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Adam Devine
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Adam Devine
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Adam Devine
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Ryan Seacrest
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Adam Devine
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Blake Anderson
Welcome to this Is Important, a production of iHeartRadio, the show where we talk.
Ryan Seacrest
About what's obviously most critically, crucially important.
Blake Anderson
Today on this Is Important.
Ryan Seacrest
Our podcast is literally a fucking Goosebumps book.
Blake Anderson
Dude, if you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious.
Adam Devine
Brother, you are a lucky man. Enchante.
Blake Anderson
Let's go.
Adam Devine
Wow, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
What up, fellas?
Blake Anderson
Ah, we just did a lot of ads. Get ready. Get ready. Ti Nation.
Adam Devine
Do you guys like doing them before the show or do you like doing them after?
Blake Anderson
I Don't like doing them maybe ever. Okay. It's not my favorite part of the. Like, talking with my boys. That's why I got into podcasting. You know, I like talking with.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, same.
Adam Devine
So you're not gonna answer the question?
Blake Anderson
Yeah. Yeah. I would say out of those two options after.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
Because then you could bail. Because then you can bail and be like, I have somewhere.
Ryan Seacrest
Can we.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Can we throw that one to Isaac?
Blake Anderson
Punt that one. Yeah, maybe. Maybe we should have Isaac do a couple. That'd be fun. Hyundai.
Ryan Seacrest
I know that therapy is important.
Blake Anderson
Therapy's important.
Adam Devine
H E L P dot com.
Blake Anderson
Oh, me T H I S. It's called Original Penguin. Penguin. We were talking. So we're doing some commercials for Original Penguin.
Adam Devine
As we do.
Blake Anderson
As we do now. I say penguin.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Blake Anderson
They say Blake.
Ryan Seacrest
Penguin. Penguin. Penguin. When Peng.
Blake Anderson
Gwen. You sound like you're speaking another language.
Adam Devine
You sound like you.
Blake Anderson
Yes.
Adam Devine
And Adam, you say Penguin.
Blake Anderson
Penguin.
Ryan Seacrest
Why would you say penguin when there isn't an I, dude?
Blake Anderson
Because that's how I. That's. That's how I was always raised to say penguin. When my mother took me to the zoo as a young boy, she said, look at that penguin. And I go, that's how it said.
Adam Devine
Yeah, but your parents constantly said the N word around the house, too. But you don't say it.
Blake Anderson
It.
Ryan Seacrest
No, they did that. True.
Blake Anderson
He didn't. That's not even funny. That's not even funny.
Ryan Seacrest
That shit's important.
Adam Devine
I'm just saying this analogy doesn't work because they were constantly saying the N word.
Ryan Seacrest
That's not. That is disparaging.
Blake Anderson
That's. I don't like that. D. I do not like that. But you're right. My dad and uncles were. But.
Adam Devine
You want to see it?
Blake Anderson
No, they. They were saying words incorrectly a lot. But I'm. But Anna and Mark, producers on the podcast, they both said penguin the way I said penguin, so.
Ryan Seacrest
No.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
You're a stupid dumbass.
Adam Devine
I mean, this is what's fascinating about language, you guys.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, I love this. And everybody. Yes. If you want to turn down your radios and not listen for a little bit.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
There are. There are words that, like, don't exist or phrases that aren't the phrase that become the phrase, like, down the pipe or down the pike. It's down the pipe. And it becomes so, like, ubiquitous. Like, ubiquitous. That, like, then it is what it is. Like, people say comfortability. Hey, I don't know if that's a word.
Ryan Seacrest
Comfortability.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Comfortability. Or comfortable. How do you say It.
Blake Anderson
Well, Jesus Christ.
Adam Devine
Hold up. Like, about a bed or a pair of shoes or like a couch.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. The comfortability of.
Adam Devine
I don't know if that's a word. It's just the comfort.
Blake Anderson
Is it comfortable?
Adam Devine
Well, the comfort.
Ryan Seacrest
Maybe. Maybe a company made that word up.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Like, they were like. There's no other way to describe these mattresses.
Adam Devine
Well, so then, is Chris Mahana Kwanzaka also real? What are we doing here if companies are just making up words?
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Tra. Ducking.
Adam Devine
Farfetch, Newgen. I don't know if that's a real word.
Ryan Seacrest
Farfic. Nugent is definitely a German word.
Blake Anderson
I don't know what Farfa.
Adam Devine
New Haagen Dazs is not real. Farfethenoughen was a Volkswagen ad campaign in 1980.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
God damn.
Blake Anderson
Damn. You're so old, dude. I also like that you're currently dressed like you walked out of 1986.
Adam Devine
Ye. I might have. Goodbye.
Blake Anderson
What do they call those? What are they called? Like, the little B boys that come out with little cardboard. Yeah.
Adam Devine
I'm Crazy Legs. What's up?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, dude. Damn.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, that topical reference.
Ryan Seacrest
That would be sick.
Blake Anderson
That would be sick.
Adam Devine
Shout out. Shout out. Crazy Legs.
Ryan Seacrest
I would love to watch you break, dude. That would be tight if I tried.
Adam Devine
I would.
Blake Anderson
I'm breaking over here.
Ryan Seacrest
I would.
Blake Anderson
I'm breaking over here.
Ryan Seacrest
Adam's breaking every day.
Adam Devine
Breaking the sweat.
Blake Anderson
I'm breaking every day. Points, dude. How about our podcast gets. No love. I tell all these crazy stories on the podcast. It. It gets. The press doesn't pick anything up.
Adam Devine
Zero traction.
Blake Anderson
And then when I go on, I do. I did this. A Graham Bessinger interview.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Blake Anderson
And I did this interview.
Adam Devine
Blake, are you familiar?
Blake Anderson
Every. Everything that I said became a news article.
Adam Devine
What is Graham Bunger?
Blake Anderson
Yeah, exactly. Right.
Adam Devine
Goodbye.
Blake Anderson
I mean, no shots fired against him, but I didn't know who he was until I. Until I did the. The interview. And then I. I, like, recognized him when. When he was. When he was like, oh, you want to do this interview? And I looked up his. I'm like, oh, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Is he British?
Blake Anderson
No, he's just a guy from the Midwest.
Adam Devine
That's Graham Norton.
Ryan Seacrest
That's the most British name I've ever heard.
Adam Devine
Graham Basinger.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. It does sound like it said, like, graham Basinger. Super nice guy. Great interview. We did it.
Adam Devine
Oh, this guy's like a commentator somewhere, isn't he?
Blake Anderson
No, I think. I don't think so. I think he.
Adam Devine
He's not, like, a sports guy.
Blake Anderson
I don't Think so. I think he's Exclusively. Does these.
Adam Devine
Was he like a bachelor or something? How do I know this guy?
Blake Anderson
I don't think he was a bachelor, but he just does these interviews. You've probably seen him there. It's on TV all the time.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Blake Anderson
And he does. He's done everybody.
Adam Devine
I gotta get to the bottom of this guy.
Blake Anderson
So I did it. Like, suddenly, like, all the stuff with my health, it's like news everywhere. Everybody's just like, oh, my God, Adam Devine's dying. It became. It was like Entertainment Tonight pup. People all. All these things are covering it.
Adam Devine
So here's my thing. Don't you think that's just. His producers are like, we got a scoop we can push. And like, this is good clickbait.
Blake Anderson
I mean, well, do we have bad producers? Is that what we're saying?
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, shots fired.
Adam Devine
I feel like you.
Blake Anderson
Allegedly. Yeah. Yeah, maybe that's possible. But then also, I was getting a lot of people that would reach out about my health stuff, which is very kind and very nice. And I've got some good leads, by the way of.
Ryan Seacrest
Really?
Blake Anderson
Yeah, some. The guy that created a way out body swap. This guy named Allan. And I'm blanking on his last name. I have his book around here somewhere.
Adam Devine
Iverson.
Blake Anderson
It's like the book on how to get out of pain.
Adam Devine
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Blake Anderson
He reached out and he was like, I wanna. I wanna help you.
Ryan Seacrest
Wait, wait, Like. Like out of. Like chronic pain?
Blake Anderson
Out of chronic pain, yeah. Because what happen. You.
Adam Devine
I've heard of this.
Blake Anderson
You get stuck in a pain cycle and your body ends up. Your mind ends up going, this is.
Ryan Seacrest
How the body is stuck in a pain cycle. That sounds like an anthrax album.
Adam Devine
My parents. Marriage. Go ahead. What?
