This Is Important - Ep 245: No More Flowers, AGAIN.

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

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Today on This Is Important. Our podcast is literally a fucking goosebumps book, dude. If you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious. Brother, you are a lucky man on Chanté. Let's go! Woo! Yeah man! Wow, dude!

What up, fellas? We just did a lot of ads get ready get ready Ti nation do you guys like doing them before the show or do you like doing them after I don't like doing them Maybe ever okay. It's not my favorite part of the day. I like talking with my boys That's why I got into podcasting. You know I like talking with ya same so you're not gonna answer the yeah Yeah, I would say out of those two options After yeah, cuz then you could bail Yeah, we throw that one to Isaac we punt that one yeah, maybe I maybe we should have Isaac do a couple that'd be fun

Okay, Hyundai. I know that. Therapy is important. Uh, therapy's important. Um, H-E-L-P.com. Help me. T-H-I-S-I-S. It's called Original Penguin. Penguin? We were talking, so we're doing

some commercials for Original Penguin. As we do. we do now I say penguin yeah they say Blake penguin penguin peng when peng going you sound like you're speaking another language you sound like you and Adam you say penguin in a penguin why would you say penguin. I say penguin. Why would you say penguin when there isn't an I? Because that's how I was always raised to say penguin.

When my mother took me to the zoo as a young boy, she said, look at that penguin. And I go, that's how it's said. Yeah, but your parents constantly said the N word around the house too, but you don't say it. Fuck it. No, they didn't. That is not true. They didn't. That's not even funny. That's not even it. No they didn't. No that is not true. They didn't.

That's not even funny. That's not even funny. That shit's important. I'm just saying this analogy doesn't work because they were constantly saying the N-word. That's not, that is disparaging. That's, I don't like that Ders. I do not like that but you're right, my dad and uncles were but uh Right, my dad and uncle's were. But, uh... Ninkum. You wanna see it? No, they were saying words incorrectly a lot. But, I'm...

But, Anna and Mark producers on the podcast they both said Penguin the way I said Penguin. So... No! You're a stupid dumbass. I mean, this is what's fascinating about language, you guys. stupid dumbass. I mean this is what's fascinating about language you guys Yes, you want to turn down your radios and not listen for a little bit

Yeah There are there are words that like don't exist or phrases that aren't the phrase that become the phrase like down the pipe Or down and down the pipe. It's down the pipe and it becomes so like ubiquitous like ubiquitous that like Then it is what it is like people say comfortability. Hey, I don't know if that's a word Comfortability. Yeah comforted ability or comfort of how do you say it? Well, Jesus Christ Hold up like about a bed or a pair of shoes or like a couch. Yeah the comfortability of I don't know if that's a word It's just the comfort. Is it comfortable? Well, maybe a company made that word up.

Yeah. Like they were like, there's no other way to describe these mattresses. Well, so then is Chris Mahanekwanzika also real? What are we doing here? If companies are just making up words. Yeah. Tredyken.

Farfagnugen. I don't know if that's a real word. Farfagnugen is definitely a German word. I don't know what Far's a real word. Farfik Nuggen is definitely a German word. I don't know what Farfik Nuggen... Haagen-Dazs is not real. Farfik Nuggen was a Volkswagen ad campaign in the 1980s. Oh, God damn. God damn, you're so old, dude.

Is that real? God damn! I also like that you're currently dressed like you walked out of 1986. Yeah, I might have. Goodbye. Beep, beep, beep, beep beep beep. Ew.

Beep beeeep. What are they called those? What are they called those? Like the little B-boys that come out with a little cardboard? I'm crazy legs. What's that? Yeah dude, damn. Yeah, that topical reference.

That would be sick. That would be sick. Shout out crazy legs. I would love to watch you break, dude. That would be tight. If I tried, I would. I'm breaking over here. I would snap. I'm breaking over here. Adam's breaking every. If I tried, I would. I'm breaking over here. I would snap.

I'm breaking over here. Adam's breaking every day. Breaking the sweat. Dude, I'm breaking every day. Yes, points! Dude, how about our podcast gets no love. I tell all these crazy stories on the podcast. It gets, the press doesn't pick anything up.

Zero traction. And then when I go on, I did this Graham Bessinger interview, and I did this interview Blake Are you familiar everything everything that I said became a news article? What is Graham Bessinger? Yeah exactly right? Goodbye, I mean no shots fired against him But I didn't know who he was until sure until I said until I did the the interview and then I like Recognized him when when he was when he was like oh you want to do this interview and I looked up at Stuff and I'm like oh, yeah, I kind of see British

Guy from the Midwest Graham Norton. That's the most British name. I've ever heard Graham Bessinger Yeah, it does sound like it's like Graham Bessinger super nice guy great interview. We did it It's oh this guy's like a commentator somewhere isn't he no I think I don't think so I think he's not like a sports guy I don't think so I think he's not like a sports guy I don't think so I think he's exclusively does these was he like a bachelor or something? How do I know this guy? I don't think he was a bachelor but he just does these interviews you've probably seen him there it's on TV all the time okay and he does he's done everybody I gotta get to the bottom of this guy so I did it like suddenly like all the stuff with my health

It's like news everywhere. Everybody's just like oh my god Adam Devine Stein It became it was like entertainment tonight people fucking all all these things are covering it So here's my thing Don't you think that's just his producers are like we got a scoop we can push and like this is good clickbait I mean, well, do we have bad producers producers is that what we're saying uh-oh Shots fired I feel like you just said that Yeah, yeah, maybe that's possible, but then also I was getting a lot of people that would reach out about my health stuff Which is very kind of very nice, and I've got some good leads by the way

Really yeah, so I'm the guy that created a way out he's lost this guy named Alan And I'm blanking on his last name, I have his book around here somewhere. Iverson. Mmm. It's like the book on how to get out of pain. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. He reached out and he was like, I wanna help you. Wait, wait, like out of like chronic pain.

