Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119

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Jason,

Speaker 1 we got a good one. You ain't even got to tell him.
I'll tell them. We got a good one coming up.
But tell them what we got coming up. That we do.

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Speaker 2 Our guest today from the University of Southern California, winner of six primetime MB Awards, two SPs, an MTV award, movie award, best kiss winner, and the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.

Speaker 2 You can see him in his critically acclaimed documentary Will and Harper on Netflix, as well as his up-and-coming comedy with Reese Witherspoon. You are cordially invited, releasing January 30th.

Speaker 1 92% is it's Buddy the Elf, Mugatsu, Ashley Schaefer, Ricky Bobby, Ron Bergene, Jazz Michael Michaels. 92% of Springtank himself.
Will Phil is here. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 So epic. Best intro.
Best intro ever. Best intro ever.

Speaker 2 I apologize if I just blew your ears out, Will.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 that was soothing. I'm going to play that on a loop to fall asleep to.

Speaker 1 It's going to be like a sleep machine for me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We are,

Speaker 2 if you can't tell, we are jazzed to have you. I got to, right away, we saw this post on Twitter from the LA Kings.
Buddy the Elf is officially in Hockeywood. Look at that.

Speaker 2 Can we pull this up, Brandon?

Speaker 1 What is going on? This is not the buddy elf I remember just over the weekend. Buddy Elf has been through some shit.
What's

Speaker 1 Buddy the Elf got laid off, I think. No,

Speaker 1 from

Speaker 1 the North Pole.

Speaker 2 Sans are not

Speaker 1 taking a swing.

Speaker 1 He's having a pull from his beer,

Speaker 1 smoking a cig.

Speaker 1 Just having some hymn time. That was just, I get these weird ideas every now and then.
They're golden, man. I told my wife, because we're seasoned tickets holders of the LA Kings.
We have

Speaker 1 the seats right on the glass, which were amazing. I said, gosh, over the break, you know what?

Speaker 1 It'd be funny if I just got like a buddy of the elf costume and didn't shave for like a week. And

Speaker 1 I'm just sitting there with like a candy cigarette it's just a candy cigarette and i'm just gonna like sit there for a period and see what how people react and that was it

Speaker 1 so the reaction was insane we're like what is he doing is he promoting something is but occasionally i just like to do weird things like that just to stir it up dude it's the best yeah it's the best or have you always been a hockey fan I knew, I know you've been following the Kings for a while now, but...

Speaker 1 Yeah, I kind of, I was,

Speaker 1 I remember there was, I grew up in Southern California, and there was, uh,

Speaker 1 there was a kid who moved into my neighborhood from Connecticut who played hockey, and we would play street hockey. We would play, this is sad, one-on-one, one-on-one street hockey? Does that

Speaker 1 are you kidding me? This is, this is all me and Jason used to do. Oh, okay,

Speaker 1 of course, this is legitimate, we'd have ice, so it was just with the little ball and just running around a parking lot. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then I, yeah, I was, I, I followed the Kings way back, way back when they had like the triple crown line of Marcel Dion, Dave Taylor,

Speaker 1 Charlie Simmer. Anyway, so you've been in it for a while.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've been the,

Speaker 1 and then they, then it, then, of course, they won a couple cups and that helped build the audience. And now, now they, now they draw really.
Oh, look at that. I got a little Wayne great ski.

Speaker 1 Jason, Jason got me this for Christmas. But did you guys, did you guys play hockey as well with everything else you did? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That was probably the first one that we both fell in love with.

Speaker 1 At least for me for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. No, same.
It's a wonderful sport. It's fun.

Speaker 2 We both started it. Travis finished in high school playing basketball.
I played hockey in high school. We used to play street hockey with that same ball you're talking about.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And one of the elementary schools, Roxborough Elementary, had cut down the basketball hoops. Okay.
And you would think this would be a safety issue, but they left like the posts.

Speaker 1 They just cut the hoops down.

Speaker 2 and if you hit the post it was a goal so we played pickup hockey all the time yeah just trying to hit the post uh and that's like how we played yeah yeah kind of kind of an amazing sport and uh i'm not gonna lie to you there's some beautiful men out there who play hockey gorgeous as long

Speaker 1 as long as they have their teeth in yeah as long as they have their teeth in you know don't take the adventures out but uh yeah that was my that was my uh my latest uh kind of public stunt while we're on the public stunts we got to pull up the

Speaker 2 Shack at the Staples.

Speaker 1 We got to pull that one up.

Speaker 1 This is an all-time.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 Look at that mustache.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was another one. I had friends who gave me a Staples

Speaker 1 security guard outfit.

Speaker 1 And I snuck it into the building and then just pretended to be one of the security guys.

Speaker 2 So wait, that was not.

Speaker 2 Wait, the Staples? The Staples was not a part of that one either?

Speaker 1 They had no idea.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I was afraid. I stuck it in because I was afraid they would stop me and go, where'd you get that uniform? That's contraband.
Come with us. This is the best.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. I just stood on the sound.
Yeah. It turns out the other security guys, they were like, dude, I love it.
Just don't stand on the court.

Speaker 1 You're good with us. You're good with us.

Speaker 1 And then I look down and Shaq happens to be at the game. Unbeknownst.
I just pick a random game and I look down, and there's Shaq in the corner. He's rolling, he's laughing.

Speaker 1 So I stand up a couple times in between the breaks. And then I'm like, what do I, what else do I do with this? I don't know.

Speaker 1 And then someone taps me on the shoulder and says, you know, during the next break, Shaq's ready to leave the game. Do you want to throw him out? You want to throw him out of the game?

Speaker 1 So he gave me the idea. He goes, yeah, just come over.
And then that I escorted him out.

Speaker 2 That is brilliant.

Speaker 1 The diesel. And then we had the biggest laugh.
And that is so good. I was like,

Speaker 1 I go, Shaq, do you know how extraordinary that is that you're allowing me to throw you out of an NBA basketball game? He was like, are you kidding me? That is so so.

Speaker 1 It was so funny.

Speaker 1 All the, I found out from one of the heads of the security that he goes, hey, I have to tell you, everyone appreciated the shout out all the security people appreciate the shout out and i was like oh that's what i was doing yeah actually

Speaker 1 actually i was kind of making fun of you guys but no it was a shout out it was a shout out for sure that is so gold man you've done a lot of these i gotta know i've been i've been just so curious about this when did you become a dj the video of you djing at the fret party might be one of my favorite you've it you've now inspired me to want to become a dj and do exactly what you made that shit look so fucking fun

Speaker 1 i don't know if i don't know if you want to i don't know if you want a reveal peek behind the curtain or not but uh

Speaker 1 i don't know how to dj

Speaker 1 yeah i was just all set up by my son and he was like dad can you come it's parents weekend can you come by the fraternity house and i'll just set it up and you just have to twist knobs and pretend like to push buttons yeah so i just acted the part.

Speaker 1 But I.

Speaker 1 No, look at that. That's insane.
That's insane.

