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Is that an alphabet in your pocket, or are you just happy to see D-E-D-B-D duckies? Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. All right, well, thank you to Moby Dick and Two Buoys for that catchphrase submission. I don't think that's going to stick. I don't even understand it, quite honestly. I mean, are you just happy to see me, but then C-D-E, I get, but then it goes back to D and then B and then back to D again? I don't quite understand it. It's not spelling anything. Let me ask our main guest.

Do you understand anything of what I just said there? Honestly, no. You don't. Okay, good. I'm not crazy then. No, no. You're not gaslighting me, are you? No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. I don't get it. Because I don't like it when my guests do that. I wouldn't because I don't get it.

Okay, good. Okay, we're on the same page here. I think so. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. My name is Scott Aukerman. We have a great episode today. We're going to be talking to that person that you just heard. Maybe you recognize their voice. It would be weird if you recognize their voice. I mean, you have a kind of unique voice. Thank you. But I wouldn't say like totally recognize. It's not like you're like, who has the most recognizable voice in the world? Oh, for me, probably like Sam Jackson. Right.

Right. Do you do impression of Sam Jackson or anything like that? No. Yeah, neither do I. How about like John Wayne? He's like, hello, partner. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a recognizable voice. Oh, that's the one. That's the one. That's the one. Man, I'd love to get him on the show. Do you know him? No.

No. Why do you say it like that? No. Like you possibly do? I was thinking about people who might have met him that I know. Fortune. Feimster. I know of Fortune. I met her once. She's so cool. But no, I don't think. She did that TV show with him. She was on this show to promote it. What show? Can you believe that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a TV show? What? Yeah, on Netflix. I know the documentary, but I know he had a TV show. You know the documentary? Yeah.

yeah i've never seen the documentary you have to watch the doc really what's it about it's just about his life his career pumping iron days the rest goes back to that it goes back to his father um father who's his father um i think is it someone famous no well i'm sure to him uh or he's like probably one of the guys he knows best i mean it's probably famous to him and a couple uh jewish folks uh back in those days uh but no i think his dad was a nazi or

Oh, hello. I think he was. He wasn't like the main guy, right? No, not Hitler. Oh, okay. No, no. Because I was going to say.

If Arnold Schwarzenegger is Hitler's son, we are burying the lead on this guy. Like, everyone's talking about twins. I mean, that should be the main topic of conversation. I would say so. That being his dad is way cooler than, I guess, Predator or anything like that. Well, we've given you a little bit more source material to try to figure out who our main guest is. Hannibal.

Hannibal? I'm Hannibal. Hannibal Buress or Hannibal Lecter? I'm Hannibal Buress. I don't quite know, but we'll figure this out in a second. Coming up a little later on the show, we have an entrepreneur. We also have a singer-songwriter. That's very exciting. It is. Yeah, coming up a little later. Yeah, I like multi-facets. Yeah, have you ever been an entrepreneur or a singer-songwriter? No.

I wanted to be all three of those things at the same time, but it never worked out. I'm sure you have a loan out company. I do. So yeah, you're an entrepreneur. We're having entrepreneurs back on the show, by the way. We banned them for a while. That's good. Yeah. So we would have small business owners back on, but I said 2024, let's just open the floodgates. Let's get entrepreneurs back on. What changed everything?

Well, for me, we had too many entrepreneurs between COVID times and now. But I just started to feel bad for entrepreneurs that they can't get their... They love talking. They do. They love talking. They love talking. And so does our main guest. And you'll be thankful for that. Now, I have said this before and I'll say it again. Hopefully, I'll say it again. But stars are back on Comedy Bang Bang. We had a rough patch there during the strike. Yeah.

Where all we had were authors. Oh, bleh. But now we have a true star back on Comedy Bang Bang. This is true. He has never done the show before. Very excited to have him. Been a big fan for a long time. You know him from shows like Crashing and Superior Donuts. You know him from the movie Coming 2, the number two America. Yeah.

But now he has a new movie that just hit Amazon. It's called Ricky Stinicki. I've seen this and we'll talk about it at length because I'm not going to watch a two hour movie and then not talk about it at length with someone. We're going to hit all the plot points. We're going to talk about structure. We're going to talk about our favorite laughs. Please welcome Jermaine Fowler. Hi. Hi.

Yeah, it's clapping for yourself. I'll clap too. I'll join in. There you go. Yeah. Thanks for watching the movie, dude. Yeah, it's my pleasure. It's great to have you on the show. Stand-up comedian extraordinaire, of course, and also actor. You've been in a million things. Wow. I

I had that realization a couple days ago, too. Yeah. Did you feel like, oh, man, why I haven't been in enough stuff? And then you looked at your IMDb and were like, oh, no, I've been in too much. Yeah. My first movie was Sorry to Bother You, you know? Sorry to Bother You, great film. Thank you, man. Yeah, Boots, man. That was my first film. I auditioned for that one. And ever since then, offer only. Man, I wish. I wish I could. What's the last audition you did? Last audition I did? It was for, oh, yeah.

it was um it was for a netflix show and it was arnold schwarzenegger in it no no no nah he i wish that was fortune got it instead of you i'm sorry to say that makes sense fortune is the best um i don't man i forgot the series i don't remember yeah that's fine we don't need i mean you know they didn't book me so it don't matter yeah it doesn't matter how many uh what's your ratio of auditions i here was my ratio when i when i was now i of course i'm offer only which means i do not work

But you know your standards. Yes, exactly. I don't want to be driving to the west side every other day, you know, trying to audition for something. Anyway, here was my ratio. I would audition a hundred times and get zero of them.

How about you? What is your rating? The thing is, when it comes to auditions, I have low self-esteem. So I don't take them seriously. So when I do auditions, I just go, I improvise a lot. I don't really care. Yeah, we've talked about this on the show, I believe, before. But I was talking to a fellow comedian who said, oh, no, you should just improvise a lot in your auditions because that's what makes you special.

50% of the time, the writer will hate that you did that and will be offended that you tried to improve their script. And the other 50% of the time, they'll be like, oh, here's someone who can improve our script. Yes, that's a fact. But luckily for that person, the writers don't really have a lot of say in the hiring.

So it's usually the producer. True. Although sometimes the writer is the producer. That's the case. Then that is the case. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, so I tried it when, back when I was auditioning and sure enough, the first time I tried it, the person got really upset at me. They do get offended. There's some real sticklers out there, but I, I, you,

you gotta show people what you can do. Exactly. Especially when someone's a great improviser and can add, is additive to the script. That's the word. You gotta be additive. And I think you just can't go on tangents. You know what I mean? You just can't go on a whole thing. But I think if you can add something that, you know, does compliment the story or the character or the, you know, the scene, then why not go for it? Did you audition for Coming 2 America? Hell yeah, I did. I did. That was the audition. Again, I didn't think,

they would even pick me. So I went super improv heavy on the self-tape. Right. And this, by the way, if people don't know what this is, there's a movie called Coming to America. We all know this. This came out if I were to guesstimate 87, 88, somewhere around there. We all know it, Coming to America. We say these words all the time, Coming to America. Now, smash cut to 30 years later, they put out another movie and it's called Coming to America. And you're like, what? Uh-huh.

But here's where it differs. The two is not spelled T-O. It's not even spelled T-W-O, although it's meant to imply that. It is the number two. And it is a sequel to that first Coming to America. It is. It was supposed to be called Coming to America Again.

Really? No, I'm joking. As well. As well. Additionally, coming to America. But you played Eddie Murphy's son in that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What was that like? I mean, obviously, Eddie Murphy is such a touchstone for many comedians. I mean, you're probably younger than me by like two years, but...

But, you know, I remember like staying up to watch him on SNL, you know, and my parents wouldn't let me. And so I had to sneak into the living room and all that kind of stuff. What was it like working with him? Let me tell you something, dude. I've watched...

I went backwards in the Eddie Murphy, you know, cat, you know, what do you call it? So you watched another 48 hours first. Oh, man. And then 48 hours. You go further than that. I watched Mulan first. Really? And Shrek and all these movies. Donkey. Yeah, all that. I watched all that. Because I was born in 88, so, like, I'm a 90s kid. So I watched Nutty Professor before the SNL stuff and all that. Then I went backwards and kind of just...

Started to really admire him. And I'm like, this dude is just, you know, who is this man? Who is this guy? Who is this guy? But seriously, I wanted to get into stand-up. And my neighbor, his name was Grady. Grady lived like a couple doors down from me in my apartment complex. And he knew I wanted to get into stand-up. And he gave me this Eddie Murphy VHS tape called...

Was it Delirious or Raw? It was Raw. I watched Raw. Again, I'm going backwards. He's wearing the red suit in Raw. No, Delirious is Red Suit. Purple Suit is Raw. That's the MSG performance. That's right. I watched that. And how did you watch it because it was on a VHS? I had a VHS. You had one? Okay, good. So you didn't have to rent anything. You didn't have to get the RCA cables. I had a VHS player in the house. That's where I watched.

true romance men in black uh every nicholas cage the rock i watched all those movies back on vhs and uh finally popped that in and i watched it three times that day three times really were you what were you studying his technique uh his construction well uh up until that point i watched deaf comedy jam uh mike epps and martin lawrence performances uh and uh i really it

really admired and you know what caught my eye at first was one style you know coming on stage with an outfit like that that was like pretty cool no one's really done outfits in stand up I'm trying to think I mean

Has anyone done any kind of, like, bold statement of an outfit like that? Usually people just come out, like, maybe they're wearing a suit. Like, they dress up kind of. Amy did a black leather thing in one of her specials. Yeah. But I think she did that ironically. Right. Like, as an homage. I don't remember. I think it was a black leather thing. And Ali Wong, I mean, she was pregnant, so that was kind of a statement. But it's not like you're wearing your unborn baby. Yeah, exactly. In a way, you are. In a way. But so that's a statement. But yeah, no one's really come out like, you know, Amy was doing it ironically. Mm-hmm.

