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00:00So we're recording, um, let's start off with some questions right away.
00:03Should we do an intro?
00:04Yeah, let's do an intro and then let's do a brief little...
00:07Welcome to the Chris Gethard Show, everybody.
00:08JD, don't point as well.
00:10Ready on the start.
00:11I can do whatever I want, man.
00:12Hold on, hold on, come on.
00:14This is bullshit.
00:15Stop.
00:16Welcome to the Chris...
00:17Uh, I'm not doing it.
00:18Alright.
00:20Welcome to the Chris Gethard Show, everybody.
00:22As you...
00:25Oh no.
00:26Welcome to the Chris Gethard Show, everybody.
00:28As you can see, we've got a pre-taped episode this week.
00:30A whole bunch of us are out of town.
00:31So, I want to give you guys a show that explains some of the questions you have up on our
00:35website.
00:35We say anybody's got any, anything they want to see, any, uh, any question about how the
00:39show works, we'll answer it.
00:41So we've gotten four of the people who organized the show together right here.
00:44I'm Chris Gethard.
00:44I host the show, created the stage version of the show a couple of years back that has
00:48led to the public access show, produce it, just try to be funny and, uh, lead things on
00:54camera.
00:54That's my role in the show.
00:55Hello.
00:56Welcome to the show.
00:57What's up?
00:57I'm J.D. Amato.
00:59I'm the, one of the executive producers and I'm the director of the show.
01:02I also help out with Tom with ideas for stuff and things like that.
01:05Uh, I'm Noah Foreman.
01:07I'm one of the executive producers and one of the head writers and I do a bunch of stuff
01:12on the show.
01:13Uh, I'm Drew Johnston.
01:15I'm, uh, one of the executive producers and, uh, head writers and, uh, I, during the show
01:19kind of hide in the back and lob in one-liners and little bits here and there.
01:23Uh, that's about, that's about my role.
01:25Um, and what are you doing today?
01:28Well, we've had a lot of viewers, new viewers come in and, uh, a lot of them say that they
01:32don't really necessarily know what the fuck is going on.
01:35Yeah.
01:35Yeah.
01:36Basically.
01:36So this is kind of a primer for new viewers and, uh, a best of for old viewers and we
01:43didn't want to just be like, here's what the four of us think you should see.
01:45We, we put it all online, all in your hands.
01:48Hopefully give you some island flavor.
01:50Yeah.
01:54So the first question is, comes from Vacation Jason supporter.
01:58Why do you hate Vacation Jason?
02:00It's a two-part question, I should say.
02:02Uh-huh.
02:02Uh, why do you hate Vacation Jason?
02:04How does he feel about your hatred towards vacations?
02:07So here's the deal with Vacation Jason.
02:10Here's why I hate Vacation Jason.
02:12Before the show was on public access, it was a stage show at the UCB Theater.
02:16As part of that stage show, we staged a cross-country tour that we were all in an RV.
02:19There were 14 people in an RV that slept nine.
02:23I was there, J.D. was there all the time.
02:25No, I was there for part of it.
02:26Drew was not involved.
02:27I was not involved at all.
02:29But I stayed comfortably home at my place.
02:31Riley, uh, son owner, is a performer and a friend and he was a big supporter of the stage
02:36show.
02:36We asked him to come on a roll with us.
02:38Then he started tweeting, not asking anybody.
02:40He's like, I'm going to do this character the whole time.
02:41The first video I saw of Vacation Jason was one of his YouTube videos with just, it was
02:46him and his white nose.
02:48You know that was annoying.
02:49Oh, it was really annoying.
02:50I thought it was the stupidest video I've ever seen, but now I think it's so funny.
02:53Flavors.
02:54This is one of my all-time favorite island flavors.
02:57It comes in a coconut.
02:58It's called a pina colada.
02:59Bet you already knew that.
03:01So we told him, don't do Vacation Jason.
03:03And then in Richmond, Virginia, is that the footage you have?
03:05Uh, the footage I have is at the afterwards.
03:08At that house in Richmond.
03:09We wound up staying with these people in Richmond, Virginia and just making fun of them for wanting
03:14to do Vacation Jason.
03:15Then he did it at these people, in these people's living rooms.
03:18Yeah, well, the initial thing was you said, come out, come into this living room full of
03:22people and do your Vacation Jason act.
03:25If people laugh, we'll let you do it at a show.
03:27And if people don't laugh, it's done.
03:32You're playing this.
03:34What?
03:35You haven't done anything.
03:37You're right.
03:37What's up, y'all?
03:39My name's Vacation Jason.
03:41I'm a motherfucking vacation enthusiast.
03:43Get away aficionado.
03:46Motherfucking holiday expert.
03:49Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices.
03:51That's what my daddy taught me.
03:55That's the last thing he said.
04:04Ah, I feel like myself again.
04:09Let's get it popping.
04:10And everybody loved it.
04:12And then every show he did, every show we did on the rest of that tour, we let him do
04:15Vacation Jason and he crushed.
04:16He got two encores in Austin.
04:22He stole every show on the road.
04:24But I'll tell you, he shows up, Vacation Jason, I get that it's charming and I get that
04:28people enjoy it, but it's such a poorly thought out, intentionally irritating bit.
04:35I don't know.
04:36What do you guys think?
04:37I think it's pretty funny.
04:38I think it's definitely funny.
04:40I think it's a lot more well thought out than you might think it is.
04:43And for the second part of the question, I don't care what he thinks about my opinions
04:46on Vacations, I could care less about Vacation Jason's opinions on anything.
04:52Okay.
04:53Well, I'll start off on a pretty sour note.
04:55Sounds like you like Vacations, Chris.
04:57Second question.
04:58What happened to the enemy of the show, Ger Stevens?
05:03I think we should tell the Ger Stevens story to some people, because I think a lot of people
05:07missed out on that.
05:08Yeah.
05:08And that question came up a bunch.
05:10It largely happened off camera.
05:12Yeah.
05:13Here's the whole deal with Ger Stevens, for anybody who's asking, and some people sometimes
05:17call the show and reference this thing.
05:19For anybody who doesn't know, this is all real.
05:21This is all true.
05:22This is nothing we engineered or came up with.
05:24We were all really excited to switch to public access.
05:27It felt like this big shift.
05:28It was also pretty nerve-wracking.
05:30We did not know what we were getting into.
05:32And it's, you know, it's this whole new world, this whole new culture that we have to sort
05:35of like penetrate.
05:36So our first week, man, our first week we show up and there's a guy who has a show and
05:41he's doing his show, then his show ends.
05:43And we go to walk on to start bringing our props onto the set.
05:47And JD is like the first one on the set.
05:49And this dude was like, yeah, I got this place booked again.
05:53Why don't you get out of here?
05:55Like lacing into you.
05:56We're legit.
05:56I know that's like a crazy impersonation, but he was lacing into us.
06:00We were all like, whoa, thought we did all this stuff wrong.
06:03Thought we like stepped on all his toes.
06:05And it turns out this guy was just mean.
06:07He's just mean.
06:08So then I called him out on the air for it.
06:10This guy was really mean to us last week.
06:12And I know we're calling him out.
06:14But last week we came to set up our show and he was in the studio before us.
06:18And he was very rude.
06:19Dude, if you are Ger Stevens, call 212-757-1393 right now.
06:24And if you know him, text him and tell him he's getting called out because he was rude
06:28to us and mean to us.
06:31And the first, I'd say, like three or four weeks of the show, I was calling him out and
06:35demanding an apology.
06:37And rumor has it that he was calling the show and pranking us.
06:40Wait.
06:41That's Ger Stevens?
06:42This is Ger Stevens.
06:45And it's never been resolved.
06:48We don't know how much he actually knows about it.
06:50We've had a few run-ins with Ger Stevens in the studio since then, but we've never said
06:54it.
06:54We've been civil.
06:54Yeah, if you look at the black and white of it, it's a guy with a public access show
06:58called Education Matters.
07:00And we're like, this guy's the worst.
07:02He's for free doing a show about education.
07:05He's just trying to do a little good in the world.
07:06And meanwhile, we're bringing our bags of trashed and tots on the ground and clean up.
07:10He's getting in the way of our ability to drink a milkshake full of beer.
