Ep 296: Chicken Noodle Soup For The Swole

Summary

Podcast Summary: This Is Important — Ep 296: Chicken Noodle Soup For The Swole

Original Air Date: April 28, 2026
Hosts: Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, Kyle Newacheck
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Episode Overview

In this episode of This Is Important, the boys reunite for a classic hang, riffing on everything from Monster Jam and Disney World adventures to the politics of main character energy and the ongoing argument of who the true GOATs of stand-up comedy are. There’s storytelling about sick days and the healing power of chicken noodle soup, an unexpectedly deep dive into gooning sub-culture, and plenty of playful digs at each other's dad skills, movie preferences, and existential frustrations about modern media. The episode flows with the hosts’ trademark blend of chaotic, irreverent humor and real-life camaraderie.

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Key Topics & Highlights

Monster Jam, Disney World, and Parenting

[03:13–15:53]

• Monster Jam Lore: The gang reminisce about attending Monster Jam, waxing nostalgic about monster truck icons like Bigfoot, Gravedigger, and Medusa, and jokingly “revealing” that Bigfoot was actually a woman (“Those tires were titties, bro.” – Adam, 05:22).
• Parenting Brags: Debate over who’s taken their kids to Monster Jam, with playful accusations about dad fitness:
  • “Yeah, you’re right. I guess you’re a bad dad then, because you’re not taking your daughters to Monster Jam.” – Co-host, [08:14]
• Disney World Flex: A recounting of a high-end Disney World trip with a private guide, which escalates to an epic (and competitive) backstage Buzz Lightyear meet-and-greet.
  • “It was like meeting the president... 15 security guards. And I’m not exaggerating.” – Co-host, [15:00]
  • “People were losing–kids were scratching at the security guard trying to climb through their legs. It was chaos.” – Co-host, [15:53]
• Backstage Intrigue: Speculation about who gets to be inside the character suits (“I’ve been told they’re all, like, five foot six Filipino men... Goofy’s gotta be at least six foot five!” – Co-hosts, [16:54–17:46]).

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Main Character Energy, Childhood Dynamics, and Friend Group Politics

[34:46–38:41]

• The hosts riff on “main character syndrome,” reflecting on group dynamics from childhood to adulthood.
  • “Imagine being in a friend group where one of the people says, ‘I’m the main character.’ Everyone hates that person, right?” – Co-host, [35:10]
  • “Honestly, I think in elementary years, I was the main character.” – Blake, [36:14]
• The odd archetype of the "quiet strong guy" who asserts dominance by literally picking people up at camp and parties (“It’s a way of asserting a quiet dominance.” – Blake, [38:07]).

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The Marvel Movie Debate & The Death of Theatrical Comedy

[27:18–33:37]

• Marvel Fatigue: Spirited debate about the glut of Marvel movies and whether they’ve “ruined” original comedy films in theaters.
  • “Would you rather see a $20M comedy or spend the same money to see a huge Marvel movie?” – Co-host, [27:32]
  • “Looking back now… we’re close to out of it.” – Adam, [28:20]
  • “That’s crazy. 37 [Marvel movies since 2008] is insane.” – Blake, [31:08]
• What’s Worth Watching: Strong picks for best Marvel and superhero movies (Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Logan, Into the Spider-Verse), but plenty of frustration about convoluted storylines.
  • “This is why I’m out. Conversations like this!” – Co-host, [29:50]

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Delicious Sick Days: Chicken Noodle Soup as Healing

[39:03–45:46]

• Post-Disney Illness: The story of coming back violently sick from Orlando, hosting the Children’s Miracle Network gala, and being rescued by “elite” chicken noodle soup.
  • “It hit me like a Mack truck... we were actually in Orlando not just for Disney World, but [I] hosted the Children’s Miracle Network gala… And then I got damly ill.” – Co-host, [39:03–39:37]
  • “I had a bunch of chicken noodle soup, so that rocked.” – Co-host, [42:23]
• Soup Mystery Solved: The hosts obsess over finding out the name of the soup (“Spoonful of Comfort” is revealed, along with a bonus for tomato basil and baked potato flavors. “The cause of diarrhea.” – Co-host, [69:07], jokingly.)

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Comedy GOATs: The Stand-up Canon Debate

[50:43–58:33]

• Riffing on Chelsea Peretti as a favorite comic, ranking her alongside classic heavyweights.
  • “She’s just hilarious. Nothing more than that to me.” – Blake, [67:15]
  • “Chris Rock rocks, dude. He’s my number one.” – Co-host, [56:25]
  • “I like the idea of ranking best specials ever over being like, who’s the greatest comedian of all time.” – Adam, [52:08]
• Deep dive into legends: Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck” legacy, the career versus creative output conundrum (Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Chappelle).
  • “Jeff Foxworthy… the exact arc of what a standup comedy character can do.” – Co-host, [52:35]
  • “But maybe Eddie Murphy has a funnier special than Jeff Foxworthy.” – Blake, [54:19]
• Observations on the LA stand-up scene and seeing comedy legends work out material (Chris Rock’s “dentistry” bit, watching Chappelle and Chelsea at local clubs).

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Wild Tangents: Gooning, Scandals, and Ephemera

[59:34–66:29]

• “Gooning” Subculture: A segment explores the online trend of “gooning” – excessive masturbation as meme/troll culture – and the real-life consequence (viral shaming turned tragedy at a bikini coffee stand).
  • “They have like a Gooner all… a funeral. They all showed up to where the guy blew his brains out to have a [ceremony].” – Adam, [60:13]
  • “It’s an epic troll.” – Blake, [62:45]
  • Riffing on the morality, ethics, and absurdity of public shaming, with a side of Louis CK/Weinstein confusion.
• Physical Media, Voice Notes, and Old Guy Energy: Ribbing each other about buying porn in a pre-digital world, using voice memos, and classic "boomer" confusions.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Bigfoot is Female?:

  • “All Sasquatches are female. You didn’t know that?” – Adam, [05:09]

• On Disney Security:

  • “Fifteen security guards. I’m not exaggerating… It was like meeting the president.” – Co-host, [15:00]

• Marvel Movie Overload:

  • “This is why I’m out. Just even conversations like this. What the f- are we even talking?” – Co-host, [29:50]

• Chicken Noodle Soup for the Swole:

  • “I had a bunch of chicken noodle soup, so that rocked.” – Co-host, [42:23]
  • “The cause of diarrhea.” (on ‘Spoonful of Comfort’ soup) – Co-host, [69:17]

• On Main Character Energy:

  • “Imagine being in a friend group where one of the people says, ‘I’m the main character.’ You… hate that person, right?” – Co-host, [35:09]

• Stand-Up GOATs:

  • “She’s just hilarious. Nothing more than that.” (on Chelsea Peretti) – Blake, [67:15]
  • “Jeff Foxworthy… the arc of what a standup comedy character can do.” – Co-host, [52:35]

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Funniest & Most Memorable Exchanges

• On getting soup delivered:
  “They sent me soup.” – Co-host
  “How do they even know you got sick?” – Adam
  “Because he wrote a scathing email…” – Blake
  [43:09–43:16]

• On voice notes:
  “I find it to be the clearest violation… people who think they’re main characters.” – Adam, [46:21]

• On Blake’s comic taste:
  “I stand on business. That’s my goat.” – Blake (refusing to recant re: Chelsea Peretti), [69:49]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Monster Jam & Parenting: 03:13–15:53
• Disney World Chaos: 13:03–18:22
• Marvel vs. Comedy in Theaters: 27:18–33:37
• Chicken Noodle Soup Saga: 39:03–46:09; 69:01–69:19 (soup brand reveal)
• Comedy GOATs Discussion: 50:43–58:33
• Gooniversary & Troll Subculture: 59:34–66:29

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Summary

If you’ve missed the episode, this installment of This Is Important is classic TII: deeply silly, tangential, but sneakily insightful on the rituals of growing up, nostalgia, movie culture, and why even grown men still want to flex about Disney World, soup, and main character status. You’ll leave wanting chicken noodle soup, contemplating your role in your friend group, and probably googling which Monster Jam truck you’d be.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Blake]

Welcome to this Is Important, a production of iHeartRadio, the show where we only talk about what is most obviously very crucially important. Today on this Is Important.

[Adam]

If you're not mentioned in the files, you're a loser.

[Blake]

I bet Goofy just walks around in a towel. Dude, with his hammer.

[Friend/Co-host]

Life's hard, dude.

[Blake]

Stay hard.

[Adam]

Let's go.

[Friend/Co-host]

K. God dam it.

[Blake]

We'll do it live.

[Friend/Co-host]

Kumbaya. That is my favorite addition to the soundboard. Kumbaya.

[Blake]

Powerful.

[Friend/Co-host]

It doesn't sound real. It sounds like. Like a voiceover. Ator.

[Blake]

Yeah, your dad's good, man.

[Adam]

He could do it, right?

[Friend/Co-host]

Stuck the landing with it.

[Adam]

Has you thought about hooking him up with a voice agent? Agent?

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, it would be a very specific voice you're listening for.

[Adam]

Wasn't that good?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, but I mean. Kumbaya. Yeah, I mean, with that voice, you're. You're selling anything, dude.

[Blake]

A new pickup truck, a lot of anti smoking campaigns.

[Friend/Co-host]

Smoking campaigns? It would mostly be Monster Jam. Wherever the current Monster Jam is. He's hyping it up the Anaheim pod and coming to the stadium.

[Blake]

What?

[Friend/Co-host]

What's the one that the girls like? Sparkly, Sparkle something. The one monster truck that's just like sparkles.

