0085. Shane Torres and Brandon Collins

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Zac Amico's Morning Zoo
Episode: 0085: Shane Torres and Brandon Collins
Date: February 6, 2026
Host: Zac Amico
Guests: Shane Torres (Coastal Idiots), Brandon Collins (Medium Popcorn)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Zac Amico's Morning Zoo brings together comics Shane Torres and Brandon Collins for a hilarious, rant-filled morning show. They riff on weird news (including exotic animals on the loose), swap Hollywood rumors and B-movie takes, reminisce about awkward childhood fame, dissect the perils of social media oversharing, and spiral into in-depth, irreverent movie talk. The vibe is chaotic but always funny, with Zac steering his lovable “degenerates” through rapid-fire tangents on pop culture, urban legends, dysfunctional families, celebrity cameos, and more.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Groundhog Day & Local Weird News

[01:31–07:14]

• The show opens with banter about Groundhog Day, with Zac and Shane quoting “Groundhog Day” and joking about Punxsutawney Phil’s weather-predicting powers.
  • Zac Amico: “It’s nothing. It’s a rodent pees on a man.” [01:41]
• They discuss a recent news story of a man pulled over in Oyster Bay transporting a “menagerie” of exotic animals, including sloths and kangaroos, which is illegal in the area.
  • Reaction to “kangaroo in Oyster Bay”: general disbelief and jokes about local cryptids mistaking loose kangaroos for the Jersey Devil.
• Quick discussion on whether kangaroos and sloths could survive New York winters.

2. The Jersey Devil, Urban Myths & Rumors

[06:35–08:41]

• Zac gives a quick history of the Jersey Devil, comparing it to the Chupacabra and noting its roots as a colonial-era smear campaign possibly orchestrated by Ben Franklin.
  • Shane Torres: “God, what a time. People were even dumber than they are now. To just be a little bit smarter than everyone back then.” [07:57]
• The crew shares infamous celebrity rumors and urban legends: Richard Gere’s gerbil, Rod Stewart’s stomach pump, Marilyn Manson’s ribs, and Michael Jackson being an alien.

3. Donald Trump in Movies & The Power of Cameos

[09:08–14:30]

• Discussion about Trump’s cameo demands when movies filmed at his properties, and a riff on Donald Trump’s many brief film and TV appearances.
  • Zac shares how producers were required to film a cameo with Trump (“Mr. Trump”), even if they didn’t use it.
  • Watch and react to a compilation of Trump movie cameos, noting his obsession with models and self-presentation.
  • Zac Amico: “He wanted to be on the call sheet. He wanted the hullabalo.” [10:15]

4. Early Fame & Schoolyard Teasing

[13:33–16:40]

• The trio reminisce about childhood fame, with Zac sharing his experience shooting a Nickelodeon commercial and how it haunted him at school.
  • Zac Amico: “...kids just would do it to me in the hallway. People be like, hey, somebody told me to do this to you… it just became part of the zeitgeist.” [15:04]
• They compare notes on how celebrity and infamy haunt people from a young age, referencing Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Growing Pains” era and viral red-carpet moments.

5. Social Media Dysfunction & Family Drama

[17:13–24:44]

• Conversation shifts to dysfunctional relatives airing dirty laundry online, family scams (like faking a Disney trip for cash), and Facebook as “therapy” or diary for chaotic people.
  • Shane Torres: “It’s always disgusting on social media when people give … like, fucking cap this. Well, this is like an emotional BP spill.” [23:39]
  • Zac Amico: “Dude, hood, like Spanish Harlem, Bronx dudes. Post on Facebook like they are 12 year old girls…” [23:56]

6. Movie Cheating, Game Shows & Outliers

[24:31–33:34]

• A deep dive into hacking and beating systems—vending machines, The Price is Right, and 1980s game show exploits.
• Discussion of the famous “Price is Right” superfan who meticulously tracked prices and helped people win, leading to debates about game show fairness.
• Shane Torres shares the story of comedian Josh Androsky going on Price is Right high on mushrooms.

7. Gambling Stories, Addiction, and Cautionary Tales

[34:40–39:08]

• The hosts talk about sports betting, gambling addiction in families, and chasing big wins only to lose it all.
  • Zac Amico: “I was coming out on the other end of it pretty good with little bets. And then I just start… I lost some cache the night Connor broke his leg.” [35:39]
• Cautionary tales about big windfalls gone awry; mention of comic Tim McLaughlin’s rollercoaster life stories.

8. Movie & Comedy Sequels: Why Are They Always Worse?

[39:19–47:57]

• Spirited discussion on the pitfalls of movie sequels, especially comedies like Happy Gilmore 2 and Anchorman 2.
  • Brandon Collins: “It not only followed the same beats from the first one, it also integrated, like, Talladega Nights shit…” [44:07]
• Deconstruction of the “bring me the same thing, but different” Hollywood mentality.
• Nostalgia for early 2000s comedies, critique of Adam Sandler’s output, and potential for “Billy Madison 2”.

9. Underrated & Overrated Films, Acting Method Madness

[52:09–56:38]

• The group debates Scorsese’s most underrated works (“After Hours,” “Bringing Out the Dead”) and what makes “Cape Fear” so creepy.
  • Dive into De Niro’s extreme method acting—filing his teeth down for a role—and aging actors trying to play young (De Niro in “The Irishman”).
  • “Nobody fixes [the old man ears], and it drives me nuts.” – Zac Amico [55:28]

10. Travolta’s Bizarre Movie Choices & The Fanatic

[56:42–66:51]

• Zac and Brandon spiral through John Travolta’s later career, mocking “Gotti,” “Speed Kills,” and especially the Fred Durst-directed “The Fanatic.”
  • Zac Amico: “Imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie. And now imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie.” [57:55]
• Watch and react to “The Fanatic” trailer, with Zac suggesting Travolta’s character is inspired by his late, special-needs son Jet.
  • Shane Torres: “Your theories are fucking crazy…” [66:05]

11. Viral Clips: Boxer Loses Wig, Rodeo Mayhem

[67:06–70:26]

• Final laughs over viral videos: a boxer’s wig falling off during a match (with admiration for his confidence) and a group of women on a terrifying rodeo seesaw facing a bull.
  • “I give—you got to give him credit for owning it.” – Shane Torres [69:19]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “It’s nothing. It’s a rodent pees on a man.” — Zac Amico, on Groundhog Day [01:41]
• “God, what a time. People were even dumber than they are now. To just be a little bit smarter than everyone back then.” — Shane Torres, on colonial legends [07:57]
• “He wanted to be on the call sheet. He wanted the hullabalo.” — Zac Amico, on Trump’s Hollywood cameos [10:15]
• “Kids just would do it to me in the hallway. It just became part of the zeitgeist.” — Zac Amico, on childhood Nickelodeon fame [15:04]
• “Dude, hood, like Spanish Harlem, Bronx dudes. Post on Facebook like they are 12 year old girls…” — Zac Amico [23:56]
• “Imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie. And now imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie.” — Zac Amico [57:55]
• “He’s just tripping out right now.” — Brandon Collins, on comic Josh Androsky’s Price is Right appearance [32:57]
• “Your theories are fucking crazy…” — Shane Torres, in response to Zac’s Fanatic/Travolta connection [66:05]
• “I give—you got to give him credit for owning it.” — Shane Torres, on the boxer losing his wig [69:19]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Groundhog Day banter & exotic animal news: [00:53–07:14]
• Jersey Devil myth & celebrity rumors: [06:35–08:41]
• Trump movie cameos: [09:08–14:30]
• Nickelodeon ad story: [13:33–16:40]
• Family drama/social media dysfunction: [17:13–24:44]
• Game shows & “Price is Right” superfan: [24:31–33:34]
• Gambling stories & addiction talk: [34:40–39:08]
• Movie sequels/debates on Sandler & comedy: [39:19–47:57]
• Underrated movies/acting method: [52:09–56:38]
• Travolta, The Fanatic, and conspiracy theories: [56:42–66:51]
• Boxer’s wig & rodeo mayhem: [67:06–70:26]

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Tone, Style, and Final Notes

The episode is uproariously irreverent, packed with ball-busting, random callbacks, and raunchy asides. Zac’s rapport with Shane and Brandon keeps the pace rapid but authentic; their deep bench of pop culture references and behind-the-scenes comedy stories will delight fans of alt-comedy and B-movie lore. There’s real insight in between the wild bits, especially on topics like social media, urban myth, and the ups and downs of comedy fame.

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For fans of: Alt-morning shows, stand-up comics riffing, pop culture deep cuts, and podcasts that feel like hanging at a filthy comic hangout.

Transcript

[Brandon Collins]

Fill her up.

[Shane Torres]

You're listening to the gas digital network.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Wake up, it's time to go. Zach Amico's got a show Animals are here to play Jokes and guests to start your day Tell the sandman no more sleep Eat some eggs and cook some beef Laughter's waiting, don't be shy Stretch your legs and touch the sky Grab a coffee and join the cre. It's Acamiko morning, too. Wake up, wake up. Wake up. Wake up, wake up.

[Zach Amico]

There we go. I got you, babe. I got you, baby. Okay, campers, rise and shine. And don't forget your booties. Cause it's cold out there.

[Shane Torres]

It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?

[Zach Amico]

Hardly. And you know you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that blizzard thing.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, that blizzard thing. That blizzard thing. Oh, well, here's the report. The National Weather Service is calling for a big blizzard thing.

[Zach Amico]

They are. But you know, there's another reason why today is especially exciting.

[Shane Torres]

Especially cold.

[Zach Amico]

Especially cold.

[Shane Torres]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

But the big question on everybody's lips.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, their chap lips.

[Zach Amico]

On their chap lips. Right.

[Shane Torres]

Lips.

[Zach Amico]

Do you think Bill's gonna come out and see a shadow?

[Shane Torres]

Punks. A tawny film.

[Zach Amico]

That's right, woodchuck chuckers. It's Groundhog Day. All right. Welcome to the Morning Zoo. It's your other boy, the international superstar Zach Amico saying welcome to the Morning Zoo. And yes, Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter. Yeah, it means nothing. Yeah, it's just. It's nothing. It's a rodent pees on a man.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, It's. What's it, 24 7?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, it's. It's absolutely gross out 365. But I have two guests keeping it hot in here. From the Coastal Idiots podcast, it is our good friend, Shane Torres. How you doing, buddy?

