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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinnie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, it's DJ Miller.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
TJJ Miller, my main man. Welcome to the project.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm a big fan, thanks, dude, I'm a big fan
of you. I'm excited to go up to Connecticut for
the Comics Roadhouse. Yes, it's got a real roadhouse feel
to it.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No, you're gonna love it, dude, you'll uh. You know,
from what I've gathered from being a fan of yours
for years and watching you in interviews and on podcasts,
it's a good spot. You're bringing your crowd Sorcerer tour
to Comics Roadhouse. You know. It's got like the mechanical
bull in one ear. Hey, I know that sounds horrible,
horrifically seventies, but it's actually like wildly cool, and there's
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hot girls who ride it all the time and great restaurant.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yet you truly cannot go wrong with hot grol and
mechanical ball. No last mechanical ball malfunction. Then it goes
really wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah. Yeah, And they're you know, they play like wanted
dead or alive when you're on it, like even the
tunes are right. You're gonna love the place. Man, I'm
coming to see you and I very rarely do that.
You should be flattered.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Because the very I'm extremely flattered. And I see my
wife in the background, I said, and less the mechanical
bull malfunctions and my wife's day goes or unless the woman,
unless the hot girl malfunction, right that. Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited.
I mean, it's thank you so much for coming. It
is fun. I played it once a long time ago.
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But it's got a roadhouse feeling. That's sort of one
of my specialties. You know, I can kind of do
crowd control, crowdstores, rough tours about sort of you know,
almost crowdsourcing the material, but it's not really crowd work.
I mostly just improvised and talk about where we are,
and there's plenty to talk about that at the casino
and uh, you know, I talk about people in the audience,
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but it's not hey, what's your name? What do you do? Hey,
where are you from? What's your It's it's kind of
don't do that. And then I've got all the material
that I'm working on special taping coming up, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I mean your work in all all of the
movies that I've watched you, it seems like you you
definitely go off script a lot, and you're really an
improv guy, so I would imagine you don't need audience participation.
That could be really annoying. I would imagine too.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I think so I expected at the Comics Roadhouse,
if only that it's called a roadhouse.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, true enough? But am I right to assume that
that some of your little tears. One of my particular
favorites is you in Office Christmas Party, which I'm surprised
didn't get a sequel. I'm waiting on the sequel to
that one. Did you we want to do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We want to do Halloween. We want to do Halloween
or Office Halloween Party?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I would love that? And did you go off script
a lot? And that it felt like and that character
really suited you? I think your personality did you improve
a lot there? Do you remember it's going back a
little bit?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh? Yeah, of course it was a It was an
immense amount of improvising, because that's kind of those guys,
especially are guys that I am. You know, they're they
the cast of Office Christmas Party is amazing. Yeah, and
they were all comedians and improvisers and so yeah, those
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directors who I did a motorolla commercial years ago with
Sure they they they would really they get what they
needed and then they would let you just go off script.
And so that was fun. And you had a lot
of people here. Kate McKinnon, Oh man, I mean I
can lift everybody, but just everybody was a great comedian around, right,
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Rob quardree to literally every single person.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I want to ask you to and I'm not
being a wise ass TJ.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think here we go. I think wise is awesome day.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
For what I got nothing of a love and I
think I've already proven myself. But a question that I
would have for you is, what's it like when you
go in to read for a movie like Office Christmas
Party or whatever, and they're like, uh, yeah, this is
for the role of Jennifer Anton's brother. I mean, you're
a good looking dude, but don't you think no one
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will believe I am Jennifer Aniston's brother. Did you struggle
with that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean it could be an adoption situation because I
look like a toddler. I rather took a gross here.
I'm in my jaws the size of horses, but outside
of that, I look exactly like Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's flattering, man, I mean when you heard you got
the role you're playing Jennifer, that's quite a compliment to
be told. Yes, we audience audiences will believe TJ. Miller
and Jennifer Anderson they're brother and sister. You guys, well, you.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys tell you something no one has ever asked me.
