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You might know him as Buster Bluth or Gary from Veep incredible actor awesome interview PFT and I are both big fans of Arrested Development and Veep so it was one of those interviews that was fun for us and you can tell that he enjoyed it as well we have Mount Rushmore of Things You Overthink kind of a loose ended one but it's going to be fun we have fire fest of the week we're going to talk a little uh preseason football feel the dreams a little friday show to get you going to for the last couple weeks of summer ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working nah neither has ariat ariat work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection you need to get the job done under any conditions so you can take any

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And I want everyone to know it's not a setback and it's not reason to worry. But QB Dak Prescott is planning on getting another MRI.
That was the official tweet from the Cowboys account. I don't know if they did this as a joke, but I think when you say, like if I said to you right now, PFT, hey, don't worry about it.
I'm already worried. Right.
There it is. We're already worried.
Don't worry about it, but I have to go to the hospital tomorrow. Why would I be worried? Don't.
Just want to let you know. You don't need to.
Don't worry about it. Okay.
Picture it this way. Your girlfriend walks into the room.
It's not a setback. It's not a reason to worry.
But I haven't gotten my period yet. Yes.
Yes. But listen, I'm still eyeing the game against the Bucs on September 9th.
So from what I understand, Dak Prescott, who has not played tackle football since he hopefully sprained his ankle in like week three or four last year. When he bashed his ankle into the ground to try to put it back into place.
Yeah, so he hasn't gotten hit yet, and he hasn't played in a meaningful game. His first action is going to be against the Bucs, who just won the Super Bowl.
And they have... And the NBA title.
And the NBA title, yeah. So that's going to be the first time he gets hit.
Now, if I'm Dak, even if my shoulder is still not good to go right now, I would still have people do tackling drills against me in practice, where I would get hit, because you've got to get that first hit out of your system to stop thinking about it all the time i would just have people like tackle me into a big mat so i didn't hurt my shoulder falling on it but like i don't i don't see that going well for the cowboys no i i now that i'm thinking about it and reading it again i think the cowboys official account wrote this just for jerry jones because they're like listen jerry jones is going to get this information through the twitter account and uh we don't want to tell we don't want him to talk to a doctor because he'll just be like, hey, doc, make sure that Dak plays no matter what. So we need to just preface it with it's not a setback and hope he doesn't read the rest of the tweet.
But if you're a Cowboys fan, you have to be freaking out right now. Well, it might be just a little preventative MRI.
Yeah. Like a little just to be just to be safe like hey i feel great but it doesn't hurt well it's not only a preventative mri it's a another preventative mri because it's another mri yeah that's true which is always great when you have to go back and look again to see what the injury is i was telling jake on the way over here uh we were about to listen to greeny but we got here too early too early.
He's going into the MRI tube, which is that you could say that's just like a giant weighted blanket. Yeah.
He might like getting MRIs. Yeah.
It might be comfortable for him. It's his safe space, by the way.
So we are in a undisclosed location right now. We just – Grit Week is next week.
So Sunday night we're getting on the bus and we're starting our travels. We have some great interviews set up.
We just finished, though, our interview that we'll be running on Monday. And it was incredible.
Let's just say that. It was incredible.
Everyone's going to love it. It's someone people have wanted to come on for a long time, and it did not disappoint.
Did not disappoint. Grit is exactly how I would describe this person uh so that's why we're in undisclosed not in our studio right now it was a feeling where like certain interviews you get out and you feel like your your day has been changed we won the day yeah we did we won that way there's a little preview that's now everything like what coach says we won the day oh every every person in all of sports yeah the

standard is the standard yes yes but we have some great guests coming uh and we also have our our disc golf video uh coming on monday as well which i'm very excited about me too very excited about that very excited about that i think we're all excited i think we're all very excited are you happy are you yeah i'm very happy that i am okay great all right so all right we can go on with the show. All right, so the preseason

football is here.

Are you? Yeah. I'm very happy that I am.
Okay, great. We're all happy.
All right, so we can go on with the show. All right, so the preseason football is here.
Are you going to be watching preseason football, or how much preseason football will you be watching? I'm going to be watching a lot of first halves of preseason football. Because, remember, we only have three weeks.
We only have three weeks. So it's limited.
I get to see Fitzmagic for the first time in a football team uniform tonight. I'm very excited about that.
We get to see Mac Jones play a little bit tonight. The beauty of preseason is it is a true glass half full, glass half empty.
You can just change. If Justin Fields comes out and he's awesome, I'd be like, well, this is incredible.
He's the best player ever. If he stinks, I'd be like, well, COVID, preseason.
You didn't expect him to be up to speed yet. You can twist what you're watching in a preseason game to fit however you want.
A million percent. If your offense looks terrible, if you get shut out in all three preseason games, you're like, that's because our offensive coordinator is a mad scientist.
He's got all the good stuff cooked up. Doesn't want to give anything away for the regular season.
And isn't it? It wasn't the 0-16 Lions. Didn't they go 4-0 in the preseason? They did go 4-0.
That's the other one that you can throw out there. So their preseason really is just – it's like a Play-Doh that you can just mold to however you want to feel about your team going into the regular season.
Yeah, it's like an appetizer. Colin Coward analogy.
If out to a nice fancy dinner you're paying a lot of money for it you order the appetizer if it comes out and it's average but it's hot you still feel pretty good about the rest of your meal if it comes out and it's utterly inedible you start to panic a little bit and you start to think about in the back of your head but just because you have an awesome like a set of mozzarella sticks that comes out that doesn't't mean that your Chilean sea bass is going to be properly cooked. I feel like the correct coward one would be preseason football is like your first wife.
You try it out. You try some stuff.
Maybe have a couple kids and just see if it works. Then you get to the regular season, your second wife.
He always does those type of things. Then you hit the bye week and that's when you can really dye your hair.
and you get to the regular season, your second wife. And he always does those type of things.

Then you hit the bye week, and that's when you can really dye your hair and get out there again.

Yeah, your guma is your bye week.

Then the playoffs come around.

That's when you're 80 years old and you marry a 25-year-old.

That's when you really got to start meaning something.

And that's when you get the convertible,

and you really start speeding up in time for the playoffs. But watch out because the faster you go, the harder you'll crash.
All right. So we have preseason football.
We also have the Field of Dream game. I think it's happening tonight.
White Sox-Yankees in Iowa, which is very cool. Like seeing the videos, I got chills when I saw A-R into the the cornfield in his uniform he um he might be coming back tonight i don't know that that feels like uh that was an omen or what's the word yeah corny yeah corny yeah it was cool well it was corny too but that's fine no i mean like not not in a bad way like the vegetable obviously yeah it's a cornfield i just wonder where.
No, not that corny. No, not that corny.
Not A-Rod. Who carries A-Rod's uniform around with him right now? I don't know.
I mean. He's got a guy for that.
Has he got that thing on him all the time? He wears it underneath his clothes like Superman. He goes into a phone booth and then rips it apart.
He's driving by. I always talk about how whenever I'm driving or going past fields, if there's a game going on, I'll oftentimes slow down or stop and watch the game for 10 minutes because it's just fun to do.
I would imagine A-Rod drives past a Little League field and throws his uniform on. He's like, hey, you guys playing a little game here? Mind if I hop in? Well, first he makes sure that there's some adults around that might have cameras on them and then he's like you know what really make all these kids days if i stepped in and played with them and went yard like five for five yes and then that would be a great video for them to have later on their lives all i'm going to say is uh if ben affleck tried to put on a baseball uniform and walk into the field of dreams corn stalks i think he he would look like a loser.
I think we can all agree on

that, right? He goes shirts versus skin so he can show off that

awesome back tattoo. I think that if they

play this... Which, by the way, I don't know if you saw the

clip that went around Jennifer

Lopez basically saying they're disgusting

three years ago. That's interesting.
With back

tattoos? No, Ben Affleck specifically.

Oh, no, I didn't see that.

That's weird. It just all of a sudden changed?

