Ankling Scooby Don’t (Edgar Wright, Edi Patterson, Neil Campbell)

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Speaker 2 Thank you to Liza Mangelli for that catchphrase submission submitted on January 6th,

Speaker 2 what year? 2023.

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Speaker 2 Hi, welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. My name is Scott Auckerman.
I'm the host of Comedy Bang Bang. We have a fantastic show coming up a little later.
We have a hobbyist.

Speaker 2 I wonder what their hobby is. That's very exciting.

Speaker 2 We also have an entrepreneur who is going to be here. Of course, we're having entrepreneurs back on the show.
We said they couldn't be on the show anymore because everyone was an entrepreneur.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so we just had small business owners, but we've welcomed entrepreneurs back into the fold. So

Speaker 2 we're going to have an entrepreneur coming up. But before we get to them, we have a

Speaker 2 film director of note.

Speaker 3 I'm an entrepreneur as well, in a way.

Speaker 2 You are. I bet you have an LLC or a...

Speaker 2 He is

Speaker 2 joining the illustrious Seven Timers Club

Speaker 2 here on Comedy Bang Bang. This will be his seventh appearance on Comedy Bang Bang.
He has a new movie coming out called The Running Man.

Speaker 3 It's not that difficult, a title.

Speaker 2 How do you mess up the word man?

Speaker 2 I'm a terrible host. The Running Mon.
The Running Mon.

Speaker 2 I'm Jamaican.

Speaker 3 I'm not going there.

Speaker 2 Of course not.

Speaker 2 His new movie, The Running Man, comes out this Friday. Please welcome back to the show, Edgar Wright.

Speaker 3 Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.
So wonderful. Seventh and last time.

Speaker 2 What? Just because I messed up the word man?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 3 Paramount have already been

Speaker 2 on the phone. Now, this is interesting.
You have directed,

Speaker 2 I'm going to say, in terms of major films, I'm not going to count a fist full of fingers. We talked about this on a previous episode.
I'm not counting that one. Okay.
But you've directed eight films.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 And you've only made seven appearances on this show.

Speaker 3 Oh, I know. So what's going on?

Speaker 3 I didn't, well, I guess I didn't come for

Speaker 3 Sean or Hot Fuzz.

Speaker 2 Here's what you came to for.

Speaker 3 First time I came was with Joe Cornish to promote a technology.

Speaker 2 Attack the Block, of course.

Speaker 3 Where Joe got in a huff.

Speaker 2 Maybe.

Speaker 2 We don't talk about that. Then you came for The World's End.
Yes.

Speaker 3 With Sean Connery and Michael Caine. That's right.

Speaker 2 And then you came for Baby Driver.

Speaker 3 Yes. And John Hamm was here too.

Speaker 2 Mm-hmm. And then you came for the Sparks Brothers.

Speaker 3 And Ron and Russell were here too.

Speaker 2 And then just a few short months later, you came back for Last Night and Soho.

Speaker 3 With nobody. Nobody.
With Johnny No Friends.

Speaker 2 And then, most recently, you came for the Scott Pilgrim animated show. I had forgotten about that.
That's right. That was just a short two years ago.
Yeah. Just two years ago.

Speaker 2 You're a great friend of the show.

Speaker 3 Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 I love that you make time for it in your busy press schedule. Yes.

Speaker 2 It's wonderful to have you here. Now, The Running Man is your new movie.
I saw this film.

Speaker 3 I'm suspense every time the word man comes out of your mouth now.

Speaker 3 How is it going to, how is it going to...

Speaker 2 How many more times do you think I'm gonna mess it up? If he doesn't lay it down,

Speaker 3 I just want you to do it slightly differently.

Speaker 2 Now the running mound.

Speaker 2 I saw this film the other night. This is a fantastic film.
Glenn Powell is the lead. Of course, he rocketed stardom and things like Top Gun, Maverick.

Speaker 3 You said that like it was two different films.

Speaker 2 Top Gun, Maverick.

Speaker 3 Maverick, I think, was with Mel Gibson and Jerry Foster. Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 Although that's a great crossover. The Top Gun Universe and Maverick Universe? Yes.
You know, we could find out that Mel Gibson is actually Tom Cruise's great-great-grandfather or something like that.

Speaker 2 Maybe not.

Speaker 3 No, no follow-up.

Speaker 3 That was a bad yes and.

Speaker 2 And of course, his film,

Speaker 2 Anyone But You? Anything But You?

Speaker 2 What was it?

Speaker 3 You got it right the first time. Anyone but you.
You pretended like you didn't know the title.

Speaker 3 Like you haven't watched it as if you pretended.

Speaker 2 Hey, I've watched one scene a million times.

Speaker 3 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 It killed you. Oh my gosh.
But Glenn Powell is in this film. He's great in it.
And this is based on the Stephen King,

Speaker 2 it's a novella, is it not?

Speaker 3 I guess so. That just means what? A short novel?

Speaker 2 I guess so, yeah.

Speaker 2 How short are we talking when you talk a novella? Do you think 250 pages? I think so.

Speaker 3 I think you're right. The rich.

Speaker 2 Anything under 300?

Speaker 3 I think so.

Speaker 3 I think it probably is about 200 pages. It's going to be lean and mean.

Speaker 2 That's right. And now, of course, there was a

Speaker 2 feature film based on this that came out in 88-ish, 87.

Speaker 3 So close, 87. 87.

Speaker 2 With Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular running man. He put the tit in titular.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it was very different than the Stephen King book, was it not? Yes. And this one is a little more close to the plot of the original.
It's been so long since I've read

Speaker 2 the novella.

Speaker 3 Yes, the Richard. Well, Stephen King wrote under a pseudonym Richard Backman.

Speaker 2 Who, of course, wrote thinner.

Speaker 3 Thinner. Thinner was the one that got him rumbled.

Speaker 3 That's where the pseudonym wrote. Fell apart.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Fell apart.
These were books that he wrote back in the early 70s. Yeah.
Why did he write them under a pseudonym? Was he so famous at the time that...

Speaker 3 I think there was two things. One, he wanted to...

Speaker 3 put out more than one book a year. Oh.
And his publisher was against the idea, so he created the pseudonym.

Speaker 2 This is the artist formerly known as Prince.

Speaker 3 It is. It's like the end of the 80s, where it's like, I've got a seven-album deal with Warner Brothers.

Speaker 3 Let's just burn through them all in one year.

Speaker 2 Can you imagine doing so much cocaine that you can write even more than one book a year? Like, I can't even imagine writing one book a year.

Speaker 3 I think also the other thing was that the Backman books were not strictly horror. So he wanted to kind of see whether he still had success outside the horror market.

Speaker 2 Because the other ones were we have The Long Walk, which turned into a movie earlier this year, which I just saw. It was very good, I thought.

Speaker 2 And then Roadwork. Oh, yeah, Roadwork.
Rage? Rage.

Speaker 3 And then Thinner.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So this Richard Bachman, and then he wrote some other stuff back in the 90s when everyone knew who he was.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there were other.

Speaker 3 Yes, there were other Richard Backman books.

Speaker 2 But this guy, Richard Backman, great writer.

Speaker 2 And he wrote The Running Man. And explain the premise of this film, if you don't mind.

Speaker 3 Ben Richards is an out-of-work dad.

Speaker 2 How important is it that his name is Ben Richards?

Speaker 3 I've never had to answer that question on the press tour yet.

Speaker 3 It isn't part of my talking points, guys.

Speaker 2 I can tell you, on the Wikipedia page, there's a section that says premise, and it has a quote from Paramount Pictures.

Speaker 3 What does it say? Tell me.

Speaker 2 In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television. A deadly competition where contestants, known as runners,

Speaker 2 must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public, and each day bringing a greater cash reward.

Speaker 2 And there's like three other sentences.

Speaker 3 Rated R.

Speaker 2 Rated R, yeah, and it is a rated R, which is so nice to see.

Speaker 3 Oh, I like that. Oh, yeah.
You used to get a rated R sci-fi action film every day in the 80s, right?

Speaker 2 Every single day of the year. In the best way, this really reminds me of an 80s or 90s action film.

Speaker 3 I take that as a compliment.

Speaker 2 I think I mentioned to you when I saw it that it really reminds me of like RoboCop or Starship Troopers, the kind of like satire in it, while also just being like a really kick-ass action.

Speaker 3 You're missing out the one with Schwarzenegger in it, total recall.

Speaker 2 Total recall, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It does remind me of that. No, I mean,

Speaker 3 I had read the book when I was a teenager and I'd actually read it before I saw the 1987 film. So I was well aware when I was watching the Scharzeneger version.

Speaker 3 I already stumbled over his surname there.

Speaker 3 that they hadn't really adapted the book at all. It was a very loose adaptation.
So I always felt that there was another movie in that book. And I'd always thought about doing it.

Speaker 3 And it even looked into the rights years and years ago. So it's like, and also, you know, that the book is set in 2025.

Speaker 2 That's right. You mentioned this when I saw the film.
What was the tagline on the book?

Speaker 3 The 1982 first edition paperback of it said, Welcome to the year 2025, where the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. The running man, Richard Beckman.

Speaker 3 That's genuinely the log line.

Speaker 3 That's very, very much the log line of the. That is the exact log line of the book.

Speaker 2 Wow. So I agree with you.
When I saw the original Running Man, I was a little like, oh, this isn't like the book that I like so much.

Speaker 2 So it was great to see something that hews a little closer to what the intent of the book was.

Speaker 2 And it's just like, it's a super fun action movie. Glenn Powell is a huge star.
He takes his shirt off, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 he's out there running around.