Speaker 1 I still forget that people have cameras attached to their phones.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you guys ever feel that way, but I'm like, I still sometimes.

Speaker 1 I'm like.

Speaker 1 The fact that you could just turn that switch off, though, man, not care about it. That's the best.
That's the best part.

Speaker 1 I sent that to everybody that I knew.

Speaker 1 I shut it up for 15 minutes, and then I went to the football football game. I didn't think twice about it.
And then Monday, it like blows up and I'm thinking, what? Wait, what? Oh, right.

Speaker 1 All these kids were filming it. Anyway, so good.
It's just, it's fun to just kind of,

Speaker 1 I just love kind of doing those kind of out-of-the-box things just to, just to mingle with people. And, and, uh, well, we love it when you do it too, big dog.
Yeah. For sure.
Yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Let's get into your athletic career. Jason, why don't you hit them with it?

Speaker 2 You were an athlete growing up.

Speaker 1 Kicker in high school. Yes.
Yes. Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 So you were a kicker in high school. Did you ever try to play any other position or were you always like, I'm going for the kicker?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 let's just say freshman year at university high school in Irvine, California, I dominated. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, baby. Starting free safety and wide receiver.

Speaker 1 Two-way player. Two-way player.

Speaker 1 He's a football guy right here. Co-MVP of the football team.
Oh, my God. Okay.

Speaker 1 Basketball, freshman, player of the year, freshman, basketball.

Speaker 1 Then I played baseball.

Speaker 1 And it was downhill. Downhill for me.

Speaker 1 I was 6'1 and a half as like a freshman. So you had some height advantages.
And then I think

Speaker 1 by the time I graduated, I was 6'3. So I only grew an inch and a half more over the next couple years.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I'd never played football. And I played a lot of soccer.
And

Speaker 1 I also was doing the kicking. and then i got called up to so

Speaker 1 i made varsity as a sophomore as a kicker okay they wanted me to play safety too but i was like you guys i weigh 145 pounds i pay 150 and i'm not oh my gosh something about i never come

Speaker 1 let's just say no one was looking at me for the for proper tackling form yeah sure Yeah,

Speaker 1 boom. Something about getting your head in there.
I'd end up like, my approach looked really good, and then I'd roll to the side and face mask you.

Speaker 1 I played defense one fucking time, and it was safety. And I saw a guy running at me looking like freaking Eddie George, and I made a business decision.
That's what I did.

Speaker 1 I made a business decision to not go in with the head, the hands,

Speaker 1 the proper technique. Just go in.

Speaker 1 I went slide tackle.

Speaker 1 I would set up the right way. You're like, oh, he's going to, to, Pharaoh's going to jack someone.
And then I would go, no, that's okay.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I was like, you know what? I'll just kick. I'll just kick.

Speaker 1 And I was really hoping actually to be a college kicker. We were a horrible football program.

Speaker 1 I think we were one, eight, and one my senior year. I can relate.

Speaker 1 But I was getting those, you know, I was getting those little form letters from, you know, University of Oregon, New Mexico State

Speaker 1 New Mexico State what was your longest uh field goal do you remember 45 45 in a game in high school that's big time 50 50 in practice okay

Speaker 1 you could boot it and then I tried walking on at USC I saw it was I was my freshman year at USC I saw in the athletic department that they were having uh tryouts walk-on tryouts right yeah But it was, it was, it was, it was in the fall.

Speaker 1 So obviously the team is already set. So I'm like, why not? I showed up and

Speaker 1 we weren't allowed to kick on the field that actually had the field goals. It was just a big open.
And

Speaker 1 I was like really accurate, but I wouldn't say I was, you know, could boom it. So we just, I think we did, I think I did like five kickoffs, and then the guy just blew the whistle.

Speaker 1 I was like, okay, bring it in. We're good.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he was like, okay, huddle up.

Speaker 1 I'm the special teams coach.

Speaker 1 We're pretty good with our kicking situation right now. But if any of you guys want to play scout team,

Speaker 1 you know, running back or scout, and

Speaker 1 I was like, no, I've heard about scout team. Oh, no, yeah, no, not in college.
In college,

Speaker 1 that's when it's no fun. So that was the extent of my

Speaker 1 college athletic career. It sounds like you, you kind of wanted to be an announcer while in college.
Yeah, I went to, I went, USC had like, uh, at the sports information program.

Speaker 1 I was, uh, it's funny. I, I, I always wanted to get into comedy, but

Speaker 1 I kind of grew up in the entertainment industry. My dad's a musician

Speaker 1 and had played at, you know, in the best of places and in the worst of places. He's a piano player and

Speaker 1 super talented. And I just saw how

Speaker 1 unstable the entertainment business is.

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 1 He would have a job at a, you know, at a nightclub for

Speaker 1 six months to a year, And then, and they'd be like, well, that's over. I'm like, what happened? It's like, nothing.
They just said, we're done.

Speaker 1 And you'd have to go back out and search and

Speaker 1 do all this stuff.

Speaker 1 And so I thought, well, I'm never going to do that. You know, I want to, I want like a real job.
I didn't know what that meant, even though I loved comedy. I loved making my friends laugh.

Speaker 1 I loved watching comedy. I loved.
you know, everything about it. But I also love sports.
And I played sports all throughout high school. And SC had this program that was was like sports journalism.

Speaker 1 So I thought, oh, that's a

Speaker 1 that's a blending of both. And, you know, Sports Center had probably just started.
Let's see. I was in, I graduated in 90.
So that was kind of the beginning of ESPN. And starting to boom, yeah.

Speaker 1 I want to be one of those guys, you know.

Speaker 1 And so I graduated. and then was trying to get a job with local cable stations.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you have to like build a tape and send it out to these small markets to get hired as the, you know, the sportscaster in Newman, Arizona. Those tapes got to be in gold.
They have to be.

Speaker 1 I don't know where.

Speaker 1 They have to be gold, dude. I should have held on to them.

Speaker 1 But at the same time,

Speaker 1 I thought,

Speaker 1 you know what?

Speaker 1 This itch is not going away. I better scratch it about the comedy thing.

Speaker 1 So at the same time, I started doing classes at this improv theater in Los Angeles called the Groundlings where I had seen tons of people had gone on to sitcoms to Saturn Live to

Speaker 1 film and television performers writers directors everything I thought oh this is they had a school I could I could kind of take all these classes at and so I kind of was doing both at the same time and I kind of found my you know you got to As you guys probably know, you got to find your community, you got to find your support group.

Speaker 1 And that

Speaker 1 place in LA, the Groundling Cedar, was where I felt safe enough to kind of go for it.

Speaker 1 And I was there for three years. And

Speaker 1 then that

Speaker 1 spring of 95 was when SNL was doing like a nationwide search for a brand new cast because they knew they were going to let go.

Speaker 1 It was going to be the last year for like Farley and Sandler and Dana Carvey and that whole group. Man.

