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FAIL ARMY Writers' Room · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on artists.
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Speaker 1: Bang bang pan, It's time for another special episode.
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Speaker 2: Falling Down has been one of the largest forms of
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Speaker 2: comedy since the beginning of mankind, and a very special
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Speaker 2: group of Internet creators, comedians and curators have come together
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Speaker 2: to create what we all know and love as Fail Army.
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Speaker 3: That's right, Fail Army, The smash hit early two thousands
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Speaker 3: YouTube channel featuring people falling down the stairs, falling off
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Speaker 3: of surfboards, and falling onto their nuts could not be
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Speaker 3: what it was without the Fail Army writers Room.
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Speaker 4: We gathered all of these writers of Fail Army today
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Speaker 4: in a room to talk process. Get ready to fail.
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Speaker 4: This is the greatest lit in Then.
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Speaker 3: Here we are. Here, we are all in a room
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Speaker 3: together again. The O five team had it.
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Speaker 1: The four bastards back together.
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Speaker 5: The four are bastards, four bastards. Someone's wearing the merch.
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Speaker 1: Someone's gotta no.
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Speaker 6: But I like, imagine a monkey throwing ship at that.
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Speaker 6: Imagine a monkey throwing ship at that.
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Speaker 2: Imagine imagine a toddler wearing that and getting hit in
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Speaker 2: the head with a swing.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, but if the toddler and the monkey kind
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Speaker 7: of got together and then they and then they hit
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Speaker 7: each other until one of them cried yeah yeah.
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Speaker 6: Or the toddler's writing a pig around and there's like
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Speaker 6: a fun song playing, and then the monkey's chasing the
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Speaker 6: pig and the toddler with an axe, oh yeah.
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Speaker 5: And they laying on a swing and then the swing
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Speaker 5: hits some mother of all.
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Speaker 3: This is what I miss, This is what I miss.
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Speaker 3: Where are you going? Where's he going?
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Speaker 4: Is he don't drop those pieces of paper?
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Speaker 5: Like I need a pen? I just some of this.
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Speaker 3: You said you needed to piss. I'm like, that's a
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Speaker 3: different video.
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Speaker 6: Imagine if I needed to piss, Like, imagine a video
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Speaker 6: of like man needs to piss, but line is too long.
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Speaker 1: That's funny.
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Speaker 3: Imagine himself and it's his child's play, he said the
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Speaker 3: auditorium and he stands up and all the cameras turn
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Speaker 3: to him instead of the kids.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: Imagine imagine I pee on my own feet and I
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Speaker 2: slipped because I'm on a skateboard.
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Speaker 1: And imagine then the skateboard like hits you in the nuts.
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Speaker 6: And then the teenager goes, oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: We got to introduce ourselves before we get to the graded.
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Speaker 3: We could do this all day. We like this room.
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Speaker 3: This was a great room.
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Speaker 1: I said, don't get me.
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Speaker 2: I said, don't get me in a room with these
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Speaker 2: people again unless you're ready for what's gonna come out
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Speaker 2: of it.
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Speaker 5: Because I just knew it.
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Speaker 2: I just knew i'd feel like I was when I
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Speaker 2: was fourteen again when we first started this room, I
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Speaker 2: just knew i'd feel like this.
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Speaker 3: Yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, So let's get into it right, yeah,
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Speaker 3: just for the listener.
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Speaker 6: Like fail Army, basically we kind of started fail Army.
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Speaker 6: We are the writer's room of fail Army. I know
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Speaker 6: what you guys are thinking. Fail Army is a collection
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Speaker 6: of people failing, messing up silly high jinks, and you
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Speaker 6: guys think it's all natural and all people that are
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Speaker 6: accidentally doing this. No, every video is actually written, and
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Speaker 6: it was written by us, and kind of still is
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Speaker 6: written by us. I mean, we have a lot of
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Speaker 6: teams that like do it for us now, but like
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Speaker 6: we aren't in it. We're kind of the brainchild of it,
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Speaker 6: you know, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the failing Well, they call us the failing fathers.
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Speaker 6: The failing for fathers, the failing for father filing for fathers.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let's go. I'm Lindsay. I'm Lindsay. I'm lindsay.
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Speaker 3: I uh was one of the original writer writers, sorry fail.
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Speaker 1: I was what I was in.
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Speaker 3: The writer's room and O five, like we said, the
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Speaker 3: founding forefailers, uh and I I came to this channel
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Speaker 3: by way of I used to be in the CIA,
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Speaker 3: and we would come up with new ways to torture people.
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Speaker 3: And so I was doing that for a while. I
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Speaker 3: was down at Guantanamo. I was like doing some really
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Speaker 3: fucked up ship and then I thought to myself, you
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Speaker 3: know this YouTube thing. I think it's the future, right,
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Speaker 3: I think it's the future. And I think I can
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Speaker 3: combine my love for comedy and my love for seeing
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Speaker 3: human beings experienced pain, and I think that I can
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Speaker 3: combine these both into a into a in to something
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Speaker 3: that's greater than all of us.
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Speaker 6: So that's kind of crazy, yeah, because like when you
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Speaker 6: showed up, you kind of showed up in a black car,
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Speaker 6: and this is kind of like it's been like a
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Speaker 6: year since you formally announced that you used to be
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Speaker 6: in the CIA. So like when you were pitching stuff,
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Speaker 6: a lot of the time we'd be like where did
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Speaker 6: you get this crazy zany idea for somebody to.
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Speaker 1: Be like And they were Zany and they were Saney.
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Speaker 4: It was when you formally announced it. It was a
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Speaker 4: wild day. Yeah, because we don't formally announce much in
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Speaker 4: the office, or we did before, and it was so formal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you, guys what happened. I'll tell you guys.
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Speaker 3: What happened is that I was you know, I was
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Speaker 3: keeping this. I was keeping this secret inside for so
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Speaker 3: many years because I didn't want to be treated any differently.
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Speaker 3: I didn't want anybody to think of me in any
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Speaker 3: which way, and so I just pushed it down. I
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Speaker 3: pushed it down. I pushed it down, all the torture stuff.
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Speaker 3: But then I was visited by three goes. I got
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Speaker 3: Ebonizer scrooged no it Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It changed my outline on.
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Speaker 3: Life, and so I knew that I needed to make
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Speaker 3: a huge announcement and devote my life to good and
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Speaker 3: kind of change the entire way that I was doing things.
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Speaker 3: So I made a big show of it. I remember
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Speaker 3: I made I sent out an email or I posted
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Speaker 3: you guys on Slack, and I was like, you guys,
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Speaker 3: it's black tie I'm so sorry it's black tie. You
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Speaker 3: got to come in because I got something big to say.
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Speaker 2: I just want to I want to give a special
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Speaker 2: shout out too, because I know that that hacker group Anonymous,
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Speaker 2: that's their newest thing.
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Speaker 5: They've been scrooging CIA workers.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to give a shout out today
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Speaker 2: because like it's pretty amazing. Like I know that they
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Speaker 2: used to like declassify documents and like kind of let
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Speaker 2: people know secrets, and now they're straight up scrooging all
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Speaker 2: sorts of like people.
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Speaker 5: I know they're scrooging Kissinger this week, and I'm really excited.
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Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see what Kissinger does after they
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Speaker 3: scrooge him, because I have a feeling it's about to
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Speaker 3: be huge.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be I can't wait to see it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I I brought a sort of CIA energy
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Speaker 3: to fail Army, which is funny because when I was
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Speaker 3: in the CIA, I was kind of known as the
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Speaker 3: as the three Stooges. They called me three Stooge because
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Speaker 3: there's just one of me, but I was I brought
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Speaker 3: sort of a three stooges energy they called three stuges.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, three stooge three stooge.
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Speaker 6: Well that's what you said, Like when you started announcing
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Speaker 6: and talking about all the things here, I was like, yes,
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Speaker 6: of course art informs the artist, like the work that
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Speaker 6: you're doing at GMO being a three three stooge at
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Speaker 6: GMO Bay so funny three stuges.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you guys. I feel so guilty. It's unreal.
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Speaker 3: It is so unreal, so unbelievably.
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Speaker 2: Like I'm super jealous because, like I, I actually feel
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Speaker 2: like it was a misopportunity because when you announced it
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Speaker 2: a very formal meeting that you were part of the
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Speaker 2: CIA and you were part of the Torture Innovation Team,
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Speaker 2: which you said stands for tit for sure, we could
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Speaker 2: use that, like we could use it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was me.
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Speaker 5: I know.
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Speaker 3: I wish I could have told you guys in there
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Speaker 3: so many times when I wanted to. There were so
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Speaker 3: many times when I would get a phone call from
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Speaker 3: the CIA, but I had to change their phone number
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Speaker 3: to mom and stuff like that so that you guys
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Speaker 3: would keep keep keep keep you guys. I want to
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Speaker 3: keep you guys on your toes. You guys. I love
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Speaker 3: you guys so much, And that was part of the
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Speaker 3: reason why I never went back to the CIA. I
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Speaker 3: wanted to start. I wanted to keep going with the
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Speaker 3: Fail Army, And I guess for the viewer where I'm
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Speaker 3: at right now with Fail Army is that I'm starting
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Speaker 3: a new chapter Fail Army called Fail Navy, and it
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Speaker 3: focuses on seafaring related accidents. So I'm the head writer
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Speaker 3: of that realm, and.
