The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 106 - Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim

Episode Date: October 1, 2012

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Hey, mates, welcome once again into the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week. My name is Tommy Dasolo. Thank you very much for joining us. Sitting opposite me, the other half of the program, that bloke over there, Carl Champ. G'day, Dickhead. How are you going there, buddy? Yeah, good. Big show today.

Yeah. Very big episode. Very exciting episode for us. I hope it goes well, our interview, good. Big show today. Yeah. Very big episode. Very exciting episode for us. I hope it goes well, our interview that we're about to do. Yeah. We're going to be magically teleported through the special powers of the internet. Today on the show, Tim and Eric. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

You'll know them from Tim and Eric. Awesome show. Great job. From Tom Goes to the Mayor. From their billion dollar movie. From all sorts of stuff. Yeah, we great job. From Tom Goes to the Mayor, from their billion-dollar movie, from all sorts of stuff. Yeah, we got to go and we got to talk. We get to.

Let's correct that. Sorry. Sorry. It hasn't happened yet, has it? No. We're about to go and talk to them. The limo's waiting out the front to drive us down there to pick us up from Podcast City.

Yeah. I'm still scribbling my questions on a piece of notepaper. That looks like your own blood. We are about to go and interview them at the hotel where they are staying. There's a bit of a different one for us. It might be a different one for us. It might be a different one. We might turn up and the setup might be completely the same thing.

Jeez, I hope they don't cancel on us at the last minute. Oh, is that my phone ringing? Oh, please don't pull out. In no way has this already been recorded and we're just doing a top and tail now, okay guys? So we're like you. We're like you at home. We're wondering what's going to happen next. How's the interview going to go? What's up, mate?

I will be right down. Sorry, the driver's just rocked up. He's waiting for us. Can you guys hear the horn? Beeping the horn. No, you can't hear it. I really thought there'd be something in here that we could use to beep a horn. Beeping! Is that something? Oh, perfect.

So let's go and let's go do that right now. Let's go talk to Tim and Eric. Okay, this is the little dum-dum club. We are sitting here in the... You guys weren't briefed on the name, were you? You got me. The publicist is coming in and turning off the sound machine. We're sitting here with Tim Heinecker and Eric Wehrheim.

Guys, thank you very much for joining us. Thanks for having us. It's exciting. So you guys are normally... For us. Yeah, for us. Let's clear that up. Well, you're sitting next to a lot of Yeah, for us. Let's clear that up.

Well, you're sitting next to a lot of wine, which is exciting. Per my request. If you're a wine drinker, I guess. So you guys, normally when acts tour here, you would be kind of flown in the day before a show or the day of a show, so we'd be interviewing you very jet lagged. But you guys have been here for a few days now. You've kind of been hanging out up the top end. Yeah, we're into nude scuba back in the States, and they actually offer some great stuff up in Cairn.

So we got in the Great Reef. Yep. Yeah, it's just like regular scuba, except we remove most all of our clothes. Sure, yeah. And it's just Tim and I and nature just feeling things. Are you allowed breathing apparatus? Or does that conflict with the nude thing?

I mean, you know scuba, right? Yeah. Imagine that, but just nothing. Yeah. You know, wide open. That's not really scuba if you're wearing something, though. Is that an issue in the nude scuba community? Well, I was down here representing a doctor in the United States who's developed this new procedure where I don't need to have the

air I can go underwater for as long as I want right so it's just a nude guy in water yeah so I was down there for hours just swimming underwater without any air Eric's thinking to himself I wish I was like him because I got picked to be part of this experimental study well first I was like Tim are you sure you want to try this this is my first time in Australia. I want to just be nude with you in the reef. And Tim's like, trust me, I've been working with this doctor.

I got all these implants going. And once we got in the water, I was jealous that he had no apparatus. Like a fish. The only side effect is that I scream myself to sleep. I'm in pain. Because so much water gets into my lungs that it really rips the inside of your lungs out. And you swallow a lot of jellyfish, obviously, and stuff like that.

Yeah, it's going to be... They say the long-term side effects are very, very dangerous, and it shortens your lifespan by 25, 30 years. The big problem is when we tour, we share a room, and I'm woken up to these blood curdling screams, maybe like five minutes. There's screams of pain. You don't understand the pain I'm going through because my lungs are trying to expel the salt and the salt water. It's just very... What I'm saying is last night when I'm like, why can't I just get my own room?

You said, absolutely not. This is in the contract. Our booking agent booked this because we have a good relationship we work better and i said i'm up all fucking night with these screens like just let me that's i i have to apologize but you know i called my i called the doctor back in the states and got no answer i got no like usually you have a machine or like a voicemail and there was nothing it was like it just kept ringing and rings i don't even know if he's still around. What's the setup in this room? Is it separate beds or is it bunk bed style? No.

It's a king bed. Okay. So you share one bed for the two of you? Yeah. And there's extra pillows that we put in between. Maybe go top and tail because if you're like tail and tail, it's much louder when you're screaming at each other. Top and tail, that's a thing.

Well, what I said to Tim last night, like maybe four in the morning, I've been up the whole night, is, is it worth it? We only go scuba diving a couple of times a year. Is it worth it? He screams every fucking night. You know, that's...