Blake Anderson
And. And so then it. It rewires your brain to teach you how to get out of the pain cycle. I don't know. I'm gonna learn more. I'm gonna. I'm gonna set up a zoom with this guy.
Adam Devine
But yeah.
Blake Anderson
Oh, yeah. So pretty cool. But. But then the other article that saddle.
Adam Devine
Up on the pain side, I was like, that one.
Blake Anderson
I'm like, I'm about it on Theo Von too. So it's not that big of a deal. It's out there. All my pain stuff I talk about on our podcast. Every.
Adam Devine
Theo Von. Was he on the Bachelor?
Ryan Seacrest
Were. Were you guys, like, approaching it very seriously on his interview? Like, whereas, like, Theo. You guys are probably joshing around a little bit, making jokes.
Blake Anderson
No, no, no. I both. I was the same amount of Adam you know, I'm like, half serious.
Ryan Seacrest
You didn't cry in the.
Blake Anderson
No, I.
Adam Devine
Character you've curated carefully for the public eye.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I wish. We watched the Graham interview and Adam's just bawling. They was dying. Yeah, they told me I was dying.
Blake Anderson
No, I didn't cry, but I want you to be. I wanted to. And then. But then I told the story about how my toe fell off while masturbating. He's go. He goaded me into it. He's like, I heard your toe fell off when you're in a bathtub once. And I'm like, how did you know this story? Any.
Adam Devine
Any story there?
Blake Anderson
Totally. And then I did. I told that story. Entertainment Weekly picked it up.
Adam Devine
Right?
Blake Anderson
People magazine picked it up.
Adam Devine
Was he glad that he heard the story on his podcast or was he like, what have I done? My podcast is now devolved into.
Blake Anderson
No, he. He's the one who. He was a goat in anatomy. He wanted the stories.
Adam Devine
Graham. Graham.
Ryan Seacrest
You bully.
Adam Devine
Grandma.
Blake Anderson
Grandmama. Grandma.
Adam Devine
The best and the best.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. So then. And so then Elizabeth Banks reaches out to me and she just sends me just the interview.
Adam Devine
Who reaches out?
Blake Anderson
Elizabeth Banks? Yes, the actress and director. And she just sent me the clip of the Entertainment Weekly article. That is me dressed as Kelvin Gemstone in Head to Toe. Dumbass Balenciaga. I look insane with my hair looking insane. And it's just me looking all saucy going, adam Devine masturbated so hard his toe fell off. And that's the headline, dude. Yeah. The fuck, man.
Ryan Seacrest
Dude, that is a cool ass headline. Was.
Blake Anderson
It was kind of.
Adam Devine
I would. I would pay good money for an orgasm like that these days. Just something to blast your toe off.
Ryan Seacrest
You're you, J. O. So hard your toe falls off. God damn.
Blake Anderson
God damn.
Ryan Seacrest
Damn.
Adam Devine
Honey, get the swift.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I feel any. I would say 85% of any other person. Of everyone else would have been mortified. I'd say 85% of. Of people would have been mortified at that.
Ryan Seacrest
But of other person, their entire torso.
Adam Devine
One arm, their face, not the back of their head, both legs, one day.
Ryan Seacrest
God damn. Could you imagine? I'm just thinking about my toes curling so hard.
Blake Anderson
Would you be bummed if. If there was an Entertainment Weekly article about you, Blake, that said your toe fell off?
Ryan Seacrest
No. All press is good press.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Wasn't there one about him dying, jumping on a ping pong table?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, no, that was all good. That was riding high, Bab.
Adam Devine
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
There's no such thing as bad press.
Adam Devine
Come on now, they're like, this guy can't be insured, mate.
Ryan Seacrest
It.
Adam Devine
He's a wild dog. He's uninsurable.
Ryan Seacrest
Uninsurable. I'm living in the. The pain realm.
Blake Anderson
That's when you know you're. You're doing something right.
Adam Devine
Yes. Go ahead.
Blake Anderson
If you're. If you're uninsurable, like, then you're like.
Ryan Seacrest
Thank you.
Adam Devine
Like a jockey.
Blake Anderson
You're a people's champ. You know, if, like, the movie studios, they go, we can't even insure this guy. He's a liability. You know that. You go on the streets and people are just hollering your name.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
You know, they.
Ryan Seacrest
You're a hero.
Adam Devine
They know you're gonna die, so they give you all the attention, all the props.
Ryan Seacrest
You're not here for a long time.
Blake Anderson
They're just handing you flowers. They're just handing you flowers on the street, Right? Oh, okay. Thank you.
Adam Devine
Dude, speaking of flowers, do we even get into this?
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, what? Poor.
Adam Devine
What?
Blake Anderson
What do you mean, what?
Adam Devine
Val Kilmer.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah.
Adam Devine
What are we. What are we doing? I'm, like, freaking out that we talked about War Davis so much. This motherfucker's about to just get hit by a.
Blake Anderson
He is.
Ryan Seacrest
We did it again. Our podcast. Our podcast is literally a fucking Goosebumps book, dude. Like, any time we mention someone, they fucking die, man. It's fucking weird.
Blake Anderson
I could see Blake just pulling off his mask. He's R.L. stein underneath there, just weaving this tail.
Adam Devine
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
Dude, it's crazy. This is basically say cheese and die, but with the podcast, it's. It's unreal, dude.
Adam Devine
Was the monster ring. Was that a R.L. stein book or.
Ryan Seacrest
No, Monster blood, I think it was.
Adam Devine
That was one.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah.
Blake Anderson
Seems real.
Adam Devine
I remember the monster ring. A kid put on a ring and became, like, stronger or something and then slowly turned into a monster.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, my God.
Adam Devine
They adapted it to a CBS storybreak cartoon. Pretty good.
Blake Anderson
My God. You know what I think would be a good thing? Since we're older and, you know, you got a little coin. You got a little coin in the pocket from all those ads that we just fucking read.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Penguin.
Blake Anderson
Penguin. This would be to buy all the Goosebumps books for our children. Like, the whole catalog.
Adam Devine
The what books?
Blake Anderson
Goosebumps.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, like. Like, just drop. Just drop, like a whole ass bookshelf on them with all the books.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. Just say, here's everyone.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Like, five of them are pretty good. Sorry. Notice. Sorry. No dis, dude. It was a time and place, but, like, going back, you Know.
Blake Anderson
Well, you've gone back. How do you do? What are you talking about?
Ryan Seacrest
Of course, man.
Blake Anderson
Wait.
Ryan Seacrest
I had to know if Night of the Living Dummy held up. I had to know.
Blake Anderson
Well, you know, they're. They're four children. It's not going to hold up. Clifford the Big Red Dog. It doesn't hit in the same way.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, dude, I do. And it still does. It still does.
Adam Devine
Wait, Just wait, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go now? Is better now that I'm older.
Adam Devine
Dude, it hits different.
Ryan Seacrest
It hits different, bro. It hits different.
Adam Devine
Donkey reading the Giving Tree now. You're like, when he's old, he goes and sits on the stump.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, dude, what's the Stone Soup or whatever? What was that one? You remember? Stone. Stone Soup.
Adam Devine
What was it every Wednesday night?
Blake Anderson
No one remembers Stone Soup. The fuck are you talking, dude?
Adam Devine
Yeah, it's where the guy tricks people into serving up ingredients. He's like, I got the stone and it tastes delicious. We need some. If I'm bringing the stone, you got to bring the carrots. And they're like, okay, like. And you bring in the corn. And then they're like, wow, it does taste good. But he just tricked them into giving them free ingredients.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes, dude.
Blake Anderson
Oh, so this is like a book to teach your children to lie to people in order to get what they want?
Ryan Seacrest
Yes, it's a survival instinct. You have to know these things.
Adam Devine
Smart. Just be smart.
Ryan Seacrest
Stone Soup.
Blake Anderson
Stone Soup. I'm. I'm sorry that. You know, I'm going to do a take back right now. I'm sorry that I yelled at you about Stone Soup, because apparently it is real. I guess my parents didn't read to me because I don't know Stone Soup at all, but.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, it happens.
Adam Devine
The.
Blake Anderson
The one where it's like the grandma and you know that one?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, keep going, keep going.
Adam Devine
No, say less or say more.
Blake Anderson
I. I feel like. Talk about yourself. I'm gonna grab this book real quick. It's right.
Adam Devine
The one about the grandma, the.
Ryan Seacrest
What's her name? I. I know her name. It's like a really cool name.