Speaker 2 You have a character doing the dance, The Running Man, which is the kind of attention to detail that we expect from Edgar Wright.

Speaker 3 I actually did that as a. This is Colin Hanks in a slightly kind of

Speaker 3 when it was announced on deadline that I was doing it, he texted me. Is he a friend of the show?

Speaker 2 He's a friend of the show, yes, of course. Yeah.
He texted me. The director of the John Candy documentary out now.

Speaker 3 I haven't seen that yet. It's very good.
Is it called I Want Candy?

Speaker 2 What is it called? It's called I Like Me. Oh, I Like Me.

Speaker 3 I was so close.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I want the time right.

Speaker 3 I want candy is not a bad name for that documentary.

Speaker 3 It should be called You Want Candy. That's right.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And Bow Wow Wow should get back together

Speaker 2 and have a big part of it. But unfortunately, none of that came to pass.
But he's a friend of the show.

Speaker 3 What did he reach out to? He texted me when it was announced on deadline that I might be doing it. And he said, congratulations.
He goes, is this going to be in it?

Speaker 3 And sent me like a little gif of somebody doing the Running Man. So I thought, I'll show you Colin Hanks.
I'll fucking put the Running Man in there and then he'll be laughing.

Speaker 2 So he hasn't seen it yet.

Speaker 2 And does Deadline put out articles about when people might do something?

Speaker 2 Yes, every day.

Speaker 3 I think probably

Speaker 3 the hit rate of like articles to finish movies is about 99 to 1.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And this was one where you just kind of shot, didn't you shoot your shot where you're just like, hey, I'd like to do the Running Man. And then it all kind of came together?

Speaker 3 It's one of those questions that comes up, you know, on websites. Or, like, if you could remake any film, what would you remake? So, I answered The Running Man, but I don't think it's like a strict,

Speaker 3 I would say it's a new adaptation of the source material, not like a strict remake.

Speaker 2 Yes. Um, and uh, Glenn Powell is in this, uh, he's uh, really good.

Speaker 3 You said his name like four times, it's like you're in love with him.

Speaker 2 He's one of our great movie stars, he is, he's amazing in the movie. Uh, and then, of course, uh, who else is in the film?

Speaker 3 Coleman Domingo, Josh Brolin,

Speaker 3 Amelia Jones, Michael Sarah, friend of the show.

Speaker 2 Friend of the show, of course.

Speaker 3 Who else is it? Jamie Lawson, Daniel Ezra,

Speaker 3 Katie O'Brien. Do you know her from the amazing actress from Love Lies Bleeding?

Speaker 2 Martin Hurlihi, isn't it?

Speaker 3 Is he a friend of the show?

Speaker 2 No, he's not. I'd love to find him to be.
He should be. He's very funny.
Introduce us. I will.
We also have

Speaker 2 William H. Macy, who, of course, played Dr.
David Morgenstern on ER for 31 episodes.

Speaker 2 And he has to resign in disgrace in his final episode because he makes a mistake in the operating room and then blames it on one of his underlings.

Speaker 2 And then he watches the tape and realizes that he doesn't have his fastball anymore. And so he resigns from the ER.

Speaker 2 What do you think about a storyline like that?

Speaker 3 Was I supposed to watch this episode before this?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, you're like, you watched all 15 seasons in the last two months. Have you been doing that for real i did on my other show uh wait wait what have i missed a huge plot point

Speaker 2 yes do you really do an ei watchback show i did yeah oh no no it was on my uh movie show but uh uh yes i watched all 15 seasons of er in the last couple of months and uh then did a rap about it what um could you now rank the seasons in in uh in in chronological order in chronological yeah one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen, fifteen.

Speaker 3 What about in reverse chronological order?

Speaker 2 I mean, this is tougher, but fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Speaker 3 And now just the odd numbers?

Speaker 2 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, probably.

Speaker 3 And now the even numbers.

Speaker 2 2, 4, 6, 8. Who do we appreciate?

Speaker 2 10, 12, 14. How about the prime numbers?

Speaker 2 3, 5, 7, 9.

Speaker 2 No, I got them all wrong. Oh, it was good.
Not all of them, but

Speaker 3 I really enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 did you mention?

Speaker 3 What does ER stand for?

Speaker 2 You know, they never talk about that.

Speaker 2 I watched the whole thing going like, this is probably someone's initials, like, but none of the characters. I mean, you have

Speaker 2 Dr. Green.

Speaker 2 So there's an R in his last name and an E, but then there's two E's. So I was sort of like, maybe they're talking about this guy.
Like, green backwards is like N-E-R-G, like energy. I don't know.

Speaker 2 Anyway, The Running Man.

Speaker 3 I'm doing a great job of selling my movie.

Speaker 2 Did we talk about Amelia Jones? Yeah, we did talk about Amelia Jones from Task recently.

Speaker 2 And Coda. Yeah, so great in it.
And

Speaker 2 Lee Pace, of course, who did the one episode of Late Night with Seth Myers that I did. He was the A guest.
I believe I was in C-block. In C-block? He said he was very nervous backstage.

Speaker 2 What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 Why would you? Why?

Speaker 3 Was he with?

Speaker 3 Oh, this is recently, right?

Speaker 2 Oh, no. I don't think I've been invited to be on a talk show recently.
This is when I had a TV show.

Speaker 2 How was C-Block? C-Block was great. You can find my, unless they've taken it down off YouTube, you can find my interview out there on YouTube, I'm sure.
It was a lot of fun. I love Seth.

Speaker 2 And are you doing any of the talk shows for?

Speaker 3 I'm doing Seth Meyers.

Speaker 2 When are you doing it? In a couple of weeks. Oh, that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 I think, I'm not sure what block I'm in. Maybe B block.

Speaker 2 Remind him of the time that Lee Pace and I were on the exact same episode.

Speaker 3 See if he remembers. That'll be my ending story.
I'll do the pre-interview and saying, hey, I've got 10 minutes on Scott Ockerman and Lee Pace.

Speaker 2 We have, of course,

Speaker 2 David Zayas is in it.

Speaker 3 David Zayas is in it.

Speaker 3 Sean Hayes. Sean Hayes is in it.

Speaker 2 One of the Smartless gentlemen. yes did it where

Speaker 3 this was shot in like wasn't it shot in in some far-off country no not that part not that part we shot in london mostly and then we shot a bit in scotland oh and then we shot the last maybe month in bulgaria bulgaria how was that it was nice have you ever been i've never been sofia what's that mean that's the capital of bulgaria oh okay

Speaker 2 sofia bulgaria or actually sofia if that's sofia oh wow um Have you ever shot a movie in Bulgaria? No. Wow.
Fun.

Speaker 3 No, it was nice. I mean, it was

Speaker 3 we had access to lots of

Speaker 3 freeways, which you, I mean, difficult to shut down freeways, but there were lots of what we, I would guess like ghost freeways that were not connected to anything else.

Speaker 2 Not operable any longer.

Speaker 3 Or I don't think they'd been opened at all. They'd built the freeway and never connected it to anything else.
So you had miles and miles of freeway.

Speaker 2 If you're going to build a freeway, anyone listening out there, you've got to connect it.

Speaker 3 You got to connect somehow.

Speaker 2 Otherwise, no one's ever going to drive on it.

Speaker 2 That's so fun. And did you think, like, oh, I'm making this movie called The Running Moon, and

Speaker 2 he's got to be running during...

Speaker 3 Did you think there was enough running?

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 okay, so Tom Cruise, he does that really fun running. Yeah.
You know, in the Mission Impossible movies. Yeah.
Glenn Powell just kind of runs like a normal human being.

Speaker 2 So I was a little disappointed in that. But then I thought that 99% of the movie he'd be running, or at least running in place.

Speaker 2 I know, like, when he's in a hotel room hiding out, I just expected him to be jogging in place or something. Like, you know, did you ever think about anything like that?

Speaker 3 We're just having him on the treadmill in every scene.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's not too late to go back and. I mean, technically, it's locked.

Speaker 2 Just CGI his legs, just kind of.

Speaker 3 I mean, it comes out in two weeks. I guess I got time.

Speaker 2 It comes out this Friday, my friend. Oh, okay.
It comes out this Friday.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Am I in the future? I'm in the future now.

Speaker 3 Well, technically, I've got enough time to go and change all of that.

Speaker 2 I think you do. I think the fans expect it.

Speaker 2 Was it fun working on this? I mean, this is

Speaker 2 big blockbuster entertainment. This is the kind of thing that I think deserves to be seen in a movie theater.
This is the kind of thing you bring your buddies to, and everyone's going, yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like, it's not one of your English films which are, you know, wry and

Speaker 2 has a particular sense of dry humor to them.

Speaker 3 You're saying it's not the exotic Merry-Goat Hotel. That's what you're saying.

Speaker 2 I think that's what it is. Remains of the day.
Trying to hint at, yes. It's not Howard's End-ish.

Speaker 3 It's not Howard's End.

Speaker 2 No, it's just big blockbuster entertainment. Was it fun to do a movie like that? Oh, yes.

Speaker 3 I mean, it's exhausting doing a movie like that. I mean, there was...
It was shot over like 165 locations. Whoa.
I know.

Speaker 3 Even just the thought of it gives me a little shiver.

Speaker 2 Because it's like 165 minutes, probably. No, it's 133.
So that's more locations than minutes in your film. How does that even work?

Speaker 2 Do people go like, well, okay, we're here right now. Oh,

Speaker 2 now we're over here.

