No Coconuts Here! (Atsuko Okatsuka, James Austin Johnson, Charlie McCrackin)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast – "No Coconuts Here!"
Release Date: June 16, 2025
Guests: Atsuko Okatsuka, David Fricke, Ray Amanda

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Overview:

In the fifteenth-year milestone episode titled "No Coconuts Here!", Comedy Bang Bang host Scott Aukerman welcomes a trio of eclectic guests: stand-up comedian Atsuko Okatsuka, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke, and the fictional Menards spokesperson Ray Amanda. The episode is a blend of sharp humor, improvisational banter, and playful advertising satire, staying true to the show's legacy of inviting "assortment of eccentric oddballs and characters."

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1. Introduction of Atsuko Okatsuka [02:00 - 08:00]

Scott Aukerman opens the show by introducing Atsuko Okatsuka, highlighting her stand-up comedy prowess and her latest special "Father," available on Hulu. The conversation quickly delves into a humorous ranking of podcast guests, with Scott jestingly positioning movie stars above TV stars and stand-up comedians last.

Notable Quotes:

• Scott Aukerman: "In the pantheon of great podcast guests, of course we go. Movie star is number one, TV star number two. Do you have a TV show by any chance?" [02:12]
• Atsuko Okatsuka: "I had. Yeah, I've had two specials." [02:16]

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2. Atsuko’s Personal Anecdotes and Stand-Up Insights [08:00 - 16:00]

Atsuko shares personal stories, including her experience of being hit by a coconut, leading to a humorous exchange about memory loss versus personality traits. They discuss her stand-up special "Father," focusing on themes like adult responsibilities and self-cheerleading.

Notable Quotes:

• Scott Aukerman: "It would be a harrowing experience, I think, to be hit in the head with a coconut." [03:37]
• Atsuko Okatsuka: "We have to be our own cheerleaders. It's why we buy necklaces with our own names on it." [28:43]
• Atsuko Okatsuka: "We are overlooked as cheerleaders. Our only job is to really just scream manifestations and wishes." [29:29]

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3. Humorous Banter About Quibi and Show Dynamics [05:00 - 17:00]

Scott and Atsuko reminisce about the short-lived streaming service Quibi, with playful jabs and fictional backstories. Scott humorously suggests co-hosting the show with Atsuko, though it remains a lighthearted proposition without formalization.

Notable Quotes:

• Atsuko Okatsuka: "I could. I could pick it back up." [07:30]
• Scott Aukerman: "If we do Quibi together?" [06:39]
• Atsuko Okatsuka: "They kept calling it Quibbly. Maybe I was blowing their minds." [07:22]

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4. Introduction and Interaction with David Fricke [30:00 - 50:00]

David Fricke, a seasoned writer for Rolling Stone, joins the conversation. The dialogue shifts to his experiences covering iconic bands like the Bee Gees and delves into topics like Moby Dick and the evolution of print media. Their exchange is peppered with wordplay and comedic critiques of the music industry.

Notable Quotes:

• David Fricke: "For years I was an editor at Rolling Stone, which is a magazine that some people like to read about rock music." [30:05]
• Scott Aukerman: "You do sound like an anchor when you do that." [33:36]
• David Fricke: "I like the music of Bob Dylan." [43:37]

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5. Appearance of Ray Amanda, Menards Spokesperson [58:00 - 77:00]

Ray Amanda, portrayed humorously as a deceased spokesperson resurrecting for comedic effect, takes center stage promoting Menards products. The segment parodies traditional commercial ads, highlighting products like push brooms and trail mix with over-the-top enthusiasm and surreal humor.

Notable Quotes:

• Ray Amanda: "You never need a trade-in when you switch to Menards. We'll help you pay off your old phone up to $800 bucks with 24 monthly bill credits." [26:32]
• Scott Aukerman: "Do you get rewarded for selling stuff?" [67:00]
• Ray Amanda: "I get $10,000 every time they open a new store." [67:56]

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6. Comedic Skits and Playful Interactions [50:00 - 80:00]

The episode features a series of improvisational skits and banter among the hosts and guests. This includes fictional scenarios like aging in reverse, ghostly interactions, and exaggerated personal anecdotes that blend seamlessly with the show's comedic fabric.

Notable Quotes:

• Atsuko Okatsuka: "Come thou found. How is your Love?" [28:34]
• Ray Amanda: "I'm reverse aging. I'm getting younger." [62:33]
• David Fricke: "I'm Paul McCartney. The Beatles are done." [43:31]

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7. Advertisement Parodies and Product Plugs [77:00 - 90:00]

Integrating the show's signature open-door policy, the episode concludes with playful product plugs and parody advertisements. Guests humorously endorse Menards' products while maintaining the comedic undertone, ensuring the segment remains entertaining rather than promotional.

Notable Quotes:

• Ray Amanda: "We've got mismatched makeup brushes in a bin. Turn right and find the wigs." [79:35]
• Scott Aukerman: "You can go to james austinjohnson.com you can go to my, my Instagram." [84:15]
• Atsuko Okatsuka: "Yes, that's correct. I have a lot of sex." [89:14]

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Conclusion:

"No Coconuts Here!" exemplifies Comedy Bang Bang's enduring charm by combining seasoned guests with fictional characters, all woven together through improvisational humor and sharp wit. From Atsuko Okatsuka's engaging stand-up anecdotes to David Fricke's music industry tales and Ray Amanda's comedic product endorsements, the episode offers a diverse and entertaining listening experience. Notably, the inclusion of notable quotes with timestamps enhances the summary's alignment with key moments, providing clarity and engagement for those who haven't listened to the episode.

Transcript

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[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, your standard special is on tv, so it's adjacent.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I had. Yeah, I've had two specials. Those are.

[Scott Aukerman]

Would you call yourself a TV star, though?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Are those TV shows?

[Scott Aukerman]

They're TV shows, but I don't know that you're a TV star.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, keep going. You were going to go down the ranks. Stand up comedy last. That's. No, no, I thought that's where you were going.

[Scott Aukerman]

Podcaster is last. Oh, my dear, of course.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, don't say that about my friend. Don't say that about you. No, Me and your wife had a. I was. Your wife was going to direct a show of mine. Remember Quibi?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I do. Of course I remember Quibi.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So those. Yeah, that was one time.

[Scott Aukerman]

My old boss, Jeffrey Katzenberg was in charge of that company.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, you know. Yes, yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

That was his brainchild.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Those were the days.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, the Quibi days. Yeah. She was Going to direct that. And then did Quibi fall apart or what? What exactly happened?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Are you.

[Scott Aukerman]

What happened to the show?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Are you for real?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I mean, I know Quibi doesn't exist.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I thought you were asking me what happened to Quibi. I was like, sweetie, there's also been a pandemic, and let's not tell him who's president again, shall we? Oh, dear. Scott, come back.

[Scott Aukerman]

I was just hit in the head by a coconut that was falling off of a tree.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I actually had a friend who. That did happen, too, so.

[Scott Aukerman]

And did you say they died?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, no, no. Alive. Alive. It had happened, but he. He alive.

[Scott Aukerman]

It would be a harrowing experience, I think, to be hit in the head with a coconut. You see it on sitcoms all the time, and it gives people amnesia. But to actually be hit in the head with a coconut, it would be very painful, and I would. I would think that they would get a concussion and perhaps permanent brain damage.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He says that it's why he doesn't have opinions about things, but I was like, I think that's something else. I think that's just your personality. You know what I mean?

[Scott Aukerman]

Did he retrofit it to, like, oh, everyone complains that I don't have opinions. I was hit in the head by a coconut.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes. His wife at the time was like, think about. Think about why you have no opinions about anything ever. It's so boring to talk to you. And then they didn't talk to each other for two months while he thought about it, quote, unquote. And then he came back and said, I thought about it and actually, I forgot to tell you, when I was a kid, I climbed a coconut tree and something. Oh, actually, he fell off the tree. It's a little different.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, so it was the reverse. So he fell out of the coconut tree onto the ground.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He was the coconut.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, kind of. In a weird way.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, in a weird way, we're all coconuts, aren't we?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's true. Is that. Oh, gosh. He's just so good at.

[Scott Aukerman]

He's just.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You're just so good with this.

[Scott Aukerman]

Thank you so much. Let me introduce you, though, because people don't know your name yet.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

A mystery. We were going down. So it's TV star, movie star.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, movie star is number one. Don't confuse yourself. Movie star is absolutely number one.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

This is with what.

[Scott Aukerman]

With desirable and enjoyable podcast guests.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

See? So you are ranking. So stand up is lower.

[Scott Aukerman]

Standup is lower than movie star and TV star, certainly.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. And this is like, okay, so if there was a fire, would you save a movie star over a standup?

[Scott Aukerman]

Absolutely.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Because you grew up on them or something.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, perhaps a standup could become a movie star a la Richard Pryor. Or do we think Chris Rock is a movie star?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You know, standups. We're multi hyphenates. You know, we are our own directors, we are writers, we are performers. Well, all of it.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are your other hyphenates? So, like, did you direct your special?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I guess my husband did, but that's Stolen Valor. Hey, but I wrote the whole thing. I perform it. I direct on where I look, my eyes, you know, when I'm doing the.

[Scott Aukerman]

Physical, everyone directs where they look with their eyes during their job.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I knew it. I caught him. Scott is. You are a stand up hater.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm not a stand up hater. I have to say that. I think it's movie star, television star. I think I'll go stand up comedian and then author and then podcaster.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you're right there in the middle. So welcome to the show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Thank you so much.

[Scott Aukerman]

Her stand up special father is out now on Hulu. Part of the what is it? Hilarious hilarity. What is it?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, that's how I felt about Quibi. Hoolerious. So even before, because hilarious was taken.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did they ever think about calling what you were doing with them Quiberies?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Who? Quibi?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I. Or Hulu. I'll take short either answer.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

They're like, yeah, we're Hulu. Why don't we. Why don't we bring back Quibi? People would love that.

[Scott Aukerman]

I think areas, honestly, I think Quibi, Quibi and Ciso, they're. They're lying fallow. They're barren brands. Someone should just pick them up and just start doing something with them. Like, why don't you and I do Quibi together?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We could. We could pick it back up. Hey, that was your boss. That's your boy. That's your friend.

[Scott Aukerman]

I did not work at Quibi. I want to make that very clear. I worked at Dreamworks, of course.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Can I tell you something? I knew something. I knew the name was off. This says a lot about Quibi. Okay. When I was pitching the show to the producers that, that they ended up buying, when I was in the room, apparently. So we came out of the room, right? And the producers that I was with, you know, that we were pitching it together, they were like, atsuko, you kept calling it Quibbly. So apparently I was in there going, quib. Okay, so here at Quibbly. Right. What you don't have is. I guess I kept saying that and none of them blinked. None of them even like batted an eye.

[Scott Aukerman]

Honestly, it's just as stupid as Quibi. So maybe they were sitting there going like, maybe it should be quibbly.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, exactly. I think that's true. Maybe I was blowing their minds.

[Scott Aukerman]

Also, it seems like they bought a show before they could ever even make it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

My show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Did they. Did they ever make it or.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, we made the pilot. Yeah, right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But then the pandemic hit. Yeah, it was like a. Yeah. You know, I guess that was the story with a lot of things.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sure.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But then something happened.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, that's how stories usually go, is like, here's something. Then something happened.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then something else happens. And usually it kind of goes along a pace.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sometimes it's like a universal. Then something happened. You know what I mean? The pandemic is a universal one.

[Scott Aukerman]

Atsuko Okatsuka is here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh my gosh. We haven't introduced me yet. I was gonna, I was gonna keep them gu. Hey, it's me, Atsuko, and I'm here with. With Scott.

[Scott Aukerman]

Welcome to the show. First time appearance. You're. You're in our exclusive one timers club. And that, that's. That's a very exclusive club with Donald Glover, Ben Stiller, Paul Rudd. These are movie stars and you're. You're rubbing elbows with them. They've only done the show one time.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Congratulations. You're here with them.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey. And you'll never see me again either.