07:14We're the villains, I think we just were.
07:17We're the bad guys.
07:17We're the bad guys.
07:18I've always had a feeling we were the bad guys.
07:20This question's from Cliff Henning.
07:23He says, I want to know more about who bought your ball gag.
07:27Julia bought the ball gag.
07:30Julia comes to the show a lot.
07:32She's super supportive.
07:33Has contributed.
07:34There's a lot of people, I think, who come to the show all the time and just quietly contribute
07:38a lot.
07:39And we announced what that show was.
07:40And she just out of nowhere was just like, do you know what you're talking about?
07:43I met with that stuff.
07:44And I was like, nope.
07:45She's like, well, give me $100.
07:47I'll get you everything you need.
07:48And she just came back with a bag full of fetish gear.
07:51And I do not know her experience with that prior, but she did a great job.
07:54Julia also wears, she frequently wears costumes.
07:58You want to talk about how in the beginning you used to say, anyone wears a costume gets
08:01to be part of the show.
08:01But still a rule to this day, if you come to our taping wearing a costume, we will put
08:07you somewhere in the audience that you will be on camera at some point.
08:11Yeah.
08:11And a lot of that, a lot of the visual choices in the show, including the costumes, were
08:16born as much out of necessity as they were out of comedy.
08:21Meaning, you know, this was something that JD talked about a lot in the early days was,
08:24you know, we're on this public access network and a lot of people, you know, are used to
08:29just flipping right past those.
08:31So we need to build this show visually in a way that if you're just flipping through
08:35the channels, you will be tempted to stop just purely out of the notion of like, what
08:40the fuck is going on.
08:41The whole reason I started writing on the shirts was like, I would go on message boards
08:45and if I saw like somebody on a comedy message board saying like, hey, you should check out
08:49this show.
08:50Caroline E.
08:51Anderson is the shit was just because Caroline E.
08:53Andreson was this girl who would like post on this comedy message board about how she
08:57liked the show.
08:58Like there were very few people watching it.
09:00So we did as much as we could visually to encourage people to lock in.
09:04Every time someone wears a good costume, I always get super into it and I wish more people
09:08did.
09:08And you only have to lug it up to 59th Street between 10th and 11th and East.
09:13Easy.
09:13We are listed in Time Out New York as one of the best, the number one, I don't know if
09:19it's
09:19ranked, but it's the first listed date spot in the Upper West Side.
09:24So come get your fuck on.
09:27Kara Raymer wants to know, maybe a rundown of the most terrifying moments of the show?
09:32There were a lot of times when I genuinely afraid for the cast.
09:35Like the Whifflebat Gang, Hero's Journey episode, the milkshake of death.
09:39Basically all the times you thought you could die.
09:41That's a great question, Kara Raymer.
09:43Kara Raymer, that's my favorite question so far.
09:45All the times you're terrified.
09:46The Whifflebat Gang was very scary.
09:48The Whifflebat Gang was one that I did not anticipate the actual amount of physical pain
09:55that could be wielded by Whifflebats.
09:56I will also say about most of the pain-driven bits, they are usually things that I think
10:01of and put myself in the center.
10:02You guys generally are like, we'll do this thing where you get real fucked up.
10:07No.
10:07Lately I've become sort of anti-violence stuff.
10:10I still love him.
10:11I think violence is very fun.
10:13There's a lot of moments that are planned, like the Whifflebat Gang, that end up being
10:16terrifying.
10:17There's also moments that end up just occurring out of nowhere.
10:22And that freaks us out the most because we then, because me, Drew, and Noah then are
10:28all scrambling around going, what do we do with what's happening right now?
10:31Yeah.
10:32Well, like the time when you got the dominatrix episode, there were people in the audience
10:37who were really going at you.
10:39And we, at that point, didn't know how to stop them.
10:42That was a scary moment.
10:43The part at the end where I did not know this was a bit that was coming was like, hey,
10:46any audience member wants to come up and follow Gathard can.
10:49Oh, who was that?
10:52How are you?
10:54What?
10:56Omar, you too?
10:58Oh, no, Omar.
11:00Oh, no.
11:03Oh, no.
11:06I don't know what's coming.
11:07There were a couple people who got really out of control.
11:10Yeah.
11:11One who we knew, Omar.
11:14Omar got a little out of control, but I love Omar.
11:16Omar is a friend of mine.
11:17He's a buddy.
11:18He just went big with it.
11:19But then there was like a complete stranger who started hitting me and yelling at me.
11:23That was a scary moment.
11:24Yeah.
11:25The Wiffleback Gang was definitely, like, that was one where the first time it happened,
11:30it happened to me.
11:31And I immediately realized, like, oh, this is way more intense than we anticipated.
11:44But I couldn't figure out how to convey that in a way that it was real, where it didn't
11:47look like I was just playing into the bit.
11:49So that took a couple.
11:50I think we played a video.
11:52When we played the video or the musical guest, I had to be like, for real, we've got to cut
11:56down the time severely because it's too much.
11:58That was scary.
11:59The kickboxer was really bad, but he was a friend of mine.
12:02Of course.
12:02Oh!
12:06Oh, my God.
12:09The hero's journey was not awful because it was controlled, except for one friend of
12:16ours who was hitting me with a dildo.
12:18Holy shit!
12:20Oh!
12:20Oh!
12:21Too much!
12:21Too much!
12:22Too much!
12:22And just none of us knew that that's like getting hit with a club.
12:26Well, the hero's journey was, yeah, we knew it was all going to happen, but in the booth,
12:33and I think you guys felt this on the floor, the moment it started happening, and all of
12:43a sudden we saw how violent it was, and then we built this tiny mini arena, and immediately
12:47that got knocked down, everything was getting knocked down, and there was all this equipment
12:51there.
12:51In the booth, I had a feeling where I said, oh, we've made a bad mistake, and this is
12:56going to end very poorly, because Chris is handcuffed with real, at least with the hands,
13:01with real metal handcuffs to a metal chair, and it's this 19-year-old kid, and then we've
13:06got these...
13:07Who did not know this was coming tonight.
13:09And the people that we were going after were going hard.
13:17So to the point where I was going, we're going to break something, Chris is going to get
13:21actually hurt, or someone else is going to get actually hurt.
13:23And there were some moments where, like, in the booth, I literally...
13:26You'll see, we stopped cutting, because I literally just had my hand in my hand, and
13:30I was going, what do we do?
13:32We might be going too far.
13:34Let's not forget that Shannon decided to take coins and tape them to her hands before
13:40running on at the end.
13:46Another moment that frightened me was the episode before last with Nightbirds.
13:51They had an awesome band that emailed in that Chris knew them and knew about them, and was
13:57like, we've got to have these guys on, they're awesome.
13:59Also, they've already said they're going to bring a bunch of their fans to come out.
14:03And we were, like, excited.
14:04We were, like, super excited to have them.
14:0540 punks, 40 punk kids from Jersey, and I grew up in Jersey, gone on a punk scene, and
14:09I knew what that meant.
14:10And I exchanged many emails with Brian from the Nightbirds of, like, let's make this happen.
14:14How do we do it when nothing gets broken?
14:16Yeah.
14:16But it was still intense in the studio.
14:18And then what happened is we ended up having, I don't want to say the numbers, it could get
14:22us in trouble.
14:22We had a lot of people in our audience that night.
14:25To the point where just square footage of keeping bodies in the studio was, it was getting
14:30tough.
14:31Not to mention, 40 of them were people that came ready to go nuts.
14:34Yeah.
14:35And the moment that music started, I had told crew to defend cameras.
14:41And then immediately I turned to Corey Palmer, who runs the stream, and he's, like, a big
14:45guy, and Ken Beck, who's in the crew.
14:47And I was like, I need you two to go out there and also defend it.
14:49So basically, I had to form a wall of people to defend our cameras.
14:52And if you watch that footage, it's literally a battle going on.
14:57That's awesome.
14:57Of our crew trying to keep them away from cameras.
14:59And at one point, our camera was literally balancing on one wheel, about to be turned
15:04over on its side.
15:05That's incredible.
15:06And our camera was really just, like, trying to keep it on the ground.
15:09Yeah.