[Shane Torres]

Hey, buddy. Good to be back.

[Zach Amico]

Good to have you, man. An absolute pleasure as well. Another pleasure from the Medium Popcorn podcast. This is our friend, Brandon Collins. How you doing, dog?

[Brandon Collins]

Hey, what's up, little biscuits?

[Zach Amico]

Oh, man.

[Shane Torres]

Little biscuits.

[Brandon Collins]

That's what we say on Medium PodCard. I call our fans Little Biscuits and sun dried tomatoes. Don't ask me why I like it has nothing to do with it.

[Zach Amico]

I call mine Zoo Files, so that's probably way better. Thank you guys for being here. Let's.

[Shane Torres]

Go so many terrible ways. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

You don't even know.

[Zach Amico]

Let's knock plugs out of the way. Brandon. What are you people to check out, buddy?

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, I Got a drum. Black History Tour. It's a Black History Month. 100 years of it, actually. And so I'm all over the country. New York, Austin, Newark, all the hospitals. Boston. Yeah, yeah, L.A. so drunkbykishy.com, bristol, Tennessee, Mississippi, and yeah, drunkbuykishi.com and then fertile blackens on Instagram and threads.

[Zach Amico]

Fantastic. Mr. Torres.

[Shane Torres]

Check out the Pod Coastal Idiots comes out every Tuesday. And you can also have a new special coming out later this year, so keep an eye out for that. And www.punchup.live. shane Torres for all your Shane Torres needs.

[Zach Amico]

Fantastic. Check me out on Instagram at zackisnotfunny. Punch up that live Zachamico for all my dates. Looking like we're gonna be in Atlantic City at the Tropicana in May two nights in a row. Very excited about that. And more importantly, if you love the show, head on over to gasdigital.com today. Use my promo code. Zoo. Get yourself a little bit of money off your subscription. Get yourself your episodes early ad free and uncensored. Get the archives, thousands of hours of all your favorite guest shows from over the years, as well as the live chat and most importantly, our Friday bonus episode. That's right. We do three of these a week, and if you want all three, you gotta subscribe. But regardless, thank you for consuming the show. However, you do tell a friend, a co worker, or somebody else, and thank you very much for listening. All right, this is the morning Zoo. We love animal stories. And a man in Oyster Bay has been cited after being pulled over with an interesting menagerie in his car. And I thought I would watch you guys see this in real time.

[Shane Torres]

This is always my favorite part of the show. That's a horrifying YouTube clip.

[Zach Amico]

It's not horrifying as much as it is just surprising. Okay, one of those.

[Brandon Collins]

I like a good surprise.

[Zach Amico]

One of those. Didn't see that one coming, Shannon. No, I'm trying. Oh, my God. Look at her.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, that's so cute. Oh, that's so cute. Sloths and kangaroos.

[Zach Amico]

So, Shan, do we have any story what this guy was, where he was going? Were they private pets?

[Shannon]

They don't know that yet. The only thing is that, so in this area, Oyster Bay, you know, it's against the law to have these exotic species, but there isn't any. It says they've reached out to him for comment, but they don't have any information as to why.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, he's not gonna incriminate himself.

[Zach Amico]

He's like you know, I would assume he's dealing with.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Animals.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. You're not just driving around Oyster Bay with a kangaroo.

[Zach Amico]

It's like taking my kangaroo for a ride.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

That's wild.

[Shane Torres]

Dude. They're so used to all this snow up here.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. They can't live, can they? I don't.

[Shane Torres]

I'm sure they can live.

[Brandon Collins]

They can live.

[Zach Amico]

Like.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Different climates and stuff. Not for, like. I think long term, like, you're not going to. You know, I think they would probably.

[Shane Torres]

Be more likely to, like, starve or something because they don't know how to do it.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Than like, it being too harsh.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. The sloth, I feel like, might have a tough time.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Don't they do nothing anyways.

[Brandon Collins]

But they have all that fur, though.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

So they might be able to survive.

[Zach Amico]

And I think their claws are surprisingly scary.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

They're tough, but aren't sauce. Like, don't they never move?

[Zach Amico]

Right.

[Shane Torres]

And that, like, their thing.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

They take.

[Shane Torres]

That's like, maybe they're well suited for a winter if they're just not going to, like, burn any calories or do anything.

[Brandon Collins]

I think a sloth would definitely survive better than a kangaroo. Probably in the streets a little.

[Shane Torres]

In Oyster Bay. Well, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Also, like, the kangaroo is going to be bouncing around the street. Someone's going to shoot that fucker.

[Zach Amico]

Like, that's. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Shane Torres]

Someone will. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I feel like the kangaroo would have a tough time in South America because people are gonna say Chupacabra and shoot it. I feel like woods and jerseys are gonna say Jersey Devil and shoot it.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Is the Jersey Devil kind of like the El Chupacabra of the Northeast?

[Zach Amico]

The Jersey. Yeah. We grew up. That was, like, the thing. It was in the Pine Barrens. What's the Jersey Devil?

[Shane Torres]

What does this look like?

[Zach Amico]

Oddly like a kangaroo.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Has.

[Shane Torres]

No wonder this guy's not telling if.

[Zach Amico]

I'm saying it right. Shannon, if you want to bring up a drawing in the Jersey Devil, I want to say.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Cloven hooves.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, wow.

[Zach Amico]

Bat wings, horse head and little arms. So I wanted. Yeah. Kangaroo is.

[Shane Torres]

Cloven hooves, bat wings.

[Brandon Collins]

And someone wasn't a bad acid trip.

[Zach Amico]

When they drew that, you know, it's what I did.

[Shane Torres]

He's pretty disturbing.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. That's wild.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. There's sightings of it for years, but that.

[Shane Torres]

Who the hockey team was named after.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, really?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Jersey's nuts, man.

[Zach Amico]

I had K.P. burke has a history podcast here. What's K.P. show called, Shannon?

[Shannon]

American Loser.

[Zach Amico]

American Loser. We did a whole episode about the Jersey Devil. Basically, it was a smear campaign by whoever was it who did the encyclopedia, the Farmers Almanac.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

They basically have beef with the Farmers Almanac. Somebody started another one, got it. And they were feuding. And I think it was Ben Franklin made up the Jersey Devil story as a. A joke about the other guy who ran the almanac because all the names in it are named after his family.

[Brandon Collins]

Got it.

[Zach Amico]

When you go over the legend of.

[Shane Torres]

It, God, what a time. People were even dumber than they are now. To just be like. I bet they'll believe that. Like, just to be a little bit smarter than everyone back then.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, pettiness has no fucking limits. I mean, think about, like, you know, what was it? Sly Stallone and Richard Gere. He's the one that started that whole rumor about the gerbil.

[Zach Amico]

I didn't know that.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, he was just like. They didn't get along. So he's like, oh, yeah. You know, he puts gerbils up his ass. And that's what the Richard Gere crazy rumor started.

[Zach Amico]

Well, what were the big ones when we were. It was Richard Gere, gerbil, Rod Stewart, stomach pumped.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Marilyn Manson. Rib.

[Shane Torres]

Marilyn Manson.

[Brandon Collins]

Michael Jackson, Alien.

[Zach Amico]

I never got that one.

[Brandon Collins]

I heard that one all the time as a kid. What else?

[Zach Amico]

I know when he did his cameo in Men in Black too, he's like, I need to be a man. They wanted him to be an alien. He's like, no, I need to be a man in black.

[Brandon Collins]

But I remember the barrel, too.

[Zach Amico]

Yes, he. Is he in two or three?

[Brandon Collins]

I think he might be in two. I think he's in two. Because I watched one.

[Zach Amico]

They like, okay. Yeah. They cut to a bunch of agents and he's okay.

[Shane Torres]

It's like a.

[Zach Amico]

All right. Yeah. It's like a quick. It's a very awesome Power Z cameo.

[Brandon Collins]

Or like Donald Trump and Hot and like, Home Alone 2. And it's like very quick, very different.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah. Yes.

[Zach Amico]

Donald Trump. I don't know if you guys know this, and I. I don't talk about T Bird a lot on the show because I don't. I don't wanna.

[Brandon Collins]

I don't wanna.

[Zach Amico]

I don't want to divide my audience.

[Shane Torres]

The Pontiac.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Pontiac's a little more Obama.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

If your parents used to say what.

[Shane Torres]

Pontiac is, well, which way did Michigan go?

[Zach Amico]

When you used to film on Trump properties, one of the things you had to do was include him.

[Brandon Collins]

Yes. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And a character had to call him Mr. Trump. It didn't have to go in the movie, but you had to film it.

[Brandon Collins]

Interesting.

[Zach Amico]

So there's tons of movies with cut. Donald Trump cameos, I believe, including Scent of a Woman where he has a scene with Pacino.

[Brandon Collins]

Well, I think that wasn't really devil's advocate because they filmed. It is his place.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

So, yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, like Trump Tower.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I think anything filmed in his property for a certain amount of time, he.

[Shane Torres]

Had to be in it.

[Zach Amico]

It was basically a way for him to just get his dick sucked for the day and get a market.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, My.

[Zach Amico]

You know, he wanted to be on the call sheet. He wanted the. The hullabalo, but go ahead, please.

[Shane Torres]

So I. I met this guy who was in a musical on Broadway and.

[Brandon Collins]

Shout out to your friend.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. And he. There was like an interactive part where he talked to you. And Trump came to the show and every. This was well before he was president. They brought him on stage and he came out and he waved, and then he just hung out in the back the whole time and talked to everyone. Like he wouldn't. Like the show was now about him because he got brought on stage. Yeah, yeah. You know, it was like he just.

[Brandon Collins]

Needs someone in the audience. Like, Rick got weird.

[Zach Amico]

The end of Rent is they all just get evicted. A new cast of rich white people walk on after intervention.

[Brandon Collins]

It turns out they were squatting a Trump Tower the whole time.

[Zach Amico]

Shannon, what were you about to bring up?

[Shannon]

Compilation of Donald Trump cameos.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, thank you.

