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Adam Devine is an actor, comedian, writer and producer known for his roles in various comedy films, and the hit shows "Workaholics" and "The Righteous Gemstones". His new movie "The Outlaws" comes out on Netflix July 7th. Adam Devine joins This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von to chat about growing up in Nebraska, repping No Fear for life, the coolest kid he ever met, making it big with Workaholics, birthday calls from Ric Flair, Berlin party dungeons, why we need good comedy movies more than ever, and more. Adam Devine: https://www.instagram.com/adamdevine/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Lucy: Go to http://lucy.co and use code THEO to get 20% off your first order. Morgan & Morgan: If you’re ever injured, visit https://forthepeople.com/thispastweekend or dial Pound LAW (#529). Their fee is free unless they win. ------------------------------------------------ Music: "Shine" by Bishop Gunn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3A_coTcUek&ab_channel=BishopGunn ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: tpwproducer@gmail.com Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	I'm here today at the Wynn Casino in the green room.
	We just got off a stage.
	And so grateful to be here.
	Had a wonderful show on Sunday night.
	Today's guest is an actor, a comedian.
	He's a creator and a star of the hit show Workaholics.
	And he has a new movie on Netflix that drops.
	I think it's on right now.
	Today's guest is Mr. Adam Devine.
	Shine that light on me.
	I'll spin and tell you story.
	Shine on me.
	You find no small sweet gross much during Nashville and here, huh?
	That's what friends are for.
	God, friends.
	Sparkling.
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	I'll have some crack one open.
	Zip, zip.
	Dude, remember they used to have that commercial about the mustard in the car or whatever?
	Like the Grey Poupon.
	Yeah, remember that?
	Yeah, I do.
	And everybody, it was like, it was so, yeah.
	And every dad and uncle would be like, pass the gray poupon.
	And you're like, bitch, we don't have that.
	We just got that yellow stuff.
	Yeah, we don't have that because you're a construction worker.
	Yeah, dad, you work for the railroad.
	We don't have gray coupon here.
	Yeah, dude.
	That doesn't go on our, on our bratwursts.
	Yeah, we had this guy.
	He, this guy on Lambda, he used to be like, pass that yellow ketchup, he would say.
	Yellow ketchup?
	Yeah, that's what he used to call it.
	I think he was in like a war or something.
	He had some like, he might have had like some, he was in like Iwo Jima or something.
	But let me see this.
	There it is right there.
	That's the guy.
	Yeah, that's the guy, dude.
	Well, it looks like there was a lot of different guys over the years.
	They didn't stick with the one spokesman.
	Yeah, that was, this was like, and this was for a lot of, this was the richest guy we'd ever seen.
	When they had this, we were like, no.
	Well, also, this is still the richest guy I've ever seen.
	Who eats with a full-on TV tray and their back of their car?
	That's pretty awesome.
	That's sick.
	That's sick, dude.
	That's pretty, that's Rolls-Royce.
	Every time I'm like, I don't really want like a real fancy car because I don't give a shit, you know?
	But then like, I'll see a Rolls-Royce.
	I'll see like DJ Khaled in a Rolls-Royce or something.
	I'm like, oh, that looks pretty cool, though.
	There's like feet warmers and a, like just the back part can be a convertible, which is kind of sick.
	Really?
	I've never seen that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, DJ Khaled.
	I haven't seen that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I think, yeah, when I see like a super, I don't know.
	I don't like, I think the fancier you get, the fancier you can get used to.
	And that to me always seems like super spooky.
	Yeah.
	Cause then all of a sudden, you know, yeah, look at that.
	Look at back convertible.
	That's sick.
	Wow.
	That is kind of neat.
	That's so cool.
	But that's like, hey, driver, you don't deserve to be in a convertible.
	But then also, like, then you have to have a driver all the time.
	Like, if you're like quickly, you just want to go smash some Carls Jr. or something.
	And then you got to like call in the driver.
	Yeah.
	That's a lot.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's too much.
	And people don't realize this.
	Somebody took me one time on a ride in a Roll Royce or whatever, and they said we had to park so far away because they didn't want anybody dinging the doors or anything.
	So we had to find a spot like in a lot that was like, you know, it was about a half mile away from the city.
	From the city?
	Yeah.
	You got to then get a car to get into the city.
	Absolutely.
	We had to have an Uber spot, dude.
	You know, I take it back.
	I don't need a Rolls.
	Yeah, we don't need that, dude.
	What do you drive?
	You're like, a Rolls Royce.
	Yeah.
	I want to get in the backseat, but someone needs to drive the damn thing.
	That's true.
	No, I got a, I bought a Camaro Super Sport convertible 2011, like right when Workaholics came out.
	I'm like, whoop, whoop.
	Give me some of this good broom broom.
	And then I never bought a new car.
	I just have that car still.
	It's like 13 years old now?
	10, 12?
	Yeah, but if you ever leave your family, I think that's one thing.
	You have to leave your family in that.
	Well, the Camaro Supersport is the car you leave families in.
	Yeah, you do not.
	You don't have a family if you have that car.
	If you have that car, you're going to leave your wife.
	Yeah, that's the car.
	That's like, hey, this car.
	It even has a goodbye Mrs. button on it.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	And you're leaving with like the Applebee's waitress.
	Yeah, that's who you're vrooming off with.
	Yeah, you're listening to the Joe Dirt soundtrack, which people don't even know they had that.
	Oh, do they?
	I bet it rips, dude.
	I bet it freaking rips.
	Gotta be good, man.
	Yeah, I'm doing my new movie, The Outlaws.
	July 7th.
	July 7th.
	It's a Happy Madison movie.
	Congratulations.
	Thanks, dude.
	It was the sort of dream gig is to work with them because, you know, like you just said, Joe Dirt.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like so many goddamn classic movies.
	So, yeah, me and Spade just wrote a movie together, actually.
	Oh, sick.
	No.
	Dude, Riffraff hit me up and said he's involved.
	I'm almost positive he said.
	I'm going to have to go back and look, but I swear.
	Riffraff is not involved.
	I mean, look, blessings to Raph, baby.
	I think if I were coming out with like a fucking never-ending bubblegum or something, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, dude.
	Or if I were coming out with like a, you know, like a shoe that made you jump so high that all the bitches wanted you.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Jump like Raph.
	Yeah.
	I mean, like.
	Raffair.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Air Raff.
	Like you're literally, dude, what about Jiriff Raff?
	Who would that if they had an animal called the Jiriff Raff?
	Joe Riffraff.
	Yeah.
	I thought you were saying like Driff Raff, like like Tokyo Drift.
	Drift Raff would be good.
	That's a good movie for him.
	Or is that a cool go-kart track that he starts?
	Driftraff.
	Somebody already did it.
	Oh, dude.
	That's what sucks about the internet is you have a great idea and then obviously some 13-year-old in Michigan beat you to it.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's the one downside of the internet.
	Yeah, because it used to be if you had a good idea in a moment, you could just say it was your good idea.
	Dude, I was convinced that I came up with the Rocketeer.
	Remember the Rocketeer?
	The guy with the packet?
	The pack?
	I was convinced that I had that idea first.
	And then when it came out, I was like, how did they know?
	How did they steal my idea?
	It was in my journal.
	I'm in like third grade or however old I was.
	I was convinced.
	How'd they get in there?
	How'd they steal it?
	Who did it?
	Who did it?
	Yeah, somebody.
	They had a rumor going around our area that pillows were taking people's ideas and sending them to the government.
	Who was?
	Pillows.
	All the pillows, big pillow.
	Like sleeping pillow.
	Yeah, it was like big pillow was like fucking everybody.
	And so people weren't using pillows, I remember, for almost eight months.
	And people were pissed.
	Yeah.
	Like, we ain't fucking oh, yeah.
	That dream.
	So then you're just smashing blankets together, trying to form a pillow.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You're just sleeping on banks of marshmallows.
	Yeah.
	Sleeping on your chubbiest brother's midsection.
	Fuck you, Table.
	But the Outlaws, no, no, first of all, congrats on being a movie star.
	Yeah, dude.
	How weird is that?
	It's very interesting.
	When we knew each other way back in the day, I didn't look at Tableau.
	You were going like this is the biggest podcaster in the game.
	And you didn't look at me going like, this guy's a movie star.
	That's not what we thought.
	No, I just thought here's a guy in a hallway.
	Yeah.
	Here's a fellow white kid doing comedy.
	Yeah, here's another one of those chuckle honky.
	Yeah, there's another chuckle honky.
	That classic term.
	And look, whoever, someone else probably made that term.
	If you bring it up right now, there's some third.
	Yeah, there's a chuckle honky.
	And it's just our photos on a giraffe, weirdly.
	Don't know why.
	But some other kid drew us in his journal.
	Some third grader in Minnesota put us in his journal.
	And it's actually our pictures.
	Like, how did he even do that?
	Yeah, he wrote podcaster underneath your photo, actor underneath mine.
	And the year was 2012, and look at us now.
	Wow.
	But no, congratulations.
	Well, it's interesting because you start off just as a comedian.
	Yep.
	I mean, that's.
	Yeah, essentially.
	I mean, we knew each other since like being in the hallways of the improv back in the day.
	But was your goal always to be an actor?
	I don't know if you and I talked about this or not.
	I know you've had work all the time.
	I know you've had a string of movies.
	I know all of this.
	But I'm just wondering where your original idea was because it's interesting when a comedian goes, they get into movies and they become a movie star.
	Not a lot of people have that path, so it's just different.
	You know, you're a rare person we can talk to about that.
	Yeah, I think, yeah, it was kind of always the dream.
	The dream was basically like Sandler's path, you know, like seeing what he was able to do, do stand-up.
	I wanted to do SNL that that just never came to be.
	And then do movies.
	Yeah, essentially I started, when I was a kid, I watched a lot of like Evening at the Improv.
	Remember that A ⁇ E show with like Bud Freeman, he'd wear his monocle and then they bring up the comics.
	I never saw it.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Was it that Oga?
	Is that the guy with the well, Bud Freeman's the improv owner and he died?
	He just died, yeah, not too long ago.
	But he, yeah, so I like loved I stand up and then you watch so much of it and I'm sure you kind of did the same thing.
	It wasn't like for me, it wasn't like the best comics.
	They didn't inspire me because I was like, I'm not that smart.
	Like I can't figure that out shit out.
	Oh, you mean like a Louis C. Kerr, a Stephen Wright or something like that?
	Or like a Chris Rock or somebody?
	Yeah, Chris Rock.
	You know, where you're just like, oh, God, these guys are geniuses.
	It was like the guys I saw on TV that like weren't that good.
	And I was like, well, I could be that good.
	Right.
	I know I could be that good.
	If that's what takes, that's what it takes to get on TV.
	I know I can be that successful.
	I can do that.
	Yeah.
	And so, and then even at the improv had everybody, but it was watching some of these people and they were like, oh, they're not that funny, dude.
	I can be that funny.
	Right.
	And then I got a job at the improv, which I think is probably around when I met you.
	And that was in like 2004.
	Was Anthony Clark working there then, too?
	Do you remember that?
	Anthony Clark wasn't.
	Yeah, he was there all the time.
	But he wasn't working there then.
	No.
	Because I would see.
	Oh, no.
	He never worked there.
	He never worked there.
	He was just always.
	He was always there with us.
	He was there then.
	That's what I mean.
	Yeah.
	I thought he worked there.
	He was drinking at the bar so much that we should have paid him.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, Anthony.
	I haven't seen Anthony Clark in years.
	And no one has.
	Wow.
	He was a television star.
	I mean, he was on one of the biggest shows.
	Yeah.
	Yes, Deer, I think it's Deer.
	And then his other shows, Boston Common.
	Oh, yeah.
	Some of that.
	Deep cut references.
	I have to get, dude, I would love to sit and talk with Anthony Clark.
	I bet he'd be really interested.
	Oh, yeah.
	Wow.
	I haven't seen him in years.
	Anyway, sorry, I hadn't thought about that.
	So you worked at the improv.
	Yeah, and then it was like, it was.
	You crushed when you got on stage.
	We did a show at USC together one time, I remember.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And that might have been maybe when Warcolix was out.
	And then after that came out, it was just, you just went into this other world that a lot of us aren't in.
	Yeah, well, we got so fucking lucky.
	You know, it was like, That's what it is.
	It's like you just sort of prepare and try to put yourself in the right place at the right time.
	And then you get your shot, and hopefully, you're able to hit it, you know?
	Yeah.
	And we got so lucky.
	It was funny, like, when Workaholics came out, because like I was kind of the kid at the improv where I was like working the door and shit, and then I'd come on stage, and like there wasn't a ton of respect where it was like, yeah, we know he worked here.
	Right.
	And yeah, sometimes that guy would even be up there.
	He'd be mid-order.
	He'd be taking his fries.
	They'd call his name.
	I remember watching one guy do a second time with fries in his hand.
	Yeah, so it wasn't like a, and then as soon as the show came out, Workhawks came out, then all of a sudden he was like, all the older comics were like, oh, hey, what's up, man?
	I'm like, bitch, you don't know me.