15:10I also love, too, that, like, usually you see Banana Man and Robin Williams, just, like,
15:13they were leading the charge dancing.
15:15And that one I looked over and they were, like, fighting, like, punching and kicking people
15:20away from equipment.
15:20You can't stop a mosh-er.
15:22You can't, like...
15:23Do you say mosh-er?
15:24Yeah.
15:25Yeah.
15:25What's that?
15:25What is that?
15:26It's a mosh-pit.
15:27Yeah, mosh-pit.
15:27That works.
15:28Mosher.
15:28What do you do?
15:29Yeah, what do you call it?
15:30Guy dancing.
15:33You can't stop a guy dancing.
15:35You can't stop a guy dancing.
15:36Because as soon as you try to stop a guy dancing, you're just another guy dancing.
15:40Yeah.
15:40That's my point.
15:42You are.
15:43You try to stop someone.
15:44You're in a mosh-pit.
15:45Yeah.
15:45You're only part of the problem.
15:46There's no...
15:47Yeah, and there was a moment where Rich, who works for MNN and works on our show, he's
15:53like, well, congratulations on your last episode.
15:56Because it just seemed like it was going to get so chaotic that there's no reason to
16:01try to do it.
16:01But luckily, our crew held it together and kept it down.
16:04Nothing even got touched or broken.
16:06But it was, like, a battle to keep things safe.
16:08Well, I would actually argue that the scariest moment in the show is not a violence-based
16:12bit, scariest moment in the show to me was that in the monologue...
16:16I don't see if it's...
16:17Oh, no.
16:17The monologue...
16:18Well, during the monologue episode, we did this bit where I drank a bunch of ambassol and
16:22swished it around my mouth so my whole mouth went.
16:24Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
16:25Oh, God, this stuff's really working.
16:27I'm not playing it up at all.
16:29I'm not playing it up at all.
16:30I can't believe I sound like this.
16:32Super fun, super funny.
16:34Went over really well.
16:35Everybody was, like, everybody watching the show was, like, oh, man, that was a really funny
16:39bit, you know?
16:40So we were, like, let's make this, like, a part of our thing.
16:42Like, you know, sometimes things come up in the show and then we expand it.
16:45Let's do a whole ambassol episode where everybody in the panel is constantly drinking ambassol
16:49so the mouths are numbing all the time.
16:50And then Shannon Googled it and found out, like, you can just die.
16:55If you just, like, lose ambassol, you can just straight up die.
16:58This is after the week.
16:59This is after the show had been written down and you're, like, good, done, doing it.
17:03I think we, like, had emailed the cast and shit.
17:05We had already started organizing the video for the week where we were going to do ambassol
17:10and crack calls.
17:12I think it was, like, 3 a.m.
17:13when I got a text from Noah.
17:14It's like, dude, we got a problem.
17:16Google the side effects for ambassol.
17:18It usually only kills little kids, though.
17:20I looked it up.
17:21One of the side effects.
17:22It was, like, side effect.
17:23Oh, let's do it.
17:23Sudden death.
17:24And I was like, okay, well, side effects.
17:26We planned an entire show and all you needed to do was Google, is ambassol dangerous?
17:30And the first thing is a Yahoo answer.
17:32It's like, yes, it can be fatal.
17:35If you have a cut in your mouth and it gets in your bloodstream, it can kill you.
17:39Big deal.
17:39We had emailed everybody, like, here's the next four or five shows.
17:42It was, like, ambassol show.
17:44And then, thank God, we found out.
17:46Because imagine if we had people dying on public access TV.
17:49Good ratings, though.
17:50It'd be great TV.
17:50Good ratings.
17:51Every single call from Jack Klugman.
17:56Yo, what happened to Jack Klugman?
17:57Hello, who is this gravelly-voiced gentleman?
18:01How you doing?
18:02This is Jack Klugman.
18:04Jack Klugman?
18:05Well, that's...
18:06I was going to guess.
18:07It was Jack Klugman from The Odd Couple.
18:09Okay, so what's up, Jack Klugman?
18:12How you doing?
18:12It was on and down for a Peter Falk memorial, and I've been flicked through the channels.
18:17I recognize you guys on Big Lake.
18:20Now, you know, I remember we once did a live show on Quincy.
18:24If you remember our show, Quincy, we once had a live episode.
18:26It didn't go too well, but I wish you guys loved it.
18:29It looks like a lot of fun.
18:30I'd like to see the Mexican get shot, if that's okay.
18:34You got a Mexican next.
18:35We do not.
18:35I don't think there's anyone of Mexican descent on the show tonight, unfortunately.
18:39Okay.
18:40I'm close.
18:41Horatio, you're in Spanish.
18:43Yeah.
18:44So you want to see me, Chris Gethard, electrocute Horatio Sands live on television?
18:48What about any colored people on the show tonight?
18:53Unfortunately, no.
18:53Although you're very racist, Jack Klugman.
18:56Jack Klugman is sadly racist.
18:58Well, listen, I love the studio audience.
19:00I remember back in 1976, we left the, we got rid of the lap track.
19:07We did a live audience.
19:09It was great.
19:10This is a bad evidence of the live audience that we had on The Odd Couple.
19:14And I think you guys are doing a great job.
19:15I love that rapper.
19:16That rapper was just here.
19:18That's Jack Klugman.
19:19Those rappers.
19:20I'm watching you guys on Ustream.
19:22Those rappers were the real deal.
19:24They are.
19:24They're just like old school, you know, I don't know what the fuck you call it.
19:28Exactly.
19:30I'll give him a clue.
19:31Well, actually, myself and Tony Randall once performed The Odd Couple on Ice.
19:38On Ice?
19:39Yes, I don't know if that's going to help.
19:41That's the clue.
19:41Ice is.
19:42Because Jack Klugman, when he first started calling, I hated him.
19:44Yeah.
19:44But I miss you, Jack Klugman.
19:46Come back, Jack Klugman.
19:47No idea who that is.
19:48Absolutely no idea who Jack Klugman was.
19:50That's another in a series of things that people think.
19:52We planned that just some guy calls our show, pretends to be Jack Klugman, but he hasn't
19:57called in a couple months, man.
19:58I really love Jack Klugman.
19:59I miss Jack Klugman.
20:01I don't know why he calls and pretends to be Jack Klugman.
20:03I don't know why he stops.
20:05What if it's Irv?
20:06I don't know.
20:07Could it be?
20:07He is on the show all the time.
20:09What if it's like, could it be Murph?
20:11I don't know.
20:12But I feel like.
20:13I don't think it was.
20:14I don't know.
20:14I feel like it was some random person who found the show.
20:17Jack Klugman.
20:18Call in.
20:19Call in.
20:19I miss you, Jack Klugman.
20:20Try to call in like 20 minutes before the show starts.
20:23We'll get you on a line.
20:24But if anyone else wants, don't use that advice.
20:26Don't use that advice.
20:27Because that doesn't work.
20:28We'll hang up when, yes, it does.
20:29Katie Cassie in 18 says, the Odyssey is absolutely the best theme songs for everything.
20:34And how much advance notice do they get before a certain bid?
20:38The LLC is the best.
20:40They're awesome people.
20:42I've known them for a few years now.
20:45And I've known of them for many years due to the fact that I would go to a lot of
20:48their
20:48shows and the punk scene.
20:50And they're great.
20:51They're great.
20:52And, you know, they have probably the toughest job because they don't get much credit for
20:56what they do.
20:57We put a lot on them.
20:58Sometimes they get four or five days notice as far as what the bids are.
21:02Sometimes they get like a day.
21:04A day.
21:05And they always come up with great shit.
21:07Their songs are always, they make me so happy.
21:10Because they're so funny and so weird.
21:13Also just like good songs.
21:14Yeah, I mean, my favorite, my favorite LLC song is Loser is the New Nerd.
21:18Losers and nerds don't get to choose.
21:21Losers and nerds don't get to choose.
21:24They're down the path and you're going to lose.
21:27Losers and nerds don't get to choose.
21:31I used to call myself a nerd.
21:34Losers! Losers!
21:36But the cool kids took that word.
21:40Losers! Losers!
21:42Jackie's Corner of Sadness.
