Dez Pearson

Host Jeremy Odem is BACK with a brand new episode of the chart topping, world wide sensation, Laugh with Me Podcast! This week, Jeremy welcomes special guest, Dez Pearson. Dez is a content creator, writer and director. Dez can be found on YouTube @dez_p 'Pizzacrust Studios'. 

 

Dez works closely with the Des Moines Young Artists Theater in Des Moines, Iowa. You can see their latest production "The Spongebob Musical", July 25-August 3, 2025. Tickets available now.

 

In this episode:

-Yelling in comedy

-Newscasting camp

-DMYAT

-Pizzacrust Studios on yt

-Dez' memories of 9/11

-Andy Samberg

-Weird Al

-Top 5 tv shows ever made

-Worst movie Dez has ever seen

-Mystery box Dez brought with

-AND SO MUCH MORE

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I will be yelling when I do the intro, and
I know you've got a thing against yelling and comedy,
so I just want you to know this is not
like a shot at you, and this is not a
form of me trying to be funny. This is just
my intro.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
That video, it's it's kind of a bit I don't
I'm trying to start up something. Yeah, I mean to
be fair, I feel like I've fallen into that too,
where I just yelled, So I mean, yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
So you're the guy that you had a stance on
something and then you learned along the way that this
might be something.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, so that video is kind of hypocritical, so yeah,
I love that.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Actually, welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is

(01:04):
Laugh with Me at podcast Jerebyoda Buy your Home, Jo,
and I am welcoming a very special guest into the
studio today for episode number ninety seven. This is des Pearson.

(01:30):
So you probably have you probably don't know Dez, and
that's okay. We are offering an opportunity today to launch
a guy who's been putting in the work, who is
an up and coming star and content creator. You can
find him on his YouTube page. It's at des Underscore,
p D Easy Underscore, pe, Pizza Crust, studios, all kinds

(01:54):
of content. He's got shorts, parody videos, some pilots of
some various creations you've got coming up. But I mean, well,
can you tell us about the YouTube page if we were,
let's say we were selling it right now to somebody.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I mean, it's full of lots of entertainment content. It's
not just contained to one subject. It's like a variety
of stuff. It can be like a sketch, a video essay,
it doesn't. I mostly just make what I want to make.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So you're making whatever comes to your brain. Yeah, So
is this stuff that like you are writing down and
working on from idea to when it gets posted, or
is this like this is what's in my head this
moment I need to get out of my head.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I mean mostly the second option.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Sometimes I just don't script videos at all and like
go full improv and try to make something funny on
the spot.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
So so you understand improv, yeah kind of.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I mean I'm not like a master on it or anything,
you know. I think I have decent experience, but I'm
still not like you know, amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So again his YouTube and we'll talk about it later too,
but does underscore pee the Pizza Crust studios, And if
you just search up his name or search that up,
you will find quite a bit of content from the
young fellow. But we're gonna get into it because the
you brought up improv and I didn't even have that
necessarily on the list of things to talk about, but
it kind of makes sense because of your background. You

(03:18):
just got out of news like newscasting camp.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, that was held in Saint Rito in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay, so how how number one? How does that come up?
How does that peauk your interest?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, my grandparents actually live in Chicago, and my mom
you know, of course links with my grandparents, so and
my uncles both went to Saint Rita, So you know,
I have a lot of background in that school, and
I've been going to the camp for a few years
at this point.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, so this is not a new idea, like this
is something you've been doing every summer now for a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well not necessarily the newscasting camp that actually was just
introduced this year, but I've been doing like various sports
camp some previous years. But this year, I just went
to newscasting camp.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
In our camp, okay, and I saw one of the
videos where you did a newscast pretty freaking good. It
does appear that you have experience with reading a teleprompter.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, not really.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you sure you see like a natural?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I No, I don't. I haven't read like teleprompters. I
mean the most kind of experience you could say was
when I read off scripts for like Demia videos occasionally,
but even then it's still not teleprompter experience.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know. Wow, So are you just memorizing or do
you have the papers in front of you like I
guess kind of explain most newscasts if you didn't know
that your reporter, you're you're at the desk, newscast reporter
is literally reading Okay, everything they are saying is written.
For the most part, they are reading it as it's
being scrolled down with the video content rolling behind them.

(04:54):
So as I'm watching des on this newscast, it looked
exactly like that. So how do you get your I
guess your text?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Uh? Well, yeah, no, it was a teleprompter. It was
like a such kind of an amateur one. You just
put like an iPad and like a mirroring thing. Okay,
and he stared at the camera.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
It didn't cause a lot of issues though, because it
would stop, like at the last three sentences, because the
mac and the iPad weren't really connecting very well. So
for the last three sentences, we actually did have to
look down at some paper copy.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah. So, what were some things that you learned at
the newscasters camp that like you took away from it
and you go, you know what, I'm going to take
that back with me when I'm creating my content at home.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
H Well, I mean kind of hard to like pick
one thing. I mean I learned a lot. You know.
First off, I learned kind of more about being a
newscaster because I have to do some of that stuff
for them. Yet I learned how to actually operate lots
of advanced you know, camera stuff, Like there was a
nine hundred dollars camera at that camp that they trusted

(06:04):
in me, a twelve year old kid. Yeah, it went
well though, it didn't break your anything. So yeah, no,
it taught me a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did you feel nervous about it?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean not very I'm not very nervous because you know,
I have experience in filmmaking and stuff, so I feel
like I could handle that stuff, and you know, I
just went with what I wanted.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you've brought up dim Yet, and that is the
Des Moines Young Artist Theater, and that is something that
you are very involved in. Kind of go into where
that started all the way to where you're at like today.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay, So I think it was November twenty twenty three
when I started in my first ever play at dim Yet,
which was the Chronicles of Narnia. Now I wasn't like
a major character. I was just like an ensemble character
who had to say two lines and I messed both
of them up at rehearsals.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And this is not the Lonely Island parody video. Oh,
this was the actual Chronicles in our play.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah. I would love for a Lazy Sunday like play.
That would be the best thing ever. But no, it
was actual Chronicles of Nardia.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Which, by the way, you can find a cover of
Lazy Sunday on Dez's YouTube at Pizza Crust Studio. So
that's just a side note, but you can actually find
that there.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, no, it is very bad.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
So you so that was your first play and then
kind of where did it lead you from there?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
All right? So for the next musical they did, which
was Finding Nemo Junior, I actually didn't get in. But
they actually saw that, you know how they could use
my filmmaking potential and stuff and actually kind of quote
unquote hired me as like a promotional marketer and stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
It's not necessarily complicated. I just helped make videos for
them and stuff where I would interview the cast and
you know, I would also you know, just provide general
updates on stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So that is that's incredible because I've watched those videos.
I watched just about every one of them. When that started,
I just assumed that was part of the program, that
they make these videos for promotion and that was your role.
But they kind of created this opportunity for you.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh yeah, No, they didn't have it before. I mean
before they they made like you know, of course they
made trend videos stuff like that, they would you know,
regularly promote it, yep. But they didn't have like the
what's up down at dimyat the weekend up date until
I came along. Although I have to be fair, I
did not actually come up with the What's up down
at Demiyat. I came up with weekend update, but What's

