David Koechner & The Larry David Premiere

Summary

TigerBelly Episode Summary

Podcast: TigerBelly
Episode: David Koechner & The Larry David Premiere
Date: July 29, 2026
Hosts: Bobby Lee & Khalyla, with Andrew Santino
Guest: David Koechner
Description: A candid, deeply funny episode peeling back the curtain on life in comedy, the mechanics behind sketch shows, aging, parenting, stand-up, showbiz, and plenty in between, anchored by the unique humor and chemistry of the TigerBelly crew and their revered guest, David Koechner.

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Episode Theme and Purpose

This episode centers around comedian and actor David Koechner, famed for roles in "Anchorman" and "The Office," as the crew explores the journey of being a working comic, the experience of collaborating with Larry David for a never-aired sketch, navigating family life and aging, generational shifts in comedy careers, and behind-the-scenes revelations about showbiz, audition heartbreaks, and parenthood. The tone is raw, playful, and unfiltered, echoing TigerBelly’s signature blend of irreverence and heart.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Showbiz: Sketch, SNL, and That Larry David Premiere

• Early Banter and Introductions: Light jokes about “old semen collections” and physical quirks as playful icebreakers.
• MADtv & SNL Career Arcs: Discussion on Koechner’s and Bobby’s parallel sketch comedy histories—SNL for Koechner (1995), MADtv for Bobby (2000–2008) ([00:45–02:00]).
• Working With Larry David:
  • Both received the call to participate in Larry David’s new HBO sketch show (celebrating America’s “250th anniversary” satirically described as “this hellhole, this free country”).
  • Larry called pre-premiere to personally inform them their sketch was cut:
    “From Larry himself... and he goes, ‘it didn’t work.’” – Bobby (06:56)
  • Koechner offers a comedic analysis about why the sketch was axed:
    “It was against his normal formula... Larry inserts himself into people's lives and becomes a problem. But it's not because we don't need him.” – Koechner (07:20)
  • “No stakes” meant the bit fell flat, a rare peek into sketch structure and the humility of being cut.
  • Both reflect on handling notes, improv dynamics, and taking editing decisions personally or professionally.
• Premiere FOMO: Koechner missed the Larry David premiere due to a scheduling error and jokes about the minor heartbreak ([10:03]).

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2. Comedy Community & Generational Change

• Camaraderie and Networking: Stories about the enriching sense of community at premieres, how networking has changed ([17:00–18:00]).
• New Media vs. Old Hollywood:
  • Reflecting on the disappearing “roadmap” to comedy stardom—the diminished presence of movies, DVDs, big network pilots, and the rise of social and podcast fame ([63:00–71:00]).
  • Quote:
    “I have empathy for your generation of comics... you don’t have the same roadmaps we had.” – Bobby (69:05)

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3. Parenthood, Divorce & Family Dynamics

• Koechner's Family Story:
  • Detailed, personal recall of having five children: one via natural birth, rest via surrogacy following serious health scares ([46:17–49:15]).
  • Talks about balancing emotional openness with fatherly advice, being a “too present” dad, and the generational shift from emotionally absent to emotionally involved parenting ([43:44–44:15]).
  • Navigating post-divorce co-parenting:
    “You do want to win... No, no, it was acrimonious. Still is.” ([46:39])
• Kids and Creative Paths:
  • Koechner’s son, Sargento, pursues music (corridos) and has a notable presence on TikTok ([41:06–43:22]).
  • Conversation about supporting children’s ambitions—embracing, not pressuring ([43:24]).

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4. Aging & The Realities of Getting Older

• Discussion on Aging Bodies and “Old Man Sounds”:
  • Candid debate about dealing with metabolic slowdown, difficulties of exercise, and the inevitability of random “dad sounds” ([29:46–32:36]).
  • Kat observes, “Men make the craziest sounds”—Koechner explains they’re involuntary signals of advancing age ([31:11]).

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5. Period Talk, Menopause, and Gender Conversation

• Open and humorous discussion about periods, menopause, and male vs. female experiences ([12:27–16:08]).
• Koechner champions time off for menstruation:
  • “Like you should have that time off. Every month.” – Koechner (12:14)

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6. Comedy Career Struggles: Auditions, Getting Cut, and Money

• Audition Heartbreak:
  • Koechner details losing a major role in “2012” to Woody Harrelson after a standing-ovation audition ([61:04–62:12]).
  • Losing roles and having movies fall apart at the last minute; acknowledgement that most indie films don’t pay ([59:30–60:07]).
• Financial Realities:
  • Both discuss tax troubles—Bobby confesses going years without paying taxes in his MADtv era ([26:14–27:17]).
  • Assistant stories: extreme reliance on them in Hollywood life, and the chaos when assistants are absent ([25:03–25:29]).

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7. Modern Comedy and the “Death of the DVD”

• Group laments the decline of DVD sales, which were key to comedy success through the 2000s; shift to streaming changes everything ([63:00–65:06]).
• Kat reminisces about growing up as a Canadian comic and the differences between the US and Canada in terms of opportunity ([69:40–72:24]).

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8. Technology, Kids, and Online Dangers

• Roblox & Online Safety:
  • Discussion on dangers of Roblox for kids—online child predators and “Roblox pirates” using blackmail and streaming threats ([50:11–54:41]).
  • Anecdotes about 2000s internet innocence, catfishing, and generational digital naivety.

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9. Stand-Up On the Road: Food, Shows, and Survival Tactics

• Survival on Tour:
  • Late-night food: Why comics love Wendy’s baked potatoes, avoiding Waffle House, and strategies for eating healthy on the road ([76:10–77:20]).
  • Stories about paying the bill on group dinners—“market price” item ordering anxiety ([78:18–80:18]).
  • The pain of Friday late shows and juggling crowd energy ([74:01–74:39]).
• Touring Update:
  • Koechner’s 50-weekend/year stand-up schedule, upcoming military tour in Turkey & the Middle East, details for Atlantic City, Tulsa, and more ([73:02–85:59]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Larry David Premiere:

  • “From Larry himself... and he goes, ‘it didn’t work.’” – Bobby Lee ([06:56])
  • “It was against his normal formula... there was no stakes... not enough drama to sustain the sketch.” – David Koechner ([07:20])

• On Parenting:

  • “That's all you can do is try. Now, look... if I have to apologize for anything—anything—have no fear. I will not fight you on it. I will apologize and then make amends.” – David Koechner ([43:24])
  • “Death was always the answer to everything... ‘You do you, I kill you.’” – Bobby Lee ([44:32])

• On Stand-Up and Comedy Community:

  • “You don't have the same roadmaps that we had... it was set in stone...” – Bobby Lee ([69:05])
  • “Thank goodness I did good because that's all I got right now. Movies don't pay anything.” – David Koechner ([60:01])

• On Audition Heartbreak:

  • “All four stood up and gave me a standing ovation... They just offered it to Woody Harrelson.” – David Koechner ([61:34–61:57])

• On Modern Comedy Challenges:

  • “There aren't any [studio comedies].” – David Koechner ([63:16])
  • “You're also competing against online comedy... puppies, you know, me falling off a little bridge...” – Bobby Lee ([63:26])

• On the Danger of Online Games:

  • “It’s a universe... but, oh my God—the blackmail, the threats. It’s very intense.” – Kat ([52:34–53:08])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Larry David Sketch, Getting Cut: 06:30–09:00
• Talking the Larry David Premiere & Missing It: 10:03–12:00
• Periods & Menstrual Leave Advocacy: 12:27–16:08
• Parenting Styles & Generational Differences: 43:44–47:00
• Surrogacy and Five Children: 47:04–49:15
• Roblox & Tech Dangers for Kids: 50:11–54:41
• Audition Heartbreak “2012” Movie: 61:04–62:12
• Changing Comedy Landscape / DVDs: 63:00–65:06
• On-the-Road Eating & Post-Show Meals: 76:10–77:20
• Paying the Bill – Comic Etiquette: 78:18–80:18
• Upcoming Tour Dates: 84:37–85:59
• MADtv/SNL Rivalry & Writer Memories: 85:41–88:38

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Flow & Tone

The episode is rambling, honest, deeply personal, and often riotously funny, feeling much like a gathering of real friends swapping war stories and reflecting on lives spent in—and shaped by—comedy. Through stories of rejection, unlikely victories, family strife, and the ever-evolving industry, listeners are invited to laugh, commiserate, and perhaps recognize themselves (or their parents) in the vivid tales. The guest, David Koechner, is presented both as an everyman dad and a Hollywood survivor, radiating humility and wit.

For listeners unfamiliar with TigerBelly, this episode is a perfect encapsulation: unabashedly raw, sometimes inappropriate, always sincere, and reliably hilarious.

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For More

• Follow David Koechner: Instagram, website for tour dates.
• Check out Bobby Lee's new Hulu special (November).
• Watch “Widow's Bay” (created by former MADtv writers) on Apple TV.

Transcript

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[David Koechner]

What year did you do MAD TV?

[Bobby Lee]

I went. I was from 2000 to 2008.

[David Koechner]

Okay. Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Nice.

[David Koechner]

Eight year run.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I did an eight year on.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, nice. I had SNL in 95, so I remember like all the people, the sketch shows that were happening at that time and who's.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, who's right?

[David Koechner]

You know, you know.

[Bobby Lee]

Have a feeling that you guys didn't like us.

[David Koechner]

I didn't. Well, the thing is we're on Spotify video.

[Bobby Lee]

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[Kat]

We love fewer ads and more eyes.

[Bobby Lee]

We love more eyes. Yeah, get the third eye.

[Andrew Santino]

Fourth.

[Bobby Lee]

More watch videos and watch it. Oh, let's get into some meditation. What do you think?

[David Koechner]

Is that what this. That's what this podcast.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it is. It's a self help spirituality podcast.

[David Koechner]

I like it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Plus graphic novel.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Plus graphic speaking in tongues, ladies and gentlemen. Oh boy, what an episode we're about to have. Why is this Philadelphia Asian standing there?

[Andrew Santino]

Question.

[Bobby Lee]

Why Philadelphia the movie we had to cheat up in your face.

[David Koechner]

We already had it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. We have a sick Asian guy. Can you sit down, Sikesh? Thanks.

[David Koechner]

Tend to band together, huh?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, Denzel's still in the part two, but like, you know, you're the sick one. Anyway, welcome to the podcast. My name is Bobby Lee. I'm your host. I am your leader for tonight.

[David Koechner]

And sensei.

[Bobby Lee]

And sensei. Yeah, I was talking about the offshoot of the Lee Karate.

[David Koechner]

Yes, sure.

[Bobby Lee]

Slash kung fu.

[David Koechner]

Martial arts.

[Bobby Lee]

Martial arts in general, yes. And you know, I grew up with the karate from my family.

[Kat]

Can you do somersaults?

[Bobby Lee]

I cannot. No, we do different moves. Like you know, neither little person. Yeah, yeah. You can't say the M word anymore.

[David Koechner]

Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Why? Why?

[Bobby Lee]

Why do it right, you know?

[David Koechner]

I mean, why all slurs are gone.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, they're all good. They are all gone.

[David Koechner]

It's good.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a good thing. It's a bad thing. It's a good thing. It's a bad thing.

[Kat]

They still are. Our podcast.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. But we're trying to weed it out of this one, right? Yeah, yeah. Slowly but surely.

[Andrew Santino]

We are.

[Kat]

You know what?

[Andrew Santino]

I start small.

[Kat]

Whiplash.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

We have beautiful guests today. Beautiful. We have Sophie bottles. We're doing an order of most beautiful Sophie bottles. The first time you've done Tiger belly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome.

[Kat]

Thank you.

[Bobby Lee]

We have the old, you know, semen.

[David Koechner]

Oh, old.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Luke.

[Andrew Santino]

What?

[Bobby Lee]

Well, you've been. Just been here. You've been doing it every episode.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay. Thank you.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not talking about Sea Fairer.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[David Koechner]

You made it dirty.

[Bobby Lee]

That's not what I'm talking about.

[Andrew Santino]

He has young semen. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

You got some old semen on your. Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Bobby Lee]

He collects it. Yes. You have, you know, Clint Eastwood semen.

[Andrew Santino]

You do.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes, he does.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

He has a collection that would be

[David Koechner]

a really kind of odd, but very cool collection of semen. But nobody would want someone else to have. You wouldn't want someone to be collecting your semen.

[Kat]

No, but people do collect, like, Napoleon's penis and stuff.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm sure that's what, $500 million I'd buy. Pay for that.

[Andrew Santino]

Of course.

[Kat]

I think people will start collecting semen. I think that's. And have it in, like, kind of ornate perfume bottles.

[David Koechner]

You are gonna have the best chance of being the. I mean that in the best way.

[Bobby Lee]

It'd be more difficult for us to collect that scene.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

It's actually interesting you brought that up. I brought a few jars. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Hopeful.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, jars.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

A lot of seals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, get Dick Van Dyke Simmon, because he's about to. He's still alive.

[David Koechner]

I know. He seems very well every time.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

Every time he pops up smiling.

[Bobby Lee]

Smiling. Yeah. But he's 101 now. No.

