Bonus Bang: Grilling with the Zouks (Natasha Leggero, Lily Sullivan, Mike Hanford, Payam Banifaz)

Summary

Comedy Bang Bang: "Bonus Bang: Grilling with the Zouks"

Release Date: April 16, 2026
Host: Scott Aukerman
Guests/Characters:

• Lily Sullivan as Kayla Dickey
• Natasha Leggero
• Mike Hanford as Adjacent Mantzoukas
• Payam Banifaz (Peter Banifaz) as Dr. Anthony Fauci

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Episode Overview

This episode of Comedy Bang Bang is a "Bonus Bang" re-release, revisiting the fan-favorite episode "Grilling with the Zooks" (originally Episode 753 from April 17, 2022). Host Scott Aukerman presides over a zany set of interviews and character bits in the "backyard era" of the show. Kayla Dickey (Lily Sullivan) serves as co-host, joined by comedian Natasha Leggero, “Adjacent Mantzoukas” (Mike Hanford), and Dr. Anthony Fauci (Payam Banifaz). The episode blends meta-humor, absurd character arcs, and running gags involving big trucks, viral YouTube grilling shows, and a medical celebrity.

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Key Discussion Points & Notable Segments

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1. Kayla Dickey: Truck Week and Small Town Hijinks

(Starts ~04:14)

• Kayla Dickey's Backstory: Kayla, from Montrose, Colorado, is obsessed with dating men who drive the largest trucks—ideally a Ford Rock Hard 350 or above.
  • “If they have a big truck, then they're worth dating, in my opinion.” (Kayla, 04:44)
• Life Update: Describes her breakup with Judd Weeby (former mayor of Montrose) after he burned down the town and lived as a bear.
  • “He started a fire because he left multiple curling irons on…then he fled…in a bear costume.” (Kayla, 06:48)
• Truck Week: Explained as the town's annual week-long, over-the-top celebration of trucks, loosely likened to Sturgis but for trucks and “an equally anti-vax crowd.” (09:46)
  • Rituals include circling in big trucks, watching ultraviolent movie DVDs, and a town-wide “orgy.”
  • “It's like one big orgy… everyone's basically fucking and sucking all over.” (Kayla, 17:04)
• Dating Rituals: Her favorite method of being courted is being yelled at from a truck—“He yelled, ‘Smile for me.’” (05:19)
• Truck Hierarchy and Rumors: Discusses the legendary, possibly mythical Rock Hard 500 truck model—the existence of which is solely “based on rumors.” (13:19)
  • “Truck production works...it's all based on rumors.” (Kayla, 14:13)

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2. Natasha Leggero: Rat in the Kitchen & Food Tales

(Joins ~19:08)

• Show Plug: Rat in the Kitchen

  • Natasha describes her TBS cooking competition show alongside chef Ludo, where a secret "rat" sabotages other contestants' dishes.
  • “The rat is metaphorical…and is there to sabotage the other chefs.” (22:54)
  • The sabotage is creative but not as gross as feared: “I really hope people didn’t spit in the food. That’s fucking gross.” (23:51)

• Food Mishaps:

  • Natasha’s ceviche disaster from Access Hollywood, leading to the only time she vomited from food poisoning. (19:50)
  • Stories from working in restaurants, including eating chicken fingers from bus tubs. (24:47)
  • Chef Ludo's strictness; once threw a sandwich at a contestant who served him raw shrimp. (27:08)

• Marvel/Batman Bit:

  • Natasha's indifference to superhero movies sparks running jokes: "I don't really like Marvel movies and I don't quite understand why adults are forced to discuss them." (21:28)
  • Scott: “When I was a kid… I always dreamed of watching the Joker blow Robert De Niro’s head off.” (16:21)

• Theater Critique:

  • Natasha shifted from theater criticism to food TV. “My background is in theater criticism, so it was kind of easy to move over to food criticism.” (28:12)

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3. Adjacent Mantzoukas: The World’s Most Boring Grilling Show

(Joins ~44:41)

• Character Introduction: Mike Hanford plays Adjacent Mantzoukas, literally Jason Mantzoukas’s next-door neighbor, "not related, just adjacent." Recurring meta-joke.

  • “He’s my next-door neighbor. And that’s why I’m called Adjacent Mantzoukas… but that’s not my thing.” (44:57)

• Show Plug: Grilling with the Zooks / Zooks on the Grill

  • YouTube grilling show with bizarre, anticlimactic pacing and explosive endings (literally).
  • “At the end of every episode, we pick a bottle or a can of something, put it on the grill, and it blows up.” (50:04)
  • Success rate is low: out of 250+ episodes, only ~30 successful meals have ever been grilled.
  • “The longest one is 30 minutes. The shortest one is 30 seconds… they brought out chicken eggs. I put it on the grill…then a bottle of champagne. Let’s watch it fly.” (55:03)
  • Most interesting episode: chasing a "198 mph lobster" around the backyard at night, then killing it and punching it like a “Holyfield bag.” (59:14, 64:03)

• Meta Commentary:

  • Show is “boring by design”—graphics are just white text (“Courier New font”), host admits, “I don’t bring much to it.” (54:01)
  • Gags about YouTube show virality ("7 million views per month...then we don't check after that"). (62:36)
  • Book plug: "Lose Weight While You Masturbate"—involves doing “sit-ups and jerking off at the same time.” (69:06)

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4. Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Foch (Big Fudge)

(Joins ~76:15)

• Persona: A swaggering, self-promoting Fauci. Now calls himself “the Foch” or “Big Fudge.” Sells “Foch Posse” merch out of Scott’s backyard.
  • “Let me tell you something, okay? I’m done being humble, okay? Everybody knows the Foch.” (76:31)
• On Hate Mail and Fame:
  • Compares receiving death threats to getting death wishes; prefers threats “because you know who it’s coming from.”
• Reputation Restoration:
  • Shares about being blamed for everything—"miscarriages, divorces, the pandemic"—and now being cheered in Brooklyn. (82:28)
  • “Everyone wants a piece of the Big Foch. And if you don’t mind…call me Big Fudge.” (82:54)
• COVID & AIDS Talk:
  • Clarifies he “single-handedly” got AIDS under control (“the one Big Fauci that got AIDS under control”). Played for laughs; includes influence on George Michael’s lyrics. (84:06)
  • On his early COVID mask advice: “That was called. I was just doing… It was a joke at first that went really far.” (86:08)
• Wild Backstory & Hobbies:
  • Grew up in Brooklyn, art collector with “20 Banksies,” went to an all-boy, nun-training Catholic school. (80:36, 87:01)
  • Most recent hobby: surfing (badly, suffered a giant welt on his ass). (87:11, 90:01)

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5. Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Kayla’s Best Orgy Description:
  • “It’s like one big orgy… everyone’s basically fucking and sucking all over.” (17:04)
• Truck Size as Love Metric:
  • “If somebody comes along with a 450, like, I’m out, I’m leaving.” (11:12)
• Adjacent Mantzoukas Summing Up His Show:
  • “I don’t bring much to it…but that is my thing.” (54:01)
• Natasha on Food TV:
  • “I feel like my palette really developed working with him. And also my background is in theater criticism.” (28:12)
• Dr. Fauci’s Self-Promo:
  • “I’m done being humble…Call me Big Fudge.” (76:31)
  • “The interesting thing about me, I don’t give a fudge.” (83:11)
• Scott on Marvel/Batman Fandom:
  • “When I was a kid… I always dreamed of watching the Joker blow Robert De Niro’s head off.” (16:21)
• Natasha on Tesla:
  • “Do not get a Tesla. It is like driving inside of an iPhone. I really hate it.” (35:48)
• Adjacent Mantzoukas’s Final Thought:
  • “Are all hummingbirds Crash Dummies fans? They’re humming. They’re constantly humming.” (97:41)

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• Kayla’s Truck Week Origin Story (04:14 – 17:46)
• Natasha Leggero Joins, Rat in the Kitchen (19:08 – 32:34)
• Natasha’s Food Mishaps and Chef Ludo (20:50 – 29:27)
• Adjacent Mantzoukas & the Grilling Show (44:41 – 71:45)
• Dr. Fauci as “Big Fudge” (76:15 – 90:26)
• Wrap-up, Plugs, & Final Thoughts (90:26 – 98:08)

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Episode’s Tone and Style

The entire episode is immersive, tongue-in-cheek, and loaded with callbacks, gentle riffing, wordplay, and the characteristic Comedy Bang Bang blend of reality and wild character improvisation. There’s a consistent layering of self-referential humor and meta-commentary on fame, showbiz, and the absurdity of daily life—whether that’s through big trucks, viral YouTube stupidity, or pandemic misinformation.

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Closing Thoughts

"Grilling with the Zouks" epitomizes Comedy Bang Bang's chaotic, collaborative, and densely comic energy. Each guest/character runs off with their own running bit, while Scott Aukerman anchors the proceedings with deadpan nonchalance and layered irony, poking holes in the premise of celebrity, expertise, and even the format of the show itself. The episode is notable for the creative riffs on Americana (trucks, orgies, grilling, and reality TV) and the meta-mockery of show business egos, while gleefully staying just this side of total absurdity.

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Recommended if you like:

• Unpredictable, character-driven improv
• Meta-comedy that deconstructs its own format
• Absurd Americana and relentless in-jokes
• Episodes featuring Kayla Dickey (Lily Sullivan)
• Zooks-adjacent content and CBB spin-offs

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Listen for:

• The “Truck Week” sex-positive-lady-culture arc
• Natasha Leggero’s food TV insider stories and Marvel movie bemusement
• Adjacent Mantzoukas’s gloriously boring grilling show
• Big Fudge’s rise as a merch-peddling, Banksy-collecting medical icon

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• Commercials, product plugs, intros/outros (all marked in the transcript)

Transcript

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[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Hi, Scott. Hi, it's me. I'm back. I know you probably missed me. It's been a while. It's been a few years.

[Scott Aukerman]

Has it been a few years? Really, it's been a few years. I don't remember. Walk us through exactly who you are again.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Okay, so my name is Kayla Dickey. I am from Montrose, Colorado. Basically, I have always fallen for men who have big trucks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. That's your thing.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

If they have a big truck, then they're worth dating, in my opinion.

[Scott Aukerman]

And you're obsessed with the Ford.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Ford rock cart series.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So one of my first boyfriend's kart, he had the ford Rock hard 350.

[Scott Aukerman]

He had the 350.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The 350.

[Scott Aukerman]

The rock hard 350.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Rock hard 350. And that was initially, he hit on me by yelling at me from his big truck, which is my preferred way to get in.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your preferred courtship? Exactly. Ritual.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. It's just super romantic to me.

[Scott Aukerman]

What did he yell at you again?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He yelled. I think he said, smile for me.

[Scott Aukerman]

Smile for me. Sounds like he's like Bob Fosse talking to one of his dancers or something.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He's a damn girl. You're asking for it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. So you like that?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I Love that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay, great.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So that. Actually, that always works for me. That's why I kind of walk the streets and I sort of wait for people to yell at me like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. Because I saw you walking the streets, and I was like, kayla, hey, do you wanna come on the show?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And that didn't work.

[Scott Aukerman]

It didn't work.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's why I waited a few years to come.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But, yeah. And then obviously, get closer to that

[Scott Aukerman]

black thing right in front of you. What do you say? You can talk right into it. Yeah, exactly. A big, long, black thing.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's kind of an awkward level.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, adjust it then, my dear.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, I don't understand. So condescending. I love it.

[Scott Aukerman]

So what you want is you want it to be set up before you get here perfectly at your mout, and then you just sit down into it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, I just think that there should be some thought about. Like, what is this part?

[Scott Aukerman]

It's the mic stand. Who cares? Okay.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Just.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Okay, okay, okay. Obviously, we need to talk about Jud before we finish talking about me.

[Scott Aukerman]

Now, Judd Wiebe. Is that his name?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Judd Weeby.

[Scott Aukerman]

What is Judd Weeby's?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He was formerly the mayor of Montrose, Colorado.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I worked as one of his assistants. Me and my girls, all my friends.

[Scott Aukerman]

He had a lot of assistants.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

A lot of assistants. And basically, he started a fire because he left multiple curling irons on and burned down the town. And then the entire town.

[Scott Aukerman]

Other than the Chicago fire where Mrs. O' Leary's cow kicked over that candle, I don't think I've ever heard of an entire town being burned down.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, it burned to the ground.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And then he fled. He ran up the now aptly named the Jud Weeby Trail, and he was living as a bear in a bear costume. And I basically would take turns, take shifts with all my girls. We now work at David's Bridal. Obviously, we needed to get a new job.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. So you all. You collectively got a new job.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

We did. We work as a crew.