Yeah, I mean, that's a question I want to ask my doctor, who I've not been able to get on the phone with. Why is he not responding to you? I mean, this is an emergency. It kind of seems like it's a bit late for questions at this point. I don't know how you can go back from here. Well, we had a publicist for the hotel. We're in a hotel at the moment.

And we had a publicist come in to say, oh, look, who are Tim and Eric? They're comedy people, right? What's their show? Do they go on adventures together? And I think that question's been cleared up by the story we just heard then. You know, it's funny. When I first met with Dr. Richards, I didn't notice it,

but now I'm thinking back. The doctor was in quotes, so it was like Dr. Mark Richards. Yeah, that's generally a bit of a giveaway. Yeah. I just feel like if you were in a good friendship, long-term friendship like Tim and I was and I took the time, I booked the tour,

I got us a cool hotel, at least give me the respect to not have the screams. Yeah. But there's nothing sadder than screaming alone though. So I can see the other side of that.

I can't tell you the pain. Yeah. I mean, it's unbelievable. So maybe tonight I'll put a rag in my mouth or something to keep the screams down.

Like a muzzle or something. But you know, as far as I'm concerned, the screens are here to stay. I'm going to be posting most of the, I did a lot of underwater photography of Tim. I'm going to be posting up online later tonight. It is a graceful, beautiful thing to see him. Like I'm talking 30 meters underwater with nothing. Ironically, creating some new screams in your eye.

I saw you guys, I watched a clip of you guys on Conan after the Sundance Festival where you think you were talking about doing nude, you were trying to do nude skiing up there.

Yeah, we don't have too many ideas. Or many clothes. Are there any other sports you're into doing nude or is it just exclusively scuba and skiing? What is it about clothes

that hold you guys back from exercise? We like to think of nudity in a non-sexual way, you know, like maybe playing Australian rules football in the nude would be a little, you know, it could get a little saucy down there. Well, I mean, we're generally, we're regarded as Australia's number one nude podcast, and I mean, the only reason we're wearing clothes today is because we thought you guys wouldn't be cool with that, but if only we'd known, we'd be a lot more in our comfort zone.

Last night I was at a bar and there were a bunch of bogans hanging out with some... Oh, bogans you flew in the vernacular. They're hawks, you know. Yeah, yeah. Hawthorne Football Club. And I was like, why don't you guys just go nude and do this? And it's bodies against bodies. And I got the shit kicked out of me.

It was bad. But I'm still happy to be here. Is that a thing where you land in Melbourne and go, quick, what do you call rednecks here? Like, tell me all the words to say. Yeah, we get a little, we get schooled. We go to language school as soon as we get here at the airport. Like, we get our currency changed.

We also get the buzzwords. You get your Budweiser's changed over into VB. Yeah, exactly. We say that VB gets you VD. Oh, that's sweet. Very good. You should use that. That's right.

When you guys think up, when you're working on the show and stuff, I'm fascinated by the writing process and stuff like that. Because you've got such weird stuff within the show is there a bit where you like in stand-up comedy which we're sort of coming from you have like hack premises and whatever you go oh airline food oh that's hack or whatever when you guys are you ever getting to a stage where it's like oh this is a bit where we

obviously your head turns into fairy floss and a dog eats it or whatever and it's like oh you boo god that's so season two or whatever like in terms of the process what's what what gets yeses and what gets no's yeah there are certain rules i guess that exist in our world that we try to use and then also not abuse right so uh yeah we feel like there's certain things that we're like we've done that before and yeah we don't want to kill ourselves with that idea and then there's some things that we're like, we've done that before, and we don't want to kill ourselves with that idea. And then there's some things that are fun to keep building on. Is there a list?

What would be on the not to do anymore list on the Tim and Eric whiteboard? Probably diarrhea. We've covered every angle of that. Every season we try to outdo ourselves with poop tube, diarrhea, diarrhea beaties. Crust diarrhea off the bucket list.

Yeah. There is no fresh diarrhea joke. Although I say the word diarrhea and you both laugh. Yeah, yeah. It continues to bring gifts. Yeah, well, we don't have that down here yet. We're a little bit behind. It's all solid loaves.

Yeah. And again, with the show what I love I guess and what is such a strength of your show is just how it's full of stuff

that shouldn't be on TV or hasn't traditionally been on TV is there it's a similar sort of question is there bits where you have to sort of go cut

you know we're going to take that again because that seems like TV that's you've done that well. We can't use that. Like, you've looked into the camera. I don't know if that's a fully conscious thing.

I think there's a tone that Tim and I just gravitate towards, which is like in our universe. And we use actors that are not super trained Hollywood actors. So that gives this impression. Like, a lot of them have never been behind a camera and that's what we love. And a lot of the times it is the first take where they get very minimal direction. Maybe two and are not even in the room That's when you get these just interesting moments that we think are just funny Yeah, is it like I imagine some actors getting apart on your show and great

I've got work and then and then they've sort of had that moment of going, oh, they only use people that aren't very good. Oh, no. No wonder we're not getting any work anywhere else. We're actually not good. Well, in Hollywood, everyone, everyone is an actor and wants to be on TV. And all these regulars on our show are the happiest they've ever been.