(08:34):
up down down at Demiyat was thought up by I
think I don't think she was acting, and I think
she also was like another child helper, Uh I loave Bauer.
I think that's how you pronounce it. Okay, Uh, hopefully
I'm saying that right. I just want to give credit
to the actual creator of What's Up down at Dimyat
shout out. Yeah wow.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
So those video I mean, those videos I'm sure helped
the promotion of the plays. I mean, are you seeing
traction on the data on that you get to see that?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean, yeah, I think I've provided some help. You know,
I've seen lots of people at like the plays and stuff,
or like maybe at rehearsals come up to me and
be like, hey, I've seen your videos and stuff, and
you know, a lot of people actually go buy tickets
though those I presume, I mean, I hope I'm helping them,
because either that would make my entire job kind of pointless.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, exist Like then what are you doing exactly for? Yes, Yeah,
that's fun. So is that something that you are just
every time they have a new play, how often do
they do plays. I guess let's start there.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's pretty much just every season they have a summer
play at the start, the fall play, winter play, and
then you know, of course a spring one.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Two, So four plays a year, yep, and it's the
Des Moines Young Artist Theater. And so then every time
every new cycle, then go ahead.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wait, I need to provide a no, I mess it up. No,
it actually starts with the fall play. That's the whole season.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
When the season starts. Okay, all right, so but every
season four plays. Whenever you start a new cycle, a
new you know, play cycle, and they start with auditions.
Is it already a done deal you're going to be
doing these video updates or is it every cycle? It's like, okay,
we're starting from the get because who knows you might

(10:20):
actually get, you know, get a part in the play.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well yeah, no, actually no, I actually do all the
promotional materials even if I do get a part. I'm
able to do it all, okay, but actually sometimes I
can't do like promotional stuff for a play. Like recently,
Demiete had the Laramie Project, which is a really sad
tale of you know, LGBTQ plus history, where you know,

(10:45):
a young gay man. I'm sorry if I butcher the
story or anything is brutally killed by like two guys,
you know, and stuff is very sad, very mature. Hopefully
I haven't messed up the story. If so, I'm sorry,
But yeah, I couldn't do anything for that, but I
did help out with editing, so you know, I'm always
involved in some way.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
So are the plays? You know, every every season when
they do the plays, do they film the plays?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
And then.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Do you know what I mean? Like, is there a
camera crew filming the actual performance? And then that's something
that you could get involved in with like editing and
shooting and issuing those to maybe the people that are
in the play.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
No, we can't, sadly due to like legal issues, is
it right, Yeah, we can't actually film the plays most
of the time. Like I think the only reason we
would ever be able to is if we like paid
for it, or if it was a completely original play.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Which isn'tdoable at this point. I mean, not that you
couldn't do an original one, but to be able to
pay for it, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Okay,
well that's that's pretty awesome. So what play is currently
in motion.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Actually, the current play is the SpongeBob Musical, which I'm
doing the promotional material for if very nice, if he
saw it. I'm not actually in it though, so I
just want to cut up. Uh yeah, it's if you've
ever seen SpongeBob, basically take that times one hundred and
that's what you get.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
So is it more? Is it?

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Like?

Speaker 1 (12:07):
All right, So SpongeBob's like a huge brand, right, so
you have the SpongeBob TV show. They also have spawned
off many movies. So is this more like the TV
show or more like one of the movies.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's basically like its own original thing kind of Okay,
I think it takes more inspiration from the TV show
concerning how the movies sometimes have their own like special characters,
blot stuff like that. But yeah, no, it's its own
original story. I don't think it's based off any episode specifically.
Maybe takes inspiration, but yeah, so it's not entirely connected
to either.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Wow, well that's awesome. So the des Moines Young Artist Theater,
SpongeBob the Musical. Do you remember the dates of the
next performance? Oh, I not a big deal if you
don't all look it up. Yeah, no, Johnny, Johnny, will
you look that up please?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's on dimyat dot org.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
So dimyat dot org and that's the website. That's what
everybody needs to be going to. Anyways, dimyap dot org. Johnny,
please look that up and we will get the dates
of that performance. All right. Well, SpongeBob the musical is
July twenty fifth through August third. Yeah, so it's right
around the corner.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, no, it's coming up very soon.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Awesome. Well, let's talk about the YouTube page, dude cauz.
That is I mean, I would be I would not
be doing my part in promoting who does Pearson is
if I didn't promote this YouTube page as hard as
I can because that is the genius. In my opinion,

(13:41):
that is the genius in what you are and what
you will become. Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, So his YouTube page, Pizza Crust Studios at does
underscore p When did this start? How did you? I
mean I'm sure you had to approach your parents and
be like, hey, can I start a YouTube page? Likealk
me through that?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right? So it started when I think it was
like nine or eight, not the actual channel, but basically
I had YouTube on my TV, so I was like, hey, Dad,
could you set up my YouTube channel on my TV
because I thought that you could record videos for on TV.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's what you thought. Yeah, it was gonna happen, Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Like I thought I could just record Minecraft and get
a million followers or something. But no, actually, eventually, in
August twenty twenty three, I think basically my dad helped
me set up my YouTube channel. I got my email
and stuff, and yeah, my first ever upload, I know,
it was a Minecraft video. That's that's originally what I