Eddie was doing it as like, don't I look good in this? Yeah, because he had no shirt under it. It was cool. But also the cinematography was gorgeous. It was silhouetted. Was it directed? It was Keenan. It was Keenan directed? Oh, okay. Or Robert Townsend, didn't he do one of those? Someone did the skit in the beginning. That might have been either Keenan or Robert. I think Keenan did the special. Interesting. I think Rob did.

The Skip. Director of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. Dude. But they were all like homies back in those days and they still are. But the special is gorgeous looking. It's beautiful. It's shot like a one man show. You know? And then you watch...

I guess Richard Pryor live in concert, which to me is the greatest special ever made. That's his best one because he did like eight of them. And as far as concert movies too, you got live on the Sunset Strip. You've got like so many of them. And a lot of albums too. So his best is live in concert. It's the best. I think it's the best. The best of any. The best comedy film, stand-up comedy film ever. Wow. Ever made.

And, uh, it's again, that, that, that performance is a one man show disguised as a standup comedy. Me and Seton Smith talk about that at length. And then at one point, a couple of years ago, I got a chance to talk to Eddie about that, that special. And, uh, it, it's just the perfect one. Speaking of which you're on set, you're hanging out with Eddie Murphy. You have to make chit chat at some point. Right. I mean, like, like I, I,

I mean, I can only imagine in between takes, he's not like just standing there or whatever, but at some point you have to make chit chat. Is that, is that, uh, uh, are you nervous when you're doing that? Is that, does, or, or at some, you know, especially in the first few days, at some point you get into a level of ease with him. No, he's cool. He's cool. I knew him before we shot the film. Okay. And, uh, Miles Murphy, uh,

one of his sons, we write together. Oh, okay. I met Miles before I met him. So at this point, coming to America, by the way, why do you think you don't have a shot at getting it if you work with his son? It seems to me like you have the best shot at getting it out of anyone. You have a better shot than me, I'll tell you that much. I still got to deliver. It's true. I still got to be, you know. You're like the post service. I still got to be. Exactly. Yeah, you got to deliver. I got to deliver, man. Through rain, through hail, through sleet.

You got to deliver those lines, but no, you know, uh, I, Miles is an amazing, it's so funny. I'll,

All of his kids are extremely talented. Really? Yes. Individually. Every single one. Very talented. Put them together. They're like a Megatron. They're like the Voltron. Yeah. Who's Megatron? Did I get that wrong? Megatron is Optimus Prime's nemesis. These guys, Optimus Prime, Megatron, why don't they have any normal names like Jim? Jim? Yeah. Is that scary to you? It's not scary. Oh, you think they're naming themselves in order to be imposing and scary? I think so. Optimus Prime is pretty scary. But that's a good guy.

I know. So why? So shouldn't he be like Fred? That's a really homy name. Hello, I'm Fred. I'm Fred. And why do they turn into things? That's like the stupidest part of Transformers. Okay. So it's funny because originally I think they turn into cars. We went on a way left conversation. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. I love it. I love it. This is just as good as the original conversation.

But no, they turn into cars, I think, to hide from humans. To hide from humans? Yeah, because they're evil too. Humans drive cars. This is a bad system. This is true. To hide their identities from humans. It's like saying, why does Superman turn into Clark Kent? Clark Kent is the car...

of the Transformers analogy. So Superman is the Optimus Prime and Clark Kent is the car. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know why. It doesn't make any sense to me. It seems like if they're giant robots, they should just be giant robots, but they're... But it's the 80s and everybody was on cocaine. That's true. We...

Anytime something doesn't make sense, you've got to factor cocaine into it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Every high concept I've ever seen that's from that era, they're all big ideas of cocaine. I watched the We Are the World documentary. Did you watch that? I heard about it. It's really good. But the star of the show is cocaine. You don't like it?

Like literally everyone's on it. I'm not going to say like, I'm not going to theorize about who, but I just want to say 99% of them are. And it all makes sense once you realize that. Quincy, he started, he, he, he, I guess what was that? It was the coach. He was the producer. Okay. Okay. And he brought in, what is it? Was it football players? And like,

Well, that's the Super Bowl shuffle. That's the Super Bowl shuffle. I mixed the Super Bowl shuffle up with... It's very easy to mix those two things up because they had very similar purposes. One was to feed Africa and one was to brag about how they're going to win the Super Bowl. Very similar songs. I'm sorry. That's so fucking funny.

But I can see how one would get both of those confused because the sing-along nature of the song. But also the amount of people you're bringing in and the type of people you're bringing in. I'm so sorry. I mean, it's a lot like seeing the polyphonic spree. It's like there's 28 people up there on stage. So that's kind of the Super Bowl shuffle of alternative music.

Oh my God. I knew when I was a kid, there was like this football song. I love the, I would love it if you turned on without having had this conversation, you turned on this, I got to watch this. We are the words of the world. You're like, where are the Chicago bears?

What is Huey Lewis and Sidney Lauper doing here? Oh, man. I was really hoping. Michael Jackson? He won the Super Bowl? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's still mad. No matter who he sees, I don't want to see Quincy Jones. Tell me about Ricky Stenicki because I watched this last night in preparation of this. And I don't always do that with films. I sometimes will, you know, watch 20 minutes of it and go like, I understand what it is. I have enough to talk about. But I watched this all the way through. It's very funny.

It is, tell me about it. Can you, or do you want me to? Who do you want to do? Or should we switch off sentences? Let's have a competition. Let's see who describes it better. Okay, great. All right, cool. Because I'm really bad at describing things. Just things in general. Log lines, things. What is this? How would you describe this item that I'm holding up right here? You're holding a glass of water.

That's pretty good. It's good? I think you nailed it. That'd be a good movie, right? Yeah, Glass of Water would be a great movie. Great movie. Okay. Ricky Stenicki. It's about a group of friends who, over the course of years, have developed this lie that comes back to bite them in the ass in the form of Ricky Stenicki, played by John Cena. Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. I mean, you kept it to one sentence, which I appreciate, and under 10 seconds, which I think is great. Okay, okay. Did it give enough...

in order to hook people? I don't quite know. No. Let me have a shot. Okay, first of all, it's directed by Peter Farrelly. It's his... Yeah, I fucked up immediately. So you got to dock me points on that. Directed by Peter Farrelly, who it's his return to comedy. He hasn't directed a broad comedy like this since the Farrelly brother days, such as Something About Mary and all those kind of movies.

But it's his return to the world of comedy and it stars Zac Efron, yourself, and one other guy. Andrew Santino. Andrew Santino. Yeah. As a group of friends who have, ever since they were young,

They made up this fake person, Ricky Stenicki, in order to get out of trouble. They blame things on Ricky Stenicki. They also have used it now in their adult lives to get out of things they don't want to do with their wives or significant others in your husband, I would imagine. Are you guys married in that or are you just dating? A boyfriend. Boyfriend. Mm-hmm.

You get out of things by saying like, oh no, Ricky is in the hospital and we need to go see Ricky. And then they keep a Bible on Ricky Stanecki where documenting everything they've ever said about him so they can't trip themselves up in these lies.

Everyone wants to meet Ricky Stenicki. The time has finally come for them to meet Ricky Stenicki. They won't take no for an answer anymore on seeing him in person. And so they hire a washed up weird actor that they meet in Atlantic City.

John Cena, to be Ricky Stanecki for an afternoon for a party. Just one party. Just one party. And he does such a good job. And then the chaos starts happening. Yes.

I love that. Not bad. I fucked up at the beginning. No, no. I love that. Thank you so much, Jermaine. I really did love that. I gave you the corporate concise morning show. We want to hook people into it. If I heard that, I don't know whether I'd press play on it

honestly but i would you press play after hearing what i just said i don't like i don't like movie trailers anymore and i don't like being told what i'm watching anymore that's the thing is i've always felt like i try to stay away from movie trailers i try i don't want any information i don't like titles i think it should be called like movie number 14 803 i like that too yeah and then i would go i like that too i walked so many movies my favorite movies i've seen recently are the ones i went in blind right yes uh parasite uh i went

I went in blind. I went in blind for When Evil Lurks. Yeah. That's my favorite movie of last year. Oh, good. Godzilla minus one. I know what Godzilla was about, by the way. Well, that's the thing. But then you hear minus one and you're like, so there's one less Godzilla than the movie Godzilla. That means nothing. It's very my curiosity. Right. So I go in blind nowadays, not knowing or, you know, what's.

what's going on and I'm pleasantly, pleasantly honest. So maybe I gave too much information. No, I don't, I think we gave two different ideas. That's true. That's true. So we'll see who watches the movie. We'll see. Hopefully they're sending us the numbers first. I think we should. We deserve them. Tangentially? Tangentially. No, as a, anyway. But how, what was the experience like? First of all, did you audition for this one?

No. My man. No. All right. I did. Finally getting offers. I did. I love it. So what was the experience like? Obviously, Peter Farrelly has done so many of these classic comedy movies, Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber, all that kind of stuff. What was it like working with him? Let's talk about Peter. My favorite romantic comedy of all time is There's Something About Mary.

Yes, it's my favorite one. I know the lines from top to bottom. Matt Dillon, I think, gives one of his best performances. I would say Brett Favre's greatest performance as well. He'll tell you the same thing. No Super Bowl. I don't think, right? Am I wrong in that? Brett Favre won the Super Bowl. He did? Yeah.

