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Nick Kroll Returns for the Longest Riff in Fly History

August 28, 2025 / 54:11

This episode features Nick Kroll discussing his work on the animated series Big Mouth, his new show Adults on FX, and various comedic topics. The hosts, Dana Carvey and David Spade, engage in humorous banter about current events, including Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement, and share personal anecdotes.

Nick Kroll talks about the evolution of his comedy style, mentioning how he has retreated from personal material back to broader character-driven humor. He reflects on the challenges of stand-up and the dynamics of performing with friends.

The conversation touches on the impact of social media on viewership, particularly for shows like Adults, and how it connects with younger audiences. Kroll shares insights on the creative process behind Big Mouth and the freedom they had when pitching the show to Netflix.

Throughout the episode, the trio engages in playful impressions and comedic riffs, showcasing their chemistry and improvisational skills. They also discuss the cultural significance of various pop culture references, including movies and television shows.

The episode concludes with light-hearted speculation about celebrity relationships and the nature of fame, highlighting the comedic camaraderie between the hosts and Kroll.

TL;DR

Nick Kroll joins Dana Carvey and David Spade to discuss comedy, his shows Big Mouth and Adults, and celebrity culture.

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Dude, AI covers anything now. But dude, AI did it. AI did 911. And that
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[ __ ] yeah, dude. And that's what we're not talking about. And that's what we're finally talking about.
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1950s baby body. The calves of Taylor Swift. The calves will be kind of puny, but sweet.
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[Music] The eyebrows, the big eyebrows of
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Travis. We're going to do some Tik Tok videos today, Jimmy. We're we're putting some
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content on that [ __ ] again. Let's go with a coffee bean. Yeah. What the [ __ ] is a tick tock?
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Central Park. That's what they called your dick. A tic tac, Dana.
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Yes. Look at this. I've got the dark room. You've got the bright room. Well, I can darken it, you know, to
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match. No, no, we're really shaking stuff up. We got to keep them guessing. Uh, I had my porn star look last week and now I'm
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Plants's a hit, dude. Water it all the time. A lot of comments. Plants a hit. What about my Superman?
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Still a medium hit. Mhm. But yeah,
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I don't really need I don't really need this much light. I feel like I'm using too much light, you know?
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No, I know. I'm I'm down mixing things up and shaking [ __ ] up, so it's a little
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dark behind me in this uh studio. You're in a dungeon with and it if you turn the lights off be pitch black.
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No, my legs are chained right now so I can't escape. But we got Nick Croll
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and we've had Nick Croll before. We think he's funny as [ __ ] and I want to riff with him and [ __ ] around.
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Funny mother, shut your mouth. And he's got he's got um let me see uh Big Mouth, of course.
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Huge show uh on Netflix, the animated show. He's got Adults, which is on FX.
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He's producing that on FX. Ask him about that. And he has a special out. And uh he's
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just a good guy to really mostly just have laughs with. Yes, totally. We
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People want information, but they also want some laughs. Yeah, he's uh you know, there are comedians are sort of quiet or
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thoughtful. He's one of those that just like, you know, he wants to run with anything to run with thing, be funny. Um, and by
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the way, we fancy ourselves as sort of, you know, intellectuals and father figures in some ways. So,
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if you want to ask us questions about life. Oh, yeah. That's right. You can always ask us questions. We'll answer them on
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uh the non- guest show, I think. Uh, but ask weird ones because we don't want
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simple. We want complicated mine. Yes. About your screwed up. Sex life. uh
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you know, financial issues, relationship issues,
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anxiety and depression. That's all very popular right now. Hilarious.
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Fly onthe-wall at odyssey.com is what I hear. Fly on the wall, one word, lowercase at odyssey.com.
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Great. And uh we'll give you we'll hand you off to Nick Croll. You don't hear me now.
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[ __ ] Now he sounds incredible. How does I have time for one more question? I
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couldn't afford that mic, so I got this standup mic. I um What's nice is there's a weight.
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So, you know what I mean? You know, you feel like you don't have that heavy weight holding a microphone. It's nice. I've got that here.
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We've got a lot. Is it Is it heavy? It looks heavy. It's Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to I'm
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not going to even go to the gym after this. This is No, but Nick, this is a real story related to this. When I do stand up, you
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ever seen stand up stand like this? It's because I'm using a little fulcrum because the mic's getting too heavy and
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pulling on my neck. That's how much I see. It's unreal. Um,
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yeah. Okay. And now I'm just going to raise I want you guys to see. I'm going to raise it. I've got a urine test kit that I'm
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going to use to raise the Okay. Um, just to give you a little more. That'll do it.
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Right. Just put it right on my That's going to do it. That's going to do it. That's your
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famous. Why? That's the thing is rhythms never
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go away because there's no there's nothing funny about someone saying got to do it. There's no reason. There's no
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joke. There's no twist. It's the song. It's the song. That's going to do it.
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Actually, you the hook is just it's it's like a chorus of a song. Like a hookie song. go.
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Okay, I'll do this for I'll do this for Nick cuz it's uh it you know you have bits in your act that get way way bigger
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laugh than they should and it's almost mysterious. This is George Bush Senior going off a high dive.
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So I'm walking up to the front of the stage. Got to do it. Gonna do it. Then I
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look down. I go not gonna do it. And the laugh is so monstrous it almost makes me
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mad. Are you Do you have that? Are you jealous of some of your jokes?
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I like Good question. Jealous of them? Well, I'd like to have more.
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You know, some some jokes are funnier than me. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, kind of. And you're like You're
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kind of like, "Fuck, I wish I Yeah. I wish I was as funny as my jokes." I think. Yeah. Like Like when you get
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jokes at work all the time, you go, I wish they were all like this. But Well, I'm just doing sounds now. And I
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was going to ask you about that. Just noises. I I'm just well I'll just do uh just Biden or Trump for 20 minutes or
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I'll do Red Rednecky. I I just not really into regular standup as much like
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you know like when you and I have this rel I'm more into just giving them what they want
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cuz I'm a [ __ ] and uh and I'm and I'm lazy. I'm a lazy [ __ ] But um so but it
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it's fun. It's fun because that's what you do with friends. You don't really set up long form bits with friends. It's
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all kind of noise. And do you not do observational jokes with your friends? Do you kind of point out
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the small things in life that are funny and talk to them about Not in a way that gets them laughing
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really hard compared to in high school the Volkswagen bug. All my friends are
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stone and I'm doing an impression of the water polo coach and I'm winding it down for 10 minutes. Yeah,
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I've never gotten people to laugh that hard with, "Well, why do dogs look out the window when
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they're driving? What are they thinking? What are they thinking? I guess I can run really fast now."