22:10And then Trash Hunt from the first episode.
22:16Jackson!
22:18Jackson!
22:20Jackson!
22:22Jackson!
22:23I like the Walter song.
22:25Oh yeah, the Walter song.
22:26Walter.
22:26Yeah!
22:28Walter, I'm sorry!
22:30Walter.
22:31Walter.
22:32Walter.
22:33Walter.
22:34Walter.
22:34Walter.
22:35Walter.
22:35I really like the, you do, do whatever you want to do, Dan Klein song.
22:38Yeah.
22:38Oh yeah, that's really good.
22:39That's good.
22:40Do anything you want to do, Dan Klein, Dan Klein, Dan Klein.
22:46Do anything you want to do, Dan Klein, Dan Klein, Dan Klein.
22:51Do anything you want to do.
22:53Allie from the LLC was in a great band called The Unlovables, download all their stuff.
22:58Johnny from the LLC and Joe and Bill were all in a band called The Lost Locker Combo.
23:02That's what LLC stands for.
23:05Fantastic.
23:06Go download their stuff.
23:07Johnny runs a record label called Woe Oh Records.
23:09Everything he ever put out was good.
23:11I'd like to see a small glimpse into the writing process.
23:13How much of the show is pre-planned?
23:15Probably varies per episode, not to give away too much of the show's secrets, but how much
23:19do the writers, producers have planned that Chris doesn't know about?
23:22Do they even like him?
23:24Hmm.
23:25As far as the writing process in general goes, what will happen is this.
23:28We'll meet maybe once a month.
23:31We'll brainstorm topics, pick dates for those topics.
23:34A lot of times that stuff will change.
23:37Usually we'll know the topic for a show maybe eight or nine days out, sometimes less than
23:41that.
23:42Usually it's very vague and is really only filled out as far as what the show is going
23:46to be within the four or five days leading up to the show.
23:49Yeah, it kind of changes too.
23:50I mean, sometimes we come up with a bigger idea for the show and then try to find bits
23:55that fill into it.
23:57Sometimes we've had small bits that we've realized, well, that's an entire show itself.
24:02So it really depends.
24:04The writing process is usually us sitting around and every concept is started as like
24:10us joking about it and then we're like, no, we should do that.
24:14Let's commit to that.
24:14No, we should actually do that.
24:16I think the best example of one that we brainstormed all together that no other show would ever
24:20do was Random Andrew's Hero's Journey.
24:24This is why you're standing periodically throughout the show.
24:27People from the show who you know, some of whom just got up and walked away, you will
24:31hear a vuvuzela blare.
24:33Those people are going to run, come from who knows where.
24:36I don't even know who's in on this.
24:38I don't know what they're planning on doing.
24:40They are going to physically attack me tonight.
24:43Now, attack me.
24:44Wait.
24:44And here's where the crossroads comes for you.
24:47If you want to be the villain of the show, you can abandon a handcuffed man and let him
24:52get beat up for an hour.
24:53But if you want to be the hero, you're the only one who can defend me tonight.
24:57That was us sitting around basically saying, Random Andrew's been getting fucked with and
25:01made fun of on this show and none of us like it and have not been able to figure out
25:05how
25:05to handle it.
25:06And a lot of that was on my shoulders.
25:07It's like, how do I react when people are messing with this kid?
25:10Do I mess with them?
25:11And do we try to make that a thing?
25:13But we're all sitting around just saying, we need to do something to settle this.
25:16We need to make him a hero.
25:17And then we said, well, let's put him through the hero's journey.
25:19He's got to earn it.
25:20We all come with the big idea together.
25:22And then Noah and Drew sort of head up deciding how each of that's going to play out in terms
25:26of individual
25:26bits.
25:27Yeah.
25:27Because in the end, those little bits too, it's going from the idea to the actual specifics
25:36of what are the physical things we need to make this happen and actually make it work
25:41and be visual and be fun.
25:42And you guys are the guys who decide too, at what points during the show should all this
25:47happen.
25:47Yeah.
25:47A lot of the writing too is in the order in which we do things and how long they go
25:52for it.
25:52But a lot of it is largely improvised and just kind of feeling out what's working and isn't
25:57working.
25:58It's not really written in any traditional sense.
25:59And the bottom line with our show too is you can't really, it would be pointless to write
26:03it more structured than we do because the callers define it.
26:06Like if callers call up and start saying something crazy, we'll follow that.
26:20And if they tell us that they want the show to go a certain way, we'll follow that.
26:23And if they want it, if there's a really interesting call, we'll let them talk really a long time.
26:28Hi, Bobby.
26:30Why?
26:31Why?
26:32What's up, Bobby?
26:33No, he's just really, really hot.
26:35Is there any way he can just lift his shirt up on camera?
26:37Wow.
26:38No.
26:40No.
26:42No.
26:42Bobby, are you doing your business right now?
26:44Yeah, just keep it like that.
26:45Are you jerking off to me right now, Bobby?
26:46Everybody stay quiet, quiet, quiet.
26:48Nobody talk.
26:48Nobody talk.
26:49Bobby, take us through this.
26:50Be verbal.
26:51Oh, okay.
26:52Can you just, um, can you just put his elbow off, his left elbow?
26:56Like put it towards the, put it towards the ceiling.
26:58Yeah, a little higher.
27:00A little higher than that.
27:02Okay, right there.
27:03Okay, now with your other hand, try to do like a circular motion.
27:08Oh my God.
27:09No, no, don't touch the body.
27:10Don't touch the body.
27:12Don't touch the body.
27:13Just a circular phone?
27:15Oh, okay.
27:16This is really good.
27:18Okay.
27:19Okay, that's all I needed.
27:20That's it?
27:21That's all you need, Bobby?
27:22Honestly, because we'll keep going.
27:23We know that we're sending out one piece of the puzzle, but the show can't really be
27:27written because the other piece of the puzzle is what comes in during the show from the
27:30outside world.
27:31Yeah, and also, like, we've had situations too where we've had an episode planned and
27:36then something will happen that our audience does, that someone does, and we'll be like,
27:39okay, well, we have to wipe the slate clear and we have to follow this new storyline.
27:43We're having a random gene trivia contest tonight because a lot of people have been calling
27:47up saying, this is our 11th show.
27:49You've been on 10 of them, random gene.
27:51Yeah.
27:51A lot of people.
27:51Jake Folk and us, you called up yourself.
27:53You said, hey.
27:54Yeah.
27:54She's not random anymore.
27:55You know, gene ain't so random.
27:56No.
27:57So tonight what we're going to do, all of us on the panel, we have these markers and this
28:00paper, the way this is going to work.
28:02And that becomes our next episode.
28:03So a lot of it is we can't plan it out as much as we want to because a lot
28:09of this
28:09interaction requires the constant new ideas and stuff.
28:13And it depends a lot on, like, which episode.
28:15Like, if you look at, like, two of our more recent episodes, like the hanging out with
28:18Alyssa episode was, like, virtually no writing.
28:21It was just making sure we had great guests and, like, things to surprise Alyssa.
28:26Like, we came up with the idea of we want to give Alyssa the night of her life.
28:29And then it was kind of that was all we really needed to do other than just booking who we
28:33wanted.
28:34But then there were the nights like the blindfold episode, which was we came up with the idea
28:38and then...
28:39That probably was one of the more fun ones for you guys.
28:41Yeah.
28:42We just went off and found out that we came up with the stupidest things to wave in front
28:46of you and book and see how it worked.
28:50And it's basically, like, the way I think about it is, like, each episode we're all kind
28:55of coming up with a world's...
28:57Each episode takes on its own world and its own, like, environment.
29:01And it's just sort of coming up with things that will help fill out that world environment.
29:05But then in the end, it's really just the people on the panel.
29:08It's the callers.
29:09It's the audience members who all kind of come and, like, oh, that's what this week is
29:12about?
29:13All right.
29:13We're going to be a part of that this week.
29:15And as for the second part of the question, how much do I know?
29:18How much are these guys messing with me?
29:20In any bit that feels that way, I would say generally what happens is I will be part
29:26of the discussion that forms the overall bit.
29:30And usually with things that direct violence towards me, I'm usually the one, I think,
29:34giving birth to those ideas.
