Good Times Energy w/ Jack Black

Transcript

Speaker 1 You two are bad friends.

Speaker 2 Who are these two idiots?

Speaker 3 White dude and an Asian dude.

Speaker 4 You two are disgusting.

Speaker 3 We're bad friends. Is it uncomfortable?

Speaker 2 It's not uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 You know what we should do?

Speaker 1 We should get the nicest chairs we can find. Like really high-end, but only one of them.
So then if we have two guests, one of the best guests gets it.

Speaker 3 I don't even know where you buy chairs.

Speaker 1 Where do you buy chairs? Where would you buy chairs?

Speaker 2 I do some Amazon purchasing of. No, I haven't bought any chairs.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 No, but I have bought like camping chairs on Amazon.

Speaker 2 And if you go high-end camping chair, you can go like zero grav. I've gotten a zero grav chair on Amazon.

Speaker 3 What's a zero grav?

Speaker 2 It makes you feel like it's zero gravity where you feel like you're floating.

Speaker 2 It's not floating, dude. It's just the angle of that bark of lounge.

Speaker 3 Whoa, I think I need one because I play Stardew Valley so much

Speaker 3 that my back is beginning to hurt.

Speaker 1 It's probably a symptom of playing too much video games.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think I like hunch over like this and I also kind of dip.

Speaker 1 Whoa, look at that zero gravity gaming chair.

Speaker 3 Whoa, that's what I want.

Speaker 3 Scorpion? Yeah. Does it come with a girl or no? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Not that I would, she would like clean stuff, you know. Oh, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 That's why you game in zero graph.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 I just bought off the internet. I bought those little like really low-to-the-ground chairs.
So when we go to, because it's summertime, dude, and it's going to be movies in the cemetery. Have you been?

Speaker 2 I have been to that place. Is that Hollywood is forever?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Forever Cemetery.

Speaker 2 Great spot.

Speaker 3 We love going.

Speaker 1 Every year we go watch a cool movie. We've done, like, they did Kill Bill 1 and 2.
We've done Beetlejuice.

Speaker 1 Have you ever done the movie theater in the cemetery? Sinespia?

Speaker 3 All right, man. Welcome, our guest cat.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 if you're going to be rude in front of Jack,

Speaker 3 because you're trying to be a hot shot, cool guy. Sorry, Jack.
No, let me be answering. No, you're trying to be a hot shot cool guy in front of Jack.

Speaker 1 I get it. I get it.
Assert dominance. I get it.
Yes, dude.

Speaker 3 Yes, I've been.

Speaker 1 Well, thanks for adding to the conversation.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's just crazy right now, dude.

Speaker 1 It's too early for me. Everybody, welcome Jack Black to the show.

Speaker 1 I want to say this about you, Jack Black.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, I have so many things to say.

Speaker 1 Maybe one of the most

Speaker 1 lovable, funny, beautiful people we have on earth right now.

Speaker 3 Who?

Speaker 3 Me? Bobby. Bobby.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just wanted to say, I wanted you to recognize what I was saying.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you know, may I say stuff?

Speaker 1 Yeah, please.

Speaker 3 I think you're one of the most beautiful, funny, fun lovers. You can't do the same thing.
You have to mix it up. My own thing? Yeah, do your own thing.

Speaker 3 Dynamic. Yep.
Versatile. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Creative.
Did you say that already?

Speaker 1 No, but it's all kind of wrapped in.

Speaker 3 Oddly nimble.

Speaker 3 You are. You are.
You're oddly nimble. You're talking about me? Yeah, you're dancing.
I remember you do dancings.

Speaker 2 I do move around. Yeah.
I get, yeah, I am oddly nimble. That's a good, that's a good description, I think, of my nimbleness.

Speaker 3 It's odd.

Speaker 1 You built a mini, you built a mini ramp in your backyard, right? Don't you have a mini ramp?

Speaker 3 I did.

Speaker 1 That's so cool. Have you ever seen that?

Speaker 3 I've seen mini ramps here because I watch X games. Of him skating.
Oh, no, no, no. I'm not.

Speaker 3 You skate?

Speaker 2 I do.

Speaker 2 I'm not a real ramp skater. I use it more of a mode of transportation.

Speaker 2 All through my teen years, I was skating all the time. Oh, you mean

Speaker 2 for real? Yeah.

Speaker 2 That is no longer there. We took it down because

Speaker 2 there were too many, we got, there was a lot of beefing. And wait, what's going on? Oh, there's just a couple injuries, and I was like, enough of this crazy, wacky thing.
It's not right.

Speaker 2 I do enjoy it, but I also am not good at it. Let's be honest.

Speaker 3 Well, you can drop down. I think that's the hardest thing, dropping down.

Speaker 2 I cannot drop down.

Speaker 3 Can you drop up?

Speaker 2 Here's what I do. I start in the middle and I go back and forth

Speaker 2 until I fall down.

Speaker 1 Can we just say it's dropping in? You know this, right?

Speaker 3 Drop, drop in. Correct.
Yeah, it's not dropped out.

Speaker 3 Excuse me, Nigel Houston. Well, here, here's what's funny about you.

Speaker 3 You horrigomi here, fucking Tom.

Speaker 1 This guy used to claim that he skated. Remember that? Remember that whole fucking lie that he prepared?

Speaker 3 Tony Hawk caught me on Ollie. It's online.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Wait a second.
Can you, Ollie?

Speaker 3 I can now because Tony taught me it's online.

Speaker 3 Yes, I can.

Speaker 3 It's online.

Speaker 2 That's one step before. And I get an intro.

Speaker 3 Look at me. Look at my ponytail.

Speaker 3 Watch this right now. Yeah, please.
Yeah, yeah, let's not watch that right now. Okay, so anyway,

Speaker 3 but you know how to go back and forth, like the thing.

Speaker 2 I can go back and forth, and I can do a couple kind of spinner roos,

Speaker 2 but I cannot even ollie, dude. We'll get you there.
I can't kickflip.

Speaker 2 I did a whole video of me yelling at people to do a kickflip, and it was a lot of fun to yell at people and watch them do kickflips, but I felt like a hypocrite because I cannot kickflip.

Speaker 3 I can't even ollie. I know, but you can't kickflip without knowing how to fucking ollie.
You can't walk before you can.

Speaker 3 Exactly, dude.

Speaker 2 So yeah, if afterwards, if you, do you have a couple decks here? You didn't bring your board, did you?

Speaker 3 No, I don't really have.

Speaker 2 I see a board, but it doesn't have any wheels on it. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I got rid of all my boards. Yeah.
I used to use them for art, but no longer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that skateboard, that was given us, what a fan did that as a gift. We've got some fun.

Speaker 1 If you look around the room, actually, all this is fan art. Everything has been given to us from...
Oh, nice.

Speaker 2 It looks like there's some AI art back there.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's one of the one.

Speaker 1 that's a real oh that one yeah the one that's no that's my brother who lives in india no

Speaker 3 okay

Speaker 2 let me just say something i am very gullible i believe everything that is told to me i never go fuck you but yeah that's you know you're right ai you you you got it i did that was ai yeah yeah yeah you got it man i want to i don't want to it's an andrew space prince from india

Speaker 3 yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't want to be offended jack but may i say something that might be you know i mean i mean I don't want to, I want to be myself. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And I want to be real with you. Do you mind if Bobby's real with you?

Speaker 2 Go straight at me. I want to go straight at you.

Speaker 3 I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 Uh-huh.

Speaker 3 Here it comes.

Speaker 3 There's no coming, man. Right? Yeah, you said that.
I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 I mean, and I don't want you to feel weird. A fan, big fan.
Throw that out there.

Speaker 3 But I think you've helped me sexually. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 3 Oh, all right.

Speaker 3 this is all good

Speaker 3 it's great i was ready for the butt no no no i'm grateful for it dude and i get real yeah i get really emotional about it but i think that like you because you know we're i mean i know i'm littler than you smaller right but i feel like we're in the same you know i mean range of like body types almost yes yeah yeah let me finish on a spectrum on a spectrum yeah yeah yeah yeah his is more evolved

Speaker 2 i'm rocking about 250 right now i've been stuck here here for for years

Speaker 3 where are you at where you at i'm at 180. one 180 you're in the one yeah

Speaker 3 you're not even in the same universe as me bro yeah yeah but women have got like i've up with girls and they go i like that jack black look oh man you know what i mean and i in my mind i'm like i always get on my hands and knees and i go thank you so much jack black thank you i mean i'm not praying to you you are though yeah i am and i go thank you for like he's paving the world world road so i can get some nookie nook you know what i mean So I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 You paved the road to Pussytown.

Speaker 3 That's basically what you've done. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So thank you so much for that.

Speaker 2 That might be the highest compliment I've ever received.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you know this, but Jack Black is a subcategory on Pornhub.

Speaker 3 If you search Jack Black,

Speaker 1 there's a crew of guys that look like Jack Black on there.

Speaker 2 I am not going to immediately scare status soon. I'm just going to view it over.

Speaker 3 I might do that at Pornhub.

Speaker 1 If somebody compares your body to Jack Black, what would mine be compared?

Speaker 1 What's mine? Oh, fuck you.