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I have been at dinner or lunch start to say something about the butter being hard and someone always goes,
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"Is this your act?" Yeah. And I go, "Yes." Leaning in is good. So, I was gonna ask
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you like when we talked to you last time, this is this is like a exclamation point in podcasting
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uh you were you said, "Oh, people want really really kind of personal confessional stuff."
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Mhm. And you did and now you're still doing out there doing standup. Have you evolved into another style or you're in
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it? You loved it. I've I've retreat I've retreated back. I've retreated back away from the personal stuff. I was not rewarded
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enough for sharing. That's true. Mayday, mayday, mayday.
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Pull back. Uh, no Emmy nomination. Uh, you know, medium response. So, I just
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was like, let's go back to broad characters separated from self
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observations about nothing to do with me. Let's put that wall back up. Let's build.
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That's a podcast high five. Like, why? You know, cuz the people they they still we got to go back to square one. it is.
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You want to make them helpless with laughter, right? Ultimately, yes. You don't want to be like a science, you
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know, high school science teacher or something or, you know, but there was that there were great comedians, Hannah
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Gatsby and so forth. They're doing more of a one-man show. Rest in power. Rest in power to Hannah
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now gone these now many years. Yes. Yes. Rest in power. What does that mean? I
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like it. That's I don't know. some at some point there became an alt on rest in peace that became rest in power. So
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh rest in power. That's great. That's my new special. I say instead of right on I say left on.
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I don't know what it means but but like you're kind of I always see you as uh especially gifted at being balls out
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funny. Like aggressively, rhythmically, loudly
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extra funny, you know. So we got a real crossfire here with speed. Yeah, I'm the other side.
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Well, D has his own genius. What? I Here's what I did last night, Nick,
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for being personal. Cuz my mom fell and she's got this huge bruise in her face. And I go, "My mom, poor mom." You know,
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when they get older and now she falls straight down like building seven now. She doesn't even put her
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hands out. It's like borderline political. But they all kind of booed me and I'm like,
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"Don't think of the 9/11 part of that. Think of my poor mom, right?
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That's what you So, you feel like you got you went personal and they rejected it simply because you made a 9/11 joke.
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Yeah. And I say back to goofy jokes cuz you can't handle it. You can't handle it. You can't hand and are you I mean you did do a a full hour
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on 9/11. I feel like you did. I said 911 conspiracy or reality. Like
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what does that mean? I go I don't know. It sounds kind of hooky. Do you guys want to my old Do you want to hear my old 911 joke?
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Yeah, of course. Of course. Um, the lesson from 9/11. What was it? Show up late to work.
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You know what I mean? Don't be afraid to Don't go like that one guy. That
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guy le 911 is nickname at 7-Eleven so it doesn't seem so dark and just more
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twisted. 7-Eleven almost got caught in the crossfire cuz it was too close. Yeah. It was like, what' you say? Oh, 711.
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Oh, yeah. You know what I heard? I heard building three was already dynamited. We
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dynamited. We got an expert here.
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The laziest conspiracy theorist. Yeah, I saw they had a couple guy with plungers walking around like this.
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But I will say dynamited that I did tell someone that they go, "This young lady is really big on 911.
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So if you want to talk, she gets into it." So I said, "Oh, something like, oh,
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did you not think the planes caused the explosions or you thought it was already
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set up with dynamited?" And she goes, "Uh," she goes, "Oh, you thought there
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were planes?" I go, "Oh my god, we're going back a step. There's no there's no
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plane." She's like, "That's so funny. You probably thought that, though." I go, "I did." Yeah.
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I go, "What else is it?" She goes, years. Literally thought those were digital cop. You can do that now with
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AI. No problem, dude. AI covers anything now. But dude, AI did it. AI did 911.
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And that Yeah, dude. And that's what we're not talking about. And that's what we're finally talking about.
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Everyone's scared. We're not. I want to tell you about the moment cuz I think we talked about it last time
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where you were like next level funny. Please. like like went to this thing that really made me laugh hard and it
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was just I think I was doing Trump I was we were at the Largo. Yeah. And then I was Trump talking to Kim Jong
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Mhm. And then you were kind you got in this thing of like maybe it kind of turns him on. So you're doing like oh you're doing
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like Kim Jong Yun kind of being flirty and sort of being turned on by Trump's
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attacks. Sure. It was very quick and aggressively committed to. So anyway, that's all I
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got. Thank you. Well, I appreciate that. I think so. We're all done now. I think we've covered We got us
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We got all the Does it look like we're done? Are we done? Are you kidding?
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Not Sky. Good lord. I saw this. You've done too much. We can't There's
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too many shows. Too much stuff. Too much stuff. Can we Can I I can't help but say I see something in the
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studio chat that feels like something here. Oh, breaking news or something. Yeah.
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Oh, Taylor Swift and Travis the football guy are engaged.
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What a good news, man. Well, the football guy, Tom Bro.
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Travis Taylor and the football guy. Taylor Swift and the football guy are
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engaged today. Um, first comes love, then comes
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marriage. How do we finish that one? You know what? Nice. Nice timing. Where's the Epstein list?
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There we go. Nice instruction, Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. Taylor, hold on. Epste's going to come out of witness
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protection and Jeffy's going to marry them cuz he's in witness protection. By the way, I thought they were engaged
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sort of already, but you know, if this was a year ago, I would have been more shocked, but it feels like time. Right.
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Right. Well, and this is breaking news cuz this podcast will come out in like a week.
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Six months. Yeah. So like, oh, it's not Thursday. When people listen to this on Thursday,
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it's Tuesday. Cut the line. They'll know we're hearing this for the first time. We're We're not We don't
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have Where were you when you heard this? I was here. So, what's your blink on it?