[David Koechner]

Is that what it is?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I think what it is.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. I remember they did have the. His hundredth birthday. They. Whatever. Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

The whites really age well sometimes, so want to die. But they. They. They go a long time.

[Kat]

Nobody's ever said that.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

That was the first time I've heard that.

[Kat]

Crazy.

[Bobby Lee]

No, not age. Like, in terms of, like, you know, I mean, they have. They look bad.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, but they live they live along.

[Kat]

Thank you for clarifying. No, because obviously they look bad.

[Andrew Santino]

The final form of a white person, I think, is looking shitty and old. So it's like you've been waiting for a white person to look like this the whole time.

[Kat]

He looks good.

[David Koechner]

He is in a hospital bed.

[Kat]

Good color on him.

[Bobby Lee]

But let's. Let's introduce our main guest, please. Anchorman, Movies. Television. Film legend to me. Legend. Yeah. David Keckner. Give him. Dave and I recently worked together.

[David Koechner]

Yes, we did.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Our first time we actually worked together.

[Bobby Lee]

The first time we've ever worked.

[David Koechner]

We've been knowing each other for years.

[Bobby Lee]

Knowing each other around the scene for years. Right. But the first time we worked together, and I don't think it came out.

[David Koechner]

No, no, it didn't. He called you, right?

[Bobby Lee]

He called me, yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yes. So we were honored enough to be asked. Honored to be part of Larry David's new sketch show for HBO, celebrating the 250th anniversary. Anniversary of this hellhole. Of this Whatever. This free country.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

This ironically free country.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Anyway, so then we both got a call about three weeks before the premiere.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

From Larry David.

[Bobby Lee]

From Larry himself.

[David Koechner]

And he goes, it didn't work. Yeah, I know why.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Is that his. That's his voice.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Didn't work.

[Bobby Lee]

It wasn't funny enough.

[David Koechner]

Close impression.

[Bobby Lee]

That's how he sounded to me.

[David Koechner]

Can I. Can I take a whack at why I think it didn't work?

[Bobby Lee]

Me?

[David Koechner]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Lee]

That's what I. That's what I take from it.

[David Koechner]

No, no, no. Not at all. It was against his normal formula. So I thought about it for a minute. I'm like, why didn't it work? So not only Larry interrupts people's lives. In a way, he makes an intrusion into their life, but he's in a position where it does interrupt their life because of his peculiarities. I'm looking for Sophie to help me with words. But anyway, take another sketch. Here's the thing. In every other sketch, Larry inserts himself into people's lives and becomes a problem. Now, it looks like on our sketch, Larry's inserting himself in our lives and becomes a problem. But it's not because we don't need him.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, right, right. We don't need him.

[David Koechner]

Had he said, I'll be right back with X, Y, and Z. Yeah. Then we would have the chance to be disappointed.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But there's no stakes.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[David Koechner]

So the stakes for him was he's gonna lose big because he doesn't get in on the gold.

[Bobby Lee]

Ah.

[David Koechner]

But that wasn't enough drama to sustain the sketch.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I didn't think of it that way.

[David Koechner]

I didn't either.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, I thought of it. No, well, you did.

[David Koechner]

Well, I didn't until after he said. He said it just didn't work.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But I then gave it some thought, like, oh, because he went away from his force.

[Bobby Lee]

That's not how I took it. I took it like, oh, I was terrible.

[Kat]

No, it's important to take all editing personally. Yeah, I like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. No, because here's what I thought I up at is I was interrupting, trying to be funny.

[David Koechner]

That's okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And I think at one point they're like, yeah, it's not like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that note. I didn't get that note. Yeah, yeah, I got that note.

[David Koechner]

Listen, we're improvising.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So it's all fair. And that's the guy. The note doesn't shut it down.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

What it does is it reminds us. Okay, here's where you want me to this lane. Okay, Very good.

[Andrew Santino]

Right.

[David Koechner]

Let's define the lane that I can just. Mine. Ha.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Kat]

Turn taking. That's fun.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah, it was turn taking. Yeah. And sometimes they were like, it's too fun. Like, it was too, like. You're trying. It's about David.

[David Koechner]

Larry, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it's about Larry.

[Kat]

Oh, you were outshining him. That was the problem.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, that's.

[David Koechner]

No, no, no, no, that's what it was.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow, Bobby.

[David Koechner]

That's what I was saying.

[Bobby Lee]

That's what I was saying. I read it wrong.

[David Koechner]

Was not within the plot.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes. That's probably more so what I took from it. I didn't. When he called me, I didn't think that. It's just. When I went to the premiere and I saw all the other sketches and I went, oh, you know, I should have played it more straight.

[David Koechner]

Well, but that wasn't. I don't think that was the problem.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

I think it was that that particular formula didn't work because we didn't. He wasn't interrupting our lives. Yeah, he did, momentarily. But not in such a way that we didn't need him. He normally comes into people's lives and he turns the apple card over and they're all sitting there going, why? Right.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But that's not the case with this one. I didn't make it to the premiere because. Mike, I got the days mixed up.

[Bobby Lee]

What?

[David Koechner]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

I didn't see you there.

[David Koechner]

I know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Well, that's not true. Actually, I told this young man something.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no. Tell him. Wait, wait, Luke, tell. Tell me what. What David said.

[David Koechner]

Well. But be nice.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, Well, I.

[Andrew Santino]

Actually, I. There was a scheduling error.

[David Koechner]

A scheduling error. Oh, good.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. Okay.

[David Koechner]

Very good. Because I've got a pretty full life. I got the five kids, and I travel every weekend.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And so I think I was expecting a little bit more of. Notice that. Hey, remember you got that big thing tonight. Ah, pretty big deal.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I mean, of all the things I'd like to do in my life, that would have been one of them.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes. It was a great time.

[David Koechner]

Were the Obamas there?

[Bobby Lee]

They were not.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. That's why I went.

[David Koechner]

That makes it easy. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

That's why you went.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Because they weren't there. Because they weren't. You thought they might be there?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Obama's kids were at the Comedy Store the other night.

[Bobby Lee]

Really? No daughters.

[Kat]

Yeah. And I was sitting in that back booth in the main room watching the show, and I was there with my friend, and my friend had just hooked up with a comic, and we saw him.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

And we.

[Kat]

This is relevant. This is relevant. This is relevant. So he was, like, walked into the room, and we clocked him because we wanted to see how he was going to act after they hooked up. And then he just kind of, like, walked by and didn't really talk to us. And then I followed him out to give him a piece of my mind. And then I went up to him, kind of coming in hot, and he was like, oh, my God. I freaked out.

[David Koechner]

That's.

[Kat]

That's Sasha and Malia. Right. Right next to you. And I was like, oh, okay. And so then I went in and I told my friend, and then we would just watch them watch the whole show the whole time. It was actually a very happy ending.

[Andrew Santino]

Is there.

[David Koechner]

Is there security with them?

[Kat]

I think so. But they were hanging back.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. I mean, they let them live their lives.

[Kat]

Yeah. They weren't. They weren't in the booth.

[David Koechner]

That's such a difficult life to have forever.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Especially because on top of it, you're a young lady.

[Kat]

Sure. I think all young ladies should have security.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

That is true.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

You got to get that security and all right. Should also get their menstrual cycle off. I do believe that.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Like, you don't have to go to work.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I thought you meant off. Like, turn off.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Kat]

No, no.

[David Koechner]

Like, you should have that time off.

[Kat]

Thank you.

[David Koechner]

Every month.

[Kat]

Thank you.

[Andrew Santino]

You know what? You turn it off too.

[Bobby Lee]

Whoa, dude. I don't like your hat.

[Andrew Santino]

Free women. Free them.

[David Koechner]

You're dial on that thing.

[Kat]

You guys feel pretty comfortable talking about menstrual cycles? Do you all have a sisters.

[Bobby Lee]

Daughter?

[David Koechner]

I have been married. I have three sisters. I had a mother. I have three daughters, so.

[Kat]

Wow, lots of blood.

[David Koechner]

No, it's all fine. Yeah, here's the thing. I love my daughter. We were at a wedding in Kansas City a year ago.

[Bobby Lee]

Whose wedding?

[David Koechner]

With my nephews.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

You don't know him.

[Andrew Santino]

You thought you were gonna say, like, Brad Pitt.

[David Koechner]

Oh, I see. I see.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Matt Damon's daughter or something.

[Kat]

I don't know.

[David Koechner]

But anyway, my daughter had. Had. I don't know how to reframe this, but she needed a tampon and she. She mentioned if. If I asked my dad for a tampon, it'd be here in under five minutes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Which is true.

[Bobby Lee]

No, how?

[David Koechner]

Because I would go get one from the front desk or whatever it took.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, but what if there's no tampons around? Is there a situation where there's no tampons around for a month?

[David Koechner]

We're in the city.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, you're in a city in a hotel.

[David Koechner]

Not a church. I'm sure there's one in a church. Of course there is.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

I mean, used ones are fine.

[Andrew Santino]

You know what?

[Bobby Lee]

There are some in here. In this. My house.

[David Koechner]

Of course there is.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Let me know. Cause you. Obviously.

[Bobby Lee]

I have a girlfriend. You know what I mean? Jules is like my daughter. She probably has some. I just don't. They're not on the kitchen table. That's what I'm saying.

[Kat]

Everywhere.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, let's move on from that. Okay, I believe you. I believe you.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kat]

My question to you, David, is how quickly could you produce a pad?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh,

[David Koechner]

it depends on where it is. I mean, we're at a hotel. It's the same situation.

[Kat]

No, you're in the country now. You're in the country now.

[David Koechner]

In the country. Well, I'm probably gonna just probably rip part of my shirt.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. Get some hay. Collect some hay or something.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

That almost feels like putting the jacket on the puddle. So gentle.

[Bobby Lee]

You just take like a used T shirt and. And make something. Can you do that?

[Kat]

A lot of people do, like toilet paper if you're in a pinch.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, you're in a. Oh, really? Yeah, it's. It is. Why?

[Kat]

It turns into like a very weird papier situation. It's not ideal.

[David Koechner]

Yes, I'm sure it comes up every day.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

We don't know. We don't experience.

[David Koechner]

Men don't. Men.

[Kat]

But men have hormonal. Hormonal cycles, too. It's just 24 hours instead of, like, months.

[David Koechner]

We do.

[Bobby Lee]

We do.

[Kat]

That's what men have most, testosterone in the morning when you wake up, and then it goes down throughout the day.

[David Koechner]

Where's mine?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, where's my pad?

[Kat]

So this is peak tea right now. I'm seeing peak tea from you guys right now.

[Bobby Lee]

I see. Wow. You know, having a girlfriend again, I realize the extra problems they have in terms of cramps.

[David Koechner]

Right?

[Bobby Lee]

You forget about those.

[David Koechner]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. We forget about them because we never thought about them. Yeah. It doesn't happen to us every week.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I apologize for. They forget.

[David Koechner]

And, you know, it's much worse for some. Some ladies, I have a pretty easy

[Kat]

time, but I try not to, like, you know, put that out there too much.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, here we go. Science.

[Kat]

Don't like when you have a science.

[Andrew Santino]

Here we go.

[David Koechner]

Science. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. So what's the orange?

[David Koechner]

I can't.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I can't.

[Kat]

I don't like this. I'm not into. Very upsetting.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, it's with the moon cycles as well. They're synced up with the moon like a werewol.

[Kat]

It is. It's like a tide.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, but it's like a good werewolf, you know, not like a scary.

[David Koechner]

You wanted to get off this conversation.

[Bobby Lee]

Why?

[David Koechner]

Well, you said. Okay, let's move on.

[Bobby Lee]

I did. No, I do. I do. I want to talk about menopause.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. What is.

[David Koechner]

Let's talk about the premiere some more.

[Bobby Lee]

Let's step into menopause.

[Kat]

I see your periods. I raise you menopause.

[David Koechner]

I just realized that we're probably not. We're not going to be able to get back to it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Arleth, go back. Was this like a Pulp Fiction mov. Like p. You can go back.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Now, did you. Did you have a plus one?

[Bobby Lee]

I did. My girlfriend. Wow.

[David Koechner]

I don't think I had a plus one.

[Bobby Lee]

You did.

[David Koechner]

Oh, I did.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, 100%.

[David Koechner]

You did. I messed up.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

I heard recently that you have a girlfriend now.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I did. I just said it.

[Kat]

Said it so many times.

[David Koechner]

Girlfriend.

[Kat]

My girlfriend was saying that.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Kat]

Sorry.

[Bobby Lee]

I won't bring it up. I won't bring her up again.

[Kat]

No, it's just like, you want to talk about her.

[David Koechner]

Why not to be celebrated.

[Bobby Lee]

It should be celebrated.

[David Koechner]

I wouldn't have missed the premiere.

[Bobby Lee]

I scoured the room to see if you were there.

[David Koechner]

Oh, I would have found you.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Well, I mean, we were all clumped together over cast. Wow. No.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

It was like, you know, my castle, you know, I mean. And Vince Vaughn was like, over here. And it was. We're all kind of. Yeah. In a little group.

[David Koechner]

It'd been fun. Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

It would have been. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I was very disappointed.

[Bobby Lee]

It's okay.

