Ken Marino & David Wain w/ Mark Normand & Sam Morril - We Might Be Drunk Podcast

Summary

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We Might Be Drunk – June 29, 2026

Guests: Ken Marino & David Wain
Hosts: Mark Normand & Jonah Ray (substituting for Sam Morril)

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Episode Overview

This lively, joke-packed episode brings together acclaimed comedy writers/performers Ken Marino and David Wain (The State, Wet Hot American Summer, Party Down) with NYC comics Mark Normand and Jonah Ray. Set against the backdrop of a heatwave and Knicks playoff fever, the group dives into stories and advice about making movies and TV shows, the realities of the creative grind, NYC nostalgia, the biz of comedy, memorable muggings, and their hilarious upcoming film, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. The tone is loose, quick-witted, and full of inside stories both comedic and honest, blending industry talk, NYC history, and relentless riffing.

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Main Discussion Points & Highlights

NYC, Knicks, & Sports-Fueled Chaos

• Knicks Playoffs Mania:

  • The episode kicks off with Mark and Jonah recounting the high-stakes Knicks playoff series, brawls in Bryant Park, Trump’s impact on security, and the “movie-like” atmosphere in the city.
  • (00:34) Jonah shares his wild trip to game one in San Antonio with Shane Gillis ("We had a crew. My boy Chase was there. We pounding white claws on the way. Shane's...it's a good sports drink." - Jonah Ray)
  • Vexation with referees, especially Mark Davies, and how personal connections (his son being a Josh Safdie fan) might bleed into game calls.
  • Knicks Fans vs. Spurs Fans:
    • Descriptions of the camaraderie and tension among traveling Knicks faithful and local die-hards.

• Referee Heckling & Game Drama:

  • (03:14) Referee Mark Davies gives filmmaker Josh Safdie a card for his son, sparking speculation about bias.
  • (05:23) Playful but pointed analogies about NBA “eugenics” and player dynasties ("It feels like Hitler would have loved this. Hitler would have been a Wemby fan, guys." – Jonah Ray)

Showbiz Process: Advice & Inside Stories

• Getting a Movie Made

  • Marino & Wain detail the arduous process of writing and getting a film off the ground—often a decade per project.
    • (18:13) "This one took about 10 years." – David Wain
  • Their disciplined first-draft method:
    • (19:10) "First two days we break the idea, second day outline, then the next five days, 20 pages a day." – Ken Marino
  • Critical pre-production advice:
    • (32:39) "Just make sure in pre-production that every...decision is made," and in editing, "Don't waver, stick to what you believe is funny." – Ken Marino
    • (33:06)"When you get to set, there's no time...do all your work, have every decision made." – David Wain

• Indie vs. Studio Films:

  • Wain explains the larger budget and time for studio films, but affirms the essence remains: "Ultimately, it's less different than I thought...you're still figuring it out on the day." – (33:31)

• NYC Comedy and Creative Career Paths

  • Early days, breaking into TV with The State (MTV), mixture of luck & timing ((36:39) “We were thrown into the deep end. We just learned as it was happening.” – Ken Marino)
  • On creative restlessness and side projects (“Most of them are not lucrative, but sometimes one is soul-fulfilling.” – David Wain)

Movie Talk, Nostalgia, & Industry Jokes

• Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

  • Plot: A Midwest woman with a celebrity sex pass is forced to even the score after her fiancé cashes in—leading her to pursue Jon Hamm.
  • (55:25) "She ends up in Los Angeles...goes on this journey, epic journey, to go find Jon Hamm and him." – David Wain
  • Cast features Zoe Deutsch, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Joe Lo Truglio, and more.
  • Bit about movie theater business and money (humorously inflated earnings):
    • (21:09) “I think that once people get a hold of this movie, it’s gonna make five to six billion dollars.” – Ken Marino

• Word-of-mouth Successes: Obsession, Party Down, Wet Hot American Summer

  • Power of “in the grooves”: make a good product and it will find an audience ((23:11) "It's in the grooves, meaning you can promote, promote, promote, but ultimately, it's got to be..." – David Wain)
  • Party Down COVID binge stories; the enduring cult status of their work.
  • Wet Hot American Summer’s legacy — profits only arrived 25 years later ((64:16) “I think we made a. We hit profit this year.” – David Wain)

• NYC 90’s Nostalgia

  • Comparing old and new NYC: seedy past, mugging stories, legendary bars/restaurants**(49:00+)**
  • Schtick about “gentleman mugging” (51:39), Venmo-savvy panhandlers (53:06), and how city toughness/new scams blend (“I had a hobo with Venmo recently.” – Mark Normand)

• Celebrity Encounters & Casting

  • Memorable collaborations: Henry Winkler, Alan Alda, Ed Begley Jr., Ernie Hudson, Eddie Murphy.
  • (79:38) Eddie Murphy stories: “He was like, super nice...when we got into conversations, he would just talk about stuff.”

• Techniques, Prep, and Editing

  • On the necessity of letting go in the edit:
    • (74:16) “It's hard. You gotta say goodbye to some of your babies.” – Ken Marino
    • (74:18) “Let it go for the whole.” – David Wain

High-Energy Bits & Quotable Moments

• Analogy overload: Comparing NBA playoff suspense to marital foreplay ((06:32) “You don't want to go right for the clit. Same with this.” – Mark Normand)

• Roasting & Impressions:

  • Burst out fake Seinfeld, Bill Burr, and Christopher Walken impressions by Ken Marino (76:18-76:39)
  • Riffing about Spuds MacKenzie, Air Bud’s cinematic greatness, and the sexual innuendo of 80s advertising dogs ((68:02) "Yeah, but he was getting puss." – Mark Normand)

• NYC Survival Tips:

  • Multiple mugging tales, reading situations with panhandlers, the art of retreat or confrontation.
  • “Sometimes that's fine.” – Ken Marino, after a story about being sodomized on the subway (54:46)

• On Creative Anxiety

  • (42:38) “After 40 years of working consistently, he (Marino) still is never sure if he’s going to have another job.” – David Wain
  • David Wain: fully zen about the unpredictability, Ken Marino: still nervous

• On Making Art for Love vs. Money

  • “We’re not making any on this movie.” – Ken Marino
  • “We never make any money. It doesn’t matter.” – David Wain

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Film Momentum:
  • "This one took about 10 years." – David Wain (18:14)
  • "Pre-production is super important. Do all your work, have every decision made." – Ken Marino (33:10)
• On Career Survival:
  • “Most of them are not lucrative, but sometimes one soul-fulfilling works out.” – David Wain (43:02)
• On Creative Nerves:
  • "He [Ken Marino] still is never sure if he’s going to have another job." – David Wain (42:38)
• On L.A. vs NYC:
  • Tales of mugging, both “gentlemanly” and otherwise (51:39-52:17)
  • “I had a hobo with Venmo recently.” – Mark Normand (53:03)
• On Word-of-Mouth:
  • “Party Down was kind of like that. That was like a word of mouth.” – Jonah Ray (23:31)
• On Resilience in Art:
  • "You believe in that movie and then you put it out there and then you wash your hands of the whole goddamn thing and walk away." – Ken Marino (32:29)
• On Editing Comedy:
  • "You gotta say goodbye to some of your babies." – Ken Marino (74:16)
  • "Let it go for the hole." – David Wain (74:19)
• On Showbiz Preparation:
  • "Before you start shooting, you won't have any time." – Ken Marino (53:43)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–09:00: Knicks playoff stories, sports-drinking rituals, and city-wide drama.
• 09:00–14:30: Guests arrive, riffing on fashion, band talk, and transition to film/TV process.
• 14:30–20:00: Screenwriting process, first drafts, obstacles, and rewrites.
• 20:00–29:00: Movie industry trends, indie film surge, and cult status (Obsession, Party Down).
• 29:00–36:00: Advice for aspiring filmmakers, crew/casting recommendations, technical plans.
• 36:00–43:30: Historical context—The State’s rise, NYC context, and the grind of creative survival.
• 43:30–53:00: NYC nostalgia & mugging tales, Venmo stories, classic spots.
• 53:00–60:00: Comedy, prepping a movie, fart science, riffing on hygiene, and undies.
• 60:00–70:00: Animal stars, jokes about Spuds MacKenzie, commercial culture, and famous faces.
• 70:00–78:00: Collaborations, legends encountered, celebrity stories, and favorite gigs.
• 78:00–82:00: Tour plug for Middle Aged Dad Jam Band, Wet Hot 25th anniversary.
• 82:00–86:10: Upcoming stand-up and European show dates.
• 86:10–close: Final plugs, Bodega Cat whiskey, fan engagement with venues.

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Final Thoughts

This episode stands out for its blend of rapid comedic exchange and heartfelt–yet practical–industry advice, but also as a celebration of resilience in the face of Hollywood’s unpredictability. Marino and Wain serve as both mentors and comic foils, while Mark and Jonah keep the dialogue grounded in the daily hustle of big-city comedy and creative ambition.
You'll walk away with a notebook of creative advice, a list of movie recommendations, a sense of how enduring NYC comedy is, and plenty of laughs.

Don’t miss:

• (32:29–33:25): The extended, wisdom-filled discussion on writing, prepping, and shooting a comedy film.
• (55:25–56:00): Hilarious summary of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.
• Assorted:
  • Riffs on mugging, Spuds MacKenzie, and why Wet Hot American Summer took 25 years to profit.

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Listen for: College comedy origin stories, advice every indie filmmaker needs, tales of NYC muggings, the agony and ecstasy of fandom, and the true value of working with your friends in showbiz.
Quotable energy: relentless, candid, free-association hilarity.

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Transcript

[Ken Marino]

Foreign.

[Mark Normand]

Hey. Hey, folks. Here we are. We're back. It's a sunny summer day out there in Manhattan. I'm sweating.

[Jonah Ray]

It's hot, buddy.

[Mark Normand]

I'm wearing all fabletics, top to bottom.

[Jonah Ray]

I love that stuff.

[Mark Normand]

Great stuff. Thank you.

[Jonah Ray]

I like free stuff.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. And this is better than anything I own. It's, like, nicely made, and there's no stains on it.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah. Wonder why it's so cheap.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

Good stuff.

[Mark Normand]

They're hooking it up.

[Jonah Ray]

I'm hurting, dude. I'm just like. This Nick series is taking years off my life. It's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

I know. I know. It's like a Shakespeare drama. The ups, the downs, the hate, the fighting, the joy. The city's a buzz. There was a brawl in Bryant park, by the way. Then the Trump stuff threw a wrench in it. It's like. This is like a movie. There's so many layers.

[Jonah Ray]

It took a long time to get into the arena because of the Trump stuff.

[Mark Normand]

I bet. Then he fell asleep.

[Jonah Ray]

I know.

[Mark Normand]

Tylenol pm, prime minister, dude.

[Jonah Ray]

It was. That was wild. I went to game one in San Antonio, flew down, text Shane Gillis. I was like, are you going tonight? And he goes, nah, the tickets are too expensive. I don't want to. And then he. Look, he's like, they just went down. I'm gonna go.

[Mark Normand]

Oh.

[Jonah Ray]

So he's like, come over. I'll get a party bus. We'll go together. Whoa. McCusker.

[Ken Marino]

Shane.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, Tommy Pope. We had a crew. My boy Chase was there. We pounding white claws on the way. Shane's. It's a good sports drink because they go down easy. It gets the buzz going. Then you can switch to something else.

[Mark Normand]

All right, all right. I'm a high noon, man.

[Jonah Ray]

It's all the same.

[Mark Normand]

One is vodka, one's malt liquor.

[Jonah Ray]

High noon is vodka.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. That's the beauty of it. It's a vodka. It's like an rtd. It's a vodka soda.

[Jonah Ray]

I didn't even know that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Yeah. I learned that the hard way, but.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, we. We're going down Shane's. He's blasting like New York state of mind. He's blasting like nas. You know, I like how he went

[Mark Normand]

from, I'm not spending any money to, I'll buy tickets and party bus. Yeah, those party buses aren't. Aren't cheap.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, it was pretty wild.

[Mark Normand]

I love it.

[Jonah Ray]

And that game was crazy. Spurs fans were pretty cool. Honestly. They're pretty respectful. They were fucking me a little bit. It was. It was playful.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. Somebody had the great tweet. Did you see that? When the Wemby and all the guys are walking into the arena out of the bus, one guy looks like this looks like the integration of schools. Because like the black kids and everybody's like, fuck you, bitch. Fuck you. All the way New York, Long island guys like, kill yourself, bitch. And they're like.

[Jonah Ray]

It was. It did feel like a bit of a works after the game. Everyone was cool, but there were some. All the Knicks fans kind of banded together. We're all like, high five. And then. And then a few. A few of those hardcore Latino fans are like, motherfucker, you better watch yourself. And like, we're all circling each other.

[Mark Normand]

That's great.

[Jonah Ray]

It was wild. But yeah, it was. It was an experience, man. I've never. I kept chickening out and I was like, it's now or never, man.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. You don't have to tell us what you spent, but was it more than 10?

[Jonah Ray]

No.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. More than five?

[Jonah Ray]

Let's. All right. The conversation, it was a lot.

[Mark Normand]

All right, well, you got no children or pets. You're fine. No roommates.

[Jonah Ray]

I got nothing.

[Mark Normand]

You got nothing.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, this is AI. This isn't real.

[Mark Normand]

You sure? Looks pretty real, real good for this guy. Hanging out.

[Ken Marino]

Not good.

[Jonah Ray]

You got. What are you doing, New Yorkers? Come on. Respect.

[Mark Normand]

We're not an open carry state.

[Jonah Ray]

If that's the referee, then you do it to the referee. Who? You don't do it to them. You want to hear some shit? Totally Josh Safdie. At the Knicks game, Mark Davies, the ref who fucked us in game three, walks over to him and hands him a card and goes, you're my son's favorite director. He's a filmmaker. So now I'm fucking. I know this about Mark Davies. I'm going to heckle his ass. Your kids work is derivative. He's a trash filmmaker, bro. Your son fucking sucks.

