Ep 310: The First Ever Guest? With Danny McBride

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My wife was like, you guys are three actors, you're not going to eat all of them chips. I'm like, bitch. Oh. I was like, baby. It's like, just you wait. Did she really? She did. She did say that. And I was a little offended. That's probably a wake call. Is that a wake up call? Yeah. You guys are actors. You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't eat all those chips. But just so you know, guys, I've been working very hard on getting ready for the grand voyage all the way over to Catalina. Catalina. Okay. Tomorrow. It's open ocean, baby. It's open ocean. Anything can happen. It's the International Waters. It's kind of dangerous. Anything can happen. What? The Blake is only thinking about triple kissing. Yeah. I'm a dude. Blakes like sorry. Sorry. So we could fuck out there. He's like, after all these years. Adam's thinking fireworks. Yeah. I'm thinking murder. After all these years, I'm still thinking about triple kissing on. This might be my time. You know what we could do is we could, and if you guys have a shotgun, bring it. We could go skeet shooting. Okay. You can go skeet shooting out there. These clays. They dissolve. I don't have a shotgun. I wish I would have had some heads up. I didn't. I don't have my shotgun with me. What? Do I have to get one illegally now? Like, where am I going to get a shotgun in a day? You can get illegally. You can go right downtown. Just get a shotgun. Yeah. Just go to gun. I thought it takes a while. And that's why I'm leaving LA. You can't just go get a shotgun on a whim. Yeah. That's some bullshit. Thanks Gavin. Yep. Come down here in the orange country. You can get a shotgun like that. But okay. I'm excited to preface. I'm very excited about that. But you know what? I'm more excited about boys. Tasty. You know what? I'm more excited about. I do. I do. Our first ever real guest. And that's not to take away from my father. Yeah. Who by yaw? Hit us with the butt. That shit's important. Yeah. Or all the people that we interviewed at the Super Bowl. At the Super Bowl. We have those. This doesn't take it the way from Doug Flutey. Yeah. Take it away from Doug Flutey. Or the hot dog. The hot dog eater, dude. Joey Chestnut. Yeah. Joey Chestnut. It's not taking away from them. And of course, it doesn't take away from Will Forte, who was our first kind of live show guest. Unfortunately, we didn't get to him because we ended up fistfighting. Yeah. He didn't really speak up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On him. Yeah. Maybe next time. But this guy. He's a true comedy hero. I know for the three of us. And we're god damn. Are we excited? Oh, we're ready to break the mold here. Our first ever legitimate guests. Not taking away from any other guests. That we've had. Not that they're illegitimate. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Danny McBride. Danny McBride, everybody. Hit us with an applause button, Blake. Hit us on Amazon. Yeah. This is what it feels like to be the first guest. Huh? I like it. Yeah. And all this glory, dude. Oh my gosh. One of our best freaking comedy heroes on the pod. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for coming on. Thanks for having me. Thanks for saying that I'm the first real guest, even above your dad, Adam. That's really, really kind of you. Yeah. Well, he didn't really say much. He came on. He was battling cancer. So he was being all laxities. Well, we're like, speak. I like it. Energy. Energy. Energy, fuck it. Come on, man. Yeah. I understand that. Yeah. He talked about fucking your mom or eating something. Yeah. Well, my dad gets nervous. We brought him up. We did the cruise, right? I think I told you a little bit about we did this insane cruise with all of our fans. It was, it was very fun. It was a lot though, but it was very fun. And there was this one girl that kept saying that she wanted to fuck Blake and she would wear the base of her strap on right where her strap on just around around the cruise around the cruise. And then would constantly be like, Blake, I want to fuck you. I will fuck you like penetrate me. And we don't know what happened behind glistures, honestly, to be surprised that that didn't work. That seems like a good strategy. Yeah. Kind of outside the box. Usually it works all the time, but yeah, kind of outside the box, inside the ass, inside the ass, inside the blinks, ass, box, boom by yeah, but yeah, he got into some, some risqué territory or dead. Yeah. But you handled it well. Yeah, so we brought him up on the cruise ship and then, you know, he gets nervous and then he tries to joke and then immediately he started talking about fucking my mom, which pretty funny. He went blue. Which is, yeah, it hit. It worked with the crowd. It worked. He went blue. Yeah. This is where we get it from. Yeah. We are our father's son. Going blue. That's where we get it. He talked about sending dick pics or something. I'm like, you never know. I don't know. He was trying to relate to the youth. I don't know. We're going digital, baby. We looked out at our 40 year old crowd and it's like these kids like to say dick pics forever young, forever young. Yeah. Not a lot of dick pics being sent over here. You guys never sent dick pics, right? You guys, did you, were you big dick, said, dick senders and I would have been a dick pic sender. I, I can't say I had the confidence in order like the, the proper lighting to send any dick. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like lighting is a huge part of it. I do feel like Blake would have thrown like a smiley face on the end of it or something. Yeah. He would have put a little hat on his guy. He would have called his dick his guy a lot. Yeah. You got to have fun with it. I just, I think, I think technology saved me. I just, I just had a Nokia for any time where I could have sent dick pics, the megapixels weren't great enough. Yeah. It was just four pixels. Yeah. And then once that clarity got in, I was married. There was no reason to send it. Bro. It was right there. Have you, have you seen the new snake game? Have you seen the new snake game? Let's play mind sweeper. Yeah. Oh, man. What would your wives, all of us, what would your wives do if you out of the blue right now just sent a dick pic? Oh. Would that go over at all? I should do it. I'm going too. I'm going too. That's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's, let's really surprise them. Uh-huh. Everyone under the table right now under the table. would be like, was this meant for me? it might get you into some trouble. - Yeah, that would add absolutely. - That's what I'm saying. It's like, this is out, this is out of normal. - It's the new mood. - What's happening? - It's like, is this for Durs? - No, but really tiny on the shaft, you have to write four and then your wife's name. So yeah, so now I'm like, zoom in, honey, zoom in. - Yes, with the date on it. So you know what happened to call. - That's for you, baby. - Zoom in, good call. - The last thing you want to say, when you send a dick pic is zoom in. - Yeah, you have to get the full throttle. - You're gonna want to zoom. - You're gonna want to hit the zoom. - Pension zoom. - Danny's like, what did I sign up for, dude? - Oh, sorry, man, right. - We're sorry. - We're not getting good ideas here. I was like, this is fantastic. Well, I would do it when I can see my wife, so I can see the look on her face. - Okay. - And to make sure that my daughter's not using her phone when I send it to her. - Probably, right. - It's not connected to the iPad, when she was trying to play Roblox or whatever. - Why do I try to give I sent it? The only thing I would get back would be like, just don't forget to pick up the kids at camp. - Yeah. - It'd be like, no, just get to your god. - Just pick up the Greek yogurt from the store. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You're strong, my god. - Are you in the aisle right now? Danny, were about to go to Catalina. Have you ever been to Catalina? - Or doggalina. - You know, I have been to Catalina. - Yeah. - I've been there to Catalina is fantastic. Adam, I was spying and listening. You are, you're commanding the ship that's going over there. - Yes, I am. - Oh, are you scared about that? - I mean, it's his boat. - It's his boat. - Would you trust me to command a ship with your life? - I think so. - I think so. It's a straight shot. It should be pretty easy. - It's pretty easy. - You kinda just said it in the computer and forget it, right? - No, that is not true. You don't said it and forget it. You have to be vigilant. - Adam's gonna be doing a lot of just feeling the wind. - Yeah, don't be oversteering the mother fucker the whole time. - Oh, I'm not oversteering. There is an autopilot that I will set it to, but you don't set it and forget it. You set it, you sit there and you watch. - Remember it. - There could be ships. - You follow the dolphins, right? Isn't that what you do to get to Catalina? You just follow the dolphins, the pods that are out there. - Absolutely. Yeah, that's where they go to really fuck, dude. There was, I remember one time we were coming back and it was like really foggy and you couldn't see. And I didn't know how to really work my radar that well. So I'm just sort of going slow as shit and which is good. And then we came through clearing and the fog had lifted just in this one like spot about the size of a football field. And there were, this was a dolphin breeding ground or something. There was a thousand dolphins just, (humming) just on the water, splishing and splashing. It was sick, dude. - Yeah, I like that. - So we might see cool stuff like that. That's what I'm saying. - I mean, I hate to say it. - Yeah, I think dolphins are really cool, man. That's a cool animal right there. - Are you hate to say that? - It's a controversial opinion. - Yeah. - And is that it? You're just gonna let that lie there. - It's not the most manly badass animal to like. You know, dolphins are pretty damn cool, dude. I'm on board. - I do wonder if there is like a hardcore dolphin out there. You know what I mean? With like one eye that just fuck up a shark. - Yeah, yeah. - Like why do dolphins have such like a sweet reputation over sharks? - Well, they don't. They're rapists. - We do know this. We all know this that they are rapists. - Raputation. - Well, yes, they have a reputation. - Yeah, they are trying to rewrite their history for sure. - Yeah, because if a female is menstruating and they get in the water and they-- - Human woman. - A human woman and they get in the water. They smell the blood and then they get all horned up. These dolphins and they will fuck. - It's science. - They're not just nice dudes. So-- - Well, that sounds like that's you, is that him as well? You could have just described you. I feel like I've seen, you know, I've heard, I've seen, you've been both made for several seasons together. - You've heard, you've heard the tales. I do think on the call sheet at righteous gemstones at the top it would be like, if you're menstruating don't come to set, Adam, Adam will be there today. - Stay away from Adam. - Yeah, stay away from Adam's trailer. Like, mm-hmm, wow, wait. It's happening again. - It's that time of the mind. - This thing is coming out. - Hey, that time of the mind. (all laughing) - The wardrobe girls are like, I can't deliver, I cannot deliver Adam's throwing your clothes at the trailer. - Annie, you take him as pants. - Whatever insane $8,000 poncho Adam has to wear today, or-- - Somebody else has to deliver it. - Yeah, man, I was preparing for this interview. - I don't believe that. - I don't either. - No, I've seen you on set. I know you don't prepare. And I was looking at some old photos of us shooting gemstones and the wardrobes and the things that you had us wear. And you really had us in some funny costume comedy. And thank you for that. 'Cause it makes it a lot easier when they're gigging from the beginning. - 100%. Well, we always felt like in a good comedy show, you should create characters that people can dress up as for Halloween. - Yes. - You gotta push it. - That was the thought process. You gotta have to be potential Halloween costumes with every episode. - Right, dude, that is you. - Yeah. - And I feel like there were a lot of gemstones there, for a while, you're out and about. I love to see it. What would you say is your number one out of all of your characters, 'cause you have some iconic characters, is the number one Halloween, probably Kenny Powers, right? Is that number one? - Kenny Powers, you get a lot. You still get a lot. But I think the effort that people put into dressing up like Kenny Powers has gotten less and less. - Now, just be somebody with just like a fucking rug on their head. - Yeah. - I'm new. - Dude, dude, man. - This is a mullet in wraparound shades and then you're like a baseball jersey. - Yeah, yeah. - You're still in your work uniform. - Also, mullets are kind of back, so it's just like a guy now. A guy who's just like-- - They say back. - They're back. - Oh yeah. - No, they're having a run. - I feel like they're prominent for the first time. - Yeah. - Okay, sure, sure. - I think they've made like mainstream prominence for the first time. - They're actually cool. - Everything comes back around. - This is what I'm saying. If people start wearing rat tails, right? I would never say those are back, 'cause they were never like prominent prominent popcorn, of coaching. - We've never had a, like we've never had a president with a rat tail is what you're saying. - There's some a little older than you, and I gotta disagree. - Thank you. - But thank you, Danny. - We're rocking those rat tails and taking you very seriously. - Thank you, Danny. - By and large. - And also, we differ with, there's a lot when it comes to this, because we were middle, you know, Durs comes from a country club culture, and they just didn't, he was popping collars. He had a collard, he wore a collard shirt, and he popped collars. - They both blocked the sun off the neck, the mullet and the pop collar. It's one and the same. - Same beast here, now. - It does the same. - We're outside. Some of us are working, some of us are golfing. It's just different. - I learned something just a few months ago that took me years to figure out, but a lot of times of a celebrity goes in public, what you do is you put a hat on to disguise yourself. - Of course. - And I was at Jazz Fest, and I was getting popped everywhere. I wasn't like, I got my hat on, I got everything. And then I looked in the mirror and realized the first time, like, would I put the hat on, I looked more like the character. Like people think I'm dressing up. - Like, I'm sitting there. - At two recent cosplay. - And I literally just took it away. And then no one recognized it. - Yeah. - Was tipping people off. - Yeah. - You gotta be careful with that. That is so funny. (dramatic music) - Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. - And Sean Clements. - We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. - Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, AKA the Bizz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. - We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, not that great. - I actually, can you help me shape this? - Yeah. - How about we flip it on his head? - Yeah. - How about we flip this around, okay? - Yeah. - How, what is the surprise one, man? Well, actually, you think as the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. - Adam Scott, love. - In this entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. - I would never let go of that. - I have, yeah. - I would never set expectations for something like that. - It sounds like if the universe allows for something like that to happen. - Yeah, I am open to it. - I'm always going to accept, you know? - Okay. - Danny McBride, fine. - Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking on the hallway to be honest with you. I was like, I was like, I was like, is that what you need? Nope, it's fragile masculinity. - Ben Stiller, no. - I think there's a lot of times out of context, people don't get it, or even know what a circle is. Like you're like, oh, it's just so stupid. - Everyone's so dumb. - And fake. - Right, fake and also not interested, or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. - And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. - Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally, he loves the show, and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. - I thought about the same thing in the day. Like before, like you're an actor, and you're like really getting noticed in recognized places, you think other actors are aware of you. sunglasses so that they're not recognized, like indoors, right? But now I'm realizing actors wear sunglasses indoors so they can look around and not make eye contact with people. Because as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, it invites them to go, "Hey, like, but if you can just look around, scan a room and not make eye contact with anybody, people are little less." They're like, "They might be like that kind of sleeping." I don't think that I was blind. I don't know if that's who I think it is. One thing about Durses, he hates the fans and he does not want them to come over. He does want them to come over. He doesn't want them to say hi. Absolutely. Listen to me. I'll go on the record. Fans, you've all had a pretty good experience with me. I've said hi. I've been nice. I've been cool. Do I like it? That's not what we're talking about. That's true. That's true. Do you have any, because we've had some fans that have had some pretty crazy tattoos of us on different parts of their bodies? Have you had any inner thigh characters of yourself? I definitely have had some. I've seen, I saw, I've tattooed on a man's ass in North Carolina. I was at a brewery and he showed it to me. Right on the left cheek. I've seen an image of Kenny on a calf before, not a young cow, but on a man's calf. Yeah, come look at my forearm. That kind of lets me down. I was pinching a cow and now I'm like a bummer. We were all pretty confused there for a second. Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, that's the first place our mind goes. Livestock. Actually, that would be, I mean, is there like some weirdo farmer tattoo artist that's just like tatted up their cows just to just to practice? They practice on dead pigs. They do it on dead pigs. That's how you learn how to tattoo. That's a good place to practice. No, it's not. Yes, it is. That is a new practice is on dead pigs. That's true. Two of them and then you serve them out for lunch. Yes, that's right. You have the most badass hot dog out of that, dude. The only person I know who's done, who's become or thought about becoming a tattoo artist, they just did it on their own legs like above the shorts. If they had a friend in the butcher business, they would know you can buy a pig and you can tattoo dead pigs again. Now, you used to work in a butchery, Blake. So is this first hand knowledge you had? No, these guys were fucking the pigs. Oh, thank you. Adam, Adam, thank you, Adam. Thank you. You're selling these whole dead pigs to these guys to say, I'm just going to tattoo. It could be a, it could be a, you could fuck them. You could tattoo them. You can do whatever you want. It could be a luau. There's a lot of things you could do with a whole dead pig besides fuck the thing. By the way, there's not a lot of things. You can eat them. You can cook them and eat them. You can eat them and you can tattoo them. And who can you sing with them? You know what else? You can use them as Halloween decorations. My uncle used to put pig heads outside of his house during Halloween. He was a butcher and he would take a picture. So Danny, where'd you go up? Where'd you go up? With Blake's uncle. We used to sell. Yeah. And I used to be a butcher. Those are cool uncles, right? Oh, yeah. I kind of have like a little short story to tee up something that I think is very cool. Okay. I had no internet for like four days. It was a total fucking nightmare, right? Oh my God. We are so sorry. So the kids are like, how can we do anything? I'm like, we're going to break out the DVDs. We're going to watch some DVDs. So I go into my like DVD closet and I'm super excited. And you know what I find in there? What did you find? What did I hang on? Foot, foot, foot, foot, foot. Whoa. A bird copy. You're under arrest. The original distribution company. This is from a friend who got a from an agent at CAA, ICM, ICM. Maybe well, I don't know what it was. 20 years ago when it just had come out and was just getting passed around LA. And I watched it and I laughed so hard. And I went straight to the guy's house the next day at like 9 or 10 a.m. early. And I put it in the DVD player and I said, we're all watching this now. And I think I stood up for the first half hour. We're like, you watched it. He watched it like this. You watched half watching it, half watching us. No, it was a very impactful film for us. That was a formative moment for the three of us. That was like a north star for us seeing that and being like, wow, there's people out here doing this. And that they, you guys made it for nothing and you just fucking did it and you did your comedy. Yes, we had writing sessions every Wednesday, I think. And we would write something on Wednesday and then we'd try to shoot it that weekend. And we, that's when we were first starting out. And it was our writing session Wednesday. And I'm a little but hurt at Durs because instead of writing, we're like, just gonna watch this movie. And I'm like, what should we? Yeah, Adam loves writing. I love it. Well, no, I mean, I was like, well, let's work so we can shoot something this weekend. But he's like, now we're gonna watch this movie. And I'm like, hi, and then it was, we were fucking floored. And it, you know, you did, you didn't make it for a lot of money. And it felt fresh and it felt a original, very specific place. Yeah. And it also made it. And I think I've, I've told you before, if you haven't seen football this way, people at home watch it. Absolutely. Watch it now. It's a true banger. And we watched it. And it, it, it, it, it, it's so close to home for us in a way that we were like, oh, we can make comedies ourselves in the way that it felt like you guys felt like the same kind of friend group that we were unlike like Will Ferrell, who we love and idolized. But he does these big characters. And we didn't even know it's obviously a character that you're doing. But his characters are so like wacky and SNL type characters that we were like, oh, we can't do that. But this, this feels something like we could, we could do something in this world. Yeah. And that's awesome. That's so cool that you guys found it. And you liked it. I mean, you know, we were taking a complete obvious risk like doing it. We didn't have any idea if it would work or not. We had just been out in L.A. for enough time that it was, you know, we wanted to just do something. And, you know, we went to South, North Johan and made this thing. And, you know, it's funny because even at that time, like you were saying how it wasn't like Will, we were, you know, even when we made that, we were imagining just making some dark, strange fucked up comedy. And I think even though it got passed around town, I don't think the distributors didn't really have any idea what to do with it. They started testing the movie. And they would get the audience to come in based on like, if you like Dodgeball, you'll like this. And I like Dodgeball. But I don't necessarily know if you like Dodgeball, you will like it. But I think they've tested at like, it may be like a 26 or something. Like it completely like the audience, yeah, I'm sure the audience in Burbank was not sure what to do with it. And because of that, it's sat around for several years. They waited until like Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder came out before they released it for real. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I know. I think like it was almost like a, we felt like we were like on the inside, because like, you know, when you start to get like more major success and like Kenny powers appears and he's bounding down and people are like, oh my God, it's like, no, bro, we've been on this train. We've been on this train. We knew this was going to be good. Yeah. It was, you like food fighters, you should check out this band Nirvana. Yeah. Pretty deep cut. It hurt of it. Yeah. It was awesome. But I think even speaking to what Adam was saying about like the way you, your characters, you know, even though they are in some ways larger to life, they are also so real and so flawed. And like the comedy doesn't just come from like these, you know, really gigantic swings. It comes from like the, oh shit, like I have a friend just like that or like, you know, it's just like the, you, the, the humanism of it if that's a word. I have a real piece of shit friend like Kenny powers. Yeah. That's what I love so much about specifically Kenny is like, he was such a piece of shit. And even when you're like, oh, here's a moment, he's going to redeem himself. And then he just didn't. And if we can, can we say, you know, we know you as an actor, a director, but now you have entered a whole new realm of, of, of smartness. We can now call you in author. New level of smart rights. Yeah. You can, you have to actually call me a New York Times best selling. Get a bit. Get a bit. Get a suck our digs, RL Stein. Danny McBride has released a new book. That's wild. Congratulations. Yes. That is fucking cool, dude. So great. But I think even in, you know, this, this book is a collection of, um, you know, like tales, short stories like anthology. Got this play. Yeah. And even in reading them all those. All those characters that you, you put on the screen, like when you read these stories, those characters are in these, this book as well. Yeah, it does, it really comes to life and every one of them, every one of the short stories that you're like is this art? Do you have any plans on making this into an anthology series or because you could see this on HBO? And through these tales of modern men, let's name the book for those who are listening. Really tales of modern men, yeah, for those that are listening and any plans for that or no? I don't, as of now I didn't, when I wrote it and I didn't have any specific plans, I wanted the book to feel exactly how you all are describing it where if there was a fan of mine who've watched any of the shows I've made that they could pick this up and it would feel like it was an extension of that stuff, that it was those sort of characters, that sort of comedy, that sort of, you know, that kind of genre bending of like being silly and then trying to find somehow to pay those or some kind of like, weird or deeper energy to it, that you would find that in just a different format. And so I think in order to do it, I did have to not think of these things as like, oh, I'm going to make this into a movie or this TV show. I really just wanted to try to make them survive as this. Now since it's done, I mean, honestly, it's like Adam, you came in and read the audio book that we did the audio book for it, which was a blast. I mean, that was so fun. I came in and crushed and Eric Andre and Edie Patterson, Goodman, a bunch of people recording it. And the cast is crazy. It was awesome to, to hear the stories read and perform, it did that for the after, for the first time was like, maybe we should do something with this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam, which one did you do? Fun run, I believe. I did fun run. Oh, that's the one. I read fun run. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it. Oh, man, it's it's it's really cool. Like and even in like, you know, because I've read some pages and then I've been listening to the audio book, too, because how could you not the cast is amazing and all that? But like, yeah, it's it truly was. I like to listen to audio books. And actually, you got me into that, quite a bit on this set of gemstones, because sometimes you'd be driving in, it's like an hour drive some some mornings. Danny Big Brother, do you? He totally. And he's like, maybe listen to an audio book. I was like, stop listening to this pop music, dude. Yeah. You have to get smarter. Yes. You've been listening to too much Sabrina Carpenter. You're stumbling at table reads. Like, it's not good. Let me help you. Luckily, we didn't have table reads. We didn't do that shit. So thank you. How do you say this word? Yeah. And I would listen to a lot on the way in, but this was, it's so fun because every, every story, there's a new someone new is narrating it. And I mean, it's fucking Sturgel Simpson. I think is is in here. Shay Wiggum. Is he in here? Is he in here? Is that I hear Shay's voice? There's some stunners. Eighty's great. And then John is like, obviously, dude, I was I was driving back. I went to the Colorado River this past weekend with with my friend. My friend has a house up there and we took our family up there. And on the way back, I was like, I should listen to the audio book. And my son is watching on the on the back in the back seat. He's watching Monsters Inc. Which is John Goodman's voice. Yeah. And then I'm listening to the Robo Robo care. Is that the name of the Robo care? Yeah. Robo care. That one's awesome. I'm listening to Robo care. And it was just dueling John Goodman's in my car just going toe to toe. He cusses more in Monsters Inc. Probably. Yeah. He's wearing that. Yeah. Yeah. He goes off on Michael Towski. Yeah. Dude, it's really cool, especially like right out the gate because you are the in the audio book. I mean, we're going to reference that because we don't read that much. But like, I was like, oh boy, here we go. Right out the gate. The illusionist one is just like when you are reading it, it's like, I felt like almost I was harkening back to like when you I would listen into like Addo Sandler's like, they're all going to laugh at you because they almost it almost it's so visual. It becomes so real in your mind and you're you're laughing along with it. And it's just like, I don't know, it just felt like it really unlocked like this new thing to me. Like reading to it. Thank you. I'm going to start getting into the books as well. He's going to he's going to dust off off those goose bumps books that he has on the shelves. Hey, already took Terce's recommendation. I read the Weston game. I don't know if you're familiar. It's a YA novel. It's pretty good, man. Wonderful. That's good. That's a that was like that. That's a big one too. Probably a lot of big words in it. That's good. Wow. Well, Harkening was the big word. No, that's circled right here. I wasn't going to drop that. Yeah. That's your word of the day. Hey, this is A's Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood handbook on the big money players network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week we talk to someone in show business, aka The Biz and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Not that great. 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They're not just opposing what's being planned for here. Our hometown is not a test too. They feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration. Guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies now, did you? Listen to our town on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What were your kind of of like influences growing up like books that you enjoyed as like a youth or even like influenced you, what do you say? - You know, when I was a kid, I really liked Steven King. I was like, Clyde Barker. I was really into horror when I was a kid. I felt like that, you know, you would get assigned things to read at school and I just felt like reading was boring. But those horror stories, which just keep me wanting to find out what happened and I just liked horror as a genre. So that was like an easy way in for me. And, but it's funny, it's like it's reading something that I'll constantly come back to. Like there'll be times where I'm very prolific and reading a ton and then there's other times where like a year goes by and I've read like one thing. But I try to just keep up with it. And every time I am in the middle of like, you know, being on a binge or just reading one book after the next, I always tend to be happier. Like it always feels like I'm not as antsy. I'm not as stressed out. There's something cool about being able to just get lost in the story. I think that was happening for me enough that I was like, this is an art form that I would like to be able to crack into. And even like what you guys said, it's like to appeal to people who maybe not normally would pick up a book and do this and felt like that was also a part of what could be fun about this. And you know, whether it's the audio book or the written book, it, I think all of it, just to find a different art form a way to kind of convey your comedy or tell a story that, you know, that's what was fun about doing it is there were zero gatekeepers with it. You know, I remember I was so used to was us working with HBO and not that HBO is bad with notes, but just anyone who's investing money in what you're doing has thoughts on what your choices are, you know, and it just becomes a part of creating where you're constantly like, I love this, what are they gonna hate about it? You know, you're constantly already to have someone, you know, tell you to change the parts you like the most. And with this, I realized that that does not exist. Like, they'll give you suggestions, but ultimately your name's on it and you just do whatever you want to do at the end of the day and that was cool. I was like, that's, you know, especially for comedy to know at the end of the day that it's just you and you can tell anyone to fuck off at the end of the day is great power. - And you did that a lot with the people at the Penguin? - Yeah, I have a fuck off. - Look, because the people were working on books, their nerds, yeah, you could beat their ass. - Whenever they didn't like stuff, I got real internal, I was like, oh God, no, no. (laughing) - And they read a lot of books, fuck. (laughing) - I was thinking that a lot actually, because I listen to the one that Gillis, Shane Red, the hair one. - What was the Institute of Men? - Institute of Men. - Yes. - And that one was such a trip. And I'm like, oh, you couldn't have, or it would have been very difficult in time consuming and costly to shoot that. If it were filmed, and I'm like, it's so cool that you can read it, and you could just let your imagination fly. And you can create something in your head and imagination without having to see it. And it made me go, man, I gotta read more. - Yeah. - But Danny truly, you're such an inspiration for me. You're the best boss I've ever had. And I'm not sucking anything, I'm not sucking anything. I need air, I need cock more than air. - Glade, I'm not sucking anything. It's being a nice person isn't sucking. - I can live on this combo. - No, I'm not sucking. - And as men, we can compliment each other, dude. - You can compliment each other. You don't need to get uncomfortable, 'cause I'm complimenting. - But, and I mean, you're the best boss I've ever had, and we were our own bosses. And you were much better than we were. - But it was, you're such an inspiration, 'cause he wouldn't come in to set in the morning, and it's