Please Don't Destroy

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Speaker 2 Please don't destroy guys

Speaker 2 you like guys better well what is that okay we got to start over i like it no that's better it's please don't destroy

Speaker 2 period but you could add guys or team right no we have the guys from please don't destroy we have the guys from please don't destroy yeah and um

Speaker 2 this no pun intended this podcast is gonna blow your mind

Speaker 2 It's going to reorientate your electronic.

Speaker 2 It's going to destroy you.

Speaker 1 They are the guys that are three dudes on SNL that only do, I think they only do the videos. They do a video probably once a week.

Speaker 1 Sometimes it gets kicked just to online after the show if it goes too long, which we joke about.

Speaker 1 But they're always high quality and they're always funny. And so we thought this is turning into a big part of the show and an important part.

Speaker 1 And it's always been with the videos from Tom Schiller to Samberg to people adding video. It's a great element of the show.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And they're just fun little short films. They've got Taylor Swift in some of them and all these different

Speaker 2 Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 1 Yeah, people like to jump in them and a lot of the hosts will jump in on them, even though it's a fucking beating.

Speaker 1 I'd like to be there and then they go, okay, you do read through Wednesday, then you're going to do an 18-hour shoot on Thursday.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You're, yeah, you go all night Friday and then get two hours sleep and then get ready for the show.
It's funny for the live show that matters. These guys are funny.
They're sweet.

Speaker 2 Yeah. They also write for the show anyway.
They're very talented. They're very brave.

Speaker 1 I don't use cast members, but they'll tell you.

Speaker 1 Very cool dudes. And there's five of us total on this

Speaker 1 chatter today. So just try to pay attention and just know that if someone's talking, it's probably me and Dana.

Speaker 2 Yes. And we did.
We were at our Overtalk meter. I checked it afterwards.
Was trending. It was redlining a little bit a couple of times, but

Speaker 2 they were fun and easy to talk to.

Speaker 1 All right. Here they are.
Please don't destroy.

Speaker 3 Are you guys really friends? I mean, in real life, or are you just kind of like business partners? Yeah, kind of more like that, like coworkers.

Speaker 5 Like associates and colleagues.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I am so excited for this, you guys.

Speaker 5 It's already on, so keep talking.

Speaker 3 Feel free to ask questions. John is joining us today.
I guess his bandmates, Ben and Martin, could be.

Speaker 5 He said they always do it in order of importance. So he goes on for a while, and then one of the other guys jumps on.

Speaker 3 Well, you're still, you're on SNL now, so you can ask us a lot of questions going forward, even though, you know.

Speaker 3 I'm just saying.

Speaker 5 No, wait, you guys are on SNL. I'm not.
I used to be, John. Ask your dad.
I was there a long time ago. I really made it.
He said I didn't make a dent in the show. I made a ding.

Speaker 5 Like, where if you got an accident, they go, just go ahead.

Speaker 5 It's not, it's not enough to even, no one noticed. Just go.

Speaker 3 What's more important? A few years on SNL or 40 years of post-SNL where you're doing a lot better than you did on SNL.

Speaker 3 Do you want to peek in 93 like I did? I mean, come on, man. I've been dining out on three catchphrases for over a half century.

Speaker 3 I won't bring it out. Ben woke up for this.

Speaker 5 That's nice. It's like 5 p.m.
in New York.

Speaker 5 And Martin's trying to log in. Okay, well, they're here, man.

Speaker 3 Fuck you.

Speaker 3 I want to ask you guys a quick question.

Speaker 3 Please don't destroy.

Speaker 3 If it wasn't that,

Speaker 3 what were the alts?

Speaker 5 What didn't make it?

Speaker 3 Because I have a couple ideas, but I'll let you guys go.

Speaker 3 We have, we have Beatles 2.

Speaker 3 We have

Speaker 3 what else do we have?

Speaker 3 I remember you guys genuinely wanted to call the group three stinkers.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we did.

Speaker 3 Three little stinkers, three little stinkers because we were Beatles and the dung.

Speaker 3 I had the this is a tar, these are horrible. The cupcake trilogy.
Oh, hey, that's not bad.

Speaker 5 Higgins, Hurlingy, etc.

Speaker 3 We be the exploding guys. We be the exploding guys.

Speaker 3 I didn't say they were good.

Speaker 3 Three words is good.

Speaker 3 No, please

Speaker 3 don't destroy is the one. Do you like that name? Please don't destroy? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Because I have a special I'm doing, and I thought of maybe potential spam. It's kind of one of those things that people just know in the world, like a little saying.

Speaker 5 Please don't destroy.

Speaker 3 That's a great one.

Speaker 3 No one ever gets it right. No.
I said it wrong. What do they say? How do they ruin it? What do they say? Please don't disturb.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Do not disturb.

Speaker 5 Do not disturb might be better. Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. Let me just stop.

Speaker 3 Casually.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that one's not disturbed.

Speaker 3 No, you're not disturbed. I like that.
Hey, man, are we part of a press junket? Are you doing eight today promoting something or is this sort of a one-off? No way. This is it, man.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 3 Let me mark that down.

Speaker 3 This is Tyson Paul.

Speaker 5 This is the main event, event, guys.

Speaker 3 Yeah, bingo. I love that fight.
What a rocket fight. Dude, Tyson gave it almost, well, nothing, but that's okay.

Speaker 5 I like when people send me, here's a live scene from the Tyson Paul fight and it's two cats going,

Speaker 5 tapping each other. And I'm like, exactly.

Speaker 3 Joe's had a great joke on update of they teamed up against the audience.

Speaker 3 That was it. That was

Speaker 3 the quit is true.

Speaker 5 My problem is they say it's not really

Speaker 5 the fight wasn't really

Speaker 5 a real fight, sanctioned fight. It was just for entertainment.
I'm like, but it wasn't entertainment either.

Speaker 3 So I'm suing for that.

Speaker 3 But it was sanctioned. It goes on Tyson's record.

Speaker 3 Why would he do that?

Speaker 3 He says, what does he care about his legacy? I'll be dead. I don't even care.
I started doing Lennon's. I'm on mushrooms.
Sorry.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I was really fighting them hard, but I don't care what happens.

Speaker 3 What about legacy? Sorry.

Speaker 3 Tyson has to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 3 Was that when he was talking? What was the video that you sent, Benny?

Speaker 3 He was talking about

Speaker 3 a little girl. Oh, yeah.
There's a little girl standing there. Like a 12-year-old girl.
And he was like, we're all going to die one day. We're all dusk.

Speaker 5 She's like, do you eat dino nuggets?