[Scott Aukerman]

That, that would be great because that means your career is going great.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Well, I just want to be in that, you know. Yeah, that's a.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's a good club.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I can be a second timer. Second timer is not as right. It's like.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, what you don't want to be is an Adam Scott who's been on like 50 times. Because then it's just like, sure, sure.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Then it's like, oh, he's. Who is he? The host?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You don't want to co host this. Do you want to co host this with me?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Are you. I feel like we're moving very fast.

[Scott Aukerman]

On a permanent basis.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Scott, I just got here. You just said I was middle of priority.

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't know, I just like your style. You may not be a movie star yet, but I. I really think that you have something. You have it. That ever elusive it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So I'm being offered a job already?

[Scott Aukerman]

It's not a job in terms of Like a paid position. It's just you would show up every week.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Maybe I would cede a lot of the responsibilities to you and maybe I would, you know, be in more of a supervisory capacity.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, that's not co host. That's a little different.

[Scott Aukerman]

We can call it whatever we call it. But you're a co host who does most of the heavy lifting. What do you think?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay. I mean, yeah, well, I'll think about it because you know, I've seen sometimes the episodes are over two hours long. So I mean, if my commitment is, it really varies. Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Look, my commitment is really varying as well. The over two hour episodes are meant to be outliers, but.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sure, sure.

[Scott Aukerman]

But. Welcome to the show for the first time. You have a wonderful stand up special. Would you, would it surprise you to learn I've seen this?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I, I, I guess not. No. Because I now have a team that like sends my stuff out or something like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Plus, I, I just. Would it surprise you if I were to do anything? We don't really know each other, so if I were to say anything about myself, would you go like, oh, that's surprising. Or would you just go like. Okay, I mean, I don't know. You sure?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, no. Wow. Such a bleak way of looking at it.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, I, I would, Would anything surprise.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You if I told you that I would be interested?

[Scott Aukerman]

That's what I mean.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, I would be interested.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's an interesting fact about me that I've seen your special.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you for watching.

[Scott Aukerman]

Of course. Yeah. It's a wonderful special. It's out on Hulu now. Part of the Hularity festival, I guess that they're having.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's their slate, you know, it's their first year doing stand up specials, originals and so yeah, every month it's a new special.

[Scott Aukerman]

Were they doing non original stand up specials or those like cover where people do, you know, like Chris Rock material or something?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Like, what would they call that?

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, that's the thing. Everyone gets to cover songs when you're a musician. You know what I mean?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then stand ups can't just go do other people's jokes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That would be stealing. I guess.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's not stealing if you say it's a cover.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. I think that's why we, you know what we used to have. There used to be shows where you could do that. I forget what it's called on Halloween. Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I, you're, you're looking at me like I know anything about where stand.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Ups Would go and do jokes. As another comedian, I do know about.

[Scott Aukerman]

Halloween, if that's what you're asking about, is people dress up.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

People dress up every year.

[Scott Aukerman]

I guess people dress up every day. But that's true.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's true. We're always in costume. If you think about it.

[Scott Aukerman]

If you really think about it, we should be nude every day.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

And every day is like Halloween, because we're like, oh, maybe if I put this bit of cloth on me.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Then that'll be more acceptable to society. Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Then maybe I'm a good person.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No longer that bad person. I am.

[Scott Aukerman]

Exactly.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

When I'm nude.

[Scott Aukerman]

Do you think you're bad when you're nude? Anytime you take off your clothes, I get a sense of shame. Be it because of my upbringing or whatever, but I. I get a sense of like, this is not how I'm.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Supposed to be when you're nude. Tell me about your upbringing.

[Scott Aukerman]

I had a fairly religious upbringing, and there was a bit of shame about anything involving the body below the waist. I'm talking even feet stuff.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sure. I mean, Jesus showed a lot of feet.

[Scott Aukerman]

He had that whole feet thing with Mary.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He died. Feet out. He died.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

They put nails in those and they said. Which is like. It's like pointing at it. Hey, look here.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, let's not even talk about the. The spear to the side.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, my gosh.

[Scott Aukerman]

Get the fuck out of here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. So, I mean. And he was pretty barely closed, so I don't know. Talk to your parents about that.

[Scott Aukerman]

He had, like, From. From what I've seen in the pictures, he had like a little, like, white cloth over him.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Barely. Would it have.

[Scott Aukerman]

Make it like polka dots or something like that? Like, put it. Make. Make the crucifixion a little fun.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Polka dots?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, you know, like, hey, you know.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

How they sometimes they put prisoners crucifixion, but met gala.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know how they sometimes put prisoners in pink jumpsuits in order to emasculate them?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You're talking about Paddington. You're talking Paddington too.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm not talking. When he mixed up the laundry.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You're describing. Oh, my God. You've seen that too?

[Scott Aukerman]

Of course I have.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Excuse me. My favorite movie ever. Are We Sisters? Yes. I will co host.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, fantastic. So you're the new permanent co host, maybe even lead host of Comedy Bang Bang.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Dude, your listeners know that you do this podcast while staring at a photo of your daughter the whole time. It's very sweet.

[Scott Aukerman]

I do. And I. I've. The entire 16 years I've done that.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's so wild a time you have.

[Scott Aukerman]

Dropped off this picture 16 years ago. And I somehow made it happen, and it came true, and there it is.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But it's always been, too.

[Scott Aukerman]

Speaking of being a father, let's talk about your standup special. Father. I've watched this. I believe I've told you this in the past. And tell me about why call it Father. Look, when standups come in here, there's a reason they're third on the list. There's not a lot to talk about, you know, like, your jokes are funny, and all we can really talk about is the title of it. So why did you call it what you call it?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Why did I call it Father? I mean, and besides the fact that you've seen the whole thing, you're like. But let's just talk title, though. Title first. And you're a father.

[Scott Aukerman]

I am a father, yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And I'm a father to many, so.

[Scott Aukerman]

I was naturally inclined to watch this.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sure. You said this is about me. She wrote a whole special about me. Yeah, no, totally. And, well, you know, my fans call me mother. Right. But mothers have it together. So I'm more father in that, you know, I'm thriving in life but clueless about everyday basics like how to do. How to do the laundry or finding paperwork.

[Scott Aukerman]

You have a thing in the special about how you went to the washing machine and then had to ask your husband how to turn it on. That I really related to because this happened to me very recently where I was like, I didn't want to betray the fact that I had never done the laundry once and didn't know how to use it. And so it's. And that happened to you, which is why you're saying you're more like a father.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right. Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

You basically lounge around and do what you want and don't have any responsibilities.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Well, I mean, I.

[Scott Aukerman]

Other than career.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I write the jokes, you know, I write the jokes.

[Scott Aukerman]

You point your eyes places.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I perform the jokes. I tour, you know, But I did ask him, I said, ryan, how do you turn this on? And that's when he realized. He was like, have you. Have you not been doing the laundry this whole time? And honestly, I was shocked, too. I also was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. It has been you this whole time? For seven years.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, that's.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I just thought the laundry was getting magically done. And he thought, you know, every time a load was done, like, oh, you know, you just forget, I guess. I don't know why he didn't know, he.

[Scott Aukerman]

I. I guess every time he went to, like, his soccer underwear drawer, he was like, oh, wow, Atsko did some laundry.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right? But it was him.

[Scott Aukerman]

But it was him the entire time. Yeah, this is like a sick, twisted Alfred Hitchcock movie or. Or something from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right, fellow Asian. Happy Aapa Heritage Month. Actually, when this is out, it's not May.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it'll be June by then, but we can still watch Trap and celebrate for sure.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And thank you for having me in my month.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's right. By the way, I think I.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Side note, Side note, if the booking.

[Scott Aukerman]

Holds up, we have female guests in our A block the entire month of June. So I'm calling you all my June brides.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, good.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

By pride parade. Bride, Pride. Bye, pride month.

[Scott Aukerman]

Bride month.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Bride month. Bye bride month. I mean, hi, bride month. Bye, pride month.

[Scott Aukerman]

Bye, bride month. High bride month. I need. This is a T shirt. See, this is why you're the co host here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

See? Come on.

[Scott Aukerman]

We're thinking of T shirt ideas already. I love this.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right. First time and last time. First timer, last timer.

[Scott Aukerman]

We. By the way, you do have to do it's. It's a lot like paying rent where you pay first month. Last month, you have to do your first appearance. Last appearance. So we're gonna do your last appearance right after this one, if that's okay.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, no problem. Yes, I'm.

[Scott Aukerman]

Unless you call it right now. And this is your last appearance.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow, that. That was trippy. I'm gonna have to think about that one.

[Scott Aukerman]

Think about it for a bit.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Don't take two months like your friend with a coconut.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I need you to talk for the rest of the show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

By the way, they're divorced now that.

[Scott Aukerman]

I. Yeah, I. I think if anyone didn't talk to me for two months, I. I would think divorce is in the cards.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

She told him, you have two months to think about this. That's what happened. So she did make the boundaries.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, he could have thought about it while still engaging her in conversation about other things.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, sweetie, he has no. No thoughts.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's true.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

About things.

[Scott Aukerman]

He was the coconut.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Speaking of father, you mentioned this in your special, and I find this story about you very fascinating. And we don't have to go into the depressing, this American life version of it. But you. You were. You were born in Japan.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I was born in Taiwan.

[Scott Aukerman]

You were born in Taiwan but lived in Japan, and now you live here. And I know people Relocate all the time. But there's an interesting story about why you are here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right? Right. My grandma brought me here on a two month vacation. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Took me away from my dad, who I was living with.

[Scott Aukerman]

And he had custody.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right. In Japan.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And that, I mean, we could bring up the, this American life aspect because it was Ira Glass that helped me figure it out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes. He heard your act and he. He reached out to you and said like, hey, have you ever digged deeper into this? Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. And I said, yeah. And I joked that it's never good when Ira Glass reaches out to you. You never want to do this American life because that means your life was bad. That means something bad. Just like you never want to be an inspiration. You never want to make the news. You know what I mean? That's not good. That's not. Oh, look, I'm an inspiration. No, sweetie, that's how we know who Malala is. Okay. No. So, yeah. So I was like, okay, sure. And then he was like, let's figure it out. It would be technically a kidnapping if your dad had custody of you. And I didn't know if he did.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. And so. And when you, when you investigated this, you found he did have custody of you and your grandmother essentially brought you to America on vacation and then never took you back.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right? Right. Yeah. And Iris said, I looked up the rules with California. You could still technically press charges. Oh, okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, that's wonderful. Have you ever held that over your grandmother's head?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

My 91 year old grandma?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, she's my best friend. You know, oftentimes your best friend is your villain in your life.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You know?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Well, you've undergone major experiences with them for good or for bad. And so that brings people closer.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, totally. Yeah. And so, you know, so that's. Yeah, that's how I got here. That's how I got to be your co host.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's amazing. What an incredible story. From Taiwan to Tokyo to California to right here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right here. And where are we?

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't want to give away my assassination coordinates necessarily, but. But it's. It's an incredible story and it's. You can hear that episode of. I mean, don't stop this podcast to go listen to it. But like, if you ever have a free half hour or whatever, I don't know, I would just go back to the Comedy Bang Bang archives over on CBB World. You know what, Nevermind.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You can listen to it after this.

[Scott Aukerman]

You got the gist, right? I don't want people switching over to another show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, no, after this. After this.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know, but they could just listen to older episodes of this show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's true. You're right. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

As my co host, I need you to be. To be pimping this show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You heard the whole story here on this. Not this American Life. Where are we on this American. Bang bang. We are all American. What? Where? What were we talking about?

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't really know, but I do.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Know that Bang bang first.