But there's no way for me not to be mildly offended.
But yes, you believe. I do believe in my heart
that I could at least sold that. You know, it's
either that or it's to make a wish program.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, you did sell that. But you both have beautiful hair,
so I mean you do have that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm completely different, completely curly, and hers
is completely straight. Another reason too will go and maybe
they aren't really brother. People liked it, they got into it. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The dynamic was fantastic, especially when she goes against the
grain and plays like the wit, which she seems to
like to do a lot of the time. You know,
she was the bad guy for the most part, and
you guys had a great chemistry. It was very sibling like.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I want to ask you too, to get We're out
with TJ. Miller. He's here all weekend Comics Roadhouse spending
the weekend with us in Connecticut at Mohegan Sun. Are
you doing the U because I'm on the website right.
Are you doing like the seven and the ten? Are
you doing two shows tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Two shows on Saturday, one show Friday. One shows tonight,
one show Friday shows Saturday. And it's going to be
a blast, man, But you got to get tickets to
Friday will sell out, you know, Fridays one Thursday comes through.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Friday is the one that I'm trying to horn in on.
I'd love to meet you too, and I don't usually Again,
I'm tell her, my man, I don't usually press people
on such things. And I've been in radio a long time,
but you're like, you're my dude from Dead People.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're dude, You're you're in like and I'd love to
buy you a drink. Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Now. My daughter has implored me to ask it. And
she's old, dude. I mean, I'm an old man. My
daughter's twenty two, but you represent it was like old
and she's like, Dad, that's Robbie Valentino. I'm like, I
don't even know what that. I don't know what I'm
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not armed with the information she's like from Gravity Falls,
like I should know. I do remember her when she
watched gravity Falls and she we're also we're a big
how to Train your Dragon house too, So yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Got to do both, say you know how to treat
gravity Fall. It's the kids that watched it or watched
it and also watch it now. Yes, almost a smart kids.
It's a lot of smart kids and a lot of
autistic kids. Yeah, and that's true, so she could be
either one of those things. The Gravity Falls particularly connects
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with really smart kids. You know, kids with autism are
very smart and they turn in on something because it's
as I don't have to say, but it's there's a
lot of Easter eggs in that that show. There's a
lot to notice and to put together. There's a lot
of mystery and and yeah, so she's a smart cookie.
Even though she's an old hag, a twenty two year
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old just old, all old woman.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All you're doing is giving her another reason to bark
at me later today, which because.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She is an elderly woman, she's probably got dementia. It's
gonna bark at you anyway, twenty two.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is why we got a hang on Friday night,
but because and she's a Big Hero six and I
remember taking her as a little girl the Big Hero
six and she cried all the way home from that movie. Dude.
But it did lead to the question. I thought to myself, Wow,
you do a lot more voice work than I thought
you did. And I've always felt like, and maybe you
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could answer this question for me, like improving in front
of a camera. You got Jennifer Andison to your left,
you look so much like and uh, and you could.
I always felt like voice work for animated features like
maybe improving wasn't welcome there, Like they take their scripts
way more seriously on it, you know, maybe an Ice
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age movie or How to Train Your Dragon? Am I wrong?
I do feel the same comfort level as far as
improving going off seeing if this works with an animated feature.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think an animation and in voice server, it's actually
easier to improvise because you're in that booth. Yeah, so
you go through and you get you know what they need.