29:36Usually, it's not often that someone else is like, let's do an episode where you get
29:40the shit beat out of you.
29:41Those are always me coming up with the umbrella idea.
29:44But a lot of times what happens, like, Random Andrews Hero's Journey, we're like, well, I'll
29:48be chained up.
29:48He has to protect me.
29:50You guys brainstorm what those would be.
29:51Blindfold episode, I knew I would be blindfolded.
29:54You guys all came up with what the specific beats of or that.
29:57So, generally, for any viewers who watch and get worried about how much do I know and
30:01not know, the answer is always something along the lines of, like, I know the overarching
30:06thing.
30:07Right.
30:07As far as the specifics, there's varying degrees of how much I know.
30:10But there's no sense, like, we often joke about how people on the show don't like me
30:14and whatnot.
30:15I don't think that's true.
30:17That's just sort of a thing we say and sort of wink to the camera on.
30:20Right.
30:21Oh, I was just saying, I think we also know Chris well enough and we can watch him to
30:25know when he actually legitimately gets to a point where he gets really, really angry.
30:29And we try to push him as far as we can towards that before actually hitting that.
30:34There's only been a few times where you've actually gotten upset at not knowing what's
30:39going on.
30:39Yeah.
30:39The only, like, the biggest one...
30:41Ruin this show.
30:42Ruin this show.
30:43I was just going to say, like, I had just done an appearance on Jimmy Fallon, which was
30:47huge for us.
30:49And I think we, all four of us, I think were super nervous about coming off of that.
30:53I think our whole cast was nervous.
30:54Yeah.
30:55I think that shit ran downhill.
30:57And there was just massive levels of miscommunication starting with us lasting through the whole
31:02show.
31:03I can't watch that show, man.
31:05I can't even watch it because it was just, the whole idea was one, like, that was the
31:09only time I really feel like amongst us where the four of us were off the same page about
31:13what the big idea was.
31:15And that's when it stops working.
31:17That's when the gears break down.
31:18Yeah.
31:18If the four of us aren't on the same page about, like, here's the big picture idea that we
31:23learned that night.
31:25Like, oh.
31:26Because some of us thought it was like, I thought it was like the panel versus the audience.
31:30And then some of you guys were like, everybody against Chris.
31:33And that's like the only episode, I think, where if you watch it, where my actual anger
31:38hits a point where I can't contain it.
31:40There's a moment where you can like pinpoint you just like, you just lose it.
31:46Uh, you have to invest in a decent insulated lunch tote.
31:50This was a mistake.
31:52I say it with sadness in my voice.
32:00No one's even enthusiastic about this anymore.
32:03Who is this guy?
32:05I spoke on Skype for a while.
32:1115 minutes.
32:12So we have to decide what we're going to do because this is getting old.
32:15This is getting old.
32:16And that one super sad moment that's not seen on camera is the video starts playing.
32:22And usually when the video plays, like everybody enjoys the videos.
32:25And that one you could feel the vibe in the room.
32:27Everybody was just like down and out.
32:30And the whole panel was just like sitting in silence because we all knew something got
32:33fucked up and none of us knew how.
32:35And Dom was like on the far end of the panel.
32:37And I just turned to him and I was like, I can't believe we dropped the ball the day
32:43after I did Fallon.
32:44I can't believe this is the episode that got fucked up this bad.
32:47And the whole crowd heard it and we all just like sat there like this and just got through
32:52the show.
32:53But I couldn't, I could not hide that.
32:55I couldn't.
32:56I will say though that the video that you guys were talking over was my favorite video.
32:59Which video was it?
33:00Michael Caine.
33:23That was amazing.
33:24That's an amazing video.
33:25That's an amazing video.
33:26But that episode, I can't watch it.
33:28I can't watch it.
33:29But also, such a bummer.
33:30We were trying, in a weird way of success.
33:33Yes.
33:34And also we were like.
33:36Legitimately ruined the show.
33:38Oof.
33:39Kills me.
33:39This thing gets me upset.
33:41Well, okay.
33:41I'm happy though.
33:43I am happy though that in a sense we did create the thesis which is ruin the show.
33:47I mean, that's not something you're going to see anywhere else on TV.
33:50Who's that guy that always says smoke weed, son?
33:53To Kristen, you want to know who the guy is who says smoke weed?
33:56Yo, Chris Gessett.
33:57What's up?
33:58Yo.
33:58I just wanted to call and let you know that it's Wednesday night and I'm smoking mad weed.
34:09When are we going to smoke some weed, son?
34:12When are we going to smoke some fucking weed, son?
34:16Smoke weed, son?
34:18Yeah!
34:19Yeah!
34:21That's it!
34:22That's Sean.
34:23That's our friend Sean Distant.
34:24That's Sean Distant.
34:25That's Sean Distant.
34:26That's our friend.
34:27You might recognize him as the guy who holds signs.
34:29He's a member of the Wiffleback Gang.
34:31Remember the Wiffleback Gang, best chanter in TCGF history?
34:35Starts the most chants.
34:36Sandwich Night.
34:37Not a surprise that the guy who likes weed also likes sandwiches.
34:41Yeah, that's fair.
34:43Next question.
34:44What happened to the guy that was down in the first band way back in the beginning?
34:47I think his name was Walter.
34:49Walter moved, right?
34:50Let's start.
34:51Walter was our first band episode two.
34:54He called in, and he was like...
34:58Well, my question is, I just moved from New York, and I'm just switching the channels,
35:03and I saw this, and I think it's very funny.
35:05I mean, I really know what is going on, or what is this about.
35:08And I just got to say that the girl on the left side is very awesome.
35:13I don't know.
35:13Her personality is very cool.
35:15This girl, Shannon, right here.
35:16The girl whose hand?
35:17I like you, Walter.
35:18Yeah, that's her.
35:19Yeah.
35:19Me?
35:20I like you, Walter.
35:22All right, guys.
35:23Well, I'm just going to keep watching you, and thank you.
35:26Thank you, Walter.
35:28And as we learned, Walter is this really genuine, nice guy who was a big supporter of
35:32us.
35:33And back then, we didn't have many supporters.
35:35We just started out.
35:36And so having a guy like Walter that was vocal and was basically like, hey, I like what you
35:42guys are doing, it meant a lot to us, genuinely.
35:45And...
35:45Yeah.
35:46Walter lived in Manhattan at the time.
35:48He used to watch on Manhattan Public Access before we even could get the streaming up and
35:51running.
35:52And then he moved to Miami, and we miss him.
35:55We love him.
35:55I feel like Walter tweets a lot about how he feels like we've forgotten him.
35:58We have not forgotten Walter.
35:59I think he tries to call in about every week and just has the worst luck.
36:03Walter, try calling in like 20 minutes before the show starts.
36:05No one else do that.
36:06Walter.
36:07Yeah.
36:07And Jack Clark.
36:08Yeah.
36:08But it's also, it's one of those things where it's like, Walter can't get through on the
36:12lines now, and it's good.
36:13It's a sign that our show is growing, and that's great.
36:16But also, we miss talking to Walter.
36:18Walter was on the show once, though, during the Wiffleback Gang episode.
36:22Oh, was he?
36:23He comes on to ask a question.
36:25Are you who I think you are?
36:26Yeah.
36:27Ladies and gentlemen, let's hold that song, because come forward, sir.
36:30Walter is here in the flesh.
36:33Walter!
36:39Walter!
36:40Walter is calling in.
36:42Walter is calling in.
36:44Walter is calling in.
36:45Walter.
36:46Walter.
36:47How are you?
36:48So, Walter, let's just look for the camera.
36:49I should explain.
36:50This is your first time coming to the studio.
36:51You call every week.
36:52You're our only fan.
36:55You called up our second show.
36:57I should have brought up to you to say, number one fan.
36:59We would have loved that.
37:00I was waiting for the market to make it in my sign, and nobody gave me any market.
37:04We dropped the ball.
37:04Well, Walter, if it's any consolation, it's not the only area in which we've dropped the
37:08ball tonight.
37:09Well, we thank you so much for calling.
37:11Thank you for coming out.
37:13We always like to check in with you.
37:14Your opinion means a lot.
37:14We hope you check in every week.