Sounds like he was living rent-free in her head a few years ago. He might just have to borrow Gaio's jersey.
Who? Because he's 13. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you think he probably did? He probably was like, hey, man. Gaio? Gaio.
That's not his hat, right? Did you decide not to go with a J? Gaio? Gaio? Gaio. I actually took me a second to realize you're talking about Joey Gallo.
Yeah, Joey Gallo. There's a guy, Gallo.
There's a guy, Gallo. Pico de Gallo.
Pico de Gallo. Pico de Gallo.
I think under normal circumstances, Hank is right, but that's just not how Joey Gallo says his name. No, he probably did.
He probably was like, hey, Joey, your game's not until tomorrow. Can I get those pants, maybe the underwear as well? Just throw this thing on, make it authentic? I think if they play this game in Iowa, they should not have an outfield fence.
I agree. It should just be the corn.
And then if there's like a grounder that would bounce into the wall, they have to run into the corn and try to grab the ball out, try to find it. And if you go into the corn and catch it while in the corn, that counts as an out.
That's an should not have an outfield fencer that's a big mistake i'd say that's probably the biggest mistake that major league baseball has made this week yep agreed absolutely um oh man people are mad people are big mad big big mad well it's not setback it's not a reason to worry but people are upset about barcelona sports online yes uh. Yes.
Yeah. You can't believe it.
People don't like us. You can't.
All right. What else we got? Anything else going on? It's kind of like we finally have hit like a slow period in the sports calendar.
Well, I was like our one week. Two big things.
Number one, USA Soccer's back. USA Soccer's in the top ten.
Love it. Ranked above Mexico after beating them in like three consecutive.

Coach's poll or who?

Yeah, which poll?

Now, this is the computers.

The FIFA's?

The BCS?

ELO Chess has this above them.

Where's Bama ranked?

Bama's number one again.

Obviously, it's Bama.

It's Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma, United States.

I know we joke, but if Nick Saban and the Alabama football team decided they wanted to be

number one soccer team in the world, they would.

Immediately. Right away.
Zero training.

Yes, they just would. If you put a

soccer ball, if Nick Saban, instead of having

a bunch of footballs out on the practice field one day,

just tossed an Adidas out there,

we would immediately be ranked number one.

So Bama should always be ranked number one.

We're top ten. I think we're number nine ahead

of Mexico, so that's cool. We'll beat them every time.
Yeah, yeah exactly like it shouldn't even be a question but it's news for some reason i would actually go as far as say that it's not even a rivalry a rivalry implies that both teams win occasionally agreed and if you look back at the history of our last two league of nations golden cups like it's it's just basically us showing up yeah out there yeah the other thing that i that i saw happening today was jr smith is going back to college which this has there has to be a documentary well he kind of needs true life i am jr smith he kind of stole uh caleb our good friend caleb we actually shot an 86 shout out caleb uh who's trying to become a professional golfer but not really whoa just kidding saying allegedly? No. We're already professional golfers.
Yeah. We hatched up the idea a while ago on air that Caleb, who played college football at UNC, should re-enroll because he still has eligibility and just go through college and play on a golf team.
And then J.R. Smith took our idea, and now he's probably going to be a professional golfer.

Yeah.

He needs a documentary about this. Yes.
About J.R. Smith just getting high as shit and playing golf every day, going back to college.
That's the dream. Really, retirement should just be going back to college.
Yeah. J.R.
Smith documentary absolutely has to happen. Yep.
We should do it. Yeah.
Call it Green's Fees. Do you think he's going to get to the pro and he takes off his shirt and they're like, JR, you actually do have to wear a shirt.
Do you? I know you have to wear pants, but do you have to wear a shirt? I don't think so. I don't think you have to wear pants either in college.
Oh, college you don't? So he can just go in his underwear? He could go shirtless. I'd like to see him just go shirtless.
And the nice thing about J.R. Smith, in honor of Tiger Woods, his eyes are always red on Sundays.
That's true. That is true.
That was like a 1.8 Riley boobs. That one was tough.
Pesicula was a lot better. Pesicula, he's catching on like wildfire.
That one was tough, though. Yeah.
Well, yeah. I mean, listen, sometimes they just hit you, and I have to let the takes flow through me.
I don't have a filter on this thing. Yeah, if you tweeted that from Rick Riley's account, people would be like, boo.
No, to be clear, I would never in a million years even tweet that from my account. Okay.
All right. Anything else? Leroy's? RIP.
RIP. Come on, dude.
Leroy would never stoop to having that shitty of a take. Anything else, Jake? No, it's pretty light week.
It is. It's weird.
It's weird to have finally like a small break in the action. Oh, I got one more.
It's a early who's back. You notice Haslam.
Yeah. Oh, my God.
We were just talking about him the other day. It's like, who's on the heat this year? They have to bring back Udonis.
He's got a contract whenever he wants it for the rest of his life, right? Just to be on the bench and maybe fight one guy on the team a year to keep him in check. He's going to play forever.
Forever. Literally the definition of Heat culture.
Yeah. If they ever don't bring him back on the Heat, the Heat as a franchise, I think, just ceased to exist.
He's got to have some serious dirt on Pat Riley. That's what this tells me.
What a life. There should actually be, like, what is the roster in NBA? It's 12, right? There should be just a 13-man on every team that's like a million dollars.
Everyone gets it, and it's just, it has to be, the player has to be 40 years or older. Just so we can see, like, imagine Shaq just standing on a sideline.
Just every now and then. Just let him go in.
The Heat Big Three era. Jawan Howard was pretty much that guy.
Yeah, that's true. He's active.
He got one year, 2.6 million. He's betting on himself for this offseason.
Yes, big time. See if he is up and coming star.
He down has him. See if he can catch on somewhere afterwards.
All right, let's do our Mount Rushmore.

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Mount Rushmore. Hank,

great win. You won the Mount Rushmore.
What? Great win. Back-to-back stud performances out of your account.
Damn, you're good. But what? Oh, I don't know.
This is usually where you guys look. We threw it.
Oh, this is usually when you say Liam picked all your picks. No.
Okay, Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore.
We're happy. We're back.

Mount Rushmore's back.

Mount Rushmore.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, then I'm thrilled.

So happy.

Mount Rushmore of things you overthink is today's Mount Rushmore.

I think we should let Noah the sound guy pick the order.

Okay.

Just one, two, three, four.

Or it's got to go in order.

So just pick one person and they'll go first and then we go from there.

All right.

We'll start over here.

All right.

We'll go this way.

Took me.

Good pick.

I like Noah.

Good.

Noah says, okay, all right.

All right.

Which way are we going?

Clockwise?

Yeah, me next and then Jilly and then Hank.

Okay.

Hank, you cool?

Are we all good?

Yeah.

Everybody cool with it?

Yeah.

Okay.

Also, if you have Mount Rushmore ideas, tweet us at him. Tweet it at Jake, please.
Jake has a running list of Mount Rushmore ideas. We only have like 10-ish more.
Oh, wow. I'm so sad.
Okay. Things we overthink.
There are a lot of things that we overthink on this list. I'm going to go with one that I think we can all relate to is who to bet on on the Super Bowl.
Because you get that extra week where you start third and fourth guessing yourself. And you just get into this place where you're playing a chess match against your own brain at that point.
So you overthink who to bet on for the Super Bowl. Okay.
My first pick, I'm going to go with a simple one. Obviously, you have to have had a pet, but a dog specifically.
What's wrong with the dog? If the dog is acting a little bit weird, if the dog makes a noise, you just sit there and you overthink everything that happens with the dog. What's wrong the dog oh no does the dog need to go to the vet that's a big overthinking thing is oh is that a limp yeah like oh i just hear the dog whine like why is the dog scratching its ear it's the dumbest thing we do because dogs for the most part are usually very resilient and there's nothing wrong with them but any little thing that might be oh the dog didn't eat all its dinner oh no like what's going on so that really will fuck you up and you overthink it to death the poop was a little bit loose oh no i hope it does there's so many things that you can just constantly do i remember when you first get a dog too like when i first got stella it was like every other week we'd go to the vet it's like what's that was that a Was that a growth on her paw? And you realize like dogs are pretty chill.
All right, next one. Jilly.
Everything. Oh.
Overthink everything. Okay.
So you are a beta male. No.
Well, yeah. How are we going to make other picks now? Alpha brainwaves.
Billy just ended the draft for everyone. Yeah, but no, but you're a beta

because if you overthink

everything.

No, it's an alpha brain waves.

No, I'd say alphas

don't have to think.