Speaker 1 So yeah, I happened to be at at the right place at the right time when they came and watched one of our shows and went through the audition process. And then, yeah.
The audition process.

Speaker 1 Dude, we've all seen the audition video. It is the most brilliant

Speaker 1 cat toy on the ground.

Speaker 1 How does that even,

Speaker 1 how do you know that that's going to be the one to get you the job? Like, what the fuck? Well, here's the thing. Travis.
It doesn't make any sense in my mind. You've hosted the show, right?

Speaker 1 You've stood on that spot where you deliver the monologue. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And your heart is pounding in your chest, right?

Speaker 1 But you're in front of a full audience that's supportive and there, and they want to see you out there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm on the ground

Speaker 1 in that studio

Speaker 1 playing around like a cat.

Speaker 1 No one, no one's in. Like Warren Michaels purposely had no one in the studio to like create the tension of late night television.

Speaker 1 Like he wanted to create the pressure of what it's like to be on Saturday night, like live TV. So, I'm in a void rolling around going, oh my God,

Speaker 1 I'm going back to LA. This is not like, because, because there's no one laughing, there's no one in the, there's no one in the studio.
There's just a camera operator and a sound guy.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so good.

Speaker 1 This is so good. This is one of my favorites, though.

Speaker 1 So it was almost like a prisoner torture technique. I just had to

Speaker 1 fight through it.

Speaker 1 Were there any other audition

Speaker 1 bits that you had, or were you kind of juggling a few at the time?

Speaker 1 They basically had to do an audition that was anywhere from five to eight minutes long of any of the characters of your choice. Oh, nice.
Okay. So that was one of the

Speaker 1 one of the

Speaker 1 I did another sketch. I did Harry Carey doing a play reading.

Speaker 1 So I did my Harry Carey impersonation. And I did this sketch that I think really got me the job, which was this dad at a barbecue yelling at his kids to get off the shed.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 piece I auditioned with later became the sketch that was in, I did in my very first show. Oh, that's cool.
As a cast member. That's cool.
So that brought that one to life. Nice.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's awesome, man. But it was awful.
I was like,

Speaker 1 I had no idea if I did well or not. And you just left going, oh, well, I guess they'll call me.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what, Lauren is a, he could be a stone cold dude. He can give you absolutely nothing.
Yeah. And I'm sure that that left you confused as all get out, man.
But

Speaker 1 he, uh, yeah, he can,

Speaker 1 he can, uh, it's funny. He's like, he can walk right by you.
Or he can

Speaker 1 or he can or he can pump you up. But yeah,

Speaker 1 sometimes you don't know where you stand with that guy. Oh, man.
The SNL years were definitely the beginning of our fandom for you, big guy.

Speaker 1 Who do you remember as some of your favorite characters on SNL? Like the ones that you really got excited to go out there and perform? I never imagined that I would get to play the president.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 I wasn't known for doing political impressions or anything like that. So to get to do

Speaker 1 Bush for that long, like that was,

Speaker 1 and like you know, you're going to be a go-to guy every week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That was pretty heady.
That was pretty, that was really fun.

Speaker 1 I loved, you know, I think about like doing the cheerleaders with Sherry O'Tary.

Speaker 1 sketches I got to do with

Speaker 1 with Molly Shannon on a gas dyer. We used to do this

Speaker 1 Bobby and Marty

Speaker 1 sketch where we were like middle school music teachers who would perform and the kids would hate them. And

Speaker 1 the Robert Goulet sketches were really fun.

Speaker 1 Man.

Speaker 1 Neil Diamond.

Speaker 1 Neil Diamond.

Speaker 1 And Harry Carey.

Speaker 1 I got to do Harry Carey to an audience that maybe didn't know. It was fun because people who knew Harry Carey from the Cubs as an announcer obviously knew who he was.

Speaker 1 But then other people would go, I love that mad scientist character you do with the crazy white hair.

Speaker 1 And I was like, Well, no, he's a real person. They're like, Oh, okay, well, whatever.
It doesn't matter. I think it's so funny.
I had a great seven years on the show, and I just,

Speaker 1 there, you know, I'm so lucky to look back and, and there was probably, I, I, you know, I had fun like every single week doing that show. Man, yeah, yeah, seven years is a crazy run, man.

Speaker 1 You, uh, obviously seven years on the show as a as a cast member, but you're, you're a member of the SNL Five Timers Club as well. What's the difference between hosting it and

Speaker 1 being a cast member? Or what's the biggest difference? Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 honestly,

Speaker 1 I preferred being a cast member because

Speaker 1 when you host, you all of a sudden, it was much easier to be a cast member and have your sketch get cut. and be

Speaker 1 kind of shake your fist, you know, like, ah.

Speaker 1 But when you're on the other side and you're having a hand in like oh, I don't want to choose between that's tough, you know

Speaker 1 Right, I mean you've been in that room, yeah, and you probably had some choices where you had two or three funny things that could only go in the one slot

Speaker 1 Because there is there is a lot of thinking that goes into that show and it it's hard like you probably Everybody was awesome on the cast, so you're sitting there like I don't want to take her off stage I don't want to take him off stage.

Speaker 1 I don't want to take that bit that bitch they they're killing that bit and I'm just and that you're thinking oh, but I really love doing the one thing.

Speaker 1 And so I was like, oh, I hated, I hated like determining the fates of who was going to be in the show and who was not.

Speaker 1 Also, too, you realize like the times I've come back to host,

Speaker 1 that thing is, that thing is like a track meet. You forget.
It is a machine. It is a well-oiled machine.
Physical shape you're in, comedy shape you're in.

Speaker 1 And I all of a sudden felt like I was in an NBA basketball game and I, the ball just kept hitting me in the face.

Speaker 1 I, when I, like the last time I came to host, and uh, I remember, in fact, I remember sitting with Lauren at the after

Speaker 1 uh party and I was like, God, man, Lauren, I can't believe I used to do the show, like, not even think twice about doing the show every week.

Speaker 1 And he was like, I thought he was going to give me the, you know, add a boy, like, like, you know, you were, no, you were great. You were wonderful.
He was like, no, it's a young man's game.

Speaker 1 He didn't

Speaker 1 give me anything. I'm like, was I that bad?

Speaker 1 No, no, no. But no, it's a young man's game.
I'm like, geez, all right.

Speaker 1 It all rolls fast, though, man. It happens so fast.
And man, I was the luckiest guy in the world to even get a chance to do it, knowing how big of a

Speaker 1 fan I was of it and how big of a

Speaker 1 opportunity it is. Jason, you're next.
Yeah, Jason, been, he's been on.

Speaker 2 I'm trying my own thing.

Speaker 2 Listen, I was up there able to watch Travis host.

Speaker 2 And that was, it's, and we've talked about it before, but it's just so impressive the amount of people that are involved in that thing and how it all happens.

Speaker 2 And I couldn't imagine the hosting itself, like, and watching, because I think I got there maybe Thursday, Trav. So I got to watch a little bit of that process of learning it every day.