37:16Every week.
37:16Walter is a super nice guy, the best, and truthfully, his support of us meant a huge
37:23amount and still does to this day.
37:24He says, your website is really awesome and easy to use.
37:28Who made it?
37:28Our website.
37:29I'm glad you think it's awesome.
37:31We really love it.
37:32Darren Miller and Daniel Spencer made it.
37:34They're great.
37:35They are two of the most unsung heroes of the show.
37:37Darren Miller, every week, man, he's putting up those live jeans, working on that stuff,
37:42and stuff, falls apart, he's on call, and it makes me, it kills me to no end that he
37:48is this sort of silent partner in the show, but those guys do great, great work, and can't
37:54thank them enough.
37:54Hire them.
37:55Yeah, they're awesome.
37:56Hire them the best.
37:57You should.
37:57You should absolutely contact them.
37:59Talented, easy to work with.
38:00Get them to build your website.
38:01Yeah, and they're super punk rock.
38:03As a live stream viewer, I'd be interested to know what shows air on MNN before or after
38:09TKC?
38:10Yo, cheese, that's a great question.
38:12Yeah, that's my favorite question yet, I think, because of the answers.
38:15MNN is a wonderful place.
38:16They are true to their word.
38:17If you want to have a TV show and you're willing to take the classes, you're willing to fill
38:21out the paperwork, you can get a TV show.
38:22There's a lot of really cool stuff on New York Public Access Television, a lot of really
38:26cool stuff that deals with things like music, politics, and community issues, all sorts
38:31of stuff.
38:31That being said, there's also some crazy shit.
38:34Some of the stuff that has led into and out of our show, one guy that we love who airs
38:39after us is a guy who pays women to dance and thongs.
38:42Love that guy.
38:44I'm going to have to say this because it's not even an exaggeration.
38:47He doesn't just pay women to dance and thongs.
38:48He literally sticks dollar bills in their assholes.
38:50Yeah, the same clip of that woman getting a dollar bill shoved into her, like you see
38:56vagina and ass and it's so, it is so graphic.
39:01And that's what's right after our show.
39:03Yeah, we cut off the Alyssa show, we cut off right when Bobby Moynihan comes on.
39:07It's like, he's like, hey, it's Bobby Moynihan.
39:09And then it cuts to someone's getting a dollar bill shoved in their asshole.
39:13One of our leading shows, I have been told, I have not seen this one, is a guy who puts
39:17a camera on the passenger seat of his car, just drives around Brooklyn.
39:21Doesn't even talk half the time, just drives around.
39:23What else?
39:24We once got bumps for a bunch of belly dancers.
39:26We once got bumps for a bunch of weird ballroom dancers.
39:30Everyone over age 60.
39:31Super elaborate.
39:32There's a show, and I've actually never seen the show on Eminem, but I've only seen him
39:36recording it because it frequently records right before us, which is a show called
39:39The Vinny Vela Show.
39:40Vinny Vela.
39:41And I've actually never talked to him, but he just seems like the nicest guy in the world.
39:46And he has a crowd of people who follow him, man.
39:49He's got a filing.
39:51He always has these gorgeous women on the show.
39:54I was, one of our episodes, I was in the middle of setting up, and one of the dudes was
39:59like,
39:59hey, you, come here, come here, come here, take a photo.
40:02And I had to sit there, instead of working on our show, and take a photo of some big Italian
40:07guy and this gorgeous woman.
40:09And I was like, this way?
40:10He's like, no, no, no, no, do it that way so I can see your legs, you idiot.
40:13Was this last week?
40:14Okay.
40:14Yeah.
40:15Was this last week?
40:15Yeah.
40:16He did the same thing to me last week.
40:18That's amazing.
40:19But yeah, there's a lot of people.
40:20I don't know.
40:20Those are the shows that lead in and out of us that we know about.
40:23There's one I remember.
40:24I don't know what the show was, but it was a guy doing pull-ups.
40:27Oops.
40:27There's a mic.
40:28It was a guy doing pull-ups, and he was holding his chin up like that, and someone else just
40:32came and started beating the shit out of him.
40:34Yes, yes, yes, yes.
40:35There's a show where people just get beaten up doing pull-ups.
40:37And then there's the lady and her son who do a show, and she's super nice, and they
40:41always bring food and then leave the food for us, which is just super nice.
40:45Everyone at Eminem is super nice, and it's a cool place where people can just have a platform
40:49to do cool stuff.
40:50What's the worst bit that's ever happened on the show?
40:52Conversely, what bit did not go as expected, but was a success anyway?
40:56I would say the second part of the question, I don't think there's any, I don't think there
40:59has been a bit that's gone wrong and gone well.
41:02Only because all the bits are sort of partially planned, and we don't know how they're going
41:06to go.
41:06So if it goes well, that's just how it went.
41:09We generally don't know exactly how things are going to go anyway.
41:13I will say, worst bits, there's three things I'm going to talk about.
41:17One, we would all agree, human crane.
41:20What?
41:21Gethard is a human crane!
41:24I'm 31 years old.
41:26People are shouting, Gethard is a human crane.
41:27So here's how this works.
41:28We need an audience volunteer, someone from here.
41:30Do you want to come up on stage and help us out?
41:31Anybody?
41:32Okay.
41:33Matt Mayer, it looks like you.
41:34So Matt, why don't you sit right there?
41:36So here's how this is going to work.
41:37There's a whole pile of items here.
41:38You can see there's autographed headshots from the human fish, Shannon, George, there's a dollar,
41:42there's some flip-flops, Bosco, strawberry syrup, a toilet brush, some tennis balls, all
41:46sorts of stuff.
41:47Feel free to root around, see what you might like.
41:49I'm going to blindfold myself.
41:51Drew and George are going to hang me upside down.
41:53You're going to direct them like you would a crane.
41:56So a little forward, a little right, a little more forward.
42:00When you say drop, they're going to lower me down.
42:03I'm going to try to grab the item you're going for with my teeth, blindfold.
42:08If I get it, it's yours.
42:10Right there, you're looking at the Spanish language, beware of dog sign.
42:14Set up whatever you want to go for.
42:15Let's be quick about it.
42:17He's having a hard time choosing because it's a pile of shit.
42:20Poorly thought out, poorly executed.
42:23Dangerous.
42:23A weird, yeah, dangerous, physically dangerous, a weird lack of enthusiasm from the start.
42:28I would like to say from the beginning, I was against the human crane.
42:31We got into an actual argument.
42:32You made it clear.
42:34We got into an argument before the show because I didn't want the human crane.
42:37And then afterwards, I was like, I told you it wouldn't work.
42:39But also, that certainly affects things.
42:41When one of the main guys in the show in front of everyone there was like, this is stupid.
42:45I hate it.
42:46You did not want to put, you were like, this sucks.
42:49You didn't want to put any, you were like, stage it however you want, which none of us
42:52know how to do.
42:53It was bad.
42:54It was bad.
42:54Your head just kept hitting the stage.
42:56It was the only time we stopped a bin midway through the show like that.
42:59Bailed so hard.
43:00Just completely bailed on the entire concept of the episode.
43:03The name of the episode was bailed on.
43:05Yeah.
43:05Another thing I'll say, in the early days of our show, the episodes are so up and down.
43:10We're figuring things out.
43:11You know, some of them hit, some of them don't, some of them are spread out and disoriented,
43:14whatever.
43:15There's one thing that consistently from the start people loved.
43:18It was the human fish.
43:19People loved the human fish from the start, which makes it so inexplicable that we once
43:23did a show in our early days entitled, Hide the Human Fish.
43:27It's going to work for our callers.
43:28So, camera will close up on the rest of us.
43:31While that's happening, human fish will hide somewhere in this studio.
43:34He will be on camera, like where's Waldo.
43:37It won't be obvious.
43:38Callers, you can call up.
43:38Guess where he is.
43:39Anyone who guesses correctly, we will give you a prize.
43:43So, the human fish was hidden from you the entire time.
43:46You could not speak to him.
43:47He got frustrated.
43:48We got frustrated.
43:49It's like, there's exactly one thing that always works.
43:52Let's eliminate it from the show.
43:54That is classic Chris Gethardt self-sabotage.