[Mark Normand]

He's a hefty. Yeah, you wish you were Josh. Damn, dude. Wow, that's great. Good for the kid. I have a favorite director. That's good. I guess he's in film school.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, he's in film.

[Mark Normand]

What is that?

[Jonah Ray]

Who cares?

[Mark Normand]

I'm just saying he screwed us.

[Jonah Ray]

We. We played like in game three, but we didn't play well enough.

[Mark Normand]

I thought it was pretty, pretty good.

[Jonah Ray]

There was some fucked up calls. They're protecting Wemby like a motherfucker.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, that neck throwdown was crazy.

[Jonah Ray]

Crazy that because he gets one more flag when he's suspended. So they're protecting him.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, interesting.

[Jonah Ray]

He's gotten too many.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

I mean, it's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

He's got no experience. He's a very good player, but he's very talented. He's too young and dumb. Although, you see that photo, him sketching

[Jonah Ray]

in the park, it's starting to annoy me. We get it. You're a fucking jack of all trades. You're a renaissance man.

[Mark Normand]

Enough. But that's the French in him, clearly. No, American. Black guy's like, let me paint this flower, this lilac. Look at this kid.

[Jonah Ray]

I mean, he's a really good player.

[Mark Normand]

I love that.

[Jonah Ray]

But he's starting to annoy me. Like, I think people are going to start to see he's pretty dirty. It's also like, he can't be 75 and dirty.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, exactly.

[Jonah Ray]

The best.

[Mark Normand]

I agree.

[Jonah Ray]

It's like if Clooney was roofing women. You're already super hot.

[Mark Normand]

Stop. That's a good point.

[Jonah Ray]

Do it on your.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, exactly. You have the skill. Yeah. Also, you're that. You're that tall. We're going to see it. And Brunson's a shorter guy, so it's like the height imbalance, the power imbalance. It's not fair.

[Jonah Ray]

It's fucking annoying, dude.

[Mark Normand]

Brunson, tough as nails. Where you see what the aviators on and the press conferences and he's. They're like, what you think?

[Jonah Ray]

I mean, look at this. And it's like. And his parents are like, his mom's 6:3 and his dad's 6:7, which feels like they did it on purpose, which is also annoying. Yeah, it feels like, like, you know, they're trying to make the greatest. Like, it's feels very eugenics.

[Mark Normand]

It completely.

[Jonah Ray]

It feels like Hitler would have loved this.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

Hitler would have been a Wemby fan, guys.

[Mark Normand]

Wow, that's a quite a push. Jesus.

[Jonah Ray]

I don't care for it. I don't care for it.

[Mark Normand]

They just. I saw one clip.

[Jonah Ray]

What does this show become? Wfan?

[Ken Marino]

What are we doing here?

[Mark Normand]

I don't care for it. That's the tagline.

[Jonah Ray]

Care for it?

[Mark Normand]

Okay, well, that. Just the last thing I'll say was the. The coach went up to the refs like, what the hell are you doing? He goes, yeah, you're right.

[Jonah Ray]

I know.

[Mark Normand]

I was like, what the hell? You just admitted it.

[Jonah Ray]

I know.

[Mark Normand]

I'd never seen that.

[Jonah Ray]

And the fix is in, Brother Tony. Brothers is just as bad. Hopefully by the time this comes out, it's changed.

[Mark Normand]

But damn, dude, that's crazy. But the city's a buzz and I hate to say it. Nobody wants to hear this. And this is blasphemy to say this out loud. You're not gonna like it. You're hungover, you're a fan. You're at the game. But I think the fact that they lost one adds a little more gas on the fire. Now the stakes are even higher. Now there's a tension in the air because before it was kind of like, oh, we might sweep this.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

So now it's like, okay, drama now

[Jonah Ray]

every game, you could lose the next game, and it swings the series now.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Jonah Ray]

Comes a must win. It's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. So this. This adds a little more. It's like when you go down on a girl, you kiss the thigh a little. You don't want to go right for the clit. Same with this.

[Jonah Ray]

I want the clit. All right, give me the clit.

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Jonah Ray]

It's maddening. It was a maddening.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. And that's always. It was like.

[Jonah Ray]

But no violence. Don't attack fans. It's fucking craziness. What are we doing?

[Mark Normand]

Well, the funny thing is the Knicks got fight with each other or the. The fans.

[Jonah Ray]

Now you got to use this to bring. To bring us up and bring us together.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Hear, hear. I think Trump really fucked it all up. Love me or hate him. It was just. It screwed up the vibe. It was all joy before, of course,

[Jonah Ray]

it turned into the fucking. I've never seen security like that. Dude, it was awful.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah. You couldn't. You couldn't have a watch party, so Mondani had to move the watch party to the Bryant Park. And then it changed everything.

[Jonah Ray]

It screwed up the vibes I was on.

[Mark Normand]

I was on the road watching all the videos of the fans, like, doing hilarious shit. What do they say?

[David Wain]

My.

[Mark Normand]

My God is black, my wife is gay, my Christian Dior, my.

[Jonah Ray]

My mate, my Muslim, my bagel Jewish, my Christian Dior, Nixon, Ford.

[Mark Normand]

That was it.

[Jonah Ray]

Now we got to change it to something else.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

Because it's not nick4, but true. What are you gonna do? Oh, is our guest here?

[Mark Normand]

I guess so. You need a drink. How you feeling?

[Jonah Ray]

Ah, I don't know. How about you? I mean, if the guests drink, I'll have a drink.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

If not, I'll probably chill.

[Mark Normand]

I heard a fun fact about. Oh, it's got a pee about sleeping. Yeah, I got. I slept, like, seven and a half hours, which, when you have a kid is a miracle. And I woke up, and I'm. I feel so tired. I feel wiped. And I looked it up, and it said, you actually feel the way you feel from the night before sleep.

[David Wain]

Is that true?

[Mark Normand]

The day before. Hey, come on in.

[Jonah Ray]

Come in.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's how we do it. You jump right into the origin. Yes, sir.

[Ken Marino]

This is happening right now.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh.

[Mark Normand]

In front of your eyes.

[Ken Marino]

David's in the bathroom, so I'm not ready to go.

[Jonah Ray]

No, you come right here. And he'll sit here when he's done peeing or pooping, whatever we're doing here.

[Mark Normand]

That's true. That's true. We could be doing a lot.

[Jonah Ray]

I said P and or pooping.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, nice to meet you. Great head of hair.

[Ken Marino]

Thank you.

[Mark Normand]

It's very nice. Oh, thanks. Really?

[Ken Marino]

You guys are just riddled with hair.

[Mark Normand]

Riddle. Hey, ladies. How are you? Hi. Hi.

[Ken Marino]

What is this?

[Jonah Ray]

This is our studio. You got. You got to talk into the mic. You've done this before, right?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. You guys are unorthodox. I was talking over there. I don't know what the hell.

[Mark Normand]

He's Jewish. Yeah. We got a fun studio. If you want to drink. We got you Ladies, if you need a cocktail or a water.

[Ken Marino]

Where do you want David to sit? Because.

[Mark Normand]

Right there. Oh.

[Jonah Ray]

We spread it out, split it up.

[Ken Marino]

All right, ready? Airplane mode, please. Bam. That's it.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Ken Marino]

It's like Emerald Lagasse, except with not food, but with just a phone.

[Mark Normand]

Bam.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah. Airplane mode doesn't work as well with the phone.

[Ken Marino]

Well, it's for you.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's funny. The Knicks are cooking, and then we have my friends in town for the Spielberg movie premiere, so there's a lot of stuff going on. Hey, Alien movie disclosure date.

[Jonah Ray]

David, sit right here.

[Mark Normand]

Something like that. Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Disclosure is a different movie.

[Ken Marino]

I have to. I'm going to chomp in this phone, so I have to get rid of this gum.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Throw it in the ashtray maybe.

[Ken Marino]

Is that real smelling salt?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Take a hit. It'll wake you up. I saw Josh Hart hitting that.

[Ken Marino]

Is that what I was like?

[Jonah Ray]

Don't put it too close to your nose, dude.

[Mark Normand]

It's strong.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, It'll you up.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that'll do it.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. I saw Josh. I was like, what the hell was that?

[Mark Normand]

That's what he does.

[Jonah Ray]

He's got energy. Hey, David. What's up, Sam?

[Mark Normand]

Hey, Mark.

[David Wain]

Good to see you. How you doing?

[Mark Normand]

Good. Thanks for popping in right now, David.

[Ken Marino]

It's recording.

[Mark Normand]

We're on.

[Ken Marino]

Here we are.

[Mark Normand]

We slide right in. Oh, you got a garbage right here. Hey, you guys are a ball. Energy.

[David Wain]

I like to slide right in when I'm Talking about?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I thought you were gonna sing Zip Zop Zow.

[Jonah Ray]

You guys are in a band, aren't you?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, it's called the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band.

[Mark Normand]

Middle Aged Dead.

[David Wain]

Middle Aged Dad Jam Band. That's what it's called.

[Ken Marino]

That's right.

[Mark Normand]

Mad gm Mad jb.

[Ken Marino]

You're looking at it right there. We're singing. Oh, Grease.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, a couple of DILFs. I love that song.

[David Wain]

Yeah, there's a whole variety of songs from the past.

[Mark Normand]

All right. I am very uncomfortable.

[Ken Marino]

It's uncomfortable.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. Why is it you guys are grooving and vibing? It's uncomfortable for you. Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Why?

[Mark Normand]

Well, you're having too much fun. It's awkward.

[Ken Marino]

Is that a new shirt?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, still got the creases.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Wain]

Oh, my God.

[Jonah Ray]

We're twins.

[Ken Marino]

Twinsies. Two black shirts and you've got a black shirt.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, look at me.

[Ken Marino]

The opposite. I got a white shirt on.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Corduroy in the summer is ball Z.

[Ken Marino]

Listen, I just needed a light pant with a dark top.

[David Wain]

Wait, on the screen there on the right is my niece Allie playing the violin. She in the hot 98 degrees in LA. She's wearing a sweater with a leather jacket over it.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. And by the way, just speaking of Greece, Arthur Fonzarelli wore a leather jacket always. Even skiing.

[David Wain]

Well, because he was cool.

[Mark Normand]

Exactamundo.

[Ken Marino]

Let me just say.

[David Wain]

How much for this? How much?

[Mark Normand]

That's yours.

[Ken Marino]

Let me just say something to you.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, you can vent movie this.

[Ken Marino]

This. I walk in. I thought I was a guest. I thought this was a safe place.

[Mark Normand]

It's very safe.

[Ken Marino]

Right away you're attacking me about wearing corduroy in the.

[Mark Normand]

I'm not attacking. I'm observing.

[Ken Marino]

I was gonna say I went into Buck Mason yesterday.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, quit bragging.

[Jonah Ray]

That's a hot new store.

[Ken Marino]

I have to tell you what happened.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Ken Marino]

Can I wear corduroy? I asked two guys working there, can I wear corduroy in the summer? And the guy says, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Well, they're trying to make a sale.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah. Asking a stripper if you're attracted Buck Mason are known. They're known for lying.

[David Wain]

You done asked the wrong guy.

[Ken Marino]

Well, if you translate Buck Mason into English, it means bold faced liars, which I just found out today.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Ken Marino]

What is this?

[Mark Normand]

That's a soda water. Seltzer water.

[Ken Marino]

Oh.

[Jonah Ray]

Do you guys want a cocktail or something? Or. No, you.

[David Wain]

You play your cards right, you might be able to join the black T shirt mafia.

[Ken Marino]

These guys. Btm now how long have you been drinking today?

[Mark Normand]

No, we haven't. But he's hungover.

[Ken Marino]

Hell, we might be. Yeah. You were at the game, you know. Where, where, where were you watching? Take two?

[Jonah Ray]

I was at the game.

[Ken Marino]

No, you weren't.

[Mark Normand]

That was. It was. You were at the game. Second row, fourth. That counts.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, my gosh. They played like crap in the beginning. I don't know what was going on. Was it so loud that they couldn't hear each other and that's why they were passing like it was loud. They were more nervous. To me, they seem more nervous than the spurs in the beginning. Then they got their together.

[Mark Normand]

They always take a minute.

[Jonah Ray]

They start slow.

[Mark Normand]

They're like an old car.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Then they're getting.

[Ken Marino]

They haven't been starting. Not sometimes.

[David Wain]

They got to rev up. Just get their game going.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, exactly. It's like a 40 year old anyway

[Ken Marino]

that there's some crazy ass fouls happening.

[Jonah Ray]

I know. Thank you.

[Ken Marino]

Like, what are we doing?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, Julie Klausner. Hello. Anyway, nothing wrong with that.

[David Wain]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Jonah Ray]

Are you guys sports guys?

[Ken Marino]

I'm a Nick fan from way back and I've been a Nick fan and I've watched every game this season.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, quite a run they had, I'll tell you what. Like, of not losses.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, I thought that was like some sort of backhand, like it's over now, like.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, I'm saying, like quite a run of wins in a row. This is quite impressive.

[Jonah Ray]

He said they've had. So it's not over.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's true. Well, they lost.

[David Wain]

I mean, quite a run they've had thus far.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, thank you.

[Ken Marino]

It was implied, I suppose, and I just didn't pick up on it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, hey, here we are at We Might be Drunk. Is there a theme song?

[Jonah Ray]

No, but you guys could help us with it.

[Ken Marino]

Okay. Yeah, we might be drunk. You're gonna go. I'm gonna go low. You go, hi. I'm gonna take this.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, boy. It's gonna be back at a improv camp. That's a lot of work.

[Ken Marino]

You don't have to improv. You just hang out. Just sit back and relax.

[Mark Normand]

Well, I would like to be a part of it.

[Ken Marino]

Well, in a way, you're part of it right now.