Speaker 3 I know what you're doing. It's gross.
What is it? Oh, you want to say Tom Hardy? Is it really? I guess, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom Hardy. Yeah, Tom Hardy.
I guess it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 3 you are, I mean, as a com for a comic, I think you are. I guess it's you're not Matt Rife.
No, no, no. You're not Matt Rife or Jeff Dye.
No, that's true. But you're like two below that.
Maybe three.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but still

Speaker 3 15 above me. You know what I mean? So that's pretty good.
It's pretty good.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But yeah, you're pretty hot.
People of women have said that.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 3 Co-host is hot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hot-tempered is really what it is. Yeah, yeah.
Uppity and hot-tempered.

Speaker 1 But I will say,

Speaker 1 Jack, getting back to reality, thank you for everything that you've done

Speaker 1 in the world of comedy. And

Speaker 1 you bring joy in a level that I think... I've never once seen you

Speaker 1 and gone,

Speaker 3 eh.

Speaker 1 Now I see you and I go, oh yeah, that guy's fucking great.

Speaker 3 Bro,

Speaker 3 I'll tell you the first time I saw you, dude. Yeah.
And it wasn't a huge part.

Speaker 3 Right. But I remember going, oh, that guy's good.
Right. A movie called

Speaker 3 School of Rock. No, DMW.

Speaker 3 I don't think I'm in that. Yeah, you're in that movie.

Speaker 3 Dead Man Walking. Oh, don't go.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're in that. DMW.
He hates acronyms. We love that.
I love acronyms, dude. You got to say them all out.

Speaker 3 Dead Man Walking. Dude, you play his brother.
Remember, he's about to get MGK. That's what happened earlier.

Speaker 2 Like, yeah, we had MGK in here a couple days ago, and it was a funny story.

Speaker 1 And I was like, MGK, machine, he's like, Machine gun colour. Oh, if you would have said that, I would have to say that.

Speaker 3 But it was a serious scene in the movie, right? Where like your brother's dying, right? He's on death row. Yeah.
Jack, right?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 3 Sean Penn. Sean Penn's your brother, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's the dead man walking.

Speaker 3 And then he, you guys are in, like, I remember distinctly, you guys are in sort of waiting room. I think you're wearing a suit.
I don't know. Were you ever wearing a suit?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was like a Sears.

Speaker 2 It was a cheap suit. Yeah, yeah.
We, we, uh, yeah, uh,

Speaker 2 a low-income family. Yeah.
And uh, I was one of his little brothers. Yeah, yeah.
There were three of us. And

Speaker 2 I was so freaked out because I love Sean Penn ever since I saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He's my favorite actor.

Speaker 3 So good.

Speaker 2 And weirdly, that was kind of the only comedy thing he did, the very first movie. And then he went hard into like drama.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But but that's Fast Times? No one.
I mean, I know it's a specific character. You know what I mean? It seems more sketchy, like a sketch, like a sketch character almost.
But dude,

Speaker 3 because he's such a good actor, it just makes it so much better because it's so believable.

Speaker 1 He never looked like that again, which I thought was really wild. Like he transformed.
That stoner surfer thing never

Speaker 1 was reimagined by him, which I thought was kind of wild. After that, you never saw him look like that.

Speaker 3 Never again. He had a donut around his belly button when he walks in.
Remember that?

Speaker 3 Remember Fast Times?

Speaker 2 I don't remember a donut in his belly button.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think he walked into the room with a donut in his belly button. Pecoli? That's Peccoli.
Am I not right or no? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Right there, or bagel. Bagel, yeah.

Speaker 2 That's tucked into his bag.

Speaker 3 But I'm sure that's a choice.

Speaker 1 Mr. Hand.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 No one had captured that kind of stoner before him on film that I'm aware of. Yeah.
And it was just such a brilliant, hilarious performance.

Speaker 2 But anyway, so I had this little part as his little brother, and it was just

Speaker 2 a surreal experience. And

Speaker 2 I got to watch him do his thing

Speaker 2 up close and personal. And I was there on the day that he shot the scene with Susan Sarandon.

Speaker 3 In the jail. In the jail.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. It's the night before he's going to get executed.
And he's just having this cathartic, like

Speaker 2 just

Speaker 2 explosive tears. And it's a confession.
He confesses to her.

Speaker 3 It's the the redemption part of it. Yeah.
And then

Speaker 3 obviously you weren't shooting that day. No.
You knew

Speaker 3 he was shooting that scene that day? So were they weird that you were coming or no?

Speaker 2 No, I knew the director. The director who also gave me my first part in Showbiz, Tim Robbins, was

Speaker 2 also the director of a theater company called the Actors Gang. And so I was tight with him.
So he let me kind of, you know,

Speaker 2 watch the scenes because I wanted to watch stuff.

Speaker 3 Was he now, let me, was he approachable, Sean Penn, back then or no?

Speaker 2 He was approachable, but he was super method. So he was kind of in character as this kind of gnarly dude,

Speaker 2 drug-doing

Speaker 2 madman who partied hard. And

Speaker 2 I did hang with him, but I have to admit, I was a little scared of him

Speaker 2 in the way that you might be scared of a wild animal, where it's a little unpredictable.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 One time you're talking, and there's a funny story about John Malkovich or something. And then the next minute, there's some kind of crazy free form poetry coming out of it.

Speaker 3 And then it's like, wait, are you going to punch me in the face? Wait, what's happening over there?

Speaker 3 Wow, wow. Is there a blowjob happening up there? Hey, where am I?

Speaker 3 Do you get intimidated still or no? Like, sometimes I'm like, I get a little nervous. Yeah, I get anxious.
Do you get anxious?

Speaker 3 I get anxious.

Speaker 2 And you know, when they say never meet your heroes,

Speaker 2 I think never meet your heroes, not because they're going to do something weird, but I act weird around them. I don't do well.
If I have an option to meet them, I usually will say pass.

Speaker 2 I'd rather just enjoy their work from afar.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, you don't want them to be a dick, then it'll forever change how you feel about them.

Speaker 3 No, I don't know. I mean, I'll tell you my Thierry Henri story, right?

Speaker 3 No, you know who Thierry Henri is? Soccer player? Yeah. It's my favorite soccer player, Jack.
Oh, really?

Speaker 2 Even better than Pele

Speaker 3 The way you say Pele, maybe not, dude. But it's like, Thierry Henri is a French soccer player for my favorite team.
What's my favorite team, everybody? Arsenal. Arsenal FC.
Okay. Legend.

Speaker 3 I was shooting the dictator in Sasha's movie. I had two lines.

Speaker 3 We only have two lines.

Speaker 2 But anyway, there are no small parts.

Speaker 3 Thank you, Jack.

Speaker 1 No, he does a lot of small parts. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Two-line Lee.

Speaker 3 I know, I honestly, yeah.

Speaker 3 He's called Tuline. Tuline Lee.

Speaker 3 What Sam does with him, though? Everybody loves him. I don't know.

Speaker 1 He makes a meal. Yeah, I make a meal.

Speaker 3 So, anyway, I'm in the elevator. I can't believe I've never told this story.
No. Oh, my God.
All right. So I'm at the Trump Soho Hotel back then.

Speaker 1 You have a residency there, right?

Anyway, that's what it's called. It's called the Trump Hot Soho Hotel.

Speaker 1 They've got a Lee floor. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 We've got a Lee floor. Yeah, there's a library.
33 for Lee. Okay.
So it's not. Oh, so okay.
So.

Speaker 1 First of all, there's definitely not a library there.

Speaker 3 Go on. No, there was.

Speaker 3 Okay, anyway.

Speaker 3 I go in the elevator, the doors open. Yeah.
And you oh, gosh, can I just say because he's French and he played for Arsenal, it's England. It's like kind of running into Gandalf or Voldemort.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? You never think you're going to fucking run into them. Yeah.
Right. It's not like LA where I, oh, there's Tom Cruise.
I mean, I mean, he, you know, or whatever.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? You never think. So when he walked in, in my mind, I'm like, Gandalf just walked, you know what I mean? And then, like, also, I'm like his biggest fan.
And I fucking went,

Speaker 3 I shut down.

Speaker 3 Like, I was like,

Speaker 3 right. I didn't know what to say.
And then he got off on his floor. And I wanted to say things, and I couldn't.
It was the first time where I was fucking

Speaker 3 starstruck. So you never got to say hello.
I never said anything.

Speaker 3 And also, it's like, but I was, you know what I mean? But it was better that way. Because if I fucking said something and he was a dick,

Speaker 3 oh my god, it would I it would have ruined it.

Speaker 1 What would you have said? What would you have said anyway?

Speaker 2 Let me be that guy. What's his name?

Speaker 1 Tiara Henri. Thierry Henri.

Speaker 2 I am Tierra Andre.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pardon me, I'm going to the elevator.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Okay. So let the music play in the elevator.
I'm not going to go right away.

Speaker 3 Tierry.

Speaker 3 Hello?

Speaker 3 Are you talking to me?

Speaker 3 volume down?

Speaker 3 I can't take down the volume down.

Speaker 3 I'm trying to turn the sorry to hear. I'm trying to turn down the

Speaker 3 whole fucking shot. Anyway,

Speaker 3 this elevator has a volume knob.

Speaker 3 This is crazy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and interior dude. I'm a huge Arsenal fan.
And I'm a huge Arsenal fan. And dude, I can't believe it.
Thank you. Can I take a photo with you? Bingo.
Mr. Amli.

Speaker 3 So goodbye. Ah, boy.
I fucked it up. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 Dude, no matter what you do in an elevator, as soon as you start talking to a stranger in an elevator, you're off on the wrong foot because they feel trapped. They're stuck with it.