Speaker 3 My Tyson thing, well, he was nice after the fight, but he was mostly, he'd be really, when it's heyday, he'd be like, I'm gonna kill you. I hit you so hard, your family's gonna be hurt.

Speaker 3 And I'm gonna kill you. And after the fight, he'd beat the hell out of the guy and go, I really like you.
I think you're a tremendous fighter. I'd like to knit you a sweater.

Speaker 5 Anyway, by the way, this airs in 2027.

Speaker 3 On the Jay Leno show in 1995, I'm out of ammo. What do you guys think?

Speaker 5 What about rock, paper, scissors for you guys?

Speaker 3 Was that one?

Speaker 3 Is this a name? Was that a name? Oh, it's a name.

Speaker 3 I thought we were over that. No, I thought that was that was so two minutes ago.

Speaker 5 I wrote down 40 minutes for this, so I don't know.

Speaker 3 Hey, he's got the best lighting he's ever had on the podcast, and he's a little different.

Speaker 5 And it's not that good.

Speaker 3 I kind of am red.

Speaker 3 No, but do you got a ring light going?

Speaker 5 I don't have that kind of money, but I have, I just have

Speaker 5 the top lights from my ceiling on.

Speaker 3 Okay. I do have a ceiling.

Speaker 5 I'm doing pretty good.

Speaker 3 So, you guys,

Speaker 3 Dana, are you in New York? No, I flew back to LA. Then I'm going up to a place in the mountains.

Speaker 3 I'm just digging deep. These, I've been running past these guys in the hallway

Speaker 3 in the last

Speaker 3 two months. What's up?

Speaker 3 How are you doing? Standing around.

Speaker 5 They're like, doing Biden this week? As you addressed as Biden, you're like, yeah.

Speaker 3 My contract says

Speaker 3 seven Bidens.

Speaker 3 You'll do seven.

Speaker 5 They might all be in the same show.

Speaker 3 We might throw one on. I have four catchphrases and I rotate them.
That's all I do. I just click them off, look confused, and then ask Lauren for my paycheck.
So, um, it's so good.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 5 I saw the one last week that

Speaker 3 that was. I hate to say you should change the name to we got cut, but what is the uh what cut for time? cut for time

Speaker 3 might be better

Speaker 3 because you guys have

Speaker 3 yeah

Speaker 5 but it seems like everyone sees it anyway i mean it doesn't even matter anymore but that that uh i liked it what was the last one oh charlie x cx xx i'd like to buy a vowel she was in it and she had uh she had a lot to do that would have been good in the video Oh, yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 3 I'd like to buy a vow.

Speaker 3 He had a lot of jokes in that.

Speaker 5 I mean, it was more like

Speaker 5 tons of jokes, and she'd got you shoveled her with a lot of jokes, so she did a good job. It's always good if the host gets to score.

Speaker 3 Yeah, she was awesome. And that, when did who, when are you just when did you know you were going to fly down the stairs at the end? Because I'm always curious about endings.

Speaker 3 Like, so that was like a perfect. And were those stunt guys? Are you guys were they stunt stairs or stunt guys because you're kind of young and springy?

Speaker 3 No, those were stunt guys.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 that was after rewrite table, I think. I think we had something in there that didn't work at table.
So we were like, may we go down the stairs?

Speaker 3 We all just said, bye.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Bye, Charlie.

Speaker 3 When we don't know how to end a sketch, that's what we do for table read.

Speaker 3 Just case it rubbed and go, okay, bye.

Speaker 5 Then Lauren looks up and goes, we'll find something there. And then he turns it.

Speaker 3 Wayne's World 2, Gold Opening.

Speaker 3 Hey, man, the 50th. We don't know who's coming back.
Some cobwebs are coming. Hi, we're the cobwebs.

Speaker 3 We are here to pop you up.

Speaker 3 Yeah, fuck you. Yeah, believe me, we are shameless.
But so who's your, like, Dan Beula? Is he,

Speaker 3 who do you, who do you,

Speaker 3 who's, uh, who do you talk to? Who do you talk to there about what you're thinking of doing? You have to go in and meet the Wizard of Oz. Right.

Speaker 6 Who do you pitch?

Speaker 5 Do you pitch ideas anymore or you just do them?

Speaker 3 Just do them at read-through.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we do them at read-through.

Speaker 3 We have the Monday pitch in Lauren's office still, but those everyone does a fake idea.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 5 Your ideas probably just sound fake. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they do.

Speaker 3 Oh, they're not really doing that.

Speaker 5 That was one of their goofball ideas.

Speaker 3 This video that we just did was maybe the first Monday pitch that we actually turned into a video. That was my pitch on Monday.
Oh, yeah. So what was the, so what did you say in like 20 seconds?

Speaker 3 We're just going to have a

Speaker 5 rave off, but you need the host time, which is very precious.

Speaker 3 Well, I just pitched the first turn of it. So I was like, maybe it's a romantic comedy where you run into a guy and you're like, oh my God, I'm so sorry.
This is.

Speaker 3 So crazy, but would you ever want to watch where the fuck you're going?

Speaker 3 I love it. Yeah.
Laughter. Big laughter ensued.

Speaker 3 You guys, I didn't hear any from you guys, but I laughed. I thought it was good.

Speaker 3 This is me laughing.

Speaker 5 Dana just texted me. Don't laugh anything they say.

Speaker 3 You know, a lot of times comedians, when they hear your friend

Speaker 3 guest,

Speaker 3 you start thinking of how to take that. When your friend says, maybe that's please not destroy sketch.
Please don't destroy.

Speaker 3 When we're writing, it's like people always ask, like, are you guys just cracking up? And it's like, never.

Speaker 3 You know, that's what they think all

Speaker 3 okay. Now, what goes after that? What goes after that? How stoned were you when you came up with that idea?

Speaker 5 So, three months ago, when Charlie X, Charlie hosted, you guys, because we're figuring out the air date now.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 early 20s.

Speaker 5 So, she's in the Monday meeting. You throw this into the pitches.
And then when it involves the host and she's got X amount of time during the week, when do you get her?

Speaker 5 If they, they have to okay right away, you have to start figuring out the sets and shit.

Speaker 3 We had to write it for the Wednesday read-through, and then that night they greenlit it, but we shot it on Thursday night, like all night. So we were shooting.
What a fucking drag.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we would rewrite table all day from like 12:30 to 9. And then from 9 to like 6 a.m., we were shooting our video.
Rewrite for nine hours, practically?

Speaker 5 Well, rewrite table on Thursdays is fucking horrible.

