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the hope you guys, like the theme song, that I paid ecuadorian German, I'm at thirty thousand dollars to make it just like. I have the rights for forever. You know it's funny because, like we waited so long for it to happen, and it really is worth it it- It was we're going to start this three months ago and I was like no. I want the theme song to be just right. You gotta have the right theme song before you get into a podcast and I was like I was like senior. So should we, So do you want some instrumentation, or do you want some any orchestration? He was like. No, I wanted to be retro yes and so it was, I think it was worth it was real was worth every penny. It was worth every penny, it's his microphone. Okay. I think I had the receiver my funnies before that moment. It got him, but your funnies are peaking you're funny. You're funny should never go into the red. Just green like right, barely into the red with two bars of sound. So this is the first Nerdist Brandon Todd.

Well, it is, it is it's like. The note is the thing this is very the actually when Matthew Matt, my right here. Mac genius is running the podcast technologically high and, Jonah over there. On no one's into is that I can see it all as one right here. The microphone right. Well, there's no twos can't tell if Joan is just ambiently picking up or if that's coming off his microphone. Can you tell them yeah there, you go yeah, so he is, he is being picked up, you it, it's funny when Matt Method, I met at a Starbucks to talk about doing the podcast and there was a girl who recognize the barista? He recognized. Well, that's what they're called and I recognized her and she said yes in your name, Taylor and he goes yeah. Are you Shelley and she's like yeah and they recognize it and she goes yeah because I was like I know that, guy an if

thank you. First of all, you weren't all like you, that's exactly how you were, and we still are presently and it's funny to me how people don't to claim responsibility for the present. They want to create this time. Wall of distance, so they don't have to commit to anything previously. Four seconds ago, yeah I was like this and to be able to do that as soon as you can is great, like the same thing was like someone walks in when you walked in, I was all like Louis but I think it's, but I think it has something it's harder to be judged in the past and in the present you have to take more responsibility for it. 'cause she's, like 'cause, you said I feel like this now he could be like you're, dumb now,

in the past yeah I'm not like that anymore. I'm I'm I'm not committed to to I'm just in a weird time mode, because I just got into the David Tennant episodes of doctor who- and so everything to me is a weird time stream. This is this were wondering. This is how people talk on Superbowl Sunday, who don't understand sports. It is Superbowl Sunday and none of us are watching the Superbowl. I really hope my favorite sports teams winning the match today. Are they going to really do? I hope how many points do you think they will acquire all the points? This is their so when the maximum number of points maximum number of points with a and I hope the my favorite color scheme is getting routed for but in really hope I really have a fun. Well, I mean the important the important thing

is that you know when you, when you root for a team. You are on that team, so you should take it, as importantly, as as anything that you would undertake yourself, we receive has already lost the match is necessary to get to the big game. Well, then, then, they're, not my team and they should get rid of their their of coaching unit. We should get rid of their in person totes five thousand their head, not making the greatest place anymore. Never both my parents were sports fanatics and a and I'm just not. I knew that I did not get that gene. I can't I can't be into something, if I feel like I'm, not if I can't participate in it, I understand it. Maybe that's just part of my self centered nature of resentment towards sports grown up just because, like my dad played football and he never really forced me to get into it, but, like you know, just

did because of my size like a river guide time, I got two new schools was like you can play basketball because you're tall you gonna play football with my dad didn't force me into it. He just with health, food and hugs. Until I said that I wanted to put on a uniform, you know you can go about two weeks without a hug. Really, yes, I typically that's in an effort to weeks. I feel you know this is a if he gets his time just sitting here and I want I want. I want to talk to me and I don't know that we're that we're gonna like Britain is gonna, be a grand entrance. I know I know I know, but I just feel stupid. Like I've got my first off, I just with the charade like we write, is pretty weird because I'm literally just and you're a funny thing to say, and you should not real. So let me just quickly doers drops Tomlin in time when it is here yeah that sound effects to the to the we're gonna hands. Someone else slide whistle and a little bit of a hand firing on in a this can be a bit

sharing from MIKE Tyson's punch out now. But you know what Foley is a very important part of any. Oh, you have a fucking slide with some amazing. Well, it's great to be here on the nerdcast Chris. Why don't you buy anthracite coal, the cleanest burning, cold? There is body by so please banana peels if you're not falling on a slip ease your not funny. Alright, you listening to Tom in the geek point out that he has two different sized slide with the professional model and that's just the cheap. It's just should for kids in on one of them, so they don't know cartoons like most of the other one, okay by Plaza meter. I don't like that. One you to perform

a little to Juilliard the Juilliard School yeah. I feel community agree. I hear yeah that first of all time did not bring to differently tuned slide. Whistles too, this podcast weird that would've been so crazy. You guys ready, guess what oh please talk we're. We have really came to TOMS House on Super Bowl Sunday, because I know that Tom as well we've had this conversation is a very good chance I'll spend the afternoon watching all that jazz, which is the autobiographical film, starring, Rory Scheider about Bob Fosse, which also has the actual premise of his own death and and some great song and dance. My guess is what we should do is we should we should get some? We should get drinks and chips watch all that jazz. Is in cheer like over football game with people walk by and they lean into like who's, winning and you're. Like Bob fosse and then they've watched Bob Fosse's,

always with and then like right after that will do like a pretty woman with some tranny on the street. Yes, we take her to Beverly Hills and buyer forks and knives and show her how they work. Well. First, we let the sales people treat her mean, and then we come back that we say we go in first, we say: look going to bring it raining here. Do you really really rude like that? Was probably what we're going to do anything yeah? Then we come going to come back later and then which point will will tell how fork works. It's going be a small, no trendy, you don't

