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Colaguard results should be interpreted with caution as false positive and false negatives do occur, available by prescription only. Here we go. Hey, budget. Hey, Sophie. How's it going? Good. How are you? Good. We're trying to decide something. Yeah. The kids want us to be a Halloween house. Uh huh. Yeah. Like they want like skeletons. We drove by a house that like really does it up and like different skeletons all over the front lawn. And this house, there's, there's construction going on around the house. And so there's actual like, you know, orange construction signs on the road. And they also put a skeleton in a safety vest and put it next to it. And it's, you know, it's really charming. It's really good. Yeah. And so the kids are basically like, why can't we be a Halloween house? And Lexi, and this will not surprise you about Lexi. I think it would be true. She basically like, it was very, I don't know, I felt like very insightful about herself. She's like, here's the thing. Your mom is crazy. And I have to either do it. So I have to be the most Halloween mom in the world or not a Halloween mom at all. Yeah. Because I don't think, you know, she's not, she's incapable of half-assing it. Whereas I was pretty much all I know how to do. Yeah, you put up like some orange streamers and be like, here, one one spider web like one spider web on one window that you would be impossible not to know that it wasn't just a regular spider web. Yeah. Where do you stand? Are you excited when you see a Halloween house? I like a well-done Halloween house. I don't like these inflatable things that just sort of pop up on people's lawns. I feel like they're, it's too plug and play. You want to say a little bit more effort. Yeah. If you're going to do it, I like to see a little more effort. I don't know if I've said this in the past. One in a neighborhood, in my neighborhood sort of has a, I don't know, a 14-foot high Jack Skellington. Okay. From Nightmare Before Christmas. Yeah. And it's in this nice little sort of loop on the street sort of up above me in the Hollywood Hills. As you enter the loop that probably has, I don't know, 15 houses when Mackenzie and I go for a walk, we sort of add that little loop sometimes. It is the house, the first house when you enter there and they never take it down. So at this moment, it is seasonally correct. If I was one of those 14 people who lived on that street, I would hate this person so much because these houses are nice. And every time they drive into their little enclave, they have to see this thing. So that person probably is going to be a good Halloween house, but I have a great deal of animosity towards them. What if? So you call that out to the neighbor, right? Yeah. How do you feel about that? And how would you feel if their response was? What are you talking about? I don't see a giant Skellington. Oh, well, that would be terrifying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of funny, though. If all this years, you've been like Mr. HOA and they're like, no, you're just seeing ghost, buddy. Yeah. And I kind of like want to leave a note that, I mean, not in the way that. Let me tell you something, listen to this podcast, my brother, the amount every day he's fighting the urge to leave a note. This is the note. If you couldn't get judged for it, how many notes would you write on a given day that you would just leave on people's windshields or front doors? Yeah, a lot of notes. Yeah, I don't know. I took a picture last night. Oh, boy. In our building where we live, we all have subterranean garages. And there's 17 units. So there's nine on one side, eight on the other. You know, it goes. I do. And sometimes people based on like, you know, street cleaning or whatever, they will park alongside their garage. Right. And it's tight down there. Yeah, they're closed garage. And a car was parked in front of their garage. And it was like six feet away from the wall. So the person who's across the way from them, it's just that much harder for them to get into or out of their garage. Yeah. And I just took a picture in my anger and I haven't, I forgot to show it to Mackenzie when I even came upstairs. But I was like, this is terrible. Yeah. Just taking pictures, writing notes, little mind notes, little notes in his head. And I really like, I would want to part of me wants to print that picture up. Yeah. Put it on the windshield and just say, do better. I don't know if I've told the story about being with my good friend, Brooks Wheelan. And we were in Michigan. And we were stopped at a really good pizza place in Detroit. And we were waiting in line. It was really crowded. And we were waiting for the hostess to come see us. And two seats open up at the bar. And I was like, should we go sit there? And Brooks said like, I think let's just wait for the hostess. But I'm like, yeah, yeah. And then two people, literally the two people behind us in line just walked past us and went inside of the bar. And I was like, oh. And then I was like, oh, excuse us. We were going to, and they're like, Scotty. And I was like, those are, and I started like walking over and like Brooks just goes, no, no, no. And I'm like, what? He goes, no, no, no. It's don't. And I'm like, oh, right. There's no reason to. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, never mind. It's all good. So that's a good reminder to not write your notes. Pushy. Hey, one thing that there's an uninteresting that anybody is listening. But I forgot to say is we played each other in fantasy football this weekend. I beat you. Oh, yeah, you did. You did. I started out so hot. I was four now. And everyone was like, are you ever going to lose? And it was sort of like two straight people said other rams that we're going to lose the game this year. And they're two and four. This is a great episode. Speaking of Michigan, Paul Walter Hauser. He's a gentleman and a great conversation. And we do hope you will enjoy. Family trips with the miles brothers. Here we go. Yeah. Hey, man. There he is. There we are. And he doesn't go in. Nice to meet you. You know, we were Michiganders for a while. I don't know if you know that. I knew that. A dear friend of mine married a woman named Brooke Gomez. And she said her and her sister like. Lid by you guys. I think and where was it? Lansing. Yeah. It was a good day. It was a very. It was a very nice upbringing out there in Michigan. Michigan's actually a beautiful state. It's been hit hard by a lot the way everybody has now. Yep. But yeah, no, really, really interesting. People and beautiful. Beautiful landscape, man. I love Grand Rapids Trevor City. There's some great places. But are you a boarding Grand Rapids? But did you grow up in Grand Rapids? Wait, are we starting? Let's get into you. Let's