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What's your blink on it? Um, I think it's a great day for white America. I'll say that first.
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Catches a break. Who's white? And I will say I watched um uh Happy
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Gilmore 2 um and I saw Travis Kelsey. I
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he's shirtless in it and my take was like he's got like 1950s movie star body.
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You know what I mean? It's not like definition. It's just sort of it's it's like a strong big man.
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Yeah. Hair. It's like Charlton Hen kind of. And he had that kind of haircut too. He
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he uh Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, it was all working for me. Yeah. Right.
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Yeah. That's I like any guy from any era. Well, let's just
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That's a nice That's your take on the That's what I walked away with.
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I thought Happy Gilmore took place in the 50s. I didn't understand what happened. Yeah. I missed the 50s guy guys with
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their shirts off. That was Fonza. Fonza never took his shirt off if you guys didn't know.
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All right, Dana, you know I'm always dragging around and up. I always got a five hour energy on me. Mhm. I know that you Yeah, they they're
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either in my sock, in the car, they're somewhere. You keep them everywhere. I give them a little slurp. I don't
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really shoot the whole thing like some people do on an empty stomach. I think I eat a little bit,
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couple sips, just like coffee. Just keep just keep something going there because chug it.
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I don't I'm actually Yeah, I don't want that much energy at once. It's five hours, so I kind of, you know,
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that's what most people do, but I sip it overall. Um there's a lot of different flavors. Yeah. There's one
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full bottle or anything. You just run around with that big birthday energy. Yeah.
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All right. Okay. Taylor and Travis. Okay.
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She is not a huge pop star. Does not have a billion dollars. He is not a
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superstar football player. Doesn't do TV commercials, but they meet in a small
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town and have the chemistry. Do they get married? For sure.
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Yeah. Okay. They wouldn't have waited this long. Yeah. No, they would have been married. They would have been married like eight
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or nine years ago. They would have been teetering. Yeah. They they would have squanked out
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two kids and they would be teetering. They would be teetering on divorce and definitely some local town affair has a
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happen. Having troubles. Yeah. Some grumbles and some whispers. Engaged in 2011. The marriage happens a
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year later and there's a baby two weeks after that, right? So there, listen, what is the what kind of brand
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deals is the kid gonna get? Oh, that's exciting. That's exciting to think about. Yeah, that is a good
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question. You guys should ask someone that on the podcast. I'm going to start buying of like possible names.
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I'm panicking. I just keep trying to push off of of what the brand deal is for the movie.
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I just want to buy the Tik Tok and make them buy it off me or something. Well, that I I wonder. Yeah, you should
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get you. So, we have to guess what the kid's name's going to be. Travis and does Oprah go to the go to the wedding?
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Does Oprah go to the wedding? Does Prince Harry go to the wedding? Does Prince, the artist formerly known
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as, go to the wedding? Rest in power. Rest in Prince. Rest in power.
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Does Prince Harry does Prince Harry go and Megan doesn't because she's got another wedding that weekend?
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Um, does Megan call him Prince? Uh, and maybe Megan is stuck in the jam like you
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know Winnie the Pooh. She
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take that one back. I don't get it. I get it. Megan Megan Markle's pantsless
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walking around Santa Barbara holding a honey like a jam jar. Yeah. Selling it on the median.
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Yeah. Yeah. Selling in Santa Barbara in the middle. Yeah. In the median. Yeah. Down by the
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little village for Christ sakes. Yeah. Wondering if Schwarzenegger is
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going to stop to buy some jam. Um and Dana, what would that sound like? What kinds do you have? Yeah. Do you
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have strawberry? You got huckleberry. Raspberry. My favorite is huckleberry.
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Why is it your favorite? Because I like the way my voice sounds when they see
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huckleberry. A lot of people don't carry hackle.
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My favorite Tom Sawyer story in the Taylor and the Travis that you
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know he's the football player. I love when he states obvious
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and they get married and the baby and the baby goes on tour with them. Goes on
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tour and then the football games in the box seats. Yeah, like Blue Ivy seats.
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The baby's going to be out there. Megan uh huge noiseancelling
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headphones and good play. love you doing it more than me doing
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just like really chew on it, you know? You don't even know what he's saying anymore.
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Yeah, just sounds too many decibels.
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The baby's microphone popping too much volume.
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The babies can have long blonde hair in the muscles of the football guy. 1950s
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baby body. The calves of Taylor Swift. The calves will be kind of puny, but will be like
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the eyebrows. The big eyebrows of Travis
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slightly receding in the corners. Slightly but not totally still
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attractive. Yeah. The beakest lips of Taylor.
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The deltoids will be a little bit like me cuz you know I get around sometimes.
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Everybody knows about the extra baby. I made I made one baby with the
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housekeeper. Everybody goes crazy. Are we still talking about this kid?
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Who are we talking about? [ __ ] this [ __ ] extra baby I had.
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Yeah, let me let me tell you something. That's what he says before he talks. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you,
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you know, I can't tell you was a big hit. Football was a big hit. Is that
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Fubar? Wasn't the name of his show? That's his show. Yeah. Fubar was a big hit all over the world.
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It's can we felt two seasons.
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Two seasons. Read it and weep. We got out like Seinfeld on top. Sorry, Fred Arson. Two seasons. Why?
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Fred Ar. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you think you're so special, Fred
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Arson. We do eight seasons of Portland here. Two seasons of football
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Netflix. Read it. Go make a sketch with Bill and then call me. I'll tell you if it's funny.
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Portland wrong and no one noticed. Nobody noticed. Go do your well observed documentary paradies. Fred Arson with
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ped two seasons. Fortune fster fubar
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Netflix around the world. Our decision fortune
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is my greatest reference so far on this podcast is why he pulls out for fortune.
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Fortunes in fooar. She's on fooar. She was in far. Sorry. Spent a lot of time together in Toronto.
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Yeah, we'd really laugh and mix it up. She does bits, but she can also relate
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to dinner. Two minutes later, drama acting. Have you made a fortune? Fortune. She
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would laugh so hard at my goofa attempts. She's in my Fortune 500.