Adam Devine
Naked grandma. I don't know. The real banger was the one where like, like the teacher had, like, had no control. The classroom. And then the substitute showed up those illustrations. That teacher was frightening.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes. The teacher who shows up is hella scary and mean. And then it makes the kids want their original abusive teacher back.
Adam Devine
Exactly. And I think on the last page, you see like, the wig in the purse.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, do they never actually tell you that they were the same person.
Adam Devine
I mean, I think that's how they do it, Blake, is they show the wig in the purse.
Ryan Seacrest
Just in the drawings, in the illustrations.
Adam Devine
I think Ms. Nelson is missing. Dude.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, that is a banger.
Adam Devine
It is a banger. It is.
Ryan Seacrest
That's a really great book. I also like it.
Adam Devine
Makes me want to find Ms. Nelson. You know what I'm saying?
Ryan Seacrest
God damn. She had a spooky booty.
Blake Anderson
Wait, what?
Adam Devine
Worth doing it?
Ryan Seacrest
It's science.
Blake Anderson
It was. It's in my son's room, I think. I thought it was out in the living room, but he's taking a napp.
Ryan Seacrest
I love man naps.
Blake Anderson
Rocks. Not be a clock.
Ryan Seacrest
Love a good nap.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, well, it's dope. And by the end, you're, like, crying. My mother gave it to him. And it's about, like, a grandma, and she's. You know, they die, and naked grandma. The grandma's die.
Ryan Seacrest
So what?
Blake Anderson
It sucks. It sucks for kids.
Adam Devine
Is this about the grandma dying? Yeah.
Blake Anderson
God, I wish I had it right now. I. It's just. It's a real tear drive tricker.
Adam Devine
It's a blue book, and there's a. And there's a grandma.
Blake Anderson
And there's a grandma in it.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Blake Anderson
N. Grandma.
Adam Devine
It's new.
Blake Anderson
No, it's old. It's a classic.
Ryan Seacrest
Wait, what's the one about, like. Like, the. The teddy bear, and, like, the little kid is dying, but, like, the teddy bear is, like, with the kid the whole time, and then I think they have to light the bear on fire because it has the disease.
Adam Devine
I don't know.
Blake Anderson
Not real, dude.
Adam Devine
Good night. Good night. Construction site.
Blake Anderson
You don't. You don't have to make something up to, like, be cool around us.
Ryan Seacrest
It's called the Velvet.
Adam Devine
The Velveteen Rabbit.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Adam Devine
Yeah, it is. Okay, that is a bad.
Ryan Seacrest
And isn't that about a sick person who has a rabbit and then the rabbit?
Adam Devine
Honestly, Blake, you're a sick person. Goodbye. I don't know what it's about. I just remember the title and the illustrations.
Ryan Seacrest
Dude, I think that story is, like, really, really tough.
Adam Devine
Is it a Hans Christian Andersen?
Ryan Seacrest
You know, that's. That's. I. Probably not.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
But I remember the Velveteen Rabbit being extremely sad. Very sad book.
Adam Devine
Nice. Frog and toad. You guys doing frog and toad?
Ryan Seacrest
Love frog and toad.
Adam Devine
Love frog and toad. The. The illustrations in that banger.
Ryan Seacrest
Unreal. Unreal.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, we. We're still like. I mean, we're reading. This boy just does not. He will rip the page out of the book. He will chew on the side, he can't read yet. He's 13 months. He doesn't say dad. He doesn't say dada. He doesn't say mama.
Ryan Seacrest
Gotcha.
Blake Anderson
You know, they say at 12 months your child is. If they can't speak, that's okay. But by 13 months, he's an idiot if he can't speak.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, no. Come on.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, that's what people say.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, maybe that's what people say is maybe he's just not speaking to you guys. Maybe he's talking to other people. But he's like, oh, here comes dad.
Blake Anderson
No, no, no, no. He's mostly just around us, so.
Ryan Seacrest
Damn.
Blake Anderson
I think we would notice. Yeah, it's. It's a bummer. And if I didn't love him so much, I'd trade him in for a new one.
Adam Devine
Have you tried twisting his arm, pinching him really hard? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. And we do all that stuff saying daddy at the same time so that, like there's an experience. Yes.
Blake Anderson
That's what your dad did to you. Yeah, that's. That's smart. That's smart.
Adam Devine
I don't know if he did that, but I do have lots of just blank spaces in my, in my past. I'm like, I don't know.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh God.
Adam Devine
But I, I. If I see pepperoni pizza, I start, start vomiting. I just start sweating. I can't wear a belt.
Ryan Seacrest
And with that. Let's go to a better help ad.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, let's cut to a better help ad real quick. Real quick.
Ryan Seacrest
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Okay, we could be here all day.
Adam Devine
Try Clorox Scentiva for a trusted clean with long lasting freshness. Also available in lavender and coconut. Use as directed. If I see an extension cord, I shit my pants.
Blake Anderson
Oh, God. God.
Ryan Seacrest
Wait, were you hit with an extension cord?
Blake Anderson
No, dude, these are jokes, Blake. We're doing jokes. Keep up.
Adam Devine
No, I was hit with a fraternity paddle. That's how real it got.
Ryan Seacrest
It was okay, there we go. There's my boy.
Blake Anderson
Still going to send it.
Adam Devine
It was only a few times, but.
Ryan Seacrest
I got hit with one of those, you know, those things that you. It's. It's one of the worst nos. This is not wooden spoon.
Blake Anderson
It's. You've told us a wooden spoon before.
Adam Devine
So this is a. He's holding up a fist.
Blake Anderson
Well, this is a fist.
Adam Devine
He was. He was punched. Yeah, his mom.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, you know those. You know those stupid toys where you, like, hit the ball?
Adam Devine
Like the Hot Wheels track?
Ryan Seacrest
No, not a Hot Wheels track, bro.
Adam Devine
That was it.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, like paddleball.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, like little. Little cartoons. Like, have them all the time.
Adam Devine
I was like, oh, with the rubber ball?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah, I got. The rubber ball would go up my ass.
Adam Devine
You were going back and forth like this? Yeah, dude, it was crazy.
Ryan Seacrest
It was a two parter and it fucking hurt, dude.
Blake Anderson
Wow.
Adam Devine
Because you thought you could get away. You couldn't.
Ryan Seacrest
No, no, no.
Blake Anderson
I. I was never hit.
Adam Devine
I think I can tell. You walk around like you weren't.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, maybe it shows.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah.
Adam Devine
Oh, 100.
Blake Anderson
But also, that's all good. It's modern society, man.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. You feel ahead of the curve.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
Yeah. They probably felt bad after they made you OD on lewds.
Blake Anderson
I. The few times that my mom would make my dad try to. Try to spank me. He would spank me, but he would pull his spanx. You know what I mean?
Ryan Seacrest
That's cool, because he didn't want to.
Blake Anderson
Hit me because he wasn't even there when I did the bad. So it'd be like he got home. He got home from work, and my mom was like, you have to give him a spanking. And my dad's like, okay. So then he'd be a good big bend. Over my knee, right? And then would, like, pull the punch right before hitting me. And then I would, like, have to, like, be like, ah, no, that hurts.
Ryan Seacrest
So cool. He WWE'd you. He's like, yeah, I'm gonna clothesline you.
Adam Devine
You've always been acting. You've been acting since very young and having to convince audiences.
Blake Anderson
Yes, yes. Thank you, Graham. Thank you, Graham, for digging deep.
Ryan Seacrest
Well done. Grand. Graham Holmes.
Adam Devine
Yes, sir. What?
Ryan Seacrest
His name is Graham, and your last name is? Holm. Graham. Graham Holm.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. Nailed it.
Ryan Seacrest
Nailed it.
Adam Devine
I don't like that.
Blake Anderson
Blake, here's a question, because we, me and Anders.
Adam Devine
Oh, we, me. We call ourselves we, Me.
Ryan Seacrest
Bring the spotlight.
Blake Anderson
So I got tickets, great tickets, by the way, to Clippers game the other day. And I was like, let's see if I can get my boys.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Blake Anderson
Blake and D to come.
Adam Devine
Let's go.
Blake Anderson
And then Blake was being real cagey about whether he wasn't responding. I was like, hey, any response back to this would be very helpful.
Adam Devine
Blake.
Blake Anderson
Nothing. Nothing. That went on for a coup hours. Meanwhile, the person who's giving me the tickets are going, hey, who. I need to know who you're coming with. I have to send them the tickets. I'm going, hey, I'm trying to figure it out. Trying to figure it out. He's like, is Blake going to be able to make it? I'm like, I don't know. And then I. And then you told me you're not coming, which run. But you were being.