really. It's just part of it. It's just like a free interview. We haven't decided if it's a fit yet. So we're just going to keep going. You go, we're not sure it's a show. If you don't say you grew up in Saginaw, we're in trouble over here. Yeah, because we got a lot of stuff on Saginaw. I am. I was boarding Grand Rapids. Blodget Hospital for those asking. And then around one and a half too, I moved to a Saginaw, what's my family, it's all a guy one. (laughing) And I'm one of four children. I got an older brother, Matt, older sister Julia, younger sister Elise, boy girl, boy girl. And I grew up in Saginaw and I lived there, you know, through high school and stuff, but then I also like, lived with my folks and bummed around for a long time too. - In my 20s. - Gotcha. - Yeah. - And so, and what's the Saginaw scene like? - It's a rough scene, man. Oh God, I don't even know what to say, imagine. - It doesn't sound like a rough scene, but I have read about your upbringing. It does sound like, I mean, Saginaw, I don't know why I'm like just writing that off is like, it sounds like, I don't know, pristine, but. - I don't know why I'm imagining like, that city with Jeff Bridges and Stacey Keecher, something like, it's like, you know, it's very Americana in a lot of ways, you know, like automotive industry, nursing, like all the normal jobs that were, you know, known to be sustaining our nation for a while. And then, you know, Saginaw, I think at its height, I could be getting this wrong, but I think at its height, it had maybe 150 to 175,000 people total. And it was like, maybe like the, there's six biggest city in Michigan. And I think in a sense dwindled, and now it's kind of on a bit of a downslope, and it's like, a lot of the mon pop places I grew up loving are now no longer in the place by like, an era bread and pan express and stuff. - Yeah, that's a heart breaker. - Where is Saginaw exactly? I don't even forgive my experience. - Right here on the hand. - He just wanted to trap you into doing the hand. - Posh loves the hand. - So you're doing the alien thing from arrivals. - I'm getting real pan's labyrinth vibes. - Yeah, no, yeah, I growing up there was very much like, well, you guys experienced it. Obviously you have the four seasons. It's beautiful, but a little, little rustic meets urban. And I grew up in a really bad neighborhood in Saginaw. It was called north bond street. And it was in the 48602 area code. And we were known, Saginaw was known for being number one in America for violent crime per capita. - Get out. - And this is above like, you know, like I've seen the wire, like we all think about like Baltimore and Brickin, whatever, like all these American cities that have a connotation. Saginaw was like above them in violent crime per capita for like a decade. - Wow, just punching above your weight. The little city. - We were always trying to hurt people now that I think about it. - Were you aware of it? - Was that like in your childhood, were you, that is I think one of those things that sometimes you forget the kids aren't like, this might be a bad scene. Were you aware of it? - No, not at all. - Okay. - It was normal to me because like, my dad was a Lutheran pastor now retired. And like, money through Saturn, it was like the wire or some sketchy thing where our neighbors were weirdos. They had like, they always had a bunch of $2 bills and they always took in straight cats and they might have been dealing drugs. And the family across the street was like, I don't know, bordering on incestuous behavior, we don't know. And we had a police dog shot in our backyard on Thanksgiving night in '97, I believe. - A police dog shot in your backyard. - By a bank robber that was chased through our backyard. - Oh wow. - Yeah. - Real thing. But, you know, money through Saturday is like, you know, the wire by way of, you know, who's the director of Mulholland Drive, David Lynch. - Oh yeah. - It was like David Lynch directing the wire was our money through Saturday. And then Sunday it was like the Andy Griffiths show. It was just like, I'm wearing a bow tie and suspenders at Cherich. I'm eating donut holes and talking to senior citizens and we're chasing each other around. And we very much had the dark in the light though, present at all times. And it gave me a dark sense of humor. And I really, and I really feel like I lived somewhere between like Christopher Guest, mockumentary people. And then like, you know, thugs and creeps and weirdos. - Did you, were you and your siblings, were you a tight unit? - Oh yeah, very much so, very close. And, you know, would harshly defend one another and we were, you know, playmates as much as siblings can be with fighting and all the things. And, oh, there was a candy store, like a half mile from our house. And it was called J and P, you know what that's said for, but like Jack Perry, J and P. And we would go there and buy like, this makes me sound old as shit, but like we would buy like 10 cent Tootsie rolls and 25 cent bags of Doritos. And we like felt like kings. We felt like queens. - We had a place where you'd buy candy from jars and it, I agree. I mean, there's very little I could imagine doing now that would make me feel better or more empowered than that made me feel that. - Nothing. - Would you, would you like ride bikes down to that candy store? - And was that an Arley ride? - Was that a, was that a questionable ride based on what you've said about your neighborhood? - It was a, it was a questionable for sure. There was a veteran's hospital and a playground. And the playground basically looked like, I mean, to look at the playground is to know the marketing department of one house. You know, it's just, it's a little dreary. Definitely looks like, you know, the kind of place where you could step on a needle and have it change your whole life just because you wanted to go on the monkey bars. But yeah, no, that was, there was a family video store about another half mile away in a walking distance or bike riding distance. And that was a big thing for me too as a kid. It was like, let's get some candy. We got two bucks. We got two dollars for, you know, shovel in the walk. I'm gonna go rent a $1 video tape at family video and I'm gonna spend a dollar on getting a soda and a chip and a candy bar. You know, that was like, that was a big deal. Did you, where you guys, trouble makers are straight and narrow? I mean, you have a pastor for a father. - Yeah, we were straight and narrow in the sense that we weren't like getting pulled into the principles of solid time or anything like that. But we, me and my brother were kind of shit starters. So I just, I had incidents with kids and teachers and fighting, like I remember, my brother wasn't allowed. My brother wasn't allowed to, my brother went through a phase where, when he was like 13 and I was eight, he was listening to like bone thugs in harmony and stoop dog. And I idolized my brother, you know, he's my big brother. So I'm an eight year old listening to first of the month and be like, the shit is dang. (laughing) Brother, I remember my brother trying to pick a fight with a kid from another school during a seventh grade basketball game and he was wearing like, he had his hair in like dreads, like many dreads and like wore a leather jacket over his Michael Jordan jersey. And like, definitely just trying to like post up. And it was that thing of I think, maybe needing to rebel a little bit because you're the pastor's kid. Yeah. - And you're like, I don't want to pick 'em a bitch. I better shove this kid and start listening to Nate Dog. (laughing) - No, no. 