They're superstars. They have like 5,000 Facebook friends now. So they don't mind that it's really just a goal to get on TV and just be a part of it. And do they know how to deal with that? Some of these people you think, are they equipped for stardom? How do they deal with your fans?

Because you've got such loyal sort of cultish fans, has it all been good for them or is it sort of a bit too weird? I mean, I think it's good. On one tour we took David Lieberhardt and James Squall and Palmer Scott who's the sit on you guy and Ron Oster who's the do-da-do-do guy on the road. When those guys come out they get huge roars from the fans. It's the best night of their lives yeah so

i think they're they're pretty into it and with your other like um you know i guess uh people like you know ted dancing or people like that like you've got plenty of stand-up comedians and people yeah from that world that you can see can fit into that but with people like ted dancing i i'm fascinated by the idea of like how this how your show show exists now. This is the only point in history your show could sort of exist, I guess. I imagine it happening in the 50s or the 60s and you somehow grabbing in people like, I don't know, like Danny Kaye or Abbott and Costello or something like that, somehow working in the stars of the 50s into your show.

I don't know. Do you think that would... Who would you pick in the 50s or 60s into your show. I don't know. Do you think that would... Who would you pick in the 50s or 60s that would be a part of your show? Well, we pick whoever we can get. Yeah. So whoever's available, you know. Yeah, I mean, these are...

Most of the... Everybody that's on our show is either somebody that we find personally that we think is funny or has a... Yeah, has some sort of zeitgeisty TV dads like Ted Danson or people like Alan Thicke that just come from a completely different sphere of entertainment.

A lot of times we go to our producers and say we want a guy like Robert Loggia to do this part and our producers will work their asses off and they're like, well, we got Robert Loja to do this part and our producers will like work their asses off and get they're like well we got Robert Loja it's surprising that how many people you just ask in there yeah so that's a great game is there anyone you've any disappointments anyone you've nearly got that you've just missed out on or is that Channing Tatum trying to get him for years continuing the nude scene

yeah he's not into it um you guys have a there's like a list of you know a lot of I guess celebrities and stuff

that are very into your stuff like what's the what's kind of the weirdest I guess person that's really into you that you know that you've found out about that's come back to you?

Obama, President Obama. He watches it every day. He says, he's like, I can't even get any work done. I'm obsessed. I'm like, please, please, just put it away for a while. You know, there'll be time for that later. So if he loses the election, it's your guy's fault? I suppose, yeah. Not doing enough work?

Because he said, I can't concentrate. All I think about is poop tube. If you go to any of our YouTube clips and you see any comments from Obama Mama, that's his channel. He's like, oh, you know, goddamn. That's what he says, goddamn. He gets really specific, though,

because there's some stuff he doesn't like, and he starts going into what sketches he doesn't like. What doesn't he like? I don't know. There's the weird ones. He didn't like the MIDI organizer. I was like, well, come on. You should like it.

He thought it was too broad, and MIDI is actually pretty small. He was like, there's a tonal shift in the show from seasons two to three, and I think once he stopped using Richard Dunnn you know in a sort of uh in certain ways you know he got really like really knows the show back and forth he's one of these guys that turns up to the show dressed up is he yeah and he loves tom goes the mayor and you know he's like tom goes the mayor was the best thing you've ever done i love awesome show but nothing is you know i'm like could you please just focus on you know the world and the country and it's such a burden to have on your shoulders. When you see the comments

and you see one hour, then one day, he'll comment repeatedly just to make sure that we'll see it and everyone else sees it. We got this call that said he wants us to receive the Medal of Freedom, which is like it's only given to certain really distinguished heroes and we're like, with all due respect,

this would be horribly offensive to people that deserve it. And he's like, because I just want to meet you. Well, we could have a private meeting. But it's weird. Get some wine and we'll bait it. He keeps on trying to give us states. We just have all this pressure that if he does give us these awards, which are

very nice, but it's just going to screw with the balance of what's going on, which is very fragile in the world right now. He wanted to give us Wyoming. It's like a small part of the big states. I don't think you can even have that power to do that. And the people of Wyoming would be upset because they would look up Tim and Eric, new governors of Wyoming.

Yeah, yeah. And they would see Poopoo. And nude governors of Wyoming as well. We don't want to get lynched. Yeah. What would you do with Wyoming? I mean, obviously, you've probably thought about that, given that it's been awful. Who's calling my phone right now? Yeah. Just deny that. to get lynched. Yeah, what would you do with Wyoming? Like, I mean, obviously you've probably thought about that given that it's been awful.

calling my phone right now. Yeah. Just deny that. What have you got him under on your phone? Is it just Barack or is it... B. Obama.

B. Obama, okay. Is there any, is there more Obamas on your phone? Yeah, I have a Jack Obama. Jack Obama? Yeah. I just have B. Mama.