Speaker 3 Those are the running bits.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 He runs fast. He can basically, Glenn Powell can run.

Speaker 3 three locations in under a minute.

Speaker 2 Whoa, that's fast.

Speaker 3 Did you ever say like, hey, man, if you're going to do this movie with me, I need you to at least run like one marathon marathon a month before we shoot or anything like that did he train at all he did well he did train yeah he's in i kind of thought it was so um like exhausting to make a lot of like a stress hating for me that he got into the best shape of his life and i got into my worst

Speaker 3 you switched luckily yes it was like freaky friday luckily i wasn't on camera so yeah did you ever think about uh making this movie but with you as the loving man

Speaker 3 Again, I guess there's like seven days until it comes out.

Speaker 2 It's not impossible. CGI your head on Glenn Pell's body, and then everyone's like, whoa, Edgar's got an incredible body.
And then CGI the legs going up and down.

Speaker 3 You want to CGI Glenn's head onto my body?

Speaker 2 Do you think he,

Speaker 2 what would happen if you sent him just a text right now of your head on his body and his head on your body and just say, what do you think?

Speaker 2 How would he reply, do you think?

Speaker 2 I don't know. I don't know.
But we can find out. All right.
Well, The Running Man is out this Friday. It's a good, good time in the theater.

Speaker 2 I think it's going to be a huge hit.

Speaker 2 What are we thinking?

Speaker 2 In terms of the... Yeah, you want to predict?

Speaker 3 No, I really do not.

Speaker 3 No, I do not.

Speaker 2 You do not. Okay, but this is going to be the biggest hit of your career is one thing that I would think.

Speaker 3 I hope so.

Speaker 3 Are you saying that?

Speaker 2 I think on the show. That's my prediction, yeah.
This is the biggest hit of your career, and not just due to inflation. I think even in in adjusted dollars, it'll be the biggest hit of your career.

Speaker 2 Well, let's hope so. I hope so.
You want to go up, up, up, up, right? Yeah, like, go up, up, up, down, down.

Speaker 3 I don't want to still come back and do this show for God's sake.

Speaker 2 What? Come on. I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 We want to. I love this show.
All right. Well, we're going to take a break, Edgar, if that's okay.
We have a

Speaker 2 hobbyist here. We have an entrepreneur.
This is a good show.

Speaker 3 Another entrepreneur.

Speaker 2 Yes, that's right. Yes.

Speaker 2 What other businesses do you have, by the way, other than just being a film director? You have like

Speaker 2 some some

Speaker 2 stands or some stands in malls. Don't you run a sunglass hut out there in like Brighton or something like that? No.
You don't? Okay, that's a weird piece of trivia that I'd read about.

Speaker 3 Is that a real thing you read?

Speaker 2 Sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 No, I don't have any other, but I don't have any brands. No.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you got to get into the leisure wear. Oh,

Speaker 2 you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 I guess I'd rather, what would I like to have as my brand?

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, you love music. Coffee.
Coffee. You love coffee and music.
What about a coffee cup-shaped MP3 player? Yeah. What was Saison?

Speaker 3 What was the name of Neil Young's kind of...

Speaker 2 The Pono? The Pono. Yes.
That was a Toblerone-shaped music player. Oh, that's now.

Speaker 3 I like the idea of a Toblerone that plays music.

Speaker 2 Yes, so do I, that you could eat. You could eat.
And then it plays music in your stomach. Yes.
This is a good idea.

Speaker 3 Okay, I'm done with this.

Speaker 2 Okay, this is your idea. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We're going to be right back with more Edgar Wright.

Speaker 2 The Running moon, out this Friday. We're going to come back with a hobbyist.
We're going to come back with an entrepreneur. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.

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Speaker 2 Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Edgar Wright is here.
The Running Man out this Friday.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 3 now with my head on Glenn's body? Yes.

Speaker 2 And CGI'd legs that are running the entire.

Speaker 2 You don't have to CGI him if that's too big of a budget. You could just put cartoon legs.
Oh, yeah, I like that. Yep.

Speaker 2 And do you know what other movies are coming from?

Speaker 3 Like a speedy Gonzales, like just the world?

Speaker 2 We don't talk about him anymore. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's been canceled. Has he been cancelled? I believe so.

Speaker 3 What other cartoon characters have been cancelled?

Speaker 2 I suspect at some point we're going to get around to the Tasmanian devil. The people of Tasmania are not going to appreciate it, but at this point, Taz is still safe.
I

Speaker 3 mean,

Speaker 3 does cancer culture mean he's now called Scooby-Don't?

Speaker 2 That's such a good joke, Edgar. You we need to put that in your next movie, whatever it is.
Do you know your next movie?

Speaker 3 It's Scooby-Don't.

Speaker 2 Scooby-Don't is your next movie?

Speaker 3 That's my next movie.

Speaker 2 This is Scooby-Doo. You had a hit first.

Speaker 2 Um, the Running Man out this Friday. We need to get to our next guest.
Uh, She's

Speaker 2 an entrepreneur,

Speaker 2 and she runs the W Hotel here in Los Angeles, as well as other various other businesses.

Speaker 3 That's the one that had the escort staying, right?

Speaker 2 Actually, it is, yes.

Speaker 2 We'll talk to her about that. Please welcome back to the show, Bean Dip.
Hi, Scott. How are you doing, man? Hey, I'm doing good.
This is Edgar Wright. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 Hey, don't talk to me like I don't know what the deal is. Oh, and Scooby Don't.
Maybe when you direct it, it'll be directed by Edgar Wong. Oh, hilarious.

Speaker 2 Yeah, good one, Scott.

Speaker 2 Like, you need to tell him ideas. He's got plenty of ideas without you telling him.
I'm sorry, Edgar. I don't mean to pitch my own ideas on top of your ideas.

Speaker 2 Now, Bean Dip, you run the W hotel out here. Yeah,

Speaker 2 the one in Hollywood, but no other W hotels. That's right.
It's been carved out. Yeah, that's the one I own.

Speaker 2 People don't know this, but W hotels are like franchise.

Speaker 2 every w hotel that you ever go to someone kind of runs it somebody different yeah someone different that would be weird if if one guy ran all of them and he had to go to each single one you talk about all the minutes of a day man talk about the real running five locations

Speaker 2 yeah what is what does the w stand for the w stands for worthwhile because if you go there you're gonna have a great time and you're gonna be like huh i spent my whole day sitting by the pool getting a massage have a little delicious meal.

Speaker 2 This was worthwhile. They should advertise that more, that it stands for worthwhile.
No one knows that. Nobody knows that.
Everybody thinks that it has to do with something else. Like,

Speaker 2 God willing.

Speaker 3 Is worthwhile two W's?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Many people put a dash in it, but that's not the correct. It's a compound word, is it not? It's a compound word.
A lot of people put a dash. Guess what? They're wrong.
They are wrong. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's not the W-W hotel. No, it's just a W.

Speaker 2 Because also, if it was worthwhile and it was two W's, you had W with a little T up on the right-hand corner.

Speaker 2 It's like squared. Yep.
W to the W with power. W to the W with power.

Speaker 2 Do you think that anyone confuses the hotel with George W. Bush because he was known as W and

Speaker 2 any kind of brand confusion? Scott,

Speaker 2 let me tell you this much. It happens every single day of every single week for all year long through Hill Season 5.
So people come into the hotel expecting a George W. Bush-themed hotel.

Speaker 2 Well, no, they're trying to get a meeting with him. Oh.
So usually they come out. They're like, I would love a room.
Also, put me on the books to meet with George W. Bush.

Speaker 2 And we got to have all our people at the front desk trained to say, he don't work here.

Speaker 2 So there's no connection to him. No connection.
But his artwork is up everywhere at the hotel. His artwork's everywhere in the hotel.
All the bedrooms. Yeah, we started a special thing.

Speaker 2 What when you pull down the covers on your bed? There's a life-size person of George W. Bush.
Life-size life-size person. So, a real human being? A real human being, but sleeping in a George W.

Speaker 2 Bush costume. Oh, this is for Halloween only.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So, so that's coming up in another 11 months. Yeah, that's going to be for next year.
Okay. But

Speaker 2 what is a George W. Bush costume? Like a suit? Great question.
Well, we've decided to go George W. Bush casual.
So we go for shorts, jean shorts.

Speaker 2 jean shorts jean shorts with socks you know like the socks they used to wear back in the olden days for people to roller skate with stripes on them oh yeah of course yeah socks like that but with boots

Speaker 2 and a tank top and a tank top okay great all right well you got you first when you look at it you go hey that's just a random person in my bed and then you go Oh, let me look again.

Speaker 2 That's George John Bush and he's casual. Does he stick around the entire stay or does he leave after a couple of minutes? It depends on what how you're feeling.

Speaker 2 If you would like to have a conversation with somebody who seems like George W. Bush, he'll stay for about 15, 16, 10 to 18 minutes.
Oh, okay. But if you're like, hey, I don't like this feeling.

Speaker 2 Get somebody out of here. He'll get.
And are you allowed to do anything you want to him? Yeah, you could finger him.

Speaker 2 You could cut his hair if you want. Cut his hair.

Speaker 2 You could boss him. You could boss him around, make him do chores, but only for 18 minutes or so? 15, 16, 7 to 18 minutes, something like that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, is his middle name worthwhile?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 people think that a lot, and people get very confused on that because it is a two-syllable W, but it's not worthwhile. It's worth woll.

Speaker 2 Worth wool is his middle name. No, I didn't know that.
Yeah, things like this aren't written about in the history books, you know.