(14:39):
wanted to do. Be a No, I wanted to be
like a gaming channel. That's that's it. But you know,
the video has only got like eight ten views. You know,
I still don't do very well in views. But you know,
it's it was just Minecraft stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, it was purely unedited most of the.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Time, just you playing Minecraft talking while you're playing MinC.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. And is it you know, when you're watching like
YouTubers when they're playing, there's the like the dual camera
where there's you a shot on you playing and then
there's the shot like the screen grab of seeing the game.
Was it that or was it literally just you and
you were just playing the game.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I couldn't figure out how to do that. I think
you need like a webcam or something. I mean I
later did figure out how to do that, but I
don't use it very.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Much, right, that's not what you're into now.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, but yeah, no, it was just me sometimes talking
over the gameplay. You know, if my microphone ever had issues,
I would not fix it and post it was it
was very amateur.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, it's incredible because people are going to listen to
you right now on this show and then be like,
he's a kid. You just name dropped fix it in posts,
I mean things that people that are that work in
this business due right like, So that's pretty impressive. The
and I know you figured you you eventually figured out
the multi screen issue because if you watch any of

(16:05):
your content on Pizza Crust Studios, it's very obvious you
edit and you work a lot on your edits green
screen included. So where where are you now? I guess
in how you go about a production and kind of
where are you heading?

Speaker 2 (16:22):
All right? So you know how production usually starts is
sometimes I a lot of times again improv I don't
write the script, but when I do, yeah, I write
the script. Usually I use a software called kit Scenarios,
which is a free script script script writing software, and yeah,

(16:43):
it's like a kind of the official type of thing.
Then I print that out and then I just get
immediately to filming because you know, I don't even memorize it.
Usually I just look at it in between chops. I
can cut out and just say the lines and stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
So it's just a lot of like bull up, Like
here's the idea. I know where I wanted to end,
but here's kind of an idea of dialogue I want
and I'm just gonna improve it along the way.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, so yeah, I just do that. It's a bit unprofessional,
but I think it's it's just fun. You know. You
don't really have to strict to you don't really have
to hold on to something very long. You can like
make up new stuff if you think, oh this isn't
funny or oh this won't do well.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
But that's YouTube. It's very diy like you're you're doing it,
you know. Yeah, have you taken improv classes before?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
No? I mean the closest is like, well the close
actually sort of there's like a dim yet thing called
plain a Day mm hmm. It's a dim yet summer
camp where basically the thought is you make like a
twenty ten minute play in a singular day where you
take like a children's book or something, make dialogue off

(17:52):
of that until like the you know, vague story, and
then you display that in front of like your audience
of parents and stuff. Okay, so you had to like
come up with stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, and you know your target audience. So when you're
i mean, you know who's gonna be there, right, who
the audience is. So then when you're creating this content,
is it targeted to make parents laugh or are you
just doing what you think is funny and hopefully they laugh?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, I mean sometimes they like they bring young children,
you know, like siblings and stuff. So usually it mostly appeals.
It's like a mix cause there are so many jokes,
some jokes that appeal to adults, some to kids. Like
for the second plane, the day that we did, it
was more of a kid's thing because we based it
off a children's book that was full of music and stuff,

(18:36):
and they're all very like silly kids songs. Yeah and yeah, No,
that was more folks towards kids. But the first one
was another children's book, but there were some like more
adult jokes, not the like adult adult.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, not that it's not rated R.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, it's like a it's a strong GYA.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
So I have noticed on on the page some of
your newer content has had kind of a horror like presence,
Like there's even some horror shorts that you've made. Is
this like a darker side of days that we're finding
or is this just a genre that you have found

(19:20):
interesting or have you just been watching horror movies? Like
what's the deal?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Curious? I'm I'm interested in horror when I get older
and stuff, and you know, I like incorporating into some
into some of my videos and stuff. You know, I
think horror can actually be pretty funny. You know, it's
just like out of nowhere, this all gets so dark
and like just what is going on? So yeah, no, horror,

(19:44):
I mean horror comedy are actually very close. You know,
both try to get a reaction out of you. You know,
both are like, uh, both can chalk you in some ways.
So yeah, they're very close genres. So I like to
incorporate both into a lot of my skits and stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's I love that you said that because I one
hundred percent agree with you, and it goes back to you.
You've got a video called The Chair with Dez and
it was the pilot episode of the Chair with Dez.
And just to kind of give you a quick background
on the Chair with Dez, it's Dees is in a
you know, on a green screen, right, and there he is,

(20:22):
He's on this chair kind of and then the chair
next to him is like a skeleton that appears to
be bloody. Yeah, but that doesn't matter. What matters is
the monologue you're giving in this pilot episode, which is
where you're talking about screaming doesn't mean funny, and you're
giving this entire monologue on how comedy is. There's a

(20:43):
way to comedy and it's the setup, the build, and
punchline and it's not just randomly screaming like that's not funny, right,
And I one hundred percent agree what you're saying. And
it's great because we were talking earlier about how you
have found that's sometimes that can be funny. Sometimes that
is the punchline, right. But in your in your process

(21:07):
there you talked about set up, build, punchline. That is comedy,
that's also horror. One hundred percent. It's the setup to
what we're being spooked of, or we're supposed to be
scared of. The build and the intense and the nervousness, right,
and then the punchline is the jump. Yeah, like that's

(21:28):
that's horror as well. It's the exact same thing.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, I mean, actually, horror doesn't really have to be
set up, build punchline. It's not like, you know, a
spooky thing is gonna happen. Oh, the spooky thing happened. No, Actually,
horror can actually I think a lot of the time
it relies on atmosphere kind of yeah. You know if
you've ever seen like a psychological horror film, yep. Uh,

(21:50):
it derives all its fear from like the unknown, you
know what's.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Around you, what could be coming?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
What?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, what hasn't come? Like anything? Yeah, Like it's more just.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Like fully set up in maybe one punchline at the
end that gets you.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, set up punch, set up punch that stand up comedy,
Well that's awesome. Have you considered writing longer form? I mean,
I know a lot of your stuff is shorts I've
seen on YouTube. Are you writing longer form stuff?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes? The problem is I like to write a lot
of I like to start writing a lot of long
form videos, like maybe more longer short films, or even
like a feature film like video or something. But then
I realized, oh, there's another great idea, and I start
writing that. Then another great idea and I start writing that.
Like I a lot of times, I can't stay on
one specific script. That's like my problem with making super

(22:43):
long videos.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Okay, So with that being said, do you have specific
times in your day that you are spent writing or
is it just when you feel like writing? You write?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
I just feel like writing sometimes. You know, maybe I'll
I'll work a bit on a script that I abandoned,
like a week ago or something. You know, it's honestly
just however I feel like it because you know, it's
not super official. I'm still twelve years old. I don't
have like super official supplies or anything, so it doesn't
really matter.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, let it be known that any the things that
you're posting and the ability just to post and have
your own channel is no different than your heroes. They
are also creating content, making people laugh, making people scared,
and posting it just like you are. So you're right
there with them. Man, and it doesn't matter the quality.