Speaker 3 You know who you are.

Speaker 2 You could be a

Speaker 2 dangerous person.

Speaker 3 Right, right, right, right.

Speaker 1 Elevator conversations are so on.

Speaker 3 So that's why maybe I didn't say that.

Speaker 2 Here's the best thing to say.

Speaker 3 I don't want to be that guy, but

Speaker 3 let me be that guy for a minute. Every time, they say that every time.

Speaker 1 A guy walked up to me on the phone in Scotland on FaceTime. I was at a hotel on the phone with my wife.

Speaker 1 A guy's on FaceTime, and he just jams his phone in front of my face because he's on with a friend of his.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I took everything inside of me not to just take his phone and throw it as far as I could because it was crazy rude.

Speaker 1 He was just like shoved it in my face yeah now i think our my generation of like don't say anything i'm just gonna leave him alone now people don't give a at all they'll shove a phone right in your face they'll record you it's gotten it's crazy now no there's no rules yeah no rules there's no rules but there's also no way to win because if you throw the phone you're an asshole if you

Speaker 2 if you uh take the phone and play along and talk to the stranger on the thing for the stranger then you're you're being a foolish person because now you're getting stuck in in a weird situation situation.

Speaker 2 I always end up doing it. Yeah, I was like, okay, yeah, I'll talk to the person.
But if I'm like late for a thing or I'm with someone

Speaker 2 that's a friend or a family, I will kind of keep it short.

Speaker 3 Hey, man,

Speaker 1 it just was weird. It was the weirdest.
He like put it on my face.

Speaker 3 I can't imagine you. I mean, your face must change colors.
Yeah, I don't like that. The key is the pivot.

Speaker 2 How do you stick and move so that it takes the least amount of time? And that way, I think it's best to go high impact.

Speaker 3 Give me me that fucking phone. Watch up, you fucking asshole.
Love you. Bye.

Speaker 2 Give them the experience and then move.

Speaker 3 Write that down. High impact.
That's why I'm going to try that style. Look, can I try high impact?

Speaker 1 I was the opposite. He put it in my face.
I go, come on, man.

Speaker 3 And I walked away.

Speaker 3 What are you doing? Can I try high impact? Yeah. I want to practice.
I think you're a little high impact anyway. Right now? Yeah.
No, always. Okay.
Do it. Go for it.
Well, give me the phone.

Speaker 3 Put the phone in my face.

Speaker 1 Hey, man. We talked to my buddy.

Speaker 3 That's the.

Speaker 3 told you he was asian all right

Speaker 2 here's the problem with what you did andrew it's for me if i do what you did and you're like no pass thank you but no thank you and i walk away it stays with me oh yeah no i disappointed that person it'll fucking stick with me for days sometimes weeks i'll be why was i such an asshole to that one person all i had to do was fucking yeah so i I will

Speaker 2 usually err on the side of give him something. Give him a little.

Speaker 3 Give him a little something.

Speaker 1 If it's appropriate, I always do. But this was like drunk, rude, shove a phone in my face.

Speaker 3 I was like, come on, but you guys don't know what it's like being little, though.

Speaker 1 Because then they could take more advantage.

Speaker 3 No, what they do is they pick you up. Last night, I was with a young lady.

Speaker 3 In her 30s, she's 30 years old.

Speaker 2 And why are we shooting guns just then?

Speaker 1 It's becoming more American.

Speaker 3 You know, I love deadwood, and that's why I was doing that.

Speaker 1 Is that what she calls your penis?

Speaker 3 Go ahead.

Speaker 3 No, but we have Blue Chew.

Speaker 3 Yes, well. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So anyway, last night, eating dinner at Melrose Ramen. It's great.
Ramen places. They close at three in the morning.
Whoa. Wow.
Really? It's great. It's on Melrose.
Hey.

Speaker 2 Party zone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So it's a good place, you know, after a stand-up. You know what I mean? If you're hungry, go with it.
Anyway.

Speaker 2 After last call, they know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 They know exactly what they're doing. Thank you, Jack.
So I'm sitting there, and a guy comes up from behind me and puts me in like a headlock.

Speaker 3 He goes, I know this guy, the internet, or whatever. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
And he, you know, it kind of does like a noogie-noogie thing, right? Fucking guy. And because I'm little,

Speaker 3 they think that they can do it, which they can. No, they can't.

Speaker 1 And I don't want anything. But they do, but they do.
Nobody ever touched my best friend ever again. That's enough.
No more headlocking. It's not nice.

Speaker 3 Or after a show, if I'm in the South, people will pick me up.

Speaker 1 I know. I've seen it.

Speaker 3 Hey, my little fucking guy right here, man. Hello, kitty, man.
Come here, right? Hey. You know what I mean? And they'll pick me up like I'm a little fucking statue or whatever.
They simba him.

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Speaker 3 Comedy. Woohoo!

Speaker 3 My little guy. You know what I mean? I fucking hate it, dude.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Anyway.

Speaker 2 You know that?

Speaker 2 I get some of that too. They don't lift me up.
They'd get a hernia. But I know that feeling of familiarity, and part of it is our fault because we got a similar good times energy.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We send that out to the universe. That's why we have some of our success is because that comes through in what we do.
And that's

Speaker 3 a blessing and a curse. Good times energy.
Good timer. Yeah.
You don't have good times energy. No.
You have bad times energy sometimes. Bad times.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Very bad.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Grim almost.

Speaker 3 Dark. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. But why can't you be more silly? Like Jack and I?

Speaker 3 Because we're good times people.

Speaker 1 It's not in my nature. It's not? There's yin and yang in the universe.

Speaker 3 Ah. You're Yang.
I'm Yin. No, we're more Yang.
You're Yang.

Speaker 1 No, I'm Yin. You're Yang.

Speaker 3 What is Yang white or black? I don't know. Look it up.
Which one's good?

Speaker 3 Yang. I want to know what the color is.

Speaker 2 We're overpowering the dark side here. I'm messing with the balance of power of your Yin and Yang right now.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, you are.

Speaker 1 Yang is Yang is white. Yeah.
So I'm yang.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're yang. We're more yang.
We're yang. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, you guys are, you guys are more

Speaker 1 full moon.

Speaker 3 Okay, full moon

Speaker 3 when

Speaker 1 yin is the strongest.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 2 You ever been to Yang Chao?

Speaker 3 Is that on Melrose? Is that Chinese restaurant?

Speaker 2 Yeah, in Chinatown.

Speaker 2 Here.

Speaker 3 In L.A.

Speaker 2 Slippery Shrimp. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Get the slippery shrimp? Slippery shrimp? Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's not a good name because it's not slippery. It's kind of crunchy and sweet.

Speaker 3 Is it spicy? A little bit.

Speaker 3 There it is. Slippery shrimp.
I love slippery shrubs.

Speaker 2 It's so yummy. I love myself.

Speaker 1 What's your bad boy meal? What's your like, oh, I can't wait to go get naughty and overeat this.

Speaker 2 I mean, look, a cheeseburger is the best sandwich in the world, and that is my bad boy meal with some fries.

Speaker 2 You got a spot?

Speaker 3 Yeah, what's your favorite smash burger right now?

Speaker 2 You know what? I'm going to come out and say, I'm not into smash burgers. They're smashed.
So the question, this is the eternal question. I'm sorry.
We still have to ask this question.

Speaker 2 Where's the beef?

Speaker 3 It's been smashed out of it. It's mostly char.

Speaker 2 It's mostly fried char. And the beef is in there, but it's smashed.
I like a big, fat, juicy burger.

Speaker 3 Yes. Well, you're a Fud Ruckers guy.
It closed.

Speaker 3 It closed, Jack. Or...

Speaker 2 Actually, this is not the fattest burger there is, but my favorite burger.

Speaker 3 It's obviously the Apple Pan.

Speaker 3 My favorite burger. Oh, I've been to Apple Pan.
Apple Pan's great.

Speaker 1 I used to live next door to there.

Speaker 3 It's on Pico, right? Is it Pico? Yep. Westwood and Pico.

Speaker 3 Been there, done that. I agree.
But may I have an argument, please? Got a rebuttal. I got to do the rebuttal, okay?

Speaker 1 We're talking fries well done, Jack? Of course. And do you get a slice of pie a la mode afterwards?

Speaker 2 I do if I'm feeling nasty. I do every time.
Dude, you know what the real weird thing is? If you go hickory cheeseburger and the tuna sandwich, but you split that in half with a friend.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Sensible. This is

Speaker 3 fucking horny.

Speaker 2 And then I like to take them extra well-done fries and get a little bit of scoop of tuna and ketchup.

Speaker 3 Oh, I didn't even know that they had that.

Speaker 1 Have you ever thought about doing a Jack Black's restaurant?

Speaker 2 I should do a restaurant. I did think about it for a minute

Speaker 2 at the peak of like kung fu panda and nacho libre. I was like, I could do a fusion restaurant.

Speaker 1 Kung Fu Nachos.

Speaker 3 Nacho Panda.

Speaker 2 Dude, then I thought about it. I was like, wait, do I really want those flavors together, the sweet and sour taco?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, dude.
Maybe. Not Chopanda.
I mean, fucking

Speaker 3 Danny Trejo does it. Okay, what is that?

Speaker 1 Is that Danny Trejo?

Speaker 3 It's my Danny Trejo president. Eh, fool.