[Blake]

Oh, well, I remember Medusa. Medusa was kind of the OG she was like a pink monster truck. She was fire dude.

[Friend/Co-host]

Medusa was the OG Bigfoot was the OG Dog. Gravedigger.

[Blake]

No, I'm talking OG Female driver was Medusa.

[Adam]

Oh, news flash. Bigfoot was. See a lady.

[Blake]

What?

[Friend/Co-host]

Kumbaya.

[Adam]

All Sasquatches are female. You didn't know that?

[Blake]

No. Wait, Bigfoot was a girl?

[Adam]

Oh, yeah. She had a huge hanging off the back.

[Blake]

No, no.

[Adam]

Those tires were titties, bro.

[Blake]

You didn't know that Bigfoot monster truck had a hanging off the back? Like where the, like, truck nuts Would be.

[Adam]

Yes. Damn. It came before truck nuts. Somebody was like those. What if we made those nuts and

[Friend/Co-host]

then they came all do not come.

[Adam]

Have you guys been to Monster Jam?

[Blake]

Of course. What do you think?

[Friend/Co-host]

I would love. I think we missed it. I think we missed Monster Jam. I think it was just in Orange county and then I think it was just in LA county, so we missed it.

[Adam]

Those are the two counties. Adam ain't leaving.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, I mean travel. Are you traveling to go see Monster Jam? I'm not. I'm gonna stick within a county or two.

[Adam]

If I drove to Santa Barbara county, that'd be about as far as you drive to LA county from Orange County.

[Blake]

It would be.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's further. It's much further.

[Adam]

I go to Santa Barbara county all the time and it's an hour away.

[Blake]

Oh, is it okay? But what if you. What if you followed Monster Jam like Grateful Dead? Like you were just like at every.

[Adam]

Well, if you called, if we talked more, you'd find out that I do.

[Blake]

That's cool, dude.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

The monster truck I was looking for was Sparkle Smash. Sparkle Smash is the new star on the scene all the kids are into.

[Blake]

I am unaware of Sparkle Smash. How did. How did Sparkle Smash get on your radar?

[Adam]

I don't know, cuz he's a Hollywood elite. Whoa.

[Blake]

Sparkle Smash. Sick, dude. It's a unicorn.

[Friend/Co-host]

Why would that have anything to do with my eliteness?

[Adam]

Dude, I'll let you answer that question.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, I mean, it's a unicorn.

[Blake]

He's in the files.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, no, no. You're in the files. You're in the files.

[Blake]

You're in the files.

[Adam]

Interesting talk.

[Friend/Co-host]

Files. You want talk about files? You're in the files.

[Adam]

Mommy, Daddy, stop it, please.

[Friend/Co-host]

Ah, dude, I wish I was in the files.

[Blake]

What? What?

[Friend/Co-host]

We've covered.

[Adam]

We've been over this. If you're not mentioned in the files, a loser.

[Friend/Co-host]

You're a loser, dude.

[Adam]

You're a nobody.

[Friend/Co-host]

We're not reach. We're not rich enough. We're not elite enough. There's no way we're in the files, okay?

[Adam]

Like, there's plenty of people who didn't do anything damning or gross or illegal that are in the files. And they're like.

[Friend/Co-host]

That are in the files.

[Adam]

Kind of sick.

[Blake]

What the.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, I don't know if they like it.

[Adam]

No, no, no, no, no. Deep down, if you're in the files, if you were affiliated, you're like, I guess I'm everywhere, huh? And I don't know if you could tell, but. But there's you know what?

[Blake]

I'm start. And I hate. And I hate to get off the files and back on to Monster Jam, but there's a lot of.

[Adam]

They're one in the same to me. Go ahead.

[Blake]

There's a lot of monster trucks I've never even heard of. El Toro, Bailey Circuit. It's like a dog.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, dude, Blake, you probably haven't looked at monster trucks.

[Blake]

Don't you have two.

[Friend/Co-host]

You have two girls?

[Adam]

This is the guy who said, of course. When I asked if they've been. He's like, oh.

[Blake]

Oh, what? Girls can't like monster trucks? Get the fuck out of here, man.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, you're right. I guess you're a bad dad then, because you're not taking your daughters to Monster Jam.

[Adam]

It is.

[Friend/Co-host]

My son has been to Monster Jam. He's two years old.

[Adam]

It's so loud.

[Blake]

He probably.

[Friend/Co-host]

He probably went too young.

[Blake]

It is a little scary. It is a little loud for the kids. That ear. The ear.

[Friend/Co-host]

The earmuffs.

[Adam]

It's too loud.

[Blake]

It is pretty.

[Adam]

I'm going on record as saying it is too loud.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, no.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

I. Bo took the earmuffs off and I said. Or. And I said, good, you keep them off. You're a man. I said, you're a man. And then I said, flex hasn't started talking yet.

[Adam]

For some reason, can't hear people speak.

[Blake]

He has tendonitis. Is that what it is called? Tendinitis?

[Adam]

Tenure.

[Blake]

Tenure.

[Friend/Co-host]

Tendonitis. Tendinitis. Tendonitis.

[Blake]

The. Where? It's weird. You got the ringing in your ear. It's like a terrible affliction.

[Adam]

It's a good time. They flip cars.

[Friend/Co-host]

Todd just put it in the chat.

[Blake]

Tinnitus. Tinnitus.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know

[Adam]

that that is what was hanging off the back of Bigfoot. Excuse me. Thank you.

[Blake]

Damn.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't guess where I just took young Bohard.

[Blake]

Wow. Okay, wait, hold on. We need a big point for that one.

[Adam]

Yes, yes. Points. Okay.

[Blake]

That is fire.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'll take him.

[Blake]

If he goes by young Bohard the rest of his life, he will have a good life.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, dude, he's a beach. He's a beach kid. He's a young Bohard.

[Adam]

Hard parts. We're kind of weird, but go ahead, Young Bo.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, it's not weird. You're a boy. Life's hard, dude.

[Blake]

Stay hard.

[Adam]

It's weird when adults say it. No, when the wit. When the girls at the high school start referring to them.

[Friend/Co-host]

See, only someone that's in the files take offense to that because they're always thinking of stuff like that when regular people, they just think it's cute. Cute nickname for. For a young boy who goes hard everywhere.

[Blake]

Blake, I didn't do anything.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's just how you respond.

[Blake]

I'm looking at monster trucks. You were pivoting.

[Adam]

So what about him? Where's. Where'd you take them? Where'd you take them?

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know. I want you guys to guess, and I think you know the answer, but.

[Adam]

Hustler.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, I took my son to Hustler. What does that even mean?

[Blake]

Dude, the hustlers.

[Friend/Co-host]

To the porno shop. To the.

[Blake]

Like.

[Adam]

What else would it mean? What do you.

[Blake]

The hustler store isn't a porno shop. It's like a lingerie store, isn't it?

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, have you been inside of it?

[Blake]

I remember going one. I think I went with you in Hollywood one time.

[Friend/Co-host]

If you look this way, it's lingerie, and if you look this way, it's gaping buttholes. Just a poster of gaping buttholes.

[Blake]

Adam Science.

[Adam]

Adam was one of those.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's one of those gaping butthole magic eyes that the more you look into it, the more gay reveals.

[Adam]

I feel like Adam went once, and they were like, do you want to become a member? There's a point system. And he was like, all right. And then he had to keep going back because he's like, if I give up this punch card. I got all these punches already.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, well, they did used to have

[Adam]

a. I got a free chin, Adam.

[Blake]

I think the one time. I'm pretty sure the one time I went. You took me. You made me go. Because I think you were buying your girlfriend at the time, like, lingerie. It was in Hollywood.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, yeah, that's where you go to get the lingerie.

[Blake]

But you said, I. You need it.

[Adam]

Welcome back, Adam. Everywhere, Adam. Welcome back.

[Friend/Co-host]

To go by yourself is weird.

[Adam]

What?

[Friend/Co-host]

To go by yourself. You're gonna just creep it around. Goodbye. Creeping around a porn store, it's like, you go with your buddy. It's less weird.

[Adam]

You're just an old guy.

[Blake]

You don't trust yourself alone. Yeah, I was there.

[Friend/Co-host]

Press what? What am I gonna do, buy porn?

[Adam]

I don't know.

[Blake]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Friend/Co-host]

There's all the porn you can handle online.

[Blake]

Well, yeah, but this is. This is tactile. This is. You're touching it. You're. You're amongst it. You're. You're smelling.

[Adam]

No, no, no.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, you're the. You're the physical media guy in the Group. Okay? You're the one who must absolutely collect.

[Adam]

How physical.

[Friend/Co-host]

They're in your man. I see you. If you pan the camera to the left, it's just a stack of DVD pornos.

[Adam]

And what's with the head behind you? Is your body that goes with that?

[Blake]

No, it's just a head.

[Friend/Co-host]

You're in the files.

[Adam]

Give me a head.

[Blake]

So.

[Friend/Co-host]

But I wasn't. I didn't go to Hustler. Any other guesses?

[Blake]

Okay. Other guesses to where? To where you brought young Bohart.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yes.

[Adam]

Romantics. Disney romantic. Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay. Well, God, it took you that long. You guys knew the answer and you, Blake, was gonna have a guess here. Blake, would you want to guess?

[Adam]

Even though you wouldn't. Didn't you tee this up on the last.

[Blake]

What you talked about last. Last episode. We're all very.

[Adam]

Everyone at home is like, just saying,

[Blake]

you went to Disney.