43:57But I will also say this, and this is not a joke.
44:00Look, there is an episode that is so bad that I have blocked it from memory.
44:03And Noah, I don't know if you remember what it is off the top of your head, but you have
44:07brought it up to me, and I've been like, oh God, that was bad.
44:09And I never even remember it, because there was one I disliked so much.
44:13I think, I was thinking of the human fish one right now, but now I'm...
44:17There's another one that was so bad that I don't even remember it.
44:19I don't even remember it.
44:22Which episode?
44:23It's not the finale birthday episode.
44:24No.
44:24I actually liked it.
44:25It's just not...
44:26But let's go.
44:27What are your guys' least favorites, if they haven't been covered?
44:29Okay, least favorite.
44:31The finale birthday episode was a little bit of a disaster.
44:35We had a musical guest on.
44:36That was the first time that we actually, like, we got so technically messed up that
44:40we were unable to get him on how we needed to be.
44:43The point where, like, he was just forced to end up, like, playing his own music, like,
44:47out of his laptop.
44:48A thing that was a mistake, something that went wrong, that turned into a great thing,
44:52wasn't a mistake.
44:53But we had a cool musical guest booked once, and there was a big storm.
44:56Because of that, the musical guest had to drop out last second.
44:59And so we already had Phil Jackson to come in to play the clarinet, or the...
45:04Saxophone.
45:05The tenor sax or whatever.
45:07And then we were like, well, we can't just have Phil.
45:10Like, we have Phil.
45:11So we decided to do this thing that was anyone who wants to bring an instrument that night,
45:14come, we'll make up a song on the spot.
45:16And to this day, that's one of my favorite moments in the show.
45:20And it came from something falling through last second.
45:23Put out a hit on the ring.
45:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:34We at the Chris get the show.
45:37Everybody dance fast, not slow.
45:40Make the bell left, right, yeah, go.
45:43Everybody say hey-o, hey-o, say hey-o, hey-o, say hey-o, hey-o, hey-o, say hey
45:53-o, hey-o, hey-o,
45:53the Chris get the show.
45:56And so I think that's something that was a mistake that ended up being awesome.
46:00I can, I'll change my answer on that.
46:02The ultimate thing that we didn't know was going to go well that went better,
46:06we thought Sandwich Night was going to be half a dozen people eating sandwiches.
46:09Yeah, I put that shit on Twitter the day before.
46:12Just like anybody who wants to eat a sandwich on public access TV,
46:15150 people, 100 people.
46:17Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night!
46:27Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night!
46:33Hold on, stand up, this fucking sandwich night!
46:36Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night!
46:38Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night!
46:53Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night! Sandwich Night!
47:01Sitting the night before.
47:03Chanting, screaming.
47:04We figured that episode out the night before.
47:06Yeah.
47:07And it became crazy for it.
47:08And it was probably our best episode up until that point, by far.
47:11Yeah.
47:12I'll say it kind of feels like a little bit of a cop-out to go back to the first
47:16episode,
47:18because that one had problems all over the place.
47:21Yeah.
47:21But in my head, this idea of giving Don Finelli a bunch of wood and telling him to build
47:29a human birdhouse while, there was a second part to that bit, while Fran translated everything
47:36he said into Spanish just to annoy him and make it that much more difficult for him to communicate.
47:43How is that possibly a response to what I just asked you?
47:45Looks like a birdhouse to me.
47:47It looks like a shitty lean-to to me.
47:49Really?
47:49It looks like a shitty lean-to.
47:50Birds should be free, man.
47:52No doors.
47:53Human fish.
47:55How do you feel about this birdhouse?
47:56Yes or no?
47:59No.
47:59Your birdhouse sucks, Don.
48:01To me, that was going to be the funniest thing in the world.
48:05And it was just a mix of anxiety, nervousness.
48:09Friends betraying friends.
48:10Yeah.
48:11There was just this anger in the room.
48:13It just did not work.
48:15But Nanaman recently told me that he watched that and liked it.
48:19Interesting.
48:20Nanaman's a weird guy.
48:21Drew?
48:22You know, I'm going to say, it's one of my favorite things because it's so different from what we've done,
48:28but it just doesn't work.
48:29It's the very first moment of the very first episode.
48:32You guys aren't on stage.
48:34And we go, please welcome to the stage, Chris, Gethan, and Bethany Hall.
48:38And you guys enter from opposite sides of the stage like Jay Leno right on the ground.
48:43And then meet and turn in face together.
48:45You made us do that.
48:46You made us do that.
48:47You're the one who made us do that.
48:48Yeah, man.
48:49I'm sorry.
48:51It was our first time ever being in that studio, and I had some girls even screaming at me.
48:55And we made it clear, too.
48:57We were like, we need to make sure that we're positive.
49:00We want to be a positive show.
49:02And that was also the show with Vanelli.
49:04But the first thing out of your life was, Chris was like, feeling good.
49:07It's feeling good.
49:08We never cleared.
49:09The old stage show was very self-deprecating, and we never were like, hey, Bethany, we're going to try to
49:13keep it positive.
49:14And you went, wow, well, I'm feeling pretty good about this.
49:17How do you feel, Bethany?
49:18She goes, it's going to be a mess.
49:20It should be a mess.
49:21It should be a mess.
49:21But let's not do that, because it'll change the channel immediately, Bethany.
49:25All right.
49:25It was almost like a sitcom where I was like, all right, just stay positive.
49:29Got it.
49:30The second line of the entire series was, this is going to be a disaster.
49:33Yes.
49:34It's going to be a disaster.
49:35Don't worry, Drew and I had clipboards, so.
49:37We had clipboards sitting off to the side, so we felt pretty good.
49:40Oh, it's all going to be me, Jesse Lee, and George Cameron.
49:42Sort of trash, and unable to find the dollar, and then you, and then finally, like, we're
49:48calling the bit, you find the dollar, and you go, it was here.
49:50The dollar was here.
49:52Also, here's another bit that I'll say that I, watching it, I sometimes, like, just can't
49:57watch, is the human pinata from Don Finley's birthday.
50:01It was another idea that, like, Chris was like, yo, we'll do the human pinata.
50:07Yeah, it was one of those bits that he was more excited about than us, so none of us
50:11thought about it or planned it, and you just brought all the stuff for it, but, like, hadn't
50:15thought about that much either.
50:16So when it came to do it, it was just you wearing a backpack and a paintball mask.
50:21I forgot about that.
50:21With Don with the wiffle bag, hitting you, and not even hitting you hard, because he, like,
50:26felt bad, so him just tapping at the thing, and then you dancing on throwing candy.
50:30And it got to the point where, like, after twice, everyone was like, okay, and you're
50:34like, all right, and it just, like, sort of faded out.
50:37I like stuff like that.
50:38Oh, man.
50:39It was just so...
50:41I think that's funny.
50:41It was just so, like, why are we doing this?
50:43Why is he doing this?
50:45What was the episode that you blocked out from your...
50:47I don't know.
50:48Jeff Falzone, are there any ongoing conflicts regarding the future direction of the show?
50:52What a real question.
50:53They could be big or small.
50:54If they are not, let's just know the business.
50:57I wonder what's been a conflict in the past.
50:59We all had to hire out.
51:01There's not really ongoing conflicts during the making of the show, Jeff Falzone.
51:05I'll say that the four of us, I think we work within a sphere of, like, it's hard to describe,
51:12but sort of, like, we all know how we want...
51:13We all agree on how it should be generally.
51:15There's some bickering idea to idea, but it's all in the spirit of getting it right.
51:19And we all take our turn of being frustrated, because what a lot of people don't know is that
51:24outside of the Wednesday nights where we tape it, this is, like, a big job for all of us.
51:29We all have to spend a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of money, a lot of
51:33our, like, resources just putting the show together.
51:35And so I think we do take turns just getting frustrated with the show.
51:40Yeah.
51:40Not with the content of it, but just, like, we put in so much work, and it's this thing that
51:45we care so much about that eventually one of us will crack.
51:48And I think for, I think it's, like, in my case, I think people don't, like, I have so much
51:54fun.
51:54It's the most fun hour of my week.
51:56But this show does make my life sort of shitty the rest of the time.
