Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Adam DeVine

Episode Date: December 11, 2020

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it. Once again today, it's Adam Devine. Adam, cheers to you. Cheers to you, buddy back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it. Once again today, it's Adam Devine. Adam, cheers to you. Cheers to you, buddy. Cheers. Thank you for inviting me. Adam is an incredible actor, comedian, writer, performer, brain, gymnast.

For 17 years, he was on the U.S. Men's Olympic team. Yeah, that is a weird little known fact about me for 17 years. Why don't you talk about that anymore? It's like my dear little secret i don't want i don't want uh big hollywood to know if uh all of my talents right you want to hide some of that stuff you got to ooze them out through the years that's it's like when a guy uh when there's like a guy on that does a guest star i'm referencing something specific a guy that did a guest star on the show was doing like accents in between takes. And I was like, what are you doing? Like, what is he doing?

And he kept doing them like very like on, on Dave or on this show? On Dave. Okay. And we're doing like, how funny if I had background actors on this show. Yeah. Oh, I didn't hear background. He would walk. He would walk.

And I'm like, you do takes? Yeah. During the podcast? Mike and send them now. Okay. Cut. You know, I wish you could tell that story about when you're hit by the cement truck uh funnier a funnier add some judge to it i don't know make it like it was sunny out or raining uh no we had a this this guy this this this guy was a he was a guest star i'm sorry not background but he was a guest star uh but he kept doing accents and i was like

at first i was like he's just playing around and you know whatever and he was talking to one of the crew members and then it kept going and going and i was like oh he wants he wants someone to hear him do the accent yeah and then go this guy's great we gotta let this guy do the thing we have to put this guy on snl i i mean, I'm not going to call him out because he was on SNL. But an actor and I was doing like doing stand-up and doing

some show. I can't remember exactly what it was, but we were doing a show together. Right. And we're on the same bill. And we're in the green room together. And he kept talking to me in accents. Like wouldn't stop doing characters. Fallon.

This is Fallon. Wouldn't stop doing characters to where I'm like, I don't know if he has a real personality. If he's like a human. Right. Behind that. Right. Or if like his whole comedy cloak is like he's like a shell of a person. Then he like wraps himself in these characters and

he's like this is all i need this were any of them good they're all great okay okay he's very good at him sure he's fucking slam dunk all the time i want to know who it is so bad we'll talk off camera and the fans get mad they always like just tell us too and you're like no because that's you know well i'm also like uh blanket on his name a little bit. So it's fine. That's even better. It's also partly, I kind of. I don't really know who it is, but I know who it is.

I can tell, I can draw him right now. Right. If I could draw, I could draw him. Yeah, but that's it, but you don't know his name. I couldn't tell you. I forget people's name. Andrew? Andis.

Andis. I forget people's name on such a regular basis now that sometimes I'm afraid this here, I'll give you an exact reference I wish you were like this here, you pulled up I don't know who you are I was like Andy? I go Mikey

this is really sad and really does piss me off they love it on the pod AMSA ASMR it stands for Andrewrew santino more roar more roar yeah more roar that makes a lot of sense i couldn't remember i was thinking about you in the shower as i do every single uh thursday that's like a thing and i was thinking about when you first this is real when when adam and i first started doing stand-up together, or not at the same time, but when we met in LA.

Not that far off, probably. No, not too much. I think you started before me, I feel like, for sure. Because you worked at the improv, and then you were doing stand-up then, too. And I think I just moved to LA. Okay. But I specifically remember being at the bar at the improv again, and you showed up with Blake and you introduced me to Blake.

And you were like, and I was so turned on, honestly. And I rubbed my cock through his hair. Look at this hair. Sexy dude. And I remember you going, this guy's funny as shit. Blake's Santino, Santino Blake. And I was like, oh, nice to meet you, man. I was like, you do stand up?

And he goes, no, man, no, no, no, no, but no, I do comedy, but not stand up. And I was like you do stand up and he goes no man no no no uh no but no i do comedy but not stand up and i was like oh okay and then you mentioned you were like we're gonna do this show together and i was like oh all right well good luck well we were shooting like web videos i was kind of like running down two sort of parallel paths at that point where I was like I'm doing my stand-up and I have like a whole group of friends of like you and Morin yeah Ray and all those guys yeah Adam Ray and all those guys and uh like my stand-up buddies who fully just know me as a stand-up comedian and then my buddies that I live with that I'm shooting videos with who ended up being the guys i did workaholics with right so i was doing all that stuff kind of off to the side and like some people

kind of some people were like oh dude i saw that video that's pretty that was funny yeah like you're actually i love that compliment you're actually when like a bigger comic like especially when you're just starting out and you're like barely above an open mic level when you're just starting to get booked on real shows and like the bigger comic is like you're actually pretty funny yeah when they see something that isn't your stand-up they're like you're actually pretty funny it's like oh yeah because your stand-up i've seen and i hated it i didn't like you at all i don't even i can't believe I'm talking to you right now. You're actually, well, I get it. Sometimes people go, you're actually like a good actor, which is such an insult. And they don't, it's like, just say you liked the thing I did.

Don't go, you're actually a good actor. Because all it means is I thought you would suck. Yeah, for sure. I thought you would suck. I had no reference of why, but I go, Divine's going to suck. You know what? Did you think I was? uh yes well it just is because some stand-ups i would say historically stand-ups are bad actors because they're so the whole thing with stand-up comedy oh well for a lot of people is you have to get your voice down yeah and if if

you have your specific voice that pov that's what an audience will attract to and be like i fucking love his singular vision for his comedy but then when you're an actor you can't you have to embody the character totally you can't just be anderson tino yeah in the room in my thing yeah you've got you can to an extent like for sure well they want you right i've always said that they want to they want they hired you because they really like the piece of you that you found but you need to be i've said this before on the show i think there's only a handful of actually incredible actors everyone else i think is a range of like, pretty good, or you're good, or you're serviceable, or whatever.

Because for acting, it's like, only so many people are so fucking good that they can chameleon into a role, and you're like, I didn't even recognize. For sure. They transformed. For sure. I just want to be like a Vince Vaughn level,

where you're like, and huge i'm not saying i do have a giant ego i'm not saying i don't i want to be mega famous is what i'm saying more than i mean like he is an actor he is in uh he's not the perfect example i I would say I would like to be John Goodman where like just as far as career trajectory goes. Where you're like he can be the star of a sitcom. He can be number two on a sitcom and be fucking awesome and super lovable.

And then go off and be in like 10 Cloverfield Lane and be a fucking weirdo. And you still buy it. Yeah. No totally. I mean he's probably of the SNL like a ton. That's true. he's probably of the snl like a ton that's true that's true too he's done everything he's been a huge king motherfucking ralph he's done one of the best movies of all time he's done sitcoms i'm like if that to me is like a great career where and also not too famous right well he's he's he's famous but he seems like someone

who doesn't seek the attention so he's famous but he's not like i feel like if you were to see a i i i of like a will ferrell yeah like if someone if you're a big comedy fan and you see will ferrell you're like heart stops you're like oh oh shit oh my fucking god oh it's phenomenal oh oh the dude and then you see a john goodman and you're like oh i love that guy hell yeah hey john goodman yeah yeah yeah that's it right it's a different a different experience yeah of like uh yeah that is interesting well i don't i don't know why that maybe it's because he seems so fucking lovable and personable that you're just like oh i gotta I got to talk to John Goodman, which I think is a good characteristic to have,

but also you're somebody that's very lovable and super affable. They don't realize what an asshole I am. You're a piece of shit. They don't know that you're a dickhead. You've known me a long time. A long time. And they come up to you and they go, Adam Hayne. You go, fuck off. Yeah.