[Adam]

We don't need to guess. Everyone knows.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okie dokie. But we came back. We came back. So maybe I was hoping we would have a question about how.

[Adam]

What that was like, I'm not here for your hope.

[Blake]

Rather, I'd rather talk about Monster Jam. But yeah, go off.

[Friend/Co-host]

Monster Jam is the thing none of us went to. If you had just gone to Monster Jam, we would talk about Monster Jam a little bit.

[Adam]

For a little bit.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's a thing that none of us went to.

[Blake]

Adam, you just went to Disney World, right?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, actually, yeah.

[Blake]

Oh, well, how was it?

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't want to talk about that. Shit's boring, dude. Talk about Disney World.

[Adam]

Yeah, take my Disney.

[Blake]

Come on, man. There's got. Got to be some good stories. There's got to be some good stories.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, the. The story was. It was super fun. Bo had a blast. We went on all the little kid rides, which was fun. It. You know what? What do I care?

[Adam]

I don't.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't really care to go on.

[Adam]

Let's go into it.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'm a grown ass man. I'm a grown ass man. I don't care to go on the rides. But, dude, we had one of those guides, right, that. That takes you and you get to cut the line and stuff. And. And they kept being like, bo, his number one stunner is Buz and Tim Allen. Tim Allen, of course, loves him, loves Buzz Lightyear. We'll catch him in his crib. Like, it'll be the middle of the night. And you, like, you get the little updates that he's up and about. You check on him. It's like 3am and he's just looking at the camera and going, blast off and jumping up towards the camera. He loves Buzz.

[Blake]

A dream is.

[Friend/Co-host]

A dream is.

[Adam]

I love it.

[Friend/Co-host]

And so we. We're like, yo, can he see Buzz Lightyear? And you're like, actually, Buzz is really busy today. We can't see Buzz Lightyear. And we're like, what the. And am I going to have to like, slip this guy a few hundos to like, get Buzz? And there he's like, well, let me see if I could do. Then the guide leaves us for 20 minutes and we're just standing. Like, are we.

[Adam]

What are we, 20 whole minutes?

[Friend/Co-host]

20 minutes.

[Adam]

What are you even supposed to do with your lives?

[Friend/Co-host]

We didn't know. We honestly, we didn't know what to do.

[Adam]

Up is down.

[Blake]

Like, did he park you somewhere or you just like. He's just like, wait, hold up.

[Friend/Co-host]

We were on the side of the. The. The little road in Hollywood land or wherever we're at.

[Blake]

So it wasn't like, here's a churro

[Adam]

with like, the rest of society.

[Blake]

Like, yeah,

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. And then he finally comes back, he's like, guess what I did. I got you, Buzz. And then Buzz comes out a secret entrance. He walks out. First of all, 15 security guards. And I'm not exaggerating. 15 security guards.

[Adam]

Adam's never done that.

[Blake]

Go ahead, Secret Service.

[Friend/Co-host]

It was. It was like meeting the president or some. It was like, by the way, these aren't president level security guards. These security guards, I don't think could take. Take down many people.

[Adam]

Polos, six Todd's, four Kyles and a mic.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, that's right. And. And they, you know, they. They block it off. But as soon as they blocked it off and both having his little meet and greet, and I guess he was busy, so he had to like, turn around and leave as soon as he was done. Yeah, you see people clamoring on the other side of this wall of security guards. By the way, all the security guards are like 5 foot 2. So the wall is like, very easy to look over.

[Adam]

Right.

[Friend/Co-host]

But everyone is like, oh, my God, there's boss. There's boss. And people were losing their kids were scratching at the security guard, trying to climb through their legs. It was chaos. And Bo's first thing after we, like, fought to get him a meeting with Buzz Lightyear was goes, where's Woody? And you're like, oh, homie, just be happy that Buzz is here.

[Adam]

That's like when we're on the street and people are like, where's Dirge and Blake? Or where's Adam? And I'm like, I. I think. I don't know.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know.

[Adam]

Let's FaceTime him, though. He didn't pick it up again. I'm living in a nightmare. He won't pick up, but we could try.

[Blake]

You guys should FaceTime me more. Wait, now, is Buzz. Is Buzz like a. A human in the suit, or is it like a plastic head? Like, does his mouth move?

[Adam]

Move?

[Friend/Co-host]

No, no, no, no. They're all plushy with, like, a little. So they can. They can look out the. I think they look out the mouth most of the time. So you think it's probably just, like. I've been told they're all, like, five foot six Filipino men.

[Blake]

Right? Of course.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's, like, what it predominantly is. And I'm just like, this poor guy, like, because we did all the character stuff, because both so young, you know? And so I'm like, he's getting assaulted. Like, Mickey. Bo grabbed his nose, wiggled it around like this. Yeah. Poked him in the eyes and kept going. Eyes, eyes. And then Mickey's like, okay. And I'm like, trying to teach him manners, but he doesn't know manners.

[Blake]

Get your boy. Get your boy.

[Friend/Co-host]

Get your boy. Get your boy.

[Blake]

He's got three more eyes. Three more eye pokes, and then Mickey's gonna snap.

[Friend/Co-host]

You don't want me to call Goofy? I'm gonna call. Goofy's a big too.

[Kal Penn]

Goofy.

[Blake]

Goofy's huge.

[Friend/Co-host]

They must. They. They must get a six foot five some. The guy in the Goofy costume is six foot five because Goofy's pushing.

[Adam]

You're the tallest Filipino you get in this one.

[Blake]

There's no way he's. They're shipping him in from. From, like, go ahead, Mother Russia. Okay. It's like Dolph Lundgren, man.

[Adam]

Okay. He's Swedish.

[Blake]

I must break you.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Honestly. And, you know. You know, they're strutting around in the back like they're Lord king.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

You know.

[Blake]

Oh.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh.

[Blake]

The backstage politics have got to be just great.

[Adam]

Wait. Go, Go. What do you think they are?

[Blake]

I bet Goofy just walks around in a towel. Dude. With his hammer just coming through.

[Adam]

Yeah. Hey, is this Goofy? What do you think about this? Is this Goofy? That ain't so goofy.

[Blake]

How goofy is that?

[Adam]

Hey, Pluto, come here.

[Friend/Co-host]

I wouldn't mind seeing that Daisy duck.

[Blake]

Get over here.

[Adam]

Who else is there? Even they. I mean, I guess they got to go with, like, Pixar Hook.

[Blake]

You know why they call him Captain Hook?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, dude.

[Blake]

Damn dog dick takes a U turn.

[Adam]

Go off. Go off his dick.

[Blake]

Take a U turn, man. He flip a.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay. Yeah.

[Adam]

And, like, Marvel characters. Like, Black Panther walks in, is like, oh, what's up?

[Blake]

No, they. The game. Up, up. They. They broke the game.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know. We didn't go to Epcot, and I think Epcot is a little more adult. We just went to Hustler. We didn't go to Hustler. There's not Hustler World.

[Adam]

I'm saying Epcot is like the Hustle. Epcot is the Hustler of Disney.

[Friend/Co-host]

Disney World. Magic Kingdom, which is like the classic with the.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

The castle and then Hollywoodland or Hollywoodville or some. Oh. Because that's what has all the Pixar characters.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

And so he got to meet Sully, which he was stoked on.

[Blake]

Sully rocks. Whose Solar Inc. Might be the.

[Friend/Co-host]

Sully is the biggest. From Monsters, Inc. Yeah.

[Blake]

John, Good.

[Adam]

I don't really know.

[Blake]

No. Monster Inc. Is, like, the. Right now. I think they're. I think they might be top dog. I think Monster Inc. Might be the one.

[Adam]

How do they. How do they do that?

[Friend/Co-host]

It's over 20 years old.

[Adam]

Yeah. But I feel like they push it, you know? I mean, when they bring back, like, certain Jordans and they're like, now everyone's gonna like, the 11.

[Friend/Co-host]

He was off in the corner. Corner. I will say Sully was off in the corner.

[Adam]

Really?

[Blake]

Well, that's because he was high, dude. He was high, dude.

[Friend/Co-host]

Buzz. His line was so long when we saw him, and I was like, oh, that's gonna take two hours to get

[Adam]

through or at least a light year.

[Blake]

That's because it's Florida now, and it's, like, red state, man.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's just very.

[Blake]

It's very politic.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, I didn't know.

[Blake]

It's very political.

[Adam]

I think it's a long line because it is actually Tim Allen.

[Friend/Co-host]

He quietly is like, that joke would

[Adam]

be good if he wasn't ext. Extremely wealthy and kicking it somewhere very nice right now.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, he's so rich.

[Blake]

I guarantee he's at Salsa and Beer in the Valley. That's where he stays.

[Adam]

Oh, yeah. That's his spot.

[Blake]

Yes, Absolutely.

[Friend/Co-host]

Seen him there.

[Blake]

Absolutely. One time, and it was awesome. Yeah.

[Adam]

Excuse me, long hair. You're in my seat.

[Blake]

I also. Oh, my God. I also saw him in North Hollywood at Arby's. Dude. I swear to God.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, that's sick.

[Blake]

He.

[Friend/Co-host]

He kicks.

[Blake]

He's a man hero. He's a guycon for sure.

[Friend/Co-host]

He really is.

[Blake]

I stand with Tim And I like

[Friend/Co-host]

that he did a bunch of movies and then he just was like, you know what? Just churn these sitcoms out.

[Blake]

Just be the last, last man.

[Friend/Co-host]

Stand.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Adam]

Points.

[Friend/Co-host]

Didn't you almost get on that show? Weren't you, like, going to do that show or something?