[Zach Amico]

It's a pleasure to introduce Mr. And Mrs. Donald Trump.

[Brandon Collins]

I see a monster.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Right?

[Brandon Collins]

This is the one.

[Zach Amico]

Mysteriously buried on his property with no autopsy. Oh, my God.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, hey.

[Zach Amico]

Donald told me you were here. You look great. Thank you very much.

[Brandon Collins]

Elizabeth Berkeley.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Jesus Christ.

[Zach Amico]

So listen, are you begging her?

[Shannon]

Elizabeth Hurley.

[Zach Amico]

Are you Hurley? Yeah. No, no, we. We just met. We'll call me Liz.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, I'm having deja vu. This is so weird.

[Zach Amico]

It's weird before. So let me tell you that first income I've gotten that's not been garnisheed by the bank of Margot.

[Brandon Collins]

I hope you have a good lawyer, donald.

[Zach Amico]

Listen, it's 50 cents.

[Shane Torres]

You know what's funny about these last two is, like, his affinity for models.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

And then they're like, Liz Berkeley.

[Zach Amico]

Elizabeth Hurley.

[Shane Torres]

Hurley, sorry.

[Zach Amico]

And Samantha, a Cosmopolitan. And Donald Trump. You just don't get more New York than that.

[Shane Torres]

Look at this.

[Zach Amico]

Right here on the street.

[Shane Torres]

It's Donald Trump.

[Zach Amico]

What are you, morons? They have to say his name. It's so funny. It's like Poochie.

[Shane Torres]

Not exactly, no. We just came to a mutual understanding that she couldn't bear me for another second. Randall Donald. Mr. Trump here wrote the art of the deal.

[Brandon Collins]

That's hilarious.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Wow.

[Shannon]

Hi, Tommy.

[Brandon Collins]

Dude, Brad dress is still hot.

[Zach Amico]

Still banging.

[Brandon Collins]

She's still so hot.

[Shane Torres]

President.

[Brandon Collins]

She's batshit crazy.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. Oh, what am I talking about? All you handsome zillionaires know each other.

[Shane Torres]

Donald, this is.

[Brandon Collins]

How do you do?

[Shane Torres]

How he is going to crash and burn and take his clients with him.

[Zach Amico]

It's crazy how much more there is.

[Shane Torres]

There's just insane.

[Brandon Collins]

And he's wearing the same outfit.

[Zach Amico]

I mean, I mean that's brand again.

[Shane Torres]

How long is going to be? I have checks sitting on two tables.

[Brandon Collins]

Every time I see this ator, I think of the Sopranos when he. Christopher kills him.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, yeah. Usual table. Oh, I forgot. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Whoopi's like a business. She like runs a company.

[Shane Torres]

Sorry, Frank, but I'm gonna go crash.

[Zach Amico]

And run with Cuddy. Call me. I remember.

[Brandon Collins]

He's the father.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Is this the movie?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

It's terrible. It's really bad.

[Shane Torres]

There was a rumor that the kid who went to the elementary school next to my middle school when this came out was. He was. He was in it. He was like spanky or whatever.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh.

[Shane Torres]

And he just like mercilessly like everyone's just like, you know, just beat the out of it and stuff. You're like thinking better than me because he was a little rascal.

[Zach Amico]

I did a Nickelodeon commercial when I was in grammar school and it was non stop.

[Shane Torres]

That had to be brutal torture.

[Zach Amico]

It was. And I tried to find your role in the Nicolette.

[Shane Torres]

What did you do?

[Zach Amico]

I've tried to find it. I can't find it. I have it on tape somewhere in my mom's house.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And it'll have to be a mini DV that I record. You know like you used to put the little tape in the tape that went in the vcr.

[Shane Torres]

I have like a camcorder tape that went into this.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, I have one of those.

[Shane Torres]

Of it somewhere.

[Zach Amico]

Of it somewhere. Because I taped like a six hour block when I knew it was going to be on. And it was Nickelodeon Smell O Vision.

[Brandon Collins]

Wow.

[Zach Amico]

And they gave out cards and when you watch the show, give a number and it was a scratch and sniff and you could smell the show. Yeah, it's an old John Waters bit. And in the thing it was me and all kids, but I was the lead in it. So I'm in dead center and we're in a gym with a coach and he's getting us to work our scratch and sniff finger.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, man, this is painful.

[Zach Amico]

The next day, years, the kids just would do it to me in the hallway. I would. People be like, hey, somebody told me.

[Shane Torres]

To do this to you.

[Zach Amico]

What is that? Like, it got to the point where people didn't even know.

[Shane Torres]

She just became part of the zeitgeist.

[Zach Amico]

The zeitgeist was made to make fun. Which by the way, to this day, it was just one of those, like, he's different.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did it.

[Zach Amico]

He's ambitious.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

He's got gumption.

[Zach Amico]

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[Shane Torres]

My friend went to like elementary school or middle school with Leonardo dicaprio. And after he had his first big shot on growing pains, they said everybody in school would just walk around him and be like, oh, I'm Leonardo dicaprio.

[Brandon Collins]

He's like, it's not even creative.

[Shane Torres]

At least you're just like, there's a finger fucking joke. Or, you know, like there's some kind of.

[Brandon Collins]

You gotta be careful with that though. Cause sometimes you meet the celebrity later on, like Michael B. Jordan. Like, he met this chick that used to tease him in high school. She was like interviewing him on a red carpet. He's like, oh, yeah, I remember you. She's like, he's like, used to tease me. She's like, oh, no, that wasn't me. He's like. Like, it was like. It became like a viral moment.

[Shane Torres]

See, the one of Tracy Morgan, this homeless dude comes up.

[Zach Amico]

You can bring it. So that guy, I guess, was a comic for years. What I've read.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, really?

[Zach Amico]

And Tracy has given him money when.

[Shane Torres]

That guy came up.

[Zach Amico]

And that guy, I guess, is like an old timey, like, Harlem comic. He's homeless now.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And he has shown up to Tracy. Shit. Before.

[Shane Torres]

And done it again and again and done it. So it was. It was a little like. The way it's framed is a little.

[Zach Amico]

More the way it's framed. It makes it look like a homeless guy asked Tracy for money.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. And then Tracy's like, I remember you. Fuck you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

But it is. I think Tracy has given you bring it up.

[Shane Torres]

Don't talk to me like I owe you something.

[Zach Amico]

Can I get something, please?

[Shane Torres]

No.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, but I'm homeless, boy. I got it.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

I know. I know people that.

[Shane Torres]

It's tough, but.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. Do y' all know people that are, like, in very bad situations, whether they're financially or what have you. And they're like. They blame everyone but themselves.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

There's one common denominator.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Every time.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Well, there's not.

[Shane Torres]

Like, the people who, like, will make use of your help. You kind of know it a lot of the time.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, there's always like. There's like. It's like, well, maybe this guy's a. Like, I know he's a bit of a drunk, but he's not a bad person. And maybe he's like, so. Or whatever. But there's a few people. You're just like, if I give it to him, oh, nothing is fixed.

[Zach Amico]

I always call it. It's a give a mouse a cookie situation.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

You are now opening yourself to more favors.

[Brandon Collins]

Yes.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

It doesn't stop. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. My wife's got family like that.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, really?

[Zach Amico]

That are. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

That's the worst, man. It's family. Because then it's like, you can't tell, you know, your wife what to do. Like, you. All you can do is give, like, advice.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

And stuff. But, like.

[Shane Torres]

Oh.

[Brandon Collins]

When you're.

[Shane Torres]

When you're the person next to them. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Because my wife's the same thing. Has, like, family that's always, like, you know, handouts and, like, asking for support. And it's like, it's never reciprocated. They never call her to be like, hey, how are you doing? It's Always like, I'm DEFCON 5. Like, I need fucking every. All you got.

[Zach Amico]

Anyway, I'm really hoping nobody in my wife's family watches this one. It's to the point, like, the level of, like, dirt Irish Brooklyn people that she comes from. I mean, like, dude, I thought I was garbage.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I met some of my wife's family. One of them called everybody in the family saying that they were all going to Disney and that they were going to book the trip and was bilking people for money and then just never booked the trip. That level of, like.

[Shane Torres]

I got to say, though, man, that's despicable shit.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yes. Super despicable. But if that person is calling you and they're saying, I'm going to plan the trip, that person's never the one who's the planner.

[Zach Amico]

Everyone in my life but her has deleted this person, and I refuse to let her, because this person's social media is my joy.

[Shane Torres]

Hey, I got a couple of those in my family, too, dude.

[Zach Amico]

She one of those just. You know when people have no boundaries.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And they treat Facebook like no one's reading it.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, no. Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Like, also, so little of it is red. What is really crazy is when a person like that post and then you read the comments.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

That shit. You're just like, oh, my God. There's more of it.

[Zach Amico]

When you go on a deep dive into other people's drama. Yeah.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Oh.

[Zach Amico]

And it doesn't affect you at all.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, God.

[Zach Amico]

It's luxurious.

[Shane Torres]

It's like eating a bunch of licorice first thing in the morning. I'm not getting this shit out of.

[Brandon Collins]

My teeth all day. That's wild. Wait, are we talking red licorice, black licorice?

[Shane Torres]

It's just hot tamales.

[Zach Amico]

I will say Australian licorice. That's how good it is.

[Shane Torres]

Australian licorice. I don't even.

[Zach Amico]

Australian licorice kicks.

[Shane Torres]

Is it Paul Thomas Anderson?

[Zach Amico]

No, no, it's. I swear to God, it's a. It's. You get it at the airport. Yeah. Australia Licorice Kicks Ass.

[Brandon Collins]

The sequel to licorice.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. She's got a family member and.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

I'm trying to. I mean, it's. So there's no way for me to describe the situation without outing the person, but they. I would say they've had their proclivities in the past.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

And they had a child.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Who. Who has flippers?

[Shane Torres]

Flippers.

[Brandon Collins]

What?

[Zach Amico]

Flippers.

[Brandon Collins]

Like, flippers. Like, their hands are different.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, no, they're. They have Just Flipper. They don't have hands. Oh, there's no. There's nothing. Or there's like, maybe one.