Out of chronic pain. Yeah, because what happens is you- I know, I've heard of this. You get stuck in a pain cycle and your body ends up, your mind ends up going, this is how the body is. Stuck in a pain cycle, that sounds like an anthrax album. Right, my parents' marriage. It could be. Go ahead, what?

And so then it rewires your brain to teach you how to get out of the pain cycle. I don't know, I'm gonna learn more. I'm gonna set up a Zoom with this guy. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, so pretty cool. But then the other article that- Saddle up on the pain cycle? I don't know. I'm gonna learn more. I'm gonna set up a Zoom with this guy, but yeah. Cool. Yeah, so pretty cool. But then the other article that- Saddle up on the pain cycle. I was like, that one, I'm like, I'm fine. I just talked about it on Theo Von too, so it's not that big of a deal. It's out there, all my pain stuff. I talk about it on our podcast every fucking-

Theo Von. Was he on The Bachelor? Yeah, were you guys like approaching it very seriously on his interview? Like, whereas like Theo, you guys are probably joshing around a little bit, making jokes. No, no, no. Both I was the same amount of Adam. You know, I'm like half serious. You didn't cry in the- The character you've curated carefully for the public eye.

Yeah, I wish we watched the Graham interview and- Adam's just bawling. They told me I was dying! They told me I was dying! No, I didn't cry but I wanted to um And then but then I told the story about how my toe fell off while masturbating He's go to he goaded me into it. He's like I was your toe fell off when you're in a bathtub once I'm like, how did you know this story? Any story there totally and then I did I told that story

Entertainment Weekly picked it up right uh People magazine picked it up was he glad that he heard the story on his podcast or was he like fuck What have I done my podcast is now? Devolved into uh no he he's the one who he was a go-dient inotomy. He wanted the stories. Graham, Graham, you dirty dog. You dirty dog. Bully, you bully. Grandma-ma.

Grandma-ma. Pern. Yes, points. Knucky grandma. The best in the business. So then Elizabeth Banks reaches out to me and she just sends me just the interview. Who reaches out? Elizabeth Banks. Yes to me, and she just sends me just the interview. Who reaches out?

Elizabeth Banks. Yes. The actress and director. And she just sent me the clip of the Entertainment Weekly article that is me dressed as Kelvin Gemstone in Head to Toe, Dumbass Balenciaga. I look insane with my hair looking insane. Hot, hot, hot. And it's just me looking all saucy going out of the vine, masturbated so hard

his toe fell off. And that's the headline, dude. The fuck, man. Dude, that is a cool ass headline. It was. It was kind of. I would pay good money for an orgasm like that these days. Just something that blasts your toe off.

You're fucking, you J-O so hard your toe falls off. Unreal. God damn. God damn. God damn. Honey, get the swiffer. You're fucking you J. Oh so hard your toe Honey get the swim I feel uh any I would say 85% of any other person of everyone else would have been mortified 85% of people would have been mortified at that, but... Of other person. Their entire torso, one arm, their face, not the back of their head, both legs, one dick. Frankenstein. Goddamn! Goddamn. Could you imagine?

I'm just thinking about my toes curling so hard. Would you be bummed if there was an Entertainment Weekly article about you, Blake, that said your toe fell off? No, all press is good press. Wasn't there one about him dying, jumping on a ping pong table? Yeah, no, that was all good. That was when I was riding high, baby. There's no such thing as bad press. Come on. Now they're like, this guy can't be insured, mate.

Fuck it! He's a wild dog. He's uninsurable. Uninsurable. I'm living in the pain realm. That's when you know, you're you're doing something, right? Yes, go ahead if you're if you're uninsurable like then you're like, thank you like a jockey You're a people's champ, you know, if like the movie studios they go we can't even insure this guy. He's a liability You know that the you go on the streets and people are just hollering your name Yeah, you know,, you're a hero They know you're gonna die. So they give you all the attention all the props. You're not here for a long time

They're just handing you flowers. They're just handing you flowers on the street. Oh, okay. Thank you to speaking of flowers Do we even get into this? Oh what poor what? What do you mean? What Val Kilmer? Oh? Yeah Fuck what are we what are we doing? Val Kilmer. Oh yeah. Fuck. What are we? What are we doing? Fuck. I'm like freaking out that we talked about Warwick Davis so much.

This motherfucker is about to just get hit by a train. He is. We did it again. Our podcast. Our podcast is literally a fucking Goosebumps book, dude. Like anytime we mention someone, they fucking die, man. It's fucking weird. I could see Blake just pulling off his mask. He's R.L. Stine underneath there, just weaving this tale.

Right. Dude, it's crazy. This is basically Say Cheese and Die, but with the podcast. It's unreal, dude. Was the Monster Ring, was that a R.L. Stine book? Monster Blood, I think it was. That was one a R.L. Stein book monster blood I think was that was one. Yeah Yeah, seems real. I remember the monster ring a kid put on a ring and became like stronger or something and then slowly turned into a monster To a CBS story break cartoon pretty good my you know what I think would be a good thing

You know what I think would be a good thing? It's we're older and you know you got a little coin you got a little coin in the pocket from all those ads that we Just fucking read Yeah penguin penguin This would be to buy all the goosebump books for our children like the whole catalog Goosebumps oh like like just drop just drop like a whole ass bookshelf on them with all the books Yeah, just say here's everyone. Yeah, you did like five of them are pretty good Sorry notice sorry no diss dude it was a time and place but like going back, you know, whoa you've gone back What are you talking about? Of course, man.

Wait. I had to know if night of the living dummy held up. I had to know. Well, you know, they're, they're four children. It's not going to hold up. Well, they can still- If you re-clifford the big red dog, it doesn't hit in the same way. Oh dude, I do.

And it still does. You'd be surprised. It still does. Just wait. Just wait. Dude, Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go now? It is better now that I'm older. Dude, it hits different.

It hits different, bro. It hits different. DON KAY! Reading the giving tree now, you're like, when he's old, he goes and sits on the stump. Dude, what's the stone soup or whatever? What was that one? You remember stone soup? What was it? Every Wednesday night.