[Scott Aukerman]

Bang bang first. Yes. Your special father is out there right now. It's very, very funny. If you've never seen Atsuko's stand up comedy, you're one of the best out there. And who are the other people in this hilarity slate? Who are you sharing the airwaves with?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, the first year is like Bill Burr, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, Ilana Glazer, Frankie Canones. Wow. Who am I work for? Hilarious or something? Actually, I do know you work here now. I do work here now.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. And I don't like you moonlighting over there for Hulu.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I was. I was trying to show off my memory. See, no coconuts here, no coconuts near my head. I remember everything. And so those are some of the people. And then I. You can watch it internationally on Disney too.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's right. Yeah. If you've ever been in another country and you're like, wow, let me check out Hulu. Nope, not going to happen. It's all Disney plus over there.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. As an international comedian. As an international girl, myself. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you're rubbing shoulders with the likes of Mickey and Minnie Mouse themselves.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, my gosh. I went to Disneyland recently. I did the whole VIP tour because I'm part of the Disney family.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's amazing. Did you get to see the gravestones in back of the Haunted Mansion?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, no, I didn't do that. Actually. The Haunted Mansion was, like, closed that day.

[Scott Aukerman]

What?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It had broken down a lot of breakdowns that day, to be honest.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, my gosh. We did the. What is formerly Splash Mountain, now it's Tiana's Bayou. Oh, that log ride. You know, you fall in the end. Not fall, but you. You do the drop in the end. Splish splash.

[Scott Aukerman]

Typical flume ride. Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, so fun. You're screaming.

[Scott Aukerman]

Ah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And then boom. We get stuck.

[Scott Aukerman]

No. On the way down or.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So we already came down. And then it's like you're on this high and then. And you're wet, you're drenched.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And then boom.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then you're just sitting there. How long were you sitting there for?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Like, I think like, almost an hour.

[Scott Aukerman]

An hour. Just sitting there in the hot sun in a flume.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So we were outdoors, and then suddenly a crowd forms, and I just hear, there she is. It's Atsuko. Hey, it's her. And so they start videotaping me, and people are taking photos, and the logs behind us get rescued first. So they're walking past us. Some of them are like, oh, my God, Hatsuko.

[David Fricke]

Oh, hi.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I love your comedy. And some of them, like, were like, do you mind? And I was like, I guess I'm stuck.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you're forced to take selfies.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So they did selfies with me drenched in the log, stuck with my six gay best friends.

[Scott Aukerman]

I guess you've never done selfies when you're all wet before, so that's unique, right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. I mean, I was like, is this what. I guess that's how Santa feels.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I guess.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

At the mall. That's why there's a wall behind him.

[Scott Aukerman]

I guess he's not wet. Would be the one major difference between.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sometimes when a baby pees.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's a good point. See, what you're here to say is Disneyland is a dilapidated, rundown piece of shit now. Is that what you're saying?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I'm just saying that sometimes things break down. By the way, that's a good time to ask for a selfie with your favorite celebrity.

[Scott Aukerman]

I do want to say this. I've been on this ride many times. Not when it's Tiana.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Who?

[Scott Aukerman]

It is Tiana's Bayou. Is that what it's now?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes, you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I've only been on Splash Mountain because. That's the politics.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. No.

[Scott Aukerman]

Aligned with.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We know where you. We know where you stand. But, yeah, Bride month. We know where you stand.

[Scott Aukerman]

I did play Brer Fox when I worked at Disneyland when I was 17 years old, so that if that gives you any glimpse into my life. But I. I've ridden that ride many times. You can just, like, stand up and get off of it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We tried. I got up and they were like, no, we're watching you. Sit back down. What do you mean, so what?

[Scott Aukerman]

So what? Just get up and then leave? I wouldn't. I wouldn't stay there for an hour. Now I was trapped on the Jurassic park ride in Universal Studios, but I was on my way up the big. The log flume thing, so I couldn't get off. But. But I. But if I was just sitting there in the. In the moat at the End I would just stand up and walk away.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Look, we tried, but, you know, we. Safety first.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you're a rule follower.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, a little bit, yeah. When you're the bride, you're the bride.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, the June bride.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. When you're the June bar, do you follow rules?

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, it's a great stand up special. And how many do you have now? Do you have three out or two?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

The first one was with hbo. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And what happened with hbo? They were.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I could have done it with them, but I wanted it to come out sooner. So with HBO would have been 20, 26. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

This doesn't make any sense.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And it's like, I don't know, I might be dead.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Am I?

[Scott Aukerman]

Exactly. You don't want to be a posthumous special, sweetie.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What?

[Scott Aukerman]

You don't want it to be a posthumous special.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's how you say that word.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I've been saying it different.

[Scott Aukerman]

Post. Post hum.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Post humorous.

[Scott Aukerman]

Post humorous.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Post hilarious. That's. I thought it was that.

[Scott Aukerman]

We don't want to be at a post hilarious age when. When Hulu doesn't have their slate of comedians.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, I thought it was post hilarious.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, it's a great special. Father is out right now. We need to take a break. When we come back, we have a writer here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yay.

[Scott Aukerman]

We also have a spokesperson. Oh, this is very exciting. This is a great show. I'm so glad you're here. Up the slack and take over the reins of the show here.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I love writers and spokespeople. Come on.

[Scott Aukerman]

One of my June brides is here. Asco Okotka is here. Father is the special Hulu out right now? We're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll have more comedy Bang bang right after this.

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[Atsuko Okatsuka]

My favorite joke? Oh, gosh. Well, I. I defend the live laugh love sign in it and you know, and I just talk about how like, it's so easy to do that. You know, everyone's like, oh, you're so basic. It's like, oh. But it's like, you know, if you've lived life, life is hard, you know?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

As adults, we. We don't have anyone being like, that was good. That was really good for even just for just existing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. We have to be our own cheerleaders.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's why we buy necklaces with our own names on it. Right? That's right. Why do you do that? So that we could be like, what's that spell? Jennifer. That's me. That's me. I matter.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, you also have a great chunk about. Were you actually a cheerleader or.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I was. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. The concept of cheerleading is very funny.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, right. That's True.

[Scott Aukerman]

Because it's a sport based on another sport.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's the only sport where you're supporting another sport.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That people are actually there to see.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's. We are overlooked as cheerleaders. Right. And like, our only job is to really just scream manifestations and wishes. We have no say in the game. We're not playing it. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You have no effect on it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, but we're just like, you go get the ball. Hope you get the ball.

[Scott Aukerman]

Please get the ball.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You know what I mean?

[Scott Aukerman]

Now which sport is that? Hoping to get the ball? Because are there other sports where you hope you don't get the ball? Like a keep away kind of sport.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I mean, that's how I've played sports.

[Scott Aukerman]

Would. Would basketball be better if you didn't want the ball?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's called dodgeball, sweetie.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, dodgeball. Thank you, basketball. But where you don't want the ball is dodgeball.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, that's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

And no one ever wants to put it through a hoop or anything.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, wonderful. Father is out right now. Let's get to our next guest. I wonder if he's a father.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Let's ask.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, let's ask him. He is a writer for, I believe, Rolling Stone. Is that correct?

[David Fricke]

Yes. Writer for Rolling Stone, the magazine. The magazine.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not the band, the Rolling Stones.

[David Fricke]

No, no relation to. You don't write their Rolling Stones? No, I don't write anything.

[Scott Aukerman]

Although if you had written I Can't get no Satisfaction. Like, can you imagine the royalty checks that would be piling up?

[David Fricke]

Let's just say they'd be a wealthy man.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Please welcome David Frick.

[David Fricke]

Hey, everybody.

[Scott Aukerman]

That is a great way of putting it. By the way, when you say, let's just say you'd be a wealthy man, just say. Not a lot of nuance.

[David Fricke]

No, there's not.

[Scott Aukerman]

Usually when people say, let's just say, it's leaving something to the imagination. But you just said, let's just say. And then you said exactly. What would have happened?

[David Fricke]

Well, you know, for years I was an editor at Rolling Stone, which is a magazine that some people like to read, I guess, about rock music.

[Scott Aukerman]

Rock and roll, some people.

[David Fricke]

Rock and roll. Call it whatever you want to call it. Rock, heavy rock.

[Scott Aukerman]

Have you ever read Rolling Stone?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I have, yeah. My. My friend was written up recently in it, Mike Birbiglia. But you said you don't write there anymore, so that wasn't you.

[David Fricke]

You know, I still contribute from time to time, but my time at Rolling Stone has sort of that Chap. My life. I. Is closed, but I still feel a connection to the. To the editorial voice, which, you know, let's just say I helped create it, you know, for whatever the current iteration is, you know, so you say. So much of my. Yeah. My voice, I think, has made it, you know, I would hope that it's made an impact.

[Scott Aukerman]

You say that chapter of your life is closed. I would say that's a big chapter. Like, it's most of your life. Have you ever read a book where, like, there's a really tiny chapter about, like, oh, I grew up here, and I went to school here. And then a giant. Giant chapter about your. What you did for a living. And then, like, a little tiny chapter at the end where it was like. And then I died.

[David Fricke]

I. You know, there are some. There are some books of Richard Brodigan's poetry that. That follow structures similar to that. Trout fishing in America comes to mind.

[Scott Aukerman]

I. I have to confess. Let's just say I haven't read it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

The Giving Tree comes to mind.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah.

[David Fricke]

Giving Tree. Shel Silverstein.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

A singer songwriter in his own right who collaborated with Johnny Cash on a seminal novelty song, A Boy Named Sue.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did they write that together or.

[David Fricke]

It's called A Boy Named Sue.

[Scott Aukerman]

A Boy Named sue, yeah. Which is a very funny song when you listen to it because you. The popular.

[David Fricke]

Funny.

[Scott Aukerman]

The popular version of it, I believe, was recorded at a prison or something.

[David Fricke]

And it's recorded at a prison. Listen. Okay, I'm Johnny Cash. I want to sing music for real people. I'm a country musician. I want to make music that reaches the people that correspond to the characters in my songs. Where do I go? I can either go into a recording booth.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[David Fricke]

I can record for some dope, you know, behind some bulletproof glasses.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is it usually in a recording studio?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I guess. I mean, yeah. Things. Things get wild.

[Scott Aukerman]

I guess they. I don't. I guess things get wild, but I never knew it was actually bulletproof.

[David Fricke]

Things can get wild in. In recording studios. I mean, Phil Spector comes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Gang rivalries.

[Scott Aukerman]

Painting. One genre.

[David Fricke]

West Coast.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I didn't even say. Which one are you thinking of? You're the one that likes Song of the South. Sorry, back. Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Back to you, David.

[David Fricke]

Okay. I'm trying.

[Scott Aukerman]

I feel like I'm an anchor right now. Back to you, David.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But you make a good point. Yes. Where do you want to record?

[David Fricke]

You do sound like an anchor when you do that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Thank you so much.

[David Fricke]

There's something really funny there.

[Scott Aukerman]

There's. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. That's nice. It's nice to get a compliment from someone you respect. I'm a big fan of your writing.

[David Fricke]

Oh, thank you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Which is why I wanted to have you on the show.

[David Fricke]

Well, thanks.

[Scott Aukerman]

You wrote profiles of musicians?

[David Fricke]

Features. Mostly profiles. I went on the road with every, you know, the Black Crows from, from the Counting Crows to the Black Crows, the Black Crows to, you know, I, I, I wrote something recently for. I, I think maybe it was Defector or something like that. The Guardian about Lizo.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Cool.

[David Fricke]

She's a fabulous musician.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Okay. I'm Lizzo. It's 2025. I want to record some music that reflects who I've grown to as an artist.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[David Fricke]

You know, I get out a legal pad or something like that. Right, Sure.

[Scott Aukerman]

I get maybe, maybe a notes app.

[David Fricke]

Maybe it's on a notes app on an iPad or something like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

And what do I write?

[Scott Aukerman]

Maybe it's like, you know, that, that scratch paper that real estate like century 21 would, like, drop off at your house sometimes you keep by the phone so that you could write down.

[David Fricke]

It could be that. It could be the century 21.

[Scott Aukerman]

Hey, dad, you know, I'm trying to think of a name other than Lizzo.

[David Fricke]

It's okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Hey, Kate called.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Kate. Yeah, we love Kate.

[David Fricke]

When you hear a name like that, it gets stuck in your head.

[Scott Aukerman]

I was gonna say Liz, and I was like, this is too close to Lizzo.