[Mark Normand]

All right, cool. Well, hey, welcome, guys. Thanks for coming in.

[Ken Marino]

Where's a cold beer?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, we got that. You want a beer?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

We don't know.

[David Wain]

Look,

[Mark Normand]

What do you want anything?

[Jonah Ray]

This is a drinking podcast.

[Mark Normand]

How about some highlifes? Corona Modelo.

[Ken Marino]

What do you.

[Mark Normand]

What do you have everything except beer. Well, we do have beer. Oh. Oh, all right. What do you want? It's on the bottom floor.

[Jonah Ray]

How about some hard liquor? Make us a drink.

[Ken Marino]

Do you have ice?

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

All right, let's do a. A gin and tonic.

[David Wain]

It's a tequila.

[Ken Marino]

You want a tequila?

[Mark Normand]

I'd like a tequila as well.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, just like a.

[Mark Normand]

A little.

[Ken Marino]

A gin and tonic.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, I'll do whiskey.

[Ken Marino]

No, no, no, really.

[Jonah Ray]

We have our own whiskey if you want to try it.

[Ken Marino]

No, I have a gin and tonic. I'm looking at you guys. I don't know what's going on.

[David Wain]

Whiskey makes things.

[Mark Normand]

But no, it's right there. Bodega cat.

[Ken Marino]

Wait, Bodega cat? Oh, you are Nick fans, or is that before?

[Jonah Ray]

That was before.

[Mark Normand]

It was before. Kismet.

[David Wain]

You know, we have.

[Mark Normand]

True. Yeah.

[David Wain]

We have our own beer coming out from Dogfish. Dogfish Head. Middle aged dad beer.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, Dogfish Head.

[Mark Normand]

You guys are really leaning into the middle aged dad.

[Ken Marino]

I'll have some of your whiskey.

[Mark Normand]

All right. We got the big cubes. Everybody loves a big cube.

[Jonah Ray]

What are you doing?

[Mark Normand]

Well, I guess I'll go whiskey as well. I thought we were on a clear liquor train, but I think Dave wanted a tequila.

[David Wain]

Well, I'll have a little of those.

[Mark Normand]

Whiskey.

[Ken Marino]

So tell us, so what scale Daughtry in the celebrity Sex Pass movie is coming out? Tell us about that.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, it looks good.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

We just had Thomas Lennon on talking about it.

[David Wain]

No, we did.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, he was on last week.

[David Wain]

He's in it.

[Mark Normand]

I know. He was raving.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

That's fantastic. Tom's a great guy.

[Mark Normand]

Funny as hell. Good egg.

[David Wain]

Great guy. Very talented.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Underrated. Wrote night at the museum, for Pete's sake.

[Ken Marino]

Writes novels, writes plays, screenplays.

[Mark Normand]

Has a house of Wisconsin on the lake.

[Ken Marino]

That's right.

[Jonah Ray]

You guys wrote this movie, right?

[Ken Marino]

That's correct.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[David Wain]

We wrote it together, in fact.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

How was that? It was great.

[Ken Marino]

We've done it many times. We've written several movies together.

[Mark Normand]

What else?

[Ken Marino]

You guys didn't do any research?

[Jonah Ray]

Wow.

[Mark Normand]

We know about Molly. Shannon's in it.

[Ken Marino]

Nope, she's not.

[Mark Normand]

Damn it. The daughter.

[Ken Marino]

Molly. Shannon's.

[Jonah Ray]

No, he was on a show with Molly. The other two. Yeah, we know some stuff.

[Ken Marino]

That's okay. What's going on over here?

[Mark Normand]

I like the corduroy.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Ken Marino and I wrote some of these movies together. The 10. Wanderlust.

[Mark Normand]

I love models.

[Jonah Ray]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[David Wain]

Yep. And then this one. And then we've written some other ones that haven't gotten made.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Jonah Ray]

For the celebrity sex. Pass, actually, to the celebrity sex pest.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, those are.

[Ken Marino]

That.

[Mark Normand]

We.

[Ken Marino]

We rewrote those. Anything we've written has gotten produced.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah. That's impressive. We. We just wrote a movie, and it's been a nightmare getting it through the machine.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

How are the reviews?

[Mark Normand]

Well, we haven't made it yet.

[Jonah Ray]

We're planning on shooting end of July.

[David Wain]

You're whiskey is great.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa. Thank you, Dave. Appreciate it.

[Jonah Ray]

Do you guys have a hard time getting a movie made and, like, finance and stuff?

[David Wain]

Yes.

[Jonah Ray]

It's crazy, right?

[David Wain]

This one took about 10 years. Wow.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, look at that guy. You got a. I think it's never sterling.

[David Wain]

Never easy.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you, sir.

[Ken Marino]

You see me in the back with the facial hair?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I thought that was Joey Fatone.

[Ken Marino]

No, no. Looks like him now.

[Mark Normand]

And you got Bobby Lee. That's great.

[Jonah Ray]

You guys write a movie. Like Role Model Sundance. When you. Like, when you write a movie like that, like, you got. It was just you two, no one else.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

And when you kick it around, like, what's the. Like what's the. How do you start going?

[David Wain]

We have this thing we do. We get together for seven days. We have no idea. And then at the end of the seven days, we promise ourselves to come out with the first draft.

[Ken Marino]

And then we spend the next, you know, number of years honing it and rewriting it. And we continue to do that until the movie gets financed and then we gets made. And then we continue to do that in the edit editing process. And then until we lock picture, we're constantly rewriting. But those first seven days, we have a first draft.

[Jonah Ray]

Do you try to do, like a page count per day, or you just.

[David Wain]

20 pages a day.

[Mark Normand]

I love it.

[Ken Marino]

The first two days. First day, we break the idea. Second day we outline the idea. And then the third, and then the last five days, 20 pages a day.

[Jonah Ray]

Do you go away somewhere?

[David Wain]

We usually don't. We did at Ken's house.

[Ken Marino]

I feel like Wanderlust was at my house. The 10 was at your house.

[David Wain]

No, I think that was in New York.

[Ken Marino]

And then

[David Wain]

who knows?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, I do. I do.

[Mark Normand]

What do you guys do when you hit a wall when you're just like,

[Ken Marino]

sometimes I break a knuckle. I did that one time. Just like Mitchell Robinson.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Big Mitch.

[David Wain]

Think about, like, if you're doing, like, a maze, right, and you're trapped in a maze, then you hit a wall, you got to go right or left.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. So you just zigzag, Try something new

[David Wain]

Go back, take a walk.

[Ken Marino]

Well, you know the trick of getting through a maze, right? If you have all the time in the world, just put your hand on one wall and then just never let go of that wall. Just slide your hand and follow until you get out.

[David Wain]

I went to one of those mirror mazes at like a carnival or like an amusement park and got really lost. Could not get out.

[Ken Marino]

Same holds true with the mirror ones. Just put your hand on one wall. No fingerprints on the wall. I mean the mirror, but dirtied up.

[Mark Normand]

Can I ask a weird movie question?

[Ken Marino]

No.

[David Wain]

A weird booby question.

[Mark Normand]

Movie. Oh. So this, this Obsession and Back Rooms, you hear about this?

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

No.

[David Wain]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, Obsession.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, the movie. They're changing the game. It's a couple YouTube guys and they're saving theaters.

[David Wain]

Yep.

[Mark Normand]

They're making Hand Over Fist. They said Obsession. This much hasn't been made in 40 years in a movie.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Because it was made for under a million dollars and it's made 750.

[David Wain]

Well, soon the conversation is going to be this thing. It's Obsession backrooms and Gail Daughtry and the celebrity sex.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Because we made it for very little and good, apparently. A million. According for all the tabloids, it's going to make like 2 to 3 billion dollars.

[Mark Normand]

Holy shit.

[David Wain]

I heard under 2.

[Ken Marino]

You heard under 2 billion?

[Mark Normand]

Unbelievable.

[Ken Marino]

You're being conservative. But I think that once people get a hold of this movie, it's gonna make five to six billion dollars.

[David Wain]

Did you guys see that? I love the Obsession.

[Mark Normand]

I just saw it two nights ago.

[David Wain]

Yeah, me too.

[Mark Normand]

I had some problems with it, but I thought it was good.

[David Wain]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

The acting with the. India is her name, the girl?

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Unbelievable.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

She's going far, she's going places. All right.

[Ken Marino]

All right.

[Mark Normand]

Incredible.

[Ken Marino]

Keep it in your pants.

[Mark Normand]

But one of the guys I thought was a such a bad actor took me out of it. And I have found eight plot holes in the movie that bugged me. But really good movie and it's all word of mouth. It did more money in the third week. In the first week.

[David Wain]

I think it's about the plot.

[Ken Marino]

Me say this about that movie. It's not realistic because if you make a wish, well, I really going to happen.

[Mark Normand]

I accepted that part.

[Jonah Ray]

I, you know, I don't like though I didn't see it. But my friend, my friend sent me a thing like every horror movie has this thing now where you like you're hitting your head with like a pan or. Yeah, there's a lot of that.

[Ken Marino]

Tom and Jerry. It Was originally invented by Tom and

[Jonah Ray]

Jerry for comedic effect, not to scare. But then there's another one where the head, like, kind of contorts, like. I don't, like, go. I don't like.

[Ken Marino]

It's like contours that scare you.

[Jonah Ray]

No, I'm just kind of like.

[David Wain]

I've seen it a million times about obsession is it. I think it consciously wasn't reinventing any wheel. It was just doing it really well and making it and having a great time with it, you know?

[Mark Normand]

I agree. I agree. I had a blast.

[Jonah Ray]

I'm gonna see it.

[Mark Normand]

Saw it in the theater. Jump scares. Everybody's freaking out. I looked around. Everybody's doing this shit. It was fun to see. And I'm not a huge horror guy, but it was. Yeah, moments of comedy in it, too. A lot of comedy.

[Ken Marino]

Funny. Well, the guy who did it is a comedian. You know, he's been. He was on.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Portlandia. Apparently did a lot of funny stuff on Portland. He comes to go back and watch Portlandia now, knowing that I've seen him. Yeah, there he is.

[Mark Normand]

Great guy, 26.

[Ken Marino]

He looks like Kerry Kenny's brother.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Got a little Daniel Sloss, too.

[Jonah Ray]

Look at those lips.

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[David Wain]

I wouldn't mind kissing him.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. All right. I'm thinking about it.

[David Wain]

I'm good.

[Mark Normand]

But, yeah, very fun. And it's cool. It's all word of mouth. It's all just people talking and just shows. If you make something fun, people go see.

[Jonah Ray]

It's cool that a Star wars was

[David Wain]

in the radio business and he. They had a saying which is. It's in the grooves, meaning you can promote, promote, promote, but ultimately, it's got to be.

[Ken Marino]

Gotta be in the grooves. Meaning.

[David Wain]

Meaning if you got the good.

[Ken Marino]

The song's good. Maybe listen to that.

[Mark Normand]

That pop tune, Baby, Sing it.

[Jonah Ray]

I feel like Party down was kind of like that. That was like a word of mouth.

[Ken Marino]

That's a good segue. I thank you so much.

[Mark Normand]

I appreciate it. Great show.

[Jonah Ray]

Because I definitely. That was a show. I had friends who were like, you got to watch this show, and, you know, look how many people are on that one.

[David Wain]

I think a lot of stuff that we've both been associated with, both together and apart, has had that thing of, like. Not a ton of people saw it on a global scale, but the people who find it really spread it and feel loyal to it and feel ownership over it and. Oh, yeah, want to spread it around.

[Mark Normand]

This saved my relationship during COVID We ran. We watched everything on the earth, and we're like, what's this? Party Down. And then we fell in love with it.

[Ken Marino]

We discovered it during COVID Yeah, Party

[Jonah Ray]

down actually ruined my relationship during COVID It was weird. We were on the rocks.

[Ken Marino]

You think it was.

[Jonah Ray]

It was the last push that got.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Why? She didn't like it?

[Jonah Ray]

No, she liked. I was kidding.

[Ken Marino]

Did you see all three seasons?

[Mark Normand]

Yes, many times. A couple times. Yeah. We had to watch it over and over so we didn't have to talk.

[David Wain]

Second season. One of the episodes is directed by me.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, the one with the play?

[David Wain]

Yeah, the.

[Ken Marino]

Where they do the play.

[Mark Normand]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I fell off on that one. Oh, but good show all around. And what a cast. Yeah.

[David Wain]

Oh, don't get me started.

[Mark Normand]

Jane lynch is.

[Jonah Ray]

Do you ever look back at one of these movies and you're like, there's a couple where you're like, I wish I did this like differently. I don't. Maybe one you don't like as much as others do.

[Ken Marino]

I look back on my career and look specifically at movies or just any acting choice that I've made either. Yeah. You know, some of them are. Some of them are to. To pay the bills and some are more than that.

[Jonah Ray]

Which one it was to pay the bills.

[Ken Marino]

I mean it's, you know, pretty obvious when you like, you get an IMDb and you can go, someone paid the bills. And that one was because you, you know, he enjoyed it.

[David Wain]

Oh, look there. Those are all good ones.

[Jonah Ray]

You got a good one. These are good.

[Ken Marino]

Thank you.

[David Wain]

The babysitter. I don't know what that is.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, Babysitter is a fun horror movie. Fun comedy. G directed babysitter and babysitter two. Terrific director. I mean, good guy.

[Mark Normand]

And I have known you eastbound.

[David Wain]

Probably talk to you almost daily for the last four, 40 years.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, I don't.

[David Wain]

I've definitely not seen all this stuff.

[Jonah Ray]

Dawson's Creek. Who are you on that?

[Ken Marino]

I was Professor Joey. Professor Wilder. I was having a. An affair with Joey. She went to college. A lot of people thought I was a creepy professor. There I am.

[David Wain]

That movie in a World is great. I just saw that. Not too long.