	Oh, so now we're friends.
	Okay.
	That's a good point.
	Yeah.
	Hollywood is weird like that, man.
	It is weird.
	There's a certain, sometimes there's a certain, like, you want someone needs to have the same experiences as you.
	And then that can bring you, it can make you feel like you can talk to somebody or things are a little more comfortable.
	Yeah.
	There are weird lessons.
	Well, yeah, there's, there's like, there's levels to this shit, as Meek Mill said.
	Yeah.
	And it's true.
	It's like you just talk to people that are like, I feel like we are kind of in the same class within like a few years of each other, kind of know, you know, and then there's like kids that are coming up that you're like, oh, they were the class beneath, beneath us.
	And it's not that they're worse or better.
	It's just that they were a different, they came up at a different time.
	Oh, yeah.
	I feel like it's, it's like whoever you were like doing open mics with or like doing the like first group of like bringer shows with, that's who you're like, hey, hey, we're going to be friends forever because we performed in a Chinese restaurant, you know, because we're performing when there's literally bowling happening right here.
	Like we're getting heckled by bowling pins.
	So we're always going to know each other.
	Yeah, there's something kind of, there's something.
	It's weird that, yeah, there's something weird about that when you come in at the same time.
	Who kind of introduces you to somebody else is interesting too, because it's almost like how you, if somebody like you get co-signed kind of by somebody to be, you know, because some people, it's like you almost, some people, they get, their lives get so busy, it's like, it's hard for them to just be friends with every single person that comes along too, you know, as their career gets busier and they get more known.
	I know, dude, like now I go, I'll go into the improv and shit and I like won't know people.
	Which is, which is like, that sucks.
	Cause it used to be like you go to the comedy club and you know everybody.
	Yeah.
	Like you know everybody, including like the weight staff and you just, you just know people.
	Oh, yeah.
	And then now you're, I'm like, I go in there and I'm like, hello?
	I used to be a comedian back in the day.
	I would go on this very stage.
	That's awesome, man.
	Well, congrats, man.
	Congrats on having a SETI career in movies, too, because I know that probably gets pretty tricky.
	I want to think about what that's like with you.
	But first, I want to think a little bit about, yeah, the new movie.
	Because Tom Segura has his special is coming out on the same day.
	Yeah, I think it's the same day or just about the same day.
	That's awesome.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's awesome.
	He was just on.
	His episode's up right now.
	Yeah, Tom is so funny.
	Yeah, so tell me about Outlaws, man.
	I want to know a little bit about it.
	I know that.
	Yeah, producer on it.
	The writers, Ben, I always butcher his last name.
	Like, I got called out on it.
	My agent was like, you're fucking up this guy's name.
	It's Z-A-Z-O-V-E.
	Ben?
	Zazovov.
	Zazov.
	Great guy.
	Awesome writer.
	Ben and Evan Turner.
	They wrote the movie.
	Super funny.
	They brought me this idea years ago at the tail end of Workaholics.
	And they're like, it's your, it's meet the parents meets heat.
	And so it's if your parents are, your future in-laws are international bank robbers.
	Okay.
	And they rob the bank that you work for.
	And so, yeah, so there, there they are.
	And we cast Pierce Brosnan and 007.
	007, baby.
	Oh, my God.
	Yeah, man.
	Nina Dobrev plays my fiancé.
	Michael Rooker's in it.
	You know, Lil Rell.
	Oh, Lil Rail's in there.
	My boy Blake Anderson has a small part in it.
	Yeah, so the cast is sick.
	So they pitched me this idea, and I'm like, just a fucking idiot, dude.
	And I was like, that is a brilliant idea for a movie.
	I want to do this movie.
	Wrote it down in my notebook, lost that notebook immediately, forgot all about it.
	And years later, I'm like looking through an old notebook being like, oh, what brilliance did I write down?
	What gold?
	And you're like, gross, hated, bad idea, stupid.
	Yeah, recipe.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It just is apples.
	It's just saying to eat fruit.
	And then, and then it was this idea.
	And I was like, oh, fuck, that's brilliant.
	I reached out to those guys.
	I was like, hey, I'm sure John Cena is attached or someone has already beat me to this.
	Yeah, Flava Flav.
	Flava Flav is probably, you know, that movie star Flava Flave.
	And then they were like, no, nothing.
	So I developed it with them.
	We took it to Netflix, sold it, and then brought on Happy Madison from Sandler's Company.
	Oh, that's great.
	Yeah, it was cool.
	It's cool when it works out, you know?
	Yeah, well, it's so hard to get a movie created into the finish line, especially these days.
	It seems even harder.
	Dude, especially comedies nowadays, you have to like mask it.
	This is why it's a big action comedy because you really have to go like action, action.
	And then it's a comedy.
	But this, it's just like, it's why I was so happy to work with Sanders Company is we could just go full steam on the comedy as opposed to, you know, you watch comedies nowadays and you're like, no, this isn't a fucking comedy.
	You're not, where's the jokes?
	Like, where's the bits?
	Bad.
	Yeah.
	Comedy's gotten kind of bad, huh?
	Yeah, it kind of sucks.
	Yeah.
	Movie comedy.
	Movie comedy.
	Yeah.
	There's still good shows and stuff, but like, yeah, movie comedy, it's, it's hard.
	But which luckily, my theory is I think I think like Marvel ruined it.
	I feel like superhero movies kind of ruined comedies because they people watch, you go to the theater and you expect to watch something that costs $200 million to make.
	And comedy movies aren't that.
	So you're like, well, why would I spend the same amount of money to go watch a little comedy in the theater if I could spend the same amount of money and go see something that is worth $200 million?
	Right.
	And then they still make those movies kind of funny.
	Like, I mean, they're not comedies, but there's like...
	There's ants.
	You're like, oh my God, is that raccoon talking?
	This is hilarious.
	Which it is.
	But yeah, so it's not like a real comedy.
	And then now they, there used to be something like every studio would put out several comedies every year.
	And there was like 45 or 46 comedies in the theaters every year.
	So about every week or every other week or so, there's a new comedy in the theaters.
	And then now last year, there was like six or seven.
	That's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	And the crazy thing is, is it feels like people need comedy more than ever.
	Yeah, I feel like they want it.
	I feel, yeah.
	So that's what this movie was.
	It was like, and there's no like hidden message.
	I feel like nowadays, people, like, you get to the end of what you think is a comedy and you're like, is that about global warming?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You're like, is this, is there just like some deep hidden message that I'm supposed to recycle more?
	Or like, you know, there has to be something else.
	Right.
	Oh, the moon is trans?
	Is that what?
	Is that just a drive?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I guess we do have to think about that, don't we?
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	There's, there's a lot of, what was, it was a great movie.
	And that's what your David Spade and your movie is about?
	Yeah.
	Trans Moon.
	Yeah.
	You guys are just the people to spread that message.
	Oh, it's about transportation.
	It's about a lot of vehicles admitting who they really are.
	Cars wanting to be motorcycles, motorcycles wishing they were scooters.
	Yeah, it's where things are, man.
	Oh, dude, there's a riveting scene where a short bus admits that he's a skateboard.
	Yeah.
	And it's powerful.
	Whoa.
	It's worth doing it.
	We're doing it.
	But the great thing is I feel like you could walk into a place and pitch that.
	Yeah.
	And they wouldn't laugh you out of the room.
	They'd be like, okay.
	Well, that's the thing, you know, because I like my job now is kind of, well, obviously acting and that kind of stuff.
	But then like I'm pitching a lot.
	So I like pitch movies.
	And every executive is like, yeah, but why should we make this movie now?
	And you're like, because it's funny.
	Yeah.
	Because it's funny, bitch.
	What do you mean?
	Like, whatever happened to just like, we want to make people laugh.
	Like, it doesn't need to be.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	It doesn't need to attach itself to some like hook in the world right now.
	It doesn't.
	I mean, if it does and that's the movie, then sure.
	Right.
	But it doesn't always have to.
	It could just be like, whatever happened to just it's funny for funny's sake.
	I know.
	I feel like Super Bad was one of the last movies that they kind of had like that in some ways.
	Like that was really just super funny.
	Like, I mean, there's been a lot of other funny movies.
	I'm not saying that.
	Yeah, but I get what you're saying.
	It was like the hangover, Super Bad.
	It was like that was sort of the last gasp of like for no reason at all.
	Like this is just fucking funny because it's funny.
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	But that's, did you feel good about it?
	Was it exciting?
	So this is, it's like there's guns, there's weapons in it.
	People are, so there's also, there's like a, like, what's the premise of the film again?
	Oh, sir.
	So, sure.
	So my, me and Nina's character, we're about to get married.
	I've never met their, her parents, my future in-laws.
	They come in the week before the wedding.
	They've, I've never even seen photos of these people.
	They're like ghosts.
	And they're just the coolest motherfuckers.
	It's Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin, and they take me out on like night on the town.
	We go skydiving.
	I get a tattoo.
	I get, like, we get, I get blackout drunk with them.
	And I'm like the straight-laced banker.
	So this is out of the, uh, out of the norm for me.
	And I go to the bank the next day and I'm talking to Lil Rell, who I, who is a security guard, and I'm like, dude, last night was incredible.
	I just need a nice, chill day at work.
	You know, but my in-laws are awesome.
	And then click, click, there's a gun in my head.
	Two people are robbing my bank.
	And they have masks on and they say something that leads me to believe that they're my in-laws.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Yeah, dude.
	And then they end up owing someone money because they like bailed with the money last time.
	The person who cleans their money, like in heat, the person who cleans their money, they stole that money from them and bailed.
	And so they owe that woman kidnaps my fiancé and is like, if you don't give me $5 million within the end of the week, I'm going to kill your daughter.
	And we have to go rob a series of banks to get my fiancé back.
	Yeah.
	Dang.
	Yeah, it's fun.
	It's huge fun.
	Yeah, it's really fun.
	How long did it take to shoot something like that?
	I had like, you know, two months or something.
	Were you guys able to shoot it in California?
	No, dude.
	You don't shoot things in California anymore.
	Yeah.
	Unless it's drugs in the park.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we shot it in Atlanta.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah.
	I like Atlanta.
	It was fun.
	Yeah, Atlanta's cool, man.
	I mean, it's definitely, it's grown so much in the past 20 years, that city.
	That's amazing, bro.
	Congratulations.
	So this is your first movie you're executed producing too?
	No, so I produced Game Overman, which is the movie I did with the Workaholics guys.
	Okay.
	And that was another action comedy on Netflix.
	But that one was like, this movie is, I feel more accessible.
	Like, I feel like parents would want to watch this movie.
	Game Overman, like, there's multiple dicks that are cut off.
	Yeah.
	I show my dick and my butthole in the movie.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, dude.
	You got to check that out.
	And, you know, check it out.
	And yeah, so very, very funny movie, but I feel like this is a little more accessible to everyone.
	I haven't seen this.
	I can't believe I didn't even know about this.
	Yeah, dude.
	Yeah.
	It's so hard to know about things these days.
	Do you feel like that too?
	Yeah, there's so much happening.
	Yeah, I feel like there's just too much shit that's out there.
	And we used to, and also our phones are a device that we go to now for entertainment.
	There used to be one device, really.
	Yeah.
	You know, it was your television, and then it became your television and your computer.
	And that's when streaming really was at an insane level, you know?
	And then now it's your television, your computer, and your phone, you know?
	So I feel like it's.
	Yeah, and it's also like the algorithm just kind of pushes things your way.
	And if for whatever reason it didn't push it your way, then you have no, no clue.
	Oh, dude, I walked into the last blockbuster probably one years ago.
	And I walked in there, dude, and it was like, it was unbelievable.
	And this is what was the most fascinating to me about it.
	First of all, somebody that worked in there was like, where was this?
	They would look over their glass at you like you were being an asshole, like, which is like how they always, one person always used to do that.
	And one day would be cool, like trying to sell you weed or something, you know?
	Yeah.
	This is in Bend, Oregon.
	It's the last one.
	Oh, wow.
	So there it is right there.
	And that's because they don't get internet up there or they're just really.
	I think just this lady doesn't want it to shut down, whoever this is in the picture, maybe.
	Yeah, that's probably her.
	But it's crazy.
	I mean, you go in and it's you walk through the aisles.
	And the interesting part is how many options there are.
	You don't realize how many, because when we look on a screen, there's like the 10 or 12 options.
	And even if you look around, you can barely find.
	But in the store, I mean, suddenly I'm like, oh, what about this movie?
	I hadn't thought about this movie.
	I pick it up and I'm like, oh, this one will really be great.
	And I realized how much of our ability to choose for ourselves without even realizing it disappeared when it went to streaming platforms.
	Yeah, it used to be fun.
	And you used to go just in like the weird artwork.
	You'd be like, oh, let's give this one a try.
	That person's showing like half of a nipple.
	Yeah.
	Some lady.
	Oh, got to see the other half.
	You got to see the other half of the nipple.
	Or do you think they're going to show the bottom half of this nipple in the movie?
	Come on.
	I got to rep this.
	And then the crazy part was if it was a nipple movie, I'd always get raising nets, dude.
