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Steve Agee: Peacemaker Origins, Crazy Hollywood Tales & Comedy Chaos with Rich | TalkBox Ep. 49 · Rich Fulcher's TalkBox

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  Hey, podcast listeners, please, if you enjoy the podcast, follow
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  and leave a review. And our guest this week, you're
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  going to love. It's Steve Agee and it's part of
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  our live show we did at the Moth Club in London.
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  And he's the best guest. Yeah, he's on Peacemaker and he
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  plays John Economos, and you're going to love it.
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  Maybe it's called John Economus. Who cares, right?
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  I do. I'm going to get sued.
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  Creatine. Oh, hey, Steve, what are you
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  doing here? What's going on?
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  Steve? Agee, everybody.
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  I'm here to do your show, Rich. I have no idea you were going to
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  come here. I flew out here to do this,
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  Richard. And we paid for your flight,
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  right? You know you did not.
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  Well, listen, you can take your jacket off if you want.
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  The cold in here. Everybody, Steve lives in LA, so
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  he's not used to the cold here. Is that right?
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  It's a little chilly, right? No.
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  Yeah, it's a little chilly, but. I mean, the weather was nice
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  today. A couple of days ago it was
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  really warm and everybody takes off their clothes here, all
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  their clothes if it's warm. Fully nude.
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  Well, you know, block and tackle everything.
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  Yeah. How long has it been since we've
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  seen each other? Beginning of the pandemic.
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  Shit, you lived in Woodland Hills?
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  Yeah. Well don't dox me I.
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  Live. You don't live there anymore.
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  I used to live in Woodland Hills.
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  OK, everybody. It's in Los Angeles.
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  And yeah, well, what happened was there was this COVID.
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  Thing. Go on.
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  And we just decided to leave, and then we just wound up
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  staying here, right? Yeah.
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  Rich's wife is British, so it makes sense.
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  Yeah, OK. I had no choice.
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  I was a hostage. No, no.
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  It was fun. But then we didn't see each
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  other after that things. You became big and famous.
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  No. Yes.
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  Steve Agee, everybody. How many of you I.
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  Pack a house. John John, economist How many
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  people watch Peacemaker? I don't.
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  Not pacemaker. That's a medical show,
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  peacemaker. Peacemaker.
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  No, I understand it's pronounced economist.
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  Yeah. Not economos.
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  I don't want that economos. Apples and oranges rich.
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  Oh, OK, now let's start from the beginning.
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  OK, Can we? Do you remember how we first
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  met? I don't remember meeting you.
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  I don't remember meeting you. You know how you have those
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  people in your life who you know, I, I I've known Rich for
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  about 20 years. But you have those people who,
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  but you don't remember meeting them.
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  You've just feel like you've always kind of known them.
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  Yeah. But I think it was because we
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  were on an improv team together. We used to do improvisational
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  comedy. And it had a controversial name.
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  It was called The Fucking Bastards.
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  It was politically incorrect. It wasn't our idea.
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  Midnight shows. Yeah.
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  Horrifically offensive. Really offensive and people did
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  not show up. Surprisingly.
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  It was one of those things where.
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  We performed in the Andy Dick Black Box Theatre.
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  Yes, that. Shows you how horrific it is.
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  Yeah. No, he's funny.
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  OK, he. Is so we?
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  How long did we do that for? It didn't last that long.
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  But what I remember you, there was this group of people that
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  got together to make short films.
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  They were called Channel 101. And I think I met you there as
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  part of the gang. And specifically there was a
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  series. It was a fake prank show where
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  someone gets kicked in the nuts. It was called Kicked in the
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  Nuts. Yeah, created by Mike Henry, who
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  used to play Cleveland on The Family Guy.
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  Yeah. And him and his brother decided
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  to do this five minute short film series where he and they
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  did it on Family Guy. It became so popular he would
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  dress in a green jumpsuit Mike would and wear a bright orange
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  Afro wig. Like a clown.
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  And they would shoot this out in public, like people walking down
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  the street had no idea. So I'm in, I think this first or
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  second episode. 1st. And we shot it on Ventura Blvd,
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  very busy St in LA and it was kind of like hidden cameras.