Fuck off, idiot. And then I just put my thumb like this and just dig it into him. No one will believe you. Get out of here it into him. No one will believe you. Get out of here, you little... No one will believe you. Like, how many times do you... When I started seeing you at Clipper games, because you got season tickets and I would go with Griff or whatever, or go with someone, how many times are people bugging you when

you're going? Did it turn into more annoying as time went on? Because at a basketball game, it's unavoidable that a bunch of people are going to be like, he's right there. Well, the thing is, it's always the worst and not even, I don't mind it.

So it's, I wouldn't say worst, but it's always the most, the first five to 10 games of the season. It's crazy. Until, because especially where I sit at Clipper games, a lot of those people are season ticket holders

or at least bought a 15-game package and they're used to seeing me there. And they kind of know that I'm going to be there, so it's not shocking. But like the first, you know, handful of games, people are like, oh, is that him? Is that him? What's his name?

What is his name? What's his name? Hey, Andy! What is it is it andy anders blake one of it's one of those names it is true that you when you hear someone go what is his name or what oh what's his name oh he's from the oh dude he's from um doing a modern family dude yeah and they'll just yell and then you you'll go, Hey, I'm very glad that I, uh,

chose when we wrote work, all this, when we were creating the show that we decided to go buy our first names. Wow. Because we, at first we didn't, we chose different names that were, I was Andy. Really?

I was Andy. Blake was Blaine. Blaine. And, uh, Anders was like Eric or some shit. And, uh, Comedy Central was like Eric or some shit. And Comedy Central was like, why not just do your first names?

And to their credit, they were very smart. They were like, if this show is the hit that we hope it is, people are going to scream this at you for the rest of your lives. So you're going to want a name. That's true. You're going to want just your first name. Change your last name. So then we changed our last names. Why did you you change the names i've always thought about that when you guys did the show something hit me i was like why is it because your name on the show was adam demamp that's right demamp yeah where did that what why that was my uh fake id name oh when i

was like 16 years old that's dope yeah i was uh my buddy got like the Photoshop first gen, like the first Photoshop. And he could figure out how to rearrange the letters in your name, but not, and delete letters, but not add new letters. Right, right. So you had to use the letters that were in your name to make a new name for yourself. Oh, wow, dude. Because we, I don't know, we're 16 years old and we're like, dude, if you use the real name and they catch you, you're prison. Prison for life. Prison for life, dude.

Prison for life, dude. No, for real. No, I know a dude. Afghanistan? Yep. Prison for life. Prison for life. I grew up with a dude.

They just say buzzwords. Hey, Bin Laden, Afghanistan? Prison for life. That's just how it goes, bud. So I was like, I rearranged the list. My name is Adam Patrick Devrick divine they got rid of most of the patrick kept the p and i was adam d or no i was devin d demand demand so i was devin demand by the way sounds like a fake id name if i'm a bouncer i'm DeMamp, and you're like, it's me. It's me. I'm 23.

Meanwhile, I'm 16. I didn't want to be 21. I'm 23, obviously. I already look... You look young since I've known you. I've always looked young. Yeah, but that's such a good quality. It is. I've been 40 since you met me.

That is true. I've always been 40. That is true. I was 40 before I ever even... But there will be a time when I surpass you when you stay looking 40 and all of a sudden you're like, oh, Adam, I just bottomed out.

I just leveled down. All of a sudden my neck just shoots. So DeMamp was the fake ID when you were a kid and then the other guys just pick whatever bullshit names just to service them for the show too? Yeah, pretty close to their to their own names yeah to their real shit yeah well henderson blake henderson henderson right instead of blake

anderson what was der's anders holmvik instead of home yeah that's true holmvik i didn't know his last name on the show um i uh two things one when i was thinking about you in the shower and i was thinking about our our connected history I was thinking about people from Comedy Central from back in that day that we used to see all the time and you were like oh my god they're there well I was just running through the whole like none of those guys or that old regime that we knew back then is all

gone and it was just making me I was just reminiscing because I was thinking about you and about when the improv was hot as a pistol back then and it was it was like it was blessed every night with like the best names the biggest crowds it was so much fun dude i drink i worked there from like 2002 to 2000 or no sorry 2004 to 2006 yeah and then i got the montreal comedy festival right and i that's when i met you right after that yeah i was a new new faces which like the

montreal comedy festival for those that don't know they invite 20 new did you ever do that yeah yeah they invite 20 new faces from around the world that they call the new faces of comedy which is like when you're especially young it's like a huge honor and you're like such a big deal you're like i'm on my way and you kind of are you are yeah yeah and um but it's going to take longer than you think yeah for sure it's not going to be next year you're like they're going to give me a million dollars when i get tomorrow and uh so i did that and came back and was working i still need money i wasn't making shit doing comedy yeah i was still like a feature act getting like 50 bucks 100 bucks a show if i'm lucky if Yeah, if you're lucky. And so I was – I came back.

I was working at the improv and they – I remember an executive from NBC came in and was like – and I'm like checking IDs at the door. And he goes, didn't I just see you at the Montreal Comedy Festival? And I'm like, this is my shot. He's spotted me in the wild he remembered he's gonna give me a uh a sitcom deal uh you you work at an improv you work at a comedy club as a door guy and he was like positive outlook by the way yeah for sure i'm nothing but positivity and he's like i just saw you right i'm like yes you did and he's like, I just saw you, right? And I'm like, yes, you did. And he's like, quit right now. Go upstairs.

Go upstairs right now. Quit this job. No shit. You cannot be seen working the door of this. He's like, executives come through this door every night. They're going to see you and think of you as the door guy instead of the kid that just. Crushed at Montreal. Crushed at Montreal. Yeah, that's right. And they're like, go to the Valley. Work at Best Buy. I get that you need a job. think of you as the door guy instead of the kid that just crushed at montreal crushed at montreal

yeah and they're like go to the valley work at best buy i get that you need a job do not work here yeah and i was devastated i was like oh and i like go to rita who's the manager at the improv shout out peeps and uh she was like i came up i'm like this executive just told me this i don't know i think it might be bullshit i i might have to quit i'm not sure and she goes you should quit she was like i was kind of waiting for you to say something she knew yeah well because they know who's um uh ready for to be let go like it's like they can tell that's like you shouldn't do this right now like you're at a point you were at a point when it was like, the baby bird's got to fly at some point, which I think happens all the time in our business of like,

there's a lot of door guys at the store that all they needed was then a little nudge to be like, you got to quit, dude, because you're too good to be here anymore. And also, if you stay, then you get stuck. Well, then they see you as that forever. Yeah. Then you are that person for the rest of your life, which is fine.

You know, I mean, it depends on what your trajectory is. I mean, Eddie, our favorite Eddie the bartender from the improv. Shout out, Eddie Burke. Eddie was a background actor in the improv TV show and then just stayed. He never left. So he bartended forever and never left. And he's fine.

He lives there. People know, some people know, he lives underneath the bar. There's like a, it's like a... I wish, I wish he did. What is it? Is a Murphy bed underneath the bar there's like a it's like a i wish i wish what is it what is it is a murphy bed underneath the bar it's actually the bar flips over into a bed i love eddie so much i did his podcast and we did it at the bar i did i did that too well he was like and he was like the the sliding doors were open and that's on melrose so it's like the word sound i was like eddie do you want to and he's like also also like not a great interviewer.

Like, cause he's the sweetest. He just loves us as guys that he knows. It was just like, he would just shit on you every once in a while. You're telling a story and he'd be like, yeah, cause you're an idiot.

You're like, all right, he got me dude. And he, like he said, I think he did say one. I think he hit me with one where he was like, that show you did wasn't that good. And I was like, Oh, well, he, Eddie used to give I think he did say one, I think he hit me with one where he was like, that show you did wasn't that good.