Speaker 2 And I was just blown away, absolutely blown away.

Speaker 1 It's a real piece of living history in terms of television and in terms of in terms of like American comedy because it's when you're sitting at home and you just

Speaker 1 DVR it or turn it on at 1130,

Speaker 1 you have no idea during those commercial breaks that there's a hundred people running around moving those sets. And right, dude,

Speaker 1 absolutely.

Speaker 1 It is such a,

Speaker 1 I mean, I hope they never cancel that that show because I don't think they'll ever do that type of show ever again no

Speaker 1 it's just it's an art form the way they they they put on that show and they have and it's surprisingly fun it's it is surprisingly funny with how many things that can go wrong and and the fact that they only they write it in a week yeah it's crazy it it it's it's hit or miss for sure but it but it lands on its feet more often than than not.

Speaker 1 And it's pretty impressive. The whole week you're seeing the construction workers putting together sets and

Speaker 1 your mind is just

Speaker 1 blown away. And you're just like, what? And then some sets get canceled because they just don't fit in the timeframe.
You're just like, what? How do you do this week in, week out?

Speaker 1 It just blows my mind. And you really have to have.
I just want to be a part of it. You have to have thick skin as a cast member because

Speaker 1 I remember when I was my first year on the show, Kevin Nealon, who I was a big fan of, Kevin Nealon

Speaker 1 came back to kind of see a show and say hi to us. And

Speaker 1 he, it was towards the end of that, my first year on the show, and he was like, you're really funny. Like, great job.
And I was like, I was like, thanks, man.

Speaker 1 And he was like, let me give you some advice. Like, you don't have to score every week.
Just keep that in mind. It's like, if you can look back.

Speaker 1 on a season and count on your like if you've done 10 funny things uh then you've had a good year and just wow so it took the pressure off of like having to have a great show every week it's it's like it's like hitting 300 in baseball you know if you hit 300 you're gonna be in the hall of fame and if you if you could hit well 30 might be a little low but

Speaker 1 if you can be funny 50 of the time that's you have a great batting average yeah

Speaker 2 so i i took that to heart but yeah let me let me ask you this because we are doing i'm doing this late night thing on the spn i just started it and we're trying to incorporate some scripted bits and some funny thing.

Speaker 2 Like, I guess, what do you think is the biggest thing to performing a sketch or comedy live that you wouldn't tell anybody who's just starting out into that world?

Speaker 2 Because quite frankly, I've never done anything like this where there's like a live audience and you're trying to do this while it's being recorded.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Forgive me if this is a loaded question, but I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you pointedly if there's anything that you can like fast track my ability to be funny on

Speaker 1 no you're screwed man

Speaker 1 sounds like you gotta figure it out

Speaker 1 yeah yeah no you know I

Speaker 1 the thing that I always lived by is because

Speaker 1 you know I

Speaker 1 I was like look I'm gonna meet I'm gonna I'm gonna watch people perform who I think

Speaker 1 I'm funnier than. I'm also gonna watch people who are way funnier than me.
Yeah. And I'm going to have to be okay with that.
But the one thing no one will ever

Speaker 1 beat me at is how hard I commit to something. Sure.
You've got to commit sketch-wise to whatever the premise is. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 just go for it. And if you lock in that way,

Speaker 1 all the apprehension will just melt away. And

Speaker 1 then the audience will be on your side too, because they'll just be like, he's going for it. Dude, this makes sense.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 And hopefully it's a funny premise to begin with. But even if it's not, they'll just be like, God, Jason is going for it.
I'm on his side. And

Speaker 1 that's all you need to worry about.

Speaker 1 And to not, because I've seen people, you can't have one foot in and one foot out because then the audience

Speaker 1 doesn't believe your intention.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. And so that's just the main thing.
Dude, you send it better than anybody, man.

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Speaker 1 Before we get out of this SNL bit,

Speaker 1 we asked Bill Murray this question and he said, Ray Charles, but who is the one SNL host that just blew your socks off?

Speaker 1 Like, man, I did not expect this person to be this damn good or this funny or this awesome that you maybe when you were a cast member.

Speaker 2 Just so you know, we asked Bill Murray this and he said it was Ray Charles because he just really, he was amazed at how well he remembered all of his lines.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 And didn't have to use any cue cards.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We had a similar, we had, I remember Jackie Chan posted with us. What? Yes.

Speaker 1 He didn't. He didn't read English.
Yeah. So he couldn't use the cue cards.
So we had to do

Speaker 1 Sanguines. There we go.
I'm casting it. Single Chan.
yeah yeah and he was on fire but there i i think there are um

Speaker 1 there are like varying degrees uh

Speaker 1 like we i remember

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 one of our best hosts was uh derek jeter yeah he just committed to everything regardless of how stupid we put him and

Speaker 1 also that's how i got to know that's how i met shaq for the first time he came on and did did, I think it was Kelsey Grammar was the host, but they said, hey, Shaq's in town.

Speaker 1 He wants to do some sketches. He destroyed.
He was so funny and natural to the point where one of his sketches got cut because he had a funnier show than the host.

Speaker 1 He had to reel it back. He had to reel it back.
Because we wrote this sketch where all the cast members were picking on me. and making me cry.
And Shaq came up. He's like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 And I'm like, Shaq, everyone's making fun of me and he's like come with me will and we walked to home base there and he picked me up in his arms and we proceeded to sing a duet called no one's gonna hurt my little man

Speaker 1 shaq cradling me

Speaker 1 did this whole but that got cut and it like destroyed um oh my gosh but then i swear there was like it was a lot of times it was uh actors that you like steve bascemi Oh, you're nice. Insanely good.

Speaker 1 I remember a lot of times dramatic actors who were so excited to

Speaker 1 see him in the comedy world.

Speaker 1 Exactly. And

Speaker 1 that thing of like, they would just commit to the premise. They weren't even trying to be funny.
And they subsequently got twice as many laughs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love it. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 You just referenced Billy Bob Thornton and made me think of that bad elf at the top of the show. Maybe there's a bad elf, bad Santa remake coming down the line.

Speaker 1 combo yeah

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 maybe yeah a lot of people will be be distraught by that combination

Speaker 1 but maybe that's why we need to do it yeah exactly

Speaker 1 by the way speaking of football i got to bring something up all right i happened to be watching during the holiday break travis you guys the pittsburgh game

Speaker 1 yeah yeah

Speaker 1 and when you scored when you scored did you just have one touchdown or did you have one i just have the one.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you went to go dunk the football. You missed the dunk.
I'm just going to tell you. I did not dunk.
I did not dunk.

Speaker 1 You missed it. You hit the rim.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I remember thinking, oh, I want to bring that up. I know I'm going to be talking to you guys.
I'm like, God, Travis,

Speaker 1 he doesn't have the same hops. He missed the dunk.
I don't. I don't have the ups anymore.
I used to...

Speaker 1 But you were still trying to celebrate. Like, I just dunked it.
I was like, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I gave him my best Tony Gonzalez.