Speaker 2 You know? But it's on brand for Danny Trejo. He's Mexican.
So he can pull off a Mexican restaurant and do it well.

Speaker 1 He also has a Chinese restaurant, though, too, to be fair.

Speaker 2 No, he does not.

Speaker 3 I'm very gullible. No, he doesn't.
Can I do my fucking counter-argument? God. Nah, we're Brit.
No, no, no. Do it.
Yeah, thank you so much, Jack. All right.
So I'll tell you why smash burgers.

Speaker 3 Number one, okay? Yeah. You want a thick fucking piece of meat in there? Right? What happens? It bleeds into the fucking bun, and now you got this bloody bun

Speaker 3 that you have to fucking chew. It's like, it's silk.
It's soaky. It's muddy.

Speaker 2 Interesting. All right.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 But a smash burger doesn't have a lot of juices that come out. Right.
Right? It's also more compact. It's better to hold.
It's like you.

Where's your favorite?

Speaker 2 Where's your favorite?

Speaker 3 Well, let me tell you something right now, Jack. I'm glad you asked.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Right now, I go to Hai-Ho.

Speaker 3 Hi-ho.

Speaker 2 Have you heard of it? It sounds like maybe there's some fusion in there. Is there some Korean flavors on there?

Speaker 3 No, no, no. Okay.
No, no, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Why do they call it Hi-Ho?

Speaker 1 That was the guy's name.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Okay.
Oh, dude. No, it is because I'll tell you why, because it's the owner of sugarfish.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Maybe his name's just Ho.

Speaker 3 And you say, Hi-ho.

Speaker 3 Oh, maybe, maybe.

Speaker 3 So that, so I go there. And then I'm the owner of sugarfish.
Yeah. Yeah, same thing.

Speaker 2 There's got to be some fusion in there, Japanese birds.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. Those are fish fries.
Yeah. The umami's definitely in it.
Yeah. And let me say something else, okay? And I also go to heavy-handed now.
You go to heavy-handed?

Speaker 2 Dude, I'm going straight to Hai-ho.

Speaker 3 You got to go there, dude. It's pretty good.
It's so good.

Speaker 2 I like all that lettuce and stuff in there.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Ooh.
It's so good, dude. And so, you know, next time when you eat this, then we'll have the discussion.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 But I think that without you eating this, Jack, you don't even know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Yes, please.

Speaker 3 He knows what he's talking about. And also, Andrew, can I say this? Last thing about Hi-Ho?

Speaker 3 I have nothing to do with the the fucking company.

Speaker 2 Maybe it's a Snow White and the Seven Dwarves reference, though.

Speaker 3 Hi-ho.

Speaker 3 Hi-ho. It's offer go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So anyway, go there. And also, can I say something? This is the first restaurant where the photo looks like the thing.
Ah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Can I say another thing, though? When I do go, I'll probably walk there and back to walk off all the extra calories.

Speaker 2 How many steps to walk off a Hi-Ho?

Speaker 3 A lot. A lot.

Speaker 1 How many calories in a high hole burger?

Speaker 3 I actually want to go to the bottom.

Speaker 2 At least 12,000 steps.

Speaker 3 Really?

Speaker 3 I know when you're talking about it. When I look at the taco,

Speaker 1 we know you don't.

Speaker 3 It's a big issue.

Speaker 2 I will say this, though. Oh, that's only a bit of a tough one.
Some of the best burgers I've ever had at Mexican restaurants.

Speaker 3 Amburgesa. Amburgesa.

Speaker 2 They got the flavor that a lot of Mexican cooks

Speaker 2 put the seasonings in there that taste extra good. Amburgesa.

Speaker 3 Amburgesa.

Speaker 2 There's a place called Yucca's. Look at taco stand.
Yeah. But guess what? What? A great cheeseburger in there.

Speaker 3 No. At Yucca's.

Speaker 1 My favorite burger in L.A. is only because it's

Speaker 1 nostalgic for me. But there's a place on the west side where

Speaker 1 Venice meets the water called

Speaker 3 Hanano.

Speaker 1 Do you know about Hanano?

Speaker 1 I don't know if you said that earlier or if he said that, but Hanano

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 an old cafe right on the water almost, and Jim Morrison used to play there. He used to live around the corner.
It's got wood chips all over the floor still. It's one of those old school bars.

Speaker 2 Oh my god, you don't like the doors?

Speaker 3 Big deal.

Speaker 2 What? Jim Morrison used to play there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Morrison used to live around the corner from there in Venice, and I guess he would walk there.

Speaker 1 Look and see if you get the inside of that place. It's awesome.
It's still got wood chips on the ground like the old bars used to.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but when you go to a hot dog sand and you see a photo of Barack Obama eating the hot dog, it doesn't do anything for me. That's all.
Let's just move on. That's not Thank you.

Speaker 2 I would think it's probably a good hot dog.

Speaker 2 He's not going to mess around with a substandard hot dog. And then go to if you.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, stay down on that photo. Stay on that photo real quick.
All right. Diversity.
Already, I like the hamburger because look at that guy. Look at that guy.
He loves it. He loves it.

Speaker 1 So on the other side of the bar is where the bands still play. They still have music there at night.
See there where the pool table is. Go to that fifth picture down or whatever.

Speaker 1 You can see there's a pool table. So bands play in that corner there.
And it's like an old surf. But the best part is the reason I like this is it's always been a cheap, affordable burger.

Speaker 1 We used to live on the west side, and there is no kitchen. They cook the burger right next to the taps.
So there's a flat-top grill next to the taps. So that's where you get your burger from.

Speaker 1 Right there. There it is.
Right when you walk in,

Speaker 1 slinging them right out front.

Speaker 3 It's the best.

Speaker 2 And this is back when it was before Jim Morrison was in the doors. He would go in there and just like do open mic night.
No, no, he would.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. There were nights when he was with the doors.
He would go play.

Speaker 2 The doors played that hamburger.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 1 Jim would play by himself there, would go play. You can go ask him, too.
They'll talk about it. Look, there's an original picture of Finano from back.

Speaker 2 How does he play by himself? He just sings.

Speaker 1 He would just sing and play guitar. Yeah.
Oh. That's what they said.

Speaker 1 He would show up there and just sing. Now, whether that's local lore, I don't know.

Speaker 3 It's local lore.

Speaker 2 They don't have any evidence. They don't have photographic evidence.

Speaker 1 No, there's pictures of Jim at the bar, but I mean, I don't know if that's true, but I like it. Yeah.
Even if it's not, I don't give a shit. I like it.

Speaker 1 If he hung out there, even I was like, that's kind of fucking rad.

Speaker 2 And he was already a rock star, you're saying. He was also doing.

Speaker 3 He's already famous.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 He didn't need to perform for free cheeseburgers.

Speaker 3 I'm sure he was,

Speaker 1 if we're being honest, I'm sure he was probably fucked up out of his mind. Yeah, he was going there just to like rail one out and play.

Speaker 1 And then, ironically enough, or coincidentally, when I moved from the west side to West Hollywood, I lived next door to Jim Morrison's last-known residence on Norton, Norton Avenue in West Hollywood.

Speaker 3 I like the doors.

Speaker 3 I did this just to find out how to do it. I really do.
I did it. I did this to find out if you like the doors.

Speaker 2 There's lots of people that don't like the doors.

Speaker 2 I don't know what it is, but they do rub people the wrong way. I'm on the camp that the doors rule

Speaker 3 of the doors. Fucking rough.
Also, Phil Manazerich. Is that the piano? Yep.
Close enough.

Speaker 2 Close enough.

Speaker 3 What is it? Manzerik. Oh, yeah.
Phil Manazerich. Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
Ray Manzeric. Ray.

Speaker 3 It was the Phil that was the rubber. Yeah.
Ray Manzerik, right? Because he did the bass lines as well on the keyboards, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. You were thinking of like Phil Collins combo?

Speaker 3 Who were you thinking of? I don't know. I got nervous.
Phil Manzerich.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he does.
There's no bass player. He gets the bass on his keyboards.
Amazing.

Speaker 3 So cool. So fucking cool.

Speaker 2 And the thing about the doors, too,

Speaker 2 Jim Morrison had the best voice, best screaming. Like, he could sing

Speaker 2 better than anyone of his generation, I would say.

Speaker 1 You probably are one of the best scream singers, too.

Speaker 3 You're very good. Thank you.
You know that.

Speaker 2 You know Jim Morrison, but I can get up there.

Speaker 1 When did you kind of discover this love of music and performing that you had? Like, beyond the acting acting stuff, the music thing, was that your first love?

Speaker 2 I loved

Speaker 2 getting up on a stage and

Speaker 2 getting attention and hamming cheese and doing theatrics when I was a little kid. Loved putting on a show

Speaker 2 from as far back as I can remember.

Speaker 2 Music, I liked it, like listening to it, but I didn't really get into singing until later, until like high school,

Speaker 2 when I got into the musical theater because those were the good opportunities to get up on stage. And I was singing in a little show called Pippin.

Speaker 3 You ever hear about Pippin? Pippin.

Speaker 2 1970s musical.

Speaker 2 And I remember auditioning to get into Pippin and singing, and I had to really like scrape the pan is what they call it. When you get up to the top of your voice and you kind of got to, yeah!

Speaker 2 Get up there and like there's a little bit of distortion in your vocal pipes.

Speaker 2 And I remember there was a girl who was auditioning right after me. And the way she looked at me when I scraped the pan, no one had ever looked at me like that before.