[Ken Marino]

There I am, good looking guy and I had a. And then I would quote Flo Bear to her. And then I can give you my first line of Dawson's Creek because I still remember it. And we shot it. I don't know when was Dawson's Creek when that come out? It was the only line that stuck in my head. I'm terrible at lines. But you say something. I'm a lit professor.

[Jonah Ray]

Sure.

[Ken Marino]

Okay, Professor. And I want you guys. You're one of my students, and you say something bad about Judy Blume. Let's see if I remember it.

[Jonah Ray]

Judy Blume, you know, it's kind of for kids.

[Ken Marino]

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her. Hey, don't knock Judy Bloom. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by that fascinating creature known as the teenage boy. Girl.

[David Wain]

Great.

[Ken Marino]

Thank you. I almost had it. Perpetrated by the fascinating random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage boy.

[David Wain]

And cut. Ken, that was great. And let's just do another one, though. Just. We got it, but we'll. Let's try it again.

[Ken Marino]

Hey, don't knock Judy Bloom. Without her. My youngest.

[David Wain]

Losing light. Sorry.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, just turned for a college professor to be teaching. Judy Blume.

[Ken Marino]

A lit professor.

[Jonah Ray]

Okay.

[Ken Marino]

Well, he wasn't. He was. He was teaching one of the. It was. Somebody mentioned Judy Bloom and somebody like this Judy Bloom, and he's like, hey, man.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

And I think that that's what got Joey Potter a little. Oh, he likes Judy Bloom. He's not just a.

[Jonah Ray]

He's not pretentious.

[Ken Marino]

He like. He likes. He likes the girl novels. Young teen novels.

[David Wain]

So do you think about that?

[Ken Marino]

Do you remember Wifey?

[David Wain]

You were the screen love of a woman who in real life married Tom Cruise. AKA you are like Tom Cruise.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, I think about that all the time. Yeah, I'm thinking about it right now, mostly because you just said it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I could see Tom Cruise. Fuck Brendan Fraser.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, I could see that.

[Ken Marino]

You can see that. You can see Tom Cruise fucking Brendan

[Mark Normand]

Fraser right in front of me.

[David Wain]

I see it all the time whenever I go out.

[Mark Normand]

I see it when I close my

[David Wain]

eyes whenever I go to the. The.

[Mark Normand]

That's not a bad combo to look like Tom Cruise and Brendan Frazier. I'm talking pre whale.

[Ken Marino]

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

[Jonah Ray]

We didn't think the whale.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, okay. I'm not. I'm talking school ties.

[Ken Marino]

You're talking Tarzan.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Wain]

What about Delirious with Elizabeth?

[Ken Marino]

What about Mommy Hurley? What?

[David Wain]

Elizabeth Hurley, Delirious member Elizabeth Hurley.

[Ken Marino]

And Delirious.

[Mark Normand]

Delirious is Eddie Murphy. Bedazzled. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Come on.

[Mark Normand]

That's all Marino.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, my God.

[David Wain]

Look at that. I was also in a movie called Delirious, though.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, weird.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, it's a little more of an independent movie.

[David Wain]

Yeah, that's right. It was.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Boy, Gina Gershon, who is being celebrated at this Tribeca film festival for the 30th anniversary of the movie Bound with Christopher.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, my God.

[Jonah Ray]

One of the great movies.

[Mark Normand]

Great Grace.

[Ken Marino]

Amazing Joe Pantaleone is amazing.

[Jonah Ray]

Like a farce almost, too.

[Ken Marino]

It's like Jennifer Tilly and Gina. Oh, my God.

[David Wain]

Great film.

[Ken Marino]

Great movie.

[Jonah Ray]

Watch Bound.

[Mark Normand]

I will.

[Ken Marino]

Great, great movie. That's one. I. I keep telling my son, you

[Jonah Ray]

got to watch it.

[Ken Marino]

And he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll get around to it. I'm like, you got to watch it. It's really good.

[Jonah Ray]

I feel like the 90s had so many of those, like, hidden.

[Mark Normand]

Awesome.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Like, oh, my God.

[Jonah Ray]

There was a run of Lost.

[Mark Normand]

Like, yeah, simple plan.

[David Wain]

Yeah, Great.

[Mark Normand]

Great movie.

[Ken Marino]

It was a book that was really big. The movie came out. Who directed it? You had weird tone.

[Mark Normand]

This was really great.

[Ken Marino]

But one of the. One of the most tense scenes in that movie is insane. That, like, tense scene in the middle with the gun and. Oh, yeah, incredible. And then Billy Bob Thornton is unbelievable.

[Mark Normand]

Unbelievable, dude.

[Jonah Ray]

That monologue in the car.

[Ken Marino]

Unbelievable.

[Jonah Ray]

Beautiful. Yeah. I feel like the 90s had these types of movies. Like, another one's like Red Rock west, that's another Sleep. And I feel like it's kind of coming back now. I feel like indie films are going

[Mark Normand]

to have a resurgence, I think so.

[David Wain]

What was the movie. The indie film about making a movie with Steve Boucher, Jemmy that was directed.

[Ken Marino]

It's two words. It's two words. Peter Dinklage is in it.

[David Wain]

Peter Dinklage.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Living in Oblivion.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's a good one.

[David Wain]

I think it's the best movie about making a movie that there is.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, but also, what about the Kevin

[David Wain]

Costner One last time I looked up Living in Oblivion, I wanted to show it somebody. It's nowhere. It's gone.

[Mark Normand]

Really?

[David Wain]

You can't stream it.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, give us some advice, because this is really the first time we've made

[Mark Normand]

a movie together to be. Yeah. What do you got? Anything? We don't know what the hell we're doing. Well, also, great movie.

[Jonah Ray]

It looks like late July right now.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, you got. You got.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, we got money, believe it or not.

[David Wain]

All right. Are you to the stars of it?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, unfortunately.

[David Wain]

Who's directing?

[Ken Marino]

Is that for sure?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, unless you guys. You can play me.

[David Wain]

Intern at our. On our show, the State.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[David Wain]

Something like that.

[Jonah Ray]

Get your shine box, dude.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. He's been around that long?

[David Wain]

He was a little kid at that time.

[Ken Marino]

Really?

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Jonah Ray]

How old is he?

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Jonah Ray]

He looks young as fuck.

[Mark Normand]

I thought he was 34.

[David Wain]

He probably. He might be.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. Yeah. There he is. How cute is he?

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, yes.

[Jonah Ray]

Or any advice you have making a

[David Wain]

movie, get there, you know, on time.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

In the morning.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[David Wain]

Tell, like, talk to all the crew and call them by their first name.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. And this is any job so far.

[David Wain]

Follow your mute. I don't know.

[Mark Normand]

Come on.

[Ken Marino]

Well, hold on, hold on. So you wrote the script?

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

You feel good about the story?

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

So you're ready to go?

[Mark Normand]

It's a joke a second.

[Jonah Ray]

It's a lot like Bound, but with two men.

[Ken Marino]

Okay, so, yeah. So you're going to shoot it. How long is the shoot?

[Jonah Ray]

I think like 18 to 20 days.

[Ken Marino]

So it's a short shoot.

[Mark Normand]

Quick.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Running guns.

[Ken Marino]

21 days. So you're running and gunning. Just make sure in pre production that every, every, you know, whoever your first ad is, you really kind of taking care of, like where the locations are. Make sure that that guy keeps the train running. And then you go over. Up leading up to that. Go over the script so it's nice and tight and you believe in it and you know what it is. And don't waver. Stick to what you believe is funny and shoot it in those 18 days and don't stop believing until you get to edit. And then you're gonna edit it and you're gonna then rip it apart and try new things because some of that shit's not gonna work. But you're still gonna stay focused and you're gonna work through the moments where you're like, oh, this isn't exactly what we thought it was gonna be. And you're gonna fix it and you're gonna still believe in it and you're gonna work hard on it and never give up. And then until you lock picture and lock sound, you believe in that movie and then you put it out there and then you wash your hands of the whole goddamn thing and walk away.

[David Wain]

But I would say that was really well said, I think. But I would also say that you got 18 days to shoot a movie. Spend every second you can between now and then trying to figure stuff out. Because when the clock's going, you're not gonna have much time. But now you have time to listen to it, read it out loud, rehearse, talk about it, break it down, think about what you might cut out in editing and don't shoot it. Like, you know, like, try make those decisions. Think about those things now in pre production. Because when you get to set, there's no Time.

[Ken Marino]

There's no time. So you don't talk about shit. You got to shoot it.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

So pre production is super important. Do all your work, get it all, answer all your questions, have every decision made.

[David Wain]

And so that when you get to set, if something changes, you have an inspiration. Great. But if you just stick to exactly your plan as you have it, you got something.

[Jonah Ray]

When you're directing a movie, like role models, that's way bigger. What's the difference between that and one of these smaller movies?

[David Wain]

Actually, there's obviously much more time and money, but to riff and stuff, you mean? Sort of. But ultimately it's less different than I thought it would be. It's basically the same idea. You're with your cameraman and your cast and your crew, and you're trying to just figure out what, okay, let's shoot this like this. The only difference is, yeah, if you want, you can just be like, okay, now let's keep rolling and try more things. And, you know, just keep going and going.

[Mark Normand]

If you.

[David Wain]

Yeah, but sometimes I find that limitation is helpful, you know, to.

[Mark Normand]

Sure.

[David Wain]

Just endlessly do things.

[Ken Marino]

Just believe in the. You wrote.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, go over it.

[Ken Marino]

Don't be like, we'll figure that out. We're on set. Figure it out. Figure out how you want it to look. Talk about it with each other.

[Mark Normand]

The tone and everything.

[Ken Marino]

The tone. Even visually, like, what you're thinking about

[David Wain]

it with your director and your dp.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Get your DP and be like, here's. Here's how I see it. Pull up references of other movies and be like, this is what I want it to look like.

[David Wain]

And don't. And, yeah, you don't want to get on set and you see what they've got set up and you're like, oh, that's not quite what I had in mind. Yeah, now it's a little late to,

[Ken Marino]

like, here, you know, make sure that the person who is running your. The production design, your wardrobe people, your DP and your ad, and you guys are all on the same page in terms of look, look, visual look. It's a visual medium. So everybody knows exactly what the movie is going to look like prior to showing up on day one. And you're all on the same page because you don't want to have that fucking conversation where, like David was saying, you walk on set and you're like, this is not. No, no, The. The. The beer cans are supposed to be, like, super big, not regular sized. And they're like, you didn't say that. And, like. And then all of a sudden, you're scrambling it.

[Mark Normand]

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

[David Wain]

That said, though.

[Mark Normand]

Got it.

[David Wain]

You do happen to get to set and something really is off. Don't be afraid to be like, sorry, I know it wastes time, but we got to fix it.

[Mark Normand]

This. Yes, speak up. Okay, that helps.

[Jonah Ray]

That's helpful.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you, guys.

[Ken Marino]

And then at the end of the movie, of course, you gotta put a card up that says Finn and hell yeah.

[David Wain]

Special thanks to Ken Marino and David Wayne.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, shit.

[Ken Marino]

Not particularly in that order, but I

[Jonah Ray]

do like for sure.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

This is a consultation that we give other filmmakers and we usually get 10% gross for it. For you 5.

[Mark Normand]

All right, all right. We'll get some money together. We put it all in the movie.

[Jonah Ray]

You should see the points we've already had to give up on this shit.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, all in the movie except for the 5%.

[Mark Normand]

All right. Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

Who was helping you guys with this when. When you were starting? Who's giving you advice on making movies?

[David Wain]

Each other. Yeah. Our mentors a lot were each other because we were in this group of 11 of us that we met in college. And so we learned a lot from teaching each other and stuff. But I didn't. I didn't have.

[Ken Marino]

A lot of. You went to film school and, you know, we went to. We went to a school where we learned how to act and produce and write. And then we were in a sketch comedy group where we luckily got our own TV show coming out of college. And we sort of sell, like, as Dave was saying, we were like, thrown into the deep end. And we just learned as it was happening.

[Mark Normand]

Damn. But pretty great. You got a show that quick, that's got to feel lucky.

[David Wain]

Very cool situation with MTV was a growing network. Yeah, we had an in there and it was just like, happened to fall into really good timing over there.

[Ken Marino]

Now, you guys are very young, so I'm wondering, do you even know what show we're talking about?

[David Wain]

The state.

[Ken Marino]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

I used to watch it. I still remember the scene with the.

[Ken Marino]

I didn't know about him.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I was a big fan.

[Ken Marino]

All right.

[Mark Normand]

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[Mark Normand]

That was about when I dropped off after that. But no, but I still remember a lot of the jokes.

[David Wain]

The State was the best shit.

[Mark Normand]

And then it was great.

[David Wain]

Since the mid-90s, we've been sort of coasting on that.

[Mark Normand]

That's what I was gonna ask. Like, you're behind the camera. Yeah, you're in front of the camera. When you get a show, like, party down, are you like, oh, thank God I have a gig. I have a stable gig for a minute. And then when you're in a movie, you're like, hey, I gotta. I gotta do this movie. But then what do you do in the downtime? Because we can just go hit the road, do stand up. You guys get nervous. When's my next job?

[Jonah Ray]

Tour a little bit?

[Ken Marino]

No, I don't do well.

[David Wain]

We tour with our band now.

[Ken Marino]

But you do.

[Jonah Ray]

Didn't do a tour with the State.

[Ken Marino]

The State did a tour, but that was you did a tour one. No, no, like two years ago. Oh, you did like

[Jonah Ray]

Brian. Brian Hubbard's my tour manager. So he said he worked with you guys.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, we did a small. It was not a small number of

[David Wain]

shows, but they were big. They were big fun shows in big venue. We did the Nokia Theater in Times Square.

[Mark Normand]

Nice.

[David Wain]

But we didn't do a lot of shows. We ended up not doing a lot of shows.

[Ken Marino]

And. And so. So the question is what, What?

[Mark Normand]

Like, do you get nervous?