No one remembers stone soup. What the fuck are you talking about? Dude! It's where the guy tricks people into serving up ingredients. He's like, I got the stone and it tastes delicious. We need some, if I'm bringing the stone, you gotta bring the carrots. And they're like, okay. And you bring the corn and they're like, wow, it does taste good. But he just tricked them into giving them free ingredients.

Yeah. Dude. Oh, so this is like a book to teach your children to lie to people in order to get what they want? Yes, it's a survival instinct. You have to know these things. Smart. Just be smart. Stone soup. Stone soup. I'm sorry that, you know, I'm going to do a take back right now. I'm sorry that I yelled at you about stone soup because apparently it is real. I guess my parents didn't read to me because I don't know stone soup at all but happens the the one where it's like the grandma and

You know that one yeah, I keep going Say less But I feel like, talk about yourself. I'm gonna grab this book real quick. The one about the grandma. What's her name? I know her name. It's like a really cool name.

Naked grandma! I don't know. The real banger was the one where like the teacher had like, had no control of the classroom and then the substitute showed up. Those illustrations, that teacher was frightening. Yes. classroom and then the substitute showed up. Those illustrations, that teacher was frightening. Yes. The teacher who shows up is hella scary and mean. And then it makes the kids want their original abusive teacher back.

Exactly. And I think on the last page you see like the wig in the purse. Oh, do they never actually tell you that they were the same person? I mean, I think that's how they do it, is they show the wig in the purse just in the drawings I think in the illustrations. I think miss Nelson is missing dude. Oh, that is a fucking Banger day is a banger. It is that's a really great book. I also like it makes me want to find miss Nelson You know God damn she had a gooky booty. Wait, what? It's worth doing it. It's science.

It was, uh, it's in my son's room, I think. I thought it was out in the living room, but it's in my son's room. Well, wake him up! He's taking a nappy! Yeah, I love, man, naps rock. It's nappy o'clock! Love a good nap. Yeah, well, it's dope. And by the end, you're like, crying.

My mother gave it to him, and it's about, like, a grandma, and she's end you're like crying my mother gave it to him and it's about like a grandma and she's You know they die and shit The grandmas die so what it sucks. It sucks for kids. Is this about the grandma dying? Yeah, I wish I had it right now. It's just it's a real tear-jerker. It's a blue book And there's a and there's a grandma and there's a real tearjerker. It's a blue book. And there's a grandma in it. And there's a grandma in it. Okay. Nucky grandma! It's new?

No, it's old. It's a classic. Wait, what's the one about like the teddy bear and the little kid is dying, but the teddy bear is with the kid the whole time and then I think they have to light the bear on fire because it has the disease? No. I don't know. Not real, dude. Good night, good night, construction site.

You don't have to make something up to like be cool around us. It's called the Velvet. The Velveteen Rabbit? Yes. Yeah, it is. It is. That is a bad name. And isn't that about a sick person who has a rabbit and then the rabbit gets...

Honestly, Blake, you're a sick person. Goodbye. I don't know what it's about. I just remember the title and the illustrations. Dude, I think that story is like really, really tough. Is it a Hans Christian Anderson? You know, that's probably not. But I remember the Velveteen Rabbit being extremely sad very sad book

Frog and Toad you guys doing Frog and Toad Love Frog and Toad love Frog and Toad that the the illustrations in that banger unreal unreal Yeah, we we were still like I mean we're reading but this boy just does not he will rip the page out of the book He will chew on the side He can't read yet. Fuck it's 13 months. He doesn't say dad. He doesn't say dad. He doesn't say mama Gotcha, bitch You know, they say at 12 months your child is if they can't speak that's okay But by 13 months, he's an idiot if he can't speak. Yeah

Yeah, that's what people say. Par for the course. That's what people say. Maybe he's just not speaking to you guys. Maybe he's talking to other people, but he's like, oh, here comes the dad. No, no, no, no. He's mostly just around us. So damn, I think we would notice. Yeah, it's a bummer.

And if I didn't love him so much, I'd trade him in for a new one. What? Have you tried twisting his arm? Pinching him really hard? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And saying daddy at the same time, so that there's an experience. Yes, that's what your dad did to you. Yeah, that's smart.

Go, mom! That's smart. I don't know if he did that, but I do have lots of just blank spaces in my past. I'm like, I don't know. Oh, God. But if I see I'm like, I don't know. Oh, God. But if I see pepperoni pizza, I start vomiting. I just start sweating. I can't wear a belt. And with that, let's go to a better help ad. Yeah, let's cut to a better help ad real quick. Real quick.

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If I see an extension cord, I shit my pants. Oh, God. Wait, were you hit with an extension cord? No. These are jokes, Blake. We're doing jokes. Keep up. No, I was hit with a fraternity paddle. That's how real I got. It was OK. There we go.

There's my boy. God damn. It was only a few times, but I got hit with one of those. You know, those things that you wouldn't say it's one of the worst. No, this is not what in spoon. You've told us a wooden spoon before. So this is a he's holding of a fist. This is a fist.

He was punched. Yes, mom Oh, you know those you know those stupid toys where you like hit the ball like the Hot Wheels track No Hot Wheels track bro that was it yeah Paddle ball like paddle ball yeah like little little cartoons like have them all the time. Oh with the rubber ball Yeah, yeah, I got the rubber ball would go up my ass Back and forth like this Oh with the rubber ball. Yeah. Yeah, I got the rubber ball would go up my ass It was a two-parter and it fucking hurt dude Wow Cuz you thought you could get away you couldn't no no no I I was never hit

Okay, I think I can tell you walk around like Yeah, maybe it shows. Yeah. Oh, 100%. But also, that's all good. It's modern society, man. Yeah. You feel ahead of the curve. Yeah. They probably felt bad after they made you OD on the loots. The few times that my mom would make my dad try to spank me, he would spank me, but he would pull his spanks. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's cool. Because he didn't want to hit me because he wasn't even there when I did the bad shit. So it'd be like he got home.