[David Koechner]

I know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I mean, you've been a bigger premieres.

[David Koechner]

Have I?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. The anchorman premiere.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Those are huge.

[Kat]

Premieres are fun.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Come on. We're trying to say it's out of English.

[Bobby Lee]

It was one of the better. But premiere, because it was. There was community there.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. That's the thing. You just. You might come across someone's mind because it is a networking.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it was a networking opportunity.

[David Koechner]

I never seek those out because it

[Bobby Lee]

was all of us and we were actually. Before it even came on, we were laughing so hard and just bonding for

[Kat]

life in a way that you only could if you were there.

[Bobby Lee]

It felt like pure life there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

And it was like, choose my life.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Okay.

[David Koechner]

Not the. Not the one.

[Bobby Lee]

I'll be honest with you. And I don't want to, you know, rattle any feathers. Is that a term?

[Andrew Santino]

Rattle. Rattle the.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't want to rattle any feathers.

[David Koechner]

It might be ruffle.

[Bobby Lee]

Why? I said. I said. Right? You can rattle them.

[David Koechner]

You can rattle them.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. You can do all kinds of things.

[David Koechner]

You rattle morale, throw a snake at it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. That is absolutely true.

[David Koechner]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. I had to think about that for a second.

[David Koechner]

That's probably one of your karate moves.

[Bobby Lee]

But anyway, it really is. And you pull it back. Okay. So anyway, Baby belt is for you. For you. Baby bills. It's for you.

[Kat]

For you.

[Bobby Lee]

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[Kat]

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[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. And I love BILT because it can be redeemed for a bunch of different things. Flights, hotels, Lyft rides, Amazon.com purchases, future housing payments, and more. Personally, I'd use them for Lyft rides. I love taking a nice little. I also like members only things I do.

[Bobby Lee]

Mark parking with Metropolis.

[Andrew Santino]

You could use it as a down payment on your. On a home.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Student loan payments, all kinds of stuff, man. Also, big companies like SoulCycle, SoulCycle. First, number one, download the Bilt app. That's number one. Number two, link any credit card or debit card to the app so purchases at your local spots become even more rewarding. We love rewards, do we not, as a human race?

[Kat]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Andrew Santino]

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[Kat]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Kat]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Andrew Santino]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Andrew Santino]

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[David Koechner]

It really is.

[Bobby Lee]

And it's hard when you. It's almost impossible, but they made it happen.

[Andrew Santino]

That is insane. They have 100% online access to personalized treatment plans that put your goals first.

[Bobby Lee]

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[Kat]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Kat]

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[David Koechner]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[David Koechner]

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[Andrew Santino]

How does everyone's hair look using it?

[Kat]

Oh yeah, everyone looks great. Very full, girthy hair.

[Andrew Santino]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Bobby Lee]

It was one of the better human experiences of my life. Wow.

[Andrew Santino]

My God.

[Bobby Lee]

Why are you rubbing in his face?

[David Koechner]

That's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

I think, if I really think about it.

[David Koechner]

You've heard of the book the Road Less Traveled? That's my life.

[Andrew Santino]

I used to be an assistant and I.

[Bobby Lee]

To whom?

[Andrew Santino]

An agent to a holly Hollywood agent. And I. I messed up so much stuff. My boss missed so much stuff.

[Bobby Lee]

It was. Did you get fired? Be honest.

[Andrew Santino]

He was the nicest guy ever. So, like, I didn't get fired, but, you know, a normal, regular person would have fired me for sure.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it was.

[David Koechner]

You must have been very young.

[Andrew Santino]

Young. This is about a year ago, maybe two years ago.

[David Koechner]

You look very young.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he's very young.

[Kat]

You messed up. That was really bad.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. One time I sent him to a meeting in New York and I sent him to the. I looked up the address, copy paste it. Sent him, said, go to this address, blah, blah, blah. He goes, gets there, shows up. It's a Chinese restaurant. It's like not the office at all. He calls me and is like, where did you get this address? Which was, you know, through intuition. I knew this means he's probably in the wrong place. No one ever calls you and goes, where did you get this address? I'm in the exact right spot.

[Bobby Lee]

No. How are you feeling at this point?

[Andrew Santino]

I panicked. I was like, I couldn't breathe. I was like, oh, this is really bad. I just started working for him too. And he was in Brooklyn and the actual address was in Manhattan, right across the street from his hotel. He had to take a 45 minute train ride. He ended up being two hours late for the meeting. He. I sent him to the right address. He gets there, he's like, what floor is it on? I'm like, floor. Like, I don't realize that in New York, like everything's on a floor. It's not just like the address. And I had to call an assistant inside the building and they had to scream out the window to start screaming his name.

[Bobby Lee]

What agency was it? You could say it. Wow. You would think that it would be like a small, you know, big.

[Andrew Santino]

No, it's a big. Luckily, he was the nicest guy ever and was pretty Chill about it. But it was definitely like a huge. I mean, he was.

[Kat]

So other assistants help each other. Is there a network of, like, camaraderie? I mean, the yelling out the window is like, that. That's a pretty good move. General direction.

[Andrew Santino]

I, I, that assistant. I mean, it was. They help you for the most part.

[Kat]

Is there a general brotherhood?

[Andrew Santino]

Yes.

[Kat]

I'm asking.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

In New York, generally, this is. Think about this. Okay, right, there's got to be a floor. Right. And also a suite number.

[Andrew Santino]

Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, I messed up.

[Bobby Lee]

And as an assistant, if you don't know that, you're fired. Yeah. But also, like, you're fired.

[Andrew Santino]

You're the agent.

[Bobby Lee]

You, like, you know, they don't know anything. They don't know anything.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

They haven't given me anything in two years.

[David Koechner]

Here's the thing.

[Kat]

There was a period where I was, like, writing on a show and touring every weekend. And so I had an assistant during that period. And my agent also had an assistant, and my manager also had an assistant. And so my manager and I, both of our assistants were, like, unavailable for a week or two. And we were, like, walking around the city in diapers. We couldn't get anything together. Nobody can do anything.

[Andrew Santino]

It's crazy. I've gotten my boss, like, passports, last minute, all this stuff. I remember once he walked by the desk one day and was just like, like, you've been paying my credit card, right? And I was like, yeah, yeah, totally. And then I have to, like, figure out, like, okay, how do I get this guy's password and figure out how to start paying his credit card without him realizing I haven't been.

[David Koechner]

Why doesn't he have a business manager?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he's an assistant.

[David Koechner]

Assistant.

[Andrew Santino]

I'm the assistant, so I do it.

[David Koechner]

I wouldn't. Yeah, yeah, I would have a business manager.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. In terms of that.

[Kat]

That's the thing you trust. You trust somebody with absolutely everything. Passport, bank stuff. Like, it's everything. It's so crazy. The reins you hand over when you can't handle doing it yourself.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, I have that. People doing things for me. I don't know how anything works.

[Andrew Santino]

Of course.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, well, I didn't pay taxes for. Remember? I didn't pay taxes.

[David Koechner]

We're going to edit this part.

[Bobby Lee]

We're going to edit this part.

[Andrew Santino]

Wait, you got to hear.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, this, yeah, yeah, this is going to be a car situation here.

[Kat]

What happened?

[Bobby Lee]

What? I didn't pay taxes in. When I was on Mad tv. I didn't pay any taxes.

[Andrew Santino]

You didn't know. You had to.

[Bobby Lee]

I didn't know I had to. Right. I thought it just automatically happened.

[David Koechner]

Well, in a way, it does. But you still have to file.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I never did that.

[Kat]

You know, a lot gets taken off, Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's what I said. Did they take it?

[Andrew Santino]

What happened?

[Bobby Lee]

And then one day I was like, you know, everything shut down. My bank accounts, everything was shut down. And then all of a sudden, the irs. Yeah, the IRS took over. And then all of a sudden, I had to get, you know, I mean, a business manager to help me get out of it.

[David Koechner]

But I did, too. I got a $23,000 bill from the IRS.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Because I'd been. Because, you know, we.

[Bobby Lee]

We.

[David Koechner]

We're. We work a lot. And so you'll have, you know, how many different jobs in a year.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And so you've got all of these pay stubs and all these things to try to figure out. It is pretty complex.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I had hundreds and thousands of dollars.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, my God.

[David Koechner]

It was bad because you didn't pay for 10 years. So did you.

[Bobby Lee]

It was a lot. A lot.

[Kat]

So did you negotiate calls or, like, creditors weren't coming?

[Bobby Lee]

No, I didn't know. Well, I didn't never check the mail or, like, anything like that. Or my email, anything like that. Right. So I was, like, literally, like, in a bathroom, like, I thought I was gonna. I thought it was all over. Prison for 50 years. Like Al Capone.

[David Koechner]

They'll get you on taxes. If you've got syphilis, they'll get you on taxes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

In Canada, when you're. Because I was. I didn't pay my taxes for years either, because I was a Canadian stand. I was making $9,000 a year. Like, I had no. And so in Canada, when you're getting in trouble from the government, you get letters in the mail that are in a brown envelope. And I remember just always seeing them and just putting them straight into my buildings.

[Bobby Lee]

Recycling again.

[Kat]

Oh, Brown.

[Bobby Lee]

Brown at $9,000. I don't think they should touch it.

[Kat]

I don't think they should even contact me.

[Bobby Lee]

Exactly.

[David Koechner]

It's about the filing of it. It's not about paying it.

[Kat]

You sound just like them, David.

[David Koechner]

But that's what they're doing.

[Kat]

You should be part of the Canadian government. Sound crazy right now.

[David Koechner]

That's a reason for it. You probably would get money back.

[Kat]

You sound like my dad.

[David Koechner]

How old is your dad?

[Kat]

How old is my dad?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Great question, and I hope you stay curious. What, like 60?

[David Koechner]

Like 60? You don't know how Old. Your father is. Do you. Do you guys not have a relationship?

[Kat]

No, we have a great relationship.

[David Koechner]

You don't know how your dad is,

[Kat]

how old anybody is.

[Andrew Santino]

How old.

[Kat]

How old is your.

[Bobby Lee]

Who are you, Dr. Phil? What's going on here?

[Kat]

How old is your dad?

[David Koechner]

He's passed away.

[Kat]

Well, lucky you. You don't have to know. You don't have.

[David Koechner]

Today's his birthday.

[Kat]

Today's his birthday.

[Bobby Lee]

Would have been. Would have been your face.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Not even your face. It's Fin. I'm 63. Do you know what year your dad was born?

[Kat]

No.

[Bobby Lee]

Let me ask you. Can I ask you this question? Because I'm. I've been really thinking about my age. Okay. So I'm. I'll be 55 in September. Okay.

[Kat]

And you guys both look great, by the way.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you. Thank you. When people say, you know, like what I mean.

[David Koechner]

Anyway.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, no, I want. I want to sink into this. Right.

[David Koechner]

All right.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you.

[Andrew Santino]

You.

[Kat]

You're welcome.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. Okay.

[Kat]

Are you not good with compliments, both of you?

[Bobby Lee]

I. Sometimes when they say it, I don't know if they're really.

[David Koechner]

Of course. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Are you really being real? Yeah. Okay, good. Thank you then. Thank you. But any. Thanks.

[Kat]

But who hurt you?

[David Koechner]

What happened?

[Bobby Lee]

What happened?

[Andrew Santino]

You did like a little.

[Kat]

Your body went into fight or flight.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, I know. So I'm 55. My. My body breaking down a little bit. You can just tell, like, you know, I mean, I'm trying to do a pull up. Right. And it's just like I'm done for like a week.

[David Koechner]

But you're trying.

[Kat]

That's Pull ups are impossible, first of all. So that's not.

[Bobby Lee]

They're very hard. Yeah. Because I got a pull up machine from Tik Tok. Alex set it up.

[Kat]

It's not a machine.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. What's the machine?

[Bobby Lee]

It's not a machine. It's the bar. You don't turn it on. Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

Right, right, right. Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. You do dips, right?

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So, you know, and Alex was saying, just hang.

[Kat]

Yeah, just hang. It's good for your spine.

[Bobby Lee]

Good for your spine.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, and I can hang for what, four seconds?

[Kat]

That's great.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

Hang out a little.

[Bobby Lee]

But anyway, my point is, is that, you know, do you. You're 63 now, right?

[David Koechner]

I'll be 64 in August.

[Bobby Lee]

Is there any. Can you tell me where the physical changes happen or.

[David Koechner]

No, you have to. You have to keep walking. That's all you have to do.

[Bobby Lee]

Like the Japanese.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And keep. Start smoking so. So the. The big thing is, is things come along. Like, you know, you just start getting in a belly that's harder to get. Get rid of.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, my belly.

[David Koechner]

You just have to start eating better

[Bobby Lee]

visceral fat, I hear.

[David Koechner]

Is that right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

I want to know when all the sound sounds start, because men make the craziest sounds.

[David Koechner]

Thank you so much for that. In your late 50s.

[Kat]

Everyone's pointing at me right now.

[David Koechner]

No, because it's a perfect thing.

[Bobby Lee]

It's perfect.

[David Koechner]

I have my act now because my dad used to make sounds.