[Brandon Collins]

Like, they're like the real life penguin from Batman. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

They got like. Yeah. Like that kind of thing going on.

[Brandon Collins]

No.

[Zach Amico]

And she complained that. And he's like, young, like 10, 11. How she found dick pics on his cell phone on Facebook. Well, his grandma did, because he lives with the grandma, but she found it. And all I was thinking was, like, the ingenuity, dude, of this kid to take Flipper dick pics.

[Brandon Collins]

Hilarious.

[Zach Amico]

I'm impressed.

[Brandon Collins]

I will say the.

[Zach Amico]

But she put it on Facebook. Like, you know, like the way you.

[Shane Torres]

Would put, like, just blasted in public. Like, she just.

[Zach Amico]

The way you would be like, ugh, I got a ticket today.

[Brandon Collins]

His Flipper dick pics. That's wild. I mean, it's embarrassing.

[Shane Torres]

It's a crazy thing to do to that kid.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

It's because I made two movies in Niagara Falls. The New York side. Yeah. And I'm still friends with a ton of people that were background people in it.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And it is just a dude. It's like reading the police blotter. Just like, my ex boyfriend broke down my door last night and the cops were here and they said, I can't get a restraining order for 48 hours.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, God. You know what's even better is when somebody gets in the comments and they're like, sticking up for the other person.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah, he's just having a rough time.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, that is high. You're just like. She's like, that's not how it happened at all. You could go and they'll put their address, like, come over.

[Zach Amico]

Somebody with his last name starts commenting.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you go to their page and you're like, oh, it's his son.

[Brandon Collins]

You know, Bobby loves you more than life itself. Come on.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, it is my joy of all.

[Shane Torres]

I don't know how people air shit out like that. Like, it's always disgusting on social media when people give. I get a little release. I get it. Posting a grieving thing. Or I'm. Yeah, it just happens.

[Brandon Collins]

But that's the.

[Shane Torres]

But some people, I'm just like, fucking cap this. Well, this is like an emotional BP spill.

[Brandon Collins]

You know, that's what people do for therapy.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Supplement. Like, because they can't, you know, for whatever reason. So they just vent on Facebook. I know so many older people that just like, post about their day. Like, it's a diary.

[Zach Amico]

It's like, dude, hood, like Spanish Harlem, Bronx dudes. Post on Facebook like they are 12 year old girls. The way they air their drama. They have no filter and no sense of this makes me look weird as shit.

[Brandon Collins]

Well, that's how you know they're not doing anything. Because if you had an actual job, like yeah, people could google that shit.

[Zach Amico]

And then you're done.

[Brandon Collins]

You know, I mean like it's insane but.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, dude, the. The drama of like a hardcore ghetto drama. Beauty.

[Brandon Collins]

That's how get arrested too. Because they be posted their crimes online.

[Shane Torres]

That is nuts.

[Brandon Collins]

Hilarious.

[Shane Torres]

I've never thought of like myself as a overly intelligent person, but like putting my crime in a documented place. Like that was a guy like I.

[Brandon Collins]

Watched like this docu series. This guy was like posting about how to hacking a. Like I don't know if it was credit card machines or something like that. He was teaching people to codes for the coding to be able to break into machines and. And he was just posting it on like Tick Tock and like.

[Zach Amico]

Or we had that in the Anarchist Cookbook growing up. I don't know if you guys.

[Shane Torres]

I mean I remember I never read it, but I knew it and like it would have like this is how you make dynamite or whatever. Kind of what we would do is.

[Zach Amico]

We would hack vending machine. I mean a very me crime.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Oh, I didn't. Was this what like hot salt water down.

[Zach Amico]

No, no. So it was the buttons on the front of the old soda machines where it would be like, you know, like just a big block that said Pepsi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane Torres]

They're the rectangles and they're.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, the big rectangles. Yeah, those were numbered.

[Shane Torres]

It was like a sugar water version of Simon.

[Zach Amico]

Yes, but those are numbered.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

So if you hit the right number.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, that's how you open it. It's like a pin code.

[Zach Amico]

The how to reset the prices. So you. I. It was like, you know, it was like a list but you had to do it. And then it would be like edit mode.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, there's codes for everything. Like I watched this movie called the Luckiest man in America or something. Paul Walter Hauser. And it's about him like.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, the, the game show.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, he does the game show and he's able to crack the pattern. So he just starts baking money and they're freaking out backstage like we're going to go fucking destitution. Like we need to stop.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, he just remembers the pattern, the timing on it. Everything.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah, everything has.

[Zach Amico]

That's his autism coming online.

[Shane Torres]

There's a little bit there's for sure. A little bit.

[Zach Amico]

That's the same with the perfect bid. The. The Price is Right guy.

[Brandon Collins]

Which one was that?

[Zach Amico]

So there's a guy and he played Price Right and he fucking annihilated. But he was definitely like, no question. Like, that's beyond the spectrum.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

He loved prices Right. He would go. Because you, you just show up and you might get paid.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. You might get picked. And you like, you wait in line or whatever else. Yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And he watched every day and had an Excel sheet.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Of the everything. And he.

[Shane Torres]

What a great amount of discipline. No, these guys don't get enough credit.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, no, this is brilliant. This is weaponizing.

[Shane Torres]

If they did this into push ups, they'd be super soldiers.

[Zach Amico]

And he would. He made a Price is Right home game on his computer.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, shit.

[Zach Amico]

So he would just run prices all day.

[Shannon]

I have the trailer if you want to see.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Oh, God, yes, I want to see it.

[Zach Amico]

I'm surprised you guys haven't seen this. All of my name tags.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, it's a doc.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty sure it was 37 altogether. So one week I got into like watching Prices rights from like 1973. The same refrigerator freezer is on four different episodes that I watched and it was $789 all four times. I'm like, well, see, there it is. There's proof. Oh, he was a math teacher too. Start tracking prices.

[Shane Torres]

Good for you.

[Zach Amico]

Records.

[Brandon Collins]

I love that.

[Zach Amico]

Wow.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

So this is the program he made at home. It's just sad that people don't know the whole story.

[Brandon Collins]

They got him looking evil, though.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

So did they. Like, they're accusing him of like some kind of fraud or something for.

[Zach Amico]

So what would happen is he wouldn't get picked, but he'd still be in the audience. And you know how the audience can help you.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

People just went, oh, everybody listen to that. It was like a stretch where people that would go a lot would be like, listen to him.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, he knows it every time.

[Zach Amico]

And he would just carry people through, through everything.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Wow.

[Zach Amico]

To the penny. Because they would just start looking at.

[Shane Torres]

They were costing everybody a lot. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

So they're just losing their asses on this. Taking a beating. That's. And eventually they're like, I, I think they were like, just somebody pick. Because once you go up, you're.

[Shane Torres]

You can't play for like a year or whatever.

[Zach Amico]

I think it's long. It might be like 10 years.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, wow. Damn. So I think they were like out of here.

[Shane Torres]

Like also just Plan it be like that fridge at789. 788. You know he's going to pick it.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

So, like, let him telegraph his punch a little bit and like. Yeah, sorry.

[Zach Amico]

So they pick him and he just. Yeah, he just fucking sweeps it.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I can't believe they. They didn't. They didn't fix the prices. If he. They knew he knew the prices.

[Zach Amico]

So that's the thing. I. As we've learned recently, I got a little trouble with celebrity chefs for spreading a few. Spreading a few porkies about how celebrity chef shows work. I thought sous chefs did a lot of the work, and I was wrong.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, really? Were you actually wrong?

[Zach Amico]

Oh, I was wrong. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

What happened?

[Zach Amico]

I said it on. They clipped it. It was. I talk about it last week a little.

[Shane Torres]

So I'll do it quick.

[Zach Amico]

But yeah, I said I was. I did an episode of this or I was like, oh, I had heard that on those shows, like, there's a sous chef remaking what you do, and that's what's on camera. Just something I heard that I must have assumed into truth in my brain, you know how well they do. Yeah, yeah, I can see how you got there.

[Brandon Collins]

But chefs do have, like, culinary designers and stuff. If, like, you're a certain level, like Bobby Flav or something like that, you do have a team that, like, curates designs and how you're supposed to put stuff together.

[Zach Amico]

Well, however I worded it was incorrect.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

Because my comments lit up really, with all check mark chefs.

[Shane Torres]

Really?

[Zach Amico]

Dude, Andrew Zimmerman fucking ate my ass a lot.

[Shane Torres]

Well, he's the one who eats the weird food, right? Yes.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, that must have been pleasurable.

[Zach Amico]

Paragraph of vitriol. This is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever seen in the history of the Internet.

[Shane Torres]

That's being a bit hyperbolic, I'm sure. But I can't.

[Zach Amico]

And they just came for me, dude.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah. What an asshole. He doesn't know.

[Shane Torres]

You said that they have somebody else plate the food and put it out.

[Zach Amico]

Or that it could be a recreation. Yeah, but because of game show laws, you have to do everything fair if there's money being awarded. And if they find out that you are tampering, it could like fuck up the whole.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, the FCC and stuff like that will get all your. Well, it's supposed to get all your actions.

[Zach Amico]

So I think that's the reason a.

[Shane Torres]

Rigged game essentially, is what they're saying.

[Zach Amico]

So that's why I think with prices. Right. They can't, like, if those are the numbers on file.

[Shane Torres]

I see, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Remember? So I listened to that story like the movie with Paul Walter Hauser and stuff. So they really did try to fuck with him. Like, and it's like a whole thing. They don't show the episode anymore. CBS never airs it. And they did all these mind games with him to throw him off because they couldn't, like you said, they couldn't rig like the game itself in real time. It's, it's, it's all picata. Well, all these games are.

[Shane Torres]

I have. Well, it's not my story, but. Do you guys know Josh Androski? You know who he is?

[Brandon Collins]

No.

[Shane Torres]

He's a comic from la. But he was on Price is Right. He has an amazing episode of this American Life for his birthday. He grew up in la. For his birthday he went to the prices right on mushrooms.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, awesome.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. And like even with a bunch of people and they called him and he went down and it's like, you can see some of the footage but like they, he opens the bid with $1. Like, like they're like, he goes first and he picks $1 on whatever. They're like, what?