Speaker 1 He was known for dunking. And

Speaker 1 I had just eclipsed his touchdown record. Yeah, maybe, maybe finger rolls.
Next turn. I should have.

Speaker 1 What I did was, you remember when you first started trying to dunk and you would just go up and smack the backboard? That's kind of what I was doing right there.

Speaker 1 It wasn't a full dunk.

Speaker 1 Maybe

Speaker 1 if I get it earlier in the game, I might be able to... The explosive.

Speaker 1 I have been thinking about that since that moment i've really been stewing on that nice well i've been i've been thinking people might have forgot about it though perfect before we move on i got to ask this have you ever dunked will

Speaker 1 can you dunk i do dunked

Speaker 1 uh i remember having like a breakaway and i was like i'm gonna dunk this and

Speaker 1 the ball slipped out of my hand I got right here. I got like rim.
Yeah. And then the ball just fired off the backboard.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 coach was like, what was that? Like, you told me, try to dunk it.

Speaker 1 He's like, okay.

Speaker 1 I could dunk a tennis ball, but no. Do you not a basketball? Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 2 My Travis has seen me, no joke, over an hour in a gym.

Speaker 1 At least.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 trying.

Speaker 1 Just trying to dunk.

Speaker 1 Repeatedly thinking I'm getting closer and repeatedly failing.

Speaker 1 If I just get the technique right, I can do it. I'm there.
I'm right there.

Speaker 1 It's going to happen.

Speaker 1 You're 310 pounds. You're not going to dump the ball.
Gravity is working against you. Exactly.

Speaker 2 All right. Let's get to this segment.
We're going to try this out.

Speaker 2 This is the Will Farrell character football draft.

Speaker 1 All right. Okay.

Speaker 2 So we're going to try an attempt to draft a football team with your characters. We're going to have you do this.
We got round one. We're going to do quarterback.

Speaker 2 So if we're picking a Will Farrell character, what character would be the quarterback of this football team?

Speaker 1 I think the quarterback,

Speaker 1 not that he would necessarily,

Speaker 1 not that necessarily he'd be good, but he'd be very commanding, would be Ron Burgundy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know it. Yeah.
You know Ron's, he's commanding, he's

Speaker 1 commanding. He'd get the plays wrong.

Speaker 1 He'd call the wrong

Speaker 1 cadences.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he'd mess up constantly, but he'd blame someone else.

Speaker 1 This would be a fun ride. We got Double Way Wright, Dorothy Man Tooth on Two.
Dorothy Man Tooth on Two. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Baxter left.

Speaker 1 So good. Go right

Speaker 1 swordfish. Ron, that's our play.
Yes, it is. Let's run it.

Speaker 1 It is now. It is now.

Speaker 1 Second round, we're going running back. Who you got for running back? Running back with Pro.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say Frank the Tank from old school.

Speaker 1 He is breaking some tackles. You know it.
Because

Speaker 1 he's got that name, the tank. He's going to break some tackles.
He's also going to be inebriated enough to where he won't feel any pain. That was my next question.
Is he inebriated in this?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's definitely

Speaker 1 streaking all night if you volunteer. Well, yeah, he may

Speaker 1 try to

Speaker 1 take a couple plays fully naked. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Then nobody wants to tackle him.

Speaker 1 Right. Man, he just

Speaker 1 great strategy phrase.

Speaker 1 He's untouched into the end zone.

Speaker 1 So good. All right.
Round three.

Speaker 2 Wide receiver.

Speaker 1 Maybe because he's

Speaker 1 he's kind of,

Speaker 1 I think he's, he's, he's, I would say, very flexible and lithe.

Speaker 1 The word live.

Speaker 1 Buddy, I'd say buddy the elf.

Speaker 2 Buddy the elf.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 2 I could have swore you were going to go Chas Michael Michaels, like jumping over.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Leaping over the middle beautifully.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Chaz Michael the Elf. That's a better question.
That's a better.

Speaker 2 I like Buddy the Elf.

Speaker 1 That's a better call. That's a better call.

Speaker 2 Buddy the Elf, just the happiest disposition ever. Wide receivers eat a lot of candy, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they do. Skittles.
Yeah. I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 Round four, who's a coach?

Speaker 1 Coach would, you know, because I think he probably did. I'd say Jackie Moon from Semi-Pro.
Oh, yeah. He was a coach.
Because he was a player coach.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 He had to run it all. Perfect.
And

Speaker 1 he knows how to manage people.

Speaker 1 Owner.

Speaker 2 Where are we thinking? Round five, owner. Who's the owner of this football team?

Speaker 1 I don't know if he's the right owner, but I just haven't.

Speaker 1 I forgot to throw him in, but let's just say Ricky Bobby is the owner. Dude.

Speaker 1 It's an electronic. You already know.

Speaker 1 He's running the show, dude. That'd be the best, the best Hail Mary.
Our baby who art in heaven. Yes.

Speaker 1 He would lead the team in the baby Jesus prayer before every game, whether they wanted to or not.

Speaker 1 Sweet. Baby Jesus.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, Ricky Bobby. He'd be a good owner.
He's got like kind of a little Jerry Jones in him. Problem.
See that? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 2 They're definitely friends.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have you seen the clip of Jerry Jones with the chops?

Speaker 1 He's acting now. He's in a TV show.
No.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was actually pretty surprised. I was like, man, he's speaking kind of better than

Speaker 1 as in the interviews he gets. Wait, what show is he in? This is a good question.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 I only came across it.

Speaker 1 Landman with Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, Landman.
Yeah. So you're definitely

Speaker 1 one of those Paramount Plus shows.

Speaker 1 You know it. I actually watch some soccer on Paramount Plus.
The old Futball, huh?

Speaker 1 You got a premier team that you root for?

Speaker 1 I don't really, but I'm part of

Speaker 1 a small part of the ownership group of

Speaker 1 Leeds United, which is the second division.

Speaker 1 Nice. Very nice.

Speaker 1 And so I've been out to one of their matches, which was awesome. And so I'll keep tabs on them.
Heck yeah. I see you at a lot of sporting events.
Is that like your kind of like your hobby?

Speaker 1 You love to get some live-action sports? No. You're pathetic, right? I'm like living through you when I see you at that.
I'm like, dude, I want to do what Will's doing. I've got way too many tickets.

Speaker 1 Let alone the

Speaker 1 baseball bait you did where you played at all the teams and everything. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, we have, because we're part of the LAFC soccer team out here in LA, which is MLS. We're part of that ownership group, too.
So we go to those games. Nice.

