Review: What., Bo Burnham

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Okay. I won't be able to use the tickets. I'll be on a train to Seattle with my missus. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Taking a train? [00:00:16] Speaker A: Yep. In a private car. Nice 46 hour shag, I thought. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you get one of those? [00:00:23] Speaker A: I ordered just a shag. [00:00:24] Speaker B: Did you get one of the roomettes? [00:00:25] Speaker A: Yep. [00:00:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the. That's gonna be a good time. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Doing a lot of shagging. My wife is a loud shagger though, and she's nervous about how loud she can be on such a small roomette. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well. [00:00:38] Speaker C: Well, some poor bastard in Iowa is going to be traumatized seeing your ass going up and down on the vinegar strikes. [00:00:47] Speaker A: When I'm in my vinegar strikes going by, some farmer is going to see me in the roomette just pumping away. [00:00:56] Speaker B: That's a visual. [00:00:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm very excited. Very excited. I don't care about that. [00:01:01] Speaker C: You'll be giving your wife the jester's shoes. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Are we already? You're diving right into that today. [00:01:07] Speaker C: This is a prelim. [00:01:08] Speaker A: This is a prelims. [00:01:09] Speaker C: Guess it. Jester's shoes. [00:01:11] Speaker A: The jester's shoes. [00:01:13] Speaker C: What's it indicative of? What's it evoking? [00:01:15] Speaker A: Well, the jester's shoe is of course representing the court. Jester's shoe, who has its two turned up and has a turned up toe. And that's similar to the male penis, while erect, shoots up straight into the air and backwards. Like a jester shoe. [00:01:33] Speaker C: Jester shoes is what happens, you know, to their feet. [00:01:37] Speaker A: Oh, that's even better. Curling of the toes. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Yes. I, I fist my toes though, so it's. That's why I didn't pick that one. I make a fist with my toes when I reach climax. Okay, let's go. Keep them going. Dive right in. [00:01:56] Speaker C: Oh, we just going straight in. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Well, you got them ready? Geez, you got three issues here. [00:02:00] Speaker C: Well, yeah, we gonna do slim pickings. I want to start with one that's off book. [00:02:05] Speaker A: You made it up? [00:02:06] Speaker C: No, no, no. It's from Viz, but I never found it. What is playing the invisible banjo? [00:02:16] Speaker A: Playing the invisible banjo? Well, it has to have something to do with manual manually fondling a woman. Similar to Fake Chow, where you, you mimic the act of giving cunnilingus. But in this case, it's mimicking the act of massaging a woman's clitoris. [00:02:45] Speaker C: It's not almost. It's not mimicking. It's. It's. A woman is playing the invisible banjo. She's pleasuring herself. [00:02:53] Speaker A: But. Oh, okay. [00:02:55] Speaker C: Because the banjo's not visible. Why is she doing that? It's. It's invisible. [00:03:00] Speaker A: The invisible banjo. Yeah. Yeah, but she's actually playing with her genitalia and that's very visible. [00:03:08] Speaker C: But the banjo isn't. I don't want to get bogged down. All right, let's. [00:03:13] Speaker A: I was sort of. Right. [00:03:15] Speaker C: All right, so. Yeah, you were there. You were. Ballpark. We'll kick this one over to Christian. What is the. The simile dirtier than a Pizza Hut table? [00:03:34] Speaker B: What does that simile mean? Yes, dirtier than a Pizza Hut table. Does it have something to do with grated cheese? Oh, dirtier than a Pizza Hut table. I mean, just assume it means something's pretty dirty, but I'm. I can't. What. What does a Pizza Hut table have on it other than cheese? [00:04:01] Speaker C: Now we get. We're overthinking this. [00:04:04] Speaker A: I. I think this refers to a woman, a filthy woman who's up for any male or male who's up for any type of sexual activity. [00:04:13] Speaker C: Correct. See you. You went. You were going to. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah, this as in. [00:04:18] Speaker B: I'm thinking too much. [00:04:19] Speaker A: This pig's dirtier than a Pizza Hut table. [00:04:22] Speaker B: But what is dirty? [00:04:23] Speaker A: Very dirty. Yeah, Like a pizza table. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Why Pizza Hut, though? [00:04:27] Speaker C: Well, actually, the. The. The Viz has a Wetherspoons table. [00:04:31] Speaker A: You changed it. You took the liberties to change it to pizza. [00:04:34] Speaker C: Well, you know what fucking Wetherspoons is? Wetherspoons is a. Is a. It's like an eponymous what the. So Britain used to be a network of, you know, very individual pubs. Right. Centuries old. And when they all started dying off, a company called Weatherspoons bought them all up and they would essentially just convert them into very cheap. [00:04:55] Speaker A: It's an English Applebee's. [00:04:57] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, but it's pubs. So they do the pub and then they sell a lot of food to get the scutters in. And I'm like, well, there's no point saying what. [00:05:06] Speaker A: What are scutters for people listening at home. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Just generally lower class people, you know, they're. [00:05:12] Speaker A: They're not faffing around. [00:05:14] Speaker C: Yeah, no. F. Facial tattoos. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Oh, Scudders, pikers. [00:05:19] Speaker C: Pikey's is gypsies. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:21] Speaker B: But anyway, I think if you had kept it as Weatherspoons table, I would have gotten it. [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. He threw him with the pizza. Shouldn't have taken a liberty. [00:05:27] Speaker C: Did you go in a Wetherspoon when you were over there? [00:05:30] Speaker B: No, I did. I went to some bar that started serving alcohol at seven in the morning and when I walked in there for breakfast, around 8:30, it was full, and there was a guy screaming on his phone that he was on his way to work and he was just dumping money into a gambling machine and pounding pints. And he kept saying, yeah, I'm in the car. I'm on my way there. You know, I made eye contact with the bartender. I was just kind of watching him. [00:05:56] Speaker A: I'm on my way. I'm in the car. [00:06:00] Speaker C: Ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. Anyway, all right. I don't want to. I don't want this to dominate things. All right, so we'll go back to Bill. I've got a difficult one. What is the act of goldfishing? [00:06:16] Speaker A: Goldfish? Well, I believe it is when you are. When you insert your digit, your finger into the woman's vagina. Deeply, deep, deep. In an effort to find the gold. In this case, that would be the G spot. [00:06:40] Speaker C: You said that confidently, But I'm afraid you're off. [00:06:43] Speaker B: It's obvious. [00:06:44] Speaker A: You should ask Christian if I'm correct. Right. [00:06:47] Speaker C: I like a competition. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Is he correct? I'm gonna agree. [00:06:50] Speaker C: Is that correct? [00:06:52] Speaker B: I can already tell that it's not, but I would assume that it's. My favorite move is I lay on my side and I flop around like a goldfish. [00:07:01] Speaker A: Oh. [00:07:03] Speaker B: What? [00:07:03] Speaker A: When in the act of. [00:07:05] Speaker B: I get out of the shower so I'm wet like a goldfish, and I lay on my side and I wiggle around and squirm like I'm trying to get air, but I can't. [00:07:13] Speaker A: You're saying you do this. [00:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not a popular move, but. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Anyway, you try anything. Goldfishing is the act of looking for sweet corn in your fowlage. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Also panning for gold, meaning fingering your own buttock hole. [00:07:28] Speaker C: No, look in. In your. You look at your. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Oh. In your. [00:07:32] Speaker B: I guess we're assuming these are all sexual nursing. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Looking at your turd for corn. [00:07:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Not actually touching. [00:07:39] Speaker C: You need a broader worldview. [00:07:41] Speaker A: Yeah. It's all sex to me. [00:07:43] Speaker C: Yeah. It's not most. A lot of these are very, you know, excretion related ones. [00:07:50] Speaker A: All right, then do one more. [00:07:52] Speaker C: All right. [00:07:53] Speaker A: And ask. We'll ask me or him, and then the other person has to say whether he's right. [00:07:58] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. What is a balloon bender? [00:08:03] Speaker B: A balloon bender. Oh, man. Oh, it's. Is the balloon a condom? A balloon bender. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Not allowed to ask. Right? [00:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I was trying to judge by his facial. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Listen, if you. If you've seen Funny, you should ask. You've got to give a confident answer. Like, you know, What? Whether you're right or wrong. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah, Right. [00:08:28] Speaker A: And then that you know. [00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I know what a balloon bender is. I have seen a balloon bender many times in my life. And it's when you're trying too hard and your erect penis is bent inside of a condom. That is what a balloon bender is. [00:08:56] Speaker A: No, you can't say, no, he's not right. But he's not too far off. A balloon bender is when a woman takes the man's erect penis and contorts it into animal balloon type shapes, causing the man to writhe in pain. [00:09:12] Speaker C: Nope. Both way off. A balloon bender is a lady who during the rigors of making the beast with two backs, releases fanny farts that sound like a children's party entertainer creating a giraffe by twisting them. Twisting long balloons together. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Oh, that's the sound she makes from her. Her buttock. [00:09:37] Speaker C: Fanny farts. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Fanny farts that sound like bending a balloon. The VIZ has not lost a step in all these years. They're still doing great work. [00:09:46] Speaker C: Still going. [00:09:47] Speaker A: It's amazing. [00:09:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I never even got to some of struggling with Viz this week. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Week you were. We've got three. Three additions there. [00:09:59] Speaker C: Yeah. My favorite. We won't do a guess on this because this is just getting too, too far now. Was a posh boxer. A posh boxer is an ardent practitioner of self gratification. He's a proper Bosch posh boxer. That. That lad. He's always knocking one out. [00:10:20] Speaker A: I don't understand what posh boxer means. Like he's boxing as himself, I guess. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Posh meaning upper class boxer. Meaning pugilist. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Upper class pugilist. Pugilize. [00:10:34] Speaker C: But I guess the trick of it is he's always knocking one out. Like a boxer is. [00:10:40] Speaker A: I like it. And going back to the Beast with two backs. I don't know if that come. That phrase comes from. Have you heard that phrase before? Making the beast with two backs. I'll say that a lot of times at dinner to my wife. Like, what do you say after dinner, honey, we go in there and we make the Beast with two backs. And the kids are like, what? [00:11:00] Speaker C: The kids haven't cottoned on? [00:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah. They know everything's some kind of innuendo, but. Yeah. Does that come from viz? Beast with two backs? [00:11:09] Speaker C: No, I think that's quite an old expression. [00:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I've heard. [00:11:13] Speaker C: I've heard it on tv. [00:11:14] Speaker A: It's a good one. Well, I'm very self conscious this week. Before we get into talking about today's featured comic, Bo Burnham, because I spent the Last. Better part of the last week while in the car listening to all the episodes of this show. [00:11:31] Speaker C: Jesus. [00:11:32] Speaker A: I don't know if I listen to all of them, but I listen to. [00:11:34] Speaker C: A lot of them. Are you a fucking narcissist? [00:11:36] Speaker A: I. You know what? I tried listening to this program early on and I couldn't. It was. The first episodes were unlistenable, but I decided because you released the hounds this past week and we have more episodes. And so I was like, well, let's. [00:11:50] Speaker C: See what the later works. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Yeah, the later works of season one. And I said, well, let's see what it sounds like now. And boy, did I enjoy listening to it. I really did. I loved it. I love this program. [00:12:04] Speaker C: Were you posh boxing? [00:12:05] Speaker A: I wasn't posh boxing myself or posh boxing, but really enjoyed it. My kid was in the car and he enjoyed it. My 13 year old. Up until the point where you disclosed to the audience that I had a failed first marriage. [00:12:24] Speaker C: You said I could. [00:12:25] Speaker A: And he said, what? What did he say? He wasn't even. He was on his phone and then all of a sudden he's, what? What? He looked at me like, what? I was like, oh, he's just joking. So I hit that button that like shoots it like 30 seconds ahead like four times just to get past that. And when I was done, it landed on me talking about making love to my wife during the day while the kids are at school. And I was like, oh, oh, oh. He's like, what? What? So I had to turn it off. [00:12:49] Speaker C: As Christian is my witness, I was told I could leave in the failed marriage. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I told you to take it out. And you were supposed to take it out. [00:12:57] Speaker B: A lot of things you'll say, I don't remember. [00:13:00] Speaker A: You don't do any post on the show. You just put on that. The. Whatever that music is and then release it to the world. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't take anything out. [00:13:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Because many times in the show we talk about taking stuff out and obviously it's not taken out because we're talking about taking it out. [00:13:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:17] Speaker A: So nothing's being taken out. What about that stuff about Ellen DeGeneres? I said I called her in the. [00:13:21] Speaker C: I took that out in the episode. [00:13:23] Speaker B: That you're talking about, though. Did you? I know that you fast forwarded through a lot of it, but did you hear yourself say, take this out or leave it in? [00:13:31] Speaker A: Yes. No, I didn't, but I know I did. Right after that. [00:13:34] Speaker B: As soon as you go back and listen. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Was that during your first Failed marriage. And I was like, like, like I. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Seem to remember something for the phone. [00:13:44] Speaker A: Like just hit to get. Get it off. [00:13:45] Speaker B: I think I remember you saying it was okay to leave it in. [00:13:47] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Cuz I didn't think they'd listen to it. They wouldn't listen to it on their own, but I didn't imagine me driving listening to it. [00:13:54] Speaker C: Do I cut all this out? [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's already. Cat's already out of the bag now, but was it. [00:14:00] Speaker C: Did you have like a family dinner that night and. No, this came up like it, like it was like American Beauty. No scene in American Beauty. [00:14:09] Speaker A: I thought. [00:14:10] Speaker C: Did you smash a plate? [00:14:11] Speaker A: I thought it would be a reckoning. But this speaks to the Today's youth's mind. Thirty seconds, 30 seconds later, he's back on his phone. He forgot all about it. So it did not become an issue. I don't know if it's buried somewhere in his reptile brain, but he didn't know, didn't. Never came back up. So anyway, I think this show is doing well. But Christian, you had some advice for how to make the show better? [00:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah, Borky actually had this idea. She listens. Yeah, she was listening to a couple episodes last week and she said that it'd be useful if we incorporated clips of what we're talking about because sometimes we might say like, oh, and then the joke that this person told about this, this, this, you know, that's a. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Lot of posts for a while. [00:14:58] Speaker B: The listener has no idea what's going on. And so I said, well, is that legal or is that a trademark infringement? She said, no, if you're using it to review, you can clip away. [00:15:09] Speaker A: That would enhance the production value. [00:15:12] Speaker C: But then I already incorporated feedback from a mate of mine who was listening to it who said, you really need to have a link to the thing and encourage the listener. Hey, you should watch. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Yes, you did that. [00:15:26] Speaker C: That's in the, you know, the listing. [00:15:29] Speaker A: That's a good. [00:15:29] Speaker C: Hey, you really need to. To. I mean, why the fuck would you listen to one of these and you haven't watched it? [00:15:36] Speaker A: Just to hear us and hear this, Hear your thoughts on Jewel. [00:15:39] Speaker C: Again, this is where the question stands, your honor. Why would you listen to this? [00:15:44] Speaker B: To see if you should watch the special, you know. Well, if it gets a good review, you say, I'm gonna go watch that special then. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean we. I don't think anyone's gonna listen to it for. [00:15:54] Speaker B: I don't think anyone's gonna listen to it. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I don't think anyone's gonna listen to it either, but. And the people that did listen to it early on, they're no longer listening. [00:16:00] Speaker C: And the metrics uphold that view. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Yes, but it's not about the special. It's about. And I think this is where I think this show could go. And just talking about comedy, the nuts and bolts of comedy, that's what it's about. That's what we end up talking about in one way or another. Right. Not necessarily the person or the special, but yeah, that was the common thread through all these episodes I listen to was just. We're just. We're just talking about comedy. Two guys, three guys who. Well, really don't know anything about comedy. But we're still talking about it. [00:16:37] Speaker C: I know a shitload about comedy. I am the arbiter. [00:16:41] Speaker A: You are? [00:16:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Anyone who thinks they know a lot about something doesn't really know a lot about it. You ever heard that the wise man knows he knows nothing? Oh, yeah, something like that. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah. I just heard that recently. Somebody said it on stage here. [00:16:58] Speaker C: Can't you see the irony of you saying that statement as if you are the wise man? [00:17:02] Speaker A: I'm wise because I'm saying I don't know anything, but it's the same thing. [00:17:05] Speaker C: So you're just negating your own point. [00:17:09] Speaker A: One thing I didn't like when listening to all these episodes is this. You know how I. When you listen to it, there's a lot of silence for me, me collecting my thoughts. You notice that? [00:17:20] Speaker B: That's. Yeah, that's. That was the other pointer that I. [00:17:23] Speaker A: I knew it was going to be that. Yeah. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Get rid of the gaps. [00:17:25] Speaker A: There's so many gaps while you can just hear me thinking, that's fine. You're not. You don't do it as much and you don't do it, but. [00:17:33] Speaker C: Well, it's just pacing. [00:17:36] Speaker A: But I don't. I don't want to be like this asshole. We just reviewed Bo Burnham that we're about to review. Yeah. That we just watched. Where he's got to fill up every single second of the show with something. Right. Like, I hate people who are just filling the air. Filling the air. Let their. Let this fucker breathe. Let things breathe. [00:17:53] Speaker C: So why are you complaining about it? I just say. I don't know, it's just. [00:17:58] Speaker A: I'm alright because it's me, Right. I really enjoy listening to you guys. You make me laugh. Not. Not here so much, but when I listen to the program, it's you that's making me laugh. I really enjoy Listening to you. [00:18:12] Speaker C: Oh, boy. [00:18:13] Speaker A: And my kid said something about how it's good that you're on the show because you have the British accent. Makes you sound smart, Right. It makes it sound like a smart show because you're British. I was like, that British people sound smart. [00:18:30] Speaker B: I think that's a pretty popular opinion. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:18:32] Speaker C: I don't know. Not with me, though, because I've got like a regional accent. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Well, nobody here knows that. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, nobody knows that. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:40] Speaker C: So that they'd be like, who's this scutter? [00:18:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:44] Speaker B: I've heard a lot of faffing about. [00:18:48] Speaker C: All right, get down to the meat of the matter. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Get down to the meat. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Why are you looking at me? [00:18:55] Speaker A: Well, I just watched this this morning. I like to watch them before we come in here. So it's nice and fresh. Yeah. So that I'm still feeling it. [00:19:04] Speaker B: I do the same thing. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is why I couldn't cram in a double feature today. [00:19:09] Speaker B: But usually I'll watch half of it, like maybe a day or two before and then finish it up. [00:19:14] Speaker A: I don't think that's good. No, no. I know sometimes life makes it that way, but. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:20] Speaker C: What I've found watching these is my, My being at the time I watch it is unduly influencing it. [00:19:30] Speaker A: You're being. What do you mean? Like your state of mind, my mood. [00:19:33] Speaker C: Whatever, like, is in Julie. And you know, I was doing what you were doing and just like I could get 10, 15 minutes in and go, you know what? I'm not in the mood today. Yeah, I'll come. [00:19:42] Speaker B: That's what happens. Exactly. [00:19:43] Speaker C: But then you, you've kind of effed up the review. Scientific. From a scientific perspective. You've done your experiment with two sets of variables in it. And I feel like, you know. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Yeah. You've soiled the. [00:19:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:56] Speaker A: The, the validity of the. [00:20:00] Speaker B: I like that, though. I like to compare then, you know, and say, oh, at the first half hour, I didn't, I didn't enjoy it, but I enjoyed this second half hour because, you know, I'm more rested or whatever. I like to see the, the contrast there. Or it could be vice versa. Or I might not like any of it. Or I might like the whole thing. Who knows? [00:20:23] Speaker C: So would you ever walk out of. Would you. Let's say you've had a filthy day. You just, you know, shits on you, this, that and the others happening. Would you ever go, you know what? I'm not gonna go to a comedy show tonight, cuz I'm just gonna Sit there. [00:20:35] Speaker B: See, they already have tickets. Yeah, I would go if I have tickets. I'll go if anything. I think that would probably bring me out of that mood, you know, having something to do, going out, socializing. I mean, even if it was a not a good show, I think it's at least worth getting your mind off of whatever's bothering you. [00:20:55] Speaker C: Cuz I know people who just won't go out. Like, no, I'm not failing it. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:59] Speaker B: If I don't have tickets already, I might, you know, I might say, ah, it. I'm staying home, but if I have tickets or something, I'm going. [00:21:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you're never going to be objective. You're never going to be in an objective state of mind to really review something, you know, accurate, whatever. Your, your mood is always going to be a part of it, good or bad. Right. So you just got to take it. Right. You just got to do it all art. Right. It's going to be affected by your mood in some way. I think that may influence whether you enjoy it. Right. And laugh and all that. But I, I think you can still say, oh, that's good. I just, you know, I'm a, I'm in a pissed off mood. I just can't really enjoy it. But that's really good. [00:21:37] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:21:40] Speaker A: Well, what kind of mood were you? I'll. I'll tell you when. I. I'm battling depression right now. I'm battling. I'm so this is, you know, good. You know, good. You bring this up. I'm battling depression and I watched this with depression this morning because I'm turning 50 in a few days. Whoa. You know, watching this young man prance around stage. I don't want to see this. [00:22:04] Speaker B: When's your birthday? [00:22:05] Speaker A: Tuesday. [00:22:06] Speaker B: What date? What's the date? [00:22:08] Speaker A: The 16th. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I would have said you'd done the Hawaii because I'm 57. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Or I'll be 42 on Saturday. [00:22:18] Speaker C: Wow. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:19] Speaker C: But I've been depressed ever since I turned. Literally turning 18. I was like, life's over. This is it now. Yeah, 18. [00:22:26] Speaker A: 18. [00:22:27] Speaker C: At 18, I was depressed about how. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Your life was almost. Your life wasn't going well and it's. [00:22:32] Speaker C: Almost over at 18. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a little too young to be feeling that. But geez, you must really be depressed now at 57. That explains a lot. All right. How do you feel now? [00:22:43] Speaker C: I think I, I think by the time I got to my mid-20s, I was like, no, life's cooking now. This is this is the sweet spot. You know what I mean? When I turned 30 was when I first started doing comedy. I think that that dragged me a little further. Like, oh, you know, this is. [00:22:58] Speaker A: I'm doing something. Yeah. [00:22:59] Speaker C: I'm doing something new. And blah, blah, blah, blah. 40 was like, okay, this is. This is now. Yeah. Because there was no real thing to do. You know what I mean? [00:23:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:13] Speaker C: And then 50, you're just like, oh, my God, I'm almost at the grave. Yeah, apparently you. You do. You told me this. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah. The happiness index. [00:23:23] Speaker C: You bottom out and then the bell curve. [00:23:25] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I haven't come up yet, but I was real depressed at 40. Were you Christian when you turned 40? [00:23:36] Speaker B: No, it didn't really bother me. I'd been saying I was 40 for, like, my entire 30s, though. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:41] Speaker B: You know, I always kind of round up. [00:23:42] Speaker A: You're an old soul. [00:23:43] Speaker B: I've been saying, I'm already 42 for the whole year now. [00:23:48] Speaker A: And you're not 42. [00:23:49] Speaker B: I'm not quite yet round up on this to me. Yeah, I may as well be. [00:23:53] Speaker A: Well, I got real depressed at 40, and I didn't feel depressed leading up to this, but now it's hitting me. Yeah, it's hitting me hard. Yeah. So hopefully this. This shag trip train will reading about. [00:24:06] Speaker C: Reading about a kid that at age 16, revolutionized comedy probably hit hard then. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it did. This one hit hard. Well, he's 22 at the time of this special 2013's what? And I had this idea of Bo Burnham as, like, part of the redneck comedy tour. Like, I don't know, I must have saw a picture of him with that beard that he hasn't now or had recently and, like, look burly. And I pictured him as like a Bert Kreischer or like, you know, type of guy. So when I put this on, I was like, this is the right shit. Am I watching the right stuff here? So I knew nothing. I know really nothing about him before. I watched this today, and boy, was I turned off. [00:24:56] Speaker C: Well, I knew what I knew of Bo Burnham was this. I knew that when we were trying to get college gigs because for whatever weird reason for the Lincoln Lodge, I was told repeatedly, oh, the kids just want Bo Burnham. The kids just want Bo Burnham. Right? So that kind of was like, oh, that's the. That's. You know, and then the whole thing. I think I mentioned this last week. He played a character called CJ in the Big Sick. [00:25:21] Speaker A: That's right. [00:25:22] Speaker C: I'm like, okay, so he must Be CJ esque. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah. You want to elaborate on that? With cjs. [00:25:29] Speaker C: So I was expecting him to be like, CJ Sullivan, who, I'm assuming, legendary comedian cj, who I'm assuming, you know, the Big Sick is. Is set in the Chicago comedy scene. At the time, there was an actual CJ walking around, so I don't think it's coincidence. Right. There's a seizure. So I'm expecting a CJ Sullivan esque, you know, grouchy. [00:25:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:58] Speaker C: You know, misanthropic. You know, like that sort of character. I've never watched Big Sick. I'm too bitter. So that heading into this, that's what I had. I had. He's a. He's a kid the college kids like, and he. He's probably grouchy and sort of surly. [00:26:15] Speaker A: So after watching it, it didn't meet that expectation. [00:26:17] Speaker C: It definitely does not meet that. [00:26:19] Speaker A: No. But wow. Like, as it starts and he comes out to this dance routine. Right. And the same with the voiceover and him, you know, pantomiming to whatever the voiceover is doing. I'm like, oh, my God, is this gonna be the hour? Like, is this gonna be the hour? And although it wasn't exactly that, it pretty much was the hour. Right. And I'll just hold up my sheet so you can see what I've written there midway through. [00:26:54] Speaker C: Wow. [00:26:55] Speaker A: I've never written that. [00:26:56] Speaker B: What does that say? Insufferable. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, I just. I couldn't take it another moment. Right. [00:27:03] Speaker B: I was. I was wondering. I was anticipating this. [00:27:07] Speaker C: I think I know why. Because I am the mirror opposite. I'm like, holy shit. This is what comedy could be. This is someone bringing something to the table. So I'm the exact opposite of you for once. And I think the reason you don't like him is he stole one of your bits. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Which one? [00:27:27] Speaker C: Right at the top. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I was. [00:27:29] Speaker B: What was it? [00:27:30] Speaker C: Tell me the bit. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Well, I. It was a couple bits, but I was doing something. I was playing around with something similar with the dancing around on stage to different music and voiceover. Like, I did a Rocky 4 interpretive thing, and then I was Karate Kid. I was doing something different dancing shit that. [00:27:53] Speaker C: I think there's still a hole in the wall at Donny's Skybox where you violently threw a stall that was in your. [00:28:02] Speaker A: So, yeah, I saw that. And I was like, yeah, I didn't like seeing that. [00:28:05] Speaker C: But what's the second one? [00:28:07] Speaker A: The second bit? I thought you said there was only one. [00:28:10] Speaker C: No. [00:28:12] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't have any. [00:28:13] Speaker C: Would it. Would it. Would it refresh your memory if I said, is he skiing or is he in a gay bar? [00:28:19] Speaker B: Gay point. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I did do a thing with the. The skiing. Yeah. [00:28:24] Speaker C: That was a viz thing. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the viz. [00:28:29] Speaker C: Downhill skiing. [00:28:30] Speaker A: Downhill skiers. That's right. [00:28:31] Speaker C: Doing some downhill skiing. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Y. I think we talked about this on the. On this podcast. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. I forgot about. [00:28:39] Speaker C: Because when I saw that, I thought that's why Christian picked this, because he heard us talk about maybe. [00:28:44] Speaker B: No, it's. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Have you seen this before? Recommending it? [00:28:47] Speaker B: Yes, when it came out. I watched it dozens of times. I thought it was just brilliant. Most incredible thing I've ever seen. [00:28:52] Speaker C: It is. It's mind. Mind bendingly good. [00:28:56] Speaker B: Wow. Just pull an orange out of your pocket. [00:28:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I just pulled an orange out of my Harrington. That's the other thing I realized when you saw me. [00:29:04] Speaker C: What does that mean? Is he just pulled an orange out of his Harrington. [00:29:11] Speaker A: First of all, I never heard the term Harrington before. The walking in here today. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Is that a jacket? I guess. [00:29:17] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what he's wearing. [00:29:18] Speaker A: I thought it was called a Macintosh. [00:29:20] Speaker C: No, it's har. Is it got a checkered lining? [00:29:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like a barracuda jacket. [00:29:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's a Harrington. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Steve McQueen used to wear this kind of jacket. [00:29:28] Speaker C: Yeah. I bet he looked all right. Twat as well. [00:29:33] Speaker A: I look like a twat. [00:29:34] Speaker C: No, I'm just joking. You look like a middle aged man about to go golfing. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:38] Speaker C: That's your look. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm depressed. This is a depressed man's look if you've ever seen it. All right, so I hated this. I. I wrote down things like, worst thing I've ever seen. Talented. Clearly the guy is a talent. Not denying that. Guy is super talented. But not funny, right? Like there's nothing funny. You laughed during this. No, you didn't. [00:30:07] Speaker C: Loud. Many times. Many times. This guy. Video. Sad song. Sad song. Great slot poem. Really good. Walked away from live. Oh, no, that's a comment. I started researching him in the middle. Deep song. Wanking bit. Great switch work. Great switch work. In intelligent to gross out poems on the switch of a dime or whatever you call it in America. [00:30:42] Speaker A: You can't do both. [00:30:45] Speaker C: But like, that's the point. [00:30:47] Speaker A: Can't be dirty and smart and theatrical and musical. It's like that does shit. Doesn't. [00:30:52] Speaker C: Can't. [00:30:53] Speaker A: It's a. It's a cosmic gumbo that doesn't work. He's showing cosmic gumbo. [00:30:58] Speaker C: He's showing the gumbo of life. That, to me, a performer that can do that. Switcheroo. Holy shit, that's money in the bank. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Again, talented. You might even say brilliant. The guy's clearly very smart, well read, but not funny. It's too much. It's. It's like a. And it's like the Matterhorn. It's like the spinning teacups. You can't enjoy that. Those aren't fun rides. They just make you sick, right? They just spin you around too fast. The tilt a whirl. I don't want that. Every second he's bouncing from one thing to the next, right? Gives you no time to, like, process or enjoy or breathe. It's like watching some guy with mental illness spin around right on stage. And clearly, this guy's mentally ill, right? This guy has some severe issues. He's like a. He's manic. Manic, self, indulgent. [00:31:54] Speaker C: Like, oh, I could. At the start of it, I could see why it would be grating. And I definitely think he's a love him, hate him comedian, which is a thing I'm gonna like. But I started doing some research on him. He has walked away from live performance due to anxiety issues. He hasn't performed live that much recently. He started at age 16 with a YouTube channel. Didn't bother with comedy clubs, which is awesome. I love that. What else did he do? Oh, in 2010, he won the Malcolm Hardy Award. Malcolm Hardy was this British comedian who was just noted for you to like Malcolm Hardy. He used to do insane. Like, he drove a steam roller through a. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Like, Norman Collier. [00:32:43] Speaker C: He used to paint his dick with fluorescent paint and then have him turn the lights off and whip his dick. I mean, just insanity. And so there's an award, a Malcolm Hardy Award. At the end of the festival, there's. [00:32:56] Speaker A: An award for a guy who painted his dick with neon paint and turned the lights up. [00:33:00] Speaker C: Yeah. And in 2010, Bo Burnham won the Malcolm Hardy Award. [00:33:07] Speaker A: Has he ever won the Norman Collier Award for inventiveness and comedy? [00:33:15] Speaker C: No. I don't know. I mean, obviously, this is. This is where we diverge is Bo Burnham. [00:33:21] Speaker A: This. This is theatrical. It's performance art more than it is comedy. [00:33:25] Speaker C: I don't know about that. What did you think of the wind chimes bit? [00:33:30] Speaker A: Don't like it. [00:33:31] Speaker C: It's just a series of awesome little snippets. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Nope, didn't like it. I didn't like any of it. [00:33:38] Speaker C: My favorite bit of the whole Thing. Okay. Frog story. Oh, God, that was awesome. When he talks about the frog in the pond and everything. Inventive, funny. It's just. It just. It was perfect. [00:33:53] Speaker A: I hated it. [00:33:54] Speaker B: What was the frog bit? [00:33:55] Speaker A: I remember something. [00:33:56] Speaker C: He talks about a frog, like, and he sees this female frog, and then he leaves the pond and he meets a thing. And then in the end, an alligator just eats him or something. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I started looking at my phone. [00:34:11] Speaker C: I think at that point, I'm gonna insert it. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Yes. It'll be the first time Bill will. [00:34:17] Speaker C: Have to listen to it all again. [00:34:19] Speaker B: He'll fast forward through it. [00:34:24] Speaker A: He even says early on, every second can become a comedic moment. Right. And that's really what this is. It's like him trying to maximize every second to put something funny. And that's. That's unwatchable to me. That's not. That's. You know, it's like Robin Williams, who is also unwatchable. Like, his anxiety or his. His mania. Like, I don't know how anyone could ever enjoy watching that. That's like. That's like a car wreck for me. It's like, ever around people who have, like, really intense anxiety. And it's. It makes sense that he has all this anxiety, right? Not comedians necessarily. Just was this woman who's, you know, my wife's friend, I guess, kind of when she comes by the house, her anxiety is so palpable. Right. That I have to, like. I have to, like, get. Go, leave and go streets away. Like, it's. You know, and maybe that's. [00:35:17] Speaker C: No, I know. I know the expression. You mean just. [00:35:21] Speaker A: And they just ooze anxiety. [00:35:24] Speaker C: That. [00:35:24] Speaker A: That's. I didn't feel his anxiety necessarily, but his mania, I felt. It's like, oh, my God, I gotta get. I get away from this. Right? So that kind of undercuts a lot of this brilliance. And I. And I. And I'm. You know, I can. I can recognize, like, wow, like, the. The. There's so much packed in here, and it is brilliant, but I don't. I can't enjoy it. [00:35:47] Speaker C: What do you think? I had a question for Christian. What do you think of his actual piano playing chops and musicality? [00:35:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I was. I was impressed with it back when I used to watch it a lot. And I think since then, I've been in a lot more bands and done a lot more playing the piano on stages. And this time I was even more impressed with. He. He plays a really good melody in the middle of one song flawlessly. He doesn't he holds very good rhythm while maintaining his bits. And. And they're. The songs are catchy, you know, so he's able to. It's like he really does pull it off. It's. It's well done. I think he's got good chops. [00:36:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Yeah. I mean, he's. He's impressive. I would even. You know, this guy's a genius. Like, he's. His genius just exudes out of him, right? Like, he's. He's a genius for sure. And I don't think he, like a suffering genius, right? Like, he seems like a guy who suffers. And I haven't read all his backstory. I did hear that he stopped performing because of anxiety, but. And I'll say this, like, by the end of it, this one, I kind of. I didn't like it. I was glad it was over, but I appreciated him in a. In a way, right? Like, I appreciated the. The brilliance of everything he did. I don't. I don't want to watch this kind of comedy, but it made me interested in him as a guy, right. Like, as a person, as a mind. But no way do I ever want to watch this kind of act, Right. It's also very Gen Z or whatever. Whatever the generation is, right? Like, I think they grew up on the Internet and all that shit that I can't relate to, right. [00:37:37] Speaker C: I think, like, you need to. To appeal to the youth of today. You've got to bring this energy and vitality. You can't just stand there droning into the night. You know what I mean? You have to. You can't be. You can't be. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:51] Speaker C: You know, the. The youth of today do not want shoegazer bands and. And droning, introspective people. [00:38:00] Speaker A: No. [00:38:01] Speaker C: Well, they. That's what they're going to do on their social media. They're from other people. They want energy, they want hope, they want. You know, and that's what. Well, this guy, I mean, obviously he's not quite hope. I mean, he has a lot of dark thought. The left brain, right brain bit was really good. And. But yeah, I think you need. It's like, do you remember when Dane Cook exploded, right? And everyone's like, what the. And all the comedy community is like, why are people liking this guy? And it was just because he had energy and a bit of vitality where everyone else is drunk. This is. He was just. He would just come with an energy that made people feel like, okay, yeah, life's worth living. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Although this guy. I don't get that from. I mean, certainly the energy, the manic energy, but it's dark. There's a darkness here, too. [00:38:57] Speaker B: To this. [00:38:58] Speaker A: To a lot of this. That. [00:38:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Is probably, you know, kind of. Did I just see that or did I. What did he just say? Because he goes by so fast. But there's some dark in here. [00:39:08] Speaker C: Yeah, right? [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:09] Speaker C: But it's presented in a high energy, uplifting way, so I think it just gets away with it. But, yeah, my favorite joke of the whole thing was he said. He goes, let me tell you something about video editors or something. And then I was like, what was that? Yeah, it's like, holy shit. He's not just thinking of the live performance of this. He's built stuff in for the recording of it. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes. I mean, from the very beginning with the knocking over the water. Right. And then, like, having the playback, everything was just scripted down to a T. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah, to a T. I was thinking how much just rehearsal that must take. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. [00:39:51] Speaker B: He must have done that show a million times before he got it right. [00:39:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:54] Speaker B: You know, everything has to be just perfect in order to work. [00:39:58] Speaker A: And then even the notebook, I didn't. I couldn't see close enough. But the notebook that he would pull out first, poetry or whatever to read, he said it was just blank pages he had to memorize. Right. It was just a prop. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Place it on his head. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:09] Speaker C: That's awesome. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So in that sense, I mean, it's so impressive. So, so impressive. But is that. I mean, am I crazy like, that I could appreciate it on one hand and be super impressed and recognize greatness in this, but hate it. I hate it. [00:40:25] Speaker C: No, it's doable. I mean, I. I see comedians where I'm like, I see why people like this guy, but I hate. But I can't stand it. Yeah. I think we were talking about yesterday. You had suggested maybe Brian Regan. And I'm like, I can't watch Brian Regan. And I know he's a good comedian and all this stuff. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Why? Because of his mannerisms or his is. [00:40:45] Speaker C: No, it's just nothing in there. There's no substance to me. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:50] Speaker C: But I can watch him and go, yes, very accomplished comedian. And I know why people like it. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, I think watching this, now that I'm, you know, so much older, I watch it like a parent. Like, this kid needs. This kid needs help. Like, somebody needs to, like, hug this kid and, like, tell them to calm the down. Right. [00:41:11] Speaker C: Like, I don't. I don't think someone with what was it, 26 million views? Needs a hug. [00:41:17] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you be surprised. How about the. The. The most glare, the most striking thing in this whole thing at the end when he's singing that. Whatever that song is, and he puts that whole microphone in his mouth, right? Like he mouths that whole thing. [00:41:34] Speaker C: The God song, I think. Or was it the love song? Anyway, yeah. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Well, I did look up his IMDb or whatever, and I was kind of surprised to some of this. Some of this bio stuff, too. He grew up in the town next to mine in Massachusetts. [00:41:54] Speaker C: I grew up in Manchester as another angle. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe that's why I hit him, too. He grew up in Hamilton, which is right next to us. And he went to the high school. You know where he went to High School? St. John's Prep? [00:42:07] Speaker C: Sandler? [00:42:08] Speaker A: Nope. Although I did do some of that research, too. No, he went to the same high school as Birbiglia, St. John's Prep. And I don't know, they're the same age, same vintage. [00:42:19] Speaker C: I think Berbeglia's older. [00:42:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he's older. And then I saw that he had something to do with Chris Rock. He's been directing and directed Chris Rock's Special. [00:42:31] Speaker C: Yeah, I saw he directed Jared Carmichael. Yeah, he's the kind of Turner guy as well. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he directed the movie Eighth Grade, which I heard is really good. And he was in Promising Young Woman, that Carey Mulligan movie that was nominated for an Academy Award. He was a one of those. So he does. Yeah, he does a lot of stuff. [00:42:52] Speaker C: I can't see him being a good actor in movies. I mean, I can see him, you know, being a competent actor, but I would think, you know, I was thinking. So this whole. We returned to the Big Sick, right? So I had a thing where they asked me to send them. I spent hours, photos, video, blah, blah, blah. We're gonna recreate the Lincoln Lodge for this movie. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Really? [00:43:16] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And that never came to anything. Inevitably, they. In the end, it was like, oh, it. Let's just create a generic comedy club. Right? Fine, I get it. [00:43:24] Speaker A: That's Hollywood after you put in all that work. [00:43:26] Speaker C: But. Yeah, but one of the things that. And obviously this is just. This could be Hollywood blowing smoke up your ass, blah, blah, blah. Was that the. The. Whoever it. Whatever you call. The person who called me was like, oh, yeah. It's going to be a real tribute to Chicago comedy. And we're going to try and get as many cameos from people who were around during this time. [00:43:48] Speaker A: And so you should have Had a nice little part in that. [00:43:50] Speaker C: So I was. No, I was down. [00:43:51] Speaker A: I gave Kumail his first stage time. I put him up for the first time. [00:43:55] Speaker C: Well, we told. [00:43:56] Speaker A: And he has my Billy Joel double cd, Greatest Sets. [00:43:59] Speaker C: And I was David Alan Greer in the shirt in the. Oh, you were in the movie. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Have you still not seen the movie? No. Let's watch it. [00:44:08] Speaker C: No. [00:44:08] Speaker A: Yes, let's watch it together. The three of us will go to your basement. We'll watch it. We'll have a screening in your basement. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Too traumatic. So one of the things. I would watch it if they'd have followed through on the second promise. The first promise I get, you know, someone looks at it and goes, no, we're not spending half a million dollars to recreate some shithole comedy club. Not happening. The second one wouldn't take much. The second one was that they were gonna have cameos from, you know, friends and colleagues of Kumail around that time. Yeah, kind of. Not one goddamn Chicago person got any lift from that thing. [00:44:50] Speaker A: They weren't in it. I didn't see nobody. [00:44:53] Speaker C: Nobody at all. And what the fuck? [00:44:56] Speaker A: That tells you everything. [00:44:57] Speaker C: That to me was unacceptable because, you know, it's hard enough to make it in comedy as it is. You've got an opportunity here to let you know you're the boat that's fucking rising. How about a little hike for your mates? I remember seeing Ali Leroy one time at the Comedy Chicago Comedy Festival. Someone said, what would you hear? Advice? And he goes, be friends with everybody on the way up. Because he goes, I'm not on stage if it's not for Chris Rock, you know, like, so. You know, I always took that various things. So, yeah, so I avoided Big Sick and then the Bo Burnham thing. And I'm like, is he really like C.J. then? You know, I guess I could. I could maybe watch the bits of the film he's in to. To be gobsmacked by the fact that it's nothing like cj. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I think this. We have to watch this film. [00:45:56] Speaker C: No, it's not. [00:45:57] Speaker B: What's it called? [00:45:58] Speaker A: The Big Sick. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Oh, that's what you keep saying. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Okay, come on. I haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. And then we'll review it. [00:46:04] Speaker C: Not happening. [00:46:06] Speaker A: We'll bring CROs in. He would. He has a lot to say about that film. [00:46:09] Speaker C: I could watch if you want to watch it with Croshus and tape. Croius all the way through. I will watch. I will watch the tape of Croius watching the Big sick. Probably multiple times. [00:46:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:27] Speaker C: Well, I think. Do we. We still have to do our signature special. Not special. There's a lot of people in suspense out there as to how. Which way this is gonna roll. I'll go last. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Why don't you guys go ahead? [00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I. I was very curious to see. Like I said when it came out, I watched it dozens of times and I just thought it was the best thing I had ever seen. And then it's kind of funny. When I rewatched it just now, I was wondering, you know, like, well, this is, you know, there's 10 to 12 years in the middle there, you know, and I didn't. It didn't have the same appeal, but I can't tell if it's because I'd seen it so many times that it was just like, you know, I'm hearing the same thing over and over and over again. Or, you know, did like the. Me in my young 30s, like, maybe just had like a different point of view. You know, I still think it's. I vote special because it's just how complicated and how. How different it is from everything else. I mean, it certainly does maintain that. [00:47:34] Speaker C: At least I vote that this is incredibly special. This could have saved. This could have saved my comedy outlook if had I watched it when it originally came out. But I think at that point I'd stop watching comedy. This could have revived an interest. Like, okay, there are things that can be done in comedy that are special. Very special. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Is there anyone doing what he's doing now? Is there. Is there a modern day comp. He's not doing it right because he doesn't perform right. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Yeah. He has had special since then, but they weren't quite like that. [00:48:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:14] Speaker C: I feel like when something like this comes out, like, we should do a Demetri Martin because it's more in the same vein as well. [00:48:20] Speaker A: I feel like he's kind of dry though, isn't he? Dimitri Martin? [00:48:23] Speaker C: Yeah, but he's trying to do something. He's going, you know what? I'm not gonna stand there and just. I'm gonna try and do something. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Yeah, Yeah. I mean, nobody. That's a stupid question that I posed because if they were doing what he's doing, then it wouldn't be anything new. And what he's doing is trying to deconstruct the art here, do it a different way. So who is doing that now? Dimitri Martin. He didn't. He's 20 years. [00:48:51] Speaker C: I know. He's elbow. Yeah. I don't know. I Mean, go back, but. [00:48:55] Speaker A: And I would think that I would appreciate that. Right. Because I, I, I love when people try to do this standup stuff differently. And, and he's definitely doing that, but I just, he's, he just too. [00:49:11] Speaker C: I don't like it special in the wrong way. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And he stole my act, as you mentioned a few times. He's taken my act and done it better, I think. And I don't like that. [00:49:23] Speaker C: And 26 million views. I can't even. Part of me is the fascination with that sort of success. [00:49:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:32] Speaker C: As someone who is still. Who has lived in the comedy gutter for 25, five years. [00:49:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:37] Speaker C: I can't even contemplate that level of achie of success. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Did you see who directed this program? [00:49:49] Speaker B: No. [00:49:50] Speaker A: You didn't catch that? [00:49:51] Speaker C: Nope. [00:49:52] Speaker A: Does the name Christopher Storer mean anything to you? Christopher Storer? [00:49:57] Speaker C: Nothing at all. [00:49:58] Speaker A: Nothing at all? [00:49:59] Speaker B: Nope. Who is that? [00:50:02] Speaker A: Well, he's got a program on right now called the Bear. Have you seen. [00:50:08] Speaker C: That's an interesting tidbit, isn't it? [00:50:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:13] Speaker A: And then I also just looked up that he's dating Phoebe Bridgers, who I like very much her music. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Oh, she's a musician, Phoebe Bridgers? [00:50:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know. You've never heard of her? [00:50:26] Speaker B: No. [00:50:26] Speaker A: Christ. [00:50:27] Speaker C: She's on. I listen to XMU on satellite radio all the time. Time. And she's on that. I think she. Is she one of those breathy like. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Oh, my life is. [00:50:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I can hate that. All right, it's time for rock and roll to come back. [00:50:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [00:50:45] Speaker C: I saw Super Grass last night on that. [00:50:48] Speaker A: You mentioned you were going. How was it? [00:50:49] Speaker C: Yeah, they were just mind blowingly good. [00:50:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Did you take grass? Did you smoke grass? You don't smoke grass. [00:50:56] Speaker C: Super grass has nothing to do with, with weed. Super grass is a, is an informant for the police. [00:51:03] Speaker A: That's what. Oh, it is a super. They call what. I've never heard that before. [00:51:07] Speaker C: So a grass is like someone who snitches the police. [00:51:14] Speaker A: Well, this a British band. [00:51:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:16] Speaker A: Okay. We don't use those terms over here. We use mole or rat or think grass. Like stooly. [00:51:24] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. But a grass is someone of that ilk. And a super grass is like an 80s thing where the police cultivated these super grasses that knew everything in the underworld and, you know, could help them bust cases. And that's where super grass comes from. No weed thing at all. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Most people think it's about weed. [00:51:46] Speaker C: Although. Although their, their most popular song. Look it up, kids. Is called Caught by the Fuzz, which. Which is about getting busted for possession of drugs at age 15 and hoping that your brother can bail you out. You probably relate, so look it up. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Well, wait a minute. [00:52:05] Speaker C: Caught by the Fuzz. Supergrass. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Now you're. Now you've got me thinking. There was a film when I was young called Super Fuzz. Have you ever heard of that movie? [00:52:14] Speaker C: Is that the Simon Pegg one? [00:52:15] Speaker A: No, this is. You know, in the 80s, Super Fuzz was about a cop. I wonder if it has anything to do with what you're talking about here. Super Fuzz? Super grass. [00:52:26] Speaker C: No, the fuzz. Super Fuzz is that the fuzz is the police. [00:52:29] Speaker A: I know what fuzz means, but Super Fuzz? [00:52:33] Speaker C: Super Fuzz, I don't know. Super Fuzz. Big Moth was an album, Big Muff by Mud Honey. Oh, a grunge classic. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Mud Honey, Seattle band. [00:52:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:52:46] Speaker A: All right, well, two. Two toes up, one toe down for this. Hated it. Loved it. What's next, Christian? [00:52:54] Speaker B: We are going to do Nikki Glazer's special. Perfect. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Nikki Glazer, very popular right now. This Perfect. Is this one for early? [00:53:03] Speaker C: Well, hang on. Are we going to try and do two, so. [00:53:05] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Well, if we are, here we go. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Watch. He's thinking. He's thinking he's just going to pull one out of his ass. [00:53:12] Speaker B: I've been. I've been barking up this tree for a while. I've been wanting to. The Eddie Izard special. [00:53:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:16] Speaker B: Dressed to Kill. I know. [00:53:18] Speaker A: It's a two hour special. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Come on, man. Well, that's okay. So what do you want? Do you want to do it or not? [00:53:23] Speaker A: It's just the first hour we'll do. [00:53:25] Speaker B: Because the Nikki glazer one's only 45 minutes, so I figure it's a good balance, you know what I mean? [00:53:29] Speaker A: Well, don't do Izard on a day where we're doing two, that's three hours, right? [00:53:34] Speaker C: Yeah. I've already. I watched Dress to Kill like decades ago, so I know where it's headed. [00:53:39] Speaker B: But I just watched it. I mean, I've seen it dozens of times. Also, just like the Bo Burnham thing, I just watched it again recently, so, I mean, I'm already in the clear. [00:53:48] Speaker C: Well, we don't have to think of this on camera. [00:53:51] Speaker A: All right, well, looking forward to it. Whenever that is. All right. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Yeah. When are you getting back from Seattle? [00:53:57] Speaker A: Monday. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Oh, okay. So you'll be back? [00:53:59] Speaker A: You're flying back? Yeah, leaving Friday, coming back Monday. Takes two nights, three days, and then flying back the next day. [00:54:08] Speaker B: I'm doing that for Marino next month. Marino from. From Reno and flying to Reno and then taking a room at back. [00:54:15] Speaker A: No way. [00:54:15] Speaker B: Through the Rocky Mountains in the Sierra Nevadas. [00:54:17] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:54:18] Speaker B: It's gonna be great. [00:54:19] Speaker A: Will you be alone? [00:54:21] Speaker B: No, no. [00:54:22] Speaker A: You'll be shagging. [00:54:24] Speaker B: My girlfriend has a roommate across the hall. We both have our own roomette. [00:54:28] Speaker A: Wait a minute now. You don't need two roomettes. [00:54:30] Speaker C: Probably a night farter. [00:54:32] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I like to have my privacy, you know? [00:54:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you're a posh boxer. [00:54:39] Speaker B: I don't really see. I. Yeah, I don't like sleeping in the same bed all the time. [00:54:43] Speaker A: Same with why you stayed at your grandmother's or you didn't stay at your grandmother's. You stayed at a. Yeah, I stayed at the Airbnb hotel. So you could posh box. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Yep, exactly. [00:54:52] Speaker A: I'll be using that one a lot. All right, friends. All right. Happy trails.