[Scott Aukerman]

A lot of places don't hire five people at a time.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, this really worked out for us because his Jud Weavy's former wife, Merg, owns.

[Scott Aukerman]

Owns David's Bridal. Oh. But who's David in this situation?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, it's a franchise.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Natasha Leggero]

Wake up.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Smell the coffee.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm not. I haven't been in the bridal business for, you know. You know, 15 years or so, so.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, there's some really good stuff out there. Some really beautiful, merry.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'll check it out now. So maybe I'll get married again. What do you think?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I don't know. I mean, is that what you want?

[Scott Aukerman]

I hear there's some really great stuff going on.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What's going on with you and Cool App? Everything's good.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you know Cool App.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, yeah. I met her when I was coming in.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. Great. Yeah. She welcomes all of our guests, gives them a gift basket.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

She gave me water.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Tap.

[Scott Aukerman]

She was great about that. Yeah. She refuses to get bottled water for people.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's only tap.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's only tap. Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But she serves it in a water bottle.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it's very. Yeah. She has a funnel just for that purpose.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. Which I've heard it's bad for you to refill, like, plastic water bottles. The plastic goes into the water.

[Scott Aukerman]

I've heard that, too. But she doesn't care. Yeah. And, in fact, you know, it's not really a funnel. It's actually the original Tin Man' from the wizard of Oz. The 1930.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, my God.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. She bought it just to pour water into water bottles.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That must have been so expensive.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it was crazy. We got the ruby slippers, too, but she wears those around the house. Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Good for her. I'm proud of you guys.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So anyway, basically this time I'm on the show Scott, because it is Truck Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Truck Week.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's Truck Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Truck Week. I can't tell if you're saying Trek Week or Truck Week.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Trek Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Truck Week.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Trek Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Trek Week. Okay. Jean Quee, Borat. So it's Truck Week. The best what?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The best fucking week of the fucking year.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, what happens in Truck Week? And is this exclusively in Montrose, Colorado?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It is. Basically, everybody with a big truck in all of southwestern Colorado descends on Montrose for Truck Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? So this is sort of like the. What do you call that? When all the motorbikers went out there and got Covid. What are we talking about?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's exactly like that.

[Natasha Leggero]

Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But it's people with trucks, an equally anti vax crowd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, great. Are you part of that or.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. But you showed me your vaccination stat. Like, your card.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's a fake card.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, it's forged.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, forged.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. Because basically, my new boyfriend not to hold, like, drop this on you, but I know the last time I was here, I was engaged to Judd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, because you found Judd up there. He put on a bear suit and he was on the Judd Weeby trail scaring people off.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yes. And I found him and I brought him back to Town. And we were together, dating, all of us. Me and my girls and Judd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Was he still as a bear during all of that?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

So going to restaurants as a bear.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He fucks cubs. He fucked his cubs.

[Scott Aukerman]

You fucked his cubs? What?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

We were his cubs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And he fucked us.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, great.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So he was fucking his cubs.

[Scott Aukerman]

He was fucking his cubs.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You get it? It's not complicated.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So basically, yeah, we. I had to break up with Judd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It was a huge thing. He said that he had the ford Rock Hard 450. And that's why me and my girls were like, well, we gotta be with him. So I left Cart for Judd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And then I find out that he actually lied. He had the 400. He didn't even have the 450.

[Scott Aukerman]

No. And what did cart have? He had the 350.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So obviously it's still, like, better. It's better. But at that point, I was like, wow, if somebody comes along with a 450, like, I'm out, I'm leaving.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right? Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And bam, my new boyfriend, Shart comes along.

[Scott Aukerman]

Shart? Shart. Is that what you said?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's like shark with a T. Oh, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, well. Or it's like, Shart.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Shart.

[Scott Aukerman]

Shart. Yeah. Okay. So, Shart, were you walking down the street and Shart spied you?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. And what did he yell at you?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He yelled, hey, stupid little bitch.

[Scott Aukerman]

Cool.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Climb on up here.

[Scott Aukerman]

Climb on up here. And he was talking about his 450.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. So I climbed up the 10 foot tall wheels, and I got in, and he had so many cool slouchy beanies.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are slouchy beanies? Are those like, Beanie babies? Because I know people have, like, Beanie babies in the back of. In their, like, hatchbacks and stuff.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, yeah, that's what they are. They're really long beanie babies. They're called slouch.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really long Beanie babies. And they're called slouchy babies because they can't help but bend over.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Slouchy beanies.

[Scott Aukerman]

Slouchy beanies.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. So he has a bunch of stuffed animals just in the back there.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And they're kind of piled up on top of each other and in the back.

[Scott Aukerman]

What an interesting guy this Shard is.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He's pretty cool.

[Scott Aukerman]

What does he do for a living? Do you mind talking about his life?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So this is what I was gonna say. He makes forged VAX cards.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, wow. Okay. That's gotta be big business.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's really good money, especially in Montrose. It's Huge.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[Natasha Leggero]

So.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And basically, we've been dating for about a year.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Now it's. And lo and behold, I met him at. I met him at truck week last year.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, my God. Okay. So now it's truck week of this

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

year, and I'm always single for truck week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you broke up with him.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So I broke up with him.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. And how did he take that? How did Shart feel about that?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He was like, well, I get it. If there's another guy out there with a bigger truck, like, you have to go.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But do I want you to go? No.

[Scott Aukerman]

So has the 500 model come out at this point?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The 500 is rumored to be out on the message board.

[Scott Aukerman]

Rumored to be out.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's rumored to be out.

[Scott Aukerman]

And you say they're bigger, so each. Each time they make a new model, they grow in size.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Right. Normally, they only go up by 50. So it's like 400, you know, 350, 450, 300, 550, etc. But because of the pandemic, production was changed, and so. Yeah, if you can believe it.

[Scott Aukerman]

So. So the last model is the 450?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And you say, are they going up to 550?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, that's what I'm thinking. I actually think it's rumored to yet that the 500 is around. And I normally would be like, absolutely not. But because, like, truck production is so low right now, I actually would go with somebody who had a 500.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, wait, so it's rumored the 500 is out? You haven't even seen one?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, I haven't. Have you seen one?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you would go with someone even though it's not a 550, which is not rumored to be out? Well, I'm not quite sure.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'm a. I mean, it might be rumored to be out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. It might be rumored to be out, but the 500 is definitely rumored to be out.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The way that truck production works. I don't know if you know this.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, I don't.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But it's all based on rumors.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So it's rumored to be out in the spring, but obviously we're only in March right now, so.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, well, spring has. Has it officially sprung?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, it springs in.

[Scott Aukerman]

When does Spring. Spring?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It springs in May.

[Scott Aukerman]

It springs in May or even June. I think that we're creeping up on summer.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Maybe even July.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. I don't think so.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It sprung.

[Scott Aukerman]

So. So the 500, rumored to be out in the spring.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's rumored to be out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Rumored to be out the 550. Rumored to be out in the spring,

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

but the 500 is rumored to be out, but I've never seen one with my dead eyes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so dead eyes. By the way, you listen to that podcast?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What?

[Scott Aukerman]

No. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, got Tom Hanks on it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, cool.

[Scott Aukerman]

Meanwhile, I'm in the backyard with you.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What the is your problem? Do you need to go to the bathroom or something? Why are you so upset?

[Scott Aukerman]

Do you get mad when you have to go to the bathroom? I usually. I get happy because it's like, oh, go. Oh, boy. I get to get rid of all this.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Whenever I'm on the road and someone's driving like a psycho, I'm like, he has to shit.

[Scott Aukerman]

That makes sense.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, that's a more empathetic way of looking at it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. He has to shit.

[Scott Aukerman]

Instead of just a bad person, he just has to shit.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He has to shit.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's great. So Shart is out of the picture for a week at least currently.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. If I can find someone with something better than what he has, the 450 at this point. Truck Week. I mean, get your fucking ass up and go to Truck Week. It's the best time of my life.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are the events that happen over the week? Or is it just people driving trucks up and down the main street?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's mostly people camping out in their truck, driving their trucks around in circles.

[Scott Aukerman]

In circles. Not even in straight lines. And then making.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, it's just circles.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And basically, they just, like, blare really violent movies from their DVD players in their trucks, and they.

[Scott Aukerman]

What movies are we talking about? Like, 7 or 7 N. Yeah, that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What else is violent?

[Scott Aukerman]

I guess the new Batman.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The Joker.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, Joker.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Joker. Big time.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, man. When I was a kid and I was reading those Batman comics, I always dreamed of watching the Joker blow Robert Zeniro's head off.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, my God.

[Scott Aukerman]

And just seeing his blood spatter behind him.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. It seems like you would be out of Trek Week.

[Scott Aukerman]

I should be. And they rebuilt Montrose then.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's made out of just the worst,

[Scott Aukerman]

just shoddiest construction materials.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Shoddiest construction.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so it could go. Go at any.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It could go at any moment. Just a big gust of wind would blow the whole thing to smithereens.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, but. But luckily, it's not very windy out there.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, it's not.

[Scott Aukerman]

Colorado. Okay, good.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, not where we are. And basically, with Truck Week, I just want to reiterate. It's like one big orgy.

[Scott Aukerman]

You didn't say that the first time. So I'm not sure you can reiterate something.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Let me go ahead and reiterate this. If everyone's basically fucking and sucking all over.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. Well, because everyone's trying to get with someone with a bigger truck or, you know, if they have a big truck they're trying to lure.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why doesn't everyone then just buy the biggest truck that's available or rumored to be available?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's what they do, Scott. Haven't even listened. That's why they have to listen to the rumors on the message boards on Facebook.

[Scott Aukerman]

So then what is Shart doing with this 450? Why doesn't he just exchange it for a 500?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, because nobody knows where it is. You have to find. You have to track down the 500.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. You think one might be there?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'm hoping because it's rumored that it will be.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Me and my girls have been. Me and my girls. Becky, Tosh, Kasha.

[Scott Aukerman]

Tosh. 0. Is Tosh short for Natasha? Because we have a Natasha coming up on the show.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure if Tosh was meant to be here or not, but.

[Scott Aukerman]

Or is it Tosh like Daniel Tosh?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, it's actually. T O S H. Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Named after Daniel Tosh.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow. Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, we're young.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, how young are you, by the way?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Really young.

[Scott Aukerman]

18, though, right?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, good.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

At least that's what my VaxCard said.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. I don't know. Well, that's. That's great. Kayla, I want you to stick around. You're serving sort of as my co host today.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, wow. If that's such a big responsibility.

[Scott Aukerman]

It really is, because I need you in there asking the tough questions.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, shit. Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

You weren't prepared for this.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I didn't. I'll see what I can do.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, great.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, we have to get to our guest of honor.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, wonderful.

[Scott Aukerman]

If that's all right. But she is a. She's a wonderful comedian, she's a wonderful actress, and she's the host of a new show that just came out called Rat in the Kitchen. And she's been on this show ever since probably the very first year. Please welcome back to the show from Rockford, Illinois. Is that right? Natasha Leggero.

[Natasha Leggero]

I haven't been back to Rockford in, like, 12 years. Yeah, but I like that you made it seem like I'm live from Rockford.

[Scott Aukerman]

I feel like we've talked about Rockford every single time you've Been on the show and I get it wrong, thinking it's Rockville, like the R.E.M. song, because you say you haven't gone back there and I say, don't go back to Rockford. And then we all laugh and I've made that joke every time you've been on the show. Welcome back.

[Natasha Leggero]

Thanks for roping me into your dumb bits. Bits that everyone's sick of.

[Scott Aukerman]

Speaking of sick of. This is a cooking show sick of. No, what I'm saying is, as opposed to where people eat food and they get sick, this is good food.

[Natasha Leggero]

I ate some food and got sick yesterday. Oh, no.

[Scott Aukerman]

What'd you eat?

[Natasha Leggero]

I was promoting this show on Access Hollywood and they were making ceviche and so I just ate it and I've never been sick of it.

[Scott Aukerman]

You ate Access Hollywood ceviche? Why?

[Natasha Leggero]

It was totally being prepared by the crew. And then it was like the grips, everyone. I mean, I don't know.

[Scott Aukerman]

And everyone checked in on this ceviche.

[Natasha Leggero]

The prop master, you know, the prop master.