And I was like, oh. Okay, Eddie. Eddie used to give me notes because I was, my job when I first, when I moved to Hollywood, I was like, I'm going to, because I was a huge Evening at the Improv on the NDE fan when I was growing up. That was on, there was like, there was like literally a thousand episodes of that show. Yeah. They just churned it out for like 15 years.

Yeah, Bud Friedman was on a tear at one point. Yeah. He was like, film everything. Everything must be filmed. And so I grew up watching that show and being like, oh, this is the Mecca. Right. And so when I came to Hollywood, I'm like, I got to get a job there. I went there every day for a month straight.

And they were like, we don't have any jobs. Until finally Rita's like, Jesus Christ. Okay, you can sit here during the day. straight and they were like we don't have any jobs until finally reed is like jesus christ okay you can sit here during the day normally we have an answer machine during the day you could be that you're the human answer machine you'll sit there you'll answer the phone yeah you'll transfer calls and you'll write down messages but how excited were you to be like fucking yep yeah i sat there in that little ticket booth that they used to have in the front in the front oh yeah and i would sit there all goddamn day and eddie would come in early to set up the bar and it's just me like trying to chop it up with

eddie and uh i can already feel this young adam being like hey eddie uh yeah just trying to and doing dumb shit where i would like when nobody was there in the middle of the day, I'd go on stage because I was not allowed on the stage. Right. No. It was like, you're not allowed just to like, if you work there, they don't give you a Saturday 8.30 spot. Right. Right.

And so I would like go and like practice taking the mic out of the stand. Would you really? And do the walk up and everything? Yeah. And like where to put it. Put it to the right. Yeah. And like dumb, like little kid shit.

But I was just so geeked out to be there. And also I was like, I was 20 years old. Yeah, it was perfect. Yeah. But you needed those kind of things. Like honestly, I think that helped you. Because by the time I met you, you were so comfy on stage that everyone I knew when we we were all starting some of us were comfy but so many of my friends were still going through it but you knew that they had it in them we just

needed to like figure it out and i think working there so young was what like you saw it constantly you were like oh i just have to just monkey see monkey do the behavior because the material and everything you already know well i felt uh i truly felt in any young comics that are listening like work at the best comedy club in your area don't work at the dog shit one like because i had friends that worked at much worse comedy clubs yeah like the hollywood and like the comedy store or like the two comedy clubs that you can say night in night out the best comics in the country in the country for sure are going to be there and maybe the comedy seller in new york there's a handful of them but like not many right and i'm like just you saw what worked and what did it and what felt hacky and then like a like a road dog would come in off

the road and would be doing like kind of hacky crowd work and you're like oh that feels weird after just seeing chris rock right you know what i mean like oh you see the difference and it also works like his hacky road stuff works yeah anybody having an anniversary anniversary or a birthday the audience loves it but you're like oh it's there is a difference huge yeah well you feel you got to feel it out so early like you got to and that's here i want to show you something this reminds me and we're rattling off the the improv stuff so it brought me down a rabbit hole of memories but the improv was the first club to pass me um well me too obviously yeah and that and that and look at this and i feel

the comedy store just passed me like i've been like successful for like 10 years and then finally like all right you can you can go this is this is from eric abrams i feel like they painted my name on the wall before i was fully i'm dead serious well because they were like my name was on the wall on the front of the comedy store before i got like an official you can call in your avail or they just forgot what that's so funny if they're like he's passed and like we didn't we didn't i do i honestly think i there is like a little bit of a because when tommy left who was the booker of the uh comedy store yeah he left he like i would go there and he'd tell me he's like you just gotta hang hang out for six months he would say to me

all the time he's like hang out for six months you gotta be part of the culture you gotta live here a little bit and i I'm like, tell him, tell me. I'm like, I totally get that. I'm executive producing, creating a TV show right now that I'm not, I can't come here every night. TV shows or whatever.

Got to hang out. Got to hang out. And I'm like, I don't think I can hang out. I don't think it matters, dude. No, well,

he didn't, he, his whole, his whole philosophy was that like, if you're not a part of the community, you're not going to be, you're not going to fit in here. It's not going to work. And there is something to that for sure.

But then the new batch came in and- When Adam came in, it changed everything. Yeah, Adam came in and was like, you're passed. We would love to have you here. And I'm like, what? Really? He's like, you're hilarious, right? I don't have to hang out here every night for six months?

No, we need you here. Yeah, we need you here. He's like, well, you're funny. I've seen you before. We like you. You should be here. And I'm like, oh, thank God. At some point, it figures itself out.

I mean, that whole system change was where it needed to happen. Yeah. Look at this. This is my lineup from. I wanted to show you this. Eric Abrams sent me this, who Eric used to book the improv years ago. Shout out. And listen to the names of this.

Eric Abrams sent me this, who Eric used to book the improv years ago. Shout out. And listen to the names of this. This was me, Tony Vinn, Sean Kelly, Alex Moore, Chris Neff, Sickler. Yes. And Darren Carter closed the show. Oh, shit. What was his?

The party starter. Yeah, Darren Carter. But I still have the lineup still on my phone. That's awesome. When he sent me the email, here's why it was so important i got passed on my birthday 10 16 he goes your first improv set was on my birthday i was in vegas wait 2016 no no no 10 16 my birthday okay october 16th of what year 2009 okay that was my first time getting passed there okay before that i was doing yeah whatever shows you know before i got whoa dude we're getting old that was a long time ago now yeah it's 11 years ago now that's a long time and because before then from 2006 to 9 or like around 7 to 9 you would do booked out shows

or what we yeah we don't people people that don't understand is like um when you're not before your regular you just have to have a have a booker book you on that's an outside party. And I would do those a ton. And then Abrams finally was like, I think I should pass you. I think I'll pass you. I'll let you do a improv book spot.

But I was in Vegas with my best friend who was living there, took a job. And we were going out to party. And I'm not kidding. I was like, oh, I have to check this email for whatever, whatever. And this is back, back then. I don't even remember. I don't know if I had an iPhone.

I might've not even had, but I was like, can I? You had a Blackberry Pearl at that time. Right, right, right, right. I was like, can I jump on your computer? But I would remember being in his office, looking at my email and being like, holy fuck. I just got my first spot. That place holds a really special special improv has such a special place in my heart because it just kind of had this the beginnings of la for me were there yeah

me too yeah for you more i mean specifically and now you've gone very far in your career let's catch people up to real speed um you are you fucking the righteous gemstones uh man come on dude i auditioned for that show, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah, I auditioned at the very beginning. What role were you done for? I don't know. I don't know.

Yours. No, I have no, honestly, I have no idea. I don't remember what I auditioned for, but I was doing I'm Dying Up Here. Oh, okay. Right? Because that, when did you guys start that show? Three years ago. Four years ago?

Three years ago, we did the- The pilot. The pilot. Yeah. And then last year, we did the full season right and then this year has been a while so right i think i was just getting off i'm dying up here and i went out to do something on the pilot by the way dude i don't know if i think i reached out when it when it was on but and you just wrote boo i just was like not a fan

just not kind of like what you do what does he mean by that i don't know huh well thanks no dude i loved i'm i understand that there's a reason it didn't catch on is because it's very inside baseball too much and shows like that tend not to do that well but i fucking love it well i love you for saying i love them and i thought it was great i really did i appreciate it it wasn't that good uh it wasn't that good according to america and the critics thank you guys uh hey they've never liked anything i've ever done so isn't it so funny though like when you're america maybe the critics no never no the critics are actively but i just feel like everyone i've ever talked to they all have the same they

always go oh they hate me and i'm like do they do they like anybody do they ever go this was good uh yeah you have to be like a skinny british lad or something you can't you can't be anyone that they've that they're friends right they're like this you have to be some wild enigmatic creature that they've never seen yeah you gotta be like an irish brute that just came in from the countryside that they've never seen yeah you gotta be like an irish brute that just came in from the countryside that they've never met and before and they're like whoa where'd he come from and you're like he's there's a fucking village of this guy right there's a thousand of these guys right now these guys i was just chopping a tail back there and then they're like put him on the movies he's so hot i'm coming he's a star rub some dirt on his face oh god what was

the funniest did you what was the funniest of all the films you've done because you've done so many i mean honestly and some fucking phenomenal film you loved mike and dave that mike and dave was probably my best do you know why i say you like that and i projected that on you because it was so much fun yeah i knew in my head you know when you know a friend is doing something you're like they're having so he's having a good time yeah dude i could just feel it you're like, they're having so much fun. Oh, he's having a good time. Yeah, dude, I could just feel it. I was like, dude, he's having so much fun.