like five, six o'clock in the morning. And he would sometimes be reading a book, he'd be talking about a book, he'd just read, or he'd be like passing a book to someone that was like, "Oh, here's this book we talked about, you know, read this." - He gave me Clifford, what the fuck? - This whole book revelation thing is so sad, dude. - Yeah, it really is. I read a book, it changed everything. I used to see you with books, and I thought, "Those are books." - Dude, I need books. - However not you're not wrong, you're not wrong, it is sad. - But this goes for all of us, 'cause I know the three of us weren't reading books. - Danny, I'm on this, I was just gonna say, I'm on the same track as you as far as school as a kid. They were like, "We're need to read this." And I was like, "I'll read Stephen King, or I'm not gonna do it." And the teachers were like, "Jesus Christ, fine." Now, I don't know how much of the Stephen King I absorbed, but I think that you might be thrilled to hear. This is the kind of thing that like a kid who was you will be reading now. - That's what I hope. - They're gonna tell a teacher, "I'm not reading around the world in the 80 days, or whatever the fuck it is." - That book right. - "I'll read this, and they'll go, "You know what, whatever it takes." And then when they grow up, and they're in their 40s, they won't be talking about books. (laughing) - Dude, well, what's genius about it being a collection of like short stories is as a super dumb bro, like I look at that and I go, "Oh shit, this is a big one. "I don't know if I'm gonna do that." There's a lot of pages in there. I don't know if I can finish it. - No, dude, you can just chip off one short story. It's just that, man. - That's it. - It's easy. - In any order you want, you don't even have to read it in order. - You can skip her in. - Dude, it's a brilliant move by you, man. I think you really hooked the dumb guys on this one. I like that. - So beyond, like your inspirations as far as books and stuff go, "Well, do you have an inspiration?" 'Cause I know you didn't come at comedy in the way that we did where we were like we're comedians. This is kind of what we want to do. We want to be in the comedy lane. You sort of came at it as you wanted to be a director first and did you want to be a director of comedy or did you want to do horror or did you kind of always know you wanted to do comedy? - You know, it's funny because when I went to film school, that's where I met Jody Hill and David Green and John Contrary and all these guys that I work with now. - John, yeah. - John wrote for us on Workaholics first. - He did. He came back singing Y'all's praises, too. Yeah, we had a treat 'em better after he came back for it. You guys are right now. - They did me. - He wrote some go cards in the fucking warehouse. We got the go cards. - Yeah, there was a lot of non-working doing at art. You guys might've worked a little more. We're like, yeah, should we play three hours of ping pong instead of finishing this? - Yeah, but we never, you know what's funny is that I never really looked at stories just in terms of genre of like, it's horror, is it comedy. We were just wanting to tell stories and make shit that we hadn't seen before. And then I think because we what bonds a lot of us is that we joke around a lot and we make each other laugh but I think that inevitably just like got into the stuff we do together because we're constantly just trying to make each other laugh, probably not indifferent from how you guys work. But we were always approaching them, even the dumbest ones as if it was a drama. You know, like, we are approaching this way. We're approaching it like, this is a serious, you know, this is the guy, right? - This is not dangerous, it's not as important to this guy as what's going on. And it felt like once we started doing that, it made all of the shit funnier because it was like, oh, if the tone of this is like trying to take this guy's stupid stuff that's happening in his karate school like this seriously, you know, that it's like, his whole life is falling apart. It just made the stakes of it really funny us. And so then we just kind of started, you know, that was, we kind of were learning it as we went along that that was our tone was just to sort of take the absurd and make it completely serious, play it straight. And you could make, you could have, I don't know, some pretty strange moments by doing it that way. - Yeah, yeah. And that's what keeps, I think all of us as your audience members like super engaged, like even in the book, like all the stories, the stakes are fucking high, dude. And but they do have those moments that, that's what makes you laugh. It's almost a nervous laughter, like, what the fuck? Like how is that his response to such a serious situation? That's like, I don't know. I think that's what you've really, really mastered, man. And I commend you. - Thank you. - Do you think the comedy boom of the 2000s kind of steered you? - You know, it felt like, you know, I remember when we were shooting the foot fist wave, that was the same with like, we saw wedding crashers, I think while we were shooting, you know? And I remember seeing like, oh, this is working. That's amazing that like, people are going to see our rated comedies again. Because, you know, the 80s obviously, they had lots of our rated comedy. And then go into film school in the 90s. I remember us like looking to each other, saying like, man, they just don't really make comedies for adults anymore. Like, everything is really like young based. And so I think and that was for a while. So I think once we got there and it was seeing that like, oh, this stuff is actually working. It's like, rated our stuff. I think we were just really grateful that we were coming out with something that was in that same genre. And then of course, like, you guys know, that time period in Hollywood was so much fun. I mean, it was the idea of like, you're going, you know, there's all these different camps of people doing comedy. And I remember going to like the Borat premiere. And it was just like, Will Ferrell is there with the fucking cowboy hat on. And so, I mean, it was awesome. It was kind of what you had hoped Hollywood was going to be when you were a kid. And it was like, several years of it just, it was just legitimately fun. And it was fun to meet all of you guys and all these different characters that all were doing their own stuff. And yeah, it was a pretty awesome time in Hollywood, [BLANK_AUDIO] I feel like we were, we got in right at the last gasp of that and it was like we were like right on the outside just sort of looking in and we got a whiff, yeah, we got a little until Howard goes, nah, we're not doing that no more, but it is nice to hear like, yeah in the 80s they did it a lot and the 90s, you know, the R rated comedies sort of cooled off and then it picked back up in the early 2000s and then now we've we've been at 15 year drought. Yeah, the news is the funniest thing on the air, I tell you what, you can't make this stuff up. Well, it was, it was cool because there were all these camps, but we were really trying to like push it to the limit, like come up with the craziest set pieces and like, you know, like have the craziest, like evil main characters and all that, it was really fun to be like, what is the wildest thing you can think of and sometimes it was extremely offensive and now looking back on some of it, you're like, well, okay, maybe we pushed a little too far, but you're right. Yeah, all that black face that you used to do, yeah, I think the only thing of one thing that I remember. Well, the Blake Blake is all that black faces that would release the tape, Todd released the tape, my solo project, my solo project, that was just at Blake's private parties on Epstein Island. You know, it was the only one you fucked that woman off of the high-dive forcefully. I'll do it. I think I remember pitching, I think I remember pitching saying it happens by accident. I did, I did do that in, in an episode, it was like a flashback episode of us in college and I'm having sex with some girl, which I'm a virgin, right? I'm a virgin. I'm losing my virginity on a high-dive and I thrust her off the top of the, and she belly flops on my, sorry, yeah, we might not have done that. I don't think you say sorry. I think you go, I think I was trying to pitch that you do say sorry and I don't know if it's in the cut. Oh, yeah. You're the good guy. Come on. Yeah, we might not run that exactly back, but it was cool because there were all those comedy camps and I feel like we were all just trying to almost like make each other laugh for be like, oh, man, I can't believe they did that over there and I totally, yeah, it was a really special time for sure. It also kind of felt too that, you know, with television, you know, obviously, I think I find the stuff that's so specific to be the funniest, you know, like I tend to long, I tend to last left, less at broader things, not to say that shit's not funny too, but I, I really get tickled when I see something that's really specific and, and you even want to read it. Can we get it? You hate dodgeball, dude. Come on. Leave him alone. I love dodgeball. No money. But it felt like that kind of stuff, if you were trying to navigate that in the studio world, it was more difficult because like how our movie tested out of 26 is like, you can have people who have good taste to respond to it, but it might not be what the masses respond to. And I think that like when TV came around, it became popular and was willing to invest in those people. I think that became like a safer ground for if you wanted to make strange comedy, you get, everything didn't matter if like everyone showed up the first 24 hours that came out. Like, you can be weird, you can come out every week and fucking people can wait to the second season to even figure out what you're doing. And then it just kind of, you know, I don't know, it felt like you could take more chances. And I love that that hat with TV, but you do kind of hope that people will get some backbone and do it in theatrical again. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hopefully it loops back around. Remember being like why, and you were just so smart in doing it, like why didn't you, after foot fistway, just start churning out our rated comedies theatrically. But then you went and did, I'm sure everyone was like, why aren't you doing another movie? And then you went and did eastbound and down at HBO. What was that like? Well, were your agents like, yo, dude, come out with an Rated Comedy like Nate, like we're in the middle of the boom times, baby, they all even will and Adam were kind of curious of why we wanted to do it as a TV show and not as a movie. And you know, for us, it was, it was kind of the experience we went through with foot fist. We were like, well, we know if we're going to make something, it's going to get put into this meat grinder, and if it doesn't, like, hit these benchmarks with the test audience in Burbank, the students are going to lose interest in promoting it. And plus, at that time too, it's like, I don't know, especially with comedies, it's easy for comedies that have to fit into an hour and a half to become really formulaic. You know, this is where you meet the guy, this is where something goes wrong. This is where he thinks he's going to lose. This is where he wins. This is where he gets to bat. Like, you know, write that down, that's all there. Well, how the hell? That's up to you. It felt like TV that first season of Eastbound was three hours. And we're like, listen, we could make this different by even just not trying to fill the story in an hour and a half. We can just fill it in three hours. We could do way weirder shit and we can have it be a little bit more unexpected. But obviously, nobody was going to let us make a three hour theatrical movie. And so that was just our mindset with that first season. We never knew if that show was going to work. If anyone would ever do it again, it was just our way of making a follow-up to foot fist. That would be as, like, epic as the godfather, but just take place in Shelby, North Carolina. And so that was our idea of why I went to go into that was just, and that was even for doing the short seasons. You know, at that point, there was nobody in the States that was making shows that were only six episodes, like that was still, like HBO was still, I think, 13 episodes or 12 at the lowest. And then, obviously, network was bigger than that. So even when we got picked up, they wanted us to do, like, 13 episodes. And we said, no, that we just wanted to do six. We were tripping off of, like, the British office and seeing how, like, that stuff was so short. And there was no waste. It was all just storytelling. And I also had this idea, like, I want the season to be something that theoretically someone could watch in one sitting, like, I want this, it could be digested, like, on one night. Like, I don't want it to be something that people have to take multiple days to get through this one season. And so that was sort of our way of writing, like, making it feel like it's a movie, even though it was a TV show, was just not making the seasons too long where you couldn't theoretically knock it out on one, like, hungover Saturday morning. Well, fucking good for you, dude, because, I mean, at that point, you probably, you didn't have any money. So this would be like, we want to be like, I want to make less money into it this way. Because the second they were like, we'll give you more money if you do more episodes. We were like, we will do 20 episodes season three. And we did. All of us fucking killed ourselves, that was me worst year of brutal. Hey, this is Ace Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook on the big money players network. Our show is extremely accessible to first time listeners. Each week we talk to someone in show business, aka The Biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. You want to greet guests like Sarah Sherman, not that great. I actually, can you help me, can you, can you help me shape this? Yeah. No. Okay. No. Okay. What is the surprise one, man? Adam Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I have. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I am open to it. I'm always going to accept, you know, Danny McBride. Fine. Yeah. It's all this fragile masculinity, exuding. I was like, is that what you need? Nope. Ben stiller. No. Sometimes in out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. Like you're like, oh, it's so stupid. Everyone's so dumb. And fake right fake and also not interested or just like, Oh, I've got my life. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show. And he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. If your bookshelf and your for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Pro's Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm going to have to look up this story from bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. Like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is the Trojan horse, whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Send to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I choose option B. I'm Julie Piñero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, "You smiled at us, not a lot of people smile around here." It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. The first thing you see when it pops up is high nears and apple at you, but they weren't just planning houses. Stop right there, is that normal? A podcast about what happens when a small town becomes the site of a social experiment and decides to fight back. Do not use my hard work to sell your pool. I guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies now, did you? TV is hard though, isn't it? I mean, you guys know it's like, you know, the more episodes you do, it's like it is and you get paid well, but it is, you know, there's nothing harder than writing a TV show, I think. You write a movie and even like this book, you write something and you get to go to the next step once it's finished. This book gets published once the book's done. A movie gets made, once the script is done and everyone signs off on it. TV, the fucking train is coming. You know, like you're sitting here answering questions while you're trying to figure out what the hell you're going to still do with it and a production office is opening. It just adds this whole layer of stress that can be exhilarating and fun, but it also is a totally different experience writing than writing in other formats. I think I like it because there's no like pondering on the script and wondering like, it's like, we got a move. We got a film that's like, well, can we beat this? It's like, we did it. We said, we thought about it. Let's go make it. We'll get on set. We'll make it funny. I don't know. I think sometimes when there's like a movie, there's like this, there's this time that they preciousness. Yeah, where they're like, I don't know. And you're like, well, then we'll never know. We'll never know. Yeah, I guess like Danny, like you, I mean, especially like upon reading the book and having all these like different stories, do you find joy in like creating a whole new environment, a whole new character, a whole new thing to dive into? Like, where do you start? Do you start with your characters? Or do you have like an idea like, oh, like robo care, like I want a robot that comes over and takes care of an old man like, where do you, where do you get your inspiration for all your story? Sometimes it will be like an idea for a character, you know, or a situation like that, you know, like all robot, you know, nurse or robot, you know, caretaker, or sometimes it might just even