[Zach Amico]

You know.

[Shane Torres]

And he's kind of a wild looking dude and he's like, he has a hat on that says Big Papa is just like. He goes, tell me what you do for a living. And he goes, I'm a skateboard rabbi. And he goes. And they cut it, but there's like this light. He goes, what does a skateboard rabbi do? And he goes, we turn religious extremism into religious extremism.

[Zach Amico]

That's awesome.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, the, the. This is it right here. Oh, that's Josh on the right.

[Zach Amico]

We're going to start with you.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

For that.

[Zach Amico]

I'm going to bid $1.

[Shane Torres]

$1.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

All right.

[Shane Torres]

Big pop of.

[Zach Amico]

Talking.

[Brandon Collins]

He's just tripping out right now.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, dude, that's got to be wild.

[Shane Torres]

This American Life on, it's fantastic.

[Zach Amico]

I would fall apart.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I think he gets, I think he gets picked if I remember correctly.

[Zach Amico]

Flying.

[Shane Torres]

He's like, he is the Forrest Gump of comedy. Like, there's another thing. He won a million dollars on a big bank theory slot machine in Vegas, I swear to God. And then he was going to use the money to run for LA county sheriff. Yeah. I haven't talked to him in years, but he was a fun.

[Brandon Collins]

He won a million dollars in slot machine.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

The Most everyone was. 5,000 was Sex in the City.

[Shane Torres]

$5,000.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

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[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

And I didn't know I won because I was. I was home tripping on mushrooms, watching a movie. I did not know the super bowl.

[Brandon Collins]

Was on fucking mushrooms.

[Shane Torres]

Do you guys gamble a lot on these, like, draftking apps and this kind of.

[Zach Amico]

No, no. I have been known to every once in a while on our friend prize picks.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

I like, I'm like worried about it because I just got. I bet on boxing. Right. Yeah. And I've just been getting into it like the past few months. Yeah. And it's. It's too savory. Like, I really.

[Zach Amico]

I am the worst thing that can.

[Shane Torres]

Happen, I feel, is like, you get a little success on your first one.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. You know what happened to me? I was betting on UFC for a while. Okay. Not in a legal way, not like with our friends prize picks. And I got a little too close to the sun and I was just putting in. Oh, no, stupid bat. Not stupid, but like uneducated bets.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Shane Torres]

It wasn't like an that way of looking at the money. Like, well, this is what I. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I was just. I was coming out on the other end of it pretty good with little bets. And then I just start. Yeah. I lost some cache the night Connor broke his leg.

[Shane Torres]

Oh.

[Zach Amico]

And that one hurt. Yeah, that one hurt bad because I was like, man, I. I was real pumped on it. Yeah. And then you just. It's almost. You feel the poof of your buddy.

[Brandon Collins]

Well, you saw the poof when you Saw his leg.

[Zach Amico]

And I was like, no.

[Shane Torres]

It's like a wishbone from a turkey for you.

[Zach Amico]

I had called the night Lesn fought Mark Hunt.

[Brandon Collins]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

I called that entire card.

[Shane Torres]

Oh.

[Zach Amico]

And I didn't parlay it.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, damn.

[Zach Amico]

And it made me. So I called every fight on that card and it was like me and my friends were all just putting money in per fight. Yeah. And I was like, oh, if I had done that. So now I. I was hot on myself.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

I can't do the apps and stuff. I got gambling addiction in my family. So, like, I can't. Like, like, literally, like, family members have ruined themselves doing it. So having an app available, it's pretty easy to.

[Shane Torres]

People get addicted if you with it a little bit, you know?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. I love.

[Shane Torres]

Like, I called two of the three fights right in my parlay on Saturday night. And I. And then I was like, God damn.

[Zach Amico]

Tim McLaughlin has a great story because he'll do like.

[Shane Torres]

He's the funniest person alive, Tim McLaughlin.

[Zach Amico]

So fucking funny. If for people don't know him. He's on the show all the time. He did like a 12 part. Like, he.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

He.

[Zach Amico]

He'll bet $5 on a bunch of stuff on a bunch of, like, you know, just how many catches, how many yards?

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Like these. All these problems.

[Zach Amico]

And he won, like. Well, Shannon, I want to say it was like 20 grand on like a 15 bet. Oh, good God.

[Shane Torres]

Really?

[Zach Amico]

Something crazy. He lost it immediately, of course.

[Shane Torres]

Of course.

[Zach Amico]

He's also done that.

[Shane Torres]

Had to make his girlfriend so mad.

[Zach Amico]

He's. He's also won like a shitload in poker. And immediately. Yeah, he's a good.

[Shane Torres]

Tim's. He. He came over and he hung a bunch of stuff at the apartment because he's, like, very handy. And my. My buddy that I rent from was like. I told him, but Tim. I was like, tim can do all this. And he goes, okay. And he goes, that dude made me uncomfortable. He kept calling himself a fucking idiot. The whole time, he's just sitting there hanging a picture, calling himself an idiot. Like, I'm a fucking idiot. That's wild.

[Zach Amico]

My favorite Tim thing is one time I was like, you still working at the bowling games? Like, nah, Micah made me quit. I kept getting electrocuted. I got electrocuted. I kept getting. I kept getting electric. He would go to fix the bowling machines and just wake up on the ground, like, smoking.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh. Like he was getting knocked out. It wasn't like, no, yeah, he was getting electric.

[Shane Torres]

Like somebody like, what's the lightning strike.

[Zach Amico]

Every Time somebody hit a strike, he shits his pants. You gotta.

[Shane Torres]

You have to ask him the story of next time he's on about him and Mike, how they got together.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, I will. Because it's a pin in that.

[Shane Torres]

It's so funny because he's just like. I was like, how'd you guys get together? I won't tell the whole story. Well, I was going to Cobra Club every week because I liked how mean she was to everyone. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

He must either have the nicest or meanest moment.

[Shane Torres]

I bet she's very nice.

[Zach Amico]

I bet she's overly.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can bet. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

He likes a little spice in his life, you know, you saw like, you.

[Shane Torres]

Know, he's the most Midwestern guy I've ever met in my entire life.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah. It drips out of him.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

What a sweetheart.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I was telling you, I just want to tell people, do Begonia Bang.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, I haven't watched it yet.

[Zach Amico]

I feel gonna love it. I guarantee you're gonna be pumped.

[Shane Torres]

Do I need to be in a mood for it? Like one of those kind of.

[Brandon Collins]

You can't go in, like, Dory and like, I just want.

[Shane Torres]

Do. I just want to see a movie?

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, it's pretty intense, man. From my jump.

[Zach Amico]

It's not a. I wouldn't watch it and then be like, now let's go have a happy night out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Maybe like sit back, have like a glass of whiskey or something like that and just.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, I would say it's not a 2pm movie.

[Shane Torres]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

It is an 8pm after movie.

[Brandon Collins]

Maybe that's a good time to watch.

[Zach Amico]

Because I. I watch Crazy Girlfriend or no Girlfriend.

[Brandon Collins]

I would say girlfriend.

[Zach Amico]

Girlfriend.

[Shane Torres]

Fine.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. Good at really good acting. Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Okay.

[Zach Amico]

And I. I feel like a queef saying this. One of the main characters is. Is on the spectrum and they actually cast an autistic guy. He's fucking great.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

It's one of the most natural cast.

[Zach Amico]

It's the most. Not a performance. Like, he's like, oh, that's probably how that guy talking talks.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Were you annoyed? Did you ever see Good Time, the Safdie Brother movie?

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Were you annoyed with Benny Safdie in that movie? Like, I was really bothered by that. That, like, after. After I learned who Betty Sappy was, I was like, wait, wait a minute.

[Shane Torres]

Is he the one that's always in movies? Yeah, yeah, he's the one.

[Zach Amico]

But he's the one that's in Happy Gilmore too.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah, but he.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, I remember what A clip that was like a YouTube super cut.

[Zach Amico]

It was nuts. How bad it was literally. Cameos and clips from the other movies.

[Brandon Collins]

A lot of people.

[Zach Amico]

The other movie. Yeah, it was crazy. Terrible.

[Brandon Collins]

It was so bad. And then they killed Julie.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Bo.

[Brandon Collins]

Sorry.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, they kill her immediately after doing all the press that she was coming back where she's like, you know, it's not like one of those movies where he gets a younger girlfriend.

[Shane Torres]

What's so interesting?

[Brandon Collins]

It's like, she's so hot.

[Shane Torres]

I. Yeah, she's still a smoke.

[Zach Amico]

I think she's hotter now than she was.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. Modern Family. She like, got really, like. I don't know.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, she's hotter now.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, she's a baby the whole time. But I think it's like. Well, I don't like. Look, I. It's hard to make a movie. Yeah, it's really hard.

[Zach Amico]

Like, I am. Oh, and 50. Yeah, I, I, I have, I have. If I walk by a movie set, it's a bad movie. And I know that the New Jersey Devil, I'm owing nothing.

[Shane Torres]

I, I shot my first movie last year. Okay. Right. And I was like. And it was like, you know, fairly low budget production and I was just like, this is so hard. Yes. You know what I mean? Because everybody's wearing different hats.

[Brandon Collins]

It's a lot of work.

[Shane Torres]

So, like, I have like a great amount of sympathy having seen what it takes. But I was just like, this is not the effort in. This does not seem maximal, you know, like, you know, like. Because, like, when I watched another sailor movie, Hustle, which I thought was going to be just kind of a movie, I really like it. Yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. But that's what I was just like, this is, this felt like cash. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

But team, though, that's like a different creative team. That's a creative team that's like taking it seriously. They clearly had a script. You know, I mean, I think the Happy Madison movies, they just kind of have fun. Like, because I never hear anything bad about Adam Sandler.

[Zach Amico]

I always hear like, it's fun, that he's the nicest. Right. There was a story going around that I was probably AI this week that his daughter got went into like a Chanel store or something and they wouldn't serve because she had on like a hoodie and shorts. And she called him and he showed up and really changed their mind on what bag she was.

