a, but, you know, an example of, you know,

Rob's tendency to not yes and but to know why. Yeah. No, why? Did you guys notice? Did you get, well, you didn't because you didn't watch the episode, but Charlie, did you notice that you still had the, the Hitler's German shepherd painting in your, in your apartment? I don't know.

I didn't pick up on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought that was, I thought that was kind of fun. When did we lose that after season two? I think what happened was we took a lot of people were commented. Was it like distracted? No, we felt like it was distracting. We were in the editing room and it was in the background of every shot.

Oh, yes, not. That's what it was. So distracting, this stupid German shepherd painting. So we took it down, I think, after season two or maybe three. I think we just, you know, but good on us for like remembering that when we did the episode. And then we wrote a whole thing for it in like season eight. I remember your story.

I'm thinking of your story. Key to the Holocaust? Hitler's been ricketed. Ricketed. I do like episodes where I get to do some kind of of heightened thing like this one, like the show Machine Levine or that or the one where I get smart and I have the cane. I don't know why.

Yeah. More of that. That's fun. But if it was that all the time, it'd get old. It'd be goofy. It'd be too goofy, but it is fun. Every now and then. It's a, yeah.

We have an ability to make them all feel different, which is cool. That's not like the same heightened character over and over and over. That's true. Which is cool. Yeah. Never know where it comes from, you know. I seem to. Stretching.

I'm stretching. In this episode. So we, we talked about this before, but I can't remember if it made the podcast cut. Okay. Okay. And that was that as I recall the first scene we ever shot with Danny DeVito was you and Danny in the parking garage. You guys disagreed and said that it was something else.

But I, but let me throw this out there. I do remember that the first scene that Caitlin ever shot with Danny was the scene right before they go into the comptroller's office to try and solicit a bribe, you know, using a D, trying to, you know, suss her up. And I think the first scene they ever shot together that Caitlin Olson and Danny DeVito ever shot together was the scene where he's, you know, where she says she's stuffed in. She's like, she's stuffed in there like a jerk or whatever. That might be right.

Yeah. That feels right. Yeah. Which would mean that, that we shot that in the, Hey, my brain's working here. Uh, we shot that at L.A. center studios. Correct. So the, I think the parking garage was the L.A. center studios parking garage. Correct.

So it is possible. I do. But so was probably the hospital. It's, yeah, the hospital. Which is the scene that Rob and I think we saw in the lobby of the L.A. center studios on floor two or three. And we also reshot that scene. We did.

We did. Yes. We did. Yes. The scene that, yeah. One of the few things we've reshot, we've reshot a couple of things, but it's rare. We thought that was an important. Oh, shit.

Right. That was the one that you said was, yeah, I don't know, maybe, but I do. Here's what, here's why I think the parking garage scene was the first one. And if it wasn't the first, it was one of the first scenes we ever shot with Danny is the, is because I distinctly remember filming that scene and not being in the scene and being behind the, you know, the monitors and thinking that I had a note to give to Danny and thinking, I feel like this, you know, I'm this like kid in his twenties, like giving film legend Danny DeVito, how do you give him a note?

How do you give film legend Danny DeVito a note? Like, and I didn't know him that well at that point, you know, at that point, he was just like the weird guy who told the teeth and, you know, and it's funny, like you teeth and watch his story. He's both super open to a note or whatever, depending on who from. Well, that's like, he likes to know from three of us, he's fine. He's like, yeah, whatever, I'll try this, try that. But sometimes the guest director tries to give Danny a note and it's like, no.

Yeah, which is fair. It's a test. He's got to know that that that what you're going to give him is going to make it better or have the potential to make it better. Like, and he's now learned after years of working with us that, you know, it usually it's a good note. It's worth trying. I remember FX not loving this episode.

I remember. Really? Yeah, I remember specific feedback, which they were like, you know, it's it's good enough, obviously, we're not going to like not air it, but we don't we don't love this direction for the show. I don't remember specifically why, but I do remember that. But, you know, maybe maybe because it's it's very sort of plot driven. It's not it's not. I mean, it reveals character, right?

Because it reveals like, you know, you're like my vanity, you know, I do love. Or maybe it's the same thing that we picked up on, which eventually we were like, it doesn't quite feel right to stay with with the ancillary characters. And yeah, maybe it was that. Who knows? We were still finding it. I mean, I think it probably just felt sillier in some way, too. Because like, instead of the world being crazy, we were presenting characters that were that were

right extreme. And the world was we were kind of stuck in the normal world. And then once you start building that kind of stuff out, then it seems like the world is crazy. It seems like more Looney Tunes. Right. But then in season three, which we'll get to, we got bonkers. Oh, yeah, we were the characters were the ones that were not the not the outside world. We went a little nutty nuts in season three, but it was a lot of fun.

But I do say like, I did really enjoy one thing that I think we do continue to do, which I love is we go very quickly from like, ooh, we should have one of us should run for office to solicit a bride very quickly to like, oh, no, I think I could actually win this to very quickly, you know, starting to betray each other. But more, more interestingly enough, like focusing on totally the wrong things. You know what I mean? Who's going to get to use the clipboard? Who gets to use the clipboard?

Like, you know what I mean? Like you being like, I'm the campaign manager. I get the clipboard. You being like, give me the clipboard. And then that's like the thing you said about the show becoming about the lines. Like it became about the clipboard. Like, yeah. And for me, it's about the blazer, right?