But then it's just it's there are no cameras. You're
just recording the sound, so you don't they animate around you,
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's really interesting because you do the lines in the
script and then you can just kind of do I
mean literally because it's me, you can do fifteen or
twenty sort of you know lines, fifteen or twenty improvised lines. Yeah,
and then you know even more if you want it,
and then they'll choose what they want. So ironically, that
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ends up being the easiest place to improvise because when
you're on set, they shoot you, you know, from one angle,
and they don't have a ton of times, so you
can do you know, three or four five takes. If
it's Steven Spielberg, it's just four takes maximum. Yeah, but
you know, at best on television, you're going to get
five or six chances to do a joke and then
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they have to move on because they have other coverage
they have to do. So really so interesting. Yeah, yeah,
I did a lot more improvisation in voiceover then in
film or television, but television was a lot. On Silicon
Valley is a lot of improvisation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, it's so interesting. I got the total opposite answer
that I expected. You. You probably go in that booth
and get comfortable and you're like, I'm gonna give you
a million takes you pick your favorite. That's so interesting.
How about this weekend? So we got you the sixteenth
through the eighteenth, You'll be, you know, walking around the
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Mohegan Sun. People are gonna be shooting video clips and everything.
Your your stand up act? Do you I mean, I've
watched clips from back in the day, but do you?
Are you grabbing from the news? Are you? Are you
doing political not necessarily political stuff, but topical stuff like that?
Or what's the new show? Well, the titles very I'm
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intrigued by the crowd Sorcerer to tour because it's Sorcerer
like you know, Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, right, exactly. Well, I'm here crowdsourcing the material and
it is a little bit of magic. One guy said
that to me once and I thought it was so
interesting where he said, God, man, the way you improvise him,
it's like magic. It's like everything was set up before him.
He's like, that guy wasn't part of the show, wasn't he?
And I'm like, oh yeah, And then I bring this
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point out all over the country. But then it all
kind of connects together because I started as an improviser
and so it is kind of the way that I
improvised is really I'm connecting things and bringing them back around.
And you know, it's a pretty it's a pretty fun
thing to watch because every show is different, yeah, you know,
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and so I'll be improvising. I'm not talking about politics
of that kind of stuff. I'm talking about like, you know,
this guy's dressed like this, and so he might have
come straight from work. And these two are you know,
this is a husband and wife or they're just too
very angry or something like that. And so I'm messing
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around about the crowd kind of. And then it's the
newer material which I'm working on, which right now is
I was doing some of it last night. But it's
almost all just fun stuff. I talk a little bit
about my wife and I do that through finger puppetry,
and then I and then you know, I've got I've
got some stories that are really funny and unique, but
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a lot of it's improvisation and that's kind of what
I you know, what I like to do again, not
really crowd work, but it's just a lot of improvising.
And you know, I'll talk about the casino and I
think it's funny that the people that watch you that
are in your audience and the casino are losers. They're
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all losers because if you're winning a gambling, you don't
go see a show. You keep gambling. So so everybody
who's in there is kind of going, well, that hasn't
been great at the tables, but you'll see me as
Crabs table at least once or twice. My lucky charm
which is my wife's kate. But I can still throw
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some bones while I'm out there and kind of lose
the money that I make. That's the idea, right, That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's it. And mohegan Sons of Beauty Too was beautiful.
I always look forward. I'm just noticing our liaison here.
In one of his notes to me, he's like, Vinny,
you're really good because I've been working with him for years.
He's like, you two are really going to get along well.
He wrote, he loves doing radio and he's really excited
to talk about stand up and Peanut Butter. I mean, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Glad, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm glad. I didn't see that note until just now
because I don't know what to make of it. I
would have probably been, what do you mean he wants
to talk about stand up and peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, Togo hand in hand, Dinny. We all know that
I am not only my stand up. I am a
purveyor of fine goods and food stuff. I have my
own I have my own line of codstauce, in my
own line of peanut butter, available on TJ. Miller does
not have a website dot com. Really and yeah, and
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so you can get my peanut butter, which is I
have three great flavors of hot sauce, Chipotle, a sort
of a hob and hero and then an fing intense
ghost pepper type s and then and then my peanut
butter is amazing. It's dark chocolate coconut that's for the lady.