Speaker 2 And yeah, I mean, Edgar, you're an Englishman, so you don't know that much about our presidencies.

Speaker 2 We don't have a queen at the top or a king, I guess, now is what you have. We have a president, no kings, no kings, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I you could test me on presidents if you want, okay.

Speaker 2 Um, name two:

Speaker 3 Richard Nixon, okay,

Speaker 2 that's

Speaker 2 the one, he's doing great.

Speaker 2 You can't say Richard and Nixon because that's one guy.

Speaker 2 Uh, I want to say Ronald Reagan, hey, pretty good, not bad.

Speaker 3 I'm good at this, not bad,

Speaker 2 okay. Test, test me on kings, name some kings.

Speaker 3 kings.

Speaker 2 It's too open-ended. George.
Ralph. Ralph.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Syndicate.

Speaker 3 Stephen.

Speaker 2 Stephen. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that, of course, Bean Dip is what you do on the day-to-day. But what are you up to lately? Anytime you come by the show, you have some interesting new business ventures.
You're an entrepreneur.

Speaker 2 What is going on in Bean Dip's world these days? Well, lately, I started to redo businesses. Redo businesses? I don't know exactly what that means.
What like rehab them or?

Speaker 2 Well, I started three new businesses. Oh, you started.
Oh, I saw. I thought you said I started to.

Speaker 2 No, I didn't. I was trying to rehab my businesses because my businesses that I already have are crushing.

Speaker 2 So I still have the stands where you get

Speaker 2 a vegetable, a carrot, a squash, or whatever, put in a bun. In a hot dog bun.
In a hot dog bun. The W's gone great.

Speaker 2 But I also started to think. Three new businesses.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 three new businesses. Okay.
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 One is, okay, let me ask you this. Have you seen a thing lately when you're looking on Instagram or when you go out into the world where you say, hey, what's going on?

Speaker 2 Everybody's paying extra attention to their eyebrows. I have.
The eyebrows seem bushier these days. Edgar, have you noticed this?

Speaker 3 No, but tell me more.

Speaker 2 They seem more full, but also they seem to have like skin lines in between each one. Does that make sense? Well, you have seen some bad ones.

Speaker 2 Because if you, everybody wants bushy eyebrows now, but when you start to brush them up, then do you have skin lines?

Speaker 2 My new product is a salve that you put on your eyebrows and it makes no skin lines. It's called

Speaker 2 Uniform Brow. Uniform Brow.
Yeah, that's right. Hmm, okay.
And I sell it all over Los Angeles in a truck.

Speaker 2 Okay, so you're out there in these streets. No website.
I'm out there in these streets. This is just a real grassroots operation.
Grassroots. I've hired a few van drivers.

Speaker 2 Everybody goes around selling the south so how many how many vans are out there selling this eyebrow so i don't know currently today

Speaker 2 uh

Speaker 2 22 vans today in los angeles okay i don't know i don't know that i would buy anything for to put on my eyebrows okay well you could go yourself oh because scott you could use this product i i get is there a an issue with my eyebrows that you're there's no issue per se with your eyebrows but if you're trying to get laid you're going to get this.

Speaker 2 I am trying to get laid, Edgar. Are you trying to get laid these days?

Speaker 3 I'm trying to fuck myself. Or at least finger George Bush.

Speaker 2 That's right.

Speaker 2 Well, okay, so how much does it retail for? What's MSRP? A tube will cost you only $16.99. $16.99? For a life change.

Speaker 2 It's not a bad price.

Speaker 3 When you say uniform brow,

Speaker 3 not like a monobrow, not like one eyebrow.

Speaker 2 No way. Nobody wants that unless you got from caveman times.

Speaker 2 Everybody wants that space in the middle, but for no skin lines in the brow itself.

Speaker 2 You know, everyone, usually it's two.

Speaker 2 Right. And then a lot of people just have the one because they connect in the middle.
Yeah. Gross.
Why not three?

Speaker 2 Like, like if you had a unibrow that connected in the middle, why not shave like in the middle of... of each one so that you have three.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 And then it looks like your nose is surprised every once in a while. You know what? This is a great idea, Scott.
Thank you. I'm an idea person.

Speaker 2 I'm unlike you. I can't put these ideas into action.
You know, I came up with the great idea of Edgar changing his name to Edgar Wrong for the Scooby-Don't movie. But I have no power.

Speaker 2 You know, like, I don't have the power to do these kinds of things. You do.
That's what I love about you.

Speaker 2 You are not only an idea person, but you put those ideas into the streets. And that's what I love.
Also, into envelopes lately. My second business is

Speaker 2 contacts that you can put onto your eyes that makes it look like you don't have an eye.

Speaker 2 Contacts you put onto your eye that makes it look like you don't have an eye. So it's just they're white and soft.
Well, you can choose either all white or all black like space.

Speaker 2 The black is called space on ours. So the black one covers your entire eye, even the whites of your eyes, I guess.
And you put it on like a contact. Okay.
So it covers the whites of your eyes.

Speaker 2 And the white one covers all.

Speaker 2 You have a color of eyes. Like if you have a people, I think everyone does.
Oh, well, that cut they both cover it.

Speaker 2 And what,

Speaker 2 why would anyone want this? Well, because if you want that and you want to go, like, hey, I'm going to, I want to feel like doing some bad stuff today. I don't want to look like myself.

Speaker 2 I don't want to be able to be identified. Then you can send us to us and we send you them in an envelope.

Speaker 2 I mean, I guess this is a good idea. It would kind of help you evade facial recognition scams, maybe.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 Robert Durst, the killer, from the shower.

Speaker 2 Sure, the original Jinx. I killed him.

Speaker 3 Didn't he wear contacts to make his pupils look bigger?

Speaker 2 Was that part of the Jinx miniseries? I never saw it.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 3 He ordered these contacts, I think, from Asia that make your pupils look bigger to make you seem more innocent.

Speaker 3 And when you see him in the documentary, I'm not kidding, he's blinking like very slowly because he's obviously wearing these massive contacts. I'm not even kidding.

Speaker 2 Wow. Okay.
Do you remember that? I don't remember that, but I remember that when he was on trial in the Jakes part two, he tried to pretend that he was very sick.

Speaker 2 So I believe that he would do anything to his eyes to make himself look like an innocent person. He was wearing the white contacts that day.
He should have had it all white.

Speaker 2 Do you think that you're, who's the target market for this?

Speaker 2 Do you think it's going to be like essentially murderers and people trying to commit crimes it could be murderers climbers um also shoplifters uh people who like to dine and dash but also it's going to be a great market for teen girls why teen girls just for having fun for having fun let's go hey let's go put on our space eyes and let's run around i think it would be very disconcerting like someone comes up to you their their eyelids are shut they open their eyes they have no eyeballs yeah you're gonna get scared you're gonna to give them whatever they need.

Speaker 2 You're going to let them have free reign.

Speaker 2 Uh-huh. Yep.

Speaker 3 All your schemes are 11 months away from Halloween.

Speaker 2 That's why.

Speaker 2 You got to start planning early. You got to start planning early.
We are on back order. Yeah.
Well, you have to.

Speaker 2 Is there an envelope shortage or anything going on? Well, that's part of the hook is there's no envelope shortage, but people love getting mail. And we don't let you order it to come in a box.

Speaker 2 We don't let you order it to get picked up. We're not going to deliver it to you in a van.
It will come to you in an envelope. And we have gotten such good feedback on that.

Speaker 2 What kind of feedback do you get?

Speaker 2 Okay, let me read to you some of the reviews.

Speaker 2 Look at all these reviews you have. Wow.
Five stars. When I got my space contacts in the mail, I ripped open that envelope and I almost started crying because I was so happy to be ripping paper.

Speaker 2 Four-star review. The only reason I'm not giving this result for five stars is because my envelope could have been bigger.
I wouldn't have liked to open the envelope for a lot longer. I miss all fees.

Speaker 2 Wow. So should I keep going? No, I don't think so.
I mean, I think that says it all. That's

Speaker 2 people love it. People love it.
Do they like the context themselves? Because a lot of the reviews don't seem to be talking about those. Five-star review.
Hi. I live in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 I think you need to say hi when you start a review. Okay.
I'm just saying to this person or anyone out there writing a review, don't start with hi. Vops all review.

Speaker 2 Hi, I'm from Wisconsin. I'm a woman who lives in her house with her elderly husband.
We are both elderly. We are 82 years old.
I mean to call him elderly and then reveal I'm also elderly.

Speaker 2 It's like, come on. 82 years old.
We have ordered the white, all-white contacts, and we are deciding to wear them around the house. But two things.
One, we can't believe how beautiful we both feel.

Speaker 2 The second part is, we were so happy to get that envelope.

Speaker 2 We've been using the envelope that our contacts came in to put under our plates when they're too hot and we don't want to mark our coffee table.

Speaker 2 They should probably just invest in some placemats. But I mean, these are great reviews.
This is this is a

Speaker 2 and this is only your second of three businesses. That's right.
Wow. Okay.
So what is the third business? The third business is a band and it's music.

Speaker 2 Okay. You're in a band.
You know, Edgar's a huge music fan. Oh, believe me, I know.
Okay.

Speaker 2 What type of band are you in? Well, it's sort of like,

Speaker 2 have you ever heard of the Talkie Hands?

Speaker 2 I think I might have heard a song or two by then. Well, it's as good as that.

Speaker 2 It's as good as that. Ah.
You asked me what kind of band it is. It's as good as that.