He got home from work and my mom was like, you have to give him a spanking. And my dad's like, OK, so then he'd be like, oh, give me bend over my knee. Right. And then would like pull the punch right before hitting me. And then I would like have to like be like ah No, that hurt so cool. Yeah fucking WWE do he's yes I'm a clothesline you you've always been acting you've been acting since very young and having to convince audiences Yes, yes. Thank you. Graham. Thank you. Graham dig indeed. Well done Yes, thank you Graham. Thank you Graham for digging deep. Well done, Graham. Graham home. Yessir

What his name is Graham and your last name is home Graham Graham home. Yeah nailed it like Here's a question because we me and Anders We me we call ourselves we may in the spotlight so I got tickets Great tickets by the way to Clippers game the other day. And I was like, let's see if I can get my boys, Blake and Durs to come. And then Blake was being real cagey about whether he wasn't responding. I was like, hey, any response back to this would be very helpful, Blake. Nothing, nothing. That went on for a couple hours.

Meanwhile, the person who's giving me the tickets are going, hey, I need to know who you're coming with. I have to send them the tickets. I'm going, hey, I'm trying to figure it out, trying to figure it out. And he's like, is Blake going to be able to make it? I'm like, I don't know. And then you told me you're not coming, which, fine. But you were being...

I'm pissed now! You were being a little kidgy. You were being like, normally I know you would be like, hey dude, my daughter's doing X, Y, Z or whatever. You'd give me a little reason. This time you were like, I can't, thank you. And I'm like, oh. I can't say.

Kurt, Kurt. And then I heard through the grapevine that you went out the day before to a Hollywood party. Yeah, I did. And did you then send it at that Hollywood party and came home, played your music too loudly and the neighbors called the police and you were arrested? Look at this little detective.

Look at this little detective. Hollywood. And then maybe your wife or girlfriend came out and got in a shooting altercation with Look at this little detective. Look at this little detective. Hollywood! And then maybe your wife or girlfriend came out and got in a shooting altercation with the police. Mugrock, getting radical. Or was that the basis of Weezer? I wish it was that cool. I went to the Hacks Season 4 premiere party, that is true.

So that's not as cool. I got to see my friend Megan Stoltz. They're very funny. A very very funny comedian. Everybody should check her out. But is this show funny? Hacks? Yeah, Hacks is funny. It's a good comedy for sure. It makes me L.

Yeah, I like Hacks. I actually was very responsible at that party. I drove, I drove home. And why were you responsible? Under or over four drinks? Four drinks. I had one drink. Shut the fuck up. I swear to God.

You swore to God? Yes. To Lord. Well he drove. Yes. I did. I had one drink. But why? Is it because it was HBO? Is it because the Hacks people are a little more classy? They're already wearing wide pants and like flowy clothes. They're very fashion forward. The comedy is a little higher brow than you trying to make your dick turn into an aardvark or whatever you do to be funny. I'm drunk now.

Yeah, no. They weren't going to get my whole dick aardvark thing at all Yeah, yeah, that sucks cuz to me that's one of my favorite bits of yours And that's why you had one drink now. I just didn't I it was what what day was it? Was it a Tuesday or a Wednesday? It was a Monday. It was Monday. It was a Monday I had you know, I have the kids like I just wasn't trying to like turn up copy that. Yeah I just wanted to say what's up to people I know who will work on the show. Okay. Well that to me is maybe the most surprising thing I've ever heard you say. So...

So... I'm a new man. I'm a new man. Alright. I'm saving it for the cruise. So then... I'm a dude. The Tuesday night, what was...

I mean do you not want to get into it? Is this... Do you don't want to open this Pandora's box of why you couldn't? No. It's really not that entertaining. My eldest daughter was not feeling well and it was my night to make dinner. So I just had prior, I can't wheel and deal like I used to. I got responsibilities, man. And by the way, I really respect that.

Thank you. It just, it threw me for a fucking loop. It did, it did. What I was hoping for, Adam, was him doing his fucking Dick Aardvark thing at the Clippers game. Yeah. I was intoxicated. Didn't get that. Dude, I would have loved to,

because I haven't been to that stadium during the game yet, and I know it's cool. I know it's cool. He likes to go to stadium. When they're empty, yeah, it was just, when there's nothing happening. No, I went for Olivia Rodrigo. Come on, go ahead. What an experience. Thank you, Netflix.

Freaking see ya. Yeah. Live basketball, I was saying it feels intimate. Intuitism. And yet it still probably houses 30,000 people. I don't know how many houses. Yeah, I think 20,000. The way they got the boxes, we had a box, Netflix box, and the way they set up the boxes is that they're not up high far away They're underground and then you just kind of walk across the hallway from your box and you pop out Six row or something like that and the seats are perfect. Yeah Wow

Yeah, there's I think it's like 15 rows up, but it's like perfect. So you're just you can still hear the players Like yell at each other. I mean, it's the acoustics in that stadium are unreal. It feels like a fucking video game inside. That's rad. Also, the thing that fucked me up was there's no what do you what we call the scoreboard jumbotron hanging over this. The court, it's like a circle that you look up and across to.

That's rad. So that so there's this huge opening above that. I'm just like, we can't fly drones in here with advertisements. I can't get the blimp that usually flies around these places. Give it a second. Well, they were doing that. They didn't do it this game, but when they do the t-shirt toss, sometimes they'll have the players up on that ring, like, you know, yeah, video of them. Yeah, they throw they have the t-shirt and sometimes they'll have the players up on that ring like you know yeah video of them Yeah, they throw they have the t-shirt and they throw it and then from that part of the ring a t-shirt shoots out towards you

So it looks like the players are throwing the t-shirts out which That's cool that gets me excited for the future. Speaking of t-shirts getting thrown, they're going crazy. They're clapping their hands. They're pointing to the audience. They're getting ready to toss t-shirts. I see this dude, and I tell Kyle, right next to me, I go, I can't believe Kyle went and I didn't. He's going to throw it to me.