Yeah. In case my phone gets stolen. Yeah. You know, I don't want anyone to have his private cell he would never change the number we talk on the show

a bit we're a bit obsessed with sitcoms in the 80s when they do a down under episode like there'd be the facts of life

based on your time here now if there was to be a Tim and Eric goes down under what would it consist of I mean obviously there'd be a lot of nudity down under what uh what would it consist of I mean obviously there'd be

a lot of nudity um would there be I would say it was some something to do with some wallaby love we um we got to pet and feed some wallabies up north oh yeah and I just felt a very a connection with them and I took a photo of me and the wallaby and I've been looking at it a lot I think yeah I think Eric I think Eric's right I think think the show wouldn't be funny. It would just be warm and lovely. Because we feel really positive and good here. There's not a lot of awful terribleness here. So when you don't have that, we have a lot of that in the States.

So when you don't have that, there's nothing really to make fun of. I think it would just be us enjoying our walking on our walking on the beach yeah kangaroos and going for a swim just having a nice time yeah I think Obama would hate that yeah between two and three some angry comments from Obama mama do you think like so you guys have been on The Simpsons now which is awesome and I guess that's a thing it's crazy that you said that

because it's just a surreal thing for us yeah yeah yeah that's actually true yeah it's like from the outside looking in it looks like

speaking of their Australian episodes the Simpsons Australian episodes like the best is it the best maybe it's the best to you guys but to us it's just

all the cliches but that's sort of the joke yeah I like it I do it's the best to you guys but to us it's just all the cliches but that's sort of the joke yeah I like it I think it's good yeah I remember being in it's like

it's like us going over to America and doing an episode where everyone's got 10 gallon hats and shooting into the air and going this is everyone

we'll come to our live show we have a lot of Australian specific bits oh really the promotion for that episode here was insane where it was such a big deal like on channel 10 it was like We have a lot of Australian-specific bits. Oh, really? Yeah. The promotion for that episode here was insane,

where it was such a big deal. Like, on Channel 10, it was like, Bart versus Australia in two weeks' time. Like, they were counting down to it. I remember being at school, and everyone was like, oh, I wonder how we're all going to be Simpsons. This is going to be awesome. You'll be able to recognize yourself.

Yeah, and then it was on, and it's our Prime Minister naked in a lake. Just going to school the next day and going, Sorry, I interrupted you. No, no, no. We're talking about The Simpsons, just you guys being on there. It seems like for comedy, that's your version of being on the front of a box of Wheaties or whatever. Like, if you've really made it, you get to go into The Simpsons and do stuff.

So, I mean, that must be a big deal. Apart from just being in The Simpsons, which is awesome. It's a great sort of piece of recognition I guess did you guys feel that or I mean my top three LA moments were one was like the simp going to a Simpsons table read yeah hearing all the actors do it yeah two is like being on the Simpsons yeah and one day our friend was the head writer he sent us the images of us being Simpsonized. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty.

And it's also the only thing that my mom is proud of, my whole body. Oh, really? Yeah. Because everything's too crude for her. So this is the one thing that she gets sent to her neighbor and be like, my son did it. Yeah. What's number three? Yeah.

I have been sitting here trying to think of a funny number 3 and I just I couldn't commit to one at this moment meeting you guys what's our name again? what's that? your names? Chad and Morwick I like that way better I like that a lot more Morwick

it's lucky you just picked a very Australian name because we get that a lot. He does look like a Morwick. Lil Morwick. I know you guys are a bunch of drogos, but I'm enjoying it. Yeah, so Simpsons is a table read. You've got...

Just sitting there listening to all the voices and stuff like that. Was there anyone else on your episode? Was it just you guys? Because you guys were like food critics and stuff. Yeah, and there was a couple of chefs too. Like Mario Batali and Wiley Dufresne. And you guys don't get to write your own lines or anything like that.

Do you get to improv a bit? Or is it so hard with animation? We got to improvise a little bit. And they allowed us to write this or work on the song that we did this jay-z cover along with our composer david wood yeah so we got to kind of work on that and add lyrics and that was pretty insane too did they try and write any sort of new diarrhea jokes and you guys are like that was episode four season three nothing like We had, we, our movie came out in America

a couple months ago and we did this private screening at this man's home for his son. This is how things happen in Hollywood. What man?

The wealthy men can summon you up and be like, will you show this for your son? Really? He created, Everybody Loves Raymond.

Oh, really? Phil Rosenthal. Yeah, right. Who's like a gem of a man. That makes a lot more sense than just a man and his son. So we come over for this private screening, and it's literally all 30 15-year-olds. Right. Just happy and nervous.

And then we see Matt Groening there. Oh, wow. So we sat like, you sat next to him, right? Yeah. For this early screening, which was terrifying. But I looked over, and he was doing belly laughs so also yeah something right yeah that's a great moment that's awesome yeah um going back to how your mom said uh you know it's hard to be proud of given what you do and her sort of understanding i think she's proud but what moms want to do is

share yeah i want to put it on facebook they want want to give it. But there's, you know. They can't put a picture of your diarrhea on the fridge or anything like that. There's a moment in everything we do which is not for mom. Yeah. Yeah. So I think The Simpsons was very G-rated. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's the thing.