Speaker 3 What's the name of the band?

Speaker 2 It's called Windows. windows sort of like the the operating system on a computer well it's sort of like windows and a house oh okay like those windows

Speaker 2 and uh what genre of music to use a french term rock and ball hoochiku

Speaker 2 okay

Speaker 2 so a rock band that's just as good as the talking heads called windows who who's in this band with you me

Speaker 2 Bobby Carnivale. What? Uh-huh.
From Only Murders in the Building? Yeah, Bobby Carnivale from Only Murders in the Building. Did you talk about it? Was that a fun set? Oh, what a blast.

Speaker 2 We laughed all the time. That's a quote from him.
Yo, that's... Yeah, that's a quote from him.

Speaker 2 Also, second Bobby Carnivale quote, man, we would get to set on Only Murders in the Building, and the snacks were delicious, and everyone was nice. Oh, I bet the snack budget on it.

Speaker 2 How was the snack budget on Running Man, by the way?

Speaker 3 I'm not sure what the actual, as a line item, what the actual price.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Can you get me those figures? Yeah, yeah. And

Speaker 3 we'll put it on we'll tack it on at the end of this episode i just got uh like a breaking news from deadline that edgarong is directing scooby down whoa

Speaker 2 god it was

Speaker 2 he beat me to it yeah too bad scott just real quick earlier when you were talking about edgar's movie yeah i just have one question because when you so clearly said it's called running mom is it about like she's like

Speaker 2 her kids are driving her crazy and she's got to get the groceries also get them to do the homework.

Speaker 3 Yeah, she's running errands, yeah.

Speaker 2 Got it. That's what it's about.
The running mom. Cute.
It's a cute movie, yeah. That sounds adorable.
Would you mind singing one of your songs? Oh, sure. This is a song from the windows.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's the windows. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's the windows.

Speaker 2 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
And then we loop that. Okay.

Speaker 2 So that's going through the whole thing. Okay, so do you want me to maybe do that behind whatever you're doing? Scott.

Speaker 2 Hey, everybody.

Speaker 2 I found something today on the street.

Speaker 2 And it

Speaker 2 is a basket.

Speaker 2 Hey, everybody.

Speaker 2 I found something today on the street.

Speaker 2 It is a basket full of love.

Speaker 2 A basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Spread it to your neighbors. Basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Spread it to your friends.

Speaker 2 Basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Come on over to my house.

Speaker 2 Everybody be peaceful in the world.

Speaker 2 And obviously, it goes on longer, so why don't we hear more of it? Oh, sure.

Speaker 2 Well, just the other day,

Speaker 2 I started dreaming

Speaker 2 I had never dreamed before.

Speaker 2 Just the other day,

Speaker 2 I started feeling I had never felt before.

Speaker 2 That's because of basket.

Speaker 2 The basket full of love.

Speaker 2 The basket, basket, the basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Spread it to your friends and spread it to your mama. Spread it to your everybody, you know.
Spread it to your friends and spread it to your neighbors. Spread it to your everybody, you know.

Speaker 2 Basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Basket full of love.

Speaker 2 Peace.

Speaker 2 Wow. All our songs are viable and peaceful.

Speaker 2 That's incredible. I mean, what a wonderful message, especially coming here into the holiday season.
A basket full of love. Nice, Scott.
Wow. Yeah.
So

Speaker 2 you and Bobby Carneval. Yeah, me, Bobby Carnavale.

Speaker 2 Who writes the lyrics? Mostly Bobby does. Oh, yeah.
That sounded like something Bobby was saying.

Speaker 2 That's so Carnivale. Yeah.
Sean Penn. Sean Penn.
Oh, okay. Uh-huh.
Wow. He's in, of course,

Speaker 2 One Battle After Another. Uh-huh.
Jeff Tweety. Jeff Tweedy.
Okay, then you have some real musical muscle in this battle. Oh, we're a big time.
And who sings lead? You're the lead singer?

Speaker 2 I don't usually sing lead unless David Byrne wants to. Oh, so David Byrne is in this as well? Yeah, he's in with the windows.
Oh. Uh-huh.
Sounds like a super group.

Speaker 2 But he's always, when he comes to rehearsal, he's always like, this is so much better than the talking ass. Yeah.
Sounds like something he'd take.

Speaker 2 Well, these are three great businesses being done. Thanks, Scott.

Speaker 2 You got a lot going on. Thanks, dude.
Yeah. Hey, man, I'm ready to keep all going.
You ready to keep going with what? Just with everything going great in life. Yeah.

Speaker 2 How much money do you make this year?

Speaker 2 Boy, don't even start with me.

Speaker 2 I want to ask you that too, Edgar.

Speaker 2 Have you ever heard of one? And have you ever heard of four? And then have you ever heard of a million afterward? Whoa, 14 million just this year alone? Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 Put it on a sandwich and ate it, bitch.

Speaker 2 Damn. Yes.
How much you get paid to make a movie like The Running Man? It's got to be like up there in the seven figures, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like high seven figure? It's not eight, is it? Is it nine figures?

Speaker 2 God, yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 Are you getting $100 million to...

Speaker 2 You're getting 10 figures? To even up 11 figures?

Speaker 2 You're still waiving me up. I don't even think you know how much money.
No, it's in pounds. Oh, okay, right.
Or Euros. What do you guys do out there these days? You're back to pounds? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 What do you prefer, the Euro or the pound?

Speaker 3 I haven't. I mean, I never used the Euro, I don't think, ever.

Speaker 2 You never used a Euro?

Speaker 3 Well, you know, the UK didn't really buy into the Euros.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no one liked them, right?

Speaker 3 Well, you know, we're just isolationists, I guess. Yeah.

Speaker 3 We left Europe.

Speaker 2 Well, you're a big Brexit guy. You were telling me

Speaker 2 that I'm real pro-Brexit.

Speaker 2 But mainly because you thought it was breakfast for a long time and the most important meal of the day. Look, we have to take a break.

Speaker 2 Bean Dip, this is fantastic stuff. Can you stick around? Because we have a hobbyist coming up on the show.
Oh, hobbyists. I would love to hang out, Scott.
Okay, great.

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Speaker 2 Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Edgar Wright is here.
The Running Mom comes out this Friday all about a woman running errands. What kind of errands are it? Like grocery shopping, I'm sure.
What else?

Speaker 2 Like taking their kids to the shoe store?

Speaker 3 What else? Getting her eyebrows done.

Speaker 2 Oh, eyebrows done. Oh, okay.
She could use some of this. Some of the south.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 Also, Bean Dip is here.

Speaker 3 Ordering some envelopes from Amazon. Yes.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Edgar.

Speaker 2 Bean Dip, by the way, brought us some envelopes during the break, and they are fun to open. Yeah,

Speaker 2 satisfying. Yeah, very satisfying.

Speaker 2 Well, speaking of satisfying, let's get to our next guest.

Speaker 2 He is a hobbyist. Please welcome to the show for the first time, Red Velvet.

Speaker 2 Hi, Scott. Thanks for having me.
My pleasure to have you. Welcome, Red Velvet.
This is Bean Dip. This is Edgar.
Hello. Hi.

Speaker 2 Hi. My name's Red Red Velvet.

Speaker 2 I work at a hobby shop. Oh.
And yes, I am the town flirt.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 Great.

Speaker 2 I mean, I don't know how much we'll be talking about that last part because you broke down the show as a hobbyist. I'd love to.
That's my job. I work at a hobby shop.
Love to hear all about that.

Speaker 2 And I'm always flirting with the customers. Okay.
I don't know how much we need to really discuss all that, but tell us about what hobby shop do you work at? Anchorage Hobbies.

Speaker 2 Anchorage, and this is in Alaska? Where I was born and raised. Not a lot of people out there to flirt with, I would imagine.

Speaker 2 Oh, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 2 What kind of numbers are we talking? Let's see if I actually would be surprised. How many people are living there, or how many people I flirt with?

Speaker 3 It's the same number, right?

Speaker 2 If they call me in the shop, it sure is.

Speaker 2 So, how long have you worked at Anchorage Hobbies? 30 years. 30 years.
Wow. How did you get interested in this?

Speaker 2 I just always loved coming up with my own hobbies. I love...
You mean you invented hobbies? Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 So it's a hobby store where you've invented hobbies. Well, we sell normal

Speaker 2 X-Acto knives and sprue cutters.

Speaker 2 Don't forget Gundam models. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 But I like to invent my own hobbies. What are some of the hobbies you've invented? I make my own homemade D-Box chairs.

Speaker 3 Oh, my phone's coming out in D-Box.

Speaker 2 Oh, I can't wait to hook it up to my chair.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'd like to. Yeah, I'll.

Speaker 2 D-Box, of course, are the rumbling chairs that you move around. Oh, and if you make them at home, you're not restricted to any sort of oversight from the government.
You can just...

Speaker 2 So it rumbles even harder? Rumbles more. Shoots shakes water.
Has missed since. Oh, this is 4D stuff.

Speaker 3 Do you sit in the chair yourself or do you invite people over and you rumble the chair?

Speaker 2 Yeah, are you just

Speaker 2 on the chair?

Speaker 3 Are you the rumbler or rumbly?

Speaker 2 Well, I'm the rumbley when it's in effect when I got it hooked up to the TV. But I will invite some of my flirting participants over.
Oh, hello.

Speaker 2 You know me. I love to flirt.

Speaker 2 I don't know you. I'm taking this on fake.

Speaker 3 What are some of your

Speaker 3 flirt lines? Some of your chats.