(23:37):
If it works, it works right, Funny's funny.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wait, I would like to mention I actually have put
some work into a long form video that I'm actually
probably gonna make.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, so when when is this happening?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's a heavy evidence I'm probably I've already technically filmed it.
It's gonna be an interview with my great grandma. Okay, yeah, no,
I've filmed it. You know, you know my great grandma
was you know, wonderful. It's like maybe ten minutes plus long,
you know, because you know, I've been planning to do
it for a long time, and you know, it's probably

(24:12):
gonna be like one of the longest videos I've ever made.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Is this like a documentary short? Or is it a
is it comedy?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
What do you?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
What? Are we thinking?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's more of like a documentary. It's it doesn't have like,
you know, the talking heads or anything. It's just like
a one on one interview.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
So the interview okay, all.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right, yeah no, and it's it is kind of funny
at moments, but it's not really a comedy. You know,
I talk about like her life, you know, living through
World War two, unfortunately, you know, living through like the
change and innovation of the world. And yeah, no, it's
gonna be pretty cool. I just have to edit it all,
which is the hardest part because that takes hours out

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of your day.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
How do you feel about the United States being two
and zero all time in World Wars?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't really know. I've I still haven't learned that
much about history.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, I've learned.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I've always I've obviously learned a little about World War World,
World War Road War two, and you know, I've learned
that in school. I've read books about it. I'm not, like,
you know, heavily uneducated on the World wars, but honestly,
I don't focus on that stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
So, okay, where were you when nine to eleven happened?
Do you remember how you felt in that moment?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm twelve years old, so okay.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
So no impact at all. Yeah, that's sad, because it
shook me. I'm gonna tell you that right now when
it happened and I had the understanding of I couldn't
go to school and the whole world was shutting down
like it was wild man. That's odd that you don't
even really care.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I mean, it's not that I don't care. I'm just
I'm just twelve years old, so I couldn't have lived
through that stuff, Okay. I mean I empathize with the
people who had to suffer, you know, the tragedy of that.
That was like, you know, it chook the world. That
was a horrible event. But you know, I don't have
much insight on that because I couldn't actually witness it.

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(28:55):
Andy Samberg, he's somebody that you you want to say.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Something the the So earlier we discussed that there's going
to be a joke in this segment.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
So okay, So here a little backstory. Ahead of time,
I sent des a rundown of topics and I said,
here's where we're going. Here's the roadmap. We're going to
go all over the board, but here's where we're going.
One of them was I wrote Andy Samberg because I

(29:34):
know that's a huge inspiration of DESA's And just before
we hit record, des was nice enough to tell me
that I misspelled Samberg.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, it is honestly the worst thing that you've ever done.
You ruined my enjoyment of this experience.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, not me questioning you about nine to eleven. It
was me misspelling Andy Samberg.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yes, yeah, there's there's an e where there was a you.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
So I what I told him was, hey, when we
that's that's great. When we get to that point, bring
up that I misspelled that. Yeah, all right, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
All right, let's get on to actually discussing.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
So Andy Samberg. Obviously I know who Andy Samberg is.
For anybody in the audience who doesn't know who Andy
Samberg is, wake up, because yeah, he's uh, he's one
of the geniuses in the Lonely Island. He most notably
came from Saturday Night Live and has since spawned a

(30:35):
great TV and movie career. So, Andy Samberg, how like,
how did you become a fan? And what about him?
Like drawsy to him?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
All right? So, uh, I think the first time I
was ever even exposed to Andy Samberg was probably through
the first one in the Island song I ever listened to,
which was I'm on a Boat.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, great song, great song, classic.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
You know, I know all the lyrics.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Why don't you have a cover of that on YouTube?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I mean, to be very I want to actually make
music videos like Oh, I'm Gonna go on a tangent.
I want to make like green screen music videos of
their songs at one point because I actually know most
of the lyrics to their songs, which is which is
either really sad or really cool depending on who you ask.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
So, Adie Samberg, I'm on a Boat. That caught your attention.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, no, so much so that when I think I
was exposed to when I was ten or nine. So
I was at like my cousins and we went over
to his friend's house and I played that on the
porch really loudly, uncensored versions. My parents didn't like that
very much.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, that's probably not ideal, but.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, I know. Later on, Yeah, I went to U
after that, you know, I listened to some more long
Island than I finally watched Brooklyn nine nine, which he
stars in. Ye, honestly, still the best TV show I've
ever seen. I'm not even kidding. I've watched it five.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Times all the way through.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, two times in a row. Wow. Yeah, No, I
love Brooklyn nine nine.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Everybody has their comfort show, right, their show that It's
like I can just throw that on at any moment
and it's awesome. Like I'll throw on, you know, anything O. J.
Simpson related and I'm hooked right and it comforts me,
like I can just fall asleep. Yeah, I don't know.
Are you familiar with OJ?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, but kind of in a bad way.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, well he's an NFL Hall of Famer, but yeah, anyways,
go on about Andy Samber.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, so, yeah, no, I watched Brooklyn nine nine.
I forgot to point out I watched hot Rod before that.
Hot Rod also greatest movie of all time and I'm
not even lying. That's my number one movie on letterboxed.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Can I disappoint you real quick? But I've never seen
hot Rod? He just all right, Well that was it
for DEAs. He has just left the podcast. I have
seen parts. I know about it. I know enough about it.
I've listened to full podcasts about it, which you know,

(33:14):
Andy is also part of the long Island and Seth
Meyers podcast. That is just a monster success in such
a great show. I've seen it, but anyway, I've never
seen it from beginning to end.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
It is honestly a really great slapstick comedy. This isn't spoilers,
but here's a literal scene that happens in the movie.
I can actually quote quote it. Basically, Rod is talking
to his friends after he left being a stuntman, and
he's like, here's a monologue. I used to be legit.