[Kat]

Yeah. And you're like, I'm wondering when that happens.

[David Koechner]

And you're late 50s, I think.

[Kat]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

It's the first time. Let's stuff like this.

[Andrew Santino]

Now when you're sitting in the sink and stuff

[Bobby Lee]

say.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So the old Korean men in the spas do this sound. Okay. I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, I go. Okay, I go, I go, I go. And they. They touch. I don't know what it means. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I don't know what. Can't barely speak Korean. But it's. And then they touch a. A part of their body. Right. So they go. I go, I go, I go. Right. I go, oh, his head hurts or whatever. Yeah, but that's a Korean sound, you know. Oh, right, right. What's an American sound? That one.

[Kat]

Yes. The throat clear.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that sound. What is going on in that sound?

[David Koechner]

It's effort for no reason.

[Kat]

I see.

[David Koechner]

I see unnecessary effort.

[Andrew Santino]

A car sputtering. Like, it can't really get going when you're starting it.

[Kat]

Start a lawnmower.

[Andrew Santino]

Exactly. Going up a hill. Manual.

[David Koechner]

My dad would lift stuff and go, all right. Oh, so is it.

[Bobby Lee]

It's pain related?

[David Koechner]

No, no, not at all.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah. Tell me the physics and the sense.

[Kat]

I think they're doing it for attention.

[David Koechner]

For me, it's involuntary. I'll catch myself and go, oh, my God. Or my kids will say, dad, you're making so many too many noises.

[Kat]

I had to talk to my dad about sighing in movie theaters.

[David Koechner]

Oh, yeah.

[Kat]

Go to a movie. And he would, like, really, I guess not enjoy a trailer. And he'd go, ugh, yeah, yeah. But he's like. Doesn't even notice that he's doing it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I'll say pass. Like some trailers. Oh, my God. I'm just like, pass ass.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Like, how do you make that?

[Kat]

But sometimes you're like, smash.

[Bobby Lee]

All right. A lot of it's smash. Yeah, yeah. Now let me say something. Did you guys see the Odyssey?

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Yes.

[David Koechner]

Did you see it on 70? 70 what?

[Andrew Santino]

An.

[David Koechner]

But I said it on. I said 70.

[Bobby Lee]

Some of us can't afford 70.

[Kat]

Yeah, no, some of us are working class. No, no, it's just that I got it amc.

[David Koechner]

They started selling it a year in advance. They've been sold out.

[Kat]

I know. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I said at the Regal in North Hollywood.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

It's nothing.

[Kat]

I saw it at the Grove.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. That's nice.

[David Koechner]

I haven't seen it yet.

[Bobby Lee]

You haven't seen it?

[David Koechner]

No, I wanted to go with all the kids, so that's tough to organize.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, but you want to see it in 70?

[David Koechner]

I'd like to.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And I think thank you for following my lead on 70. We're too hip for this room, but, yeah, that's a great experience. We saw. What's the last one from Nolan?

[Bobby Lee]

Oppenheimer.

[David Koechner]

Yes. Oppenheimer in 70. In. Where were we? Glendale. And my kids were just kind of fighting to go. They didn't want to go. They were resisting. Yeah, but I'm like, you're going to. They loved it.

[Kat]

Well, how old are they?

[David Koechner]

Well, see, so Charlie's 27, Margaret's 24. Sergeant and Audrey are now 20, and Eve is 50. 13. So this was two years ago. So then subtract.

[Kat]

Good spread. That's a good spread. And everybody's got lots of stuff going on, so that is hard to rank.

[Bobby Lee]

That's very hard to rank.

[David Koechner]

Eva's at sleepaway camp, and she's an lit, not a cit.

[Kat]

I always thought leader in training.

[David Koechner]

Thank you. Because I. I asked her, I said, what's lit mean? I said, is it litigant in training? She goes, what's a litigant? I'm like, you're my smart girl.

[Kat]

You're the smart one.

[David Koechner]

She is. I have to tell a quick story. May I?

[Bobby Lee]

You could do whatever you want. You're the guy. You're our honored guest.

[Andrew Santino]

This is quick.

[David Koechner]

I just had to brag a little bit.

[Bobby Lee]

You say make it quick.

[Andrew Santino]

Well, he said, I want to tell a quick story.

[David Koechner]

Do you remember the. The national walkout Day earlier this year was January? We weren't supposed to go to work.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So I got an email that day. I was in or buy anything.

[Bobby Lee]

Right, right. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I was in Louisville, Kentucky, that night.

[Bobby Lee]

I bought so much that day.

[David Koechner]

Did you? Because you're the. You're the real ladder.

[Bobby Lee]

Ye.

[David Koechner]

So anyway. And he didn't need it.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

It's like, you could have bought it. It's under urgent purchase a ladder, but

[David Koechner]

you are a roofer. So anyway, I got an email from the her school that there had been a walkout, like they. You know, in solidarity. And then Eve calls me later that day. She goes, dad, did you hear about today at school? I said, yeah. She goes, do you know who started it? I said, no. She goes, I didn't. She's a friend. Freshman.

[Kat]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

And then I go, they have Dad's club, so like four times a year, we'll come and cook lunch for the girls, right? And this woman came up to me. She goes, oh, you must be Eve's dad, because her face is your face. Which is true. And she hates it. But she goes. She goes. That day of the walkout, the speech she gave. I said, speech? Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Right? That's great.

[Kat]

She's leading a whole, like, Lord of the Flies thing. That's so exciting.

[David Koechner]

That's so cool.

[Kat]

And have you all always tried to maintain, like, an anti government household?

[David Koechner]

Not anti government, but good capitalist or

[Kat]

like, what is the. Why is she such an anarchist?

[David Koechner]

Be a good person.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[David Koechner]

And that should align you with all the right ideals.

[Bobby Lee]

No, that gives me hope, actually, David. No, no, I'll tell you, because you hear a lot of. You know what I mean, young people staying in basements.

[Kat]

You know what I mean?

[Bobby Lee]

The lonely epidemic thing that's going on with young men, you know, and then you see that to you. What are you talking about? That's something I see.

[David Koechner]

I understand.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't do this to me.

[David Koechner]

I didn't mean. I wasn't doing it to you. I was doing it to the idea that these men are. You know, that's a choice to disengage. And that's. Now that's where this darn thing needs to go away.

[Bobby Lee]

It destroyed everything.

[David Koechner]

Finish your thought.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, well, I will. Thank you.

[David Koechner]

I'm sorry I interrupted like you the way you did in the Larry Davis.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, so you held a resentment.

[David Koechner]

You knew.

[Andrew Santino]

So you knew he was.

[Bobby Lee]

You held a resentment.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Oh, my God. It was a call back, and I. I never even noticed it. You brought it up, and that's something that never even crossed my radar. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

What's. I'm quick here, you know, so I don't even know what I was ranting about. What was it? Oh, the lonely.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So what I'm saying is that, you know, it gives me hope because, you know, at least on my, you know, algorithm. Right, right. You see a lot of dystopian things going on with young people. Right. And for me to see young People really take initiative and become a leader like your daughter. And like, that gives me a lot of fucking hope.

[Kat]

I think that it's actually not as bad as everyone was saying it is. Because a lot of those kids that were like, weirdly socially affected by Covid, by missing like a chunk of socializing years with COVID are now starting to enter the age where they can like drink alcohol and stuff. And everyone's always talking about how. How like Gen Z doesn't drink alcohol. And it's like, because they were children, right? And so I think as soon as they start like going to college and partying and drinking and having sex with each other, because that's also a big part of it, they're just like, not. But I think as soon as they. And no matter how many times I ask them to. And so I think that as soon as these kids start drinking alcohol. What is this?

[David Koechner]

They put up a picture. Sorry, what are you doing? This is a picture.

[Bobby Lee]

Not the right time. I could have done this like five minutes ago.

[David Koechner]

Look at that. In a second.

[Andrew Santino]

So who's drinking and fucking and.

[David Koechner]

No, no, that's me and my kid.

[Andrew Santino]

All right.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So no one. Go ahead.

[Kat]

That's nice.

[David Koechner]

I took them to Ireland last year. Last summer.

[Andrew Santino]

It does sound like the. The daughter who is staging a walk out and giving a speech like. And staging like a revolution is the scariest person to ask to go see Oppenheimer with you. Just like. So the movies.

[Bobby Lee]

Under no circumstance did you finish your point or.

[Kat]

No, my point was just I think as soon as they start drinking, a lot of the weirdness that we're worried about with that generation is gonna mellow out. Cause they're weird socially and they're not having sex with each other. And I think alcohol will smooth that out.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, wow. Yeah, good point.

[Andrew Santino]

Alcohol is the answer.

[Kat]

Alcohol is always the answer.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Too much of the answer for me.

[Kat]

Depends how much you question, really.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, so while five children.

[David Koechner]

Five kids. There's Charlie on the right, and then Audrey is one of the twins and then her twin brother Sergeant's all the way to. To the left on our screen. Yeah. Then Margot is the 24 year old. And then there's our champion, Eve.

[Kat]

Wow.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow. It's a good squad.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a good squad. Yeah. And they look seem so happy.

[David Koechner]

Oh, we had a great time.

[Andrew Santino]

Is it hard to travel like with. With like a big family like that, or is it. Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

Expensive.

[Bobby Lee]

All right.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Does everyone get their own room?

[David Koechner]

No.

[Kat]

No. Okay, good.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, people share the Brothers share.

[Kat]

I think that's a big part of a family trip is the accommodation should be like, everyone should have to share room.

[David Koechner]

Oh, yeah.

[Kat]

I think that's important.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

We just went back for a family reunion and they. They were resisting that because it's been a couple years, but, man, they had the best time. I've got. I'm from one of six. So there are 26 grandkids that. My. My parents have 26 grandkids, even though they both passed away. But anyway, they all bonded really hard.

[Bobby Lee]

But when they. When they. When your son goes, dad, I don't want to go this year.

[David Koechner]

Right.

[Bobby Lee]

Like a dad. Like, I was like, I got my own life. And like.

[David Koechner]

Plus it's over the 4th of July and the like, dad, like, LA is not the place to be on the 4th of July.

[Bobby Lee]

So what do you say when your dad.

[David Koechner]

I said it's important that we do this.

[Bobby Lee]

But DOD Dude, I'm going to arrive.

[David Koechner]

Why do you think he's going to talk that way?

[Andrew Santino]

I don't know.

[Bobby Lee]

I just. I made that choice. Can I make the choice? I'm not like you, Dodd.

[Andrew Santino]

I paint.

[Bobby Lee]

All right. I'm not an actor. Bad.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah. Okay. So are your kids. Do you. Are. Have they expressed interest in showbiz at all? And how do you feel about that?

[David Koechner]

I'm fine with it. Just do it. Go all the way. Go all the way.

[Bobby Lee]

Are any of them actors?

[David Koechner]

Not quite.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

One of them is kind of has been entertaining it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And with less pursuit. Now, if you want to go to Tick Tock. Sargento Underscore official.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

Sargent O Underscore official. He sings corridos, which is a Mexican form of style of Mexican music. He went, hey, that's chicken. No.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, okay. Sometimes I. I got my skin. I know, but I know you could be half.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

With this skin. It's almost August.

[Bobby Lee]

I know.

[David Koechner]

I'm white as a sheet.

[Bobby Lee]

Like. Like Tom Segura is half Peruvian.

[Kat]

Well, isn't Louis C.K. mexican?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he's Mexican too. You know what I mean? So what I'm saying, some of the whites are deceptive.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

No, not this one.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

Anyway.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. This is your son.

[David Koechner]

There it is. Sargento Underscore Official. So he went.

[Bobby Lee]

Go to this one. I want to him sing or something.

[David Koechner]

There's a music video down below a little lower. But yeah, he's. You'll hear him sing. That's what he's doing in each one of these.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Go check him out. Yeah. That's awesome.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, go.

[Andrew Santino]

If you guys put the headphones on, you can hear it.

[David Koechner]

Oh. Oh,

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

You might as well be brown.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So he. He went to Latin America instead of college. When his sister went to university, he went to Latin America to do language immersion. And then his buddy's dad owns a recording studio in Van Nuys. And my son wanted to go back to Guatemala because he had jobs that he could do. But I heard him. This tape that he made. I say tape. It's not a tape, obviously. This digital record. This digital thing.

[Bobby Lee]

Story call tape, call tape.

[David Koechner]

And I said, you're not going anywhere, dude. You're staying here and following this through. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Right, right, right.

[David Koechner]

He did go back to Guatemala for two weeks. But, I mean, yeah, he's so. He's pursuing it. They have a. They have an event tomorrow night in Oxnard.

[Bobby Lee]

That's amazing.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah. So it's.

[Bobby Lee]

You seem like a great father.

[David Koechner]

I do. I try.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

That's all you can do is try. Now, look, now, I wish I. You do wish you could go back. Because you can't go back. I know you can't. Well, all you can do is what you do now. You can. I've told my kids, I said, if I have to apologize for anything, anything, have no fear. I will not fight you on it. I will apologize and then make amends.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Kat]

And so how do you talk to your sons about, like, man stuff? Because I feel like that is, like, a really hard thing for dads to do sometimes. Because when you were their age, it was kind of different as it is for everyone.