That's just so, like, what was, of all the fun things that you've done, what was the worst review that you read about yourself or heard about yourself? Oh. Like, what was the most, like, biting where you're like, ow, man. I don't know. They've always been fairly nice to me. They don't go right for you? They don't go right for me.

It's usually the projects. Oh, or the thing itself. It's like, it's garbage. Well, that's nice that they don't attack you. Yeah. Because when they write about you specifically, it hurts. I mean, it's a lot of Instagram or Twitter messages that are like, does he have Down syndrome?

No, I seriously want to know. No, I seriously. No, dude. It is a swear to God. You write in. Does he have Down syndrome? It's like, does Adam Devine, autofill, have Down syndrome? Yeah.

Because enough people out there have been like. I'm doing it. I have to see right now. Does Adam Devine. Yeah. Look it up. Does it come up does adam divine have down syndrome is the number one searched and then it's play piano and then oh sure and then third is have downs so the street version yeah uh why did a movie where i dude that

is where i played piano and so that makes sense. Yes. But what makes more sense is if do I have Down syndrome. Right. How about this? Hey, can I get another hit? A hundred. Yeah, please.

Please. I'm partying today. Here's my top three. Yeah. Does Andrew Santino have a special? That makes me feel good. Okay. Who does Andrew Santino-

That's good. They want to know more. Wait, but who does Andrew Santino play in Dave? The redheaded guy. The only redheaded guy. The one that looks exactly like him. If you saw Dave, you'd know which guy was me. Absolutely.

Unmistakably. For sure the one that is you. It's two black guys, a skinny Jewish guy, an Asian girl, and me. A skinny Jewish guy. A white girl and me. Named Dave. Named Dave. And the third one is what car does he andrew

santino have why would someone want to know what car i have what do we what like that means google shows you what the most search algorithm is that that means people are sitting at home going i love adam divine i fucking know he's i love he's hilarious does he have just a little sprinkle it's weird to quote ryan sickler a little dash of down a little dash of downs a little dash of downs a little dash of down um uh and honestly of all the stuff that you've done and i genuinely mean this as a friend it's really weird to give friends compliments because it always sounds disingenuous on camera but you do know um i love you and i've always thought you what you did what you did from the jump was great. Making your own shit.

Workaholics was phenomenal. And since then you've made so much good stuff. And I mean that, dude, genuinely, as a friend. I think you made so much fucking great stuff. And now you and the work jerks, that's what the kids call them. Now you guys are making a podcast finally, which by the way, you should have done. Everybody wanted you to do one forever. And I know it takes a long time, but this is important.

We should have been doing one like, because essentially the podcast, it's called This is Important. Please like and subscribe. Please. But we should have been doing, it essentially is us. It's you guys. The conversations that we would have in the Workaholics writer's room. Right.

I'm like, why didn't we just fucking mic our asses up? If you recorded that, it would have been so fucking great. And just call it the writers room sessions. It would have been fucking great. Yeah, it would have been incredible, especially because,

I mean, you know how rare it is, you know how rare it is to have friends, actual friends, outside of the workplace get together to work in a writers room. Because a lot of times,

rooms are a ton of different people from different walks of life and they're all contributing, which is great. But you guys being good friends beforehand and then getting to work in the room together, so rare. I think that's what it lended itself and why kind of Workaholics out the gate was embraced by a lot of people because it just truly felt like these guys are friends it was real like three actors who right they have to get five or six episodes in before they kind of start to cook with each other and have a few like nights out and a few like fun drunk dinners when they do in production is like you guys should go eat together

yeah for sure okay dude i'm not gonna fucking learn this guy in 48 hours yeah like i'd have to know you because you guys have known each other for years and and yeah we fully lived together for years and years so i mean that to me is like the gold of that is so hard but you guys have known each other for years and and yeah we fully lived together for years and years so i mean that to me is like the gold of that is so hard but you guys are capturing it genuinely the podcast is fucking great and people need to listen to this is important it's awesome thank you and it's and it's great because uh what what was great about your show and honestly i'm not i'm not placating the reason that the show is good is the reason that you guys are good on the pod as well is because you guys are very very different knowing all of you personally yeah as i've grown to learn all of

you like as as i become friends with each of you outside of the show you obviously first but then i grew to know ders yeah because we did the worst pilot of all time together yeah we did a pilot called how i met your father which is the spin-off to how i met your mother which by the way all of us were like when ders got that we were like ohars is about to be our richest friend he's about to like it was a big deal at the time yeah we were like oh he's about to be like 100 millionaire for sure it's gonna go 30 seasons and he's gonna be making a million an episode so they asked me cbs asked if i was okay because i had to i was me uh I was playing a gay guy, her gay brother. And CBS was like genuine about, they were like, are you going to be comfortable if the show

continues being recognized publicly as a straight man playing a gay person? And you got to remember, this is years ago that now the conversation would be so different. But I was like, yeah, I don't care that I play a gay person on the show. And they were like, we just want to know your comfort level with homosexuality i'm dead serious wow because they wanted to know how i was gonna like well for sure i guess that's a question that you have to ask but like and i took the i hate fag sticker off my car the same day i was like i gotta get that uh yeah i feel like that's a question you have to ask but no it was but it was interesting because i get why it was so and also still to this day i disagree with i think straight people should play

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I like tagers. No, I think, but that's just what an obvious observation. Any human would go, yeah, dude, you should be able to play other things, right? Like, otherwise you're limiting what anybody can do. So they were the one thing i will say and i don't care it's not like i signed anything we were joking around that did the when we were doing the pilot taping live and we kissed each other and they're laughing who you and durst no no no no durst played her yeah that's right i was like i was like i didn't know this backstory. No, no, yeah.

We would kiss each other before and after every shoot. Good luck. And then we would go. Makes sense. No, Drew and I, who played my husband on the show, or boyfriend on the show, we kissed in between a take. It was like somebody broke. And then somebody came up to us and was like hey you guys can't kiss or like i know you guys having fun but like we can't when we're taping you can't kiss i was like oh well

we're just fucking around like we were fucking around you know what i mean and it was like a cheek it was i don't even think i think it was like a what oh i guess i'm on the forehead and on his nose and uh they were like no no no it's okay, it's okay. It's just, you know. And I was like, oh, right on. It's too sexual. Right. Right. They made it seem like it was like I ripped his pants off. It was so, but I remember the feeling of like, right. I know what they're saying is like, we're cool showing gay, but we don't want to show

real affection. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but me and Durs did this pilot and um it was so bad they didn't want anybody to see it so they buried it and uh it was everybody's fault nobody was good nothing about we just didn't do a good job and they showed it to me it's hard no pilots are oh they're so hard dude but they showed it to me and cba they made me or they asked me to go watch it and i watch it by myself in like a vaulted room at cbs those are all that's always the weirdest dude they were like okay enjoy click and you're by yourself and it was so and you're not allowed to eat or drink anything can't bring anything in the room the room like because i've done that with oh you know

multiple times so uncomfortable like there's like we'd like to show you the movie um you could come in you could invite one other person so you you end up inviting your manager or whatever. And it's just you guys sitting alone in this tiny little theater that you're not allowed to bring water. Can't bring water. It's like, what do you think is going to happen in here? Yeah, and also, if I spill a... It's water. I don't give a shit if it's fucking...