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I could great goof in the makeup room and say, "Hey, fortune, maybe you need
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some more rouge." She would fall out of a makeup chair.
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Fall into a little baby curl. Two seconds later, I'm strapped to a
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tank. And this is also a goofa. A goofa.
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Is more goof up for you. And then casual observations. There's nothing they can't
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do. I was the governor and now I'm on standup kufars all over the country.
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It's me, fortune monstera, making bread. Follow me with a camera. I'm a real clip
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farm. It's a goofa goofa along. People can sing to the
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measure of goofas that come out of the orififices of the audience.
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They call me Kaddafi because I'm killing and all the time.
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Is that his name? All right. What's the show?
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The show is um What show are you here to promote? Adults. I'm here. I guess this is a guys, this
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is a real reach for all of us. Okay. Adults came out months ago. Okay.
00:24:37
They they said, "Do you want to come back and do Dana?" I know. I'm glad you came back. That was nice. I said, "Absolutely. I have nothing. We
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could talk about adults the TV show that I Let's talk about that first. Great. Why not? You guys have watched all
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eight. So, let's let's talk let's talk episode five particularly or six.
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That's Yes, that's when was Julia Fox. Chloe has a has a crisis with her boyfriend.
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You did. Okay. So, yes, Chloe so close. It's so fair to just assume one of the characters name is Chloe.
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A crisis. Chloe. Okay. Khloe's in a crisis. But Zoe Okay. Right. Um
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there is an episode that Julia Fox did. She did Chicken D. Yeah. See,
00:25:20
you just know shows by who you've if a guest star has either you've slept with
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or jerked off to a guest star, you've you know that episode. Is that fair? She was Uncut Jams.
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She was That movie rocks. Uncut Gems is a real nailbiter. But here's my question for you, and this
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is all about adults in FX. How the [ __ ] does everyone get access to shows? cuz
00:25:46
we go around with our friends going, "Hey, see anything on live streaming?" That's a good show. Yeah. You know, uh, seeing anything because
00:25:52
it's like so much content. So, that's the task. So, yes, the show's great.
00:25:59
How do we get people to watch it? Yeah. How do you get off the ground? Um, I think in this case, you know, it's
00:26:05
a show about kids in their early 20s in New York, and we cast a really
00:26:10
incredibly funny cast in their 40s. Some They're all in their 40s. They're
00:26:15
all like Greece. Yeah. They're all in their late 40s. They're English
00:26:21
playing 22 year olds. Um it's so funny. It is so funny how you look watch old
00:26:26
movies too and you're like that person, you know what I mean? You're like watching I remember watching
00:26:31
like it's like Jimmy Stewart and he this is a I didn't mean to do this but I'm I'm realizing I'm doing it. and he's
00:26:37
supposed to be playing like an early 30s Bachelor and you're like you're you're
00:26:42
maybe 55 at this point. Yeah. Um, no one questioned anything.
00:26:48
And what would that sound like if Jimmy Stewart was living in an apartment with a bunch of people in their early 20s?
00:26:53
I know, Danny. You didn't bite on this yet. Go. I know. I didn't want to be too greedy.
00:27:00
Yeah. Yeah. Well, what what are you all up to today? Well, let's go to the park. What are we
00:27:06
doing here? I I don't know. I'm 27 years of age, but I I want to live
00:27:13
things. We're going to do some Tik Tok videos today, Jimmy. We're We're putting some content on that [ __ ] again.
00:27:19
Let's go with a coffee bean. Yeah. What the [ __ ] is a tick tock? Central Park. That's what they called
00:27:25
your dick. A tic tac. He was Jimmy Stewart was 47 in It's a Wonderful Life
00:27:31
when he played kind of a college kid in the beginning of the movie. Yeah. The makeup's a joke. The past movies in
00:27:38
the past are a [ __ ] joke. A joke. Pull them. And all the people that made them are
00:27:43
pricks and jokes. Rest in pricks, you [ __ ] schmucks. There you go.
00:27:49
And guess what? Yeah. Yeah, analog television was pretty sweet visually to people when I first
00:27:56
went on Johnny Carson cuz I only see him on a blurry analog television. I was like, "Holy [ __ ] this guy's had a
00:28:03
couple cocktails and got some sun." Yes. Right. I uh I won't do that one. Sorry.
00:28:10
I shut my Nick is our guest. He's got a show called Adults on a network called FX.
00:28:17
Did you hear of X yet? I guess you Nick, I have a quiz for you. Yes. You played Gunther in Sing.
00:28:25
Yeah. And who played Rosita? Whoa. Hard-hitting questions. Jesus, I
00:28:31
was not ready for this. Um, do you guys know I mean, what's amazing right now is I am genuinely blanking on
00:28:39
now the name I found, Reese Witherspoon. It was Reese Witherspoon. Yeah, it's Reese Witherspoon. And did
00:28:46
you sing with her or did you do it separately? We, you know, I just kept saying, "Let's get in the booth together. Let's just
00:28:53
find the character together." One booth, a small booth. Uh, never. People are never together with
00:29:00
those things. I We did a lot of Big Mouth together early on before the pandemic and you can
00:29:05
feel you really do feel the difference when you're recording together, I would say. Um,
00:29:11
but I No, Reese, we sang separately. We sing, speaking of uh the newly engaged
00:29:17
Taylor Swift, you say you sang Taylor Swift in the one I saw. Yeah, I sing Shake It Off.
00:29:23
Yeah, it's a good one. Mhm. Lovely autotune. I find it easier to sing in character than I do as myself.
00:29:30
Do you guys know what I'm saying? Yes. I didn't know it was you. When I clicked on it, I was like, I don't know if this
00:29:36
is him. And it was you. I stay up too late. Yeah. I can only sing like Neil Young. Do you
00:29:43
think you'll sing at the at the wedding or whatever? Will you sing at Neil Young's funeral?
00:29:48
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Hey, hey, my my
00:29:53
No, you just say, "Hey, hey, bye-bye." And then you walk away. Hey, man. Daryl Hannah and Neil Young
00:29:59
sitting in a tree. There's They're looking at this news going copycats. Yeah. Do you think that they're do you
00:30:06
think that he's bringing her something that like a a morning Ambrosia and uh
00:30:12
finding out that Taylor and Travis are engaged? Are they not engaged?