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  His brothers across this busy street so nobody sees him and I
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  have to come out of a porno shop and I'm just walking down the
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  street and Mike runs out from behind some bushes and just
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  kicks me in the nuts and I fall and I get really mad and that
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  the president, the premise of every episode and every bit was
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  people get really pissed that this stranger has just kicked
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  them in the nuts and he's like no no, no, no, no, you're on TV
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  look, there's a camera right over there and everyone.
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  'S like kicked in the nuts. Oh.
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  My God no way I love this show. You know, it's the same thing
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  over and over again. You can look it up on YouTube,
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  it's still there. So he's like, he's like, yeah,
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  so go into that porno shop across the street, like.
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  And your usual one wait like. Two or three minutes and then
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  come out and I, I think I actually had to buy something so
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  it looked like I was walking. It looked like have your Willy
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  out too. And so I just walk into this
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  porno shop and there's this like guy behind the, the, the
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  counter. He's like, can I help you?
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  And I'm like, no. And I, I don't, I'm just like
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  standing there at the door and he's like, can I seriously, can
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  I help you? I'm like, no, I'm going to leave
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  in like 2 minutes. And he's like, you can't just
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  come in here and stand here and then I'm like, see ya.
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  And then I walk out and I get kicked in the nuts and.
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  Dude, I have to tell you though, this was the death of me with my
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  kids because I showed them that sketch.
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  Yeah. Right, but a little bit too
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  early 'cause they were like too young to understand the
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  satirical influence. 'Cause they didn't have nuts
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  yet. No, but they just thought
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  there's a guy that comes out on the street and kicks you in the
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  nuts. So from that point forward, my
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  kids were always kicking me in the nuts.
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  Constant I go. No the.
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  Whole idea of the show is it was a joke and it's like and then I.
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  Oh, and that's, that's the other thing.
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  So they would film these bits and then when they would edit
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  it, they would take footage from like Showtime at the Apollo and
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  edit in the audience watching this.
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  Yeah. Laughing and clapping or.
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  Standing up some roast or something.
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  Yeah, it's it's worth taking a look at.
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  It's really funny. Now there's another moment where
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  we were together where you probably don't know this, OK,
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  But we were on ATV show together.
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  Yeah. Go on, play the clip, please.
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  Is this true? Yes.
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  Elliot Elliot Page. Welcome.
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  Welcome everyone. First pilot episode of Couch
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  Party. 1st Annual Pilot. As usual, we're your host.
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  I'm Steve. I'm rich.
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  Oh my God. Man, Hi everyone, We have a
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  little announcement to make. Yes, this is the final episode
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  of. Couch party.
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  This is it all. Right, thank.
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  You. Yeah, right.
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  We were actually on that show. Holy shit, That was my, that was
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  my old apartment, Yeah. You, you had the coolest place
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  in that. You could just go into Steve's
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  place at any time and just lay on the couch.
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  And smoke weed weeds. Hoochie, coochie.
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  Fuck, I forgot that existed. I know.
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  Holy shit, I know. That was like 2. 1010, I
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  surprised you. Yeah.
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  Yeah. So, Barbara.
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  Walters here. Yeah, I would remember going
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  down and and seeing you because sometimes you wouldn't leave
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  your place for a while. That's still true and.
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  Who lived above you? Was Ken Marino from the State
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  and party down? You know, Ken Marino, it doesn't
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  matter. It doesn't matter.
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  Reno 911. Yeah.
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  But it was, it was just a cool hang.
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  And then we just decided to film that once because we were just.
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  Believe it or not, that was all improvised, yeah.
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  want that sort of thing. And we'll get back to the
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  episode. OK, bye.
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  But you probably don't know this as well, Steve.
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  Oh my God. Is we?
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  What are you? We were also all the.
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  Way here for this. Show yeah for this, OK?
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  This is your life, Steve. Bring.
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  Bring it on. We were in a cooking show
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  together. Yeah, we were in a cooking show
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  together. Yeah.
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  Take it away. I can't.
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  Really tell anything he's here. Have some No come on it.
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  It literally tastes like it's smoothie.
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  Hear that? I'm going to take a sip.
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  Take a sip. Do you want me to film you?