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Speaker 1: We're so excited.
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Speaker 6: There's got to be some great stuff coming out with that,
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Speaker 6: like shipwrecks, ships exploding, ship sinking, lots.
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Speaker 4: Of ship documents falling on the ground, attacks.
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Speaker 3: The document stuff is gonna be really funny.
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Speaker 5: I can't wait to see the documents.
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Speaker 1: To ship documents falling on the ground.
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Speaker 6: We got so many videos of ship documents falling on
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Speaker 6: the ground, and it's gonna blow your mind how funny
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Speaker 6: it is and how fail it is.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be so fair.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't think it would be, but you could tell,
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Speaker 3: as the viewer that the documents are kind of important.
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Speaker 5: That's crazy, man.
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Speaker 2: I'll introduce myself. My name is Stu. I came pretty starcuitously,
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Speaker 2: just like Lindsay. I came here through uh no mistake.
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Speaker 2: But I was previously a physics professor at Pepperdine University,
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Speaker 2: and I was the top physics researcher and scientist in
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Speaker 2: this country. I knew everything about physics. I know everything
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Speaker 2: about gravity.
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Speaker 3: I was the one gravity.
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Speaker 2: I am the guy who publicly shamed Neil de grass Tyson.
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Speaker 5: I called him an ass hat in front of the UN.
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Speaker 2: I have. I've done all sorts of things, and the
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Speaker 2: un agreed with me at the end. So let's just
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Speaker 2: say I know a thing or two. And I was
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Speaker 2: working in physics and then I had a one year
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Speaker 2: old and it changed my world because he got into
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Speaker 2: the clumsiest shit. And it was so funny because I
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Speaker 2: could see, you know, it's like it's like the matrix
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Speaker 2: when you're it's like in the scene of the Matrix
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Speaker 2: when they're looking at the numbers and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I see the scene, and you're like, you're looking at numbers.
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Speaker 5: Pal.
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Speaker 2: I was looking at physics attack my one year old.
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Speaker 2: I was looking at gravity have its way with little Clive,
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Speaker 2: and and I said, this is honestly funniest shit, and
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Speaker 2: it was giving me so many ideas. My one year
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Speaker 2: old truly just anything and everything. We called him stretch
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Speaker 2: Armstrong because he just get his fingerstuck and stuff from
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Speaker 2: the way.
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Speaker 1: It was crazy. Is that one year old? Now eighteen? Now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 6: Now they can now they can legally fail. Now they
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Speaker 6: can legally fail.
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Speaker 5: Now he can.
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Speaker 1: Enlist in the fail Army.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was underage and.
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Speaker 6: Truly so many I think some of the best gems,
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Speaker 6: which we'll get to in this episode, but some of
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Speaker 6: the best James came from you talking about Clive in
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Speaker 6: the room.
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Speaker 1: He was doing, how he would use that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're it's at.
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Speaker 4: The intersection of physics and clumsy. Is where you start laughing, right,
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Speaker 4: And I think that's where your career started, my guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, some people say comedy is tragedy plus time. I
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Speaker 2: say comedy is physics plus baby. And I learned that
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Speaker 2: really really.
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Speaker 1: Clear fail totally.
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Speaker 6: Baby failed, physics baby equals failed absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And I want to say too, if you look back
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Speaker 2: at a lot of my work, there's easter eggs, I'm
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Speaker 2: mentioning Clive everywhere. You know, Clive is part of it.
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Speaker 2: And I wanted to leave a little love letter form
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Speaker 2: about what it's like to grow up through these eighteen
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Speaker 2: years of videos. And you can see that in a
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Speaker 2: lot of work that I've done.
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Speaker 4: That's just like what Sondheim did with his son exactly,
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Speaker 4: and he wrote all those letters to him.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Sondheim based demon Barbara fleet Street on his relationship
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Speaker 6: with his son.
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Speaker 5: Right, so i'd heard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You also you developed something that mathematicians still cite, I believe,
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Speaker 3: which is the Toddler theorem. Y, you developed a formula
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Speaker 3: for how fast and hard you can make a toddler
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Speaker 3: fall before they sustain any injury whatsoever. So you found
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Speaker 3: a way to do it safely, so that no matter
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Speaker 3: what surface the toddler was falling off of, it was
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Speaker 3: gonna be safe and it was going to be mathematically
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Speaker 3: not harmful to the child.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, if a toddler takes a speed downward at a
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Speaker 2: certain velocity at a certain angle, there's certain parts of
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Speaker 2: his body that go less fast than other parts, and
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Speaker 2: if we isolate those parts and we hit those parts,
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Speaker 2: he's getting less of an impact when he hits. I
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Speaker 2: do want to make that it is called the Toddler theorem.
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Speaker 2: That is not based on my child being a toddler.
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Speaker 2: That's based on my last name, Stu Toddler. So just
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Speaker 2: to make sure that's a common misconception. My name is
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Speaker 2: to Toddler. It was about Toddler's. I didn't know that
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Speaker 2: was gonna be my life's collie. But I'm glad. I'm
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Speaker 2: glad it actually was a coincidental like that. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, it just goes to show x C
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Speaker 2: I a of top physics brain like it took. It
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Speaker 2: takes a lot to make a fail army.
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Speaker 4: I'll go U, what's up, guys. I'm Kirsten Kennedy. I
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Speaker 4: am a Kennedy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, cats out of the bag. Nepotism is alive.
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Speaker 4: And well it's not even a nepotism, I'd say. It's
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Speaker 4: just like smart powerful people.
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Speaker 6: That that are in this room, I'd say, And he
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Speaker 6: was smarter and more powerful than the Kennedy's, you know,
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Speaker 6: so that's especially right now, especially all the living ones.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, So I'm Kristin Kennedy. I uh started. I originally
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Speaker 4: found you guys, the founding four fathers, all of us
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Speaker 4: found each other. I think it was when I was
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Speaker 4: doing I was on vine and I would just throw
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Speaker 4: my cat, and I threw my cat everywhere, and ever
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Speaker 4: since then, I've opened a couple of cat cafes using
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Speaker 4: some family money. Just love cats and I throw them everywhere.
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Speaker 4: And that's when I originally was like, there's something special here.
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Speaker 4: There's something special with the way we can use these
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Speaker 4: cats who have so many lives, and we could just
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Speaker 4: like catapult them places and we could do funny stuff
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Speaker 4: with them.
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Speaker 1: And that was a big thing for us.
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Speaker 6: I mean a big discussion right when we started was
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Speaker 6: how do we take it from it looking like we're
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Speaker 6: throwing a cat to people just assuming the cat fell
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Speaker 6: by itself or did something crazy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you like developed an entire narrative of how
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Speaker 3: we view cats because I think before the Internet, like
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Speaker 3: if your cat did something crazy, it was kind of
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Speaker 3: just like something you saw on your own home, right,
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Speaker 3: and you had no other proof that like other cats
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Speaker 3: were like this. But the the Internet came out and
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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, it's cat compilations everywhere. I
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Speaker 3: think you fundamentally altered the behavior of how cats behave.
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Speaker 4: Thank you well. I remember I was getting my dissertation.
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Speaker 4: I was doing my dissertation in college and what it
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Speaker 4: was on hieroglyphics, and back in the day, you know
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Speaker 4: how they show these cats and these hieroglyphics and on
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Speaker 4: these pyramids all over and they're there to be feared.
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Speaker 4: And that's when I went, there's something, there's something here
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Speaker 4: to flip that on its head, and let's stop making
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Speaker 4: this cat grumpy. Dare I say? And let's make this
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Speaker 4: cat frumpy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I mean so so much of cat culture now can
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Speaker 6: be traced back to Kirsten's dissertation on hieroglyphic cats.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, but until I started working with you
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Speaker 4: guys that we found the silly it was. I started
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Speaker 4: knowing the history and the stereotypes from just mankind of
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Speaker 4: what our relationship is with cats. And then take in
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Speaker 4: a silly stack of paper that's sitting in your kitchen
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Speaker 4: that your cat hits with its paw.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really blew me away, you know. And every
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Speaker 2: writer's room, it's coming back to me, because every writer's
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Speaker 2: room has a writer who comes in with the facts,
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Speaker 2: comes in with the information. It's not quite funny yet, right,
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Speaker 2: you gotta work on it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you always say that to me, guys. I'm not
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Speaker 4: the not funny one yet, not funny yet, but.
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Speaker 2: You always start it, you know, you're the start menu
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Speaker 2: on the on the on the funny video game as well.
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Speaker 4: He gets the startman.
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Speaker 6: You know, sometimes I will say, your videos, your your pitches,
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Speaker 6: and videos get a little dark. I mean, you started
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Speaker 6: throwing cats, and we had to really ap persuade at
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Speaker 6: the beginning. We can't show somebody throwing a cat into anything.