Hawaiian punch. Yeah. And it's water i don't give a shit if it's fucking uh hawaiian punch yeah yeah and it's a white couch and it's also you know you're one of the stars of their show right on the day of the show when you're shooting they'll give you anything you want right treat you like a king like we got showing you the product and they're like you're hey you better drink some water beforehand because there's no water allowed because if this room gets wet at all you're banished from They're like, hey, you better drink some water beforehand. There's no water allowed in the room. Because if this room gets wet at all, you're banished from Hollywood. It's a rule we have. You're blacklisted.

And you know that. Why is that? Everybody knows that. And I watched the pilot. And I talked to Durs right after. And I was like, this is embarrassing. He's like, yeah, I'm glad. We were all very.

But the cockiness around it, Durs will tell you, dude, the first day of shooting, they had cupcakes. I'm not exaggerating. It said, see you in NY. See you, see you in NY, the letters. See you in New York. Okay. Because the show, because Carter and Craig were the creators

who are brilliant, and they did How I Met Your Mother, and they did this show as well mother and they they did this show as well and they live in new york and they were like we have to shoot new york so we were going to move to new york if it went and uh honestly genuinely not to their discredit we bombed the pilot so bad those guys couldn't have fixed it if they tried we were all so i don't think anyone did a good job like every actor we were admittedly, everyone thought that it was going to go. I remember when Durs was like, I'm – because me and Durs have like very different ideas of how we want our careers to go. Well, you're completely different guys.

For sure. Like couldn't be farther apart. Couldn't be more different. But he like – I've always been like I want to be – I want to do a little bit of everything. Yeah. But then also like have a movie career like to me i'm like i want to like make big fun comedy yeah silly comedy movies and you do and durr's is like i want to get on a sitcom and ride that sitcom for like eight years eight ten years yeah which also

more power to you that that's awesome. That's also a great career move. So when he was like, I'm getting, I just got the husband role in How I Met Your Father. Yeah. I was like, you did it. Baby boy, you did it. You did it. I mean, genuinely, when he got it, I was also happy it was him because I was like, oh shit, it's people I know. So it gave me a little bit of confidence. But when I started to see like the,

the hubris, I was like, oh no, it like rubbed me the wrong way that people were like, you're going to buy a place in New York or are you going to rent, you're going to rent for the first year?

And I was like, what are you guys talking about? We didn't even start the pilot and people were already like, flying to New York, checking out places. Yeah, dude, i got so

nervous i was like what are you saying and also you know my late my fucking my wife the old bag she she was she loves that she does she does well that it's for the fans they but no the old bag was like she knew she knew she's so keen she was like i don't think we're moving to New York. She had never, she's not a part of it. She knew nothing about it. She just had like a vibe also. Cause I came home the first day and I was like, this is really hard to shoot.

It was just different. It was, I didn't have never done multicam. I've never, I've never done it either. I'm bad at it. I am so bad. Hey,

multicam people don't hire me. I'm so bad. I'm going to save you time. I'm so bad at it. It's embarrassing. I'm so bad, dude. I would wish I was good I'm so bad at it. It's embarrassing. I'm so bad. Dude, I would wish I was good. But every time I go for it, they're always like, we love you.

And I'm like, I'm going to fucking bomb. I'm going to bomb. I'm not good at those things. Single cam all day. Put me in front of audiences on single cam is fine. I can be a crowd people. Something about multicam rhythm. It's a technique that people from home don't get.

It is a skill. It's a technique that people from home don't get. It is a skill. It's a skill set. It really is, dude. When I was doing Modern Family, which was single camera without an audience, but it was just like their dialogue is real fast and snappy and the jokes per minute are- It's insane. Peaking out. Yeah.

And much different cadence than workaholics which is just rambling finding our way like improvving our our way into the scene and out of scenes and we find buttons and tags while doing the improv uh but doing that show i was like oh i don't know what the only note i ever got was faster really because i i speak slowly like i have a slow cadence but you're articulate slowly because my brain works slow it takes a long time for these words to come out i can see the guy in your head doing the wheel just like we're doing our best it's all coming it'll come out it's coming out um yeah so that was like the note i would constantly get it's just like faster faster

faster faster faster so the show is unbelievably fast paced a little known fact that people don't know i hate to spread hollywood rumors but ed o'neill um every every time you you guys were on set would spank you it would give you a spanking true why is that why would he do that i got a nice ass man you do dude you're very bubbly you have a do that? I got a nice ass, man. You do, dude. You're very bubbly. You have a nice bubble butt. You got a bubble butt. I got a donker down there. You got a killer tush, kid. Yeah, thank you. You got a killer tush. This is fun. Who have you worked with that you didn't think you were going to keep in touch with, but oddly enough, kept closer than you ever imagined? There's always somebody, because for me, while i give you time to think a lot of people

i'm always like oh we're gonna be best buds and we don't talk again and some people i film with i can't believe we became so close and we're now we're closer than we've ever been i feel like some of the directors that i've worked with like you guys just became like really became like true friends like jake samansky who did mike and dave like todd strauss shoulson who did uh isn't romantic so good i'm like so many good people so many good directors by the way yeah and uh i'd say like me and aubrey are just we don't talk all that often but like we're just she doesn't talk to anybody much yeah no she's she's she's an odd duck but i love her yeah she's great i feel like we're just gonna be buds for the rest of our lives which you know i mean though it's like typically

when i when you shoot something, you always think there's one person, two people that you're like, it's my bed. And then sometimes it dissipates and you're like, we were so close. It was so weird.

Like the little moment. I mean. Admittedly, my fiance, we did a movie together. Oh yeah. And we did The Final Girls, which Todd Strauss-Holson also directed. Malin's in that, my homie MalinHolson also directed. Malin's in that?

My homie Malin? Yeah, Malin Ackerman's in that. And we kind of got to know each other. And then now we're fianced. Yeah, life happened. It's still in my phone. It's Chloe Bridges' Final Girls. Shut up.

Because you put what you know. How you met. How you met. That's so wild. Now she's your fiance. Fiance. Fiance. People don't know you.

However, oddly enough, you don't live together. She lives on a boat out in the Pacific. She does. Yeah. What is that about? Why? In fact, she lives, and not even that far. It's right off the coast?

40 yards. Oh, really? She's anchored 40 yards just off the coast. Right where the break wall is. And I live on the beach. So it's kind of like just a little separation. You just wave her in or something? She takes a rowboat.

Cool. She rows in. She rows in every day? She rows in when she has to take a shit. Breakfast! What? No, we do not have breakfast. Oh, okay.

That makes sense. She catches her brekkie. She catches her brekkie? Really? Catching cook, dude. Yeah, but we're not allowed to shit on the boat, so she does row in to use the restroom. Right.

She's a great girl. That is a little known fact. Yeah, no, people should know it and spread it around. She's a wonderful human being. I met her with you. I think the first time I met her was at, I think you took her to the, maybe to the comedy club

is maybe the first time I saw you guys together. would take her and she uh you would take you would show her off is really what it is i would have her on my arm yeah you'd go guys want to meet the babe and we'd all go oh who is here with the babe guys i got a babe make room for the babe It comes my babe I would enter the room first I'd go in the comedy store Green room backstage And close the Wait here

And close the door And be like Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to introduce The babe And she goes Hey boys And we're all smoking

And we're like Oh yeah Oh la la And then I go Ba na na na Da na na na na and she goes hey boys and we're all smoking and we're like oh yeah and then I go and we turn to our left and it's actually Phil Collins is right there playing not a Phil Collins song that was bodyguard

Paul Simon anyway that's between them they have to fight that out was there with his daughter, Lily Collins. She was a babe for someone else. And that happens. Dude, I want to ask you genuinely. You're starting Righteous Gemstones again, you told me.