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No, dude, we were broke asked for. It was a bit like, like we would, we had a lot of my dad's family lived in Wisconsin. So we would drive the seven to eight hours or whatever to Milwaukee or near Green Bay or something. And we did that trip many times. We had a place in Shawano, Wisconsin. It was called Whisper and Pines. And I think for like, maybe a thousand bucks or 800 bucks you could rent this whole campground area with cabins and stuff and ponds and a lake. And so all the families will kind of chip in and we'd all kind of like, shack up for the week me and like we had probably 25 first cousins, 22, 25 first cousins. So like a big, big family reunion. That was a big deal. And then we went down to Florida to see my mom's parents a number of times and that drive was awful. Oh, 'cause my dad was a, was a shit driver. God bless him. Dad was a shit driver. We would just have a lot of griswold stuff happen. I remember our luggage was on, we tried the luggage on top instead of in the car one time and it went flying all over the expressway or whatever. And we had another time where the car broke down or ran out of gas, I guess. So we're like, we're sipping our microplastics from our McDonald's cups and we're and we're sweating our faces off and we're sitting in baking in the sun in an astro van for like the better part of two hours while our dad is on foot getting gas. Well, stuff like that would happen and just, so luggage falling off the car, that's a pullover and get your luggage off the expressway situation, yeah? Yeah, yeah, that happened once or twice. And is that, is that everybody in the car while dad's running out and running back and running out, running back? Yeah, pullover on the side of the road and now that I am a father, I have three kids, a five year old boy, three year old boy and one year old baby Bubba girl. And now I know like when your kid's question, your decision making or your aptitude, it messes with your head a little bit. Yeah. So like I feel bad for my dad and the hindsight, like not having navigation back in the day, literally looking at a paper map and having the luggage fly off. It's like all these unique time, you know, of the time disadvantages, I look back on it and I'm like, oh, homeboy, you were trying your best, you're trying, man. You're right, man. I love you, I'm sorry. And it feels so hard now and you're so right, like the cars are better now, everything's better now. The, you know, even an idling expect to sort of value car is gonna have all the amenities that you didn't have back in an astro van in the day. Good word, amenities. There are many amenities that are complimentary to the traveling situation now that we didn't have back then. And also just like, you know, kids, the fact that we can complain about the iPads and stuff, but the reality is such, having your kids be occupied and shutting the hell up for 90 minutes is like a big deal. Yeah, and not having them complaining and asking, are we there yet, et cetera? How, I mean, so Michigan to Florida, I mean, that is just, that's impressive. I mean, what are we talking about a 30 hour drive? I mean, 20 hour drive? I don't, I don't truly know. I think it's under 20. Because those middle states go by quick like Kentucky and Tennessee go by barely quickly, but But there was a four seasons that you'd stop at halfway through, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, there was we'll be at a motel A freaking motel and that's funny. I remember we were traveling for a wedding one time and I might have been I'm like an eight or nine years old and a few good men was playing on the HBO and it was big deal like we had these channels at home holy shit Uh and most of it was stuff that couldn't watch when my parents were getting ready for a wedding They're in the bathroom doing their thing with the blow dryer in the bow tie And I'm sitting on the edge of the bed watching the third act of a few good men and I'm in for all Yeah, and it was a moment in time that's very like vivid for me because I remember thinking Why do Nicholson and Cruz hate each other so much? I really believed that these guys hate each other and are trying to destroy each other What is that and that kind of was my first time I ever cared about something that wasn't Ernest goes to camp Chris Farley Father the bride, you know, yeah It is a real and I mean this is a credit to the film. It is a great intro to drama movie. I feel like Kids could watch and be like I every I get every part of this. I like every part of this I understand good and bad in this. It's great Why more Dawson and Downey take the six months once the deal As Chris says it's nothing. It's a hockey season Did you guys oh my god? It's nothing. It's a hockey season. How do you uh, how'd you sit in the aster van? Were you the same seats all the time with the four kids or did you kind of shuffle around? I mean nobody really nobody wants the backseat. You got four kids. We had two benches not no captains chairs those are a luxury um But I usually had my action figures that have my bad action figures my Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum from Kenner Yeah 1992 93 toy like I had all those to occupy me and I would tell stories like writing a script Yeah, you know with my action figures and then And then, you know, I think in 93 I got a uh, a tape player like a Sony Walkman for cassette tapes and I had I had like cracked rear view from from a hoody in the blowfish So I'd listen to the same like nine songs over and over again and stuff mom and dad were always playing um The same music they would play like seals and crafts Chicago uh, um through the years by Kenny Rogers like Brad like they were very mild my dad like didn't listen to Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin right dad was like With the song they were soft rockers. Was it a was it tape player a situation for your dad? Take player Radio then the radio would scramble when you got 30 miles out and you'd be