Adam Devine
I'm pissed now.
Blake Anderson
You're being. You're being a little kidgy. You're being like. Like, normally, I know you would be like, hey, dude, it's my daughter's doing XYZ or whatever. You'd give me a little reason this time. You were like, I can't thank you.
Adam Devine
And I'm like, I can't say.
Blake Anderson
Kurt. Kurt. And then I heard through the grapevine that you went out the day before to a Hollywood party, and I did. And did you then send it at that Hollywood party and came home, played your music too loudly, and the neighbors called the police, and you were arrested.
Ryan Seacrest
Look at this little detective.
Adam Devine
Look at this little detective Hollywood.
Blake Anderson
And then maybe your wife or girlfriend came out and got in a shooting altercation with the police. Punk rock getting radical. Or was that the basis of Weezer?
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, my God, dude, I wish it was that cool. I went to The Hacks season 4 premiere party. That is true. So that's got to see my.
Adam Devine
Wow.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, I. I got to see my. My friend Megan Stalter, Very funny. A very, very funny comedian. Everybody should check her out.
Blake Anderson
But is this show funny?
Ryan Seacrest
Hacks? Yeah, Hacks is funny. It's a good. It's a good comedy for sure.
Adam Devine
It makes me.
Blake Anderson
L. Yeah, I like Hacks.
Ryan Seacrest
I like X. Y. I actually was very responsible at that party. I. I drove. I drove home.
Blake Anderson
Okay. All right.
Adam Devine
Why? And why were you responsible?
Blake Anderson
Under or over four drinks? Four drinks.
Ryan Seacrest
I had one drink.
Blake Anderson
Shut the fuck up.
Ryan Seacrest
I swear to God.
Blake Anderson
I swear to God.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes to Lord.
Adam Devine
Well, he drove.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Adam Devine
So I did.
Ryan Seacrest
I did. I had one drink.
Adam Devine
But why? Is it because it was hbo? Is it because the Hacks people are a little more classy? They. They're already wearing wide pants and, like, flowy clothes. They're very fashion forward.
Ryan Seacrest
Right.
Adam Devine
The comedy is a little higher brow than you trying to make your dick turn into an aardvark or whatever you do to be funny. I'm drunk now.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. No, they weren't gonna get my whole. My whole dick aardvark thing at all.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. That sucks, because to me, that's one of my favorite bits of yours.
Adam Devine
And that's why you had one drink.
Ryan Seacrest
No, I just didn't. I. It was. What. What day was it? Was it a Tuesday or a Wednesday?
Blake Anderson
It was a Monday.
Adam Devine
It was Monday.
Ryan Seacrest
It. I had. You know, I have the kids. Like, I just wasn't trying to, like, turn up.
Adam Devine
Copy that.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. I just wanted to say what's up to people I know who will work on the show.
Blake Anderson
Okay. Well, that, to me, is maybe the most surprising thing I've ever heard you say. So.
Ryan Seacrest
So I'm a new man. I'm a new man.
Adam Devine
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
What's. Saving it for the cruise?
Blake Anderson
So the Tuesday night, what was. I mean, do you not want to get into it? Is this. Do you don't want to open this Pandora's box of why you couldn't?
Ryan Seacrest
No, it's really not that entertaining. My eldest daughter was not feeling. And it was my night to make dinner, so I just had prior. I can't. I'm not. Can't wheel and deal like I used to. Yeah, I got responsibilities, man.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. And by the way, I really respect that. Thank you.
Ryan Seacrest
It just.
Blake Anderson
It threw me for a fucking loop.
Ryan Seacrest
It.
Adam Devine
What I was hoping for, Adam, was him doing his fucking dick aardvark thing at the Clippers game. Yeah, I was intoxicated. Didn't get that.
Ryan Seacrest
Dude, I would have loved to, because I. I haven't been to that stadium during the game yet, and I know It's. It's cool. I know it's cool.
Blake Anderson
He likes to go to stadium when they're empty. Yeah, it was just when there's nothing happening.
Ryan Seacrest
No, I went for Olivia Rodrigo. Come on. Go ahead.
Adam Devine
What an experience. Thank you. Netflix. Freaking.
Blake Anderson
See ya.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Live basketball. I was saying it feels intimate.
Ryan Seacrest
Intuit.
Adam Devine
And yet it still probably houses 30,000 people. I don't know how many houses.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I think 20,000.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Adam Devine
The way they got the boxes, we had a box. Netflix box. And the way they set up the boxes is that they're not up high, far away, they're underground. And then you just kind of walk across the hallway from your box and you pop out six row or something like that. And the seats are perfect. Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow. Yeah, there's.
Blake Anderson
I think it's like 15 rows up, but it's like perfect. So you're just. You can still hear the players like yell at each other. You. I mean, it's. The acoustics in that stadium are unreal. It feels like a video game inside.
Ryan Seacrest
That's rad.
Adam Devine
Also, the thing that me up was there's no. What do you. What would we call this? The scoreboard Sword Jumbotron hanging over this. This the. The court. It's like a circle that you look up and across too.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right.
Adam Devine
And so that. So there's this huge opening above that. I'm just like, we can't fly drones in here with advertisements. I can't get the blimp that usually flies around these places.
Ryan Seacrest
Give it a second.
Blake Anderson
Well, they were doing that. They didn't do it this game. But when they do the T shirt toss, sometimes they'll have the players up on that ring. Ring. Like, you know.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
Video of them.
Adam Devine
Yeah, they throw.
Blake Anderson
They have the T shirt and they throw it. And then from that part of the ring, a T shirt shoots out towards you. So it looks like the players are throwing the T shirts out, which.
Ryan Seacrest
That's freaking cool.
Blake Anderson
So fun, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
That's cool. That gets me excited for the future.
Adam Devine
Speaking of T shirts getting thrown, I'm. They're going crazy. They're clapping their hands. They're pointing to the audience. They're getting ready to toss T shirts. I see this dude and I tell Kyle, Kyle right next to me.
Ryan Seacrest
I go, I can't believe Kyle went and I didn't.
Blake Anderson
Kyle was there, dude.
Adam Devine
Kyle was there.
Blake Anderson
I. I was trying to get the whole gang out.
Ryan Seacrest
Water, trash.
Adam Devine
Anyways, the guy threw me a shirt after. I just go, this guy's about to throw me A shirt. Kyle's like, whatever. And then he throws it, chucks it. I give Kyle's wife a shirt just to boss him out one more time.
Ryan Seacrest
In front of him.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, smart.
Adam Devine
I say, excuse me, Kyle give it to his wife.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, my God. That is so disrespectful, dude. Wow.
Blake Anderson
Where was I? I didn't see this. Dang.
Adam Devine
And I get. I said, said, put this on right. Freaking. See ya.
Blake Anderson
I just want to party.
Adam Devine
I said, I think this will look better on you.
Blake Anderson
That's what you said. Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
And you wonder why Kyle left the pot.
Adam Devine
And then I don't. I go to. I go to Kyle and I say. I tell Kyle, I go, you're a lucky man. It's.
Ryan Seacrest
It's really the nicest thing to say, but also just the.
Adam Devine
When people say that, it's wild.
Ryan Seacrest
That was left in the 90s. Nobody says that in the 90s. You can't drop your.
Adam Devine
I don't think anybody said that in the 90s, even.
Blake Anderson
Oh, they.
Adam Devine
For sure. Janet. He. She's a lucky. You are a lucky man. I was intoxicated.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. No, I. That. That still said to me kind of often.
Adam Devine
What?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, you gotta fight whoever says that.
Adam Devine
Everyone's trying to your wife, then, dude.
Blake Anderson
No, I mean, it's.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
It's usually older guys that are just thinking they. They're complimenting, you know, I don't think it's. They're trying to her. I mean, maybe for sure.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, they're at least sniffing around to see if you're swingers.
Adam Devine
Adam, if you were spanked, you might realize this, but. Yeah, you go through life thinking everybody means well instead of everyone's abusive. Like, that's my. My perspective.
Ryan Seacrest
That's just my sniffing around to see if you guys are swingers. No doubt about it.
Blake Anderson
I don't think so, dude.
Adam Devine
Oh, there's the.
Ryan Seacrest
That.
Adam Devine
There's that.
Blake Anderson
I mean, there could be that, but I don't think that's what's happening.
Ryan Seacrest
By the way, I learned this. I have this little Hawaiian shirt. It's got pineapples all over it.
Blake Anderson
I really like that. I really like that. And you're. That's a swinger shirt.
Ryan Seacrest
Did you know that pineapples are the international? You do?