[David Koechner]

Well, my parents are severe, were severely Catholic, so there was no.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

So, no, we talk about everything.

[Kat]

And so when did you choose that you were going to talk to your kids.

[David Koechner]

Kids about.

[Kat]

About serious stuff as opposed to, like, your.

[David Koechner]

Forever.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

From the beginning.

[Kat]

Like, I'm.

[David Koechner]

I'm too much. I'm always trying to give them advice.

[Kat]

Oh, you're trying to. You're too there emotionally. Yeah. No.

[David Koechner]

Oh. Oh, yeah. I'm 100. I. You put. Put on a commercial, I will ball my eyes out and they'll look down the couch like, yep, there he goes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. My dad was never. Not like that. He was very. Death was always the. And answer to everything.

[David Koechner]

What's true.

[Bobby Lee]

If you do you. I kill you.

[David Koechner]

Oh, he was going to kill you.

[Bobby Lee]

Everything was just that.

[David Koechner]

It wasn't. Death is an evil.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no, no. The eye.

[David Koechner]

Yes. I'm a homeless.

[Bobby Lee]

When you get old, I kill you. And then you're like, okay. These are things that I don't want to die. So I. I'm just going to do, you know what I mean? Things that he said.

[Kat]

But it becomes very simple.

[Bobby Lee]

It's very simple. Very simple. Yeah. If you go to Miko. Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

Oh, that's.

[Bobby Lee]

He would even do demonstrations of what it would be, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

So, yeah, to show that he's serious.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, he didn't speak a lot of English and he was like just an very angry Korean man.

[David Koechner]

North or South Korea?

[Bobby Lee]

North, obviously.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

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

[Bobby Lee]

Obviously.

[David Koechner]

I forgot to read your bio before I came into the show.

[Bobby Lee]

Obviously, I'm an un. We changed it out at the border, but. But, yeah. So a father and then. But you have one person in the house now.

[David Koechner]

My house?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

No, no.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

They'll come around. So there's Charlie and there's, like, Sergeant lives with me, and Audrey's here for the summer now. I'm so happy because Eve just got a. The canopy bed and new. The new dresser and side table because she had. Had felt more comfortable staying in her mother's.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

And so when she said she wanted that, I'm like, bang. And then so she.

[Kat]

Oh, that's so funny. My parents were not together, and it was really like one of when, you know, when my dad found out that there was something maybe my mom wouldn't get me, he was like, this is how I win.

[David Koechner]

You do want to win?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

Oh, you want a tube top? Come on over.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Oh, so.

[Kat]

Wow. No, no, no. He never touched me just to be camera. He never was attracted to me.

[David Koechner]

It was just tuc, though. Anyway, it'd still be a tube job.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. So. So there is. There is a, like, this little hidden kind of war that goes on in a divorce or. No.

[David Koechner]

Oh, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh.

[David Koechner]

Oh, we had fun. No, no, it's not fun.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, it sounds fun.

[David Koechner]

No, it was. It was acrimonious. Still is.

[Kat]

It is fun. It is.

[Bobby Lee]

I think it's fun. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I prefer not to have ever been there. But anyway.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of pain. I'm sorry.

[David Koechner]

That's okay. You get through it. You know, it's whatever. I just. It's.

[Bobby Lee]

Is all your children from the same wife?

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Okay, well, here's the thing.

[Bobby Lee]

Tell me everything real quick. You have to be quick about it because, you know, these are things that

[David Koechner]

I want to get out of here anyway. Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Do you really want to get out of here?

[David Koechner]

You're not having fun? Kidding. Of course I'm having fun.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so fun with you.

[David Koechner]

This is the biggest night of my life or day of my life. Bigger than any Larry. Larry David premiere. We got. We got married, and we got. We were pregnant in two months, which I didn't think about it. I thought she'd been on the pill for 10 years. People have trouble conceiving. Fertility is not our problem. But then she nearly dies during the childbirth because she had placenta accreta, where the placenta grows into the uterus. So as she's giving birth, this emergency C section, she's bleeding to death. And so they had to take her uterus, and they had to ask me, because I was the oldest white man in the room, what to do with her female birth.

[Kat]

And you put out your cigar.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[Kat]

Let me think.

[David Koechner]

Because they said, sir, you're too close to the oxygen tank. And so a couple doors blew off. So then. So she still had her ovaries. And so we actually had all our kids via. The rest of the four via surrogacy. So 100. Our kids. Just somebody else has to carry them, which is much more expensive.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. It sounds so expensive. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. So anyway, that's how they all came about.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I. Wow. Wow.

[David Koechner]

That's why. That's why there's five.

[Kat]

That's so scary.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it sounds.

[David Koechner]

It was. It was. It was very scary. It sounds. Yeah. The day that we pulled eggs from her ovaries and come from my medical. Medical.

[Kat]

All right, I'll cross off my.

[Bobby Lee]

Cancel them tube tops juice. Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

So we got 11 embryos. So we used our first three, got her daughter Margot, and then they froze the eight into two groups of four. And so a couple years later, my. To me, I'm like, well, it wasn't necessarily the happiest marriage, but. But I'm from the Midwest. I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. So I. When. When the idea, like, let's try it again, I'm like, okay, whatever. I thought, you know, probably won't work. And that's when we got the twins.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

So it worked now for life.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

And then. So we had one group of four embryos left, and then she really wanted to try that, so I said, okay. And then boom.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

So I had my last child at 49, almost 50.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Whoa.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Trust me. Trust me.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I do trust you.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. I mean, the bone. You said, who? You, you, you, You. You expressed everything. That was Going on inside.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. No, but you're right. Yeah, it's a lot.

[Bobby Lee]

That's a lot.

[David Koechner]

It's a lot. But I. I love it. I love, I love my kids and.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it's worth it. Yeah, I believe it's worth it.

[David Koechner]

Someone asked me once like, you're divorced or your kids talk to you? Like talk to me? Yeah, they're mine. My daughters want me to live 40 more years.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I think you might have the opportunity with AI.

[David Koechner]

Well, I told you I couldn't sleep last night because I was looking at the phone right before I went to bed.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And then it's something. I'm doom scrolling. Of course you're not supposed to do that. And then my youngest plays Roblox and then I shouldn't even say that on the air. Yeah. And that thing is a disaster. You've heard of all the.

[Kat]

Yeah, there's pedophile.

[David Koechner]

Oh my God. They make them live stream some really horrible stuff.

[Kat]

Mostly pedophiles on robots. Roblox now.

[David Koechner]

Okay, okay.

[Kat]

No kids left.

[Bobby Lee]

I didn't even know what Roblox is. Explain to me Roblox right now. Right now. Explain.

[David Koechner]

It's a universe. A game universe. Good. You do?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

What is it?

[Andrew Santino]

When I was younger, I played Roblox a lot. It's basically just like, almost like a Minecraft esque spin off where it's. You can play a bunch of different games in this emulator. It's almost like a mod for like a million other games. You can play Roblox, Call of Duty or like Roblox, like Tornado simulator where you go in and you're in this tornado thing. Or Roblox, come over to my house and hang out and you go, oh, okay, I'll play this one.

[Bobby Lee]

But do you create like a character or something?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, you have like a little Roblox guy. A guy.

[David Koechner]

Oh, like an avatar.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it's an avatar.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, it's an avatar. And you can go. You could play like. Yeah, like this is like, you know, riding your bike around in a neighborhood or whatever.

[Bobby Lee]

Or you.

[David Koechner]

It's interesting because the graphics are awful.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah,

[David Koechner]

it's all about money. They make so much money.

[Bobby Lee]

Look at that money.

[David Koechner]

Because you've got it. You gotta buy RO rocks.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And where do you play? On your computer or could you play it on Xbox or they might have

[Andrew Santino]

added it to Xbox. But it's for the computer.

[Bobby Lee]

I want to play it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

It's fun. Roblox is fun.

[Bobby Lee]

I want to dominate it. Throw money at It. I'm gonna throw money at it. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And so your, your son plays this.

[David Koechner]

My daughter.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, daughter.

[David Koechner]

I think that the other was Mike too. She's the youngest, so she got it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But her, her, her account's private, so. Because.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

It wasn't until years later that I heard all the, this, these horror stories. She goes, dad, I've been playing it for six years. Wow.

[Kat]

But dad, I love him.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

You hear these horror stories.

[Bobby Lee]

Like I don't.

[Kat]

I. Absolutely. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Give me a horror story. Like what could happen.

[David Koechner]

What's his name? Sean Ryan has this one guy on all the time who's super bright and eloquent.

[Bobby Lee]

I love Sean Ryan.

[David Koechner]

And, and he. The, the guy who's on. Who's a name? I don't know. You know, I'm talking about the one guy. Guy that. He's like a super hacker. He knows everything that's going on with technology and he talks often about Roblox and what happens there. And once there was a dad as a daughter who's being threatened by the, the Roblox pirates and telling. Because she had lifted her shirt or something and they were telling her to keep doing or something like that. The dad walks in, they tell him something. I forget what it was. But he then leaves and let her. Lets her continue.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh my God. It's. Wow.

[Kat]

A lot of it's like blackmail and stuff like that. Like getting, you know, they get you

[David Koechner]

do one little thing. Curse. Curse for me.

[Kat]

Flash curse or flash someone or. Yeah. So I'm sure it's smaller at first. That's so smart, David, is to get them to curse first. Start building.

[David Koechner]

I'll tell your parents. Tell your parents if you don't.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah. And then, and then it's like a lot of it is blackmail. It's very intense. So when I was like, like first, you know, 12 or like whenever you start catfishing old men online, I Would you do the same?

[David Koechner]

I thought I recognized the voice. Closed my eyes like. Sure.

[Kat]

We're saying we actually met in Canada first. That's right.

[David Koechner]

Oh yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Tell me about that. Tell me about that encounter.

[David Koechner]

Well, okay, but real quick finish or story.

[Kat]

So I didn't do Roblox. We were like MSN messenger. And I forget there was another one that was also like. You made a little avatar. It was like real world or something like that. I forget what that one was called. But it was so much fun to be a 12 year old girl and talking to old men online.

[David Koechner]

Really?

[Kat]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Why is it fun?

[Kat]

It's fun because especially at that time, nobody knew what we were using the Internet for.

[Bobby Lee]

Is Chris Hansen with you?

[Kat]

That was the time that all that stuff was happening because it was the perfect culmination of, like, the adults didn't know what we had access to on the Internet. We were kind of creating the early shady, cool corners of the Internet. Me and old men. It was, we had this exact. We had this incredible relationship. All my friends, it was like, it was like a big part of Internet use at the time for all of us. It wasn't just me. Wait, you did Roblox? You must be younger than me.

[Andrew Santino]

Well, there are. Yes. And there are those moments where you do something crazy on the Internet. And I just remember the feeling of, like, go. Waking up the next morning, like, going to school the next day, and just the dread of, like, what, what is going on my computer right now? You're just like, I'm dealing with like, the craziest shit of like.

[Kat]

And also, like, did I close it?

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, you, you, you do something. You're playing a game, and a guy just, like, sends you your address, Your home address.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

You're like, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Log off. Go to school. You're just sitting there silently like, what is about paranoid?

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Andrew Santino]

My parents being murdered.

[Bobby Lee]

This is not, this is not what God intended. I don't think.

[David Koechner]

No, this is terrible.

[Bobby Lee]

This is terrible. It's killing us.

[David Koechner]

I just saw. I think there's. They're going to come out with a flip phone again. I can't wait, because I, I butt died. Tell everybody all the time, if I touch this damn thing, someone's getting it.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

I mean, give me a number.

[Andrew Santino]

You don't have a coat, have you, on Roblox?

[David Koechner]

Yeah, but I just put it down. I forget to shut it off.

[Bobby Lee]

You gotta shut it off? Well, yeah.

[Kat]

How often is your flashlight turning on?

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, not that often.

[Kat]

Not that often.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Kat]

More of a mom thing. That's more of a mom.

[David Koechner]

That's more of a really try to get it on.

[Kat]

My mom's flashlight is always on her phone. Hot to the test. Flashlights on every app is open. Brightness at maximum.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. My mom.

[Kat]

And then she's like, why is it slow?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, my mom's voicemail is. Hello?

[Kat]

That's like she's trapped in a well.

[Bobby Lee]

It's as if she was calling somebody.

[David Koechner]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's her. Yeah, but she doesn't know anything. But I, I, I use that a lot. The flash, the big flashlight.

[David Koechner]

Oh, you do?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, at night? Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. It's pitch black in my room.

[David Koechner]

I just bought flashlights.

[Bobby Lee]

What? You did?

[David Koechner]

Yeah. There was a four packet somewhere. Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

That's an old art. It's a handheld flashlight, that is.

[David Koechner]

I put them in one of the kids rooms. Like, what's that? Yeah. So now what I do is I hold the light up above their head and say, license and registration.

[Bobby Lee]

That's a fun game for the old man. Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

How did you guys meet? You guys met in Canada?

[David Koechner]

Oh, yes.