[Blake]

I really wanted to be the. The boyfriend character who's like, the woker. Yeah, yeah. Like the silly stoner woke dad.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

And then they looked at you and. And what? They're like, acting ability. And they were like, nah, we're good.

[Adam]

Jesus. No, they.

[Blake]

They passed.

[Adam]

Jesus.

[Blake]

Couldn't. Isaac couldn't get me in there.

[Adam]

Isaac couldn't close the deal. I don't even know what the bit is.

[Blake]

It just wasn't good. Just wasn't good enough.

[Adam]

What's on now? American Garage.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, I thought that was the one they offered you and you turned down. I'm sorry. I was doing teases.

[Blake]

I actually don't. I don't recall. I think I blocked that out of. Out of the history of my mind, but. Ow.

[Friend/Co-host]

He's nervous. He's nervous. And then now he has a new show on ABC with Cat Denning shifting gears.

[Blake]

Shifting gears, right. Isn't Cat his daughter in that?

[Adam]

She's also a genius. She's the same thing where she's just like, give me a sitcom, give me

[Blake]

a sitcom, or give me a Thor

[Adam]

movie, and I'll be the funniest, best part of a Thor.

[Friend/Co-host]

She in Thor movies.

[Adam]

I thought she was.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's the thing. I never watched any of the Marvel. I like. Might have caught a couple here and there.

[Blake]

Yeah. Which ones have you seen, if you had to guess?

[Friend/Co-host]

I've seen the first Iron Man.

[Blake]

Great. That one rocks.

[Friend/Co-host]

I've seen a Thor movie. I don't know which one.

[Adam]

They're all kind of riding on. Off the Iron. The first Iron Man.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, the first Iron man was sick, and then, you know, and you caught a couple. And then I would catch one, and I'm like, what the is going on? I feel like I. I had to do a ton of homework to even get to this point.

[Blake]

It got jammed up.

[Friend/Co-host]

And then I just was like, I'm good. I'm good, dude. No, sir. I don't like it. And then I said that on Theo's podcast, like, several years ago now.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah, you got. You got busted, huh?

[Adam]

What was it?

[Blake]

Where?

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know. I just said, like, you're a D.C. man. Yeah.

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[Friend/Co-host]

Well, I know I said that I thought that Marvel and I still kind of agree with it. Oh yeah, Marvel movies sort of ruined the comedy comedies in theaters because they're kind of funny, but it's also a 200 million dollar movie.

[Adam]

Right.

[Friend/Co-host]

So when you go would you rather go see a 20 million dollar comedy movie that's funny but there's no explosions, there's no crazy. Or spend the same amount of money and go see the huge Marvel movie. Right?

[Adam]

The funny Thor movie that you to be like part of the conversation.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

And people were so mad. Dude, you don't want to rock the Marvel boat. I'm like Jesus.

[Blake]

Well yeah, I feel like the Marvel the MCU boat is different from like the Marvel comic book boat because like OG comic heads, I don't think they get that mad at that comment.

[Adam]

They don't give a. I, I don't know.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know. Well, there's 11 of them, so yeah, maybe all 11. They weren't on the Internet that day

[Adam]

at the retirement home. They don't have it.

[Friend/Co-host]

So yeah, they're mostly reading the paper and doodles.

[Blake]

Yeah, they're in an attic.

[Adam]

It's just the dude from the Simpsons who's like, the page is bent. I'm not going to read it or buy it. Yeah, I mean, the, the. It is. Looking back now, now that we've kind of got a little more hindsight on Marvel, like, I think we're. Yeah, if we're not out of it. We're close to out of it.

[Blake]

Yeah, we're coming out. We're coming out of the whole.

[Adam]

How many movies did they make? Like 30.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. Todd, give us a number.

[Blake]

So many.

[Adam]

And how many. And how many of them are legitimately great or good or very good?

[Blake]

Like seven.

[Friend/Co-host]

But that's.

[Adam]

It's.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's still a numbers game, right? Like, even if you were like, hey, they made 25 comedies last year, they didn't. They made maybe like three. But how many were good or great? It's like a numbers game. Even. Even with this.

[Adam]

Yeah, but to your point, those comedies cost 20 to 15 million dollars and these each cost 200. And they're all the same story. Ish. Right. Whereas like, you're talking about 20 different comedies.

[Friend/Co-host]

I saw Black Panther. That one was kind of.

[Blake]

Black Panther was good.

[Adam]

Black Panther's cool. But it's not a great movie. Like, fucking Iron Man's great.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Adam]

I thought that was a great movie.

[Blake]

Iron man, great.

[Adam]

I think that the Winter Soldier, I think all the Captain America's are great and pretty and pretty good.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, I haven't seen any of those.

[Adam]

Those are, to me the good. Those are the best ones. I.

[Blake]

Those are worth the watch. Okay, what are we counting? Spider Man, That's Fox. But Spy. All the spider mans are pretty sick.

[Adam]

Well, Spider man into the Spider Verse is an absolute banger.

[Friend/Co-host]

Dude, this is why I'm out just even conversations like this. I'm like, what the. What are we even talking?

[Adam]

And Adam, if you could pick. If you could be any Marvel character, which one would it be?

[Friend/Co-host]

Jesus Christ. Like, this is so stupid.

[Blake]

Shut up.

[Adam]

You know what are dope? The X Men movies are. The later, newer X Men movies are great.

[Blake]

Kills it.

[Friend/Co-host]

Wolverine was sick.

[Adam]

Logan some Wolverine, right? Logan great.

[Friend/Co-host]

Logan was tight. Todd, how many Marvel movies have come out?

[Blake]

The Wolverine, Deadpool, super tight. But those are Fox.

[Adam]

I don't like. I don't really love the Avengers movies. I think the Black Panther movies are all right.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay, say all right. See what we're doing. This sucks. Even talking about this is.

[Blake]

I. But I'm a. I'M a. I'm a, like, comic book head. I love that.

[Friend/Co-host]

And like, I know, I know you pretend to be.

[Blake]

I don't pretend. Bro. Bro. You want to see my physical media? Yeah. You want to see my comic books, bro.

[Adam]

That's a euphemism. That's a euphemism.

[Blake]

We're not on the lab.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's a record. That's a record. There was 37 films released in the Marville Marvel cinema. I can't even say Marville Cinematic Universe disaster, my guy. Beginning with Iron Man. So. So since 2008, there's been 37 Marvel.

[Blake]

That's crazy. 37 is insane.

[Adam]

Wild.

[Blake]

That is insane.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's a lot.

[Adam]

And like, what are we even forgetting about?

[Blake]

Hulk? Ant Mans. The Ant Man's Ant Man.

[Adam]

Yeah, the Hulks.

[Friend/Co-host]

I mean, that being said, Dr.

[Blake]

Strange, I.

[Friend/Co-host]

They're cool movies. I'm glad that they do them. I'm just like, I wish I still were making comedies at the same time.

[Adam]

What do you think are cool? Which ones are cool to you? You just say you don't watch them.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, I saw Ant Man. I thought that was cool. I like. I like small.

[Blake]

If you go to them as a. As a dad, if you sneak out at the very. For the very last best showing and you bring like a vape, okay, they're tight. Dude. I'm like talking like 1040 with the vape. It's just. You buy some jelly beans.

[Friend/Co-host]

Shouldn't you be at home cooking breakfast for somebody?

[Blake]

No, this is at night. This is. This is 10:40pm so you're gonna be.

[Friend/Co-host]

You're gonna be.

[Blake]

This is dad's midnight show.

[Adam]

As soon as they go to school. Yeah, Adam, you'll learn. You'll learn.

[Blake]

You'll learn.

[Adam]

As soon as you send your kid to school, then you go to the movie place.

[Friend/Co-host]

Midnight showing.

[Blake]

Midnight showing.

[Friend/Co-host]

You're going to be in the theater until 1:30 in the morning.

[Adam]

Michael also learned.

[Friend/Co-host]

How are you going to wake up to get your kids off to school?

[Adam]

Not going to.

[Blake]

I'm going to the movie at 10:40. I'm not going to get out at 1:30.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay, let's. These movies are like three hours, 30 minutes.

[Adam]

Previews, right?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, and 30 minutes of previews. So the movie's not even starting till 11:15. You. You dumb. And then they're. They're three hours long. My God, man. How are you gonna. How are you gonna be. How you gonna wake up and cook breakfast for somebody?

[Blake]

Well, I only cook breakfast. Breakfast on Fridays, but other than that, It's a cereal pouring situation.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's fine.

[Adam]

What are you making on Fridays?

[Blake]

Mickey Mouse waffle pancakes.

[Adam]

Pancakes.

[Blake]

Waffle with peanut butter.

[Adam]

What's a waffle?

[Blake]

Pancake is pancake batter in a waffle iron. So it's like a crispy pancake.

[Friend/Co-host]

I. I thought that was the only

[Adam]

way to do it. The same thing, though. Bisquick is just. You just pour. It can be one or the other.

[Friend/Co-host]

I thought that was the same thing.

[Blake]

Yeah, but isn't the whole thing about, like, waffles is you're grilling it from both sides as a pancake. You're. You're. You're griddling it one side at a time.

[Adam]

But you just said you put pancake stuff in a waffle waffle, and I'm

[Friend/Co-host]

saying it isn't the same thing.

[Blake]

It's not. Well, now we're splitting hairs, but, like, that's all that these.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, we're just splitting the conversation that you just had.

[Adam]

We're saying it's the same thing.

[Friend/Co-host]

It.