No, I think,

I think alphaly

and then.

No, you don't.

This is a terrible pick.

Billy, if you.

No, it's everything.

Billy, alphas don't.

Overthinking everything.

So you overthink everything.

So everything you've ever done,

you've had to overthink it.

When you have to think about it.

You've never made a decision

that's like,

again, this is a beta mindset

because I don't have to think

about everything.

Alphas don't think.

I'm sorry. ever done you've had to overthink it when you have you've never made a decision that's like that again this is a beta mindset because i don't have to think about everything alphas don't think i don't have to overthink everything everything a lot of people overthink everything they take naps all right well billy i think that you should just straight up not pick again because you just drafted everything in the world right but like sometimes you think about everything when you're overthinking now you're making me overthink this all right my first pick and second pick uh is your food order at a new restaurant big time yep big time i'll usually just get the same thing like once i get something once i'm a creature of habit i'll just get it over and over and over again but the first time you never know you don't want to mess it up so that's one and then my second one i will go with when to use exclamation exclamation points yeah emails it's mostly in emails and it's like obviously like work stuff where you're like you put the exclamation point and you're like do i want to be this excited like is this the right place for it it's not the right place for it do i put a period but then it serious.
You want to seem excited, but you don't seem too excited. Does the exclamation point mean that I'm yelling? Right.
Yep. Right.
Big time. All right.
I don't think I've ever gotten an exclamation point from you, Hank. Is that because you overthink it? Well, we don't email.
It's more like emails. And I don't know.
It's like small talk and corporate talk. You're like, thanks so much.
But you're like, I don't actually appreciate it this much, but I do appreciate it. We should make a piece of punctuation in between a period and exclamation mark.
I agree. Yeah.
A hybrid. Yeah.
All right, chili. So this one, you guys feel free to video it.
It's kind of similar to Hank, but I had a how to word a text slash email. That's fine.
yeah there's definitely variations to all these things yeah okay how to word a text you probably do that a lot oh yeah yeah that's there at it three times read it four times you do that with us too even not with you guys you let your guard down yeah a little bit a comfortable environment for jake i when i do that i always check to see if I'm texting with another blue dot person because then I'm like, oh, shit, they can see me overthinking.

I start to overthink how I'm overthinking the text.

And then I'm like, they're looking at this. And then sometimes when I get the other thing done and I see other people's blue dots, I start overthinking what they were about to text.

Right.

If I text them first.

Right, you get in that blue dot, like bubbles face off.

Yeah, cheat code.

You know what you do?

You type the text in notes and then you copy paste it.

That sounds terrible.

Seems like a lot of work.

That sounds awful.

But that's like for super serious texts.

Give me a scenario where you would copy and paste from your docs.

Like when you're texting your coach.

Okay.

You mean texting. Saying what? I don't know.
Just important stuff. Hey, I think I'm good enough to play quarterback still? Maybe.
Hey, coach, it's not a setback. All right.
My next one is when to leave for the airport. Big time overthinking.
What time do you leave for the airport? Do I have enough time? I don't want to be there for too long. What time zone am I in? Yeah, what time zone you're in.
It's such a stupid, silly, easy thing that we all have done a million times. But no matter what, whenever you have a flight, you're like, all right, what time should I leave? All right, maybe I should leave a little earlier than this.
I always end up leaving like 15 minutes earlier than the time that I set I should leave. I do the backwards math.
So I'm just like, okay, I want to be there an hour before every flight. How long does it say right now in Google Maps? It'll take me to get to the airport.
But then if it's like tomorrow morning, I'm leaving at 9 a.m. Like how long is the traffic? If the traffic's bad, how bad is it going to be? If there's no traffic, might get there too early.
It sucks. Then you got to do subtraction because it's like, wait, I've got clear, which is, Jake, what is clear? TSA pre-check on steroids.
Love it. Love it.
All right. So I got two coming back, huh? I'm going to go with stuff you should have said.
You ever lay awake in bed at night and be like, I really wish I'd said this. I really blew it.
Or you start like rethinking what you did say and how you could have tweaked it a little bit. Like next time I see this person, I'm going to say.
It's basically the entire plot of the jerk store episode of Seinfeld. So stuff you should have said.
And then next one, whether to go for two. That's easy.
If you just take the one. Give me a test.
Okay. Here's a great one.
You probably won't get this. You are down 14 in the fourth quarter.
There's six minutes left. You score a touchdown.
Go for two. Yep.
You're right. Always.
You. All right, my next pick.
What about if it's before halftime? Yeah, well, what does the chart say? Then I say, what does the chart say at that point? I get my chart out. Okay, my next pick.
But then the announcers are like, he's being too cute with it. If you go for two too early.
Okay, I'm going to go with my next pick is going to be, I got a fucking couple that I want to pick from. Oh, okay.
Overthinking when you catch a whiff of a bad smell, whether it be like, all right, is this coming from me? Is this my breath? Is something like, did I step in shit? And then you overthink that carries with you throughout the day of like, am I the one who smells and overthinking that all day long? Like, did I not forget to put on deodorant? It will fucking kill you. Ruin a day.
I've got a little life hack. If you think like if you have that little tickle in the back of your brain where it could be me that smells,

what I do is I just, like, I just quickly stand up and sit down and do a little shoulder shake. Give yourself a little, yeah.

And then I just, all the air that gets going through my body, I take a big whiff.

And if it's clean, then I'm good.

Yes.

It's somebody else.

Yes.

Yes.

All right, Jilly.

Free throws.

Got it.

Okay.

Yep.