Speaker 1 I have tickets to the Lakers every now and then, the Kings,

Speaker 1 USC football. And

Speaker 1 somehow, in the year that they won the World Series, I went to zero Dodger games. No, somehow.
No. One year.
I should have gone. Or no, I went to one.
I went to one. No.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 We go to a lot of sports, but I mean,

Speaker 1 sports is a huge part of my life. It was kind of the way,

Speaker 1 and and I'm sure I know you guys can relate to this. It was the way I was able to make friends.
It was the way

Speaker 1 it just, I loved playing team sports.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, maybe it's something where athletes just want to do comedy and comedians just want to go to sports because I went to a UCB out in LA.
I went to Albright Citizen Brigade.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was so much fun. It is amazing watching people in improv just take something from nothing and make something funny instantaneously.
It is so impressive.

Speaker 1 They're an incredible group. UCB

Speaker 1 is one of the best. Right on.

Speaker 2 We have an idea here for this next bit. Trav, do you want to explain it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we got relationship advice, voicemail.

Speaker 1 So, something we do on the show is answer voicemails from our fans, and we've asked them to call in asking for relationship advice because who doesn't want to hear relationship advice from a couple of knuckleheads?

Speaker 1 Would you like to help us on these?

Speaker 1 Oh, sure. You want to jump in? Let's do it, man.

Speaker 1 Here's the thing. You could answer some of these questions as

Speaker 1 one of your characters, maybe?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 Oh, I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 Brandon. Brandon.
Uh-oh, Brandon.

Speaker 4 Hey, Travis. Hey, Jason.
Big Chief fan. Three Pete coming.
Just wanted to know your advice for a first date when you should know those red flags and when to look for the green flags. Go, Chief.

Speaker 1 Red flags, green flags.

Speaker 2 When to look for the red flags, when to look for the green flags.

Speaker 1 Let's see. Ricky Bobby

Speaker 1 would say,

Speaker 1 look,

Speaker 1 I don't know anything about red flag or green flag.

Speaker 1 You just got to get yourself into a position to look for the checkered flag.

Speaker 1 Because,

Speaker 1 I mean, there's only one thing you need to worry about.

Speaker 1 I mean, if you ain't first, you're last.

Speaker 1 I I would just tell that young lady, look for the checker flag.

Speaker 1 You got to find your way to the finish line, guys. I don't know if that's good advice or bad.
It sounds like bad advice.

Speaker 1 I think it's kind of metaphorically, it makes sense. You got to find your way to the finish line.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know? I loved it, man.
That shit was fucking gold. That was so good.
So good. That couldn't have gone any better.
All right, here we go. Next one.
What do we got?

Speaker 1 All right, Jason and Travis.

Speaker 1 So what do i do

Speaker 1 whenever i bought this girl tickets to a concert for christmas

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 she dumped me the week before now her best friend wants to go with me do i take her or no do you take the best friend after the tickets you bought for your girlfriend she dumped you wait i want to i want to make sure i understand do you take the best friend of the girl yes after yes so so the girlfriend dumped him and now the best friend wants to go with.

Speaker 1 Well, Ron Burghie would say, of course, you take the best friend

Speaker 1 because you teach that young lady a lesson.

Speaker 1 You're not going to be some horse's ass.

Speaker 1 You've spent $1,200 going to,

Speaker 1 I don't know, whatever concert, whatever music you listen to nowadays. I don't know if it's Kaja Gugu or Duran Duran or whatever it is, but

Speaker 1 you send a you send a signal to that young lady that you're not messing around

Speaker 1 and then you threw more round

Speaker 1 you take photos of you and the best friend making out and send it back to the to the old girlfriend and say that's how i do it

Speaker 1 that's how you roll right there baby that was

Speaker 1 so good that's why you're the greatest of all time

Speaker 1 goodness

Speaker 1 oh man do we got one more in us

Speaker 1 you want to to do one more?

Speaker 1 We can move on, too, Lila. That was gold.
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Speaker 2 We end all the conversations with, we got to ask, you don't have to answer. We got a bunch of questions or it's going to rattle off at you.
You ready to go?

Speaker 1 Okay, ready. Lightning round.
Lightning round, baby. That's right.

Speaker 2 You can be, feel free to tell us the fuck off.

Speaker 1 All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 Okay. Before you made it, what was your worst job?

Speaker 1 Definitely a bank teller. I was a bank teller.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's what I was doing.

Speaker 1 That's our mom put us.

Speaker 1 She started off with the bank telling. Worked her way up to

Speaker 1 some higher-up positions. But yeah, she started off as a teller.
Customers would actually complain as to how bad I was.

Speaker 1 So I'd break out in flop sweat. Your mom can relate to it.
When you're starting out, you're handling people's money. It was awful.
That's too funny.

Speaker 1 As long as your register wasn't short, you're good, man.

Speaker 1 I was short like my first two days out.

Speaker 1 I wasn't even pocketing the money. That's crazy.
Excuse me, manager, manager. I'm trying to deposit money, and your teller is like playing with a ball of yarn, and he won't respond to me.

Speaker 1 What's wrong with this guy?

Speaker 1 In fact, I remember I was putting up flyers in the break room to try to get people to come to my stand-up comedy show. Oh.
And I was so quiet as a bank teller because I was so nervous all the time.

Speaker 1 And I had this manager go, I saw your flyer.

Speaker 1 You do stand-up comedy? And I go, yeah. She's like, I'd like to see that.
And just walked away.

Speaker 1 God damn it. You're a father of three.
What is the secret to being a cool dad? The secret

Speaker 1 to being a cool dad. I I think constantly,

Speaker 1 lovingly make fun of them. Nice.
Love that. Yeah.
Humiliation. Yeah.
It's the best. Humiliation.

Speaker 2 Why don't they make R-rated comedies anymore?

Speaker 1 I think they do. Actually, I have one coming out

Speaker 1 at the end of this month.

Speaker 1 There we go. Cordially Invited on Amazon.
Perfect.

Speaker 1 Which is like an old school R-rated,

Speaker 1 fantastic movie. Reese Witherspoon and I are,

Speaker 1 we have two competing weddings booked at a destination uh location and we have to kind of duke it out to see who's going to be the wedding that gets to take place but um

Speaker 1 yeah i i it's an interesting time i think people are making it i just i don't know why they're not kind of going to the theaters to see them and

Speaker 1 i think we have I think we kind of have so many options now that a lot of people would, you know, would rather go, oh, I'll just catch that at home.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's nothing like going to the theater, though, man. I know.
It's when you sit and watch a comedy with an audience, you're reminded as to how much more fun it is. Right.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to get that back. I'll happily see this new one in theaters for you, bud.
Even though it's not in theaters. It's in Amazon, right?

Speaker 1 You did just say it was on Amazon. My bad.

Speaker 1 We'll go rent a movie theater out.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm going to call everyone in the neighborhood. They're coming over.

Speaker 2 You're cordially invited to watch.

Speaker 1 You're cordially invited at the movie theater with us.

Speaker 1 Is there one idea for a movie that you haven't gotten to make yet? Oh, because you want to steal it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm going to pass on that because I'm afraid you guys will steal it. No, no, no.
No, we would have to

Speaker 1 do that. No, no, no.
I don't trust you guys.

Speaker 1 I don't trust you.