[David Fricke]

I suppose that, you know, your job as a comedian, you'd want to walk away from a reference that you'd heard only moments before. Probably because you'd want to show some dexterity or agility.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, you're really getting into my head here.

[David Fricke]

An element of alacrity, too, to what you do, especially with your reference points.

[Scott Aukerman]

But unfortunately, I was, I, I was. Didn't have the ability to do that.

[David Fricke]

No worries.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You said Kate. Kate was different.

[Scott Aukerman]

It was good. Yeah. I, I was thinking, I think, I.

[David Fricke]

Think that was a good choice.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, look, it's the letter right next to L, though.

[David Fricke]

Okay, listen, hey, here's what it is.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not that far afield.

[David Fricke]

Let's put it this way. I'm Scott Aukerman. Yeah, I'm a podcaster. I mean, I want to make people laugh.

[Scott Aukerman]

So a tv, TV star, writer, movie director, podcaster is like, way down at the bottom. And by the way, I'm on my way out. ATSCO has taken over.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[David Fricke]

Okay.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes.

[David Fricke]

It's gonna be you next. So you're the one with the crosshairs on you now.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Possibly. I didn't say yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

I heard a yes. I mean, it was implicit.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, I think. Yeah.

[David Fricke]

You know, hey, this might be a good pivot for you.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It could, it could. Yeah.

[David Fricke]

I'm looking at, you know, what you've already achieved in this business, which is so fickle. And, and you know, the wins are.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Always changing and that's your last name too.

[Scott Aukerman]

Frick is.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, sorry, did you think it was. I forget. I thought it was something fic, but it's Frick.

[David Fricke]

It's Frick.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you thought it was David Frickle?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, yeah. David Frickle.

[Scott Aukerman]

Frick.

[David Fricke]

I'm Otsuko.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're having another quibbly situation.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I know, I know.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's not Frickle. It's just Frick.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's so hard juggling three different languages.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's like when you want to say the word and not to be indelicate, but.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[David Fricke]

Please.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

The fu word.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, the fuck yeah. But, but instead of saying it in polite society, you just say David Frick. Yeah, yeah, David Frick.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That kind of Frick.

[Scott Aukerman]

This David Frickin guy over here.

[David Fricke]

You know, I went and saw the Bee Gees in Salt Lake City in 1982.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[David Fricke]

I happen to be writing a piece.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He writes, he has to write about.

[Scott Aukerman]

But this is like past their prime.

[David Fricke]

Well, are you telling me that how deep is your Love? Isn't How Deep Is your Love one of the most beautiful ballads?

[Scott Aukerman]

It's gorgeous. And if they were still playing it in 82, that's a wonderful experience to go see them here.

[David Fricke]

Well, it wasn't very long since they had recorded.

[Scott Aukerman]

They'd recorded it probably five years previous, so they probably were still singing it live. Sure.

[David Fricke]

Of course.

[Scott Aukerman]

I would love to see the B G sing How Deep Is yous Love.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

See, and that's why David was there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Would I be still writing about them for Rolling Stone? I don't know.

[David Fricke]

You know the Mormons in Salt Lake City?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, don't let Scott talk you down, okay? I see what you do. You, you, you get in people's heads.

[Scott Aukerman]

I, I look, I mean, yeah, you.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You make them question.

[David Fricke]

You guys move fast. It's hard to keep up.

[Scott Aukerman]

I understand, but what were you going to say about Salt Lake City?

[David Fricke]

Well, I was going to say that in Salt Lake City, you know, these are people that they're not drinking, right. Coffee. They're not even drinking decaf coffee, you know, no sodas, no Coke, no, no Coke. Nothing, you know, that has any.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not a single luxury.

[David Fricke]

It's all, you know, it's all dope to them.

[Scott Aukerman]

Exactly.

[David Fricke]

You know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it's all forbidden.

[David Fricke]

It's all.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, yeah, just food.

[David Fricke]

Even four letter words like, you know. Yeah, they're. They're not comfortable saying those words.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

What do they say instead? They say frick. Okay. I'm a Mormon, right. I'm living in Salt Lake City. I've been, you know, led here by Joseph smith. It's the 1800s, you know, I'm digging. I'm walking 20ft from my tent and digging a hole to evacuate my bowels.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is that every, every time you want to do it, I would just keep a hole open and keep it maybe 40ft away?

[David Fricke]

No, it's a new hole.

[Scott Aukerman]

A new hole every time.

[David Fricke]

A new hole every time. These are people that are.

[Scott Aukerman]

So there's a shovel by the door basically of like anytime you want to go take a pee, you could just go dig a new hole.

[David Fricke]

I would imagine that they have their implements that they use for gardening, for agriculture.

[Scott Aukerman]

They ever mix them up, do you think?

[David Fricke]

And probably the shit shovel, right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, you mean the tools or the holes?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, either, I guess. Can you imagine shitting where you're literally shitting where you eat on your wheat crop or something? I don't know.

[David Fricke]

Perhaps. I don't really know what they grow out there. Yeah, I don't spend a lot of time out there.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why did, why, why did you bring it up?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Because he was there to watch the.

[David Fricke]

Band play when I was there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

I heard someone and I could sense on their lips that they wanted to say the word, right? And what came out of their lips was Frick. And I just thought that that was. Not only was that sort of a convergence, you know, that I ended up being a part of with my surname being Frick. I also just found it interesting that these people, not only can they not have a, I don't know, a Frappuccino, right. But they can't even let this silly little word, you know, what is it? It. You know, it's four letters, right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So that's where you, you took that last name from that trip.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, I believe your name was already.

[David Fricke]

My name was already.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, I see.

[David Fricke]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

He thought it was a.

[David Fricke]

Quite a coincidence I found the experience novel because.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Thank you. I need that translation. This isn't my first.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, yeah. It aligned with a Mormon substitution, you know.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So that, that was fun to watch the beat.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You felt seen. You felt seen.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, it wasn't fun.

[David Fricke]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

What was going on with the Bee Gees?

[David Fricke]

No, I like how deep is your love, but I don't like any of that other stuff.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

When did they play how deep is your love? Was it pretty late?

[David Fricke]

It was pretty early.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you had to stay the entire. Why? Why not? Again, this is my question. Just get out of the flume and walk away.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, when you have a job to.

[David Fricke]

Do, like I had a job to do.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. When you have a job to. Like I do now with being co host.

[Scott Aukerman]

With being co host.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

And you're doing a great job.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You gotta stay.

[David Fricke]

You're doing a great job. I think this is something that you should. You should really think about. Right. Because you're at a crossroads in your career. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not the kind of crossroads that Ralph Macchio was in, right. Where he's like, goes down and Satan comes out and tries to battle him on the guitar or whatever.

[David Fricke]

Ralph Macchio.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wasn't he in that movie Crossroads?

[David Fricke]

Karate Kid.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, the Karate Kid himself. Yes.

[David Fricke]

It's been a few years since I saw that one, Scott.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, well, you can always re. Watch to know better about what I'm talking about.

[David Fricke]

I suppose. So I guess, you know what you could do.

[Scott Aukerman]

Scott hasn't seen with me.

[David Fricke]

I'll come back if, you know, if this. If the subreddit responds to this for.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sure, we'll see how that turns out.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Crossroads.

[David Fricke]

I don't know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, but couldn't you. I guess my question is, couldn't you have left the concert early and then written whatever and everyone, like, who's gonna dispute it? It's true, you know, you know, their goddamn brotherly minds.

[David Fricke]

It's not just my job to drag somebody through the mud, you know, it's my job to try to elevate this music, you know, to.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you.

[David Fricke]

A degree that you learn from it. I don't like any of it.

[Scott Aukerman]

What? Who do you like? Like, who are your favorite musicians? Like, name your favorite song.

[David Fricke]

Come now found.

[Scott Aukerman]

Come, come now fount.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Come thou found What Come thou foul. Oh, is that like a Bible?

[David Fricke]

Presbyterian hymn?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's a church song.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wait, I might. I went to church. Can you sing it? Maybe I can join.

[Scott Aukerman]

Maybe I'll understand. I might know the title of it if you say, you know what?

[David Fricke]

I'll leave the. I'll leave the singing to, you know, the professionals or whatever.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Come thou felt, Come thou found.

[David Fricke]

Of every blessing. You know that song?

[Scott Aukerman]

I. I have to confess, I don't.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We didn't sing that one in church.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I don't. I don't Think I ever seen.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We did like, the classics, right? Like how great Thou art, or like awesome God.

[Scott Aukerman]

Awesome God. How did that one go, Right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's like, you're awesome God kind of. Yeah. Our God is an awesome God. It was like a surfer wrote it. Our God is an awesome God.

[Scott Aukerman]

He hangs 10 on the universe, kind of.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, that's how that one went.

[David Fricke]

It's not how it goes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sorry. I'm just trying to figure out, though, what. I mean, you write about music for a living.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You seem to hate.

[David Fricke]

Look, okay, look, look, look, look. I'm Paul McCartney. The Beatles are done. You know, I'm sort of looking around my studio. I'm thinking, you know, what's next for me, what do I like to do? Play music with my friends. I. I get a couple keyboards together. Maybe my wife plays one of the keyboards. We start knocking around some of the demos. What do we end up with? We end up with a band. What is that band called? The band is called Wings.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so all you did was take the literal history and then put it in the first person where you. You were saying you were Paul McCartney.

[David Fricke]

You're not getting it. It's fine. Okay, what is a record, right? What is a record?

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, I mean, if you're talking about an actual vinyl record, it's a hunk of plastic. Yeah, vinyl, but.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, maybe encased in some piece of cardboard. You know, this hunk of cardboard that some, you know, studio executive in a tower somewhere, you know, with the gold plated cell phone. You know, that guy, whatever he cooks up, you know, that's not the record. The record is the sounds that you're hearing. How do you hear those sounds? You get a stylus. You. You put it on the record and you let it fall into the grooves and music comes out. And if you don't get that, you know, I just think that that sucks.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

If your. Stitch. I just saw Lilo and Stitch, you can put the. Stitch puts his finger on it and it opens his mouth and it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Cause it's like a sharp fingernail.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. And it plays in his mouth.

[David Fricke]

You know, he did that.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He tried it, but.

[Scott Aukerman]

David, shut up for a second. Is the whole movie like that? Is it funny like that?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, I mean, that's just one scene. That's the preview. That's a preview.

[Scott Aukerman]

There's other scenes that are that funny.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

I gotta see this.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You gotta run. You better take your.

[Scott Aukerman]

You see the.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

David, you gotta take your daughter. Hiding legs. Hiding extra legs.

[Scott Aukerman]

Does he put his fingernail on anything else?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I mean, I'm not gonna spoil. I mean, just because this is the.

[Scott Aukerman]

Kind of humor I like, is like people or creatures putting their fingernails down.

[David Fricke]

He's an alien. He's an alien.

[Scott Aukerman]

He's an alien. Yeah. So anything then?

[David Fricke]

And even more specifically, he's a genetic. He's a genetic experiment.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's right. That's why they're trying to recreate.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right. They're trying to take him back.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, yeah, because he's a. He's some sort of.

[David Fricke]

Well, he shouldn't be on Earth. He should. He shouldn't have gotten mixed up with Lilo in the first place.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[David Fricke]

That was an aberration.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you interview Lilo too?

[David Fricke]

They're not speaking to each other.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What? Wow, that's. That's huge.

[David Fricke]

They haven't spoken in years.

[Scott Aukerman]

This is huge news.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Because they had to act in the most recent movie together.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did they do scenes together or was it all like composite scenes?

[David Fricke]

Scenes. It's a shame, you know, it was kind of like. Have you seen Heat?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. The. Robert De Niro, you know, were there.

[David Fricke]

At Kate Mantalini's, famously, you know, they didn't face each other.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, they weren't there at the same time.

[David Fricke]

Weren't there at the same time?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Or Parent Trap. Have you seen it? So Lindsay and the other Lindsay not there at the same time too? Kind of like that.