They're free. They're free they're free

but you're at the line yeah okay muscle memory those should be something you don't good pick but the thing is a lot of people do remember Billy already picked everything right positive vibes only Hank does make a good point where it's like the one thing that you always hear people say about free throws is like don't think you don't think it's truly just muscle memory like if you practice enough but it's like don't think about penguins okay huh you're thinking about penguins no I'm thinking about your free shows everyone overthinks free throws training like the people who know I actually think that like the best free throw shooters never overthink exactly but most people aren't the best free throw shooters okay but but what who are you so who takes free throws like all right fine forget it i think you can't you can overthink yeah there are people who overthink it like a lot of people don't overthink it a lot of people do okay okay more people do i'm not gonna fight with you i'm not gonna fight with you i disagree on that uh space. Oh, yeah.
Big time. It's one of those things I try not to think about because when I do.
Yep. Fuck yeah.
I usually just want to like it's like nothing matters in the world. Because you're like, who cares what I do when the outer space exists? Dude, I got a little of that not to get lived out here, but climate change definitely.
Like when you think about it too hard, it kind of fucks you up. Especially with kids, it's like, fuck.
Yeah, what have you done bringing living things into this world, knowing that in 50 years they won't even be able to live in Miami? There's a meteorite coming in 2142, I think. Oh, okay.
That guy might be wrong, but they said that yesterday. Did they send you a Google Calendar thing about that, or what? Yeah, asteroid.
It's coming close. This is another one of Billy's studies.
They're saying the New York Post? Yeah. That sounded like a New York Post.
Please quote tweet this. Okay.
And then the last one, this goes back to high school, college days. Actually, no, it happens at the office too.
When you're in a long hallway with and it's just you two in the hallway, and you don't know when to acknowledge them, if you're supposed to acknowledge them, like you're just walking on that hallway, and the whole time, you're just like overthinking what am I supposed to do when I walk past this person? Great. Great.
Yes. So it's like, when do I greet this person? Yeah.
Do I greet this person? Do I greet this person? How do I greet them? We both know we're in this room, but I don't maybe not even know this person. It happens in the office where I walk by someone I don't know.
I usually just go with the head bob. What I do is the other variation to this is when you see someone from work, your flashlight is on.
No big deal. When you see someone from work, outside of work, going to work, and you avoid saying hello to them because you don't want to also walk with them all the way to work.
Do you know what I mean? You'll see someone at Starbucks and you'll be like, all right, hope they didn't see me. I didn't see them.
Yeah, or when you leave work and then you see each other on the train, but on the other side of the train. Yeah, you're like, fuck.
I'm not going to walk up to them and talk to them. And then have to be in a conversation for the next half hour.
Right. This one is pretty self-explanatory.
It's what to pick for this Mount Rushmore. Good one.
You guys have everything and what to pick for this Mount Rushmore. It's just Mount Rushmore's in general.
Right. But you also have everything.
This is meta. This is you guys really crying.
But everything is like. I actually think you guys are going to win, but whatever, because of everything.
I actually think we're going to lose. I think the free throw pick.
But maybe I'm overthinking that. All right, my last pick is your March Madness bracket.
The biggest paralysis by analysis. Like, do I have enough underdogs? You know, when you do the whole like, oh, well, I've all I've all chalk so I gotta pick a couple high seeds that I don't really like but you know what's gonna happen you could just stare at it forever yeah which one seed do I think could lose in the second yeah right and it was like probably none of them but I need to have one so I'm not like you know Johnny Chalk over here all right my last one it's similar to that it's whether to hit a 12 against a 13 if a dealer is showing a three.
That one, I'll sit there for 10 seconds, which is an eternity on the blackjack table. Yeah.
I usually hit that. Wait, Billy.
I usually hit that. What's that? Billy's doing that.
12 against a three? Yeah, you should. I think it's like 51%.
Well, you're assuming that they have a face card, so what are you going to stay on 12? Book says hit. Yeah, I hit that.
But if they have a face card. Well, you hit everything.
I can't play Blackjack with you or PFT. They bust.
Especially if you're at the end of the table and you don't want to take that bust card from the dealer. It's true.
It's tough. PFT and Hank are the biggest, like, I'm just going with my gut here.
No, no, not me. I've come down from that.
We used to do it with people I knew, and it was kind of funny to just be like, whatever. And then me and this guy, he tried to fight me.
Yes. I get it now.
No, I'm probably the most considered person. If I'm playing at the end of the table, I will go just strictly by the book because I don't want to fuck up anybody else's day.
I've given some death stairs to people who don't play by the book. It just sucks.
It sucks when they do it. It sucks.
You can handle it once every now and then, but when someone's just going fucking balls to the wall, like I'm just doing whatever, hitting on crazy shit. Like sixes and fives, it's hard for me to stay, usually.
It depends on where the casino has a metal detector. I know.
Yeah. It really depends on if the casino has a metal detector.
What? Well, if you care about it, if people get pissed. If they have a gun or a knife.
Okay. All right, things we missed.
I'm just going to keep going forward on that one. Oh, stain on your clothes.
Can people, like, if you have a little stain on your clothes and you're like, shit, can people see this? Or like a wrinkle? Wearing jeans and shorts or sweatpants multiple days in a row or like, can I wear this? Like, it's clean, but if I wear it again, am I going to get judged even though it's clean? Yeah, I've got... Like, jeans.
Like, sometimes I wear jeans days in a row. I'm like – Is everyone noticing? Is someone in the office going to be like, dude, you wore those three days in a row? Yes, yes, yes.
I've got what to get for appetizers. Yep.
I just order everything. I never overthink that one.
So if you have appetizers – I don't. That's actually – one of my gifts is not overthinking that.
I'm typically – I'm the guy that will try to narrow it down to two appetizers. but then if there's a third one that's looking really promising, it's just go with the sampler.
No, I just do it all. Get the appetizer sampler.
If a person is late, are they dead? Like super late? Like the time PFT slept till like one o'clock on a Wednesday? That was weird. I just assumed he was dead.
I thought I was dead when I woke up. Yeah, those will fuck fuck you up though like if someone who is notoriously on top of things and like good with communication just doesn't show up for a couple hours like well that person's dead uh what else do i have oh where to go on vacations that's a tough one that's a bougie pick but i like it yeah no like no agree.
Because you got to make it count. Right.
Right.

Right.

Yeah, Billy?

When someone hangs up really quickly, and you don't know why, like mid-sentence.

Oh, yeah. That's another one.

Oh.

What about, is this guy a cop?

Yeah.

Is this guy offering me a goo ball at a fish concert a cop?

Is this person on steroids?

Whether or not someone's on steroids. Yeah.
That's a good call. I think a better pick would have been everything on mushrooms.
Then you really overthink everything. Huh.
But you overthink everything. Kinda.
Yeah. Okay.
Do you see what I'm saying? Like that makes you a little bit of a... No, because then you like think about every single scenario and have a plan for it but then you're just sitting around thinking all the time never acting no action a lot of action okay um a huge miss is um does this person like me yep yeah that's not just like a member of the opposite sex it's just in general like does it am i cool with this person uh another one off of that is like was that joke offensive yeah you know what i mean like when you're out with maybe a new group and you say so you may push the line you're like wait did they did they take offense to that fuck like i probably shouldn't have said that this you know maybe liam or these guys can understand but i overthink whether or not when the guest comes in like if i'm supposed to introduce myself or if i'm supposed to just take a backseat and like just let you guys do it.
Cause sometimes they come in, they look at me and I'm like, I'll go for it. But sometimes they just go for you guys.
And like, I don't know what to do. Yeah.
Kobe Bryant, just like, no one introduced me. And I was standing there like ready to introduce myself and no one introduced me.
And it was like super awkward. And I still overthink he did you introduce himself no mama mentality yeah never introduced myself to producers did me no favors yeah sorry italian um italian big time italian not loud yeah what about what about um this is kind of similar to hank's thing about whether or not to say hi to somebody when you're approaching them in hallway but.
But I've talked about before when I get face-to-face with somebody on a sidewalk, which side am I going to step to to get around that person? Because then you end up in the dance where you're going back and forth, back and forth. That's my worst nightmare.
And just sidewalk speed in general because sometimes you're walking and I'm kind of picking up speed on this person. But to get all the way past them, you have to take it to a new gear.

And it's like,

do I really want to walk past this person?

Or do I want to be like basically on their ass right behind them?

And then I'd be like,

what the fuck is this person?

Yes.

Then you just have to awkwardly like really walk fast past them and then

turn it back.

Take the gear back from,

if you're talking about from a woman's point of view,

is this guy behind me a rapist?

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Also from a man's point of view, am I behind me a rapist oh yeah yeah also from a man's point of view am i a rapist like does that person think that i'm following right like there are there are times late at night when you're like wait this woman thinks i'm following her but i'm just walking here like should i say something yeah but then me saying something makes it way worse that worse. That's a bad spot.
So I've got two moves. If it's late at night, if it's not a crowded area, and I'm within maybe like 30 feet or so, I'll either cross the street and go to the other side to make her feel okay.
Mark human. Or if I'm catching up to her, I'll just be like, going to pass you on your left real quick.
Just to let them know that the footsteps that they might hear, I'm going around you. So you speed up towards them.
Yeah, yeah. I've done it many times.
Hot soup coming through. That would be a good place to use that one, too.
Yeah, you definitely should use that. Late at night, hot soup come through.

Another one for bets is trap bets.

Like a trap bet or a letdown spot where you're like, all right, this team is in a letdown spot,

but do they know they're in a letdown spot?

So then I should bet on them because they're going to be extra motivated.

You can definitely drive yourself crazy overthinking that. Yeah, just overthinking a rat line in general.

Smell something here.