[Scott Aukerman]

Every single person got in on this.

[Natasha Leggero]

Everyone. I just saw people touching on the

[Scott Aukerman]

Orient Express for ceviche.

[Natasha Leggero]

It was a mistake. And then, not only that, it was like sitting under the lights. Anyway.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Wait, so did you have to drive home after where you were super fast?

[Natasha Leggero]

I was fine. And then two hours later I was like vomiting. And that's never happened to me before.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So it wasn't shit, it was vomit? Yes.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah, that's why I'm talking about it.

[Scott Aukerman]

If it were shit, you would not bring it up.

[Natasha Leggero]

I would have just kept that to myself.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

For sure. For sure.

[Scott Aukerman]

So Rat in the kitchen. This is a show that. It's on tbs, Is that right?

[Natasha Leggero]

Yes, it's a cooking competition where me and Chef Ludo. Do you know Chef Ludo? He has some great restaurants in La Petite Trois. He's like a very world renowned French chef. Why are you laughing?

[Scott Aukerman]

You know I'm a fan of your whole thing.

[Natasha Leggero]

What's my whole thing? I'm just telling you, as we've talked

[Scott Aukerman]

about on previous episodes and I mentioned Batman, my impression of Natasha is, who is the Batman?

[Natasha Leggero]

I didn't like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then they came out with a movie called the Batman and I was like, this is the bit with Natasha.

[Natasha Leggero]

Wait, there's a movie called the Batman?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes.

[Natasha Leggero]

Why? That's so funny.

[Scott Aukerman]

And we're chewing the bit right now. We're in the middle of it.

[Natasha Leggero]

The Batman. That's so weird. Yeah, I don't really like Marvel movies and I don't quite understand why adults are forced to discuss them.

[Scott Aukerman]

You should go on Lauren Lapkis podcast about them and Nicole Byers podcast.

[Natasha Leggero]

Do they complain about it?

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, they're now watching them. They haven't seen any of them and they're watching them one by one.

[Natasha Leggero]

I'll watch just the preview.

[Scott Aukerman]

Just the preview. That's enough. Although you don't. The thing is you don't get the end of the movie on the preview. You know what I mean?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's so weird. I had no idea.

[Scott Aukerman]

They should start including the end of the movie on the preview. So you can only just watch the preview.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, okay. That's cool.

[Scott Aukerman]

Whoa.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Cool idea.

[Natasha Leggero]

So maybe I will go on their podcast. So they. They don't like them though, is that.

[Scott Aukerman]

I have no idea whether they like them or not. But already I've mentioned two other podcasts. I don't like doing that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It seems like you should be promoting your own a little bit more.

[Scott Aukerman]

Hey, everyone. Listen to Comedy Bang Bang.

[Natasha Leggero]

People are already listening to this podcast.

[Scott Aukerman]

They are?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Hopefully. Hopefully.

[Natasha Leggero]

So, yeah. So then it's a cooking competition and there's seven chefs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Bring mic right up by your mouth, if you don't mind.

[Natasha Leggero]

Ranging from, you know, professional chefs to home chefs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Now, why is it called rat in the kitchen? Because it seems to me like that's something you don't want in the kitchen. So it's like, wait a minute. Now all of a sudden there's rats in this kitchen with all this good food? I don't understand this.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Such a good question.

[Natasha Leggero]

Okay, the rat is metaphorical. And the rat is there to sabotage the other chefs. So there's a cash prize, and the money either goes to the chef's bank or the rat's bank. So you basically one of your friends was on the show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, we have. A good friend of ours is one of the chefs, one of the contestants on this show.

[Natasha Leggero]

But there's. And there's a new.

[Scott Aukerman]

He has not told us what happened in. It's been months since you've shot it. And he's kept tight lipped and mum about everything. But I'm very excited to see the show.

[Natasha Leggero]

So. Yeah, so it's a new cast every episode, so you can just kind of like come in anytime and. Yeah, so then you get to see if the rat can successfully sabotage all the dishes. And then Chef Ludo, who everyone's trying to impress, and I get to taste the food as well, which was very fun. We get to decide if it either goes, you know, if the rat won and fucked up the food.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So it's like murderer kind of.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yes, it's very, like, clue.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

How do they fuck up the food? Like, too much salt.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Spit.

[Scott Aukerman]

Spit.

[Natasha Leggero]

Well, spit you wouldn't taste, but I really hope people didn't spit in the food. That's fucking gross.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So you don't know what they did to the food.

[Natasha Leggero]

Do people do that? I'm always afraid they will.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Has someone who used to work in restaurants, I can say, you spit in someone's food? No.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, okay, good.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

Restaurant roundup. I worked in a lot of restaurants, and the temptation is there, but I never did.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The worst thing that I ever did was that I served a table, an iced tea, and I brought back the iced tea, the empty one. It had a straw, and I went to go refill it, and then another server took that iced tea that was refilled and put it on a table. So someone else's table. And that's not the worst thing that

[Scott Aukerman]

you did, because it sounds like it was a mistake that this other server.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I think health code wise, you're probably not supposed to, like, refill drinks like

[Scott Aukerman]

that in someone else in someone's glass. You're supposed to, like.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, I, like, brought it back. I mean. Yeah, it's the risk.

[Natasha Leggero]

I remember eating people's chicken fingers after they left.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

Like, if they would just take one.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, that's just you being broke. That's not like.

[Natasha Leggero]

Right. Well, that's.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, that's sabotaging someone's food.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I definitely did that, too. Straight up. Bus tubs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is that what one of these saboteurs would do is, like, serve you the food and then eat it when you guys were done with it?

[Natasha Leggero]

The food also has to be plated in the right way. So there's a lot of different ways you can sabotage. You can do some acting. Maybe you've forgotten some ingredients or dropped some ingredients or. There's many. I don't really know if I'm allowed to give away.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

There.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sorry. Oh, my goodness.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

God bless.

[Scott Aukerman]

We're getting a sneeze.

[Natasha Leggero]

I've always held in my sneezes.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know. I don't think I've ever seen you sneeze before.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I don't think that's good for you. I think it's.

[Natasha Leggero]

My husband sneezes. He screams, Sneezes wildly. And it's actually gotten louder since COVID And I'm like, you need to read the globe. Like, we are not doing that anymore.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Read the fucking globe.

[Natasha Leggero]

Screaming, yeah, you do that. Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Both my parents do that.

[Scott Aukerman]

How's it sound.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It sounds like this.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, that's better than Moshe's.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. What is Moshe? This is Moshe Kasher, by the way, a friend of the show.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's similar to that that made you cough to the point where, like, I'm, like, eternally, like, turned off, like, and not charmed by it. And then he'll look at me, and then he's like, I really hate that he. He's now phrasing it. Like, I really hate that you've taken that away from me. It brings me so much joy to sneeze like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, so he does it intentionally.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yes, he loves it. It's like a release. What is?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, so it's like. Like it. Because, you know, they say that sneezes are, like, part of an orgasm. Have you heard that?

[Natasha Leggero]

Is that true?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's like, one.

[Scott Aukerman]

They're part of an orgasm or they're akin to an orgasm.

[Natasha Leggero]

They are an orgasm.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

They are an orgas.

[Scott Aukerman]

So wait, Coolops never sneeze during sex.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

She's not doing well in there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. It's like, one eighth of an orgasm. It's a sneeze.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I think I've heard that. So if you sneeze eight times, it's like you had one orgasm.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, exactly.

[Natasha Leggero]

There is something orgasmic to what he's doing because he's like, you're right. He's, like, enjoying it so much. But. But yes. So Rat in the Kitchen on TBS, premiering March 31.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Can I ask a question? Has anyone ever, like, fake cut themselves and, like, bled all over?

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, my God, that would be so funny.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like, had a. Had a blood pack or, like, a squib or something like that that just exploded. Like, oh, no, I got shot in the food.

[Natasha Leggero]

That did not happen. But there I. There was some really, like, for example, I've never eaten raw shrimp before. You know, like, people would say things are cooked and they're not cooked. And Chef Ludo is, like, extremely serious about food. So he threw a sandwich at someone. It just got me.

[Scott Aukerman]

He threw a sandwich like a banh mi or like. Yeah, I think it was, like, a pastrami or something.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I've gotten sandwiches thrown on me on the street. It's one of the best by people in trucks. Yes. It feels so good.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, what do they say when they throw it?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

They say, hey, you little piggy.

[Scott Aukerman]

Here's what a piggy like, you would eat.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Natasha Leggero]

That's interesting, because you are kind of tiny.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's like, a nice little fun thing for Me, I'm four foot, by the way.

[Scott Aukerman]

So

[Natasha Leggero]

do you have any more questions, Scott?

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, what should I ask about this? Because it sounds like a great show.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I have a question.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yes.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Did you ever feel like, because you were with an advanced culinary chef like Ludo, that you didn't know what to say? Food wise, you kind of were like, oh, I don't know the terminology.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like, this tastes good.

[Natasha Leggero]

You know, it's funny because I'm getting hints of food. That's actually funny. I should have said that. I feel like my palette really developed working with him. And also my background is in theater criticism, so it was kind of easy to move over to food criticism.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wait, your background is in theater? What do you mean by that?

[Natasha Leggero]

That's what I majored in in college. That's what my degree is in. Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, interesting. Now, when we went to see west side Story together at the Pantages, that was bad.

[Natasha Leggero]

But also I was on mushrooms. Oh, that would be great. A theater critic on mushrooms.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And then that'd be really good.

[Natasha Leggero]

Des the show.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then they say, live from New York, it's Saturday night.

[Natasha Leggero]

I think I might do that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, that would make a good podcast for sure.

[Natasha Leggero]

So. But people don't really go see theater in la. I'm going to see the Lehman trilogy tonight, but we'll see if it's good. Willy Lehman, Three White Men in a three and a half hour production.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Sounds like a podcast

[Natasha Leggero]

now that maybe I should take mushrooms for that. Oh. But my palate got very developed, I feel like. But now I'm, like, really snobby of food. Like, when Moshe. Because he does all the cooking. So when Moshe cooks for me, I'm just kind of like, you know, this

[Scott Aukerman]

isn't Chef Luda level.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You're like, Ludo, like, a little dry.

[Scott Aukerman]

I thought it was ludicrous. I thought that's who you've been talking about this entire time from the Fast and Furious franchise.

[Natasha Leggero]

Chef Ludo is so talented. And he's like. He had this dish at his restaurant that was like eel with white chocolate mashed potatoes. And I was like, how did you think of that? And he's like. Like, it was from a dream. I woke up and I had a dream about these flavors together. Like, that's kind of his vibe.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Natasha Leggero]

And. And also, when we were in Atlanta shooting, we would go to the same Thai restaurant every night, and I'm with this, like, world renowned chef, and I'm like, don't you want to, like, go to different restaurants? And he's Not a foodie. He's like, no, I don't want to be inspired.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, so he doesn't even. He. Oh, that's like me and other podcasts.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, interesting.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

He doesn't want to, like, taste other people. I mean, I'm sure he wants to taste other people's food, but he doesn't want to be like, I'm like the Chef Ludo podcasts.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wouldn't you agree? This show came to me in a dream. I mean, this particular episode did.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It really sounds like a fucking nightmare.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah, it might have been.

[Natasha Leggero]

The interesting thing is, where I'm from, Rockford. I bet you they host a truck week.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Ooh. No way.

[Scott Aukerman]

Does every town have a know that

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

any other state would do a truck week? I can't imagine that. Crazy.

[Natasha Leggero]

I'm sure they do.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, they should have different truck weeks, like, 52 weeks of the year in different places.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So you could just make the rounds.

[Scott Aukerman]

Constant truck week. Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, that would be good for me. Okay. You said I'm done a minute ago.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Oh, no, please stick around.

[Natasha Leggero]

Well, there's a. What's it called when they racetrack? Oh, yeah. You know, like, what's.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like, what's it called when they race track?

[Natasha Leggero]

The speedway. The speedway is really big there.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, good. So it's good for trucks.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah. Like, I just assume anywhere where they're, like, the. The speedway is the main attraction.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Scott Aukerman]

Kayla likes big trucks. She doesn't like fast cars, though.

[Natasha Leggero]

I see.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's very, very difficult.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. I think for me, my favorite kind of person who owns a truck is someone who doesn't need to own a truck at all.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's a choice.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's a choice.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. It's not a lifestyle for them in terms of, like, what they need the truck for.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's not like they're on a farm and they need a truck. It's just someone who lives in an area where you do not need a huge truck.