[Ken Marino]

You have, are you happy to get a show and are you like.

[Mark Normand]

And then when it goes away.

[David Wain]

Answer you, Ken. Yes. Gets nervous.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[David Wain]

After a 40 years of working consistently, he still is never sure if he's going to have another job. Yeah, I don't do that as much.

[Mark Normand]

You're not nervous?

[David Wain]

I just sort of feel like, what can I do?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Very Zen.

[David Wain]

I do go long periods without working, though.

[Mark Normand]

I know that's nerve wracking.

[Ken Marino]

And what do you do? The answer is you start a band.

[David Wain]

I start a band.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Ken Marino]

Direct a play.

[David Wain]

I do. We always got projects of different types going. Most of them are not lucrative, but sometimes one soul fulfilling works out. Yeah. But I would say I have my. I personally have favored doing something that's creative and with people that I want to work with over something that's making money. And that's how it's worked out.

[Mark Normand]

Nice.

[Ken Marino]

Can I put my foot up in here?

[Mark Normand]

Of course.

[Ken Marino]

I know this is a nice piece of donut.

[Jonah Ray]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, it's ikea.

[Ken Marino]

Did the tape originally come with it

[Mark Normand]

or is that we found on the sidewalk? So there you go. Look at that.

[Ken Marino]

I thought it was four drawers, but it's just one. It looks like four.

[Mark Normand]

That's how they get you. Oh. Oh, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

That's how they get you.

[Jonah Ray]

Like eastbound and down when you get a gig. I mean, that must be awesome to get a gig like that. Especially when. When the show is like already proven as being hilarious.

[Ken Marino]

Yes.

[Jonah Ray]

But is it also stressful going in? You're like, this is such a good show.

[David Wain]

But they brought in the ringer.

[Ken Marino]

I.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, he killed it. But I'm just saying going in.

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Ken Marino]

I mean, look at the time. I was a huge fan of the show.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

And I thought Danny McBride was like the funniest guy and still do think he's the funniest guy around.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Ken Marino]

So I got a. I got an email or a phone call or email from him being like, would you want to. No, I know I put myself on tape. I put my I went in an audition or I put. Put myself on tape. Then I got a call from him, and he was like, so we want you to do the thing. Will you. Would you ride it? Do a jetpack? And I was like, yeah, of course. And so. And then. And then that was the reason I. That's. That was the only thing that he said to me. And I was like, yeah, I'll do a jetpack over there. And then was I nervous. I don't know. I. I wanted to do right by, you know, those guys, Jody and Danny, and. And. And so I tried to do, you know, the best I could. I came in prepared and I tried to create some sort of character that they, you know, lean into the character that they created. And it was a really good one. It was a fun. It was a fun one, you know, I mean, it was a good part.

[Jonah Ray]

It was a great part. You killed. I mean that. I feel like that show didn't really strike a false note ever. Like some people on season two, But I love season two. I think it's like season two is Mexico.

[Ken Marino]

Mexico. Yeah. No, they're all good. I will say, personally, I think one is the best, and I think my season is. I think it's number two for me.

[David Wain]

Another great show, by the way. Breaking Bad.

[Mark Normand]

Sure.

[David Wain]

No, I'm saying it's a great show.

[Ken Marino]

No, it's a great.

[Jonah Ray]

You were great.

[David Wain]

No, I'm not in that either.

[Jonah Ray]

No, you.

[Mark Normand]

You were good. You killed it. Yeah, you're good. Sopranos, good show. We just listen. Good shows. Yeah, Great show.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Honeymooners and.

[Mark Normand]

Not bad. All about domestic abuse.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

And we still loved it.

[Ken Marino]

No.

[Jonah Ray]

To the moon. What about Far, dude, it's hard to hit you guys.

[David Wain]

Don't forget about plays like King Lear. You guys completely forgot about this.

[Ken Marino]

Also commercials, like, people on commercials. But some of them are really funny. Where's the beef?

[David Wain]

And like, me throwing that. I'm crying. Throwing the jersey.

[Mark Normand]

I must be in the front row.

[Ken Marino]

That guy, right?

[Jonah Ray]

Catch the was up commercial.

[Ken Marino]

Those are bangers, you know, so when you hit it, you hit.

[David Wain]

You're forgetting about all the promos. Like, hey, up next, it's the NBA All Stars.

[Ken Marino]

Let's not forget about just. Just your music in general, you know?

[David Wain]

Oh, my God.

[Ken Marino]

You got the Rolling Stones. You got the.

[Mark Normand]

God, what a list. British invasion. Oh, Titanic.

[Ken Marino]

Right.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, don't forget, bud.

[David Wain]

Flat duo.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you.

[Jonah Ray]

Classic.

[David Wain]

Do you guys do that kind of thing on the road?

[Jonah Ray]

We do a lot of commercial talk.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

We try to incorporate the audience.

[Ken Marino]

Do you Open up with the. Do you guys. So you do you do a, a two man show? No, no. You do you separately for stand up and so who. When you go out and do shows, right. And do you. Are you ever building the same like

[Mark Normand]

night and a club in New York will.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah. Like Comedy Central.

[Ken Marino]

Like if one guy opens earlier, you know, for the other guy, do you like rib them about it? Like I open for you.

[David Wain]

I bet you anything. And tell me if I'm wrong. I may be wrong. Do you ever do a show like a stand up show, some city, some town you're going to?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. And then doesn't matter.

[David Wain]

What town, doesn't matter. And then someone does. Anybody in the audience, have they heard you on this, on this podcast?

[Jonah Ray]

Not usually, no.

[David Wain]

It's got it never. No. Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

They're like, we know you from Imus. That's what we usually get.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

John Imus.

[Ken Marino]

We were big on imus66 wnbc. Is that what it was? Yeah, yeah.

[David Wain]

I was, I was more into 1010 wins.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Ah, yes. What about Cars for Kids? Oh, great tune.

[David Wain]

Please don't get me started.

[Ken Marino]

Give it to me. 1-800-7-sell cars for kids.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I think it turned out to be a scam.

[David Wain]

Yeah. By origin, by the way. What part?

[Jonah Ray]

Manhattan originally.

[Mark Normand]

Where?

[Jonah Ray]

Originally Chelsea, then Upper east side.

[David Wain]

How about that?

[Jonah Ray]

How about you?

[Ken Marino]

Oh, you're a New Yorker. New Yorker.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, maybe.

[Jonah Ray]

Where are you guys?

[David Wain]

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, but I lived in Manhattan for 26 years.

[Ken Marino]

I grew up on Long island and then lived in Manhattan for from college until I was 30.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, the 90s.

[Ken Marino]

Yes sir.

[Mark Normand]

Was it all they say it was and more. The hookers.

[David Wain]

The hookers and blow are great.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. The Times Square, the porno.

[Ken Marino]

I mean that was there. It was changing.

[David Wain]

It was changing Right when we got

[Ken Marino]

here, that was all not Disney Disneyfied.

[David Wain]

It was just starting and it was

[Ken Marino]

startling for a, you know, you know, 18 year old teenage suburban boy.

[David Wain]

Yeah, it was startling. And then the change was starting.

[Mark Normand]

Got it. So you got the little of both.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, it's wordplay.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I got here at 0708 and I

[Ken Marino]

don't remember you getting here.

[Mark Normand]

I didn't, I didn't make a splash really. But I got mugged three times.

[Ken Marino]

Oh yeah.

[Mark Normand]

And I remember the East Village was still had that heroin chic, you know, you had Mars Bar and all those old pieces.

[Jonah Ray]

Square was cool. Yeah. The rats are still out at night.

[David Wain]

Two boots.

[Ken Marino]

That's right.

[Mark Normand]

Oh yeah, I ate there many times.

[Jonah Ray]

Just Close Two boots to go cozy souping.

[David Wain]

Burgers closing this month.

[Mark Normand]

Dude, I saw that.

[Ken Marino]

I filmed Two boots is closed on everywhere.

[David Wain]

On Avenue.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, on avenue A. No.

[Jonah Ray]

Stupid burgers closing. That's a brutal one.

[Mark Normand]

That one hurts.

[David Wain]

We're thinking about going to lunch there tomorrow for the last time.

[Jonah Ray]

Classic.

[Mark Normand]

That's a great idea. I might do the same.

[Ken Marino]

I'm probably gonna get the cheeseburger deluxe with fries. Dude, usually what I get is cheeseburger. What I got when we went to college is cheeseburger deluxe with fries. And put some gravy on those fries.

[David Wain]

Wait a minute. What about the split pea soup?

[Jonah Ray]

That's what I get.

[David Wain]

Yeah, there's soup and burger.

[Mark Normand]

What about the mo Pitkins? Remember that place? Oh, that was a great bar. I saw Jimmy Fallon there once.

[Ken Marino]

What about drunk bistro?

[Mark Normand]

Still there.

[Jonah Ray]

Still there.

[Mark Normand]

That's a great area. Yeah, that's west.

[David Wain]

My favorite memories. Corner bistro was during the great blackout in 2003. Every whole city was shut down. They had the gas grill going and they were passing out burgers for free.

[Jonah Ray]

Damn.

[Mark Normand]

You ever got mugged in this town?

[Ken Marino]

I got a gentleman mug, which was.

[Mark Normand]

I said, good day.

[Ken Marino]

I went up town to meet my girlfriend at the time's father at a museum. And I got out of the subway and I was sort of dressed. I tried to dress nicer. You know, I could put on the nicest jacket I had. It was a long coat, and it was like. Sort of like the fall. And I went. And I saw a guy clock me as I got out of the subway. And I'm walking up the thing, and I could see him following me. And I got a little nervous because I was new to the city. It was like, you know, first couple of years I was there, and I got out and I made a wrong turn and go to a busy street. Walking down the side street, and he walked up to me and he goes, hey, hey, hey, hey. And I turn around and he goes. He goes, hey, hey, man. And I go, hey, hey. And he grabbed my hand and he's shaking my hand. He goes, how much money do you have? And I was like, you know, I don't know. I don't know. He goes, why don't you take out your wallet and tell me how much money you have and give it to me? And I was like, okay, you did it. Yeah. I was scared shitless. And so then I took out my wallet and I gave him my money. And he goes, thank you. And then he left.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Ken Marino]

Gentleman mugging.

[Jonah Ray]

Was he a Scary looking guy.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay. I bet he walked away. I was like, I can't believe that.

[Ken Marino]

No, I was petrified.

[David Wain]

You think he had.

[Ken Marino]

He's a big man.

[David Wain]

He had the backup.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, he had big hands.

[Mark Normand]

Acidic Jew.

[Ken Marino]

When he grabbed my hand, I was like, oh, he can crush me.

[Mark Normand]

Oh.

[David Wain]

So do you think he just looks like, I'm gonna go out in half an hour and get a few thousand bucks?

[Ken Marino]

Looks like, yeah. He's like, there's no reason to beat the out of this guy. I'll just take his money.

[Mark Normand]

That feels like an impractical joker.

[David Wain]

Somebody like your size.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. You're not a little man.

[Ken Marino]

I mean, I was the same height, but I was like 20 pounds.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Lighter. I was a teenager. I mean, I was.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

Now you don't know. Who knows MMA, though? That guy could just shake a guy's hand and just get the shit kicked out of him.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, maybe.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Ken Marino]

But sure, I think the risk, I guess, if you need the money.

[Mark Normand]

I get it. Scary. But you. I think you could have walked away from that. I had a guy come up to you once. I don't know.

[Ken Marino]

Maybe I would have now.

[Mark Normand]

I would have, Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

I would have just been like, yeah, yeah, sure. And then this. Ran, but I didn't know where. I was up 10.

[Mark Normand]

Ah.

[Ken Marino]

So I could have ran, you know, I could have been running in the wrong direction.

[Jonah Ray]

No. Did you tell the girl and the dad that happened, or did you keep it?

[Ken Marino]

I think so. I think I was like, I think I just got mugged.

[Mark Normand]

How much money?

[Ken Marino]

I didn't have a lot of money at the time. It was, you know, maybe it was like 60 bucks.

[Mark Normand]

60. 60. That's like 5 mil.

[Jonah Ray]

But also, that's. You can't really mug anymore. You'd have to make them go to like a ATM or something.

[Mark Normand]

Good point.

[Ken Marino]

That is the. That is true. There's a. It's. It's.

[Mark Normand]

I had a hobo with Venmo recently.

[David Wain]

Electronic.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. I had a guy come up to me. I was eating with my wife, and this guy came up with his kid and he's like, we need some money. I was like, yeah, we're good, we're good. He goes, you got any cash? I was like, I have no cash. He goes, I take Venmo. And I went. So I had to Venmo him. He had a little placard with his. With his handle on it.

[David Wain]

Jesus.

[Mark Normand]

He got me.

[Jonah Ray]

So he's got a phone?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, hobo's have phones.

[David Wain]

Report that to Venmo.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, you didn't think about that, did you? I mean, I see you're thinking about it now.

[Mark Normand]

I wonder if I can pull that back.

[Ken Marino]

Context clues.

[Mark Normand]

Chin rub. Yep, that'll do it.

[Ken Marino]

And then also, he's a good actor vocally. You're going, huh?

[David Wain]

He is a good actor. You should make a movie in July.

[Mark Normand]

That's the plan.

[Ken Marino]

Do all the prep work before you start shooting. You won't have any time.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Stop lecturing him. Just let him have fun.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you. Appreciate that. Hold on. I had to think about the bugging. Oh, yeah. I had a guy come up to me in the village, and he goes, run your pockets. That's what he kept saying. See here? Run your pockets. He was completely shithouse. He was like, run your pocket. And I was like, oh, God. And then it hit me, like, wait, this is just a guy he's trashed? And I went, nah. And I just kept walking. And he was like, all right. So it just goes to show you,

[David Wain]

like, go to the next guy.

[Mark Normand]

It's scary at first, but then when. When it all hits you like, this is reality. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not giving you shit.