Vegas knows something. Big time.
All right. Is that anything else? I think we got them all.
Jake? Did I swear on the hot mic? Kickoffs. Kickoffs.
What about kickoffs? What about them? Just. What should you do onside? Yeah, like should I kick the ball? Yeah.
What ball yeah what's your that was a call back to free throw do you think there's overthinking yeah that was a good roast uh do you think it's more like extra points okay yeah overthinking uh when to foul when to foul uh up three yeah that's going on i mean i don't think theythink that, but yeah. A massive one that we missed.
When should I put out this album that I've been creating that I named after my mom that the world's waiting for? That's true. That's true.
How far can I troll the world? Yeah. The future.
The future, yeah. The future.
In the past. The future is a good one.
The future. Future.
Yeah, the future is good. SpongeBob reference.
Never mind. Dude, give us a SpongeBob voice to end this.
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But yeah, Nine Days, I will say, even though they're very different, Nine Days, I think there's a lot of cool themes, especially with what we've all been through this year. Like nine days talks a lot about not taking moments for granted and living for the moment, which I feel like I have woken up to, you know, post pandemic.
And then Benedict is about kind of there's so much noise in society and finding the truth above the noise. And so both of those, there's a lot of parallels happening with what we're all going through.
Yeah. I'd like to go back a little bit to kind of before you started your acting career, or I guess as it was just beginning, because I read that you decided to move up to New York.
You were trying to decide like, okay, how do I get this thing started? I feel like people eventually, if they've decided they want to be an actor, they have to make a choice. Am I going to do New York or am I going to do L.A.? Why did you decide that you were just going to try to make this happen in New York? That's a great question.
For me, and I can't speak for anybody else, but for me, New York felt a lot more accessible. Also, it was a little more of a theater town to where you could, agents, because at the time I didn't have representation, agents, they went to theater, they went to showcases where people doing scenes, you could showcase your work.
LA, this was before the digital time. So, and nobody went to see theater really.
So I would, it was tougher to kind of showcase yourself. So I, that was a big reason, but also LA is very spread out.
LA, I think it's tough, you know, where you live, that's kind of your connecting point. If you have a friend on the West side, it's tough to get them.
If you're on the East side, New York, it's like a 20 minute subway ride wherever you went. So it felt like when I was younger, it was a lot easier to find a community in New York.
And I would assume that being in New York is why you got cast in Sopranos, which was your big break, right? People forget you were in the Sopranos. I was, I was, I was, I was an oncology nurse to uncle junior for a day.
And I was so nervous. I was so nervous.
Because I had mainly done commercials. I was kind of a commercial guy for years in New York.
I was always the guy that was I was like the quirky, not all there guy, which is pretty much led into my most of my career jobs. But I was that guy.
And then I got the Sopranos gig for a day. And I was like, Oh, my gosh And I was just, and I remember I had to hold his, I was giving him chemo and I had to like do it very specific.
And when I get nervous, it's just my hands shake. And I was like, God, please just like, keep it steady.
Keep it steady. We do a thing where we spoil the Sopranos on this show.
We're not going to do that right now. I think I might have just spoiled You didn't keep Uncle Junior alive.
Sounds like you were a terrible doctor. I was.
Maybe I was a good doctor, but inside as an actor, I was losing my mind. You kept him alive long enough so that he could shoot his neck.
Okay, there's the spoiler. People get very mad at us.
You're welcome.

We'll bleep that one out. So you get a job on Sopranos.
You start working. You eventually kind of – I also read that you were handing out flyers.
Were you one of the people that was like on the street in the village being like comedy show tonight? No, I was – it had nothing to do with my work. it had to do with I think I was handing out something for like air conditioning units or

something in Bryant Park wow and they just hired just people just to hand and I just hand off I had every job under the sun I did that I tempt I did cater waitering which I actually really liked because I waited tables after college and waiting tables was really tough for me because people if anybody get they get pissed about food like food people get pissed if it's not right but with cater waiting you don't have to deal with the people you just put the food in front of them you make the party look nice and then you break it down enough to talk to the people yeah i really like that gig and you get extras at the end i did some some cater waiter as well in college yeah you get all the extras at the end which they make way too much food every time yes and you devour it yeah it's just like vultures at the end of the night i remember doing the there was this big opening of the philharmonic and i remember putting giving out this dessert and in chocolate on the plate they had a score of one of the pieces they were playing that night in chocolate written on each plate and all these these people would just devour it, you know, at the table. And I'm like, like, just look at the plate for a second, man.
And also, if it's a catering event, no one's going to come up to you, the waiter, and complain about the food. It's like, well, you got it out of a giant pile.
I'm not going to send this one piece of chicken back to the cook. 100%.
This may be a dumb question, but question uh but arrested development and veep two of the funniest shows ever were they as funny like on set as they it felt like because you know there's a difference there's shows that you watch where you're like okay they're it's funny but you don't really feel like people are probably breaking you know like cracking up during the filming of it veep and arrested development it always felt like if you could see the full cut you guys were cracking up continuously and having to redo takes is that fair assessment yes and my favorite thing to watch is the gag reels because that's all we did was crack up to the point where julia once said to me because i was laughing so hard during a take she says tony you know you're not watching the show you're in the show and and actually oh on my desk here i always have i don't know i guess people who are listening can't see this but if you're watching can you see this this is a picture of julia and i cracking up in a scene do you see that yes i love it great did she make you laugh the most out of anyone you've worked with she She made, uh, yeah, she, she made, I will say her and Will Arnett made me laugh really hard and arrested. And, um, just so many people on that show made me laugh really hard, but Julia, because I was so close in proximity to her all the time, I could, we caught each other's like just noises of like going, Oh, okay.
I just like small things. And then to keep it together right behind her, that's just impossible.
Like you can't, it's just not humanly possible. So I would ruin take after take after take.
Your job is to stand next to Julia Louis-Dreyfus all the time. That a lot of people would say that's the best job in the entire world.
It is. She is.
And not only is she, you know, incredibly gifted with comedy and many other things but she's just a cool person she's a really normal kind human being and that that to me is that's what it's about and so both of the characters both in veep and arrested development i feel like you're exceptional at your physical comedy as well and not like a slapstick way like guy who gets hit in balls with you know a football it's more like just your facial expressions and and your awkwardness kind of just falls off the screen were you all is that like something you practiced to get to that point or did you always have a little bit of that in you where it's like I don't know you're really good at it I don't know I can't really describe it but it's incredible it comes from so much pain no um I uh yeah what happened in your life to get like that let's get into it let's get into the drama um no i think i was actually described my character on people was described as a bitchy mime because she didn't let me speak she never selena never let me speak so So all I could do was use nonverbal. Right.

And I just clowned it up behind her.

I would just do facial expressions.

And that was my way of communication was nonverbal.

So I got very used to just finding different ways to communicate when I couldn't say anything.

Yeah.

You know?

But I don't know where that comes from.

That's a great description of your character. One thing.

It always stood out to me in both of those roles that I don't know if it was the closeness of the writers to the actors or if you guys adjusted the scripts. But it seemed like the stuff that was written for the entire cast in both Veep and Arrested Development fit the characters so perfectly.
It was almost like you guys were coming up with it on the spot and then refining it, which I know is not how it works out. But what was what do you think the magic was between the writers rooms and the ensemble cast in both those shows that make it such like a seamless show to write and then perform? Yeah, I think a lot of it honestly was in both situations.
And I'll speak of Veep first, just because that's what I just came from most recently, is the writers were always working in a team. So even though David Mandel or Armando Iannucci was the showrunner, he always had writers around him to bounce ideas off, to give alts, to find, and then the actor would, also the actor was able to contribute stuff.
So there was this real collaborative back and forth. So it wasn't like there was one set thing and you hope that it worked.
There were many different alts. And then when they got to the edit, they see which one works the best.
So, and that's to me, like when you have that kind of control in comedy, it's like my way or the, you know, my way, the highway, like I'm right, this is the right joke. You're just shooting yourself in the foot because that collaboration and all that kind of arrogance and entitlement, it just sucks creative energy out of a space.
You've got to have that playtime, the team and bouncing, and that's where you're going to find the magic, I think. Yeah.
Is there one joke? I mean, if you want to hear a dumb question, here's a really dumb question. No, it's not.
Is there one joke from either one of those two shows? I'll give you the option, maybe one from each. What is your favorite joke from Veep and from Arrested Development? I would say my favorite, well, joke like line of Arrested Development was the one that immediately comes to mind is Jessica's Lucille's when she says it's something like it's a banana Michael how much can it be ten dollars she was so checked out like um and then but the joke of Arrested that made me laugh every time was uh Tobias's Blue Man Group yes and how he thought it was a support group for depressed men.
Like, I just, that and him going back and forth with Miss Feather Bottom, and I just, that made me laugh every time. Veep, there was just such, let me say this, the insult, the line, the insult insult that made me laugh the hardest, cause that show was full and the insults that were thrown at Jonah, who was the tall guy.
Yeah. Um, I think he was called once he was called once Frankenstein's monster.
If Frankenstein was made entirely of dead dicks. And I just thought that is, there's nothing better.
Yeah. I mean, the insults on Veep, that was, that was so much fun.
Just listening to you guys go back and forth with those. I, I can't even imagine it with the process was like coming up with them.
It's just, you probably have to keep it like a journal down every, when you're walking around and you just think of something and it's like, okay, this is going to go on the show. Yeah.
And they did. That's all they did.
Like these writers, they had their tablets and they would just write, constantly write and come up with ideas and say, oh, try this. And it was just playtime.
It was really fun. I don't think that you think we can ask a dumb question.
I don't think you can ask a dumb question. Was that the real White House house in veep well okay that's close okay all right nice um but i think it could be the real white house in deep world so we're gonna we're gonna frame it that way what kind of chapstick did selena gomez use? Selena Gomez.
Selena Myers. Selena Myers.