	It's crazy.
	Because you want to have them sticky fingers.
	Well, I just want to have, it's almost that fourth dimension of a nipple.
	They're almost like little nipples in the box.
	That's true.
	Dude, that'd be great for porn movies if they had a box of like little.
	Like it's a, you know how they have those like 4D seats in theaters now?
	Like a 4D porn chair.
	You're just getting hose spray, weird smells like, oh, God.
	Oh, Jesus.
	Too close.
	Yeah.
	And then it like bumps you from behind if there's like a doggy stop scene or something.
	Like, whoa, this is, whoa, who's that?
	Wait, so you're getting fucked in there.
	Yeah, all right.
	Yeah, it depends on what you're watching.
	Yeah, it makes sense.
	I think there's different types of chairs.
	For sure, yeah.
	You might have to invest in the right chair for you, you know?
	That's what we're saying.
	Invest in the right porn chair for you.
	That's all that matters.
	But it was pretty fascinating just how many options there were.
	And I never realized how much that went away.
	I mean, because next thing you know, I'm in the drama section, then I'm in the comedy, and then I'm seeing like, oh, what about this one?
	Dude, I never saw this.
	I heard this came out.
	But it was like, I had so much ability to choose.
	And it was, anyway, it was just kind of fascinating.
	And it was fun because then you would watch those movies.
	Yeah.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, that's what you were going to do that night.
	Like, Netflix and, you know, all the streaming services.
	Yeah, I love, I love Netflix.
	Yeah, Ted Street.
	They are my corporate overlords.
	But we're talking about how the business has changed, and that's okay.
	They're worried about it, too.
	Yeah, but like, you could just turn off a movie.
	You could watch 15 minutes of something and go, ah, fuck.
	I don't want to do this now.
	But like when you had the movie and that was what you were doing, you would watch a bad movie and watch the entire thing because you spent the $8 or whatever it was to rent the damn movie.
	So you're like, well, we have to watch this piece of shit.
	We're fucking watching.
	Yeah, they're not even showing the other half of the nipple.
	So I don't know why we got to wait to the very end for the other half nipple to flop out.
	Oh, dude.
	Dang.
	There was something about that, huh?
	And also, I feel like, I feel big candy is probably pretty bummed because no longer are you, you're not going to the store because you're going to go home and watch Netflix and getting all the jujube's and Mike and Ikes and all the candies.
	Hot tamals.
	Hot tamales.
	What are other candies?
	Lemon heads.
	Oh, lemon heads.
	Oh, the ones that had the little bitty white crystals, the little white surface.
	Crystal mess.
	Snow caps.
	Which is also a street term for crystal math.
	Bro, anybody that I knew immediately, if somebody got junior mints, dude, that they were probably into some sick stuff with children.
	That's what I thought.
	If I saw anybody.
	That's my favorite candy.
	It is.
	It is.
	I love junior mints.
	Well, dude, okay, hang on.
	It's not about...
	I walked into it, though.
	I shouldn't have admitted it.
	But you get the popcorn.
	You put the junior mints in there.
	It's a sweet treat with the salty popcorn.
	They're not sweet.
	They have fucking mint in them, dude.
	That's a surprise.
	Who hides fucking mint?
	Bro, mint is like spearmint.
	Who hides it under a little layer of?
	Yeah, and it's all gooey.
	Yeah.
	Now, the gooey part is kind of, I do, the texture I don't mind.
	Yeah.
	But it's just some of the others.
	It's the, I just don't like mint.
	I don't want mint to be there when I'm trying to have something sweet.
	Dang, dude.
	I'm sorry.
	It's okay.
	Shit.
	But it makes me mad.
	I can tell, dude, you're flexing on me.
	It makes me angry.
	Yeah, I can tell.
	It makes my fucking teeth want to climb through my gum.
	Oh, shit.
	Fuck.
	Hey, my bad, dude.
	Hey, lemon heads are my favorite.
	All right, okay, all right.
	Lemon heads were a little crazy, too.
	Remember how powerful some candies were when you were a kid?
	Oh, boy.
	Yeah, I used to.
	Tatamales were pretty powerful when you were young.
	Dude, when I was a, in high school, someone got me as a gift a 10-pound bucket of Myconikes.
	I love Myconikes.
	I ate the whole 10-pound bucket in a weekend.
	Wow.
	And when I took a shit, it came out at nine.
	Not even joking, dude.
	It was translucent.
	I shit out like just a giant Myconike.
	That's unbelievable.
	That's beautiful.
	Yeah, dude.
	God.
	So now we know what clip is going to be used to promote this podcast.
	My shit was translucent.
	And I'm even saying that right?
	Translucent?
	It just means clear, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, okay.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	They should just say clear.
	Clear.
	Yeah.
	I was trying to be smart.
	You're fine.
	I don't know why they made that word for it.
	Yeah, translucent.
	Allowing light, but not detailed shapes to pass through.
	Yeah, that is exactly what I meant.
	I used it perfectly.
	The guy did well.
	Really good.
	Do they have see-through dookie or not?
	I never even seen that.
	Yeah, well, have 10 pounds of myconites and then have 10 pounds.
	Every now and then somebody's got to test the science out there.
	And I was willing to be that kid.
	Yeah, dude.
	There was some, you know what, there was just, yeah, that was where you would see new candy at.
	Now, candy got it.
	There was only a few kinds of candy back in the day.
	There was like a 20 cons or something.
	I remember like payday was like something my mom would get.
	It was like the parents' candy.
	You don't fuck with payday.
	No, never.
	But like even a thousand grand or whatever that one was always seemed like an old person's candy.
	Yeah, but now I bet payday.
	Like I remember my mom would always fuck up some almond joy's.
	And I was like, ooh, fucking almond joy.
	Yuck.
	That's old people shit.
	And then now, like last Halloween, I had a little snack size almond joy.
	They're good.
	Ooh-wee.
	Don't mind if I do.
	Oh, they're good, man.
	They are good.
	You know?
	I remember when they came out with nerd ropes and I was like, they don't change the game.
	Yeah.
	Nerd ropes?
	You put it on some licorice?
	Ooh-wee.
	Yeah, you would see a lot of people doing unique stuff with them.
	A lot of people.
	You'd see somebody, their pants, like a thick, some thick little fella's pants had been stitched up with nerd ropes.
	Like, damn, he's snacking his pants open again.
	That's how his mom knew it.
	You always saw that.
	Yeah.
	You always saw that growing up.
	Dude, in the 90s, everyone's stitching their pants up with some nerd ropes.
	Different times, maybe different times.
	Yeah, and this was those days, truly, when, like, that's what, that was your, what you were doing for the day.
	Yeah.
	You were like, me and my homies, we're going to meet at somebody's front yard.
	We're going to then ride our bikes to the convenience store, get a video game.
	Yep.
	We'll probably play video games in the store because they always had like ninja turtles or some shit.
	Yeah, they did.
	And then spend a dollar and a quarter on some, on way too much candy because that's how much candy you used to be able to buy, man.
	God, you would have as much as you fucking could.
	And I hated Whoppers.
	And then I'll tell you this, I loved them.
	Whoppers.
	Something just happened, those candies.
	Oh, yeah.
	The Whoppers are the little nuggets, little turdballs.
	With a little malted milk in them.
	Yeah, I like them too.
	God, they were good.
	At first, I was like, what is it?
	And then I had some more and I was like, I can handle it.
	Yeah, you could.
	I bet you could.
	It was good.
	Dude, we used to have, so this place bus, it was patched video and shrimp, right?
	So we'd bike over there and you get you a little film and then you get you a little pound of shrimp with it, right?
	Wait, what?
	It was a video and shrimp store?
	Yeah, off of Highway 190 in Covington, Louisiana.
	You'd bike over there.
	That's sick.
	Oh, it was pretty cool.
	I love a good combo store.
	It was interesting.
	So you get the video and you get your shrimp, man, and roll out of there.
	That's sick.
	It was pretty cool.
	But yeah, it was just a different time.
	You know, it was a different time whenever you go to that.
	And that was even before the chain blockbuster.
	I think they had, remember, because before that, it was like individual.
	Yeah.
	Like Ricky's movies.
	Yeah, we had Main Street movies.
	Not even on the Main Street.
	It was like kind of in a neighborhood.
	You're like, this is, that always pissed me off.
	I'm like, this isn't a main street.
	This is a side street at best.
	But they, and then they had, they, they all, every movie theater or movie store like that, they had like the curtain where the naughty movies were back there.
	And then you're, you're a little kid and you'd always just like try to try to memorize as many of the covers as you possibly could.
	You'd just run in, stare at a bunch of covers.
	Yeah, you'd be like, memorize, memorize.
	That's what it looks like.
	And then your mom's like, Adam, you're like, what?
	I went in there.
	I thought it was a bathroom.
	Like, you think it's the bathroom every time we come in here?
	You always think it's the bathroom.
	and you've peed on the floor in there six times.
	Yeah, you're always going in there, shitting on the floor.
	I think you're into that scat porno, you little creep.
	That was wild, bro.
	That was fun.
	That was a good time.
	What else was I just looking at earlier today that was in the news?
	What were we talking about earlier today?
	We were watching this video.
	Someone threw their mom's ashes on stage at a pink concert.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I mean, did the mom love pink this much that that's the thing?
	Is this your mom?
	And how many grams is that?
	Yeah, she just starts snorting her mom.
	She's inside of me now.
	And then sings a pink song.
	Don't couldn't tell you one pink song, but I'm sure she's great live.
	What's that song she sings?
	Jack, uh...
	Life support, little rich...
	I don't know.
	But that'd be something.
	Yeah, that's about the biggest thing you can do is probably throw somebody's burnt mom on a stage.
	Well, you hope that the mom was like a diehard ping fan or else like that's you're just carrying around your mom all over to try to like meet your heroes.
	Yeah.
	You're using your mom after the fact.
	Like if I die and like my future, like if I have a kid and then my kid like uses it to like go to a JoJo CWA concert or some shit, I'd be a little salty.
	You know, like I'm up in heaven.
	I'm like, I don't give a shit about like JoJo CWA.
	Why are you using me to get close to JoJo Siwa?
	Yeah, like, can I get in?
	This is my dad.
	You know who my dad is?
	And they just flash a little bag of you?
	Yeah.
	Throw me in someone's face.
	No offense to JoJo CWA.
	I'm sure she's watching.
	Oh, I'm sure she's doing great.
	One of my friends used to live next door to her, actually.
	Really?
	And she doesn't she live in like a cotton candy castle or something?
	I think she does.
	Yeah.
	I think she lives like on one of those on the like northwest corner of the Candyland board.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	She's Omaha.
	She's an Omaha girl.
	And so are you.
	I'm an Omaha boy, yeah.
	Did you grow up around the World Series at all?
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you go to whatever?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	As a kid.
	And then what we would do is we would go out and like, people are so drunk there that they will just give alcohol to children.
	So you would just stand by the beer tent and be like, come on, man.
	And you're like 13. And they're like, they're like, ah, fuck.
	Here you go.
	I don't care if I go to prison.
	This boy in a full-on body cast is asking for beer.
	He needs one.
	This way, this dead bird with a neck brace needs a beer.
	Totally.
	Dude, that's great.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There's something about like there was some empowering thing probably for an adult giving liquor to a kid, huh?
	Yeah, I feel like I haven't done that enough as I've been an adult.
	It's probably fun to see a kid get fucked up.
	Is that an insane thing to tell her?
	No, dude.
	It's for sure fun.
	It's got like, as long as they're like a safe environment.
	Yeah, as long as it's a safe, even if it's not that safe, you know, you're like, you got to learn how to handle yourself, young man.
	But it is a little bit like when you see, like, when you see a kid who did not drink and then they go off to college, I remember like our valedictorian, or like she was, I don't, maybe she wasn't, but she was a very smart girl, was never at any of the dumb kid parties that I was at.
	I saw her in college.
	This girl was like cross-eyed, blackout, like looking at me with like one fucking cyborg guy, the other eyes like asleep.
	I'm like, this girl is in trouble, dude.
	Yeah.
	This girl.
	Her cassette tatted on that.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	You know who I'm talking about.
	I was like, she didn't practice enough.
	Yeah.
	You got to practice a little bit.
	So then when you get to the big leagues, you know how to handle your scandal a little bit.
	Don't practice too much.
	Yeah.
	You're going to get in trouble.
	Oh, dude, my friends would pick me up and I was a lightweight son when it came to weed early on.
	You know, they picked me up and one of my buddies, he drove a church van or something or he commandeered one or whatever.
	I don't know how he got it, but he'd show up in this church van, dude.
	Stole a church van, yeah.
	I mean, it was different looking.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The church let him use it late at night.
	Okay.
	Yeah, for crimes.
	But there was the different rows in the church van and whatever row you went, it got more detrimental to your health like the further to the back you got.
	Like the back was like people were, you know.
	Yeah.
	There's just like a small fire back there.
	Everybody's just cracked out staying warm.
	And one of the people staying warm is like an abortion that like made it.
	Yeah.
	I'm like four day old.