Did he win a Super Bowl? A few times. You sure? Let me look him up. Look him up. Or is that the other guy? The Bronco guy. By the way, you're not thinking of the Super Bowl shuffle players. No, I'm not. Because they went on to win. I thought Brett didn't win anyone. Let me just look at Brett. Or is it that Dolphin guy?

uh damarino yeah he won they went all the way oh that was a that was a joke in um uh ace ventura pet detective that's true yes how many wins does he have one oh it's one i was close i'm so sorry for you but happy for brett i thought he has 1997 but that's kind of that's a little bit right around when that movie came out

That makes sense. That's probably why he got the role. Yeah, probably. Yeah. But what's it like working with someone who's done so much comedy and is just... I grew up with all of his movies, dude. Yeah. Like, all of them. Me, Myself, and Irene. The Ringer. I watch that all the time. There's something about Mary, Dumb and Dumber. Damn. Kingpin. Yeah. Dude, yeah. He's just... And then Green Book. I didn't see Green Book.

Gotta watch Green Book. I didn't see Green Book. I didn't see Green Book. That's probably the one film I didn't see. But I was just...

honored to be a part of this movie. Was it fun? All of those guys are so adept. All your co-stars are so adept at comedy. John Cena was really good in Cockblockers and Peacemaker. That's how he got the role. Peter watched Peacemaker and he was like, that's him. He's very funny in it. Zac Efron, he did Peter Farrelly's previous movie about the beer run. They've worked together a lot so they have a nice shorthand. Zac's on a good run. I love what Zac's been doing lately.

Yeah. Yeah, he's doing some great shit. And it's a very fun movie. It's broad comedy again, and with a very unique premise. I know the script is on the blacklist for a while. Oh, that's an understatement. It took 15 years to get this movie made. Right. A lot of different people were attached to direct it for a long time. Oh, I know that part. I know they had some stars they were thinking about. Even at one point, I think Jim Carrey was involved. Yeah, Jim Carrey was going to play Ricky Kinnick. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we got blessed with Cena. He's a force. That's an understatement as well. He's so good in the film. And I really, listen, man, Zac Efron, man, I've watched him since my high school years. Right. Since the high school musical. Yeah, exactly, dude. So it was wild. He's cool, man. He's really cool. And also, I think he's a very, very funny dude.

Now, John Cena, he's got a... I mean, inarguably, he's big and buff and he's got a great body. Then he does the Oscars and he's naked and he's pretending like he's ashamed out of anyone. He should be fine with it. That's what I was saying. I was like...

Someone brought this up today during some, I think California Live we just did. They brought up the, they showed me a picture because I didn't see the Oscars. I didn't watch it, but I did see them. You don't even like spoilers when it comes to the Oscars. Wow. I didn't see them, man. But I saw the online scene as nudeness, so to speak. And I loved it. I thought it was great. He is in shape.

Yeah. He's in shape. It's too much. Are you like in a way where you're like, I wish I was in shape or like, I mean, when you're that, like anyone who's like regular in shape, like a Ryan Gosling or whatever, where it's like, he's got abs and all that. You kind of look at him and go like, give me 10 weeks. I could probably do that. You probably could.

But John Cena, it's like if I did that for three years, I don't think I'll be able to do it. You know what I mean? So it's too much. Put it away. That dude, I think he's a farm boy. Was he ever acting with you and you just kind of slightly moved his arm and it's so large that it just smacked you and knocked you out of frame? I saw his wrists and I saw his digits and I was like, wow, that is John Cena. I grew up watching wrestling, so you

You grew up watching a lot of things. Yeah, that's pretty eclectic. I don't know. I don't know why. Wrestling, Peter Farrelly movies. Yeah, yeah. High school musical. Everything, dude. But I watched them growing up, so it was really wild to, you know. Yeah.

Did I film enough? Well, that's part of what is so wonderful about show business is you'll find yourself in situations where you're suddenly with people that you grew up watching and they're considering you their peer. And that's a very special time. It was extremely special. I was so nervous to bring up wrestling with him because I wasn't sure if he was like, you know, one of those people who's like, I'm pivoting. I don't talk about. He's still doing it. I know.

I know. And I had to talk to him about it. I was like, yo, so what's going on with a WrestleMania? You know, stuff like that. Did he break it down for you? Oh man. He's so gracious. Uh, extremely. I love, I, I have to say like, he is so generous with his time going to all the children's hospitals and everything. That's the best part about him. He's, he's, he's genuine about it too. Yeah. He's a good dude. And in fact, we, um, talked about wrestling, uh, to the point where I was, I, I,

I ended up helping him write one of his promos for the go-home show to WrestleMania. I think his match against Austin Theory. Oh, amazing. That was nice. That was a cool moment to do that. I mean, that was awesome. Very cool. Yeah, that was really cool. Very cool. Well, Ricky Stanecki is out now. It's on Amazon Prime, I guess. And they only showed two commercials before. Then they showed it to me uninterrupted.

Ooh. Which I think is the way movies should be shown on places like this. I agree. Uninterrupt my experience. Uninterrupt my movie, please. But it's out on Amazon Prime right now. Jermaine, you can stick around. We have some other guests. I'm allowed? Yes. We have a singer-songwriter and we also have an entrepreneur. This is a very exciting show. I would love to learn about entrepreneurial things. Okay, great. Well, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll have more Jermaine Fowler, more Comedy Bang Bang right after this.

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Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Jermaine Fowler here, is here rather, and Ricky Stenicki is on Amazon Prime right now. And I can only assume that the numbers have shot up. Amazon hasn't sent me anything yet, but... They sent us like some sort of poster saying it was the number one movie on Amazon Prime Video. Okay. I don't think they'd lie about that. That's too many qualifiers for my taste. Just call it number one movie and that makes me happy. That'd be nice. Yeah, just number one movie.

Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. Thank you. Of all time. Thank you, Scott. Scott, I like that, too. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. We need to get to our next guest, if that's OK. And I don't know. I mean, you grew up watching a lot of things. Did you grow up listening to music?

I was a big fan of Fiona Apple growing up. Fiona Apple. She's great. Yeah, huge fan. I got into her because of Kanye West's unplugged performance and he would just kind of play songs that he grew up loving and admiring and John Bryan and John Bryan. Yeah, when the Pawn album, he played some of that and I was like, who was this? Who's this woman? And I would play that album all year. Do you know the entire title?

When the pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn breaks in your face. I don't know. I don't know the... It's, of course, the longest album title, I believe. Maybe ever, but it's... And I know this by heart. It's when the pawn hits the conflicts, he thinks like a king. What he knows, throws the blows when he goes to...

So I was close. You were very close. Thank you, Scott. I knew I was on it. The last 80 words you were maybe off on. Well, our next guest is a singer-songwriter. He is, I would say...

I mean, his songs are very well known. They're not licensed all that much...

no we don't we kind of let that go yeah the licensing anyone can use and you've got a new song in stores now right uh that's on uh the beatles uh blue album the 1967 and 1970 the beatles blue album we're doing sort of all the weezer songs off the album oh we thought we'd give it a shot oh why not please welcome back to the show john lennon thank you for having me scott hello jermaine hey how you doing i'm good how you

I'm doing great. I was sort of half listening there. What was that you were just rattling off, that long title? That was Fiona Apple's album title. That's an album title. It's a title, yeah. That's the longest one. Yeah. We had, we for a second, the Beatles had the longest record title. What was it? Abbey Road.

Yeah, two words. Because no one was doing it. And then, you know, we held the crown for probably a week. Because every other album title was just one word. Yep. And usually the albums back then, this is the 60s, I want to say. Yeah, no, the Beatles were around during the 60s. We were big in the 60s and a little bit into the 70s. You got to be honest with me. We just crest the 70s. Yeah. Don't you think? Yeah, you just barely brushed the 70s.

By the way, Jermaine, just to clarify what's happening here, John Lennon, you may have thought John Lennon passed away back in 1980. Yeah, he got shot in Manhattan. Good to clean this up. Yeah, he did.

And then four years later in 1984. Yeah, four years later, I got shot in the body. I was coming out of my house, blood everywhere. What was your apartment at the Strawberry Fields? Strawberry Fields is one of John Lennon's songs. I see. Oh. No, you're thinking of Strawberry Fields in Central Park. Yeah. The little John Lennon memorial. I set that up after I came back. Oh. Alive. Four years later, you decided not to be dead anymore. I wanted to be alive. Good. Yeah. It's easy to do. Thank you. A lot of people don't say that. They say, what? Why? But you say good. That's good. Good.

you. Exactly. Some people just want to stay dead. Yeah, who would want to stay dead? Now, if you wanted to for four years. Four years because I was reading a couple books. What were you reading? I was trying to get through the Iliad.

Oh, did you ever get through it? That's a tough one. I did, but I cracked the Odyssey and said, I'm not starting one of these. I'm out of here. It took me four years to read that first one. Yeah. I'm a slow reader. They travel across the sea, right? On the Argos or something like that? On the Iliad? The Argo. Oh, yeah. Oh, do they? They're Jason's in there. They're Jason's. The Argonauts. I love that movie. Yes. It's a good movie too.

It's a good movie. The book reads like the script. It's really good. Fun. But it took you four years. It took me four years just because... Because you can read a script in one day. You can read a script in one day. That's true. Can't write one in one day. Gosh, I'd love to be able to. Well, you weren't in a rush. You were dead. Where are you going to be? Exactly. That's sort of my mentality to begin with. So I'm in the dirt, in a coffin, whatever. Oh, you were down there still. I was in. I was in.

You had light? Enough light to read the- You bring- Well, I made it very clear to my state that when I go down, bury me with a light. Because I had an idea. Okay. You were committed. Yeah, and a few batteries as well. I had quite a few batteries. A four-year battery. Wow.