00:30:19
Who? Hannah and No, they're married, I believe. Oh, they are. And they do you think they're up in a
00:30:24
tree? So, how much are they gonna chat about it today? Yeah, they have houses sort of around the
00:30:30
continent. So they take they take Neil's uh motor home and they just drive let's
00:30:35
h let's go to Toronto and they drive across the country. Yeah. And then she's but she's got to
00:30:41
get into a water tank before too long. Right. Or she because that's not
00:30:47
Ding ding ding ding ding 50 reference. This is one of our records. I knew immediately what you
00:30:53
were going for. She was she was great in that movie with a great sakes. Tommy Hanks killed it in
00:31:00
that one. Hey, have you seen PTA's new movie? Cuz Maya is in Big Mouth.
00:31:05
Yes. I love the Thank you for connecting the dots for me. Um I have not. I've seen the trailer. I
00:31:11
can't [ __ ] wait. Have you seen it? What movie did you say? The Paul Thomas Anderson's movie. It's
00:31:18
like don't [ __ ] stop. It's not though. It's called like never not moving. I can't I can't remember.
00:31:24
Leonardo decapitated is DiCaprio is in that, right? He always gets everybody cool in it,
00:31:30
whoever he wants. Yep. And that's and he's got who else is in that? Maya. Maya's in Big Mouth. Maya
00:31:37
plays uh my mom in Big Mouth and also the Hormone Monstrous and a lot of other
00:31:43
characters and is has won now like four or five Emmys for that. Has she really?
00:31:48
Yeah. Yeah. What about What about your She's an Emmy magnet. that one. She will and ironically that big mouth
00:31:56
playing that Connie character was her first Emmy which is crazy. [ __ ] before SNL before winning for SNL
00:32:03
Kamala her Kamala as that we went on by the end it was like just spectacular.
00:32:09
Yeah, it's it's uh she's a score machine. She is she's a [ __ ] critic proof home
00:32:16
run hitter. Uh non-stop funny. Too bad. Too bad PTA can't direct his way out of
00:32:22
a [ __ ] cardboard box. He couldn't direct a uh colony of ants
00:32:28
to a melting Hershey bar. He couldn't direct an old lady out of traffic.
00:32:34
Jesus Christ. He couldn't direct a a cop who's directing traffic to a place where
00:32:40
there's even more traffic. All right. Still undercooked.
00:32:45
He couldn't direct himself out of a paper bag if someone put him in one and and need the directions to get out of
00:32:52
it. Huh. That's a little overexlained. Yeah,
00:32:57
I loved it. I loved I loved every minute of it. Loved every minute. Genius. I wanted to just say this
00:33:03
because this is the final season of Big Mouth and it's out out now and it's like everything else you got with the the PR
00:33:10
thing cuz people forget. Yeah. Um, it's sort of never been anything
00:33:16
done like it. Goddamn right. Funny. Let's do a cartoon about kids going
00:33:22
through puberty. Oh, okay. We'll make it G. No, let's do let's go right at it.
00:33:27
Let's go right at it. And so, was there any did the like when you pitched it to Netflix or how did it come about? And
00:33:33
when you they knew that you were going to go adult with it and yet it's a it's sort
00:33:39
of it's charming on a kid level too in a way. But go ahead. Thank you. Well, I love that kids love it. Well, what was we made it
00:33:46
for ourselves. It was not originally we didn't think of it as something that like weirdly that kids would we really
00:33:52
making it for our people to make us laugh and our friends laugh and it was it it and they
00:33:58
really let us go. I'll say what I you were talking about streaming and how people watch stuff. What I will say is
00:34:03
we got in making Netflix at a inc big mouth at Netflix at a very specific
00:34:09
moment in time. We were like the 33rd show that they made or something like that
00:34:14
and they didn't have a lot and they were really trying to make their name and they really let us do anything we wanted
00:34:20
and constantly encouraged us to push because they were in a moment where they were like we need we need to make waves
00:34:27
and we we in this new form and format. So just go nuts. They never stopped us from doing anything. I mean a few jokes
00:34:33
that we were like fair enough like truly disgusting things. I was going to ask you if there were things where someone
00:34:40
or even you guys said, "Ah, maybe that's too much." Yeah, we definitely had like that, you
00:34:45
know, there there are different stages when you're making an animation where you've got like your radio play, you're hearing it, then eventually an animatic
00:34:52
like where it's a black and white sort of rough cut of what it's going to look like and then the color. So sometimes you don't know until color when like a
00:35:00
hormone monster is pulling a tiny thermometer out of a sick little dick and there a little bit of blood spurts
00:35:06
out of the sick little hormone monsters dick. Yeah. That when when you see that you
00:35:13
agree with Netflix that maybe that is a little too much for air.
00:35:18
But was was Ted Sandos in the room when you pitched this filth? He was not in the room, but he was very aware and very and
00:35:26
he was at the season 8 finale. He came um and was sitting right behind me and
00:35:32
it was like hearing him laugh like a That's the thing with Ted when you're when we were pitching the show. Ted
00:35:38
really is like a comedy fan. Like he loves it. So super fan. Yeah. And so when he So when you like
00:35:44
when we were like this is what we want to do, he was like all in. Um and and and there was nothing else. There were
00:35:51
no other streamers. So, like we were we really got to come out, got to do whatever we want. And there was so other
00:35:56
little competition that we really were able to make a a splash uh similar to
00:36:02
Daryl Hannah uh eating a you know what else I think about from Splash is her eating the
00:36:07
lobster with the shell on. That's the other thing that always sticks with me when I think about Splash.
00:36:13
Why don't we Why would she eat another sea animal? That's what's [ __ ] up about the movie. That's really [ __ ] up.