(33:46):
I was too legit, too legit to quit, but now
I'm not legit, I'm unlegit, and for that reason I
must quit. He's holding like a shopping cart full of
beer bottles. Yeah, and then he turns around starts pushing
it away. Then a car comes out of oh and
hits him, and he doesn't go to the hospital. He

(34:09):
survives us. He's later seen just in bed chilling, Yeah,
after presumably breaking his entire body.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I like comedies like that. This would be a movie
I probably enjoy.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, it is very absurd.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
The main plot line is that is dying the father.
Stepfather has to have a fifty thousand dollars surgery, so
he has to raise money through stunt stunt work, but
the only reason he's doing this is to beat his ass.
That's great, hopefully I can say.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Ask Yeah, we swear all the time.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but my parents let me say it,
so I think it's good they do.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Like at dinner when you guys are like, oh, how's
your day, and you're like, man, it's hot as balls
out there, Like my ass is sweating, Like that is
it the kind of stuff you say?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
I don't think I say balls that much.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I think I do say that much, but you do
say it.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I say it as occatingly.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Okay, well I'm cool. Just so that his parents know
I didn't bring it up. You brought it up because
they're gonna come at me. I mean yeah. So Samberg
obviously huge fan of his content. Is he like an
inspiration to a point where you're like, I want to
write songs, I want to create like funny viral videos

(35:24):
like the Lonely Island, Like that's how they got started
and just kind of like grew from there. Like is
that something you want to do or you're just like
a big fan.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
He's the only reason that I'm still alive. I'm gonna say,
I'm just I'm just joking. I'm just no. Yeah, I know,
he's a huge inspiration. I take like lots of I
like his absurd comedy style. That's where I incorporate some
of my comedy and my sketches. Yeah, the Lonely Island
loved them for a while. That's why why I made
the Lazy Sunday cover. Yeah, oh yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
That's awesome. All right, Well, Samberg's a big inspiration. Here's
another one, weird Al Yankovic. I know you're a fan
of your dad's probably an even bigger fan.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Probably than you.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, but you've benefit and you've seen him live. You like,
he's not everybody's cup of tea. He's he's a guy
that's like he's done these parody covers his whole career
and he's a monster. But some for some reason, people
have been like, weird ol, he's not like he's not legit.

(36:28):
You know, like I've heard this. I want you to
argue against that, and why weird down Yankovic is the
hero that we deserve.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well weird Hell, first off, amazing person in real life.
I mean it was COVID time, so we couldn't really
actually meet him like fully. But I did get the
VIP thing with my parents so we could take a picture.
There's like a flexi glass wall between us and they
would photo shop it out. But yeah, no, he's an
amazing person. He's he's really nice, he's really sincere. Honestly,

(36:59):
he's a good guy. But that's not it. His music. Uh,
he doesn't just do parodies. He he actually does do
like original songs that kind of are a bit tearcal
of like you know, modern songs and stuff like my
favorite song of all time. I actually was just wearing
a shirt of it like yesterday. I think Dare to
be Stupid. Yeah, yeah, it's like a Devo parody. It's

(37:23):
not based off a song, but they were like the
Devo outfit.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, and I love the meaning behind the Dare to
Be Stupid because the weird, the weirder, the better, you know,
Like that's it's okay. Yeah, you brought up COVID times.
What brand of uh COVID shot did you get?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
I don't know. No, I mean again, I'm a kid,
so gotcha, I mean because I was. I mean it's
been five years. I was seven when COVID started. I
was doing like second grade.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Okay, so not something top of mind.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, so I don't remember much step any of the details.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right, that's fair. All right, Well, Top, you brought
up that Brooklyn nine to nine your favorite TV show
of all time. That kind of gives us an insight
to who you are in your sense of comedy. Let's
talk top five. What are some other TV shows that
you would say this is primo television and everybody needs

(38:24):
to go watch it.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
All right? That is I actually just discuss this with
my dad before at like lunch. You know, obviously Brooklyn
nine nine, number one, close, number two, Parks and Recreation
Parks and Rock. Okay, it also has an Andy Samberg cameo,
so obviously number two, number three? What did I say? Again? Oh?

(38:45):
Now I can't remember it. I'm trying to think here,
Why can I not remember anything?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Thirty Rock?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Maybe? No, I've never seen that.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I'm just thinking that era.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
No now I remember, I think, oh yeah snl obviously
more Andy Sanford snluh. Futurama love. I love futrama. My
dad likes Simpsons very much too.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, that was like the Futurama of
his era.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yea uh. And then you know, fifth Place is the
Good Place if you've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
That good Place? So I have not seen it. Can
I just tell you real quick why I've never seen
the Good Life, the Good Place, the Good Place. I'm sorry.
I just had lunch at the Good Life Sports Bar
and I just want to say kudos to them. The
Mimosa was delicious, the Volcano tots were incredible, and uh,

(39:45):
they're just it's always fun to go.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
There is sponsored no.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Free ads, and I really did not go there. But
that's I had to spin it somehow. I had to
tell you why I had that on the brain. No,
the Good Place. Let me tell you why I've never
watched a good Place? Now correct me if I'm wrong.
Ted Danson stars in this TV show or no, Ted Danson,
ted Dancing.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I don't I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
My thinking of a different television show.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I'm gonna search it up on IMDb. I think you
might be right because I think I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Let me look good, Yeah, Johnny, will you please look
this up? The Good Place cast? Please? And yes, in fact,
it is Ted Danson. Okay, Yes, Can I just tell
you that I have had probably a thirty year feud

(40:41):
with mister ted Danson, and not directly. Okay, he doesn't
know who I am. Fair, but I've got friends who
have tried to persuade me and others that Ted Danson
is the best cast member of the movie Three Men
and a Baby. Now, have you ever seen three men

(41:01):
in a baby? No, These are three guys, unrelated, guys
that have to suddenly raise an invent they had no
idea was going to be a part of their life,
and now they're suddenly raising this little baby girl. Yeah,
and they fall in love with this little baby girl,
and it spawns a sequel and the baby's just fine.
They have to figure out life, you know. There's just

(41:21):
three guys that were never meant to be dads that
had to become dads instantly. It also starred a guy
named Steve Gutenberg, who I feel is underappreciated and underrated.
He's a heck of an actor. You should look him
up and watch everything he's ever been in. Okay, with
that being said, he's far better than Ted Dancing. And
I think there's been some kind of like underground Hollywood