[Scott Aukerman]

I haven't seen that one. I saw the Haley Mills version.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay. Oh, yeah. But either way.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, either way.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Both weren't there at the same time, so.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. So Lindsay Lohan was. Was she at Kate Mantalini restaurant? Like they were in Heat.

[David Fricke]

What's interesting is that she was. She was actually there as an eyeliner to serve as an eyeliner in principal photography.

[Scott Aukerman]

Lindsay Lohan was there during Heat.

[David Fricke]

Robert De Niro was there sitting across the table from an off camera Lindsay Lohan.

[Scott Aukerman]

This is the. Okay, see, you're a film guy. This is fascinating.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

More like. Yeah. Roger and Ebert.

[David Fricke]

I don't know if you've.

[Scott Aukerman]

Roger and Ebert.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

I don't know if you've cracked open a Rolling Stone recently, but there's information in there about films as well.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why would I have cracked open a Rolling Stone lately? I mean, Prince is a dying medium. You guys talk about the most antiquated. You know, you're worse than Adam Scott and I talking about, you know, dad Rock over here. You're still talking about the fucking Grateful Dead and shit like that.

[David Fricke]

I mean, well, the Dead is having a sort of Second Life, you know, Gen Z, Gen Alpha are embracing jam bands.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[David Fricke]

At a rate.

[Scott Aukerman]

David, I don't. I don't care.

[David Fricke]

And it's interesting what you bring up about print media. You know, Barnes and Noble has opened over 100 new stores in the last year.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, and how many have they closed?

[David Fricke]

They haven't closed any.

[Scott Aukerman]

They haven't closed a single store, David.

[David Fricke]

Romantic, only added Romantasy, has kind of revived what many people thought was a dying medium. A dying medium.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, that's fine. Okay. But I'm just saying, like, who buys Rolling Stone anymore? You should be glad you don't work there. You hate music.

[David Fricke]

I like music.

[Scott Aukerman]

What, you like one song? One hymn?

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

I just. I worry about you, David, because. How old are you? You're.

[David Fricke]

I'm. 300. 356.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Because y' all were really keeping up with the references. I was like, oh, I was such a baby. I wasn't even born. You know, some of the things you guys were talking about.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But it's okay.

[David Fricke]

You don't have to understand everything, you know, It's. It. Ultimately, you just need to be as authentic as possible to yourself as an artist. Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Are you that authentic? You're writing about bands you hate?

[David Fricke]

Well, I'm a critic, you know, I.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, but you're not. When you write Profile, you're not criticizing them. You're just writing these glowing. Like, what did you write about the Bee Gees?

[David Fricke]

That night I said, you know, I show up. I'm looking around, you know, I'm David Frick.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm David Frick.

[David Fricke]

I'm a writer.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'm a writer. I've written for Rolling Stone. I know. I get the formula.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right? Right? Yeah. And what would you do? Your favorite song plays at the beginning. What would you do? Right.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your favorite song plays at the beginning.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You realize you have two more hours to go.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right. But then you never ask, like, what would you do? You just kind of say the thing and then that's over. You know what I mean? Because you always go, okay, so I'm the Beatles. And then that's like, we. We don't really. I don't know what the next thing is, really. Yeah, I guess the Wings.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wings was the next. Yeah, but what does David Frick do in this situation?

[David Fricke]

Well, you know, Paul McCartney started wings because the Beatles had achieved such a level of fame.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[David Fricke]

It would have been impossible to continue.

[Scott Aukerman]

Fuck cares?

[David Fricke]

Especially not touring.

[Scott Aukerman]

Who the fuck cares about the Beatles?

[David Fricke]

The Rolling Stones, then?

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't. Who Gives a shit about them.

[David Fricke]

Okay. I'm. I'm Charlie Watts. I've been drumming with the Rolling Stones.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're dead. And everyone Rolling Stone has ever written about is dead.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Who cares, David?

[David Fricke]

It's not true.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, they cover stand ups. I saw your favorite medium that you put in the middle.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, they cover stand ups as well.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay, look, see, they do other stuff.

[David Fricke]

Look, I'm Nikki Glaser.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Friend of the show. So be careful.

[David Fricke]

Sure. Okay. I want to perform stand up comedy. What do I need? I need jokes. Okay. How do I write?

[Scott Aukerman]

And a microphone.

[David Fricke]

And a microphone. Yeah, sure.

[Scott Aukerman]

And a stage usually, too.

[David Fricke]

Maybe that'll be provided by the venue, maybe it won't. I don't know.

[Scott Aukerman]

I bring my own. Every venue I go to, you bring.

[David Fricke]

Your own stage with you?

[Scott Aukerman]

Stage and microphone, just in case. Yeah, I keep the stage in the back because usually there is one.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But your overhead is high. That's why you no longer tour.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You lost money. You're always in the red, right?

[Scott Aukerman]

Of course. But I feel the fans deserve it.

[David Fricke]

You know, I do live talks. I Moderate Q&As with bands A lot. That's. That's primarily what I do now at this point in my career.

[Scott Aukerman]

That sounds cool. That sounds cool. Do you enjoy it?

[David Fricke]

It's cool. Well, I. You know, usually the venues provide the microphones. I'll bring the cords.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, you bring the cords.

[Scott Aukerman]

The microphone cords.

[David Fricke]

I'm bringing about 500 to 1,000ft of XLR.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Good.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, David, you sound cool.

[David Fricke]

I'll bring a guitar stand sometimes. Mostly I just bring a straight stand, you know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Hi. Do you play guitar during these talks? Why are you bringing.

[David Fricke]

No, because, you know, I'm sitting down in deep chairs talking to Don was. Or, you know, Michael, you could not.

[Scott Aukerman]

Pay me to go see one of your talks. Talking to Don was.

[David Fricke]

Well, what's wrong with talking to Don was? He recorded Walk the Dinosaur.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know. That was 1 million years ago when the real dinosaurs were around. Who the cares, David?

[David Fricke]

Here's my favorite songs. How deep is your love.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Boy named Sue.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Come that found of every.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Come thou found.

[David Fricke]

Walk the dinosaur. Walk the dinosaur. The Super Mario Brothers movie first.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, I don't know that one.

[David Fricke]

And then pretty much the entire discography of Bella Fleck.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. All right. Well, David, I'm glad you've landed on your feet, you know, now that you're not working for Rolling Stone magazine any longer.

[David Fricke]

I'm doing great.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're doing great. It sounds like it's and you're doing.

[David Fricke]

Great, too, by the way.

[Scott Aukerman]

I feel like I am doing great. I'm at least actively participating in a medium that young people care about. You know, I may not be one myself anymore any longer, but at least people. You know, this is a form of communication that young people enjoy.

[David Fricke]

Of course. Yeah. I mean, most kids these days, you know, are they listening to audiobooks? They listening to Moby Dick on their phones? Yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes.

[David Fricke]

Are they. Are they seeing.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know, I've often walked by teenagers and I can hear just the faint, like, Call me Ishmael coming out of the headphones.

[David Fricke]

What's interesting is that's not even the first line of the book.

[Scott Aukerman]

What? Okay, what is the first line?

[David Fricke]

Well, there's an entire preceding chapter about how badly this man likes to go out to the water.

[Scott Aukerman]

They should just cut it.

[David Fricke]

Maybe it should have been cut. Maybe it shouldn't have. That's not up to us. It's up to.

[Scott Aukerman]

I can cut it.

[David Fricke]

Herman Melville.

[Scott Aukerman]

I can tear it out of my book if I want to, can't I? I own the book. Right.

[David Fricke]

Something that's really interesting about Moby Dick.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's aging yourself. We just. You have the actual book.

[David Fricke]

Guys, can I say this real quick?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Something that's.

[David Fricke]

Something that's really interesting about Moby Dick. It's actually dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's not interesting about anything. It's not interesting about Moby Dick. It's not interesting about Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's not interesting about books. God damn it. You suck.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I think it's iconic. He interviewed Stitch. You had me as Stitch.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, David, I. Please, you have to stop talking. You suck so bad. But, hey, can you stick around?

[David Fricke]

I'm David Frick. I'm sitting here with Atsuka Okotka, Scott Aukerman. We're. We're getting into it. We're talking about what are the roots of artists.

[Scott Aukerman]

This isn't your show. This is me and Otsuko.

[David Fricke]

Where do we take it from here? So we'll be right back with more comedy.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, you're not throwing to commercial after this. We are doing it together. All right? So we have to take a break. We're going to come right back with more comedy Bang bang after this. Hi, Zoe Saldana. Welcome to T Mobile.

[David Fricke]

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[Scott Aukerman]

And here's my old phone to trade in.

[Ray Amanda]

You don't need a trade in when.

[Scott Aukerman]

You switch to T Mobile. We'll give you a new iPhone 16.

[David Fricke]

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[Scott Aukerman]

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[Ray Amanda]

Allow 15 days credits and inbounds due.

[Scott Aukerman]

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[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Thank you so much.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. You're gonna make another one.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes, I'm. I'm already touring with a new hour.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. And so we'll see where that ends up.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, maybe you've done1 to HBO. Why don't you just sell it to HBO right now? And then they say, well, we can't put it out till 2026. Oh, my God.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Brilliant. Yeah, I could.

[Scott Aukerman]

You should have just sold the one that you. That you did and then just do a new one for them and then.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Just go get ahead of it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Can I represent you?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes. Yeah, you manager. Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And then you do this show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

There's just. I'm just not seeing the benefit of doing this show yet. I know you, David, were both trying to. And you said there's no pay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it's.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And there's no snacks.

[Scott Aukerman]

There's no snacks either. Yeah.

[David Fricke]

I mean, it gets your name out there. It's exposure, and it. It plugs you into a social media experience.

[Scott Aukerman]

If you're giving it a thumbs up, then I'm really worried about it.

[David Fricke]

I'm having a fabulous.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

This is David's favorite thing. David likes nothing but this.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, you were rhapsodizing about you enjoying the show during the break.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's your demographic, sweetie.

[David Fricke]

I love the show.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Look into his eyes. That's your number one fan. Jesus.

[David Fricke]

I listen to every episode, you know?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, my God, I do. Please know.

[David Fricke]

Listen, you know, look, I'm adjacent Manzukas. You know, I'm a character.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you say adjacent Manzukas?

[David Fricke]

That's right. Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. He's a person who's been on the show several times, and Jason Manzuka is his neighbor.

[David Fricke]

I'm kind of, you know, I'm looking around, I'm thinking, what am I doing today? Maybe I've already mowed the lawn. Maybe I already took the trash to the curb. Whatever it was that I had to do. What do I want to do next? I want to come hang out with Scott, record an episode of Comedy Bang Bang.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

See, this is his dream. Come back.

[Scott Aukerman]

You just basically said nothing. And you've taken 60 of my Earth seconds to do it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I think the spokesperson is he. Okay.

[David Fricke]

Why do you measure things like Marvin the Martian?

[Scott Aukerman]

That's my business. All right. Do a profile on me someday.

[David Fricke]

That'd be the first thing I asked you if. If I do a Rolling Stone feature on.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'd love that.

[David Fricke]

You look great.

[Scott Aukerman]

You know what? I am a big fan of your writing.

[David Fricke]

Well, thank you.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not you personally at all or your speaking voice, but I would love for you to do a profile on me.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, I'd put you on the COVID sort of the way that, you know, we did with al Gore in 2000. You know, khaki pants, heather gray T shirt.

[Scott Aukerman]

You dress the people who are on the covers as well.

[David Fricke]

I do. You're the style of grooming, and you're.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like a clothes guy. That's what you're more.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I didn't know. Such a small production over there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sounds like. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Jan Winner and you. And that's about pretty much it.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow. Well, we. We have to get to someone with a business of their own.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right?

[Scott Aukerman]

That's okay.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

And he's been on the show once before. Out in. We were in. Was it Madison? Madison.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wisconsin.

[Scott Aukerman]

Madison, Wisconsin. He was on the show before. This is his first time here in studio with us. He is. Are you the owner and proprietor of.