[Adam]

A waffle's what you do with it. A pancakes with what you do with it. It's the same stuff, though. The best.

[Blake]

What do you do with it?

[Adam]

Show you.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'll show you my pancake.

[Adam]

I. And how you do Mickey Mouse. They have the shape of it. Of the waffle.

[Blake]

Mickey Mouse pancake iron.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, yeah. We have one too. I don't know. Someone had gifted it to us, to me, at least. And the fact that you have it, maybe they gifted it to all of us. But Chloe, in her. Nope, very, very smart, years ago, saved it. This is before we were married, before we had kids. She was like, I'm just gonna tuck this away because someday we might want this, because I'm not gonna make Mickey Mouse pancakes for ourselves. But okay, now we have it. And I. And I'm very excited to bust it out soon for. For young Bohard.

[Adam]

This is the way she refused. Maybe make some of these. Mickey Mouse. Get your hands off. She locks the cupboard.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'm surprised Blake didn't keep it for physical media purposes.

[Adam]

Right?

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, he's like, I have to. I have to save this.

[Blake]

It can't be used. I don't. I don't. I'm not a Mickey Mouse guy. I'm not a Disney guy. So even the fact that I'm letting you talk about Disney World and all that, like, it's very. It's very boring to me.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's very boring.

[Adam]

And if you guys are listening or watching, Blake does have a mute button for all of Us. And it's kind of up to him. He's the lead character of our friend group or whatever they call it.

[Blake]

I. I'm not. Like, Mickey Mouse has never moved.

[Friend/Co-host]

Do they call it. Do they say stuff like, I'm the lead character of my friend group? Who.

[Adam]

Saying, like, isn't that the whole thing?

[Blake]

Yeah. No. Main character. Main character syndrome.

[Friend/Co-host]

Energy.

[Blake]

Yeah, energy.

[Friend/Co-host]

Or something.

[Blake]

I definitely have main character energy.

[Friend/Co-host]

Imagine being in a friend group where one of the person. One of the people says, I'm the main character. You. Everyone hates that person, right?

[Adam]

You know what? I bet you'd be surprised. You'd be shocked.

[Friend/Co-host]

You're a monster at how often that happens.

[Blake]

It depends how they handle it. It depends how they handle it.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, if it's a joke, then, sure, sure. But if it's not a joke and they're saying, well, I'm the main character,

[Adam]

I promise you, it's. It happens more often than you'd think. Or the other funny duddies are like, yeah. I mean, hey, all right. But hey, okay. Like, all right.

[Friend/Co-host]

I mean, it's not. It's not until later on in life that they realize that they actually hated that person. And they were a. And probably if you're in your early

[Adam]

20s, I hated them, and I'm a. So whose fault?

[Blake]

I hated them? They are.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, it's. Oh, they are.

[Adam]

Who's the.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, I was saying that you're the catch because you were subservient to this person. Person who says, I'm the best person in your friend group.

[Adam]

Exactly.

[Friend/Co-host]

That sucks.

[Adam]

So you should have left.

[Friend/Co-host]

You should have left, or you should have just been like, hey, man, hear that, Blake? Don't call yourself the main character. Yeah, Blake, are you listening?

[Blake]

I'm listening.

[Adam]

Huh? Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Like, you're. You're here.

[Blake]

Honestly, I do think in elementary years, I think I was the main character. And then in later years, then you

[Friend/Co-host]

had to take a. Yeah, but you.

[Blake]

You weren't by yourself.

[Friend/Co-host]

I mean, sure, dude, I, I. You know, I. I think we all were probably leaders of our little friend groups, but we weren't saying, like, that, you know, we're not in elementary school being like, I'm the best one. Follow me. On the jungle gym. You're just saying, yo, follow me. Let's do this. Cool. You're not saying I'm the best, or were you? I don't.

[Blake]

Right. I'm not really stamping it.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't think you were.

[Blake]

I don't think I was stamping it,

[Adam]

but I do think Maybe I was.

[Blake]

Was.

[Adam]

Yeah, I w. I actually was saying it. I would just end the sentence. I was. I would end the sentence with right fre. Hey, right, boys, we're going this way.

[Friend/Co-host]

Right, right, right.

[Blake]

And then.

[Friend/Co-host]

And then he looks back and no one's.

[Blake]

No one's there. Yeah, no one's there where they go,

[Adam]

oh, y' all are crazy. I guess we're going that way, huh?

[Friend/Co-host]

I'm. I'm such the. The main. I'm giving such main character energy.

[Adam]

Right.

[Friend/Co-host]

Quietly yourself.

[Blake]

Main character on a solo journey. I do think I recall as a kid, though, like, having a moment.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's what Blake says quietly to himself. I'm main character on a solo journey,

[Adam]

you know, thanks to the main character in a friend group. The one who thinks of their friend. The main character in the friend group. There's. I feel like every friend group. Friend group. As you know, you. Every friend group group. He's in the Files. I feel like every young dude friend group suddenly, like, there's one quiet guy. Guy who's like, I bet I can pick you up.

[Blake]

Yeah, that's.

[Adam]

There's always a dude who's like. He just starts picking people up.

[Friend/Co-host]

And you're like a very quiet, very strong member of.

[Adam]

What is that? Why is that? That's true.

[Friend/Co-host]

I had. I had him.

[Blake]

I think there's just. It's a way of asserting a. A quiet dominance.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. And those guys.

[Adam]

So strange.

[Blake]

They do. They're usually good people.

[Adam]

This guy. Hey, this dude can. I'd go to summer camp. They're like, this guy can pick anybody up. And I'd be like, I'm nice. Sick dude. I'm good.

[Friend/Co-host]

Stop right there. Yeah.

[Blake]

Please don't.

[Friend/Co-host]

I believe that guy was me.

[Blake]

I believe.

[Adam]

Hey, bet you can. But we're going this way, right? Yeah.

[Blake]

Right.

[Friend/Co-host]

I told you, dude.

[Adam]

We're not picking people up anymore. Right, Right.

[Blake]

We're done. Right? Right.

[Adam]

We're going to archery, right?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yes. So then we got back from Disney World.

[Blake]

Oh, okay.

[Adam]

Huh? Dude.

[Friend/Co-host]

Violently ill. The sickest I've been.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam]

Cuz we. We skipped on Friday. We're supposed to do this Friday.

[Blake]

That's right.

[Friend/Co-host]

We skipped a pod. We. We're going to podcast on Friday. And I was so sick. Finish him.

[Adam]

Is this Norovirus like a 24 hour he in Florida?

[Blake]

That's that Orlando about.

[Friend/Co-host]

It was about 48 hours. And it hit me like a Mack truck, like cement truck. It hit me so viciously hard. We were there. We were actually in Orlando. Not just for Disney World. But I hosted the Children's Miracle Network, had their giant gala called Elevate, where all the sponsors for the Children's Miracle Network come in. And I hosted the talent show. And it was very cute and it's very fun.

[Adam]

I think you're like, I can do that.

[Friend/Co-host]

Maybe it was either there or different world that I caught this super virus.

[Blake]

But you think you. Yeah. Wait, you. Wait. Where. Where were you?

[Adam]

Jesus Christ.

[Friend/Co-host]

I was in Orlando. I hosted this giant event. Dude, were you not listening?

[Adam]

He just got. Dude just went to Monster Jam. He can't hear anything. I'm sorry, did you hit the mute button on me?

[Blake]

No. I'm just blown away. I've never heard a Kraken or just get her done too. So that's crazy. But where was. Where was this meeting?

[Friend/Co-host]

What is happening?

[Blake]

I don't know. I think I'm getting sick through what you're talking about.

[Adam]

The tram is.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Friend/Co-host]

So I was in Orlando hosting this giant event for the Children's Miracle Network. Marie Osmond's there. Dude. My mom. My mom always said that Maria. That Marie Osmond is her doppelganger. And everyone said that when she was younger, she looked like Marie Osmond. So I don't. I don't really know Marie Osand. You know, I'm. I'm just a young boy. I meet Marie Osmond. She's exactly like my mom. Okie do. She's the same size as my mom. She talks the same as my mom.

[Adam]

She got the poof.

[Blake]

She. She.

[Friend/Co-host]

She has the poof. She's had some work done. She looks really good.

[Adam]

Dude, she looks unreal for her age.

[Friend/Co-host]

My mom is very jealous because she's like two years older than. Or maybe the other way. And she looks great. But my mom was.

[Adam]

She's a little porno, right? They.

[Friend/Co-host]

They look.

[Blake]

They look.

[Friend/Co-host]

But they look great. She looks great.

[Blake]

And she's looking really good.

[Friend/Co-host]

She looked. She was so nice and. And like, made a nice video for my mom. She was a wonderful woman.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Met Tatiana Ali, Muhammad Ali's wife.

[Adam]

She.

[Friend/Co-host]

Not wife.

[Blake]

Daughter.

[Friend/Co-host]

Daughter.

[Adam]

She of American Gladiators fame.

[Friend/Co-host]

She. She did a thing for Children's Miracle Network as well. So it's cool. It's a cool event, but I think I got damly ill.

[Blake]

Still there, dude.

[Friend/Co-host]

And you got. This was unlike anything I've ever experienced. I was so tired for two days. I could hardly open up my eyes the first day.

[Adam]

It was a cold or a fever or what?

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know. There was no fever, but. And I wasn't like, not really snotty, not really a sore throat. Just like so tired that I couldn't wake up. I slept for like 18 hours.

[Adam]

You're a growing boy.

[Friend/Co-host]

16 hours.