(41:45):
bs going on to take down Gutenberg and have the
rise of Ted Danson. Because Ted Danson is a talentless hack.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, yep, you have a few over a celebrity who
doesn't even know you.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, he doesn't know who I am.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, no, I'm I didn't even know Ted Danson before this,
and I mostly watched A Good Place because my dad
recommended it to me. Yeah, it actually is a really
good show if you can get around Ted Dancing.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah I can't, but I'll I'll take it up with
your dad. Yeah. So Brooklyn nine nine Parks and rec SNL,
Futurama and then that piece of crap Ted Dancing. So
here's here's here's what I got, and I'll tell you
we're not that far off from each other.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
My top five TV shows that I think everybody should
watch to understand television, especially in our era.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Number one a show called Breaking Bad. I mean, ever
watched Breaking Man?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I feel like I can't. I've heard of it, but
I know it involves meths lots of it. Oh yeah, no,
I probably can't see that.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yeah. It's about a high school science teacher that get
sick and then turns to dealing drugs to pay for
his medical Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
There's like a lot of memes on the Internet about it.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yeah, so great show from beginning to end. There's not
a bad episode of the Bunch, right. Number two is
a show called Seinfeld. You ever heard of Seinfeld?

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I've heard of it, still haven't seen and I know
it's earns Jerry Seinfeld obviously Jerry Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Yeah, great show and kind of created a genre of
comedy of just you know, basic things around you can
be funny. Number three is a show called The Sopranos,
and it's about the mob. And I would not expect
you have ever watched this show, but I'm sure you've
heard of the sobrand.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, no, I've ever heard of all of these shows.
I've just never watched.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
That's another good one with not many misses. Number four
Saturday Night Live, and I'll say not just the Andy
Samberg era. I'll say from beginning to end, it's had
a piece of pop culture that no one else can touch,
right like, And not every season's been as good, and
certainly not every episode's a winner, and shoot, even good

(43:52):
episodes have bad sketches. But the show as a piece
of pop culture in our world is just incredible and
hard to have been touched. I mean, what other show
has been that relevant for that long. You could say
The Simpsons, right, you could say South Park starting at life. Incredible.

(44:13):
Number five a little show called Survivor. Have you ever
heard of this reality TV show?

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Reality Oh? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
It's the ultimate social experiment where they take all these
random people have never met each other, and they PLoP
them on an island and they all have to work
together or work against each other, out with outplay out last.
It's incredible and it truly is the best social experiment
on television. You should check it out. Maybe you don't
like reality TV, do you?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I mean reality TVs? Okay, I don't like like the
you know, trashy, like you know.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Love Island, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
I don't blame you. Yeah, Survivor is certainly not trashy. Yeah,
but oh it's good stuff. You guys. I know your
family loves movies, and they don't just love good movies.
In fact, you have a place in your heart for
some of the worst movies. What's like, the worst movie
you've ever seen?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
The Super Mario Brose movie from nineteen.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Ninety that's incorrect.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
I watched that thing as like a kid, like ten
years old.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Actually, people always like scrutinize me when I say kid,
because I'm still.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Because you're kid. You said ten years old. Yeah, maybe
literally two years ago.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Maybe I don't kind of been earlier, literally two years ago.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
No, that thing traumatized me. I did not. Yoshi was
literally just a dinosaur.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
No, uh?

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Pretty the bowser? What the what the freak was that tongue? Yeah,
Jesus Christ, the coop, not the koopa goomba what. Okay,
that's all I have to say.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
I one hundredcent agree with you. I probably was ten
or even younger when I watched it and it was
not good. And luckily they remade and did an animated version.
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Oh yeah, that's a great one. I love Jack Black
in it.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Yeah, what a what a great movie. I will actually
I will send you a podcast where they break down
the making of that original Super Marbles movie. It's so
interesting how the movie got made. It had many obstacles,
let's just say that. So it wasn't exactly built to succeed.
But it's pretty good. It's actually a pretty interesting story.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Some other like quote unquote bad movies, though. I want
to take a quick tangent to talk about them. Yeah,
have you ever seen bats?

Speaker 1 (46:38):
No, I've never seen bats.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
You've never seen hot rod or bats. Bats is literally
the least clickbait title ever. It is one bats, zero
percent logic. And also it has a guy who works
with bats who has a phobia of bats. Okay, that's
obviously the best movie ever made.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
So is it a horror movie?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
It's supposed to be a horror movie, but it's the
freaking funniest thing ever, Like out of nowhere, the some
character will look in the sky and be like bats,
and then a bat sequence happens.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
That's great. Well, I'll have to check out bats. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
There's also another quote unquote bad movie. Uh, Tammy and
the t Rex. It's another it's a bit more obscure act.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, I've never seen tam in the t Rex, but
I've have seen Jurassic Park.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah, Tammy and the t Rex. It's also another really
dumb movie. It's intense but in but in this case
it's trying to be intentionally comedic, and then it's but
then it's kind of The jokes are very weird, but
that ends up going full one to eighty and goes
back to being comedic. It's basically kind of a horror

(47:55):
movie where basically, uh, these evil scientists. This evil scientist
guy takes a kid who was just recently mauled by
a lion. Also, by the way, after he gets mauled
by a lion, he's shown in the hospital with zero
injury scars or anything. He's like perfectly fine, he's just even.
He just staying there. And they take him, cut out

(48:17):
his brain and connect it to an animatronic dinosaur, and
then chaos and tunes ensues. There's like a part where
a guy gets his head bit off and then runs
around like crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
And there's also a party scene where the dinosaur comes
while a guy's taking a whiz and then slashes him
and he looks down.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Oh it's spilling out yea.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
And people get crushed. It is a stupid movie, seriously,
and I love it. I gave it five stars.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
You sold it, you sold it. We have to see
this movie now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
I basically am advertising movies. If you have a bad
movie that nobody wants to see, I can add for it.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
All right, let's talk about let's talk about your family.
I know your family pretty well. Yeah, so your dad
has been on the show a couple a few times.
He is our resident movie expert. He comes around especially
around the Academy Awards season. Is that something that you
have started to really enjoy is kind of like watching
those Awards season movies and kind of watching Award season