Kyle was there. Dude. Kyle was there. I was trying to get the whole gang out. Fuck. Water trash. Anyways, the guy threw me a shirt after I just go this Guy's about to throw me a shirt cows like whatever and then he throws it Chuck's it

I give Kyle's wife a shirt just to boss him out one more time. Yeah In front of him. Yes smart. I say excuse me Kyle give it to his wife. Oh my god. That is so disrespectful Dude, wow, where was I? I didn't see this day. And I get, I said, put the song right. See ya. I said, I think this will look better on you. That's what you said. Yeah. And wonder why Kyle left the pod.

And then I don't, I go to, I go to Kyle and I say, I tell Kyle, I go, you're a lucky man. It's really the nicest thing to say but also just It's wild that was left in the 90s nobody says that in the 90s You're I don't think anybody said that in the 90s even knew you're They first my wife Janet he she's a lucky You are a man man. I was intoxicated. Yeah, she's a lucky... She's a man. I was intoxicated.

Yeah, no, that's still said to me kind of often. What? You gotta fight whoever says that. Everyone's trying to fuck your wife then, dude. No, I mean it's usually... Yeah, you gotta chill. It's usually older guys that are just thinking they're complimenting, you know,

I don't think it's, they're trying to fuck her I mean maybe yes for sure well they're at least sniffing around to see if you're swingers Adam if you were spanked you might realize this but yeah you go through life thinking everybody means well instead of everyone's abusive like that's my perspective that's just yeah you know you're sniffing around to see if you guys are swingers. No doubt about it. I don't think so, dude. Oh, there's that.

There's that. I mean, there could be that, but I don't think that's what's happening. By the way, I learned this. I have this little Hawaiian shirt. It's got pineapples all over it. I really like that. I really like that. And that's a swinger shirt. Did you know that pineapples are the international... You do? Yeah.

You do? Yeah. Upside down pineapple. What? Is the international sign that you're a- But what does that even mean? Like if you have, they will wear like necklaces with an upside down pineapple. Is it cause like an upside down pineapple

looks like a butt hole? Maybe. Get on that thing. Maybe, I don't know why. Or maybe pineapple, like if you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious. Oh yeah it does. It really does. Supposedly.

But why upside down? So this is like an emoji thing? How do you even send one upside down? No, you nail it to your front door. Yeah, they'll like wave flags. Like they'll have a pineapple flag. They'll wear upside down pineapples like at bars. Everybody's coming.

Like necklaces. People will have tattoos. Adam knows. What are other things I do? What are other things I do? Oh, okay. Adam's, the name of Adam's boat is upside-down pineapple. What? Weirdly, my parents taught me a lot of this because in Lake of the Ozarks there's like a big swinger community and they see that shit out and about all over the place Oh yeah, they're just bored out of their minds

My mom's like, yeah, I just, did you know? And she tells us every time we're down there and we're like, we know mom, what are you guys getting into down here? Order! That shit's important How many times a day in the Ozarks is someone saying, you're a lucky man? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That still goes. But Ozarks is stuck in the night. Brother, you are a lucky man, Enchanté. You are a lucky man. And isn't the Ozarks fucking cool for that very reason? That you just enter a time warp when you're there? You're like, whoa, what happened? What happened?

punk rock getting radical what is it 2021 here what the fuck it's fucking tight, dude. I love those ours We gotta go back and put in some time and I gotta wear this pineapple shirt come back Hey, dude, come back. You could bring the family My parents would love if there's just a bunch of little kids running around their compound Is that what you want to do Blake bring the family? Sure, yeah, I mean that wasn't what I was originally thinking about that That's what you're gonna hear you are a very lucky father

Wow, I Think we got to go wow, I think we gotta go. I think we have to leave the shady gator We'd love to hire your daughter at this hot chick gas station on the dock. Oh yeah. Remember that? I was like, what is the program here? Well, they hire like 17, 18 year old girls

to walk around in bathing suits to tie up boats. And it seems inappropriate, but also- They just pump gas in bikinis. It's totally inappropriate that's a cool job you're just like a lifeguard or something you're like they're just no Adam if you're a lifeguard you're wearing a bathing suit because you're about to jump in and save somebody in water if you're on a dock you can wear jean cutoffs and a fucking tank top you don't have to yeah but they

might have to dive in that That's true. For what? If someone falls off their boat. That's not their responsibility. Oh, come on. No, no, that's everyone's responsibility. OK, that's where I'm going to stop you. See something to say something. I would say that it's probably creepy for visitors to be like, why are who hired

all these high school girls to just pump gas and bikinis? Yeah, no, I see. I see what you're saying. But I will say if you're local, you probably know all these high school girls to just pump gas in bikinis? Yeah, no, I see. I see what you're saying. But I will say, if you're local, you probably know all these girls anyway. You're like, yeah, it's Mike's daughter. Da da da da da. She's got huge titties. It's just Mike's daughter. It's just Mike's daughter with huge titties.

With your fucking pineapple suit on. Hey, Mike, I didn't realize it. You, your daughter. He has just a giant upside down pineapple chain that he's wearing. I'm actually the principal of the high school. She's a great student. She's a good student. Super smart.

Ah, oh darks. But now it's like I've seen her pumping gas. Jesus. She's got cheeks, Mike. She's got cake. She's got cake. Is she cake or is she human? Or is she human?

Pineapple upside down. I love when Blake chimes in with the modern terms. Is she cake or is she human? Or pineapple upside down. I love when Blake chimes in with the modern terms. Is she cake? I need to find out if she's cake. Hey, are you cake? Yes, punch! Why are you walking towards me with a knife? I just wanted to see if you're cake or if you're human.

Oh man, I can't wait. I can't wait till I'm a super dirty old man And I can drop that cuz I was a judge on is it what is the age to like be considered a dirty old man? 60 I feel like we're there. Oh, we're there. Yeah. Yeah. No way 20 year old. We're there Yeah, actually We're there. Yeah, actually. Shit, man. Fuck.