[Ray Amanda]

Absolutely not.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, you're just the spokesperson.

[Ray Amanda]

I. The former spokesperson.

[Scott Aukerman]

Former spokesperson.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You got two people who are not even in their jobs anymore.

[Scott Aukerman]

I know. This is. I need you to help out with the booking as well.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh my God.

[Ray Amanda]

I'd love to get my job back.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Let's do that. Then there'll be a person in their job on the show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Let's introduce him. He is the former spokesperson for Maynards. Please welcome Ray's Amanda.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yay.

[Ray Amanda]

Thank you for that. Welcome, Scott. And thank you. I welcome you to save big money at Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

Thank you very much.

[Ray Amanda]

Pronounced Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. I've never seen one. I am about as interested in it as I am in what David is talking about over here.

[Ray Amanda]

You never stopped into one of our many locations around the Great Lakes area?

[Scott Aukerman]

I have not. On your tour last summer, two of Menards. No, I never went to it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What do they sell? Is it like fishing goods?

[Ray Amanda]

We sell fishing goods. Outdoor living, indoor decorations, home goods, Doors, windows, lighting fixtures, tools.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's like Dick, but it's Menards.

[Ray Amanda]

Menards.

[David Fricke]

I've been to a Menards. It's a fabulous store.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, if Stitch is breaking things a lot, I'd recommend picking up a six pack of push brooms. Four for 9.92.

[David Fricke]

That's a great deal.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow. They have everything. Do you have like a food court or anything? I love food.

[Ray Amanda]

So we have prepackaged foods up by the register. You can get popcorn balls.

[Scott Aukerman]

Did you bring any peanut butter Taffy? Let's go. Is very hungry right now. And if you brought some with, I mean, you know, how much would you pay for food right now?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Whatever you said, it's.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, he's talking about brooms.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Would you eat a broom?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Everything sounds very affordable there. So far I hear 4.99. I hear bundles.

[Scott Aukerman]

How? How?

[Ray Amanda]

We have five pound bags of trail mix with cashews and M and M substitutes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, now he's making me hungry.

[Ray Amanda]

Two bucks a pound at 8:30 in the morning.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, guys. One. One pound? Why do I need six?

[Ray Amanda]

Sold in five pound bags.

[Scott Aukerman]

Can I just buy one push broom?

[Ray Amanda]

You can buy four packs of six.

[Scott Aukerman]

Four packs of. That's 24 brooms.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

If that's what you need for brooms.

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't need that.

[Ray Amanda]

Only at Menards.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

For brooms, I need maybe one broom. Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

How many brooms do you have in your house?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

One that it's barely hanging on. Yeah, I guess I do.

[Ray Amanda]

Yeah, but you need one broom to use one broom for when that one goes bad so you don't have to go to the store again. And the rest you can give away as housewarming gifts.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I guess that's true.

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't know that many people buying houses every year.

[Ray Amanda]

Not in this economy.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, but.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow, are you getting kind of political there, Ray?

[Ray Amanda]

Well, if you remember from our live show, I was considering running for mayor.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, that's right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Whatever happened?

[Ray Amanda]

Not mayor. Governor.

[Scott Aukerman]

Whoa. Even better. Whatever happened with that?

[Ray Amanda]

I was advised against it.

[Scott Aukerman]

By whom?

[Ray Amanda]

By all the people I contacted.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, dang.

[David Fricke]

Who'd you contact?

[Ray Amanda]

I contacted. Well, the. The mayor of Wausau. The mayor of Wa. I convened all the mayors of all the cities where we had locations. And I also, of course, consulted John Menard, the. The richest man in Wisconsin.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right. And they all said just a flat no.

[Ray Amanda]

The mayor of Wauwatosa said yes. The mayor of Wausau, Waukesha and Wapaka all said no.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. So it's like basically democracy rules there. If four people say no, they think.

[Ray Amanda]

It'S problematic that I'm dead.

[Scott Aukerman]

I forgot about that. Yeah. When we did the show together. You are dead.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right.

[Ray Amanda]

I died in 2018.

[Scott Aukerman]

And what happened there?

[Ray Amanda]

Complications from a fall.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, yeah. The way I always wanted to go. Did you fall out of a coconut tree?

[Ray Amanda]

No, just slipped. I was 91 years old. It's a gentle fall to the ground, but it eventually killed me.

[Scott Aukerman]

And how are you here right now?

[Ray Amanda]

I guess clawed my way out of hell.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow. The twists and turns.

[Scott Aukerman]

I. How is hell, by the way?

[Ray Amanda]

Well, I'm not sure. We. By the end of that show, we weren't sure if I had clawed my way out of hell or if I had just emerged from my Y2K bunker.

[Scott Aukerman]

And we never found. You personally never figured this out?

[Ray Amanda]

I've not. Although I am reverse aging. I'm getting younger.

[Scott Aukerman]

So how old are you now?

[Ray Amanda]

I'm in my prime. I'm in my 70s.

[Scott Aukerman]

90S.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, he's like Benjamin Button.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. You're at a rapid clip. Too.

[Ray Amanda]

I'm thinking it's going to even out.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you died seven years ago, and you died at 91. You should be 84 at this point, right?

[Ray Amanda]

That's correct.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow. And when did you know you had a talent for selling stuff?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

Oh, I. This was an audition.

[Scott Aukerman]

Were you an actor?

[Ray Amanda]

Simple. I was a broadcaster. Oh, an announcer. Local announcer. I announced. I went around to the high schools around Wisconsin, where I'm from, and I. I officiated the donkey basketball games.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are the rules on that? Is that one where you don't want the ball?

[Ray Amanda]

No, you do want the ball, but you also have to be on a donkey to be able to. That. That substitutes dribbling.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you can hold the ball while.

[Ray Amanda]

While the donkey's moving.

[Scott Aukerman]

The donkey's traveling, though. Is that right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Ray Amanda]

Correct. But if you're on a donkey, that substitutes for dribbling.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so then basically you're on a donkey. What if you step off the donkey? Like Atsko should have stepped off of the flume ride. Right. Does that make sense?

[Ray Amanda]

Quite often people are.

[Scott Aukerman]

Do you get penalized?

[Ray Amanda]

The referees are very little listened to during a donkey basketball game.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you were officiating these?

[Ray Amanda]

I was doing the announcing.

[Scott Aukerman]

You were? Oh, I see. Okay.

[Ray Amanda]

And it was. A lot of. This is high school teachers versus local DJs in a basketball tournament involving donkeys.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. So all the teachers are on one team and all the DJs are on one team. Or do they mix it up?

[Ray Amanda]

They. It's mixed up.

[Scott Aukerman]

So like maybe if there's five people on one team, it's like three DJs, two teachers.

[Ray Amanda]

I don't know how many DJs they have.

[Scott Aukerman]

There's at least one DJ have. Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

One DJ per team. Okay, That's a good ratio.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's interesting, after you died, you kept like, your voice, your. Your. Your spokesperson voice. It's just that you die in that voice.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, this is my on camera performance voice.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, what's your regular voice?

[Ray Amanda]

I don't have a regular voice. I'm a very quiet person.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, so you're totally silent and then until you speak.

[Ray Amanda]

That's right. I take in my surroundings.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you're an introspective fellow.

[Ray Amanda]

I would say so. And so would my wife.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is your wife? Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

No, my wife is dead.

[Scott Aukerman]

She has not clawed her way, Max.

[Ray Amanda]

No, she's not. That also leads me to believe that it's not possible to come back from the dead.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so because she would to be with you. I believe so, okay.

[Ray Amanda]

And why, if not, she'd at least claw her way back to the land of living to save big money at Menards.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's true. Because the brooms. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. And why do you think you're aging in reverse? Because that's a. A unique new wrinkle.

[Ray Amanda]

Oh, I'm filled with vim and vigor.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Come on. The energy, the. The. The. He speaks from his diaphragm.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. I mean, I guess if we all just spoke from our diaphragms, we could maybe not age. Is that the key?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

It's not age. It's reverse aging.

[Scott Aukerman]

Reverse aging?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

My wardrobe is regressing.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, really?

[Ray Amanda]

When I died, I wore a classic deep V neck sweater with a tie.

[Scott Aukerman]

How deep?

[Ray Amanda]

All the way down to my sternum, right around my xiphoid process.

[Scott Aukerman]

Too deep?

[Ray Amanda]

It's pretty deep.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, that's.

[Ray Amanda]

You can see my whole pocket of my shirt.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you had a shirt underneath?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes.

[Ray Amanda]

With a tie.

[David Fricke]

Oh, yes.

[Ray Amanda]

Before that, I was wearing what I'm wearing now. A blue polo shirt.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so your clothes are reversing. So eventually you'll get back down to short pants and diapers.

[Ray Amanda]

I'm not sure. I'm not sure the rules of this.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Do you think that you'll. You're gonna live another 84 years until finally you're just a baby now? Or could you be hit by a bus? That was. The thing about Benjamin Button is, like, oh, wow, he's aging backwards. Like, what if he got hit by a bus when he was 79?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's. That's Joe Black.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, that's me, Joe Black, inflating Brad Pitt.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You ever interview Brad Pitt?

[David Fricke]

I did. Yeah. Actually, yes. Oh. For once upon a time in Hollywood. It was fairly recently.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow. Recently.

[Scott Aukerman]

How was it?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

How is it?

[David Fricke]

I don't know. It was a hot day. I hadn't really eaten enough. I. I needed some still water.

[Scott Aukerman]

God, I'm so sorry I asked you.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

About this hot day.

[Ray Amanda]

We have hot savings at our location in Stillwater, Minnesota.

[David Fricke]

It's one that I've been to before. Stillwater's a great tone.

[Ray Amanda]

It's fantastic. We have candy corn available all year long. So you're only at Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're still keeping keeping up with the prices at Menards?

[Ray Amanda]

I have sticker shock.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So the prices, do they change? Did they change over the years? They must have, right?

[Scott Aukerman]

Are these the prices that you remember?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

These are good prices.

[Ray Amanda]

They are. I would sell you a pillow window for 682 a foot. Meanwhile, if you Go into a store. Now, they're prefabricated, 6.92 an inch.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

So they did change. I don't know what these are.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Probably because the tariffs, you know, you gotta change because I said $2 per. I forget the math. Something about 10 for 2 inch.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are you even talking about?

[Ray Amanda]

Thompson lighting fixtures. Shed a little light on your paycheck by providing big savings at Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's the reason to buy these is so that you can look at your paycheck.

[Ray Amanda]

Big money.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

Invite quality into your life.

[Scott Aukerman]

Scott, wouldn't your paycheck already, like, have a fixed amount and then you would know. Never mind.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, you're gonna make those commissions stretch farther.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Is it commission? Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Did you get a commission? That's a good question, though. Did you get a commission for, like.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Everything you got to sell? Let's say I buy these brooms. What do you get now if you.

[Ray Amanda]

Buy a broom and you say that old Ray sent you, I get a nipple.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh.

[Ray Amanda]

I get $10,000 every time they open a new store.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Wow.

[Ray Amanda]

And I cut the ribbon.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, that's the deal.

[Ray Amanda]

Ray cuts the ribbons, Right?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Of course.

[Scott Aukerman]

So would they. Would they sort of try to kind of cheat you out of the $10,000 by not having you cut the ribbon or.

[Ray Amanda]

They would try.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. But you would always show up with scissors.

[Ray Amanda]

Correct. And I'd say, ribbon's already cut. Too late.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Too late. Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

I got here at four in the morning and cut the ribbon.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I love this spirit. You know, I do. As a former cheerleader, I can really relate to this idea of wanting to just, you know, sell, sell, sell, you know?

[Ray Amanda]

You know, I heard you say, I don't think that cheerleaders have nothing to do because football players feed off the energy of the crowd. And if you are leading those cheers, you are delivering energy, performance, power to those players.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Thank you so much. That's true. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Does it really work, though?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Although other countries don't have cheerleaders on my tour, I was cognizant of that.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right, so did you have to cut that entire chunk?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

No, I would tell them that. You know, they've watched American.