That was my dumb question. Yeah, yeah.

He totally meant to be right Let me ask Selena Gomez What her favorite chapter Maybe Burt's Bees Do your parents still hate Or not like Arrested Development And Veep? How is that possible? I won't say hate, Hate's not the right word. They just don't get it.
They never got it. To this day, the only thing they thought was funny was when Martin Short came on.
They were like, that guy's funny. That guy's funny.
Everything else, I don't get it. I don't understand it.
And to this day, to this day. What about Veep? Veep, they thought it was funny, but they had a lot of notes.

They were just, they were kind of like, that's their, they need to, they're a little me.

Wait, so.

They're a little me.

What, what do your parents find funny?

Like, what's their favorite?

They like the show Mysterious Benedict Society.

Okay. They like that.

And I think, you know, cause these are, it's a little more, I love it cause it's a little

more young adult. It's a little more, it's smart, but I would say, you know, because these are it's a little more I love it because it's a little more young adult.
It's a little more. It's smart.
But I would say, you know, kind of wholesome messaging and stuff like that. Veep and Arrested were a lot for that.
Yeah. Yeah.
It was a lot for that. Like, I mean, they're they they I mean, they told me once they said, oh, yeah, my friends, my friends love my friends love Arrested Development, Anthony.
get it but they love it and wait so and they've watched every episode i assume to support you it's questionable oh okay i was gonna say it would be yeah that's a quite a fate to be able to have to watch every episode of two series that you don't find funny yeah they don't i don't i don't think they have so i don't think that they might have seen some clips on youtube is a situation where like they might not understand the character entirely so when you go on svu do they watch you on law and order um i never asked them that i'm sure they did i mean i would think though it's very um i mean that's that was an intense show i think i i think my daughter i did it twice and not once i think my daughter was kidnapped and i had to cry the whole time um i don't know if they did i don't know if they did i have to ask him is that fun uh kind of like stepping out of what you're what you're known for and playing a character that's completely 180 degrees different from yeah it is fun like something like nine days this movie is really fun was really fun to do this character because he kind of has moments where he kind of fights back a little bit and is a little bit you know kind of buck tries to buck the system and stuff and gary was so emasculated so beaten down never had a voice so it's nice to do that um i will say when I did that law and order show um i remember i was in la and i was coming to new york and i lived in new york for many years so i called my friends and i was like hey let's go out i'm going to be shooting svu we'll go out at night you know go to dinner have drinks this will be so fun and then i do this show crying all day and i'm like i can't i don't want to go out i don't want to go out like you have to because you have to kind of live in this space where my daughter was kidnapped you know so it's like and then i'm just like yeah let's go have dinner have drinks like it was i've just i had never at that time experience because with comedy you're just like having a good time and coming up with bits and so you can kind of carry that and go out but like sometimes it's so heavy that you just, you just want to go home and sleep.

Wow.

That's interesting.

I mean,

that's,

that would be,

I guess the sign of a good actor.

Cause I would probably just be like,

yeah,

let's go out.

Let's yeah.

Whatever.

Or just a guy who can't separate his emotion.

Yeah.

Or you just keep like,

I don't know,

like a B in your pocket or something that can like some tweezers,

just pinch yourself until you cry.

Yeah.

And then after you're done,

you're like,

okay,

I feel great now that I'm not in pain anymore. That's good.
I love that you went, I love that you had the B in the first place. Like a live, a live B that I would let go and just go.
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So the one thing I really, really do love and no spoilers because people should watch it. They haven't I don't know what you're doing if you haven't you guys did nail the series finale which is almost impossible to do you see it all the time some of the most iconic shows in the world like people complained about the Seinfeld series finale we obviously had Game of Thrones Sopranos did you know in the moment Like, we've kind of, this is going to work? We've ended this in a perfect way? I don't know if, I mean, and all that credit goes to David Mandel and the writers, what they came up with.
I think you're always, it's so personal, and we worked on the show for seven years, and I love these people so much. And I love the character and the stories that I think there's always an anxiety of like, is this capping it the way it should be capped? I don't know.
I mean, you hope you hope for the best. And then thankfully it really worked, but you know, I'm sure everybody kind of hopes for the best.
Really? Yeah. It is remarkable.
It is probably like, it's been done very few times where people walk away and they're like yeah that was a good ending right the problem with that is now everyone's going to be demanding that you come back and like make a movie out of it yeah when's the movie happen yeah i'd love to do that because i think there is that there's that space you know well i don't want any spoilers but there's a there's a space in between that you see in the finale. And that'd be really fun to investigate what happened during that.
It would be. Are you saying there's a chance? Oh, I mean, I'm not saying that.
Those are the big wigs have to make that decision. But I know that me and everybody involved would just jump at the chance because it was a gift to do that kind of writing.
and to also work with, like I mentioned before, people with no ego, like no arrogance. It's a team.
In this business, you find a lot of that kind of control sometimes, that arrogance. It was just such a gift when people, you have a whole environment that's very giving like that.
So after a day on the set, if you're working on Arrested Development or Veep, are you a guy that goes home and you watch comedies in your spare time? Or do you turn on something that's more of a thriller, something a little bit darker? How does that affect your day? Do you come on still wanting to laugh more? I love that question. Thank you.
And I can't watch dark stuff. I can't watch dark stuff in general because half the time i'm like hey guess what guys this is on cnn somewhere why am i trying to be entertained by this heaviness like it's just i can't that really i don't like people going in a theater and wanting to be terrified of somebody being murdered hey like that's happened like i don't know what that does still to this day i don't understand that but to detox i'm the guy where i will go on a youtube spiral and i will watch um prank videos over and over and over and over okay i love that stuff so much it makes me laugh i watched the one have you seen recently with the the uh the the if like

a parent or something is asking a kid for more their kid for more toilet paper and they're in the bathroom and they say hey can you give me some toilet paper when the kid comes back they put nutella on their on their hand and then they go oh i'm so sorry and these kids are like did you just put poop