I'm fascinated also by, like, you casting with, like, when you have children on the show. Like, is that a tough process to get them to come in and do what they do on your show? No. show like is that a tough process to get them to come in and do what they do on your show no i mean the i think what people don't get is that the vibe whenever we're making stuff the vibe is always really fun and relaxed and in you know friendly and easy and it's all about how we manipulate it later on yeah it's all about the context so yeah everyone's experience making stuff is always like a pleasant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's very rarely a case where we're putting kids in very compromising positions.

Yeah, in our movie, these kids do some gross stuff. And their parents all are in on it. We talk them through it. The hardest part is getting the giggles out. These kids are cracking up. They can't believe how silly this is yeah yeah you know is it one of those la things where the the the parents are just again just happy to have their kids on tv or movies stage moms and dads yeah yeah they're very into it yeah some of the kids i mean they're like they're just they're happy to do it yeah it's a sweet reference on, you know, sweet addition to IMDb for those kids, though.

Kid that gets vomited on, episode two, whatever. We have this one bit called Cinco iJammer. I don't know if you guys have ever seen this, but the kids start, it's this box that produces this tone, and they start screaming. And we directed the kids, but, okay, now scream, get really intense, and these kids went off to an amazing level that they were like

oh man this is going to be great. You really see the terror in these guys. Some of these guys are really talented. Well stuff like that, how do you see your show fitting into demos and stuff? Because I can appreciate it now, you see things and it's really weird and you go, sometimes it's really laugh out loud and sometimes it's really weird but it's really good but i can remember watching shows as a kid and looking at that show and going i don't know how i would cope with that show up to a certain age like i still remember an episode of project ufo where there's a ufo walk off a spaceship

and and the mouth bit goes up and it's just like it's just a blown up normal person's mouth and like five times bigger yeah and i can still remember that i'm still thinking about it most days and i think if i watched one of your shows when i was six or seven i think i would remember it 30 years later i think you're probably right i think we get a lot of people that parents who are like my kids like my little kids are obsessed with your show. They say they edit certain things out or they'll not show them everything, but there's certain clips that appeal to a very infantile mind.

We'll see kids on YouTube sing Doodadoodoo, Think About Your Dad. They don't really understand the deepness of why you would think about your dad but um they just like the song you're creating a lot of repressed memories that one day going to come out on a therapist's couch yeah oh god there's also kids that are experiencing like this kind of comedy as their first kind of comedy so it might just become like well that's just that's what comedy is this is like a normal you're gonna see like stuff from your mate phil rosenthal you're gonna see everyone loves raymond and go that's for babies yeah because that's what comedy is. It's like a normal... You're going to see stuff from your mate Phil Rosenthal. You're going to see everyone that loves Raymond and go, that's for babies.

Yeah, because that's the thing. Comedy gets more and more extreme as it goes along. You still look at you guys' stuff and go, where do you go from here? What's the next? It's not going to be for me. It's just going to be horrifying. So you guys are in town.

You're in Melbourne. We're recording this the day before the AFL Grand Final. There's the you guys are in town. You're in Melbourne. We're recording this the day before the AFL Grand Final. Yeah. There's the Grand Final parade going past. It's like a theme park.

The Hawks versus the Swans. Yes. Well done. It's like a theme park in this hotel. There's all like footballers around. Yeah. I just thought like your show,

your first Australian show is tomorrow night after the Grand Final which I find to be a very funny kind of bit of scheduling. We're headlining tomorrow that's how you can look at it

they're opening up for us right okay cool you guys should be halftime entertainment yeah that's what I was going to say like Jenna Jackson style

you know meatloaf oh you know the meatloaf stuff the meatloaf video oh you know that I know that well you would love that that video is one of

the greatest things ever that looks like something from your show oh you've seen it to me. When he's really off. You can't hear the monitors or something. Meatloaf would be... I imagine Meatloaf would be a bad person

maybe to get on your show if you could get him on because I think you could get him on but then I don't think you would get it. He seems like... He seems like he would ham it up. Burger it up a little bit too much. We know actors were like,

they're going to ham it up. They're going to be serious. If only you'd been here this time last year, you could have seen him at the grand final and then quickly tried to get him to do a, to just reprise the gig during your show. Just get by the rights to that clip. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You'd be on the same floors in this hotel. Just show that as a whole episode of my show. But then he came out afterwards, and he was saying that he was going to do everything he could to stop any bands from ever coming to do the grand final again he said if i hear any band yeah because he just had such a crappy time doing it hey i sympathize man there's nothing worse than playing and not being able to hear the music or hear yourself whatever so was he at lax trying to stop you guys from yeah yeah he He tried to shoot down a plane.