Are we allowed to talk about it? No. No? Great. Okay, let's do it. Okay, perfect. Danny is, to me, unequivocally one of the funniest people i've ever but also so good of an actor it's annoying it's annoying he's annoying to me because he's he can he's so good

at being that character that people i know both think that's who he is but he's not at all for sure like it's so annoying you're like oh fuck that guy's such a cartoon. Well he's like he tends to play like kind of boorish dickhead like

asshole type characters because that's hilarious to play. And I do that sometimes too. You're more endearing. He's more like he's more like brute. He's more brutish. Yeah, yeah.

That's how it is, bitch. Yeah. Like that's typically, yeah, his vibe is always like right in your face. But then he truly is. Well, by the way, I texted him yesterday and he didn't text me back. So a little bit fucking. Kind of fuck him. A little bit.

Kind of fuck him. Fuck you, Danny. But beyond that, he is one of the nicest guys that I know. He seems that way, man. He's like truly just a good dude and really good at what he does too. And as a guy who has created shows and has written movies and stuff and knows how fucking hard that stuff is. It's impossible. And to keep that output up is like that's what's like, you's like it's hard to keep churning stuff out oh my

god and the way he's able to do that and just be like yeah okay done with that show on to the next show hey did that movie on to the next movie it's like yeah that stuff it's cool it doesn't but it is impressive to me and also that's why i say annoying because i'm jealous it is jealousy when i see guys that are so good at that you think think you're... I imagine it's like when somebody who's really intellectual, because I'm not smart, when someone intellectual meets the top of their... Like the head engineer at a thing, and they're like,

how do they fucking do it? Like, I'm good too, but that's annoying. Yeah. Because they're just... They're like around the corner when you're just trying to catch up a little bit. But the show genuinely is fucking phenomenal.

Thanks, man. I can't wait to see it. And you're really sexy on it, dude. You really do look hot on there, man. I'm doing something. Is there something about you on this show that your sex vibes are high? The faux hawk, the sort of, you know what it is? It's cute, but also sex.

You know what I think it is? I think the homosexuality that I'm the possible closeted homosexuality. Well, you're not sure. Is it? Is he? Is he? Will he? What's the will?

He won't. He will. He won't. He. Yeah. Situation. Can he? Willie.

And he might. He won't. Another. He. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. And maybe it's too closeted because of all the christianity i think that's what you're responding to yeah 100 yeah because that's well

that's as a as a catholic kid that's yeah you know oh by the way speaking of which the chicago archdiocese just paid out like 10 million bucks to kids that they touched so congratulations to everyone that got checks still haven't gotten mine, big shout out to all those kids. To all those kids. And we'd like to run the list of names right here if we could. Just to shout out the list of names. We had a scroll. And we're like, oh.

Oh, I actually know. Oh, Mikey DeNunez. I remember him. Ryan Jonica, there he is. Too specific of a name. Very, very, very. A real kid that got touched. too specific of a name very very very a real kid that got touched no i i uh i was plugging my news i was plugging my morning news feed and trying to get really depressed this morning and sadly

i saw ellen got covid ellen get better oh i saw that too r.i.p r.i.p no i know she's alive she's not dead she's dying from it okay that happens by the way. By the way, I can't wait for this to be time stamped. Ellen, I immediately take that back because I love doing your show. Bring me back. It's JKN, dude. Just JKN. That's going to get time stamped. And then seven months from now, I will see in the comment thread of a YouTube page where

somebody goes, this didn't age well, 48 minutes, 16 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We'll have to use that. We'll have to use it. We'll have to use... No, Ellen and Yeah, absolutely. We'll have to use that. We'll have to use it. We'll have to use... No, Ellen and...

Please do. Ellen and another person, my favorite... Uh-oh. Yeah, no, please, honestly. Buffalo Trace keeps it. They give it to us, so we might as well have it. Love it. Hey, Buffalo Trace, come on over to...

Yeah. This is important. Why don't you head over to This is Important? Yeah. How funny. It's in here, too, but no one ever uses it. Well, my fiancé does this with all my booze, and then I'm like... Which is it?

What is it? And also, it just doesn't seem... It seems like it's supposed to stay in there. It should stay in there, and then it does. And then also, it's just a little too fancy for like my whole uh shit yeah well dude no no it's it's not you know what it is it's mature yeah that's i when i see it i think of my dad like that's a dad thing to have and now i feel like um he would respect me because of this and well we're getting there buddy we're trying thank you pop i love you pops by the way

speaking of parents i've met your parents uh i've met your dad especially and when your parents come into town man it's a party it's a you come from good stock i'm being genuine and so when did you meet my parents i came to the improv oh okay that checks out yeah years ago i met your dad and your mom and maybe it was because you were filming comedy central were you doing a half hour did you know you didn't do no what did you do for And maybe it was because you were filming Comedy Central. Were you doing a half hour? No, you didn't do. No.

No, what did you do for Comedy Central? You filmed something. Okay. And then your mom and your dad were there. I did a lot of stuff for Comedy Central. I can't remember. Yeah, the network you were on for like seven years. Yeah, I never did a special for them.

Yeah, why didn't you, by the way? Why didn't they give you a special after workaholic? They did. They wanted to give me a half hour and i said no said no because i wanted an hour and then they were like well maybe we won't give you an hour maybe you should take the half hour and i go okay i just knew i wasn't doing enough stand-up at that time yeah but if i did a half hour if then then the next if it and then it because at that time i knew I'd crush a half hour. Yeah.

But I'm like. It's 22 minutes. Yeah. It's like, that's 20 minutes. Yeah. With, with commercial breaks, you're like, I got it. You could slay 22 minutes. I got it.

But I didn't feel confident. I wasn't doing standup enough because I was doing workaholics. Right. That I felt like I could get a solid hour after burning that half hour. Oh, bro. Maybe, you know what it was uh when you did uh when we saw uh your house party when you started doing house party yeah yeah and i did the first episode you did yeah of house party by the way if you haven't seen adam devine's house party

genuinely again it's a it was one of the most fun times i've ever had because it was different it was a stand-up show that wasn't stand-up uh it didn't make you feel it was stand-up it didn't make you feel like it never made you feel like you're like ah they're gonna fuck me up on this i'm gonna look dumb or you know what i mean because sometimes stand-up shows don't really do the thing that they're supposed to do and you're like just show them to stand up we did a sketch where i was what i was dating your girlfriend or something oh that's right that is right it was like my ex-girlfriend came to the show the show with you right that's what it was i showed up with your ex-girlfriend and the whole point is like we've stopped we haven't been dating for like a year or something like it's like we've been long long ago right and

i'm just like can i talk to you by the swing set and like it's like we've been long long ago right and i'm just like can i talk to you by the swing set and like she's like what what are you doing dude you're with my girl yeah and you're like you're with my ex bro so the whole point of the show was like there's a narrative thread running through the house party where i'm doing a stand-up comedy show in the backyard yeah and so it was really fun it was so fun and it was so fun about it is like the first season and a half i got to really get all of my buddies yeah on yeah the first season is phenomenal oh it's awesome so many funny people and and i'm like i really got all my buddies on the show and then as it as like season two and a half and into season three, it was a lot of people that I'm like, I was a little outside.

I wasn't in the comedy clubs every night anymore. And I wasn't doing the open mics and wasn't like really plugged into who the next wave of comics were. How could you know? Yeah. And so like I'd watched a million sets and like chose these people and people that I genuinely like, oh, this guy's funny. He's got a good point of view. Or he seems like he has the chops. And then got it right for them.