be like just a scene or an image of like, oh, what would be the story around that? With these stories, it was pretty fun because again, there was no, there was no pressure on any of it. It was in the book, ultimately, it was just going to be whatever I wanted it to be. So I would be very selfish in the writing of it, where, I mean, I wrote a lot of stuff that I didn't put in here, but I would just follow whatever was making me laugh or whatever was making me want to come back and keep working on it. And I got down the road on a lot of stories that I, that I, you know, some of my completed, but it's really far into them. And I just kind of lost the spark for them and just, you know, shelved them. And that was kind of nice to be able to do that to kind of know that you just could follow the ones that you really liked and that if there was something that was becoming too much of a puzzle, you could just throw it out, throw it out. Yeah, that was cool. So you, you would, uh, we're, I mean, did you write this like over the course of the last few years? And you would just sort of tinker with it in your off time and then come back to it when you had a little more time in between shooting gemstones? Or yeah, a few of them, a few of the stories in there were things I kind of like, I had kind of like worked on between season of gemstones. But then once gemstones wrapped, it's what I went into sort of full time. So it's what I worked on all last year. And then once I got into it that way, a lot of the earlier stuff I wrote, I just felt like it wasn't up to stuff. So I kind of ended up going through and writing the bulk of that book like last year after we wrapped gemstones, which ended up being kind of therapeutic because gemstones was so much fun to work on. Uh, I loved it. Adam, as you know, we had a blast on it. Uh, but you know, I worked on it for seven years. And so even when you write and you're writing something that's involves the same characters, the same world, your brain just gets trained to look at stories through those characters, uh, eyes. And so it becomes hard to commit to another big story without it feeling like it's just like a replicate or something of what you just worked on. So these short stories ended up being a really awesome way to do that because you could just jump from short, short to short story and just sort of like follow what was new and not feel like you were having to commit suddenly to a new TV show that you're going to have to love the characters as much as the ones you just finished writing for. You could, you know, you could fuck around a little bit like you're getting over a, you know, a long-term relationship. Okay. All right. We're saying the big bits. We got it. Yeah. Yeah. This is the, this was your dick right here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is your industry dick pic. Go, man. Yeah. Yeah. Real details of modern men. Is Danny McBride's dick pic. Beautiful. It's beautiful. Wait. So you jumped into this right after seven seasons of a show. So I guess my question is like four seasons, seven years, seven years. Seven years, seven. Yeah. We had strikes. We had COVID. We had a lot of, there was a lot of natural calamities happening. We had a lot of ups and downs. Right. We don't need to get into how COVID started. And whether it should be back, how it started in Shem Creek, here in Toronto, South Carolina, right? Oh, well, fuck. Yeah. Believe it in a bar mat. Fuck. Yeah. In a bar mat. At big risk. What's what's your like work life balance? Do you have, do you have shit you like to do to just chill? Yeah. I do. Or does your mind always go and you're like, well, I'm all right. Or I'll go beyond a movie and act a little bit or produce something. Or do you just like to go fucking row about? Yeah, do you want to come on to Catalina with us? You know, that that was something that I felt like when I moved to Charleston, that's what I was looking for a little bit is in LA, I really had a hard time finding what my fucking hobbies were. Like I feel like every time. So work oriented. Well, you drive down the street and there's just billboards of of everyone's movies and TV shows. And you're like, yeah, I should. Everything is telling you to get the work. There's a faux massage. Yeah. Yeah. Why am I not doing something? It Charleston just felt like, I don't know, I mean, Adam, you spent considered a lot of time here. I mean, you can't just sit out in the back porch and look at the water. You can get on a bike and ride around and not that you can't do that stuff in LA, but I don't know. It just became easier to shut things off and to kind of find other ways to occupy your time. I mean, I like working. I like doing what we do. So there is a sense of me that I always kind of am working on something, but not because I feel like I have to. I just, I just like it. I enjoy doing it. Well, dude, I think we could talk about it because I saw it. I read the trades and I saw it. It just came out that you wrote and are going to direct the new GI Joe, dude. Okay. So yeah, are you, are you, because GI Joe is mentioned in the book. I remember that like you talk about all their needs. Are you, are you, are you pretty entrenched in GI Joe lore? Or like how, how are we feeling about that? You know, I grew up playing GI Joe. It was, you know, that shit was, was massive when we were kids and, you know, the comic books were all, we're obviously awesome. The cartoon show was awesome. There's a channel on YouTube that is just 24 hours GI Joe episodes. It's just streaming. Yeah, it's just streaming. I like that because you don't have to make the choices. You just can't turn it on. That's cool. There's an episode playing. But it takes you back. It does though. That, that, the soundtrack, those voices, the colors, it's all these, it's so cool. And the voices, the voices are crazy, right? I mean, it's, like, it's Joe's voice is crazy. Oh, over-commander sounds insane. Oh, dude, there's, there's some of the best voice actors for sure. It's also just cool to see like the character creation or like, so what, what makes roadblock different? It's like, well, everything he says he rhymes. It's like, okay, we're going with that. Okay, we like that. That's enough. So, so for something like this, is it, is it going to be funny? Are you going to put that, the, the comedy spirit into this? Or is it going to be a straight-ahead action film? Or what do we say? I think it'll be about as funny as making Predator is, you know, like, I think that they're, they're, they're really, Well, there's no way that we can turn it off totally. These characters, I think, will, you know, some of them will make you laugh, but the movie itself is not handled like it's a comedy. You know, we're not, we're not like making fun of G.I. Joe, we're not like, you know, winking to the audience or, you know, just even playing into nostalgia. Like, you know, John Concerty and Jeff Bradley who wrote on gemstones with me and helped run that show. I wrote, this is what we all worked on together after gemstones. And we really just wanted to write, like, something that kind of grounds that concept of G.I. Joe as much as you can without, like, taking out what's fun about it, without getting rid of, like, how incredible Cobra is and, you know, and all of these different characters. And, you know, just utilizing what we liked about it, but trying to figure out a way to, like, introduce it to a new generation of people and to introduce it in a way where you could root for these people and you can be invested in it. And I think by us kind of making it like kind of a thriller, action, you know, movie, set in suburbia, it's just, I don't know, everything about it just started to work for us conceptually. And we've had a blast writing it. And it was one of those experiences where we sold, I sold the pitch to it. And, you know, I talked to Bradley and John and I said, listen, there's gonna be a lot of hoops to jump through with doing something like this. Like, we're gonna have to get through Paramount. We're gonna have to get through Hasbro. We have no experience doing something of this magnitude. So I was like, I just wanna skip outlines and all of it. Like, let's just quietly write this entire script while they're taking forever to get our contracts together. And the day that we sign the contracts and we have our first meeting, let's just drop a script on them that day. And that's exactly what we did. We were like, let's just, 'cause we know from TV, it's such a waste of time to do outlines. I mean, we'll sit there and fucking give notes about an outline. And then we start writing the script and the outline goes completely out the door 'cause you start realizing what really does work, the moment you start writing it. So, that's what we did. We wrote this script and just threw it to the window, we're like, yo, no, no, I'm not gonna accept it. We airlifted in. And, you