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  Yeah, it's filming right. Now this is.
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  Steve AG. Drinking a smooth See, it's
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  good, it's good. Don't throw back.
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  Yeah, you like. Oh my God, what the fuck was
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  that cooking show? I don't remember that at all.
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  I. Know I know what happened.
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  Where is that? That we did a an episode, it was
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  the nickel liquor episode and. I don't know what you are
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  talking I that looks. I did AAI, not AI, so we did a
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  podcast. Me and another guy named Abed
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  did a podcast years ago and we had Steve on as a guest.
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  So that was. At Abed and I made this, it
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  might have been where I was staying at the time in a
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  transient motel. And I would.
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  Oh, that's. Right, that was that's the hotel
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  where Janis. Joplin died, Yeah.
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  We killed Highland Gardens. OK, I remember that.
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  I don't remember that. So I.
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  Would make these shakes and I'd put also I'd put Doritos in
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  them. Bananas.
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  I don't. Blueberries.
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  OK so there's a I'm having trouble in my later years
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  remembering stuff I I don't think I told you this but I have
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  some friends here who I've told this.
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  I had a girl, an ex-girlfriend who emailed me a like 2 weeks
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  ago. She's like, oh, basically the
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  gist was I just remembered that time I used to be in a band.
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  She goes, this is early 90s. She goes, when you're, do you
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  remember when your band was playing in San Diego, Southern
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  California, and this massive fight broke out and someone
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  pulled a gun and shot a gun and we were hiding behind the
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  speakers. And I go, what?
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  I'm like, what she's like, Surely you remember a gun like
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  where your band was playing. I go, I don't remember this.
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  And I thought she was fucking with me.
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  So I called my friend Tim, who was the singer of that band, and
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  I go, Charlene called me, or Charlene emailed me.
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  She was trying to tell me about some show we did in San Diego
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  where a big fight broke out and the gun was shot.
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  And he goes, How do you not remember that?
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  It was one of the most terrifying moments of my life.
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  You need to do more crossword puzzles because you're getting
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  Alzheimer's. Creatine I I think is the.
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  Creatine. I'm so disturbed that I don't
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  remember the gunshot thing. That's crazy.
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  That's such a. Huge drink milk.
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  But also drinking that, yeah, I don't remember any.
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  Of it, No, I know there's so many clips out there.
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  I was trying to get the clip of if you look at your IMDb, which
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  is the page that shows all of your credits, there's one of
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  it's just called Vulture wrapping.
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  Oh yeah. And it was just me rapping at
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  your house. And me filming it and putting it
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  on YouTube, and that's a credit I have.
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  It's a credit. I'm a director.
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  Well done, well done. Thanks man.
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  We went to Cannes with that, didn't we?
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  15 minutes, standing ovation. Yeah, well, I couldn't get.
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  I couldn't find it though. It's it's all been wiped out,
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  yeah. Do you do that?
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  Do you look at embarrassing things and wipe them out because
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  you haven't done a good job? Oh yeah, yeah, I, I try, I mean.
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  Yeah. I have so many questions about
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  that. Was that Pepto Bismol?
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  Is that why it was pink? Yeah, it was pretty bad, but I
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  tried to make it as gross as I could.
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  Good job. Yeah, thank you.
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  Now listen, I want to go back. I want to because we have this
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  past, right, But when I went away, a whole new thing happened
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  to you where you became part of this DC universe.
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  That's. Right, very recent.
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  Right. No, but I think everyone's seen
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  you, so they're a little bit curious about how you became
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  involved. First, it was Guardian.
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  Well, I met James Gunn in 2009. My friend Shawnee Smith was
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  doing ATV show. He used to James hosted a
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  reality TV series with Shawnee Smith called Scream Queens on a
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  channel called VH1, which was kind of like a a more adult MTV.
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  And the premise was they were looking for the next Scream
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  Queen like a Jamie Lee Curtis or Shawnee Smith.
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  And I get a phone call one day from Shawnee, who I had already
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  known. And she said, I'm, I'm going to
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  this party at James Gunn's brother's house.
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  I'm not going to know anyone. Would you want to go with me?
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  And I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go.
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  And I went and James Gunn and I immediately hit it off.