Speaker 3 Oh, okay. You were rewriting all the other people's table.
Oh, everything yeah not just that that's something people understand you are the writer

Speaker 3 writers on the show yeah and writers on the show

Speaker 3 i that's what i thought god that's good you guys are on fire i have another name for your thing leave at gate

Speaker 3 These aren't horrible.

Speaker 3 They're not great, but they're all bad. Here's a question.
Have you ever seriously said to each other, hey, get out of my face, dude?

Speaker 3 Like, serious, not part of a sketch. Yeah.
Like, real. Get out of my face, dude.

Speaker 5 Who's been the most mad at who?

Speaker 3 Because I've said that to Spade every other day. Just get out.
Get out of my face.

Speaker 3 Get out of my grill.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Don't get up and get in my grill.

Speaker 3 So anyway.

Speaker 5 No answer. No, it didn't.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, we've had some

Speaker 3 blowouts.

Speaker 3 There we go.

Speaker 3 We are trending.

Speaker 3 We are trending right now.

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Speaker 5 Now, two two of you have parents that are writers dana you did not know this but parents that are writers

Speaker 3 do you have to pre-pitch them before the pitch meeting and then okay our dads come up with the majority of our ideas for sure but besides that

Speaker 3 You have to know that that's sarcasm.

Speaker 5 People do they pitch you an idea and you have to say no and it's horrifyingly awkward.

Speaker 3 It's not that awkward. My dad pitches a lot of jokes for for us okay but it's not that what about overall just here's an idea for you guys for a whole thing whole concept

Speaker 3 no

Speaker 3 they stay in their own lane call each other's dad dad yeah like like no

Speaker 3 like just

Speaker 5 dad i call dana dad

Speaker 3 yeah i call everybody dad that's just respect yeah no exactly exactly

Speaker 5 on when i got to the show dana was there and he was like fucking crushing at number one guy. And we all had to call him dad.

Speaker 3 You know what, David?

Speaker 3 I don't even know if it's based off of my dad, but in middle school, I would flirt with girls by saying, you know, David Spade's character in grown-ups, his name is Higgins.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 that's great.

Speaker 3 That's fantastic.

Speaker 3 I don't even know if it's, it did not work. No, but here's the,

Speaker 3 I don't even know if it's based off of dad.

Speaker 5 I don't know either. I didn't read the whole script, but I do know that.

Speaker 5 Now, it might have been Sandler's. I know Sandler's hometown boys growing up.
One was Lamon

Speaker 5 Sloth. There was like a really complicated name.
I'm like, that has to be one of your friends.

Speaker 5 And we met some of the guys, but it might have been a Higgins there, but it could have easily been you guys because people yell Higgins me in the airport. Like, I can remember what

Speaker 5 movie I was even in.

Speaker 3 And they're like, Higgins. I'm like, are you talking to me?

Speaker 5 And they're like, Yeah, are you Higgins? They think I'm real, like a real person.

Speaker 3 Are you Higgins?

Speaker 5 Are you in the closet with the dog?

Speaker 3 I'm like, Oh, that was a movie, but it's fine.

Speaker 5 I'll take any, I'll take any praise.

Speaker 3 When I came here through the airport, this isn't funny, but interesting. Dad comes up with a six and an eight-year-old, boy-girl, really sweet, cute.

Speaker 3 They are just huge fans of your Joe Biden impression.

Speaker 5 Six years old, because it goes on at 8 30 i guess on the west coast they just ask some funny old man anyway that's all that's our airport uh chunk when do you get word if you're in the show and you tape it edit it cut it because that sounds like a really unusually crazy schedule because not just a a sketch you have to put on its feet you have to get a set then dress it and then you know you got to get wardrobe and then you got to cram

Speaker 5 lines like Charlie, bless her heart. She has to cram lines for that.
And then do it all night when she has to rehearse the next day. It's the hardest week of her life.
And then you

Speaker 5 throw it in at dress. And then

Speaker 5 it might make it to air, but it also, you don't know if it's going to make it all the way on air, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like

Speaker 3 the tapes are always

Speaker 3 a lot of the times it's like you. It's easier, I think, to just cut a tape for time because you don't have to get rid of the whole set and the whatever.

Speaker 3 So they're kind of the first to go after update once the show's going long.

Speaker 5 Once people are milking their sketches.

Speaker 3 A lot of stuff is cut for time. It really, when you're there, like a lot of sketches.
I went sometimes.

Speaker 3 Was it always like this, Dana being back, of the like you're 30 minutes over going into dress? Or did you guys have it closer to? We had some, there were sketches cut.

Speaker 3 It seems like more now is my, what I'm thinking, but yeah.

Speaker 3 Cut for time.

Speaker 5 Dress was always long. And then

Speaker 5 air was supposed to be pretty close.

Speaker 3 Well, then you cut the show down, and then what I do with Gaffington and stuff, we get together and go, Let's just fucking milk the cold opening. Yeah, push the show really long, sit back,

Speaker 3 cuss with an ice-cold beer, and just laugh at the cut for time, guys. I shouldn't have said that, but gaffin's like that.

Speaker 3 But anyway, no, I think it is a little longer, or maybe sketches are playing longer, but yeah, there seems like there's at least two or three cut each week.

Speaker 3 When you and James went off cards at dress this past week, that was so funny. Yeah, really funny.

Speaker 3 Why can't we do that on air? You know, because it's all make-believe. And all of a sudden, I stepped on his line and we got all tangled up.
Well, it was so funny.

Speaker 3 It was right before the live from New York, too.

Speaker 3 Just went off on this whole run and then had to like reset right to that. Yeah, but you found your way back.

Speaker 3 I did say, is this dress or air? I think I stayed in Biden. is this tress or air

Speaker 3 i don't know i i thought lauren was going to scold me on that one but instead he went um you were you look like you're reading off cards and i said because i was yeah i normally has 19 words and now i got a half page of exposition yeah anyway report to the spanking machine

Speaker 3 the spanking machine that's not a

Speaker 3 spanking machine yeah i used to go stand by it yeah do you guys want to talk at all because david and i are, I'm getting just a routine cholesterol blood test. So I haven't eaten in like 19 hours.

Speaker 3 So I'm a little punchy. But do you guys have any questions for us or things you want to say?

Speaker 5 Any statements you'd like to read?

Speaker 3 How much money do you have in your bank account? Combined. That's Dana's question.

Speaker 3 Just cash on hand, liquidity, or are we talking about property? I'm talking real assets. I'm talking real estate.
Oh, the whole kitten caboodle.