on my what

some of these kids

started gasping so sorry and these kids are like what did you just put poop on my what like and these some of these kids start gagging and then scream and it is it is the funniest thing and that kind of prank stuff just it makes me how laughing i love that stuff and like soldiers coming home to their families oh you're going sentimental okay the dog the dog's greeting the dog what What about puke videos? Do you like puke videos? No, I don't like puke videos. I didn't even know they were out there.
Yeah, no, they're out there. What about injuries, like really bad injuries? No, because then I'm like, I feel too bad for them.
I also do compilation videos where it's like the voice, like when people get chosen or the golden buzzer. But I never want to see somebody rejected.
Oh, man. So you're living, yeah, all positivity.
It's like it's all pot. And I think it's just because if I'm going to detox, I want that kind of energy of just laughing and positivity.
Just seeing somebody, their dreams, let me go, no, you're not right. It's like,'s like oh god i'm in the business of rejection why do i want to watch someone just get all right well i mean i i thought we found a common ground there i my prank videos i like to see someone get like horrifically maimed or injured but yeah do you like the scare ones what about the ones where they're like have you seen it the guy's like he's a bush and he and and people think, and they kind of jump out at him? Yeah.
Have you seen those? I like those, but I only like it when the person who's getting scared like fights back and will like knock out the guy who's scaring. You need that extra level.
Yeah, you need that extra level. No, that makes me too uncomfortable.
Yeah. Too uncomfortable.
I like prank videos when people go into stores and prank people. Then the person who's getting pranked flips out and beats the fuck out of the pranker.
Oh, my God. So you must have really liked that show, Scare Tactics.
Yeah. Which one was that? There was one.
It got, I think, I didn't watch it because it got really dark. Like people walking in and thinking their friend was murdered and all this kind of stuff.
And it like oh this is a fine line but you might have liked it. I like it when sometimes if somebody's doing a prank video out in public it almost becomes the person that's doing the prank becomes really unlikable because they're just messing with people like during the course of their day.
So then I like to see that person get to come up and that's what I'm saying saying. Okay, yeah, yeah.
I like when the pranker goes into a grocery store, pranks some random guy, then the guy turns around and beats the fuck out of the pranker. Oh, I see.
Yeah, yeah, that's heaven to me. Okay.
For example, in the bathroom video, the mom holds her hand out the door and puts Nutella on the kid. Yeah.
If the kid were to then actually crap in his hand and throw it in his mom's face, that would be funny because otherwise what you're looking at is a kid that's going to be scarred for life, probably grow up to be a great actor. Yes.
And have a lot of these issues come out on camera for our benefit. Yeah.
I want the kid to kick the dad in the balls. And like.
I'm sure. Yeah.
Those are out there. Yeah.
out there. Yeah, you know, prank videos.
Or just like you mentioned earlier, some of the outtake reels, the gag reels. I'll watch a gag reel from any TV show or any movie.
It doesn't matter if it's a comedy movie. In fact, it's probably funnier if it's a drama and people are laughing.
Yes, Game of Thrones has a gag reel reel but i think i like it also because you see there's very you can capture real authentic moments in that time yeah you know it's all a play you're seeing people act but when that happens you see them at their most authentic place yeah no i agree and it's it's the best to like like i said you can feel it when you watch a show and you're like these people people really enjoy being around each other. Yes, yes, yes.
How long does it take to tape like one season of Veep? Like how long were you guys actually with each other? I would say maybe from like September to March, April. Oh, wow.
That's a lot longer than I thought. Yeah.
And that's the same for, yeah. Because that was about, because when I shot Mysterious Benedict Society, it was like August to beginning of February.
So you're really like getting, you're really spending a lot of time with everyone and really getting to know them day to day. And the bummer about Benedict, I mean, it turned out beautifully, but we were in COVID, so we couldn't even hang out.
And I was, I went to Vancouver, you know, I was, I took the job. I was very excited, but I could fly.
I was hoping I could fly back and forth to LA. Once I got there, I couldn't come back home for five and a half months and we still couldn't hang out with each other.
So it was a really, that was a bummer because we really didn't get, have the opportunity to get to know each other. Wow, that is a bummer.

Who's your least favorite person on the set of Veep?

Let's get into it. Let's get into it.

Who's the biggest ego?

Oh, my God.

There's no one.

There's no one.

Biggest diva.

Biggest diva?

Yeah.

I would say there was – no, I won't say it.

Did you ever walk up to Julia and you're like hey Seinfeld like that was pretty fucking cool I think I would do that at one point even if I was her colleague I'd be like yeah remember Seinfeld like that was awesome it is wild though when with somebody, you know, obviously you're working so much with them and you forget about kind of their work history. And then you kind of wake up and you're like, wow, that Seinfeld, that was a cultural phenomenon.
Right. That was on every single, it might continue to be every single night.
Right. And it was also before, you know, TV has clearly changed in the last 10, 15 years.
It was very much there was appointment television shows, and it was also before you know tv has clearly changed in the last 10 15 years it was very much there was appointment television shows and that was one of them yeah what was your guys absolute appointment television show when you were younger that you never missed the simpsons i i was actually probably seinfeld yeah i watched seinfeld when it came out every single every single i think it was thursday night thursdays the simpsons started on Thursday, then it moved to Sunday, I think in part to not compete against Seinfeld. And Boy Meets World too.
I love Boy Meets World on Friday nights. Because what about pre – well, you might not have had a pre-VCR where you couldn't even tape it.
I had a pre-VCR where you could not miss it or nobody saw it. And mine was the Carol Burnett show.
Okay. Okay.
I've heard... With Tim Conway.
Yeah, and it felt like it was like you... I don't know.
It's something that we've definitely lost in TV where everything is on demand. That feeling of like, I have to be here.
I have to watch this. Same with music.
We would listen to the radio. And this was before...
I mean, we had cassettes, but you had to have your cassette ready to tape it. Right.
But if you miss that song, like you wouldn't have to wait until the next top 40 or whatever. I had some mixtapes and I think all the songs started about five seconds into the intro.
So it was like a rare treat when you got to hear the very beginning of that song. Yes.
You're like, Oh, that's the part I was missing. was missing.
So I've actually heard that I should go back and watch some comedies that were from before my era and the one that gets brought up a lot is I Love Lucy, which I've never watched before but I've heard that it holds up very well. I'm curious if you've gone back and watched shows that were around before you started watching television.
I remember watching I Love Lucy.

I just did the movie with Nicole Kidman

about the behind the scenes

where she plays Lucille Ball about I Love Lucy.

And it's really going to be amazing.

Aaron Sorkin directed it.

But I watched I Love Lucy.

I would say I would go back

and I'd watch the Dick Van Dyke show.

I think I'd like to.

I never, that's one I need to dive more into.

Yeah.

Well, Tony, this has been awesome, man.

We really appreciate you joining us.

We're big fans.

Everyone go check out Nine Days, which is in theaters now.

And also check out the Mysterious Benedict Society, which you can watch on Disney Plus right now.

Yeah. Thanks, guys, for having watch on Disney Plus right now.
Yeah.

Thanks, guys, for having me.

I really appreciate it.

Yeah.

You guys were fun.

Really fun.

Thank you, fellas.

All right.

Blessings, blessings, blessings.

All right.

Good to meet you, man.

Thanks so much.

Take care.

Thanks.

Hey, what's going on there, pal?

We saw you at the hockey game on.

Do I know you guys?

I'm Ryan Whitney.

I got a drink named after me.

Not a big deal.

Pink Whitney? That's what I thought. See you, fellas.
I invented the thing, you pigeon. Pink Whitney for legendary moments.
Okay, let's finish up. We got Fyre Fest of the week.
PFT, why don't you kick us off? Okay, Fyre Fest. Got a pretty big Fyre Fest this week.
I am leaving vacation. Oh, no.
So after this is over, I know Hank feels my pain. Oh, no.
No, he doesn't feel my pain, actually, because he doesn't. Oh, no.
But I'm going back. Because I never take vacation.
Yeah, that's true. I'm going back down to the house today.
Going to pack everything up and come back to the real world on Saturday. I'm going to miss the Jersey Shore.
I feel like I've become a Jersey Shore guy this summer. What are you going to do on Saturday? I don't know.
There's no pork rolls in the city. There's no pork roll, egg, and cheese, salt, and pepper ketchup.
I can't go down strictly to the beach and just lay out there. The best part of my day has been just going down to the beach on a Saturday and laying down for five hours in the sun.
I've reached peak tan PFT. This is as dark as I'll get hunting so it's all it's not the same hank it's not the same it's all downhill from here so uh yeah it's it's bittersweet bidding bidding sorry sorry thank you sweet apologize uh well i get to come back to work and football starting so that's nice that's sweet um all right my fire fest is uh quick short and quick my son is just swearing like non-stop and he's using it appropriately like in the correct context which makes it way worse like if he drops if he drops something he just says oh shit so it's like he knows the meaning of it you know what i mean it would be one thing if he said it and it had no meaning but he knows exactly like when something goes wrong he just says oh shit are you the only swear in the house or is is like I'm the main swearer in the house I'd say so we're working on it I can help if you need I'm trying to go yeah I've been using OG's yeah OG's has been the it's fudge OG's is not really I mean oh shit works like he's again he's swearing if you're gonna your child's going to swear, at least have him do it like in the right context.
We've got that knocked out. Like dad, look at this big ass rock I just found.
Yeah. No, drop it and say, oh shit.
This is a shitload of rocks. Yeah.
Right. And then he also says, oh fuck sometimes too.
So yeah. Maybe.
It's got, you know, this is, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? You live your life one way, never swearingaring like myself and then all of a sudden your son wakes up and decides he's gonna swear he just learned him out of nowhere which is crazy do they say that on bluey yeah no no no so yeah i'm fucked don't listen we should yeah we should have jake just show up yeah uh-huh. Oh, geez.
The nanny. Yeah.
With Jake.

All right, Jake, you're fire fest.

Yeah, so a few days ago, I put my water bottle in my backpack, and I didn't close it correctly,

and everything got wet.