And that was also cool because now I have a whole generation of those comics that I was able to give their first shot to. Yeah, that's really cool. It was cool, man. It was rad. I loved it. I loved doing it. Well, I always said, but I said the one reason I was like,

I'm going to tell Adam how pissed I was. We did the first season in Chatsworth, which is way deep in the valley of this big mansion. And it was super fun. And then as years went on, I see these kids. They're like, we're doing it in Hawaii this year. I'm like, what the fuck, man? I know. I did it in the valley, dude.

I think I sent you a text a while ago after the show had the second season had aired. And I was like, dude, I heard you guys are going to fucking New Orleans. And you're like, yeah, dude. I was like, what the fuck, man? Dude, that New Orleans? Well, what's so fun about that show? Was the partying? What was so fun about doing it?

Yes. It was in New Orleans. Both New Orleans and Hawaii were just a fucking blast. Yeah. Because for me, every two days, a new batch of comics come into town. Right. So for me – How many weeks?

I'm like for two weeks. Okay. One week of prep. Right. Where just me and my guys are like prepping everything, finishing storylines and like working on scripts. Yeah. And still having a great time. And then two straight like sprints.

party and then and then two straight like sprints just dead sprint of like we start to work at we'll start work at 10 a.m are done by 10 or 11 p.m go out drinking until one or two yeah go fall asleep wake up back on set and do it all again for two straight weeks and every two days you have a new group of comics that you're trying to entertain and you're going we're going out afterwards i'm going to take you to this place we're doing this we're doing that now you know all the spots at some point oh i was so plugged in chloe my fiancee who is uh a new orleans native oh she's from there is from there moved here when she was like 12 or 13 so she's not from there from there but she's like was enough enough yeah and she's born there and raised there right and so like she knows the spots when we hung out for the first

time walking down frenchman street where we shot uh house party yeah uh people were coming out like owners of bars and restaurants were coming out of the store and being like, Adam! I'm like, my God, what's up, Mario? That's awesome. Calling people out. She's like, Jesus Christ. You know the whole city? Yeah, she's like, are you an alcoholic? I'm like, I'm a fun-

I'm a fun guy. I'm a fun guy. I'm a fun guy. Drew Brees is like, Adam! You're like, it's true. Chill, dude. When you're 32, 3, it's not alcoholism yet. No.

It's called being a fun guy. You're a fun guy. You're fun. How old are you now? 30. I just turned 37. Me too. Cheers, dude.

So fun guy. Fun guy, dude. You're fucking up above the head. Wait, what's your birthday? November 7th. October. I'm older than you. I didn't realize.

You can tell. Yeah, I know. It's in the eyes. What did I say to you when you got out of your car what's it what did i immediately you were like your skin looks great i go you look great yeah your skin i say you look glowing the sun was hitting you right i was a little horny i'm not gonna lie but i also was like this you look fucking good well admittedly i did in my hair for the first time and like uh but you look cutesy pootsy thank you why because yeah you've been in the quarantine mode. You've been chilling,

not doing it. I've been wearing sweatpants for like six months. Yeah. Um, I feel that I am a fitness influencer. Now I am getting out. I'm kind of, yeah.

Do you have a couple of deals? You got a couple of deals yet, but I'm getting free stuff. So I keep perpetuating, uh, the, the influence that I bring to people. Your Lulu,

your Lulu cantaloupe, which your lulu cantaloupe which your lulu cantaloupe what's your uh no it's i'm a lemon lulu lemon yeah i am lemon all right yeah i am him okay dude no i you are you are in good shape dude well thank you you're no zach efron you're no zach efron i'm not i'm not well here's the thing is i'm working out now more than i've ever worked out in my life i'm legit working out two hours every day shut up i ride my bike for about an hour and a half every day and then i do like a 30 minute like high intensity fucking crossfit type shit are we talking peloton or outside bicycle both i have a peloton for if it's like too windy

or whatever. I can't do the Peloton. And then I do, and then I do, I watch shows. You do, okay, so that,

okay, dude. I'll like catch up on Breaking Bad. See, this is my thing. Don't you have to take the class thing?

No, no. No, you don't. You don't have to. Oh, okay, because I did it.

My girl takes all the classes. Right. I've literally never taken a class. Oh, so you don't, so can you put anything on that screen you can you can break you can sort of like break the code and do it

but i just watch it on my ipad right right just right there but see that was my biggest thing i did it at a gym we were on the road and this nice hotel had it in the gym and they had four of them and i i think i was with rogan and i was like i'm gonna go try that thing and he's like yeah tell me how they are and i go down there and i was skeptical because i'm like i don't i don't this i don't i don't ride bikes ever i'm not like a you know whatever so what is it i'm not jerking off two dudes and i sit on the bike and i started the class and i loved doing it but i had to turn off the class because I don't like it. I don't like that intensity of like, get up and go down.

I didn't like it. It's too much. Too demanding. I admit it. But I like riding bikes. Yeah. And I bought a road bike recently. What's it called?

Because I don't know anything about bikes. Specialized. Oh, Specialized is nice. I know them because the S is cool looking. Yeah, it's cool. It reminds me of when we were kids. What was the cool one when we were kids? Dyno.

Dyno. Did you see we got it? Yeah. With pegs. Did you have pegs? I had pegs, man. You bad dude. Did you have pegs front and back or just back? Front and back.

You bad fuck. Could you grind ever, dude? Not really, dude. I'm pretty bad at it. I always had pegs in the back. My thing was, I had a bad accident when I was a kid. I think you know that. I do.

Yeah, yeah. So I was hit by a symmetric as a kid. So that was fifth and sixth grade. Or no, that was sixth into seventh grade. Yeah. And then by eighth grade, I'm kind of back to normal, but I'm a fragile little bitch. You're worried. For sure, something could snap pretty easily. I'm kind of back to normal, but I'm a fragile little bitch, you know, like you're worried for sure.

Right. Something could snap pretty easily. And so, but so all my friends were skateboarders and stuff or were playing sports. Right. And, uh, I'm like,

I can't do any of that stuff. So all my friends are like skateboarding and like doing like cool rails. And so it's just me riding my bike. So I'm like, give me a BMX bike so I can like, at least act like I'm doing cool stuff totally and all i could do was throw myself down staircases like that was my move like other kids would be able to do a bunny hop and like ride a rail or like you just kept going i would just like pick a gnarly staircase that people were like oh you

might fall and really hurt yourself and i'm like oh i've been really hurt before i know this life and would just hurl myself down staircases and just it's just about being far back and just hanging on so you were that's brave as fuck though you didn't you didn't care at some point you're like fuck it i don't care no i don't really care about being, I think it was this, some, once I got hit by the truck, it was like, I've already experienced the most pain that you can experience. You were, it wasn't that bad. I mean,

it was bad. 10 or 11. I think. Yeah. That's so crazy to me, dude. Yeah. So then after that,

I was just like, you know, whatever, what's a broken arm or, you know, I love that. I love that. I love that it takes getting hit by a car to be like, well, because when you're a kid, you're supernatural. You're a kid.

You're already like, you think I'm going to get hurt? You're out of your mind. And then once you get hurt as a kid, you have that, like, you're superhero shit. You're like, I dare you to try to hurt me. You know what it is? And not to get, like, too deep. Do it. But we're getting whiskey ginger dare you to try to hurt me. Well, you know what it is? And not to get too deep. Do it. But we're getting whiskey ginger.

Yeah, dude. Get deep. Get deep. I think it is... I don't think I'd be doing anything I'm currently doing. I'm amazed at... Not to take anything away from anyone, but... Please do.

People that don't have any sort of weirdness in their life. I don't know how they have gone full steam down the path that we've gone down. I know what you're saying. You know what I mean? You've got to have a little bit of something. A little bit of something. And my parents are great. And I was never, no one touched my butthole.