[Shane Torres]

They wouldn't let her dress like her father.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, dude, I was at W. I could be wrong. I thought WMA for a screening for the Fableman's right. Like, all these big shots in Hollywood. Adam Sandler is in a hoodie and shorts to introduce the movie. And even in his speech, he's like, yeah, I haven't watched the whole thing. I heard it's good, though. I think Steve did a. You know, apparently he did a really good job. Enjoy, guys. And then you leave, so you're just like, he's that guy. Like, he's Adam.

[Shane Torres]

I mean, he must move like a fucking gangster. Well, so, like. Like, in a good way. Like. Like, just like, I'll do it the way I want. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And as far as, like, what he does. I get it. It's like, you pick an exotic location, you take your fan. Especially when the kids were younger. Now the kids are in the movies, the kids are younger.

[Brandon Collins]

I got feelings about that. But.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. Every summer. Yeah. Me and my family go to fucking Africa. We go to fucking. A water park. Yeah. Wherever the movie's gonna be. Hawaii for 51st days, whatever. And, you know, we know what kind of movie we make.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. That's not.

[Zach Amico]

I'm fine with that. Dude. I love Hubie Halloween because I went, oh, this is gonna be retarded.

[Brandon Collins]

That was silly.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I can take something in the context it's supposed to be done.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

But I just thought Happy Gilmore, too, was just like. It was just celebrity and it was.

[Zach Amico]

Just celebrities and then celebrities recreating the scenes from the first one, which is like the Trap sequels fall in, which is. How do we redo the beats?

[Brandon Collins]

That's why I hate Anchorman 2. I was like, it not only followed the same beats from the first one, it also integrated, like, Talladega knights shit. And you're like, wait, Adam McCabe will fro. You guys are better than this. What's happening?

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. You've created your universe.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

I think. I think it's like you said, like, they all. They all recreate each other. They kind of do that trap where they fall into one. They're trying to do the same thing again and again.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. Look at them. Jurassic park, the first one, when they rebooted it.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

It's all the beats of Jurassic park, but with one dinosaur bigger. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

But I did think it worth opening the park. I thought that was a cool element of it. But after that, if it's a shit.

[Shane Torres]

Was that Hollywood executive from, like, the Golden Age, he said. He always just said, bring me the same thing, but different.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, I don't know.

[Brandon Collins]

But that, like, all of them.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, but, like, that was like, what? Like, it's like. That's what it feels like.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. You know, like, this was the hit.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

How do we raise it? Or, like, you know, just change.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, every pitch meeting, it's like one of the first questions is, what's the comp like? You know what I mean? Like, that they always want to know, like, how can I sell this that. To something related that's like, love.

[Shane Torres]

And like. I mean, our. I guess the heyday of comedies for. I don't know how old you guys are, but, like, the age group was just like the early 2000. Every bromance was the same movie, and.

[Brandon Collins]

They all star Freddie Prinze Jr. Or Jason Biggs or like.

[Shane Torres]

Or there was like, the Paul Rudd. I love. Like, the. Like, even out the Apatow universe, there was.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Well, they have that great joke at the. One of the roasts. Dick Kroll does it. I think he's like, how it says, Seth, Seth, Seth Rogen's here. He has a part named Evan Goldberg. How ugly is this guy that you're the face of the operation? I just picture a sweaty orthodox Jew eating a pastrami sandwich going, sethi, baby. I added 10 more dick jokes to page three, and I was thinking maybe they smoke a lot of ganja and then they're friends, and then they're not friends, and at the end of the movie, they're friends again.

[Brandon Collins]

God damn it. I love comedy. But I. Yeah, I agree. Happy Gilmore, too. I was just like, what?

[Zach Amico]

It just left Eminem.

[Brandon Collins]

Cameo was nuts.

[Zach Amico]

It was retarded.

[Brandon Collins]

Like, why does he look like this, first of all?

[Zach Amico]

And why is he just playing a dead guy? He's just an unrelated dead guy.

[Shane Torres]

I mean, this does. I will say this. Rabbi Gilmore, too.

[Zach Amico]

The.

[Shane Torres]

The proof that all of these celebrities want to be in it shows you how insane the first one was as. As a, like, influential film, you know, like. Because it is not. It's not just people like my age that are supposed to like that movie. It's, like, all the way down to Margaret quality, who's, like, you know, 20 years younger than me.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Every peep, like, over, under, like, it's. It is. It shows you how the longevity of that film and, like, I mean, or not the longevity, but rather the, like.

[Zach Amico]

Probably the exact age. I'm 38.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I'm. I'm a little older than you, but where the.

[Zach Amico]

Like, I remember the kids who were a little older than me that being, like, them being obsessed with Sandler.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I get every part of it is they had done that to Billy Madison, it would have hurt my feelings.

[Brandon Collins]

I feel the same way. I'm like, don't touch Billy Madison. Do not fucking revisit that. I mean, I actually think there's more fodder though, to work with Billy Madison sequel than there was Abigail.

[Shane Torres]

I actually think so too, because he inherits the whatever, like Ian here hotel. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

It's also easy. Well, no, that's a Mr. Deeds, right?

[Shane Torres]

No, that's Billy Madison. Okay.

[Zach Amico]

Madison Hotels. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Shane Torres]

But the Eric said. Eric's bag.

[Brandon Collins]

But the Billy Madison, you know, there's so much like, you know, turmoil with the education system. He could have a kid that like, is fucking the same thing. Like, you could retread it but still make it really, really funny because there's so much fodder with like, education shit. Like Abbott elementary has proven that. So, yeah, Sandler doing that. Or Sandler could be a teacher, like, for some reason.

[Zach Amico]

Well, he does go to back, if you remember, he gives the hotel to the guy who was fake Kramer.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

On Seinfeld, when they made the Seinfeld show, the guy that played Kramer, he was also the guy that owned the junkyard in Breaking Bad.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Yes, yes.

[Brandon Collins]

That's a specific.

[Shane Torres]

Guy's got rage.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

It's just crazy. He's just playing himself. So.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, he did go to school. He said he was going to college. Become a teacher.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I think the funny thing to do there is. And I don't know because I guess they try to in Happy Gilmore too. I think he should become a rich prick and have to refine Happy Interesting or refined Bill. You know, the. You know, I think he should have fucked it all up.

[Shane Torres]

I think that is a way you do that. But they're one of the few family owned hotel chains left in the world. And it's a comment on globalism and like, so they're trying to be brought out by Hilton or whatever.

[Zach Amico]

That would make sense. Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

So you do like kind of a. A Tommy Boy. Yeah, like, all I want is the goddamn box.

[Brandon Collins]

And I think that. I think Bradley Woodford's character, like, makes more sense to bring back as the Enemy than what they did with Happy Gilmore too, and all that stuff, you know.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Like, because he has.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I really wanted more. Like, Shooter and him were so amazing in the first one.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And they had none of that.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Which kind of was like. I liked seeing them go. And I guess they go at each other a little bit in the second one.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

But like just the. The back and forth quipping and I hated.

[Zach Amico]

Hate. I guess it was a comment on what the. The. The new golf they're doing in Saudi Arabia.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Is such a mess.

[Zach Amico]

The third act, it was just like this weird se. Like nobody cared about Abigail because of the cool golf. And it's just like these weird cg, like fake courses. And it's just like it added this element where now it almost looks like that pixel movie or whatever the it was.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Pixels. Yeah, yeah. Dinklage and Adam Sandler.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, Give it to Sandler, though, man. He really. He not afraid to try. No, like, I like, you know, like, he was like, yeah, why won't I do it?

[Brandon Collins]

And he mixes it up. Like, that's the thing is, like, he is very underrated. Like, he got washed out in this Oscar race for, you know, for J. Kelly or whatever, but he, like, has shown, like, I can actually act and stuff. So he has respect on the industry. It's just, you know, good on him for having the freedom to do what he wants because no one could tell him no. And.

[Zach Amico]

And there's all. I will say that there's movies, the non Adam Sandler movies of a certain house bunny's great grandma's boy is fucking brilliant.

[Brandon Collins]

It's really house buddies with what's her name, right?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah, she's. There's a couple really good Dirty work.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Shane Torres]

These are all Happy Madison movies is what you're saying.

[Zach Amico]

I feel like they're all in the wheelhouse. Well, those two were.

[Shane Torres]

I don't know.

[Zach Amico]

I don't think dirty work.

[Shane Torres]

Well, dirty work was.

[Zach Amico]

But yeah, Sandler's in it.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, Sandler's in Dirty Work. Oh, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

He's the B of devil.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

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[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I don't know, man. I think it's interesting. Like, it's so much easier to hate on him for Happy Gilmore, too. And then he should have. And nobody said the hate we should be giving is that he was not nominated for his role in J. Kelly.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

You know, like.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Like, it's just easier to, like, dog the dude out, which is a fucking shit.

[Brandon Collins]

It sucks because it's like whiplash. Being an Adam Sandler fan, you're like, you know, you love his comedy. And then he'll do like, a hustle, and you're like, this guy's fucking good. And then, like, it'll do like a weird comedy. Like a. I like to be Hollywood, but a lot of people hated that one.

[Zach Amico]

I didn't see that. It was. It was McDonald's, dude. Yeah, it was exactly what. You knew what you were getting. Yeah, it was dumb. It made me laugh.

[Brandon Collins]

I loved murder mystery.

[Zach Amico]

Murder mystery is really good. Murder mystery was very, very good.

[Shane Torres]

Has he made.

[Zach Amico]

He's got a quote recently where he's like, before I die, I'd like to make about 50 more movies. About 25 will be good.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

But. Yeah, that's kind of how movies work, too.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Like, nobody bats a thousand. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Like, Scorsese has bad movies.

[Shane Torres]

What's his worst movies think?

[Zach Amico]

It depends. Like, I. There's a. There's a stretch for a while where he. He wasn't hitting.

[Shane Torres]

What do you think? Better question, what do you think his most underrated movie is?

[Zach Amico]

After Hours.

[Shane Torres]

After.

[Brandon Collins]

Really?

[Shane Torres]

I would say love After Hours.

[Zach Amico]

You know, I know people don't like, I Cannot Stand.

[Shane Torres]

I love Bringing out.

[Brandon Collins]

Why I hate the main. I hate the main actor. I don't like him.

[Zach Amico]

Okay.