drugs in your arm of the fork. No, you know you you, you you all the salad with it crack on the floor can jam it into your belly for walking on sunshine. That's right! So credits I mean, as a writer, you really understand sporty structure. That's us didn't build self growth. Robert Mckee took a couple herbie fully loaded to get this ticket stately dangle manner. Now I will be in the movie like it's like a like. You know the trying to talk to the guys use like a. I thought you didn't love me is just like you I changed my mind yes, I'm trying to play walking on sunshine? I don't think I have it, but it's ok, 'cause then you want to you, don't have to clear it 'cause, it's not anything like that. Okay, but this and I don't want to make the Convolute or anything. But let's say the tranny is also a little bit or afternoon is turned into a movie were making by the way. Ok, so the tranny tranny is also one '

clown, like that. That's profession, it's called slide whistle, yeah and big 'cause he's a tranny, his whistle slides back and forth like it does. He works with daddy and it has a lot of precious. It has a lot of meetings. Daddy always called me slide with slide with. I think I've just introduced it in my mind. I guess the trainings are giant black man, who's, daddy, called him slide with will on the same page with that on closing to install. So it's like it's kind of like the story of patches for tender statues, which I know you want to be a clown, but as to how to do. Is there any trendy to slow what okay we want to move into, but I'm going to, with my left hand, text some people at 20th Century Fox and see if we sold this. That's a great idea, changes sweet just make up anything to do you think they're doing anything else today. Uh I found out yesterday who is in the super bowl. I knew

do that you knew now. I I know who's in New Orleans was in it because they've been winning all year. I work with a guy who's from New Orleans and he had another city. Let's the monotones relate yeah. Again, it's pronounced New Orleans New Orleans, the town where Nicolas Cage this year bought two homes. Oh really, it was broke How is now look at the first part of my sentence and then look at what you said and I will repeat- I repeat the first part of this ends New Orleans, is the town where Nicolas Cage bought two homes this year. That makes a lot more sense. Why you need the two homes once in the garden district, which I get lovely and once in the french quarter, Now, if you've been in New Orleans and I'm assuming everyone has, the french court in the garden district are about an eight to twelve minute, walk away. Each other? Well, it's not real far. That's when you go downtown to see girls go wild, so you can take a couple will be in the quarter. Yeah I mean like. Do you like this house, or do you want to another house, or do you want to go to my vacation house? That's almost a twelve minute, walk away from this house. Twelve minute walk yeah, probably take more time to drive through

Oh, no doubt that it's one way and confusing well Nicholas. I don't know Nicolas cage, he just fell in love, but during the port of new orleans- and my question is this: how do you in the press? It says: you're broke, how do you walk into a bank and go ahead with it and they're like sand dune. A couple mentions her and they're like right right. Do they do credit checks? At that point, I guess I don't know about. Projectors are all my god. National treasure to us was a local national treasure two book, but I'm single does with the consumer. Who is national treasure two garden of wieners was a client of wieners. I think it's called carnival where he solves a circus mystery guys? All the clues are right here on the circus money, and then he breaks apart. The slide whistle and the maps on the valve is inside the whole time the flight, whistle and clay, and then that I was, I was genuinely disappointed when I bet you're here. I've been with Jonas levels since forever.

Dial, go fucking. My levels were you saying about national treasure, two book of Winners voice anyway, national treasure. I was very disappointed when I got there in the line from the trailer this dollar bills. Trying to tell me something wasn't in the movie The star bill shown to mission. I was genuinely pissed off now Tom you make movies. You. Do you do you have a fully loaded and want to name a few? How much? How many, how much control you have over like once you turn in your script and are they like? Thank you. Christmas is of very very little. Because many other fully loaded. It was really good and you turned it in Herbie. Fully loaded was green, lit off of the first draft. If that's answers your so yeah. It was There was a really interesting things that was like a sort of a greedy movie about a girl. Racer fan live mail, racers I'm serious and Lindsay Lohan got attached and then it kept getting. Weirder and weirder yeah the rape scenes. There was simple, there's a lot of showering when we found out lens you get attached all is Herbie the love bug, always the car

so for a while. We also for a while we're working on something called Coons fault. The death bug as his like nemesis are background. For Herbie was it a little boy had died inside of him, seeing his mother get murdered also, and that that's why he was sort of had come to life. That's going to leave some sort of a spectral, I mean yeah, absolutely special stand exactly yeah and then a bunch of Douche LISA Car Channel are going to come in and oh fuck their way through. What was the car driving itself around is haunted obviously yeah what the else would that be? Okay or if you were a kid or the or to bring you the Superman, yeah yeah, but the, but there wasn't anything in the original hurry that suggested that it was a super brain it just you just had a person now he would love to bump you in the bottom. When you were looking uh when you were doing something funny or give you will not nod your done. Us watch out when you're bending over to look at those nuts and bolts 'cause you might get a bump on the family. Was that 60s there was like that 60s trend of anthropomorphizing thing. Yes, well, mister limpet,

was the turning into a fish of shaggy. Also, you don't want to be a lot sonication of items and animals right now. What we call the personification front of case you know, or if or if it resembles a man, a man, you would stand for more fights and remembers injured. With a face only called once fish Pesca from more flies for more vizing don, not super morphine, not surprising, when everything terms also job lots, I can't do it. Google doesn't mean what about my mother, the car wasn't that the dead mother haunted the car. Is that true or Mister Ed, too, electric service where a guy died in a horse? Those are they run those on who here gets. I have no cable tv, which is a life choice here at this house. Oh really yeah. Credible, we we don't have cable, but we do have over the air high death and there is a channel on up in a way like it's five point. One of five is five point: five cold. This tv

What is anybody seen? It said. Some crazy pirate here is here is not a pirate signal here, Is the mission statement of this tv five point: five over the air Hd Digital show the shittiest movies ever made by human beings period period. End of mission statement. All they buy the rights of those on Craig's list, the first night. I turn it on I'm amazing mode. I'm amazed. Most of my movies are on it every night, but the first night I tuned in it was cold out. It was a Richard Lewis. Sean Young Movie, where they had to get a dog to Monte Carlo past the evil. John Candy called once upon a crime also with Cybil Shepard and Jim Belushi, and you can kind of tell like the whole cast is on cocaine like the whole and they're making the film. Well, that's a movie you make to sustain your cocaine, had exactly exactly and it's ok. You want to go to go to Rome with Sean Young for, like a summer, yeah sure on cocaine and get adoption,

some slightly kooky yeah, let's take her out of the country and load up on coke, and then new movie with a dog with a dog talk at all dog doesn't talk, so they would just have to get the dog. How to get this damn dog in Monte, Carlo DOT like a purebred, belong to I had to like go to your or something a jeweled necklace or something when they just take. The necklace with might be easier to smuggle in a dog should sort of doesn't it doesn't damage once upon a crime? Where were you when they were when they were cracking the story on once upon a crime, so the time machine? Where is my police box? Sorry doctor know everything's going to keep going back to doctor who for Maine it's really good, you guys? are you watching me the updated doctor who's yes and see, and they were great right. It's everybody says they're great I instantly was hooked. Christopher Eccleston was in the first season. I've never seen that guy not be intense, and then why did you not do the second season? He just said he felt like he'd finished it.