Speaker 3 I'll write it down down and I'll just hold it up at the end of the podcast.

Speaker 3 It's a scroll.

Speaker 5 People on YouTube can check in and guess.

Speaker 5 One of you is Hurlehee's kid.

Speaker 3 Who's going to admit it? Check the name. It's Martin Hurley.

Speaker 5 It doesn't say his last name, but I would say it's you because you're the only one without a last name. But I was friends with your dad.
Obviously, we had a big falling out.

Speaker 5 Nick Sandler over me, which was sort of an easy one.

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 you're really the hurley he boy that's what i was getting at yeah that's right there was there was a sketch dana when you were there

Speaker 3 i would just do what i did normally before update and i i'd go home but what was it the hurley he boy that was called and it was sandler and farley right

Speaker 3 yeah

Speaker 5 and that must be fun you're

Speaker 3 You can say it's named after you.

Speaker 5 That's more people than the Higgins bullshit he was giving earlier.

Speaker 3 Come on.

Speaker 3 Ben. Ben, do you have any connection to show business, like even a cousin or anything? Cole or anything.

Speaker 3 No, I don't. Okay.
All right. Pete Davidson, you're going to adopt you legally.

Speaker 3 Please.

Speaker 5 I watched your Taylor Swift one.

Speaker 5 I have watched over. It's hard for me to just say each one because

Speaker 5 they come week to week.

Speaker 3 No, no, they're all really good.

Speaker 5 I have to say is that they're all very clever. They're, I mean, a year ago, I was saying, oh, shit, these are so funny.

Speaker 5 If I'm ever in town, I want to go try to warm into one because they're so clever. They're funny.

Speaker 5 They don't look that easy, but they're just good, different things. And it's so hard to stand out on a sketch show

Speaker 3 that's been fucking 50 years to get anything slightly different. Because

Speaker 3 they're great.

Speaker 5 You get good people and you give them something to do.

Speaker 3 And they're, they're,

Speaker 3 I've listened to every episode of this podcast.

Speaker 5 Oh, you you listen to this dog shit?

Speaker 3 Good to everyone. Thank you.
Yeah, I've listened to everyone. I love it.
I'm, I mean, like, the biggest SNL nerd fan, so that means a lot. Yeah, we're massive, massive fans of you guys, we should say.

Speaker 5 That's what I was getting at. Thank you.

Speaker 3 Well, when I look at your stuff, I just feel envious.

Speaker 5 Like, yeah, like it's such

Speaker 3 so much fun. Nothing was happening like that on our, you know, it is fun.

Speaker 3 We get to shoot them pretty quick, too, sometimes because they're like, especially the office ones, we can do those Thursday nights where they don't go until six o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 3 So sometimes we can bust them out in like four hours or whatever.

Speaker 5 And it's just who do you reach out to to get a celebrity that's not the host? Do you have the talent department?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You say, hey, can you grab us this person?

Speaker 3 Talent department.

Speaker 5 We got a no, pretty. We need a yes or no ASAP.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Then you go type in their name in the script and then you change it to someone else.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I accidentally sent it with

Speaker 3 Robert. Wade, who's Robert De Niro with? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Is this true? Like the first one was Pete Davidson and Taylor Swift? Is that your first one? No.

Speaker 3 No, that wasn't. That was just us three in the office.
And it aired on the Kim Kardashian episode, but she had nothing to do with it. Yeah.
Okay. Then you put her in it.
You shot her later.

Speaker 3 We shot it secretly. Oh, that was with the walking around with the

Speaker 3 hard seltzer one. We shot it on Monday with our friend Paul Briganti, who used to be a director there.
And we just had like two cameras, a prop guy and a sound guy.

Speaker 5 So it's nice that it does well. So now over time, they must build up trust with you guys.
So now a little eyes are on you less and more like, what do we have this week?

Speaker 5 And then do you have to show the final to

Speaker 5 anyone before it goes on dress?

Speaker 3 The producers, look, Eric Henbert will watch. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Even though everyone's busier busier than shit, obviously, but you try to go, hey, can you just check it? And they give you maybe last-second trims or notes, anything before it pops on dress.

Speaker 3 Okay. Yeah, for sure.
It's he's always really helpful. Like, we'll, we'll normally come to him with like questions of like, is this working? Or, you know, whatever.

Speaker 5 Well, they move so fast. Good laughs, get out, cuts.
Like, just you have the doctor in the one on the tailor swim, and you go, hey, that's my real doctor.

Speaker 5 But it's just funny to get, I go, God, a doctor set and an outfit for a fucking cutaway. It just seems expensive and hard, but always feels worth it to me.

Speaker 3 When did you get out of the room? You know, you were doing them just in the office for a while, and then you got out of the room. And then when I was there, you did the

Speaker 3 helicopter set, which was like played really big. I guess you did it at 66th Street in there, but

Speaker 3 it was very, very cool.

Speaker 3 The consistency of how excellent they are is very high to me. So

Speaker 3 I just want you guys to understand that. You're like, you're a space.
Thanks, man. I mean, I hope you know that.

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 3 We do.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Do you know it?

Speaker 3 Do you know it? Because it's hard to do comedy. No, it's hard to nail it.
High sluggish. Coming up with ideas that are consistently good.

Speaker 3 There's just, I don't, you know, that aren't clanking and not quite there. And there's just this high, high percentage of winning.
And so I'm just curious

Speaker 3 about

Speaker 3 i i don't know it's not just me hey look at the youtube counts you know cut for time gets three million you know i mean i mean you got your highest one was 17 million

Speaker 5 um so and dony dare go something like that because you know exactly

Speaker 3 it is

Speaker 3 something like that no bad name i'm pulling it pulling it

Speaker 3 david you i think we first oh yeah go ahead john yeah i was gonna say a joke that i like when david does it on talk shows: when you go, I was leaving my house, mansion, whatever.

Speaker 5 Listen, 44 windows, three pantries, whatever.

Speaker 3 These are other people. I don't know what it's called these days.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 House, whatever. Apartment.
The west wing that has seven bedrooms has never been inhabited. You just go walk by door after door.
It's incredible.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I have Dana come over.
I have a door that's like 90 feet high. I'm like,

Speaker 3 so I like to do cardio. So I run laps around his house, you know, about 20 minutes.
I got lost one time. But

Speaker 3 let's, I don't know. What do you guys want to talk about? I mean, it's kind of.
Wait, did we answer your question? Which one?

Speaker 3 We haven't answered anything. And I think Martin said one word, which is fun,

Speaker 3 which might be a podcast record for me.