[David Wain]

Reason to bail. He will.

[Jonah Ray]

You just have to. Also, you just have to read the situation. If someone's giving you a bad vibe, you just got to walk away.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

I was on the train with Outside Steve from the. We're on the train. There's a crazy guy fucking with people, and he's like. He just fucks with them back. And I was like, what are you doing?

[Mark Normand]

That's crazy.

[Jonah Ray]

We're going to get fucking. Like, that's. You go to the other car.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. There's no. No upside to that. Yeah. What, are you going to change the guy's mind?

[Jonah Ray]

It was fun. It was fun. He got sodomized, but it was.

[David Wain]

It was so fun.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Sometimes that's fine.

[Jonah Ray]

It was.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Sometimes it can be.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

He's a gay man Outside Steve. Friend.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Well, we really shut it down with that comment.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. You guys. I guess homophobic.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, the movie's coming out. That's.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, the movie's coming out. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Movie in the Celebrity Sex Pass.

[David Wain]

It's in theaters July 10th.

[Ken Marino]

I don't know.

[David Wain]

When does this come out all over the world?

[Mark Normand]

Two weeks.

[David Wain]

I mean, all over the city.

[Ken Marino]

Comes out in two weeks. This show?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, yeah. So Gail Daughtry and a celebrity sex pass coming out July 10th.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[David Wain]

Do you wanna know what it's about?

[Mark Normand]

Please.

[David Wain]

It's about a Woman who lives in the Midwest, and she has a celebrity pass agreement with her fiance.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah.

[David Wain]

Which means that, you know, he can have sex with a particular celebrity if he happens to have the chance. As it turns out, he does have the chance, and he takes it literally and he does it. And it puts this woman, Gail Daughtry, played by Zoe Deutsch, into a little bit of a situation. So she ends up in Los Angeles where a psychic convinces her that she needs to even the score by finding her celebrity past John Hamm. And then she goes on this journey, epic journey, to go find Jon Hamm and him.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, fun. That's a great premise. Yeah, I'm hooked.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Now I gotta know if she ham.

[Ken Marino]

Well, you're gonna have to tune in.

[David Wain]

You're gonna have to know what happens. You have to buy a ticket.

[Ken Marino]

Buy a ticket to the film.

[Jonah Ray]

Let's go see it, dude.

[Mark Normand]

Let's do it.

[Jonah Ray]

We're going July 10th, please.

[Ken Marino]

Theaters are going to tell everybody on this podcast to do the same.

[Jonah Ray]

We will buy a ticket to see this movie.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Jonah Ray]

What's a lot of theaters it's opening up in or what?

[David Wain]

Like, decent number of theaters.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Theaters are back, baby.

[David Wain]

People are going out classics every be all over the country.

[Ken Marino]

If you like to laugh, and I could tell that you guys like to laugh, see exhibit A.

[Mark Normand]

Love that.

[Ken Marino]

Context clues. I could tell because he laughed. Go see this movie.

[David Wain]

And I have a little bit of an announcement. This is exclusive to this podcast.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, shit, here we go.

[David Wain]

Tickets for the movie are going to be available on Internet.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, gosh. Wow. This is blowing my mind.

[Ken Marino]

Breaking news.

[Mark Normand]

All right. Very exciting.

[Ken Marino]

And what do you think they're gonna go for?

[David Wain]

Well, I have a special deal just for your listeners, please. You buy, pay for the full price for two tickets. You get two tickets.

[Jonah Ray]

Promo code wmbd. Yeah, you might be drunk. Use that code, guys.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. Now, what's the back end deal? What are we talking? See, we got.

[Ken Marino]

Well, we'll get into that.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Ken Marino]

On a different show.

[Jonah Ray]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, when we come back, is theater. We don't know anything.

[David Wain]

Here's how the movie business works. If you pay, say, 12 for a movie ticket at the theater, 11 goes to me and Ken.

[Mark Normand]

Wow, that's pretty damn good.

[David Wain]

Split among, like, the theater and distributor show and advertising. Marketing. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Well, we're going hopefully, I think, to a streamer.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

I don't know what the plan is. Yeah, I don't even shot it yet. We have no idea.

[Mark Normand]

Theaters are scary now and then I

[Jonah Ray]

Assume comedies are a little scary. When's the last big comedy? I think that's what Naked Gun. That was.

[Mark Normand]

That was a good one.

[Jonah Ray]

But that was an existing IP already.

[Ken Marino]

Listen, I'm just. I'm just answering your questions, man. I don't want to fight about it. Just answer. You asked a question. I answered it, man.

[Mark Normand]

That's true.

[David Wain]

I would say don't worry about where it's gonna come out yet. Just worry about making a good movie.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I like that.

[Jonah Ray]

I like that for you. I like that.

[Ken Marino]

Do it for you.

[Jonah Ray]

But we are. We're not making on this. No, we're doing it because we want to make a movie.

[Ken Marino]

We're not making any on this movie.

[David Wain]

We never make any money. It doesn't matter.

[Ken Marino]

Is that what you're doing it?

[Mark Normand]

No, no, no, not at all.

[Jonah Ray]

We're pumped to make a movie and

[David Wain]

we don't do stand up and we don't have a podcast, so it's all got milk.

[Mark Normand]

Another great commercial. You yourself, maybe, I think.

[Ken Marino]

Well, it sounded a little merced.

[Mark Normand]

Get a bar rag, will you?

[Ken Marino]

I'll let you know if he himself by what comes over to me.

[Jonah Ray]

I'll smell it.

[Mark Normand]

I got a whip.

[Jonah Ray]

Smell it too. I'm close.

[Mark Normand]

I've been eating.

[Ken Marino]

That's a day that's dangerously wet.

[David Wain]

Do you do that thing when you're like, oh. And they're like, oh, Sunday brunch.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I could if you want.

[David Wain]

We all should.

[Ken Marino]

Here's the thing. I now get to experience your insides. Like, basically, you farted.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

That odor and the little particles from that odor floating in the air. I'm inhaling it. It's going into me now.

[David Wain]

I don't like this.

[Ken Marino]

And so to you, I say thank you.

[Mark Normand]

You're welcome.

[Jonah Ray]

He delivered that. Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, too.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

That was beautiful.

[Ken Marino]

Thank you. But I would argue, if we're in a sim, I'll tell you that.

[Jonah Ray]

Okay.

[Ken Marino]

After this medicine of podcasts, of farting,

[Mark Normand]

I would argue I have the boxer and pantaloon filter going.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, so you filled.

[Mark Normand]

But you're not getting coffee grinds in the coffee.

[Ken Marino]

Like, this is. But. But this isn't. They're not like those masks that we wore during COVID This is more shit'll come through it.

[Mark Normand]

No. What am I wearing fishnets?

[Ken Marino]

I don't know. You tell me.

[David Wain]

It's probably.

[Mark Normand]

Let me check. It might be.

[David Wain]

I have medical grade undies.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, you do. You got like 800.

[David Wain]

Well, I make them out of the old masks that I never Used during COVID Oh, yes.

[Jonah Ray]

Gas molecules pass directly through your pants, which is why you can smell a fart.

[Ken Marino]

Fabric essentially acts as an odor filter.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you, Filter.

[Ken Marino]

If you're worried about the gems or solid matter, clothing serves as an effective shield. Research shows that unaffected flatulence can produce microscopic particles outward. Wearing clothing completely blocks the particles from escaping.

[Mark Normand]

Well, all right.

[Ken Marino]

David Gross, filtering your farts.

[Mark Normand]

You're welcome.

[David Wain]

Not wait until we move on to the next thing, whatever it is.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I don't know.

[Jonah Ray]

This is the second half of the podcast.

[Ken Marino]

Let's get back to Gail Daughtry and the celebrity sex pest. The reason we're here, Guys.

[Jonah Ray]

You guys will mix it up. But we usually talk about Mark's ass at this point.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, we can. I have to mix it up.

[Mark Normand]

How cool is John Slattery?

[Ken Marino]

He's the chorus.

[David Wain]

So funny. He plays himself in this movie.

[Mark Normand]

What?

[David Wain]

Yes.

[Ken Marino]

He plays a version of him.

[David Wain]

It's about a group of people that are looking for Jon Hamm, one of which is the real life John Slattery. Plus Ben Wong, he's the new Karate Kid. He's a great guy.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[David Wain]

We've got Miles Gutierrez Riley, Sabrina Pachatori. I mean, it's an amazing cast. Joe Latrulo's in it, and Mather Zickel and.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, wow.

[Jonah Ray]

Nice.

[David Wain]

And a whole bunch of the same people.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Latrulo, Le Trulio. He's good.

[David Wain]

Yeah. A lot of surprises.

[Mark Normand]

Zoe.

[Jonah Ray]

I met her at Birch and Shaq show in la.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[Jonah Ray]

She's really cool.

[Ken Marino]

How'd that work out?

[Jonah Ray]

I didn't do great.

[Ken Marino]

What happened?

[Jonah Ray]

It was forced. It was a crowd work show.

[David Wain]

La.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

No, I think it's just at a certain. It's hard to do crowd work. Crowd work, crowd work. Every comic, it's like you want to throw a joke.

[David Wain]

That's weird.

[Jonah Ray]

It was tough. Yeah.

[David Wain]

They shouldn't do.

[Jonah Ray]

I got a few zings on Shaq.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Jonah Ray]

It's cool to meet Shaq.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, sure.

[Jonah Ray]

His hand. Talk about a fucking handshake.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

He mugged you.

[Ken Marino]

Did he get any money from.

[Jonah Ray]

No money, but he could have broken my fucking hand.

[Ken Marino]

Sure.

[David Wain]

Upset Shaq could do that everywhere.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

[David Wain]

Take that.

[Ken Marino]

Thank you so much. Oh, no. Oh, that's what happened. The guy. No, he didn't grab my hand in the beginning. He goes, how much money you got? And I'm standing there, I'm shaking, and he goes. And I take it out and he goes, give it to me in a handshake that's what it was. And so I gave him my 60 bucks in a handshake so it doesn't

[Jonah Ray]

look like a mugging if people are looking.

[Ken Marino]

And I gave it to him in a handshake, and he takes it, and then he left.

[Mark Normand]

I hate this guy. I'm furious about this. Do you think?

[Ken Marino]

I, like.

[David Wain]

I hope he spit out something good because that was really obnoxious what he did.

[Mark Normand]

I agree.

[Ken Marino]

It's better than the mugging that, like, Tom Lennon got.

[Mark Normand]

What happened to him?

[Ken Marino]

He got punched in the face and he had a black eye and like a.

[David Wain]

Like, Tom Lennon's been mugged multiple times.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, he got mugged, like, multiple times.

[Jonah Ray]

I thought he said John Lennon for a second. I was like, oh, I heard it was worse.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, yeah, it was worse for.

[Jonah Ray]

Didn't know about that.

[David Wain]

I had a guy when I was on once, he had one of those big machetes and he sliced my. My head off.

[Ken Marino]

You had your head clean cut off by a machete?

[David Wain]

Massive, very sharp machete.

[Ken Marino]

When you were mugged, somebody cut your head off with a machete.

[David Wain]

Give me your money. And I'm like. Before I could think, he's like, jesus Christ.

[Ken Marino]

Can we get back to the fart stuff then?

[David Wain]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

That's a little. Not my cup.

[Ken Marino]

That's scary to me.

[Mark Normand]

Yikes.

[David Wain]

Don't, don't. I know scary. By the way, I'm gonna let you, all three of you off the hook now, all right? It didn't happen happen,

[Ken Marino]

because I'm trying to figure out, how does this guy get his head cut off in a mugging. Garden path, but here he is.

[Mark Normand]

No, that was scarier than obsession.

[David Wain]

That is 100% fictional story, guys.

[Ken Marino]

That is 100%.

[Mark Normand]

We're going to look it up when. When not being funny. It's supposed to be funny.

[David Wain]

Oh, no. David Wayne did not have his head cut off. He's alive.

[Ken Marino]

And thank God we have a fact

[Jonah Ray]

checker on this podcast.

[Mark Normand]

What we do without Google.

[David Wain]

So weird.

[Mark Normand]

Wet hot American summer. Good movie.

[Ken Marino]

25th anniversary coming up.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[David Wain]

Summer, fifth anniversary. And it's gonna be re. Released in theaters, actually.

[Mark Normand]

What? That's super cool.

[Ken Marino]

How much do I get from that? How many points do I have on that?

[David Wain]

I think you get nothing.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, 20%.

[Mark Normand]

Are you getting mailbox money these days? Is that still a thing like residuals? Because you used to be able to live on that.

[Ken Marino]

Not so has the Italian say I'm not the. So much.

[Mark Normand]

Right?

[David Wain]

You get a lot.

[Ken Marino]

You.

[Mark Normand]

You've been you must get something. You've been in a ton of stuff.

[Ken Marino]

Get off my back. I just gave you my answer. In Italian, no less.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Jonah Ray]

Just curious how much money American Summer like that must have felt so good because it's clearly not a huge budget, but you just made a funny movie and it became this head.

[Mark Normand]

Huge hit cult class.

[David Wain]

I think we made a. We hit profit this year.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[Jonah Ray]

So was it. Was it not a success? I mean, it just. It felt like a success when it came out.

[Ken Marino]

Ken Marino made very little money. Likely no more than a few hundred dollars in minimum or scale. Nothing at all on the original Wet House American better than us in our movie. How does it know that? That is true. But how does it know that it's a high.

[David Wain]

It's taking an educated guess every time.

[Mark Normand]

Well, zero box office.

[Jonah Ray]

How many days did that take to shoot Wet Hot American summer?

[Ken Marino]

Well, three.

[David Wain]

No, that took about 28 days. But you have to understand. 35 millimeter one camera. Prime lenses.

[Ken Marino]

Like guys, you must understand.

[David Wain]

Which means all three of those things made it go a thousand times slower than it would.

[Ken Marino]

How many cameras you shooting with?

