Bob Odenkirk and Bruce McCulloch

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on Humor, me.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am the grown man who was once the young
man who became a meme on the internet called.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Kazoo Kid.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Despite a lot of people recognizing eight year old me,
nobody recognizes adult met And that's my problem.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You know, people love alternate universe shows, right those are
very big. Right now, there's an alternate universe show where
you guys are incredibly popular.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Like you're superstars.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, and they could travel up the land. I'm doing
meet and greets and solving crimes.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
No like, Well, tell us a little bit about how
we got there.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Great question, that's an excellent question.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
This is a blue screen show.

Speaker 7 (00:46):
Okay, we don't need actors, we don't need voices, we
don't need scripts. Okay, I like I fill in the blanks,
but in fact, okay, I'm not watching. I want you
to fall asleep tonight. I don't want you to have
any dreams. I just want you to have a smile
on your fucking face, knowing that in the morning you're

(01:09):
gonna tell your boss I get a show, you.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Fucking asshole, and you're gonna swear in his face.

Speaker 8 (01:16):
I'm not a speech.

Speaker 9 (01:17):
You don't make a time any of you. I don't
know what to say, what to do? You of me,
I'm not funny?

Speaker 10 (01:27):
Him of me?

Speaker 9 (01:32):
You doing?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Thank you? I really want to thank you all for
coming tonight to the Sketch Best Show. I realize you
have many other entertainment options in this town, especially tonight.
I mean a lot of you could have gone to
the Milania movie, but you chose not to, and that

(01:59):
really means a lot to me. So that he held back. Man,
I'm not above doing impressions. My two guests are, but
I'm not above it. This is great. It's a little
off putting for me actually seeing an audience when I
perform here, because I've been here numerous times, but it's

(02:21):
always been behind a puppet stage. Uh. I was just
here two years ago at the Castro. Did anybody see
Compoop with me? Okay, a fair amount of you saw it,
and I'm sure some of you might be a little
disappointed Triumphs not performing here.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Fuck you people, I'm so much more than just that.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, okay, maybe not so much more. But now it's fine.
You know what, I don't. You don't have to feel
bad for me. It's it's too late. Don't don't ten
we'll do it. We'll do a little truma. Wait, you've
got to earn it. I want to hear a chant.

(03:12):
We want triumph as opposed to rob Ert. We want
let's hear. Okay, be right back, keep it going almost

(03:34):
one morning.

Speaker 9 (03:41):
Yes, all right.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Make some noise on Francisco.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Let's go. All right, welcome to sketch fast.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Now wait, I realize ladies and gentlemen doesn't cover the
entire spectrum of gender identities here tonight.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
But we only have the theater for two hours, so relaxed.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
All these jokes have been cleared by Dave Chappelle, So
we're good.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're totally good. No, no, I kid, I kid. We're
in progressive.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
San Francisco, and let me state right here that I
will not tolerate hate speech. Thank you. I am going
to try to not make jokes about any of the
ethnic groups you all priced out of this town. I kid,
I kid, I love San Francisco. Some of the greatest

(04:48):
authors of fiction come from the Bay Area. Mark Twain,
Jack London, Elizabeth Holmes. Yes, but it's inspiring to see
a fest that will line up with this much diversity
honestly from comics. I don't give a shit about to comics,
No one gives a shit about footomph, it's a rainbow

(05:10):
of suck. But tonight, tonight, we have a very special
show for you. Tonight we have three comics on the stage, three.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Comics that people all used to give.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
A shit about. Let's bring them out first. You loved
him and kids in the hall, Now now enjoy him
and kids in the hall. Bruce mcalla right down in

(05:48):
the middle of my friend. Look at Bruce. My god,
you're so well preserved. Check who's kidding who? You're aging
worse of the Cosby Show. No, he's doing great. You're
still technically in show business. Yes, yeah, right, dabble yeah

(06:10):
yeah right. And I'm still in the French bulldog that
I fucked last night. All right. Next, his iconic series,
Mister Show, was so popular that he quit comedy.

Speaker 11 (06:24):
Here is Bobbo, then Turk. There he goes. Have us
said my friend?

Speaker 6 (06:40):
My god, thank you?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Look at him?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yes, look at me.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, he actually looks great.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
H he's aged the best. Uh, mostly because he's the
only one of us who can afford makeup.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, he's great.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
He's an action hero. It's the new thing. It's the
new thing. You're doing it. I think Jeff Garland's going
to be an a yeah. Now, but I tell you what, Bob, Seriously,
you were smart. You got out of comedy at the
right time. It's too fucking dangerous now. Now, honestly, why

(07:16):
did you leave comedy? Was it for breaking bad or
did you just run out of meta sketches? You hard me.
First it's a living room scenes, and then it turns
into a horse race, and then it turns out of.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
A good part of mister show.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Now, if you give me an hour and a half,
I'll tell you what was good about mister.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Mister Show was great. These these are jokes. He really
is out of comedy.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
My god. All right, folks, you deserve a great show.
Let's bring it on. Let's make it happen right now. Oh,
I have one more person to introduce.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Here is an Albert smile.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
All right, oh ship, all right, I'm I'm so sorry
about that song. And I just don't know how that happed. Well,
these blame them. Did you hear what they were chanting?

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yes, yes, I heard.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's how badly in the way, that's how badly they
didn't want me. Okay, have my notes for the show.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Great stage craft, Robert, I.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Don't worry. Story all this will be cut out. Yeah, yeah,
it's like the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, the whole show will be cut out.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yes, they'll be airing mash.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I hope it's a good one.

Speaker 12 (08:55):
Can we get a roadie who's also a volunteer.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, here we go. We've been on stage together once before.
We did a song together. We were It was a
concert that featured Jeanine Garoffalo, the Kids in the Hall,
Mister Show, and Triumph. It was called Clash of the
Titans in Los Angeles and for triumphs act, I asked
these two guys to sing a song with me. It

(09:22):
was from the Come Poop with Me album. It's called
you Have to Work Blue. It was I had I
wanted these guys to play cranky old comics like Triumph,
and I had Bruce play cabbage Head and Triumph and
and Bob was gonna do it, but then.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
He backed out at first.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So but anyway, the song was like cranky, cranky old
comics and like, you know, yeah, have to work Blue Blue.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's what you do. Throw them a ship and a
piss and a boo.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
And we're blue blue and then uh and then we
would stop the song and do little bits like, uh, hey, doctor,
every time I drink coffee, my eye hurts. And then
Bruce would say.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Stop sucking your father's cop.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Then we go back into the song, and it was
all about us, you know, bemoaning the old days of
comedy and not understanding this new stuff. So Bob didn't
want to sing it with it because he got a
better idea. He was like, let me come out as
an impressionist. And I was like, okay. So we introduced
him as an old timey impression This is the best

(10:27):
impressionist ever. And I's like, this fucking new kid, rich
little And so Bob comes out. We're all dressed like
old time comedians, and he comes out and he says
he's gonna do Franklin Roosevelt. You know, Bob doesn't want
to recreate it because he doesn't even remember this, but he's.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Like, I'm Franklin delanor Roosevelt.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
And then he literally out of his coat, he pulls
out a dildo, and then he pulls something. He reaches
into his pants in the back and pulls out something
that looks like shit, smears his face with the ship
and starts nodding to Dill.

Speaker 9 (11:08):
The Bob Franklin, Rosa.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Franklin and of course Triumphant cabbage Head are like, that's impressions.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's an impression.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
And the best part is that this was all for
a charity event. There was a charity benevent and yeah,
actually people may know I have an autistic son. This
was only a few years after and Bob set up
an entire fundraiser for me and really meant a lot,

(11:47):
great fun. And Bob is you know, he's one of
my oldest, h oldest and greatest friends. And I just,
you know, welcome on man. When you when you had
your heart attack, not to bring the audience, but when
you had your heart attack.

Speaker 12 (12:01):
Which one he's had?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Five?

Speaker 13 (12:03):
No?