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Speaker 2: Really, that's Yeah, it wasn't without its own controversy. You know,
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Speaker 2: we saw all those articles that you only got those
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Speaker 2: cat cafes because of nepotism, and there were some humane
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Speaker 2: reports about you that you shouldn't be given the cat
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Speaker 2: cafes right, and and it got messy and there were
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Speaker 2: Ultimately it.
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Speaker 4: Got buried because that's the least the Kennedys are doing.
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Speaker 4: And I'm grateful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's such a gift that you have that the
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Speaker 3: other Kennedys are saying some wild stuff all the time.
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Speaker 4: And then I opened a cat cafe. I told my people,
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Speaker 4: I said, give it an hour, it's going to be scrubbed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well you did.
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Speaker 2: You opened cat cafe, and you did instead of act throwing,
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Speaker 2: it was cat throwing when you throw against the well
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Speaker 2: and they'd attached to different bulls eyes.
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Speaker 4: I just want to be clear. I just want to
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Speaker 4: be clear, we never officially opened. It was just this
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Speaker 4: soft open and we got shut down immediately.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was because you didn't have a liquor license.
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Speaker 2: So that was was shut down because you didn't have
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Speaker 2: a liquor license and you were serving Well.
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Speaker 4: Those kombucha companies are liars, and we were selling absence.
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Speaker 4: We were selling absence. We got tricked. We didn't read
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Speaker 4: the back of the kombuchas and we were selling absence.
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Speaker 6: In Well, hey guys, my name is Duvet Beauregard. I
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Speaker 6: again came for a very securitous way here, you know.
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Speaker 6: I actually it was one of the top neurophysicists and
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Speaker 6: psycho therapists out there. I had, but I was very studied.
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Speaker 6: I studied the brain a lot, and my idea in
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Speaker 6: therapy and psychology. I just got so sick of it,
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Speaker 6: these people and their problems. I'm like, why don't you
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Speaker 6: just run and trip? Why don't you just run and
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Speaker 6: trip in something? Why don't you just why don't you
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Speaker 6: just run away? Why don't you just fall a little bit,
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Speaker 6: Why don't you Like all my clients really got to me.
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Speaker 6: So I just needed to switch and I found you
18:42
Speaker 6: three and it was just you know, it was like
18:44
Speaker 6: when lightning strikes for me, diving into the psychology of
18:48
Speaker 6: how to mess with somebody and and also produce a
18:51
Speaker 6: video that makes people laugh like this.
18:55
Speaker 1: I really really liked that.
18:57
Speaker 3: And that is what we're going for, fail army all
19:01
Speaker 3: the time. Is we're going for that laugh that has
19:04
Speaker 3: a little bit of delight in others suffering.
19:06
Speaker 4: Right.
19:07
Speaker 3: We don't want the like oh ho hoo, the Harvard
19:09
Speaker 3: lampoon laugh. Right, we don't want that show. We want
19:13
Speaker 3: we want bass, and we want.
19:16
Speaker 1: We want we want the chive laugh, not try to laugh.
19:20
Speaker 4: We want the laugh to come from below if it
19:22
Speaker 4: comes from the head. And for some reason they thought
19:24
Speaker 4: of the joke or they thought.
19:26
Speaker 1: Of what we were doing too esoteric.
19:27
Speaker 4: It's done, and we lose half of Americans.
19:31
Speaker 2: And do they you are so good with that in
19:33
Speaker 2: the room because you know brains and you're you're a neurologist.
19:37
Speaker 2: We'd go to you and we'd say, okay, so we
19:39
Speaker 2: wrote this, what laugh would this produce?
19:41
Speaker 5: And you wouldn't tell us.
19:42
Speaker 6: And honestly, I close my eyes, I picture it, I
19:45
Speaker 6: picture I picture it, and sometimes the laugh would be like.
19:49
Speaker 5: And then we throw it out for it.
19:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just so I'm kind of laugh Patrol. I
19:56
Speaker 6: really try to get us to hit with our demographics,
19:59
Speaker 6: which is, uh, fraternities and uh forty year old women
20:05
Speaker 6: looking for pain.
20:07
Speaker 2: I think you're forgetting a person who left TV on
20:11
Speaker 2: their computer and a dive bar.
20:14
Speaker 1: Yeah that's exactly.
20:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, a huge base. It's a huge base.
20:19
Speaker 1: So let's jump into it.
20:20
Speaker 6: I mean, we've got so much history, so much I
20:22
Speaker 6: think it would be great for them to hear how
20:25
Speaker 6: the actual cookie is made, how we get in there,
20:29
Speaker 6: what sparks us, what's the creative process like? So maybe
20:31
Speaker 6: we just take them through that. You know, we mock
20:33
Speaker 6: a writer's room.
20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, so first writers room we all had to commute
20:39
Speaker 2: to I believe where was that Saint Louis?
20:42
Speaker 5: Right, we were computing to Saint Louis.
20:43
Speaker 1: And we were commuting for Saint Louis from all over
20:45
Speaker 1: the place.
20:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a yeah. Yeah.
20:49
Speaker 2: The city, I mean it's the city of fails. We
20:51
Speaker 2: love the energy of it and and it just raised.
20:54
Speaker 6: So many fails going on in Saint Louis. I mean
20:56
Speaker 6: you can't turn a corner without seeking fail.
20:58
Speaker 3: I mean we start, we started in Cincinnati, right, because
21:01
Speaker 3: that's like sort of the junior leagues for Fames.
21:04
Speaker 5: Is but the but the St. Louis. Yeah, well, the
21:08
Speaker 5: Saint Louis arch is a literal, you know.
21:11
Speaker 2: The way I see it, the trajectory of somebody sitting
21:14
Speaker 2: on a firework going up in the air and hitting
21:17
Speaker 2: the ground.
21:18
Speaker 1: That's happened.
21:19
Speaker 5: So you got the energy of that.
21:20
Speaker 2: You're looking out the window, and I said, we need
21:22
Speaker 2: a building close enough to the arts that I can
21:24
Speaker 2: see it as soon as I open my window.
21:26
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean listen. If you want to be a
21:27
Speaker 4: jazz musician, you go to New York. You learn from
21:29
Speaker 4: the best jazz musicians in the world. You want to
21:31
Speaker 4: be able to write a Dad on water skis for
21:34
Speaker 4: the first time ever picking up his cell phone falling
21:36
Speaker 4: into the Atlantic, you go to Saint Louis.
21:38
Speaker 5: Exactly, exactly.
21:39
Speaker 6: So one of our hit videos too, one of our
21:41
Speaker 6: biggest videos ever hit Dad on water skis picking up
21:44
Speaker 6: phone for the first time, falling into the Atlantic, and
21:46
Speaker 6: that one divided us. I remember the day came in.
21:51
Speaker 6: Try to pitch this, really, try to sell dad House divided.
21:56
Speaker 5: Well, I said, too much stuff, too much stuff.
21:58
Speaker 2: I don't know the physics of the I don't know
22:01
Speaker 2: why the Atlantic, the physics of the Atlantic. The water
22:04
Speaker 2: is thicker, though, maybe we should stick with a pool.
22:06
Speaker 2: I think the water is less viscous.
22:08
Speaker 4: People don't water skan a pool stew. That's what I said.
22:11
Speaker 4: I'll always say it. People don't water scan and pool.
22:13
Speaker 5: And I'm getting heated, and I think we should drop this.
22:15
Speaker 2: But I think I do think that it was really
22:19
Speaker 2: we should talk about the pitch process, because that's what
22:20
Speaker 2: we do. We'd come in on the weekend, we come
22:22
Speaker 2: in on uh, we'd come in on the weekend.
22:25
Speaker 4: We'd come in on a Saturday and do our pitch
22:28
Speaker 4: because yeah, this was before this was before our our
22:31
Speaker 4: champs went off, right, so we're all doing our side jobs.
22:33
Speaker 4: We're all working for big places.
22:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were all at our side jobs. We'd come
22:37
Speaker 3: in on the weekend and we'd go, okay, let's talk,
22:41
Speaker 3: let's let's let's fail, let's fail. We'll say no fail ideas,
22:45
Speaker 3: no fail ideas, and that's where we just spitball. We
22:48
Speaker 3: get we we sort of you know, we throw out nouns,
22:52
Speaker 3: we throw out types of people who could fall you know, Grandpa, uncle,
22:56
Speaker 3: mommy kid or we throw out objects that they could
22:59
Speaker 3: hurt them with, knife, bike, trike, car, stuff like that,
23:05
Speaker 3: and we sort of mad libs are way into a premise.
23:09
Speaker 6: And the crazy thing about this was we had to
23:12
Speaker 6: be so careful to not accidentally make a porn title,
23:16
Speaker 6: which was tough, you know, because we'd be saying step
23:19
Speaker 6: brother steps on like step sister's face.
23:23
Speaker 1: That's getting close to a porn type.
23:25
Speaker 4: We learned thumbnails as a group and that was pretty cool.
23:28
Speaker 2: It was amazing that day when we all learned them together.
23:30
Speaker 2: We just sat around a big computer and we just
23:33
Speaker 2: learned them.
23:34
Speaker 5: That was awesome.
23:35
Speaker 3: We said, you know what, we got to figure out
23:36
Speaker 3: what this photoshop thing is.