[Brandon Collins]

I like him in this Is Us, but like that. After I'm blinking on his name. But like, I did not like him in the main role for After Hours. Underrated. I would say Bringing out the Dead.

[Shane Torres]

That's what I was saying.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Nicholas Cage. That was an interesting Cage.

[Shane Torres]

Tom. S. Like, everybody he's paired with.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, he threw a lot out out there. And, like, it doesn't quite hit. But, like, that was an experimental.

[Shane Torres]

There's some great scenes in that movie, though. Yeah. Have you ever seen it?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shane Torres]

I love that movie. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And then my favorite is Cape Fear. I. I just think Cape Fear is so.

[Brandon Collins]

I get so uncomfortable. The Juliet Lewis scene with the finger, it's so uncomfortable.

[Zach Amico]

Dude, she's young too. It's.

[Brandon Collins]

It's really bad.

[Shane Torres]

I just always have the. Whenever I think of Caper, I just think of him doing the dips.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I'm just like, ah, that's one.

[Brandon Collins]

Of the best Simpsons parodies ever.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, it's.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

The best ever. Yeah, that's a. I think that might be one of the last Conan's.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Zach Amico]

There's monorail. I know is Conan, but I think. I think Cape Fear might be Conan too.

[Brandon Collins]

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

That. What makes that work is it's the whole episode.

[Brandon Collins]

Yes.

[Zach Amico]

If you see the episode first, you watch the movie. It kind of did to Cape Fear what Walk Hard did to biopics.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. Yeah. Just throughout, like, showed you the whole formula and then you're just like, oh, well, now I know Zach Aldi's work.

[Zach Amico]

But Keith here is also a remake, like, so that was already kind of in the culture. Like, pretty much all the beats.

[Brandon Collins]

I will say Nick Nolte and De Niro both trying to out crazy each other.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Sight to behold. You know, it's like, I always love when actors try to outcrate, like, Pacino and Leto in like, House of Gucci. They're both nuts with those accents. And there's one scene where they're just screaming at each other. I'm like, this is cinema, guys. This is.

[Zach Amico]

I don't know. De Niro in Came Fear when he. When he rapes Dolphy's side face. I got you now, bitch.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, that's a rough.

[Zach Amico]

He got his teeth filed down for that, right? Oh, I'm sure he had his.

[Brandon Collins]

He does some wild method stuff.

[Zach Amico]

I want to say he had his teeth, like, filed down tiny. Paid for it himself, and then got new teeth after that movie because he's got tiny little teeth in that movie.

[Shane Torres]

What's the thinking?

[Zach Amico]

I think that he's just poor and has bad teeth. Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Oh, it's okay. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And I change the same.

[Shane Torres]

It's so funny to think, how you doing, Kyle?

[Zach Amico]

Pay the dentist five grand to grind down and ruin his teeth to create a more menacing, derelict appearance. And then paid another 20 grand to have his teeth returned.

[Shane Torres]

Damn.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, he can't do the method stuff anymore, though. I think, like, a bunch of directors have had to Talk him down to like, hey, you can't. Like he for the longest time wanted to play younger and Irishman. He was finally worse, but then Nova told him, like, hey, man, you know, you can't move though, like a 30 year old man.

[Zach Amico]

Well, the thing that, that was like.

[Shane Torres]

When he was throwing the gun in the river.

[Zach Amico]

Stomp. Yeah, the stomps outside the store. The little old man stumps. The thing that bothered me about the Irishman, nobody went, hey, you know, we gotta fix their ears. Ah, they all have giant old man ears.

[Brandon Collins]

That's funny.

[Zach Amico]

And nobody fixes it. And it drives me nuts. Yeah, that.

[Shane Torres]

I would have never noticed that.

[Zach Amico]

It's crazy.

[Shane Torres]

I can't understand because we all. The stomp was the big thing in the end.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, right.

[Brandon Collins]

And the hand, like, if you look at his, it's like weird. Like it's just he looks.

[Shane Torres]

Or when he throws the gun away in the river and he's like hopping on the rocks, you know, whatever. Like, I just couldn't understand why they didn't shoot it. Where, like there's a boot coming down, you know, like there's another way to show this. And you're Martin Scorsese. You know how to do all.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, it's body double.

[Shane Torres]

Well, I think just like the guy looks up and there's a foot coming down on his face and you cut to teeth.

[Brandon Collins]

I guess the narrowest. I can do it because we saw.

[Shane Torres]

I guess it's probably very hard to say to. No. No to someone of that stature.

[Brandon Collins]

I saw like the opening, like the premiere of House to Lois.

[Zach Amico]

Right.

[Brandon Collins]

The Spike Lee movie with Denzel. And there's a scene where they do the take.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, it's the thing where he's the new one that came out.

[Brandon Collins]

They do have the taken cuts where Denzel's character is like jumping over a fence and stuff, right. And the audience, like Denzel and Spike are there in the audience and the audience is laughing because they're like, you know, that's not Denzel doing that shit. But I think De Niro's like, I can do it, guys. And they're like, you know, we could bring in somebody like, no, I got it.

[Zach Amico]

Now I will say the worst. Playing Young is. And he does it egregiously in two different movies. Travolta.

[Brandon Collins]

Which. Which ones are you? Which movies do you think about?

[Zach Amico]

And it's Gotti.

[Brandon Collins]

That's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

[Zach Amico]

Which if you have not sat through.

[Shane Torres]

I know because on my streaming, I know the Image. Yeah. I watch.

[Zach Amico]

However bad you think it's gonna be, it's worse.

[Brandon Collins]

I watched Gotti drugged up in a hospital bed after I had lung surgery. And it was worse than the surgery. It was so bad. It's so offensive. Kevin Conley ruined his career, I think.

[Shane Torres]

Well, first of all, I know Kevin Conley.

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

I went to the red light district with him in Amsterdam. Really? With him and Burt. Yeah, he was there, like, filming something, and I was with Bert.

[Brandon Collins]

Did everyone call him E? Everywhere he went. Is that like, a thing for him?

[Shane Torres]

No, I mean, he was like, so like that. We did, like, it was like a good group of people, so nobody was busting balls. But, like, we were all.

[Brandon Collins]

I meant, like, just like, regular, you know?

[Shane Torres]

I fancy myself a pretty, like, leftist dude.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

For whatever. But, like, I was like, maybe I'm a little more bro than I thought. If I'm going to the red light district with one of the guys from Entourage and a guy who never wears a shirt that calls himself the Machine. Yeah. Hey.

[Zach Amico]

What is wrong, man?

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

When an answer.

[Shane Torres]

It was a good time. Yeah. And he was a fucking sweetheart.

[Zach Amico]

Okay.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Shane Torres]

It was an awesome dude.

[Brandon Collins]

Good thing you didn't see Gotti before you met him, though.

[Zach Amico]

This is what I'll say about Gotti. Imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie. And now imagine one of the guys from Entourage made a John Gotti movie.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, there's a lot of people like.

[Brandon Collins]

Entourage in it too.

[Shane Torres]

Did he make the movie like he directed it? Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

It's like he's playing photos because he used. He's wearing Gotti's real clothes. I think the family donated shit. So he's. They're very much placating to the family. They're making it like, oh, he was a neighborhood guy and everything was better with him.

[Brandon Collins]

But wasn't it even, like, time wise? It was like, off. Like, I remember they played completely off. They played a Pitbull song in the background. You're like, wait a minute. This is like in the 90s.

[Zach Amico]

He plays multiple ages and you can never figure out how old he's supposed to be.

[Brandon Collins]

He was the same age the whole time.

[Zach Amico]

And there's another one where he plays. I forget the name.

[Brandon Collins]

The fan guy. When he's like, the obsessed fan.

[Zach Amico]

No, that's. I'm obsessed. That's a whole other can of worms.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah. With the neurodiversity. That was nuts.

[Zach Amico]

I'll talk about that in a second.

[Brandon Collins]

The fanatic Fred Durst directed that.

[Zach Amico]

Yes, he did. And wrote it.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, my God.

[Zach Amico]

There's another one where he plays the guy who was selling speedboats to coke smugglers.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah. Need for. Was that need for Speed? It's on Hulu.

[Shane Torres]

Need for Speed is like a car movie.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And he's done up to be younger.

[Shannon]

Speed kills.

[Shane Torres]

Speed kills.

[Zach Amico]

Speed kills. Thank you.

[Shane Torres]

Thank you, Shannon.

[Zach Amico]

And he's got a scene where he's in a phone booth and he's young in the face and hair. Like, they gave him a young wig and makeup, but they left his hands. And you know how old guys will get the arm hair that goes up to their pinky.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. Like, you get a little more wooly bully kind of. Yeah, dude.

[Zach Amico]

He's on the phone with a young face and an old hand.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, no.

[Zach Amico]

And no. I guess travel to, like, if we lose. Like, if we send him back to the trailer now, he's gonna, like, molest three more people. Like, let's just. Let's get the shot. But. Okay. The Fanatic. I'm upset. I've seen the Fanatic.

[Brandon Collins]

That's one of the most offensive movies I've ever seen. It's so fucking out.

[Shane Torres]

Is it, like a bad movie? Well, like, I mean, I don't know what it is. And I'm sure, like. Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

He's like. He's obsessed with, like, this horror series that Devin Sawa from.

[Zach Amico]

Devin Sawa is an actor and John Travolta is an autograph collector.

[Shane Torres]

Okay. And Devin Sawa plays an actor in this movie.

[Zach Amico]

Plays an actor in this. Hunter. Hunter. Duncan or something like that. Duncan something. Trust me, I've seen it five times. I made my family watch it on Christmas Eve.

[Shane Torres]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, it is a sight to behold.

[Zach Amico]

It's like.

[Brandon Collins]

It's so fucking troubling.

[Zach Amico]

And Travolta, his day job. First of all, we're even getting to the plot of the movie. He's a character in man's Chinese square, you know, like the built tourists for pictures.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

But because it's not an expensive movie, they can't include copywritten characters. So he's just a Bobby. Like a London Bobby.

[Brandon Collins]

It's.

[Shane Torres]

Oh.

[Zach Amico]

Like a.