Speaker 3 David and I, we're just bunchy.

Speaker 3 We'll just, we want you guys to see.

Speaker 5 All NYU guys. Where do we meet? That's a good one.

Speaker 5 So you just all nodded. Great.

Speaker 3 Anyway, what else is going on? Thank you very much. Okay, wait, no, let's go back and answer it.
Yes. When did we get out of the office?

Speaker 3 The Taylor Swift video? Yeah. I think so.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I will say the budget that the film unit has can be pretty ridiculous. And I feel like somebody's going to notice it and then be like, there's no reason this should be happening.
Bye.

Speaker 5 It's actually the hype of the 50th. There you go.
Start looking at the books and going, what the fuck is going on over here?

Speaker 3 I've heard a lot about the budgeting, and it's quite surprising. Not only with you, but with other people.

Speaker 3 We actually, for a lot of ours, costs nothing in comparison, especially those office videos. It's usually our money's on, you know, big sandwiches or whatever our prop is that week that we're kind of

Speaker 5 when you do, not to focus on Taylor Swift, but when you do that bit, it's with Pete. So it's fine.
It's already funny.

Speaker 5 Do you say, hey, we should have someone coming at the end or was the idea always someone coming at the end? We just don't know who?

Speaker 3 You know who pushed it was Dan Bulla was like, dudes, we could just ask her and I'll record a thing and show it to her that'll sound awesome for her part in the video. And we were like, we had

Speaker 3 truly zero expectations that she would do it. You know, it was our third video or whatever.
And then Bulla put together her part in the song, like as a demo, and it sounded so awesome.

Speaker 3 And Taylor, we showed it to her, loved the bit, was just like let's do it and we were shocked sweetheart yeah that's very nice because she scores too you know it's like it's smart if you're a big star and you wait and make moves that are like that they're like that's a little nugget score get out it's and is perfect for that yeah he's so good at it it's the lesson that you learn every week is if the host is scoring, you're likely to make the thing.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 And it's so easy to not like

Speaker 3 think about them as the main character or whatever, because it's your bit, but you kind of have to.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Do you guys kind of co-direct it yourselves and have an official director, or is it kind of like that? Obviously, you're chiming in.

Speaker 3 And because I watched the Travis Kelsey one, and I thought it was just so crazy funny. It hit me hard.

Speaker 3 Because the way when you fell and your eyes were still open, like you're instantly probably dead.

Speaker 3 And then the ending with the old lady and the Russian roulette and everything. I mean, it's just like perfect.
Some of these are just like

Speaker 3 super gems.

Speaker 3 We put a woman in like five or six sketches now. She got her columns up and all that stuff.
Marnie, shout out to Marnie. We put her in every live sketch that we like.

Speaker 5 You made her a feature player on YouTube.

Speaker 3 Instantly funny.

Speaker 3 And instantly, every, yeah. Was she in

Speaker 3 Andy Sandberg's video as well? There was a

Speaker 3 different, a different woman on that.

Speaker 3 Touchy, touchy,

Speaker 5 sore subs,

Speaker 3 note to self.

Speaker 3 Yes, to answer your question, Tim Wilkime directs our stuff, who's awesome. Um, but we, we all chip in and like give notes and help out, but just want to give him credit.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, yeah, I assume is Martin a screamer on the set, yeah.

Speaker 3 What the fuck,

Speaker 3 melt down, I'm surprised Martin even does his lines, what the fuck,

Speaker 3 man.

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Speaker 3 So you guys also tour, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. A little bit.

Speaker 3 Are you going out next summer or what do you what's what's that like going out because you're doing all this and then all of a sudden you have all these thousands of people screaming i mean what was that must have been what is your show like yeah what do you do is it funny

Speaker 3 is it fun it's it's a drama it's a drama i would say yeah it's and it's pretty tragic um but

Speaker 3 the uh but the first time you went out and the crowd went crazy it must have been like yeah pinching yourself yeah last summer we we went on like a 30-city tour.

Speaker 5 And you go, I can't believe there's this many people in the Jimmy Johns.

Speaker 5 Whoever you play, I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know what no, no, the Jimmy Johns, Jimmy John's arena. Yeah, it was

Speaker 3 just backfired on me.

Speaker 5 I'll say, go ahead, Ben. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 No, it was. It was cool.
Our show is like, it's a sketch show, but we don't do like costumes or props really.

Speaker 3 So it's kind of like half stand-up, half-sketch, because we're like talking directly to the audience, but then we'll be like, all right, now we're in a coffee shop and then do a sketch.

Speaker 3 And it's like the most fun thing we do. I hope we do it again this summer.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 We filmed a bunch of our shows last summer and we might we're like cutting together a little special.

Speaker 5 Would you ever team up with like Sarah Squirm and go out?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Sarah Squirm.

Speaker 3 David, another joke, you gave Sarah a big joke, her

Speaker 3 silica gel powder.

Speaker 3 She loved that one.

Speaker 5 I thought she just used it in front of me to make me feel better.

Speaker 3 I love that shit she kept. She's kept it everywhere, too.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 She's so bananas. I didn't really know her.
And we went on that tour.

Speaker 5 And she was, she's very, first of all, she's very likable, very fun to talk to backstage because Sam, that slug over there, getting massaged is being

Speaker 5 covered in gold coins.

Speaker 3 And so, but Sarah,

Speaker 3 warming up.

Speaker 5 And then Sarah was funny. And then she gets up and her act is so bananas.

Speaker 3 And I was like, this is so funny because no one knows what to expect at all.

Speaker 5 Plus, she was newer on the show. Now she's been there for a while.
But I see clips from her on tour in the summer. It's so funny.
And it's so hard.

Speaker 5 I'm like, Sarah, do you know what you're getting into? Like doing all these cities. Like you guys, you know, you work hard, but then it is a bit of a trudge to go on tour if you guys line up a few.

Speaker 5 But it's more fun.

Speaker 3 You're together, but it's still, it's still tough right it's it was it was hard but we don't do the the she does a lot of hiatuses during the season

Speaker 3 which feels like like we'll our hiatus is we'll write a bunch of shit and whatever and work hard on other stuff but the idea of traveling right away to go hit like four cities in a row feels like tuscaloosa

Speaker 3 she um She's one of our best friends at the show, though. We would totally team up with Sarah to do a tour.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we came in at the same time and just immediately hit it off and started writing with her every week she's the best yeah that matt gates gates is his name was terrifying it was insanely terrifying it's like this

Speaker 3 all those makeup guys are star trek fans and all

Speaker 3 he definitely

Speaker 3 And when she would put her chin down and do that little smile, it was it was it was bonker. She looked like Jack Nicholson.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's just like, that was a look that she could have just, that has to come back. I mean, because the audience doesn't even, how funny she is in that.