Speaker 12 (12:03):
No, the first one that was one, My favorite was
the third.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
But going now, the first one was the only one
that you know, after that, it was like, come on, Bob.
But when you had that first heart attack and you
were in the hospital, I didn't jerk off for two days.
I don't know if I've ever told you.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
That the sacrifices we make, well, it's friendship is important.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
This isn't a charity event, right, Okay, good, okay. Now,
so these guys I met them both in the eighties,
and Bruce worked with me at SNL the first year
we got there was nineteen eighty five. We were both
apprentice writers, and both of these guys had a big
influence on me. And I wanted to ask them about

(12:56):
this because they both when I met them, they seemed
like fully formed in their sensibilities and and and they
wrote amazing stuff. The kids in the hall was like
on fire even back then. And yeah, so I wanted
to ask you guys, like when did you know? Because

(13:18):
I had only been at it for a couple of years,
and when I got to Saturday Night Live, I just
was like so in love with that show that I
just all I was trying to do was figure out
how to fit in, how to make them happy. These
guys didn't have that reverence and they just had their
own sensibilities.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Now, I was determined to end Saturday Night you were
you were, you were, you were you were.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
I was thankful to get to work there, But at first,
it's nice that you give us, give the compliment.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
I don't know how you feel about it, Bruce, but
I certainly don't feel that I knew what the hell
I was doing, or that I still do.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I know, I yeah, it's it's kind that you say that.
All I remember, and Scott Thompson will point this out,
is I just gained like twenty pounds on the show
because I'm so fucking unhappy, and but nobody like got
my stuff. Actually, George Meyer many years later says, I
get it now when he saw the kids in the hall, well.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, we all saw kids in the hall performance, yes,
and then George Meyer was like icye well, perfectly performed.

Speaker 10 (14:19):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
But although Dennis Miller turned to somebody beside him when
he saw us and said, McCullough is never going to
make a buck in this business, and he was partially right.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Made seven bucks.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah, yeah, well Canadian money is not worth.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
There was back then. It was exchange Approbram. The exchange
was way better.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
But the thing that I remember and I loved about
working with Schmigel is, you know, Schmiegel.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Always always smiggle. It's always been Schmigel by the way.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Yeah, yeah, he loves his own ideas so much, so
he would he would do and it was just like
the and then he does it and it's like he
doesn't even look at you, but he just laughs. And
then and we'd be writing late at night and he
would be on.

Speaker 12 (15:03):
The phone pitching something to someone.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Were in the middle of writing a sketch, and it's
like he's almost baby talk, and I think he's probably
pitching the sketch to his girlfriend. And it turns out
he was talking to his mother. No, yes, yeah, you'd
always pitched this.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
It was my first year away from home. That's really true.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
It was mess absolutely true.

Speaker 12 (15:32):
It's actually the only thing I remember about.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
You, Bruce, was like these I was a complete geek.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I really was like, these guys were cool, Mark McKinney
and Bruce. They were like current. And I had a
jewfro from nineteen seventy eight and I couldn't get rid of,
couldn't wouldn't get rid of. These guys had figured out
by the mid eighties to shave the sides of their
head and all that. And I wore like a down
jack and they wore pea coats, and I don't know,

(16:02):
everybody loved them, and I was just like, at a
certain point, I was like, fuck it, I'm just gonna
be judged on what I write, and I just went
for that, and well.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
They worked out.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
He wrote the best things on Saturday. Well it worked
out creative fifteen years. I mean, you know, someday we'll
do the Robert Smigel documentary, but everyone will finally understand.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's fine.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Uh, that's uh.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
The show, Okay, all right.

Speaker 12 (16:33):
I remember once that I wrot.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
And I really mean that. I said it like it
was a joke, but it wasn't a joke.

Speaker 12 (16:40):
It was also a joke.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Robert and I wrote like sometimes I wouldn't get stuff
in for months at a time, and uh, we we
wrote an update joke together, and uh it got on
and uh, I said, we wrote that joke.

Speaker 12 (16:55):
He say, oh, it takes two men to write a joke.
Now we're never.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
And then he had and then he ate a golden egg.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Jen Hook's egg.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh my god, I can't get through a show without
imitating Laurie. Well, do you guys feel like we've established
a report?

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Yeah, it's all good, Okay.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Good, we'll get into the show, but actually we want
to acknowledge how sad we are to have lost Katherine O'Hara,
what of our heroes?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, absolute Heroes.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
One of the greatest sketch performers I've ever seen, you know,
I remember her from the original SETV and just being
amazed at how she just disappeared into characters. You know,
some people they're always the same person, and that's great
in their own way. But Catherine O'Hara was like a
walking miracle.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
And yeah, yeah, always funny, go ahead, I mean, just
how funny she was, Like it's it's.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
Crazy, it's crazy.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
She just hit new highs every time, and then also
could do drama or anything.

Speaker 12 (18:05):
Really you may or may not know.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I directed Chit's Creek for a season, thank you, and
like the funniest person. And it's like she would come
to set and I'd say, don't run lines, Eugene, don't
make her run lines. We just shoot her. And the
first time she did it, it was the best. And like,
there's a lot of sadness today, but I think what
people aren't bringing up today is that she could drink

(18:30):
like a fucking sailor, and I think we need to
acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Very nice. Okay, ended on a good note there.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Robert told me to do a joke after you know,
the premise of the show now you're gonna hear our guest.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Hey, Robert, my name's Brett Ambler, and I am the
grown man who was once the young man who became
a meme on the internet called the Kazoo Kid. He goes,
wait a minute, who offer you. I've been an actor
since I was eight years old, and despite a lot
of people recognizing eight year old me, nobody recognizes adult me.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
And that's that's that's my problem.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
So if you can help me solve that, I'd be
absolutely delighted.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
That's that's pretty much the whole situation.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I'm a meme and I'm just not famous enough as
an adult.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
So what's the planned Cheers and thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Let's bring him out Brett Ambler. Everybody, all right, what
good to have you? Thank you, breath, Thanks so much.
Brett's here, Brett. You want to tell us? Just give
the people a little bit of background. You this was
a show or was it a video?

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, it was a video.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Is a thirty minute play along sing along video that
came with a kazoo shrink wrap to the side of
the box.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
To annoy that crap out of the parents. When it
was sold in mom and pop toy stores. And it
outsold Teddy Rooksman beat Teddy Rouxman for an edge. Yes,
take that, that's right.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
And then it's It kind of faded into obscurity until
twenty sixteen when somebody uploaded it onto YouTube and it
became a meme.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
So let's watch a little bit of it.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Let's just give you a taste of what this is.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I used to be really adorable, bracer. Well, you'd be
a judgment.

Speaker 10 (20:39):
Don't run, jump or dance while playing the kazoo.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Wouch oh hi.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Wait many who are you?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know? But I think we're going to be friends.
And when I'm with friends, I like.

Speaker 14 (21:04):
To have flying flying flying fly fly flye fine, fine one.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
I like to see dance.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Pretty a.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
C there he is. Wow, Wow, it's pretty glorious. Wow,
so Brett, I mean that was something. I'm just glad.

(21:36):
I just want to say, I'm glad we're in San Francisco,
a compassionate city, understanding city. I'm just like because if
this were like Boston Sketch Fest, I feel like, you know,
they would have bum rushed the stage and beaten you
to a pulp.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I mean, if this was Hartford's Sketch Fast and everybody
there as you know where it's tube socks.

Speaker 12 (22:01):
They would fucking kill him.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
They would kill him before they killed him though, they
would drag him out of the building correction.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
They would time to the car with a rope and
some birch bark has Hartford so fucking backward.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Boston, Boston. They would have driven.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
It would have been driven straight into Boston Harbor and it.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Would have shi kazoos up your ass.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yes, wouldn't be the first time, Bob it happened. They
would have.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I didn't hear you.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Wouldn't be the first time.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Wouldn't be the first time.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Okay, Well, I just think you know, the second.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
You died in Boston Harbor and you would have met
the ghost of White Bulger.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
And he would have he would have shoved the ghost.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Of a kazoo up your So listen, you want to
be famous.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Again, I wouldn't mind. Yeah, that sounds good.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
But I'm a little confused because you became famous because
like not when you were young as much as like
when this meme happened, Like my teenage boys knew about you.
I didn't know about you, and and but I want
to know when this came out. You know, back in
the eighties. Were you famous then? I mean, did did
Michael Jackson call you?

Speaker 3 (23:16):
He faxed me.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
He faxed you.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
The days I miss faxes from pedophiles.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
And it was it was rude. He it was so
much more civil.

Speaker 12 (23:30):
No, he said, boy, you up?