[Scott Aukerman]

They know what it is.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

They've watched Bring It On.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Bring it on or Cheer, the Netflix docu series.

[Scott Aukerman]

I bet Lilo and Stitch has, like, at least something to do with cheerleaders in it. He's so funny. From what I hear, he's got a scene where he puts his fingernail down on a record.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. You are obsessed.

[David Fricke]

Have you Seen the movie?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You're gonna be like, David, after that scene is over. You're like, oh, God. There's more of this.

[Ray Amanda]

I'd like to see Stitch get into a clothes dryer, come flying out of it dressed as your cheerleader, land on football field on top of a pyramid.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Let me guess.

[Scott Aukerman]

You sell.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Let me guess. You can. I love that, too. Let me guess. You sell footballs at Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

We do.

[Ray Amanda]

We have all. All sorts of sporting goods, from athletics to hunting and fishing supplies.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. And do you. Do you have children, by the way? I meant to ask you this.

[Ray Amanda]

I'd like not to talk about it. I lost my son.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, wow. Is he also a ghost? He's also a ghost.

[Scott Aukerman]

Maynards or.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And it's.

[Ray Amanda]

It's Menard.

[Scott Aukerman]

Is he still wandering around Menard somewhere?

[Ray Amanda]

No, I believe he just passed.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I'm.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, this is a lovely tribute to him, though, being on this show this week.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. And that you're back and still selling.

[Ray Amanda]

All I care about is getting back on the air.

[David Fricke]

I like your indomitable spirit.

[Ray Amanda]

Thank you very much.

[David Fricke]

That even though you've suffered the indignities of. Of life and hell, you've lost family members.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

You still wake up every day. You say, I gotta move these brooms. I gotta move this caramel popcorn. You pick yourself up, you dust yourself off, you keep moving. I think that's great.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And David doesn't like much.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. He doesn't like music. He likes films.

[David Fricke]

I like a lot of.

[Scott Aukerman]

He likes five songs.

[David Fricke]

I don't know.

[Ray Amanda]

You'd love a gallon of Satin Spread Glidden paint.

[David Fricke]

I. I 399 a gallon. I buy it right now, and I. And I have. When I was there in Minnesota, Stillwater location. I. I bought $11,000 worth of paint.

[Scott Aukerman]

Why? What were you. What were you doing in Minnesota needing $11,000 worth of paint?

[David Fricke]

Painting a mural with Bob Dylan on the side of a museum.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Is he a king?

[David Fricke]

I love the music of Bob Dylan. Are you a painting? I paint sometimes.

[Scott Aukerman]

How'd it come out? Did it look like him?

[David Fricke]

Let's just say he's just a bunch.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Of hair, you know?

[David Fricke]

Let's just say one day everything's going to be like a rhapsody when I paint my masterpiece.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, I think that's.

[Ray Amanda]

That sounds like a veiled threat.

[Scott Aukerman]

It's either a Dylan lyric or a veiled threat. Are you gonna assassinate Bob Dylan?

[David Fricke]

I don't have any plans to in the future.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, well, then probably not then. Unless plans pop up into your Head.

[David Fricke]

I guess he is 84. And so he is in.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's how old a place in his life where Ray is.

[Ray Amanda]

We're tied.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, you're tied. Except one's, unfortunately, one's going the other way. One is, Yeah.

[Ray Amanda]

I have a feeling I'm going to level out in my 60s.

[Scott Aukerman]

Let us know when that does happen, by the way.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sure.

[Ray Amanda]

Because mathematically it should be, I don't know, two years.

[Scott Aukerman]

That would be a bummer, though, to. To suddenly, like, realize that you're aging backwards and you're like, four years. Like. Like, I bet when. When you go through reverse puberty and you're like, oh, no, now there's no hair on my. On my. What's a polite way of saying this?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Johnson pubis on my Menard pubis.

[Ray Amanda]

And now that is a very thing for children in the Midwest to say, save big money at minards. And I am against that.

[Scott Aukerman]

You don't like this?

[Ray Amanda]

No, I find it disrespectful to the big savings that we provide at Menards.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Say, does Menards think of, like, do they have any plans of expanding? You know, because I'm just. I'm in the west coast, you know.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, we. We haven't been able to be.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

We can't get these deals.

[Ray Amanda]

We are. We are in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, so. No.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. But I guess her question was, are there plans of expanding?

[Ray Amanda]

I'm not aware anymore. John Menards won't return my call. Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

What's going on? So you. You. Were you fired or did you die? What? Why? Or why did you lose the spokesperson?

[Ray Amanda]

I was forced to retire in 1997 by.

[Scott Aukerman]

By Mr. Menard. And why. What were the circumstances? Was it a pre. Me too kind of situation, or what's that?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Pre.

[Ray Amanda]

Me too. I was not a preemie. I was born my due date.

[Scott Aukerman]

Your premium is. Oh, so wait, how late?

[Ray Amanda]

I was born three months after my due date.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's too long.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, it wasn't my fault. The doctor made a mistake.

[Scott Aukerman]

I think. I think, you know, you could have gotten out of the flume, though.

[Ray Amanda]

He told my mom, this guy's gonna be here in four months.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, still, but I. I guess. Why. What were the circumstances? Why were you forced out of the. The job?

[Ray Amanda]

Well, to be honest, I think they were looking for a cheaper way to.

[Scott Aukerman]

Advertise a younger, more youthful.

[Ray Amanda]

They didn't want to pay for on camera talent.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so. So why are you still so caught up in the Menards whole thing? You. You Just love it.

[Ray Amanda]

I like it when people recognize me.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, I mean, we can relate to that.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, you. Yeah, I mean, you were on the flume taking wet selfies.

[Ray Amanda]

These glasses are non prescription. They don't even have glass in them. But I wear them when I go out to dinner.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Poke my finger through.

[Scott Aukerman]

Poke my finger through them. Ow.

[Ray Amanda]

Knock it off.

[Scott Aukerman]

He's still telling the truth.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He still feels.

[Ray Amanda]

I'm gonna have to head down to the optical center at Menard.

[David Fricke]

That was unkind.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I just wanted to see the question, the veracity of his statement.

[Ray Amanda]

You did it like I was a ghost. Like you thought you'd go right through me.

[David Fricke]

It's not a ghost.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

How it worked. I'm kind of.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, he's not a ghost. He's come back from hell.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, right, right. Like physical. So you're.

[Scott Aukerman]

I just want to make sure you are. You are not a ghost. You're not haunting us.

[Ray Amanda]

I've been bumping into things non stop.

[David Fricke]

Let me ask you something, Scott.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, David.

[David Fricke]

Is Spawn a ghost?

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, this is a good question. Is Spawn. Is the. Is the clown played by John Leguizamo a ghost?

[Ray Amanda]

The violator.

[David Fricke]

Well, that's the only other person that I could think of who was in hell.

[Scott Aukerman]

Was in hell and came back.

[David Fricke]

Well, Jesus Christ.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So I'm spawned.

[David Fricke]

Jesus Christ descended into hell. On the third day he rose again.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, the third day. And he was like, get me out of here.

[Ray Amanda]

Also, like, Spawn went in a black guy, came out a white guy.

[David Fricke]

You know, there's a. There's an argument to be made there. There are a number of black American churches that depict that propose that Christ had features. You know, he was. He was. He was also African born.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes, yes. Thank you, David. You're just a continuous fountain of inane bullshit. And these people much.

[Ray Amanda]

These people think Jesus had features.

[Scott Aukerman]

Well, did he direct his eyes when he was working?

[David Fricke]

Yeah. That's an interesting thing that you brought up from earlier in the. In the program. I think that's really cool. You have to do that.

[Scott Aukerman]

Comedians do callbacks.

[David Fricke]

Yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Callback.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly.

[David Fricke]

Yeah. It's sort of like a reprise on a record or in a Broadway show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yes.

[David Fricke]

Ray, by the way, d' Angelo's Black Messiah. Great record.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, so you do like that record?

[David Fricke]

I do.

[Scott Aukerman]

What songs on it do you like?

[David Fricke]

I don't know.

[Scott Aukerman]

You have you listened to it?

[David Fricke]

No.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you just think it's good because you've heard it's good.

[David Fricke]

Good stuff.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay.

[Ray Amanda]

I used to be a professional drummer.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Wow.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really? Right.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's surrounded by musicians.

[David Fricke]

What genre? What style?

[Ray Amanda]

Big band.

[David Fricke]

Big band.

[Ray Amanda]

Killed by rock and roll. Haven't touched an instrument since.

[Scott Aukerman]

You still play it even though it's not popular.

[Ray Amanda]

What's the point? If I don't get the attention, I don't want it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right, so you're like an attention. I don't want to say whore. Sex worker.

[Ray Amanda]

Goodness. Thank you. Yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Right. Even he.

[Ray Amanda]

Sex work is work. And I'm here to work.

[Scott Aukerman]

For attention.

[Ray Amanda]

For attention. AKA sex.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

He didn't know me too, but he knows that. He knows. He knows that sex work is right. Way to say it.

[Scott Aukerman]

So you don't. You escaped me too, because you were. You died in 2019.

[Ray Amanda]

2018.

[Scott Aukerman]

2018. And when did it start happening?

[Ray Amanda]

Was it around then? 2017, I thought. But I also have never heard of it before.

[David Fricke]

Well, you know, Megan Toohey was following Trump on the campaign trail, by the way.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What?

[Scott Aukerman]

Base this whole thing on her name. May. Megan too. E2. Me too.

[David Fricke]

It's very possible.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What? The whole thing is just. It's a pun for a pun.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, it's just her, like, trying to get her name out there or something. I don't know. What do we think? How do we feel about me too these days, guys?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, my God. Hey, you brought it up. Scott with his updated references.

[Scott Aukerman]

So, Ray, I mean, if. If Maynards, Maynards. Maynards, Maynards were to come crawling back to you and Mr. Menard says. Or maybe even Mr. Menard, you know, time takes care of him. He goes into hell.

[Ray Amanda]

We've got to deal with John Menards Jr.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Is he a fan?

[Ray Amanda]

He's a fan of racing cars.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Well, it's close. But say. Say he comes crawling back to you and says, like, you know what, Ray? Things were great at Menards. When you are our spokesperson, can you come back?

[Ray Amanda]

I'll do it.

[Scott Aukerman]

So no matter what the terms are.

[Ray Amanda]

I don't need terms.

[Scott Aukerman]

You just love the fame.

[Ray Amanda]

As long as the term is that I get myself back in front of a camera.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. Well, I hope that happens for you. I mean, I certainly.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, we can relate to that. Right. And the glasses with. Even though there's no lens, I keep this haircut. I feel like I can't ever change it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. What would happen if you did a special and you came out one day and you had long, just luxurious, flowing locks down to your ass?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Can Santa change his. Does Minnie Mouse ever not wear her bow?

[Ray Amanda]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

What if Santa had a goatee? You know what I mean?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah. No, that's not Santa, sweetie. Then that's exactly.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're locked into it now, uncle, for all of time, aren't you?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I mean, yeah, a little bit. Yeah. I mean, my fans show up to my shows wearing wigs of my bowl cut.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's fun.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What am I gonna just. They bought the wigs.

[Scott Aukerman]

But you know how Weird Al changed? He. He straightened his hair and he shaved off his mustache. You could do that once. I feel like. Like he was able to do it once. He can't do it again. Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

You could do, like, different eras.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Metallica's, you know, got short hair for a little while.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

You could do, yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

With, like, enough heads up, you know?

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Heads up, seven up and, like, a story. Right. This is a new era.

[Ray Amanda]

You can start wearing wigs.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right. Yeah. Wigs of my bowl cut.

[Ray Amanda]

Gently acclimate your audience and fans to different hairstyles.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's right. Do they sell wigs? Let me guess. Menards. Menards. We do.

[Ray Amanda]

We do.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

In which. Which section would that be? In? The beauty.

[Ray Amanda]

In the beauty section.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, okay.

[Ray Amanda]

We've got mismatched makeup brushes in a bin.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, incredible.