That's wonderful. But now he's back. He's been hiding out. He doesn't want to see Yoko. Right. She's got, well, I've got her. I've got her beanie, you know, the French beret. Yeah. And I want it and I'm borrowing it for her. So she doesn't know you're alive? Doesn't know I'm alive. And no one tell her.

by the way, if you're listening. If you see Yoko Ono, I know she was just shouted out at the Oscars, which you did not watch the other night. No, no. Everyone said happy English Mother's Day to her. Good for her. Yeah, but how did you feel? Were you watching the Oscars when that happened? I saw the whole thing. Right, I saw it. Yeah, and how'd that make you feel when your son, Sean Ono Lennon, is out there? I know, I was so proud of him. I forgot about that. He won the Oscar. What a great guy. He went up there and won the Oscar. You forgot about that. It was less than a week ago. I know, my brain is killing me.

I'm playing too much Tetris. My brain can't think of anything but Tetris moves. I know the feeling. You know that feeling when you're going to bed and you're seeing the things fall. You just want to be asleep. Yeah. The question was about my son. Yes. Great guy. Although I don't... Great guy. Great guy. That was my question. Is he a great guy? Great guy. As far as I know.

Because he was so young when you supposedly died. He was the youngest he was when he was born. Does he know you're alive? He knows, but we don't see each other very often. He lives out here and I'm in New York. Oh, yes. Well, I mean, but you're out here right now. Sure, that's true. But I'm sure he's busy with stuff. Yeah. Okay. Signing autographs. It must be traumatizing, you know, for him. To see me? Yeah. Probably. Well, the first call I had with him when I said, hey, Sean. What?

You remembered his name, of course. Okay, but I was looking to you to make sure that was his name, because I know I got another one in the mix. Yeah, well, I mean, he was so young when you passed away for the first time that it's hard to remember things like that. Well, that was the thing, big part of the phone call. I called him up, said, hey, guess what? He said, who is this? I said, you will never believe who it is. It's your dad. I'm back. And he said to me, I'm so mad at you for not dodging that bullet.

Yeah. I said, what do you, I mean, bullets are one of the fastest things. Well, it's one of the fastest things, but if you ever come in and encounter one, just dodge it. Okay. Right. Yeah. Okay. You know, like everyone's talking about, oh, Tupac, oh, Biggie. It's like, just move out of the way. And here's the thing. It just needs to be a fraction of an inch. Yeah. You just have to, it just, just has to miss you. Yeah, exactly. If it misses you by three feet,

Fine. A mile or one inch, you're fine. One inch. I'll do you even one better. One centimeter. You ever seen one of those? I've never seen a centimeter. My God.

Really? You haven't been in the bathroom yet today? I'm working on some humor. I'm working on some of my roast humor. Come on, John. All my roast stuff is about guys having small dicks. Oh, okay. Pretty good. Is there going to be a roast for you? No, I'm going to try to be a roast master. Oh, you're going to be a roast master like Jeff Ross? Mm-hmm. I mean, Jeff Ross can't do it forever.

Right, that's true. You know? I'd like to step in there. Yeah, why not? I think I might watch one of these roasts, like a Comedy Central roast, if John Lennon was the Roastmaster General. I think everyone would have fun. Well, I'd probably do a song because people know what I'm doing. People mainly know you for your songs. For my music, not really my humor, although I'm pretty funny. Do you have a favorite Beatles song, Jermaine? Ooh. No deep tracks, no deep tracks. Yeah, no deep cuts, but it's hard to think of one, isn't it? Well, it's the Wings album.

That's not the Beatles, though. No, but I mean, you're thinking of like Jet or Live and Let Die. Those are good songs. Knocking at the door. Someone's ringing the bell. I love that shit. That's a good song. We were making that album. I played guitar on those. That's a Paul McCartney solo album. Right. He came in and he wanted me to do guitar on it. So you are on that album. Mm-hmm. Are you uncredited or something? I'm uncredited. I said just... Are all the Beatles on that record? Yeah, we're all on it.

Oh, good. We're on it. We're sitting around. Some of the monkeys came in. Rolling Stones came around. The monkeys? The monkeys were there and some real monkeys. Oh, man.

I'm playing guitar. I've got to, you know, you see. Like a chimpanzee just hanging off the end of my guitar. I'm shaking the thing around. The banana peels alone must have been so dangerous. I twisted my ankle so many times during that recording session. Wow. Because of the bananas. Yeah. Oh, because of that. Right. Very cartoonish. It was wild. You know, sometimes when I'm around doing things, people say, if we could film this and put a cartoon filter over it, we'd make a million dollars. Yeah.

Man. I would think that without the cartoon filter, it would be more money-making. That's what I say. Because with the cartoon filter, people would go, oh, this is a cartoon. Right.

This cartoon is not real. Okay. That's what I say, and the people are so steadfast in getting me into a cartoon. So now, John, you have a new record out. This is so exciting. It's this new Beatles track that just came out. Hit me with that title one more time. I mean, if I knew it, I would say exactly what it is. But... 19... Yeah, it's...

It's just so much crap's going on. We've got screens in front of our face all day. It's so hard these days. Give me that title one more time. And honestly, it's not even on Wikipedia anymore, so I have no idea. Crazy. But crazy for you to have a new song out. Every time you're on the show, I want you to sing a song. I fucking, you know that guitar I've got? Yeah, the one with the whammy bar? The skull finger whammy bar. Skeleton, yeah. Skeleton finger.

Skull would be a little higher. Yeah, a little higher up on the bod. But, you know, Ringo's got that thing still. He still has it. So I've been begging you to play songs on this because when you book John Lennon on a show, it's like you've written some of the most classic... I mean, remember during the pandemic, everyone was singing one of your songs, that Imagine song, like Gal Gadot? And remember, I didn't make the cut. Right. And you sent it to them. I sent it to them and Gal was like...

you know, I don't think this is exactly right. You kind of, we did it at a different key. Gals in charge of it. Oh, everyone did it at a different key. Right. I said, well, I can do, I can do it again. She's like, no, we're already pretty much, we got a first draft. Were you on that We Are the World thing? Yeah, we were just talking about We Are the World and how Jermaine here had confused it with the Super Bowl. Well, I was involved in both. Wait, you were?

I choreographed the shuffle. You're not in the documentary about We Are the World. No, because that was a brief period. Sometimes the accent gets away from you. That's the thing about growing up in Liverpool. That's the thing. I started with this accent, you know,

a long time ago. Now I gotta stick with it my whole life. You're like, goo, goo, guh, guh. Also being buried alive, you know, you're not, no one to talk to and, you know. Right, you kind of, you lose, it took me a while. Well, it's like Madonna moving to England, she starts talking like a British person, you start talking like a worm. Right. Slither, slither, and the rest. It's a little maggoty, a little maggoty. Yeah, exactly. I get it, I get it. I think,

If I'm correct about worms, they eat dirt and shit it out, and dirt is just worm shit. Yeah, but then they eat people, right? So it's like, if you give me the choice between dirt and a person, I'll pick the person. Yeah. Every single time. It's tough to say out loud, but you got to make that decision. Why are they so like, oh, I'll either do dirt or a person. I mean, come on. I don't get it. I don't get it. Were you attacked by worms down there? Since I was kind of wiggling around myself. Wait, you weren't dead then, those four years? No.

Because you said you were reading. Now you're wiggling around. Wiggling, reading. I was basically just in the ground. Now I'm questioning whether you actually died from this bullet that went to your body. What do you mean?

Because I've never heard of anyone else choosing not to be dead anymore. Well, you don't know. You don't ask when you meet people, have you ever been dead before? They think you're crazy. That's a good point. You know what I mean? That's a very good point. I haven't done that. What were we talking about? We were talking about your new song and worms. Oh, right. The Michael Jackson song. Oh, the Where Are The World and Super Bowl Shuffle. The Super Bowl Shuffle by Michael Jackson. That was...

So you choreographed the shuffle. Choreographed the shuffle. That was easy. I took care of that in the afternoon. They didn't do a lot of arm choreography. No, and these guys are football players, you know. Yeah. They did a lot of steps, but then kept their arms by their sides. Well, that was, the coach came to me and said, we got to do this promotion thing for this. Who was that? Mike Ditka? Who was that? Oh, Mike Ditka. Big fan. Big Baz fan. Mike Ditka. Yeah. I believe he coached the team. You got to be a fan of the team if you're coaching them.

So he came up to me and said, you know, I want to get the, we got to do this stupid video or whatever, but get them moving because we're missing practice for this. It seems to me like he would come up to you and say, John, can you write the song? That's what I said too. Scott, we're on such the same wavelength today. It's incredible. Wow. But what happened with We Are The World? We Are The World, that was an era when I was getting into video cinematography. Oh.

So I was behind the camera the whole time. Oh, because in the documentary, they talked to the other guy behind the camera a lot. A lot. And they cut you out of this documentary? Well, he had a lot of great stuff to say. He was excited to see all these celebrities. And my talking head for that was just, hey, I'm right here. Why aren't you recruiting me to be on this song? Or can we talk about my camera? Yeah, I was talking lenses. And they're like, people don't care about that. I care very much about lenses. But weren't you dead by then?

No, this is 1985, so you were alive at this point. And you were really into photography? Well, yeah, that's when I was like, well, let me put the guitar down for a bit. Let me put all this...

Greek literature down. Sure. The worm quest. I didn't care about the worms anymore. Right. Let me. Oh, you cared about the worms for four years. I care in the sense that, you know. They're your only companions. When you're walking on the street, you care about traffic because you don't want to get hit with. I see. I understand. Yes. Which could be brutal. And did and were you because they mentioned this in the documentary, they mentioned one camera person had the lens cap on the entire time. Was that you or. Nothing. There was two of us.