know, afterwards, it was sort of like, oh, that was a bold move because if they, if they were like totally not into it, it'd be like, these fucking nerves. Like, no idea, you gotta give us, you gotta tell us what you're doing. You can't just do it like this. But their response was awesome. I think that, like, we felt really confident in what we sent in and then their response was met with equal enthusiasm. And so, I think between Paramount and us, we just really saw the potential for what this could be and it doesn't mean that that first draft is like, you know, set in stone. We've been like working and working on it to just make it better, but we felt like it was a better place to start the conversation with something that's this ambitious to just be like, this is what we're trying to do instead of giving some 15-page document or we're like summarizing all this shit and like, it's so hard to convey tone with that too. And I think something like this, the tone is everything, you know, there's good tones and bad tones and, you know, and, you know, these people don't know us. They don't, they're not necessarily give us the benefit of the doubt that all of our ideas are gonna be executed in the most palatable way. Like, they could be reading our ideas and be like, these guys are gonna blow this. And so, we just felt like we just wanted to put our money where our mouth was. - That better. - That's fucking awesome, dude. - And this is PG-13. - It has to be PG-13. But it's okay, we're running within those lines. I think we got this. - I like that. - I like that challenge. - I feel like also PG-13 used to be pretty gnarly, kind of edgy. I remember, I forget, was it like doc holiday or something? - Doc Hollywood, dude. - Doc Hollywood. - I went with my mom. - They're titties in it? - Yeah, there's titties. - She comes out of the water fully naked. - What? - Blush, fully naked. It was PG-13, I made my parents rent me that movie. - Every weekend. - I was like, I need to run Doc Hollywood back, girl. - You're like, Adam's gonna grow up and be a doctor. - Yeah. - I'll be in the basement watching Doc Hollywood again. - Right. - So just throwing that your way, Danny, there could be, there could be some. - You can't. - One, two. - Lady J could be full bush. - One, two, one, ten. - Floppy now. - Please make a bearer-ness. Please make a bearer-ness. - Yeah, bearer-ness. - Oh God. She's so hot, bro. - It's real hot. - It's real hot. - But naked with the glasses on. I'm not real blocked if he's again. - Love. - Yeah, just being really zoomed in. - Blake's gonna dress up as Dick as a GI Joe character. - Snake guy. - Snake guy. - Who was the guy? - All right, people, the guy who was in the famous photo that went around that was like sitting on the edge of the bed with like the giant cock hanging over. - Oh, the big black guy? - I can't recall if he was alive. He's my roadblock. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - I think his name was Roadblock. - He could block a lot. - His greatest asset would just go to waste in a PG-13 movie. - Yeah, that's true. - You can see some outlines. - Yeah, but everyone would know. Everyone would know. You'd watch it and you'd go, I know. - He's always just sitting on the edge of the bed with his just his arm hanging right there. - Yeah, so. - With the bazooka. - With the bazooka. - He's gone. - Dude, please have tons of bazooka, isn't it? Wasn't that a character name? - Blake has a lot of fun pictures. - Oh, I loved you, I chose. The fact you're doing that gets me so freaking excited, dude. I like to live for G.I. Joe's. - Yeah, me too. - I just, I'm gonna ask you do not have to answer. Can you say who the lead character will be? - You know, Duke plays a big role in it, but it's an ensemble, so there's a lot of, there's a lot of Joe's in it. - Yeah. - Got it, got it. - Yeah, there's a lot of Joe's. - Cool. - We're a lot of Joe's. - This is a derse. - He does a very good. - Not a bad way of asking to be cast. - Yeah, there's a lot. - There's a lot. - Duke's 45 and got like soft pasts. - Yeah, there's Duke, he has worked out in years. - Yeah, there's a little couple of here. - Duke is currently wearing a rough house t-shirt with a backup stodger cap. - Can we get some kind of discount code for the rough house pictures like gift shop? I've got a couple of teeth on my eye. - We gave it to Adam to give you guys a long time ago. He never- - It's son of a- - You never gave it to you guys. - Oh, see? - You have like the conquered Taekwondo shirt. I'm from Conquer, dude. I need the shirt. - You need that. - Conquer. - We got it. We got it. - Thank you. - At the end of the show, we do take backs, apologies. Any epic slams that you might want to do on any of us. Feel free to do it right now. - Yeah. - No way I would do that to you three gentlemen. - I guess I'll take a break. - 'Cause you're making up the dead gentleman whose nude photos went viral and said he should be in the movie. I don't know if that's gonna help or-- - Don't take that. - I got it. - All right, yeah, fuck it. - Oh, I thought you were gonna take back when you kept making the dick sucking noises when I was just complimenting my friend, Danny. - I'll give a double down. - Oh, you're doubling down on that. - Yeah. - Just like you were gobbling down, I'm gonna double down. - I wasn't gobbling. - It was not gobbling. (laughing) - You know what? - I'll apologize for- - It's a friend of mine. - I'm gassing up the audio version of the book. This is a sick-ass book to have a physical copy of. It harkens back to the days. - When you would see cool dudes walking around with like, everyone would you see like a dude walking around with like Howard Stern's private parts and you're like, "That guy can read." - But he's also- - There's side-pulled books, side-line, which, yeah. - Like are you talking about one thing that happened once to you? - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - That dude. - That dude reads what he, he fucks too, he's cool. (laughing) He's not a bookworm. This is a cool ass book. - You could do both. - This is a cool book to have on your person, okay? - Absolutely. - You walk on a flight and this is in your hand. Dude, you're gonna look at you and be like, "Salute, dude." I see the name and- - Salute, yeah. - Can I quickly, before we really sign off, can I quickly show just a few other DVDs that I discovered? - Please. - Yes. - This one, I don't know if you can see what this says. - It just says Adam Devine. - This is Adam Devine's real. - Eddie October. Wow, that's a very, that's very vintage. That's like 2004, five. - Was that your real Adam? Is that what that was? - That was my real. - This is Jetset Hudson's comedy DVD. - Okay. - Who's one of the stars of Workaholics? - Yeah. - Comedy and more. - And then we cast a lot of extras as extras and then ended up giving them lines throughout the show. Basically our entire office were just extras who we gave acting work to. And they're great. - And Jetset was a legend who left us too soon. And then finally, this is a birthday gift that Blake gave me. I'm a huge Ghostbusters fan. So of course, this is hustlers, this ain't Ghostbusters. - Yes. - Okay. - Where, where, I don't think I've seen a better- - Is that blue ray? That was blue ray. - This is blue ray. - Yeah. - You're gonna wanna see, you're gonna wanna see it all. - I don't, I don't skip out on my boys. - It's a nice gift, Blake. - Yeah. - It's a nice gift. - Yeah. - Come on, I'm giving my boys some 4K. - Blake has never given me a gift, but that's cool. - Wait for the boat. I got a gift for you on the boat. - Oh shit. - Don't worry. - Okay. - Evan Stone gives the one and only, no one gives a better Bill Murray impression than Evan Stone in this movie. And I'm not joking. He's a true talent. - It's crazy. - Evan Stone, the porn star is truly talented. - I love that. - All right, thank you so much for being our first real guest, Danny. - Yeah. - You know, you're a legend. - Yeah, man. - And we appreciate you. - Thank you guys. Thanks for having me on here. I appreciate it. - Honestly. - We love you. - Take it up. - Yes, take it up. It's fucking great. - Thank you guys. - Keep crushing it and everything you do where we're such fans. - Gunya. - Appreciate it, you guys. - Danny McBride, everybody. Danny McBride. - Gunya. - Gunya. for getting us to read, man, we appreciate it. (laughing) - All right, and that's another episode. - And that's another episode. - Up, this is - It is - It was important. - It was important. - Good day. - Good day. - Good day. - And Sean Clements. - We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook. Each week we talk to someone in show business and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. - We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Ben Stillert, and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. 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