[Jonah Ray]

We got to figure that out.

[Mark Normand]

Five. Just throwing a number. I don't know.

[David Wain]

Probably two.

[Mark Normand]

Probably two.

[David Wain]

And then sometimes three. That's what.

[Mark Normand]

All right, I almost said one.

[Ken Marino]

Who's your dp? You got anybody?

[Jonah Ray]

I don't think we have anyone yet.

[Mark Normand]

You thinking about anybody, David?

[Ken Marino]

Is there anybody that you watch where you like?

[Mark Normand]

I like the.

[Jonah Ray]

I think Jonah's got someone.

[Ken Marino]

Jonah's got somebody?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

How do we trust Jonah?

[Mark Normand]

Should we call him? Let's call him.

[Ken Marino]

Give him a call.

[Mark Normand]

Give him a call. Peters. Put him on the. On the blower.

[Ken Marino]

Hey, man, what's up? I'm still sleeping. The Knicks were fucked up last night over, man. What's up?

[David Wain]

Jonas made some Jonas comedy.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[David Wain]

He's. He's really a very enterprising, smart young man.

[Mark Normand]

He's good.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Very ambitious. What.

[Ken Marino]

Name some of his stuff.

[Mark Normand]

Pull it up.

[Ken Marino]

I mean, where do we start to start?

[Jonah Ray]

He just did the new one with Spade and Theo Vaughan. He just directed that.

[Mark Normand]

Bus Boys.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

[Jonah Ray]

What else did he do?

[Mark Normand]

What else?

[Jonah Ray]

He did the one with Jabouki and Jerry Ferrari did that one.

[Mark Normand]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Jonah Ray]

He just did one called what About Xmas? Did he.

[Ken Marino]

Did he do Dating in New York?

[Jonah Ray]

Yes.

[David Wain]

At midnight?

[Mark Normand]

Yep.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, that's after midnight. We'll let it all hang out.

[David Wain]

He's. He's very active on Tick Tock too. He does.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[David Wain]

Talks A lot about his process. And, you know, he's very open about the financial side.

[Ken Marino]

And this is the dp. Who is this? No, the director. Yeah, Jonah. Jonah.

[David Wain]

He used to work for us.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

I love Jonah.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. Pokemon Writers row.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Watch out.

[Mark Normand]

Get out of here.

[Jonah Ray]

Damn. Airbud 4.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa. What sport are they on now?

[Ken Marino]

Can I. Can I be honest with you guys? Yeah. Of the earbuds, four is the one. Is it? I like four fours of the one. They figured it out. They cracked the code for AirBud 4.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. Okay, he's got volleyball now.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, he's playing volleyball. Who's the raccoon playing golf? The raccoon is best.

[Mark Normand]

Best friend.

[Jonah Ray]

Now it's a trans dog swimmer.

[David Wain]

Did they ever make a movie with spuds MacKenzie?

[Mark Normand]

No, I guess not.

[David Wain]

Oh, that's stupid.

[Mark Normand]

I heard he was hard to work with.

[David Wain]

Ken.

[Ken Marino]

Wait a second.

[David Wain]

Spuds McKenzie. Next script meets Spuds McKenzie.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, Spuds McKenzie.

[Mark Normand]

Marino.

[Ken Marino]

Ken's. Marino's.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Together for the first time.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. They went from a dog to a trans lady to Shane Gillis. Bud Lights. Really got raised like my life.

[David Wain]

Sounds like my dating life.

[Mark Normand]

There we go. Wait a minute. Who's the weird kid holding him? Sorry. Now we're just on the Internet. But, yeah, Spuds McKinney was a good time. Remember, girls would, like, blow them and stuff in the commercials. They would get all.

[Ken Marino]

No, they wouldn't.

[Mark Normand]

Well, they would. They would.

[Ken Marino]

Commercials. Are you watching?

[Mark Normand]

They'd cozy up to it.

[Ken Marino]

Cozy up to them because everybody likes a cute dog.

[Mark Normand]

And everybody.

[Ken Marino]

And they'll lay. Ladies love a cool dog.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but he was getting puss.

[Ken Marino]

No, he was just hanging out with the ladies.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay. Well, I got a little intimate.

[Ken Marino]

Well, I don't know what commercials you

[Mark Normand]

were watching, pal, but whatever's on tv. Yeah, I couldn't choose them.

[David Wain]

You can't choose.

[Ken Marino]

Sometimes I feel like growing up, the TV was my mom. Look, TV was my dad, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. These girls are all over.

[Ken Marino]

Okay. But they're all about. Hey, check it out.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, well, that is a cool damn dog. Oh, she's in his ear.

[David Wain]

I call TV the Plug In Drug.

[Mark Normand]

Hear, hear. Like, no.

[Ken Marino]

Hey, look at this dog's surfboard.

[Jonah Ray]

He's a cool dog.

[Mark Normand]

He's cool. Oh, he's going home with three. Look at this. Oh, my God. I thought. Who's that? Whoa. Is he. Is that a red rocket? Oh, man, look, he's on a rock.

[Jonah Ray]

That was a cool ass turn, though. Did you see that turn.

[Mark Normand]

That was a great turn. Oh, my God.

[Ken Marino]

Honestly, the ladies aside, is this dog drinking beer?

[Mark Normand]

Yes, because the dog was on the

[Ken Marino]

float with a beer.

[Jonah Ray]

How about that little tank top he's got on?

[Mark Normand]

Look at rubbing him down. I'm telling you to pet a cute dog. They're putting peanut butter in between the legs, and he's singing with the dog.

[Ken Marino]

But why is the dog drinking beer?

[David Wain]

That's a very.

[Mark Normand]

Well, he's a party animal.

[David Wain]

Buzz Mackenzie is a very.

[Mark Normand]

We're drinking whiskey.

[David Wain]

It's phenomenal.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, he's in the Cadillac. Oh, he can do country as well. Good for Spuds.

[David Wain]

Sorry. Brought it up.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, I'm sorry. You brought it up, too.

[David Wain]

I feel great about it, actually.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, I'm happy you brought it up. Same Sammy? Yes, man.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

He's got to be dead, right, Spuds?

[Ken Marino]

Oh, no, no. He's alive and well.

[David Wain]

There's absolutely no chance.

[Mark Normand]

Give me a. Give me a year, a date of birth and a date of death. I wonder how much the guy made with his dog. Whoever was that dog owner?

[Ken Marino]

Find out next time.

[David Wain]

I love this format. You just get to see what the Internet says about everything we're talking about.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Died in 1993.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, that's a shame.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Party animal.

[Ken Marino]

Liver failure.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Kidney failure.

[Mark Normand]

Kidney failure. The bud.

[Ken Marino]

Yep. Of course.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, you called it.

[David Wain]

You know, the kids were in the Little Rascals.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

One of them passed away.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, just one.

[David Wain]

I think maybe all of them, actually.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I would say so. I mean, that was in the, what, the 30s?

[David Wain]

20s.

[Mark Normand]

20s, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. I can't. I have to imagine. They're all.

[Jonah Ray]

No, that's a new Little Rascals. What are you doing?

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, we want the original cast. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, there we go.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, man. Darla.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I love that, darling. Look how cute Porky Lee was.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, my God.

[Mark Normand]

Anyone else? Hard?

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, Every kid wanted that hat back in the day.

[Ken Marino]

Tommy Bond has seen. Tommy Bond did not age well.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. Frog.

[Ken Marino]

Robert Blake, also, unfortunately, apparently a really good guy. No, no, it turns out not so much, really.

[David Wain]

Robert Blake.

[Mark Normand]

He was uglier than his wife.

[David Wain]

Right at the front door of the house that I lived in.

[Mark Normand]

Get out of here.

[David Wain]

I lived in it later, but in. In Los Angeles.

[Mark Normand]

Does that help or hurt the resale?

[David Wain]

I was renting the house.

[Mark Normand]

I see.

[Ken Marino]

Smart for Blakeheads.

[Mark Normand]

Maybe the best doc in the last 30 years. What do you say?

[Ken Marino]

Blakeheads?

[Mark Normand]

The jinx.

[Jonah Ray]

That wasn't him. That was Robert Durst.

[Mark Normand]

Ah, I got him mixed up. But they both Killed somebody.

[Jonah Ray]

And they got a similar vibe a little bit.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Pull up a Durst Blake side by side. I'm telling you.

[Jonah Ray]

Ever see The Robert Blake vs. Orson Welles on Carson?

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Jonah Ray]

It's a nice. It's a nice little 15.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, is that when he's like. Not because he refused to wear a tie? Like, that was like Robert Blake's thing was, I don't wear a tie.

[Jonah Ray]

Really?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's his thing.

[Jonah Ray]

He called him. He called him fat and Orson just zinged.

[Ken Marino]

That's right. That's right.

[David Wain]

What does that have to do with it?

[Ken Marino]

He's doing some research.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, weird. Yeah, Robert Blake is.

[Jonah Ray]

And he was in the original. What's the Capote book? The famous Capote book.

[Mark Normand]

In Cold Blood.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah, he was in that movie as a murderer.

[Ken Marino]

That's right.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, correct. Yeah. Dude, I didn't know. That's all full Cirque. They're making A Jinx Part two.

[Jonah Ray]

It was good how it came out. Oh, it was fucking awesome.

[Mark Normand]

I missed that one. I mean, where do you go?

[Jonah Ray]

What happened to the Jinx?

[Mark Normand]

Best doc ever.

[Jonah Ray]

It might be the best true crime ever.

[David Wain]

Yeah, it's pretty good.

[Ken Marino]

I don't like true crime shit.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, this.

[Jonah Ray]

But it's that good.

[Mark Normand]

It's well done.

[Ken Marino]

Watch it.

[Jonah Ray]

It's that good.

[Mark Normand]

It's the best.

[David Wain]

Did they ever let that kid off from making a murder?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, the slow guy.

[David Wain]

That.

[Jonah Ray]

That was too stretched out.

[Mark Normand]

Of course it was.

[Jonah Ray]

That was like too many episodes.

[Ken Marino]

Do you think there's murder and Gail Daughtry in the Celebrity Sex Pack?

[David Wain]

Are you gonna have to find out.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, you think there's intrigue?

[Mark Normand]

You got a murder at the box office a lot.

[Ken Marino]

Let's hope so.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, we hope you guys crush at the box office, man. That'd be awesome.

[Mark Normand]

Jeez, That's a long name.

[David Wain]

I hope so, too. Yeah, it's a very long title. But that's, you know, it's part of the fun.

[Ken Marino]

That's part of the fun.

[Jonah Ray]

What other. What other shows you going on to promote?

[Ken Marino]

Well, Johnny Carson, of course.

[Jonah Ray]

Nice. Yeah, it's hard to get on.

[Ken Marino]

Apparently Johnny's not going to be there. It's going to be Rivers booked on

[David Wain]

Colbert, I think we're gonna do.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, we're gonna do Colbert.

[Mark Normand]

Fun doing. Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

And then what else?

[David Wain]

Leno.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Steve Allen.

[Ken Marino]

Steve Allen. We're gonna do a thing of Steve Allen. Yeah.

[David Wain]

Steve Allen wants us to do this whole. The whole bit with the dartboards and then.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, we're Gonna do some sketch. We're gonna go on that late night comedy show Fridays.

[Mark Normand]

Ah, Michael Richards.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

So good times.

[Jonah Ray]

You couldn't get Ferguson. You couldn't get Ferguson.

[Mark Normand]

We were.

[Ken Marino]

We're still waiting back to here.

[David Wain]

We're doing the magic hour with Magic Johnson.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

And then Chevy Chase. We do Chevy Chase.

[David Wain]

We're doing Joan Rivers. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Fun.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. So the whole circle. We'll get out there. We'll get to get our. Out there.

[Mark Normand]

Well, it looks Abraham. I can't wait to see it.

[Ken Marino]

But it sounded like you just said, it looks abada. Abada?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's my native tongue.

[Ken Marino]

Is that a catchphrase for the show?

[Mark Normand]

Abraham. Abrah, Abraham. That's what I say.

[David Wain]

In all sincerity, being objective, it is really one of the funniest movies ever made.

[Mark Normand]

Wow. Okay. That's a hell of a blur.

[Jonah Ray]

Is it really hard editing these things? Like, is there so much stuff you want to keep that you're just like, fuck, we got to. Just. Because you want to keep a comedy pretty tight, right?

[Ken Marino]

You keep it at 90, 90, 93 minutes.

[Jonah Ray]

That's good. That's smart. Yeah, but it's hard, right? There's a lot of stuff you want.

[Ken Marino]

It's hard. You gotta say goodbye to some of your babies.

[David Wain]

Let it go.

[Mark Normand]

Let it go.

[David Wain]

Let it. It go for the hole.

[Mark Normand]

Abort.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. You know the expression, let it go. Let it go. Go for the hole. Ouch.

[Mark Normand]

How funny is that ham, huh? Handsome and funny. Yeah, he's got it all. Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

I mean, the way you're saying that. You intru. I mean, you want to. I can introduce you.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, I wouldn't kick him out of the bed for eating crackers. He's married.

[Ken Marino]

Yes.

[Mark Normand]

What's he thinking? Love.

[Ken Marino]

I'm in love.

[David Wain]

He has a wonderful wife.

[Ken Marino]

What do you mean?

[Mark Normand]

Wow, this guy.

[Ken Marino]

Are you married?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but I'm not ham.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, I'm.

[Mark Normand]

I'm deli meat.

[David Wain]

Are you married to John Ham?

[Mark Normand]

I am not married to Anna Scola.

[Ken Marino]

No, Jon Ham is.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I know.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

That's why I'm not.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[David Wain]

Anna Osceola is one of the best makers of cake. Like, she bakes cake.

[Jonah Ray]

What kind of cakes are we talking?

[David Wain]

Any kind of fruit. Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Okay. How about tomato cake?

[Mark Normand]

No, that's not a kick. Come on. Where'd you go to improv? Joking.