[Natasha Leggero]

I have a question too, Kayla.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

What is your favorite decor for a truck? Like, are you such. Are you fan of the walls? Are you a fan of the.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Absolutely.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. The truck Nuts. Is that a thing?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Massive nuts, for sure. Maybe multiple pairs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Ooh.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

In the interior. I like any kind of, like, clearly they reupholstered it with something bright, like a really intense red. Maybe they cover it with some flames on the outside. I would be open to, but largely just so long as it kind of almost looks like the.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The truck has hips. You know, when there's, like, in the back, there's maybe four wheels.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, oh, okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

So when they widen it out so it's like. Yeah, so it's like it's got an ass on it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then four nuts hanging down from the back.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's sort of this beautiful, like in between gender in a way, you know, like it has those childbearing hips and those big fucking nuts.

[Natasha Leggero]

I love it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's so hot. Yeah. So that's like kind of the guys that I grew up around smoking bulls in big trucks like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. What does Moshe drive, by the way? Not to constantly bring it back to

[Natasha Leggero]

your partner, but Moshe, I don't care about cars at all. I am not. I like old. I like the look of old cars, but I'm certainly not going to be responsible for one. I don't want to be like sitting in a mechanic's shop all afternoon. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So, you know, you can drop them off and then get a rental.

[Natasha Leggero]

Every person I know who has an old car is always going to the

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

mechanic, it seems like.

[Natasha Leggero]

So much want to go to the mechanic.

[Scott Aukerman]

Got it.

[Natasha Leggero]

So anyway, he had this Mitsubishi white car that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Why are you laughing?

[Natasha Leggero]

I mean, I don't know. It's just some family.

[Scott Aukerman]

The way she says, any brand name or.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I love it.

[Natasha Leggero]

Okay, so. So then he had this car and he really wanted a Tesla. And I'm like, I do not want to drive a Tesla because my lease was. I had a Mini and he's. We have a kid. He's like, I can't take the Mini. Every time he would put the kid in the Mini, it was like his blood pressure.

[Scott Aukerman]

Mini Cooper, you mean?

[Natasha Leggero]

Or. Okay, got it too small for him. So I was like, okay, I'll take your dumb Mitsubishi, you take the Tesla. He's like, well, let's just share both car. And I'm like, absolutely not. He's such a mess. He's got like his crap everywhere. I don't want to. Like, he went from smoking cigarettes to vaping to gum to toothpicks to. Now those. Those pat. Those.

[Scott Aukerman]

The patches.

[Natasha Leggero]

No, it's not a patch. It's like a thing, a pouch you suck on. On your. In your mouth. So those are. There's always like a place to cause an oral fixation or he's addicted to nicotine.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The pipeline is probably the oral fixation.

[Scott Aukerman]

Cigarettes to.

[Natasha Leggero]

To e cigarettes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like juice that you juice.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, cool.

[Natasha Leggero]

E juice to the gum. Which I didn't mind.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. It was all right.

[Natasha Leggero]

Stuck in the dog's fur sometimes because you Know if you're chewing this all day long, it's going places.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He's probably putting it under in the car couches.

[Natasha Leggero]

Well, but it's happening so much, you know, and he's absolutely.

[Scott Aukerman]

You can't be constantly throwing things away all day. You gotta just stick it in the dog's fur.

[Natasha Leggero]

The gum, the toothpicks I partaked in. Those were kind of cool. I like toothpicks. But then he started doing shit.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you were like a toothpick couple

[Natasha Leggero]

for a while or you did it a little bit? Yeah, I would. Always threw mine away. And then now those pouches, like, I can't deal. So I'm like, it's your car. You want to fill it up with this nicotine stuff. So, long story short, he has a Tesla, and now I just have his, like, old Mitsubishi that he still had, like, two years left on his lease that he picked out. And the Tesla, I just don't get it. It's all about the Tesla. Do you have one, Scott? You sound like you would have one.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You definitely have one somewhere.

[Scott Aukerman]

People are constantly trying to tell me to get a Tesla, but I just can't deal with. With the dude who makes them.

[Natasha Leggero]

I can't deal with that dude either.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I can't deal with him.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's so high maintenance.

[Scott Aukerman]

So if he were to drive by in a Tesla and. Or what's that big truck that he.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He has a big truck.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, they made, like, a big electric truck. What do they call it?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's like, minus the electric. I'm all over that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, I like it when guys have to fill up multiple times a day.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Especially with gas prices these days.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, that's hot. That's a man. I don't even know that Elon Musk could afford that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Just like $150.

[Natasha Leggero]

Do not get a Tesla. It is like driving inside of an iPhone. I really hate it. I don't like. I like to turn off my computer, you know, like, if there's no downtime

[Scott Aukerman]

when you're driving, you want to turn off your computer.

[Natasha Leggero]

Well, yeah, Metaphorically, kind of.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, Rat in the Kitchen is out right now. It's on every Thursday, I believe, on tbs. But you can watch it on the TBS app, I'm sure, and everywhere else that you watch it. And, you know, I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait to see it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Sounds really good.

[Natasha Leggero]

I'm excited. Chef Ludo's restaurant.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, please invite us.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Or that Thai restaurant you guys used to go to. I'll just go there.

[Natasha Leggero]

That was in Atlanta. That wasn't even good food.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'll lie there. I mean, drive there in someone's truck.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, we have to take a break. When we come back, we're gonna have more with Natasha, more with Kayla Dickey. And we have someone who is in the medical profession and someone in the food industry. Maybe the person in the food industry can talk to you about Chef Luda or something like that. That's very exciting. We'll be right back with more comedy bang gag after this. Ah, yes, Spring. It's time to end your hibernation and get to moving. A lot of stuff happening as we ramp up to summer. We're doing the tour, of course, and all sorts of stuff is going on. But you know, what needs to change around this time is your wardrobe. You got to put away those heavy layers. It is time for breathable, durable clothes that move with you and can keep up with anything you put on your spring calendar. Now, Mack Weldon has updated closet staples like stretch twill chinos that go with everything and button ups that keep you looking sharp from morning coffee to dinner date. 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[Natasha Leggero]

I have a book coming out, but not coming out till November, so I'm gonna make you have me back.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. You'll be gone till November then.

[Natasha Leggero]

Just like we can have little. Little six months.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's your book about? Can. Can I even talk about that?

[Natasha Leggero]

Yes. My book is called. Well, it was supposed to come out in July, but because of the supply chain shortages from the truck situation, it's a real thing. They've actually run out of paper in America.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No way.

[Natasha Leggero]

So my book now comes out Paperless.

[Scott Aukerman]

Post must be thrilled.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's called the World Deserves My Children, and it is essays about parenting and being an older parent, having your life established, and then becoming a parent, which is kind of the opposite of how our parents did it, and Parenting in Environmental Panic and, you know, how to Not Raise a Complete Brat. But it was definitely the hardest thing I've ever done.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? Well. Because even harder than raising your child, writing about raising your child is harder than raising the child itself.

[Natasha Leggero]

Well, writing about raising a child while raising a child in a pandemic, that was very hard.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Writing about raising about it was so hard.

[Natasha Leggero]

It was like. Because, you know, sitting down and writing, that's such a solitary thing. And that's not really, you know, my. That's not where I'm in the pocket.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Meanwhile, Moshe's out there just chewing on his pouches.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Stop bringing him. It's like she's here. Like, we should be focusing on her. And you haven't asked about Shart once.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Scott Aukerman]

What does Shart do for a living, by the way?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

She makes anti. Makes.

[Natasha Leggero]

There's no way he doesn't suck on those pouches, though.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He definitely does.

[Natasha Leggero]

He has chew or something.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He just straight up. He vapes everywhere. And he smokes at the Same time.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, interesting.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Smokes and vapes.

[Natasha Leggero]

I loved vaping, and I would keep doing it, but it's just. It feels like maybe it could give you cancer or something.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, it's definitely something.

[Scott Aukerman]

We don't know.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The.

[Scott Aukerman]

The jury's still out on this whole tobacco thing.

[Natasha Leggero]

No vaping, though.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, I know, but vaping doesn't have tobacco.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's nicotine.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's nicotine. Okay, so it's purely just nicotine.

[Natasha Leggero]

You don't have any.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're not. I don't have any vices. I. I keep it straight.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Chocolate, but nope.

[Natasha Leggero]

What about.

[Scott Aukerman]

Never had it.

[Natasha Leggero]

Comic book collection.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What about fried food?

[Scott Aukerman]

No. No, absolutely not.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No.

[Natasha Leggero]

Sex addict.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, definitely sex addict.

[Scott Aukerman]

Hey, stop pointing at me. Stop pointing at my penis. All right. Speaking of penises, we need to get to our next guest. He has one. He's in the food industry. Please welcome Adjacent Mentzoukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Hello, Scott. How are you? Nice to be here. It's so great to be here. I love you to be here and to see you, Scott.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's great to have you.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I love it. Thank you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your name is Adjacent Manzoukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Adjacent Mantzoukas. I get this all the time. I mean, he's my. He's my next door neighbor.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, he is?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yep. And that's.

[Scott Aukerman]

And that's why you're called to Jason Manzou.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm called to Jason Manzoukas because that is my name, and I happen to live next door to Jason Manzukis now. He's a great guy. He's a great neighbor. I have no complaints about him. He keeps a great car. I heard you talk about cars before.

[Scott Aukerman]

He keeps a great car. What does that mean?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He keeps it clean. He keeps it out of my driveway.

[Scott Aukerman]

It'd be weird if he started just parking in your driveway.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That would be weird. But no, he keeps it in his own driveway. Own garage. And I got no complaints with him as a neighbor.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, great. So he's a good neighbor, but fantastic guy, but you have your own thing going on.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's right. This is not my thing. I should say that. Jason Manzouka is me. Being his neighbor is not my thing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. Your thing is you're in the food industry.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm in the food industry. Thank you. Because I want to be. I'm here to talk about my new show. I got Grilling with zooks. It's on YouTube.

[Scott Aukerman]

Grilling with the Zooks.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Grilling with the Zooks.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Like zucchini?

[Natasha Leggero]

No, like Zooks.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

My last name is Manzukas.

[Scott Aukerman]

So, my friends and Are you related to Jason Manzoukas?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I live next door to Jason.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know you live next door to him, but you're not related to him. You know how in Everybody Loves Raymond, they lived across the street from.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I love that show so much.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I've only seen. No, I haven't seen much of that show. I've seen clips of it, but I did not realize it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Where are you watching clips of Everybody who loves Raymond? YouTube.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You get everything on YouTube?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

For sure. You can. There's so much good material.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

There's a lot. Any show you want, you just watch clips of it online.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. So no relation other than the fact that you've spoken to him, Right?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. I buy our mailboxes. I said hello.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your mailboxes are next door to each other as well.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, they are. Now that I think of it. Yes, they are.

[Scott Aukerman]

So it's almost like they're tiny little neighbors as well.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's true. For brief periods of time, our male is neighbors. Can you believe it? And every time we go out there, it's a sad event because they have to move away from each other.

[Scott Aukerman]

So. Yeah. So anytime you open letters and take

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

them out of the mailbox, you're killing them.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're separating these great neighbors.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You separate them and then you rip their bodies open and pull their guts out. So maybe stick to emails. That's all I'm saying.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Mail is so violent. When you really think about it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Mail is violent. A lot of people use a mail opener, you know, a little knife.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Cut it open and.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, what would you prefer? Like a nice clean knife or just tearing it open with your bare hands?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

What I do is I. I take my envelopes and I steam them over some water and lift them open slowly, very carefully, very slowly, take out the mail, put that aside, seal it back up, and I put it back in the mailbox.

[Scott Aukerman]

So your mailbox must just be full of empty envelopes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

It's full. I'm in a. What's the word I'm looking for?

[Scott Aukerman]

A roe.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Is that like a fight? A roux.

[Scott Aukerman]

A roe.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

A row.

[Scott Aukerman]

A row.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

A row with my male man.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you should know what a roux is because you're in the food industry.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Shouldn't you?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's what I was so curious about because the kitchen around my grill, you know, I'm a grill master around. Grill. Yeah, that's what the new show is about. It's, you know, grilling Wazuk. I'm always talking about Rose I need more rows of. Bring me a bowl of row, please.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'm always making roux when I grill rue.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's what I say is rue.

[Scott Aukerman]

I say it Ro. You're a chef, but you're asking people to bring you bowls of R instead of just making it yourself?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, yeah, they're my assistants, and they suck at their jobs, and that's why I end up having to get away from the grill, go pick up the stuff and bring it back.