Speaker 3 (23:36):
So you never got to see Neverland?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
I mean, what was this for?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
No, I know that's I mean, that's why I made it.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
And alcohol.

Speaker 15 (23:42):
You were never plied, no, no plying, no playing.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Nobody offered me free drugs.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well, you've been trying to capitalize on your fame lately.
I think we have a picture of you on Instagram.
There we go. So you've definitely been trying to capitalize
on your fame. And I guess this somehow it hasn't
taken in weird But here's the irony, because you know,
we could be making fun of him. But I swear
to god, I did some research and he's actually incredibly talented.

(24:12):
You play a ton of instruments, yea am I right?
And you're in a band you got to show tomorrow
back in Denver.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yes, with Benthamhouse, and you're playing upright bass.

Speaker 12 (24:21):
Yes, you know, Bruce is a bass play yes, I
am a bass player.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Ye would you like would.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
You like to take a couple of minutes for some
bass talk?

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Well, I you know I have a Hoffner bass, which
is a beatle bass to him?

Speaker 12 (24:33):
Do you know what a beatle bass is?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
No?

Speaker 12 (24:35):
I don't like the one that Paul McCartney.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
I've heard of him.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, and my drunk now dad, a salesman father bought
it and it's the only thing he left me that's beautiful.
Oh and his work gloves. And it's work gloves, which
do you treasure more? I play the bass with the
work gloves. It gives it a real bottomy, nice sound.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I played it up right, beya? Is I have no idea?
What r and my upright? Like an excellent singer?

Speaker 16 (25:02):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I mean he.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Has been in musical theater in Denver.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Tons the real musical theater gets.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Reviewed in the Denver Post. You did.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
You had huge parts in this?

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Is this is going to be easy?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Then? Yeah? A lot so good?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
You haven't so far, I haven't heard anything about you
know where you've taken the kazoo. Well, but because it
feels like you abandoned that instrument, you lost interest.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
You picked something easier like the bass.

Speaker 15 (25:28):
He tried, you gave up, but Bob, I would be differ. Bob,
you brought one, No, I brought three, of course. So
so he tried to incorporate the.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Kazoo into the musicals he did from and yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, Natasha Pierre and the Great Big Horror Right, Oh
you saw it probably Natasha Pierre and the Great Big Horrible,
No good, very bad day.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
You saw it in Denver? Okay, thanks for Cokay, do
you have a microphone?

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Jesus?

Speaker 3 (26:08):
I mean that's I wish I could project like that.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, So you also performed at Bush Gardens.

Speaker 10 (26:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
One of my first gigs out of college was was
performing at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
And it was like at the German plug Dots fest
House fest House. Yes, so you were in later Hosen
and oh yeah, you're an excellent yodeler as well.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
I did. I did figure out how to yodel for
that show. Yes, okay, So we.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Have a lot of talents we can draw from. You
want to give us a little yodeling please?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Oh yeah, I'm.

Speaker 17 (26:47):
Lady lady lady up day, Lady lady lady.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Keep going.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Okay, So we have we have, uh money.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
I see a one man banned thing. Let's go now,
but sci fi, he's been duplicated. One of you Yodel's
one plays bass. Of course, the kazoo man is the
captain of the ship. Yes, slow down, it's a ship
in space. It's shaped like a banjo.

Speaker 13 (27:28):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
But it's not a joke. It's not a big laugh.
It's not it's sarcaslic it's.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
The real it's just the ship looks.

Speaker 7 (27:35):
It's it's just it's an accident of engineering. It turns
out banjo's are actually better for space travel than they
are for music.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
That makes that makes oddly a lot whatever.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
Relieve that aside, because we can build that mythos on
our own. We'll have plenty of time, most a separate
writer's room just for that.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:56):
But man is just to get the basic point, is
this the one is this? You've obviously got multiple skills,
so you're the whole crew. Great, So we're gonna have
to We're gonna have to AIU or something. Do the
blue screen with the tennis, the little little pig punk
balls on your head.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, Polar express you. We're gonna Polar.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Exposer express you and there's gonna be a show where you.
It's called One Man Band, One Man, One Man Banned Joe,
One Man Bitch.

Speaker 12 (28:29):
It's nineteen thirty two. Oh good, go ahead the Depression.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Okay go One Man is going to change everything and
bring back a terrible town that has nothing going for it.
This is a man who plays the upright Kazoo. He
travels from town to down with his cashoe on his back.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
He rides the rails. He meets hobos.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
No one likes, they talk about stuff, wants him to
get away from them.

Speaker 12 (28:56):
Yes, get away from the himp.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
But then he finds one Town.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
New York City, San Francisco, San Francisco, Hi, where they
like things a little unique, a little different, a little special, right,
and so yeah, well he knows he's gonna fit in
there when he arrives in the morning and they're eating dinner.

Speaker 7 (29:18):
This is a TV show or a movie. It's just
a TV show or a movie or TikTok video.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's an audiobook.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Web help me out, help me out. What are we
seeing here?

Speaker 12 (29:31):
I think it's a two part mini series.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
I just want to see you do you can do?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Just throw all the special skills at the wall.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, I just want to see somebody who can do everything.
And I think one man band is a term people god.
And it's going to feel new again. And I think
banja or rather kazoos are gonna feel fresh again too.
When you come out with the kazoo, it's gonna feel
like what was said thing and it's gonna be like
a steampunk thing.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
You remember that.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
It's gonna be like, oh, remember steampunkers, So that's gonna
also be nostalgia there, so it could be good. How
many there were like fifteen steampunk people in America, so
we'll get all of them.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
I think it's doctor Kazoo and he saves people's lives
or the kazoo. There's a certain way I was thinking
when he's going to put it in their mouths and
it's like a new thing for their throats and their
respiratory system. And it's so beautiful that we walk through
and all these sick children and elderly people they've got
kazoos and they're here in the hospital, and damn.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
It is anyone taking this down.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
I like this, and it's.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Next to Sometimes he goes to the nudest hospital because we.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Need a little of that game.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Of course, of course, you know, I don't know. I'm
a little more bullish on you know, going full kazoo
than you guys. Like I think, like what if Brett
is like, you know, transported, Like every time he plays
the kazoo, he's modern day bread. Every time he plays
the kazoo, he's transported back to nineteen eighty nine when

(31:05):
he was a kid.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
And we use this footage.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
We use this footage and he looks at himself and
he but he looks at the world too, and he
realizes that he can undo all the tragedies that have
happened since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
With his kazoo.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
He can rewind time.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
And here's the catch, though, the only way that he
can remain in the past is by playing the kazoo
every fifteen seconds.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
And so if he falls asleep, he goes forward in
time again.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yes, he can't fall asleep, or he can take.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
The ultimate cat nap fourteen second naps.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, but like so you're trying to undo the Iraq
War or something like that. And this is the challenge
because he means well and he has all the knowledge
of the future, but he has to play the kazoo
every fifteen seconds, so nobody wants to listen.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
To the knowledge he has to impart.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
It's does he gripping?

Speaker 3 (32:05):
It's tragic, it's everything.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
Does he meet? Does he meet his younger self?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
He sees his younger self, but he can't communicate with
his younger self unless they.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Both play the kazoo and then we can team up.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Do they do that?

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I don't think anybody wants to see that kid anymore?

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Do they?

Speaker 7 (32:23):
I got a question? Do they talk through the kazoo
or do they just play it and talk?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
No, he plays it and talks.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay, I'm telling you, the Berlin Wall has to come down,
you know, you know, and it just goes on. This
is gonna go many seasons. He's gonna try to halt
nine to eleven.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
But because what we don't have right now is a
personal story. And I think he can fix his parents'
failed marriage by serenading them with the kazoo. And that
can be loving, it can be erotic, Like we have.

Speaker 12 (32:55):
All kinds of choice. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
If I presume we're pitching to streamers, they might like
a little bit of.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
That stuff going cliffhangers every episode Cliffhangers.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, I mean you said parents and you said erotic.
I'm sold.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Anybody in the audience have any thoughts?

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Anybody what hello?

Speaker 12 (33:15):
Hi, Hi, Hi?

Speaker 18 (33:18):
That Uh Dave Foley and Scott Thompson.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Wow, I know you guys. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (33:25):
And obviously for legal reasons, I can't disclose which is which.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
I understood no problems now.