Speaker 3 And I was like, I think I like this music. Oh, she looked at you in an oola.

Speaker 2 Was it different?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 I love oolala.

Speaker 3 Don't you love oola la?

Speaker 3 Everybody likes oola la. Dude, that's one of my favorite vibes, dude.

Speaker 1 You're Mr. Oola.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. I mean, that wasn't the only reason.
I do love music and I love doing it, but there was something about that.

Speaker 3 But you realized that you had things. You had the thing.

Speaker 2 That I had, maybe I had a little something.

Speaker 2 Maybe I had something I could work with.

Speaker 3 It's surprising you never did stand-up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no stand-up for me.

Speaker 3 Probably better than it.

Speaker 3 What? He's better than it. I know he's better than it, but I'm just saying.
It's a low, it's a low bar. It's a low bar.
It's a low. It's a low top.
It's a low. It's hanging fruit.
It's low-rent art.

Speaker 3 You know what it is?

Speaker 2 It's writing. And I do like to improvise.
I've done a lot of improv classes

Speaker 2 and some improv in some of the sketches I've done.

Speaker 2 The best improvisers are like really good writers. And those stand-up comedians, you got to be a real writer.
And I don't don't really think of myself that way.

Speaker 3 I do. I do too.
I think you would.

Speaker 3 I mean, you never thought about trying it?

Speaker 2 I have thought about it because I've been around it a lot. When me and Kyle were doing Tenacious D, we would go and play these clubs, and all these brilliant stand-ups would go up there.

Speaker 2 But it takes a kind of courage.

Speaker 2 And I always liked having that security blanket of being a part of a team. And if it went sideways, I could always say it was his fault.
And having the guitars and the music was also,

Speaker 2 was uh it was our

Speaker 3 thing that set us apart from the other comedy acts but it also also maybe secretly a little bit of a crutch it's like oh we got the music here it i don't know we all have a crutch though we all have our crutches yeah we all i do the same things over like sometimes you're the things that you think these are like little devices that i've created to save a set when i was i was i just did a show with burt at um not savannah georgia i forgot where we were i don't remember i know because you weren't there you were in the south well we was in the the South.

Speaker 3 You called me. Right.
And so

Speaker 3 Big Jay Ogreson. Yeah, I told you I bombed, right? Yeah.
So Big Jay Ogerson, and it's about 10,000 people in the audience. Yeah.
Big Jay Olgerson has the set of the night. Destruction.

Speaker 3 And also in the South. And that's his people.

Speaker 1 What does that even mean? He's from Baltimore or something. I know.

Speaker 2 He speaks their language. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 He's like a kind of like a filthy white. Can I say filthy white?

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? You're not clean white. He's not Joe Malaney.
Yeah, he's a filthy white. He's a filthy white.
And I don't think he'd be offended if I said that. I'm a filthy yellow.

Speaker 3 He's a great white.

Speaker 3 He's a great white. Killing it.
And I'm literally, I turn to Leanne, Bert's wife. Yeah.
And I go,

Speaker 3 I'm going to struggle.

Speaker 3 And she goes, no, you're fine, sweet. They love you.
It's all about love, these audiences. I go, I'm going to struggle.
And I hear my name come.

Speaker 3 And I go up there and, dude, I struggle.

Speaker 3 Oh, shit. And then I started doing, I go, you know, I go, you know, I have a bag of tricks.
Bag of tricks. Right.
So this is one of my, I don't want to reveal it, but I'm going to do it. Do it.

Speaker 3 One of my bag of tricks is I'll do three minutes. And then if somebody sits down, like when they went to the bathroom, I'll go, fuck, where were you? And they're like, I went to the bathroom.

Speaker 3 I go, I got to start over.

Speaker 3 So I'll leave the stage. I'll run out.
And then restart my set doing the same jokes. And that usually kills.
It did worse than the original joke. They were like, we see through it.

Speaker 3 That's almost if they said that. We see through your little antics, your little tricks, right? I did it all.
What could you have done? Nothing.

Speaker 3 I bombed.

Speaker 1 What do you do when you're in a situation when you guys aren't being well received?

Speaker 3 No, they're always well received.

Speaker 2 No, there have been a couple times, but

Speaker 2 especially if you're going to play in festivals where there's 100,000 people there that really came to see, you know, Metallica or whoever, you got to win some people over and what I do is I all the mantra is don't forget to pretend to have a good time

Speaker 2 why because if you just stay in that

Speaker 2 just keep on like pretending like you're loving it and enjoying it eventually you will start to and that and then they'll uh that's the hope and the dream and then they'll they'll pick up on that energy and they'll start to enjoy it too because if you're suffering and and you're what did you say struggling struggling yeah.

Speaker 2 It's like, yeah, there's blood in the water. There's blood in the water.

Speaker 3 They can sense it.

Speaker 2 They're like an animal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They can see your fear.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I tell people when they're doing the tonight show, I go,

Speaker 3 I'm not going to name the name. Can I just whisper it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, do that.

Speaker 3 Back in the day, I think before I did stand-up,

Speaker 3 I saw

Speaker 3 who we love. Yeah, he's our.
Do the tonight show, and he didn't do well. Even as a non-stand-up at the time, I went, oh, shit, this guy's a legend.
He's not doing well.

Speaker 2 Live TV is so hard.

Speaker 3 Right. So when I'm, when I'm, so what I tell you, I can do this.
Yeah, you're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a crazy.

Speaker 3 So anyway,

Speaker 3 but when I saw young Kong, I go, just, you're on TV.

Speaker 3 They can sweeten it. You know what I mean? Just pretend you're killing.
Smile. You know what I mean? If you're eating, you know, we know that at clubs.
If you're bombing, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Just kind of give it a bunch of people. It's the same thing.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I shouldn't have even said any of that, right? Because it's just like you already said it.

Speaker 2 And I know.

Speaker 3 Now I feel good. Now I look like a fool.
Do not.

Speaker 2 I wasn't listening at all because I was thinking the next thing I was going to say.

Speaker 3 Sorry, can't say it.

Speaker 2 Because the truth is, no matter what

Speaker 2 your approach is, if you have a technique of what to do, mantras don't really work because you go, okay, don't forget the thing. To always do the thing.

Speaker 2 The thing is always going to be different every show. It's not the same.
But what I've noticed is like

Speaker 2 we'll have a great show and then we'll have a bad show. And after the bad show, I usually have a good one the next one because I'll usually be like, you know what? I was trying too hard.

Speaker 2 Always, it's my number one problem is trying too hard. And I go, this next time, I'm not going to try too hard.
I'm going to kind of act. This sounds horrible.

Speaker 2 I'm going to kind of phone it in a little bit.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 If you phone it, you throw it away. You don't care as much.

Speaker 3 That's when the magic bad. That's when the magic happens.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I have another couple of questions for you. Yeah.
All right. It's about acting real quick.
Real quick, okay?

Speaker 3 How do you do it? No, no, no.

Speaker 3 No. When you're in a scene and you're in the background, not that like you're not in the background, but there's a wide shot, right? And you're supposed to have a conversation with somebody.

Speaker 3 Do you do what I do? I'm sure there's a better technique, but you say watermelon a thousand times. Is that something that you do, or do you just kind of improve?

Speaker 3 I always go, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 cheese and potatoes. That's the thing.
Cheese and cheese and potatoes.

Speaker 2 I mean, it is, it is some of the hardest shit when you're not supposed to be pulling focus, but you don't want to be

Speaker 2 a strange creature that's not human back there.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 2 yeah,

Speaker 2 how do you act in the background? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There should be a class on it.
You're right. What do I do with my hands?

Speaker 3 And then let me ask you another question. When you're tongue-tied, you know what I mean? But you have a big thing, chunky thing you have to say.
Yeah. And you're tongue-tied.
Does this work?

Speaker 3 Because this works for me. Yeah.
Red leather, yellow leather.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Eating that red leather yellow.

Speaker 2 Well, that's one of the many things you can. I have a bunch of them.
I know how to do it too. A big black bug bit a big brown bear.

Speaker 3 Geese cackle. Cattle low.
Crows caw, cocks crow.

Speaker 2 Eight great geese in a green field grazing.

Speaker 2 I can go on for

Speaker 3 hours.

Speaker 1 Keep doing it.

Speaker 3 I want to see them all. Six thick thistle sticks.

Speaker 2 Lucy likes light literature.

Speaker 2 Amos Ames, the amiable aeronaut, aided in an aerial enterprise at the age of 88.

Speaker 3 Some shun sunshine.

Speaker 2 Do you shun sunshine? Fine white wine, vinegar with veal.

Speaker 3 Did you memorize that or are you just improvising that? I memorized it way back in my 20s. Whoa, theater student.
Whoa, do you know how to do any of those?

Speaker 1 No, I'm not a good actor.

Speaker 3 Let me try to improvise some, maybe. Can I challenge myself?

Speaker 1 Some shuns sunshine. Do you shun sunshine?

Speaker 3 That's good. Ricardo Valenzuela is Ob the Hockey Stick.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 No, that's not worth it.

Speaker 3 Ricardo Valenzuela.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. La Valentine.
Wait. La Valencia Hotel is incognito with John Smith.

Speaker 1 This is just coming through you?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's coming through, God, like channeling, yeah. Right.
Yeah. Montgomery Award is within each other's hemisphere, creating lots of dozens of laughs.
Oh,

Speaker 3 yeah. What do you think?