(49:25):
and tracking that.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
The problem is if I can even watch the movie
because a lot of times they're rated like R and
have like the weirdest stuff in them, I mean, and
also sometimes I just can't because I can't find time
for it or it's god damn boring. Yeah, like a
three hour movie is nominated for Best Picture. I'm not
watching that.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
You're not watching that? Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I tried to watch through Conclave, and i'd made it
into through it like an hour before I was just like, hey,
I'm gonna watch book them that nine again.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Yeah, as one does.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
But I have seen like a few of them. You know.
I've seen Alien Romulus, which was nominated for via Vex.
Honestly great alien movie, especially since the franchise has been
kind of yeah lately, So you know, I've seen a
few others. You know, I saw the Avatar movies and stuff,
but there weren't anything that came out this year.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
So yeah, okay, Well I've seen the Blue Man Group before,
so I don't need to watch Avatar. I think I
get it. Yeah, any any, I mean maybe some of
your family will listen to the pod. Do you want
to give any shout outs?

Speaker 2 (50:34):
I guess shout out to my dad and my mom.
I have no siblings, and I'm glad because sometimes I
occasionally hop over to my cousins. Yeah, it's an older
guy named u Sja, not older guy guy.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
He's still like it is still a kid.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yeah. And then there's my younger cousin Lexi, and it
is basically the Civil.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
War with them amongst them.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah. Uh. Sometimes we'll just go on the trampoline because
they have one, and like play a game or something,
and then like two minutes later they're like, ww takedown.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
It devolves into basically a wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, just
without the safety precautions.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Well, knowing your uncle Sean, I completely believe that this.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I mean, yeah, he's a he's the same guy he
climbed up a street pole and then jumped down thinking
of Superman.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
That's awesome. So you brought a box with you, and
at first I thought you were gonna go all carat
top on me, and you had a whole box full
of just like jokes.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
It turns out it's kind of like Show and tell.
You brought some stuff. Do you want to talk about it?

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah? No, I brought the like I like. I'm a
collecting guy, you know. I collect Funko pops, I collect
you know, video games. My dad collects movies. Uh, sometimes
just acts, make a lot of general stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yeah, yeah, so what'd you what'd you bring? Let's talk
about it all right?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I didn't bring too much, but it is mostly just
from stuff that I like. Yeah. First off, I'd like
to point out the Deadpool games.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
This has got an Xbox One game of Deadpool.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Yeah, this is an interesting story because this game is
extremely rare.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
It just they just didn't make many copies.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
No, pretty yeah, pretty much. It came out originally twenty thirteen,
two years later. Actually Activision and Marvel had a big
feud and stuff, and the legal rights were kind of
in the like mixed area, so they just took it
off shelves. Okay, not many copies were produced, but then
later on they came out with like a after the

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movie came out, they came with like a reboot of it,
and you know, got it on the modern consoles like
Xbox one and PS four. But then again, like forget
if it was a few months or like a year later,
they it got taken off shells because obviously legal issues
and stuff. And yeah, it's very hard to find a copy.

(53:02):
I did have one on the PS three at some point,
my dad did, actually, yeah, but somehow he lost it.
And the game can go for like two hundred dollars
on the PS four. Have you played the game, yes,
a little, I've I've played the game a bit. It
is pretty fun but also pretty stupid, because.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
It's deadful, but stupid in the best way.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I mean, honestly, if you find because I found this
at a local J's for only sixty which might seem
like a lot considering that's the price of like most
modern games, but for the game itself, that is actually
a decent price.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Very nice.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, if you see a copy, pick it up, you know,
maybe try and play it, but it's mostly just kind
of collectible stuff to put on your shelf and show people.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Yeah, no, it's pretty awesome. It's a great talking point.
What else you got in this box?

Speaker 2 (53:48):
I got a lot of deadful stuff Deadpool Action. Oh yeah,
it comes with more runs than this one. It is
decided to bring it. Yeah, it's a it's a little
deadful guy. He only costs like twenty dollars in an Amazon,
but he has pretty good articulation. I looked, I put it,
I posed him up and chill him off to people.
He is honestly really neat.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
You know, he usually he's usually packing more heat than that.
But yeah, in this case, he's got two samurai swords
and a pistol.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Is him. The only complaint that I have is that
there isn't an extra hand option for him to flip
you off.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
It's a very Deadpool thing. Yes, he's good, and he.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Just felt he's good. He's good. He didn't fall into
the floor.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Then the final Deadpool thing a little funk.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Oh and he's like a bottlehead.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yeah, it's like a bottle head funk pop. The thing is,
I didn't pick this up at you know, like Jay's
or anything. It was literally at a highve, Fast and Fresh.
They were selling like random Deadpool, you know, funk pop.
So I decided to pick this bad boil up.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yeah, shout out the fast and fresh and then oh crap,
he dropped his weapon.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Now I got master Chief.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Master Chief from Halo. Halo, You're you're gonna I think
I'm an idiot. I so I've never played Halo, have you?
And I grew up in the era that everybody played Halo.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Exactly, you were dumb. Now, I just recently got into
hal like a few months ago. Yeah, yeah, like that,
And honestly, I've been obsessed with trying to find a
box Master Tief figure. Okay, because I I actually have
two more. Both of them were loose and they're like
fifteen dollars, but you know, they're Halo figures, and I

(55:30):
couldn't find anything previously. But then I just strolled into
Jay's one day with my dad and I found a box,
like unopened Halo figure that was just going for twenty five.
So I picked it up obviously, Yeah, because you know
that's that's honestly a great deal for how hard it
is to find like a regular. This guy's seven inches.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
So tell me that's I've heard that's about average. So
what tell me about Jay's? Like what you've You've You've
mentioned Jay's three four times now talk to me about Jays.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
It's basically just like a comic video game, you know,
action figure store. Basically, it's kind of just like a
nerd store. You can buy like a seed. You can
buy a lot of like DVD CDs, you know, video
games and stuff like I mentioned before, and they're they're
mostly just like pre owned stuff. Okay, So people can
trade them in for like store credit or money, And