[Kat]

Okay, so when did we meet in Canada? Because I remember us meeting 2018. This actually was quite fun. So it was right after I moved to America. I got booked on the Great American Comedy Festival, and you were, like, the big headliner of that. Do you remember? It was in Nebraska and.

[David Koechner]

Oh, oh, oh, yes. Okay. In that one hall.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yes, yes.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah. And so it was like the. It was like the Johnny Carson Festival,

[David Koechner]

where Johnny Carson grew up in Nebraska.

[Kat]

Yeah. It was Johnny Carson's hometown. And it was such a fun, fun festival. And the shows were so good. But the thing was, they kept being like, okay, and then on this day in the morning, we're gonna go see Johnny Carson's childhood home. Did you go to that, too? Okay. So they bring us there, and we're all so excited. We're all jazzed. The whole comedy festival is like, it's Johnny Carson's childhood home. We're like, whoa. And so we get there, and it's, like, fully renovated.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, my God.

[Kat]

It's like, fully, like, fresh drywall and stuff like that. And we're walking around, and. And they're like. And then this is where Johnny slept. We think now it's closet, but. And then we're like, okay. And so. And it's like, obviously, of course you would do that. Like, at some point, it's like, someone's gonna update it. But it was. They had just really. And I don't know why I so much was picturing, like, Anne Frank's closet and then why I thought it was gonna be, like, preserved like this, like. And so they did, in the basement, have one. Like, the staircase, I think was preserved, and everyone could touch it, and it was very fun. I remember just being so shocked when we drove up, and it was just

[David Koechner]

like, a fully, like, very small house.

[Kat]

Finished house. Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

But 2018, I was up in Canada shooting. The Headhunter is calling with. What's his name? For 300.

[Kat]

Gerard Butler.

[Bobby Lee]

Gerard Butler, yeah. Love Jerry. Nice guy.

[David Koechner]

William Defo. I Was so excited.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

And he was so much fun, and I loved him. But anyway, I got cut from the movie.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you really get cut from the whole movie?

[David Koechner]

Problem. This script had two story lines.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

One about this daughter dying of cancer. And what about this guy who's a headhunter? And it's just amazing language. The guy that wrote it. What's his name there? A great writer.

[Kat]

Mark Williams.

[Bobby Lee]

Bill. Bill.

[David Koechner]

Bill Dubuque. Yeah, Bill Dubuque from St. Louis, Missouri. Anyway, the language was so good. It was so much fun. And so I was in the office portion of the movie because where we worked as a headhunter, but they decided to put all the. The energy toward this. His little girl dying of cancer, which is supposed to. He has to make this choice of do I want to work my ass off or do I want to spend time with my daughter? So it just didn't work. It was the first.

[Andrew Santino]

First time a tale as old as Tom. Oh, God.

[David Koechner]

My first director, who I.

[Kat]

Daughter is starving outside right now.

[Andrew Santino]

Do I want to go to work or.

[David Koechner]

I don't think he knew how to. To finesse the story lines together. I don't think he never directed before. And it's pretty.

[Andrew Santino]

Did you now.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you get a call like Larry on this one?

[David Koechner]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[David Koechner]

I was on a plane to go do a really terrible movie in Pennsylvania and I thought he was kidding.

[Bobby Lee]

Who called you?

[David Koechner]

The director?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, himself.

[David Koechner]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

And you thought it was kidding?

[David Koechner]

Yeah. I said, no, you're kidding.

[Bobby Lee]

And you got. Was it heartbreaking?

[David Koechner]

No, it's nothing you can do. The movie didn't play anyway. It just didn't work.

[Bobby Lee]

It didn't work.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So. But I got to work with Gerard and Willem to follow.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Those are the experience you take away.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then more importantly, I met selfish. So I would. I would. I'd been doing stand up for a couple years by then. I think when I start 2011. I think I started stand up with when I had my fifth kid because I said I should never be out of a job. And with stand up, you can just always go. Go work. Right. So thank goodness I did good because that's all I got right now. I mean, movies don't pay anything. I'm going to do five movies this year.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And yeah, I've done so many independent small movies. Right.

[David Koechner]

There's no money.

[Bobby Lee]

There's no money.

[David Koechner]

There's no money. You do them.

[Bobby Lee]

I. I had one that I was about to remember the. You know, about to do. And the money was okay.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And then, like, I did hair, you know, I went into wardrobe, you know, did the whole thing. And then as it's leading up. Up financing.

[David Koechner]

It went away.

[Bobby Lee]

It went away.

[David Koechner]

Same thing. I've had that happen two or three times. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And it's gone. And then you're like. And then it's like. Anyway, so continue.

[David Koechner]

No, no,

[Bobby Lee]

I'm not a great host.

[Kat]

Well, I. I wanted to ask.

[David Koechner]

So we.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know what's going on as

[Kat]

someone who very actively gets booked. Very talented actor when you're auditioning. Because I audition all the time. And then sometimes I. I'm like, whoa, I'm getting this. I better turn my ringer on. Better turn my flashlight on because I'm about to get this call and. Do you feel that way? Do you feel that way? And do you have one that you really, really thought you were gonna get and then it didn't go your way? Yes. Which one?

[David Koechner]

It was a movie. It's a disaster movie. And I prepared a lot for it.

[Bobby Lee]

Is it recent or. I wanna guess it.

[David Koechner]

You wanna guess it if you want to. It was not recent.

[Bobby Lee]

Twister.

[David Koechner]

No, no. It's a.

[Kat]

The day after.

[Andrew Santino]

Solid first guess.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

Y.

[Bobby Lee]

2011.

[David Koechner]

The end of Days type movie. And so zombies, Cusack. I'll give you one. So anyway, I go in and I prepare for this. This audition. And I killed it. And the director.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And the producer and two casting directors. All four stood up and gave me a standing ovation. Never, ever, ever happened.

[Bobby Lee]

Booked it.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And so I called my agent, CAA at the time. I said, I got this. He goes, they just offered it to Woody Harrelson. So now we know why they gave me that standing ovation. Like, here's what you get.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I said, 2011. It's 2012. I'm so sorry.

[Andrew Santino]

Not a movie.

[Bobby Lee]

I saw the prequel. Yeah. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But so to answer your question, yes.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And that's. So I. That's.

[Bobby Lee]

It was this movie.

[David Koechner]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Didn't get it.

[Bobby Lee]

I. I. Can I be. He's great in it. He plays a madman.

[David Koechner]

He's in the motorhome.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. He's a madman.

[Kat]

Do you not feel sour? I would. I would boycott this movie forever if

[David Koechner]

that happened to myself.

[Andrew Santino]

I think a couple people did. Honestly, I love it.

[Bobby Lee]

I love it.

[Andrew Santino]

You did?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. As disaster movies go, it was very good.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay.

[Kat]

Yeah. I love a disaster movie.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. It makes no sense. Like, the first. The first 20 minutes, it's all CG.

[Andrew Santino]

Nice.

[Bobby Lee]

Right?

[David Koechner]

I can't remember that's how much. That's how unimpressed it was. So it wouldn't have made. It wouldn't have made a difference in my career. It would have been some more money because there was a studio movie and you could have met some cool people and all that stuff. But there's always more.

[Kat]

Do you have the other direction, too? Like, did you have an audition that you felt, like, went really bad and then you did get it?

[David Koechner]

I can't remember.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I have empathy for your generation of comics because, you know, we grew up when you could get a big movie and people would see it and would get a theatrical release. Even comedies, you know, right now, you don't see comedy.

[David Koechner]

There aren't any.

[Bobby Lee]

There aren't any.

[David Koechner]

There aren't any.

[Andrew Santino]

There aren't any.

[Bobby Lee]

They're not gonna make any money on the box office.

[David Koechner]

Well, because they only want the global money. They want the global money. The American box office would come through. Or Netflix, but they only want the global dollars.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, but you're also competing against online comedy, right? Yeah. I mean. I mean, you two puppies, you know, me falling off a little bridge or whatever is as funny as. That was a bad analogy. You know what I mean? But, like, you know what I mean?

[Andrew Santino]

Well, what I. What I heard, one of the reasons that the comedies aren't doing as well is the loss of, like, DVDs, because a lot of comedies would make a ton of their money. They would do okay in the box office, but would make a killing.

[Kat]

I used to love buying comedy on dvd.

[Andrew Santino]

Yes. Oh, Napoleon Dynamite, you know, something. You know, whatever. It explodes on dvd.

[David Koechner]

Thanks for picking something.

[Kat]

I had.

[Andrew Santino]

I was, well, you know, anchorman.

[Kat]

So many DVDs. I had, like, one of those big. It was like, an album.

[Bobby Lee]

I had that, too. I had that, too. I had. I had a porn one, too. Oh, yeah? I had a porn one. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

[Kat]

For porn DVDs, do they have the,

[Bobby Lee]

like, old ladies that would be.

[Kat]

Do they have the menu page? I'm so curious.

[Bobby Lee]

What do you mean other chapters?

[Kat]

Like, you know, Heather, sometimes they'll have, like, a funny, like, menu scene where you can, like, pick through, like, director's commentary. Yeah. Sometimes you fall asleep at a sleepover and it's running, and then it's, like, drilled in your brain forever.

[Andrew Santino]

Scar, you're like, oh, I didn't realize, like, she had a British accent.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Oh, she's fancy. That's so funny. And so, Yeah, I loved DVDs and comedy movies on. That's such a Good point. That was like, such a good avenue.

[David Koechner]

And salary profit's gone.

[Andrew Santino]

Yes, but.

[David Koechner]

So. So it's either, you know, Netflix or nothing.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.

[Kat]

But does Netflix release stuff to theaters or.

[David Koechner]

No, No. I mean, maybe. Maybe. I can't say no emphatically, but that's not their typical route.

[Kat]

No, of course. Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

They try to do limited theater releases, I think, because they still want to get. In order to get awards, you have to release for like, 30 days in a theater.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

Like a month or something.

[David Koechner]

But that window's even closer.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, it's. It's getting smaller. And it's like.

[Kat]

Because you would think, like, everyone in the world has Netflix, so you would think that the, like, global sale. I'm sure the deals are different for streamer versus theatrical, but it's like, you would think that if something is released on Netflix, it does have the capacity to be seen by everybody in the same way.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Anyway, I was going back to what I was talking about earlier.

[Andrew Santino]

Two puppies falling off.

[David Koechner]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Lee]

This is called Picture. I'm sorry, sorry, I went on a tangent.

[Andrew Santino]

I get the reference.

[Bobby Lee]

You got the reference? Yeah, yeah. Not a bridge, but, you know, they're just slow, you know, falling down a hill or whatever. Is that better?

[David Koechner]

Who was.

[Kat]

He fell down a hill again recently? Jay Leno.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, Jay Leno. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

He fell.

[Kat]

Rest in peace.

[Bobby Lee]

And he would always. He's still alive.

[Andrew Santino]

Poor little.

[Kat]

Out for Jay.

[Bobby Lee]

He's at the store all the time.

[Kat]

But anyway, I just saw him there.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, well, then you're not dead then.

[David Koechner]

But that's where we met in Canada in 2018. Just to wrap that one up. Just to wrap that one up. Just to wrap that one up. To wrap that one up. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Today is art. Yeah. It's pure.

[Kat]

That's five Kids. That's five Kids brain. You bring it back.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, you brought it back.

[David Koechner]

The thing that you remembered was that we did the Great American Comedy Festival. And I remember. Oh, we met. And I remember. Oh, we also did that small room that night.

[Kat]

Yes.

[David Koechner]

And I tagged one of your jokes.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Wasn't too bad.

[Kat]

I probably still do it.

[David Koechner]

I don't remember.

[Kat]

I love Attack. I love. Some comics get really offended when other people give them. I love getting attacks.

[David Koechner]

No, no, no. After you were off stage.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

I mean, just like, bring it back up. Just get. It's a selfish way to get a laugh. Like. Well, that's gotta laugh. I'll take something from it, too. But I'd like To expand upon it? Not just.

[Kat]

No, I think it was the. The come. The cum rag joke, probably because, well, I was. I've been closing with that for. For, like, since I've been in America. And so it. I do think if someone goes up, like, right. Right after me, it's. It's kind of so graphic that you almost have to say something.

[David Koechner]

Was it. Was it something to do with your boyfriend? Probably at the time. I can't remember.

[Kat]

Probably.

[Bobby Lee]

You're married now.

[Kat]

I'm engaged.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, good.

[David Koechner]

Congrats.

[Bobby Lee]

Congratulations.

[David Koechner]

We. We all wouldn't. We all wouldn't do that. That other room.

[Kat]

One at a time, please.

[David Koechner]

Anyway, yes, it was a fun time. And I. I don't. I don't. Have you seen the other kids that did the comedy festival?

[Kat]

Okay. So I didn't realize when I got there.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh.

[Kat]

Oh, wow.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Let me see if I've heard of any. No, no, there was.

[Kat]

Yeah, I remember.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah, I know.

[Kat]

So there also was a guy that we met that was so nice, and he was so funny. Adam Jenser. And we got along really well, and he was like, so nice and so funny. And then later we became friends on Facebook and I didn't realize he was like, one of the big Gutfeld comment comics. Like, he's like one of the main guys that goes on Gutfeld. And I remember being so like, whoa, this is America. Because, like, in Canada, our most conservative politicians are left of Joe Biden. And so, like. And I was like, whoa, I met a Gutfeld person.