[Scott Aukerman]

Got it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. So the new show Grill Grilling with Zeus Grill is gonna be on YouTube. Check that out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you move to your place because Jason Manzoukas lived there and you knew that or not to constantly bring it back to Jason Manzoukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I just do want to say that my thing is not Jason Manzoukas.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. That's not what we should be focusing on.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I live next to him. My name is A. Jason, your thing

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

is definitely the letters that we were talking about.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, my thing is the letters, but also this grill show. I got this grill show on, and

[Scott Aukerman]

I want to talk about the girl show. I'm just.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Because it's great. It's a great show.

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't know that I've ever even heard of two people with the same last name living next door to each other. Even if it was Smith or something like that, it would be such a strange coincidence.

[Natasha Leggero]

What about Ray Romano Adjacent? Sudeikis.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Now you're having fun with me. You're just having fun with me. And I like it. I like it. That's great. You like people having fun with you. That's part of my thing. Part of my thing is to have people have fun. Eat, grill. Great grilled food. Chopped steaks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Chopped steaks.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Chops, comma, steaks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, chops. Oh, okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Chicken steaks.

[Natasha Leggero]

I have a food question.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Sure.

[Natasha Leggero]

I feel like grilled food can be very boring, and there should be more.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, not the way I do it.

[Natasha Leggero]

A movement to, like, always have, like, some kind of flavor bomb. Roux sauce or something. Right.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's good. Can I. Can I steal that idea from you? Yes, you can edit that part out that I'm stealing this idea to make.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, we'll definitely edit that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Do you make anything cool, like beer nuggets?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, I assume you mean cool in, like, the temperature sense. This is a hot grill.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, I mean, they're. They're a hot food. It's just. They're called beer nuggets. Do you make them?

[Natasha Leggero]

That's what I'm saying.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

What are they? Is it you put a beer on the grill? Cause I do that. A beer bottle, and it shoots and breaks open.

[Scott Aukerman]

You put that on the grill.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I do that at the end of every episode. We pick a bottle or a can of something, we put it on the grill, and it blows up.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So there's a. Is like glass everywhere.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Glass and tin and everything all over the place.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And then you cook on that the next.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No, that's at the end of the episode. I'm so sorry. Did I not make that clear?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, that's the end. That's like the big firework show at the end of the episode.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And it splashes up and through graphic designs that we have the credits of the show sort of spelled out in the.

[Scott Aukerman]

In the glass, the liquid in glass.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Some blood. Because I get some blood on me.

[Scott Aukerman]

So this is like cgi. They.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

They cgi. Okay, that's right. That's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

And the credits just kind of drip down from the top down.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right? Because, you know, you're so used to the credits going top to bottom. So we do that too.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So it's not different. It's. It's the usual.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No, but this is spelled out in liquid in glass and blood.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's so cool.

[Scott Aukerman]

Great.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Thank you. That's what I said. And the producers. I got a team of producers. They did not see it that way, and I had to. Then we got into a row about it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Great.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And I said, bring me a roux in the row. I want to throw the roux at them.

[Scott Aukerman]

So is that the most unique part of your show? Because it sounds like the show itself is just you grilling things. Is that.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, I'm teaching you how to grill things. You're not just watching me.

[Scott Aukerman]

I see. Does Jason Manzoukas, does he appear on the show?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He has not yet. If for some reason, during the pandemic.

[Scott Aukerman]

Does he have a show next door to yours?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No. I think the stuff I've seen him in, I've only seen the film in

[Scott Aukerman]

film, in the studio next door. Like, are you guys filming next door to each other all the time or this.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Keep asking about other men. Except for Shart.

[Scott Aukerman]

What do you want me to ask you about Shart?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I don't know what he's like, personality wise.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's his personality?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Bad.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Really bad.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Are you saying Shark Shart. Shart.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's like Shark Week. It's like Shark Week with a T. Oh, good.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, that's good.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

His last name is T. Teeth.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's Teeth.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Teeth.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Teeth.

[Scott Aukerman]

Teeth. Shart Teeth.

[Natasha Leggero]

Shar. Teeth.

[Scott Aukerman]

Shart teeth.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

So I'm having a tough time. My head's all stuffed up, so I'm having a tough time hearing you probably hear it in my nose, Jason.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, I've never heard you without the stuffed up nose, so I just thought that was your voice.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You didn't get that voice memo. I said it to your assistant. Say, this is what I sound like.

[Scott Aukerman]

Just so this is my baseline.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You know, who you sound like is adjacent Manzouka. Or. No, Adjacent Sudeikis on Ted Lasso. You have that same vibe.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, that's. Can I tell you, I've only seen season one.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I've only seen one episode.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, well, who's better in this situation? Is it a race or do you want to not watch the popular episode?

[Scott Aukerman]

You want to be the last person to watch the final episode.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right. And then tell everyone what you think after they talk about it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So your show is you teaching people how to grill. And Jason Manzuka's is not involved.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He's not in. I was going to say if he. If I'm doing an episode from home and maybe we see out the window.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sometimes you do episodes from home during the pandemic.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

If he's outside or I see him walk by his window or he's getting mail or something, he might be in frame.

[Scott Aukerman]

If he's mowing his lawn.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Mowing his lawn shirtless. Whatever he wants to do, he can do. That's not my business. My business is grilling, Taping it, videotaping it and cutting it up, editing it, putting it online, ending it with broken beer bottle. Blood suds.

[Scott Aukerman]

Blood suds.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Blood suds and a little bit of mud.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So, like, what's a typical meal that you would teach me to make if I was watching?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, now let me ask you. What do you. Are you a vegan?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Perfect. Okay, this is gonna be the show for you.

[Natasha Leggero]

So what if someone is a vegetarian or a vegan? Because I hate when they just give you vegetables.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I would suggest to them just scrub to the end of the video and watch the thing explode, because that'll be the most exciting part for you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. So it sounds like your show is boring, but the credits are interesting. Is that what I'm getting?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I wouldn't say the show is boring. The host sometimes can be boring.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you're the host.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I don't bring much to it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right, right. Well, I mean, it sounds like.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

But that's my thing. But that is my thing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, but it sounds like all you have for the show is just, hey, I grill some stuff. In the end, you put salt and pepper on it and that's it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Salt and pepper. I'm gonna do the butter. I'm gonna put a butterfly.

[Natasha Leggero]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

But all that, none of that is unique. Unique.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We got graphics to say what I'm doing to kind of comes on.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That sounds good.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. That's fun. That's a big part of it. The fun with the graphics.

[Scott Aukerman]

What do the graphics look like?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

White text.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It says text courier.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

New courier, new font. What I'm putting in comes up on the side. And then what I do sometimes I'll wave my hand and the graphic design people make that the words fly.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It sounds like a really big team that you have.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

It's. Yeah, well, it takes a village to grill a steak, is what I always say.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Or what I will say. I will start saying that on the show.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

How many people are involved?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, eight.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's not really a village.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

How long are the videos? They're like four minutes, five minutes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

The longest one is 30 minutes. The shortest one is 30 seconds. That was.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. What happened in the 32nd one?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

The 32nd one, somebody. I said, bring me the chicken. Chicken. Because we're doing chicken that day.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Okay. Makes sense. The assistant walks out.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It makes the chicken in 30 seconds sounds wrong.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

What happened? I said, bring me raw chicken. And they, the assistant, they were new. They brought out the raw chicken eggs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And so I opened one. I didn't want to, you know.

[Scott Aukerman]

You opened one.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I didn't want to cut, you know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. So you opened an egg?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I opened an egg. It's just I put it over some steam and coaxed it open on the grill and then put that on the grill and it fell through. And I said, well, folks, I'm bottle of champagne on here. Let's see what happens.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, let's watch it fly. Champagne. That's expensive.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, but for a 30 second show, I mean, you gotta do something special.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And I'll tell you something, I didn't want to make this my thing, but you know where I got the champagne?

[Scott Aukerman]

Where?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And God, I hope he does not. Does he listen to the show? Jason Manzu.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

He's an avid listener. Yeah. Wait, you got it from his place?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

All right. So he, you know, he got a bottle of celebratory big mouth champagne because they just finished the season and it was in his mailbox box. And I look left, I look right. He wasn't out there that day. And I snuck at home because you

[Natasha Leggero]

stole it from him.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I stole it. I stole a bottle of champagne.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's a celebratory big mouth champagne.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I know and I know he. The big mouth folks got in real big trouble and he, you know, because

[Scott Aukerman]

he was upset, I can. Only because he has a temper and

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I do not know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Once he hears that Nick got celebratory.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't know who that is.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, Nick Kroll.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh.

[Scott Aukerman]

Once he hears his good buddy Nick Kroll got celebratory big mouth champagne and he didn't, he would be pissed.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, he would probably be mad. So I do want to. If you're. Listen, Jason, I apologize, but that was

[Scott Aukerman]

the champagne that you blew up.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Blew up. But Jason, it did go to good use. Go on and check out episode Chicken Breasts. And you didn't do a follow up

[Scott Aukerman]

episode like chicken breasts 2 where you

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

actually don't do that. We don't revisit.

[Scott Aukerman]

So every type of food you only do once.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yep.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And if it goes badly, that's how it goes.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So are you running out of food to do?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Let's see. Well, what else?

[Natasha Leggero]

We did fish on the grill. Have you tried that?

[Scott Aukerman]

No.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's good.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Good.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And there's so many types of fish.

[Scott Aukerman]

You've.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You've been in the ocean. Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah. But fish seems hard to cook on the grill.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. You scale them, cut them. Let me see. Scale them, cut them, flame, then plop them on. Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Skin side down.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You could do that. Or you take a skin right off.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm getting what? Okay. And not to. Not to insult you. I don't, you know, when people come on the show.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I don't.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I would love it. You would love it if you did not do that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, if I did not. Okay. Because some people love it when you insult them. It's like the Comedy Central roasts. You know what I mean? Like Natasha's dumbbees.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's called negging.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's called negging for Kayla.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's called negging. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So some people love it. And I don't want to insult you, but it sounds to me like what you want to be. Your deal, your show is boring.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I want it to be boring.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, no. What you want to be. Your deal is boring.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I get what you're saying. My show, my new brand new show, it's coming out soon.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it's boring.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What's it called?

[Scott Aukerman]

It's called Zooks on the Grill.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Zooks on the grill.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's right. That's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

So that's.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Or was it grilling with the Zooks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Grilling with something like that.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I skip. When I rewatch them, I'll skip whatever it is.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's so anodyne and boring that I couldn't even remember it. But what's interesting about you is the fact that you live next door to Jason Mantzoukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

The interesting thing to me, and I don't want to insult you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Oh, I don't know if that's even possible, but go ahead.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, okay. I'm not going to try to live up to Don Rickles standards.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Is that boring to me? No. Because I did mention the exploding at the end and I mentioned that part is mishap. Like, the mishap with the end egg is kind of a blooper. People love bloopers online.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. But I mean, anytime that we ask you any kind of question about, like, what would you do if you put fish on the grill? It comes out just boring. Like, oh, scale it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Put it on the grill. Well, I'm sort of teasing you. I'm kind of teasing you into the episodes. Watch the episode. See what I. What? See what Zoox is going to do next.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like, what's the most interesting episode that you've done?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We had a live. Well, we had a live lobster, and I had to chase him around. He was fast. Fast. That was a big part.

[Scott Aukerman]

A fast lobster.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

A big part of that one. That. How.

[Scott Aukerman]

How fast was he going?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You seen that. That cartoon with the. The. The Wy.

[Scott Aukerman]

Coyote or.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, but the other one.

[Scott Aukerman]

The Road Runner.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Roadrunner.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. He's going like. Seems to be like 200 miles an hour.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Go two ticks down. That was the lobster.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so 198.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

198. All over the yard, and I'm yelling, get the thing back here. I've got a knife in my hand. I'm swinging it everywhere. My glasses fall off, so I can't see a thing. And it is night time at. For this episode.

[Natasha Leggero]

Why?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Because we wanted to. We had a series going with Zooks. Late Night Zooks.

[Scott Aukerman]

So this is one of the Late Night Zooks episodes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

This is Late Night Zooks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And so I'm swinging that around, and

[Scott Aukerman]

you're swinging the knife around. Your glasses fall off.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right. And one of my neighbors.