	You know, there's a failed abortion clinic in the very back where they can't figure it, quite figure it out.
	They keep having babies.
	But the front seat, they're just drinking like hard seltzer.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The front seat is just like, it's like people looking at a map.
	I look at the directory.
	Yeah, just trying to figure out how to get back to the church.
	Second seat is a hard seltzer.
	Yeah.
	Third seat is remedial reading.
	That was always remedial reading.
	Yeah.
	So it was like, yeah, two years.
	If you can't read remedially, then you also like, then you probably can't handle hard seltzer.
	You know what I mean?
	Or, no, that's probably the exact opposite.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So if you can't read, you can drink hard seltzer as water all day long.
	That's all you want to do.
	And it got weird.
	Yeah.
	The further towards the back, it got weirder.
	But yeah, they would come and they would test a lot of times.
	They would give me the weed to test it out, you know, because I was kind of like, I would fall asleep a lot of times.
	Like we'd go out, I would literally fall asleep because the weed was real strong.
	And then they'd wake me up when it was literally time to go home.
	Like I'd miss the whole night, you know?
	I had a real sleeping disorder maybe for like six or seven years kind of.
	And so anyway, but yeah, I remember just being in my buddy's dad's van and we would, you know, we would sleep in there and just get really, really high.
	And he, one of the, one of the kids' dads had some sunglasses.
	He sold sunglasses for a living or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Hell of a living.
	Oh, yeah.
	And with the sun, there's unlimited.
	Was he like an Oakley rep or these were like knockoff?
	No, he was like a rep.
	Oh, sick.
	So he had all the different types, you know?
	So that's a cool guy to know.
	Yeah, he was pretty cool.
	He was cool, Actually, I didn't know him real well.
	We would sometimes do drugs at his house when he wasn't there.
	Yeah, so that's pretty cool.
	It was cool.
	We didn't get to know him, though.
	But yeah, well, that's a cool dad.
	Not home, wrap around sunglasses at night.
	Kids are doing drugs in the basement.
	Some dad like driving cross-country to sell Oakleys to like gas stations and stuff.
	Yeah.
	While you're doing drugs at his house is a good guy.
	Well, you think he's a cool dad.
	Yeah, he's a total degenerate to other adults, but to the kids, he's like, pretty cool guy.
	Like, Todd, your dad's awesome.
	I would see my dad.
	Todd Sr. is for sure awesome.
	But we would just get waste and just urinate all over his glasses supply, right?
	Like at night.
	So then like two days later, whatever, he rolls up to some place with a bunch of just soaking wet boxes.
	And he's like, they're selling like cotcakes.
	I don't know.
	Something about the stink of these glasses are flying off the shelves.
	Man, I feel bad about some of that shit.
	Yeah.
	You know, we used to, there was this girl in high school that we, it wasn't me, but we, my friends would call her Skeletor.
	And she was a very mean to us, but for some reason, we'd still go to her parties.
	And then my friends would like piss in her parents' closets and shit.
	Yeah.
	That's a mean thing to do.
	In hindsight, you're like wildly mean.
	Why are you doing that?
	This girl invited us to a party.
	Yeah.
	We're calling her Skeletor and pissing in closets.
	That's kids.
	That's mean as shit.
	Super mean.
	Yeah.
	People just did that kind of stuff.
	We had some kids bust these two gals and one of them, she had, I guess, kind of like wide, kind of big nostrils like me.
	And this other one, she had like a lot of gums in her smile.
	And they used to call them, if you take nostril, and one of them they called Mr. Ed because she had longer gums.
	And Mr. Ed, if you said them backwards, it was Lurzen and Derm if you said them backwards.
	Sure.
	So everybody always be like, oh, look, it's Lurtzen and Derm all the time.
	It's just so dumb.
	But it was like, people just say it so many times.
	Yeah.
	And then like those girls definitely couldn't put that together.
	You know, so they're like, why are you calling us that?
	That's not my name.
	Yeah, it was just life, man.
	Yeah.
	God, it was fun, dude.
	Yeah, I remember we did a bunch of LSD and this lady got caged up or not lady, but like a, you know, someone that was the same age as us got caged up in this room.
	Not even caged up.
	Caged up.
	People said, hey, you're caged up in here.
	And then they were on so much acid they just believed they were.
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, you went to parties and people were in cages?
	Do we have to call someone?
	No, meanwhile, you can get out whenever you want.
	It's just an unlocked door.
	Yeah, you're in a backyard.
	It's not even a room.
	You're like, there's no way you can escape.
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, looking back at the shit that we used to do.
	Like, you know, the movie Ma?
	Did you ever see that movie?
	Yeah, I did.
	You know who was in that movie?
	Gianni Paolo, who used to work with us.
	Oh, wow.
	So my buddy, Scotty Landis, wrote the movie.
	Oh, wow.
	And it's based on, I told him a story about my childhood.
	And he's like, oh, dude, I have a very similar story.
	And he was like, I bet a lot of people do.
	And then he wrote that movie, which essentially was this woman who used to buy us beer and shit.
	We'd go over to her apartment.
	She made us call her mom.
	No.
	Yeah.
	She'd be like, just call me mom.
	And you're like, huh, but you're like, she's buying you beers.
	You're like, hey, mom.
	Yeah.
	Can I get a 18 pack of bush light?
	And she'd like make us, she would be like, well, you got to have a few here before you can leave.
	And so we, I remember just like, she had like this crazy like four foot zong.
	Yeah.
	So like there was also this other adult man.
	Like these people were like adults and they're just like bong ripping with like 16 year old kids.
	And I like, I took, I took enough bong rips that I turned like green.
	Yeah.
	And then I lay down in this bed, like fully zapped out of my head.
	And it was her like daughter's bed, her like little 13 year old daughter.
	And she, she daughter wasn't there.
	I'm laying in the bed.
	Her, they, she brings her daughter into the room.
	She goes, it's okay.
	Just crawl into bed with him.
	Yeah.
	And I'm like so green and I can't move.
	And I just, this fucking little girl crawls into bed with me.
	And meanwhile, I'm like 16 years old and I'm like, this is too weird.
	And then luckily my buddies like grabbed me and pulled me out of there.
	And I'm like, this is a fucking horror film, dude.
	Yeah, because that is, that is a horror film.
	That lady could be setting you up.
	Who even knows?
	Why is there people that are still living that much in the past where they are or what do you think that is?
	Like the mom that does that or the dad that's more of a mom.
	Is that more of a mom thing or a dad thing?
	Well, it might be a dad thing, but then that dad is arrested pretty quick.
	I feel like dads get arrested for that shit pretty quickly.
	Moms are like, maybe she is just being a nice woman and, you know, give him a benefit of the doubt.
	Guys immediately, I think they're like, he's a creep.
	He goes to prison.
	Yeah, the fact that we were able to party at this woman's house and like, it was a strange thing.
	Every town has a couple cool, kind of cool moms like that.
	Yeah.
	You know, and they're fucking cool, dude.
	And sometimes they drive a van.
	One of them, I remember, drove a van with like that swimming pool ladder on the back.
	Like, what the fuck?
	I remember that.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because you, yeah, every time you go up there, there's no pool up there.
	There's not a pool.
	There's never been a pool up there.
	This is a fucking way.
	Yeah, you couldn't put a pool up there.
	This van's a lot.
	Fuck yeah.
	Yeah, I feel also vans.
	Where are vans?
	Yeah.
	Vans up and disappeared, dude.
	They were so good.
	Well, my mom had a minivan that had like those twinkly lights.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah.
	It was not particularly fancy.
	It was called a Mark III.
	And it had like the little lights.
	You know, in the movie theaters?
	That looks like it on the top left.
	Oh, that's a Mark II.
	Yeah, that's a Mark II.
	Ours is the Mark III.
	Oh, that's the Mark III.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	So essentially this.
	And then Dumbladder.
	And then there was a little like 13-inch TV with a cassette.
	So we would watch, we'd watch Half-Baked in there.
	Yeah.
	You know, we would, you know, on road trips, I'd queue up some Forrest Gump, put that bitch on repeat, just run it right back.
	Dude, I remember my mom got a Dodge Neon car, and we'd never had like a nice car before.
	And we went and my brother and I would go and sleep in it at night and put the passenger seats down and the driver's seat down and sleep in there.
	It was so nice, dude.
	Pull it up.
	A Dodge Neon?
	Yeah, you know what I'm talking about?
	Well, yeah, but that's not a van.
	It's just a car.
	Oh, it was a van to us, man.
	It was fucking beautiful.
	It was so spacious.
	Because before that, she'd had a Ford Festiva.
	Oh, yeah.
	Have you ever seen those?
	Yes.
	My mom had, they had a Buick that right there, the silver one.
	My mom had that.
	And she used to beat us.
	I literally, that car ran by abuse.
	Yeah, that's what it was powered by.
	My mom could play us like the drums.
	Like she would sit in the fucking driver's seat and literally like and the roof would like start to droop on you.
	Like the roof, that's what our, my mom's car, like, it would like, the roof no longer, the felts no longer stuck to the ceiling and it would just start to droop down.
	And you'd be in the back seat with like a roof like hanging.
	Like it's some swoopy bangs, but it's just the roof to the car.
	Yeah, you'd be like, I hate you, mom.
	Yeah.
	God, get a car that I can see out of.
	Dude, that droop roof.
	Because yeah, a lot of those vehicles had Bell's palsy, I think.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of sad, a lot of those vehicles.
	It was a different time.
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	You know what movie I saw the other day that I really liked?
	It was a Jim Carrey movie.
	It was called When He Owns the Theater or He goes back and gets that movie theater.
	Majestic.
	You ever see that movie?
	Oh, I did, but that's been so long.
	I feel like that's a good.
	I'd go back and just do a deep dive on all Jim Carrey movies because he's, I mean, he's the legend.
	I won my fifth grade talent show doing Jim Carrey impressions.
	No way.
	Yeah, dude.
	He's still doing anything or no?
	I mean, no.
	They weren't even good back then.
	It was just like somebody.
	You know, it's just me doing mask.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It was good.
	Did you ever go to because you moved, you moved, you grew up in Omaha?
	Yeah, I grew up in Waterloo, Iowa till I was 10, and then we moved to Omaha till high school.
	And then after I graduated, I moved to LA.
	Did you ever go to the Field of Dreams?
	In Iowa, yeah.
	You did?
	Yeah.
	Cool, isn't it?
	It's way cool.
	Yeah.
	It's in like the middle of nowhere.
	Yeah.
	It's just like a baseball field.
	Yeah, Dyersville, it is.
	I love the Midwest.
	My mom went to school over there in Iowa, but she went to Colin College, I think.
	Oh, okay.
	Superior.
	Yeah, it's cool.
	It's cool.
	When you go see it, it's cool.
	Yeah, like the Midwest, people give it such a bad rap, but it is just, it's just, people are so nice.
	It's, it's like beautiful.
	Like, Iowa's a very pretty state.
	Oh, I love it.
	Rolling hills and just green, beautiful fields, you know, cornfields.
	It's cool.
	Well, also, like, Purina dog brand was from.
	There's a lot of famous old brands that are from there, like John Deere.
	Yep.
	What else?
	Russell Stover, I think.
	Where's that from?
	God, imagine knowing him.
	Russell?
	I'd love it.
	Kansas City, Missouri.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right there.
	Kansas City, Missouri.
	It's like accepted as the Midwest, even though I feel like it's getting a little wild west kind of.
	It's a little bit.
	What I like about Kansas City is like that, there was a real mafia element.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because St. Louis has a mafia element.
	Kansas City, there was like the Kansas City mob bosses, and they wouldn't go west to there.
	So the mob bosses would be in there, and they would control Vegas because they couldn't get any closer because the feds would come down on them.
	Fuck.
	At least that's what Casino taught me.
	The movie.
	Yeah, I believe a lot of that.
	Yeah.
	I believe a lot of that, man.
	Is there a movie that you've been thinking about?
	So you have this one done.
	Is there like another movie that now you like, do you have to wait to see how this one does to see if you get other opportunities?
	How does that kind of work in your business?
	Because you've had a good run.
	A lot of guys don't get some of the same opportunities, you know?
	For sure.
	Yeah, kind of.
	You always have to be thinking like, what's the next thing?
	But yes, I think this one, I have a lot writing on this one, you know, so they, they, Netflix really wants it to do well.
	I really want it to do well.
	And I think if it does well, then Netflix will let me make it a handful more.
	That's great.
	Which would be great.
	Yeah, man, we'll make it.
	Watch it July 7th.
	We will.
	Yeah, so yeah, but I have like the next couple ideas cooking right now.
	So as soon as the writers, we're on strike.
	So I technically, I can't go pitch a movie right now.
	Yeah, so like I have it ready to go, and then as soon as we are not striking any longer, I'll flop on into that movie studio and pitch my wares.
	Do you pitch something before you write it?
	Yeah, sometimes.
	You know, sometimes it's you want to, it depends.
	Every project's like different, but sometimes if the idea is like too weird that you feel like the executive wouldn't be able to get it, then we wouldn't, I would, we would just write it and then go sell it.