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me and my dad occasionally do trade and.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Stuff, right, but not movies.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I mean sometimes movies.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
What you're telling me right now on record that your
dad will unload movies, Well.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
That's only if he has like a if he got
a new four K copy of it.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Oh so he upgraded it.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Yeah, he upgrades it, he turns in the you know downgrade.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
That's fair, Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
So yeah, honestly, really cool figure. He also comes with
an assault rifle from the game, not just this little
plasm rifle.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Yeah, a laser shooter.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Yeah, it's used by the cup number. And then the
final thing, it's actually a three D printed thing Alien
chest Burster. Do you have a No, I didn't three
D printed it myself. Basically, I think it was at
like an art market type thing, and I picked it
up because I forgot to mention this. I love the

(57:17):
alien movies, you do, yeah, I've seen them all.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
This is like those little wooden snakes you'd find, oh
yeah no back in the day. But it's it's like
the alien guy. Yeah, he's imagine if a snake and
the alien guy turned into a human centipede. That's what
it would look like.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Yeah, no, that is That is like the coolest thing
that I have concerning how it's custom yeah, not just
like an action figure.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
This is the first three D printed thing I've ever
held in my hand.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Hum. I actually have like a few three D printed things,
mostly like they're small little fidget things like I have
an infinite cube of if you ever heard of that? Yep.
And also like, well, there's like this thing where it
is very complicated. It's like a swirly triangle like cone
thing that you can slide into another swarly triangle cone thing.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
It.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Honestly, if I brought it here, you could actually see
what it looks like. So yeah, that's all I prough.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
That's pretty cool. All right, So Insight into the Brain,
does Pierson? All right, it's your chance now to plug
anything you want to plug? What do you have? What
are you working on? What do you got coming up?
I know we've talked about your YouTube page at does Underscore,
pe Pizza Cross Studios. What what? What do you want
to plug? What do you got coming up here?

Speaker 2 (58:38):
I want to say that for a while now, I've
been working on trying to make a feature film because
I want to get into film school, so I want
to make it before I graduate from high school so
I can send it to like various film schools.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Yeah, and you're graduating what next year?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
No? No, well not, I'm going to be graduating from
middle school in eighth grade and I'm going to seventh
uh so, I don't know, I can't. Ah, I know
I'm gonna be graduating from high school in a few.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Years in a while.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Yeah, so I still well yeah, so I'm gonna be
you know, writing, I'm writing currently a feature film idea
I have. I'm not gonna give too much away. The
title is still in progress, Like it has a working
title right now.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
So the title is still in progress, a working title
that's actually pretty creative.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Muh so. And I'll give you information on some of
the plot and you know, the details. First off, it's
like a comedy crime movie basically.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Okay, like a buddy comedy.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Yeah, it's kind of a buddy comedy, but it's not
about cops. It's about crime. Crime. It's like because the
buddy comedy is about you know, two people who are
very quirky and.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
They go and solve crime.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, well they don't solve crime. They are crime.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Oh they are the crime.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Yeah, okay, basically they're Oh what did I name? Oh?
I remember. Basically it's Henry, who I think is like
a twenty five year old guy, and his older step brother, No,
his younger step brother Kai who is fifteen, and Ki
really wants to start an amateur crime duo in the
state of Arizona. But then they actually get caught up

(01:00:18):
in the goings of a major crime family called the Garganto's,
led by you know, their leader who I forget what
was his name? I forget.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
I know it was Johnny Garganto.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
No, I forget what his name was. But I know though,
like mob boss, like the grandfather is like the main Garganto.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
He's like the Sealerno family.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
So yeah, no, they are you know trying to track
down these guys and they're just like two siblings just
trying to make it in the crime in the crime business.
And yeah, I'll be like a goofy movie. Probably won't
have that hip of a budget, but yeah, no, it'll
be pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
That's great because you set it up perfectly the stepbrother situation,
because then you know, in the third act when they
disagree with each other, it's easy for one of them
to be like, you're not even my blood brother, and
they can just you know, fight, and then they'll come
together in the end.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
But yeah, no, that's perfect. You already You've already got
it all written in.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
And I'm also trying to make on work on like
a actual web series, not just like one that I
film in like two minutes and then edit. Yeah, it's
gonna be like a web series called it's another working title,
but it's kind of more defined. I think it's called Roomies.
It's basically, you know, it's kind of like if Friends

(01:01:39):
was a mockumentary kind of. It's basically about a group.
It's gonna last like a season. Yeah, it's a mini series.
It's about it's in like last ten episodes and it's
about a group of friends who decide, well, actually it's
a trio friends who decide to start you know, living
in a house together because there they can be roommates.

(01:01:59):
A few more people joint over the years, but then
they realize that they cannot stand each other at all
after a few.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Years, like like one just wants to go to sleep
and their roommates are just banging on their door like
come on out, let's have some beers like by that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
And yeah, there's I only have like a few characters planned.
There's Daryl. He's basically a very immature, very you know,
impulsive guy who is who's not really aware of his
actions and stuff. Like at the start of the show,
in a cold open, he's like, basically a news story
shows him flipping off a news reporter and then he's like, hey,

(01:02:37):
that's on me on TV. And then it just cuts
to pile of trash and he's like where is that
coming from? But cut, jump, cut, And then there's I
think I call him Jacob. Yeah, Jacob. Jacob is like
a bit more responsible, but still you know, a bit goofy.
He likes to you know, play like on the Wii

(01:02:58):
with his friend, but you know, Darryl's kind of jerked him. Yeah,
like in one of scene he literally just shoved him
onto the ground while they're playing like we tennis.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
That's awful.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
And then there's Melissa who was like the more awkward Chai,
you know, girl who likes to read books like that
sort of stereotype. Yeah, but like more to fine and
stuff obviously. So yeah, that's pretty much all I have
so far. But you know it, it was pretty neat.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Yeah, well awesome. We'll look forward to that and you
can find it all at the YouTube page at Dez
Underscore pe Pizza Cross Studios with Dez Pierson. You can
also find him online promoting the Des Moines Young Artist Theater,
which they have the SpongeBob Musical coming up July twenty
fifth through August third. So that is exciting. You got

(01:03:45):
a lot going on, You're a busy cat. School's about
to come back in session. Yep, all right, brother, any
any last thing you want to plug?

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
I don't really have anything that I can plug, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Okay, Well, thank you for coming all the way to
Omaha and join in. Uh laugh with me. Yeah, we'll
certainly have you back. You You've got a lot going on,
so I'm sure we've only hit the very tip of
what we can what we'll be able to talk about,
so awesome. Well, thanks man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Nice