like ah shit Throwing the tape My Amy Grant back in the day. Yeah, for sure. Sorry Amy Grant. I want to imagine for all how did she cross over? How did she touch? All these atheists and Protestants alike, but she did so along a long drive you're all kind of doing your own thing It sounds like no collective where oh there were some collective games, you know like I see something red and then stop sign um We would play some of those games for sure, but um, but eventually it devolved into You know our version of the iPad um the best is over time when like That when the CD player came out and you had the CD walkman from Sony the little circle one that was dope Then I got a DVD player in high school a portable DVD player and that was like Yeah, I always had the same four DVDs on me in high school. It was like Donnie Darko spinal tap Definitely Hills Ninja and remember the Titans. Oh my god. I'll just travel with those like I will say those are four movies Those really are like four different like I could those are four very different moods Like what I'm in the mood for I think I'm a genre agnostic. I'm very much a Rob Reiner guy. I'm like Can you make misery and spinal tap Harry Met Sally and the American president like I want a little really really good Beverly Hills Ninja fantastic. Yeah, by the way, you know who loves that movie who Christian bail Oh get out Christian bail is like a huge fan of Beverly Hills Ninja. It's like the caddy shack in his home with his kids Oh, so this is a new one he loves No, no, he's like like this is something I read an interview over a decade ago where he's like Beverly Hills Ninja is like one of one of our favorite movies I'm gonna say something that's gonna be like mind-blowing. I don't know if I've ever seen Beverly Hills Ninja I don't know that guy's has been fun But like I can explain. All right, here I'm gonna explain and I think I think this is allowed You're on Saturday night. You're on snl. You dork you've been seeing Beverly Hills Ninja. I think it was so here's the thing I think I was living abroad when it came out So Josh and I both lived in Amsterdam. We did boom Chicago and I so there's like this two years of like American culture that is like a black box for me And you guys are doing that with the Jordan Peel right? Yeah, we're out there with Jordan Yeah, I was I was obsessed with improv olympic in second-city as a youngster. Did you make your team but you never crossed over in Chicago, right? No, I did. I did. I um I used to go to improv shows to watch like Tim bolts and TJ Jagadowski And all these guys we would we would literally make pilgrimages to Chicago and drive five hours to see a band player to see improv and then I studied at the I/O theater and did level one and two the summer of 2012 while doing the stand-up scene and working at a Starbucks in Rosemont, Illinois And that was the summer that I remember Cessely strong was selling me tickets in the box office as an employee and then two months later. She got us an oh Wow, that's awesome. It is I you know, Josh and I obviously both had our feet in the Chicago scene as well It's like I really it's kind of crazy like in that because that you're at the cost of like I don't know people being able to have an online persona without having to have a stage persona in a scene But it was like oh, this is a scene like you don't like you need more than TikTok to see young comedians You got to be able to actually get in a car and go and check out these theaters Yeah, that that experience is really magical for me getting to watch folks who I said Well, these guys are better than the people making movies and the people on TV. Yeah, but they're not on TV. They're drinking and Old-style can and eating a late meal at salt and pepper Do you think there's something to you know, obviously you you've got a road trip Is a part of your life and part of occasions? Do you think that like having that as a A base coat of paint makes it easy when you're like have your own car and your own friends to be like I'm willing to drive five hours to go see a concert Yeah, I think there's something romantic about road trips for those that get behind the idea that and and yeah driving to see a band play or It was a pre-screening for Taladayga nights in 06 or 05 and me I because I did something at the piv and theater I did a workshop or something They they had me on a mailing list and they're like if you donate a hundred bucks or whenever it's at the piv and theater You can come see Taladayga nights Early so we went down there in wolf arrow and sush bearing cone and Adam mk. We're all there and like we're the biggest comedy nerds And I gave a DVD of my comedy troop That I was in at the time. We're doing this is when youtube and funnier die. We're just starting. Yeah, I was like one of the first 300 people on funnier die, you know um And we handed a DVD copy to To will and adam and we're like hey man, just want you to check it out and so but like But like for us the road trip was often very romantic. It was you're going to do something cool yeah, and a bit of a quest with your friends and uh And yeah, they didn't mind. We didn't mind you Did you have a good cohort of fellow comedy nerds in Saginaw who were willing to hop in the car. Yeah Really, it'll be funny guys It's that thing of like and you guys know what this is I bet because you two are very funny Professionally funny, but don't you have those guys or gals you grew up with who were like nine out of ten Yes, it couldn't make it in Hollywood funny, but they just never did yeah Well, there's that thing when I think back to like high school right like I mean obviously all of us are lucky enough to know like People that the whole world considers the funniest people in the world and we get to be friends of them We get to be in cars to them, but like when I think about like driving around in high school, you know with uh friends of ours I wasn't laughing any less hard than I laughed now and I was laughing all the time like those guys were just genuinely super funny all the time Yeah, I I had some really funny friends and uh Next level funny and some of them were more like Rowdy like the hamlin brothers Jordan John and Steve Hamlin. I remember they're the type of guys who Beat the shit out of each other and jump off the roof and like have milk drinking competitions do the gallon challenge and you're Puking up milk in your driveway Did they were they were like they were like steveo and and noxville they were like jackass guys and then my buddy Peter Hins was like This brilliantly funny sort of Bill Murray guy who's really into like watching bottle rocket and waking that divine and stuff like more obscure like indie comedies and so we ran the gamut you had like dudes who were smart funny stupid funny and everything in between and yeah we were