	But if it's like a hooky idea like this, the outlaws, like when you, you understand the movie when I pitch it to you.
	So you're like, oh, I get it.
	You could just pitch that idea and they'll buy that idea and then and then you're kind of on the track already.
	Your show, The Gemstones, are you guys finished doing it or you're just waiting to see if you do it again?
	I think we'll probably do it again.
	Danny's pretty confident.
	He wants to do another couple seasons of it.
	It's so fucking fun.
	And Danny McBride is like, like you said earlier, I'm just like so damn lucky to like that they allow me to keep doing this shit.
	It's so ridiculous.
	Danny McBride is like a true comedy hero of mine.
	Like I remember when me and the Workaholics guys, like way before we got Workaholics, when we were still doing like internet sketch stuff, Durz came over, Anders Holm came over with a DVD.
	He like knew an agent that slipped him a DVD of the Foot Fist Way.
	You ever see that movie?
	So good.
	So good, dude.
	And Jody Hill directed it.
	Danny is the star of it.
	And Jody's, does Jody write on Gymstones?
	Yeah, he directs a lot of the episodes.
	Wow.
	What is he like?
	He's the best, dude.
	He's just like the coolest.
	They're all just the coolest, nicest dudes.
	And I think we get a lot.
	He's so fucking good, dude.
	When he's trying to break that, if I break that board.
	Yeah.
	I mean, so funny.
	And we were writing sketches together and we would write every Wednesday and try to shoot something every weekend.
	That was like our schedule.
	And so Durz comes over and he's like, we're not going to write anything.
	We're going to watch this movie.
	I heard it's unbelievable.
	And we're like, all right.
	And we watched it and we were like, holy shit.
	And then we watched it right back.
	We watched it two times in a row.
	And it was the first time that we were like, oh, we can, not that it wasn't great because it was great, but it was like, they felt like we know those dudes.
	Like we are, we can make movies like that.
	Like, you know what I mean?
	Like, like, Will Farrell, since he does like these big characters and his movies are like big and broad.
	You can't really do that.
	Yeah, it felt like unobtainable.
	Yeah.
	And so this, it felt like, oh, we can make a movie like this.
	It feels like down and dirty.
	And like we could, we could do this like with our friends.
	And then we started to, that sort of changed our idea of like what we were doing because we were playing like more characters or doing like bits with with our sketches.
	And then we were like, we should just play, kind of play ourselves.
	Yeah.
	And that's sort of how Workaholics, like that was the start of like trying to do sketches where I'm Adam, but like an exaggerated version of myself, you know?
	And then Workaholics was kind of born out of you guys being yourselves just in an environment.
	In an environment.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of the same thing that happened with me for podcasts.
	And I used to have a podcast with my friend Matt Weiss, and he works with TMZ.
	I think he still works with him.
	And we were interviewing celebrities and stuff and talking about like celebrity stuff.
	He knew a lot about celebrity stuff.
	He really liked that world.
	And it was kind of a struggle for me because I didn't know that much about celebrities.
	And then I went on Joe Rogan's show and I left out of there one day and I was like, oh, I just need to be, I just need to be myself.
	I just need to be in a place where I can just talk.
	Well, I think that's when comics really start to find their rhythm, right?
	Is when they, when you get over that hump of like, like, I feel like every comic starts this way where they just, they, they have their top five comics and they try to be like a version of them.
	Oh, yeah.
	Instead of just doing like what makes you funny.
	Yeah.
	Who were some of yours early?
	Of like the comics that I or they do you feel like you impersonated anybody a little bit?
	I know that I remember showing a tape to a guy one time.
	I was doing like a year and he's like, this is great if you're like a Mitch Hedberg impersonator.
	Very fair.
	Yeah, I bet I was doing like some Tosh or like trying to be like Swartzen or Jim Gaffigan was really big at that time.
	And I love how he like plays with the levels of his voice, which I still like to do.
	I can see that now you say it a little bit.
	Yeah, so I'm so I yeah, I'm sure there was some of that.
	And then I think like when you start to find your voices, when you go like, yeah, obviously like Chris Farley's like an influence of mine and Jack Black's an influence of mine and Sandler, but like what makes me me?
	And then and then from then, once I kind of committed to being myself, I feel like everything clicked into place.
	Yeah.
	And a lot of that was from watching Foot Fist Way and being like, oh, these guys are just, even though Danny isn't that guy, he's like doing a character, but it's like they're doing a character from a real place that they can access and not, you don't have to, like on your 30th movie is when you can stretch and try to be something that you aren't.
	Right, right.
	When you could be Tom Hanks.
	It's like Tom Hanks didn't start off doing like Polar Express or whatever.
	Yeah, Polar Express, exactly.
	Yeah, it's kind of fascinating, man, that we all pick up pieces of other people.
	There's a famous book about that.
	It's called, it's like barrow.
	I don't know if it's called Borrow, but there's a book about that we all like, especially I think in entertainment, you can't help but take influence from things.
	Like we just interviewed Ric Flair and he talks and he his whole it was It was unreal, dude.
	I mean, he is Rick Flair will text me every year for my birthday.
	I'm like, this is the best.
	Like, no one, like, my friends don't even do that shit.
	But Rick Flair is like, whoa, happy birthday, Adam.
	I'm like, love it, dude.
	Well, it was so interesting, but he, his, his character, I guess, or some of his things that you know him from, they're amalgamation of other people, right?
	And he says it's not any talking out of shop.
	And he kind of like fine-tuned them, you know?
	It's just interesting.
	That's how everything works kind of.
	Well, it's also like the generation of comics that you come up with.
	Like, if you're rolling with a crew, you all are like kind of taking from each other.
	Like, without even, it's like how groups of friends, when you guys are kids, how like that group of friends, they all have the same terminology.
	They all have the same verbiage.
	Like they talk alike, they dress alike, and you just can't help but be like that.
	Yeah.
	That's just human nature.
	So like when people shit on me for, you know, talking like this person or being like that person, I'm like, I'm friends with those guys.
	Like this is just how we talk.
	Right.
	And some of it's paying homage to them in some type of way, you know?
	It's like you're kind of, it's like you're.
	As long as you're not stealing like their jokes or like fully like, I bet you would be like, yo, Adam, what's with the mullet?
	If I like get your exact same hair and I started like doing like your type of material, you might be like, what the fuck, Divine?
	Yeah.
	But like.
	And if you got held back in the sixth grade.
	Yeah.
	If I if I demanded to be held back in the sixth grade to be more like you.
	Yeah.
	And they're like, but Adam, you can read and do basic math.
	And I'm like, fucking hold me back.
	Hold me back so I can be a fucking king next year.
	Yeah.
	I'm trying to be the rat king.
	Bro, it's crazy that people just let their kids go through all the gray, like hold your kid back one year and make him a fucking legend.
	I remember the kid that I was like my bully.
	It's funny.
	I've said on multiple podcasts that he was my bully.
	And then my aunt one Thanksgiving comes up to me and goes, Adam, can I talk to you?
	And I'm like, yeah, what's up?
	And she goes, do you remember Brian?
	I'm not going to say his last name.
	And I'm like, yeah, dude, that kid was my bully in elementary school.
	And she goes, he says that you were his bully and that you really picked on him when you were a kid.
	But this was a kid that he like failed a grade in like fourth grade or whatever and was held back.
	So he's like way bigger than me.
	He had like facial hair in the fourth grade.
	He was like, and he was drawing it on, but he had it.
	Yeah, he had it.
	And he kept picking on me.
	And I remember like, my dad was like, is he bigger than you?
	I'm like, yeah.
	And he goes, well, then violence is your only key.
	And I'm like, what?
	And he's like, you have to strike first and strike often.
	And I'm like, this is some bad advice.
	This is a foot fist.
	Totally.
	So like, I just, I like punched this kid in the face.
	Like he said some shit.
	I just like fucking whacked him and then would run away to where he could never strike back.
	I kicked him down a staircase once.
	Like, so I was like a violent little kid.
	And in hindsight, I was this kid bullied.
	But from my point of view, he bullied me.
	And then my dad just gave me the go-ahead to be a violent little fuck.
	And so I'm sorry, Brian.
	I didn't know, dude.
	I thought you were my bully.
	And I was trying to stand up for myself.
	Yeah, we didn't know, Brian.
	Bullies are regular people.
	People.
	I thought that song good.
	God, sometimes I see bullies and I pray for them.
	Damn.
	Damn.
	We got to get you in a pitch perfect movie.
	They don't make good music anymore, huh?
	How perfect are you guys going to make the pitch?
	That's what a lot of people are wondering.
	Isn't it perfect enough?
	People are saying, it's like when Step It Up keeps coming up.
	People are like, Like we get it.
	How many places are we?
	Amen.
	Schumer always used to say that.
	How much do we have to step it up?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	How perfect is the pitch going to get?
	Will it.
	It's still getting.
	Dude, I'm doing a spin-off show.
	I did.
	It's called Bumper in Berlin.
	Season one is already airing on Peacock.
	It was a fucking hit for them.
	And then, yeah, so I lived in Germany all last, or for like four months last year.
	And like, just being a song and dance band in Germany, dude.
	There, yeah, there's me.
	That girl has horns on her head.
	Yeah, it's a wild show.
	It's interesting.
	Is Riffraff in it?
	No, dude.
	That sucks.
	You're right.
	I should put Riff in it.
	Yeah, so yeah, the pitch is still staying perfect, dude.
	I'm riding that one all the way home.
	Wow, that's cool.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	It's an interesting – I mean, it's an interesting life, man, because to go stay in Germany for four months is pretty – Yeah, I worked a lot on that one because I was the lead of it.
	It's like a song and dance show.
	So like I'm singing and dancing every goddamn episode.
	So, like, I have to, on the weekends, it's like I have to go record songs.
	And I have to, like, learn choreography and shit.
	And then, but it was a wild, that's it.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Yes, I have.
	My girlfriend, somebody almost ran over my girlfriend with a bike over there.
	Oh, dang.
	We're at?
	I don't know.
	It was by like this little.
	It was kind of like by a, I don't know what it was.
	I don't remember.
	I mean, I remember, but I don't remember enough to say anything else.
	Yeah, I've been there.
	That is a dangerous intersection.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Dangerous intersection.
	Yeah, so we were in Berlin and awesome city, super fun, but like also like kind of cool in a weird way where like they have this club Bergheim, which is like the cool club where like everyone wears like leather dick pouches and shit.
	And they have this guy that they call him the piss goblin.
	And he's like a 65-year-old man who's just like and like you're supposed to just piss on him when you see him.
	Oh wow.
	Is he in a chair?
	Is he sitting down?
	No, he'll just like well I didn't go to this club, but I've been told all about him and then he'll just like go around the club and yeah, that's it right there, the big square building.
	Yeah.
	And then it's just a warehouse inside.
	And yeah, it's scary.
	It's like industrial type music.
	And then the piss goblin will like lay in the trough.
	You know how they have troughs in men's shitty men's bathrooms?
	Yeah.
	And he'll just lay in there and be like, You can just splash him up, you can just splash them up, apparently.
	Yeah, freaking put a batch on that.
	So it was like COVID was just starting to like wind down at that point.
	And so all the clubs were closed.
	And then while I was there, they all opened.
	And we were getting sat at this nice restaurant, my wife, Chloe, and I. And the guy recognized me.
	He's talking to me, and he's like, how are you enjoying Germany?
	And I'm like, oh, you know, we really like it.
	And he's like, have you been to some of the clubs?
	They're so fun and crazy.
	And we're like, oh, we haven't yet.
	You know, I'm working a lot.
	So I don't have time to go to the clubs.
	And he goes, oh, it's so fun.
	You have to make the time.
	There's awesome parties, the piss parties.
	And then he goes, okay, your table's ready.
	Just so quickly, the piss parties.
	Okay, table's ready.
	Sit down.
	Here's some charcuterie.
	Here's some ginger soup.
	Yeah, here's some ginger soup.
	Enjoy the piss party.
	Well, dude, piss pigging is a big thing, I think, now it used to.
	and even vegans are doing it.
	I think it's like piss pigging is, I guess when there's like a fella at like a- What's piss pigging?
	Can you bring something up, Zach?
	You're leaving me on a branch here, brother.
	It's when people are drinking urine, I think, somewhere.
	It's like rich.
	I think, I don't know if it's rich people do it, but it's like piss pig.
	Yeah, piss pig.
	Well, let's look at porn.
	Don't look at porn, please.
	But, I mean, it's hard not to look at porn with the piss pigging because it's probably pretty synonymous with, it's like you look up butt fucking.
	You're going to see some butt fucking then, you know?
	Yeah, you know, it's like you look up piss pig and you're going to see some piss pigs.
	All right, whatever, man.
	That's how you guys are going to be about it.
	I'm just looking for more of a technical site.
	Okay.
	Like, I don't want to see that.
	I don't want to hear the symphony.
	I just want to read the sheet music.
	Yeah.
	But I think it's people that will drink urine.
	So it's like at these high-end parties, I'm hearing you can go around and you pay somebody and then you just urinate into them.