Speaker 5 Do you guys do vids when you're out there? Is it too much hassle to bring like a screen and all that stuff?

Speaker 3 You recorded all your shows last summer or no? Yeah, we recorded a bunch. My wife is cutting together a special right now.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 nice wife. Yeah.
Well, you're a professional editor or is she scale? Scale plus 10. Yep, scale.

Speaker 3 you're new. You're at scale.
That's good. That's actually good.
Just watch some tutorials and get this special going.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Get on YouTube. How to do a special.
I'm just curious, what was the lighting kit or the crew like if you're going to do those shows? Like how much hassle?

Speaker 3 Was it three cameras, lots of light, or was it really kind of lo-fi? We really didn't prepare to do it. So we would hire local crews to be like, maybe this is a good place to film it.

Speaker 3 And then we would get embarrassed about whatever show we film. And we're like, let's just film it again somewhere else.
Because

Speaker 3 that's the beauty of that.

Speaker 5 If you can do that, it's great because you're going to hit a fucking winner. Like Adam, when he went out and did all these shows, he would just keep filming them.

Speaker 3 Like, that's the beauty of being big budget.

Speaker 5 You just go film another one, film us on the plane, film us backstage. It was

Speaker 5 had 10 specials with that.

Speaker 3 It was kind of like, it's kind of like that model of like cutting around to different cities and then doing like backstage bits.

Speaker 5 It's like a a combination of zach alphanacus and sandler's special and it's smartlist guys did that too if you can get it because you're going to get something you know if you're just bullshitting or laughing there's something backstage even if you get a minute after the whole night backstage and then you get your stuff on stage and you get something on i don't know if you have a bus or a you fly around It's always hard to get the crew on Southwest to start rolling, but

Speaker 3 yeah, I remember I'm bummed out.

Speaker 5 Get me here when I ask for my water

Speaker 3 i think there's something there

Speaker 3 no it's funny it's funny i'm gonna ask funny because it's so nothing it's just funny

Speaker 3 are you did you did you you just released a special right david

Speaker 3 i'm glad you just got my text yesterday

Speaker 5 yeah dana you might want to go get a coffee

Speaker 3 i can i'm getting a blood test oh yeah i can't water you shouldn't even drink water You can't, right? You should drink water. Come on.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 Tell us your story.

Speaker 5 I did a special for an unknown streamer. Why we can't say.
I don't know, but there's only that many.

Speaker 3 Pluto.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 I don't tell you because it's the worst one.

Speaker 3 Xbox TV. Flippy.

Speaker 5 One of these is a fake name.

Speaker 3 Goo Goo.

Speaker 5 Flumbo.

Speaker 3 Beep bop boop.

Speaker 5 Okay, so I did it and I'm editing it. And I will tell you, Dana, I was editing yesterday and

Speaker 5 I hate watching it. So I keep putting it off.
And then I watch it and I go, I think I'm bombing. So I'm here with Heather going, I might cut that whole bit.
I think it did good.

Speaker 5 I had a good crowd, you know. And so, so I keep doing this.
And then I, I'm almost done. I go, I'm too sickened by watching my act.
Then I talk to the guy and he goes, oh, you got the line cut. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So. Yeah, don't worry about that.
You know, we didn't put the laughs in from the audience yet. I go, what are you fucking talking about?

Speaker 3 what am i watching just me bomb and he's like oh well you know what worked i'm like no my

Speaker 5 i was just combobulated you had that

Speaker 3 yeah with the same thing we watched it with the laughs mix way down and it's just the most horrible feeling oh my god you did that it was so sad i go turn it off Yeah, it's horrible because also you realize that there are laughs there, but to you, it looks like you're milking a thing.

Speaker 3 Oh, I'm just dying.

Speaker 5 I'm like, I saw people watching with me going, I'd cut that. That feels like it's got like a dead spot.
I'm like, Yeah, I mean, it's the middle of my joke. Why is there a dead spot?

Speaker 5 They're like, Oh, did you want the one where people are enjoying it and laughing, and then you'll know which one's working?

Speaker 3 I'm like, I want that

Speaker 5 one. They're like, Oh, sure, we can send that over.

Speaker 3 I go, Why do they mix it down when they don't? How about it wasn't even in? I go, technical reason. It's like, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 Um, ask your wife what's going on, Danny.

Speaker 3 You had a funny thing, too, about editing a special where you watched it like 12 feet away. So you wouldn't focus on how you looked,

Speaker 3 which

Speaker 3 I think is really far. Yeah, they push it too tight.
Like you put a laptop way far away for your first watchdown of it, which I think. Oh, yeah, almost anything.

Speaker 3 Just so you can hear me. I only saw chopping broccoli two weeks ago for the first time.
Are you serious? I have a hard time watching myself. I just think it's self-critical.

Speaker 3 So yeah, I get it really small, get it way far away and kind of squint.

Speaker 5 And then turn it off, turn the mute down.

Speaker 3 When I was your guy's age, it wasn't as problematic. But, you know, Wikipedia me.
When you get to this age, you're like, really? I mean, why am I even on camera?

Speaker 5 No, if you see yourself on camera, it's so gross. But also just seeing dead spots, I go, I can't.

Speaker 5 And so I go, well, I have to rethink what I'm cutting because I was going to make like a 12-minute special. I go, these aren't.

Speaker 6 And they're like, oh, no, that was, because I was there.

Speaker 5 And I'm like, I had a good show.

Speaker 3 It was in Denver.

Speaker 5 Anyway, it doesn't go until April, but I'll text all you guys. We'll get a group chain.
I'll tell you when it comes out.

Speaker 3 Just put the product into the marketplace. Like you guys, who's who?

Speaker 3 Do you have a manager that manages all three of you or you know, a guy with a cigar or a metaphorical cigar going, okay, we got we need product in this quarter. We're going to be like these ads.

Speaker 3 We'll do another movie. We're going to do, we're going to play County Fest because there's a lot of money.
I mean, who is that? Are you all

Speaker 3 representatives?

Speaker 3 Who's the money guy? Yeah.

Speaker 3 The booker.

Speaker 3 We all have the same people. Who's wife? You're all with the same people?

Speaker 3 You too. Yeah, that'd be cool, though, if we had competing reps.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's the way to do it. That's how you break up quickly.