[Blake]

Maybe you. Did you get mono? Did you kiss Buzz Lightyear or something? Like what?

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, I kiss. I can't say everything.

[Adam]

Dr. Anderson. Dr. Anderson's gonna get to the bottom of this.

[Friend/Co-host]

Kumbaya mono. Because I feel great today. It was like a two day thing. And then. And then yesterday I felt a little better. And then today I'm back, baby, baby, I'm happy.

[Adam]

Were you.

[Blake]

Were you pumping yourself full of vitamins? What were we doing to get ourselves over?

[Adam]

Literally nothing.

[Blake]

Literally nothing.

[Adam]

No ribs.

[Blake]

Water.

[Adam]

Water.

[Blake]

Just water.

[Friend/Co-host]

Just water. I had a bunch of chicken noodle soup, so that rocked.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Friend/Co-host]

All right.

[Adam]

That's okay. That's not nothing.

[Friend/Co-host]

Science soup for the soul.

[Blake]

That's not nothing. That's. That's really good. Where do you get your chicken noodle soup?

[Adam]

That's a good name for a podcast.

[Friend/Co-host]

You know, they sent the children's miracle Network people. They're so nice. Oh, boy. You know, obviously all they do is help sick kids.

[Blake]

Cuz you sent a really mean. You got me sick.

[Friend/Co-host]

Which one got me sick? One of these cold. One of these kids got me sick.

[Adam]

Wait, they sent you soup?

[Friend/Co-host]

They sent me soup.

[Adam]

How do they even know you got sick?

[Blake]

Because he wrote a scathing email.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, they hit me back. They were like, hey, thanks for everything. How you doing? And I was like, I'm actually sick. And then within hours, there was all this soup at my doorstep. It was unreal.

[Adam]

I don't tell. I wouldn't. I'd be like, I'm good. It was great. Thank you. Bye. I wouldn't be like, actually, I would. I don't know. I'm like, who gives a.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, yeah, they asked me how I was doing.

[Adam]

I'm like, but I know. But now I know. Know. Free soup.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah.

[Blake]

Yeah, he's. He's just being honest. But that's cool.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, because I didn't respond to their text, like eight hours later. And normally I try to respond to them.

[Blake]

Oh, you ghosted him.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. Well, because, dude, I was falling asleep. Like, I. I wasn't looking at my phone. It was a crazy, beautiful thing. I would, like. I would like, be watching tv and then I'd wake up and it's two episodes later and I just, like slept through it and I'm like, huh? It was wild. It was like. I was. Was 11 beers deep yeah. And like I was stumbling, I was falling. It was a wild.

[Adam]

We all know though.

[Blake]

Are you sure you weren't just hammered?

[Friend/Co-host]

Very sure. I, I didn't drink anything.

[Blake]

Damn.

[Friend/Co-host]

It was like a trip for with kids. I wasn't like drinking.

[Blake]

You know, they don't got beer at Disney.

[Adam]

Disney World, I was going to say, except I was wait. I'm waiting for the accept.

[Blake]

Yeah, I was just drinking a beer with buzz.

[Friend/Co-host]

I had a beer at lunch.

[Blake]

That's my boy.

[Friend/Co-host]

I had had a beer or a like mixed drink by the pool.

[Blake]

Like a hurricane. Like, what are we talking?

[Friend/Co-host]

No, like whatever. A blend.

[Adam]

Like a pina colada.

[Friend/Co-host]

Drunk now. They called them Miami Vices or whatever.

[Blake]

I love that. That's okay. It's good. Dude. So where did two drinks all weekend. Where did this, this chicken noodle soup come from? Like, was it an elite batch?

[Friend/Co-host]

I wish I knew.

[Adam]

It was.

[Friend/Co-host]

It was an elite batch, dude.

[Blake]

I really like chicken noodles.

[Friend/Co-host]

I saved it. I, I, I wish I knew the name of it because that'd be a

[Blake]

hell of a Dude, we need the plug.

[Friend/Co-host]

Probably one more person would order chicken noodle soup from them if they heard it on our podcast.

[Adam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blake]

That would be sick. I'm just wondering, like, do they have a network of chicken noodle soup places where they can just like send it out to anybody in the country?

[Friend/Co-host]

They've been doing this for years. Dude. Have you ever heard of.

[Adam]

It's just uber eats. Like you just get it from a grocery.

[Blake]

Grocery store.

[Friend/Co-host]

I think they, I think they have like everything dialed.

[Adam]

So if, like, who, who has everything dialed?

[Friend/Co-host]

The Children's Miracle Network. Durs.

[Blake]

We're talking about, we're talking about the, the Miracle Network. Like, they probably have the most elite chicken.

[Adam]

You're saying they make, they make miracles?

[Blake]

Yeah, they probably have the most elite chicken noodle soup in the world. Like, they're literally giving it to sick.

[Adam]

They probably just hit up Arowan and then just had it delivered.

[Blake]

No, it's better than ar, it's better than. It's probably like a team of like, grandmas.

[Friend/Co-host]

You. I'm gonna text, I'm gonna text klo, have her go look for me.

[Adam]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

Hey, you're.

[Adam]

Hey. I need you to go down there right now for the podcast.

[Blake]

Pizza.

[Adam]

Pizza. Right.

[Blake]

I, I, I guarantee it's.

[Friend/Co-host]

Could you please tell me what the name of the soup is? Don't yell. It's for, it's for the podcast. I need it right now. The world needs to know.

[Blake]

Don't yell.

[Adam]

This is important.

[Friend/Co-host]

Thank you. I love you.

[Adam]

All caps. All caps.

[Blake]

Was that a voice note or was that. Were you talking? Was that a phone call?

[Friend/Co-host]

Dude, I don't even know how do people send where you can just talk.

[Adam]

I hope you don't do that to me ever.

[Friend/Co-host]

I I don't know how but people will do it to me and I don't know how to do. I don't even know how to do it.

[Adam]

I find it to be the clearest violation. Yeah of like you thinking that to me is people who think they're main

[Blake]

characters that actually they're just like I'm

[Adam]

thinking out loud and I'm going to send this to you. I'm not going to take the time to type it and I expect you wherever the fuck you are far to play this out loud and listen to.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well you could read it too. I never, I never play it out loud. You could just read it.

[Adam]

You could just read. Ms.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Kal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay the Audible and I Heart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary, Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Friend/Co-host]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that that deeply, emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like, oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or

[Blake]

wherever you get your podcasts. I actually got to see one of my favorite standup comedians, Chelsea Peretti, last night and she did something about about voice memos and how they're they should be legal.

[Friend/Co-host]

Chelsea's One of your favorite. Favorite standard.

[Blake]

Yes. I find her to be absolutely hilarious.

[Adam]

She's good.

[Blake]

I think she is so damn good.

[Friend/Co-host]

She's. She's good. I like her, too. Favorite.

[Blake]

Yes. I think Chelsea is one.

[Friend/Co-host]

What is your, like, top three, top

[Blake]

five people like comedians doing it right now? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

[Friend/Co-host]

See, Chris Rock is still doing it right now.

[Blake]

Chris Rock does. He's off. He's off the table for me. Why? Wow, dude. I. I don't. I just. He hasn't. What? He doesn't. He doesn't. He'. Not. Wow. Dude. He's just not on my radar. What? Like who. His last special wasn't that good.

[Adam]

The one where he went in on

[Friend/Co-host]

the slap and all that tambourine was the.

[Blake]

Yeah, I. I thought that was fine. You just.

[Adam]

I liked it. I thought I was like, okay, he's still good. He still got it.

[Friend/Co-host]

I thought it was awesome.

[Blake]

I thought. I thought it was fine.

[Friend/Co-host]

Chris Rock rocks, dude. He's my number one.

[Blake]

Hey, I love Chris. I think Chris Rock is, like, one of the best. If not. No, I'm saying, like, doing it right now, though.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's what you said. You said Chelsea, per.

[Blake]

Currently, he's doing it right.

[Friend/Co-host]

Right now. He's. He was at the improv just the other week.

[Blake]

I would rather see Chelsea than Chris Rock for sure.

[Adam]

Okay, here's my question. And Adam, I want you to weigh on this. As a standup, I always hear people rank comedians like, oh, this is my favorite of all time, Richard Pryor. And. And is that based on.

[Blake]

Or.

[Adam]

Here's what. Let me rephrase this. I like the idea of ranking best specials ever.

[Blake]

Okay. Yeah, that's.

[Adam]

That's over being.

[Blake]

That's a little easier.

[Adam]

Who's the greatest comedian of all. All time? Because, like, I don't know, man.

[Friend/Co-host]

Because there are comics. There's comics that have done it. So right when it com. Like Jeff Foxworthy. I don't find him to be the funniest, but if you look at his career and just, like, how he did it and how many books he put out, like, comedy books and the specials and the tours. He did it.

[Adam]

Are you smarter than the fifth grader?

[Friend/Co-host]

I mean, honestly, he did it. The ex. The exact arc of what a standup comedy character. Comedian can do that never blew up and was a movie star.

[Blake]

Sure.

[Friend/Co-host]

That he's a pure standup comic.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Friend/Co-host]

Now, I don't find him to be the funniest guy.

[Blake]

He's not really prolific.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, that's exactly what he is. He's prolific when it comes to standup comedy and just comedy. Churning out comedy.

[Adam]

You might be. You might be. A redneck is elite.

[Blake]

Oh, yeah, it is. I mean, he's a goat.

[Adam]

If you think. If you think it's hacky or. Or like, hammy or whatever about. You might be. I'm sorry.