[Scott Aukerman]

I remember which one? Jason Man Zukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, again, my. My sun. My glasses were off.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And they were sunglasses classes that were prescription.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'm curious, who lives next door to you on the other side?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That. It's. It's open. Open now it's open house.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Open house.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's an open house.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. You can come by and you take a walk. Do a walk through.

[Scott Aukerman]

How long has it been on the market?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Since the beginning of the pandemic.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

They are losing, so they're asking a lot.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Quite a bit.

[Scott Aukerman]

So one of your neighbors. It would have to be Jason Manzukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

It could have been somebody from behind me or across the street. And they said. So I don't know who it was. Exactly. Again, my glasses are off. And they said, would you stop it? I'm trying to do a voiceover for the. The League document DVDs for the behind the scenes.

[Scott Aukerman]

This is Jason Manukas.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Could have been.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You know what? I actually.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Or it could have been. Would you say Kroll. He could have been looking at the

[Scott Aukerman]

house next door and doing his. His voiceover work for the, like, commentary

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

because they've been renting out the house for parties and voiceover words.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I was gonna say I actually follow. I'm realizing I follow Jason Vanzukis on Twitter.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah, he's at. What's his Twitter.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

L I L Y Y I L Y.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

Wait a second. I'm sorry. Isn't Jason Manzoukas not online?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no. He has a secret burner account. What did you say?

[Natasha Leggero]

Cause I always thought that was so cool.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's a really simple handle. L A L Y Y A L Y on.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's where he creeps around on the Internet without anyone knowing us.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, maybe we should. Shouldn't.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no, he's fine with it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, yeah, he likes it. Follow him.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, you should be next door to him on Twitter as well.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Can you do that? So every time he or I tweet, we have to do it right away. Hey, Jason, I was tweeting. All right. Adjacent.

[Scott Aukerman]

So did you ever catch the lobster?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yes, we did. And let me tell you something. He was not happy, and I was not happy with him.

[Scott Aukerman]

So two unhappy beings.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We didn't just drop him in the box boiler.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He just killed him. You didn't even eat him because he

[Scott Aukerman]

was like a revenge kind of thing at that point.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, at that point I said, you son of a. You make me run around.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I think the best kind of food that you can have is just taken straight from the nature. So, like, for us, like, in Colorado, we eat like a ton of elk and stuff. Like, have you ever done anything with elk? Like, I'll hit a deer and then we'll eat it for months.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, we did a venison we did venison jerky. We bought some venison jerky and put that on the grill to heat it up.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Grill. So you didn't even, like, dry it? You just like.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, it dried out even more if you believe it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I can't.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I couldn't believe it either.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so that was your most interesting episode.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

How many views you getting on these things?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah,

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

if we have a video up for a month. 7 million.

[Scott Aukerman]

7 million for a month.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And then I don't really check after the month. We don't keep track of it after that.

[Natasha Leggero]

That is a. That's viral.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So who are this?

[Scott Aukerman]

What, you're keeping track of it before then?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We do. Yeah. One of the members on the team. The eight. One of the eight. The Crazy Eights, we call them One of the Crazy Eights. Keeps a track on that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Keeps track of it. But once it hits 7 million after. Don't know.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

After the month of 30 million, we've had up down to 100,000.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Where are these zooks heads out there? Like, who we talking? Who's the average man who likes your show?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

It could be. You know, it's a lot of people. Because some people come for the grilling, some people come for. They love action, chases and that type of thing.

[Scott Aukerman]

How. How many episodes are you unable to catch the. The thing that you're about to grill?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, most, really.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so. So you've successfully grilled a lobster after you snapped his neck. Oh, and some.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No, I ended up not grilling him. Oh, really?

[Scott Aukerman]

You just snapped the neck.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

His neck. And said, you make me run around my yard. On there's all this broken glass. I got no shoes, no glasses. I'd have kicked your ass. But I already killed him. I kicked his ass a little bit anyway. I had one of the. I would add one of the Crazy Eights, string them up like a pinata.

[Scott Aukerman]

And you just not like.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Like a holy field punching bag.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Holy Everlast is what I'm trying to say. Everlast punching bag.

[Scott Aukerman]

So the episode ended with you just punching this dead lobster.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. And as I was doing it, I said, hey, put. Put a beer on the grill. And they came out with a bush light. I think it was bush light, that episode.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. And that gets 7 million views.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

People love it. People seem to love it.

[Scott Aukerman]

And so the one that you were able to actually put on the grill was the elk jerky.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And that's it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That wasn't the only one. I think we talked about three or four episodes. I'VE been doing this for five years. I've got to do one a week.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, you do the math. How many? So 250, 260 episodes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Did you do the math?

[Scott Aukerman]

I did. There you go. And how many things have you actually

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

grilled in that time? About. Oh, we've probably gotten 30 successful pieces of meat.

[Scott Aukerman]

Successful.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Grilled from raw to cooked to put on a plate.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Eaten off camera.

[Scott Aukerman]

Eaten off camera.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah. We don't like to see. We don't like the. The fans don't like the mouth chew noise.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I have a question.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Sure.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So like, on Guy Fieri. That's how you say Fieri. Fieri.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah, I've been hearing Fieri Pietti. There is an R. I think it's Italian or something. Okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

So, yeah, Fieri.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He'll bring in his, like, sons when they, like, tape stuff at his house. Do you ever bring in, like, other people?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Never been married, never had a son, never had a daughter. I am sterile. It was growing up living next to very close to power lines.

[Scott Aukerman]

How close? Like through your bedroom?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, where my bathroom was. Really? Home. You had to step over a power line, straddle it to the toilet.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yep. So what did your. Your parents just build the house and were like, you know, we got a.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

They bought it from some crooked. If I could say this. Snook. Is that a word I can say on.

[Scott Aukerman]

I think so.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

I think we can still say snook, right? I'm not sure.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I don't know what that is.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's a. I guess. How would you describe it? Because I don't know that I want to jerk or a fool or something.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I sort of said that as a joke. Like, can we say this, but is that a bad thing?

[Scott Aukerman]

No, I. I think it's all right.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I didn't mean any offense by it. I hope you didn't take offense by it.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you. So you're sterile.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

And that. That has prevented you from getting married? Because some women would like that.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Not the women I meet or the women I'm interested in. I want a woman who have a big family.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I like sterile men. I think it's hot.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, well, thank you.

[Scott Aukerman]

So your thing is you like women who want a big family, but you're unable to provide?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No, my thing is I got grilling show and I got a grilling show show.

[Natasha Leggero]

Scott's always trying to get to what people's thing is.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, I just.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I told you right off the bat.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know, but someone comes on with the name adjacent Manzoukas sure you know, and then immediately says that's not part of his thing.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't know what I can tell you about that other than the fates of the world gave me the name adjacent.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you buy the house and you knew who lived there or who.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Who.

[Scott Aukerman]

Who moved there first?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That is a good question. Almost seems like from the dawn of time, we were just living there. But no, to. To give you an honest answer, I lived there, and then he moved in.

[Scott Aukerman]

He moved in. Okay, so he. And was he surprised when he found he was living next to someone who's funny?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't know if we ever discussed. He knows my name's a Jason, but I don't know if he knows my last name.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your last name? What's on your mailboxes?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Mine's AJ and his is AJ as well.

[Scott Aukerman]

Aj? Why aj?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I mean, his is JM and mine's Jim.

[Scott Aukerman]

Are you lying, aj?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm not lying about that. I just was not thinking when I was talking. Okay. That happens to me from time to

[Scott Aukerman]

time because every once in a while, someone comes on here and is lying.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

And we get down to the bottom.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's like a rat in the podcast.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes. Are you trying to sabotage this podcast?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I would never.

[Scott Aukerman]

This is an important podcast for Natasha.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He's the rat.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He's the rat.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I knew it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Should probably try to flush me out if I'm the rat.

[Natasha Leggero]

He's a saboteur. I can tell.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Hey, you spit in the mic. In English, please.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're trying to sabotage things.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, I did spit here. I did spit in somebody's food. I don't know whose that was.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Was it the beer?

[Scott Aukerman]

I think it was your own.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it was.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're the only one eating.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Okay, yeah, that was my own food, so it's fine.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so. Okay, so you have a terrible show.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I have a show that does well online.

[Scott Aukerman]

That does really, really well. But it seems like in spite of you.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

In spite of. I don't know what that.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are the views on the ones where you actually cook some something?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Because those are hot too. I mean, that's. Those are up in the eight, nine millions for the month because people want to see it success, but people also want to see a little more than most.

[Natasha Leggero]

Most network shows.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I know. Well, you know, everything's moving online, I found.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you don't have any interesting thoughts on that either.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

So you're not moving.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Yeah. Like what? What you just said is pretty cliche and pretty boring, so. Cliche. Boring. So really, the interesting thing about that

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

does hurt my feelings.

[Scott Aukerman]

The interesting thing about you is who you live next door to. No, your weird name.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your credits of your show. And then most of the episodes you aren't successful in actually cooking something.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right. The book I'm coming out with is gonna be good.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's your book? Natasha has a book coming out in essays book. What is your book, though?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, my book is catered towards my fans who watch the show and grill with me and eat and you know, eat that much meat, you going to get gain weight. So it is lose lose weight while you masturbate is the name of the show and. But that is not the interesting thing here. The show is.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, that sounds interesting.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

What do you mean? It's a book. Everyone has weight loss books. It's not. You go to the library, you go to Barnes and Nobles, whole section full of weight loss.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sure. No, but the, the process. How are you losing weight while you're masturbating? Because that's, that's not enough energy just doing that.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Well, I mean, maybe you're not working hard enough, Scott.

[Scott Aukerman]

If you just do that all day, you're not going to lose weight necessarily. Unless you don't eat.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You're going to lose maybe a pound of sperm. Yeah, a pound even. Good for you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Good for me. Okay, so that's kind of interesting.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You're mostly doing sit ups and jerking

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

off at the same time.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, it's like sit up, you're golf. I'll go back up. Sit up, up. And we got one, we got one for ladies. Gotta say that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wait, a chapter for ladies or an entirely different book.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Somebody the crazy eights working on that one.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. All right, so Jason Manzoukas, will you sound like you have kind of an interesting thing, like on the periphery of where you are.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't know, maybe all these what you say, boring things add up to a pretty okay guy who's just got a show that's gonna just a sterile,

[Scott Aukerman]

sterile man who lives next door to a Jason Mantoukis and explodes a beer bottle at the end of every episode, cutting yourself open. And then you turn that into.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I think I know what's happening.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's that?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I think that Scott is jealous. Oh, interesting. Because Scott's podcast, there's no way he's getting millions of hits the way you are.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You look good in the gray T shirt. You know, throwing shade does not look good on you. And jealousy is not your look.

[Scott Aukerman]

So green. I. I don't look good in Green? Is that what you're trying to say?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That was off the cuff. All of my shows are scripted tightly.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? So even the chasing the lobster around, that was scripted? Why didn't you talk about this at the beginning? That's interesting.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

What a skilled lobster

[Scott Aukerman]

episodes, the casting process, and to come in and know he's going to die as well at the end of this.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, he had a death wish, I think.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He was. He was related.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you have more.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I have a little more to say about the lobster. Just one tidbit, okay. He was the grandson of Dr. Jack of Orian. That's all I'll say about that. Check out grilling with Zooks coming at you every other day.

[Scott Aukerman]

Every other day? You said once a week.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We do once a week, but every other day we repost it. Okay, so we have to watch Wipe.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wipe those views.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Clean wipes the views so you don't even care. At the end of the month. That's 7 million in two days.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Not bad.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, well, adjacent Manzukos, we have to take a break. When we come back, we have someone in the medical profession, so we'll get a little medical advice. This is exciting. We'll be right back with more comedy Bang Bang after this. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace. It's your all in one platform for building a standout online presence. Whether you're launching something new or leveling up your business, you can secure your domain, create a polished website, share what you have to offer and get paid all in one place. I hate going to a separate place to get paid. Now you can get paid right there at Squarespace. Squarespace makes it easy to book gigs, sell services and get paid. With built in scheduling, invoicing and email tools, you can create a standout site fast using AI or designer templates. No experience needed. Plus, built in SEO helps fans and clients find you while custom domains keep your brand polished and secure. Showcase videos, promote events or even monetize content. Everything is designed to help you grow your audience and your business. Check out squarespace.com bang for bang for a free trial and when you are ready to launch, use offer code Bang Bang to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

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[Scott Aukerman]

Comedy. Bang, bang. We're back. Natasha Leggero is here. Rat in the kitchen. See, this is a show where.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm kidding. I am kidding you.