It's pretty simple.

What?

That's pretty bad.

Time has to be like four times a week.

Brutal.

Just everything's...

What did you say when you opened it up and looked in?

Fudge.

Fudge.

Oh, Fud.

Oh, Fudruckers. Yeah.
Good burger place. All right, Billy.
I was inspired by Hank saying he wanted to get a six-pack for Grit Week. Wait, you – oh, next year.
Well, this year. That's weird because you said it was going to be this year.
No, he said August. August.
He didn't specify. So it still is August.
I might have said Great Week. Didn't happen.
Yeah. I thought it was when I said it.
I believed in myself. I think you pushed back pretty hard when I said that's ridiculous.
And you guys all called me a hater. Listen, it's one of those things.
If it's going to happen, you have to be the person to believe it. But you didn't even believe it.
I did at the time. A couple weeks later after a few pops, a couple days at the beach.
Moving. Moving.
Let's just say next year. Next grit week.
Let's do it, Hank. It is bulking season now.
I'm going to say. Now that Roan pointed this out, now that the sun is setting before 8 o'clock, it's time to bulk.
I'll just throw it out there. I'm not trying to be a hater, but I don't think you'll have a six-pack for next group week either.
That's a lie. I will.
Okay, we do this all year, every year. Well, I actually thought Hank was going to do it, and I was like, I can't have Hank having a six-pack.
I mean, not having a six-pack. Wait, so you got one? No.
No, this is the worst part. I started drinking green tea all day, speeding up my metabolism, just ended up losing all my muscle mass and don't even have a six pack.
Wait, I thought that was because of the vaccine. No, the vaccine's awesome.
You should get all five and Joe Biden, please give me $1,000 for being a vaccine influencer. You definitely lost your muscle mass because of the vaccine.
There are reports. Going from you.
Studies. Billy studies.
Many people are saying. you were trying to get a six-pack yeah i was like yeah it's cut like for the first time it just didn't work yeah it just didn't work damn i'm sorry sorry that apologize to you yeah it sucks and then and then uh cam took a picture of me at frolf and it looked like a like a methad.
Disc golf. Yeah, disc golf, please.

Oh, by the way, whoever that guy is, the photographer that took the pictures,

I don't know.

I'm about to pay that guy to just become my personal photographer.

Yeah, they're awesome pictures. I saw the picture of me throwing the disc golf.

How did we get him?

He's with Kyle.

Gay Pat texted me, and he goes, are you the rock?

Just Pat now.

Just Pat now, yeah, just Pat. How did you you the rock? Just Pat now.
Just Pat now.

Yeah, just Pat. Wait, how did you get the picture? Because we got tagged in it on Instagram from the people that did it.
I don't know how that camera works that he has, but it just adds muscles. I don't look like that, but now I have to have all my pictures come from that guy.
Yes. Great picture.
All right, Hank. All right.
This is kind of weird weird but i am going to use my my serious one of my let's get serious cards on the show we don't do it often uh but we did just interview someone and he was talking about the importance of if you have a microphone and trying to help people and just like doing what you can when you can uh so i just thought i'd share like last weekend i had an aunt suddenly and like tragically pass away from a house fire that happened when she was asleep it's been like a very sad and surreal week for the family uh and i just felt like i should it's it's a minor thing but just saying like you know check your fire alarms if you have like a bunch of shit plugged in make sure like you're not like i can't help whoa siri make sure you don't have like a bunch of like extension cords on extension cords on extension cords like and it's just one of those things where it's like i i know in my past like i've i've like cooked and like my firearm went off and i just like unplugged it yeah got rid of it and never forgot about it um so it's one of those things i just felt like i should share it i know it's been like a weird crazy summer for me i might not have handled it the best but i appreciate you guys and the listeners i know pft says every time but I love you guys too. I love share it.
I know it's been like a weird, crazy summer for me. I might not have handled it the best, but I appreciate you guys and the listeners.

I know PFT says it every time, but I love you guys too.

I love you guys.

And yeah, it's weird to get this serious.

No, but it's a good point because you're right.

You're like how many times I've like cooked, fire alarm goes off, take the batteries out,

don't put them back in.

Right.

Like everyone's done that.

I've taken an entire smoke detector off a wall and just like put it down on a counter and forgot about it. But yeah, check your batteries right now.
And yeah, be careful. So like with the extension cords? Yeah, it's like if you have like whatever, the extension cords with six converters, don't plug another extension cord with six converters into that because you need the plugs.
Like obviously like some houses can't take all that much power yeah be safe out there yeah yeah all right well thank you hank i appreciate it sorry i mean i just i did i was i was thinking about saying something and then the interview on monday when he as he was saying it i was like i felt like he was talking to me i was like all right yeah i should i was i was iffy on if i was gonna say something or not i probably wasn't going to until he said he said it, and I was like, all right. I should say this.
There's a sign of when we actually get serious because we don't do the browser sound. Right.
So that's when you know it's actually serious. So please do that.
Thank you, Hank. Billy, any recap? Yeah.
It's going to be hard to follow that up. Funny stuff.
You got this. Oh, you were planning on funny stuff? Yeah.
Just trying. See what I did there? I just listened to the mood for you.
Yeah, I did that for you. We got Carson Wentz walking around at practice right after surgery.
No boot. So who knows what's going on there.
No boot? Is that like no cap? Yeah, no boot. Isn't that the sushi place in Beverly Hills everyone goes to? No boot? No boot, yeah.
That's off the 405. No, are you sure? PCH.
Oh, it's PCH, yeah. But don't go like around 5 o'clock.
Like 4 to 9 p.m.? Forget about it. You're not going anywhere.
Urban Meyer has not announced whether Trevor Lawrence is the starting quarterback week one, which is, you know. Intrigue.
Trevor Lawrence trending downward. Sam Ellinger trending upward.
Stock up, stock down. You know, I'm just saying.
Billy, if Sam Ellinger has a better career than Trevor Lawrence, like, we need – I will quit my job to become your –

my only job in life will be to be your PR agent to just remind people.

Like I'll be one of those Jesus freaks who's like,

has the Lord saved your day?

Like have you remembered that Billy Football correctly predicted

Sam Ellinger over Trevor Lawrence?

That's my promise to you.

Also, a little fun stat, Cam Newton needs 1,426 yards

to pass Steve Young, Troy Aikman, and Kurt Warner on the all-time passing list. Ooh, wow.
And then also there's a bunch of funny local commercials coming out featuring NIL athletes, which I think we should start reviewing because some of them are hilarious. Yes.
I like that idea, yeah. Also, when we got to the hotel last night, I turned on NFL Live, and they were talking about Jameis, and all of them were like, Jameis should be the starter.
And Hasselbeck was like, yeah, you know, Jameis is young, 27. If Sean Payton figures it out, this is your starter for the next 13 years.
What? We're doing that thing where everyone's going to be Tom Brady. He's ruined it for everyone else where it's like, oh, yeah.
It looks like we're set for the next 15 to 20 years if you have a good rookie quarterback.

Yeah, like just the Bears are now set for 24 years.

Think about that.

That's pretty good.

By the way, I think I'm in on the Bears this year.

The clips that have been coming out of training camp are incredible.

I know what you're doing.

No, I'm serious.

Yep.

Yeah.

I bet on them. Yeah.
I'll put a future down. Yeah, I put a future on them.
Love it. I'm sorry for believing in the Bears.
No, no, no, you do. Let me be the first to say the Bears are back.
Yeah, you do. It's all Bears.
Alright, numbers. 1 to 100.
I got the random generator. 69.
99. 18.
8. Billy and Jake are looking.
Noah. 10.
Noah's got 10. 44.
Okay. Everyone remember your number.
That's too many numbers. I don't think anyone said it.
Salmon can swim in salt and fresh water. Can we go back to Wednesday real quick? Can you run back that fact? Oh, the one about elephants? Yeah.
Okay, so elephants look at humans like humans look at puppies. Elephants think that humans are cute the same way we think puppies are cute because we're like small creatures to them.
Okay. That's cool.
That's good. That is crazy.
I listened to it back when I was editing it, and I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah.

So they want to scratch us behind our ears with our trunks and stuff.

They want to give us boops?

Yeah, they want to poop us.

We're very good boys.

I love it.

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