No, I don't know what he told. There is some big story about like the well, as is always there changing doctor who? What is the story that I heard was that he was a little intense to work with and he probably like his character, DR who is the way they portray. Him is very like on the coffee and now I am cookie yeah and it was in that I've never seen Chris reckless and play anything other than like and it will yeah, and so maybe just maybe it just hurt his heart to play a light. Hearted person for so long, but I've seen is from that episode of extras or Ricky Gervais is actor, does like a a bit part in one of the episodes and then in the new doctor who that's right? That's it That was actually in the extras, I believe, finale because it goes he goes downhill from. They showed just a short shot of him doing that yeah there's a slug. He meets his agent and the only options left are monster on doctor. Who and then the british version of big brother, which is, I guess, still a big hit over there.

And he says no to both and then in quick succession. They show but as the monster on doctor who and he's like got some weird you like looks like Gumby right so yeah. She said the weird tool at this sort of It's just like these. Also, not just a monsters like the crappiest thrown together, slapdash monster they can do is, is a bunch of stuff yeah. It's really it's great. It's funny how big brother is still huge hit in England. That's why they did a recent zombie mini series based around the Big Brother House called dead set, They did that's a that's. A good idea is amazing yeah. This is a great hobby. Operate happens outside of the big brother House, but they have no really because there is a big brother branded and yeah that's right in actual host lady. That's a and you're right where the idea that's the kind of shifted british television. Does it so genius, like all those Alan Partridge Series, take place at different points in his life yeah and then ties back to is like that's. We never

do stuff like that in american television is not going to go for. One hundred episodes is probably right now, like that's like yeah, they don't care, they like they like six episodes. That's great! Let's make a movie on tv, basically right and then there done forever in an awkward it's like among Dolla. Are you? The british office only ran you know the thirteen episodes I think correctly, because now we're at like one hundred and fifty. I actually think that we're at exactly one hundred over with, but I think it's one hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty it's just so there's such little now to do with those characters. Think it's neat like because it just makes it easier to get into a show it's kind of like you know like when I first heard guided by voices. I was like. Oh, this is great. I'm going to go, get a guided by voices album or two, and then you see in the record store they have ad albums, and it's like. Where do you start at that point because I get into it? You know just time and money.

Spent most of the vote record albums to accuse the casual beastie boys work on what this need: twenty eight twenty six tracks or what I love it. But I love like eleven, really amazing ones: yeah, okay, look at ten eleven track down there! Well, I I think it's I don't know it. I I guess that's just kind of short term thing you like how we made these- let's just all current, let scramble mall on here from people right. Why don't take two years off and just keep putting records out that were that one record right yeah, because I you know, I hear a lot of I I hear like Radiohead, bootlegs and they're playing songs. I've never heard yeah and they're old. I'm not going to release these, and maybe maybe they just kind of go well. This didn't really fit the sin really for the theme of the album we're making and so will just check it so does their music is, I bet it sucks to be in Radiohead. I just feel like there's a lot of unbelievably depressing. Like

bus rides with each other. You know we're all just kind of each one of you is looking out the window and not wanting to talk to the other one and just kind of quietly thinking about killing all the other ones, and I hope that's not, case Tom does seem, intense idea might might might doesn't seem like they're having a goof over there. Now I don't run around like the Monkees ever know chasing each other around, but your continues to be this year, so sees garland so really letter How the did anyone stare at the stage with kind of got them Thom Yorke sitting in the audience. I I I'm I'm I have a. I have a time Heart failure story and it haunted me for a long time, but I used, I worked K rock in the nature, which is the station in LOS Angeles. If you aren't listening to this product, Suppose angels players slide whistle awarded good slide whistle. Do you Peppa rubbish, calmest out with good?

all hands on deck all hands on deck. My most doctor, who e sort of sound I could make three, was pretty cool We have to get to the top. All this is true stretch, rib eye cream, no stranger, bottom, Bob Mckenzie, take off the great White North by Getty Lee, not right. Well, no crew keep talking about we're going to look up. Coco Coco could be waiting in the background practicing that more pictures. I was a so what have always saying something intense about your dad yeah. So it's like you know drink your way to love. No man, you gotta fuckin, open up and you get it let's close enough, no gods harder than it looks. Maybe you should use the gee. Maybe you should use the chief slide whistle

yeah see, but you don't know that's what the professional side was only found its mouth by the way that was like a pipe bomb that you could not carried out on a plane and be like. No, it's a slide whistle. It was a close, the is really close, the slide with limited, probably one of the most difficult instrument to play, because there's no friction because there's no gauge is a great musician. Is that guy? Who does your theme song yeah? He was amazing. What is the words it's? It goes. Nerdcast yep, the Nerdist Podcast, and it's going

have sex with you. It's going to have sex with you a couple of times it's going to make sex on you or something yeah yeah, don't get nervous yeah. It's the Nerdist point went back and forth for months on the lyrics because we wanted to just right. I wouldn't change them well, when you can't, I mean if you pay thirty thousand dollars for something you gotta set in stone. I mean we might as well know if I would have chosen it's going to have sex with. You is like the middle part, but I don't think so. Well, that's called the Bridge Tom. I mean you're a good movie writer, but I should know how to Jack could summarize. We call the bridge the second part of active yeah, but it songs. We just call it the bridge and it just kind of glides you into the third part's, pretty good. It's going to have sex going to have