Blake Anderson
Yeah. Upside down pineapple. What is the international sign that you're a.
Adam Devine
But what does that even mean?
Blake Anderson
Like, if you have. They will wear, like, necklaces with an upside down pineapple.
Adam Devine
Is it because, like, an upside down pineapple looks like a butthole hole on the.
Blake Anderson
Maybe spent all that night Maybe. I don't know why. Or maybe pineapple. Like, if you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, it does. It really does.
Blake Anderson
Supposedly.
Adam Devine
But why upside down? So this is like an emoji thing. How do you even send one upside down?
Ryan Seacrest
No, you nail it to your front door.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, they'll like wave flags. Like, they'll have a pineapple flag they'll wear upside down pineapples. Like at. At bars.
Ryan Seacrest
Everybody's coming.
Blake Anderson
Like necklaces that people have tattoos.
Adam Devine
Adam knows.
Blake Anderson
What are other things I do? What are other things I do?
Adam Devine
Adam's. The name of Adam's boat is Upside Down. Pineapple.
Ryan Seacrest
What?
Blake Anderson
Huh. Weirdly, my parents taught me a lot of this. Because in Lake of the Ozarks there's like a big swinger community. And they see that out and about all over the place.
Adam Devine
Oh, yeah, they're just bored out of their minds.
Blake Anderson
And I was like, yeah, I just did, you know? And she tells us every time we're down there, and we're like, we know, mom. Yeah, what are you guys getting into down here?
Ryan Seacrest
That shit's important.
Adam Devine
How many times a day in the Ozarks is someone saying, you're a lucky man?
Blake Anderson
Oh, yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah. That still goes. But Ozarks is stuck in that.
Adam Devine
Brother, you are a lucky man. On Shantae, you are a lucky man.
Blake Anderson
And isn't the Ozarks cool? For that very reason that you just enter a time warp when you're there, you're like, whoa, what happened? What happened? The best punk rock getting radical.
Adam Devine
What is it, 2021 here? What the.
Ryan Seacrest
It's tight, dude. I love the Ozarks. We gotta go back and put in some time. And I gotta wear this pineapple shirt.
Blake Anderson
Come back. Hey, dude, come back. You could bring the family. My parents would love if there's just a bunch of little kids running around their compound.
Adam Devine
Is that what you want to do, Blake? Bring the family?
Ryan Seacrest
Sure. Yeah. I mean, that wasn't what I was originally thinking, but that.
Adam Devine
Because guess what you're gonna hear. You are lucky father. I think we gotta go. I think we gotta go.
Ryan Seacrest
I think we have to leave the shady gator.
Adam Devine
We'd love to hire your daughter at this hot chick gas station on the dock.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah, remember that?
Adam Devine
I was like, what is the program here?
Blake Anderson
Well, they hire like 17, 18 year old girls to walk around in bathing suits to tie up boats. And it seems inappropriate, but also they.
Adam Devine
Just pump gas in bikinis. It's totally inappropriate. That's a cool job.
Blake Anderson
It's. You're just like, like a, a lifeguard or something. You're like, they're just.
Adam Devine
No, Adam, if you're a lifeguard, you're wearing a bathing suit cuz you're about to jump in and save somebody in water. If you're on a dock, you can wear jean cut offs and a tank top. You don't have to.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, but they might have to dive in.
Ryan Seacrest
That's true.
Blake Anderson
For what if someone falls off their boat?
Adam Devine
Ander, that's not their responsibility.
Blake Anderson
Oh, come on, dude. No, no, that's everyone's responsibility. Okay, that's where I'm going to stop.
Ryan Seacrest
You see something, say something.
Adam Devine
I would say that it's probably creepy for visitors to be like, why are. Who hired all these high school girls to just pump gas and bikinis?
Blake Anderson
Yeah, no, I see, I see what you're saying.
Adam Devine
But I will say if you're local, you probably know all these girls anyway. You're like, yeah, it's Mike's daughter. Da da da da da. She's got huge. It's just Mike's daughter's daughter with you.
Ryan Seacrest
With your fucking pineapple.
Adam Devine
Hey Mike, I didn't realize that you.
Blake Anderson
He has just a giant upside down pineapple chain that that he's wearing.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm actually the principal of the high school. She's a great student.
Blake Anderson
She's a good student, super smart.
Adam Devine
I've seen her pumping gas. Jesus. She's got cheeks, Mike.
Ryan Seacrest
She's got cake. She's got cake.
Blake Anderson
Is she cake or is she human?
Ryan Seacrest
Pineapple upside down.
Adam Devine
I love, I love when Blake chimes in with the modern she cake.
Ryan Seacrest
I need to find out if she's cake. Hey, are you cake?
Adam Devine
Yes.
Blake Anderson
Points.
Adam Devine
Why are you walking towards me with a knife? I just wanted to see if your cake or if you're human.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh man, I can't wait. I can't wait till I'm a super dirty old man and I can drop that cuz I was a judge on his cake.
Adam Devine
What is the age to like be considered a dirty old man? 60.
Blake Anderson
I feel like we're there.
Adam Devine
Oh, we're there.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If to a 20 year old, we're there.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, actually man, fair enough.
Blake Anderson
Blake, you're there. You just with your, your scruff. Your scruff.
Ryan Seacrest
Because I'm.
Blake Anderson
The fact that you're like your little tuft of hair is kind of popping out your feeder.
Ryan Seacrest
It's.
Blake Anderson
You're wearing a pineapple shirt. I look like a predator, you know, like a creep.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I now that you're calling me Out. I. I do look fucking gross. God damn it.
Blake Anderson
Well, it's okay.
Adam Devine
I love how Blake's coming back to the docks, getting more gas pumped. Like, we didn't we just fill you up. Mr. Anderson, I'm back. Why does your. Why is your mouth smell like gasoline? Were you siphoning gas out of your boat to come back here, sir?
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I'd love to fill you up.
Ryan Seacrest
I just took a couple whippets. Anybody want some Galaxy Gas?
Adam Devine
How old are you? Creepy.
Blake Anderson
Yay.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm sorry, I was thinking, like, you know, we're like the same age as, like, Chris Pratt. I don't think of him as a creepy old man. But then again, it's how you carry yourself, I suppose.
Blake Anderson
Well, Chris Pratt is older, right? And also, yes, to a 19 or 18 year old girl, Chris Pratt is. Is. Is ancient old. Wow.
Adam Devine
Dude, if he's dropping, your boyfriend's a very lucky guy. She's going this creepy old guy, just.
Blake Anderson
Yes.
Adam Devine
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Blake Anderson
This creepy old guy. But by the way, by the way, I think Chris Pratt is like a wildly famous movie star.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, right. Yeah, right, Right.
Blake Anderson
So that sort of.
Ryan Seacrest
That and I'm a wildly famous cake judge, so.
Adam Devine
Right. Oh, man.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
That's true.
Adam Devine
And Adam, isn't that. That is what you said when we were always talking about Kevin Spacey back in the day. You're like, yeah, but he is a wildly famous movie star. And we'd go, adam, again with the wildly famous movie star stuff. I just don't know if it holds water, pal.
Blake Anderson
I don't. I don't even understand this reference.
Ryan Seacrest
You don't know what. Okay.
Adam Devine
Creepy old guys. Hollywood.
Ryan Seacrest
You gotta watch K Pack.
Adam Devine
You got to, dude. I have got.
Blake Anderson
He's a great actor.
Ryan Seacrest
He is.
Blake Anderson
I love that guy.
Adam Devine
He's our best.
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Ryan Seacrest
Should we pivot back to where? What got us here in the first place?
Blake Anderson
What's up?
Ryan Seacrest
Freaking Val. Rip. Val Kilmer, dude.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, Rip.
Ryan Seacrest
He rocked, dude.
Blake Anderson
He rocked.
Adam Devine
Favorite Val movie Go.
Ryan Seacrest
That is hard. But I will tell you the movie movie this is. You guys have seen Top Secret, right?
Adam Devine
It's the best.
Blake Anderson
Gruber.
Ryan Seacrest
McGruber's awesome.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
But I remember seeing Top Secret when I was pretty young, and it's a really zany, goofy movie in the style of like a naked gun or whatever.
Adam Devine
Zucker Brothers style.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah. And it's just freaking so dope, dude.
Adam Devine
Yeah. When the Nazis are surfing and then the chick comes off of the sand with her titties and holes. Rewind.
Blake Anderson
I love it.
Adam Devine
Rewind mind.