Speaker 2 You're just letting it spill. Yeah, I can tell that's just coming off the top of your deck.

Speaker 3 Dude, I'm like channeling it, dude. I don't need to memorize it.

Speaker 1 Especially because Montgomery Ward hasn't been around in like 30 years.

Speaker 1 Department stores that are out of commission. That's amazing.

Speaker 3 Is that what it is? Montgomery Ward? I never even heard of it before. I just channeled it.

Speaker 1 It used to be a department store. I channeled it, dude.
Dude, that's amazing. I've never insighted it.
That's something from San Diego Youth there popping up.

Speaker 3 What do you mean, bud?

Speaker 1 That was the mall.

Speaker 3 At the mall. Oh, at the moment.
Yeah, Montgomery Award. Yeah, yeah.
That was an actual place, huh?

Speaker 1 Pretty cool. Dude, the channeling was incredible.

Speaker 3 Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 Channel, baby. What? Channel, baby.
Let it rip.

Speaker 3 Let it rip. All right.
Channel. Buggle beat beach where it doesn't create nothing but eyesores.
Whoa.

Speaker 3 What do you think? Channel again.

Speaker 3 Channel more. Channel.
Caster Montgomery and the skyline creating algorithms within within each other's foot.

Speaker 2 Montgomery came out again, though. As soon as there's a repeater, I think it kills the

Speaker 3 channel anymore. It's dead.
All right, let me

Speaker 3 know.

Speaker 1 Channel. My father never loved me.

Speaker 1 That's the same thing. It's not the same thing.

Speaker 3 Oh, keep going. Keep going.
More channeling. Okay.

Speaker 3 Why didn't he love me?

Speaker 3 Why did you never come to any of my baseball games?

Speaker 3 I just wanted to see your face.

Speaker 3 Good. That was good.
Wow. I don't think you should do that on set, though.
No? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'd be weird.

Speaker 1 Someone's like, man, you can't get your lines right. I'm like, one second.

Speaker 3 Daddy?

Speaker 3 Wait, is this an acting exercise?

Speaker 2 This helps you be a better actor if you channel good right before you go out to act.

Speaker 3 I think so.

Speaker 2 That's right, guy. It's kind of cool.
It's like you're flushing out the...

Speaker 2 the clogs in your in your emotions.

Speaker 3 You gotta shake out all the bullshit. Can I try? Yeah, go ahead.
All right.

Speaker 3 Fuck a shakalika ding-dong. Why do I live in a world of dreams? The space is infinite.
If you go to the end, you'll see the devil. No, you won't.
He doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 That's what he wants you to think. Cock!

Speaker 3 Wow, dude. You know the channel, too.
It just got very

Speaker 3 good, dude.

Speaker 2 I don't know what just happened.

Speaker 3 Whoa, whoa. Did I say words? Yeah, that was incredible.

Speaker 1 Definitely didn't end with cock, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 3 That was fucking incredible. Wow.

Speaker 3 Do you ever? I feel like you don't. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 I was trying to see my channel.

Speaker 3 Yeah, can you channel? Yeah, yeah. Are you channeling?

Speaker 3 Wishing tire, wind, dropping, turbulence, waves crashing, penis pain.

Speaker 3 There it is. Dude, so good.
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 Dude, you got it out of your system. That's so good.
That's good. By the way, Carlos, when he's going to try it?

Speaker 3 Carlos, too. Come on, baby.
Come on, baby. Channel.

Speaker 3 Shamalado Ding-Dong algorithm.

Speaker 3 Wait, stop, stop, stop. Time out.
Time out.

Speaker 3 Wait. Wait, is there a wrong way to channel? You think that was.
He said algorithm over there already. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, he's not allowed to channel anything. You channel.
I said. It's not true.
I felt like Shamalama Ding-dong.

Speaker 2 I kind of covered that too.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you covered that too.

Speaker 3 So, can you do your own channeling?

Speaker 3 Channel hack. I think we just learned.
Channel hack, dude. Channel hack.
You're not real, dude. That's really true.
Channel ability, dude. I didn't know Jack did sham a lambda the ding-dong.

Speaker 2 It's also, it wasn't sham olama ding-dong. There was a ding and a dong, but I think the shama lamma was all you.
I don't think this is fair for us to be telling him he can't channel the way.

Speaker 2 If part of his channeling is stealing our channels, that's a channel.

Speaker 3 I know, but it just doesn't feel creative to me.

Speaker 1 It feels like a channel thief.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're a channel. But to be, let's be fair.
The channeling is for you to do alone in your trailer right before Martin Scorsese calls you to the set.

Speaker 3 This is something that Leo DeKapp will do before his Oscar-winning performance.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 In Vatican, Once Upon a Time. In Hollywood 2.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I love that movie. So you know what? You're right.
You know, I made fun of you just now. I know.
You're not a channel. You're a basic guy.

Speaker 3 No, just be real. You're a basic guy with basic people.
I'm being nice. Be nice.
You're basic. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 You like pumpkin skies squies like the white girls you know i mean you have your routine during the day you know what it is he's got more balance in his life again how many days sober now what are we talking we're at like

Speaker 3 we're at like nine months around there

Speaker 3 wait no more like six

Speaker 3 clapping that's how that's how i know he's not there's something awry

Speaker 3 Oh no, it's because I'm not going to meetings, so I'm not keeping track.

Speaker 3 Well, you go from nine months to six months. That's a three-month gap there.
It's a big gap. Well,

Speaker 3 I was trying to remember what month it was right now.

Speaker 3 Because you usually, I'm just, I'm sorry, I'm not, I don't mean an argument.

Speaker 3 And congratulations, by the way. But my point being is that because I count days, you know exactly what day.

Speaker 2 You know how many days it's been.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. When you're going nine months, I mean six months.
It's a little week. It's a week because I'm not happy about it.
I'm not like thrilled about being sober right now. Right.

Speaker 3 Like I'm not counting. Well, then go to a fucking meeting.

Speaker 1 That is definitely the solution is to go to a meeting.

Speaker 3 I don't know what to get into that right now. Okay, Okay, let's move on then.
Anyway, you look great, though. Congratulations.
Keep Carlos around the car. So,

Speaker 3 talking about it, talking wonderful.

Speaker 2 Hey, you're alive. That's all that matters, right, guys? Thank you, Chad.

Speaker 3 That is true. So, can we talk about Borderlands or no? Yeah, let's talk about it.

Speaker 2 Oh, yes. The reason I'm here.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just kidding. I've always wanted to be on your show.

Speaker 1 The movie that you guys did.

Speaker 1 We have a three-way connection, right? You did the film together.

Speaker 3 Correct.

Speaker 1 One of my closest friends is a producer on the movie, so this when he told me he was, she told me he was gonna get the role, or they were gonna, whatever, you know, and I auditioned, I auditioned, and it was a cool, I was like, I knew before he knew, it was kind of a sweet little nugget of life, and I was like, oh, this is amazing.

Speaker 1 And then it's opened his world to all these great people, and it's just been a, I saw the trailer looks fucking amazing. I saw it before they put it out, which I thought was really cool.

Speaker 3 But it looks rad. What's a bummer bummer about it, though, is because

Speaker 3 when I found out you're in it, but then I realized you're not going to be there. Yo.

Speaker 2 So you were out in Bulgaria going, where the fuck is Jack West?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I realized, oh, he's clapped.

Speaker 3 This is bullshit.

Speaker 2 But we could still kind of work together.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we did one table read. Yep.
I remember that day.

Speaker 3 A Zoom table. Zoom, yeah, but you crushed it.

Speaker 3 And I had to tell you what happened when we had that table. We're going to tell you what happened.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 3 So, Jack, let's, I want to be vulnerable and I want to be, you know because i know sometimes people think i'm cool and i got my together like oh yeah he's he he's got all the you know what there you are though that's incredible look zoom in there he is yeah the smallest picture but thank you for putting dude made the poster that made the poster that's huge it's amazing

Speaker 3 amazing so here's so who's the guy in the middle oh who's that guy in the dead center kevin hart kevin hart that's kevin hart that's right with the beret yeah like you've never seen him before wow yeah yeah special forces beret.

Speaker 3 Edgar Ramirez.

Speaker 3 So anyway, I get the movie. And Jack, I'll be honest with you.
I've never been in a movie with that kind of, this kind of cast before. Caliber of Stars.
Yeah, it's just stacked, right? Yeah. And

Speaker 3 let me be vulnerable. Yeah.
I'm nervous as fuck. Let's be honest.
Yeah. I don't know if you're remembering me, Axe.
Oh, real nervous.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You thought you might lose the job over the Zoom performance?

Speaker 3 Exactly. Exactly.
Not a chance. So this is what happens, okay? Yeah.
Chance, by the way. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So what happens is Eli's like assistant or something calls me and goes, hey, dude, there's not going to be a lot of people at the table read at the Zoom.

Speaker 3 I go, okay, he goes, I'm going to text you a list of characters that you're going to be playing as well as the character that you're doing. So I go, okay.
And it's like 20 names.

Speaker 3 Right. So now I'm panicking like, oh, I could get fired from so many different angles now.
Right.

Speaker 3 So I, for days, bro, highlight even the, you know what I mean? The sergeant or whatever, right? And I'm trying to memorize everything and like their point of view or whatever, whatever.

Speaker 2 Different sounding voices.

Speaker 3 Different sounding voices, right? I go, I have to kill here. Yeah.
This is my shot, right?