Speaker 5 Dane and I are with the same guys that like had,

Speaker 5 you know, the Bernie Brillstein company. So they had Ackroyd, Belishi.
They've had it from day one.

Speaker 3 That's why they're all. Do your checks say please don't destroy on them or your individual names?

Speaker 5 Yeah, good question.

Speaker 3 Individual. Individual LLCs.

Speaker 3 Yeah. We're all incorporated.
And do they have funny names?

Speaker 5 Who's got the funniest names?

Speaker 3 And so it begins.

Speaker 3 Start out as artists and then

Speaker 3 get the cash.

Speaker 3 With the 50th, there's a lot of sponsors. So you guys actually did an all-state commercial.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You did?

Speaker 3 Thank you. That's what we're promoting today.
Oh, yeah. We finally got to it.
That's what we got coming out.

Speaker 3 Now, you co-wrote that, or you had so much input into it, I assume, or just did it yourselves, basically. Yeah, we did it.
We did two of them.

Speaker 3 When does the next one come out? This week? I don't know. But SNL was like, you guys are doing a commercial.
So then we did a commercial. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I killed my commercial. David and I are available.
We're just saying, you know,

Speaker 3 dude, I had a Super Bowl commercial.

Speaker 5 they told me, and Lauren killed it.

Speaker 3 I'm like, God dang.

Speaker 3 When you were on the cast. Lauren killed it.
And then Lauren was in the Super Bowl commercial.

Speaker 5 They needed someone. I thought

Speaker 3 Lauren did bye-bye.

Speaker 3 Yeah. He did it with Helen Hunt.
And I was like, crush that. I do something like that.
Wait, that's kind of like my bit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Buh-bye.

Speaker 3 Buh-bye.

Speaker 3 I would just say do everything, everything. Does he say bye-bye?

Speaker 3 No, but he could. No.
Yeah, he could do it.

Speaker 5 That's one of the few he could do.

Speaker 4 Bye-bye. Bye.

Speaker 3 There's a really good show in there somewhere, and it'd be like really good if you could, you know, we have a two-week break. His

Speaker 3 stuff around that makes me laugh so hard every time he does that.

Speaker 3 Dry sarcasm. It'd be really nice if it was actually a funny show.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You're going away for break. It'd be nice if people could compliment you at Thanksgiving.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 But yeah,

Speaker 3 I love, I love the notes like that because it's always just like you're so nervous. And for somebody to be like, that wasn't very good, it's kind of like refreshing.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 yes, it is. I like

Speaker 5 on air. I see on the commercials, they bump, you know, and they show like the sketch being broken down, or usually, or they go to a commercial and they come back just in the middle.

Speaker 5 And Lauren's just standing there near the set, like,

Speaker 5 you know, this is the one that counts, just so you know.

Speaker 3 Well, not my first season, he would be out on the floor and everyone was terrified, obviously, and nervous. And he had, he always had a glass of Chardonnay and be very relaxed.

Speaker 3 And I thought, this must be a message to us to calm the fuck down. Yeah.
Or he'd just come up right before the sketch. He goes,

Speaker 3 this sketch needs to breathe. And then just walk away.

Speaker 3 Breathe.

Speaker 3 What?

Speaker 3 But he was right. Anyway, he's the greatest character

Speaker 3 to do.

Speaker 3 When did you become friends with him? Like, how long into your

Speaker 3 cast member?

Speaker 3 I,

Speaker 3 you know, he always, it took me a long time to really kind of not be intimidated by him, even though I was only there. And his, you know, he had done five seasons, was gone for five.

Speaker 3 So he was, he was 40 years old, but you're still kind of intimidated because the original cast, the original Saturday Night Live, the folklore. But at the end of my first season, he said, you know,

Speaker 3 come to long, come out to Amiganset this weekend. So I just thought there'd be a lot of people there, but it was just me and Lorne

Speaker 3 going the teeter-totter. And then we hung out for a weekend together.
We went to movies and stuff. Would you like milk duds or pop?

Speaker 3 He had a Mustang, and we'd drive around the island, and he'd point at things. If it all goes away, I've always got that.
You know, God, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 I can't wait to meet him one day.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you should meet him.

Speaker 5 Doesn't he come to your birthdays and stuff

Speaker 3 growing up? Yeah,

Speaker 5 everyone, Lauren's here.

Speaker 3 He said he would sing me songs and stuff. Yeah, but

Speaker 5 Dana was singing to him this weekend at the goddamn. Oh, forget it.

Speaker 3 What's that? Oh, does his birthday? His birthday cake at the party. Yeah.

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Speaker 3 All right, let me ask some Oprah type questions

Speaker 8 quickly. We got to get these guys going.

Speaker 3 Here you are, like thinking five years ago, you're coming to NYU, you're funny together, you're doing stuff. And now here you are now.
What would you tell your younger self,

Speaker 3 yourself, of coming right out of college? Because this doesn't always just happen, it's all, it takes a lot of things to come together for all of us, you know. So,

Speaker 3 um,

Speaker 3 are you um high as a kite all day? You're happy or more nervous than you were in some ways because the stakes are higher, having fun,

Speaker 3 I don't know, just throwing stuff out.

Speaker 3 You're gonna say, We don't have any response to that.

Speaker 3 I guess, like you're doing the right thing. I don't know.
I was still like racked with anxiety of like

Speaker 3 pursuing this thing that like doing sketch comedy shows for like five people as like a an adult and not making any money being like, is this? What am I doing this for?

Speaker 3 So I guess like there is something. You're onto something.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Did you ever have any adults say to you, well, this probably won't work out, but it's going to help you in whatever you probably end up doing

Speaker 3 yeah i my i think marty your dad too it was like this is not nice this is not a nice business yeah but that was the main thing i i wanted to be a disney kid more than anything and they were like no way i was like that my birthday ask when i was nine was for an agent

Speaker 3 What's a Disney kid to be on a show like Wizards of Waverly Places? Yeah, exactly. Like I always wanted it.
They were like, absolutely not. So then once we started.

Speaker 5 Did you dress up as Cuzco like I did for Halloween?

Speaker 3 You did?

Speaker 5 No, I'm not allowed, but

Speaker 5 you can't dress as my own thing.

Speaker 5 Martin, did you go to the set of Happy Gilmore?

Speaker 3 I did. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Is it fun?

Speaker 5 How's Uncle Adam?

Speaker 3 He's good.

Speaker 3 Did you sit on his lap?

Speaker 5 That place is a cavalcade of stars out there.

Speaker 5 Every time I talk to those guys, it's like someone else came by and they threw him up in there.

Speaker 5 Sounds like fun, though.