51:59I'm spending so much time, and I've spent, I mean, in the time we've done the show, I've spent at
52:03least $10,000 at this point just on the show, which is insane.
52:06That's insane.
52:07I don't have that amount of money to spend.
52:08So I'm sort of, like, exhausting myself and killing myself financially to do it, and that catches up with me
52:14sometimes.
52:15Yeah, man, my Wednesday nights.
52:16You don't sleep.
52:17JD just has a night where he doesn't sleep.
52:19But I think for all three of you guys, too, there's a very shitty aspect, which is you guys work
52:23so hard on the show.
52:24And my name, like, my name's the one attached to it, which sucks.
52:28Also, just on this topic real quick is that we also have, like we mentioned, all these crew members who
52:34come every single week, work super hard,
52:37and we always want to make sure there's opportunities for them to do things on the show and do whatever
52:42they want to be a part of the show.
52:44Obviously, you can't just do whatever you want, but, like, we try to give those opportunities to them, and, like,
52:50you know, it's hard to balance that sometimes
52:52when you have so many people that want to be involved, and you want to get everyone involved, so.
52:56Yeah.
52:58But it's love of the game, you know, where, like, nobody's making money, which means everybody who has stuck around
53:04is here because they love it, which is awesome, you know.
53:07One thing a lot of people, I don't think, realize about this show, because we put so much effort into
53:12it and because we're out there so often,
53:14but I think people sometimes don't realize is we don't make any money on this show.
53:18We have no way to make money for this show right now.
53:21It's primarily and completely a labor of love.
53:24It's a negative buzz.
53:26Every episode, you can assume that there are tapes and wires and cords being bought and that JD's paying for
53:33those,
53:33and any prop you ever see, you can assume I have paid for it and I have wasted so much
53:40money on the show.
53:41And also, too, like, sometimes people will email us and be like,
53:44hey, I don't know if you have this in the budget, but I'd love to do this kind of bid
53:47and rent this thing for it.
53:48And it's like, oh, you think we have a budget?
53:51Yeah, I was.
53:51What a compliment.
53:52What a compliment that this show appears to have a budget because thank God I have some savings from the
53:58Comedy Central show.
53:59If not, we couldn't do it.
54:01One of the things I always feel bad about is, like, crew members will, like, buy something and nothing.
54:04They'll be like, hey, can I be a reimbursement from the budget?
54:06And then they'll be like, what budget?
54:08Yeah, I'll see if I have 20 bucks in my wallet.
54:11I don't have money right now.
54:13And it's like, yeah, it comes from all of our pockets.
54:16We all put, you know, we love the show so much that we're willing to put it up.
54:19But it is really just us being passionate about the show.
54:24I'll say this, too.
54:25I don't think when we, I mean, talk about money and all that stuff, but, like, that's just that.
54:31I don't think we ever thought, mentioned, like, how are we going to pay to do this show?
54:35It just sort of happened.
54:36We were like, oh, yeah, we'll pay for it.
54:37Stuff will come out of our pocket.
54:39And then when we, as time has gone on, we've spent more money, it's been like, oh, okay, this is
54:43actually money we're spending.
54:45Yeah.
54:45Chris, when you asked, I know when you asked, like, me and Noah, both of us were just, we each
54:49signed on because it was just a great artistic thing.
54:52Like, that's all we wanted out of it.
54:54Yeah.
54:54And I think that that's, that's what it should be, and that's what we want.
54:59And ultimately, I don't give a fuck about money, and I try to live.
55:02I live in, I'm 31 years old.
55:04I live in a fucking shitty neighborhood in Queens in a room with no closet with a roommate I've known
55:08since 1998, so I can do stuff like this.
55:11I stay in New York and don't go to L.A. because I'm not worried about pursuing money right now.
55:16I'm worried about pursuing the most creative shit we can, and that's in New York with these people, and we've
55:21managed to find these people.
55:23And in that sense, it's paid off in spades.
55:26So if we waste some money in the course of that, so be it.
55:29We'll make that money back down the line someday, or not.
55:32Who cares?
55:33What if it's a long run?
55:35Try and list all the different countries from around the world that you have people watching a show.
55:39Ooh, all the different countries people are watching the show from.
55:42United States of America, Canada has gotten big.
55:44That's awesome.
55:44Yes.
55:45When I did calling in Canada, I started calling like a motherfucker, which I'm proud of.
55:49I mean, Finian, Finland?
55:50Finland.
55:50Juhai, I think it's from Finland or Juhai.
55:52Australia.
55:53Germany, we have at least two or three people that I know for sure watch.
55:56Germany, Australia.
55:58Australia.
55:58James from Northern Ireland emails very often.
56:01We have someone from Sweden.
56:03Sweden.
56:05China.
56:06We just believe we have a couple of viewers from China because people emailed in saying
56:09that we needed to do something so that the Chinese viewers could participate.
56:13Like I said, they can't watch the live stream behind the Chinese firewalls.
56:16That's nuts, right?
56:17But that means that we have someone in China trying to watch it.
56:19I just noticed that the person from Australia said that it's on at 3 p.m.
56:23Yeah.
56:24Which I thought was kind of, I never really thought about that.
56:25It's like it's an afternoon program.
56:27What else?
56:27We once got a tweet from a guy who said, I am watching this on an iPad in a moving
56:32car
56:32in Dubai.
56:33Yes.
56:35Someone tweeted from Japan once, I remember.
56:37Oh, Japan.
56:38But we have regular viewers.
56:40New Zealand.
56:41I know for a fact we have some from New Zealand.
56:42Oh, and there's a couple other European places emails.
56:45But that's cool, man.
56:46The internet is fucking awesome.
56:48Yeah, if you watch our show from somewhere far away, email us or tweet at us and let us
56:53know.
56:53I think we should have a competition at some point.
56:55I got, I was telling them I got a great international show idea.
56:58Great, a great idea.
56:59Okay, I had an idea too.
57:00We have to talk about our ideas.
57:01Usually the net will fuck about the idea.
57:03We have a better version.
57:04Well, where in the world is a human fish?
57:06We could just hide human fish.
57:07Oh, no.
57:08Yeah, that episode is going international.
57:09So if you live in another country, tweet or email us and let us know.
57:12That shit really means a lot to us.
57:14It fucking gets weird.
57:15It's hard.
57:16Yeah.
57:17Why did you say it like that?
57:18Because it's getting real late, man.
57:21All right, that's all of our questions.
57:23I'm sure if you have more, email them to us and maybe we'll do this again another time.
57:27Yeah.
57:29What?
57:30If you're in New York, come check out the show live.
57:32Yes.
57:33If you're not in New York, call the show.
57:34And most of all, we want to say a very sincere thank you to everyone.
57:38This show has been, we understand, very self-indulgent.
57:40It was designed that way to help us all, to help people understand what we're doing.
57:44And it's been an interesting ride.
57:46And we hope that you all know how much we appreciate anyone who's watching the show, anybody who's
57:51helping to spread the word, anybody who's calling in.
57:53It really means the word to us, each person out there.
57:57Trust us.
57:57We're seeing your tweets.
57:59We're appreciating your calls.
58:00We're reading your emails.
58:01You guys are the best.
58:03We want to give you a good show.
58:05And we do not take it lightly that you support us.
58:07Yeah.
58:08Please go out there.
58:09Try to interact with us.
58:10Try to interact with the show.
58:11That means the most to us when you guys are out there interacting with what we do.
58:15That's what I just said.
58:17I'm allowed to say what it is.
58:19Noah, do you have anything you want to say?
58:20I want to say it's really nice if you guys just interact with us.
58:24Do you have anything you want to put out there?
58:26Oh, enjoy that island flavor.
58:29Enjoy the island flavor.
58:32This is taking fucking off me.
58:33Enjoy the island flavor.
58:35That took so much longer than we thought.
58:38I thought that was going to take me 40 minutes.
58:40Dude, I'll take this.
58:41There are five minutes left.
58:44At some point, I had to take a shit.
58:45Oh, look, Vinzy.
58:46He's like, no, I'm on your head, too.
58:48Oh, we just got sucked back in.
58:52Thanks.
58:52Noah, you're welcome.
58:53Yeah, thanks, man.