[David Koechner]

Wow.

[Kat]

It's real. And I mean, he's just. He's also just a comic. Like, comics are mostly all kind of in the same range, but I remember being very, like, shocked by that.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah. Bad choice.

[Kat]

Have you guys watched Gut Felt?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

I love.

[Bobby Lee]

I hate it. I hate it too.

[Kat]

I'll put it on. I'll put it on. If I'm, like, on the road and I'm in the hotel room and got felt on, I'll put it on. Just to be like, what are they doing?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I hate it. Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

It's crazy.

[Bobby Lee]

Or the Five. I don't like.

[Kat]

What's the five?

[Bobby Lee]

It's another thing. But anyway, can we just go back to.

[David Koechner]

No.

[Kat]

What's the five?

[David Koechner]

It's another show on Fox.

[Bobby Lee]

It's another show on Fox where they think they're funny. Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

Why are you so scared of the Five? What? What?

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, we're not scared. I'm not afraid of anything.

[David Koechner]

It's just. It's the different point of view.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a different point of view.

[Kat]

Your dad said if you watch the Five.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. You watch five, I kill you. Oh, you're willing to do it. The accent. I love that.

[Kat]

He was doing the eyes earlier, before you walked in there. I saw him.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. So what I was going to say, because I didn't forget, you know, is I just have empathy for you guys in a little bit, because you don't have the same road maps that we had. You know, I mean, that was sort of set in stone. You know what I mean? You do this, you do that, you

[David Koechner]

do this, and then, you know, maybe something else.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. And then the excitement of, like, you're on hold for a series regular on a show or you're gonna test for this pilot every year. You know what I mean? And that excitement, you don't really have. And I think that both of you are good examples of two young people that would have gotten that every year.

[Kat]

That's very nice of you to say, but I do want to point out that I've actually been doing stuff stand up since longer than you. I started in 2009, and so I actually was. I could have had.

[Bobby Lee]

Because you were.

[Andrew Santino]

That whole point did not work for her.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, But I'll tell you what, on her case, in her case. But she was in Canada for most of that time.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I knew. In America.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And they're not. And Canada, I just have to say, in terms of the structure there. Is unfair.

[Kat]

Yeah. No, you don't.

[Bobby Lee]

Is unfair. I think.

[Kat]

No, it's.

[Bobby Lee]

They don't. You guys get.

[Kat]

It's just really small and it's. Everybody consumes American media, and so there's not really like a push for Canadian made stuff. We don't have, like, a star system or anything.

[David Koechner]

Right.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Right. Although if you're making a movie in Canada, there has to be a certain quota for Canadian actors.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

A certain number. Right.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you get in on that or. No, no, no, I did not.

[Kat]

I did not.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, how do you guys.

[Kat]

I auditioned. I auditioned.

[Bobby Lee]

What's the path now for you guys? You think, well, first, what's the goal?

[Kat]

Step one, I do tiger belly. Step two, disaster movie.

[Bobby Lee]

Y. Yeah.

[Andrew Santino]

2011. Yeah, it's. It's definitely, I think, like, post clips and podcast stuff. Like, there really is, like, not a clear structure of. You kind of have to do it yourself, I think.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Kat]

Yeah. I think that the thing is, coming from Canada, I feel like there's so many paths and it's like coming from Canada where it's so limited. I do come here and I am like, oh, there's a million opportunities. There's a million different paths that you take. If you don't get something that you're up for that you thought you were going to get, there's five other ways you could go to still get where you're trying to be. Like, it's so different that I feel like it's just like electric and everyone always talking about how, like, Hollywood's dead. But it's like, compared to Canada, especially right now, it's like, it's. The opportunities are endless.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, you're a paid regular now, right?

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Congratulations.

[Kat]

Thank you.

[Bobby Lee]

When did you get past?

[Kat]

A couple months ago.

[Bobby Lee]

That's amazing. How'd you feel when you got passed at the class?

[Kat]

I felt really good. I felt really good. And I think that like, part of like kind of starting your career over when you come. Because I had already been doing stand up for like 2009, 10, 12 years when I moved to America, and, yeah, I guess longer than that. And so a lot of, like, professional Canadian comics don't want to move to America because you have to restart. You have to start over. You have to do open mics, you have to do the three minute sets, you have to do kind of all these things that, like, when you've established yourself so much in Canada, it's kind of embarrassing. It's kind of a hit to your ego. But I'm. I'm down to do that. Like, I don't care. And so the work.

[David Koechner]

Right.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah. And so. And you do move through it a lot faster than you did the first

[David Koechner]

time because you're good now.

[Kat]

But it is, it is kind of hard on the ego, I think, for a lot of people. And so it was like very, it was very gratifying because I did, like, show up and you have to, like, hang out and there's like a lot of like, steps to getting past at the Comedy Store that are different than other comedy clubs.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And I think a lot of people, like, are just. Would not be down to, to do that.

[Bobby Lee]

It's tough.

[Kat]

But I don't mind. I don't mind. Like, I, you know, I'm a part of. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

See opportunity.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So, Dave, you're doing dates now?

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Like last year I did 50 weekends. Five kids. Five kids. Wow. Five kids.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, it's hard.

[David Koechner]

I can't imagine. Plus alimony.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. My rule is two weekends a month and that's it, you know, so it's

[David Koechner]

like, are you playing theaters or clubs right now?

[Bobby Lee]

I'm doing a theater run.

[David Koechner]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

For you. So this thing. Plus you got this thing which is amazing. Amazing, right.

[Bobby Lee]

So you're doing 50 dates last year.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. I don't know how many I have. This year I'm gonna do a military tour of first time.

[Bobby Lee]

That's great.

[David Koechner]

Is that me?

[Bobby Lee]

That's you.

[David Koechner]

Okay. So what's not up there is August 5 through 15. I'm going to five places in Turkey and the Middle East.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Because I'm gonna pick up a gun and get at it and.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

What did I. I was just gonna

[Kat]

solve all their troubles.

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Now, do you, I mean, kill babies? Is this something that you like doing?

[David Koechner]

I'm grateful that it's there.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I remain in gratitude.

[Kat]

So. Not really an answer.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

[David Koechner]

First of all, wait a minute. You gotta go do your thing. You make people laugh. But I. It's not, you know, look, it's an opportunity. You get better every time you go up on stage. I believe.

[Kat]

I think if you're doing 50 weekends a year, you have to enjoy the road.

[David Koechner]

Oh, yeah. To me, I. I don't let it bother me. And plus I'm. I'm honestly just grateful that it exists because, you know, you've got a guaranteed income.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. So are there rough shows for you ever? Like Friday night, second shows? I have a hard time.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Those are nightmares.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. They can't.

[Kat]

That's everybody.

[Bobby Lee]

That's. There's not. Yeah, that's a rule.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

That's. That's hardened.

[David Koechner]

So you just know you're going to, you're just going to push, push, push.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Like you're, you know, the show quit, quit, quit.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, that's what I do.

[Kat]

Everybody such comics that I'm sure it's like when John Mulaney selling out the like hundred thousand seat thing, like does it for a few night. I'm sure he's like, ah, the Thursday show was better.

[Bobby Lee]

You know what I mean?

[Kat]

Like, I'm sure everybody has that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. But there's never been a Friday night second show and went. That went well ever.

[David Koechner]

Sometimes they do.

[Kat]

You're never like, can I get the tape of that?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's nothing going in the real. No, I, I've always. No, it's always like, oh, that was a. Not that the audience didn't have a good time.

[Andrew Santino]

Time.

[Bobby Lee]

But it was like I could tell myself, I could feel that in my body. Like I worked Harder there, right? Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Well, you have to. Yeah. They're tired. They're now really tired. It's the Late Show. They've been drinking longer, so the focus is gone and you're the headliner. So there's been one or two people going up already. So they've had more drinks since they got there. So, you know, they're focusing in between.

[Bobby Lee]

This is fun. This is fun.

[Kat]

Do you eat between early show and Late Show?

[Bobby Lee]

So this is what I do.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

What do you do? I.

[Kat]

When I do eat, it makes the Late show worse.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, really?

[Kat]

I think so.

[Bobby Lee]

In between shows.

[Kat]

If I eat in between the shows, the Late show is worse. And I think that it's like, people always talk about, like, oh, hungry artist, whatever. I think it's. It's not about specifically, like, suffering and whatever. I think it's like your brain is maybe a little bit sharper.

[Bobby Lee]

Here's my problem with that, though. So can I. My problem with that. My problem with that is, is that what happens is if you wait until after the second show, your options of eating is lower. Right. So you have to factor that into the whole.

[Kat]

Of course I'm factoring that in. But it's.

[Bobby Lee]

But you're talking about Taco Bell and, like.

[David Koechner]

Or you'd have the kitchen make you something.

[Bobby Lee]

That's a true thing.

[Kat]

Yeah. You could have the worst steak in the world.

[David Koechner]

So it's always chicken finger.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Or jalapeno popper.

[David Koechner]

Like, I don't want to eat diet.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, I know, I know. We at least late.

[Kat]

No, it's so hard to get to be, like, healthy eating on the road. Do you guys have, like, healthy? Because Wendy's has a baked potato that I feel like nobody talks about.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah. I don't know the first person talk about it.

[Kat]

What do you mean? Is that healthy?

[Andrew Santino]

A baked potato?

[Kat]

Yeah, that's healthy.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I don't know if it's.

[Kat]

What's healthy to you?

[Andrew Santino]

A salad or something?

[Bobby Lee]

Is it organic?

[Andrew Santino]

A chicken breast? Chicken breast sandwich.

[David Koechner]

Broccoli.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah, broccoli.

[Kat]

So what I do, I'll make potato tulsi.

[Andrew Santino]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know what I do.

[David Koechner]

Wow. She got her Canadian hackle, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, they have it.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. Let's see the macro. Break down the macro.

[Kat]

I would love to see. I would love to see.

[Bobby Lee]

They don't list it.

[David Koechner]

First of all, it's $3.

[Andrew Santino]

No, they do go down, go down,

[Kat]

go down, go down.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh, 70. Not bad.

[David Koechner]

You just only have potato.

[Andrew Santino]

Not a lot of sodium.

[Kat]

I'm not putting, like, sour cream.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. Seven grams of protein.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Andrew Santino]

This is very. This is very Irish.

[Kat]

Potatoes are good for you. Yeah, that's if they're not deep fried.

[Bobby Lee]

All right, Carbs. So what I would do was I would get three of those.

[David Koechner]

Oh, Jesus.

[Bobby Lee]

In an emergency situation. I'm being real.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I would rather have that than Waffle House 100.

[David Koechner]

Waffle House is so good.

[Bobby Lee]

I know it's good, but it's going to kill you. Yeah, well, yeah. So this is what I. Can I tell you what I do. Please, may I? Please?

[David Koechner]

I'd love to hear.

[Bobby Lee]

So I do ninja. Ninja technique.

[Andrew Santino]

Grab the cake, rip it off.

[Bobby Lee]

Just listen to my. My technique, right? What I try to do is this, is that I tell the manager, I go book me, just me, right into the fanciest place you have around here. I don't care how long it is. As soon as I get off stage, we go into the car, right? And get me to, like, the best steakhouse in town or whatever. Right. And sometimes I try to drift away from my openers. Yeah. So I don't have to pay for them either. Yeah, yeah. Because it's like, I have to pay. You know me. It's like a lot of money.

[Kat]

And they're so trying to tail. You really have to.

[Bobby Lee]

Have to shake.

[Kat]

You're doing crazy.

[Bobby Lee]

Shake them off.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

But then sometimes they. Everyone does come, like on tour, you know, I mean, and then all of a sudden. Because you guys come too, right? And then sometimes. Sometimes what happens is you have friends of friends that show up.

[David Koechner]

Oh, boy.

[Bobby Lee]

Right? And at the end of then. And then all of a sudden, like, oh, I'm Papa, right? I'm Papa. And I have to pay for all.

[Kat]

Now you're catering.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm catering. Yeah, yeah. And all of a sudden the bill comes out. It's like, you know, I mean, over a thousand. Yeah, right. And then you're like, oh, well, I broke even this weekend. Yeah, I broke even this weekend. Right.

[David Koechner]

He doesn't pay his taxes.

[Kat]

I remember. I. So I have a cousin who is four years younger than me. She's very much a little sister to me. We grew up together, you know, we both moved to Vancouver at the same time. Like, it was. We're very close, but because I'm older than her, I always would pay for lunches and dinners and stuff like that when we'd hang out. I remember this one time I was really low on cash and we were. We were at a sushi place and she was like, can I get appetizer.

[Bobby Lee]

Aw.

[Kat]

And I remember just being like, yeah, just absolutely bankruptcy. I'm sure my card got declined. You had not realized how big of a question that was.

[Bobby Lee]

That was a big question.

[Kat]

You can't say no. It's like, if someone's saying, can I get out? You can't be like, no.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, you can.

[Kat]

Well, now I know.