One had it the entire time. I think they fired him. I had it for about half the time. Oh, okay. I was like, fuck. I didn't tell anyone. But continually through the entire thing, but just half on? Kept taking it on and off. Well, John, I mean, you've had such an amazing career. Thank you. You've written some of the most- Whoa, you too. Thank you.

Thank you. I mean, I wouldn't consider ourselves to be peers. We were talking about that in the first segment, but that's so nice of you to consider. No, I think you're doing great stuff. We're all doing great. And we all look great. Yeah, we do. Yeah. I mean, you kept yourself... I mean, you're an 80-year-old man. Not too bad. Yeah. But I guess, did you decide not to age as well? That, Scott, I wish. I wish I could control that. Yeah. At some point, are you going to die again? I think...

I think so. Well, that guy who shot you might want to, you know, kind of finish the job. Yeah, that's true. He's still in prison, isn't he? Well, I'd try not to keep... Well, he shouldn't be in prison anymore because he's not dead, right? Right, that should be it. I mean, it's still attempted. But he served that time. That's true. Okay, yeah, let's let him out. Would you spearhead the campaign to let him out of prison? I would... You know, socially and consciously, yes. He's so flustered. But...

I just don't have time for stuff like that. That's a lot of work. That's a good point. A lot of paperwork, a lot of email, which you know I'm bad on. So you don't want a wrongfully convicted man to get out of prison? Well, I've got a stake in this thing. You know, because when it's you who gets shot and died, you sort of look at it, and it's not fair, I understand, but you look at it a little skewed.

Yeah, it's a little different. Because you do have the memory of the whole thing. It's a nice memory. That was a core memory for me. Yeah, it was bad. What do you remember from it? I remember me and Yoko walking out of the apartment. I'm saying,

God, if we can... What's the name of that pizza place that sells that pizza that's as big as the whole table? I want to go there. As big as your fucking head? As big as your fucking head. It's Tony Sony's. You don't know what this is, John. Never mind. That's okay. I'm still laughing. This is a callback to a previous episode. It has the cadence of being funny. That's all it counts these days. Yeah, these days, boy. Jeez. Jeez.

Boy, with everyone being so sensitive these days. Anyway, go on. Well, you know, we can get into that off the air, which I do want to talk to you about. These are the one emails you've successfully sent me because you want to talk about cancel culture with me. What the hell's up with cancel culture? You can't say this now.

So anyways, he steps out of the shadows or was he? He stepped out of the shadows. No, he stepped out of a cab. So wait, so he gets into a cab and he says, cabbie, take me to wherever John Lennon is or just take me to this address and whoever's there, he's going to shoot. I think that was it.

And he saw me and he's like, I know this guy. I'll shoot him. Wow. I'll shoot him. I mean, he's kind of unlucky to shoot like a real famous guy. Yeah. Because it feels like if you shoot someone not famous, maybe you do five years. Oh, that's a good point. But now we know who Mark David Chapman is. Yeah. Who? This is grim. This is grim stuff. But what we want to focus on, John, is your back and you're up to things. Right. What are you up to now? Uh.

Well, I've got to... 2024 is my F1 year. What is it? Oh, Formula 1? I'm getting an F1. Holy shit. I invested in a new F1 racer. Really? Jermaine, do you watch F1 or any kind of racing? No. It's fast as hell. You know what it is, though, right? It's cars going around in a circle. I know it's the international car circuit. You've seen a car. I've seen a car. Scott, I was like you once. Just cars going around in a circle. What's big about that? These are...

souped up machines. My God, they riff that engine. Your heart is going a mile a minute. Yeah. So I went to an event in Las Vegas. I said, I got to be a part of this. Awesome. How did you first hear about it that you knew you had to be a part of it? I was going in my RV from New York out to here. The thing busted down again. You jump over the Grand Canyon. Try to. Cop always stops me as I'm getting there.

because I've got to get the speed up. So he always pulls you over because you're going 120 miles an hour. Right. But of course, the casual listener knows. Sure. So you've never successfully jumped over the Grand Canyon. Never done that. But the damn thing broke down. It's an 89 Winnebago. Broke down. And I'm in Vegas right around the time of the F1 and I get involved in this stuff and I'm into it. I say...

This is around the time last year where I'm drinking. Remember, I was doing the Dew all last year. Oh, that was extreme. Every single day you were drinking a little bit of Mountain Dew or a lot? A lot of it. A lot. How did that treat you, by the way? Bad. My whole body, my bones turned green and everything. Your bones turned green? Turned green. You could see them through my skin. So it was worse than the gunshot? Kind of.

Kind of loose, wobbly green bones. You did it to yourself, too. I did it to myself. All right, they didn't call. Nobody had anything to do with it. Yeah, yeah. Mark David Chapman didn't do that to you. Nope. My doctor said, it's time to stop. I said, you're probably right. So I'm in there and I'm...

What was I going with? I'm doing the do. So I treated myself with a do at the F1. So this is in 2023 still? Yep. And this is Vegas. It's what happens in Vegas. Don't tell anybody about what happens in Vegas. That's how it goes. Right. Sipping on the Mountain Dew. Love these cars. I said, I got to get into this. I want to sponsor the Mountain Dew car. There isn't one, but they have Sprite.

By the way, Mountain Dew would sponsor the Mountain Dew car. But I mean, I'm sorry. I misspoke. Yeah, it would be hard to co-sponsor it. Invest. Invest. There you go.

So they didn't have that, so I jumped on the Sprite car. I'm in the pit. I'm yelling at people. What's going on here? What do I do? They let you do that as an investor. Well, they did me once, and I'm out. So I spent a lot of time with the executives, which are always thinking about stuff to make the popularity of our car bigger. And what are your ideas of how to make the popularity? Catchphrases mostly for Sprite. Catchphrases for Sprite? For Sprite stuff. Make your car bigger.

It's more popular, I guess. Yeah, but yes. Because you want the car to be... Does the car have to be a regulation size? It's a regulation size. Can it be wider than... If I was Formula One racing, I'd make my car as wide as the track so no one could ever go around me. That's genius, actually. Again, you guys, that's exactly what I said to these people. What were some of the Sprite slogans you came up with? Oh, of course. Thank you, Jermaine. I feel like I didn't pull at that thread, and I appreciate you doing this. I got them at the top of the head. I'm not getting away from that at all. Okay, good.

I've got those locked in. You've got those locked and loaded, ready to go? I can tell you those. And you can do it starting now. Well, I do want to talk about the width of the car. You can't do that. Okay, yes, please. I'll tell you something that someone told me when I had this conversation. They said, the car has to be within the regulation size. Okay. And that stuck with me. So you've remembered that ever since? In my time of racing. So, all right, yeah. So I'll pitch them ideas, you know, Sprite.

Delight in Sprite. That's good. So we're going to put that on the side of the car. Okay. I mean, it's short enough to be on the side of a car. I think so. You know how like... Given the size of the font. Like a cop car would have to protect and serve on the side. How about to protect and swerve? Protect and slurp. I like that. You guys are good. We're pretty good. If there's one thing you want to do in your ad slogan is remind people of the cops. Yeah.

Sprite, there's cops. Look out behind you. Look out behind you. There's cops around. Some of them are undercover. Now, this probably wouldn't fit on the side of it. Probably not. We could shrink it way down. Who knows what they can fit on a car these days. And these days, it's all digital, so you just open up. You can pull it open on your phone, I guess. I guess so. So did you win any races, or how's the Sprite car doing? We're doing well. I think we're number one in the group.

Which group is this? The F1. Oh, the F1. Oh, okay. F1 traveling the touring series. I mean, I feel like you would know that if you were the number one in the group. I mean, you're not in it for the competition part of it. No, but I think we're doing well. We beat Ferrari. We met the Ferrari guys. Really? Yeah. We all went out to go see that movie, Ferrari. With the Ferrari guys? With the Ferrari guys. Can you imagine? Because it's pretty grim where they decapitate a lot of spectators and...

with their driving of a Ferrari inside, but they wanted to see it. They wanted to see it, and they got very quiet during that part. I can only imagine. Very quiet. In a way that's like... Were they pulling at their shirt collar? During that part, you just hear a lot of...

Please stop pulling at your collars. I'm trying to watch a racing. And this is over the racing sounds. You can hear it's that loud.

I said, who's starching your shirt? Got a big laugh. Everyone was back on track. There you go. So everyone in the theater knows what's going on. They're laughing. That's John for you. You got to cut the tension. Yeah, exactly. You got to cut the tension. Well, that's fantastic to hear what you're doing these days. Thanks. What are you doing?

Don't worry about me. I'm still doing Comedy Bang Bang. We'll talk off the air. 15th year. Is that so? Wow. That is true, yeah. Holy smokes. I remember the 10th year was just yesterday, it seems. Remember that song? Yesterday. Yesterday.

You didn't do that one. Yesterday. Yeah, that's not how it goes. You're right. Right. That was the first version. Oh, really? Yep. Tomorrow day. Tomorrow. Tomorrow day. Yeah. Tomorrow day. A week from now. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue. A week from now.

Last month. I love that tickles you, John. I love to be tickled. I love having fun time. Oh, I'm getting tickled right now. Hey! Ow! You karate chopped me. I'm sorry. I karate chopped you. Jeez. Have you been taking karate lately? What's going on? Tangentially. Oh, okay.

All right. We need to take a break. We said tangentially earlier. Are you kidding me? This happened to my Uber driver, too. What did he do? He said tangentially earlier. This is crazy. I feel like it's in the ether right now. What the hell is going on? Everyone's saying it.