Speaker 1 No, I don't know. I don't, I, I, I am, uh, I'm trying to think

Speaker 1 if there's anything. Uh,

Speaker 1 I, I, it's funny, Ideas usually pop into my head in the most random way.

Speaker 1 But no, I don't have an exciting answer to that. Sorry.

Speaker 2 Let me ask you this. When do you know an idea is ready to be made a movie? Because I would imagine you think about stuff constantly.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, how do you know when it's like, okay, I'm going to make this movie about an anchorman named Ron?

Speaker 2 Like, where does that even like, at what point are you like, yeah, this could become a full motion picture?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think it's

Speaker 1 I think you just get a sense of

Speaker 1 something

Speaker 1 that,

Speaker 1 you know, if it's an idea that you can kind of spit out in a sentence,

Speaker 1 then it's got a good chance. Uh, you know, it's like,

Speaker 1 you know, I remember when we were we were pitching Anchorman, which at the time we got rejected. I think we got like rejected 20 different times from various studios and financiers and everything.

Speaker 1 That blue mind fascinated. Like no one could kind of wrap their hand around, head around an ensemble comedy that took place in a newsroom.

Speaker 1 They kept hearing the news part, and we're like, no, no, no, it's going to be, you know, Austin Powers wasn't about us, wasn't about the spy game. It's about a really funny character.
Right.

Speaker 1 Our character is going to be funny. And then

Speaker 1 I remember thinking, gosh, this is so hard to get off the ground. We should maybe pick a topic that everyone's talking about.
And at that time, NASCAR was at its height. And I was like, for instance,

Speaker 1 what if I'm just me as a NASCAR driver? And

Speaker 1 we pitched that, we sold that in like two seconds. That's crazy.
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know if there's an exact formula for it, but it's just something that I think grabs the people who have to pay for it. There you go.
There we go. Yeah.
All right.

Speaker 1 What's your welcome to Hollywood moment?

Speaker 1 We all have welcome to NFL moments that just, I don't know, it's usually a big hitter, somebody that we're extremely, you know, fond of or we're big fans of growing up that we're finally going up against.

Speaker 1 What was your Welcome to Hollywood moment? I mean, one of my Welcome to Hollywood moments was

Speaker 1 getting to be

Speaker 1 the first member of a brand new cast on Saturday Night Live. And I got to say

Speaker 1 the first lines of our opening show. And I'm sitting there.
And they're counting down the show. And I'm looking out.
That's crazy. My folks are in the audience and friends and family.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I can't believe I'm here and

Speaker 1 I'm about to say whatever line,

Speaker 1 which

Speaker 1 a little trivia here. I mess up my line.
The first time I speak on camera on the show, I flub it. No way.
Of course. Because I felt, and you know, Travis, you know how you do the full dress rehearsal.

Speaker 1 And then by the time you do the live show, you're like, piece of cake. I got it.
I got it.

Speaker 1 And so I did the dress rehearsal. I was like, this is going to be great.
But I'm sitting there in the chair and the enormity of the moment hits me.

Speaker 1 And I start to get a little bit emotional thinking about,

Speaker 1 wow, this is the thing I've always dreamed about. And then it was like five seconds.
And then I had to do my line. I was like,

Speaker 1 oh my God, we're coming out.

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh. And Lauren came back.
He's like, are you okay? I'm like, I'm fine. I'm fine.
I just said, I don't know what happened.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 yeah, exactly. It was, it was incredibly uplifting and incredibly grounding all at the same time.
It was like, don't ever take anything for granted. And yet, I can't believe I'm here.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. All right.

Speaker 2 Hypothetically, you see two guys that look like us coming at you on the sidewalk. What movie do you think we're going to quote at you?

Speaker 1 You guys are going to say, you're my boy, Blue. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Old school. You're going to going to get loved.

Speaker 1 Or you might say milk is a bad choice.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 2 Dude, if it's a hot day, I'm definitely going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 2 I was in Wisconsin and I had a whole wheel of cheese. I was like, whole wheel of cheese.

Speaker 1 I'm not even upset. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Milk was a bad choice. By the way, I improvised that because I was literally.

Speaker 1 trying to tell the director in that moment, like, why did you give me a carton of milk as we're shooting in LA on like a 98-degree day? And I literally was like, Milk was a bad choice. I'm like,

Speaker 1 having to drink hot milk in this scene. That's the worst.

Speaker 1 The fucking worst.

Speaker 1 You were spot on with that one.

Speaker 2 This isn't on this, but do you ever get tired of people quoting your movies? Like, are you like, yep, I get it. Like,

Speaker 2 it's got to happen just constantly.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't say,

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, there's sometimes

Speaker 1 there are moments where,

Speaker 1 oh, I'm getting this weird kick here.

Speaker 1 Sorry. Got a nice light.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look at that lit. Sun's coming in real nice.
Wow. That's nice.

Speaker 1 I don't know how to fix this.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 whatever.

Speaker 1 Here we go. Let's sit like this.
We're rolling.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 sometimes someone does something and you're just like,

Speaker 1 you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, I did.
Yeah, I said that. And most of the time,

Speaker 1 it's fantastic. But then

Speaker 1 there's about 20% of the time where I don't pick up the cue. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a lot of fucking classics that you've been in. So I get it.
Someone yelled at me,

Speaker 1 why are you so sweaty?

Speaker 1 I go, oh, because I was just on a bike ride. You're like, no!

Speaker 1 From Stepbrothers.

Speaker 1 After the drum set, why are you so sweating?

Speaker 1 You're supposed to say because I was watching cops.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, right. Sorry.
And she got so pissed and walked away.

Speaker 1 That's funny.

Speaker 1 You've ruined it for me. I've ruined it.
So I do ruin it for a lot of people because

Speaker 1 I don't pick up my cue. That's funny as shit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's your comedy Mount Rushmore? throughout your life?

Speaker 1 Who's your top four? You're throwing on your Mount Rushmore. I'm going to put Steve Martin.
Nice.

Speaker 1 I'm going to put, I'm probably going to put Bill Murray up there. Yeah.
Legend. I'm going to put Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 1 So good. And let's just say the

Speaker 1 original cast of Sarah Night Live. All nice.
Yeah. Throw them all in that last one.
Hell yeah. I'll allow it.
Yeah. That's great.
That's awesome. Awesome list.
I love that list.

Speaker 2 Do you have an actor you've wanted to work with that you haven't yet?

Speaker 1 Steven Seagal.

Speaker 1 Shut up. No.
Shut Oh my god.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, bitch.

Speaker 1 That would be the funniest goddamn thing.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 Doing something totally unexpected. That would be...
Yeah, exactly. I don't know why I just pictured you dressed up with the slick back as Steven Seagal.

Speaker 1 I don't know why that's what popped in my head.

Speaker 1 I don't even think we could track him down. I don't even know where he is on planet Earth these days.

Speaker 1 Wherever he's at. I mean, I'd love to do something weird with

Speaker 1 an actor like Daniel Day-Lewis or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just gets really enthralled and into it.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Try to get him to do like a, like something weird.
Yeah. That's fun.