Speaker 18 (33:32):
My my first thought when I when I hear this
is I'm thinking, which of which of his two major skills, uh,
kazooing or yodeling best best prepares him for a really
successful career in in gay porn.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
And uh, that's a big right now.

Speaker 18 (33:52):
And they both of both of them are very good
and if and my other question answers kazuoing, yeah, the other.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Is there any way we could bring the houselight so
we could see Dave a little better.

Speaker 18 (34:05):
And a Scott And of course I don't know if
you can skate at all, but gay hockey, yodeling, kazooing
I think could be a success to Scott.

Speaker 19 (34:20):
I don't understand why there isn't a love.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
Interest that plays the recorder. I mean, that's what I'm
waiting for.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
You've got the kazoo Jesus got that season three?

Speaker 19 (34:30):
Well, of course, but why not give it a jump?
Or can't you introduce a woman who plays the recorder
and then you know, and then later on in season
two you bring her in?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Ever, we're gonna need a will they or any sooner
than season three?

Speaker 18 (34:44):
Can I just also say, and just for diversity, a
one armed Nigerian who plays the kalimba?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Does this help me that kind of representation.

Speaker 19 (34:54):
I've been to Nigeria. There's a lot of one armed
people there.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, so it won't be.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
That hard to find. Yeah, okay, and calimb has cost
about five bucks. I think I got a kalim But
we're good there.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, We've got a lot of ideas on the table, and.

Speaker 18 (35:11):
I think we're Dave and Scott, but we can't say who.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
You believe?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Man, we have a lot of ideas on the table,
and but I'm still I'm still a little worried. With
no offense, I'm not totally sure that you can carry
this on your own. I think it might help to
have somebody who's in a similar situation to you.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, that sounds good.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
So can I just play a clip of the person
I'm thinking about if we got some deal the pain
a baby to die before this in.

Speaker 13 (36:01):
The school books saying it can't be here again, chough
li rained, the prisons make you want to where it
When choking ring bost has to be following yesterday, chough.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Ringed, Okay, I think you know it goes on for
another thirty minutes. As you are you remember you guys,
remember let's bring him out days on day. Right now,

(36:47):
we have a show. I love that song. I think
it's you know, at the time, I think it got
a lot of attention because you turned your face away
from the mic and and all the other things. But
I loved it. I would have played the whole thing.
But I you know, the lyrics went on. You know

(37:07):
you remember some of the other lyrics. Some of your
favorite lyrics are like when I eat beat some of
my shirts never stain. That was one of my favorites,
or my favorite kids in the Hall sketch is Citizen.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Kane when I am Careen, I complain.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, that's a good one. I hate when Trump calls
him a rock Hussein. I think Tom Papa should win
the Mark Twain.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
Tom Papa, is it a time we put him down,
hasn't he had enough?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Who to I love Tom. He's a sweet Tayane was
the one who wrote it fifteen years ago.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
A lovely way to travel is by train.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Onion bagels are better than playing. I've tried to help
you in the past. By the way, Tay and I
are old friends, we really are. He's done my autism
benefit Night of Too Many Stars. He he actually was
a series regular on a show on one of my

(38:24):
many many flop shows. This was on Adult Swim. It
was called The Jack and Triumph Show. And Jack mcbrayor
and I played like a Timmy and Lassie who has
bins now and Triumph's trying to get him back into
the show business. And Triumph had poker buddies, and one
of his poker buddies was he had Joey Fatone, Leonard
Malton and tayzon Day, which is a triumph at the

(38:46):
poker table.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
It was a brilliant show. I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to say. And the only reason
I thought of it, I came up.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
I did all that work just so that Tay would
get back in show business and didn't work. And then
Tate and then okay, that was a lie then and
then best of all, I did a Hulu special, a
series of Hulu specials covering the twenty sixteen political campaign
with Triumph, and we did a lot of remotes in

(39:13):
New Hampshire and Iowa, but we also had roundtables in between.
Triumph would sit at the head and moderate like there'd
be Alan Dershowitz and Carl Bernstein and Taizon Day and
you know, we took it very seriously and we you know,
we got a lot done. We've got a lot done.

(39:36):
So Tay, you've made a living since then being a
voice acting coach, is that correct?

Speaker 13 (39:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Some what do you mean?

Speaker 20 (39:43):
Some animation games, Nickelodeon and MLB Network, a lot of
different clients.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Tell me what you would like to what you see
yourself doing it would like to do voices or where
you want to exploit your voice, your amazing voice.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I like doing voice work.

Speaker 20 (40:01):
Yeah, it's funny because a lot I feel like I
peak with accidental comedy. I'm never deliberately funny. I'm just
kind of myself and the career seems to come from
me being myself and putting.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
That out there.

Speaker 20 (40:17):
So it's kind of hard for me to say I'm
going to do this and then that's going to be.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
But I don't know.

Speaker 20 (40:23):
I've always thought I would love to host like a
game show like the UNI format, where I can have
a regular I don't know, like an Alexterbeck or Pat
say Jack type.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Of well, well he could be the host and it
could be like name that tune, but with kazoo, no there,
know you you would play just the kazoo and people
would have to name that tune. I don't know if
that's enough. I think we need some of the drop.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
Yeah, I've got the name for the show, worst voice
in the room. And now listen, you're the host, and
we get people from different cities and they don't know
that they're competing.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
This is kind of a prank show.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
And then they all get up and sing right okay,
and then they the audience calls in, which is the
voice that they is the worst? And then and then
here's the prank. You give the award to the best
voice and then they holy shit, give up.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
I mean I like that idea.

Speaker 7 (41:33):
I have a bottom line is people like talent shows
right now.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
They do like talent shows. Why don't we just say
he hosts a talent show, and we'll sell.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
Talent show that you host. Hmmm, who's with you? Who
are the other judges?

Speaker 13 (41:47):
No?

Speaker 20 (41:48):
I mean I think it's funny because I am not
comfortable or believable as an asshole.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Yeah, like I'm not comfortable like howl.

Speaker 20 (41:55):
So like the comedy, it's like watching my discomfort choosing
the worst voice, yes, yes, and trying to be diplomatic
and non.

Speaker 7 (42:07):
Think about it this way. The worst voice is going
to be the winner. So you have good news to
give that to give the person who sucks. It's true.

Speaker 12 (42:17):
I had a little bit of a wrinkle.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Go ahead.

Speaker 12 (42:19):
I think it's said in a confessional.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Is this a game show?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Yes, No, it's a sort of a show. It's a
Catholic doesn't have to it's a Catholic church. People come in,
they actually give their confessions to a priest, which we
can stunt cast the fuck out of that, and you
know that. And so they'll tell all the terrible things
they've done, the things that they're burdening them, and then
and then ever so often we stop and we go,
you have a terrible voice.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
That's that's the whole show.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Can that sus stay in over eight years. That's what
the network wants.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
I think I would want to hear taysay that. Can
I go a completely different way?

Speaker 12 (43:02):
Please?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Do you know people love alternate universe shows right? Those
are very big right now. If there's an alternate universe
show where you guys are incredibly popular, like you're superstars,
it's like a hard Day's night kind of thing where
girls are chasing them out of limousines and we you know,

(43:23):
I mean, I think we need four, so we'd have
to add like, you know, like Charlie bit My Finger
Kid and who currently my the new Manuma Kid. So
it's you guys and the new Manuma Kid and Charlie
bit My Finger and you're like the Monkeys. You're like

(43:43):
the Monkeys and we shoot it that way and it's
just really and you're just dealing with fame. And if
it's an alternate universe show, I like that the best.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Are we are we a band like the Monkeys?

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Or you?

Speaker 1 (44:00):
You guys are both musical?

Speaker 13 (44:01):
Right?

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Two out of the four people that you mentioned, Yeah, yeah,
are you seeing the new Manuma Kid? He's incredible.

Speaker 10 (44:11):
I'm not wrong.

Speaker 20 (44:12):
I like you How to follow up on like the
cinematic universe of early YouTube or.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Early virul celebrity. Oh there you go.

Speaker 20 (44:18):
Look a kind of like a cobra Kai. But for
like what if early YouTube, early celebrity.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Oh, the early YouTube universe. Yeah, but that's amazing, Like
you're all superheroes. Yeah, now this is like a TV
Funhouse cartoon. Now, wells, this is either an eight year
show or one TV fun house cartoon.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Well, and they could travel up the land doing meet
and greets and solving crimes.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Fucking like, because they're really good at meet and greets.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, maybe they solve crimes and an autograph show.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
What another murder?