I can have sex with their on you, I'm not sure it's b, you know mainly there is a little bit of a language barrier, but I feel like that, gives its a box set of that guy that I could get some more yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah thanks go to amoeba, probably you have to go to amoeba and then they treat you bad. They make you feel guilty for liking. What you like and then and then they'll set up as a former. Here we go okay; here we go people project their own, like their own worries about what they're buying like so many times every day like it, also puts their huge sting of CD's on the counter and they go. I know some of this is you're, probably thinking I project. Checked all my own worries on the angry condescending gentleman behind the counter help you can, you believe, I'm buying this? Yes, because it's music and music is subjective and you probably the song on their own. Oh well, like people are very read about that new and sound like an asshole. If you said that

so this is, I want to remember for the do first time in a week a year. The other day arm is really made about that stupid. They got me with that Stupid Beatles RE released box. They did I I got me there and still was stupid, but I I was not going not get it, but then, when the cashier didn't get the model I got because, like I have my stereos in stereo, so I also could get it on wax on play it on the Edison recorder, but I'm not going to do that. Call come in here. I need you. That was Alexander. Graham Bell. Sorry close, but actually I did feel like because the clerks are so snooty like you have to get the Beatles New boxes to keep it behind the counter. So you have to ask for it, and the guy gave me the look of. If I have to go pick this up and you don't buy it, I'm going to kill you, so I was just like yeah I'll take it. I don't even care do when he handed the box. You should look at the baggage mean like these guys. Any

good hearing these guys here, these guys so bad who has seen and I'm guessing you all have at the beginning, the beginning animation that opens the game. Beatles rock band make you cry? Yes, I got I got, I got choked up, do not get choked up little bit. You haven't seen it yet. I wanted it to be a movie that continues forever exactly it is so beautiful. I want to live in that yes, I'd rather live there then, where we live on earth people place Meanwhile, John Lennon is reportedly one of the meanest people to ever live you think. Well, if you look at any of the autobiography the autobiography she but the, but the biography that was right about him. This is kind of like a Miss Kay was the kind of guy that, if you know to the, if you were a,

cover. You were slow, he would call you started comforted. You seem a little confrontational. I imagine he really really really bad childhood. I would imagine, I believe, witnessed his mothers death right, oh really, well that supposed to make a super villain. Did you witness his mothers death and there was plutonium nearby? That's all I did not witness is another step through mother was over by like a drunk on oh yeah, and now John Lennon kills serial killers right, yep, yep, that's right. He hunts serial killers and he works for the Miami PD, not a bad comic book. The ghost of John Lennon just going someone should totally do a John Lennon Comic book. I like super villain. I read a comic book years ago. That was done as though Paul Mccartney had died and that whole Paul is dead. Thing was real and it was like John Lennon was dealing with the whole thing, like Brian nobody most boring, but this should be by the way that should also be one of the other subplots of watchmen. Sounds like the perfect other thing that Paul Mccartney died and then like spend like two hundred pages on that idea.

I remember these panels with like people talking like they were saying like why? Don't the people who really wrote the songs for Paul come forward and it showed Willie. Nelson writing. Let it be Oh, my god. This is a common put literally for no one. Where did you find this? It a comma in my own notebook Cape cod like wow eight, and it's probably still in met so there I bought it there weren't many have it do you still have it yeah I do, and how does this comic book like? What's the story? It's the Beatles, so it's a comic book of the Beatles and they have this one off issue. Also there is our universe: yeah we're all actually, but the water yeah yeah. That way to do this in a show, like Brian F theme, going to get the guy that won the Paul Mccartney look alike, contest beep. Ok! Now I hate it anyway awkward. Now I hate that comic book. Sorry. Well, it's it's a very strong possibility, I'm related to John Lennon.

That is a strong possibility. There aren't that many lennons and they're all from the same area. Basically, well. You know I don't mean to brag, but I think I might be related to Edward Hardwicke, who was in the Sherlock Holmes Series in England which one the one with with Jeremy Jeremy, Brett Jeremy Brett yeah amazing, I just over Christmas when I was really sick and you came over my arm. I watch look back to back in a row because you on Netflix on the man who has that I do not accept that sort of watching doctor who lost the best, except for the selection of movies. They have getting better grows. Everybody for tv's prefer tv series, it's so much easier to license, and so you can. You can just check back every day because there's always more yeah, but they have all of the journey. Brett, Sherlock Holmes and they're great, and I had a fever of about a hundred and two. So just laying in bed tripping my balls off watching him. Thank God. He's awesome. Are you sure? That's just a fever mean your balls should know they might have something they actually managed to know they went off very well. Are you ok, I don't feel great. I don't feel great

pepper. What would it sound like if your balls came up? That's what I thought That's the rolling down the stairs toward a cloud and off to the circus when they go down the street. This is all stop motion. Look at ice cream truck and they and they pull up to a gas station and they go fillerup and then and then again, thank you for getting gas. And then they to start up, but it doesn't start and it doesn't start alright. Then we open the hood on this all right now I play alternator

how to try it again, great you're good, to go thanks for fixing TOMS balls job was twisting the whistle left to right doing nothing to change that. That was that was me. Do it. I was like performing the slide whistle that was him. Some of the Hendricks of not all of us him trying to do the whammy bar on the slide, with Jimi Hendrix, could have made he could play the guitar in a way that made it look easier, but the fact that it looks like full of passion and losing his mind and in a crazy battle with that. So I try to do that's what I try to do with the slide whistle to me. It's like the devil is given me the slide whistle, and I

fight it away when I'm playing yeah, because I don't. I don't want this double whistle the do the double gave you the flood was less punishment to everyone else around yeah. I feel like I feel like I am the so I'm I'm not solitary slide whistle to your mo yeah. So, like I'm, gonna throw this in a in the fire and never love. Why did why? God, why you plan to design? Thank you Bob today. Thank you. Not since you like it's it's like an entire symphony of slide whistle, is pre written in his head and he's just taking dictation. I worry that kids today haven't seen that movie. Yet what I can move, maybe I think other than Brazil, which is I think the best movie ever made the other best movie ever made is ominous and how come like, where the

Tom Hulce go where the did Tom Amazing me, Google, Tom Holes, let's all Google Tom, that sounds like some sort of a government directive. That's a code for something we're googling Tom Holtz, I saw pretty and because my parents showed it to me- and I was surprised how much I was into it as a kid like how much I liked it and thought it was hilarious once like I was eight it's great and there's also that one Christopher Gas Stability Crystal sketch those guys it's like. What's the thing called, never that. Update on Tom Holsey's gained a lot of weights and the fastest, but like they had, the thing is, like you see that movie Amedeus, so I was like call it back now, but no one else.