Speaker 2 Oh, well, I'm glad you asked. I have lots of flirts.
The number one thing, this is the first thing you should always say when you're trying to flirt.

Speaker 2 I love your floppy brown hat.

Speaker 2 Oh. Okay.
Interesting.

Speaker 2 Does that happen a lot, I guess, in Alaska? You have to wear a hat? Not really.

Speaker 2 So what if they're not wearing a floppy brown hat? I'm so glad you asked, Scott, because you do need a contingency plan if they're not.

Speaker 2 What percentage of people are wearing the floppy brown hat? Under one. Okay.

Speaker 2 Then your next line is, if they don't have the floppy brown hat,

Speaker 2 I love your dangly purple bracelet. Oh, wow.
Heyo. Okay, so that's number two.
Now, what happens in the rare occurrence that they're not wearing either of these?

Speaker 2 Then you move on to line number three on the flirt chart.

Speaker 2 That's a wonderful jack-o'-lantern you're holding.

Speaker 2 Okay,

Speaker 2 I would imagine that would only come into play

Speaker 2 for a couple of weeks during the year. These are so specific.

Speaker 3 11 months away, guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah. No, I agree.

Speaker 2 So what's number four?

Speaker 2 Ever sat in a homemade D-box chair?

Speaker 2 How often is that the one you're leading with? Oh, I'll wait till it's four. Sometimes you get the first three.
Okay. You've got a bite.

Speaker 3 We haven't cleared up ER. I know what W means now.
What does the D stand for in D-box?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, yeah, that's a good question.
They never told us. Destruction.
Destruction box. It destroys your colon.
Colon. Yeah.

Speaker 2 The amount of sort of foods shooting in your mouth that are black coffees spraying in your mouth.

Speaker 2 And why did you get into the D-Box? Like, did you go sit in one in the theater? And it just...

Speaker 2 30 years ago, I went to a movie and thought the experience could have been enhanced. Oh, okay.
So Debox wasn't even invented yet.

Speaker 2 I remember the first time I ever went in, it was like Fast and Furious, the fourth one. Well, I went, let's see.
1995,

Speaker 2 late 95. Yep.

Speaker 2 I saw a babe.

Speaker 2 And you thought this would only be better

Speaker 2 if your chair was shaking around. Yeah.
Whenever, what, the pig would cry?

Speaker 2 Cry, yeah, when he'd oink.

Speaker 2 I wanted the chair to oink.

Speaker 2 You wanted the chair to oink. Back in response, yeah.
I don't know if that's what D-Box does. I think it just.
Mine does. Okay.

Speaker 2 And ain't no sound effect, I'll tell you that. What does that mean? There's a little pig pen below the seat.
Okay.

Speaker 3 So your D-box with the pig inside, that basically works best for two movies, Babe and the Road.

Speaker 2 Babe two.

Speaker 3 I was going to go and say Babe two, pig and side.

Speaker 2 Babe, two, pig in the side. Oh, it works great on that one.
Well, anybody.

Speaker 2 Wouldn't you expect any less from the town flirt?

Speaker 2 Revelva, can I ask you something about your Florida? Sure. And by the way, it's red with two D's, like Chris Red.

Speaker 2 Oh, very cool.

Speaker 2 Big Saturday Night Live fan?

Speaker 2 Well, my parents were.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Okay, sure.

Speaker 2 Did you know who Fran Gillespie was? She was a writer on that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mostly follow her the writers. She was at SNL 50, I believe.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 2 So if you try your things on the, you try your lines for people from flirting,

Speaker 2 if you get somebody who is receptive to your advances, then how does it happen? What goes down? Well, it's just flirting for fun.

Speaker 2 I've been married for

Speaker 2 30 years and a day. Oh, wait, so you got married the day before you saw Babe? Before I started working at the hobby shop.
Oh, okay. And also before you saw Babe.

Speaker 2 Did all those things happen right around the same time?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I started a hobby shop. I spent my first paycheck on a ticket to Babe.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And then that gave you the idea to start your own hobbies. To start.
Yeah, I stopped making panzer tanks and P-51 Mustangs and I and I started moving on into making my own D-Box chairs.

Speaker 2 Okay, but I want to get back to you're married. Yeah.

Speaker 2 How does your partner feel about you flirting and being the town flirt? She don't mind. We don't see much of each other.
Why is that?

Speaker 2 It's been about 25 years

Speaker 2 that our schedules haven't really lined up. Oh, okay.
What does she do? She's a night nurse. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So you don't really go on dates for everybody?

Speaker 2 No, I just get, I flirt with people that come in the hobby shop. And, yeah, my wife and I are kind of like ships passing in the wind.
Are you sleeping at the same time? Is that why you...

Speaker 2 The opposite times. She's on her night shift while I sleep.
And then she gets home while I'm working at the hobby shop. So it's 12-hour shifts for both? Or instead of eight-year-olds.
Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Have you ever had a customer in the shop who's wearing a floppy brown hat and a dangly purple pendant?

Speaker 2 Yes. What happened? Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 And which line did you go with first?

Speaker 2 I went with brown hat. Right.
Fellas, you got to start with the brown hat line. Can you try it on me where it happened? Bean dip.

Speaker 2 I love your floppy brown hat. Oh, wow.
Thanks.

Speaker 2 I felt kind of good when I left the house wearing my floppy brown hat. It really compliments your

Speaker 2 velvet one-piece jumpsuit. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 Man, it's really nice to meet a nice person in this place.

Speaker 2 Thank you. What brings you into

Speaker 2 Anchorage hobbies?

Speaker 2 I've lived here for a while and have always been too shy to come into different stores. So today I thought was the day.

Speaker 2 May I interest you in some sprue cutters?

Speaker 2 Well, if that means a kiss, then yes.

Speaker 2 Oh, dear.

Speaker 2 I've stepped over a line. What will Eileen think?

Speaker 2 Eileen is your wife. Your wife.

Speaker 2 And so this has never happened before where anyone's taken you up on your flirting. No, it's always been harmless flirting.
It's been rebuffed, in fact?

Speaker 2 Mostly, yes. When you say mostly, what are are the times that it has not been rebuffed?

Speaker 2 It went down exactly like how you just heard. Oh, okay.
And you said, oh, no, I've stepped over a line. Then what happened with Eileen?

Speaker 2 Well, I wrote her a post-it and put it on the fridge to let her know. Okay.

Speaker 2 I never really got a response.

Speaker 3 Has Eileen ever come back early from work and found somebody in the house watching Babe on the D-Box?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 That was a low point in our marriage. It sounds like your marriage has been all low points.

Speaker 2 I have to say, for the past 25 years. Since 2000, what happened in 2000? Oh, she got this job.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 Okay. Yeah.
So what happened then?

Speaker 2 She walks into the room, sees who's in the D-Box chair.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 it was one of our customers who sounded rather interested in my D-box, my homemade D-box. Sure.
And so...

Speaker 2 I was still at the store working, but I gave them the keys of the house so they could come over. Okay.

Speaker 2 And so Eileen comes in. There's a stranger, a customer, like someone who just lives in Anchorage, I guess.
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 Male, female.

Speaker 2 Male. Male.
So a strange man in her house. Yeah, I'm bisexual.
I flirt with everybody. Okay.
And I don't think that's exactly what that means. Oh, sorry.

Speaker 2 But fine. Yeah, we don't need to put a link in there.
They're watching Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.

Speaker 2 And, you know, it's that scene where you're kind of in the point of view of the arrow as it's flying. Yeah, POV.
And it's, I mean, she said she walked in,

Speaker 2 POV of the arrow, oinking.

Speaker 2 Pigs just going crazy. Pigs are going crazy.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 They were going, they were hog wild.

Speaker 2 Glitter. Oh, yes.
And so, what, how did she react?

Speaker 2 What are you doing in my house?

Speaker 2 My husband flirt with you.

Speaker 2 Well, go back to that store. I'm home to sleep now.

Speaker 2 So, a big argument.

Speaker 2 And then, but, but you did not see her after that. So, no.
How did you, how did you hear that this was her reaction? The ring cam. Oh,

Speaker 2 okay.

Speaker 2 You had a ring cam 25 years ago. Oh, no, I guess.
No, this was more recent. This is more recently.
Yeah, okay, right. Yeah.
2019. 2019.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Was it? was the customer annoyed that they didn't see the rest of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?

Speaker 2 Yeah, they came back and they said, I want my money back. And I said, Well, there was no transaction involved.
Right.

Speaker 2 I just told you about my homemade chair and gave you the keys to my house. You went and watched one of my movies on my did you end up with his money back, though? What?

Speaker 2 Yes, obviously, but

Speaker 2 then he left. I thought, hey, I've been robbed.

Speaker 2 And did you come home and everything was out? No, I called the police. I was robbed.
I was robbed. And then when you explained the situation.
Well, guess who showed up?

Speaker 2 And now in an officer uniform, that exact guy. Oh, no.
This goes all the way up to the top. It goes to the top.
Yeah. They made a show about it.
Night Country. Night Country.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Sounds like a good show. Does it start with the scene of you at the hobby shop and asking the person in the original script? It did.
And then Jodie Foster cut it. Oh, it's the true detective back now.

Speaker 2 It's part of the Maverick universe. Yeah.
It is part of the Maverick universe. Yes, yes, exactly.
Hmm.

Speaker 2 How did Eileen...

Speaker 2 What happened after all this?

Speaker 2 Was she like, look, I'm not coming back here for a little while.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's been 19 years into you guys' knowledge. Yeah,

Speaker 2 well,

Speaker 2 I made up to her. I left her favorite flower on her pillowcase.
Oh, what is it? Sunflower. Dude.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And that was, she took that well then?