Blake Anderson
I feel Tombstone. It would be my favorite.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, Tombstone is a legendary performance.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
I started that last night with the boys. They were like, this is cool.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, it's so good.
Adam Devine
The cast is crazy.
Ryan Seacrest
And Billy Zane is in it.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Billy Zane is Zayn Zane comes on.
Adam Devine
Beautiful. No flowers, no flowers, no flowers, no flowers.
Blake Anderson
Don't give the guy flowers.
Adam Devine
Billy Zane is a doll in that movie. I'm. I'm like, the fuck did.
Blake Anderson
Remember when I did my. When I took my. I wish I still had that photo, but it was, like, on an old flip phone. My very first time ever on TV was doing that Samantha who show with Christina Applegate.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yes.
Blake Anderson
And Billy Zane was a guest star on the show. I saw Billy Zane, like, and we were shooting on the Warner Brothers lot, so we're like, on a stage there, and I got go, Mr. Zayn. I'm. I'm. I'm a fan. Like, this is cool to meet you. And he goes, we're gonna take a photo. I did not ask for a photo. I didn't ask to take a photo.
Adam Devine
Is that why you do that now?
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I do it just so we stop talking. I'm like, let's just get a photo. That's probably what he was trying to do, but I was just like, I'm. I'm a fan. He goes, we're taking a photo. And I'm like, oh, okay. And then we. He. We took a photo.
Ryan Seacrest
Photo.
Blake Anderson
He looked at it, and he goes, that's not good enough. We're too. We're in the shadow. And I go, oh. Then we walked around looking for better light for a couple minutes.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
Until we're, like, crouched in a stairwell.
Adam Devine
He gets it.
Blake Anderson
And so it's us crouched in this stairwell.
Ryan Seacrest
It's cool, you know, like a. A B boy stance.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
And then he looks at your phone. He's like, you are a very lucky phone. You're like, I don't know what's going on here.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, what's your favorite Billy Zane movie?
Adam Devine
Hang on. I got a Zane Story in my old neighborhood. I'm walking around.
Ryan Seacrest
Zaniacs.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, we're a couple Zaniacs.
Adam Devine
And Billy Zane is standing in the middle of the street, not a busy street, and he's looking at this house, and he goes, hey, you live here? And I go, yeah, I live around the corner. He goes, where's the grocery store? And I'm like, it's about a mile that way. He goes, okay, that's convenient. I might be buying. And I was like, all right, Billy Zane gonna be in the neighbor. The end. Blake, what's your Zane story? Somebody help me.
Blake Anderson
Was this in Silver Lake?
Adam Devine
Yeah. This is 10 years ago or so.
Ryan Seacrest
And he didn't. He didn't move in? I don't know.
Adam Devine
I. I'm not. I'm not a celeb gossiper like you did.
Ryan Seacrest
All right. Jesus. I don't have a Zane story. I've. I've never met.
Blake Anderson
Well, you don't have a Zayn story.
Ryan Seacrest
Dude, I will say I. I worship. I worshiped the movie the Phantom. When I was a kid, for some reason, I loved the Phantom.
Adam Devine
Really? That was the reason he'd never worked again. Right, Right.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, that was.
Ryan Seacrest
I loved it, dude.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Like, at 7:11, they would give away free Phantom rings, and I would go there every day and get a new one.
Adam Devine
The more we talk about them, the. I'm, like, so scared. I'm like, we can't keep talking because I was just going to go, he looks amazing in this new Godfather. It's like the making of the Godfather, and he's playing Marlon Brando. And he looks. He looks exactly.
Blake Anderson
But didn't they. They just did that show the offer.
Adam Devine
I don't know if this is a. Yeah, no, I know, but I don't know if this is like a Brando movie or if it's a Godfather movie. But he's dressed as Brandon doing.
Blake Anderson
God, who would make a great Brando dude, man.
Ryan Seacrest
He's gonna do great.
Adam Devine
Trailer. I watched trailers of movies I'm never gonna see, and then I watched it and I was like, I might have to watch this.
Blake Anderson
So the Phantom was known. Was wildly regarded as a bad movie.
Adam Devine
But we know about Blake. Blake likes Congo.
Ryan Seacrest
These are movies that just kicks ass.
Blake Anderson
But then the Rotten Tomatoes. Okay, can we guess what the Rotten Tomatoes score? It's not good, but it's infinitely better than Game over, man.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, okay, okay.
Blake Anderson
So that's. That's our movie. Game over, man. I think. Was it like 18% or 11 or something? Not great.
Ryan Seacrest
It's a bagel.
Blake Anderson
What. What do we think the Phantom is?
Ryan Seacrest
I'm going to go with 37. 30. I was about to say 36. Dude, I swear to God, that's a different number. One.
Adam Devine
It is one away, but it's not like it's the same number.
Ryan Seacrest
I'm going with 36. I'm going with 36.
Adam Devine
So. So you're stoked on that. We both were in the ballpark of.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, Game over, man was 19. Which they got. They got that wrong. They got that wrong.
Ryan Seacrest
That's unwarranted. Yeah, that's unwarranted.
Blake Anderson
They got that wrong.
Adam Devine
It's time history will bend towards us.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, well, you know what it is, is we killed the dog. If we wouldn't have killed the dog.
Adam Devine
Dog.
Ryan Seacrest
It's science.
Blake Anderson
We would have gotten 100 rotten tomatoes.
Adam Devine
100.
Ryan Seacrest
Really?
Blake Anderson
Damn. That's crazy.
Adam Devine
I'm gonna write a book called Kill the dog instead of save the cat.
Blake Anderson
43. The Phantom. 43.
Ryan Seacrest
43.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, so Ders. Ders got it because he was a little closer.
Adam Devine
Sure.
Ryan Seacrest
That's not bad.
Adam Devine
$1 Bob.
Blake Anderson
You know, I just. I was listening this podcast with Adam McKay, okay. And he was telling the story about how. How that when they were test screening Anchorman for the first time, they got crazy low scores.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, that's crazy.
Blake Anderson
And he was like, oh, my God, did we make a bad movie? And then. But the universal thing that everyone hated was they killed the dog. And he goes, it's a comedy.
Adam Devine
Cuz they punted the dog. So funny.
Blake Anderson
Cuz he punted the Dog. So then they added a little thing.
Adam Devine
That's how I roll.
Blake Anderson
At the very end of the movie where the dog lands and is safe. And they just tagged it on at the end, and it saved the mov. The next time they screened it, dude, those score scores skyrocketed through the roof.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Blake has pitched this.
Ryan Seacrest
I told you the save. I told you the save. You have the little freaking pup come out in a skintendo joy suit at the end going, it's still alive. And it goes. And it, like, you know, licks Adam's face.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, yeah. And then. And then 100. 100%. Rotten tomatoes would have got. Would have got us there.
Ryan Seacrest
100%. We'll do a recut.
Adam Devine
What are you going to do?
Blake Anderson
You know, the critic takes Metacritic.
Adam Devine
We're in 89, though.
Ryan Seacrest
There you go. And Rotten Tomatoes now is. We're not. He's lying. Rotten Tomatoes now. It's like an act of vengeance. People tank movie scores just to like with the movies. Now.
Adam Devine
Game over, man was the last movie Gene Siskel reviewed.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, is that true? Is that.
Blake Anderson
Is that not real? Bam. Richard.
Adam Devine
Richard Rope Eber has our faces tattooed on his ass from Game Over.
Ryan Seacrest
It's a bagel. Allegedly. I believed you about the Siskel thing, and now I don't believe you. Ebert.
Adam Devine
Ayo Scott. Ayo. Scott is under my desk blowing me right now because of Game Over, Man.
Blake Anderson
You know who we ran into that I know Blake would have loved is Kent Alterman, the old president of Comedy Central. We ran into him at the Clippers game. Oh, yeah, he's looking great. He's now a hotshot producer. Producer. He was the president of comedy. And you know where he. He started off, I think at New Line. He was an executive at New Line for a while, and then he directed Semi Pro.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right.
Blake Anderson
That's wild. And then from directing Semi Pro, he decided to be the head of a network at Comedy Central.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right.
Adam Devine
Typical.
Blake Anderson
And he was the man. He. He championed us the entire way, so it was cool to run into him.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Adam Devine
When I. Yeah, no, go ahead, Blake. Give flowers.
Ryan Seacrest
No, when I saw the photo of you. No. When I saw the photo of you guys all together, I was extremely jealous and saddened that I didn't get to see Kent, because I love him very much. He's a very good dude.
Adam Devine
Did you. Did you show the picture of your daughter and you say, this is what happens when you get sick?