Speaker 12 (45:00):
Yes, murder, William Shatner's gone down this time.

Speaker 21 (45:04):
The guy who played Pee Wee's enemy looks very suspicious.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
Then you guys, you could you could also. I don't
know why I picture this, but you guys helped me out.
They're constantly needed at malls, either for signings or because
that's where murder took place. But they're always there because
the malls have been kind of forgotten too. Right, So
it's a whole Yester world. It's called Yester where we

(45:34):
live in Yester World. Yester World, the Yester World Universe. Yeah,
and we're needed at the mall. We have to get
over but the goal is to get to the Mall
of America. When they never get there, they never get.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
And they could live in one of those weird abandoned
malls that people going and skateboard in and yeah there's
water and stuff.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
This is amazing because we can keep expanding the universe,
bringing other U tube stars over there. Can we eventually
like allow like Mark Ruffalo to play a YouTube star
from the bath because you know, it's got to have
Mark Ruffalo involved.

Speaker 20 (46:10):
Everybody guests with their like the viral ability, like Rick
Astley comes and yeah, so god.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Or maybe every episode turns out to be what's what
was it called rick roll?

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Yeah, we rickroll. Every episode there's a clue that we
think we found and it ends up just being a rickroll.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Holy sh I think we're ready to pitch. I mean, okay,
this is going to be very exciting. I'm not going
to tell you exactly what we're gonna be doing. It's
gonna be cool. But first, Bob, Bruce, it's a podcast,

(46:52):
as you know, so we have to do a quick commercial.
So guys, Bruce, Bob.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
Oh, yeah, you know.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
No, But I'm happy to do this one because I
actually use the product.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
You use the product. I know it's winter time as
we're taping this, and I don't know about you guys,
but shoveling snow, especially in our age, No, yeah, it's
the worst.

Speaker 12 (47:20):
I mean, shoveling snow, my back gets tight.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yeah, I get heart attacks.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Well that's bad every time.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, it's it's a dangerous thing. And it's drudgery for
younger people too.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
But try hiring a kid nowadays to shovel snow. It
won't happen.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Oh, kids don't want to work anymore.

Speaker 12 (47:42):
No, no, no, so listen to me.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
We've all used this product. It's a brand new product
that is one of our new sponsors.

Speaker 12 (47:50):
Well, I'm only endorsing it because I actually use it.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Yeah, you don't even have to endorse you Have you
used it. It's the snow torch. It's called the snow torch.
And you know I bought it and I've never I
threw out my shovel.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, I've tossed it. I've never threw neighbor. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
Yeah, I've never not used it, never.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Not used it.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
Yes, I've never not used the snow torch.

Speaker 7 (48:16):
Yes, I've always all the time used it and and
it's worked great every single time.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
Wow, from the beginning to the end.

Speaker 7 (48:25):
I have the lighter model, and I don't know what
you've got. I think you got the old one.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
I got the T two four that I take to,
you know, to bars, and it's a great way to
pick up a woman. Yeah, you show them your torch,
you say, hey, can I know smoking isn't allowed in
bars anymore, but can I light your son?

Speaker 7 (48:44):
When that jelly lights on fire, shoots out and lights
on fire. Yeah, my god, there's nothing like it. And
it sticks to the walls. You know, it's great.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Did you guys get the all season model?

Speaker 6 (48:55):
I yes, I have it.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
You're not, with all due respect, you're not famous in
the to do a commercially.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
I'm sorry, I comments, sir, Well.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
It's fine. No, we were trying to help you. And
and the number one.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
It Robert.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Kids love it because listen, listen, it's so convenient. You
don't even have to purchase new gasoline to use it.
You can just there's a detachable uh, there's an attachment
that you can put right into your siphon hose siphon hose.
You put it right in your gas tank.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
You turn on the thing, and you know, snow melts
away like this and finally a safe way, finally to
get rid of snow.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
And kids love it.

Speaker 12 (49:39):
Well, May I tell a personal story of my life?

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yeah? Please?

Speaker 4 (49:43):
I got my girlfriend a BMW with a bowl on
it for Christmas and she says, where's my snow torch?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
It is really bad.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
They want you to read some copy, but I mean,
I don't even know why we need this, because yeah,
we all love the product, but the snow torch we
ate such a dense and unwieldy fire spout. The entire
family will love crowding around the conflagration for warmth and
a spectacular light show. Also recommended for Oh this is

(50:13):
endorsed by Ice. Yeah, that's the snow torch. Please use
the code. Bruce McCullough loves the snow torch zero two
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(50:36):
a g L four Again, Bruce McCullough loves the snow
torch three eight six that's Bruce mccullaugh loves.

Speaker 13 (50:51):
No.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
You know what, I'll just I'll just have them rewind
and play it again. Okay, thank you, snow torch.

Speaker 8 (50:57):
Snow torch, snow torch, you move man.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Okay, guys, this is big we are about. This is real.
We are about to talk to four actual producers, Hollywood
producers and studio executives and we are going to what Okay, yeah,

(51:33):
they're going to be up there, but don't put them
up yet. I don't want them to know. I want
to just prepare just a little bit more. Yeah, you
know these you want to warm up to them. You know,
they want to feel like they want to be in
the Taizon day Kazoo Kid business. So so you know,
we just have to make a little small talk at

(51:54):
the top, like so so Brett, like, you know, maybe
just anybody got kids can just write that down? Anybody
got here first, give him a notepad.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
You guys, this is important.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Tay one too. So Brett, You're like, anybody got kids?
And Tay, I want you to say, how's the weather
down there? How's the weather in La Okay, and then
they'll just do the rest.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
They'll be I offer a joke, a joke, yeah that
I always break the ice with whenever I do a pitch,
and I've done over ten thousand of them. Yeah, they
always one of them will always say can I get
you anything?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
You go?

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah, a lobster. Okay, Now before I bring them out,
I want to tell.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
You who these people are. Okay, We're going to have
Matt Millan. He is president Film and TV for Sullivan
Street Productions. Okay, I want you got by the way,
hold your applause until I mention all four of them.
So for Matt Millan, when I say that Sullivan Street Production, Tay,

(52:59):
that's your cutest say your new project Honeymoon with Harry
sounds terrific. Okay, can you write that down? And then
we have Mike Falbo, who runs Pacific Electric.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
This is ed Helm's company.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
And for you, Brett, I want you to say, I
would love to be in the ed Helm's business.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
I would love to be in the the ed Helms business.
It's an easy thing to say because we all want
to be in the ed helmss.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
And then okay, then we have Betsy Kanch who produces
films and shows for Hyper Object Industries. That's Adam McKay's company.
We love Adam McKay. They do great documentary. So Tay
write this down. When I introduce Betsy. I love your documentaries,
particularly Money Electric, the Bitcoin Mystery. And the last one

(53:51):
is actually a network executive, Brian Tannenbaum, head of Originals
at Roku Media. Roku.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
We're going to talk to someone from the Roku network.
I think we have a shot.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
So I want you to say, Brian, I'm a big
fan of Andromeda and reruns of Benson.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Okay, I'm a big fan of Andromeda and reruns of Benson. Okay,
here we go, Here we go. This is big, man,
this is big.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Can we see are four there?

Speaker 13 (54:32):
They are?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Give them a hand please, I swear to god. These
are genuine Hollywood producers, studio and network executives, brilliant people
who've created brilliant things and they're going to create one

(54:54):
more one lucky executive.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Well, and I've pitched all these people before, and what
I love about these particular four, the room is always
very warm.

Speaker 12 (55:03):
They're just there.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
They care about their work that they're very specific with
their projects, and they're really into details there.

Speaker 12 (55:10):
They're a really amazing group.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Okay, yeah, now let's just talk to these guys for
a second. Anybody pretty cool?

Speaker 12 (55:20):
That's your I think, Oh, how is the weather in
l A.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Oh yes, Days on Day wants to know how the
weather is.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
I just want to find out if you guys validate.
Let's take care of that right away. And no, I
parked on retreat anyways, I was gonna put my car in.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I sent you guys the materials. I hope you you
know you're off to speed.