23:38
Speaker 2: We gotta do it one by one, and everyone took
23:40
Speaker 2: five minutes on the mouse and they got to do
23:42
Speaker 2: whatever they wanted.
23:44
Speaker 1: It was like kid picks. It felt so fun.
23:47
Speaker 3: It was I love when I got my five minutes
23:50
Speaker 3: on the mouse to do whatever we wanted, breathing down
23:53
Speaker 3: my shoulder watching me do whatever I wanted on.
23:56
Speaker 1: The computer, trying to learn how you're doing that.
24:00
Speaker 4: But guys, those were the times we used to have tablets.
24:04
Speaker 5: I miss him.
24:05
Speaker 2: I mean, I think this was the wild West before
24:07
Speaker 2: we realized what worked and what didn't work, and we
24:09
Speaker 2: started falling into a formula, right, And we used to
24:11
Speaker 2: write the formulas out and we used to just fill
24:13
Speaker 2: them and that was a tough period for me. Blanket, blanket, blankets,
24:17
Speaker 2: hit by blank and blank, right, that was one of
24:19
Speaker 2: our formulas. Blank tries to blank but ends up blanking.
24:24
Speaker 2: That was another one of our formulas. And you can
24:26
Speaker 2: fill those in over and over and over again, and
24:29
Speaker 2: it was kind of sad.
24:30
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys, Blanked.
24:31
Speaker 3: In the nuts by blank was also a reliable source.
24:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, or just blank. I remember if we got tired,
24:39
Speaker 4: we would just do blanket blankets hit by blank in the.
24:42
Speaker 5: Nuts yeah, stop.
24:46
Speaker 2: Stop, blank falls off blank into blank full stop.
24:53
Speaker 3: This is really taking me back.
24:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean these.
24:55
Speaker 4: Were the old days. This is like how the sausage
24:58
Speaker 4: we get made.
24:58
Speaker 6: And the fun thing was, you know what we were
25:01
Speaker 6: always trying to get and it was this magic moment
25:03
Speaker 6: in the room when you would arrive at the epic fail,
25:07
Speaker 6: when everything the chemistry was just going and you knew
25:10
Speaker 6: you had an epic fail moment.
25:12
Speaker 3: And that we've gotten into some screaming matches about what
25:15
Speaker 3: constitutes an epic fail and it's just a regular fail, right,
25:19
Speaker 3: because you don't want to throw that term out to
25:22
Speaker 3: just anything, right. I'd love to know from you guys
25:25
Speaker 3: what your favorite epic fails are or the epic fail
25:28
Speaker 3: that you wrote that you're the most proud of.
25:30
Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean an epic fail, you don't just
25:33
Speaker 2: stumble upon it. It almost feels ordained by God, you
25:36
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
25:37
Speaker 4: And it's also the performances. It's not just writing.
25:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
25:40
Speaker 6: One of my favorite epic fails that I wrote, if
25:43
Speaker 6: I can toot my own horn, was man forgets to
25:46
Speaker 6: put handbrake on car in ice and it rolls down
25:50
Speaker 6: and hits seventeen other cars, and while he's running after it,
25:53
Speaker 6: he slips and starts going, oh no, no.
25:58
Speaker 1: Rolling down with it. I was really proud of that
26:00
Speaker 1: epic fail.
26:01
Speaker 2: That one, Yeah, that one was really scary until he
26:04
Speaker 2: started screaming.
26:05
Speaker 1: It was that And that, for me, is a little
26:08
Speaker 1: bit of an epic fail.
26:08
Speaker 6: You've got to feel a little scared for the main character,
26:11
Speaker 6: and then until they break, they break that tension and
26:15
Speaker 6: they start making a goofy noise and then you go,
26:17
Speaker 6: this idiot, I really hope he dies, that's what I'm looking.
26:20
Speaker 4: Well, that's how we learned our biggest rule at fail Army,
26:23
Speaker 4: which is a rule that if someone died, it doesn't
26:27
Speaker 4: hit our channel.
26:29
Speaker 1: This is a.
26:32
Speaker 3: Real put their trust in us. Ye, when something fucked
26:36
Speaker 3: up happens on their screen. Nobody died as a result
26:39
Speaker 3: of any.
26:40
Speaker 4: Because it is not our job to come into your
26:43
Speaker 4: household and make you laugh at someone's death. That is
26:46
Speaker 4: not my job. No, my job is to make you
26:49
Speaker 4: go oh, exactly.
26:52
Speaker 1: From here, full stop. One of my favorite yeah, go ahead, Well,
26:56
Speaker 1: I was going to give Kirsten props.
26:58
Speaker 6: One of my favorite ones that I saw her do
27:00
Speaker 6: was uh, family gets hit by big wave on vacation
27:03
Speaker 6: while posing for uh while posing for a picture.
27:07
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a couple, but I'm so epic. Yeah,
27:11
Speaker 1: I mean I.
27:11
Speaker 4: Think we call it the wave period.
27:15
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to shout out. You know, people
27:16
Speaker 2: talk a lot about the diversity of Fail Army. You
27:18
Speaker 2: did that with every race of family, which was really cool.
27:23
Speaker 3: We and it was sort of like a hands across
27:26
Speaker 3: America moment where it was like every single type of
27:29
Speaker 3: person falling in the exact same way.
27:32
Speaker 6: It was really beautiful, really by posting while posting for
27:37
Speaker 6: no I remember.
27:37
Speaker 4: Because we're all human and there's waves everywhere, and the
27:40
Speaker 4: wave period. I really look at it like like Picassa
27:43
Speaker 4: is the blue period, because I was going through a
27:45
Speaker 4: divorce at the time, and I remember just being like,
27:49
Speaker 4: I just feel like I keep getting hit with a
27:51
Speaker 4: wave of just grief and sadness.
27:54
Speaker 5: You can see that in the work. I mean, you
27:56
Speaker 5: see it in the work.
27:56
Speaker 4: And it might be because you, but you, but that's
27:59
Speaker 4: also just collaboration. You guys came in and made it
28:02
Speaker 4: really silly. You made it really silly that one time.
28:05
Speaker 4: Who was it was it used to? Who said, give
28:08
Speaker 4: the kid an ice cream cone when you hit him
28:10
Speaker 4: with the wave next time?
28:12
Speaker 5: And you that was?
28:14
Speaker 1: That was.
28:16
Speaker 4: And the physics of that somehow ice cream went flying
28:21
Speaker 4: with the.
28:22
Speaker 2: It's pressurized, we call that. We call that pressurized wave
28:25
Speaker 2: water air and and and when it does that, it
28:28
Speaker 2: goes right up into the sky. Not a lot of
28:30
Speaker 2: people know it because that type of situation doesn't happen
28:33
Speaker 2: except for in fails.
28:34
Speaker 5: And yeah, and that's.
28:36
Speaker 3: The magic of fails. I can tell you, my my, uh,
28:39
Speaker 3: the epic fail that I'm the most proud of was
28:43
Speaker 3: took place on that farm and it was like a
28:46
Speaker 3: family visiting and they let you milk the cows, you know.
28:49
Speaker 3: And we had sort of rigged this stool so that
28:54
Speaker 3: it fell and flipped over like a bear trap, so
28:57
Speaker 3: if you sat on it, your leg would go all
28:59
Speaker 3: the way up. And then we also had this bin
29:02
Speaker 3: of milk precariously placed on top of a barn, and
29:07
Speaker 3: we also had a towel. The towel was very important
29:09
Speaker 3: and so you would find yourself if you tried to
29:12
Speaker 3: milk this cow flipped upside down, towel over your mouth,
29:15
Speaker 3: milk pouring onto it. Essentially waterboarding with milk, which is
29:19
Speaker 3: something that.
29:20
Speaker 6: Brought in, you really brought in, Yeah, I mean the
29:23
Speaker 6: amount of accidental waterboarding videos we ended up having a
29:27
Speaker 6: are a ton.
29:28
Speaker 3: There are a ton of because what I've really tried
29:32
Speaker 3: to tell the CIA but they weren't interested, is that
29:35
Speaker 3: there's so many other liquids you can use to waterboard somebody. Right,
29:39
Speaker 3: it doesn't have to be water. We can be more
29:42
Speaker 3: original with it. We can have a little bit more fun.
29:44
Speaker 1: You know.
29:44
Speaker 3: Orange juice a great one. Milk is great because sometimes
29:48
Speaker 3: people are lactose intolerant. Sometimes you know, it's just like
29:51
Speaker 3: unpleasant and.
29:53
Speaker 6: So of One of my favorite ones you ever did
29:55
Speaker 6: was coach accidentally waterboarded after game with power aid, where
29:59
Speaker 6: the team dumped.
30:00
Speaker 1: Oh yeah on it, but he was wearing a cloth.
30:02
Speaker 6: And he starts going and you wrote that dialogue. I
30:06
Speaker 6: thought that was some of the best dialogue writing I've
30:08
Speaker 6: ever ever matter.