Speaker 3 So when we get on Zoom, like I'm there five minutes earlier and I'm looking at all the boxes. There's so many boxes.
Right. And in my mind, I was like, I don't know if I'm playing 20 parts.

Speaker 3 I mean, there's,

Speaker 3 you know what I mean? It seems like there's, right?

Speaker 3 And I'm glad I did this. Two minutes before we're about to start, I text the guy again.
I go, are you sure about these 20 names? He goes, oh, no, I forgot to tell you. You're only doing two.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. So if I hadn't called, I would have been interrupting somebody.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You would have been interrupting 18 people.

Speaker 3 I know. Thank God.

Speaker 3 I mean, would that have been bad? Oh, yeah. I think that would have been.

Speaker 2 I'll tell you what was bad, though, is that they made you rehearse 20 different roles. And really, it was only two that you had to.
Yeah, it was me.

Speaker 2 Because you put in some hours, it sounds like, and some stress, lost a little sleep.

Speaker 3 They owe me money, is what you're saying. Okay, yeah, those out there.

Speaker 3 What are we talking about here? Did I get a lawyer? Yeah, oh no. Yeah, it was stressful, but you know, it's fine.

Speaker 2 I'll tell you what, when I found out you were in it, I was like, that's rad, and they're lucky. We are lucky to have you on that movie because you're fucking hilarious.

Speaker 3 Oh, God, bless you.

Speaker 2 You can relax about the worrying about getting canned.

Speaker 2 They're thinking they're lucky stars because you're killing it. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 It was also just a very positive experience. I'll tell you that right now.

Speaker 2 You know what has currency that people don't really realize?

Speaker 2 If you like kill it in a social media post, that has just as much, if not more, like power in the industry than like having a zippy cameo and a major motion picture.

Speaker 2 If you fucking crush it like you do on the regular, on social media, on like podcasts or on like interviews and other people's shit, that stuff,

Speaker 3 that stuff counts a lot. Yeah, but Jack, I'm glad.
A lot of eyeballs, a lot of clicks. Jack, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 And I'll tell you the difference between me and Andrew and the other podcasters, right?

Speaker 3 The other podcasters, they understand that, but him and I, for some reason, and I know you're like this, some of our dreams are still tied up. with television and movies because we're a little older.

Speaker 2 Same.

Speaker 3 Right. So it's like, I think we got to,

Speaker 3 I don't want to talk about your, I talked about me. I have to sort of kind of, you know, mean, kind of unlearn that, you know what I mean, and find that this is the dream.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I do, we like the other stuff. No, we love the other stuff, but I'm just saying, but you are right.
I think that

Speaker 3 it's great.

Speaker 3 No, but I'm saying, I love it.

Speaker 2 I'm saying that it's

Speaker 2 actually also working in the industry when the casting agencies is a thing that really makes them laugh hard. It doesn't matter what the venue is.
They see you killing it

Speaker 2 in a post.

Speaker 2 people get cast off of that just as much as anything else nowadays.

Speaker 3 I know, but you did it the traditional way, right? I mean, you got a manager agent, you took acting classes, you know what I mean? You auditioned probably commercial.

Speaker 3 I mean, you kind of moved your way up, probably, I don't know, right?

Speaker 3 And there was like a clear pathway of a way to do it. And I think you and I were the same way, right, or no?

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, for a little bit, and then the industry kind of changed.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it changed.

Speaker 2 Wait, do you guys have a headshot that on the back has four different activities?

Speaker 2 Yeah. See, we're old school like that.

Speaker 3 Soccer.

Speaker 2 The kids today, they don't have those headshots with the things.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the skateboarding.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Ken Ollie. Not Ken Ollie.

Speaker 3 Languages. I don't know any other language with English, but I would put like five things on there.

Speaker 2 I had eating cereal was one of the pictures. I can eat cereal commercial.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 When we used to have to bring in those fucking headshots, it was so, it was so, it was so demeaning, and they'd like throw it in a pile, and you were like, that cost me $4.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 They'd throw it away. You know, you'd get stacks of them in your fucking car.

Speaker 3 I was around when your agent would call you and go, are you having an audition tomorrow? Okay, cool. Or come pick up the screw sites.
And so I would go to an alleyway, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 And they would have like a filing thing. Yeah.
And I would have to look up L, Lee, and pull out my, like, I'd have to drive there. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 And there would be like sometimes a line of other actors there.

Speaker 1 Once I learned that they were acronyms for agencies, I would make up fake acronyms of an agency. I would just, I'd type type in three letters.

Speaker 1 It'd be like CBF or whatever, CBF creative agency or whatever.

Speaker 1 They would never check. Why would they ever fucking even check? It was just like the guy who was my manager was out of his studio apartment next to the magic asshole.

Speaker 3 That's a hack. Yeah.
That wow.

Speaker 1 I mean, it got me enough around where I got to sneak into shit. But that's what you have to staple your headshot to your resume or whatever.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Another thing people would go is like, fucking hated that.
Yeah, are you in SAC?

Speaker 3 I want Am I points? Yeah, I'm building up the points or whatever, right? That was a whole thing. If you were in SAG or not, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 It was a catch-22. You couldn't get a job unless you were in SAG, but you can't get SAG unless you get a job.
Right.

Speaker 3 And then there's this mysterious thing called Taft Hartley. I don't know what the fuck that is.
Am I insane, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Taft, yeah. Taft.
Well, they merged after Aftra and SAG merged. But Taft Hartley was how you got into

Speaker 1 the back door that you're going to. I did it right, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Okay, good.
Yeah, you did. Yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 Inside baseball talk.

Speaker 2 But the truth is, if the director really wants you, they'll find a way to get you into SAG to do the movie. This costs a little more money.
It's a little more hassle.

Speaker 1 That happened at Mark Pellington, the guy that directed

Speaker 1 the first thing I ever did when the studio I worked at as a PA.

Speaker 1 I got this role to deliver Luke Wilson a pizza, and then they overshot. And the PA, I did 13 hours in a trailer, just like sitting, waiting, sitting, waiting, like excited, excited.

Speaker 1 The PA came and was like, cutting your scene. Good night.

Speaker 3 And I was like, oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Fucking killed me, dude. Yeah.
And then Mark Pellington was smoking a cigarette.

Speaker 1 By the way, that director, Mark Pellington, famously directed, if I'm not wrong, Jeremy, Pearl Jam's Jeremy.

Speaker 3 I think that was a great song.

Speaker 1 I think that's what he did. Look that up.
But he was smoking a cigarette or something or hanging out by the trailers. And he was like, oh, I heard they fucking cut your shit.
And I was like, yeah.

Speaker 3 And then I wanted to be like, Didn't you cut my shit?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Who's they?

Speaker 3 And then he was like, We'll get you back, dude. We'll get you back.
Lie, lie.

Speaker 1 No, he was true. They brought me back as a hospital orderly, uh, and they gave me a line.
I was like, sir, you can't be out of your room.

Speaker 3 Wait, that's you?

Speaker 2 No, that's man. That is the word.

Speaker 3 Jeremy, yeah. Jeremy, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, but he was cool, man. That was a fucking really rad thing.
But that's, that was one. You need those little tiny moments sometimes to like give you a little bit more hope.

Speaker 1 Because after that, I thought, fuck, man. I was so excited to have one line to maybe get in the union, to be able to get another job.

Speaker 3 It's a huge thing. That dude did a favor.

Speaker 2 I got it, you know, talking about that and about Borderlands, sorry to bring it back,

Speaker 2 but it made me think of a story about how I met Kevin Hart years before we did Jumanji together. And it was just sort of a general meeting.
He was kind of new and up and coming.

Speaker 2 And he was going around. We were at the same agency and he was going around meeting all the different people at the agency to just talk about maybe developing something.

Speaker 2 And we had a good meeting, just hitting it off, talking about things that we liked. And then years later, I got that call to do Jumanji.

Speaker 2 And it was Kevin. I know it was Kevin that got me into that room because even though I had a lot of success before Jumanji, I was in a little bit of a dip.

Speaker 2 And I was like, God, I got to get another gig.

Speaker 2 And I remember thinking, That

Speaker 2 Kevin Hart, he's a stand-up guy. He's a great guy.
He said we were going to work together and he went out of his way, I believe, and made it happen, which is cool.

Speaker 3 Do you even think you've been in dips?

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 No matter how good it goes, this industry is a fucking Leviathan, and you never know when it's going to end. And you see it all the time.

Speaker 2 People get ejected off the roller coaster, and it's such a fun job, and it's such a fun life.

Speaker 2 The name of the game is staying in it, and you can feel it.

Speaker 2 Because if you're in

Speaker 2 a wave of, like, oh, I'm getting lots of gigs. This is going fucking great.
It's gangbusters.

Speaker 2 And you can almost go, like, fuck, I can't wait for a break. When is the Google calendar going to be empty?

Speaker 3 So I can just chill.

Speaker 2 But then, as soon as it gets empty, and you don't have anything on the horizon, there's a panic. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Ice cold water in the veins.

Speaker 2 Like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 3 I got to get something.

Speaker 2 And yeah, you get those moments. I think everybody has.