Speaker 5 (55:47):
We have coverage.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
You have coverage great. So so we have Matt Millan
uh from Sullivan Street. Do you want to say anything
to them? Hey? How is the no.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Honeymoon with Harry?

Speaker 13 (56:05):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (56:06):
Oh, your new project Honeymoon with Harry sounds fantastic.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 21 (56:13):
See how personable Tay is very I don't know about you.
If I had heard something like that, I'd want to
be in the Tason Day business.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
I'm very excited to get into a deal right now.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Thank you, okay. And then we have Betsy Cotch. Betsy
Coch produces films and shows for hyper object industries. Yeah
you know Betsy.

Speaker 20 (56:39):
I love your documentaries, particularly Money Electric the Bitcoin Mystery.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Oh wow, thanks you see that. See Tay's a big fan.
I think you guys already have like a connection. I
do too.

Speaker 10 (56:53):
This skills.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Right, Okay, good, good good. You like him.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
It's hard to tell why, but you just do. We
just do like a good a reasonable guy.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
We have Mike Falbo.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Mike Falbo who runs ed Helm's company, Pacific Electric.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Ooh, Mike, I would love to be in the ed
Helms business.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
Oh. I like hearing that. Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
He just said that on his own. Isn't that great?

Speaker 5 (57:23):
Unprompted?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
And then finally, we actually have a network executive here,
Brian Tannenbaum, who is head of originals for Roku. Wo.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Brian, I am a big fan of Andromeda. Ooh, and
we runs a Benson.

Speaker 22 (57:40):
I gotta tell you, Brad, we've actually been tracking you
for a bit because while we don't do a lot
of originals, we did do the Weird Al movie and
so we did win an Emmy with an accordion, and
so you've been on our list of someone to work with.

Speaker 10 (57:56):
We're hoping that Kazoo could perhaps be the follow up.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
It's amazing. Should I just should I just leave right now?
I feel like this, I mean's gonna got a sale.

Speaker 6 (58:05):
Man, get out of here.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
This has been great.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
We're gonna we have we have a mother load of
ideas for you. We're gonna try to narrow it down
somehow to the to the ones we we think are
are most suitable, uh for your vision.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
So that the animated show that you had Rother, this
is something.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
I forgot about.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
So yeah, Tazon Day actually, as you can see, has
one of the most amazing voices in the country. I mean,
you know, Taison Day is a national treasure.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Yea chocolate rain.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
But how many hits on.

Speaker 20 (58:42):
YouTube dred forty something million.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Millions and millions to hear that voice and to see
the guy turn away from a microphone, but mostly to
hear that voice. So backstage, actually we came up with
a new one. We thought, uh, he'd love to do
voiceover stuff, and we thought a cartoon where he plays Paul,
you know, the Adventures of Paul in outer Space. Paul

(59:12):
has to.

Speaker 20 (59:15):
Lace.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
You're like old man River.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
Okay, getting chills, I'm getting chills.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Well, here's what I love about that.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
Are you getting chills? Is where I'm sitting?

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yes, I actually have a cold sea.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
I have chill.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
You guys are not into money, and this is what
we love about you for production companies. But ironically, this
is a license to print money.

Speaker 7 (59:44):
And Old Man River is public domain. So exactly, come on.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
In every episode, everybody's been waiting to do something with
Old Man River.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
I think we've got the best idea.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
We talk about what happens when he's when he sings
the song, the alien who's attacking him falls asleep.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
So this is how he overcomes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
His singing ability is at once stirring and boring.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
And why this is so accessible is everyone has seen
a river.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
And most people know an old.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Man right or don't bring up porgyon best.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
We can't get the rights to it. We got Porgy
on board, won't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
First of all, Tay Tay, I really apologize. Old Man
River is not from Porgy and Bess. It's from Showboat
because just because it's a black musical, I'm sorry that
stays in this room.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Okay, we don't want to take canceled.

Speaker 12 (01:01:00):
They were in the same songbook, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Tay's racism is a thing of the pass.

Speaker 12 (01:01:07):
I think it's from raising in this.

Speaker 6 (01:01:08):
It's a show. That's a show right there.

Speaker 7 (01:01:12):
Everybody shut up, you guys, have you had anyone coming
to pitch you, and then they suddenly hit upon a
show that's completely different than the one that they came into.
Pitch Days on Days Racism is a thing of the past.

Speaker 6 (01:01:25):
Now that's a title.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
By the way, it's casual racism, which is the best kind.

Speaker 7 (01:01:35):
And I don't know what it is, and I don't
know who's in it. I don't know what you're watching.
But it's an hour long, that's all I know. And
it's on twice a week. This is going to be hell.

Speaker 6 (01:01:51):
We're gonna need a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Okay, you know, let's take a quick whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
Pluribis costs double back, that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
I want to take a moment.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
I want this thing on in three weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
I want to do we got a whole really exciting.
This is really exciting, and Bob is bursting with it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:08):
And come up with something in there. It's the best
feeling in the world. And all four of you were
part of this idea, all four of you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
We have to have a bidding night. That's going to
be a bitting war.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I'm sorry, listen, this is very exciting, but I want
you guys, these guys need they.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
Break to think about.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
They obviously have a lot of questions because you know
they're excited about the show. You want to hear any
specifics about how it's produced, because we don't have any.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
Well, tell us a little bit about how we got there,
how he became blue screen question.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
That's an excellent question.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
This is a blue screen show.

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
Okay, we don't need actors, we don't need voices, we
don't need scripts.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Okay, guys, fill in the blanks.

Speaker 7 (01:02:55):
But in fact, okay, I'm not saying I want you
to fall asleep tonight. I don't want you to have
any dreams. I just want you to have a smile
on your fucking face, knowing that in the morning you're
gonna tell your boss I get a show, you fucking asshole,

(01:03:16):
and you're gonna swear in his face it's true, you say,
shout your fucking mouth. I haven't finished that. What you
need is a blue screen a Tazon day.

Speaker 6 (01:03:27):
And then we're gonna walk out the door, slam.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
The door, and you're gonna be fired.

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
It's really about confidence.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
All right, let's move on. Let's give him another because
we have so many.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
And you know we have game show ideas.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Did anybody in the game show, does that like on
brand for any of you?

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
How about Roku?

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I mean, come on, He's.

Speaker 10 (01:03:50):
Game shows are in the mandate, so we're open to it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Okay, well, okay, well we got it. Name that tune
with kazoos done sold.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Not easy to name that kazun We got another game
show idea.

Speaker 12 (01:04:05):
It's called second Best.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
It's like a talent show and somebody is always clearly
the best, like Cold plays on or you two or
something like that, and then you have another band who's
like a you know, the Strutter is a kiss cover band,
and they're they're clearly the second best, and so they win.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
But part of this, part of this, I've got to say,
part of this is kind of like you work with
them for a week. Oh yeah, answer them second best? Right,
So in other words, they come on, they come on.
Tay's one of the judges. He's one of the coach judges. Okay,
you give a couple of other people. They are idiots,

(01:04:46):
you know, people who cost nothing. I don't care. Yeah,
I don't give a shit. You get anybody. It doesn't
have to be a name. They don't have to have
a name, a legal name. They don't have to have
a legal name.

Speaker 12 (01:04:57):
They could be number four hundred and seventy one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I don't care.

Speaker 10 (01:05:01):
This is perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
You save money on names. We saved money on names we.

Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
Were with them.

Speaker 10 (01:05:07):
We're Roku and on Netflix. So this is this is
just what we want to be doing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
This is what I want to hear.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
I should shut up because we sold the show, but
I'm going to go on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Go on, and you have you have thirty minutes. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:05:21):
Look, the bottom line is as hard as it is
to get somebody to win a contest, getting someone to
come in second.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Well, and it's relation to everyone because don't we all
feel like we're second best, and shouldn't we celebrate the
second best?

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
It's in the hall, mister show. See this is what
I didn't say it. I didn't say it. He said it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:52):
So that's one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
That's that's okay. So I don't know, you guys are
going to have trouble picking which one you like best.
Nobody can pick more than one. That's our little We've
set it up because you know we want to spread
the well, come on, I just want to commit to
one and then everybody else gets first crack at the others.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
So Mike has the racist one. What Mike has the
racist one?