	And it's like, and people will enjoy it, I guess.
	But that's something that's going on.
	But I think in Germany, they're very, they don't, things aren't as taboo to them.
	Is that what it felt like?
	Or it's more taboo?
	Well, I feel like in Berlin, especially, it's like the freak you are, the cooler it is.
	And everyone's just very open-minded.
	And so like, I was staying at the Soho house, right?
	In like, in East Berlin, very nice hotel.
	They have this awesome rooftop bar that we would eat dinner up there a lot of times.
	And we were having drinks late one night.
	And it was like, it wasn't even that late.
	It was like 11 o'clock.
	And, but people go, they have dinner at like 11 and then they go to the clubs at like midnight one and then they stay there all night long.
	And there's full-on dudes in like leather straps with like their nipples like pierced and then a chain connecting, then a chain going down to the stuff.
	And he's just full-on sitting there eating a full rotisserie chicken just in that get up.
	I'm like, that is, you don't see that in LA, you know?
	No, you don't see that.
	Yeah, you don't.
	Oh, here we go.
	There's a social media community of people drinking, bathing in their urine for the sake of health.
	So you bathe in your own urine.
	I feel like.
	I'm going to say no to that.
	Yeah, I'm going to give that a no, too.
	Highlights from the urine therapy.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Okay, so this lady.
	And this lady, or also this could be that guy, Bill.
	What's his name that used to play for the Lakers?
	Lamber?
	Bill Walton?
	Bill Walton.
	Does he?
	She looks like him a lot.
	Oh, yeah, that's Bill Walton now.
	I was saying, I don't know.
	I thought, who knows, right?
	Yeah, who knows?
	Yeah.
	And no shade to Bill or Luke.
	I don't know.
	There's just, this could be AI.
	Yeah, that's true.
	You can't trust anything anymore.
	But dude, if somebody rolled up on you with...
	Imagine being 59 this month.
	Imagine, because that could be your mom, you know?
	Imagine your mom has like a little health kick like moms sometimes do.
	My mom has them all, yeah.
	Yeah, where you're like, yeah, I got really into solids or whatever.
	And you're like, good for you.
	I like that for you.
	You know, try to live as long as you can.
	But then shit, your mom like goes full on, like, I guzzle my own piss.
	That'd be a bummer.
	She's like trying to give you hugs and like little cheek smooches, you know, as moms do.
	Yeah.
	And she has like a breath of her own piss.
	That would suck.
	That'd be like, oh, that'd be a real bummer.
	That's that movie.
	Yeah, it's like the sequel to that movie, Backdraft, kind of.
	But what about this brother right there soaking his feet in some urine and letting the dog lick him?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, this man should be arrested.
	Yeah.
	This guy has to go right to prison.
	And that woman, too.
	Mom, you got to go to jail.
	This is a bad idea.
	Yeah.
	I feel.
	Anyone else's month-old urine tastes exactly like beer?
	No, dude.
	Well, you're drinking for sure bad beer.
	Yeah, that's a bad idea.
	Yeah, that's bad, really bad beer.
	Like, you could just spend like $1 more and get beer that doesn't taste like month-old urine.
	Yeah, non-piss.
	No piss in here.
	But what if, yeah, what if that's like Bud Light's new slogan?
	They're trying to gain some drinkers back.
	No piss in here, buddy.
	Is your wife an actress too?
	She is, yeah.
	She is, yeah.
	She's a very beautiful lady.
	You guys post a lot of pictures and do a lot of fun stuff together, it looks like.
	We do.
	We tried to do a bunch of fun stuff.
	Did you guys kind of fall in love?
	What was that like for you?
	Because you seem like you're in love, kind of.
	That's the vibe that I get from you.
	Yeah, I hope when you marry someone, you're in love.
	That's the key to the whole thing, I think.
	But some people don't put their, you know, they don't.
	Yeah, because they don't want to.
	Yeah, I'm like a very, I feel, you know, because we want to have kids and stuff.
	And some people, I have friends that they like don't put their kids on their social media.
	I think I'm just going to put my kids all over.
	I don't give a shit.
	I just like my life.
	Like I'm a pretty open book.
	I'm like, yeah, this is my wife.
	These are my friends.
	This is my kid.
	Like, don't kidnap the kid, obviously.
	That's a prerequisite.
	Ooh, yeah.
	Yeah, that's a definitely no-no.
	But it's like.
	But even stalkers aren't that.
	Back in the day, I think a stalker would come to kids.
	Like, stalkers even nowadays are kind of.
	People don't give a shit about me.
	That's what's cool about comedians.
	It's like, there's no real...
	Good point, huh?
	You know, like, it's like when people see you at the Starbucks or see me.
	They're just like, oh, shit, what's up, man?
	Yeah.
	You want some extra pumps of sugar-free vanilla?
	Yeah.
	Like, that's what I get, you know?
	Or like, yo, this one's on the house.
	I'm like, no, dude, I can pay for the coffee.
	And they're like, I got you.
	Yeah.
	That's the level of stalker that I have.
	Just like a cool guy who's a barista.
	But then when that dude shows up later in your living room and he's like, yeah, this one's on the house.
	Yes, you owe me for that cold brew.
	Bro, that would almost be a crazy movie of like a unique stalker that like just shows.
	He just wants to brew me espresos.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He gives you one free thing and you don't even want it.
	And then he holds that against you forever.
	Uh-huh.
	That's like a, that sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
	Yeah, where he just, you're like, I didn't even want the egg, white, and ham sandwich that you made me get.
	It's like, I actually had breakfast on me.
	I didn't even want this.
	But all right.
	I had a woman hit me after a show once, stop me after a show one time and ask her if I was leaving subliminal messages in podcasts to her.
	And that was kind of crazy.
	And she was extremely serious.
	She was extremely serious.
	That's scary.
	It was way scary.
	But you were, right?
	What I said was, I haven't been, but I would.
	You're going to start.
	Yes.
	Three M ⁇ Ms. Three M ⁇ Ms. Whatever that means to her.
	Yeah, I had one time, and this was really early on.
	Nothing this weird has happened since, but this girl brought me a bunch of cupcakes to a show.
	And this was like right when Mercalex was taking off.
	And I'm like, this is the best.
	I get baked goods now.
	I'm at baked good level.
	And so I like take, I was living with Blake at a time.
	We had just rented this like cool house in the Hollywood Hills.
	And I come back and I'm like, yo, dude, I got these cupcakes.
	Like I'm at baked goods level.
	And I like bid into a cupcake.
	It was the first cupcake I bid into.
	A chunk of her hair, dude.
	Like a full-on tendril.
	Like a lock.
	Like she cut off a little chunk, baked it into a cupcake.
	It's so how fucking weird is that, dude?
	I mean, what is she getting out of that?
	And then now I'm like, well, now I can't.
	That sucks.
	Because I want to be able to eat baked goods from fans.
	I want to be able to accept the delicious treats that are given to me.
	But now you can't.
	You never know.
	God, that's wild to have somebody's hair in there.
	Yeah.
	Well, I guess it was like, I'd rather have hair than just like they just a ton of fentanyl or some shit.
	You know, like that's for sure better.
	But still, they had our Taco Bell in our town was famous.
	Somebody had been doing like duty in the meat or whatever whenever it first opened up.
	And I know this, people say this is an old wives tale.
	Dude, you're a family.
	This is a true story.
	Okay.
	And they had, and I know people say this happened in our town, whatever.
	They shut our Taco Bell down for two months, bro.
	And people were losing their fucking minds.
	People were getting divorces outside of it.
	People were throwing bricks through the window.
	People were writing.
	So people were, because I think the old wives tale was like, they used like dog meat or something.
	And you're like, what?
	No.
	But I love a cheesy Gordita crunch.
	How could they do this?
	But then that wasn't like a real thing.
	So people were literally like a guy who was worshiping.
	They busted a guy doing duty in the meat.
	And you can look it up too, I think, buddy.
	But this was, yeah, they, oh, yeah, in my town, I don't think anybody's going to frown at half a pound of raw Bichon or something, you know what I'm saying?
	But I think somebody goes and feces up a meat, you know, somebody goes and feces up one of those, you know, what are they called?
	Crunch Rab Supremes or whatever.
	Yeah.
	But that's where that really happened in our town, you know, and it's unfortunate that that kind of stuff happened.
	That sucks.
	Can you find it?
	It may be on a Reddit.
	I think I found the article.
	It's just loading.
	I feel like 1997.
	It's an old article, bro.
	Good year.
	Can't believe it happened.
	Dude, I remember one night I got out of my buddy's piss van with the sunglasses.
	I was so high they woke me up because we stopped at Taco Bell.
	And I got out and I went to live with this other family in high school and I get out and they were there.
	And I was like, you ever be so high and you see some people?
	You're like, I'm not supposed to see these people when I'm high.
	Oh, dude.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	It's the worst.
	That's the worst.
	Yeah, that's the worst.
	God, it was the worst, man.
	Dude, the worst.
	What's up?
	I like said what?
	Like at some insane vocal level.
	And they're like, hey, Theo, good to see you.
	It's lasagna tonight.
	Good.
	Love lasagna.
	Yeah, my agents called me the other week.
	They called me like at eight o'clock at night.
	And I had like smoked weed and then they called right then.
	And then it's like the whole team.
	And I like just change agencies.
	And they're like, they're just wanting to talk to me about stuff and like career stuff.
	Man, did I, I just talked for like 12 minutes straight.
	Didn't let them get a word in.
	It's just me like saying words that I don't know even the meaning of.
	I'm just saying shit, dude.
	Afterwards, I was, I like call my manager.
	I'm like, was I just saying a bunch of words?
	He's like, yeah, dude, you weren't making words.
	I'm like, fuck.
	Don't call me.
	Don't call me at eight.
	That's an afternoon.
	It's outside of sober hours for sure.
	I might have just smoked a joint, in which case I'm going to be spinning my wheels in the mud.
	Yeah.
	In the in the vocabulary mud.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think especially if agents, they deserve to hear Something from you every now and then, even if you call them like, hey, listen to me, read a little bit of this stuff that I wrote, and you just read like the first chapter of like Scarlett Letter to them.
	Yeah, they would love that.
	They would love you using their time like that.
	They'll stay on the phone.
	They would.
	They were doing well enough.
	Yeah, they'll stay on the fucking phone.
	They will, yeah.
	They'll stay on there and be like, wow, that's interesting.
	Wow, good stuff.
	And this is because are you going to write a book?
	I know a lot of comics are writing books.
	Yeah, I thought about it.
	I've written a bunch over the years.
	I've written a lot.
	I've probably written half of a book for sure.
	I think sometimes.
	I'd read your book.
	I bet, you know, you got so many tales from your youth.
	We grew up in a unique area, man.
	Ian Summerholder was from our town.
	You ever met him?
	Uh-oh.
	Show me him.
	His name is so familiar.
	God, he was handsome, brother.
	Really?
	Nobody had ever seen it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I know this guy.
	This guy was in Vampire Diaries with my girl Nina Dobrov.
	I mean, if you're able to be, I mean, he could be man or woman.
	Yeah.
	Like, you know, he's so hot.
	Yeah.
	You could be either.
	Like, that's when you are at the peak level.
	Like, Brad Pitt, put long hair, give him tits.
	That's a beautiful woman.
	He's at least an eight as a woman.
	This guy, though, has that.
	Yeah, you might be right.
	Yeah, he's got more.
	Maybe not.
	I don't know.
	I guess it depends on what kind of woman you're into.
	That's a sexy lady.
	Yeah, but I mean, he was like, they had the most, he was like the most handsome.
	Is he like right around your age?
	So you like knew this guy?
	He was maybe a little bit older than me, but we heard about him.
	Yeah, he was so hot.
	He went to another school and you're like, word is that there's just like a hot boy and a school.
	No, he came.
	Here's what he would do, though.
	This is the biggest flex ever.
	He would come to school the first day of school and then go back to like being like a model or superhero.
	So he would just come the first day so all the chicks could see him.
	Yeah.
	Like, there he is.
	There he is.
	And meanwhile, us regular dudes, we got on everything we could.
	We put cologne in a couple of choice spots.
	You're just reeking of cool water cologne.
	Oh, we'd fucking done it all.
	We used an annual mouthwash.
	We'd done it all.
	We were ready.
	You got your, what were the cool jeans?
	Like Jabot?
	Probably some Jabots, maybe, or duckhead, maybe.
	Something like, you know, you'd had something fucking decent.
	Our shit was American Eagle Dungarees.
	Ooh.
	Where it had like a little thing to like put your hammer.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like, like you always just had a hammer ready to go.
	Yeah.
	Never used it.
	Never needed a hammer.
	But then you bring a hammer and hit somebody with it, and you're the criminal.
	And suddenly you have to go to in-school detention.
	Yeah.
	Suddenly you're the criminal.
	Yeah, those are the sick jeans that $28.
	That's fair.
	Yeah, that's a pretty reasonable price.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why my mom was being such a goddamn bitch about buying me these jeans for $28, lady.
	And that was in, what, 98, 99?
	I feel like.