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  Immediately. Immediately tongue, tongue on
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  time. And he was like, we do this
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  every, we, we have these, you know, dinner parties every
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  Sunday. Feel free to come anytime you
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  want. Shawnee never went back.
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  I went back every single Sunday and that's how my working
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  relationship. That's so that's.
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  Friendship with James Gunn. Started you meet people.
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  You meet. People and you become involved
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  with them work wise. James put me in Suicide Squad.
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  Rich made me drink fucking Pepto Bismol.
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  And look where that got him. You got me in Hackney.
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  Got you here. And James Gunn, what did he do
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  for you? Put you in a a few movies and so
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  after that it was Suicide Squad. Peacemaker.
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  Well, just Peacemaker was Guardians and.
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  Guardians was before, very small, Yeah.
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  Guardians too, yeah. I'd love to you and guardians
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  though. Thanks man.
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  Yeah. But peacemakers like a full time
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  fucking it's. ATV show Yeah, the multiple
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  episodes Rich. Well, I have a confession to me.
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  I haven't shown my kids yet. You.
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  Should not show your kids. You drop a lot of F bombs in
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  the. Show it's rated R Really.
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  Oh yeah. Oh, so it's like 15 over here?
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  Or 18. But your oldest kid is a
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  teenager. He he could watch it, he says.
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  Fuck a lot does he? They call him Sir.
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  Fuck a lot. Is that true?
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  Yeah, yeah. Did they learn it from you or
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  Georgie? I think just general world
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  issues. I imagine your wife cursing you
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  out constantly. Jesus fucking Christ, Richard,
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  you. Fucking Dick put out the trash.
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  No, no. Why did you?
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  Put your shoes in the microwave rich.
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  I don't want Doritos in my shake.
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  I have a stomach ache. Where's all the Pepto Bismol?
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  Steve Agey drank it all. What?
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  Happened to my protein maggots. I don't know why I said that.
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  Why is the ghost of Janis Joplin hanging out in our house now?
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  Did you kill her? How long?
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  How long did you live in that hotel?
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  I lived there quite a lot. It became kind of my regular
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  place. If I didn't have a place, it
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  was. Such a dump.
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  It was cheap, though. It was like in the middle of
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  Hollywood. For those of you who've never
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  been disgusting, it's a disgusting place.
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  It's a fucking disgusting. Area disgusting.
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  People associated with entertainment.
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  Spider Man outfits. Runaways.
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  Drug addicts. People are in these outfits
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  taking pictures with tourists. They're like in Spider Man
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  outfits that are drenched in they are insane spiders.
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  They dress as movie characters and stand in front of the
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  Chinese Theatre. And one of the the characters
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  that used to hang out out there was a guy who was dressed as
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  Freddy Krueger. And it turned out he had real
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  knives on his glove and like, stab somebody.
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  They're they're not well. These people are a little bit
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  off in terms of mental acuity or Yeah, exactly.
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  And Rich. Lived amongst them.
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  I. I am your king.
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  Welcome my underlords. Yeah.
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  So, yeah. So we would do that.
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  And I lost my train of thought, Steve.
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  The hotel. The Highland Gardens.
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  Oh yeah. So I I made a deal with the
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  woman that ran the place. She really liked me for some
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  reason, and it was weird because you'd see people come in and out
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  of the hotel, like Ron Jeremy would come in cancelled and you
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  know, that's when I would just get a lot of stuff done.
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  Yeah. I'd write you used.
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  To either stay there or when you'd come back.
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  Rich Rich once went to Edinburgh to do a one man show and he met
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  Noel Fielding, Nolan, Julian and Dave and Mike and they really
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  took a shining to you and asked you to be in their show.
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  Well, then we did a sketch show together called Unnatural Acts.
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  Has anybody seen that? No one.
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  Yeah, yeah, it was on Paramount UK in 1997.
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  And then Rich just never came back to the States.
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  Oh no, I came. Back he came and stayed on my
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  slept on my floor once and he left me avhs and I remember and
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  I I kind of put it on like the coffee table or something and it
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  just scribbled on the spine and said Mighty Boosh.
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  And it was like 6 months before I I was like I should check.