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Mike has well, he already has a few of those shows.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Okay, okay, okay, we can move on. We can move on.
We got we've got some great stuff, more dramatic ones.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Right and here, by the way, I just want to
say why we've picked these four production companies.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
They're all disruptors, they're all breaking the mold.

Speaker 12 (01:06:39):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Yeah, you're going to break the mole.

Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
Let's give them a big one.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Okay, Okay, a big one. Okay, kaz you guy. The
year is what's this year, twenty twenty six okay, or
whatever this show gets.

Speaker 12 (01:06:54):
Or whatever you get your funding twenty together.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Is when you find it, whatever you decide.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Okay. So Brett Brett is present day Kazoo Guy, but
he sees his childhood self.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Oh no, this is the wrong idea.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Look, can I just say one thing about this idea?
The next idea? Oh, we're gonna now listen, everybody, just
calm down.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Because this is the idea. We're gonna make this show
with European money.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
Okay, so right away, and you know what, fuck that,
We're gonna make it with monopoly money.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
We're gonna go to the Monopoly.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
Company, and whatever the budget is, we're gonna get that
much of that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
The game show was going to be Monopoly money. That's
how we're gonna pay for it. Yes, the wild success
of second that big idea. Okay, the big idea. So
Kazoo Kid. The year is whatever year we do this,
and the Kazoo Kid. Every time modern day Brett plays

(01:07:59):
the Kazoo, he's transported back to nineteen eighty nine when
he was the Kazoo Kid.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
He has it, he knows the future. So the whole
show is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Brett attempting to prevent the worst tragedies of the recent past.

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
Yeah, okay, can I just mention Mark Twain, Connecticut yankee?

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
And then I'll shut up? Rather you didn't, all right,
I won't mention it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Rather you didn't mention it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Just forget that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Okay, let's go over what we want to forget. We
want to forget Mark Twain, and we want to forget
that Connecticut yank, Connectic yankee, and we want to forget
that Tay is a.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Racist, Okay, a casual racist. We call it warehouse racist.
A look, okay, so listen.

Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
This is a real idea. This is a real idea.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
No, this is already exciting. He's going to go back
and undo the future, or that's his goal. But here's
the catch. He can only stay back in time if
he plays the kazoo every fifteen seconds. Okay, now, wait
a minute, we're not married to fifteen seconds. It could
be forty five seconds. We also, can I just talk

(01:09:13):
about I want you guys to be involved in.

Speaker 7 (01:09:15):
The rules in this universe. He can bank kazoo time.
So if he plays for two hours and I don't
kidding away away.

Speaker 6 (01:09:26):
We've been arguing about this for hours.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
But this is not the pilot. This is not the pilot.
This is the breakthrough. At the end of season.

Speaker 6 (01:09:33):
He discovers that he can bank kazoo time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
But here's the season one.

Speaker 7 (01:09:38):
But here's the only thing I'm gonna ask. I think
it's important. I'm sorry, Bruce, I'm gonna say it. I
know you don't want me to say it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
He doesn't.

Speaker 7 (01:09:45):
When he plays kazoo, it has to be on screen.
There's no jumping through time here. When he does the
it's called kazoo fuel. That's the word we have for kazoo.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
You could just kazuol Yeah, it's kind of like green lantern,
Green lantern.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
It's just the only rule I have as green lantern.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Somebody, what does green lantern meet. It's kind of green
lantern meets quick.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
We're losing them, see somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Family matters and here is here meets family matters.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Why we like this?

Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
And I know you guys always respond to these kind
of shows. It's got a warm heart one of the
things he does back in time.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
And actual beating a warm heart.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
Yeah, he wants to. He sees that his parents got
divorced and he wants to try to save their marriage.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
But again, anytime he tries to give anyone advice.

Speaker 6 (01:10:44):
Oh, we don't have to have that. I'm sorry they're
not responding.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
I can tell.

Speaker 6 (01:10:49):
And he doesn't have parents. Maybe no, just let me
let me finish.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Anytime he has to give advice, whether it's for his
parents or you know, to nine to eleven, he he
has to play the kazoo every you know, fifteenth second.
This is the first season before the banking and time thing,
and so he's compromised. He has all this wisdom, but
no one wants to be near him because he has

(01:11:16):
to keep playing the fucking.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Kazoo, and everybody hates the kazoo.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
That's a given.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Can I take a stab at it? Something like, uh sure,
I'm sorry, I'm lady. Yeah, I just had to type.
That's just a little taste.

Speaker 14 (01:11:32):
I came here to tell you this is a plane
flying twice one second towards the Pentagon right now, and
I think we only had hang on one second.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Okay, you're doing that's good. But that was the ten
sound you're asking. That was the ten second version. If
you like the ten second version, we'll go ten. You
know this is we want to work with you, Robert.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
They're asking themselves, where's ta's on day in this universe?

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Oh shit?

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Okay, so every time trying to undo racism as well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
Done, it rights itself.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
I buy that for a dollar.

Speaker 7 (01:12:15):
We actually do love that idea, and we hope that
you do too. I see a lot of smiles in
the room.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Wait, we have one more incredible idea, right, no, the universe? Yes, Oh,
take came up with a good one. Tay came up
with this on his own. But we don't have to
cut him in. Money wise. Telled us the three of
us and Tay will take you know, a co producer credit. Anyway,
we can talk about that later. So who wants to

(01:12:43):
pitch this one? It's called the YouTube the YouTube universe,
YouTuber verse, the YouTuber verse, and what it is is
the stars of early YouTube.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Yes, have come back to life. Most of them are
still alive, but.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Oh no, nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:13:02):
The story is the legend slow down. They've come back
to life and they've teamed up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Yeah, they have superpowers, they have super powers.

Speaker 7 (01:13:15):
Obviously, I'm sorry to insult your intelligence. God damn it, Robert,
come on, sell this show. I told you don't insult
people when you're doing a pitch. And these are four
great people. And I'm telling you so it's the few,
It's it's they. They are the YouTube stars. It includes

(01:13:36):
tays on Day, Get out of Town, the Absolutely Kid,
Absolutely No, Apparently, Apparently, the Apparently Kid, the apparently Kid, and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Number three said, and this is your choice, because we
want you to be involved. It can be either the
Charlie bit, my finger Kid grown up or the new Manuma,
that kid who's like my.

Speaker 6 (01:14:03):
My, you're a choice, and we like whoever.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
You think litill look better in the outfit.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
But in our world they're like rock stars. They're like
the Beatles.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
That's every different show.

Speaker 12 (01:14:14):
Oh is it a different show.

Speaker 7 (01:14:15):
But we can tie that and we can tie that
in the tie it together.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Yeah, and they but they travel around everybody who greats
and solving crimes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Solving crimes, you know, and then there's gonna be internal turmoil.
But the beauty is that every season we can add
new marvel or or excuse me, YouTube reverse YouTube reverse people.
And eventually, when we run out of real YouTube reversers,
Mark Ruffalo can play somebody. I know he's well, he's

(01:14:48):
up for it.

Speaker 7 (01:14:48):
I give you a little bit more of the legend
of this show than with me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
Those you guys have questions.

Speaker 6 (01:14:54):
You guys must appreciate your patience.

Speaker 7 (01:14:56):
And you guys have been great and I see you've
loved all these ideas equal and that's really wonderful. And
you've been such participants. I think most of these ideas
were your ideas. Actually, I don't think I've said I
haven't said a word since I got in here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
I had my doubts. I had my doubts about.

Speaker 6 (01:15:13):
Talking about making it easy the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
YouTuber verse, but you guys convinced me.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
Yeah, and well, one of the things that we love
it is there's some writers who just they I got
to say it. They got sticks up their bumps. And
what we love is to get notes from the networks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Yeah, so we just notorious for loving network notes.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
This is a story idea, and more than that, this
is a real estate idea. We want to get you
guys out of the entertainment business, all four of you.
You're worried about how much you're going to spend on sets,
stop worrying right now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Right now, we know production.

Speaker 7 (01:15:47):
I know I can see one of you boys making
notes on a piece of papers.

Speaker 6 (01:15:50):
Put your pen down.

Speaker 7 (01:15:52):
We're see who's the YouTuber verse stars that we just
described are going to come back?

Speaker 6 (01:15:59):
They're already still. That's part of the mythos at the top.