[Scott Aukerman]

What I'm saying is this is an interesting hook for a show.

[Natasha Leggero]

I Hope we get 7 million views. Yeah, maybe you don't need to be interesting. Maybe that's.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I mean, your show is. Is not. I mean, this is Jason Manzoukas, who also has a cooking show. Your show doesn't have.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm a Jason Manzoukas and I have. Oh, yes. Okay. Aside from Natasha, I also have one.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I would.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I thought your point was Jason Manzoukas.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, stop talking.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Also has a cooking show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Please stop.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

But what you may think. Think is. You know, go ahead, go ahead.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I do think there's something to people being less interesting and it being better tv. For example, Vanessa Lachey on Love is Blind.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's so boring.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

There's something to it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. I mean, what is her life like, do you think?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I think she probably just hangs out in a huge house all day.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

I bet she has a little sign on her desk that says Girl Boss.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I bet you're totally right about that.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I. Can I. Yeah, go ahead. This is Grill Boss.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And I ordered it. I ordered it for one of the crazy 88 because.

[Scott Aukerman]

Because you thought it said Girl Boss.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I was like, give me a Girl Boss one. It's her birthday. She's killing it. She's absolutely killing it.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then you got it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And it's a girl boss because they knew it was coming to me at Jason Manzukas. So they said, oh, he must have been mistaken.

[Scott Aukerman]

So there was one called Girl Boss, but they gave it to you because they thought that you were ordering it for yourself.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Bingo. So I gave it to her anyway. And she said this.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm not gonna die. You're the Grill boss. I said, okay, but Mark, my Words. You're the girl boss and you're gonna get that plaque.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you order a new girl boss plaque?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'm gonna do that on her birthday. I am going to do that. I'm gonna write myself the reminder on her birthday to do that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, Very good. We have to get to our next guest. This is exciting. He's in the medical profession. Please welcome Dr. Fauci.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, whoa.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh. Hi, Dr. Fauci. OhS, my God.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Thank you so much, Scott. It's good to be here.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's great to see. I had no idea. I didn't realize until you sat back down and I read your name on the thing. I mean, you're obviously. People know who you are. Dr. Fauci. The famous Dr. Fauci.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Let me tell you something, okay? I'm done being humble, okay? Everybody knows the Foch. Everybody. I'm calling myself the Foch now, by the way, I have these stickers and I have these posters and I have these shirts that say Foch Posse.

[Scott Aukerman]

Fotch Posse. Yeah.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

So I'll be selling them after the show outside your house, if that's okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

What about something that rhymes, like don't botch the Fotch or something like that? I don't even know what that means.

[Natasha Leggero]

Is that ethical for you to have mercy merchandise?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You know, is it ethical for people to send me death wishes? You know, people are sending me.

[Scott Aukerman]

It kind of evens out. You know what I mean?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The death threats and death wishes. Some people threaten to kill me, some people wish that I die.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You know, I don't get it. What's worse for you, wishing that I die?

[Scott Aukerman]

You would rather they send death threats and just see silently wishing that?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Because the thing is, a death threat, you know who the death is going to come from? It's the person person sending the death threat. But a death wish, you don't know when it's going to happen.

[Scott Aukerman]

So they're wishing you die of natural causes.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yes. And I'm sick of words. You're like, I hope you die of an aneurysm. And I'm going say, do you know what an aneurysm is? It hurts. Okay?

[Natasha Leggero]

I have to say, I thought a death wish was something you had for yourself.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I think you can. It could be both. You can have it for yourself and you could have it for somebody else.

[Natasha Leggero]

Okay?

[Scott Aukerman]

Right? You can wish some. You can. Yeah, exactly.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's what the lobster I mentioned who had the death wish, right? He wanted it on me because I was chasing him around. He said, no, not for me.

[Scott Aukerman]

He didn't want to die. But you killed him.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

He wanted me to die.

[Scott Aukerman]

And he also talked.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Did I say he was a writer? Did somebody mention he wrote it? Anyway, let's not get involved in that.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Lobsters make noise. A lot of people don't understand lobsters make noise.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. Yeah, usually they're in the sea and you can't hear it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Under the sea. Sea, yeah, Life is much better.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They're known to hum. Where do you think that song came from originally?

[Scott Aukerman]

The under the seas are Crustaceans.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Hum.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, all the time.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I had a crustation when I was a kid. It was called Crabby the Crab, and this thing would never stop humming. And awful songs too.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like what?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Like.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like songs you didn't like or.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah, like

[Scott Aukerman]

Crash We've Only Just Begun.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

That's. Yes, exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

Carpenters.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Oh, that's. That's.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, oh. Anytime he hears humming.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah, exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

He thinks it must be the crash jets, dummy.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Exactly. We have just met today. But how'd you know that about it? How did you know that you know

[Scott Aukerman]

they had more songs than just that one? And that's the only way they actually sing the lyrics in other songs. Oh, yeah.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Proceed.

[Scott Aukerman]

So, Dr. Fauci, I mean, it's so great to meet you. I mean, we're coming. A lot of people say, hey, the pandemic's over. But, you know, you've been out there saying, maybe it's not where. I mean, are we right now?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Where?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I guess. Look, here's the thing. Nothing's over until it's over. Right?

[Scott Aukerman]

Great point.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

True.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You don't, you know, you can't say you milk the cow unless the milk is in the. The.

[Scott Aukerman]

The bucket. Right, okay. Or on the ground, I guess, if

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

you don't have a bucket. That is a very similar analogy we use in the book. Go ahead.

[Scott Aukerman]

Does anyone ever milk a cow and they just like it's on the ground and then they try to scoop it up after the fact or.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No, once that milk is on the ground, it belongs to the grass.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's just milky grass.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Exactly. You know, you don't want to. You don't want. I've licked milk off the ground before. All you're gonna do is get sick. Ah, very nice. And you got sick too?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No, no, but same.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Okay. I got dysentery for weeks.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is that why you became a doctor? Is because you got sick once and you're like, I gotta figure out how to stop this from happening?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Have you read my biography?

[Scott Aukerman]

That's Exactly. What happened?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

One day I got very sick, very sick from drinking milk. Later on, I found out I was something called. What?

[Scott Aukerman]

Lactose intolerant.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

When you take lactose toast, you immediately defecated out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You have to drive really fast.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because usually, guess what, you have to take a poop when you're suddenly driving or when you're busy, you know, hanging something. Like hanging a paint?

[Scott Aukerman]

Like a painting?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

How many paintings do you have in your house?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

730, I think.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, so you're an art collector. I mean, you're famous now, so really?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Look, let me tell you something.

[Scott Aukerman]

What do you have, like, basketball?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I got 700.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? How many Banksies?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Banksies? Let me see. I got 20 banksies.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you buy that, Banksy? The one that, like, just shredded itself?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yes, I did. And you. I was furious. I brought it home. You were completely shredded. When you. When I bought it, it wasn't brought it home, it was shredded.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Did I let you keep the shredder that was attached to it?

[Scott Aukerman]

Because that's. That's got to be.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

At least actually used that one.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They took back.

[Scott Aukerman]

They took the shredder back.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They took the shredder back, and I had nothing except a pile of painting.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That is weird.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. So you're an art. You're an art guy.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I'm an art guy. But let me tell you, more than anything, I'm a Brooklyn guy. Straight out of Brooklyn, shout out to Biggie Smalls.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, oh, so you're a fan of Brooklyn artists.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I'm from the Brooklyn streets, okay? A lot of people don't know this.

[Scott Aukerman]

I didn't know that.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah, yeah. I'm from the Brooklyn streets. You look at me, you're like, oh, okay, Dr. Fauci.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're an older guy. Yeah, older gentleman. But you're famous now.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Older gentleman, famous. Now. When I walk around, when I walk down the Brooklyn streets, people like Fauci, Fauci, Fauci. And then I put my hands up, everyone starts cheering. It's real nice.

[Natasha Leggero]

It's funny. Dice has said this exact same thing to me. Dice, I'm from the streets of Brooklyn.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Andrew Dice.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah. He's not from the streets. He's really streets like me.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I'm from the streets.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Really? What street?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Montrose. I just walk the streets waiting for people to shout at me.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Not. What kind of things do they shout at you?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Stupid little tiny. Get your ass up here.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Let me tell you, in the beginning of the pandemic, constantly, people were. Because I'm Five, seven. I'm a little guy. I'm a short king. Like, hey, you little. Why don't you, why don't you come here?

[Scott Aukerman]

People were blaming you. The. Blaming the pandemic on you or blaming.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They were blaming a lot of different things on me. They were blaming the pandemic on me, blaming their divorces on me, blaming various types of, you know, I hate to say, miscarriages on me.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, I saw that all on Facebook. It was all over the message.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

All different kinds. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So people were blaming everything on you and they. But now they cheer when they see you.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Now they cheer when they see me. Everyone's like, everyone wants a piece of the big fan Fudge. Big Fudge. And if you don't mind, if you guys don't mind, call me Big Fudge because like, that's what people have been calling me.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, sure, I'll call you Big when

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

they call you Big Fudge.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Big Fudge. All day, all night.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is that how your name is pronounced? Fudge?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Huh? No, that's how I say it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Because I don't give a Fudge.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I get it.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

That's what's up. But let me tell you something.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, Please. I mean, you're here tonight, is in

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

the house and so am I.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well established.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Does anybody have any questions about the pandemic? I can answer for you? You know what other questions I can answer for you? A little word called, I don't know, aids. Have you heard about this?

[Scott Aukerman]

Most of you know the reason that Magic Johnson, etc.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Are you asking, like, if I heard about that? Is the smallest word, the littlest word I've heard?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

What's. Yeah, it's. Is that the literal word you ever heard?

[Scott Aukerman]

I know, I think.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Or is the littlest. Well, ah. Because it's a little thinner.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You know why people don't talk about AIDS as much anymore? Because of me, the big fotch. Most of these studies that were done on aids, who would, who, who did it?

[Scott Aukerman]

You. You were the guy who, yeah. You were in charge of all this. You're the, you're the guy, I mean, who basically got it under control a little bit. Is that, is that.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I got it under control a little bit. I single handedly was the one big fauci that got AIDS under control. Right. I went to every single community and told them what to do to not get it and what to do when you do get it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I got to say, you could reach a bigger audience by going on YouTube to get to those communities. You can't go to every single community,

[Scott Aukerman]

but I want single community.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Well, this was way before YouTube's.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

This was way before the Internet's email.

[Scott Aukerman]

Were you the guy.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No. I could have done that, but where would I get everyone's email from?

[Scott Aukerman]

Were you the guy who also went to George Michael and said, please put a lyric. Sex is best when it's one on one.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Scott Aukerman]

And do I want your sex? And that. That got the message out and helped control aids.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Do you know what the original.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

True. I fully disagree. Sex is way better with a lot of people.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No, but originally the was like sex.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, he was like. He was like, sex is best without a condom.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

With multiple people. With multiple people. Some of them will take inter intravenous drugs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I said, look, George, I know you know what you're doing, but I know what I'm doing. You got to stop with this. Okay?

[Scott Aukerman]

Plus, sex is best when it's one on one. Rhymed with the previous lyric.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Exactly. The only way makes no sense.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

And then didn't the lyric from Faith come out? You got to listen to me on this. You got to have faith. And he said, oh, I got a. That gives me an idea song. Did I hear that right?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yes. Also, the song Monkey on my back.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Right.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

He got that from me too.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I. So I had a monkey on my back.

[Scott Aukerman]

A literal monkey.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yes. That refused to leave. Don't ever, ever monkey watch. Don't ever watch.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you're watching your friend's monkey. Yes.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

My God, my friend's name. What was it? Michael Jackson. My God.

[Scott Aukerman]

You were friends with Michael Jackson? Yes.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Who do you think gave him Proba Fall?

[Scott Aukerman]

That was a different guy.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No, no. Who gave. Who do you think gave. Gave that guy.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you're the guy behind that.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You got to get. You want pro for you come to the big fudge. Let me tell you that.

[Natasha Leggero]

Okay. Do you regret, like, telling every. Like, didn't you kind of know that masks would help? Even though you said at the beginning that they wouldn't help? Remember you made people not remember I was doing it.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

That was called. I was just doing. It was a joke at first. That went really far.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you were joking.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I made a joke. It's like, why would I wear a mask?