And then I've got cherry chocolate with real dried cherries, milk, chocolate,
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honey roast, and peanuts. And my favorite is toffee Chrispy
with toffee milk, chocolate and rites Krispies. If that sounds good,
you're not gonna believe that when you eat it, So
I encourage everybody to go to TJ. Miller does not
have a website dot com. Yeah, it's wild. And then
I sell it after my show if that's my merch
because I don't think anybody needs another T shirt, especially guys.
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Every woman, every woman in every guy's life is like,
can you get rid of some T shirts? And all
of us are like, but that's all we have?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, they have bags.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Or bracelets, their earrings, T shirts and shoes.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, everybody does hot sauce finding out you legit
do and I'm looking at it right now. The chocolate
cherry sounds banging. I'm absolutely going to buy that when
I'm there. Let me ask you this though, before we
wrap things up. I know I held you too long.
I would need to know what teacher like. I'm a
peanut butter connoisseur. I don't want to make you nervous
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because I might do a taste test in front of you,
But what was your favorite as a kid? Because it
tells me a lot about a person what their favorite
peanut butter was as a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I know, I think that's interesting. What were you? I
was a skippy guy.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean skimpy crunchy?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yes, were you a Jeff?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I was a Jeff, but you just said the keyword
right there, crunch I was, And the first time I
bought my kids crunching peanut butter. They looked at me like,
what happened? What is this? Why are there rocks in
our peanut butter. They tasted it and they realized crunchy
is the way to go. No, I mean, it's can't be.
Peanut Peter Pan is tremendous as well. But I was
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a guy and I love the fact that you're getting
a toffee crispy. Sounds like a banging peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
To me, it's so good. No, all of it is
so great. People absolutely love it. Yeah, I am a
big peanut butter guy. I don't like smooth peanut butter.
I think it's it's weird, it's kind of I have
an album out called Smooth Peanut Butter. But that's that.
You can listen to that wherever. That's my latest album.
(16:36):
It's Smooth Peanut Butter. Yeah, and that yeah everywhere, Yeah,
everywhere I go. I love the peanut butter and I
do crunchy. I think smooth peanut butter. If smooth peanut
butter is your favorite type of peanut butter, I don't
think you're prepared for the challenges that you'll meet in life.
I just think, like you said, they think it's rocks
in there. You got to move to the next level.
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You gotta get some moxy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'm looking at them right now. You know what I
gotta tell you. I love the label. The picture that
you did. You choose this picture of a jubilan TJ.
Millers on the side. It is it's a hilarious It's
like you're shouting peanut butter all enthusiastically. It's kind of
hilarious to look at that. That picture is perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
In some ways, I am yelling peanut butter enthusiasts. So, yeah,
you got to get there. It's peanut butter at hot
sauce again. And it's spicy comedy, comforting spicy comedy like
peanut butter. And I'm you're a guy who would try
them together? Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Absolutely? I was going to say to you, you should
try one with a little kick. A peanut butter I
had recently had. It wasn't a peanut butter, but it
was It was an ice cream that had peanuts, jalapenos,
and like chocolate covered pretzels. It was banging. The world's
collided in a good way. Yeah, so I could.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Say I love the spicy Yeah, I could see.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
A spicy peanut butter actually going over really well. I'm TJ. Miller,
I'm a huge fan. I'll be at Mohegan Sun Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thank you, yeah, Friday night, let's grab a drink.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'm looking forward to it. And from Thursday through Saturday,
you got your chance to see TJ. Miller. It was
a blast talking to you. I can't wait to snap
up some of this peanut butter too. The website is
Tjmiller does not have a website dot com. And you
exceeded my expectations, my man. I'll look forward to Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I thank you. Yeah asking me Friday night after the
show and we'll have one and thanks time there and Benny,
this is great. Yell everybody, come see me in Comics
Throathhouse this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
My man,
Hey, this is Vinnie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, it's DJ Miller.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
TJJ Miller, my main man. Welcome to the project.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm a big fan, thanks, dude, I'm a big fan
of you. I'm excited to go up to Connecticut for
the Comics Roadhouse. Yes, it's got a real roadhouse feel
to it.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
No, you're gonna love it, dude, you'll uh. You know,
from what I've gathered from being a fan of yours
for years and watching you in interviews and on podcasts,
it's a good spot. You're bringing your crowd Sorcerer tour
to Comics Roadhouse. You know. It's got like the mechanical
bull in one ear. Hey, I know that sounds horrible,
horrifically seventies, but it's actually like wildly cool, and there's
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hot girls who ride it all the time and great restaurant.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yet you truly cannot go wrong with hot grol and
mechanical ball. No last mechanical ball malfunction. Then it goes
really wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah. Yeah, And they're you know, they play like wanted
dead or alive when you're on it, like even the
tunes are right. You're gonna love the place. Man, I'm
coming to see you and I very rarely do that.