I love those. I love those characters. Sixteen pound dumbbell, you found lying around the rumpus room, such a great sketch. Are it's a Tom Tom, your story, I'm working a k rock I backstage at the acoustic Christmas one year, which is one of the two yearly concerts that K Rock, does an if you're an on air if you're, not other one weenie roast. If you're on air person. Did that pay off the way you intended? I had no idea what our eyes, though I just curious when you roast a spring and and acoustic Christmas this is obviously the Christmas and not really acoustic any ok. So when you, when you're on air at K Rock you get these God badges and you can go fucking anywhere and it's awesome so backstage in the Green room, an the year is one thousand nine hundred and ninety six. It was just after creep. Actually, ninety six would have been the Benz would have been out at that point. I'm pretty sure

well. That'll radio had learned of the beds the Gulf Alpha level, all right, but it it's not a port for the story. Anyway, I'm a huge Radiohead fan and they one of the K Rock people. Something like eighty one interview, radio, Hedjet officials interview and he had to go to go, do something else and sure So I walked over to Radiohead in like hey radiohead. What do you want to talk about and Thom Yorke stands up and he just goes this into over any just storms off. I guess he was pissed because dead fish bloom often so they were, and they did you want done. You would said what the sentence high Radiohead, what you want us, I'm like that yeah and he he just didn't. He just didn't like me in like me and didn't like that. The second stringer was coming into him and so requested jet this exactly. I know seriously and so later that night I saw him at the pool at the party backstage and I've I when I was like dude, I'm so sorry I didn't you know, I don't know what happened, but I really I'm sorry and he didn't in response he was just like

you know and then and then walked away, and I was like wow. You remember what I said about writing on the tour bus with these. Yes, I know, but for years theory about what Radiohead's like yeah free for years. You know like if you have a a failure voice in your head, that whenever you up as like a coach or something like you'll, never achieve anything in my head. I always heard this interview is over because it because the time York, yeah and still love him one of the band one of the only things we differ in bars and stuff. We like is that I call Radiohead over rated. You had almost rolled off really smoothly over rated radio overrated to do head over radio. Mrs, it works. If you see it spelt out now. I I I love. I got yelled at by James Gandolfini. Did you really yeah? I got actually

all that mean the same guy who broke the scene in that play with Jeff Daniels in New York, where they're doing a live stage show James Gonna be goes. If we start the scene over and no and Jeff Daniels goes well, I guess we're going to now started over. Yes, the really have that really happen, but please tell me your team's gonna finish that really have that really happen. They were doing a play in a light. Live show, plea means, live note so it's no post, that's like Nicol Williamson stuff, and he he just stopped. It was like. Oh can we start the seat again and again? Well, I Yes, we're going to now, and so they did does fantastic. I was sneaking around. We were in love, as for that matter, within his trailer. He stopped doing the the Us Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen this right doing in Vegas, which was a one year, the biggest bummer of the of the history of the world, so right on stead of going to the the the gingerbread town of wonderful fun, just Vegas with and glitter and sadness the land so bright and yeah, and

so what he reckons Gandolfini was there. I was there doing a show with Toby Huss and then my wife and I are walking through the casino, and I see James Gandolfini and I do what any normal person would do. I say: let's follow him, see where he's going. So we follow Gandolfini for like a while on lurking in the shadows behind James Handle Feeney through Caesars Palace, James Gandolfini is going to meet someone. I know very well my friend Lenny whoever got his friends with James Gandolfini. So I come around the corner. You think you got it in I'm lurking behind him, like Gollum in the shadows and hero. Into a friend of mine is like Tom. What are you doing? Working back there in the shadows, blah blah blah me Kendall, Feeney, take to friend away blah blah blah long story short. I took his friend who don't have any money and he was playing kind of Phoenix playing like one hundred dollars. Hands of blackjack. Take the friend away to see a show in the mean time he loses Gandolfini. Who is there with so I've like kidnapped his friend by accident? I friend nap time and now Gandolfini doesn't have his body with him and I'm like

God in this you get a few later as a he let his looking for you trying to find you. He went to go funny because I don't have the the guy was still his friend sure, because Tony Brown, I love him right, and so he went to the night club. Look for you in Gandolfini. Looked at me with the most, with more rage that I've ever seen a living human being have for anyone else, and he said yes, I know that it was most horror One thing that ever happened to me and I was trying to tell him where his furniture were talking, daddy, better tone, I was. I know it did sound like a note that, but you can cut it, but then it ok. Then, couple minutes later he was talking to concierge at the Caesars Palace LAS Vegas. I go walk down the hall with my wife and I start to almost right. 'cause I've just been yelled at by Tony by one of your idols or by literally like there's, no one. I could love more. Who could have yelled at me. That would have made me feel worse right. Then he comes down the hall candle things coming behind it and there's no escape there's nowhere. I can go and I've just been yelled at by him and hear him comma. I see him and he's coming he's heading straight