all I remember after we graduated high school we would just go to college parties we were invited to and just show up and just and just see what mischief we could cause I remember one time we went streaking this guy who bullied my friend Kyle we went streaking through one of their parties and and it started with us running through and everybody be like with the fuck and it ended with us just like standing in the kitchen like looking around like how do we get out of here oh you streaked you streaked through the line and into the house yeah you can't do that did you were you naked in the kitchen yeah okay making a lot of kitchens that's another farly thing I just like you hear stories about farly being naked in like technically as wiener between his legs in the SNL offices but before I was sober I did stuff like that all the time thank god there were no camera phones but yeah very much just how do we get a rise out of people and and you know I would do this thing at parties where I would impersonate Tom Hanks in the green mile where I folded my knees pretending I'm in pain and start keying in the grass or on the campfire you know that was a bit of yours I go to I remember your SNL edition was Tom Hanks in the green mile and you pissed all over the stage I don't think anybody watched my SNL editions I I send in writing packets for years and I don't think anyone looked at him but God bless Joel Zadak for sending a man and treating it like hey you're the next somebody kid I believe in you Joel Zadak just give a shout out to Joel Zadak you know he's like one of the first he was the first manager I ever had in in LA yeah same time me too he wrecked me while I lived in Michigan I was 19 years old got a feature in high school and I was in that comedy trip that I actually no no I said I sent stuff directly to SNL I was a weirdo dude I was very persistent and like aggressive I would call Rockefeller Plaza the main the main lobby one and I would just say a Kiva Schaefer on the 17th floor and they'd pass me up immediately and not even asking any questions so like we never talked to him did you ever get through oh yeah like we talked to them like three four weeks after Lazy Sunday hit and they were like you guys don't understand the pressure like it's so weird to walk the halls and see comedy legends on the walls you have one hit sketch and everyone's waiting for you to replicate and give them gold and like they like vented to us and like talked to us for like 10 20 minutes your man a Kiva and then we sent them those what this is incredible I can't believe that this was happening we sent them those DVDs and they watched them and they're like you guys are really funny like let us know if we can ever give you advice or be helpful and then we sent DVDs to Bill Hader watch something and you and they said you and Colin Joe's to watch something back in the day that we made and and they were just like playing it in the SNL office or fun and like people walk by and ask what it was and I mean Bill Hader Bill Hader ran and we called my house one night when I was at a concert and I wasn't home I wasn't home to take the call they're like Bill from New York called you and I'm like fuck this is unbelievable I mean I mean I mean again makes it even more special that you were in naked gun with Keith I mean what a I mean this is I don't 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I don't think like full family singing, but a couple more like a couple people here and there and then eventually our music taste wavered so much. We swung so far to like in my tween years like 11 to 13 it was all about queen and bcboys so like I was on a different wavelength all of a sudden into boy music while my dad was like still wanting to listen to uh you know Alan or read me or something. Yeah and then take me to this this camp in shawana was it? shawano was constant your green bay it was it was called whispering pines yeah and uh and so you said like you know 25 family members what are you guys in cabins or you intense uh what's what's a day like out there what are some uh some of those classic the nutty kind of off-kilter life traveled you know um homeopathic doctor uncle my godfather john howzer he would like set up a tent and fish the rest of us would be like eating pub cheese on on you know saltine crackers while playing board games and chess upstairs uh and we we'd say in yeah cabins and then uh there were a lot of bunk beds so it was like a bunkhouse where you're sharing a room with you know two or four other people and uh there was something so like I have just these little things that were so cozy of like I remember I've always been a white noise brown noise guy so I had like a box fan and that would allow you to sleep but in the morning you'd hear feet shuffling and silverware hitting plates or bubbles and you knew that somebody was up and alive and then you'd slowly you know you see it in that movie the big chill which I love where slowly they're like crossed dissolving the same shot of everybody waking up and doing their morning routine and there was something really sweet and romantic about everybody congregating and kind of passing each other and hey uncles we're gonna go golfing 20 miles away do you want to go golf yeah hey I wasn't invited to golf the foot like and then you're like what do I do and then you you know you find something to do and you're like I found a dead animal and then you and your cousins are like Carter on a dead animal it's like it's just that kind of like wacky improvised living yeah amongst that convivial bunch that really it's special you know this was a trip you looked forward to was that like when you got a car you're like here we go very much it's where I you know drink but not my first beer it was where I like got not drunk but like a little buzzed for the first time I remember my cousin Justin and I snuck a bunch of lining Googles which were popular in Wisconsin I don't know if they traveled but we had a little bit of I know I think college is when I yeah college for sure in Chicago yeah we had some we we snuck like seven lining Googles and like put them in these cups and I remember the kind of square brother-in-law who marry Justin's sister Rose he like came down any wonderful guy this guy John Philip but I mean at the time we were like we're cool this guy sucks and like he walked downstairs and he goes hey you guys he was gonna ask us to play ping pong there's a giant ping pong table and we were pouring beer into the sink trying to hide it and he walks down he goes hey do you want it and I just turn around and I go what are you doing like authoritatively to him like he's in trouble and he like backed away like take the beers out to the campfire and we're drinking in my uncle John the the hip one you like uh you know the one who the one who knew