00:36:19
Yeah. And that was [ __ ] Ron Howard, right? That's [ __ ] Ron Howard. Ron Howard went in there with his
00:36:25
[ __ ] Happy Day vibes. Yeah. Oh, Mr. [ __ ] ruined the [ __ ] mermaid. Mr. Smiles. And meanwhile, you never
00:36:32
even seen the F's dick once on that show, right? Hey Daryl, shove that lobster in your
00:36:38
puss. Yeah, put it in your Just for one take and see if it work. We won't even use it.
00:36:44
Look at Henry Winkler. I got him to put one of the lobster claws up his butt. The other ones clipped onto the front of
00:36:50
his balls. He's still saying a tested high
00:36:56
days were not so [ __ ] happy. All right, so enough with the jingles. All right, Gary Marshall, go do some other
00:37:04
[ __ ] show. Go make another show and maybe even I did a a short a funny or die sketch. I
00:37:09
don't want to name drop. I don't want to name drop, but I did a funnier or die sketch, okay, with Penny Marshall and it
00:37:15
was Well, I was gonna do Lever and Shirley next because that was where we were going. Yeah, please. But I want to hear your story. You did a
00:37:21
thing with Penny Marshall. I'm doing a thing, a funny or die sketch with Penny Marshall and we're in a garage in uh Larchmont Hancock Park uh
00:37:30
in Holding. Uh and she's just sm still smoking cigarettes in a in a closed garage. And
00:37:37
I and I [ __ ] loved it. What? And what and what would that sound like, Dana?
00:37:42
I don't know. Penny Marshall action. Oh, I don't know what we should do. I'm doing Gary Chanel. Sorry. God rest both
00:37:48
our souls. Rest in rest in uh the fifth dimension. But anyway,
00:37:54
whatever. You know, what were we doing? Oh, splash eating the thing. Yeah. Anyway, so back to uh Big Mouth and
00:38:02
let's go back quickly. I'm just going to keep this moving around. Go back to adults. It's on FX. It's on FX, but And
00:38:09
it goes to Hulu. What where everybody's watching it is. Oh, really? That I didn't know they had
00:38:14
a kind of a TV FX to Hulu. So you watch um and and that really I will say so we
00:38:20
have these young kids in the show. It really required social media to like embrace it to watch and and it really
00:38:28
did work on social media like the like kids on Tik Tok and Instagram all those people were like watching it. But it's
00:38:35
what's hard is it's not clear that they're watching the entire show if not just watching clips and sharing right
00:38:42
like the relationships that are sort of happening and then the actors who are playing them their social media
00:38:48
followings and then like communicating about the show integrated with the the people playing it. It's not like, you
00:38:56
know, when we were when you when we were all making, you know, like Green Acres or, you know, the Andy Andy Griffith
00:39:03
show, like when the three of us met doing Andy Griffith and Don KN sort of welcomed us in
00:39:09
and well, when Adam West invited us to do the Batman episode
00:39:16
with Catwoman, that was something else.
00:39:22
Do you know that when I used to when I think we were doing Cone Heads and uh Oh my god. Thanks. A couple people
00:39:27
remember. Yeah. Uh when we were doing Cone Heads, the movie uh of course. Wait a minute. I just want to make an
00:39:33
observation. Their names were cone heads. And what didn't you feel like their heads were shaped like cones in a way?
00:39:38
I when halfway through I go, "Wait, is this on purpose? Is it is it I'm connecting that?" You
00:39:43
know what I mean? I don't know. Connie Conehead was the daughter, just so you know. Uh also, uh Oh, yeah. Dan,
00:39:49
were you in Sorry. You're in Cone Heads, David. Yeah, that's why I'm pushing it. That's why I'm on the podcast.
00:39:54
Well, you're pushing. They couldn't They couldn't afford me, Nick. They couldn't
00:40:00
They couldn't get They couldn't get you. So, they got Spade. You know what's funny? I was teamed up with Michael McKon and he is our next
00:40:06
guest, but on on the show, but Michael McKenon was great. They have Spinal Tap 2 coming out.
00:40:11
Yes. And so many people from SNL were This is a side note. I I don't think Dana was,
00:40:17
but I would say it was like Sandler, Farley played Connie Con's boyfriend.
00:40:23
There was Akroy, Jane Curtain, obviously Lorraine Newman. Mhm. And then random like Sinbad, Phil
00:40:28
Hartman, Ellen Degener. There was so many people that had parts and conuts. Still still managed to bomb.
00:40:36
Um, but the point was Dan Akroyd said at one point, "What about me and you doing
00:40:41
uh Andy Griffith's show as a movie? You can be Barney, I'd be Andy." And I was like, that's such a funny idea.
00:40:47
Yeah. And you I could see you doing that. Yeah. Can you do Barney five?
00:40:52
Can you do it? Yeah. There you go. And I keep doing it. And how great was Don Knots in the Andy
00:41:00
Griffith show. I mean, come on. And Mr. Furley. He was I really know him. I have to be honest. I know him more as Mr. Furley than I do
00:41:06
like I know Andy Griffith as a as Oh my god. Horny dork. The ultimate horny dork. But
00:41:13
what about the guy before him? The old guy that goes and his wife always wanted to [ __ ] him.
00:41:18
Mister, yeah. Yeah, Mr. Roer. And his wife was always horny in Amumu. And Roer
00:41:24
just like now looking back like, oh, just like closeted Mary like But I remember seeing
00:41:33
The Graduate and being like, what the like it was one of the first times when I was like, the [ __ ] is Mr. Roer doing
00:41:39
in the graduate? Oh yeah. Yeah. Right. What was he doing there? He was, I think, kind of collecting a rent.
00:41:45
Yeah, he's sort of the landlord. He's the rent guy. When Dustin Hoffman, he's the landlord of everyone in the
00:41:50
movie to get the wife to get the wife. But I sort of liked
00:41:56
another brilliant movie that really holds up. When I'm a kid and horny, I'm annoyed that Mr. Roer I'm like, "Dude, she's
00:42:03
throwing you vibes." Yeah. Get out of here. Like, I'm horny. Why? Someone do something.
00:42:08
Yeah. And Mr. Roer shows up to collect the rent. Now you're blue balled. You can't even finish.
00:42:15
I finish when Roer walks in. You shoot ropes. Oh Jesus. What does this mean?