[Bobby Lee]

And I have, like, we're at a restaurant recently, and I made an announcement because of this guy, right? To make an announcement, I go, you can get anything on the menu except for this specific thing. Because if I don't say that, he's going to order it.

[Kat]

And really, you just have expensive taste.

[Bobby Lee]

No, he just wants to take advantage.

[Kat]

Just vip.

[Bobby Lee]

More of a quantity. Of a quantity.

[Andrew Santino]

I'm always really hesitant if I know someone's going to pay for my bill. I'm always. You never want to be the first person. You got to wait to see what everyone else is ordering to, like, get a price range. Like, okay, this person, he's getting a drink, so I'm. I can get a drink. Or blah, blah, blah. This person's already. If you're. Are you just jumping straight out of the boat? Wagu Market.

[Bobby Lee]

It has before.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah. If it's a market price. Are you getting a market price? Price item. That seems crazy.

[Bobby Lee]

You have before.

[Kat]

Oh, market price is crazy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Oh, it's always that. Yeah. Crab legs. MP. What? Whatever. MP. I'll take the MP. Yeah. And I ask, what's the MP? I always ask.

[David Koechner]

Oh, I see.

[Kat]

Couple MVPs in the House.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

So can we go back to the dates so we can promote David?

[David Koechner]

Oh, thank you.

[Kat]

Absolutely.

[David Koechner]

So just Instagram or what? What's the other ones? Facebook. Facebook. David Keckner. I was already losing my hair. I was. I was probably 27.

[Andrew Santino]

Is that Second City?

[Bobby Lee]

Second City days with dull clothes.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Yeah. Yep. IO.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, IO.

[David Koechner]

Looking at a chin.

[Andrew Santino]

Did you. Did you. With losing the hair? Did you kind of own it? And we're like, yeah, this is going to be my look. I feel like guys now panic about losing.

[David Koechner]

Yeah, yeah. No. When I got Saturday Night Live, before you were born crazy. Lorne Michaels. Like, dave, what are we going to

[Andrew Santino]

do with your hair?

[David Koechner]

And they listed all these people that have plugs or hair pieces. I'm like. And I. I was pretty much close to bald. Way past this. And I was like, oh, my goodness. Is he telling me to get a hairpiece?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

So I'm like, I can't. My Chicago buddies will kill me.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

My family will like, what are you doing? Yeah, so that's. That's a wig on my bald head.

[Kat]

Whole thing is they do wigs all the time.

[David Koechner]

Time.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Koechner]

But no, he was. He was talking about me getting a wig as. Just for my regular life. David, you're going to be on TV now, so it's your choice.

[Bobby Lee]

Did you get along with Norm?

[David Koechner]

Oh, yeah, we loved it.

[Bobby Lee]

I love Norm.

[David Koechner]

He was very sweet.

[Bobby Lee]

I loved him.

[David Koechner]

He was very sweet.

[Bobby Lee]

What a sweet man.

[David Koechner]

I'm playing his brother here, Gary McDonald.

[Bobby Lee]

That's so fun.

[David Koechner]

This one. He just. I used to do this character called Jokey who always goes, no, you know, people aren't. Know they're not funny, but they can't help it. They have to try to be funny.

[Andrew Santino]

They.

[David Koechner]

They go, no, like, I wasn't really trying to make a joke. And I've tried to make it work on stage so many times. But you have to explain it. I remember once being at the improv here in town, and I just written it that day and, like, half the audience was getting it or maybe a quarter, and someone literally said, what's going on? What's going on? Because some people were getting it.

[Kat]

The thing is, that's good. I feel like that's what you want with some bits. Like when you're doing your hour, I do feel like a quarter of it should be that. Where half of the room is, like, connecting with it and half of the people are like, what's going on?

[David Koechner]

Then you realize, like, I need these words to get them to this griddle.

[Kat]

What.

[David Koechner]

What's going on?

[Kat]

What's going on now?

[David Koechner]

Because that means I haven't set the piece up for the people that are less, you know, capable of understanding.

[Kat]

I think write the joke as. As you intend it to be received. And if half the audience gets it, those are your core people, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Do you guys. Do you guys tell the audience you're about to do a new joke, or did you just do it?

[David Koechner]

I. Sometimes. Or I'll say, here's a bit I haven't done forever, but you guys seem like you're down for it. I'll say, this is a rough one or something like that. Sometimes, yeah, it's.

[Kat]

I know what you mean. Where it's kind of annoying when. When they're like, oh, it's just new stuff. And then it's like you don't really, like, try, but I think. I think I will once in a while if it's like a really touchy subject or something, because you're kind of playing with fire. But you have to try it at some point. And so it's like kind of cowardly. But I will do it.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm used to. Now this is the first time in my life. I've been doing it forever. I'm really used to. I did my new joke night at the Belly Room last night and I had two in a row, new ones that got not just nothing, but it was as if no one was in the room.

[Kat]

No. Sometimes they look at you like they don't even know that a joke was attempted.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's what it was.

[David Koechner]

They're waiting. They're waiting for the joke to come up. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

They thought it was a setup, but I. But I already done the punchline.

[Kat]

No. It's so crazy. That happens to me all the time where I deal and then it's like they're not even like defiantly not laughing. They don't even know that. That I want them to laugh.

[Bobby Lee]

Exactly, exactly.

[Andrew Santino]

That's.

[Bobby Lee]

But it was two of those and one of them was a pretty long setup. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I. Before, as I was. As a younger man, I would. It would have been. Been like really devastating. But this time it's been like I just have to do it right.

[Kat]

Well, you have to try it.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I did my special right. It comes out in November. Hulu, check it out. But it's like hopefully not on one

[David Koechner]

of my nights

[Bobby Lee]

and I, you know, I'm starting over and I just have to do it.

[Kat]

You should sell your special on dvd.

[Bobby Lee]

That's a good idea. That's a good idea. I wonder if you can do that.

[Kat]

And I'll take a really reasonable percent.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, okay. Two percent, maybe. Two percent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So David will be in August.

[David Koechner]

I am going to like doing my military tour. And then we're up. I can't even see it.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm so August 20th, the 22nd, he's going to be at the Royce Social hall at the Tropicano Casino and Resort, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Buy tickets there.

[David Koechner]

Playing a casino.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. He's also going to be doing two nights. Yeah, that's big.

[David Koechner]

Then Looney Bin in Tulsa. What do we got here? I can't see.

[Bobby Lee]

August 28th to the 29th, 2026, the looney bin in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And then September 11th and 12th, he'll be there at the. Just, just. I don't want to rattle them off. Off. Just go to his website.

[David Koechner]

Yes, yeah, website or Instagram.

[Bobby Lee]

And check it out.

[David Koechner]

Follow the links.

[Bobby Lee]

Go watch our old Friend, David Koechner. He was amazing today and he's always amazing. You're sweet. And it was really fun working with you that day.

[David Koechner]

It was fun. That was really fun. Because we never done before.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And so. And we started pretty.

[Bobby Lee]

I played a Chinaman.

[David Koechner]

What year did you.

[Bobby Lee]

Thick Chinese accent. You know that, right? Huh? Well, that's what I played.

[David Koechner]

That's what I played.

[Kat]

I mean, this is a podcast and so you do get to do one slur. That is.

[Andrew Santino]

We're weaning off the slurs.

[Kat]

Yeah. But one is. One is within reason.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

What year did you do MAD TV?

[Bobby Lee]

I went. I was from 2000 to 2008.

[David Koechner]

Okay. Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Nice.

[David Koechner]

Eight year run.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I did an eight year on. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Nice.

[Kat]

No taxes, remember?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Which is we. I irs. I paid it. We're all good, right? Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I got SNL in 95, so I remember like all the people, the sketch shows that were happening at that time and who's.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, who's right?

[David Koechner]

You know?

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I have a feeling that you guys didn't like us.

[David Koechner]

I didn't. Well, the thing is, it was the first night there was competition. First time there's been competition. Competition. It wasn't about like or not. Yeah. Like, I think to me, honestly, there's more opportunities for comedy. Do you know, I, I, I almost got MAD TV that year in 95.

[Andrew Santino]

Wow.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. But then I was kind of like SNL. I had a great audition for MAD TV and then Lauren got wind of it. And so that, that helped. That helped, that helped my chances, I think.

[Kat]

But was there animosity? Were they like, was it like a ratings battle?

[David Koechner]

No, they took away ratings from SNL for. Because then also Howard Stern had his late night show.

[Bobby Lee]

That's right. That's right.

[David Koechner]

That's right. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

Whoa.

[Kat]

That's so juicy. I never thought about that.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. So it's the first time there had been competition.

[Andrew Santino]

That was the 95 cast.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Wow. You would have been a part of that. Yep. Yeah. Good cast.

[David Koechner]

Who would have been. Who wouldn't have made it?

[Bobby Lee]

Orlando Jo. I think they could have added one. Yeah, yeah, he did 19 count. I remember that. Okay. So. Wow. Amazing. What featured, who was featured? Craig Anton.

[David Koechner]

Oh, I love Anton.

[Bobby Lee]

One episode. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

He's in Atlanta now or Savannah, so we're teaching.

[Bobby Lee]

Really?

[David Koechner]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I love Craig Anton a lot.

[David Koechner]

He was so good.

[Bobby Lee]

He's so funny.

[David Koechner]

Oh, my.

[Bobby Lee]

What a great guy. Yeah, we're talking about the old.

[Kat]

Do you guys have a favorite writer on SNL Yeah. And Mad tv.

[Andrew Santino]

Oh.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[David Koechner]

Well, yeah.

[Kat]

Isn't a big part of it like having a writer that really, like, writes for you? Isn't that a big part?

[David Koechner]

Well, everyone's got the same thing. Like, you just got to get something on.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

And if you can get the thing across the finish line, great. I mean, I would. I would typically get. So you do the table read on.

[Andrew Santino]

On.

[David Koechner]

On. On Wednesday, and I would typically get eight sketches out of 20, and will would get 12 or 15. You put will in the thing, it's probably going to go.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[David Koechner]

But like, Adam McKay, he and I started the same year, and we were at Second City together. And then Norm Hiscock, Canadian, who was the head writer for Kids in the hall, he and I got really close and we wrote some stuff together, too. So.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, my favorite writers are ones that I don't have resentment toward,

[David Koechner]

like Colton

[Bobby Lee]

Dunn, you know, Katie Dippold, you know, we had some really good ones, and they have a show now called Widow's Bay on Apple.

[Kat]

I watched it all.

[Andrew Santino]

I watched the whole thing, too.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Loved it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. It's an amazing show.

[Kat]

Favorite people now.

[Bobby Lee]

It's funny show. It's a funny show, but it's kind of horror as well.

[Kat]

A bunch of comics in there, too.

[Bobby Lee]

Bunch of comics.

[Kat]

It's so funny. The dialogue is so good. It's.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. It's, I think, a great show.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. There's a lot of good shows out right now.

[Andrew Santino]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Let's move on. Any shows.

[Andrew Santino]

Any other shows you got to promote?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Any other things you want to promote?

[David Koechner]

Not that I'm just.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm doing st. Did you have fun here?

[David Koechner]

Of course I did. Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

I laughed so hard today.

[David Koechner]

It's lovely to see you again.

[Bobby Lee]

It was good to see you.

[David Koechner]

I like that. I. I'm glad that we were both so looking forward to working together, but we both got cut from the sketch together, so.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You know, but that's. But, you know, here's the thing. It's like the experience of being out there. I remember sitting there and, you know, Larry David was to my. Right. Right. And he was going, I know I would do a bad impression, but he's like, how's things going? You're doing well. You know, and just having a conversation with him and just thinking to myself, you know what? This is great.

[David Koechner]

Yeah. Yes. And we're asked is a very, very small cast.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[David Koechner]

There's only six episodes.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And we were asked to do it. Yeah.

[David Koechner]

I mean, that's one of those things. You want.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And you just going, this is just a moment you should cherish.

[David Koechner]

Yep.

[Bobby Lee]

I remember that I talked about this before, but I remember the last sitcom I was on. Right. It got canceled. And I remember it was splitting up together. And I remember the last day touching the furniture on the set and just like, looking at the back walls and just going, cuz this could be my last one. Cuz I could see the tides turning,

[Andrew Santino]

touching the furniture, and they're like, hey, don't touch that.

[Bobby Lee]

You're fired.

[Andrew Santino]

I chimed in a little too much,

[Bobby Lee]

I think, thinking about it now. All right, good. Good ending. Give dav. Hey, I'm Andrew Santino. And I'm Bobby Lee. And we made something completely insane. We took celebrities, we put them in my mom's basement, we throw trivia at

[Andrew Santino]

them, we hit them with absurd challenges. And then just when they think they know what's happening, we blow the whole thing apart.

[Bobby Lee]

Nobody knows the rules. We barely know the rules. It's chaos.

[David Koechner]

It's comedy.

[Bobby Lee]

It's the bad Game show.

[Andrew Santino]

New episodes drop every Wednesday.

[Bobby Lee]

Watch on the Bad Friends YouTube channel

[Andrew Santino]

or on the Bad Game show feed on Spotify Video. Follow, subscribe, watch, share, play along, have fun.