You should be flattered.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Because the very I'm extremely flattered. And I see my
wife in the background, I said, and less the mechanical
bull malfunctions and my wife's day goes or unless the woman,
unless the hot girl malfunction, right that. Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited.
I mean, it's thank you so much for coming. It
is fun. I played it once a long time ago.
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But it's got a roadhouse feeling. That's sort of one
of my specialties. You know, I can kind of do
crowd control, crowdstores, rough tours about sort of you know,
almost crowdsourcing the material, but it's not really crowd work.
I mostly just improvised and talk about where we are,
and there's plenty to talk about that at the casino
and uh, you know, I talk about people in the audience,
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but it's not hey, what's your name? What do you do? Hey,
where are you from? What's your It's it's kind of
don't do that. And then I've got all the material
that I'm working on special taping coming up, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I mean your work in all all of the
movies that I've watched you, it seems like you you
definitely go off script a lot, and you're really an
improv guy, so I would imagine you don't need audience participation.
That could be really annoying. I would imagine too.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I think so I expected at the Comics Roadhouse,
if only that it's called a roadhouse.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, true enough? But am I right to assume that
that some of your little tears. One of my particular
favorites is you in Office Christmas Party, which I'm surprised
didn't get a sequel. I'm waiting on the sequel to
that one. Did you we want to do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We want to do Halloween. We want to do Halloween
or Office Halloween Party?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I would love that? And did you go off script
a lot? And that it felt like and that character
really suited you? I think your personality did you improve
a lot there? Do you remember it's going back a
little bit?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh? Yeah, of course it was a It was an
immense amount of improvising, because that's kind of those guys,
especially are guys that I am. You know, they're they
the cast of Office Christmas Party is amazing. Yeah, and
they were all comedians and improvisers and so yeah, those
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directors who I did a motorolla commercial years ago with
Sure they they they would really they get what they
needed and then they would let you just go off script.
And so that was fun. And you had a lot
of people here. Kate McKinnon, Oh man, I mean I
can lift everybody, but just everybody was a great comedian around, right,
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Rob quardree to literally every single person.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I want to ask you to and I'm not
being a wise ass TJ.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think here we go. I think wise is awesome day.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
For what I got nothing of a love and I
think I've already proven myself. But a question that I
would have for you is, what's it like when you
go in to read for a movie like Office Christmas
Party or whatever, and they're like, uh, yeah, this is
for the role of Jennifer Anton's brother. I mean, you're
a good looking dude, but don't you think no one
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will believe I am Jennifer Aniston's brother. Did you struggle
with that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean it could be an adoption situation because I
look like a toddler. I rather took a gross here.
I'm in my jaws the size of horses, but outside
of that, I look exactly like Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's flattering, man, I mean when you heard you got
the role you're playing Jennifer, that's quite a compliment to
be told. Yes, we audience audiences will believe TJ. Miller
and Jennifer Anderson they're brother and sister. You guys, well, you.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys tell you something no one has ever asked me.
But there's no way for me not to be mildly offended.