fucking forming so like not going to punch me right, 'cause he's so mad and he comes up and he taps me on the back and he says you are. You have a show right and I said yeah I do. I do a show called Reno. Nine one is like yeah yeah, that's great! That's a great show I like that and then he walks away well that had to make you feel bad. Well, here's! Yes! But here's what happened? What happened was the concierge who he was yelling at in the Caesars, had did not have HBO and never seen the sopranos, but was a huge reno. Nine one one fan so when I came up to Gandolfini and said your friends looking for you now go right. The guy behind the desk said again: oh Feeney, hey, you know lieutenant dangle, that's so cool and Gandolfini, and then I talk to the concierge latency. Apparently what Gandolfini said was yeah he's a great guy really have screaming. That would be maybe there's a little bit of that. Twenty eight days later anger chip blood got this. I just have celebrated ship blood she got sprayed, that's maybe he seems like one of those guys just how we communicate like. If you go over your friends house,

with ads like what do you catch down here like? Why is your dad yelling? This is how we communicate since he doesn't have any, which is a circle. That's used. This is first celebrity running the best celebrity road not ever had- and this was awesome. I fairly tipsy at Jerry Lewis is 70th Birthday party, already a good story which was at the hard Rock in New York. I'm sorry, the planet, Hollywood still there or the hard one of those two places I quite drunk had an opportunity to talk to Helen Mirren, who was standing right in front of she seems awesome and, I said, excuse me Miss Mirren. I just want to tell you that I have had a crush on you since the movie Excalibur. I have just been in love with you ever since then, and I just needed to tell you that I'm a little bit drunk I think she'll say. Thank you and walk away. She doesn't walk away. She stays right there and talks to me like for awhile. So now I like kind of have a three quarter boner and I'm actually just learning with Helen Mirren their hand on your leg or anything. No, her husband is standing about eight feet away, but an

she was really NAS. Nothing I mean you know just right info, whether anything, no I was were husband was right. There yeah, but still you know his friend she's a six year old woman. She really is yeah yeah missing rod, Graham, and I never I I'm always afraid to talk to people that cousin 'cause 'cause 'cause once you workout this interviews over yeah, but I feel, like that happens a lot of the time, because you know you you, build this thing up in your mind, like oh, that's, someone I could totally hang out with, and I totally and then turns out now you meet them and then, as soon as they recognize you as a fan, they kind of just Glade kills. It kills it that had that happen. For me, with Steve Martin total failure story, 'cause he doesn't want to fan covers now. He doesn't want the fan conversations and it turns out, Bob Dylan to like. I'm sure I wasn't sure ever talk to him about is like Bob Dylan Stuff, but it's

we're not too. If you're like, oh hey, what do you know? You're a guy you're, a guy from Minnesota who wears hats. Sometimes, when we're going to talk about us, I, like it. Here's an awesome. Sorry smoke way too much old guy from Minnesota friend of mine was that a party and they ran out of beer and it goes in, and there was this guy with the beard on the stairs with a cap pulled down and this british guy and he goes I'll, make a beer run and he looks down and he realizes Elvis Costello and he's like you're almost could tell you can't make a beer run he's like no fucking. Another else said anybody and you just seemed like a total, because you don't want to talk about Allison anymore. He wants to go, buy beer for people that constantly wants to talk about radio radio. It's really weird that is weird I play Radiohead time it up really nicely. I've got to practice at a couple of times. My muscle restores is weird because now it's become like he's, become a black and a friendly acquaintance of mine, which is a with me we're now. I do see only the only one of my friends who's, not weird. Yes, he's like an all

really nice guy, but I was always a big fan of him and continue be to this day. Like I never like a lot of my friends just kind of stop getting zones, I continue to buy everything that came out and be and and idea of the new tracks. Well, you do yeah moments. The show. That stuff supposed to keep them under my hat, so I can't I wondered why you are wearing that hat. Is that followed by p threes Mp? Three hundred so I thought it was weird to wear a derby new companies. There's another hat. Underneath this one wait, look what's under there, it's like a massive slide whistles and then there's a little mouse under this one. You are like a nesting doll of awesomeness you're. All that working at amoeba and like I saw him- and I remember- I blew it the first time I could've said hi to him, Michael Jordan, nesting doll. I bet this. I bet this nesting doll. Joke is going to go great over ninety six bulls. It looks like Pippin comes out

is that who that is who's inside Scottie Pippen is Dennis Rodman where's horse. I'm not sure this is what Russians had in mind when they created nesting dolls that were purchased in Moscow, Steve Kerr. Oh my gosh wow, that's great big lebowski russian Doll that came with the the special edition Vhs copy Weird AL story. Oh well, like I saw him perform a song with a Ben folds at like the Ben folds album really show at all star lanes in Eaglerock? Remember that place when it was cool yeah, so they still have good shows there yeah. So, like yeah, I kind of blew it 'cause. I just moved LA, and I was like I can't talk like I just couldn't. I was overwhelmed, so I was working at amoeba. That said Tom RE calibrating his nesting dolls and it does the tiniest slide with the image.

I was working at amoeba and he he's their sound like it's just like a stack of CD's, profitable, promo stuff and like I go okay, all right, I mean take my break and going to try to talk to him and and like I go up to him, and I just I blow it. The first thing out of my mouth is, like I said going to. Excuse me. You know AL so with that I just say Miss real, quick and then, like I just crash. He turns around to go and then just go for broke ago. A really big fan I still haven't. I do comedy now and it's kind of because of you but like it just went off and I started about Frank's two thousand inch tv, which is like my favorite, Weird AL song and like it's off valve palooza, but like it still put that on mixes, sometimes obliges wanted. Really big fan is like hey thanks. This is my wife. I was like hi anyway. I was like I work here, but I gotta go I'll. See you around baby then just walked away before he could even say. Bummer part. Is that when you get all excited like that, it's because the way our brains are formed. It's all those higher brain functions get taken over by that lizard brain stem

and so you're trying to express all of these things that you would like to explain eloquently in one ejaculate of fear and nervousness and so Then he understands I had the same thing with owl. I met him in ninety six and and he knew who I was 'cause. I was doing the singled out. Making sure that I'm don't get excited everyone. I know its main Ann nervousness right now. And so my only slide was left in my lettuce log, my prepped it, but I didn't go. I just I just like to have it. I like to be ready, This is like the nodes there. That's why the general next time executes slide whistle? Oh he's, not gonna, do not gonna. Do this so much anticipation. Yeah, so I had the same thing with him and then didn't see him again for years. Until you start bringing him to Ucb shows pretty close,