Speaker 7 (01:16:02):
And I've used that word three times on mythos, and
I want you to start using it in your daily life.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
Listen, listen, you don't have to build sets.

Speaker 7 (01:16:11):
Because this group of people, this group of superstars of Yesteryear,
they get their energy and they meet in empty malls
and this fucking America is covered in empty malls.

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
And they go in there and somehow it brings them
back to life.

Speaker 10 (01:16:29):
And they, yeah, do you say you were shooting in America.

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because these places are free and
we're gonna get text breaks like you can't believe. And
their goal is they want to get to the mall
of America. That's where the whole thing will wrap up
and they'll take on the enemy. And I don't know
who that is, right, doesn't matter. Who gives a shit.
Now there's going to be like a dream.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
We'll find out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
They can also solve crimes in their natural habitat, which
is autograph shows.

Speaker 10 (01:16:57):
And so there are malls in Canada that look.

Speaker 7 (01:16:59):
Like that's right, We're going that's right, We're gonna shoot
in empty malls in Canada to look like America.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
And sales Vancouver, Vancouver, listen, Drew, Saskatchewan.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
They love me there again, the tax breaks, the wheat, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
It could you guys, Could you guys talk about the
bad guy plot on the tone of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
That would really help us sort of understand.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Well, I mean, again, if they're if they're solving crimes
at for example, autograph shows, the bad guys could be
any number of like you know, TikTok stars, people like
the kid, the guy who played the kid on the sopranos.
He goes to a lot of autograph shows. Robert Eiler.
Robert Eiler. He has a bad reputation anyway, He's a
natural villain. You know, the guy who played Little Ricky

(01:17:45):
on I Love Lucy. It's like seventy years old, and
he's deceptively evil and tonally. I mean, we're not giving
them enough tone comps. It's like Hehaw meets squid game.
I love that. I love that dead on That is
a target. Okay, again, again, again. You guys must have

(01:18:08):
a million questions. So I want to give you the
like why do you say yes? Like why did you
agree to do this podcast?

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
So which of those are you asking them? Which of
those ideas is most attractive to them? Because I just
I don't want them to fight on a video.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
I just want to hear from them.

Speaker 16 (01:18:27):
I have a question, how do you want to incorporate
the music into the Superhero Mall show?

Speaker 6 (01:18:34):
Oh, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
We're going to use.

Speaker 7 (01:18:38):
I mean, it's it's public domain, public domain stuff down.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
By the way, Mickey Mouse is available, you know, so
he can be animated as a site.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Just just steamboat Willie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
It's got to be Willie I'm sorry, so we can
use old Man River, Steamboat.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Willie Winnie the Pooh God Bless America.

Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
By the way, you're giving us a lot to think
about with that question, but we're gonna make a note
of it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:04):
All the songs we appreciate.

Speaker 7 (01:19:06):
Filled with music mostly from before nineteen twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
It's coming back. All that stuff is coming back because
these are the twenties now.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
You know old chantys.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
It's gonna be mostly sea shanties, Becau, who the fuck from?
You know, sixteen hundreds is going to come after us?

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Any other thank you for that, Any other questions.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Mike has a question?

Speaker 6 (01:19:33):
Yeah, go Mike, I could see I've.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
Really learned a lot. I guess Bobby had brought this
up before.

Speaker 23 (01:19:40):
Is the is the kazoo in the episode when he's
playing that's real time that we're watching always real time
for fifteen minutes. We stopped the show and we're just
watching him kazoo for thanky minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
And what Bob's obsessed with and it's kind of a
tussle in the room, and is that if he gets
two hours of kazoo, he's playing the kazoo for two hours,
and that can be beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
We're just locked off. We're not cutting. It's one take.
It's kazoo for two hours.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
I just know it's several takes, but for two hours.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Look, got it?

Speaker 7 (01:20:14):
Okay, I'm not gonna fight over that. One takes several
takes to do what you want. Yeah, you guys, do
what you want. This is stuff we want you guys
to make the final You just made a mistake because
you gave us the slugline the Kazoo can be beautiful.

Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
Oh my god, you fucked up. That's on the poster.

Speaker 22 (01:20:32):
Can can you list all the tragedies you'll prevent, just
to have an idea of how how many years it'll
go through.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Sure, okay, so we start with let's see what's the
what happened?

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Then?

Speaker 10 (01:20:45):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
Oh my god, that's that's the challenger was earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
I'm sorry. What oh there's a million earthquakes and they
and it just you know, with global warming, there's even more.

Speaker 12 (01:20:56):
Now, what about the killing at the Olympic village? What
year was that?

Speaker 10 (01:21:02):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
He can accidentally go back to nineteen seventy two on
some episodes if we run out of tragedies. Jessica in
the well Waco Columbine. Okay, you know what, I don't
think we should list tragedies. I think it's going to
bring the energy down. It's just an instinct. Maybe we shouldn't. Dwell,

(01:21:25):
let's just assume.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
I'm not a comedy executive. I don't know these things.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Yeah, so, guys, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:21:35):
We have you know, so, I think we have a
lot of great ideas. I can see your brains are spinning.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Brains are spinning, and I know you sell your hands.

Speaker 6 (01:21:43):
So we've been writing the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
I guess you guys want to circle back and confab
and whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
You validate for the city of San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Yeah, all these people are in on the pitch and
they'll need validation too. Somebody just blurted out, kazoo, but.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
What just happened?

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
Okay, did I just have Guys? It's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
There's a medical emergency and uh, we have the empts
taking care of it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
We're fine, We're fine. Put it out of your head.

Speaker 21 (01:22:25):
Just like Tay's racism, everything, everything that we just added
to the list, added to the list.

Speaker 7 (01:22:31):
Okay, you guys have been great and you've been amazing
these ideas.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Does anybody want to thank you for Do you want
to anybody want to buy something right now? Before before
you know, we get into a bidding war. Does anybody
want to commit?

Speaker 10 (01:22:46):
I think it's Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
I'm sorry, I think it's Brian.

Speaker 10 (01:22:49):
I second Chance, Second chance game show.

Speaker 22 (01:22:52):
The racist Time Traveler is not as ad friendly as
we are, so I think my boss would fire me.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
And we're going to send you a five page pitch deck. Yes,
it's in your inbox right now.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
So we'll just sit here while you look through it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Sell the audience.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
We have beautiful artwork and it's all AI, so.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Not a dime was spent. Anybody have any closing thoughts?
You want to confirm? Anybody want to buy something? Or
do you want to? You want to confab? You want
to circle?

Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
These are all These are all very well told, and
just give us a minute. We'll come back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Give us a minute.

Speaker 16 (01:23:29):
Yeah, I think my only thing if you if you
do end up selling it somewhere, it might not be
with us, even though so much good stuff to really pressing.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
Consider is maybe the kazoo.

Speaker 10 (01:23:42):
He's profoundly gifted at it and it's not annoying. It's
actually beautiful to hear.

Speaker 8 (01:23:46):
I like that idea.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
I love it at the top of the you don't
want it even to be a complication at the top.

Speaker 16 (01:23:52):
I just think it'd be cool if he was like
freakishly gifted at it and here the audience.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
But if he if he people like the kazoo, does
that make it even more of an alternate universe? I mean,
you guys love alternate universe, show alternative universe. Okay, whatever
whatever you want, that'sy okay, great want. We are open,

(01:24:18):
three of us, notoriously open. Well, I want to thank
all of you for hearing our pitch. We're gonna circle
back and we're gonna get this done. We're gonna get
this done. God bless y'all. Get in my hand, everybody
from the big Hair. That's it for the pit. Now

(01:24:43):
we're gonna fight over which idea we like. But no,
we're done. This was I'm sorry and it ran a
little long, but I think we helped two people here.
I think we I think we were a big help.
I'm very excited. I'm very excited, and we'll keep you posted.
God bless you, thank you for coming.

Speaker 21 (01:25:04):
Bring you over the Kurt Bruce mccaugh breat the Kazoo Guy,
Jayson Day, I'm Chocolate Rain Vam, I'm Robert Smigel Triumphless here.
Thank you so much, have a great night.

Speaker 24 (01:25:21):
Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends is a production
of iHeartMedia and Big Money Players, created by Michelle Sachs Smigel,
who executive produces with their loving husband Robin. Produced by
Frank Stinky Smiley, executive producer for iHeart, and Janet Cagele
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