30:10
Speaker 3: We had some we had some disagreements over should it
30:13
Speaker 3: be uh or should it be oh, oh fa, oh fah,
30:17
Speaker 3: But I think we ultimately settled on because this guy's classic,
30:22
Speaker 3: he's educated, it was an MIT football team, and so
30:25
Speaker 3: it ultimately didn't track for the character that he would
30:27
Speaker 3: say oh fuh.
30:28
Speaker 4: It goes back to character, character, character relationships, relationships, relationships,
30:31
Speaker 4: character characters.
30:32
Speaker 3: We're so character driven here.
30:33
Speaker 5: We are character driven. We're a character driven room.
30:36
Speaker 2: What I will say too, I want to talk about
30:39
Speaker 2: my favorite epic fail.
30:42
Speaker 5: Which a little controversial.
30:43
Speaker 2: Everyone knows that it's a raccoon on a zip line
30:47
Speaker 2: at a pool, but and I was kind of known
30:50
Speaker 2: in the room for those videos in the middle of
30:53
Speaker 2: the montages that you're kind of like, Oh, this isn't
30:55
Speaker 2: really a fail, this is just kind of cute.
30:58
Speaker 5: You guys do you guys know what I'm talking The.
31:00
Speaker 6: Cute fans spiller all of a sudden, Well, it's hard
31:04
Speaker 6: to watch seventeen videos of guy getting hit in the
31:06
Speaker 6: sometimes animals.
31:08
Speaker 4: Something song needs a verse, And let's be honest with
31:12
Speaker 4: the viewer.
31:12
Speaker 3: Not every video in the Best Fail Army Videos compilation
31:16
Speaker 3: that's an hour and a half can be the best.
31:19
Speaker 5: I mean, we got fail Humid.
31:22
Speaker 2: We call him laughs short for a look at that. Yeah,
31:26
Speaker 2: it's exactly, It's just you don't laugh. You go look
31:29
Speaker 2: at that.
31:30
Speaker 4: Because ninety of my work with cats is a lap.
31:36
Speaker 4: Because especially one of my fails, I have an epic
31:39
Speaker 4: fail that I don't think was deserved and it was
31:41
Speaker 4: a lat and it was a cat just hit a
31:43
Speaker 4: woman's lipstick off the table and that's a laugh.
31:49
Speaker 1: Look.
31:49
Speaker 3: In order to maintain a successful career in YouTube the
31:52
Speaker 3: way that we have done, the way that everyone is done,
31:55
Speaker 3: your video needs to be forty fifty lap or else
31:58
Speaker 3: you will not retain them onization required to live the
32:02
Speaker 3: lifestyle that we live, and I do living this lifestyle.
32:08
Speaker 3: I will drive my car. I just will own my
32:12
Speaker 3: house and I will lease out my second house in
32:15
Speaker 3: Lake Arrowhead two Airbnb. Thank you please.
32:18
Speaker 6: Oh, no, CIA is coming out, The CIA is coming
32:21
Speaker 6: out a demand.
32:23
Speaker 3: No, this was goofy over there. They considered this goofy
32:27
Speaker 3: and three stooges.
32:29
Speaker 4: So which one was it?
32:32
Speaker 6: Oh well, I don't think they called her goofy.
32:35
Speaker 5: That's an attribute. They didn't call her Disney's goofy. They
32:38
Speaker 5: called her three.
32:38
Speaker 3: Stooges, right they well, yeah, yeah, they called me the
32:44
Speaker 3: three stooges. In my mind, I felt really goofy with it.
32:47
Speaker 5: But just say it. They didn't call you Disney's goofy.
32:50
Speaker 3: Just say it did make any funny feel bad, like.
32:55
Speaker 5: They didn't call you Disney's goofy.
32:57
Speaker 4: Because I'm curious.
33:00
Speaker 3: Well, fine, if you must know, even though it was
33:02
Speaker 3: what I really wanted to be known as. No, nobody
33:05
Speaker 3: at the CIA called me Disney's goofy, even though I
33:08
Speaker 3: kept asking them to. Okay, so no, your this is
33:11
Speaker 3: three stooges and I'm sorry, Okay, I'm pissed off again.
33:14
Speaker 3: I remember sometimes in this room when I would get
33:16
Speaker 3: pissed off.
33:18
Speaker 1: God, yeah, it was intense sometimes. So this room was a.
33:22
Speaker 5: Little toxic, right, This room was a little bit.
33:24
Speaker 3: Absolutely, It was only toxic when you tried to test
33:28
Speaker 3: shit out on us, when you tried to test the
33:31
Speaker 3: ideas on our physical bodies.
33:33
Speaker 2: Well, how am I gonna go on Craigslist and ask
33:35
Speaker 2: for these people to come in and do these these
33:38
Speaker 2: fails when I don't know how they're gonna Look, I'm
33:40
Speaker 2: a physicist.
33:41
Speaker 5: We do things in the lab.
33:43
Speaker 4: I will say, Sue, my boobs are not your paintbrush.
33:47
Speaker 4: I'll just say it.
33:48
Speaker 2: You know what, You guys were so limited in your
33:50
Speaker 2: view and your views on what needed to happen. I was,
33:54
Speaker 2: Okay Goh's number one physics guy for all of the videos.
33:58
Speaker 4: Of course, guys, he gave him twenty minutes to mention. Okay,
34:01
Speaker 4: go wow. I thought you'd beat it.
34:04
Speaker 2: Oh wow, No, no, no, you know what, as they say,
34:07
Speaker 2: here it goes again.
34:08
Speaker 5: Because you were always jealous of my work.
34:10
Speaker 3: With another Penny in the Jar.
34:14
Speaker 5: Because I mentioned a music video I worked on.
34:18
Speaker 6: You worked on one video with the treadmills, and you
34:22
Speaker 6: can't stop talking about it. Yeah, you act like you
34:25
Speaker 6: did best friend.
34:27
Speaker 3: There, don't you?
34:28
Speaker 4: And listen, Sue, Sue, you did a great job going
34:32
Speaker 4: on Carson Daily talking about what you did with those treadmills.
34:36
Speaker 2: I thank you guys for coming to that. That that
34:38
Speaker 2: premiere of that episode. By the way, I know one
34:41
Speaker 2: was really late to stay up for it.
34:43
Speaker 4: It's not premiere, it's just a live taping.
34:45
Speaker 2: And I know that this was the era of Last
34:47
Speaker 2: Call with Carson Daily, where he was mostly doing voiceovers
34:50
Speaker 2: for the voice and then he would say he take
34:52
Speaker 2: a look at this, and he'd cut to something that
34:54
Speaker 2: he didn't have anything to do with, and it was
34:56
Speaker 2: some We shot it at some taco place in Santa
34:58
Speaker 2: Monica and I just talked for a little bit. Well
35:00
Speaker 2: the camera kind of focused on my hands.
35:02
Speaker 5: I know that.
35:03
Speaker 2: I know that's what this footage was. Okay, I'm grateful
35:07
Speaker 2: you guys came to it. I'm grateful you guys came
35:09
Speaker 2: to you for the tickets. Of course, tickets to my
35:13
Speaker 2: premiere party.
35:14
Speaker 4: Of course, it's a live taping behind the taco truck.
35:19
Speaker 5: It was big. Okay, let's go back.
35:21
Speaker 4: We're talking about LATS. We're talking about LATS.
35:24
Speaker 2: This is twenty seven, two thousand and seven, sou coming out,
35:27
Speaker 2: and I really hate that.
35:28
Speaker 1: We've done a lot of work. We've done a.
35:31
Speaker 3: Lot a lot of work. We've done a lot of
35:32
Speaker 3: work I'm sorry. I mean it fails of this interaction. Fail.
35:36
Speaker 3: I think I jumped on you too fast. Rose. I
35:40
Speaker 3: think that we are getting a behind the scenes glimpse
35:43
Speaker 3: on how things worked into thousand and seven.
35:46
Speaker 5: Totally. I think that's good to know. Yeah.
35:48
Speaker 2: Fail on my part. I did mention, okay, go, which
35:51
Speaker 2: is something I haven't done in ten years. And my
35:55
Speaker 2: my support group is.
35:56
Speaker 4: Going to be you were ten years sober.
35:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was ten years sober from talking about go.
36:00
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna have to go back and I'm gonna
36:02
Speaker 2: give my chip back to the people that I've.
36:04
Speaker 5: Been working with. Keep it, keep it, okay, I just
36:07
Speaker 5: I'll keep it.
36:07
Speaker 2: But this will come out and they'll find out about it.
36:11
Speaker 5: And yours and my rose, not my wind. My rose.
36:19
Speaker 4: Roses have prickly fails.
36:20
Speaker 5: Totally.
36:23
Speaker 1: I hate it.
36:24
Speaker 3: I fall into a rose bush full of prickly fails.
36:29
Speaker 6: Okay, imagine imagine though, somebody falling into a rose bush
36:31
Speaker 6: full of prickly fails. Like imagine maybe like a step
36:34
Speaker 6: mom falling into a rose bush after yelling at her
36:36
Speaker 6: step son.
36:38
Speaker 2: My rose is that I didn't throw anything. And and
36:44
Speaker 2: I can hear you, guys, for the first time in
36:46
Speaker 2: probably twelve years. I can hear you guys that I
36:48
Speaker 2: can see myself, and I'm really grateful you guys are
36:51
Speaker 2: with me, and I wish we were together because I'd
36:53
Speaker 2: be holding your hands.