You got to be friends again after that and he's literally one of the nicest guys wear 'cause. I never thought like the first person that would come visit. My newborns. In the hospital would be weird Al Yankovic. I never knew that. That would be what my life would turn into, but he's like he and his whole family. There just. And it's amazing, and it's amazing that you know someone 'cause, he really was responsible. For you know when I was a kid and I bought it just to type The second start listening. I am. I just felt my comedy horizons open like you can do this. Like it, just completely change my young mind, I was listening to the central Weird AL, which we were the recording which we hosted and another one. I was holding my son when it when my son who's a baby. Now first heard another one rides the bus and I got a little bit choked up it's pretty. It was really weird I was standing in my kitchen. I was the first time I was like I'm like a dad now 'cause, I'm playing him old time,

many records and usually people bring in their carry on. Like passing on of the the first ever heard of the rise of us, I was actually writing on a bus, and it blew my mind because I felt like the song was inside my life, I couldn't. I could not understand how it could be so perfect and you very under rated comedy from that time on. I just I just watched it two days. It holds up a love it. It's like it's the it's. The this way to do like you know, sketches like like skits parodies of tv shows there was anyone doing like. If you know the Kentucky, fried movie or fairly's are doing right now they are well, they keep doing them and they tend to fail. So it's really a tricky business, but they fail because they're tearable, like like I love the guys at the onion and the really great dudes, and I wrote something for all every time. The onion does something right, something for one of the books, but the onion movie like, have you seen it now check it out? If you wonder why they don't make more sketch compilation movies check out the only

it's kind of like a dare, which is amazing, because you know onion news network. That is amazing, like the one doing really in the whole world murder bill. That's being read on the floor of the Senate of your purse, everything I want now senator reading about how he murdered a hobo and the blood lust and how he saw him, self covered in blood article two, and then I said, I've never felt so alive, subparagraph one. I watched the hobos blunt, it's incredible. You gotta see it the actors they get for those things are incredible. It's like they do something that no one else seems to dislike. Everyone gets like someone from the comedy community to act on these things where they actually go and cast actually real actors. Or do you see, Obama redoes his campaign goal and after meeting the american people, it's just about like, instead of like, like hybrid technology and factories with american jobs, let's try to

to the liquor store is like is like he is, come up with a whole new thing of campaigns and it's being read by like an Obama spokesman, it's just perfectly place. They do good job, but their sketch movie was terrible. What's the one is it we know. What's the other Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, one of them, that's the one with the Playboy Playmates life of the playmate. We always used to get boners and watch that as a kid Spencer holding naked? Remember, I think the second sketch I think so I don't represent women as much I was going to do here is the white is black man has ever lived right was that it was not even or is the only what that is, I'm going on the moon. Remember will take your calls right, take your calls on this right now I'll go ahead. We're going to have to a have a time machine. One of our phones rings right now. How fucking awesome would that be? You have a time machine just get here right now. Just give you just get here. Tell us right now or just call us just pull up right now. If you respect here in this room- or you know the bombers, my phones inside the house

So what? If it's ringing? That's probably where you wouldn't even know this is when we learn that Weird AL has a time machine keep in mind. He looks amazing things up yeah just here and for a while for fifteen years at least yeah. It's like that for a story about a guy was a hundred who's about to turn a hundred and five used to be a strong man in the like in the New Jersey, and you could still ban quarters with his hands. He was an incredibly lucid at a hundred and four was about two hundred five yeah. I do have my car yeah. Well, it's everyday I'd like they live, that's how we had to be taken out. He was bending quarters that he was always like I'm sorry. I used to be able to bend dying, yeah yeah. She was taken right, but it was taken out by a technology that didn't exist when he was born. That's true yeah, so it's kind of fitting it's fitting I feel, like God, did well to be yeah, that's a good way to get taken out with white hairs and cougars, and things like that right for the car. You lose, you lose your lives. He when he was a bit of taking on the car hundred for users to frail. At that point, are you what are you working on

Mount Tom Lennon or you were working on a pilot for NBC called the strip. You got a sweet ass deal. I read about it in one of those fancy. Hollywood magazine Bob Proper magazine, it's very exciting, so we shoot it in April with Beth Mccarthy is directing, who directs thirty rock yeah. I know ten years of SNL and she's just awesome, so she actually directed the pilot to Reno now it used to work at MTV. She not really did work with everything she did tons of unplugged and things she just. She was like the master of live television, so it is set in LAS Vegas. It's called the Strip set in LAS Vegas North LAS Vegas, which is the rest yeah. This is the residential side where there is no far far away so sit and set at a disgusting restaurant in a Strip mall on the other side of LAS Vegas where people live. You know it's funny because it to me like when you see the strip by you kind of feel like I have.

This is gross but shiny, and then you get a block off the strip and it's your it's your right. Well, it's kind! This is our second show the working on set in the state of Nevada, which were sort of just obsessed with all I'm. I think I'm obsessed with the state of nevada- and I think you're going to corrupt or needles or searchlight, is next search right, but I think that is so interesting because humans, without air conditioning humans, could not live there right like we would not survive so identical the surface of Mars yeah. This is, we could not survive without special equipment and technology to keep us alive there. We will not live there, really that's. Why I love it? If someone said we're to set up a circus midway in the Gobi Desert, We we can't, we can't live there. Well, we can bring a bunch of stuff that will keep us alive is a dome above entire town. In the old days they would have had elephants blow their trunks to interrupt that's of water that would cool and condense. In there my parents lived in Southlake software.