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Comedy Bang Bang, we're back. Jermaine Fowler is here. First appearance on the show, hopefully not his last. Having a great time with you. Having a great time. This is great. And Ricky Stenicki in your living rooms now or computers or... Cell phones. Yeah, cell phones. Watching on cell

phone you don't give a shit right no i don't yeah watch one minute of it and turn it off you don't care right just yeah give me the viewership it's all like yeah watching it like eight times speed do you just need to click on a movie and that's a view i don't know you have to watch it no they they count how long you watch it oh no unfortunately then watch the whole movie please watch the whole movie yeah or look you don't care if like someone turns on their living room then goes and does their laundry while it's playing right i think they watch

They watch the people watching it? I think they have to watch it. Yeah. I've heard that. You can see people watching things now. Cameras are everywhere. CCTV. You got very scared there. I've got a Ricky Stinicki question. Yeah, John Lennon is here, by the way, with a Ricky Stinicki question for Jermaine. But if you're just tuning in, that's not the only reason. I don't know why you're tuning in at the end of this podcast instead of at the beginning. It's not like it's scheduled. Yeah, anyway, but go ahead with your Ricky Stinicki. It's up to you when you want to listen.

Listen, John Cena, big guy. Huge. Like, actually, when you see him, are you just like, this guy is too much? We covered this. I said too much. Right? Are you kidding me? I did. Were you listening to everything? I've sort of got a ear in everything. Cameras are everywhere. He might be Scott's height, but...

but just a little more bulky. But he's like as wide as he is tall, it seems like. He might be 6'2", you know, wide. Shoulders are, you know, wrists are brolic, you know. Do you get his email when you're done filming? Is he like, here's my email, stay in touch. We have a group chat. You have a group chat? That's so fun. Me, Zach, Andrew, and John. Oh my God, I'd love to be on that group chat. He's cool. Put me on that. Okay.

I got you, Scott. Talked about his body and all that stuff. Yeah, I'll talk about his body, how I think it's too much. I don't need to be on that, but Scott, send me screen grabs. Yeah, no problem. Will do. As appropriate. Yeah, yeah. We need to get to our next guest. Look, entrepreneurs, stars are back and entrepreneurs are back on Comedy Bang Bang for 2024. This is very exciting. He is, of course, the fourth richest man in the world. Please welcome to the show for the first time, Magnus Neutropy. Wow. Hi, Magnus.

Hello, Scott. There's a bit of a delay. I think you were saying hi. What can I do for you? Oh, yeah. Hi, Meg. Sorry. Magnus is here via satellite. Wonderful to have you on. It's great to have the fourth richest man in the world. That's an incredible achievement. And I mean, to be number four of anything is is great and wonderful to have you on the show.

Sorry, Scott, that's incorrect. I'm not the fourth. I don't know where you got your information, but no, as of right now, I'm probably higher. I'm probably... Depending on where you...

You put the investments on where I got the information from or. Yeah. So probably two. Probably. Oh, that delay is gone. Was that not working? Probably. I'm fussing. When you're that rich. I'm fussing with the knobs. When you're that rich, you can just get rid of delay. I'm fussing with the knobs. You probably own the satellite. Now I have you too far ahead.

Oh, okay. Oh, wait, you're hearing me. Now I'm hearing you. Now I'm getting ahead of you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Well, let me ask you. So you're up to three now or something like that? Probably two. Probably three. Where did you make all your money? Just tech.

I'm in tech. I'm in technical. I make apps. Like which apps? What are some of your favorite apps? I love Angry Birds. Yeah, Angry Birds. Did you make Angry Birds? That's fun. I had a hand in Angry Birds. What did you do for Angry Birds? I was the one that made them angry. Oh, it was just birds? Yeah, I put the angry...

And that's really kind of what put them on the map. And I'll do little tweaks like that. Tweets. Very good, Scott. Good. Well, that's, I mean, that's my favorite website, X. X.com. Your inspiration behind the Angry Birds, was it like from a personal kind of

you know, experience with birds that... Have you ever run into an angry bird or an especially irritated bird? I did, yes. I was hunted by birds. What? Crows are one of the smartest birds that is on the planet. Everyone knows this. Crows are very smart. They remember faces. I think crow do by taxes. Yeah.

Wow. I have to hold a pen. They can do it. This is true. If you leave out money for crows, they make a bank out of it. It's a very weird fact about crows. It's true. They get jealous. They get jealous. There's stories of crows or ravens attacking... Humans? No, other birds. Other birds. Other crows and ravens. There's stories of birds attacking other birds? Yes. That's why they call it a murder of crows. I guess so. I guess so. And I got my first dollars from crows. They're...

People leave money out for them and they will invest them. And I did get my first money to invest from the Crows themselves. Really? And then they wanted return in their investment, but I made the money. Yeah, and by the way, they're just Crows. What are they going to do, sue you? Yes. Sue you in Crow court? Yes.

That's almost like croquet. You ever play croquet? I love croquet. I love croquet. That's like a rich person's sport. I like to send the other balls. Yep. Wow. So in croquet, if you touch someone else's balls, you can choose to take another swing or you can send their ball. That's right. Yeah. Always send. Always send. Yeah. Always send. That's the fun part of croquet. Who's going to take another turn when you could tap someone else's ball? That's the fun, but that's the only fun part about croquet, I would argue.

And I think you'd win in court. Crow court. I think you'd win in crow court. Yes. And they have their own court system. Are we still on the delay? I can't quite tell. Well, now I think I'm back ahead of you. Okay. No, no, no. Oh, yeah, no, you are. Okay, no. Did you not ask yet? Okay, now I'm ahead of... Now, let me play with the knobs. I'm ahead. Okay, now you're ahead. Whose idea was it to make those... This is John Lennon, by the way. Okay. Right. Right.

Huge fan. You accepted that so readily. What can I do for you, Mr. Lennon? Who came up with... Why are the pigs so... Why are you making green pigs in that...

Angry Birds movie. I'm obsessed with Slimer. That was a sticky movie. Well, that doesn't do it for me. Slimy, aka Onionhead from the first Ghostbusters movie? That doesn't do it for me. I'm obsessed with Slimer. What are you obsessed with? The fact that he eats hot dogs? He's evil. Slimer is evil? We all laugh at Slimer. Jermaine, have you ever seen Ghostbusters? Yeah. He's evil.

You know Slimer, of course. Yeah, the slimy Slimer. Yeah, well, his name is Onion Head. His name is Oniony? Onion Head. He's nicknamed Slimer because that's what he's primarily known for. Okay, well, yes, he's demonic slimy.

He's demonic. He's demonic. I mean, that's part of the reason I'm in space is to get away from... Are you in space right now? I'm in space right now. Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know that. As an entrepreneur, you weren't nervous that maybe kind of borrowing an idea from Ghostbusters might get you in trouble with the creators at all? Yeah. Or at least the Ghostbusters themselves. I mean, I think it's inspired by truth. They get a ghost cult.

I mean, it's inspired by truth and the truth is available to all of us. I don't know what you mean by that. The Ghostbuster mythology is inspired. I mean, they're real demons. So like... They're real demons. You think the Ghostbusters... So you're saying... So let me follow what you're saying. You're saying the Ghostbusters, the people who wrote Ghostbusters have a copyright on demons. That's what you're saying? I would say... I'm just saying... I'm just saying... Slimers are out there.

I think if Slimer could be in other movies, then he would have a TV show right now. I think maybe Lucifer, that's uncopyrightable. That's public domain, but Slimer might not be. How about this for a movie idea? Lucifer. Although there is a show called Lucifer.

I think we just flew by a great idea here. Shit my Slimer says. Shit my Slimer says. This is good. Very scary show. Something. Very scary show. I had a sprite idea for you. Oh, good. Let's get back to sprite ideas. You have the sprite to remain silent.

I like that. Yes, so it incorporates the cops. Yes. I wouldn't mind getting a Slimer in there, too, because he's green. He's green. You have the sprite to remain Slimant. I like that. You have the sprite to remain Slimant. You have the sprite, and now he is Slimant. Yeah, sure. I like that. Okay, I feel like we're building the lily at this point. He would sign up. I mean, I think I'm behind you guys again. Yeah, right?

I'm just getting these Slimer ideas now. You're too far behind. Can you catch up? I'm so far behind. He would like it. Go on, fast forward. Okay, let me skip it. Oh, no, okay, you're back on. You heard that? Now I'm hearing ads.

You got to subscribe to the ad-free comedy, Bang Bang. You get that at CBB World. No, no, no. You hear the live episodes as we do them and you appear on them? No, no, no. Okay, tell me. So you're in space. What are you doing in space right now? Studying ghost. Ha ha!

Space ghosts? Wait a minute. Yes, of course. I mean, I'm studying. How many space ghosts could there possibly be? I mean, there's obviously. Well, there's no space ghosts, Scott. That's why I'm up here. There's ghosts down on the earth. You're studying ghosts from up above. Yes, otherwise they'll mess with your results. Have you ever seen the movie Ghosts? They're walking around amongst us. I mean, there were about three ghosts in that.

There was several. There was Patrick Swayze. There's that tall guy. There's the guy on the train. What about the ending that got really scary with the phantom, the black? See? Are those ghosts or are those specters? Well, we don't know and that's why we're studying it. He brings up a good point, Scott. What about the black scary ghost at the end? The

Are they phantoms? Are they ghosts? Are they phantoms? We don't know. Jermaine makes a good point. Yes, we're up here. What are they doing? What are they watching? Are they watching us use the bathroom? Are they perverted? Do you have any evidence of that?