	Those are good, man.
	They were probably $11 then, you know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They're $28 now.
	Yeah, I'm trying to think of what other big clothes was popular then, probably.
	Oh, dude, for me, it was a lot of no fear.
	You didn't want to have any fear on your, you wanted people to know from like across the room that you do not possess any fear.
	Yeah.
	None.
	Oh, if you had a fucking ounce of fear in you.
	Yeah.
	You better not have any fear.
	And you want everyone to know that there's...
	None.
	Absolutely none.
	Remember the eyes?
	Remember that little eyes thing?
	Every fuck tart had that.
	Oh, yeah, dude.
	Absolutely.
	And then Massimo was another big one.
	Massimo was big, bro.
	Yeah, dude.
	I feel like you might have had some money if you rocked a Massimo shirt.
	Yeah.
	My family wouldn't hook me up with a Mossimo.
	They had one that was like...
	It said Massimo, but then like blurred vision.
	Yeah.
	They had, I remember some, I would always end up living with buddies, and so I would use their shit, you know?
	Oh, so.
	So you kind of had a revolving closet.
	A little bit, but I would always be like, oh, man, I can't find your shirt, but then I'd have to wear it.
	I'd be at school with them.
	They'd be like, oh, this is fucking.
	You're like, I was really looking for that shirt.
	Have you seen it, Theo?
	And you're like, no, haven't.
	I'd wear my backpack on the front in the halls because it's like fucking just dumbest, dude.
	Oh, that's funny.
	So did you go through any like phases?
	You know how like.
	Yes, bro.
	I went through.
	Did you go through like a goth phase?
	Yes.
	Oh, I love that for you, dude.
	Dude, I went through it and we had the boot, like the kind of like, what were those shoes?
	Dr. Martin?
	Oh, yeah, Doc Martin's.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I had some of them.
	So we had those.
	It made you a little taller.
	That was big for me.
	I was always kind of the short kid.
	So I was like, it leveled me up a little bit.
	Yeah, that's good.
	Yeah.
	For you, though, because I was afraid of heights.
	I didn't love having them on.
	Yeah.
	But you can't fall from such great heights all four feet 11 inches to tumble to the ground.
	But I remember those.
	I remember like the hemp necklaces that had like the little silver balls in the hemp.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Dude, I know what you're talking about.
	I was at home making them.
	I would go home.
	I figured out how to make them.
	I would go home and make them, like, not do my homework and just make necklaces, listen to Bush Razorblade suitcase on my CD disc changer.
	Deborah Vincent.
	And just fucking-I don't think so.
	I was just like all about like hacky sacking and making hemp necklaces.
	Dude, hacky sack was so much fun, bro.
	I was pretty...
	Stall it on your back.
	Stall.
	You stall here.
	Yeah.
	And you always have to look around as if like, can you believe I fucking caught it right here?
	Ladies.
	It was just like some long-haired dude that you or it's just like one girl with just like a mouthful of breasts.
	It's like, wow, that's really cool.
	Yeah, bro.
	There was nothing better and worse than the hacky size circle.
	There was always like two kids that didn't even know how to speak, I feel like, in it.
	Yeah, and then there were lights out.
	Yeah, there was like the kids like, or it's just like the nerdy kid who like never played any sports, and then he just appears in the hacky sex circle, and you're like, whoa, hey, Brian, what's up, dog?
	You want to play?
	And he's like, oh, sure.
	And then he's just a phenom, dude.
	You know, he's Pele with it.
	He's got his foot skills on point.
	We had a kid, this real tasty kid.
	I mean, he was just, God, he probably, I don't know if he had any blood in him.
	You know, he was so white.
	Like, if you wanted to see color in his skin, you had to squeeze the blood up to one side of it.
	So you would do that.
	You always wanted to see blood.
	But he broke out and did Michael Jackson one time in the cafeteria and shocked the world.
	Oh, my God.
	That was my favorite.
	Scene like the kid who like never talked.
	And then like during the talent show, he is setting up his drum kit.
	And you're like, what the fuck?
	Yeah.
	This kid.
	Randall has drums.
	Yeah.
	Randall has drums.
	And then he's like, oh, this is just a little something that I like to do when I'm at home.
	And everyone's like, okay, Randall, let's see this.
	And then he's just fucking Lars with it.
	He's Travis Barker on that bitch, just beating them skins.
	Oh, he played the national anthem?
	Oh, shit.
	And you just start saluting.
	He's not even playing the national anthem.
	You're just saluting him.
	Yeah.
	Suddenly he just levels up.
	Oh.
	Yeah, it was fun.
	And that was a crazy change.
	He was a Summer Holter.
	He just shows up, sets up his drum kit, fucking wails.
	Thank you.
	Goodbye.
	Keep the drum kit.
	I'm going to go be a model.
	God, dude.
	And we're all fucking jelly.
	And it was the worst, though, because he came and it was like, he just set the bar for what none of us could be, handsome-wise to the girls, you know?
	And it was just fun.
	There was a kid in my high school, Mike McCoy.
	He's handsome.
	Super cool.
	Super cool looking.
	Would hang out with like college kids when we were freshmen in high school.
	How?
	How, dude?
	How did he do it?
	How did he do it?
	He could dunk a basketball in eighth grade.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Just the coolest.
	I remember one time me and my homie, Nick Hoagie, were walking through.
	I flipped some kids off because I was a bad boy.
	Oh, yeah.
	And these kids were going to just beat my ass.
	And they were older.
	And I'm like, fuck.
	And my homie, Nick Hoagie, was a big kid.
	So we like, we try to get over this fence.
	I hop over the fence.
	He couldn't get over the fence.
	And I'm like, so I had to hop back over the fence.
	And I'm like, well, I'm not going to let him get his ass kicked.
	It'll be solidarity, you know?
	Oh, wow.
	And so I hop back over and I'm like, all right.
	And these kids are like, you better be careful who you're flipping off.
	And I'm like, yeah, I know.
	We're going to get our asses kicked.
	And then I just hear, nah, through the masses.
	And then the fucking crew parts.
	And Mike McCoy comes through and he's like, nah, they're cool.
	And these older kids, Mike's our age.
	And these older kids are like, you sure, Mike?
	And he's like, yeah, they're cool.
	Be careful who you're flipping off.
	You better not do this shit ever again.
	And we're like, oh, wow.
	I'm like, how cool is that?
	Damn, he stood up for you.
	Standing up for us.
	And then they listened to him.
	That's cool.
	What's up, Mike?
	How's it going, man?
	Good to see you.
	Hey, thank you, Mike.
	Yeah, thanks, Mike.
	Thanks for being that guy.
	He's a good guy.
	He's a good guy.
	There's ways that people can use their cool that they don't realize sometimes, I think.
	Yeah, he was just always a leader of men.
	And then he and then he ended up, he's like, he's in the military in a badass fashion somehow.
	I don't exactly know what he's doing, but like there's photos of him jumping out of helicopters holding assault rifles.
	Like cool shit.
	Right.
	You know, so we had this, we had this kid named Nathaniel, and he told everybody like he was an undercover cop or something.
	And he wasn't.
	And a bunch of people beat the shit out of him.
	Different story.
	Yeah, but yeah.
	He had like a fake battle.
	Like he one day pulled out.
	He's like, yeah, well, I got to surprise you guys.
	I'm a fucking undercover cop.
	He's like, fuck you, Nathaniel.
	Yeah, fuck you.
	This is a 21 jump street, bitch.
	You're not an undercover.
	I've known you since the fourth grade.
	You're not an undercover cop.
	Yeah, dude.
	You just failed spelling, dude.
	You're not a fucking undercover cop.
	Yeah, spell officer, motherfucker.
	You can't.
	There's no Q in it, you dumb fuck.
	It was fun, man.
	Yeah, do you think about having children?
	Do you guys have a plan for it?
	Once you get married, do you have to make a plan to have children?
	Or how does that kind of, I guess you have to talk about it with your spouse?
	You do.
	There is a conversation.
	And then, and then it's like getting off of the birth control.
	And that takes like a few months to get out of your system.
	And then it's, you know, then it's game on.
	You got a plan, huh?
	But then even with that.
	But also, like, I'm like, there can't be too much of a plan because like it's life, baby.
	Yeah.
	It's just going to happen.
	And then, and then you just have to, then you're going to have like a homie that you like have to take care of.
	Yeah.
	Which is, you know, because, you know, I'm 39 years old now.
	And like to go this long without having to take care of a little homie is, you know, because I've like a lot of my friends, they had kids, like Blake and Andres had kids almost a decade ago now.
	So they already have like true little people that they take care of that are like playing sports.
	Wow.
	You know, do you feel behind the curve?
	No, because I mean, like, I feel like I also have a whole other group of friends that haven't yet.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, and work sometimes keeps you busy, you know?
	Yeah, for me, I was like, I wanted to be set up enough that when I do have kids, like I, it's, I don't have to feel like I, like, I know what I can pass on and what there was a point where I was like, I have to be on the road all the time.
	I have to be doing, I have to have a TV show.
	I have to have a stand-up show.
	I have to have, like, I have to do all these things to get to the place that I want to be.
	And then now I'm like, okay, like I could set up a movie and I'm confident enough that I'll get another opportunity to come.
	I don't have to jump on everything.
	So there will be, so I'll have more time to be a good dad because, you know, that's pretty important.
	Oh, I think it's going to be key, probably.
	Yeah.
	Was there, yeah, I guess it's kind of nice to be, it is nice to be able to say, I don't want, I don't want to do that.
	Yeah.
	And feel like there, it used to be like you, you would think like, oh, if I don't do that, someone else is going to do that.
	And then I would have lost out on that opportunity.
	When now it's like, it's fine.
	Someone else can do it.
	Right.
	It's just not, it just wasn't for me.
	Yeah.
	Or I don't, I want to have the summer to do XYZ.
	Like that is more important than this right now.
	Yeah.
	And I think like just career-wise right now, I feel like I'm in a place where like I can pick and choose a little more than I used to be able to.
	Congrats, man.
	It's real cool.
	Yeah.
	Thanks.
	I mean, you too.
	You know, I bet it's the same with the podcast world that you've built.
	It's, it's nice to.
	I remember when it was taking off for you, for you and I saw you at the in the hallway of the improv and I remember being like, just knowing that your stand-up was really taking off.
	And I was like, is it your Netflix special?
	Like, did your special come out and like kind of blew you up?
	Because I think I was gearing up to do my Netflix special.
	And you were like, no, it was really the podcast.
	The podcast is what it was.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I just, I was like, oh, that's sick.
	Like, and seeing all you guys, you and, you know, Segura and yeah, it's a whole world.
	Yeah.
	It's interesting to have a whole world, you know.
	And I think, yeah, it's like, it's interesting to have so many different people in here get to, it's interesting that it almost gave everybody else a different Hollywood or a lot of people a different type of Hollywood, you know?
	We just kind of get to communicate, get to sit and chat with people too, you know, and catch up.
	That's fun.
	Fun and talk to some of my heroes.
	Yeah, it's fun to be able to, what I think is cool about podcasts is it's like, it just gives people an opportunity to go like, I wonder what my favorite comics, how they are when they're not, are they funny just off the cuff or do they have to like write everything down?
	It just gives them an opportunity to peek behind the curtain of like what it's kind of like to sit in the back of a comedy club with, you know, with comedian peers.
	Yeah.
	You know, and it's not like we would sit down and have like an hour-long conversation in the back of a comedy club because you got to do your set, but it's like it gives people a little peek.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's interesting, man.
	It's interesting to see.
	It's interesting to hear.
	I like listening to some pods and I'm like, oh, wow, this is good.
	I mean, it's just, it's nice to be able to talk about things.
	It's nice to be able to see where somebody's career is at, how some things have kind of happened for them.
	People's lives get so busy, too.
	I've started to realize that sometimes when I sit down with someone in a podcast, it may be the only time I'm going to get to talk to them for a while.
	So to really try and make the time have some value, not only to the listeners, but between me and them.
	What's like a, you know, there's like some meme going around of like, I don't know, of like showing like kids playing.
	And then it's like, at some point, you're going to go out and play with your friends.
	And that'll be the last time you played with your friends in your childhood.
	And you're like, oh, yeah.
	And it's sort of the same with like comics where we all kind of were in the same circles when we were starting out at the comedy store at the improv, the laugh actor, wherever.
	And you just see the same people over and over and over and over and over again.
	And then all of a sudden, something happens in someone's career and it takes them this way or that way.
	And then you no longer see those people because it's probably been years since I've seen you.
	Yeah.
	So like it's it's cool for the podcast world to be able to sit down with people that you respect and like and have conversations with them.
	Yeah.
	And get to catch up with people that you always liked, even if you only ever saw them for 15 minutes in the back of comedy clubs once a week.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what to say after that.
	Zach, do we have any other good news?
	Was there anything else that we were looking at in the news that was interesting?
	Yeah, well, so it looks, they just tweeted this photo last night of Elon Musk is training for his fight with Mark Zuckerberg.
	He's a flex freakman.
	That's awesome that he's training.
	I love it.