Speaker 2 What about the best sporting event you've ever been to?

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. I'm going to say two.
I'm going to say the Women's World Cup final at the Rose Bowl

Speaker 1 for women's soccer. Nice.
Where they beat China. They finally won the women's world.
It's the famous Brandi Chastain taking her top off.

Speaker 1 Fuck yeah. That was incredible.
And then I'll say, even though my team lost the game, the national championship game, again at the Rose Bowl, USC, Texas.

Speaker 2 2005.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That was an amazing background.
It's a great game. You just made

Speaker 1 whoever had the ball last was going to win that game, and their time just ran out.

Speaker 2 You have no idea how his microphone is muted, but our head producer, our intern Brandon, our head producer

Speaker 2 is the biggest Longhorns fan you've ever been in your life.

Speaker 1 He is screaming like a child off camera right now.

Speaker 1 He's going to lay into me right now.

Speaker 1 It's the reason he went to Texas, I believe, is because they won that game. And I sat

Speaker 1 in the same row with Matthew mcconaughey oh yeah and his buddy and they wanted to talk the whole game like every time texas you know of course like texas guys love to be like okay here we go and then essentially right away i'd be like what what happened what happened yeah what happened what was that what was that and it was so back and forth but i have to say at the end of that game everyone just shook hands oh it was the one of the best ever just watched one of the yeah so anyway but i've been lucky i've been to a bunch of fun stuff, but those two pop into my head.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that game, Vince Young's performance towards the end of it, especially, like, it was just

Speaker 1 crazy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was like somebody just caught fire and could not be stopped.

Speaker 1 And there is a classic photo of Vince Young scoring that last touchdown. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And one of the SC cheerleaders.

Speaker 1 Jumping up in the air, thinking it was SC that had scored. That's so bizarre.
Oh,

Speaker 1 really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, I need to look at this. I have not seen that.
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 We got to know who's got the ball.

Speaker 1 No, she. She was not the sharpest tool in the show.

Speaker 1 Becca, I'll tell you, I've been to the Rose Bowl one time since he played UCLA out there. When I tell you, it is one of the coolest atmospheres.

Speaker 1 Like, I can only imagine that place packed to the T for that game and seeing highlight after highlight after highlight for the biggest game of the year.

Speaker 1 Man, I can only imagine what that felt like, man. Both those teams with guys who went on to the league, like on both sides of the ball.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 it was an insane environment. Yeah.
So cool. Crazy.

Speaker 2 Well, shout out to my former teammate, Vince Young. Awesome game.
And shout out to you, Wilf. I mean, listen, before we end this, we always give our guests, do you have any questions for us?

Speaker 2 Like, or do you just like want to go and go about your day? That's fine, too. I don't want to put you on the spot.

Speaker 1 Let's see. What time is it?

Speaker 1 You get the sun hunting you down over there. I know.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to help your producers out here by not getting blasted by the sun. I do have a question for you guys.
How much, how do you compare

Speaker 1 doing,

Speaker 1 getting to do things like this? Like, obviously,

Speaker 1 you're living out. You got to be pro athletes, this thing you dreamed about your whole life.
Oh, yeah. Now getting to do this other side of stuff.
Is it as as much fun? Is it more fun?

Speaker 1 Is it a different kind of fun? Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'll take a hack at this. So me and Jason, we started this thing because we just wanted to show our brotherhood and have fun catching up once a week.
And it was a...

Speaker 1 It was a magical year where we both went to the Super Bowl and got to talk about both of our seasons throughout it.

Speaker 1 And in retrospect, after about three years, the coolest part is getting to interview guys like you and just getting to shoot the shit with you over the course of an hour and get to pick your brain on the profession that you're in and and what got you there and things like that like that's all been so fascinating to me and it kind of hit me like a blind side because i just got on here to have fun with my brother and now i get to do uh cool like this so that that's definitely the uh the the ups for me that's awesome yeah i would say like travis said being able to just talk to trav once a week we have a dedicated time and before we did this there'd be like months sometimes in the middle of a season especially where you like fall by the wayside so that combined with interviewing really successful, interesting people or friends is awesome.

Speaker 2 But I would say the other thing that's, it's very similar, you know, when you get ready to play a sport, you practice and you work and you, and you prepare, and then the game day

Speaker 2 happens and you,

Speaker 2 you know, get to express yourself as a player. And that's something very unique as an entertainer as well, where, you know, you work at it and you try to like

Speaker 2 think about how I can do things, or what can I do that'll be interesting, or take a creative idea from scratch, yep, and I don't know, bring it to life.

Speaker 2 And it all is like just really rewarding when that happens.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that

Speaker 2 I think that's similar in terms of like getting out there. You know, you worked all offseason, we've

Speaker 2 put in all these new plays. Let's go out there and see what it looks like.
Yeah. And then you get blown out by 40 points.

Speaker 1 You're like, fuck it, we're out of it, boys.

Speaker 1 Back to the drawing board.

Speaker 1 But that's, I think there's a lot of parallels between team sport and

Speaker 1 getting to do a lot of things in entertainment because the same thing can happen. Like, I think that's why I love working on films.
It's a

Speaker 1 team of people. It's a crew of people.
I love Saturday Live because of the ensemble, because it was like we all, like,

Speaker 1 if, if, if, you know, if we all pull for each other, the whole show does well and we all do well. And the same sort of thing.

Speaker 1 You can, you work hard, you're working on something, you, you, you film something for 50 days. It takes a year to come out.
Yeah. And you lay a big fat turd and

Speaker 1 you're like, oh, audience didn't think it was funny at all. Oh, well,

Speaker 1 we thought it was hilarious.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 And then you're like, well, I'm still glad we went for it. You know,

Speaker 1 what are you going to do? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm taking your advice and I'm full sending everything I ever do in the entertainment world, man. Full send.
I appreciate that advice, man. Yeah.
Will, thank you so much, brother. You're unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Cannot wait to see

Speaker 1 everything you got coming up. And I appreciate the time, man.
Thanks, you guys. All right.

Speaker 1 That was fun.

Speaker 2 All righty, that wraps up another episode of New Heights.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. You to our guest, Will Farrell.

Speaker 2 We'll be back next week with a brand new episode.

Speaker 1 Make sure you are subscribed on YouTube to the New Heights channel and follow follow new heights on the wonderry app or wherever you get your podcasts reminder you can listen to new episodes of new heights early and ad-free right now by joining wondery plus in the wondery app or on apple podcasts there you go ladies and gentlemen if we didn't like mention your favorite will farrell movie i think uh i think we want to do a blind ranking of all of will farrell's classics um

Speaker 1 no matter what they are any any any genre of uh of wills uh throughout the past year um why don't you go ahead and throw us some and

Speaker 1 we'll have some fun doing a blind ranking of all of Will's best

Speaker 1 next week. Once again, New Heights, a wondry show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by American Express,

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