36:55
Speaker 3: Oh, I know, really nice to hear, really nice to hear.
36:59
Speaker 3: I haven't felt us come together in this way since
37:03
Speaker 3: the America's Funniest Home Videos lawsuit that happened in.
37:10
Speaker 6: They suit us so hard, they said they they said
37:13
Speaker 6: they owned the right to show video crazy crazy.
37:19
Speaker 4: You can't listen. We legally, you can't own an accident,
37:24
Speaker 4: you can't own a typo, you can't own a mistake.
37:30
Speaker 3: His public domain. And if anyone tries to claim otherwise,
37:33
Speaker 3: you know, I think the Supreme Court ruled in our favor.
37:36
Speaker 3: Ultimately we can keep doing what we're doing exactly.
37:39
Speaker 1: You knew they were sacked, the justices, thank god.
37:43
Speaker 4: Oh yes, and let me just say we knew the
37:45
Speaker 4: defense was just like hang on by a thread when
37:47
Speaker 4: they said we needed people's life rights to show them
37:50
Speaker 4: getting hit by the nuts. I'm not gonna option out.
37:54
Speaker 4: Dad's all over America's life rights for when they taught
37:57
Speaker 4: their kids te ball.
37:58
Speaker 3: And so it's this, It was this hard choice of
38:01
Speaker 3: do we reveal that all the videos are fake and
38:03
Speaker 3: written by us? Or do we go after life rights
38:08
Speaker 3: for people who don't exist exactly?
38:10
Speaker 5: And we want. I can't believe it. I can't believe
38:13
Speaker 5: we want and I can't believe.
38:14
Speaker 2: We still get to do what we do, albeit kind
38:16
Speaker 2: of separately in different divisions, but we still get to
38:18
Speaker 2: do what we do.
38:19
Speaker 4: Yes, So Lindsay has failed Navy. Should we go around
38:22
Speaker 4: and say, like how because we started, like I mean,
38:24
Speaker 4: it was just us for but then it grew into
38:27
Speaker 4: an army and we have so many channels and so
38:30
Speaker 4: many like just incredible divisions.
38:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can go around. We can definitely go around.
38:37
Speaker 2: I'm I'm on doctor Fail, which is, you know, more
38:42
Speaker 2: of a highbrow, intellectual PhD level type of fail.
38:47
Speaker 3: So we call it the New Yorker of Fail Army.
38:49
Speaker 5: It's the New Yorker of Fail Army. It's it's people
38:53
Speaker 5: you know, using the wrong slides in their presentations. It's
38:57
Speaker 5: it's people who the margins aren't wide enough on their
39:00
Speaker 5: dissertations so the page count is offing like that. It's yeah,
39:04
Speaker 5: it gets that type of laugh, right, is right? Uh,
39:09
Speaker 5: it's fun.
39:10
Speaker 2: It's not the old days, and definitely Jones in for
39:13
Speaker 2: a little bit of the excitement that we used to have.
39:15
Speaker 2: But it's definitely fun. It's hard to it's hard to
39:19
Speaker 2: manipulate physics the way we used to in this because
39:22
Speaker 2: a lot of intellectual.
39:25
Speaker 3: Our cameras are just better now, so you pick up
39:27
Speaker 3: on more steps. It's and sometimes you know, the falls
39:34
Speaker 3: feel too real because you can see the injuries and
39:36
Speaker 3: higher definition.
39:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's what I love when we do. Lindsay,
39:41
Speaker 4: when you're on site, you always spit on the lens
39:44
Speaker 4: and you go, let's do it like we used to
39:46
Speaker 4: do it.
39:46
Speaker 6: It's like a weird aggressive thing. You really spit on it.
39:50
Speaker 3: It is for two reasons. It's to a established dominance
39:54
Speaker 3: and b to make it look like a motor roller razor,
39:58
Speaker 3: is not it?
39:59
Speaker 4: Oh and it's so much funny that way.
40:01
Speaker 3: Well, I actually flav Stu has shouts and burmers.
40:06
Speaker 6: And I've got I'm in fail colon scary International videos.
40:13
Speaker 6: That's kind of like you know, you see those videos
40:16
Speaker 6: sometimes we're like, WHOA, that's less of a fail and
40:18
Speaker 6: more of a terrifying situation like tiger attacking elephant with
40:23
Speaker 6: man on it or leopard has escaped the zoo and
40:26
Speaker 6: is now on stop of a children's school. That's kind
40:30
Speaker 6: of my division. I'm I'm loving it. It's really interesting.
40:34
Speaker 3: You're doing some really exciting stuff with hurricanes.
40:36
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, very All the videos of house flying off,
40:42
Speaker 6: that's all me.
40:43
Speaker 1: That's all scary international.
40:44
Speaker 6: It falls under the hurricanes. I'm making the hurricanes. I'm
40:47
Speaker 6: defining the house.
40:48
Speaker 1: It's all. This is the secret. It's all miniatures. That's
40:51
Speaker 1: the secret of most global warming things that we're seeing
40:55
Speaker 1: miniatures made by me.
40:56
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's crazy because I know they're still sending
40:58
Speaker 2: you to those locations.
40:59
Speaker 1: Yeah you didn't.
41:02
Speaker 4: I see you build like a train set near the train.
41:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'll go to a train.
41:08
Speaker 6: I'll build a train set and just just to get
41:10
Speaker 6: the vibe and the feeling of it, just to get
41:12
Speaker 6: it right. It's first one to show dominance over the
41:15
Speaker 6: set that I'm in charge, you know, that's the second thing.
41:17
Speaker 6: And two sometimes you can use the feeling of the
41:21
Speaker 6: train behind you to play into a train derailing.
41:25
Speaker 1: You know. That's so I'll be all over the world.
41:28
Speaker 6: Now I'll go to Switzerland for a failed train is
41:31
Speaker 6: shaking too much and might fall off track.
41:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it's a great division though.
41:36
Speaker 6: I found really sinking my teeth into the psychology of it.
41:39
Speaker 6: It's really hitting the point of where do people go, Wow,
41:43
Speaker 6: that was actually kind of scary, and they look at
41:45
Speaker 6: their friends.
41:46
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It is a lat and they look
41:48
Speaker 1: at their friend.
41:49
Speaker 6: But what the reaction I'm looking for was like, whoa,
41:51
Speaker 6: that was actually kind of scary, But then they immediately
41:54
Speaker 6: forget it. It doesn't stick with them later at night.
41:57
Speaker 6: I want them to maybe have a scary dream about it,
42:00
Speaker 6: but I don't want it to stick with them for
42:01
Speaker 6: the next fail.
42:02
Speaker 5: You know.
42:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really exciting stuff. Yeah yeah.
42:06
Speaker 4: And finally me, I we've kind of passed this baton
42:10
Speaker 4: around for some reason. It's stuck on me again. I'm
42:14
Speaker 4: still running Fail Army Thanksgiving and Fail Army Christmas, and
42:19
Speaker 4: it's just our holiday video compilations and I love it, sure,
42:26
Speaker 4: but I'm ready to move on. I'm looking. I'm pitching
42:30
Speaker 4: you kill it.
42:31
Speaker 1: You kill it every year. Every year it feels the
42:34
Speaker 1: same and yet different, you.
42:36
Speaker 4: Know, thank you. It's just like I do feel a
42:38
Speaker 4: little gridlocked for all the other months out of the year,
42:42
Speaker 4: but I am working on some small new pitches that
42:45
Speaker 4: I've been pitching the guys. Uh, some just fail army
42:48
Speaker 4: snow where we just do snow stuff because I've been
42:52
Speaker 4: seeing a lot of snow stuff and it's just like
42:55
Speaker 4: we got we gotta get ahead of it.
42:57
Speaker 5: Is all over the place.
42:58
Speaker 4: I mean, we just don't have a clear voice.
43:00
Speaker 5: We don't have a designated place for.
43:03
Speaker 1: You don't have a take.
43:04
Speaker 3: It's like, is snow hard? Is it soft?
43:07
Speaker 5: Is it mushy?
43:08
Speaker 3: Does it hurt your balls? Does it help your balls?
43:11
Speaker 3: The kind of things we need to decide as a channel.
43:13
Speaker 4: If we're being transparent, yeah, and if we're doing snow,
43:15
Speaker 4: are we doing our kids involved?
43:18
Speaker 5: Right? Yeah?
43:18
Speaker 2: Because that I mean the thing is with with with
43:21
Speaker 2: snow also physics wise, right, Sometimes baby fall in big
43:24
Speaker 2: snow disappear, but sometimes adults fall on hard snow hurt back.
43:28
Speaker 5: So those are the differences. It's crazy.
43:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm definitely definitely in the weeds
43:37
Speaker 4: with that, and we're working on writing different different things,
43:41
Speaker 4: but it is it is really special to all come
43:44
Speaker 4: back together and kind of think tank together like we
43:47
Speaker 4: used to in early two thousands. It feels it feels.
43:50
Speaker 6: Well, I actually I don't know if you guys, did
43:52
Speaker 6: I know we sent that memo. Maybe just bring some
43:54
Speaker 6: pitches and we can work it out.