The sound in this bar is okay, isn't it? Like, this is fine? I can't hear myself. If you guys were to be doing the Halftime Entertainment at the Grand Final, what do you think you'd bring out? What would a Tim and Eric Halftime show consist of? I'd probably just show the footage that I shot of at the scuba up on the big screens just like there'll be text we love your read we love your read some technology but it does have the screen yeah terrible

acoustics at the MCD you can't hear yourself scream so that would be really off-putting for you guys well you could just bring in some new technology it could be like the two-pack hologram it could be like the new screaming yeah everyone gets a little everyone gets a little right in front of them for three seconds yeah yeah um you guys have had uh like a history of bob odenkirk he was like very helpful with with getting you guys your start and everything like that and now he's I guess like he helped you guys out now you've sort of helped him out by him being on the show and him getting a new Legion of fans through your show and now

he's I guess now he's probably bigger than he's ever been because of Breaking Bad and stuff like that like it's probably time for him to help you guys out again maybe get you guys on on Breaking bad yeah we're just to thank us just a public thank you yeah yeah i think you were gonna mean this part of breaking bad yeah but like yeah guys like that like people that like comedic actors that turned up on on serious stuff like that have you guys been like now approached by like you know apart from people trying to get on your show people been trying to get you guys on their show? Because you guys haven't really made any sort of lame sort of appearances on other stuff, have you?

Not too much. I mean, no. We get called in for stuff. We're not the best auditioners. Yeah, right. You know, so we usually blow those opportunities. Yeah. Is there anything left on the bucket list for you guys?

I did have an audition with Larry David. Did you really? Which was my number three but I didn't want to brag about it. Yeah. It was like he's doing a movie.

Yeah. Like a curve movie. Oh really? Yeah. And the audition was this top secret thing. You show up. Not so top secret.

They give you the role. Yeah. There. The audition itself wasn't top secret but the role was. Right. No prep. And I got the

sheet of what I had to do, and I just walked into this room with Larry, sitting right there, and we went for it. Made him laugh twice, but I don't think I got it. I might be in the new Michael Richards movie. It's not as exciting.

Very low budget. And you're playing? I'm playing Larry David. Now, I... This might be slightly more serious, but I find this fascinating on your IMDB page, that you've had something bad happen to you in the past.

You were stabbed once. Twice. Twice, sorry, mate. Double that. Yeah, yeah. But I like how they've said it on your IMDb page. It's like trivia. Tim was stabbed twice.

Nice little, you know. It was a very trivial moment in my life. It's just like the answer to a, you know, if you're having the parties being's being uh dragged down a bit you can just bust out some trivia and you know get some sweet tim heidecker trivia like how many times was he stabbed that time he's got two let's hope we're successful in australia where that becomes a question on a question yeah or under a bottle cap on a yeah on a vb we have a lot of trivia associated with beer here so yeah i love that

yeah um i also like speaking of imdb i looked up uh on the page for your movie on the trivia thing there's a goofs section and there's only one thing on there and it's someone talking about there's a bit where you flip a coin and it comes up the wrong way around it's got to be greg which of all the things so you reckon it's a mate of yours? I don't know but we screened it for friends really early on like a really rough cut.

So what is this? I haven't seen it. I think it's like Eric holds up a coin and it's got heads or tails. Do you have heads or tails here? We've heard of them. So it's a continuity thing. One shot it's heads or tails do you have heads or tails here we've heard of them yeah so it's a continuity thing one shot it's

it's heads and the next shot it's tails not intentional stuff happens yeah and we're at our friend screening

our friend Greg was like did you intend was that part of the was that a joke to switch those to we're like no

no one noticed it it's a pretty sweet joke so I'm wondering if he did it yeah's a pretty sweet joke so I'm wondering if he made that if he did it yeah because I just loved it because I'm like

of all the things to nitpick well it was besides that it was a perfect movie 99.9% accurate I love the idea that that was

a written joke though you know that's good we'll flip it it'll be heads and then the next thing it'll be tails this is gonna kill

this is gonna kill this is gonna kill every detail they're gonna wanna do this we're gonna have to reenact this we're gonna have to reenact this

at the live show because people are gonna wanna do the coin thing this Greg is that Greg Turkington yes

that's awesome that is amazing you guys know him he's got a strong history in Australia he used to live here for a long time he's from here

he was born here I think was he yeah he's wise from here I know that because I'm actually a strong history in Australia like he used to live here for a long time he's from here he was born here I think was he yeah he's wise from here I know that yeah because I'm actually

a really big fan of his band um Faxed Head do you know Faxed Head I don't know his music very well

oh really I happen to see the you do yeah I listened to it once oh really thank you for

the I really like it yeah I was looking at it yesterday just going I haven't heard any of it but it sounds

pretty concept heavy I don't know how the music would but like how can you not like it it's like I was looking at it yesterday just going, I haven't heard any of it, but it sounds pretty concept heavy. I don't know how the music would... But, like, how can you not like it? It's like, the concept is, Faxed Head is, what, six people, six teenagers that live in Coalinga in California, and they all tried to kill themselves, but all failed in different ways. One of them fell headfirst into a bunch of tar,

and so he's tar pit head. One of them tried to hang himself, and it stretched, and his neck is now six feet long, and he's neck head, and so his tar pit head, one of them tried to hang himself, and it stretched, and his neck is now six feet long, and his neck head, and so on. That's amazing. Yeah, but it's white metal, so I guess you can't really hear the concept of what these people look like and their afflictions on a CD. White metal as opposed to black metal?

Yeah, I don't know what the difference is. There are two different things. Is that a thing that you just made up? No, no, that's a thing, white metal. It's a Swedish thing, I believe. I don't know what it means, but... You guys have, obviously, a very devoted fan base. I was looking up some videos of your previous live shows and stuff.