Blake, you're there. Just with your scruff. No, because I'm like. The fact that you're like, your little tuft of hair is kind of popping out. Bro, it's hot. You're wearing a pineapple shirt. I look like a predator. You look like a Kreet, dude.

Yeah, now that you're calling me out, I do look fucking gross. God damn it. Well, it's okay I love how Blake's coming back to the docks getting more gas pumped like we didn't we just fill you up. Mr. Anderson I'm back. Why is your why does your mouth smell like gasoline? Were you siphoning gas out of your boat to come back here, sir? Yeah, I'd love to fill you up I just took a couple whippets anybody want some galaxy gas. How old are you creepy? Yeah, I'm sorry. I was thinking like, you know, we're like the same age as like Chris Pratt I don't think of him as a creepy old man. But then again, it's how you carry yourself I suppose well Chris Pratt is older right and

Also, yes to a 19 or 18 year old girl, Chris Pratt is ancient. Wow, dude! If he's dropping, your boyfriend's a very lucky guy. She's going, this creepy old guy just fucking... Yes, this creepy old guy. But by the way, by the way, I think Chris Pratt is like a wildly famous movie star. Right. Right. I think Chris Pratt is like a wildly famous movie star. Yeah, right. Yeah, right, right So right that sort of that and I'm a wildly famous

cake judge so Yeah, yeah, that's true and Adam isn't that that is what you said when we were always talking about Kevin Spacey back in the day You're like, yeah, but he is a wildly famous movie star and we'd go Adam again with the wildly famous movie star stuff I just don't know if it holds water pal. I don't I don't even understand this reference You don't know what? Okay, creepy old guys You gotta watch k-pax you got to dude I have got he's a great actor is I love that guy he's our best He is. I love that guy.

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Can we pivot back to what got us here in the first place? What's that? Frickin' Val, RIP, Val Kilmer, dude. Yeah, Val, RIP. He rocked, dude. He rocked. Favorite Val movie, go. That is hard, but I will tell you, the movie, you guys have seen top secret, right?

It's the best. MacGruber. MacGruber is awesome. Yeah, but I remember seeing Top Secret when I was pretty young and it's a really zany goofy movie in the style of like a Naked Gun or whatever. Zucker Brothers style. Yeah. Yeah, and it's just freaking so dope, dude. Yeah, when the Nazis are surfing and then the chick comes off of the sand with her titties and holes rewind

I love it rewind rewind. I feel tombstone. It would be my favorite. Oh tombstone is a Legendary performance. Yeah, I started that last night with the boys. They were like, this is cool It's so good. The cast is crazy and Billy Zane is in it. Yeah, Billy Zane is Zane Zane is on Beautiful no flowers. No flowers. No flowers. No flowers. Don't give the guy flowers Billy Zane is a fucking doll in that movie I'm like the fuck did remember when I did my When I took my I wish I still had that photo, but he was like on an old flip phone my very first that photo but he was like on an old flip phone. My very first time ever on TV was doing that Samantha Who show with Christina Applegate. Oh yes. And Billy Zane was a guest star on the show. I saw Billy Zane like and we were shooting on

the Warner Brothers lot. So we're like on a stage there and I go Mr. Zane I'm I'm I'm a fan like this is cool to meet you and he goes we're gonna take a stage there and I go, Mr. Zane, I'm a fan, like this is cool to meet you. And he goes, we're gonna take a photo. I did not ask for a photo. I didn't ask to take a photo. Is that why you do that now? Yeah, I do it just so we stop talking. I'm like, let's just get a photo.

That's probably what he's trying to do. But I was just like, I'm a fan. He goes, we're taking a photo. And I'm like, oh, okay. And then we took a photo. He looked at it and he goes, that's not good enough. We're too, we're in the shadow. And I go, oh, then we walked around looking for better light

for a couple of minutes until we're like crouched in a stairwell. He gets it. Wake up! And so it's us crouched in this stairwell. It's it. Wake up! And so it's us crouched in this stairwell. It's cool, like a bean boy stance. Yeah. And then he looks at your phone,

he's like, you are a very lucky phone. I'm like, I don't know what's going on here. Oh, you're just saying. Okay, what's your favorite Billy Zane movie? Hang on, I got a Zane story in my old neighborhood. I'm walking around. Zaniacs. Yeah, we're a couple Zaniacs.

And Billy Zane is standing in the middle of the street, not a busy street, and he's looking at this house. And he goes, hey, you live here? And I go, yeah, I live around the corner. He goes, where's the grocery store? And I'm like, it's about a mile that way. He goes, okay, that's convenient. I might be buying.

And I was like, all right, Billy Zane, gonna be a neighbor. The end. Blake, what's your Zane story? Somebody help me! Was this in Silverlake? Yeah, this was 10 years ago or so. And he didn't move in?

I don't know. Fuck. I'm not a fucking celeb gossiper like you did. All right, Jesus, I don't have a Zane story. I've never met that. Why, you don't have a Zane story, dude? I will say I worshiped the movie The Phantom when I was a kid. For some reason I loved The Phantom. Really? That was the reason he'd never worked again, right?

Yeah, that was... I fucking loved it, dude. Like at 7-Eleven they would give away free Phantom rings and I would go there every day and get a new one. The more we talk about him, I'm like so scared. I'm like we can't keep talking because I was just to go, he looks amazing in this new Godfather. It's like the making of the Godfather and he's playing Marlon Brando and he looks exactly like Marlon Brando. They just did that show, the offer. I don't know if this is a, yeah no I know, but I don't know if this is like a Brando

movie or if it's a Godfather movie but he's's dressed as Brandon doing godfather would make a great brando Do man he's gonna do the trailer. I watched trailers of movies I'm never gonna see and then I watched it and I was like I might have to fucking watch this But was known was wildly regarded as a bad movie But we know it's about Blake Blake likes Congo these are moves that just But then but then the rotten tomatoes, okay, can we guess what the run tomato score? It's not good But it's infinitely better than game over man. Okay, okay, okay So that's that's our movie game over man. I think

Was it like 18% or 11 or something not great. It's a bagel. What do we think the Phantom is? I'm gonna go with 37. 30. I was about to say 36 dude. I swear to God. That's a different number. It's not special at all.