That's what I'm up here, Scott. I'm getting the evidence. I'm getting the evidence. Now I think you're behind me. I mean, we do, of course. Don't stand for that, Scott. Of course, on Comedy Bang Bang, we coined the phrase, masturbation is, of course, putting on a show for the ghosts. Yes, and do we all want that? I don't.

I don't think so. I'm up here in space masturbating ghost free. And they cannot see. How many times are you masturbating up in space? In space? That stuff's not falling on us, is it?

No, it's in globules up here. I have to suck it up with a little vacuum cleaner. Is that why we have those comets and those meteors shooting over? Yeah, is that what shooting stars are? Is that what Pluto is? Yes, well, Pluto is a planetoid, and under the right light, it could just be a collection of spermazoas. Are you able to see any ghosts, or are you too far up? We have so many phenomenon that we're seeing that could be ghosts. What are you seeing?

There's so many specters and ghouls. I mean, this is why... So the specters and ghouls could be ghosts? The specters and ghouls... Right now, we're trying to decide exactly what is a specter, what is a ghost, what is a ghoul. How to classify all these. Are you seeing any UFOs or whatever they call them now? Space ghosts? No.

Speaking of which, another question I have about the legality of what you do. Yes, please. Are you afraid maybe Hanna-Barbera might sue you? Because of the space ghost. Yes, especially Barbera. The Barbera, the Hanna family, I'm on very good terms with. They are very, very good people. The Barbera people are very litigious. That's where we get the word barbaric. Yes, it is. Yes.

Yeah. And if you really want to, you know, get somebody good, you say you're being a real Barbera. And

And the movie Barbarian, I went to it thinking he was all about Scooby-Doo because of Hanna-Barbera. Same, same. Boy, I was in for a shock. We all got fooled, and I'm taking them to court. Great. Because there should be, I want them to digitally insert Scooby-Doo into that movie. Into the movie Barbarian. Yes. Put him in the basement. Just every scene, he's kind of walking around like a dog. Yeah.

Yeah. You could do it a lot with sound effects, too. It would release a lot of the tension because there's so much tension of like, oh, is someone in the house? Is someone down there? That's true, John Lennon. You could just do it all with sound effects. Right. It's not that hard. Not that hard. No. How would you do it just with sound effects? Just with sound effects. Maybe you have a sound effect like the dog's collar sort of tinkling through the...

Maybe get a shot of one of the actors looking at the ground. Like, oh, that's the dog. And then loop, like, hey, that's Scooby-Doo. Yeah. When he has his back turned or something. There goes Scooby. Zoinks. Not that hard, people. Zoinks, yeah. Zoinks. Put one of those in. Yeah, you gotta have a zoinks in there. Sure. You need a zoinks. Oh, you're caught back up. Okay, am I off? Am I with you all? Yeah, we got you. Okay.

That's good. Okay. So is that all you're doing in space or do you have other duties or responsibilities? Yeah, I mean, I have responsibilities. I'm a dad. In space? Are you a dad? I'm a dad. You brought your kid up there? My kids are all up here. How many people you got up there? Well, I've got four people. I've got animals. I've got, you know...

Whales are very intelligent beings. You have a whale up in space with you? I've got whales. This is a big rocket ship. This is less of a ship and more of an ark. That's true. What's your name again? My name is Magnus. Magnus is our ark.

No, no. Tropic. I thought it was new trophy. I put a line through. I'm sorry. You never corrected me. Maybe it was that delay. Yeah. OK. I didn't know if you said my name right or not. OK. New tropic. OK. So like tropic, no tropic either. I see. Yes. Now, was this did your rocket take off on take your family to work day? And it was just like, guys, you got to come with me. Got to come. And, you know, and then we have to.

you know, get the, get planned with the tutor. We have to get someone to watch our dog. Oh, good. So you don't have to inform the school that they'd be, you know, not in school. Yeah, exactly. Also, are you forwarding your mail to up in space? Yes. My mail comes up here, my physical mail. So now the postman has to get his own rocket ship that he goes back and forth? Yes. Now, wait a minute, who's paying for these rocket launches every day to get the American taxpayer? I'll tell you that. Yeah, that doesn't seem fair to me.

Wait, you don't pay taxes? I don't pay taxes, but I got friends. It's helping humanity. It's helping humanity. Ultimately, it is good. Is it disappointing when the guy comes all the way up from the Earth and it's just a bunch of junk mail and catalogs? Oh, God, it drives me crazy, and I'm trying to get it off. It's all like, especially in an election year. Oh, so much. How are they leaning up in space? Oh, up in space. Yeah, what are the poles up in space?

Like right now? Is it 50-50 still? Oh, right now. Right now? Okay, right now it's 50-50. Wow. It's like really tense, yes. So it's the four humans. Four humans, and then there's a lot of chatter. What about the ghosts? Where are the ghosts leaning? The ghosts, great question. That's a big part of what we're studying is who are the ghosts leaning.

And then it's also, you know, what is it just ghost in the United States? Is this ghost all around the world? Can ghosts vote for other ghosts? Like George Washington, I would feel like he would constantly win the election. Okay, I think you're coming through asking about George Washington. You answered it right away. Okay, okay.

Well, very good. Then everything's working. The knobs are set. I won't touch the knobs anymore. Don't touch the knobs. I won't touch the knobs. Fiddling with the knobs. It's hard. I know. You see a knob you want to fiddle with. It's hard. And then I get paranoid that maybe he has that already. It's very, very, very, very frustrating. But yes, the ghost, George Washington, we believe.

is in charge of the American ghost as of this recording. This stuff is very fluid, Scott. The commander-in-chief of ghosts. Magnus, I had a question. Yes, please. Yes, you're coming in great. Thank you, sir. Don't touch the knobs. Now, we have a fella by the name of John Lennon who just came back from the dead.

And I'm not convinced he's not a ghost. That was my question right there, Scott. Would you count him as a ghost? I was hoping you were going to connect that I was dead and he's doing ghosts. I hope that didn't get connected at all. But it did. Yeah, you were pulling at that collar. I heard that sound. I thought I heard something and that had me reaching for the knob. I said either my...

My wires are crossed or... Someone's starch is a little heavy. Yes, someone's going too heavy on the starch. Yeah. No, it's not a coincidence. Yes, I'm... But do you count him as a ghost? I mean, that's part of the reason I'm on the show right now, Scott. Yeah.

You know... You're trapping ghosts right now? I'm, you know, just investigating. I wouldn't say it's trapping. I'm not doing, like, you know, catch a predator. Okay, so do you have five simple questions that you would ask someone to see if they're a ghost? I do. I have five simple questions. It's, um...

Okay, should we just get into this? I guess if you're prepared, we can get into it right now. Yes, I'm ready. Are you going to ask me the questions? You're the presumed ghost. Okay, so I have no say in this. Great. Okay. It's like Blade Runner. Do we need your consent? Whatever you want to do. It's like Blade Runner, but ghost not. Railroad me here. Machines which are fake.

AI is fake. AI is fake and ghosts are real? AI is fake, ghosts are real. I don't know about that. It's true. How long have you been up there? I'm telling you, I'm serious. It's like nonsense. You think AI is real? Hold on, wait, I think you're lagging. There was a question about how long you've been up there. Oh, I've been up here. What is it? It is as of now. Yeah, no, as of now would be great, yeah.

If we could get those stats. As of three months ago. As of now, as of this recording, March 2024. Please, I beg of you, tell us how long you've been up there. Yes, it's been about a week. Good. Good. You settled in. As of a week ago, it would have been zero. You got there a week ago, man. It was a week. You've been up there a week. It's been seven Earth days. Earth days. Yes. Yes.

Pluto days would have been like barely anything. Yes. And if you're on that spermazoa collection out in space. Yes. So nothing. So how long are you going to be out there? I hate to ask two time-related questions back to back because of how long you took with the first one. Well, because time is relative, Scott. I don't know if you've heard that or experienced it. The timekeeper is, we've talked about that a lot. Okay, good. I'm in a different time zone. I'm in space. Yes.

okay yes all right it's freaky so i didn't know that sun is always up is that sbdt what is that sbdt i don't know quite what that is the time zone oh yeah are you on sbb i thought you were at bringing up sexual stuff oh no you'll make it bde is that going on up there yeah do you have bde up there

Big blank energy. Yeah, well, I sleep in a BED. I hope so. Do you just float around? Magnus got space dementia.

BDE. Ah, yes. Big Dick Energy. Big Dementia Energy. It's what runs the ship. That's what powers your ship? We have a funny sticker on the back of the ship that says, this ship runs on BDE. That's funny. How do you explain that to your children? That is funny. They're too young to get it. They don't know what it is? Yes. Okay.

They're very, very simple young kids. They're 14 and 15. Well, they're probably also just trying to make sense of what they're doing in space. Yeah, why daddy took us here. Why don't I leave with the mailman? Well, you know, why don't they...

I'm not going to bring that up. But you know how when William Shatner just went up to space recently? He went up with Jeff Bezos or whatever. Bezos, yes. His whole perspective on life changed. And has yours changed at all? Do you see things differently now? It's compounded my view. Really? Yes. And what is your view? My view? Like, specifically? Look, if you want to be general to just everyone's view, go ahead. But I'm talking to you.

I'd love to hear your personal view specifically, yes. Specifically for me, as far as my view on life? Yeah, that's exactly the question that I asked, yes. Every day's a gift. And you didn't think that before? I've heard of these people, they go up into space and they look down on a little planet, blue as it may be. Earth, usually. Right, the world. And you can see the whole thing and you're looking at it and you start to think to yourself, boy, maybe...