[Friend/Co-host]

Invented it.

[Adam]

It's so good. And they're funny.

[Blake]

Yeah. He created a game, dude.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yes.

[Blake]

Yeah. No, he's a killer. But he doesn't really, like, make me, like, like, think. He just makes me laugh. He doesn't make me think.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, there's. I don't know if I do it. There's, like.

[Blake]

I do.

[Friend/Co-host]

There's a. There's standups that have, like. Everybody's loves Eddie Murphy's couple specials. His two specials.

[Blake]

Yeah, I understand.

[Friend/Co-host]

They are really, really funny. And it. He just came out like a lightning bolt, and people were like, oh, my God, he's the greatest. He's the best.

[Blake]

Yes.

[Friend/Co-host]

But then he didn't keep doing it, so you can't rake him. The greatest or the best.

[Adam]

But what I'm saying is, couldn't you. Because of those two specials. Like, aren't those two specials, like, that's.

[Friend/Co-host]

There's different ways. Ways. Yeah, there's different ways of looking at it. You look at, like, a whole career. Like Foxworthy or someone like that. Their career is. Is as far as just standup comedy goes, is better than. Than Eddie Murphy's career as comic.

[Blake]

But maybe Eddie Murphy has a funnier special than Jeff Foxworthy.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, absolutely, he does.

[Adam]

I went down a YouTube rabbit hole. Just Paul Mooney stand up special.

[Blake]

Like, Paul Mooney's hilarious.

[Adam]

Unbelievable.

[Friend/Co-host]

I never loved Paul Mooney. I never loved.

[Adam]

I love it.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah.

[Blake]

I take Paul Pawnee. I mean. Yeah. You know, because even when you think of, like, Dave Chappelle, like, he was such a different comedian earlier in his career. He was, like, very. I just listened to an interview with him. He's always, you know that NPR joint. Yeah. He's always very thoughtful and is very intriguing to listen to him because he does. He's not a. He's not a bozo. He's not an idiot. He thinks about everything. And he is a prolific person.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, he's very smart.

[Blake]

And then when you think about his, like, early specials, they were so silly. They were, like, so silly. Like, the bits were about, like, stoner Sesame street. And those are the ones that really stand out to me. That's, like, for me, That's Peak Chappelle.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, that's because that's the level of intelligence you're working on.

[Adam]

Yeah, he's like, I like to think he went. When he did the Stone Sesame Street, I was like, oh, shit, you're a stupid dumbass.

[Friend/Co-host]

I mean, and Blake, I'm with you. I like the silly shit too. I, I, to me, I like, to me, like, every comment. Yes. I think he can talk on more political topics and do it, do whatever you want as a, as a comedian, but to me, the funnier, clever bits have nothing to do with that. It's just Stone Sesame street or it's just the baby smoking crack on the corner.

[Blake]

Yes. I mean, but I do like people. I mean, I like a, A comic that makes you, you know, really think and really, like, analyze society and the way we. And also makes you laugh while you do it. I do like the. Yeah, I, I love the total package.

[Adam]

Right? They gotta package it. I mean, dude, that, that, to me, that's why both of the, the two. What is it? Bigger and blacker. And the other Chris Rock special that came out where it was just like,

[Friend/Co-host]

bring, Bring the pain.

[Adam]

Talking about society and packaging it. Bring the pain.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

They were packaging it in jokes and stories that were un. Unbelievable. Just so good, dude.

[Blake]

Amazing.

[Friend/Co-host]

Chris Rock, to me is, is. I saw him, I, he followed me once at the improv because it was like an open mic, and this was like, 05 or whatever. And it was an open mic. And then he goes up and I'm like, he's going to crush. And the, and he didn't. And it was awesome. He was working out brand new material and he just had a notebook and he's just sort of rambling, and it was like, the first, like, couple minutes are super exciting because it's Chris Rock. But then you're like, oh, he's just, like, figuring stuff out. And he even said on stage, he's like, he's like, y' all gonna go home and say, you saw Chris Rock talk. Talk about dentistry for 35 minutes.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

And, and you were like, yeah, he was just, like, working out a bit. And then two months later, I see him doing a Saturday night set talking about Dennis Ministry. And it was crushing because, yeah, the material and dialed it in and it was, it was so cool.

[Blake]

I think that, I think that's one of the cool things about still living in LA and Hollywood is you're gonna see those sets. Like, I saw Chelsea. That's because, like, the Netflix is a joke thing is coming Out. You know, the festival is starting.

[Friend/Co-host]

We're in it. Troubadour.

[Blake]

Troubadour.

[Friend/Co-host]

What are we doing? Troubadour show. When is it? When is that?

[Adam]

If, if, if I recall, it is exactly on 5 8th.

[Blake]

May 8th. May 8th. Be there. We're going to have a blast.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's sold out. It's sold out.

[Blake]

Sold out. But please be there. If you bought tickets, we'll meet you

[Adam]

outside like Buzz Lightyear style.

[Blake]

But it is cool because you can see comedians like work out their stuff. You know, you're not at a casino or wherever in America where the set is polished. Yeah. So you do get to see. And it, I mean, as a person who considers themselves a comedian of sorts, it's really fun to watch a comedian's mind work and see him stumble through that stuff.

[Friend/Co-host]

It's just, it used to always come with me when we would. When I was doing open mics all the time and it was really cool to see like you'd see Louis CK jump up and I've, I honestly, I've never seen Louis CK not crush.

[Blake]

I, I've never been around him.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't, I, I was, I would always stand next to him and say, I'm a potted plant. I'm a potted. Did he jerk off in a potted plant?

[Adam]

I think that was.

[Blake]

That's Weinstein. That's Weinstein.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, that was Weinstein.

[Adam]

That' you in a potted plant. Weinstein jerked off.

[Friend/Co-host]

I did and. But Weinstein jerked off in potted plants. Yeah.

[Adam]

And Weinstein had a pretty strong hour.

[Friend/Co-host]

It was a confusing time. That was a confusing time where like it all came out within like a week. Harvey Weinstein, the prolific movie producer, was jerking off in potted plants, which seems like a weird thing.

[Blake]

He's doing more than just do that.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. I mean, I think he's in prison.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Prolific movie producer. Convicted rapist. Movie producer.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, was he a convicted rapist?

[Adam]

I mean, isn't that why he's in jail?

[Friend/Co-host]

Fido? I thought maybe it's just the plant. The plant union came after him.

[Adam]

Allegedly. I don't know. I don't know the thing. He's in jail for being naughty.

[Friend/Co-host]

He's in jail for a thing. And allegedly Lucy K. Got in trouble for like jerking off in front of people. Yeah. So then I got those two things conflated, you know?

[Adam]

Dude, is this. Are we.

[Friend/Co-host]

Have you.

[Adam]

You the like gooning. Gooniversary. The guy who like drove through the drive thru of like a bikini coffee thing with his pants off. And then like got filmed and they released the video and then the guy was like oh. And he killed himself. And now there's this unbelievable I League of Gooners. There's a. There's this ironic like we stand band with the gooner and they have like a Gooner all like a funeral. They all showed up to where the guy blew his brains out to have like a. Yes.

[Blake]

Points.

[Adam]

No, no, that's not my points. That's what they call it. They call it.

[Blake]

I know. I'm giving them points. I'm giving them points they deserve.

[Adam]

And the whole thing is a bit. And they're bizarre. They're dead serious and the guy's dead.

[Friend/Co-host]

Is it a bit.

[Blake]

They're not dead serious. They're not dead serious. They're like.

[Adam]

They're dead serious about the bit. They're tripling, doubling, quadrupling down on the bit.

[Blake]

Yeah, it's.

[Adam]

It's gnarly, dude.

[Blake]

It's insane. It's another Channel 5.

[Friend/Co-host]

I kind of heard about gooning that about. Well gooning is just where you cross your eyes and jerk off. What is gooning?

[Adam]

Gooning is apparently beating off a lot.

[Blake]

Yeah, Gooning is, is now means like. Yeah, you masturbate a ton.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay. So Kyle.

[Blake]

Yeah. You're just looking. You're just looking to goon. You're looking to go.

[Adam]

But a dude killed a himself and now there's all these dudes out there like pretending like they like he was a martyr for like guys who jack off and need to find places to do it.

[Friend/Co-host]

So this guy was jacking off, driving through.

[Adam]

He drove through a bikini.

[Blake]

You know how. Yeah. You know how in like Portland and where like you can get those. It's like a drive through coffee shop where the, the baristas are hot babes.

[Friend/Co-host]

Dude. They're all hookers. Right?

[Blake]

I don't.

[Adam]

I. I don't know. I wouldn't say that. I think that they just wear bikinis.

[Blake]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know the protocol. It's like hooters.

[Adam]

It's like hooters but it's a coffee place.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

It seems a little more nasty than.

[Adam]

I'll let you go down that rabbit hole.

[Blake]

I don't know. I truly don't know the protocol of bikini like drive thru coffee coffee shops. I don't know if Adam's just whipped

[Adam]

cream towards like Melma. I don't know.

[Blake]

I don't know if you ask for an extra creamy latte and and then you get something else. But this dude rolled through the drive thru with, like, apparently, like, pants off. You know, his dick in his hand or his pants off.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay, okay.

[Blake]

And the. The barista was recording it and he was, like, kind of realized he got caught.

[Adam]

It's like a new Harambe. A new. Like, there's a leprechaun in the tree where people are pretending. A new.

[Friend/Co-host]

Gotta wake up early, cook breakfast for somebody.

[Blake]

Yeah, Bub rub like.