Do I get to wear a blazer for this? Just being excited to wear a blazer and like being almost entirely focused on the fit of the blazer, you know, more than, you know, soliciting a bribe where actually, it's like, you know, and I do, that is something that we have continued on the show that I very much enjoyed. There's a funny sound thing that we did, Rob. You won't remember this because you didn't watch the episode. But where we, you're trying to stop a baby carriage.

You want, you want Glenn to kiss this baby. You're in a mall and you should watch it. It's good. It's funny. It's pretty good. Yes. It's pretty good. And this woman's like, no, no, thanks.

I don't think I want this guy to kiss the baby. And you keep stopping the, the. Yeah. The baby carriage. Carriage. Yeah. Stroller. Stroller.

Yeah. It's been a minute. Yeah. Stopping the stroller with your foot. Pram. And each time we're adding a nice little, you know. Yeah. We added a sound effect of your foot like stopping it each time because there was no sound in the

thing and we just, we found it very funny. Like you were doing this funny like little foot turn thing, which was very amusing. And it works. We get, you know, we got a. That was the scene where, where I'm doing George Bush hands. Yeah. Yeah. Like this.

Those are really good. George Bush hands. That's, Bill Clinton did that too. That's, that's a thing. This used to be the way that we communicated with the public. That's right. It was, it was firm. I'm not going to point my finger, but I'm going to tip my thumb at you.

That's that, that's not a. Tip my thumb. That's no good. That's no good. Tip my thumb. This. This. Strong.

For the people who aren't watching on the video, this, when you're saying this, it's, it's like a little thumbs up, but not a full thumbs up. Right. Right. It's just like a little pointed thumb that's. And it's not, it's not, it's not a point. No. No.

It's not a fist. It's not a fist. No. Now I know what the emphasis is on the fist. The thumb makes the fist. Okay. The tip of that thumb says, I'm not scared of this fist. And it's.

You touch that thumb in and man, you're just pointing the fist at me and you're saying, I don't know. That was, you, I mean, so you know that like that was like a curated gesture. Yes. That was somebody that somebody said like, I want to be. That was workshopped. Oh, yeah.

Somebody was like, was like doing a lot of this. And they were like, well, this feels like you're out of control. Right. This feels like you're angry. This is too accusatory. But if you just do, like. If you just do the tip of your thumb there. This has been studied scientifically.

If you just. And don't say guys, you gotta save folks. Save folks. That's that applies to everyone that's safe. Don't take guys and girls and, and just the tip of your thumb there. Just a little. See now that's too much thumb. That's a thumbs up.

Okay. Get it. Can't give yourself a thumbs up. Get that thumb in. Okay. You're getting it too high again there, Bill. It was Bill. Right.

Who had it first? I believe Clinton was the one I remember. Oh, he stole it from Bob Dole because Bob Dole had like a had a. He had like a palsy hand. Right. But he always had a pen in it. Yeah. He stuck a pen in there.

So it looked like it was doing this on purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He wanted it. Yeah. You know, Bill was like, well gee whiz. That is pretty sweet.

He's got that pen in there. And they're like, Bill, you can't also have a pen. He's like, he's got a pen. I should have a pen. And it's what just, what about the tip of your thumb there? Maybe that's what it was. What if you're doing that, but you don't have a pen? You have an invisible pen.

That's what it is. Two invisible pens. That's the direction. This is how we'll communicate with the public. Two invisible pens. Well, what do I do with my dick? What about, what about putting it? Where do I put my dick?

We would prefer you keep that to yourself. Oh, and pause. Then why did I become president? Just purely pause. Why did I become president? I've become president. You make a fair point, Mr. President. Don't want to become president.

If you could just keep it in your pants to four to eight years. Four to eight years. You keep your dick in your pants for eight years. I'd like to see you try that. Okay, well. Well, we're all doing it, sir. Oh, my God. Well, you went with the president.

That's true. Another, another unscripted moment in this episode was you smashing the videotape at the end. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, and also like the, the head, the head bump thing. I don't remember where that, I don't remember how that started, but I think it was just in that one take.

And it was, it was very funny to me. I found it very funny when you just go back to reading your paper and you just say like, yeah, because I'm, I'm not doing it or whatever. Very casual. Yeah. So casual. Yeah. Like as casuals could be like basically telling you that like I,

I'm not doing it anymore. And I don't care that it's ruining your life and that you lost your stupid garbage. This episode works, you know. It holds up. It's fine. I tell me happy for anyone to see that and not embarrassed by it or anything. Absolutely.

I haven't seen it. So I won't comment on that. When I believe, I believe this at this podcast episode has been fun. Listen, I think, I think you have to watch it. Okay. Because I do think part of. Yes. Getting to the end of this is that we've all rewatched every single

episode we've done and sort of analyzed them. And even if we're not discussing it live in this thing, just watch it because I don't, you know, we get to the end of it. We're like, well, we watched some of them, not all of them. 100%. Rob, you're getting a lot of good feedback from us today about your. This positive feedback. About your performance on the podcast and sort of what's expected of you.

Okay. Are you taking it in? Are you going to implement this? Are you going to implement it? Do you feel, are you open to this feedback? Are you, do you feel as though you're being dictated to, because I know you like to be in charge and sometimes, you know, you're not. Okay.

So what's the question? Are you, are you, are you accepting our feedback and try it with your thumb? Oh, sorry. Are you able to take this feedback and accept it? Mary, how do those thumbs make you feel? No, why?