Blake Anderson
This is. I chose you over this. Over this.
Adam Devine
And then you just grab the arm and you. You just twist.
Blake Anderson
Oh, you just.
Adam Devine
And there's almost no evidence.
Ryan Seacrest
No, I didn't mention it.
Adam Devine
What's cool about Kent is. Is that when we sold workaholics, somebody else was president.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right.
Adam Devine
And then they either left or quit or were fired or whatever. And we were like, well, fuck, this person bought the show. Now there's a new president.
Ryan Seacrest
It's common in Hollywood when a new president takes over, that they cut all the stuff that's on the shelf. Exactly.
Adam Devine
They want to start over, clean house, and then this is going to be their new, like, regime or whatever.
Ryan Seacrest
And then if something's a super success, then they got to be like, actually, that was the old person that greenlit that, not me.
Blake Anderson
Well, they don't have to. A lot of them will take credit.
Adam Devine
No, they never do. They go, I added a title. I gave it the name. But so he. Our show didn't get picked up forever because of south park waiting to come back from Broadway. And then when we got picked up, he called and he was like, yeah, we're going to pick it up for 10 episodes. And I was like, God, yeah, it took forever. He goes, yeah, sorry about that. I watched it as soon as I got the job. I was like, well, I'm gonna pick this up, but did have to wait. So sorry about that. And I'm like, this dude took the job, Saw our pilot, knew right away that he was going to pick us up, but also knew he had to, and that's why he's the president. Y of Comm Central.
Blake Anderson
He always felt like when he would come over and talk with us, it was like he was one of the guys, you know, he didn't feel like an exact. An a. A suit that we have to, like, straighten up around. He would like.
Adam Devine
And by the way, under his. Under his reign. Listening. Your favorite shows that were on Comedy Central.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Adam Devine
Ones that he greenlit.
Blake Anderson
Oh, yeah. Key and Peele, Schumer.
Adam Devine
Crawl.
Ryan Seacrest
Ben show.
Adam Devine
For those that remember the Ben show.
Ryan Seacrest
Funny, dude. Go back and watch it.
Blake Anderson
What is the Bench show?
Ryan Seacrest
Dude? It was just this. What was his name? Ben. I don't know. It's pretty funny. There was so much funny.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Blake. You did. I remember Blake coming into the writers and being like, ben show last night was pretty wild. I mean, it was like a re. It was like a Nathan for you type. Nathan for you.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah. It. It was like, kind of semi scripted. It was very funny.
Blake Anderson
I don't remember the Ben show even a little bit.
Ryan Seacrest
I. Everybody go back and watch it. It's Ashley. Hilarious. Hilarious.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I'm good.
Ryan Seacrest
Comedy Central was a great network. It was crushing it.
Blake Anderson
It was very cool.
Adam Devine
That was the era, dude.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Ben Hoffman.
Blake Anderson
And, and what's crazy is, is now it just doesn't even mean anything at all to anyone.
Ryan Seacrest
It's purely the Daily show and some south park.
Adam Devine
But. But I watch Daily show on YouTube and I only watch it when John Stewart hosts. But like they. It's. It is. It is. It's bizarre. It's such a business strategy move that someone's like, you know, we get better ratings if we just play the Office reruns. And it's like, is that what we're doing? We're just, we're settling.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, that sucks.
Ryan Seacrest
Fucking thing sucks.
Adam Devine
We're going to settle as opposed to like really take swings like FX or something like that. That like, sure, they played movie reruns forever, but then they were like, now we have money to make our own thing.
Ryan Seacrest
The FX come up is a kind of. Also very, very crazy.
Adam Devine
But AMC did it. Like, this isn't impossible.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, at this point it kind of is.
Blake Anderson
Ben. Ben Hoffman, who was the Ben from the Ben show, which I never saw and I don't even remember it being a thing. But he is Wheeler Walker Jr. Do you know who that is?
Ryan Seacrest
The country guy. The country guy who sings like eating and kicking ass.
Adam Devine
Oh, yeah.
Blake Anderson
He sings like R rated, funny country songs.
Adam Devine
Is this, That's. Who is this busing or whatever? What was the, the one bussy. The bussy guy.
Blake Anderson
Oh, no, no, no, no, that's. No, that's just a gay guy. That's just a gay dude.
Adam Devine
Give me a hell.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. No, he sings all kinds of hit country songs, but he's like sort of making fun of country at the same time.
Ryan Seacrest
It's tongue in cheek.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, well, well, good for. Good for him.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. The show is very funny if you go back and watch it.
Blake Anderson
Funny guy.
Ryan Seacrest
Very good.
Blake Anderson
Well, any takebacks, any apologies, any epic slang. Lambs.
Adam Devine
I just want to make sure that. Billy Zane, if you're listening, I hope you're. I hope you're taking vitamins. I want you to go get a physical. I don't want anything going on.
Blake Anderson
And this for you, Billy. This is sort of a final destination situation because we accidentally been goosebumps. We put that upon you by talking about you in a loving way. So look out for if you're walking next to it like a, A, A railroad track. Watch out for any like loose, loose metal that's vibrating There.
Adam Devine
Under a palm tree.
Blake Anderson
Under a palm tree, a prawn might fall from the sky and cut your head off.
Ryan Seacrest
Pineapple.
Adam Devine
If you're hiking near a volcano, don't.
Blake Anderson
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Not right now. Because. Because our podcast Ghost is coming for you and Blake.
Adam Devine
So the Phantom is your number one ZAYN movie?
Ryan Seacrest
Absolutely. 100. I love the Phantom. That.
Adam Devine
Adam, do you have a Zayn? I have a Zane. That's why I'm.
Blake Anderson
Okay, let me look up Billy's name.
Adam Devine
Have you seen. Have you seen Dead Calm?
Blake Anderson
No.
Ryan Seacrest
No.
Adam Devine
That movie's off the hook, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Blake Anderson
Never heard of it.
Adam Devine
It's a. It's like a slow burn thriller where, like, this couple has a boat. They're in the middle of the ocean. The boat's all up, so the guy's like, you know what? Let me go for help. And then another boat takes him for help. He's like, I'll be back in a day. You just sit here. You're dropped anchor in the middle of the ocean, and then Billy Zane shows up on another boat, and it's like, hey, what's up?
Ryan Seacrest
And she's like, those are, like, my favorite movies.
Adam Devine
Oh, dude.
Ryan Seacrest
With just a creeper, it unfurls.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I would like to play. That's like, when. When you go to a meeting and, like, an executive asks, like, what kind of role do you want to play? I always say, I want to do my version of fear where they see me as, like, a. He's a sweet, nice boy next door, and then I'm a psychopath.
Adam Devine
You can be yourself.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, I think so. Fun.
Ryan Seacrest
You get to show the real you.
Blake Anderson
The real me.
Adam Devine
You carve upside down pineapple in your chest.
Ryan Seacrest
You're meat.
Blake Anderson
I would say Walton with Brando is my favorite. Walt.
Adam Devine
Okay. That's the movie. That's got to be the movie. That's the one.
Blake Anderson
That's the movie.
Ryan Seacrest
Applaud him. Applaud him.
Blake Anderson
I mean, Titanic or so I don't. I. I guess he's not.
Ryan Seacrest
He's a great bad guy in that.
Blake Anderson
Yeah, he was a good bad guy in that.
Adam Devine
And Tombstone. We started watching Tombstone. The cast of Tombstone.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, my God. The must.
Adam Devine
I don't know, like, are people trying to make movies that good anymore anymore? Like, no. Where the cast is legitimately 12 banger actors, where you're just like, holy. How are all these people in one movie? Like, did they take pay cuts? Or were they just, like. Was the casting director just, like, a whole other level ahead of everybody? And Was like, this dude has never been in a thing. You're my guy. This guy. This guy. And Sam Elliott.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
But also, like, you didn't know that Val Kilmer was going to absolutely annihilate that role, didn't they? The.
Blake Anderson
The cast is unreal.
Adam Devine
Billy Bob Thornton as, like, a little chunky youngster.
Ryan Seacrest
He's in that.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Adam Devine
He's the dude in the beginning who Kurt Russell establishes himself as. Like, he's causing problems. He goes over to Billy Bob and he's like, you're in my seat, or whatever. Slaps the. Out of him.
Blake Anderson
Really?
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
I gotta rewatch it.
Adam Devine
And then he comes back with a shotgun. It's. It's awesome.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, that's dope. I just watched Val's scenes and I'm like, these. Every scene is memorable.
Blake Anderson
You know, Wyatt Earp III is in the movie.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay.