43:55
Speaker 1: I brought a pitch. Maybe we could life pitch.
43:58
Speaker 6: On it if you Yeah, I'd love this.
44:02
Speaker 1: This one is just I kind of like pulling from life.
44:05
Speaker 2: Here.
44:06
Speaker 6: It's woman opens two liter and it sprays in her
44:10
Speaker 6: face and bottle cap hits her in face.
44:12
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it goes like this. She goes she is
44:15
Speaker 1: she old as shit?
44:17
Speaker 6: Ooh?
44:17
Speaker 1: Is that a question or a pitch?
44:20
Speaker 4: I can't tell.
44:21
Speaker 3: Well, that's interesting. That's interesting, Kristen, because somebody needs to
44:27
Speaker 3: ask these tough questions. And I think I see her
44:31
Speaker 3: personally as being kind of old as shit, but not
44:35
Speaker 3: like old as shit in the way that that is
44:38
Speaker 3: like lifespan wise, I mean old as shit as a
44:42
Speaker 3: seven year old boy would imagine is old as shit.
44:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what I think.
44:46
Speaker 3: It the sweet spot for women about forty one.
44:49
Speaker 2: I think forty one is perfect. My question too, is
44:51
Speaker 2: where are we right? And is the camera on her
44:54
Speaker 2: when we start or does the camera kind of jostle
44:56
Speaker 2: its way towards her?
44:57
Speaker 5: That's great?
44:58
Speaker 3: Is she filming a TikTok and this happens because this
45:01
Speaker 3: is a whole new this is something that's kind of
45:03
Speaker 3: new within the past like five years or so, we've
45:05
Speaker 3: been able to play with.
45:06
Speaker 6: And that's what I was thinking, that's what I was leaning.
45:08
Speaker 6: Our intern chassis is so helpful.
45:10
Speaker 2: Well, she's the head of the Fail Army TikTok now,
45:13
Speaker 2: which has quickly become our largest department, and she kind
45:17
Speaker 2: of you know, it's.
45:19
Speaker 1: We should bump her up from intern. We should really
45:22
Speaker 1: it is to me that.
45:23
Speaker 4: We all are on salary for running things like fail
45:26
Speaker 4: Army snow. Meanwhile our main channel, which has become TikTok
45:33
Speaker 4: A summary.
45:34
Speaker 3: I mean, she's getting great exposure.
45:36
Speaker 2: She's getting exposure, and someone told me that she has
45:38
Speaker 2: access to the monetization and no one else does. So
45:41
Speaker 2: I don't know but feel for her.
45:42
Speaker 1: How much money could they be making on that?
45:44
Speaker 5: Probably not much, right, So I was.
45:47
Speaker 6: Thinking, Yeah, it was a little bit of like she's
45:49
Speaker 6: filming something and she's going, hey, I like this, I
45:52
Speaker 6: like this.
45:52
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, what's up, TikTok.
45:54
Speaker 6: I just wanted to drink a sip of my soda
45:56
Speaker 6: and it explodes in her face and she goes, what
45:58
Speaker 6: if she god, what was that?
46:01
Speaker 1: Maybe?
46:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, what if I know that we're talking about maybe
46:04
Speaker 4: making her oldest ship. What if she's tired as ship.
46:07
Speaker 6: Could be yeah, okay, I like and maybe and maybe
46:10
Speaker 6: like what if like what if it's next to her
46:11
Speaker 6: laptop and it breaks her laptop too?
46:13
Speaker 1: I think it spills all over your laptop.
46:15
Speaker 2: And I'm imagining too, uh, big forehead with tight hair
46:19
Speaker 2: in a really tight, padded down ponytail kind of.
46:23
Speaker 6: I love that big forehead tight. But she looks like
46:26
Speaker 6: she teaches cheerleading practice, so that'd be.
46:28
Speaker 5: Really that's now.
46:29
Speaker 3: I was wondering, just building off of that, if the
46:33
Speaker 3: soda could be acid, if it could be.
46:36
Speaker 6: Like, oh, okay, switch it, switch it. She's actually like
46:39
Speaker 6: in a lab. She's in a lab, and I'm gonna
46:42
Speaker 6: go against that. I think we're gonna stick with soda.
46:44
Speaker 6: I think soda is a better way.
46:45
Speaker 2: I think acid is it's skewing a little bit more
46:47
Speaker 2: towards closer to death.
46:49
Speaker 5: And that would be and.
46:50
Speaker 4: For the listeners, right, that's interesting, this is this is
46:53
Speaker 4: what usually happens. Right, We've been playing with this idea,
46:56
Speaker 4: we've been playing with this playto and now we're at
46:58
Speaker 4: a crossroads. Right, it looks like the room is divided.
47:01
Speaker 4: Half want to make it acid, half want to make
47:03
Speaker 4: it soda. Right, and this is always where the going
47:06
Speaker 4: gets tough.
47:07
Speaker 6: Okay, what do we meet in the middle of not
47:09
Speaker 6: cut soda? It is one of those volcano projects. She's
47:13
Speaker 6: forty one, helping her kid, and it's the kid pours
47:16
Speaker 6: it in without her knowing, it explodes in her face.
47:18
Speaker 5: It's amazing. That's amazing.
47:21
Speaker 1: It's good.
47:22
Speaker 2: And I'm pressing my button and I'm turning around because
47:24
Speaker 2: I would like that on my team.
47:25
Speaker 4: There it is the boy.
47:27
Speaker 1: You press the button.
47:28
Speaker 3: You press the button, you know, because a lot of
47:31
Speaker 3: things that I pitch are sort of like could lead
47:35
Speaker 3: to someone dying. And so I am really grateful for
47:37
Speaker 3: this room because you need a bunch of writers with
47:39
Speaker 3: different perspectives.
47:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, your stuff is really tortuous and really dark. It's
47:43
Speaker 6: almost like it's almost like I'm watching a fetish website.
47:46
Speaker 1: Whenever you tell that it's crazy.
47:48
Speaker 5: And I do want to mention. I did mention the
47:50
Speaker 5: button in the voice thing.
47:51
Speaker 2: We were the actual creators of those chairs, and they
47:54
Speaker 2: were stolen because Selo was a writer for Fail Army
47:57
Speaker 2: before he was meeting.
47:58
Speaker 1: Just a second. His pitches looks dressed so sweet, but.
48:03
Speaker 3: They were also homophobic.
48:05
Speaker 1: But a lot of pitches were what if a man
48:10
Speaker 1: kisses a man.
48:15
Speaker 3: Fail, that's just same love that love.
48:19
Speaker 4: I would say those chairs were never meant for public consumption.
48:23
Speaker 4: Those chairs weren't meant to be a like a spectacle.
48:27
Speaker 4: It was an easy way that we could show that
48:29
Speaker 4: we liked an idea.
48:32
Speaker 2: Is physics at work. I mean, it was just beautiful
48:35
Speaker 2: and it's it's a shame they've been commodified.
48:37
Speaker 1: It is it is a shame. Just to finish off
48:39
Speaker 1: this video, I mean, does anybody have a pitch for
48:40
Speaker 1: the last line?
48:41
Speaker 5: First line?
48:41
Speaker 1: Last line?
48:42
Speaker 2: Well, I would say we could lean into, you know, improvising,
48:47
Speaker 2: because that reminds me, you know, I feel like we're
48:49
Speaker 2: ready to start talking about casting for this because casting
48:53
Speaker 2: is such a huge part of it, and I think
48:54
Speaker 2: we'd love to let people in. I mean, there are
48:56
Speaker 2: some of our favorites right first off. I think Leslie
48:59
Speaker 2: is some that came to my mind as somebody who
49:01
Speaker 2: could do this one really well.
49:02
Speaker 1: Leslie.
49:03
Speaker 5: Leslie.
49:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, Leslie, She's.
49:07
Speaker 4: One of the ones that you she only has cell
49:10
Speaker 4: she's in Oklahoma. She only has cell service between two
49:12
Speaker 4: and three pm.
49:13
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yah.
49:16
Speaker 3: It's so hard to get a hold of her. But
49:17
Speaker 3: she's been great. She's been with us for so long.
49:19
Speaker 3: Because it's funny because we started working with her in seven.
49:22
Speaker 3: We found her on Craigslist and by at that point
49:26
Speaker 3: she was in the hot girl, drunk, falling off of
49:31
Speaker 3: stuff type cast and she was.
49:33
Speaker 4: Slowly aged herself.
49:35
Speaker 3: To the mom having something bad happened to her so
49:39
Speaker 3: sweet part. And the day we decided that she had
49:42
Speaker 3: to change was a tough day.
49:44
Speaker 1: She was not ready to have that kind she was
49:47
Speaker 1: twenty five.
49:47
Speaker 5: I was it was time.
49:50
Speaker 1: She was twenty five.
49:51
Speaker 4: Years old, guys, she was ready. She was ready to
49:54
Speaker 4: be tired of ship. But I'll say that Leslie has
49:58
Speaker 4: a fact, a factor with her that we look for
50:00
Speaker 4: in all our fill Army actors, which is, no matter
50:02
Speaker 4: how many times you see your face, you'll never remember
50:04
Speaker 4: her face. Yes, so we can use her sober and over.