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  This Have you watched it yet? Have you watched?
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  It yet? I just watched the first
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  episode. You're fantastic and I watched
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  it. I was like fuck, I'm jealous of
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  rich. No, it shows amazing nobody knew
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  about it. It's.
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  Amazing. And they know now.
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  Well, they do now, and now it's not here A.
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  Bummer. I'm.
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  Brian No, But so then what about the Peacemaker stuff?
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  When did that all start? James, After we did the movie
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  Suicide Squad in 2019, we came back from Panama and the COVID
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  lockdown happened and James just kind of out of the need to
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  create wrote 8 episodes of a spin off from the movie for John
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  Cena's character Peacemaker. Nice.
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  He just wrote 8 episodes in eight weeks.
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  What made him think of John Cena?
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  Well, John Cena's character in the movie was the one character
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  that didn't really have an arc. And James I, I think that
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  bothered him, right? And so he wrote a series to.
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  Get this guy in ARC. To see why this guy was the way
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  he was and then took it to Warner Brothers and they're
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  like, shit, OK, yeah, let's do it.
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  Yeah, it's COVID. Nobody's got shit.
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  And so beginning of 2021, we went to Vancouver and shot it.
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  That's so cool. And you've done 3 Series 2 but
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  you just finished the third? No.
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  OK, just why do you disagree with me on stage?
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  I told you not to finish, Steve. You can't do that.
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  Everything I say is right. You can't do that because then
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  people are posting online. Oh my God, there's the I can't
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  wait to see the third season. You've done 4 episodes right?
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  No series? So you just finished the second
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  one? Well, it just finished airing.
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  We shot it in 2024. It's so funny, every time we're
• 24:31
  in contact with each other, your messages are like, this is how
• 24:35
  they all begin. It's like Rich.
• 24:38
  I'm so tired. I think I have an iron
• 24:42
  deficiency. Hey, Rich, I'm well out here.
• 24:46
  It's because it's the jet lag. I was, yeah.
• 24:48
  Because you were in London. You called me a couple days ago,
• 24:51
  Rich. I'm really.
• 24:52
  Fell asleep in the Uber they guide last night.
• 24:57
  I was hanging out with Dave and I was so tired and I got in an
• 25:02
  Uber to go from, you know, shortage over to Marla Bone and
• 25:07
  I fell asleep on the drive over the the car stopped and I woke
• 25:12
  up. I had no idea where.
• 25:13
  Trousers were down. And the guy's like, you're here
• 25:17
  and I got out. I'm like, thank you, Sir.
• 25:19
  And he drove away. And I'm like looking around, I'm
• 25:21
  like, this is not my hotel. I'm like not even close to the
• 25:25
  fucking hotel. I was like 5 blocks away and
• 25:29
  yeah. So how did you Did you know how
• 25:31
  to get there? Yeah, I have GPS on my phone,
• 25:34
  right? Yeah, you've not difficult.
• 25:36
  Yeah, great job. Yeah, this.
• 25:38
  The city's well put together here.
• 25:40
  It's easy to find. Now, Steve, I don't know if
• 25:43
  you've you've probably seen my podcast and yeah, worshipped it
• 25:47
  from afar. Yeah, I I want some of this
• 25:50
  merch. There is a a set format we have
• 25:54
  called fill in the blank. OK, Yeah, I ask you several
• 26:00
  questions. Yep, you need to fill in the
• 26:04
  blank. Yeah.
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  And it doesn't have to be funny, but it really helps.
• 26:08
  If you're funny. It really helps.
• 26:12
  Oh, that's a lot of writing on those.
• 26:14
  No, no, no. That's that's Dave.
• 26:16
  That's for Dave. That's for Dave.
• 26:17
  Sorry, Dave. There's five questions.
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  Are you ready? Yep, OK.
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  Brace yourself. For war.
• 26:26
  Do some kugels or is it kegels #1?
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  The time of day when I mostly fart is blank.
• 26:37
  Currently. OK, no, but like every day.
• 26:42
  Is there a specific time? I'd say late afternoon.
• 26:47
  That's interesting me. It's the morning, like around
• 26:51
  10:00. Interesting.