It's not special at all. It is one away, but it's not like it's the same number. I'm going with 36%. I'm going with 36. So you're stoked on that we both were in the ballpark of... Yeah, Game Over Man was 19%, which they got that wrong. That's unwarranted. Yeah, that's unwarranted. They got that wrong. History will bend towards us. Well, you know what it is, is we killed the dog.

If we wouldn't have killed the dog, It's science. We would have gotten 100% run tomatoes. Really? Damn, that's crazy. I'm gonna write a book called Kill the Dog instead of Save the Cat. 43% the Phantom. 43%.

43? Yeah. God damn! So Ders got it, cause he was a little closer. Sure. That's not bad one dollar Bob You know I just I was listening his podcast with Adam McKay. Okay, and he was telling the story about how that when they were Test screening Anchorman for the first time they got crazy low scores

Yeah, that's crazy, and he was like oh my god Did we make a bad movie? And then, but the universal thing that everyone hated was they killed the dog. And he goes, it's a comedy. Because they punted the dog. So funny. Because he punted the dog. So then they added a little thing. That's how I roll. At the very end of the movie where the dog lands and is safe. And they just tagged it on at the end and it saved the movie. The next time they screened it do those Scores skyrocketed through the roof. Yeah, Blake has pitched this I told you the save

I told you the save you have the little frickin pup come out in a skintendo joy suit at the end going It's still alive and goes like, you know licks Adam's face. Yeah Yeah, and then and then 100% 100% tomatoes What it got what it got us there 100% we'll do a recut. What are you gonna do? You know fuck the critics? Met a critic were in 89 though there you go and I'm rotten tomatoes now is we're not he's lying Oh run tomatoes now It's like an act of vengeance people tank movie scores just to like fuck with the movies now Game over man was the last movie Gene Siskel reviewed an act of vengeance. People tank movie scores just to like, fuck with the movies now.

Game Over Man was the last movie Gene Siskel reviewed. Oh fuck. Is that true? Is that not real, man? Richard Roper has our faces tattooed on his ass from Game Over Man. It's a bagel. Allegedly!

I believed you about the Siskel thing and now I don't believe you Ebert Ayo Scott Ayo Scott is under my desk blowing me right now because of Game Over man You know who we ran into that I know Blake would have loved is Kent Ultraman the old President of Comedy Central we ran into him at the Clippers game. Oh, yeah looking great He is he's now a hotshot producer. He was the president of comedy and you know where he he started off, I think at New Line. He was an executive at New Line for a while. And then he directed

semi pro. That's right. That's wild. And then from directing semi pro, he decided to be the head of a network at Comedy Central. That's right. And he was the man. He championed us the entire way. So it was cool to run into him. Yes. When I... Yeah. No, go ahead, Blake. Give flowers. When I saw the photo of you guys all together, I was extremely jealous and saddened that I didn't get to see Kent because I love him very much.

He's a very good dude. Did you show the picture of your daughter and you say, this is what happens when you get sick? I chose you over this. Over this. And then you grab the arm and you just twist. And there's almost no evidence. No, I didn't mention it.

What's cool about Kent is that when we we sold workaholics somebody else was president That's right, then they either left or quit or were fired or whatever and we were like, well fuck This person bought the show now. There's a new president It's common in Hollywood when a new president takes over that they cut all the stuff that's on the shelf Exactly, they want to start over clean house and then this is going to be their new like regime or whatever. And then if something's a super success then they've got to be like actually that was the old person that Greenlit that not me. Well they don't have to. A lot of them will take credit. No they never do. They go I think I added I titled I gave it

the name. But so he we our show didn't get picked up forever because of South Park waiting to come back from Broadway. And then when we got picked up, he called. He called. And he was like, yeah, we're going to pick it up for 10 episodes. And I was like, God, yeah, it took forever. He goes, yeah, sorry about that. I watched it as soon as I got the job. And I was like, well, I'm going to pick this up, but did have to wait. So sorry about that. And I'm like, this dude took the job, saw our pilot, knew right away that he was going to pick us up, but also knew he had to. And that's why he's the president of Cama Central.

He's the man. And he always felt like when he would come over and talk with us, it was like he was one of the guys, you guys. He didn't feel like an exec in a suit that we had to straighten up around. He wanted to be part of the crew. And by the way, under his reign, everyone listening, your favorite shows that were on Comedy Central were ones that he greenlit.

Oh yeah, Key and Peele, Schumer, Broad City, Kroll Show. Kroll. Ben Show, for those that remember that Ben show funny dude go back and watch it. What is the ben show? Dude, it was just this what was his name Ben? I don't know. It's pretty funny. There was so much funny shit Yeah, Blake you did I remember Blake coming into the writers and being like Ben show last night was pretty wild I mean it was like a re it was like a Nathan for you type Nathan for you. Yeah. Yeah. It was like kind of semi scripted. It was very funny. I don't remember the Ben show even a little bit. I everybody go back and watch it. It's actually fucking hilarious. Yeah. I'm good. Comedy

Central was a great network. It was crushing it. It was very cool. That was the era, dude. Yeah. Ben Hoffman. And what's crazy is now it just doesn't even mean anything at all to anyone. It's purely The Daily Show and some South Park. Right?

But I watch Daily Show on YouTube and I only watch it when Jon Stewart hosts. But like, it's bizarre. It's such a business strategy move that someone's like, you know, we get better ratings if we just play The Office reruns and it's like, is that what we're doing? We're just, we're settling? Yeah, that sucks.