Speaker 3 Well, I'm glad to hear that. We're glad to hear that you get them.
Yeah, yeah, because I get them. That's how we feel all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 We're all like, oh my god i'm dead yeah i guess they don't like me i guess it's the ken jong randall park show now okay all right i guess the ronnie chang you know i mean you'll never be

Speaker 3 i'm out i'm out you know you're out yeah yeah you're out yeah no i'm no you're right also can i say this i'm fine

Speaker 3 i'm grateful i'm so grateful you should be yeah and so happy and yeah life is good yeah yeah yeah so borderlands comes out august what august 9th

Speaker 1 borderlands gonna come out august 9th uh you must go see this movie yeah uh

Speaker 1 If you're in a theater and you do see the trailer pop up, it does look really good.

Speaker 1 You're in two scenes.

Speaker 2 We've got a scene together where I'm claptrapped the robot in the bar, and you're in the bar.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's right. I remember now.
I turned around.

Speaker 2 Now, I was all pre-recorded, so maybe you heard my voice when you were shooting it, or maybe you didn't.

Speaker 2 I didn't. Maybe someone heard it.
I did hear trap for it.

Speaker 3 I did hear it.

Speaker 2 But you were in Bulgaria kicking. Was it Bulgaria?

Speaker 3 It wasn't. But I love when you say it.

Speaker 3 I don't even know Budapest Budapest Budapest Budapest yeah yeah yeah yeah but I also want to talk about how I just something about Eli Rolf because you worked with him with the clock yep yeah right and you worked with Kate before too yeah right um

Speaker 3 but I just what I mean I you know I've done some things and I just love that guy as a director because it doesn't he makes you feel comfortable man yeah really fun really fun to work with yeah yeah and uh also good stories yeah he's got great stories yeah yeah yeah and i'll say this one other thing about the movie.

Speaker 2 It's got vibes that are kind of like, did you ever see

Speaker 2 Total Recall with Schwarzenegger?

Speaker 3 Love.

Speaker 2 It's got that kind of vibes where it's another planet and it's kind of like a rough and ready. It's like a

Speaker 2 hard neighborhood

Speaker 2 world.

Speaker 2 And it's kind of like a desert. And it's squash buckling.
And it's death-defying and kick-ass. A lot of good explosions.

Speaker 3 So you saw the movie? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Don't be jealous. It's not just because I got a sneak a peek.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I'm sorry.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's famous.

Speaker 3 I know, but

Speaker 3 he saw the movie. No, dude.
It's a full movie.

Speaker 2 But no, I saw it, but it still had the numbers on the bottom and the thing and the watermark, so I'd be in trouble.

Speaker 3 But you saw it from beginning to end. I would have forwarded it to you, but I couldn't.
It had the watermark. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You do know he recorded it. He's been selling it.

Speaker 3 All right, right, right, right. He's been bootlegging.
Well, I'm glad you said that because I don't know what the movie's going to be like. It's going to be great.
We're all going to go together.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. You're going to come?

Speaker 1 We're going to have a family outing.

Speaker 2 I think it's going to be amazing. He's got that kind of Road Warrior-like post-apocalyptic movie.

Speaker 3 I'm excited. I'm

Speaker 3 really kind of excited.

Speaker 3 Do you have anything else you want to plug that coming up?

Speaker 3 I did a little movie called Minecraft. But that's not going to be until next year.

Speaker 3 They did it based on the video games.

Speaker 2 I only do video games, dude.

Speaker 2 I just basically do whatever my sons tell me.

Speaker 3 Now, what is Minecraft? How is that going to be a movie?

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 3 Oh, we have to figure it out.

Speaker 2 Well, it's like not obvious. It's like, that can't be a movie, can it? Yeah.
Can it? Yes, it can.

Speaker 3 It can. Wow.
What's that going to be like?

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's harder to describe.

Speaker 3 I'm not even going to try it. Oh, really?

Speaker 2 But it's a combo of live action. It's me.
It's not a cartoon. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 animated, like computer animated, like the world of Minecraft, like you see it when you play it.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 2 So there's humans. It's like, what's another movie like that?

Speaker 3 Roger Robbins? Yep. Tron.
Great guy. Get closer to Tron.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And it's pretty rad, and it's pretty funny. I bet you.
My old pal,

Speaker 2 Jared Hess, who directed Nacho Libre, is at the helm.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Napoleon Dynamite, too, right? Napoleon Dynamite.

Speaker 2 If you need him. And Jason Momoa, it's me and him.
And

Speaker 2 some great kids.

Speaker 2 And yeah, look for that next year, probably around April 1st. Ish.

Speaker 3 Wow, dude.

Speaker 3 That's a fucking awesome.

Speaker 2 Danielle Brooks, amazing in the color purple recently.

Speaker 2 She kicks ass as well. Also, great singer, that Danielle Brooks.

Speaker 1 And she's in this too? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Jesus.

Speaker 2 And there might be a tiny little bit of music, but I don't know what I'm allowed to say. It's one of those where they don't want you to talk to me.

Speaker 1 She wrote some of the soundtrack.

Speaker 2 I mean, there might be some. I'm saying there might be, so I'm not going to get in trouble for it.

Speaker 3 We'll wait and see. Minecraft.
But have you?

Speaker 3 I've never played the game because I do love seeing it. I am building rocks and shit and playing fucking Minecraft.

Speaker 2 That might not be a song.

Speaker 3 It's going to be fun. But I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Should I play it? Minecraft? Yeah.
Yeah. Because I like building world.
I like building, but it's like so blocky. I don't even know how it works.

Speaker 2 Dude, it's really fun, but it is like learning a language. You got to spend some time learning the world.

Speaker 2 I did it because my boys were deep into Minecraft for a long time, and I wanted just to speak of their language. So I learned how to do it, and then I got into it.

Speaker 3 It's like architectural.

Speaker 2 Wow. You will be building buildings and digging tunnels and

Speaker 2 making progress.

Speaker 3 But do you do you raid other, is there like combat in it or what?

Speaker 2 There is fighting at nighttime. If you get caught outside, outside of a shelter, you will have to scrape and scrap to survive.
And there will be zombies. There will be exploding thingies.

Speaker 2 I can't remember what they're called.

Speaker 3 Creepers, creepers.

Speaker 1 This is true. Fighting should only be at night, by the way.
That makes the most sense. Yeah.
Daytime is for chilling out. What do you mean? Nighttime is for fighting.
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 Well, I don't fight. There shouldn't be daytime battles in these games.
It should be only at night.

Speaker 1 It's cooler, it's sexier, it's darker.

Speaker 3 I guess you're right. Yeah.
Night fight, dude. Night fight.

Speaker 3 Remember Silent Hill?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 3 You guys all remember now. Yeah, the video game

Speaker 3 first came out. Oh,

Speaker 3 it was so fucking scary.

Speaker 3 because it was, you know, the first game where it was dark, like foggy.

Speaker 1 And there were just creatures that would come run out at you, and it was scary and jumpy.

Speaker 3 And you would have, like, a, I forgot what you had, but you had an apparatus, but um, but there was an elementary school there, and

Speaker 1 you were not supposed to go over there, remember?

Speaker 3 I know, I know. My parole oversis that, no, but um, no, but um, there's little kids, like demons and stuff.
Oh, yeah, I found that dude so fucking scary, you know.

Speaker 3 I mean, there he is, anyway, looks kind of like uh, Michael Michael Sarah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, a little bit like Michael Sarah.

Speaker 1 He could play in the movie Silent Hill.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So, Jack, I want to say, number one,

Speaker 3 what a pleasure to have you on.

Speaker 3 Truly. It was,

Speaker 3 because we didn't know how it was going to go.

Speaker 2 Me neither. I was scared.

Speaker 3 No, but it was probably the best time I've had.

Speaker 2 I mean, it was since MCG.

Speaker 3 No, no, no.

Speaker 3 Everything's different, but this was like, it felt like you were already a part of the ecosystem of podcasting. It felt like, you know, having Shane Gillis or somebody on, right?

Speaker 3 It just felt natural and you know how to add information and you're silly and it was just a blast. And if you ever need to plug anything, you're always welcome back.

Speaker 2 Hey, how about this?

Speaker 2 If it ever comes a time when all three of us have empty Google calendars,

Speaker 2 we get together and we fucking come up with some shit.

Speaker 1 I like this a lot.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 That's what happens.

Speaker 3 i like you circle the wagons i'm gonna circle it too we'll circle the wagons over a cheeseburger which would be really that'd be really nice it'd be fun even if the google calendar i want to be i want to be in a western i hear you and i want to be opium den guy wait a second well is there an opium den in the western

Speaker 3 what do you mean in deadwood and all these towns oh right right like remember in fucking um once in a time in america with robert di naro oh wow you remember that one you're a cinephide it's like a sergi leone not sergi leone Leone.

Speaker 3 It was Sergio Leone. Was it Sergi Leone? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 It was a prequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was that opening right this way, Mr.
Joe. You know what I mean? I've always wanted to play the opium dengue sing.
You know what I mean? Yeah. But then

Speaker 3 what?

Speaker 1 You can do it.

Speaker 3 I think I can do it.

Speaker 1 What's going on in that tent?

Speaker 3 Oh, we have our opium straight from China, my friend.

Speaker 1 Really got opium from China? No. Me and my friend here traveled a long way.

Speaker 3 It's weed.

Speaker 3 It's Mexican weed.

Speaker 3 Is this fucking brickweed?

Speaker 3 you gave me brickweed yeah yeah me and my boy didn't come all the way here for brickweed anyway jack thank you for being a bad friend thank you for being here and um anytime thank you so much give jack black a round guy

Speaker 3 awesome

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