	And I really want to see this fight because it will be entertaining regardless of how good of a fight it is.
	I thought I read something about how Elon Musk's mom doesn't want him to fight and came out and said like the fight is canceled.
	Wow.
	But maybe that's fake news.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	Yeah, I mean it's hard to know these days what is news, what is being used as like a ploy to push something.
	I think that they'll encourage this match, Maie Musk.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	Well, I think she must know that Elon, I think they say that Zuckerberg can actually compete.
	Mark Zuckerberg, he's a lot younger than Elon, right?
	He's only 5'7.
	Now, Elon's 5'10 or 11. I don't know the weight difference, but if you have a guy that's really strong, that's small, I think he's gonna defeat a guy that's weaker, that's big.
	Well, and also Elon isn't known for being like a fighter at all.
	And I feel like, I feel Mark trains.
	He trains.
	He trains.
	He's like in the Jeff Bezos camp of like he got rich and then now he just eats space food and treats his body like a temple.
	I mean Mark hasn't blinked probably since 91 or 92. Yeah, I think he had the surgery.
	I mean you can see that he's writing an algorithm with his fucking eyes, bro.
	Yeah, dude.
	He is human AI right there.
	It totally is.
	There's no doubt about it.
	He very much has an AI look.
	And Elon looks, I think, I just don't, I don't know how Elon wins, but if Elon is low-key, I mean, they don't even look like he's holding his boxing gloves correctly.
	If you look at the boxing gloves feature.
	Yeah, that chin is way out there, buddy.
	That's a great point, even just right there.
	Yeah.
	And also the age difference.
	That is something.
	Oh, that'll wear you.
	Oh, yeah.
	That'll gas tank bad.
	but Elon has a gas, he can stay up all night and tweet.
	I mean, the guy will tweet it freaking, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, you're right.
	He's got gas in the tank, so maybe I'm excited to see it.
	He's also a lot heavier, it's true.
	So, you know, it's a good point.
	You just lay it on top of him, you might win.
	It's a good point.
	Yeah.
	I think it's just getting interesting in the world.
	This is the type of stuff you're starting to see.
	And we talked about this years ago about everything becoming WWE, you know, everything becoming matches.
	It's like you have, you know, Jake Paul and Nate Diaz are going to fight you.
	You know, you have potentially, I mean, this has potential.
	You know, like Dana White wouldn't waste his time, I don't think, communicating with these guys.
	No, I mean, I would, I want to see it.
	Like, it is, it is weird.
	It sort of feels like Hunger Games or some shit, like where, like, they used to make movies where like in a world where, yeah, where the two richest men in the world just duke it out, uh, it feels fake, you know, and it feels, it's so weird now that, like, like if me and you wanted to just fight, we could fight and then we could like be at Staples Center fighting.
	When it used to be like, you used to have to be a fighter.
	You, you would, like, have to go through training for it.
	It'd just be like, me and you were like, yeah, similarly built.
	It'd be like, yeah, Theo's got the reach, but Adam could get inside.
	And then we could be at least on an undercard.
	Yeah, we could be on an undercard.
	We could be an undercard for probably like, oh, maybe.
	Who else could go?
	Who else would be on that card?
	I'd like to see Josh Demelligan, somebody.
	He's a big man, too.
	He's got that long reach.
	Big.
	Him versus Dak Shepard.
	Ooh.
	Fucking, that's a bangerang right there.
	Yeah.
	We're the undercard.
	People are trickling in for us.
	We're trickling in.
	They're like still getting their drinks and their foot-long Dodger dog.
	Yeah.
	Somebody's explaining to his wife who we are.
	Showing clips.
	She's like, oh, I saw Bumper from Pitch Perfect is fighting the podcaster guy.
	Honey, it's going to get better, honey.
	It'll get better.
	It's just me and you just dancing around each other.
	Neither of us really wants to throw a punch.
	You breaking us.
	I hit you once.
	You breaking us down.
	I spin off.
	And then who else is on that card?
	Who's under us?
	You said bang rang.
	What if you went like old, like a Rufio type of like versus Emmanuel Lewis, maybe?
	Oh, is Emmanuel Lewis dead?
	But hey, look.
	I don't want to put that out there if he's not.
	Hey, sorry.
	Whoever brought Pink's mom to the show, though, can throw him on stage.
	That's his promoter.
	No, 52. 52. All right.
	Versus Rufio.
	So if you had them two, and we need a good female bout on the card, too.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Jane Lynch, Amy Schumer.
	Ooh, I like that.
	That's fun.
	Jane's a little older, but she's a tall woman.
	She's longer.
	longer and she looks like she could go through a fucking...
	Oh, she looks like a wind chime that'll beat the fuck out of some music.
	That is exactly what she looks like.
	That was a perfect description of Jane Lynch.
	That'd be fun, man.
	What else?
	Anything else, Zach?
	Or do you think we covered a lot of neat stuff?
	Did we cover neat stuff, Zach?
	Yeah, I think we covered some neat stuff.
	Yeah.
	Learned about piss pigs.
	That was informative.
	Oh, that's so heartbreaking.
	Yeah, we couldn't really look it up because it is pretty pornographic.
	Thank God.
	And I have the blockers too on my phone and computer.
	But the movie, it's July 7th.
	That's right.
	July 7th, The Outlaws.
	We want to go watch it.
	And what do consumers need to think about when they go watch stuff and how it affects what other movies are going to be created?
	Because I feel like that's starting to become like, it's always been a thing.
	But with only so many comedies being created last year, man, that's unbelievable.
	It sucks, dude.
	It sucks.
	And luckily, like, Netflix is one of the places that is just willing to roll the dice a little more than other places because it matters so much less.
	Like, like The Machine and Sebastian's movie about my father, I think.
	The fact that they put both of those movies out on the same weekend, I'm like, that fucking sucks.
	Because you're putting out six movies all year long, and then you put two of them out on the same weekend.
	And so if you were going to go see a comedy, you had to choose between these two.
	And then when those movies only make $8 million or whatever opening weekend, well, you're like, well, if it was only the one movie.
	Maybe it could have made 14. Could have made, yeah, 15, 16. And then that's a healthy amount for it to make.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, support, if you like comedy, support comedies.
	Watch it.
	Tell your friends to watch it.
	And then we'll have the opportunity to make more of them.
	And it used to be, you know, well, people are like, well, if you made better comedies then, and it's like, sure, but it's hard to make a movie, first of all.
	It's really hard.
	And secondly, there used to be like 40 shots in making a good comedy.
	And then maybe two or three of them were classic comedy.
	And you're like, well, that old school.
	And it came out.
	And you're like, well, there was 28 other movies that weren't old school that came out that year.
	You know what I mean?
	Right.
	So the more opportunities we have to make classic comedies, the more we'll be able to nail it.
	But I do think Outlaws has a potential to be one of those type of movies.
	So I'm really proud of it.
	Do you start to think of creating a movie entirely of your own?
	Like or partnering with somebody and using your own and doing it direct to consumer?
	Does that ever start to become a discussable model?
	Maybe not in your space.
	I mean, you're kind of a.
	Yeah, just because it's the movies I want to make are usually like action comedies and they are.
	You need money.
	I need money.
	Like I don't have $30 million of my own money to invest in the movie.
	Right.
	So you've got to partner, you need a big deal.
	Yeah, and you need a partner.
	And then also, like, it costs a lot to promote a movie, too.
	Like, that's where people forget, like, buying TV commercials to play during basketball games and like things that people are actually watching live.
	That costs a fortune.
	Yeah.
	And to put billboards up and to have, you know, radio commercials and like to get the word out there.
	Like, I don't, I don't have that infrastructure.
	So, like, workaholics movie.
	We were going to do a workaholics movie and we were five weeks out from shooting.
	Oh, you'd already written it.
	Already written it.
	We're in pre-production, had offices, were building sets, had the whole cast and crew coming back.
	We're going to shoot it here in LA.
	Wow.
	And then at the top of this year, Paramount Plus said it didn't.
	And they like went off on like, you know, the holiday break.
	And when they came back, they were like, you know what?
	We have a new global agenda and we don't feel that Workhawks fits the global agenda.
	And they pulled the plug from us.
	And everyone's like, just make the movie on your own.
	And it's like, we don't have that much money to, you know, we're not billionaires.
	We like, we don't have that kind of coin.
	So like now it's just, and they own the rights to it too.
	So we couldn't even anyways.
	So yeah, we just, all that, all that work for nothing.
	How did, and that, I mean, that just goes to show you how hard it is why people don't, I can't imagine that movie, I can't imagine that not getting made.
	I can't imagine if you're going to find a brand that people love that they would not think that that would have an audience.
	It was so heartbreaking because it was, I did get to write a really funny press release, though, about just, I said butthurt like 15 times in the how butthurt I am that they pulled the blanc, which I'm, I'm, it was funny to see like in variety and the Hollywood reporter saying Adam Devine says he's very butthurt that the Paramount Plus canceled the Workaholics movie.
	But they like were gassing us up.
	They're like, this is the home for workaholics.
	We want to build out the workaholics universe.
	Yeah.
	And they're like, we want to do like a spin-off show that you guys executive produce.
	Maybe we do an animated project.
	We'll do the movie.
	Like we want your brand of comedy to live on Paramount Plus.
	And we're like, thank God.
	Like we have a home base that we could just go to.
	We could make all of our stuff there.
	We can love it.
	We could keep the Workaholics family alive.
	Like so many friends and people that worked on the show that was going to be their opportunity.
	And then they just pulled the rug out from us.
	So God.
	Super butthurt about it.
	Anything else?
	Is that anything?
	That's unreal, man.
	Yeah.
	It just shows you how hard it is to get something past.
	I just like, dude, people not, it's almost like if it doesn't have global power, if they don't think it can sell, if it can sell tickets to everywhere.
	Well, see, that was what was weird is like, I've been in the Amazon jungle.
	I've been up the Amazon and we stayed in a little hut.
	And the guy who was like in charge of feeding us, his teenage son, knew Workaholics was a fan.
	I've been in Germany just like walking along the fucking Berlin wall and people are stopping me saying they love workaholics.
	I'm like, it was pretty global.
	Like as far as kind of a cult comedy show goes, I'm like, it wasn't like it wasn't like a $100 million Marvel movie.
	So I don't get it.
	I feel like they're really trying to figure out what they're doing over there at Paramount Plus and they have not fully figured it out.
	It feels so weird to notice how people who are making the choices don't have a real understanding of what's going on or what the zeitgeist of like people think is funny is.
	Yeah, well, I think it was like because Comedy Central hit and it was people of a certain age, right?
	That really loved it.
	They were like just got out of college or were still in high school or like maybe even a little bit older than that that were like, oh yeah, that was just like me when I was in college or kids that were younger that were like, oh wow, that seems crazy.
	Like when I have my first jobs, I hope me and my friends still live with each other and party and party all the time.
	And then I think like their like people who had kids that were the right age know about workaholics because they're like, oh, my, my teenage sons loved workaholics.
	And I think it was just like the generation, the guys that are in charge now didn't have, their kids were too young.
	So they didn't know.
	Fuck.
	And I think it was just, we missed that window, I think.
	What a fuck.
	It's all right.
	Things are going well.
	Yeah, things are going well, YA.
	But it is interesting to hear about that.
	Dude, the other night after a show, this guy, this Mexican kid, this guy at the show, he's a Mexican guy.
	He comes up and he's like, this is the craziest request ever got.
	He goes, Abro, can you make a video for my cousin Oscar?
	And I was like, yeah, man.
	What do you want me to say?
	And he's like, oh, he got possessed by ghosts.
	That's what he said, right?
	Yeah, he's like, oh, he got possessed by ghosts, man.
	So just fucking tell him something positive.
	So just try to exercise his demons.
	Yeah.
	I was like, Oscar, homie, we miss you, homie.
	We miss you.
	Come back to the light.
	I didn't know what to say, bro.
	But that was probably one of the craziest requests that I've gotten from somebody.
	That's so funny.
	Oh, dude, in Germany, one time we're biking on the thing.
	We're biking somewhere.
	Some guys in a park had a wiener on him.
	I mean, a real fucking like a Dotson.
	You know what I'm saying?
	He had that fucking, that thing would go get the paper.
	Yeah, the long, long thick.
	He really had fucking, I don't know how he did it, but somebody, he did it.
	And he was swinging it like a rope in the fucking park as you have to.
	If you got a thing like that, you got to swing it.
	That's true, huh?
	Yeah.
	And it's also Germany.
	They don't even care.
	That's just an afternoon there.
	Right.
	We were shocked.
	Other people were literally splitting up a, you know, maybe a little, cutting up a kiwi right next to it and having like a little lunch.
	Yeah, it's fine.
	That's just an afternoon for them.
	Yeah.
	Just a German afternoon, brother.
	Sprukese Deutsch.
	Witersein.
	Adam Devine.
	Thank you, brother.
	Thanks, Deal.
	Good to see you, dude.
	Meet you, man.
	Hell yeah.
	Now I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
	I must be cornerstone.
	Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind I found.
	I can feel it in my bones.

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