But yes, you believe. I do believe in my heart
that I could at least sold that. You know, it's
either that or it's to make a wish program.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, you did sell that. But you both have beautiful hair,
so I mean you do have that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm completely different, completely curly, and hers
is completely straight. Another reason too will go and maybe
they aren't really brother. People liked it, they got into it. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The dynamic was fantastic, especially when she goes against the
grain and plays like the wit, which she seems to
like to do a lot of the time. You know,
she was the bad guy for the most part, and
you guys had a great chemistry. It was very sibling like.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I want to ask you too, to get We're out
with TJ. Miller. He's here all weekend Comics Roadhouse spending
the weekend with us in Connecticut at Mohegan Sun. Are
you doing the U because I'm on the website right.
Are you doing like the seven and the ten? Are
you doing two shows tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Two shows on Saturday, one show Friday. One shows tonight,
one show Friday shows Saturday. And it's going to be
a blast, man, But you got to get tickets to
Friday will sell out, you know, Fridays one Thursday comes through.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Friday is the one that I'm trying to horn in on.
I'd love to meet you too, and I don't usually Again,
I'm tell her, my man, I don't usually press people
on such things. And I've been in radio a long time,
but you're like, you're my dude from Dead People.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're dude, You're you're in like and I'd love to
buy you a drink. Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Now. My daughter has implored me to ask it. And
she's old, dude. I mean, I'm an old man. My
daughter's twenty two, but you represent it was like old
and she's like, Dad, that's Robbie Valentino. I'm like, I
don't even know what that. I don't know what I'm
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not armed with the information she's like from Gravity Falls,
like I should know. I do remember her when she
watched gravity Falls and she we're also we're a big
how to Train your Dragon house too, So yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Got to do both, say you know how to treat
gravity Fall. It's the kids that watched it or watched
it and also watch it now. Yes, almost a smart kids.
It's a lot of smart kids and a lot of
autistic kids. Yeah, and that's true, so she could be
either one of those things. The Gravity Falls particularly connects
(07:17):
with really smart kids. You know, kids with autism are
very smart and they turn in on something because it's
as I don't have to say, but it's there's a
lot of Easter eggs in that that show. There's a
lot to notice and to put together. There's a lot
of mystery and and yeah, so she's a smart cookie.
Even though she's an old hag, a twenty two year
(07:39):
old just old, all old woman.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All you're doing is giving her another reason to bark
at me later today, which because.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She is an elderly woman, she's probably got dementia. It's
gonna bark at you anyway, twenty two.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is why we got a hang on Friday night,
but because and she's a Big Hero six and I
remember taking her as a little girl the Big Hero
six and she cried all the way home from that movie. Dude.
But it did lead to the question. I thought to myself, Wow,
you do a lot more voice work than I thought
you did. And I've always felt like, and maybe you
(08:15):
could answer this question for me, like improving in front
of a camera. You got Jennifer Andison to your left,
you look so much like and uh, and you could.
I always felt like voice work for animated features like
maybe improving wasn't welcome there, Like they take their scripts
way more seriously on it, you know, maybe an Ice
(08:38):
age movie or How to Train Your Dragon? Am I wrong?
I do feel the same comfort level as far as
improving going off seeing if this works with an animated feature.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think an animation and in voice server, it's actually
easier to improvise because you're in that booth. Yeah, so
you go through and you get you know what they need.