00:42:20
Shooting ropes to Mr. What is that? A line from your perverted show. That kind of
00:42:25
ropes of blood. That would have been on Big Mouth or something. Yeah, that's sick show. That's a I think you do it for sick
00:42:33
comedy. Yeah, you do it for adults and then kids go he Oh, look what we found. This show
00:42:38
that's funny as [ __ ] They like that. I saw Life of Brian as a kid. I'm like, "Yeah, oh, this is for adult. I like it."
00:42:45
That was what And I mean, that's the We didn't quite realize with Big Mouth that that was going to be like, you know,
00:42:51
South Park for a bunch of people was like the thing you sneak away to watch or Life of Brian. What was the thing in Life of Brian that you remember feeling
00:42:57
like just that it was a little dirtier and I snuck in and then I was like, "Oh [ __ ] there's [ __ ] boobs in here." And a
00:43:03
lot of different stuff and just some of the jokes I didn't get and later, but it was like you feel like you're seeing something you shouldn't like. Totally.
00:43:09
I saw Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman when I was like 13. That I I I wish I'd
00:43:15
not seen it. What? I don't even know what it is. Really? Straw Dogs. Yeah. I watched Hot Dog the movie. I had an
00:43:21
older brother who showed me Hot Dog the movie when I was like six or seven and was like and I was like
00:43:28
my uncle showed me. That was an R-rated cartoon or No, R. It was an R-rated like ski movie.
00:43:33
It was that kind of one of those ski movies. Yeah. Hot dog was a big deal. That was funny. Okay. Yeah. Like I was a girl
00:43:40
getting out of a hot tub and you could see her boobs and I was Every four minutes there was some girl in a fight. There was no comedy at all.
00:43:46
It was just like wait for boobs. Wait. Well, you know my generation we had a little thing I'd like to call Raquel
00:43:53
Welch. What a killer. What do you got? Yeah. Stunning. When when you were like 16, you know who
00:44:01
was the sex symbol of the day? Farah. Man or woman? I you know I don't know. Sure. Sure. Thank you. Thank you for
00:44:07
that. Thank you, Dana. Uh, for me it was um, uh,
00:44:13
was Travis. Yeah, it was Travis Kelce 16. He was one years old.
00:44:18
I had for me when I was like 13. Like there's
00:44:24
a period of time where I'm watching you guys on Saturday Night Live and like Cindy Crawford is breaking
00:44:31
and that was sort of like the two things that like were my sexual awakening were
00:44:37
like Cindy Crawford in a Pepsi commercial and Dana Carvey doing Ross Perau.
00:44:44
I know. And I could do Ross Perau having sex for you. Yeah, please.
00:44:49
Can I finish? Can I finish one time? Can I finish? You can't let me finish. I
00:44:55
can't finish. Can I finish right now? Dude, this episode was chalk full of [ __ ] That That was That was something he
00:45:01
would just say when when you know Larry King would interrupt him, but I made it into a sexual
00:45:06
Did you Can you Did you ever Did you do Larry King? Did you ever Did you do Larry King? Ron Oak, Virginia. Yeah. After a while,
00:45:13
the town sounded like illnesses. Creeping rash, Minnesota. You're on with Ross. Can I finish my time, Larry?
00:45:20
You're gonna interrupt me. No, they were a great Did you guys ever do that Larry King show that his like Larry King now
00:45:27
produced by like Russian television? Did you guys ever do that? I I w I was invited and I was going to
00:45:32
go on it. He passed away. I was because I I just kind of had a lot of fondness for him. Yeah. But I went on his regular
00:45:37
show and he he was um he would come you would show up before him. He'd come in
00:45:42
like two minutes before air. They put the airpiece in because he didn't he wanted to be just in the moment, you
00:45:48
know, and then he just starts asking questions. He was very skilled. I think I went on once with Norm, but I
00:45:53
also think that when he walked in, he goes, "Who are these guys?"
00:45:58
McDonald's, David Spade, what do they do? All right, I'll just make up some [ __ ] Yeah, we're on the air. We're live on.
00:46:05
So, you're doing the show. You are killing it. And whatever you Fungus, Missouri, you're on with no
00:46:12
McDonald's. Look out, Mountain. Yeah. Um, owe me. Go ahead. Anything
00:46:19
else for this guy? We've covered it all. We've covered really We did cover adults. We did cover Big Mouth.
00:46:25
Big Mouth Revolutionary Show. I've got adults. We got uh Let's see. Let's think about some other stuff that
00:46:31
I can promote. Um we promoted saying enough, right? History of the World Part One is out.
00:46:36
History of the World Part Two is out. History of the World Part One also out somewhere.
00:46:41
They're out somewhere. The Producers I have no involvement, but the original movie, The Producers, uh
00:46:46
let's promote that. Mel Brooks. That's probably my favorite first Mel Brooks movie. Uh, cone heads. We talked about Let's
00:46:53
promote Cone Heads. Let's get out on laser disc. Um,
00:46:58
splash splash on Amazon for a TV. Let's talk. What about Acckoids? Acrod's
00:47:05
one of his alien shows. Let's promote that. Let's get the word out about Fair. Skull Skull Vodka.
00:47:11
Skull Vodka. Skull Vodka. Let's get the word out. You know, the Skull Vodka is the best thing you can get. You know, let's
00:47:16
promote the Chiefs new season. The Chiefs, Travis Kelce's football team, the Chiefs. Uh,
00:47:23
Taylor's got a new album coming out. Taylor's got a new album coming out. Um, of course, Happy Day is available
00:47:29
wherever you're get your Hey, I just want to reveal this, but I'm just going to say it, guys. I
00:47:37
don't I'm not a but I'm personal friends with Taylor and Travis. So, I just want to be sincere for a second and say,
00:47:43
please, right on guys. You're a great match and uh I wish you all the best. I do too. I think uh I'm excited for
00:47:49
them. Um you heard it here first two three days after it's breaking. Yep.
00:47:55
I ever since I got that news, I feel like I've been off. What's that? Because I'm think when I heard that
00:48:01
news, now I feel like I fell out of the podcast. I've just been thinking about that. You felt in the pocket to me, David.