Speaker 3 Have you guys talked to Marcelo yet?

Speaker 5 No, he's been stonewalling us.

Speaker 3 Domingo, Domingo,

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 3 He's got a big personality, man.

Speaker 3 But he's

Speaker 3 makes you happy when you see him.

Speaker 3 I know. It's like dopamine or something.
It's great to be around. We want him on the show.
You guys have any connections?

Speaker 5 I see him at the improv sometimes for stand-up.

Speaker 3 I think Marcelo is hilarious because it'll be like he'll be screaming in your face, doing a bit with you. And then at the end of it, he'll go, God, I'm so tired, man.
You're like,

Speaker 3 this is him tired. Yeah.

Speaker 5 He just got tired from yelling.

Speaker 3 Well, I think the cool thing what you guys have going on is that you just make your own work.

Speaker 3 You know, and the movie is on peacock for the rest of our lives.

Speaker 3 treasure at Foggy Mountain, you guys wrote that and did that. So, you're in a, I would say that to anyone.

Speaker 3 If you can create your own work, create your own movies, create all mini-feature films you're doing. You know, it feels like someone might go, I like that one, make that into a full movie.

Speaker 3 But, yeah, and the other observation I thought about later, sorry, was

Speaker 3 the self-deprecating kind of characters you are, the likability. You know, you're always

Speaker 3 just extremely likable as

Speaker 3 actors on that screen, you know, because

Speaker 3 you're reacting to madness and stuff in a very real way. So I think it's just a great lane to be in show business, not asking for permission.
I mean, not having to go audition.

Speaker 3 Like you are your own ecosystem. We talk about that all the time of like, if you're just an actor.
in LA waiting for auditions, how do you keep your mental health? Like, how do you keep going?

Speaker 3 It seems impossible.

Speaker 3 That was something I was going to say when you guys asked if we all have the same agents. Sometimes we'll all get the same audition.

Speaker 3 Like, we'll audition for the same parts and we'll all do a tape and then send it and we'll see what our agents

Speaker 3 back to each of us.

Speaker 3 Love this take.

Speaker 3 Thank you. So, you also will audition for maybe for a part in a movie and stuff like that, just as yourselves.
Yeah. And you don't, you don't necessarily not as a trio.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I do a lot of solo modeling too.
Oh, good. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. That makes sense.
Tall. Who's the tallest ben is the tallest right yeah yes thank you for getting that on the record yes

Speaker 3 everybody thinks i'm short but i'm not okay because you have two tall partners me too yeah yeah how tall are you john for the record

Speaker 3 six feet tall that's 11

Speaker 3 six feet 5'11 and

Speaker 3 oh no i'm 6'3. i was saying that john is 5'11.
5 oh 5'11.

Speaker 5 John, are you 5'11?

Speaker 3 No, I'm six feet. I went to the hospital the other day.

Speaker 3 He's always

Speaker 3 to get measured.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So, yeah.

Speaker 5 Why does Dana say we have to interview that pip squeak today?

Speaker 3 Look, these are just,

Speaker 3 this is Zoom. They're bigger than you can see in the frame.

Speaker 5 You look tiny, these guys, all three of them.

Speaker 3 David, when are you going to come to the show?

Speaker 5 I know. I think I'm coming in

Speaker 5 December now to come watch. So I haven't been,

Speaker 5 maybe I did a tour this year. So I'm gone every weekend.
I can't even come see Dana. So I think I'm going to come visit and just like give head nods in hallways and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 We got to do a video. You guys should do a video.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah. Let me know if there's anything so I can kill it.

Speaker 3 Anyway, no, but I love it. Yeah, you guys are great.

Speaker 3 Late nights.

Speaker 5 I'm doing a wrap-up because you guys are great.

Speaker 3 But I just want to say thanks for coming. Are we wrapping up?

Speaker 6 Yeah, we did it. You guys did it.

Speaker 3 I can do this for hours.

Speaker 5 I know. It is fun.
We were going to, the second half was going to be you guys talking, but we didn't have time.

Speaker 3 We reached our quota of 17,500 words between and I. And you guys are at 2,200.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 5 it is fun to finally talk to you guys and meet you guys. And

Speaker 5 always funny on the show. I hate to sound sincere, but

Speaker 3 any wrap-up thing you guys want to say?

Speaker 5 Yeah, anything you want to say? We didn't get out. You got a plug.
got anything?

Speaker 3 Any questions or answers? 6'5. I didn't say it, but I'm 6'5.
Okay, good. That's the whole we were working for.
The same as Travis Kelsey, who the ladies like.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, every Instagram is girls going, the guy has to make a million and be 6'5. I'm like, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 5 I'm like, what about the part having three pantries? That's never making it there.

Speaker 3 What's that skateboard in the background, David?

Speaker 3 This one is Jack Spade.

Speaker 5 That's

Speaker 5 my brother's old company, and they made a skateboard because he's a skater. This one is Bruce Lee on a board that I was as a present because I skate.

Speaker 5 I used to, I'm kind of a phony now, but I used to skate a lot.

Speaker 3 Do you do it? I couldn't. I'm too scared, though.

Speaker 5 I used to skate and then I'm too brittle. And I don't, you know, if I go into a pool or a ramp, it's like.
Yeah. I tried my buddy's ramp and it was so huge.

Speaker 5 It was wood and my, my wheels would slide more because I was used to cement. It's just so hard.
And then you fall. It's like, oh, my God.

Speaker 3 I know one fall, you're done.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I can't do it. So I just talk about skating, wear the t-shirts and stuff.

Speaker 3 Just a phony. No, me too.
I got a Knoxville t-shirt on right now. Oh, yeah.
All right.

Speaker 3 Here's a quiz. The safest way to get thrills recreationally.

Speaker 3 Cocaine.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That was my second one.

Speaker 3 A wave runner or, you know, on a lake that's empty because you can just fly off

Speaker 3 sometimes.

Speaker 5 It's a boring though because you're not allowed to splash if you get near someone else.

Speaker 3 It has to be an empty lake, you know. Okay.
I just leased the whole lake. I invested.

Speaker 3 Anyway.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 5 Thanks, guys.

Speaker 3 And my net worth is.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Going to black. Anyway, we'll see you guys in a couple of weeks.
We love you guys for real.

Speaker 3 Thanks for having us, guys.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 3 Enjoyed it. Appreciate you all very much.
Thanks, guys. Bye, guys.

Speaker 8 This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all the stuff, smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 9 Fly on the Wall is executive and produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro.

Speaker 8 The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.