But then it's just it's there are no cameras. You're
just recording the sound, so you don't they animate around you,
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's really interesting because you do the lines in the
script and then you can just kind of do I
mean literally because it's me, you can do fifteen or
twenty sort of you know lines, fifteen or twenty improvised lines. Yeah,
and then you know even more if you want it,
and then they'll choose what they want. So ironically, that
(09:32):
ends up being the easiest place to improvise because when
you're on set, they shoot you, you know, from one angle,
and they don't have a ton of times, so you
can do you know, three or four five takes. If
it's Steven Spielberg, it's just four takes maximum. Yeah, but
you know, at best on television, you're going to get
five or six chances to do a joke and then
(09:55):
they have to move on because they have other coverage
they have to do. So really so interesting. Yeah, yeah,
I did a lot more improvisation in voiceover then in
film or television, but television was a lot. On Silicon
Valley is a lot of improvisation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, it's so interesting. I got the total opposite answer
that I expected. You. You probably go in that booth
and get comfortable and you're like, I'm gonna give you
a million takes you pick your favorite. That's so interesting.
How about this weekend? So we got you the sixteenth
through the eighteenth, You'll be, you know, walking around the
(10:31):
Mohegan Sun. People are gonna be shooting video clips and everything.
Your your stand up act? Do you I mean, I've
watched clips from back in the day, but do you?
Are you grabbing from the news? Are you? Are you
doing political not necessarily political stuff, but topical stuff like that?
Or what's the new show? Well, the titles very I'm
(10:52):
intrigued by the crowd Sorcerer to tour because it's Sorcerer
like you know, Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, right, exactly. Well, I'm here crowdsourcing the material and
it is a little bit of magic. One guy said
that to me once and I thought it was so
interesting where he said, God, man, the way you improvise him,
it's like magic. It's like everything was set up before him.
He's like, that guy wasn't part of the show, wasn't he?
And I'm like, oh yeah, And then I bring this
(11:20):
point out all over the country. But then it all
kind of connects together because I started as an improviser
and so it is kind of the way that I
improvised is really I'm connecting things and bringing them back around.
And you know, it's a pretty it's a pretty fun
thing to watch because every show is different, yeah, you know,
(11:41):
and so I'll be improvising. I'm not talking about politics
of that kind of stuff. I'm talking about like, you know,
this guy's dressed like this, and so he might have
come straight from work. And these two are you know,
this is a husband and wife or they're just too
very angry or something like that. And so I'm messing
(12:02):
around about the crowd kind of. And then it's the
newer material which I'm working on, which right now is
I was doing some of it last night. But it's
almost all just fun stuff. I talk a little bit
about my wife and I do that through finger puppetry,
and then I and then you know, I've got I've
got some stories that are really funny and unique, but
(12:25):
a lot of it's improvisation and that's kind of what
I you know, what I like to do again, not
really crowd work, but it's just a lot of improvising.
And you know, I'll talk about the casino and I
think it's funny that the people that watch you that
are in your audience and the casino are losers. They're
(12:47):
all losers because if you're winning a gambling, you don't
go see a show. You keep gambling. So so everybody
who's in there is kind of going, well, that hasn't
been great at the tables, but you'll see me as
Crabs table at least once or twice. My lucky charm
which is my wife's kate. But I can still throw
(13:07):
some bones while I'm out there and kind of lose
the money that I make. That's the idea, right, That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's it. And mohegan Sons of Beauty Too was beautiful.
I always look forward. I'm just noticing our liaison here.
In one of his notes to me, he's like, Vinny,
you're really good because I've been working with him for years.
He's like, you two are really going to get along well.
He wrote, he loves doing radio and he's really excited
to talk about stand up and Peanut Butter. I mean, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Glad, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm glad. I didn't see that note until just now
because I don't know what to make of it. I
would have probably been, what do you mean he wants
to talk about stand up and peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, Togo hand in hand, Dinny. We all know that
I am not only my stand up. I am a
purveyor of fine goods and food stuff. I have my
own I have my own line of codstauce, in my
own line of peanut butter, available on TJ. Miller does
not have a website dot com. Really and yeah, and
(14:08):
so you can get my peanut butter, which is I
have three great flavors of hot sauce, Chipotle, a sort
of a hob and hero and then an fing intense
ghost pepper type s and then and then my peanut
butter is amazing. It's dark chocolate coconut that's for the lady.