Maybe I am the only thing out here and I got to just focus on myself more. Yeah. You know what I mean? Be selfish. I've never crossed my mind. People see, yeah. Because I'm always, I never look at the planet. Wait, you haven't seen Earth the entire time you've been up there? No, like I look the other way. The windows aren't pointing at it? No, I look out.

You're looking more towards Mars. I'm looking, yes, which is far away, so I can't really see it. But I'm on Earth all the time. Do you not have any telescopes of that thing? Well, they're trained on ghosts. So you're not looking at the large view of Earth. You're training the telescopes. Yeah, they're on different things, the telescopes and the microscopes. Which ghosts are you watching right now? Right now, we're watching... Yeah, right now.

It seems to me as if you're stalling. I think you're behind. No, you're behind and you're just stalling for time. Scott, you're behind.

Okay, the ghosts we're most interested in now, right of now, are the Pillsbury family. Doughboy, he's not a ghost. He's white, like a ghost. No, he's real. He's a ghost. No, I didn't say he wasn't real. Okay, the Pillsbury Doughboy. Put aside whether he's real or not. Now, I don't think he's real, the Pillsbury Doughboy. Okay, he's real, he's not real. Who cares? He's not a ghost. Okay. He just looks like one, but you can poke him and he goes, hee hee.

All right, you pass. You're not a ghost, Scott. That's the test? Those are the five questions. You're investigating the creators of the Pillsbury? That's correct. Like the family? The Pillsbury family. Okay, not the actual doughy entity. They might be ghosts by now. But it's very confusing because they all look exactly like the Pillsbury Doughboy. They made the Pillsbury Doughboy in their own image? They look, they're all, they're very...

doughy pal people. Mrs. Pilbury, the Pillsbury Doughboy, took out his rib and created her out of that. It's bizarre, I mean, what people are attracted to. The two doughy, dough-like people met and mated. I know. Maybe it's just the best they could do, they thought. Because I'm sure the Pillsbury Doughboy, he's like, ooh, Heidi Klum. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-wah-wee-wah. Oh, I can't land someone like her? All right, I'll settle for Mrs. Pillsbury. Ha ha ha!

Okay, I'm just getting the wah-wah-wee-wah now, Scott. Okay, all right. We don't have time. We're running out of time. I'm so sorry. I thought you had questions for Johnny Lynn. Questions for Lennon? Sure. That was a podcast. I still do it. It was, yeah. We don't have time for your five questions, which I don't even think you know anyway. Sloppy goes Patreon. Get involved.

We are running out of time, but you did that right before the plugs, by the way, and so I'm going to have to dock you points. I've got so many points on this show. Oh, wait, you're ahead on the satellite? He's ahead on the satellite. Okay. Whoops, this is plugs. We're guests trying to figure out how to plug their projects while remaining true to the characters.

It's a careful dance You wanna promote without bailing on your character Just say you're also an agent and you represent your real self Plugs, plugs, p-p-p-plugs, plugs, plugs, plugs, p-p-p-p-plugs, p-p-p-plugs

Yeah, that was Just Say You're Your Own Agent by Max Lichtig. Sorry I triggered that early, but thanks, Max, for that plugs theme. That was great. John, as a songwriter, what did you think about that? Ten out of ten. Ten out of ten? That's high. One of the great ones. I'm surprised that's not on the radio right now. Better than any of your songs? Well, everything off of Beatles won.

Those are good. Those are good. Those are the types. Right. If you have a plugs theme you want to send us, head over to cbbworld.com slash plugs and upload it, and you can be heard on the weekend. Max Lichtig, you are famous for a week. And Jermaine, what did we plug in here? Obviously, Ricky Stenicki is on Amazon Prime right now.

Wow. That's it. Did I take your plug? No. I'm sorry. I mean, I'm sure that's what Amazon want me to plug. But what else do you have going on? What are you proud of? Oh, forget about Amazon. What do you want to plug? Yeah, forget about Jeff Bezos. He's flying around with Shatner. My daughter's doing really good in school right now. Oh, good. I want to plug my daughter to Bay. She's doing a great job in school. I'm very proud of her. Amazing. What are her grades like? She has been excelling in her reading, which has been kind of like a thing that we've been trying to really... John did that for four years. I think.

you john thank you thank you very inspirational and her math is killing it right she's really good what's great she's in first first grade amazing first full day of school good plug yeah dude yeah i like you seating your plugs to your daughter's education i appreciate she deserves it all right wonderful john what do you want well i'm gonna plug my beautiful son he just won an oscar you barely know his name

Love that boy, that beautiful, beautiful boy. You did write it about him. Sure. But I also want to plug this comedian, Mike Hadford, you've heard about. He's going to be in Chicago on April 13th and 14th doing an hour of stand-up.

They'll go check that out. Tickets are available at the Lincoln Lodge. Go to LincolnLodge.com. That sounds awesome. And find tickets. He and Jermaine should do a dual show one of these days. I would love that. That would be great. I love Shotown, man. That's a great theater. All those Chicago people love comedy. A great audience. I've played there before. Good job, man. I mean, good job. Well, of course, the Beatles played there. We played there. Well, not the Lincoln Lodge. Shea Stadium is where you played, by the way. Shea Stadium in New York. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You didn't play Chicago. Well, we did do an exhibition game with the Cubs. Oh, yeah.

Wait, the Beatles versus the Cubs? The Beatles were on the Cubs. We played in the White Sox. They were in that shuffle thing. Oh, yeah. Well, you did the shuffle. That's right. Well, that was it. Wait, all the Beatles were part of the shuffle? Who the hell was part of that? That was me, Paul, George, and Ringo. Yeah, the entirety of the Beatles. The whole group was there. Not Stu.

Stu Sutcliffe. Wow, we haven't talked to him in years. But the big thing that I want to put in everyone's brain is April 13th and 14th at the Lincoln Lodge at Mike Hanford on a full hour. Yeah. So just three and four days after wet day.

which is of course April 10th wet day wet day yeah it's our new holiday that we created here on the show what happens wet day oh we're celebrating that very soon it's very exciting what happens yeah sure I could take you through the whole history of wet day but you're just gonna have to listen to our yearly episodes let's do it on the oh you're saying wet day wet day yeah wet day oh wet day would be a good one too

You want to create a holiday? What day? What day? What day do you want to do? If ever you wake up and you're like, what day is it? That's a holiday. That's what day. You call into work, say, it's what day? We did it, Scott. We just did that. I like it. It's a good song. I'm getting the song now. You are really far behind. I'm getting the song.

Magnus, the song is very fun. Magnus, what do you want to plug here? Try to catch up. Okay, let me... I'm sorry, I did touch... Confession time, I touched the knobs. We know you touched the knobs. Confession time. I've been... I've been...

Listening to this podcast, the Action Boys podcast. Oh, I've heard this. And it really titillates me. I wouldn't say that it had that effect on me when I listened to it. Very titillating podcast. I was entertained, certainly, but titillated. Yes, I'm titillated. What types of things do they talk about? They talk about mostly movies...

I would say 100% of it is movies. Yes. Well, the conversations, you'd be surprised. Tangent? Yeah, tangential. Many, many tangents. Difficult industry, the movie industry. It is very even harder than a space exploration. So I've been listening to that. I'll use my plug. Where can people get that? They can get that on patreon.com.

forward slash action boys with a Z. Okay, all right. Very good. I want to plug, look, we have great shows over at cbbworld.com right now. We're doing episodes of CBB Presents, which is people from this show have their own shows. We did the Timekeeper special. We did Alimony Tony's Valimony Shoney. You have Randy Snuts does a bi-weekly podcast called Hey Randy.

We also have Scott Hasn't Seen, where we watch movies that I haven't seen, along with Sprague the Whisperer. We have The Neighborhood Listen. We have College Town. We have ad-free episodes of This and Freedom. So much going on over there, over at cbbworld.com. Head over there, and if you subscribe for a year, you can do it monthly, but if you subscribe for a year, you can get two of those months free, which is always great. We also have Wet Day merchandise in the store right now. You can get a Wet Day swimsuit. You can get a Wet Day towel to dry.

to towel yourself off and become dry so you can get wet again. Wow. Uh, head over to pod swag, uh, dot com and you can get some of the wet day, uh, merchandise. Wet day is just right around the corner, guys. I mean, it is so close. April 10th coming up. Uh, also Haley Joel Osmond's birthday. So that's, uh, we'll celebrate both of those on the same day. It's also Haley Joel Os, oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. I said that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, so head over to cbbworld.com and, uh, you can get those. And I think, uh,

We might have action figures still on sale. I'm not quite sure. And the CBB book is out there. Comedy Bang Bang book. You can still get. All right, let's close up the old plug bag. Ben, I have to talk to you about something. What's wrong? For the past 10 years, you have messed up the song. What are you talking about? How? This is a closing the plug bag song. Yes, so the bag is going to be closing. And every year you sing a song for opening the plug bag. That can't be true. Hello. T. L. O.

S. E. Close. What's in there? Okay, thank you. That was Rodeo Remix by Chris Finke. Thanks so much to Chris. Thank you so much for that. And guys, I want to thank you so much, Jermaine. It's a pleasure to meet you. Yeah, you too. Big fan. Come back, please. I had a great time doing this with you and a great guest. I would love to. And continued success with Ricky Stenicki. Thank you. And I hope you never audition again.

Thank you, man. I appreciate that. And John, I hope you never audition again. I don't need to audition because I don't get into the movies. That's right. And hey, Magnus, I hope you never audition again either. I'll give it to all three of you. I appreciate that. I'm getting, we're closing the plug bag right now. What do you appreciate if you're that far behind? All right, look, that's it for us. We're going to see you next week. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Peace. Bye.

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