I did. Okay. I did. So that's your thing. That's my thing. So for me, it was. You're kidding. Okay. I did. So that's your thing. That's my thing. So for me, it was, you're kidding.

Yeah. The archdiocese, the archdiocese. I never had butthole touch. So, but for me, it was the symmetric thing. And I was like,

Oh, I just knew that I could die like at any second. Yeah. And I was so close to it and everything was broken and rebuilt. And then after like everything from the waist down was fully shattered. And they had to rebuild everything. So they were like. How long did it take you to learn how to walk again?

Almost two years. Damn. Yeah. And then in eighth grade, I played football. Yeah, no. Yeah, you were an athlete. That sounds crazy to me. So they were like.

My mom was just kind of on the moon. She's like, you don't want to do baseball, dude? Yeah, she's like, really? Nothing else? Maybe tennis? I did play baseball. I was just so slow. I was just so slow because I couldn't run.

What did you play in football? I was a right guard. So I didn't need to be fast. Yeah, but still. I just pushed people. And also, I was like middleweight. You know how they did weights when you were younger? In junior high or whatever. Yeah, but still. I just pushed people. And also, I was like middleweight. You know how they did weights when you were younger?

In junior high or whatever? Yeah, in junior high. Oh, yeah, like your weight class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What, you were middleweight? I was a middleweight at that. I was feather. Feathers. Oh, you were the little.

Bro, I was 5'10", 5'11". Well, you're a tall guy. Yeah, but I was maybe like 130 pounds, 120 pounds. I've already been, I think I was always a little short and pounds i've already been a little i think i was always a little short and stout i was i was a rail my whole life i mean i was like it was gross my dad was worried freshman year of college i was still really skinny i started to like actually get like weight on my bones uh-huh sophomore year freshman year just like chugging whey protein just milk and protein dude i was started lifting at the end of the

freshman year because i saw how like just saw men in college you go to school i'm like these guys are guys yeah i'm never gonna get pussy i look like a fucking coat hanger i look like if you opened up a coat hanger so my dad says to my freshman year college roommate this kid evan who was a rugby dude of like a like a stocky jack dude and my dad's like you'll protect andrew won't you i'm not kidding i was like wait what what do you mean i protect myself he's like dude they'll fucking kill you out here like high school is one thing you can fight in high school and defend yourself because you're all high school kids yeah but college there's men there there's like grown men and you're like oh dude i'm vulnerable oh i like

i can't go get drunk and say some dumb shit in college they'll kill me what was great about this cement truck situation was especially in high school was uh you can truly get your ass kicked in high school you know what i mean yeah you can get your ass kicked. Oh yeah. Especially like as a younger, uh, classmate. But I, uh, came with such bravado because I had just beaten this fucking cement truck. You beat the truck. And I came into it or came into middle school. Sorry.

With like, I'm the crippled kid. So all of middle school, I could say anything. You're going to hit the crippled kid. I'm currently in a wheelchair, motherfucker. You're going to hit me. You're going to hit me cripple kid? I'm currently in a wheelchair, motherfucker. You're going to hit me? You're going to hit me.

I'm the cripple kid. So did you talk a lot of shit because of it? Dude, I was a fucking maniac. You're like, whatever, Mike, you fucking bitch. And he's like, come on, Adam. You're like, shut up. No, I wasn't. I don't. Well, I would like to think I wasn't a mean bully, but like I refused. If you even

threw a little shade at me, I had so much. I was coming back. He's so hard. I was so ruthless. Yeah. Because you, because we're also a defense mechanism,

right? Like you're like, I don't have a choice. I have to shit on what it was, was quicker and funnier than everybody. When I was a kid kid, when I was in elementary school, I was bullied quite a bit.

Yeah. And why? Uh, I don't know. school, I was bullied quite a bit. Yeah? Why? I don't know, actually. I think I was just one kid, kind of had it out for me. What was the thing you got picked on about, though? It wasn't even a thing. I remember it pretty vividly. He's fourth grade.

He came up to me. He's like, I heard what you did. And I'm like, what? And he goes, I heard what you did, bro. Or I don't know if he said bro, but he was like, I heard what you did. And I'm bro or I don't know if he said bro but he was like heard what you did and I'm like I don't know what you're talking about yeah and he he's like we're not friends anymore and then everyone he was a year older but is in our grade because he failed so he's like the ruler of our fourth grade I know this you know what I mean I know this guy

bigger than everybody kind of has like a couple hairs. Do you have a mustache? Yeah. And everyone's like, well, we have to follow his lead. And he's like, I heard what you did. And everyone like within the next week was like, hey, I don't know. You did something. We can't be friends. And I'm like, and it's a little Catholic elementary school.

Yeah. We all heard what you did. And so I'm like, I don't know. And when God finds out, you're going to hell. Yeah. And so I talk with my dad and my dad's you're going to hell. Yeah. And so I, uh, talk with my dad and my dad's like, my dad's just like a dude's dude.

And he's just like, is he, um, bigger than you? It was a great impression. My dad, he's like, and I'm like,

yeah, I'm a lot bigger. And he's like, all right. If, um, and then my mom goes, Hey,

Adam, just, he has to throw the first punch. After that, you can defend yourself and do what you have to do. I love mom. He has to throw the first punch. Don't you dare hit first. And my dad's like, absolutely, absolutely.

She leaves the room and my dad's like, hit him as hard as you can in the face. And then he won't want to hit you again. And he's like, but you got to hear him square in the nose, break his fucking nose. Right. And he'll never punch you again. Right in the fucking schnoz. Dude, the next day, I just told the story on our podcast, but the next day I took that advice. He said some shit in class.

I know what you did. Okay. I unzipped my backpack, took my fucking book out, went up to him as he's sitting down and fucking teed off on his face. Really? Yeah. He didn't break his nose, but he was just like, oh. You fucked him up. And I'm like, what, motherfucker?

And I'm like in fourth grade. And I was like, Jesus Christ. And then I wasn't. But I was like, and then he kept kind of bullying me. And all my friends left me and were like no longer my friend. So then when I went to a new school, I was like, I gotta be. And then I was hit by the cement truck really quickly. Shortly thereafter.

Yeah. So then, and so then now I'm the crippled kid and I'm going into school and just that thought in the mind, it's like all your friends could leave you. No one, this could be your whole high school experience could just be like everyone hating your guts for something that you don't even know what you did. So if anyone picks on you, you have to shut that down immediately. Yeah, that's wild. So I couldn't hit anyone in the face because I would be pummeled. So I had the crippledness to go like to go like oh you're gonna hit the crippled

kid you fucking bully you bitch how nice though that you had this what a dual experience to like humble you out and to level you mentally to understand that shit right like that's deep shit as a kid to take in you're like well i'm vulnerable like you learn it so fast being like well i guess i guess that like puts you in a weird check you know what i mean yeah and and luckily now now you kick everybody's ass well i don't know tough guy i think it's still a lot of like oh you're gonna hurt me the tiny little midget kid oh you're gonna hurt the little swing at me pal well dude i love Thanks, buddy I want you to have a continued career of Obnoxious success, and I mean that I hope you and your

Fiance Have a wonderful wedding, if that ever comes around When COVID fucking stops fucking with people's lives And I hope I hope I hope That the boat life that she lives Won't interrupt the true life that you want,

wherever that may be. You fly free, little pretty bird. We end the episode the same way. You look in the camera when I'm going to walk away, and you're going to say one word or one phrase. Whatever you want, it's going to end the episode, so it's going to be on you. I'm going to walk away. Say as you want.

Okay, go ahead when you're ready. Okay. Never going to sleep. Never get tired. Never get sick. I'll as you want. Okay, go ahead when you're ready. Okay. Never gonna sleep, never get tired, never get sick, I'll tell you why. Shit don't faze me. What? In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You were that creature in the ginger beer.

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