So I spent a lot of time in Reno right in the Carson City yeah. It's like it's incredible like how desolate and depressing Carson City is their capital. Those smallest dumbest cities, I've ever seen in my life. It was probably the value persons faster than you would be very surprised, We happen in like in the late 19th century, like Carson City, we're on the way up. Yeah, you know person, city Halloween. We know one time: Carson City, silver, Halloween the day after because October, 31st is Nevada Day right, one so that we make the town celebrate Halloween it's our own dress up like sands and the women are going to get the rocks yeah. I do apologize to Reno because in GQ magazine I accidentally called a disgusting. Try. Pit that sparks accidental E. It was I was kid. It was a total joke. No you're kidding the whole job. I was read: Marshall of the University of Nevada Reno Homecoming Parade, that's so as a result. We thank you as I

Yes, you will recognize you as they don't offer much less and less as much with Brown here less and less right, yeah conditionally. If you have that you know, if you have a costume on. Obviously they recognize you move one with a baby on your car. Someone doesn't show up that baby up, maybe is that I don't know, lady with that big is getting closer math because well, let's, let's see the baby will say funny stuff all the doors. That he's pretty good friends with Weird AL here, come a baby, not even wearing clothes, then what are we doing timewise so far? Fifty two, oh, we are probably wrap it up soon. As I get back to the that did the guy who wrote your your interest, all right, you're not from some, will have to try sector the file. Let me let me just dig through the archives to see, if I, if I

stretch stretch to committed to find it? I bet. Does that mean I don't understand? What are those hand signals are doing? Why are you oh, oh oh, so what do you like about things all of it, but not sometimes mostly all the time times say, but then other times like to do it as a treat treat yeah yeah. Just every once in awhile need Dave concert this weekend, Matthew August, 23rd, Hollywood, bowl, Hey can wait that long big. He is he's a freaking Dave, Matthews, vampire I've, Dave, Matthews more than you've. Seen more Dave. Matthews is his his head vampire. I guess the biggest cover bands, one of the highest money making cover bands in the S is: DMV Cb

he's been cover band. I have heard of I like a good like a small angle towards out once and like all the guys saying, but usually we make a lot of money when we have the a b c b come in when Chris said a we talk about how you like the Dave, Matthews Band, so much Joe to look to me like I had terminal cancer. What you will get if you keep on listening to Dave, Matthews Band, sorry pero! No, the 41st minute jam song another another snob when it comes to music for the most part, MIKE Schowalter and MIKE Black were down in North Carolina like fourteen years ago during some state tour, and we were in some bar is really super crowded. There was like Dave, Matthews Band is playing tonight and we never shut up and sit in the back and talked just being dicks the whole time and never listen to and if we said anything about them, we just crack jokes about did everyone get up and then years later I realized that was the Dave Matthews Band that we didn't realize it had never been done now, 'cause, we were just being assholes. Who is this jam band. Oh my

I found this oddly well before we do the outro music. Does anyone have anything they want to promote? That's coming up, I don't think we can. When is this going up, it will hopefully be up soon, will just promote it and then, if it's past and it's best, we got premiere coming up, I'm doing the the state on MTV from nineteen ninety two or not on that I mean some of the stuff as it passed address and we can catch that in in nineteen again. Okay for the time machine crowd, so the status of political all of the mid 90s, I'm doing like a goof, but it's like a hardy har, goofy jamboree. I wish you would do some type of variety oh another great next year to sketch you wanna do that? What did we do? A live life variety, you know people there. I believed I want to play a character called Johnny Blue Jeans.

Perfect, go with great, we don't we invite black, but we let you to. I want to make on the show actually at some point. If he'll do it true- and I don't know if he was very he's a sweet guy, he emailed me once and it was like it Just- doesn't come off in the way he acts or things cares for the things he says what he really is he's one of the super smart guys. You know it I don't know: do you hate me right now, you're, judging me MIKE Black and I at our old house we're having a conversation he was in LA for the day and we sat down to talk on the porch. This is one of the weirdest things ever happened and a pig

in fell from the sky and died in between our feet like we both. Have that and said: hey have you been one? One thousand and two one thousand bird falls dead from the Skype and leave at that point. It was that it was a pretty weird sign. It was not quite dead, it was ninety percent dead, that's grounds to end a friendship. I think that's what the guys are saying it felt pretty. It was pretty clear that one might just reach down and twisted. It said tell Jesus. I said: what's up well, yeah, so our web soup premier is March third Wednesday at eight hundred pm on G4, and I don't know when, if this gets up before February, 13th I'm performing in Austin TX at the Zona Rosa and go see that, with San Francisco in San Francisco. Jonah are going to be in San Francisco at the punchline and on the 23rd of the second story. The second story plays,

can you put them on the second story of his in the second story of the business district, which is the right number yeah, it's kind of weird it is weird, is a nice collection rate? It's a great collection, yeah, phenomenal phenomenal club are you? Are you doing any live, shows no baby working on. If you ever not in not in that order, if you ever did see time when in live, you should see someone like he does. You do do stuff. Sometimes we've done a couple of older couples. Yeah. I hope I didn't open for you. It is set before before yeah. That's a great great show. That was a great show. The Largo show any time having to do that. Does the Largo show you did was awesome. It was really fun. Show some good folks, yeah good stuff. Well, Thank you for being our inaugural Nerdist, podcast and in other day, I mean literally just spreading are assholes at sports. Super bowl special first show spectacular, and hopefully will do these weekly Matthew. Did you were you able to find.

I got it right here, let's just say the word: that's it that's the guy. This is the outro music. It's guys is going to be even better. The interviews and I promise and if that's even possible,

you're welcome

well, he had when I brought him up here from Ecuador. He had never seen snow, and so he just wrote about winter stuff. Ms Magnus scars on this will do it next time. This is the actual, usually to the end of the show, probably aware. I don't know it doesn't. This is the first one, so I don't know how this works. You know where to order pizza, I've never seen I've, never seen Tom or the subway. I was in the same room to get dumb. You went away, you missed the whole sharks wrote it was so good. I was just at rolling out some pizza dough. It's just the file. We could play it again exactly stuff to hit this button. Really gotta put some slides. Oh? It is overdone, but one slide whistle to take us out. Do you?

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