And, you know, you do a bunch of signings and stuff afterwards. Do you get, like, what's the... You must have had some just insane fan interactions. Has there been any where it's kind of crossed over into being a bit scary? We had one guy that wanted to hang out with us and we were like, no thank you. He's like, we were on our way to another show.

That's the thing. Sometimes you have to leave right after the show. And this guy said, can I just hang out with you? No, you have to go to the series. I just want to hang out with you for ten minutes. Alright'm like, no, you have to go to the stairs. I just want to hang out with you for ten minutes. All right, well, no, I still can't do it. I just want to hang out for ten minutes.

Is that so hard? Yeah, but why would you want to hang out with somebody for ten minutes? I don't understand what that would get anybody. Yeah, and he's nude and covered in blood. Yeah. No thanks. But for the most part, people that are into the show are really cool. We haven't had any kind of problems with any creepy stalkers or anything.

Yeah, yeah. No one that actually really hates it and tries to cause trouble or anything. I noticed a thing where when I was a kid, if I went to go see a band or a comic or something, I would think that wouldn't be even possible to hang around afterward. Like, I would just like, wow, that was a great show. I'm going to go home now. Yeah.

I love that group or whatever. Yeah. But people seem a little more entitled to like, well, now let's get my picture. And if the picture wasn't in focus, let's get it again. There's like a little more of like, you're mine and I'm going to hold on to you. This is part of the deal. This is part of the deal. Yeah.

Never waited for a band or anything after a show. I used to do it a lot when I was younger. Yeah. little more of like you're mine and yeah this is part of the this is part of the yeah never waited for a band or anything after a show yeah i used to do it a lot when i was younger yeah very yeah kind of sad yeah i did um i helped out a comedian here who was doing a show during the comedy festival he was signing posters and stuff afterwards and i helped out like just you know taking the money and stuff and i loved it because there's like people get so entitled like this guy comes up and goes yeah great show mate I'm coming back tomorrow

night with my girlfriend so if if just like once or twice during the show if you can just say happy birthday Alana that'd be great man

and he was like oh I I really don't think I can do it during the show yeah yeah and this guy just

didn't get it it's like man it's not a big deal just just wish I had work it in somewhere yeah what do you care you're still getting paid just say it oh my god Yeah, yeah. And this guy just didn't get it. It's like, man, it's not a big deal. Just wish I had it. Just work it in somewhere. Yeah.

What do you care? You're still getting paid. Just say it. Oh, my God. It's that weird entitlement that people get. That would be good if you had that. Like, you know, when you guys said before that you put on a private screening to a guy and his kid, I sort of imagine, you know, maybe like an Arab dude getting you over to the Emirates and whatever.

You need to do something like that. You need some Arab fans that are going to fly you over for some weird billionaire party or something. That would be cool. I think that's exactly the point where you check your integrity. Yeah. Decide whether or not to do that mission. What's on the bucket list left?

Is there anything like you've made The Simpsons and you've met Larry David and all this sort of stuff. Yeah, it's a little bit of a problem. We've kind of done everything we've set out to do. Really? So it's a little bit of a question of now what? Yeah. So, yeah, it's, you know, every time you do something like you think it's,

like you always wished that you would ever be able to do, it's never exactly how you imagine it. Yeah. You know, you end up, you wake up the next day feeling the same. So, you know, we just try to keep making stuff that we like to do what in what shape i guess are you going to do things from now on because i assume that the tv show is sort of rounder and rounder rounder yeah so the tv show is sort of finished i guess is it uh so is it just movies from now on or is it something completely different between you or no we have a couple shows

for Adult Swim which we're working on right now they're in development they'll sort of be somewhat of an extension of the Tim and Eric Awesome show right so tell us all about it because we own you now we have one show called Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories

we're starting to work on when we get back from this trip and we have a mini series idea called Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories we're starting to work on when we get back from this trip and we have a mini series idea called Tim and Eric Go to the Moon and it's a little you can imagine what happens

when we get up there so crazy adventures just like the press lady thought yeah just diary floating

in space vomit floating in space we were all going to be doing basically the same thing, but the show itself felt like it was getting, you need to break out of some conventions,

keep reinventing yourself. Yeah, you guys were way too restricted in your TV show. Way too much formula. Well, you guys have produced a bunch of ads in the past for Absolute Vodka and stuff like that. Have you encountered any product in Australia so far that you'd like to, that if someone offered you?

We actually shot a VB commercial in the ocean the other day. Yeah. That we're going to try to get up on the air soon. Yeah. Involves me drowning after drinking some of their beer. Which, you know, we'll see. Could just cause a lot of bad attention. Yeah.

But that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds great. All right, so here we are. And we're back. We're back. We're back in Podcast City. Man, I never know how much to tip the limo driver.

Yeah, it's awkward, isn't it? Yeah. Did you tip him anything? I didn't. Okay. Yeah, I didn't either. I thought you were going to get it. Yeah, no, I didn't.