00:48:07
So, but honestly, if this is a movie cuz we've all seen A Stars Born in the
00:48:12
different incarnation. So what happens is he's a football player. He's going to be in the Hall of Fame.
00:48:19
Blows out in a He's not going to play too much longer. And then he's at home like, "Hey, you want to play some ping
00:48:24
pong?" And she's in Malaysia playing the country. They built a stadium. So she's
00:48:30
playing the entire country. A country residency. He wants five babies. She wants to tour
00:48:36
on five continents. Yeah. So it's kind of like two stars. They're going to have to get some premarital
00:48:44
premarital therapy, I think. Well, and yeah, it's like what would happen if they had been the small town
00:48:49
versions of themselves. Eight or nine years in, there's going to be some issues, but they figured it out.
00:48:55
Could do the bodyguard, by the way. That's She'd be good for the remake. I mean, Travis could play her bodyguard. Yeah, I know. Nick Croll's been our
00:49:01
guest today. It was delightful. We did Thank you, Nick. 28 minutes of trading
00:49:07
Arnold impressions. That was a good one. Can I tell you how just quickly how weird it is to try to do Arnold with
00:49:13
you, David? I jumped in there.
00:49:18
This is great. Everyone has an Arnold. The code is broken. No one's worried about accuracy.
00:49:24
It's too fun. You got to jump in. It was so fun. It's just I love uh seeing you guys. I
00:49:29
love do I love your comedy. I love doing your podcast. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming back. We're glad you're well. Good luck with
00:49:35
uh your next show. I'm wondering if you're going to direct a movie or do another live streaming show or whatever you're going to want.
00:49:41
I'm doing Cone Heads 2. I'm directing Coneheads 2. I'm writing it right now. I'm writing and directing Coneheads 2.
00:49:47
Okay. Cuz I I have a rough draft of Conetss 3. So, it'd be nice if I could
00:49:53
see two. I will show you. I will send it to you as soon as we're done with a first cut. I'll send it to you. Okay.
00:49:59
Okay. All right. I'm going to put this. I'm doing one set in Alaska called The Snow Cone Kids. I'm going to Alaska this
00:50:06
week for a gig. There we go. I processed that [ __ ] last second promo.
00:50:11
Did Juno, by the way, get uh drowned or no? Was did Juno there was like worried that there was going to be flooding? Was
00:50:18
it okay for real? Oh, Juno, the city. Um, yes. I don't
00:50:24
know. I know. I'm going to Palmer. It's outside. Okay.
00:50:29
Do you know the guy a drunk guy who's doing ill-informed uh
00:50:34
topical bit you know do you know that you know underwater
00:50:40
did you know that underwater where won't you go to do a standup set dude I'm going it's going to be fun
00:50:49
I have to do an it's not you seen the movie
00:50:55
the judo bit still going on in the background Do you know that the movie Juno was?
00:51:01
Ask me, Nick. Juno was filmed in Juno. Juno.
00:51:06
Ask me what I'm going to do today. I'll answer Dynamite. What are you going to do today? Whatever I want. God.
00:51:12
God. There we go. This has been chalk full. I love that movie. Impression. All right. I'm leaving. All
00:51:18
right, guys. Thanks, guys. Bye, guys. Okay. Well, that was Nick. He's out now.
00:51:24
But uh God, always a crack up, man. I I I love that. I like when someone comes on, they want to screw off. They're not
00:51:31
so locked into the questions. It's just like, let's go off on so many tangents, we don't even know what we're talking
00:51:36
about. Yeah, that was comedy ping pong. And it was just fun. It was, you know, we all
00:51:42
got into this Arnold Fest and they give point normally it's like, okay, one minute, this is enough. But I
00:51:49
love that he n he just kept going and then you chimed in and then I went
00:51:54
and I don't know how long we went but that might be kind of close to a record for one riff on one impression between
00:52:01
three people on our podcast. Yeah, it's fun to uh cuz I can't remember everything because it goes so fast, but I just remember we keep it was
00:52:08
he sort of gives the green light to don't worry about we're talking about let's go off on any tangent we want just
00:52:14
to crack up. And you know, we've done things like that a lot, too, where we were doing Senator John Kennedy once for
00:52:20
like 10 minutes. Yeah. So, it is it is very much like what comedians do in real life.
00:52:28
For sure. That's like a green room talk. Yeah. Get into a rhythm and then and
00:52:33
then someone sort of tops you or does something change a little bit and then it makes you come back and then it's So,
00:52:39
that was really that was really fun. You kind of feel it gets insane. Yeah. Yeah. Uh you well uh we want to thank
00:52:46
Nick Croll and obviously you can see them all. We talked about there's Big Mouth, there's all the stuff. So
00:52:51
adults on FX and Hulu. That's it. Yep. And we'll see you guys next time and uh
00:52:56
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Episode Highlights

  • Nick Croll's Comedy Style
    Nick Croll discusses the balance between personal and observational humor.
    “I wish I was as funny as my jokes.”
    @ 05m 18s
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  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey Engagement
    Breaking news about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey being engaged.
    “Taylor Swift and the football guy are engaged today.”
    @ 12m 32s
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  • Adults on FX
    A new show featuring a hilarious cast navigating life in their 20s in New York.
    “How do we get people to watch it?”
    @ 25m 59s
    August 28, 2025
  • Big Mouth: A Revolutionary Show
    Big Mouth is a groundbreaking animated series that tackles puberty with humor and honesty.
    “It's sort of never been anything done like it.”
    @ 33m 16s
    August 28, 2025
  • Nick Croll's Impressions
    Nick Croll shares his comedic talents, including impressions and anecdotes.
    “I love your comedy. I love doing your podcast.”
    @ 49m 29s
    August 28, 2025
  • Coneheads 2 Announcement
    Nick Croll reveals he's writing and directing a sequel to the classic film Coneheads.
    “I'm writing and directing Coneheads 2.”
    @ 49m 41s
    August 28, 2025
  • Comedy Ping Pong
    A lively discussion where comedians riff off each other in a fun, tangential manner.
    “That was comedy ping pong. And it was just fun.”
    @ 51m 31s
    August 28, 2025

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  • Podcast Wrap-up52:56

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