50:09
Speaker 1: Leslie's probably sixty percent of our videos.
50:11
Speaker 5: And you guys think you have no idea.
50:14
Speaker 3: And with the invention of AI, which is something we love.
50:19
Speaker 1: We love, we love I love are ay, I bring
50:24
Speaker 1: it on.
50:25
Speaker 2: This is the.
50:27
Speaker 3: We no longer have to pay actors more than like
50:31
Speaker 3: we can only have three actors on staff, and then
50:33
Speaker 3: we duplicate them and that way we can inflict more
50:36
Speaker 3: pain on them. So we are so excited.
50:38
Speaker 1: M hm, well, thanks guys, thanks for that pitch. Anybody
50:42
Speaker 1: else got a light pitch?
50:43
Speaker 2: I don't mean to put I mean Leslie's great improviser,
50:45
Speaker 2: but if anyone does have a good last line, I'm
50:47
Speaker 2: down to hear it.
50:48
Speaker 5: Always.
50:49
Speaker 4: I always pitch if if a human or an animal
50:53
Speaker 4: said meow, I think that's always and that would be awesome.
50:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if that works for this video
50:59
Speaker 3: game pitch saying a child's name. I would always say
51:02
Speaker 3: good saying like.
51:03
Speaker 4: Anthony, what if you went? I know you're wondering how
51:08
Speaker 4: did I get here?
51:09
Speaker 5: That's interesting, that's okay, I would say, what about.
51:14
Speaker 3: As for our narrative channel, that's for our narrative channel.
51:17
Speaker 3: We're We're which cats out of the bag? Did TV
51:20
Speaker 3: show a strike fail? Army scripted TV show is coming out?
51:28
Speaker 3: We are writing it. We are we are well. The
51:32
Speaker 3: w g A actually said that this was fine because
51:34
Speaker 3: they don't really consider this much of anything.
51:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were.
51:38
Speaker 6: They were trying to avoid this thing. They said, go ahead,
51:40
Speaker 6: we don't care, just don't attach.
51:42
Speaker 2: Us to it.
51:43
Speaker 3: This is where you're fine.
51:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that was so lovely of them.
51:48
Speaker 3: I think that's fail army. The scripted show follows a
51:54
Speaker 3: faceless man named Mark stumbling through the world, getting his balls,
51:59
Speaker 3: not around and just face planting into things. But the
52:04
Speaker 3: twist is that he has kids and he wants to
52:07
Speaker 3: be an actor, So that's.
52:08
Speaker 1: The twist his journey.
52:10
Speaker 6: The twist is that he has kids, and the thing
52:13
Speaker 6: about him is he has giant balls. This guy has
52:16
Speaker 6: giant balls, constantly get.
52:18
Speaker 3: Hit kids because it's like, there's.
52:22
Speaker 1: This guy's are too big.
52:29
Speaker 2: And you guys are forgetting the reveal at the end
52:32
Speaker 2: of the first episode he also has a large Italian family.
52:37
Speaker 4: Oh god, that's a.
52:41
Speaker 6: Family, women who are and all this ship like, we
52:46
Speaker 6: didn't want to reveal it, but he last shot, you're
52:49
Speaker 6: kind of watching this guy gets thrown around and you're,
52:51
Speaker 6: you know, the first pilot drop is like, oh my gosh,
52:53
Speaker 6: he has kids.
52:54
Speaker 1: How could he have kids? His balls are too big?
52:55
Speaker 6: Last shot, he's walking in he opens the door and
52:58
Speaker 6: he goes, yeah, all my family, he's here, and it's
53:01
Speaker 6: a large Italian family city.
53:03
Speaker 4: We have the DP who did that that commercial where
53:07
Speaker 4: you zoom out and you see everyone who's working their wave.
53:10
Speaker 2: We got.
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Speaker 1: We got you know, you know that commercial shot, you
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Speaker 1: know that one commercial?
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Speaker 6: Will we zoom ounta and see everybody wave that famous
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Speaker 6: famous commercial or it's like.
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Speaker 4: They're all working on a mattress plays or a bank.
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Speaker 4: It's that one DP.
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Speaker 1: We got.
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Speaker 5: We got him, Yeah, we.
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Speaker 3: Got him, we got him.
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Speaker 1: We got the guy who.
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Speaker 2: Does who does employee shots static straight on employee shots,
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Speaker 2: we go.
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Speaker 3: We got we got the guy who does the employee
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Speaker 3: badges at CBS Television City. We got him photos for
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Speaker 3: the badges, and we got him.
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Speaker 5: You've seen him on lanyards. Now you're seeing him on
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Speaker 5: your TV and living room. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, Well guys, this has been great. Do we
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Speaker 1: have any final advice? Maybe young young fail young fail writers,
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Speaker 1: how to get in?
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Speaker 3: How to.
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Speaker 2: Be the best in your fields is what I would say,
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Speaker 2: be the absolute best that you can be, and because
54:10
Speaker 2: what goes up must come down, just like if you're
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Speaker 2: tracking the Saint Louis arch Uh, be the best you
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Speaker 2: can be and uh, if you shoot for the moon,
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Speaker 2: you fail among the stars.
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Speaker 5: That's what I would say.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say listen, listen, listen to the people around you.
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Speaker 5: And what if they were listening now, what would you
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Speaker 5: tell them?
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Speaker 4: I say, listen harder. If you can listen for the
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Speaker 4: smallest sound in the room, you are gonna hear a fail.
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Speaker 3: That's funny because Kirsten is doing subliminal messaging right now.
54:42
Speaker 3: If you play your message in reverse, she's gonna say
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Speaker 3: a swear.
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Speaker 1: She's gonna say us swear.
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Speaker 4: Listen, listen.
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Speaker 3: My advice is that the word out is funny, the
54:57
Speaker 3: word out sad.
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Speaker 5: And I'm still witting pre to tell me about OOF.
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Speaker 3: Oof is a gray area, you know. I think you
55:07
Speaker 3: gotta learn the rules before you can break them. OOF
55:10
Speaker 3: is you know, once you've mastered writing for like a while,
55:13
Speaker 3: you can start implementing OOF. But a lot of writers
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Speaker 3: are too green. They pull an OOF too early, and
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Speaker 3: it just feels in organic. It feels on an organic
55:20
Speaker 3: to the scene.
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Speaker 1: Guys.
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Speaker 3: That's my opinion on OOF. A lot of people have
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Speaker 3: opinions on it.
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Speaker 4: That's fine, No, for sure, I just want to let
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Speaker 4: anyone know who's listening. If you're if you're sending us
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Speaker 4: samples and they have oofs, I would just like get
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Speaker 4: a friend to look at it and really see if
55:31
Speaker 4: that oof me.
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Speaker 6: We're kind of sick of samples with oofs, like and
55:35
Speaker 6: that was kind of my my advice was the stuff
55:39
Speaker 6: that we're getting we've seen before. If you're gonna write fails,
55:42
Speaker 6: you gotta find your own unique voice on a fail.
55:46
Speaker 6: You can't do what we want you to do or
55:48
Speaker 6: what you think people want. You have to do what's
55:50
Speaker 6: unique and original to you. If you have a faily friend,
55:54
Speaker 6: don't run away from them. Get out your notebook.
55:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would say packet submissions are open until
56:02
Speaker 3: September ninth.
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Speaker 6: So September ninth, seven, twenty twenty seven hits and then
56:08
Speaker 6: we have to stop.
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Speaker 4: And then we're calling it.
56:10
Speaker 3: Then we're calling it, and then we have to stop looking.
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Speaker 3: But it's once again, it is four pages of nouns
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Speaker 3: that someone could be hit in the face with. So
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Speaker 3: it's four pages of noun pitches, and then it's four
56:23
Speaker 3: pages of substitute words for ouch, and then it's uh
56:29
Speaker 3: three three to five page topical sketch. Oh, and I
56:32
Speaker 3: want to say this I get political. Make sure it
56:35
Speaker 3: makes political.
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Speaker 6: It's gotta be political, it's got to be fin We
56:38
Speaker 6: also love an impression. If you can include an impression,
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Speaker 6: just to touch it as a video.
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Speaker 1: And I just let you know.
56:43
Speaker 5: Sorry, I just want to say, just and just a
56:45
Speaker 5: list of locations you have access to.
56:49
Speaker 4: That's always really important. And then I'll say, guys, I've
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Speaker 4: seen there's nothing you can write that I haven't seen
56:56
Speaker 4: a cat do. There's nothing, right, so like, don't try
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Speaker 4: to don't try to show me something in the cat
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Speaker 4: world that I haven't seen before, because I've seen it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we already have a cat guy, so I don't
57:08
Speaker 3: have a cat guy.
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Speaker 4: There's no there's no human activity I can see a
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Speaker 4: cat do. That will make me surprised. So just start
57:17
Speaker 4: from truth and listen. Listen, great, uh bye.
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Speaker 2: This has been artists on artist on artist, an artist
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Speaker 2: answering the question. Now that's what they call it, Joe business,
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