Speaker 2 Well, except for the bees that were on it. Oh, my gosh.
How many bees are we talking?

Speaker 2 How many are in a hive? A lot of bees. Okay, that many.
Okay, why put a bee-soaked flower on her pillow? This is.

Speaker 2 They were on the back, obviously. Oh, obviously.
He only stayed in the front.

Speaker 2 He didn't see the front. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I put it down.
Well, she put her head down. Then I'm checking the ring cam.
Ah, I'm getting stunned by so many bees.

Speaker 2 Why do you have a ring cam in your bedroom? We have a ring cam in every room. It's one of my hobbies.
Sounds like you're a pervert. No, no, I have the same hobby as that guy from Sliver.

Speaker 2 Benny Baldwin. Yes, exactly.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Having sex in a shower with Sharon Stone.

Speaker 2 That's one of his hobbies, I think. Sure, yeah.
She likes to be spied on.

Speaker 2 So your hobbies are making your homemade D-box chairs and taping

Speaker 2 every little thing. Every little thing and watching it.
Yeah, I have access to every ring cam in Anchorage. You do? Oh.

Speaker 2 How do you have access to them? Because I have a ring cam set up inside the server farm. Oh, okay.
It has all the...

Speaker 2 That's what they don't tell you about. If you put one of the ring cams inside the server farm that sees every ring cam, then...

Speaker 2 Would you expect any less from the town flirting?

Speaker 2 Seriously.

Speaker 2 I have a theory. The red velvet, let me ask, did you get access to the server farm because you flirted with somebody somebody who worked there?

Speaker 2 Well, let's just say she did have a floppy hat and purple bracelet. Oh.
And was holding a jack-o'-lantern. Oh.
Golly. This is the person in charge of the server farm.
You got access to it.

Speaker 2 Put your own ring cam.

Speaker 2 And did she expect anything from you for this?

Speaker 2 Well, she might have, yes, been expecting a... Gentle smooch on the cheek.
But you did not give her one. Have you ever cheated on Eileen? No.

Speaker 2 I just handed her a flower and I said, for you, my lady, but my heart belongs to another. Did this flower have a ton of bees on it as well?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 And centipedes. Centipedes? Oh, no.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You're the bird of paradise. You got to start going to an actual florist instead of just picking flowers out of yards.
It's true.

Speaker 2 It is true. It's true, but it's one of my flirt techniques.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, are you picking flower out of my yard?

Speaker 2 A lot of people angry sound like me. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Red Velvet, I,

Speaker 2 you know, I thought you were going to come on and just talk about working in the hobby shop, but the flirting has kind of piqued my interest.

Speaker 2 I have to ask you, you seem like you're in a loveless marriage, 25 years of not having any kind of human contact. Just scheduling.

Speaker 2 I mean, after 25 years, it's not a scheduling snafu anymore.

Speaker 2 It's an issue with your marriage. Why remain in this marriage that seems so loveless? Well,

Speaker 2 you're casting aspersions on it. I do love my wife.
Okay. And she loves me, as far as I know.
What do you love about her?

Speaker 2 Her wardrobe,

Speaker 2 the brown hat,

Speaker 2 the purple bracelet. Let me guess.
The jack-o'-lantern.

Speaker 2 So she, this is your ideal woman, is Eileen. She's my ideal woman.
And she wears this every day? She wears it, yeah, pretty much every day. And then, you know,

Speaker 2 I remember the first time I saw her, I fell so in love, and I was unemployed, and I said, I'm going to get a job to earn for her. This was in 95, the day before you.
Well, we met in 94. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 Where?

Speaker 2 We were seeing Quiz Show.

Speaker 2 Is she alive still?

Speaker 2 As far as I am aware.

Speaker 2 I mean, the ring cam would tell you, right? Do you check the ring

Speaker 2 cams every single day?

Speaker 2 Let me check right now. Okay, what's she up to? Watching a movie on the D-Box.

Speaker 2 Are the pigs squealing? Yeah. Oh, the pigs are squealing with plenty.
Yeah. Yeah, which movie we got? Deliverance, right? Deliverance, yeah, exactly.
Okay, that's a perfect movie to watch on that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, she's watching Deliverance. She's laughing and laughing, having a great old time.
It's a funny movie. Yeah, she loves it.
Especially in the second half. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Dude, I can only imagine, though, keeping pigs in the house.

Speaker 2 Is that where they stay under the D-Box?

Speaker 2 Under the D-box.

Speaker 2 Down by the sea.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
I'll remember. I'm like with my baby.
This is going to be a hit with you.

Speaker 2 But it must get dirty and smell bad in that room.

Speaker 2 A pig's dream.

Speaker 2 Yeah, pigs like that. I mean,

Speaker 2 they like to roll around in the mud and stuff. But humans don't really like that kind of stuff.
Do you live in an apartment, a house? A house. A house.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, you're saying, do I not like the mud and the smells? Yeah. I love them.

Speaker 2 They're only under the D-box. Right.

Speaker 2 The rest of the house isn't a mud pit. I can walk around and not track mud everywhere.
Okay. All right, sure.
It just seems smelly to me, at least. Sure.
Well, I have clothespins from the hobby shop.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay. Like a cartoon man, you put a clothespin on your nose? Yeah, I'd be a clothespin on my nose.
Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 And that prevents you, I would imagine, when you smell something really good and you start to float towards it.

Speaker 2 If you put the clothespin on your nose, you return back to the bottom. My neighbor

Speaker 2 bakes wonderful pies. Leaves them out on the sill.
Yeah, it leaves them out. I'm always floating through the air toward them.
And then they, well, my neighbor said, hey, you got to stop that.

Speaker 2 You're stealing all my pies. Don't you have clothespins at the hobby shop? And I said, oh, you're right.
I do. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So then I put all my clothespins. Right.
So that's so you're wandering around the house wearing clothespins.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 Eileen's over there working in the

Speaker 2 at the hospital.

Speaker 2 A lot like Dr. Morgenstern from ER.
Oh, tell me about that. Oh, yeah.
Well, he was head of the ER. Yeah, he was the administrator of something.
Administrator, and then he would be in and out.

Speaker 2 I think he was filming Fargo at the time for one full season, so he wasn't there as much, and then had to leave the hospital. Oh.

Speaker 3 14 seasons?

Speaker 2 15 seasons, but Dr. Morgan Stern only was in 31 episodes.

Speaker 3 And if you could rank the 15 seasons in a completely random order, what we in a completely random order?

Speaker 2 Sure, yeah. 1, eight seven five

Speaker 2 nine fifteen twelve eleven thirteen

Speaker 2 fourteen two

Speaker 2 seven

Speaker 2 four

Speaker 2 is that the one i forgot that was good thanks to you that's random but to me it's my atm code oh no

Speaker 2 ride it down everybody

Speaker 2 That's a long ATM code. I had to make a special request.
And they granted it?

Speaker 2 B-Mo sure did. Oh, BMO.
They're a different kind of bank. That's why.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I love those commercials.

Speaker 2 They're for Montreal.

Speaker 2 The commercials are shot in Montreal? No, I don't.

Speaker 2 That's a good question. Oh, BMO is Montreal Bank? Bank of Montreal.
Well, they don't really talk about it. Is that what the M and BMO stands for? Montreal.
Not to mention the O.

Speaker 2 It's a good time. Bank of Montreal.
Oh, that's what it is. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 I thought that was the same thing as Bevmo. Yeah.
I didn't even know it was a bank. Yeah, it was just a cooler way to say Bevmo.
Yeah, I thought, oh, well,

Speaker 2 if you're somebody who needs a bunch of liquor, then you got a BMO.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Not to mention Venmo.

Speaker 2 But yeah, talk about confusing.

Speaker 2 Do you think Bevmo and Venmo are the same kind of thing?

Speaker 2 Was that confusing for you? Well, Venmo and BMO sort of are the same kind of thing. Yeah.
In a way, yeah. They both handle money.
I feel like we're getting off track here.

Speaker 2 What's going on at the hobby shop these days?

Speaker 2 We're getting people coming in buying products. We sell them to them.
They leave. Okay, so

Speaker 2 you came on here not prepared to talk about the hobby shop at all.

Speaker 2 I'll talk for hours about the hobby shop. Okay.

Speaker 2 Hey, I may take you up on this. Great.
Yeah. We sell paints.
We got Vallejo paints. We sell airbrushes.

Speaker 2 We've got Tamiya extra thin cement. What about trains and models and stuff like that? Yeah, we got those.
We got trains and models. and yeah you know gun down gun dam oh yeah gun pla

Speaker 2 you know

Speaker 2 we got zakus and we got rg78s

Speaker 2 do you have anything from battlestar galactica like a cylon uh raider or anything like that yeah we have one cylon raider okay just the one just the one just the one yeah they go they go quick you have is it muffy the dog

Speaker 2 yes yeah we we got three of those actually muffett muffett oh so they're in stock Yeah, yeah. Well, last I checked them, I came here to

Speaker 2 promote the store. You're here promoting the store.
I think so. I just can't help but be the town flirt.

Speaker 2 I noticed you haven't, I mean, other than the play acting with Bean Dip over here, you haven't flirted with either Edgar nor I, really anyone in the room.

Speaker 2 So when you're not in the town, you no longer flirt? Correct.

Speaker 2 I'm all business.

Speaker 3 I would like you to invite me back to see your Debux.