Blake Anderson
He's in the movie.
Adam Devine
He has to be.
Ryan Seacrest
What the hell?
Blake Anderson
He plays Billy, so that's tight.
Adam Devine
That's awesome.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, that's really cool.
Blake Anderson
Yeah. And then there's. Billy Bob's in it.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Please. Thank you.
Blake Anderson
Powers Booth.
Adam Devine
Powers Booth is the scariest actor of all time.
Blake Anderson
That guy rocks.
Ryan Seacrest
He's so scary.
Adam Devine
He's already dead. I believe.
Blake Anderson
Billy Zayn off, obviously. Jason Priestley. Kind of forgot he was in.
Ryan Seacrest
That's right. Yes.
Adam Devine
With the little glasses.
Blake Anderson
My boy. My boy from the Outlaws. Michael Rooker. That guy rocks. And then, of course, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, like, just heavy hitters.
Adam Devine
Who's the guy from Sex in the City?
Blake Anderson
Thomas Hayden Church is in it.
Adam Devine
Thomas Hayden Church is in it. Looks hella young. Who's the, like, big or. No, it's not Sex and City. It's like my big frat Greek Wedding. The. The boyfriend. That guy with the big face.
Blake Anderson
I never saw that.
Ryan Seacrest
Somebody help me.
Adam Devine
What is his name? That guy's in it.
Blake Anderson
That's another episode of John Corber.
Adam Devine
John Corbert Special.
Ryan Seacrest
No flowers to any of these actors, but great work out there.
Blake Anderson
Zero flowers.
Adam Devine
None. Wouldn't do it. Wouldn't do it.
Ryan Seacrest
Although.
Adam Devine
Thomas Hayden Church.
Blake Anderson
Feel free to watch Tombstone again. Let's get those numbers up.
Adam Devine
Up, up, up, up.
Ryan Seacrest
Absolutely.
Blake Anderson
And feel free to watch Game over man again and maybe write a review and post it.
Ryan Seacrest
Stop by.
Adam Devine
Yeah. Slide in Blake's DMs and tell him which is better. Game over man or. Or Cornerstone. Western. Tombstone.
Blake Anderson
That's actually tough.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Blake Anderson
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
We drew a lot from it.
Adam Devine
What's better? Tombstone. The movie Tombstone. The pizzas. Slide in. Blake's DM Let them know.
Blake Anderson
And I want to apologize for kind of thinking that you were being a degenerate and not coming to the basketball game because you were hungover on a Tuesday. So. So that's my fault. To Blake. And look at you. Even though you dress and you look and you act and most of the time you are did degenerate.
Adam Devine
Right?
Blake Anderson
Right. Sometimes I'm proven wrong.
Adam Devine
Blake is dressed like a hotel hot.
Blake Anderson
Tub cleaner and I looks like, like a guy who isn't a coke dealer but is always trying to sell you coke, saying he knows a guy.
Adam Devine
Right. I can give them to you.
Blake Anderson
He's like, I. I can get you some.
Ryan Seacrest
And I would like to apologize to all my fans out there who wish that I was all hungover on a Tuesday, but I wasn't. I'm change man.
Adam Devine
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Responsible.
Adam Devine
Wow.
Ryan Seacrest
You on the cruise don't love it.
Adam Devine
Okay.
Blake Anderson
He's got to save it for the cruise.
Adam Devine
Dry cruise. And that was was another episode of important.
Blake Anderson
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Podcast Summary: "Ep 245: No More Flowers, AGAIN."
Introduction to the Episode
In Episode 245 titled "No More Flowers, AGAIN," hosted by Ryan Seacrest, Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, and Anders Holm, the hosts delve into a series of engaging and humorous discussions centered around Hollywood anecdotes, personal experiences, and memorable movie moments. This episode is packed with witty banter, insightful commentary, and relatable stories that resonate with both fans of the hosts and casual listeners alike.
Experiences with Media and Press Coverage
The episode kicks off with the hosts reflecting on their interactions with the media, particularly focusing on an interview with a person named Graham Bessinger. Blake Anderson shares his surprise at the unexpected media attention following the interview.
Blake Anderson (05:00):
"No, he's just a guy from the Midwest."
Adam Devine (07:00):
"What is Graham Bunger?"
The conversation takes a humorous turn as Ryan Seacrest teases Blake about not crying during the interview, emphasizing the exaggerated reactions they often encounter from the press.
"You're a stupid dumbass."
Blake Anderson (06:59) adds:
"I tell all these crazy stories on the podcast. It gets... the press doesn't pick anything up."
The hosts discuss how certain stories, even absurd ones like Adam's toe falling off, gain traction in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly and People Magazine.
"People magazine picked it up."
Discussions on Personal Health and Chronic Pain
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Adam Devine's personal health struggles, specifically chronic pain. Blake Anderson mentions connecting with an author named Allan Iverson, who offers guidance on managing chronic pain.
"The guy that created a way out body swap. This guy named Allan. And I'm blanking on his last name."
Adam Devine (09:13):
"How the body is stuck in a pain cycle. That sounds like an Anthrax album."
The hosts emphasize the importance of addressing chronic pain and the psychological aspects associated with it.
Exploration of Children's Literature and Emotional Impact
Transitioning from adult topics, the discussion shifts to children's books and their emotional depth. The hosts reminisce about classics like "The Velveteen Rabbit" and "Stone Soup," highlighting how these stories resonate emotionally with both children and adults.
Ryan Seacrest (17:05):
"The teacher who shows up is hella scary and mean. And then it makes the kids want their original abusive teacher back."
Blake Anderson (18:28):
"It's a real tear-jerker."
The conversation underscores the lasting impact of storytelling and illustration in shaping emotional responses.
Hollywood Anecdotes and Movie Discussions
A substantial segment of the episode is dedicated to reminiscing about Hollywood experiences and favorite movies. Blake Anderson and Adam Devine share amusing stories about interactions with actors like Billy Zane, discussing iconic films such as "Tombstone" and "Game Over, Man."
Adam Devine (43:33):
"I remember the monster ring. A kid put on a ring and became, like, stronger or something and then slowly turned into a monster."
Blake Anderson (48:30):
"That's how I roll."
The hosts debate movie ratings and the significance of story elements, such as saving a dog in "Anchorman," which dramatically improved the film's reception.
"They bombed because they killed the dog. So funny."
They also discuss the evolution of television networks like Comedy Central, reflecting on past shows and the current state of the industry.
"We ran into Kent Alterman, the old president of Comedy Central."
Personal Stories and Relationships
The hosts delve into personal anecdotes involving friendships and relationships. Blake Anderson recounts an incident where Adam Devine canceled plans for a Clippers game, leading to playful accusations and humorous back-and-forth.
Blake Anderson (26:37):
"And then I heard through the grapevine that you went out the day before to a Hollywood party."
Adam Devine (28:34):
"It was Monday."
The conversation highlights the camaraderie among the hosts and their ability to turn everyday situations into entertaining narratives.
Humorous Take on Symbols and Signals
A lighthearted discussion arises around the symbolism of pineapples as a sign of swingers, with the hosts humorously debating its origins and meanings.
Blake Anderson (34:35):
"Maybe pineapple. Like, if you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious."
Ryan Seacrest (34:25):
"Everybody's coming."
The banter showcases the hosts' knack for blending humor with obscure cultural references.
Closing Remarks and Reflections
As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on their journey, the evolution of their podcast, and their ongoing love for discussing various topics ranging from personal experiences to pop culture.
Blake Anderson (60:25):
"You on the cruise don't love it."
Adam Devine (60:53):
"You are a lucky father."
The episode concludes with a blend of humor, nostalgia, and genuine reflections, leaving listeners entertained and engaged.
Notable Quotes:
Blake Anderson (05:00):
"No, he's just a guy from the Midwest."
Adam Devine (07:00):
"What is Graham Bunger?"
Ryan Seacrest (05:59):
"You're a stupid dumbass."
Blake Anderson (10:34):
"People magazine picked it up."
Blake Anderson (48:30):
"That's how I roll."
Blake Anderson (34:35):
"Maybe pineapple. Like, if you eat enough pineapple, your cum tastes delicious."
Conclusion
Episode 245 of "This Is Important" masterfully weaves together personal stories, Hollywood tales, and cultural discussions, all delivered with the hosts' signature humor and camaraderie. Whether you're a long-time listener or tuning in for the first time, this episode offers a delightful mix of laughter, reflection, and insightful commentary that underscores the essence of what makes the podcast both entertaining and meaningful.