George he'll be bush might not have been the best person in the world you know that uncle back at 03 you know he up he um he's like can I have a sip of that and I'm like terrifying I'm like yeah he takes it and he takes a sip and he goes takes a bigger sip and uh kind of hands it back to me and he's like that's it cut off just that and like kind of telling me like you're good but but no more uh and uh like little moments like that so many moments etched and I remember that same cousin uh Rose who married the guy John she like lost her wedding ring or some important ring she had on her finger she dropped it on the dock by the lake and it went through the crack so it's in the water and I I just I have something in me that likes trying to be heroic yeah done this where like a woman's being pastured on the subway in LA and I stepped between her and the guy and like like I've had many moments like that I pulled I pulled a guy off the alley train tracks underground who was drunk he was a dwarf I thought it was a child in a motorized cart he rolled backwards off the platform and I thought it was a little kid and I jumped down onto the tracks which I was afraid to do because in Chicago when I lived there they got the little animated sign that shows the lightning bolt yep yep yep yep locked up if you do this so I jumped down grab the lifeless body which even dead weighed on a man of dwarfism is heavy and I realized he's got booze on his breath blunt coming out of his ears and it's not a kid like I thought it's a grown man so like I in that moment of like wanting to be the hero I jump in the water and I might have spent 20 minutes just kept diving down and touching stuff not being able to see a thing in the murky water and I found a ring and it was like a big moment where I'm like yeah fucking you found a ring yeah oh how old were you because that's a real that's the kind of heroism that at a certain age would just feel spectacular yeah I was like 13 maybe oh perfect yeah yeah that's perfect a lot of good home mark memories we played a lot of I want to know what your family did for fun because we we were obsessed with croquet it was like a big thing we played a lot of great we felt kind of fancy we played a lot of croquet at our family gatherings yeah we had a the neighbor our grandmother's neighbor and marble head Massachusetts had a tiny backyard with a little like brick path that went through it but they had like a croquet course set up and anytime we went there we would pop over and they would once a year they would have a golden mallet tournament and it was just it was great it was really great and crossing the little you know brick path was always a dicey sort of moment in your game because yeah Paul could ricochet all over and when you get it you felt you felt like Tiger Woods when you got one it was like you get like a 10 or 12 footer you're like holy shit I'm the man yeah absolutely he was a real man a home is his castle like he was so proud of this backyard little croquet of course and it was really infectious like you went over there and and you also felt like this was you were playing a gust a national like yeah I like that when people when people kind of mythologize and and believe in their own thing and then suddenly it you feel the same way yeah yeah I've had to happen a lot where did you fall in the in the 25 cousins where where did you fall like age wise yeah I would probably middle to top where like the oldest cousin was like my my brother Matt five years older than me and then the youngest cousin people you know these are like Protestants who kept pushing out kids so we're like three families of four to five kids so like our youngest cousin would have been like you know a toddler were you ever as you were sort of entering your teen years would you still be going to this camp did you ever have a chance to be the bad influence on these younger cousins I definitely wasn't the best influence over time over time there was a thing of like like once again with like bringing my DVDs up and like showing radar movies to cousins and like then in my late teens you know 19 I tried pot for the first time so that became a thing of like I'm the 20-year-old cousin that that brought weed and r-rated movies and stuff like it was a little bit of that going on I'm sure that I drove like a four-wheeler in the woods when I was intoxicated once or twice but for the most part it was pretty it was a very purest you know family affair for sure it did seem like a place where you could maybe be a little bit of a wild and your parents would still feel pretty safe yes yeah yeah 100 percent would your do you was where are your cousins is your family sort of at large unsurprised by the path your life has taken or based on how you were when they observed you growing up or they like oh this is exactly where we thought Paul would be I think that my mom said to me once when I was a teenager she said she said I'd be more surprised if you didn't make it in Hollywood than if you didn't uh and that was very emboldening and uh yeah and I kind of had the max fisher from Rushmore thing where I was so overly involved at school and everything like I wrote two features in high school I was I wrote for the school newspaper I was in choir I was in barbershop I would try to start bands and we'd play like the school dance on screen a while. I was doing backyard wrestling. I was, I did 10 plays in four years of high school, visiting Chicago to watch improv, like it was, I was, I was over and gratitude. It was like to a level of the way people think of Michael Jordan or Kobe back in the day, like, "Oh, they would shoot hoops in the dark in their driveway." Like that was me with IMDB.com and Rob Reiner. Way less cool, by the way, as I say it aloud. No, I don't know. It worked out. I would say you can do it longer than they could play basketball. That's a good news. That's true. It's like LeBron. Like there's only one guy left in basketball who's older than you now. Just think of it that way. Yeah. So, and you get a good future ahead of you. Not really a trip stuff, but you, you're in the world of wrestling now. Yes, I have a lot of questions about this. Thanks for giving it up. Yeah. Yeah, I've had about like 35 matches, semi-professional to professional, depending on the venue and the opponent, but I, I do that performance-based violence and it's very, it's choreographed violence. We're not trying to hurt each other, but we, you do on occasion, a broken four ribs broke a bone in my hand where this knuckle wasn't going up anymore. You know, like there's definitely some tough parts about it, but I'm obsessed. I love, I love that world. Did you grow up as sort of a, as a WWF sort of super fan or WWE? I don't know what, you're growing up. I was like a WCW kid. They had, by the time I was watching, they had Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair and Sting and then they had Bill Goldberg and became a big star. And then I was watching both in the late 90s. They called it the attitude era where it was really edgy and, you know, women would come out scantily clad and dudes would bleed from their forehead from chair shots. It was like very much a different like r-rated vibe all of a sudden. So I, that was actually when I got into more trouble and my grades started slipping around like 12. It was like, suddenly I'm listening to the BC boys and discovering rock and roll and I'm watching South Park and wrestling and like, you're becoming a little critter, you know, you're going from a sweet kid to attitude era. That's a real critter recipe. You 3035 fights are these mostly local in LA? No, I've wrestled in London. I've wrestled, I'm going to wrestle in London Sunday. Wrestling a former WWE superstar named Dijak. He's like six, nine or something. He's so much bigger than me. And when, so when will you and Dijak get a chance to, I don't know, meat? I wrestle him Sunday, but it's a surprise where I show up. I pretend to wrestle in this guy. I poke him on the chest. He falls down and I pin him. He's helping me keep my title belt that I have in London. And then a second guy comes out and it's a hungry rookie and I beat him in about five minutes and then I get on the mic and I'm like, you're lucky I'm here at all. This is a big moment for all you. I just want two matches, one more do you want. And then the guy's going to come out the owner and be like, no, no, we got one more for you. Third time's the charm and it's Dijak. And he's famous. He's beloved. He's huge. Everybody knows him. And Dijak and I have met backstage because I wrestling produced for a company called MLW. And he's been on the roster for MLW for over a year, I think. So he and I are already buddies and we've already texted and we know what we're going to do and stuff. This is this is very exciting. I'm also looking at a photo of Dijak and I'm very excited for you. Really, really good sense of humor. He's the kind of, he's the kind of wrestler who could cross over and do some acting. He's really very observant and funny. He'll kind of like say the most intelligent thing in the locker room. That's great. Yeah. How big is the venue that you'll be wrestling in in London? Like 800 to 1000 seats. It's called the electric ballroom. That's so funny. Is that the sole purpose of going to London for you? You're going to just go over and do this match and the sole purpose. Yeah. So that the title for almost like over a year and a half. So it's time to it's time to pass it on, give it up and tell another story. Do your kids watch your wrestling matches? They've seen clips. They've seen probably two matches total. Yeah. And it's usually known with confusion. Like, you know, why is this guy getting up daddy? Why is daddy going through a table? But yeah, I've wrestled in Texas, LA, you know, New York City and just kind of all over. I'm trying to just mostly wrestle in Georgia because I live in Atlanta. So it's just so much easier if I can be nearby. Yeah. I have a cage match next month, November 17, I believe. Against the sky, QC Marshall. And he's a pro. So this will be kind of more like a pro pro match. And we're gonna, we're gonna beat the show show. As it's just so exciting and so cool. And then 30, 35 matches. Have you ever, how many times have you been injured? Have you actually had an injury? I've broken four or five ribs. I had what they call acute rib fractures. So I'm broken four or five ribs acutely. And I dinged my hand and broke broke the flange knuckle thing in my left hand. But honestly, I tell people and it's true, you know, nothing in wrestling hurts more than the rejection and grind of Hollywood or or getting or getting turned down by girls growing up. Like emotional pain is exponentially worse than any physical pain of that. Oh, what's your name? What's your wrestling name? What do you just wrestle? I mean, I go, I go by me and then I try to divert and I'm a, I'm a heel now. I'm a bad guy. So I go by the mercenary Paul Hauser. I drop a Walter. And I'm a dick. I hit people in the nuts and I try to hit him with chairs. And I, and I, you know, I went up to a fan and I wear a ball cap. I trademarked through a attorney, a trademark attorney, um, the phrase no glory, no glory. Great. And uh, I wear this hat out to the ring that says no glory, no glory. And I walked up to a fan, a grown man, my age. And I was like, offering him my hat and he's like, oh, and I pulled it away and walked away. Like I do stuff like that just to be, just to be an asshole, you know. Do you prefer being a heel? No, it's fun to be cheering for. Yeah. Great. It's, uh, it's way more fun to be the underdog and to have people hoping you make it out alive rather than being like, what's this, what's this guy even in the ring? What's he, you know, people, people loved to, to hate their day. It's great. Um, this has been fantastic. Uh, before we let you go, Josh is going to hit you with our speed round questions, Paul. Okay. All right. Here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Relaxing. I never relax. That sounds great. What is your favorite means of transportation? That's really tough. Um, but I'll say, uh, for the sake of, oh, you know what? For the sake of cosiness, I'll say, um, Clint Eastwood's private plane. I'm fine on that question. And that's, that's a good vibe. I believe it. Um, if you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? I would probably say, um, if you buy family, my wife and my kids traveling with another family that has kids, made me my buddy fellow comedian from the Midwest, Ross Kimball. Oh, good man. That's not good. Maybe it'd be Ross. You and I become good buddies and he's a great father and he's got two little rascals of his own. That'd be fun. Great. Um, if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Uh, stranded on a desert island with one member of my family. It would probably be, um, whoever is most resourceful if we're talking desert island. So probably my uncle, John, my godfather, he's lived that on every continent, lived the life knows, knows a lot about a lot of different things. Um, what would be your dream destination for a family vacation? Family or vacation? Family. It is different. Yeah. Um, probably, for me, it would be something like Paris or Switzerland or Italy, like I would love to go somewhere and just go to a bunch of spas, eat a bunch of really good meals and, uh, read books and take in culture. But with family, you need, you need the kids to be occupied, man. So I'm, I might say something like, um, Turks and cake goes to where we're on the beach and we're on one of those above the water hut things and you your kids are going