Speaker 2 You've been been salivating this entire filthy kind of thing. All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 All right. No brown hacks, skipping that one.
No purple bracelet. Well, no, no purple bracelets, skipping that one.
He has a swatch on. That's maybe what was confusing about that.

Speaker 2 Not holding a jack lander. All right, time to move on.

Speaker 2 Mr. Riot.

Speaker 2 Hi. I feel so weird saying that.

Speaker 2 Would you... Why?

Speaker 2 Because it's what everyone's looking for. Oh, right.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 That's funny.

Speaker 2 Thanks. Is that why you're laughing?

Speaker 3 Hey, this is my flow.

Speaker 2 Sorry, sorry. I'm in out.
I don't mean to cock block you. I hear your movies coming out in D-Box.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Would you like to hear it with a homemade D-Box that has

Speaker 2 pigs underneath it and

Speaker 2 shoots water

Speaker 2 regardless of what's happening on screen? Where does it shoot the water? On the person or just depends upon? Well, that does depend on what's happening on the screen. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 If the sound is panned left, it's kind of shooting at you from the left.

Speaker 2 Any other effects?

Speaker 2 Shaking, rumbling, pig squealing. Water shooting.
Rumbling. Pig squealing.
Sometimes

Speaker 2 little robot arms come out and open a can of paint thinner. Oh, wow.
You sort of get a little last whiff of that. So just for the smell.

Speaker 2 Okay. It doesn't throw it on you or anything like that.
Oh, no, no. I'm not crazy.

Speaker 3 Do you happen to have Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?

Speaker 2 I do, yep. And I have it queued up to the POV arrow shot.
Now,

Speaker 3 does the arrow actually come out of the TV and hit you?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 One arrow, but it sort of comes out backwards to keep the because it's pointing one way on the screen.

Speaker 2 So it's sort of pointing away from camera. Oh, no, I am the arrow.
Okay, I'm going to go. Yeah, so it sort of comes in reverse out of the screen.

Speaker 2 So it shoots from behind you, from the seat back behind you, or something? No, it's more like the ring. On the screen,

Speaker 2 you're sort of in position as if there's a GoPro on the camera and it's flying forward. You know a lot about movie making.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 But then what my contraption does is sort of a little model train comes out from under the TV

Speaker 2 carrying an arrow backwards. Got it.
Toward you. Toward you.
Okay. Yeah.
And then it kind of goes up a ramp and goes right and

Speaker 2 sort of stops right

Speaker 2 chest. Now, is this used for any other movie you watch on the D-Box, this ramp arrow contraption? You can use it for a lot of point of view shots.

Speaker 2 Curving bullets and wanted. Carlito's way.
There's

Speaker 2 a lot of POV in that. Maybe a lot of Sebastopol beach at Nuremberg.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 Is it Nuremberg or Normandy? I'm not sure. That's what I'm at.
Oh, I like the Judgment at. I'm at Normandy.
Start a beach. Everybody knows it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, any POV. Judgment at Nuremberg is a good one in Deboks.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's great. Man, when that final gavel goes down for the final judgment, boom, just shakes the chair.
So, Edgar, are you going to accept his? Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 3 I'd love to. I'd love to come.
Great.

Speaker 3 I feel like everything coming out of my mouth is filthy.

Speaker 2 You should see what goes into mine.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Is that one of your pickup lines? That's one of my classic flirts.

Speaker 2 Well, I got to say, Red Velvet, you're a fascinating guy. I expected to mainly talk about your hobby shop.

Speaker 2 Do you want to plug anything with the hobby shop there or the hours of operation or anything like that? Mm-hmm. We're having a sale on

Speaker 2 dry brush paintbrushes. Okay.

Speaker 2 And how two for one. Two for one.
BOGO. Okay.
That's, I mean, those are

Speaker 2 that's that's a pretty good deal. Yeah.
All right. And people can get that at Anchorage.
Well, guys, we are running out of time, unfortunately. I hate to say.

Speaker 2 We only have time for one final feature on the show, and that is, of course, a little something called plugs. I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to

Speaker 2 Aw, that was Laugh Myself to Death by Pixeltree Mill. Thanks to Pixeltree Mill.
If you have a plugs theme, head over to cbbworld.com/slash plugs and you can upload it there.

Speaker 2 We also have everything you need for the remixes. And what do we plug in? Edgar, of course.

Speaker 3 The Running Maumee The Running Man, November 14th.

Speaker 3 It may or may not feature cartoon legs running the entire time. Yeah.
And my body... On no, no, wait.

Speaker 2 Oh, oh, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Tell me you didn't text the wrong thing.

Speaker 3 I got it wrong. I put my body on Glenn Man.

Speaker 2 On Glen Powell's head? No. This movie's going to tank.

Speaker 3 Oh, no. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Now I have to come back.

Speaker 3 Now I'll have to come back. I also just, on Variety, it said that Edgar Wong ankled Scooby Don't.

Speaker 2 He ankled it. He ankled it.
Oh. What a bummer.
Yeah, that's a bummer. I was looking forward to that.
Yeah. That's too bad.

Speaker 2 Maybe you have a shot then. It's in turnaround, it seems like.

Speaker 2 Turn around,

Speaker 2 bright eyes, everybody.

Speaker 2 And bright, speaking of bright eyes, we have Bean Dip over here with the brightest eyes. Oh, no, these are your contacts.
Yeah, I have my all whites in. Yeah, you put them in.

Speaker 2 That's really disconcerting. That's right.
You don't know if I'm alive or if I'm a ghostie.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure that's a good name for the company, all whites.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It probably is not great.
I want to rethink that part of it. But other than that, anything else you want to plug? Oh, sure, man.
I'll say.

Speaker 2 You know, there's friend of mine if you were to go see. Probably, she does a show called Playgirl and Dynasty Typewriter.
You could go see that.

Speaker 2 Or if you like watching TV shows, you could watch

Speaker 2 all four seasons of The Roger's Jumpstown on HBO. I thought you meant all episodes of The Four Seasons, but you're talking about all four seasons of The Rogers Jumpstown.

Speaker 2 I mean, check that out if that's your thing. Sure.

Speaker 2 Hey, guys, check out The Four Seasons.

Speaker 2 In Red Velvet, what do you want to plug?

Speaker 2 I'll plug my

Speaker 2 friend has a show called Digman that's streaming on Paramount Plus season one. Hey, there's an episode with Edgar Ratchet.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 3 Not invited back for season two. Very, very upset.

Speaker 2 What are you playing at, Edgar?

Speaker 3 I forget what my boxing announcer

Speaker 2 tragedy struck as we were recording. That's right.
Yes. This is true.

Speaker 3 Whilst I was recording... This is a true story.
Whilst I was recording my part in Digman season one, the queen died.

Speaker 2 No, like literally,

Speaker 2 or

Speaker 2 the news was released that she had died.

Speaker 2 Do you think that you

Speaker 2 died right when you were recording?

Speaker 3 Well, I just think that

Speaker 3 I don't want to build up my part too much, but my part in Digman spans Reigns.

Speaker 2 Whoa,

Speaker 2 this is incredible. Yeah.
So the queen and the king.

Speaker 3 The queen and the king. I mean, I don't think anybody else on Digman can claim that.

Speaker 2 I don't think so. I mean, maybe Andy Sandberg, since

Speaker 2 some of the episodes were probably done beforehand.

Speaker 2 Maybe, but you'll have to ask him. I will ask him.
Yeah, I know this is beyond your purview, Red Man. And season two will be there someday.
Who knows? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Can I come back for season three?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, season three.

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 2 I want to plug: hey, we have new Christmas ornaments. This is exciting.
I just got these the other day.

Speaker 2 We have Santa, we have Ho-Ho, the naughty elf, and we have motormouth ornaments. They're available now at podswag.com/slash comedy bangbang.
These are really, really good. They're in funny packaging.

Speaker 2 Check these out. I think they're really good.
And, you know, we also have Comedy Bang Bang World. We have a lot going on.

Speaker 2 We just, a couple of weeks ago, put out the Long Legs special, Halloween special. We,

Speaker 2 so much going on. I hate to even speculate as to what's coming up next, but so much is going on over there.
Head over to cbbworld.com. All right, let's close up the old plug bag.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. That was Opa, Opa, Opa by William Hickman.
Thanks to William Hickman. And guys, I want to thank you so much, Edgar.
Always a pleasure. Thanks for coming back so many times.

Speaker 3 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 The Running Man, obviously.

Speaker 3 Like nosedived in the box office after that horrendous VFX era.

Speaker 2 Hey, oh well. You'll always have another movie.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 3 next time.

Speaker 2 Yeah, better luck. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Bean Dip. Thanks so much for being here.
Thanks for having me, Scott. It's always a great pie.
It really is. And Red Velvet.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I noticed you got a text

Speaker 2 on your... Is that a homemade phone, by the way?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Is that one of your hobbies, making your own phone? Oh, I make everything I use. Clothes, phone.
You made these clothes? Yeah. Plane tickets.
I make them all.

Speaker 2 How often are you allowed onto the plane? I'm pretty good.

Speaker 2 All the time. You got a text from,

Speaker 2 it looks like. Oh, yeah.
It looks like it's from Eileen. Mm-hmm.
What's Eileen have to say?

Speaker 2 My love for you has never abated through the years. Wow.

Speaker 2 I mean, look whatever works as Larry David once said in a Woody Allen film that we all love so much. Whatever works, right? Whatever works.
Melinda and Melinda.

Speaker 2 All right, we'll see you next time. Thanks.
Bye.

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