Fucking thing sucks! We're gonna settle as opposed to like really take swings, like an FX or something like that, that that that like sure they played movie reruns forever But then they were like now we have money to make our own thing The FX come-up is a kind of also very crazy, but AMC did it like this isn't impossible well at this point it kind of is Ben Ben Hoffman who Was the Ben from the Ben show which I never saw and I don't even remember it being a thing, but he is Wheeler Walker, Jr. Do you know who that is?

The country guy, the country guy who sings like, like eating pussy and kicking ass. Oh, yeah. He sings like R rated funny country songs. Is this, that's who is this bussing or whatever? What was the one bussy bussy guy? Oh, no, no, no, that's no, that's just a gay guy bussing or whatever? What was the one bussy? Oh? No, no, no, that's no. That's just a gay guy. That's just a gay dude No, he sings all kinds of hit country songs, but he's like sort of making fun of country at the same time It's tongue-in-cheek

Yeah, well good for good for him. Yeah, the show is very funny if you go back and watch any guy Well any take backs any apologies any epic slams? Mmm. I just want to make sure that Billy Zane if you're listening, I hope you're take I hope you're taking vitamins I want you to go get a physical. I don't want anything going on and this for you Billy This is sort of a final destination situation because we accidentally you've been goosebumps. We put that upon you by talking about you in a loving way. So look out for if you're walking next to it like a railroad track.

Watch out for any like loose, loose metal that's vibrating there under a palm tree under a palm tree. A prawn might fall from the sky and cut your head off. Pineapple. If you're hiking near a volcano, don't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Not right now. Because our podcast ghost is coming for you.

And Blake, so The Phantom is your number one Zane movie? Absolutely. 100%. I love The Phantom. Adam, do you have a Zane? I have a Zane I have a zane that's why I'm asking okay let me look up Billy's day have you seen that you know have you seen dead calm no no the movies off the hook dude okay

never heard of it it's a it's like a slow burn thriller we're like this couple has a boat there in the middle the ocean the boats all fucked up so the guys like you know what let me go for. And then another boat takes him for help. He's like, I'll be back in a day, you just sit here, you're a dropped anchor, in the middle of the ocean. And then Billy Zane shows up on another boat and he's like, hey, what's up? And she's like... Those are like my favorite movies. Oh dude.

With just a creeper. It unfurls. I would like to play, that's like when you go to a meeting and like an executive asks like, what kind of role do you want to play? I always say I want to do my version of Fear, where they see me as like a, I was a sweet nice boy next door and then I'm a fucking psychopath. You can be yourself. Okie dokie.

So fun. You get to show the real you. The real me. You carve an upsidedown pineapple in your chest Fucking me. I would say Walton with Brando is my favorite That's gotta be the movie that's the one that's the blog Uplod them up loud them. I mean Titanic or so. I don't I guess he's not He's a great bad guy in that. Yeah, he was a good bad guy in that and tombstone

We started watching tombstone the The cast of Tombstone. Oh my god. The mustaches. I don't know. Like are people trying to make movies that good anymore? Like where the cast is legitimately 12 banger actors where you're just like, holy fuck. How are all these people in one movie? Like did they take pay cuts or were they just like, was the cast director just like a whole other level ahead of everybody was like This dude has never been in the thing. You're my guy this guy this guy and Sam Elliott Yeah, but also like you didn't know that fucking Val Kilmer was gonna absolutely Annihilate that role didn't they the the cast is unreal Billy Bob Thornton as like a little chunky youngsters

Yeah, he's the dude in the beginning who Kurt Russell established himself as like, he's causing problems. He goes over to Billy Bob and he's like, you're in my seat or whatever and slaps the shit out of him. Really? Yeah. I gotta re-watch it. And then he comes back with a shotgun. It's awesome. Yeah, that's dope. I just watch Val's scenes and I'm like, every scene is fucking memorable. You Wyatt Earp the third is in the movie. Okay, he's in the movie. He has to be

Plays Billy. Yes, sir. So that's tight. That's awesome. Yeah, that's really fucking cool Yeah, and then there's Billy Bob's in it. Yeah, please. Thank you powers booth Powers booth is the scariest actor of all time that guy rocks. He's so scary. He's already dead. I believe. Billy Zaynoff obviously. Jason Priestley. Kind of forgot he was in it. That's right. Yes. With the little glasses. My boy, my boy from The Outlaws, Michael Rooker. That guy fucking rocks. Looking really young. And of course Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, like just heavy hitters. Who's the guy from Sex and the City? Thomas Hayden Church is in it.

Thomas Hayden Church is in it? Looks hella young. Who's the like big, or no it's not Sex and the City, it's like my big frat Greek wedding, the boyfriend, that guy with the big face. I never saw that. Somebody help me! What is his name? That guy's in it. That's another episode of My Big Jess.

John Corbett. No flowers to any of these actors, but great work out there. Zero flowers. None, wouldn't do it, wouldn't do it. Although Thomas Hayden Church. Feel free to watch Tombstone again. Let's get those numbers up, up, up, up, up.

Absolutely. And feel free to watch Game Over Man again and maybe write a review. Post it. Stop by. Yeah, slide in Blake's DMs and tell him which is better, Game Over Man or Cornerstone Western, Tombstone. That's actually tough.

Yeah. Yeah, we drew a lot from it. What's better tombstone the movie tombstone the pizzas sliding Blake's DM Let him know and I want to Apologize for kind of thinking that you were being a degenerate and not coming to the basketball game because you were hungover on a Tuesday so So that's my fault to Blake and look at you Even though you dress and you look and you act and most of the time you are degenerate Right. Sometimes I'm proven wrong. Blake is dressed like a hotel hot tub cleaner And I looks like like a guy who isn't a coke dealer

But is always trying to sell you coke saying he knows a guy right? I can give him to you. He's like I can get you some and I would like to apologize to all my fans out there who wish That I was all hung over on a Tuesday, but I wasn't I'm the change man Responsible Wow see on the cruise don't love it It's gonna save for the cruise dry cruise and that to save it for the cruise. Try cruise. And that was another episode of This Is Important. Hollywood, baby. Lots of Hollywood talk this episode.

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