Well, this is awkward. Yeah. Should we go back down? No? Probably not. Okay. Yeah, I didn't either. I thought you were going to get it. Yeah, no, I didn't. Well, this is awkward. Yeah. Should we go back down? No? Probably not. Okay. I reckon this improvisation is right, of course. What did you think of that?

That was fun. How did the end of that interview go? Because I remember us not really wrapping it up very well. So has this just unseamlessly blended from a weird end of the interview into this? Look, I'd say I'll do a bit of studio trickery. I'll make it sound. It won't just suddenly end and the sound quality gets completely different. But, yeah, that was us in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the bar there.

Yep. We got the little bar to ourselves, which was kind of nice. We had a bar. We were in a big bar with a lot of wine bottles near us. It was very swanky, very mahogany. Yeah. And, you know, look, to be honest, I think the people around them, I think the people in the hotel may have thought that we were from somewhere we weren't.

Yeah. Well, I think you think that because they kept saying to us, you guys are from, insert prominent Australian radio station, and we did nothing to correct that. Except for going, what? And they go, you know, and we go, yeah. You know, your job. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, I thought you were just requesting a radio station to be put on right now. No, no. It was a weird day though because we were going in on the day before the grand final. It was the grand final parade was going on outside the hotel. Yeah. I thought I wasn't going to make it there because it was happening on the very street and I got stuck on the other side. Yeah.

And I didn't know if I'd be able to make my way across. It was like a very advanced kind of game of Frogger that I had to play in order to get over. Yeah, right. I thought, imagine this. Imagine if I missed any, and I just pictured it like I'd be able to see through the window you talking to Tim and Eric and me just being stuck as like floats go past, just waving at you going.

Like a crazy dream where all of a sudden you see me just being stuck as like floats go past, just waving at you going. Like a crazy dream where all of a sudden you see me leaving with them, like getting on a plane and going back to America with them. Yeah. But yeah, and you know, then we got into the foyer at the Grand Hyatt and it was a lot of, Bryn Edelston was there. Yeah, well, I saw her and I was so, oh, she didn't have her minders around her. I was just thinking I wanted to get a picture of me and her and then put it on the Dumb Dumb Twitter going, coming up Wednesday.

Bryn Edelston, everyone. Dennis Kometi was around. Yeah. A lot of players. A lot of VFL players, yeah. It was a bizarre vibe. It was a... Lethal Lee Matthews.

Yep. Yep. Do you know what that is? I've heard some of those words before. I've heard the word lethal. Is it like, is he like lethal weapon? Yeah, it's like a word in a dictionary. Okay. Yeah. Good. That story checks out. I've heard some of those words before. I've heard the word lethal. Is he like lethal weapon? Yeah, it's like a word in a dictionary. Okay.

Yeah. Good. That story checks out. I saw the word. I don't have a dictionary with me here, but I'll take your word for it. It was fun though. Like they were, I thought they were good. I thought in terms of, uh, that's very much, I guess you could say that doing that sort

of thing is kind of outside of the wheelhouse of what we do on this show. Yeah. It was a bit more of a straight interview, wasn't it? So people that are really into them, you would have enjoyed that, hopefully. Hopefully, yeah. And people that didn't know. Actually, people that didn't know about those guys, let us know if you still enjoyed it.

Because it's sort of a weird one, I guess, isn't it? Yeah, and I think they were funny. There was enough funny bits in there. I mean, I went into it very, because I had seen them on other things where I think they have a bit of a propensity to fuck around with people. Right. That is their want. Yeah.

And, you know, when Tim turned up, he pretended that he had no voice, which I thought, oh, here we go. This is part of the, this is part of the ride. But they were lovely. They were lovely gentlemen. Tim turned up with his minder and then I did a little joke where I went to the minder, I went, oh, you don't, you don't look anything like you do on TV. Yeah.

And then he went, yep. And I went, oh, someone's either made that joke before or it's not a very good joke. Or both. Yeah. So, yeah, we should stress if they've still got a bunch of dates around the country when this comes out. We went to the show last night. We did. It was good.

It's a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. Especially if you like the show. Yeah. It's We went to the show last night. We did. It was good. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, especially if you like the show. It's a great vibe of all the fans, and it's a good show for playing up to the stuff you already know. Yeah, yeah, and they do signings and stuff afterwards, and they're very nice. It's not unlike a band concert where you turn up, and if you like the songs already, you'll hear them again, or you'll hear stuff similar, and you really get into it.

Yeah, for sure. So definitely go and check that tour out. Their website, timanderic.com, has all the details. I want to also thank our friend of the show, Sam Gray, for coming down and helping us record that with his little portable recorder. That was very nice of him. And, yeah, if this is your first time listening to the show, if you're just a Tim and Eric fan who's hunted us out and never listened,

thank you for joining us. We hope you've enjoyed this episode. Maybe go back and listen to some of our other ones now if you like. Maybe get in touch. Introduce yourself to us.

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new mates of the show. For sure. And I guess is there anything left to say? No, I think that's it. Alright, well until next time this is Chad and Morrick saying For sure. And I guess, is there anything left to say? No, I think that's it. All right. Well, until next time, this is Chad and Morrick saying...

See you, mate! That was nice.