between the hammock and the sand castle. Maybe great. That's right. Um, you are from Saginaw. If you had to get more families to come visit Saginaw, if that was the job you've done a lot, you've done a lot to work against this early on. How would you get, what would you tell people? about Saginaw to get more families to come visit. I would say this, I would say come to Saginaw, there are great people and Michigan in the autumn is beautiful, believes are changing colors, folks are drinking cider and going to their kids high school football games, it's a cozy sweet time. You know that you might get shot, it's an outside chance somebody's got a Saturday night special in their burgers. There's a chance just about anywhere these days unfortunately, per capita there's a higher chance in Saginaw. Per capita there's a chance that you go into Arby's for a recipe from Shatter and you walk out with a whole new guy. You walk out and you're the Swiss, you're the Swiss. But maybe you got five sandwiches for five bucks each. I got to say, I got to end up a good note for Saginaw and I'll just say, it did make me tough and it did give me a dark, weird sense of humor where I, you know, I, I oscillate between comedy and drama and my career and I think it's very much influenced by the people I grew up around. I don't know that I would be the same person if I were from somewhere else. I don't know. Yeah. Seth has our final questions. I do want to jump in with a one side question for us or final question. You're on a private plane with Clint Eastwood, who director in Richard Jewel, which is a fantastic movie. Are his Clint Eastwood talking to you on the flight or is he kind of like disappearing to a different part of the plane? No, no real disappearing unless you're using the John or grabbing a bite, but we would sit there. It was like me and Sam Rockwell and Clint and a bunch of his gang maybe eight people total on the flight and it was, you know, like they have a DVD wallet type thing of all his movies. So we'd like pop in one of his movies and I remember we're watching the gauntlet of film he did in the '70s or '80s maybe and he was giggling laughing while reading a physical newspaper and Rockwell and I are sipping something and we're like, what, what's so funny? Clint Whispers while laughing and he goes, it's so bad. He's like basically Mystery Science Theatreing his own stuff and pointing out, you know, that was bad acting or, oh, let me tell you a story about this gal, you know, like it was fun getting some director commentary live. That's really something. That was a vibe. That was a vibe. Oh, great, great road trip story though and it's short. We touched down in LA from Atlanta where we shot Jewel and Sam's like, this is classic Sam Rockwell. He's like, hey, you want to grab a beer or something or a beer maybe a sandwich and I'm like, yeah sure. And he's like, you know, let's go to Tony's Darts Away in Burbank, you know, because we touched down in the private area in Burbank and he's like, should we invite Clint? I'm like, yeah, why not, he's not going to come, but yeah. So we invite Clint to go to Tony's Darts Away with us and he goes, yeah, yeah, I'll take my truck. And all his friends and producers are terrified, they're like, he's nine years old, you're taking him out into the wild here. This isn't, you know, his normal, you know, area and Clint wants to drive himself. He doesn't want like an assistant or someone to go with. It's like in those Disney movies where the president's daughter is like, I, I don't want to secure the detail from, you know, so Clint goes out and follows us and we went and got some disco fries and beers and chili and we sat and and chatted for a couple hours. That was, that was a short road trip, but a memorable one. I mean, and really, it goes back to persistent, not annoying. You ask, you might as well ask Clint Eastwood if he wants to go, yeah, get a beer in a sandwich. And then just let it be, if he says no, let it go. And if not, look at that memory. All right. This is now my final question. Have you been to the Grand Canyon, Paul? No. Do you want to go? I'm kind of like, I'm kind of, I'm kind of like Masamino, so I'm whatever on the, there, it doesn't, a giant hole doesn't really do it for me. I knew there's something I liked about you from the beginning. My internet search is to, a giant hole just doesn't, I, no, I don't think anybody looks for that. I always, Seth, you underestimate disgusting American public. I, I always hear stories about, you know, I know Lauren a little bit because I'm attached to play Chris Farley in this movie. Yeah. I don't know who owns it now. New line owned by Warner Brothers, now owned by Paramount, owned by Scott Nance. Yeah. It will probably never get made, but, but Lauren's whole thing seems to be like, get interesting people together to go to cool restaurants and talk. Yeah. That's about right. And, and the one SNL party I went to was me, Lauren, Emma Stone, her new husband, Dave and Paul Rudd, sitting talking, doing shots of James and closing the place down at 4 a.m. You know, like, I just, that's more of my vibe. There's nothing I like more, my vacation destination, my road trip will always be, who can I get in a room that will love and be fascinated with each other? Yeah. And how do we have a great meal on a great trip? Yeah. It's a, a, a, a homey is not holes, which is also under trademark for that same attorney. Is that all your ass? No, homies without holes. No, I said that wrong. Anyway. No holes without find a watering hole, a homey resident, resident evils and theaters now. Also, which I saw, which I saw real quick, I saw and it's great. It's really fun. Yeah. Good movie. Yeah. Good movie. Good for Halloween. Yeah. Great director. To the talk show, me and my buddy Julian Surgey, who's also a Chicago guy lives there still, did IO and second city. He and I did a show called the Boy Talk talk show. Yeah. You can find it on YouTube and social media. And it's a satire of toxic masculinity, think between two ferns meets Logan Paul. And we interviewed guests ranging from like Griffin to pop singer, Teddy Swins. I kiss Bobby Burke from queer eye, just to prove I'm not gay. There's a lot of brilliant comedy in there and I'm really proud of it. It's a small start, but it is so reflective of me and Julian shared sense of a reverent self hating humor. Check it out. Well, thank you, Paul. I hope to see you again in person, always delightful to see you and love to your family. Yeah. Also, I'm a fellow. I'm a fellow boy, boy, girl, dad. And it's great. You're, it's the best ride possible. Yeah. Well, leave it there. Thanks, Paul. Good luck. My kids are best. They're gonna watch us. Come on. Look you guys. God bless you. I love you too, man. Thanks, buddy. 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