• 26:53
  Because you've had coffee. And well, I'm a morning pooper,
• 26:57
  so once. You poop morning pooper.
• 27:02
  Once you do that, there's not a lot left in there, so farts are
• 27:06
  going too. I see.
• 27:07
  OK. It's science rich.
• 27:10
  Do you think they're going to use this in the Peace Maker
• 27:13
  promos? No.
• 27:17
  Two, if I got paid the same for each and I could only do one of
• 27:22
  these for the rest of my life, I would act in films, act in
• 27:27
  theatre, do improv, stand up or. Blank.
• 27:34
  Blank photography. Really.
• 27:36
  Yeah, I love photography. Oh wow, he's quite a
• 27:39
  photographer. I'm sure he's taking photos of
• 27:43
  you. All of you, essentially.
• 27:46
  You have to sign some waivers. #3 that's a good answer, thanks.
• 27:51
  Of all the jobs I've had in showbiz, Blank is the one who
• 27:56
  served the best food. Suicide Squad?
• 28:01
  Really. Yeah.
• 28:02
  What kind of food? Every kind of food there was
• 28:05
  always a a meat option, a chicken, a a foul a.
• 28:10
  Chicken. A a fish option.
• 28:15
  Oh my God, it was delicious. I know that's the thing about
• 28:18
  craft services on the some of these sets, they're just crazy.
• 28:23
  I just, I'm really here because last week I did 2 days on a
• 28:27
  movie in Bulgaria and everybody smokes in Bulgaria.
• 28:33
  Like everybody and the craft service area where they have
• 28:38
  like all the snacks and the food for you is, is right outside of
• 28:42
  the set usually in like most, most major cities.
• 28:49
  I'm assuming it might be here too.
• 28:51
  The smoking area is like far away.
• 28:53
  Yeah. Like, you know, and this one was
• 28:56
  like, everyone's just hanging out in front of the food
• 28:59
  smoking. Not in Bulgaria.
• 29:01
  It was it was like going back into the 70s where people were
• 29:04
  still smoking on planes and in in restaurants.
• 29:07
  They. Didn't get the memo?
• 29:09
  Apparently not. That's great.
• 29:11
  Bulgaria have tuna fish. Four.
• 29:16
  I don't know. 4 next question. Blank is the biggest similarity
• 29:22
  I have with John Economist. Good question.
• 29:26
  Cowardice. Really.
• 29:28
  Yeah. OK.
• 29:31
  So you're not really acting. No.
• 29:34
  Ever. Spent Oh, it's the easiest job.
• 29:36
  With so it do you guys have you guys all bonded on the set of
• 29:40
  you have you? Season 2, yeah, Season 1,
• 29:43
  because of the lockdown, it was encouraged like don't go into
• 29:48
  restaurants. You know, there were no vaccines
• 29:51
  or anything at that point. And so, and James had to go
• 29:55
  immediately from finishing the first season of Peacemaker to
• 30:00
  the final in the trilogy of Guardians of the Galaxy.
• 30:05
  So he, we could not afford to be shut down.
• 30:08
  And at that point, if, if someone got sick, they would
• 30:12
  have to shut down for two weeks and quarantine.
• 30:15
  So we had no, I mean, they were like, please, we can't afford
• 30:19
  anyone getting COVID on this production.
• 30:22
  We're the only show in that was shooting in Canada at the time
• 30:26
  that didn't get shut down really, because everyone was
• 30:28
  like. Nobody got COVID.
• 30:31
  No. Wow.
• 30:33
  Yeah, and what about Cena? Did you ever, were you ever
• 30:36
  told? Hey, listen, don't.
• 30:38
  Crowd, make an eye contact, Yeah.
• 30:41
  Don't touch his breasts. Speaking of, there's a scene
• 30:46
  where he's been stabbed in the first season and he we're in the
• 30:50
  headquarters and I'm giving him stitches.
• 30:53
  And so they put a prosthetic over his chest.
• 30:57
  And I mean, it was, you know, half an inch thick.
• 31:00
  And, and there was a medic who was teaching me, you know, while
• 31:04
  we were getting ready to start shooting.
• 31:05
  And how to do stitches? And so he's teaching me and he's
• 31:09
  like, all right, seem like you, can you do this?