[Adam]

No, that's not. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is it's like a bandwagon thing to. For people to pretend to care about.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, right.

[Blake]

Yes, sure it is.

[Adam]

Because you're, like, in on it, and people who don't understand being in on it are dry. Are driven crazy by it. So you're like, it's trolling. It's just like, yeah, another level.

[Blake]

It's an epic troll.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, it really sucks that this guy committed suicide.

[Blake]

I mean, yeah, he had a wife and I think. Kid.

[Friend/Co-host]

Oh, buddy. I mean, he was so ashamed by his horniness.

[Blake]

But I. But I think that. But I think that's where there actually is.

[Adam]

Here we go.

[Blake]

Like, there is a stance to be taken. Like, these guys are going, this guy shouldn't have been shamed into killing himself just because he was going through a drive through it.

[Adam]

But he wasn't shamed into killing himself.

[Blake]

He had shame. That's why he did. Did it. Why do you do it?

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, that's on him. He chose to kill himself, by the way. You should have some shame.

[Blake]

No. Well, not. Maybe not.

[Adam]

Shame is. All right.

[Friend/Co-host]

Well, shame is okay. You should have some shame.

[Blake]

Okay, from.

[Friend/Co-host]

Because you were jerking off While a girl is just trying to hand you a pumpkin latte.

[Adam]

You called her? Yeah. What are we talking about?

[Blake]

Dude?

[Friend/Co-host]

Even if she. She's a hooker, if you're not paying her the money to jerk off in front of.

[Blake]

Oh, he bought the coffee.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's just a coffee. I don't think. I don't think a $4 cup of coffee is. Would constitute jerking off.

[Adam]

You want some cream?

[Friend/Co-host]

Jerking off is at least 20 bucks or 40 bucks.

[Blake]

It's science.

[Friend/Co-host]

I don't know how much jerking off cost, but it's probably fairly expensive.

[Adam]

He's setting the price.

[Blake]

Jerking off should be free. Jerking off.

[Friend/Co-host]

Jerking off. Jerking off in front of a woman. That seems like you. You should be paying for that. That's a service.

[Blake]

Okay, well, tell Louis CK that, bro.

[Adam]

Circle back. Circle back.

[Friend/Co-host]

Bringing him on tour.

[Adam]

But yeah, the guy. Nobody made him kill himself. He Killed himself posting the video of him and Bl. Putting his face on blast.

[Blake]

Right.

[Friend/Co-host]

I.

[Adam]

You know what? I bet other dudes think twice now.

[Friend/Co-host]

Who did that?

[Adam]

The, like, the manager of the. Not even the girl who took the video. The manager was like, let's put this guy on blast.

[Blake]

Yeah.

[Adam]

You know, and I'm. And I'm working with all of the facts. Yeah, of course. Okay.

[Blake]

This is.

[Adam]

There's nothing you.

[Friend/Co-host]

This is important.

[Blake]

It would be absolutely unreal if you showed up to those, like, gooniversaries and you were, like, the leader.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, if we just saw.

[Adam]

It'd be unreal. That would be unreal.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yours has, like, a. A. He. He, like, has one of those hats on that also has a wig of, like, long hair coming down the back. But it's just obviously.

[Adam]

No, the golf. The golf ones where it's the poof on the top of the visor. Dude. I've seen people who look like that, and it's not. It's not even the fake hat.

[Blake]

Yeah, you're like, the real deal gets it. I wish. Der deers, dears. I hope you do that. That would be really cool.

[Adam]

We'll see.

[Blake]

Link up with the Goons. That would be so.

[Adam]

I mean, the way you're talking, I think you're their guy.

[Blake]

No, I'm too obvious. You're. You're cool.

[Adam]

Oh, like, I got that lead character. Hey, move over, guys. We're going to stand here, and we're going to.

[Blake]

Of the.

[Adam]

Of the Go of the Goons.

[Blake]

Like, I show up. Everybody, like, oh, Blake's here. Like, oh, he's trying to get some shine or whatever.

[Adam]

We don't leave here till we get dragged away.

[Blake]

Monarch, dude, like, that's sick. If you pull up.

[Adam]

That's true. That is.

[Blake]

Is.

[Adam]

Check out this monster you're hanging out with.

[Blake]

Kurt Russell. And then on weekends, you're. You're Gooniversary.

[Friend/Co-host]

I like that. I wonder if our buddy Goons.

[Adam]

Who.

[Friend/Co-host]

That's just a nickname. I wonder if now that. Because I kind of didn't put it together, that Gooning is a real thing and people talk like. Like actually say gooning. He probably hates that nickname.

[Blake]

Yeah, it has morphed.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Does he still have it?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, well, it's his Instagram handle. He's still.

[Blake]

He hasn't changed it yet.

[Adam]

Well, you know, then he probably is into it. He's probably like, isn't that funny?

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah, maybe.

[Blake]

I'm gonna come.

[Adam]

He's leaning in. He's leaning.

[Blake]

I hope so.

[Adam]

I hope he has A take back

[Blake]

a good sense of humor from this.

[Adam]

Any apologies. Any doppelgangers out there?

[Friend/Co-host]

Dude, I don't think so. I think we nailed it.

[Blake]

I guess maybe, maybe I could take back. I don't, I'm not sure how strongly I worded what I said about Chris Rock, if I said I didn't like him or what. But I do think he's an extremely talented stand up comed and one of my favorites of all time. I hope I didn't you throw that

[Friend/Co-host]

around pretty willy nilly. That's why I was just because you said that Chelsea is one of your favorites of all time.

[Blake]

Right now I'm doing it. I, I, I love, I like that is a name where like I'm like, yes, I will go see Chelsea perform standup anytime. I, I think she's just hilarious.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay.

[Blake]

I really.

[Adam]

She's just hilarious. She's nothing more than hilarious.

[Blake]

Nothing more than that. Nothing more than that to me.

[Adam]

Interesting.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay. She is.

[Blake]

Yes. She's directed in me in a movie and she's nothing more than, than hilarious. Okay, okay.

[Friend/Co-host]

Okay. Now are you just trying to get put in another movie? This is politicking right now, by the way. Find her. I find her very funny. I do also think she's funny. I'm not, I don't mean to take anything away, but we're talking about the greatest comedians of all time, which is the list that you put her on. She's not on my even top 10.

[Adam]

That's okay.

[Blake]

I would have to, I would have to, I would have to reanalyze.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'm, I'm very surprised.

[Blake]

The, the, the of all time. Even though her special one of the greats is one of the greats. It's very, very fun.

[Adam]

Is that where it cuts to the crowd that's not there?

[Blake]

Yes. Yeah.

[Adam]

So good. Very good.

[Blake]

Good. I, to, to make a list, I would have to really like think about it and look at comedians. But I'm saying right now, if I'm looking at Mares, I'm driving past the comedy place.

[Adam]

You don't have to do the whole thing.

[Blake]

That's, that's, that's one I'm pulling up for. Yeah.

[Adam]

I just watched some of David Cross's estate started it.

[Blake]

Love David Cr.

[Adam]

God damn. He's so absolutely funny.

[Friend/Co-host]

You know who is so funny that but like I, I just haven't for a while. No, no, no, not you. Not you. Is, is Pat Noswal. Pat Noswell. I, you, you said David, David Cross. I feel like they're in the same class, if you will, of comedians. Like, they graduated at the same time.

[Blake]

Like the Grunt Rock.

[Friend/Co-host]

Yeah. Where they're like. Yeah. They're like alternative comics, you know? So my wife took out. Took the photos of the. Of all of the chicken noodle soups. The soups.

[Blake]

Okay.

[Friend/Co-host]

And it is the. By the way, not just chicken noodle.

[Adam]

Drum roll.

[Friend/Co-host]

Tomato basil drum roll. That's a yummy one.

[Adam]

You're unbelievable.

[Friend/Co-host]

Two chicken noodles and a baked potato soup.

[Blake]

Oh, that's going to make you feel better.

[Friend/Co-host]

And it's called spoonful. Spoonful of comfort. The cause of diarrhea.

[Blake]

That's awesome, dude. Shout out to spoonful of comfort. If you're.

[Adam]

Send us some soup. Spoonful. We would love to try it.

[Blake]

Send us some soaps. Please send us some.

[Adam]

I would drink it right out of the footbed of my reef sandal, which is. Which is almost impossible because I'm always wearing them.

[Blake]

So

[Adam]

we'll see. And you didn't.

[Friend/Co-host]

You didn't want to take back Chelsea Peretti being your. No, Your greatest.

[Blake]

I stand on business.

[Adam]

Why let him. I don't let him.

[Blake]

I stand on business. That's my goat.

[Adam]

I like how. I like how Blake's like Chelsea Peretti and you're like, that's crazy for me. Jeff Foxworthy.

[Friend/Co-host]

No, I. Well, we were talking about.

[Adam]

You have your points. He has his points. Like I told you, dude. Yeah.

[Blake]

I'm standing on business.

[Adam]

Let him have his reef sandal.

[Blake]

I'm standing on business. Yeah.

[Friend/Co-host]

The reef sandal still has the. Seems like you didn't wear them. It still has his sticker on there.

[Adam]

But that's impossible. We've been wearing them. That's crazy. That's crazy talk.

[Friend/Co-host]

I'm currently wearing mine right now in on business.

[Adam]

This is a long episode. Should we end it?

[Blake]

Yeah. And this is another episode of this. The bas.

[Adam]

Perfect.

[Friend/Co-host]

I love it.

[Adam]

You're unbelievable. Unbelievable.

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