[David Wain]

I never heard of tomato cake.

[Jonah Ray]

It is a fruit. Technically, he's playing the game fair.

[Ken Marino]

All right, I bet there is such a thing as tomato cake. Would you mind looking it up?

[David Wain]

Oh, My God.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, geez. There's gonna be some. There you go.

[Jonah Ray]

It's not a cake. This is clearly a frittata.

[David Wain]

Being on this podcast feels like me sitting at home trying to write like,

[Ken Marino]

surprisingly delicious moist dessert that tastes remarkably like spiced carrot cake or gingerbread cake. Thank you.

[David Wain]

I wish I had some.

[Mark Normand]

I'd like to try it now, actually. You can make a cake out of anything.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, yeah. I mean, fruit.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Establish that. Tomato, of course.

[Mark Normand]

Butter cake.

[David Wain]

Who's been on this show that comes to mind? Just the first you think of as, like, the. One of the most exciting.

[Ken Marino]

Yes. Who do people go to? What's get the. What's got. Got the most hits.

[Jonah Ray]

Seinfeld was pretty cool. That was a pretty cool episode.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

You want to hear my Seinfeld?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

What's the deal with crackers?

[David Wain]

That's great.

[Jonah Ray]

Burr was big.

[Mark Normand]

It was. Bill Burr was fun.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, you want to hear my Bill Burr?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Hey, Boston, what's your deal? Why are you guys being so shitty right now?

[Jonah Ray]

Hey, Christopher Walken. That was a good one.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ken Marino]

Okay, sure. I'm Christopher Walken.

[Jonah Ray]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. We had Paul Giamatti

[David Wain]

prove this message.

[Ken Marino]

Oh, that's nice.

[Mark Normand]

All right, good.

[Ken Marino]

So, wait, so you had Giamatti on here?

[Mark Normand]

No, no.

[Ken Marino]

We were just trying to say you had Christopher Walken.

[David Wain]

He was setting you up to do.

[Mark Normand]

We did have Seinfeld.

[Ken Marino]

How is Seinfeld?

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, you're a great episode.

[Ken Marino]

What was a moment that Seinfeld gave you that even when you think about now, guys, gives you the goosebumps, the chills? What is it?

[Mark Normand]

I mean, it was sincerely great. I know you're making a mockery, but it was awesome.

[David Wain]

He's making mockery. I'm.

[Ken Marino]

I'm not making a mockery. I'm asking you what did you. I was making a joke of how I asked the question. But what was the.

[Mark Normand]

We go deep into comedy nerd joke writing, and it was really enlightening.

[Jonah Ray]

We love that stuff.

[Ken Marino]

So let me ask you something. When did you get into comedy?

[Jonah Ray]

We both. Probably around 20 years now.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. 20 years ago.

[Ken Marino]

What made you do it?

[Mark Normand]

What were you always loved? I was a waiter. Then I moved furniture. Then I did construction then. Like that. But I moved up here. I'm from New Orleans. There's no comedy there, so. Right. I had to come up here.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

To try to be a comedian.

[Ken Marino]

From New Orleans. I love New Orleans.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, great town. Great town. Most original. Not original, but unique city in America.

[David Wain]

I'd say, without question, one of The.

[Ken Marino]

Some of the best.

[Jonah Ray]

I love New Orleans in the world.

[Ken Marino]

Some of the best food in the world.

[Mark Normand]

Very good. I miss it. You can't get it here, which is weird. You can get Ethiopian food. No, but I can't get Creole. I've looked around. It ain't. It's not made with love.

[Jonah Ray]

Who's like a person you guys have worked with, who. You're like, holy. This is pretty crazy.

[David Wain]

Henry Winkler comes to mind.

[Ken Marino]

Alan Oliver, Aldo, Come on.

[Jonah Ray]

That's pretty cool.

[Ken Marino]

Anytime you work with somebody like that, you watched growing up and you were like, oh, my God, I'm watching, you know, mash or Happy Days or like Taxi. Like, you know, Elaine Nardo up. Mary Lou Henner.

[Mark Normand]

Sure.

[Ken Marino]

You know, like, she was on Party down, if you remember. Ed Begley Jr. Like, all these people that you grew up watching and then all of a sudden they're in scenes

[Mark Normand]

with you insane, or you're directing them

[Ken Marino]

in something pretty amazing. It's. It's mind boggling. It's a weird fucking mindfuck.

[Jonah Ray]

Looks amazing, by the way.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Who's that?

[Jonah Ray]

Ernie Hudson.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Crazy.

[David Wain]

I was. I was shooting a pilot that all the characters in it were older people. It was like, about old people. And so, like, the entire cast of Barney Miller came to audition and the entire cast of the Love Boat came to audition and I was just like, this is.

[Ken Marino]

That's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Ken Marino]

I shot a Christmas movie with Eddie Murphy.

[Jonah Ray]

Whoa.

[Ken Marino]

I walk into the middle of the first movie. I walk into the middle of the street. Eddie Murphy. You all right?

[Mark Normand]

Sorry. All right.

[Ken Marino]

Eddie Murphy.

[Mark Normand]

I got excited about it again.

[Ken Marino]

Eddie Murphy walks out of his house. I walk out of my house and we meet in the middle of the street and we have a scene with Eddie Murphy.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. See, that's legendary. That's incredible.

[Ken Marino]

Was he. Was he cool? He. Yes, he was cool. Like, you know, you hear like, he's to himself. And he was like, to himself because he's Eddie Murphy. Right. He's got nothing to prove and he just is kind of. He's. He's like. But he was like, super nice. You know, like when we got into conversations, he would like, just talk about stuff. Like, he was a really cool guy.

[Jonah Ray]

What do you talk about with Eddie Murphy?

[Ken Marino]

Well, once I got to like. Because he would shoot, you know, he would show up, shoot a scene and then leave.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Ken Marino]

So. But there were times we had. I had a son, so the. In the movie. And so sometimes because of time, you know, the. The kid we had got to let the kid out in 20 minutes. Eddie Murphy couldn't go. Leave. And so we were just standing on set waiting to reset, you know, the cameras or whatever. And we got into some conversations and we talked about who his favorite director was. Just like, growing up on Long Island.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah, it was cool.

[Jonah Ray]

Who does he love?

[Ken Marino]

What's that? His favorite director is who did Training Places.

[Mark Normand]

Landis.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah. He's like. I thought they hated each other because Landis was like. Like one of the, you know, greats like Steven Spielberg and Scorsese. All those guys coming out of there and goes, he doesn't get his.

[Mark Normand]

I agree.

[Ken Marino]

His due.

[Mark Normand]

He had a run in the 80s.

[David Wain]

He really just never came back, though.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's true.

[David Wain]

Well, that's Landis. We talked to Landis when we were trying to make Wet Hot American Summer, and he was going to help us produce it, put his name on it, help us find money for it, and it sort of felt fizzled away, and that was the end of it.

[Ken Marino]

Wait, what did you say after What. What happened?

[Mark Normand]

Incident.

[Ken Marino]

Because of the helicopter. Because of the creep show. Does that mean.

[David Wain]

No, because Twilight Zone was Twilight Zone. No, but this. This was. This was all after that. This was in 2000.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay.

[David Wain]

Wet Hot American Summer. And he just. He was trying to connect us with some financier or whatever and just never really happened. And so.

[Mark Normand]

All right, I think we gotta wrap up. Sorry. We're getting there. We're getting this.

[Ken Marino]

I got it. Like a 10. I got like. Like 10 more hours of stuff that I wanted to talk to you about.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay.

[David Wain]

June 26th, March, Mark Ridley's comedy Castle.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, go see Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Crazy cast. It's in the theater. It's gonna be hilarious. He said it's the best comedy.

[Jonah Ray]

Mark and I are gonna go see it in the theater.

[David Wain]

We will go see it if you're in it. If you're on the east coast in July, check out the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band. We'll be on tour.

[Ken Marino]

That's right.

[David Wain]

That's me and Ken. I'm the drummer. He's the lead singer.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Middle East.

[Ken Marino]

We're doing. Yeah, we're doing Rehoboth. Then we're doing Amagansett.

[David Wain]

Amagansett.

[Ken Marino]

And then we're doing West Irving Plaza here in New York. Doing. And then we're going up to Rhode island in Connecticut or something.

[Mark Normand]

Hell yeah.

[David Wain]

And Maine.

[Mark Normand]

Boy, you guys are living.

[David Wain]

The thing about it is that it's also our tribute to WET Hot American Summer. 20th anniversary. So we have, like, songs from the movie, and it's gonna be really fun.

[Mark Normand]

Cool.

[David Wain]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Ken Marino]

And. And then, of course, I just want to say that this is the. Probably the best installment of the Gail Daughtry movies. This is the best one.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, great. Awesome, guys. Well, hey, thanks for coming on. Yeah, we're gonna go see it. And you should all go see it.

[David Wain]

There you go.

[Mark Normand]

Tell them we sent you.

[Jonah Ray]

Yeah. Well, guys, thanks for listening. By the way, Shout Out Jezelnick. Red Stoner. Enjoyed it. Good.

[Mark Normand]

Really?

[Jonah Ray]

I like the book. You couldn't get through it, you said. I guess. Mixed reviews. I thought it was. I thought it was good, Peters. I enjoyed the book and it was. It was. I thought it was solid, slow burn, character study type thing. But, like, very well written. And at the end, I put it down, like, huh.

[Mark Normand]

He knows books. He's a reader.

[Jonah Ray]

I enjoyed it. Yeah. And another quick shout out to my buddy, Joel Walkowski.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Jonah Ray]

Wrote a book. Honolulu Blues. Really good.

[Mark Normand]

He wrote it.

[Jonah Ray]

He wrote it. It's about his life as you know, the struggles he's had, his relationship with his father, this troubled relationship he had with his dad and his relationship with the Detroit Lions and how losing shaped him and who he is. So if you're a Detroit person, you gotta pick this book up. And if you're just a sports fan in general, it'll resonate just like the ups and downs. It's a touching book. All right, so shout out Joel, my basketball buddy. Proud of you for writing that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Very impressed. Wrote a whole book. Good for you, man.

[Ken Marino]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. That's awesome.

[Jonah Ray]

So, Mark, where are you gonna be?

[Mark Normand]

Hey, going out to Royal Oak, Michigan, for Mark Ridley's comedy Castle.

[Jonah Ray]

Great club.

[Mark Normand]

Great club. Low tickets. Hilarities. Another great club.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, my favorite.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I'm on. I'm on a generational run. Unless we.

[Jonah Ray]

Well, you can't do some of this shit, bro.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, we'll see what happens. Let's get this going. Happy to cancel. Emerald City Comedy Club in Seattle. Never been, but I heard it's great. Side spurs in Tampa and the clubhouse in East Hampton. Those are fun. Bring the wife and kids. I'll go to the beach. Cobbs in San Fran.

[Jonah Ray]

Canceling all these, buddy.

[Mark Normand]

Austin, Houston, Improv.

[Jonah Ray]

These are going to happen.

[Mark Normand]

That'd be. That'd be a great problem to have. Zany's in Nashville.

[Jonah Ray]

Cancel it.

[Mark Normand]

Improv in Pittsburgh. And Casino. Regina. Regina. And then the laptop in Calgary. We're going all the way to Canada. The Great White Way. Acme in Minneapolis.

[Jonah Ray]

Oh, man, I haven't been there in years.

[Mark Normand]

Great one, great club. And then comedy works in Denver. Look at this. Look. It's good to be back. My comedy on State, Wisconsin, I gotta get.

[Jonah Ray]

I. I feel like I finally have a base of new. I guess gotta keep rolling.

[Mark Normand]

Hell yeah. It takes forever. And it's a slog, isn't it?

[Jonah Ray]

August 30th, I got Lisbon. Can't wait for that festival. Greece. Tickets moving, baby. Then we got Budapest. Tickets are very slow in Budapest. So come on, guys, help a brother out there in Budapest. Buy some tickets in Hungary. Zagreb looking good there. We got Vienna. Warsaw. Added a show in Warsaw. My Jewish brother. That's my. That's my 23andMe heritage. You guys better show out.

[Mark Normand]

Poland's awesome.

[Jonah Ray]

Helsinki, can't wait. Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen. And that's all in September, so I can't wait. And hopefully we're shooting this movie very soon.

[Mark Normand]

Let's hope so. Pray no.

[Jonah Ray]

Allah, buy some Bodega Cat whiskey. And hey, if you're still listening, guys, certain clubs are not carrying our whiskey that we've played for many years, that we support and that we like and we'd like to play again. Yes, we're talking about you. Funny Bone.

[Mark Normand]

Funny Bone. What happened? I thought we had a good, good relationship.

[Jonah Ray]

If you like the pod and you like Bodega Cat whiskey, or you just like us, flood the comments on Instagram for all the Funny Bone clubs. Why aren't you carrying Bodega Cat? Say, please carry Bodega Cat. We want Bodega Cat in the menu. Be respectful, be nice, but just say, hey, it'd be cool if you carry Bodega Cat whiskey. All the Funny bone. Instagram handles all that shit.

[Mark Normand]

It'd be nice. Yeah, come on. We'd love to have you and fans comment on them.

[Jonah Ray]

And we hopefully will be playing those clubs again soon. And. Oh, yeah, and we could do drink deals and all that stuff. So we'll be back.

[Mark Normand]

That'd be great.

[Jonah Ray]

But we love you guys. Thanks for listening.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you.

[Ken Marino]

Comedy Sunday's the day for my next bender. A bit of Piva wreck. You know, the fear change. Close. I've had a little too much burping.

[David Wain]

And Norman's talking shit about the fucking Pope.

[Ken Marino]

And I get down in the same way up on the roof like the cops coming.

[David Wain]

And naked Samuel is feeling dangerous. I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans. This woman doesn't look like I remember her.

[Ken Marino]

And I get down in the same way. We might be true.

[Mark Normand]

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