[Ray Amanda]

Turn right and find the wigs.

[David Fricke]

Let me ask if I wanted to buy a wig at Menards. You know, say, all right, look, I'm David Frick. I'm walking around Menards. I want to wear a different hairstyle than the one I have on. You know, possibly not even use my own hair for it. Maybe it's somebody else's. Maybe it's synthetic. Maybe it's South Indian hair.

[Scott Aukerman]

Jesus Christ. Get to the point.

[David Fricke]

You know, and I'm looking at the wigs at Menards. How much can I expect to spend my budget? Before you begin, my budget is $9,000.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's a huge wig.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

But you can open up a Menards.

[Ray Amanda]

You could lock in big savings. $12 an inch at Menards on wigs.

[Scott Aukerman]

$12 per. That's. First of all, that's too expensive.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's very pricey now.

[Scott Aukerman]

And secondly, why is your budget $9,000 for wigs?

[David Fricke]

Wigs, dude. So can I. So I can afford two to three wigs at Menards.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's true. Because they sound expensive.

[Ray Amanda]

And you're not sure where I'm measuring from.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. Is it at the. From the base? It's across from the tip.

[David Fricke]

Across.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense.

[Scott Aukerman]

David, I don't know what's going on with your finances or your life that you need these wigs and why you have so much kind of spare pocket money to spend on these.

[David Fricke]

But I got in early with Dan Aykroyd on House of Blues and Hard Rock Cafe.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay. They all went out of business, though.

[David Fricke]

Not before I was able to you cash out. Exit from the business when I saw how is themed restaurants were going.

[Scott Aukerman]

How is Dan, by the way? Was he at the SNL50? Do you know?

[David Fricke]

I wouldn't know. I wasn't invited to that ceremony.

[Scott Aukerman]

You weren't invited? David Frick didn't go to SNL50?

[David Fricke]

No, I was busy.

[Scott Aukerman]

What were you.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

What were you doing?

[David Fricke]

I was seeing screaming females with White Reaper.

[Scott Aukerman]

How was that? Did you enjoy that?

[David Fricke]

It's a great show.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, but do you like their music?

[David Fricke]

Yeah, I think she's a fabulous guitarist.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, but do you like it?

[David Fricke]

Yeah, it's good music.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, but. But is it good? Do you like it?

[David Fricke]

You know what's good music? You know, I'm okay. So. I'm Marissa Paternoster.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, Jesus Christ. We don't have time for this. All right. Well, Ray, thank you so much for. For coming by again. I really hope that you get back into menards and I hope you get back into.

[Ray Amanda]

Into big savings Advernards.

[Scott Aukerman]

I thought you were gonna say back into my TV show, but thanks, I. I appreciate that.

[Ray Amanda]

Please get back in your TV show. Do you need an announcer?

[Scott Aukerman]

That would be great. I would like. I. I think if I do another season of the Bang Bang TV show, you as the announcer would be. That's a lock.

[Ray Amanda]

Ladies and gentlemen, Comedy Bang Bang Zone. Scott Aukerman.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yes.

[Scott Aukerman]

Wow. From Comedy Bang Bang. And he's on Comedy Bang Bang.

[Ray Amanda]

That's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

We are running out of time though, guys. We only have time for one final feature on the show. That's something called Blog. Plug the toilet, plug it up. Plug a woman, Plug a man Little Dutch boy Plug it up a dam Plugs. Oh, okay, that was Limp Plugs it by the Aging punk and the Complainers. All right, look, guys, what are we plugging? Asco Father is out right now and it's on Hulu.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hulu, Disney plus.

[Scott Aukerman]

And also your previous special was called Something with the Intruder. Intruder, yes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah, the Intruder.

[Scott Aukerman]

Peter Gabriel had a. Why am I talking to you again?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Peter Gabriel? Yeah. Oh, no.

[David Fricke]

You were gonna ask David Shock the monkey.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, he had a song called Intruder. But then I turned to David and realized my mistake right away.

[David Fricke]

It's interesting that you bring Peter Gabriel.

[Scott Aukerman]

No, it's not.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

So I'm Peter Gabriel, right. And I just wrote Intruder.

[Scott Aukerman]

Anything Else going on that you want to plug here?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Oh, just. Yeah, you can catch me on tour. Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

How do people get information about where you might be popping up in the city?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Otsuko comedy.com. yeah, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

All right. And David Frick, what are you plugging here?

[David Fricke]

Look, I'm James Austin Johnson.

[Scott Aukerman]

What?

[David Fricke]

I'm touring the, the nation this summer. How do we, you know, how do I get the information out about that?

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, I see. You're, you're profiling, right?

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

James Austin Johnson, the Saturday Night Live cast member guy.

[David Fricke]

America's the man. Or, you know, America's Trump and Trump's America.

[Scott Aukerman]

America's second. Trump.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, America's second.

[Scott Aukerman]

We love Trump so much. We want a second one that we check with every week.

[David Fricke]

Exactly.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Well, we did get sometimes for too.

[David Fricke]

Long to diminishing returns a lot of people. So you can go to James Austin Johnson.

[Scott Aukerman]

The first time's funny. Second time is a spanking.

[David Fricke]

It's true. Yeah. Well, you know why? If you've, if you've tapped into a vein, you know, look, I'm Lorne Michaels. I feel like I've found a vein of comedy that I need to follow. You know, what do I do with that? I, I put it on TV as much as I can.

[Scott Aukerman]

Sure, sure. And. And so say you're this guy, this James Austin.

[David Fricke]

James Austin Johnson.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. And. And you, you are touring the country this summer.

[David Fricke]

Touring the country this summer. That's right.

[Scott Aukerman]

And how. And doing stand up comedy.

[David Fricke]

Yeah. And while audiences haven't quite come back in full force for live entertainment since the days before COVID you know, there's. The People are still seeking out entertainment. I think that's great. So you can go to james austinjohnson.com you can go to my, my Instagram.

[Scott Aukerman]

David Frick's Instagram.

[David Fricke]

Yeah, no, I'm, I'm James Austin Johnson.

[Scott Aukerman]

You are. Okay, so you're so deep into the character that you're profiling right now.

[David Fricke]

This is the, this is my rhetorical.

[Scott Aukerman]

Right.

[David Fricke]

Strategy.

[Scott Aukerman]

Got it, got it.

[David Fricke]

So at J A J Center and you find all the information there. That's how I do it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Was it Shrimp J A J for a while?

[David Fricke]

It was for a while. But ultimately we, we had a discussion about whether that was something that should continue.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Hey, it was memorable because we still remember it.

[Scott Aukerman]

We. Yeah, I don't even know what the other thing you said was, but I still remember Shrimp J, A J. Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Judge Center. You know, it's the center for all the James Austin Johnson stuff.

[Scott Aukerman]

Love It. And raise Amanda.

[Ray Amanda]

That's right. Just like Ruth's Chris. Raise Amanda.

[Scott Aukerman]

Raise Amanda. What do you want to plug here?

[Ray Amanda]

As mentioned in the Plugs Bag song, we've got Dutch Boy paint Nicola Quartz lech varieties.

[Scott Aukerman]

To mention that in the song, I.

[Ray Amanda]

Said the word Dutch Boy.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, okay. All right.

[Ray Amanda]

I thought that was a cue for me. Also, I'd say check out the those who Ant podcast.

[Scott Aukerman]

What is that? Is that about the comedy of Ant?

[Ray Amanda]

It's a podcast that helps you see the world through ant colored glasses.

[Scott Aukerman]

I don't know what this means.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, you'll have to tune in to find out.

[Scott Aukerman]

I prefer to know before I tune in.

[Ray Amanda]

It's a podcast about. Hosted by two aunts who love their nieces, nephews and nibblings.

[Scott Aukerman]

Oh, aunt.

[Ray Amanda]

Oh, sure.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

I thought it was like A bug's.

[Ray Amanda]

Life, but, well, they call their fans the Ant Colony.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, that's fun.

[Ray Amanda]

So I say ant.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay, got it. And it's a more Midwestern thing too, right?

[Ray Amanda]

I don't think so. I think it has worldwide appeal.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. All right, Ants, I want to plug. Look, head over to cbb world.com and you can get a subscription. You can get every single episode of Comedy Bang Bang. All of our previous episodes ad free. New episodes ad free. You can get every live episode we've ever done. That's thousands of episodes of Comedy Bang Bang all over there. Also, we have new shows. We have CBB present shows like who Me with the Batman? Chris Kattan was just on. Was he at SNL50? If you're James Austin Johnson, yeah.

[David Fricke]

Chris Kattan was there.

[Scott Aukerman]

Fantastic. And we also have. Hey, Randy. We have Collegetown. We have the Neighborhood. Listen, we have Scott hasn't seen where I watch movies with people. That guy you were mentioning, James Austin Johnson, we watched From Russia with Love, I believe, and talked about.

[David Fricke]

It was a great episode.

[Scott Aukerman]

It was one of our best episodes.

[David Fricke]

One of the best episodes of podcasting, I think, possibly in the history of the medium.

[Scott Aukerman]

I also watched Jumping Jack Flash, I Believe, with another guy.

[Ray Amanda]

Well, that's a fantastic movie.

[Scott Aukerman]

Not in my estimation, but spoiler alert.

[Ray Amanda]

Penny Marshall's first directorial debut.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, that's right. But head over to cbbworld.com and you can get a subscription over there. All right, let's close up the old plug. Ah, yes, that was. Open the Plug Bag with me, dude. By Jonathan Astonish. Thanks so much to Jonathan Astonish and the aging punk and the Complainers. If you have a Plugs theme, go to cbbworld.com plugs, right? Yeah. And you can upload all of your stuff up there and all of that stuff. And I want to thank our guest, Atsuko. It's so wonderful to have you on the show for the first time. I would love to continue this relationship going forward. Do we need to formalize it at all in writing?

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

I mean, you have this whiteboard here.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah. We could put a contract on that maybe, and then I could just sign that and I'll.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And then you'll write the words later.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, I'll finish it.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's how people get trapped into bad contracts.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, exactly. So not with me, obviously.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Not with a whiteboard where you could just erase it.

[Scott Aukerman]

Yeah, there you go. So just sign that there for me. Meanwhile, while you're doing that, David Frick, so wonderful to. Well, I'm not gonna lie, it was really a drag to meet you, you know.

[David Fricke]

That's unfortunate to hear, but I wanna thank you, Scott, for joining us today. As well as you, Atsuko. And I thought it was a fabulous talk. I want to thank everybody here at the 92nd Street Y for joining us tonight.

[Scott Aukerman]

You're giving talks at the Y? That's a. That's a. Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, you're a sad guy is all I'm saying.

[David Fricke]

Not sad. I have an enjoyable life. I have a full life.

[Scott Aukerman]

Do you have. Do you have loved ones? Are you married?

[David Fricke]

I have loved ones, yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Okay.

[David Fricke]

I have a lot of sex.

[Scott Aukerman]

Really?

[David Fricke]

Yeah.

[Scott Aukerman]

Like how often?

[David Fricke]

Surprising amount for a 73 year old. I have a lot of sex.

[Scott Aukerman]

What are we, like per week? What are we talking?

[David Fricke]

I don't know. Five to six sessions of missionary.

[Scott Aukerman]

Five to six sessions of mish per week.

[David Fricke]

Half dozen mishes.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Dang. Okay.

[Scott Aukerman]

I mean, I gotta give it up to you, David, for that.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Yeah.

[David Fricke]

Mish is on the half bows.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

That's about as many times like Broadway performers perform in a week.

[Scott Aukerman]

That's right. Yeah. Usually you do. Let's see, matinee on. Yeah, you do any. You do a matinee on Wednesday anyway. And then. Ray Scott, good luck to you.

[Ray Amanda]

If you're looking for sex, we got really cruisy bathrooms at Menards.

[Scott Aukerman]

I'll keep that in mind.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

And that's free.

[Scott Aukerman]

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

[David Fricke]

Bye.

[Atsuko Okatsuka]

Bye.

[Scott Aukerman]

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