• 31:12
  And we sit down and we're about to shoot and John's like, do not
• 31:19
  accidentally stab me in the chest with that needle.
• 31:21
  It was a huge. Threatening you?
• 31:23
  No, but he's like please just don't stab me with that needle
• 31:27
  action Boom, stabbed him with the needle first Fucking take.
• 31:34
  The rest of the takes were fine, but that first one I was so
• 31:37
  nervous he could have. Said fire that dude.
• 31:40
  He could have said it. He didn't.
• 31:43
  You just said it. I would have said it, Yeah.
• 31:46
  No, no. Well, I'm so glad it worked out.
• 31:50
  Yeah, he's still. I didn't give him tetanus or
• 31:53
  anything. And now you guys are lovers.
• 31:57
  Sure. #5 If I had blank, I would probably reconsider my entire
• 32:04
  existence. Polio.
• 32:11
  Good answer. Come on, whoever gets polio
• 32:15
  these. Exactly.
• 32:15
  That's why I'd reconsidered things.
• 32:17
  What did I do? What happened?
• 32:19
  Yeah. What did?
• 32:20
  Where have I been? What?
• 32:21
  Did Robert Kennedy do? He's the director of Health and
• 32:27
  Human Services, and never mind. Happy he looks.
• 32:33
  Well, Steve, this is the portion of the podcast where I ask you
• 32:38
  if you have any plugs. What are you up to?
• 32:43
  What are you doing? What would you like to tell the?
• 32:45
  Audience I would love to Dave Brown has a book.
• 32:50
  Not. A photo book?
• 32:52
  No, I mean, I mean currently you can find the both seasons of
• 32:57
  Peacemaker on HBO. HBO Max.
• 33:00
  But have you looked in the UK where you can get HBO Max?
• 33:05
  Is that Scott? Is that now?
• 33:06
  I don't. Know Sky, Sky.
• 33:09
  Yeah, but now it's got Sky, right?
• 33:13
  HBO Max just come out. There you go.
• 33:17
  What como say What como HBO Max has just come out I've.
• 33:24
  Come out of UK this UK because I saw that adverts.
• 33:30
  Yeah, it's true. While I was.
• 33:31
  Walking around. Guys, look for Peacemaker just
• 33:35
  he may say. Pry.
• 33:37
  Just make an effort. It's no big.
• 33:39
  I'm going to start showing my kids.
• 33:42
  I don't know man. Come on.
• 33:45
  The oldest. My 11 year old, See I like him
• 33:49
  to watch him at the same time. OK.
• 33:54
  Yeah, Saw. You're going to watch Saw
• 33:57
  tonight. You're going to watch Faces of
• 34:01
  Death, Do you remember that? Yes.
• 34:03
  That was crazy. Everybody wanted to watch Faces
• 34:07
  of Death. There's a few of us.
• 34:08
  There's a. New faces of Death that's coming
• 34:11
  out like in a week or two. It's true.
• 34:14
  Oh my God. Based on the the old weird
• 34:18
  movies from the 70s. I got to take my kids.
• 34:21
  Well, Steve, listen, thank you for coming down from Bulgaria to
• 34:26
  do this podcast. Thanks Rich.
• 34:28
  I really. Appreciate it.
• 34:30
  Yeah. Love you man.
• 34:31
  Always good to. See you, you're the man.
• 34:35
  Hey there. Thanks for watching the show.
• 34:38
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• 35:03
  But listen, first I want to answer a question someone on the
• 35:08
  Internet named Lizzie asks, Hey, Rich, what's it like working for
• 35:14
  Larry David or with Larry David? Sorry.
• 35:19
  Larry David was hilarious to work with.
• 35:22
  What they did was they gave you a little piece of what you
• 35:26
  needed to say to enter the scene, and then how do you get
• 35:32
  out of the scene? And then all of the rest in the
• 35:35
  middle was made-up. I totally made it up.
• 35:39
  And he did, too. We were improvising.
• 35:42
  It was a little bit like sex. I had sex with Larry David in a
• 35:50
  way. I've got to see a therapist.
• 35:55
  Bye. Rich vultures talk box.