And then I've got cherry chocolate with real dried cherries, milk, chocolate,
(14:29):
honey roast, and peanuts. And my favorite is toffee Chrispy
with toffee milk, chocolate and rites Krispies. If that sounds good,
you're not gonna believe that when you eat it, So
I encourage everybody to go to TJ. Miller does not
have a website dot com. Yeah, it's wild. And then
I sell it after my show if that's my merch
because I don't think anybody needs another T shirt, especially guys.
(14:53):
Every woman, every woman in every guy's life is like,
can you get rid of some T shirts? And all
of us are like, but that's all we have?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, they have bags.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Or bracelets, their earrings, T shirts and shoes.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, everybody does hot sauce finding out you legit
do and I'm looking at it right now. The chocolate
cherry sounds banging. I'm absolutely going to buy that when
I'm there. Let me ask you this though, before we
wrap things up. I know I held you too long.
I would need to know what teacher like. I'm a
peanut butter connoisseur. I don't want to make you nervous
(15:28):
because I might do a taste test in front of you,
But what was your favorite as a kid? Because it
tells me a lot about a person what their favorite
peanut butter was as a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I know, I think that's interesting. What were you? I
was a skippy guy.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean skimpy crunchy?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yes, were you a Jeff?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I was a Jeff, but you just said the keyword
right there, crunch I was, And the first time I
bought my kids crunching peanut butter. They looked at me like,
what happened? What is this? Why are there rocks in
our peanut butter. They tasted it and they realized crunchy
is the way to go. No, I mean, it's can't be.
Peanut Peter Pan is tremendous as well. But I was
(16:09):
a guy and I love the fact that you're getting
a toffee crispy. Sounds like a banging peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
To me, it's so good. No, all of it is
so great. People absolutely love it. Yeah, I am a
big peanut butter guy. I don't like smooth peanut butter.
I think it's it's weird, it's kind of I have
an album out called Smooth Peanut Butter. But that's that.
You can listen to that wherever. That's my latest album.
(16:36):
It's Smooth Peanut Butter. Yeah, and that yeah everywhere, Yeah,
everywhere I go. I love the peanut butter and I
do crunchy. I think smooth peanut butter. If smooth peanut
butter is your favorite type of peanut butter, I don't
think you're prepared for the challenges that you'll meet in life.
I just think, like you said, they think it's rocks
in there. You got to move to the next level.
(16:57):
You gotta get some moxy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'm looking at them right now. You know what I
gotta tell you. I love the label. The picture that
you did. You choose this picture of a jubilan TJ.
Millers on the side. It is it's a hilarious It's
like you're shouting peanut butter all enthusiastically. It's kind of
hilarious to look at that. That picture is perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
In some ways, I am yelling peanut butter enthusiasts. So, yeah,
you got to get there. It's peanut butter at hot
sauce again. And it's spicy comedy, comforting spicy comedy like
peanut butter. And I'm you're a guy who would try
them together? Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Absolutely? I was going to say to you, you should
try one with a little kick. A peanut butter I
had recently had. It wasn't a peanut butter, but it
was It was an ice cream that had peanuts, jalapenos,
and like chocolate covered pretzels. It was banging. The world's
collided in a good way. Yeah, so I could.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Say I love the spicy Yeah, I could see.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
A spicy peanut butter actually going over really well. I'm TJ. Miller,
I'm a huge fan. I'll be at Mohegan Sun Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thank you, yeah, Friday night, let's grab a drink.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'm looking forward to it. And from Thursday through Saturday,
you got your chance to see TJ. Miller. It was
a blast talking to you. I can't wait to snap
up some of this peanut butter too. The website is
Tjmiller does not have a website dot com. And you
exceeded my expectations, my man. I'll look forward to Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I thank you. Yeah asking me Friday night after the
show and we'll have one and thanks time there and Benny,
this is great. Yell everybody, come see me in Comics
Throathhouse this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
My man,
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