[Scott Aukerman]

You're being sarcastic.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Then you can't tell if I'm smiling.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I've literally never worn a mask. You don't. Yeah, no, I just think the masks are the problem. And, like, we should all just.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The masks are the problem. No. The virus is the problem.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

No. It's the masks.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, I will agree. Masks are the problem, but only in the Scream series. I will say that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Ghostface, in other words, Ghostface, Yeah. Whoever's wearing that is usually the bad guy in the Scream series.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

In the Jim Carrey movie, the Mask,

[Scott Aukerman]

he was actually the hero, though.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But the mask was bad.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The mask was bad.

[Scott Aukerman]

Was that the.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

The mask was evil.

[Scott Aukerman]

The mask was evil. But it made him so funny. He said smoking.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Oh, he was already funny, so he

[Scott Aukerman]

didn't need the mask.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I think that's a lesson we all learned, is that Jim Carrey does not need a mask to make.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

You should rewatch it, Sky. Clearly you didn't. Didn't get through to you.

[Natasha Leggero]

Do you have any hobbies, Fouchy? Like, what do you do for fun?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's how you host a show. You are a good host, clearly is

[Natasha Leggero]

like, you know, he wants to, you know, step away from your Persona.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yes.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Thank you. Fabulous. So I started surfing. Anybody heard of this thing?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, no, we've all heard of surfing. The Beach Boys sang about it in every song. Song.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The Beach Boys?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, the Beach Brian Wilson. The Beach Boys.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

The dude that had, like, schizophrenia.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, schizophrenic. One of them was hit in the ear by his dad.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No, that doesn't cause schizophrenia. Believe me. I was hit. I was b. I went to all Catholic nun, boy school. It's when it was.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wait, you were all girl. You were. It was all boys, and you were all boys. You were taught to be nuns?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yes, yes, because there wasn't any. Because the Catholic Church was pissed off that there wasn't enough boy nuns.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

So I joined that. It was easier than joining the priest one, Right, Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Easier to get in.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And you all had to do. Were you dressed in habits all day

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

and we were dressed. Well, let's just say we made it a habit to always be dressed that way. But, I mean, there's a protocol.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you could have just said yes, but instead you've made a joke and was.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Was it funny or was it not?

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't know. At this point, I don't know.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You're laughing, Scott, and if Scott's laughing,

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

all puns are funny. Period. End of story. Period.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

You know what sharks do in the Atlantic?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yep.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They'll come rub up against you in a.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Are you talking about shark?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Shark. Sharks.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about shark. Finally, someone was.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't know what's more dangerous, though, a shark or a shark in the water.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I mean, I would Say a shark. Because if you shart in the water, nobody knows, right? No.

[Scott Aukerman]

What do you mean? But if a shark's in the water, everybody knows. Exactly. Is that what you're trying to say?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

So what's. What's worse?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

A shark in the water? If you're gonna short, you might as well do it in the water, right?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Do you think that a shark would attract a shark?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

A shark would attract a shark. If you have bleeding.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah. Because, well, bleeding. Like you guys knew that documentary Grizzly Bear.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Grizzly Man.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, Grizzly man, based on Judd.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, that was okay.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But you know, of course the rumor started that a woman's period attracted the bear that killed everybody.

[Natasha Leggero]

Everybody.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

And most people would say that that's sexist, but I think that that's the truth.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I think that's probably sexist. People. Society loves to blame women. Another thing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Other things. We're wrapping up.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Are you kidding me? I just got on. I was gonna start talking about.

[Scott Aukerman]

You just got on?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

How long have I been here for? About 10 minutes. 5 minutes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Seems very short to me.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Time flies when you're having a good time. Time flies when you're having a good time.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's your last thing?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

My last thing is this. Listen, everybody. Go out there, have a good time.

[Scott Aukerman]

Have a good time. That seems contrary to what the advice you should be.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

No, no, but I mean, care about yourself, but do me a favor and do yourself. Care about someone else too.

[Scott Aukerman]

Very good, Dr. Fou. All right. Very good. Around Very good. That's the fauci I know.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

And stay away from surfing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why? Because you want to be the only one out there. Oh, because.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Biggest welt on my ass.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Just sitting here is falling into a pretty soft.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, water is pretty soft.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Sand is wet. Sand is soft.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Wait, you're surfing on the sand closer to the ocean.

[Scott Aukerman]

You gotta get out there. Yeah. All right, well, we're running out of time. We just have one final feature on the show and that is of course a little something called plugs.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Well, Scott talks a lot to interesting people. Ox a hot shot. There's no Justin Equal. But this is the place where we change up the pace and blow that shit. Blow that shit. Blow that shit. Blow it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, no. Oh, my God. That was Patrick Mark Havocan featuring MC Hovercraft with Butt Clot. Jesus Christ.

[Natasha Leggero]

I liked it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's what I love about commie bing bang fans is that when they follow you, it's like blood clot. 6,000 followed you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, my God. Thank you so much. To them. Guys, what do we plug in? Natasha?

[Natasha Leggero]

Obviously, we have Rat in the kitchen starting March 31st. And check out my podcast, Endless Honeymoon Podcast.

[Scott Aukerman]

And that's with Moshe.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That is with my husband, Moshe Kashar, bringing him up.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sorry. Kayla. Kayla, what do you want to plug?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Okay, so. So I wanna plug a different podcast than Scott has brought up. I can't believe he hasn't brought this one up.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, my God. Which one?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's called this book Changed My Life. It's on Cbee World.

[Scott Aukerman]

What is that?

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I don't know.

[Scott Aukerman]

You seem confused by it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

It's some kind of platform you have to pay for. And then I wanna plug a little show called Killing it on Peacock that I heard about from Shart's truck. He's been playing it nonstop. And also, of course, Jason Mantcukis Twitter. Twitter?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Which is I L Y. He has Instagram.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I don't do it.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Oh, he has on Instagram too. I L Y I L. Oh, that's

[Natasha Leggero]

what his Instagram is.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, his secret Instagram. He pretends to be a woman.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

He pretends to be this woman named Lily Sullivan. And I mean, it's pretty cool.

[Natasha Leggero]

He's not online, but he's just, like, haunting us or.

[Scott Aukerman]

No. Yeah, he's just secretly stalking everyone. Yeah.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

But he does a really good job of pretending to be this very hot woman.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Very interesting person that he just. He's built up this whole fake life. And by the way, Jason Manzoukas isn't even real. He's Jeffrey character Wheaties. I mean, that's like levels.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Yeah, right. Very, very layered.

[Scott Aukerman]

Speaking of Jason Manzoukas adjacent. Manzoukas. Yes. What do you want to plug?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You rang? I want to plug the. Of course, the TV show and the book coming out, whatever the hell that was that you talked about.

[Scott Aukerman]

We talked about.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You can't even remember.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I can't even remember because I don't care about it. What I do care about is the Sloppy Boys podcast that, you know, we talk about, or they talk about Cocktails, but that. That group is also a band and they're going on tour starting on May 6th. We're going to South Carolina, North Carolina, New York City, Troy, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.

[Scott Aukerman]

So check that they ever find a Vancouver date.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

We. They did not yet. They did get in contact with the gentleman that you gave them, and we're working on something in September, but they. You went, no, that might not happen. So don't set your clock. Do it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sloppy Boys. All right. And Dr. The. The Fouch. The Fotch. Sorry, the fox. Big fudge, Big fox, Big fo. What do you want to plug here? I guess aids. And I want to plug.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I first of all want to plug aids. Don't catch it. But if you have it, don't tell anyone.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Don't tell. Your bad advice.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah, I mean, if they find out. Be honest with them.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, they find out.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Let me see what I want to plug. My album straight out of Brooklyn should be coming out in the next couple

[Scott Aukerman]

of kind of music. Is it or is it spoken word?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

It's spoken word. Straight out of Brooklyn. And I can give you it's. It's straight out of Brooklyn. Straight out of Brooklyn. That's where I'm from. I guess that wasn't spoken word. That was more a little van. But you get the point. Also there is a very funny, lovely actor and comedian. His name is Peter Banu Faz. His Instagram is really funny. You should check it out at P Ban.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's funny about his Instagram?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

He does all these fun cultural videos. He rolls videos. He does these, like, videos about, like, how it is being Iranian American. It's really funny.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

They make me laugh. I've seen them.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

My man. I knew I liked you the second I laid eyes on you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? You guys are like good friends. Yeah. But you've had your back to him this entire time. You just turned around.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I'm sorry, that's very rude of me. But let me tell you, now that I see you've got. And I'll take what you got. Love it. Love it. But yeah, other than that, just to check out the album, see if you like it.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, we'll see if we like it. I want to plug. You mentioned cbb world.com. go over there and. Yeah, that, that we had an episode of this book changed my life. And we've got episodes of hey Randy with Randy Snuts. We have Will Hines has a show you can't handle the Sleuths. A lot of great stuff coming out there. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. Take the.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

The other.

[Scott Aukerman]

Put it down.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

You're going to make a box.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's time to start to close it.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Talking. Open up the flood bag. I open up the flood bag.

[Scott Aukerman]

Open up the blood bag. All right, that was Jerome VDB with closing the Plugs 2022 Club Remix. Thanks so much to them. All right, guys, I want to thank you so much. Natasha, always great to see you. If you happen to go by A theater. The Batman is playing everywhere right now. It's in the middle of its 45 day theatrical window.

[Natasha Leggero]

Oh, sorry.

[Scott Aukerman]

No.

[Natasha Leggero]

I mean, no, I will not. But I'm glad that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Have you ever seen one of them?

[Natasha Leggero]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not even like the Tim Burton one where Jack Nicholson was in or.

[Natasha Leggero]

No. Sorry. Honey.

[Scott Aukerman]

Kayla Dickey, always great to see you.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Hey, such a pleasure.

[Scott Aukerman]

Enjoy Truck Week.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Thank you so much. Praying my new man is out there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I hope so. Yeah.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Cause he's definitely not here. From what I can tell, you guys all drive little cars.

[Scott Aukerman]

Fouch. Yeah, Fotch. Big Fotch. What are you driving?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Big Fudge. Big Fudge. I got the brand new Lamborghini suv.

[Natasha Leggero]

Yeah, pretty flashy for you.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Hey, you know what? I'm tired of pretending I'm not a medical rock star.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, you're a baller. Big time. And you're making a lot of money on the vaccine.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

A lot of. Hey, don't put words in my mouth.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you are. But. But you are.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Come on. I. I mean, I got a little. I got investment.

[Scott Aukerman]

You wet your beak every once in a while.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

I got investment here and there.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

That's all I'm going to say.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

All right.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Money, money, money. That's Abba.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Abba. Haba. Yabba yabba.

[Scott Aukerman]

And Jason and. Oh, sorry, not Jason Manzukas. A Jason Manzoukas. Yes.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Can I leave you with a thought, Scott?

[Scott Aukerman]

Please.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

As we're sitting out here in your backyard, lovely as it is, I saw some the hummingbirds flying around and I got to thinking, I was watching them. I'm thinking about myself. Are all hummingbirds Crash Dummies fans?

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

They're humming. They constantly humming.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

That's something I was thinking about.

[Scott Aukerman]

That was your final thought?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

It was a thought I had. And I thought to myself, I'm not going to use this anywhere else.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not even on your own show.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

I'd have to be outside with the hummingbird.

[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wait, you're grilling inside on your show?

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

No, no, I don't have hummingbirds outside. Oh, have a net.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

That's crazy that your writing team didn't write you that line. It was so fun.

[Scott Aukerman]

It was so good.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Well, thank you again. I don't know what to say to that.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, we'll see you next time. Thanks.

[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

Bye.

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[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Hey, it's Kelly Ripa. And if you don't know, I have a podcast where I get to say whatever I want. Hold on. Let me get a shovel and a body bag. I envision doing a podcast with the conversations that happen in my dressing room off camera, where people feel free to talk. No hair, no makeup. This is my kind of job.

[Scott Aukerman]

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[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

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[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

We're seeing a different side of you.

[Scott Aukerman]

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[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

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[Dr. Anthony Fauci]

Get my hair done over here.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

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[Adjacent Mantzoukas]

My mom says, woody, I knew your dad.

[Scott Aukerman]

Stop the presses.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

I would like to volunteer to administer any and all DNA tests.

[Scott Aukerman]

Maybe that should be part of the show.

[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

Let's talk off camera with me Kelly Ripoff.

[Natasha Leggero]

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[Kayla Dickey (played by Lily Sullivan)]

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