[Brandon Collins]

He's just standing.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Welcome to Hollywood. Where dreams are made. Because, you know when you go to John Travolta. Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

And he's supposed to be on the spectrum. And so, like, he's very awkward.

[Zach Amico]

And, like, he goes to a. Like, he gets invited to a premiere party and he orders a strawberry milkshake and does it and like argues with the bartender, like, why can't you make me a strawberry milkshake? I love Shade.

[Brandon Collins]

It's really.

[Zach Amico]

Is that the movie is.

[Shane Torres]

I do like, it's wild. I have had people like that at.

[Brandon Collins]

Least shake and see what he looks.

[Zach Amico]

Like stalking the the actor. And it's written and directed by Fred Durst. There's at least five different points where it fades to black and you go, yeah, that's how it ended. And then it just keeps going.

[Brandon Collins]

Keeps going.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. And then it ends. Super Saiyan.

[Shannon]

I have the trailer if you want to see a little bit of it.

[Zach Amico]

Sure.

[Shane Torres]

Please God.

[Zach Amico]

His friends are paparazzi. Why this old autistic man is friends with a 20 year old paparazzi is never explained.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, that's how he looks.

[Shane Torres]

Is Hunter Dunbar here tonight?

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

That's enough.

[Shane Torres]

I need to get an autograph. Don't let us do this to me. I'm a fan. I'm a number one fan. Is it difficult to find famous people's houses?

[Shannon]

I use my Star map app. You have to be careful.

[Zach Amico]

I don't want you to be accused of stalking. Hey, you can't just come to my.

[Shane Torres]

Private residence looking for me.

[Zach Amico]

Listen, pal, I don't know how you found me, but I don't ever want to see you in this neighborhood again.

[Shane Torres]

What?

[Intro/Outro Announcer]

Help.

[Shane Torres]

I just wanted an autograph.

[Zach Amico]

Wait, wait, wait. Out of your mind?

[Shane Torres]

I, I. To be honest, based on that trailer, I would watch that movie like, okay.

[Zach Amico]

So now and again I've seen a bunch of. Also, this is what's funny about it. He took out a full page ad in Variety.

[Shane Torres]

Who did?

[Zach Amico]

Travolta.

[Shane Torres]

Okay.

[Zach Amico]

For your consideration, Best actor.

[Brandon Collins]

No, he didn't.

[Zach Amico]

John Travolta himself in the Fanatic because he was so proud of his performance.

[Brandon Collins]

I do think he has one more good performance before all is said and done.

[Zach Amico]

I bet he does.

[Shane Torres]

I think he's got more than one.

[Zach Amico]

I bet he's got a few.

[Brandon Collins]

I'm saying one because he's not gonna get more than that from.

[Shane Torres]

I don't know, man. Like he, like I'm a Travolta fan. Yeah, but sure, he's got, he's I love. Amazing. Amazing. Another movie.

[Brandon Collins]

I'll crazy each other.

[Shane Torres]

Yes. Yeah. He's been in some pretty bad movies. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

Yes, yes.

[Shane Torres]

He keeps getting opportunities. So I think he, that's why I think he can have more than one good performance left in like there's gotta.

[Brandon Collins]

Be a good movie overall. It can't be. He's A great performance. Like he gets a great performance.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

But like, like, if Tarantino puts him in like his last movie, there's promise there.

[Shane Torres]

If he gets him. Yeah. Maybe he's the second banana on the. Kind of. Like he's not. He's Val Kilmer as opposed to Kurt Russell and Tombstone. Yeah, if he gets a few of those.

[Zach Amico]

So here's why the. The him buying the ad is super sad. I think he's doing Jet.

[Shane Torres]

What?

[Zach Amico]

His dead autistic son.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

Travolta, I don't want to talk about this anymore. Travolta.

[Shane Torres]

I don't want to talk about this. Hey.

[Zach Amico]

Extremely Special Needs.

[Shane Torres]

Every time. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

[Zach Amico]

And I know. I. I'm playing Jet. This is his love raising to his. I think he's playing you if you think that.

[Brandon Collins]

Rip to Jet. Rip to Kelly Preston.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, yeah. And that was awesome. Gotti's her last movie, right?

[Shane Torres]

Yes. Oh, is it really? It's all right.

[Brandon Collins]

I just remember Jerry Maguire. That's all I need to remember.

[Zach Amico]

Well, because they already had for love of the game.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh.

[Zach Amico]

Artie has a story about being on Jerry Maguire. And they were playing catch in the lot and a little kid ran up and he threw the ball to him and all these scientologists ran over and were like, you do not talk to Jack Travolta. You do not play with him. Because they were hiding the fact that he was non verbal or something disgusting. Because he's like. He like, drowned in the tub. Like some very weird.

[Shane Torres]

So depressing. I can't.

[Zach Amico]

And I'm convinced that the fanatic is his tribute to his son.

[Shane Torres]

Your theories are fucking crazy that I.

[Zach Amico]

You can't.

[Shane Torres]

This is. No, it's not.

[Zach Amico]

That is so solid. I'm telling you, take it apart. Yeah. Right now.

[Shane Torres]

Like a fly's wings. Yeah. You think he took out of Adam Variety? He was proud of his performance.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

And then you make the insane jump.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

You're admitting it's an insane jump.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane Torres]

Okay.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

That's all I do. There's a reason I'm wrong about. Shit. Why are we even arguing? I'm a big fan of going A to D without looking at B and.

[Shane Torres]

C. Yeah, you fucking do. You sure are shit.

[Zach Amico]

But so he's got like ticks in it and shit and like whatever you would call it. Like, he like, smells his ear the whole movie. And I'm going, he got that from Something.

[Shane Torres]

He's a great actor.

[Zach Amico]

Is he?

[Shane Torres]

You're not saying he got that from something. You're saying he got it wrong.

[Zach Amico]

I think he did.

[Shane Torres]

I do not think that. I do not think that. And I believe you are an SP and I am an operating thetan on a level of six.

[Zach Amico]

Okay. All right, let's get one more thing out of here. Everybody saw the boxer loses wig, right? Yes.

[Shane Torres]

What? Yeah, I watched. Watching it live.

[Zach Amico]

Just absolutely brilliant.

[Brandon Collins]

Why not just shave your head?

[Shane Torres]

You know, Like, I wanted to say this. Like, I was gonna do some kind of clip about it, but, like, that's Jerrell Miller. He's, like. He's from Brooklyn. He's, like, from Brownsville or East New York or something like that. The one thing we can all agree on in this day and age, black people, black men always look better with a shaved head.

[Zach Amico]

Yes.

[Shane Torres]

It's the one thing, you guys, that was insane.

[Zach Amico]

Women have it, and we don't know.

[Shane Torres]

It's the one thing. Like, everyone's like, yeah, they're the most racist. Guy will be like, they're doing it.

[Zach Amico]

Better than us across the board.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And.

[Shane Torres]

And I will give him a ton of fucking credit, though, for saying it was funny. Yes. And also that he threw it, pulled it off and threw it into the audience.

[Zach Amico]

You had to.

[Brandon Collins]

You have to fully embrace that. You can't try to, like, put it back.

[Shane Torres]

When he shells up and he shells up, you can see he's, like, carrying his hands a little high because he's trying to keep the wig down.

[Brandon Collins]

The hubris, and thinking, I'm going to win this fight.

[Zach Amico]

You actually see the opponent laugh. Watch, watch, and watch. He smiles, gracious.

[Shane Torres]

Took it up and.

[Zach Amico]

Threw it into the crowd.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I give. You got to give him credit for owning it.

[Zach Amico]

Before we get out of here, I want to do one more thing. Four women try a rodeo seesaw.

[Brandon Collins]

Oh, I saw that.

[Zach Amico]

Let's watch it, and we'll end on this.

[Shane Torres]

I couldn't tell.

[Brandon Collins]

Some of them are hot, though.

[Shannon]

Like, one second.

[Zach Amico]

No problem. This is, by the way, the scariest. Like, to even get on this. You're out of your mind.

[Brandon Collins]

I mean, the jackass thing turned me.

[Zach Amico]

The out of me, cuz.

[Brandon Collins]

Did a Johnny Knoxville that. That's the one injury that, like, he hasn't, like, he never fully recovered from.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. I think that's why he can't take head shots anymore.

[Shane Torres]

Toro teeter totter is what they call it.

[Zach Amico]

Toro totter this. Yeah.

[Brandon Collins]

See the one in the jeans? I'm like, man, she look kind of good.

[Zach Amico]

I just can't.

[Shane Torres]

What. What are they doing here? Is there a bull coming out and.

[Brandon Collins]

Then a bull's about to come?

[Zach Amico]

I believe the point is the last person left on it wins.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I'd be like, oh, don't drop me.

[Zach Amico]

But like, jesus, that is death. Right? Like, if that thing really.

[Brandon Collins]

Well, it's like a baby, right?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. That does not look. That's not. Doesn't have the big horn, but the.

[Brandon Collins]

One with the big horns that, like. I mean, that's one of the most vicious.

[Zach Amico]

The hooves. Okay.

[Shane Torres]

Did he get all of them?

[Zach Amico]

I think he got all of them in one swoop.

[Shane Torres]

I will say, this is what I.

[Zach Amico]

Nice ass, though.

[Brandon Collins]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, you know?

[Shane Torres]

Oh, yeah. Nice asses. Those rodeo girls, they're all wearing horses.

[Zach Amico]

They got haunches on them.

[Shane Torres]

Yeah. I'm serious. They're all, like, very fit.

[Zach Amico]

Oh, yeah. You ride them for eight seconds.

[Shane Torres]

I. I do love in the Jackass movie when like, bam is on it and he's like, hold on. Yeah, the bullet's not gonna.

[Zach Amico]

It's Pontius when he gets his leg clipped.

[Shane Torres]

Is that what it is?

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. He goes, hold on one second. The bull's not going to hold on. All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in. This was Zach Amico's Morning Zoo. Thank you to my guest, Shane Torres. Please listen to the Coastal Idiots podcast. Please also support the Medium Popcorn podcast with our friend Brandon Collins. Thank you, thank you, and thank you to our friends in the booth. We'll be back on Wednesday with another edition of the Morning Zoo. Goodbye.

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