21. The Gang Gets Invincible | The Always Sunny Podcast

guys can we talk about hats we're all wearing hats we are yeah what are you advertising i don't know i don't know it's just the hat um i'm not advertising them that was a dick yeah oh yeah oh yeah i'm showing support yeah no it's good it's smart you should have a question about hats i've been i've been i've been wearing i think the the listener would find or the watcher would find this uh more interesting than the than this than the uh the episode i know i do i don't know why um just general conversation about things like hats been the sunny episode yeah the sunny episode's hilarious yeah i haven't i'm not commenting on getting into that yeah i just don't talk the talking about i've i've noticed that i'm having the most fun when we're just talking about hats or things of that one yeah yeah i like the balance there's a good balance because i i do like when we start going in depth in terms of what we were thinking about why we made a choice that we made and i think that's interesting for the listener this is why the show works i have an idea you're like i don't like that let's do this other thing and you're like i see validity in both of those let's just see how it goes and then we just kind of find a happy medium yeah but that's what i just said i said i see validity you indicated to him but that's because that's because we've had this conversation before and and that's and that's something i've said to you no what about hats what about yeah okay so i i um my whole life i've worn hats but i've turned the bill the way that you're yours is right yeah and so i started seeing people wearing the flat bill and i thought i don't know i don't know if i can pull that off but i do think it looks cool i see charlie where's he's not wearing one today he can do it either he can and i think it looks pretty cool now i don't know if it looks cool because it seems like we're like 25 year olds like trying to look and is it sad maybe that a 44 year old is going to wear a flat brim hat seems like a young person's game i'm not sure but i do like this hat is this what your is this the question are you wondering i'm wondering can i pull off because i have now have i've now noticed that i've gone out and bought a couple of flat build hats and i enjoyed them can you take your your headphones off for a second i like the five build hack i think it's a head shape thing i i think yeah no i think it looks good um it doesn't i can't do i can't do it my head is very oval shaped so when when i do the flat brim thing it's too the whole thing's too round so it like presses into my temple i can't can i see this on you sure let's see if i've got it because i'm gonna have plenty out because there's one hand caitlyn says the same thing and then she'll put on a hat like that and it looks cool this is uh okay see that looks cool to me now he can do you can do you can do that you can make that work i think the thing with with with fashion in general it's just about the confidence of the choice you know you're going all the way look at my man jonah hill out there yes wearing whatever the hell he wants and by the way it looks great he looks great the more like the more sort of out yeah i'm sorry he needs something yeah sorry i know glenn i think you can wear that flat hat all day in fact i think it looks really good the flat you like the flapper okay yeah i kind of wish you were taking a picture yeah i don't know it's never it's not that actually maybe the trick is that i'm trying to maybe i'm making the hat too tight because that was a little loose on me and that felt good but then that always feels goofy to me because it seems like there's too much room on the outside you know what i don't have confidence to do but i think they look great is like the full on like bob dylan sort of like half cowboy half fedora hat you know like the real hipstery kind of just like strong whatever hat choice you make you pull off sunglasses and hats they all look good on you well you know i think it's just the hat itself looks good right and so i just chose to wear it but you know what i mean i think that's what i'm saying your head shape it's looking good yeah she got a good you got a head and a good face shape for glasses and sunglasses i've noticed i don't know i'm sure there's plenty of hats and sunglasses that would not look great i'm noticing that uh there's a trend that there's a lot a lot of compliments being thrown in charlie's way on this podcast let's get glenn some compliments no no no no no no that's not that's not what i'm asking for that's not what i'm saying that's true like yesterday you guys were saying that i was very athletic and i was thinking you guys are athletic there's something you know i don't know yeah you're just i just it's just something i've noticed it's okay okay as you were you know i'm a jack of all trades and hats and uh that's athletics sunglass athletics but you dabble in a million things a million more than i do i feel like i get very very good at like a couple things versus you do yeah i do a lot of things not that way average yes like i'm kind of okay i think it's the term it is yeah yeah i don't know what that word is if i'm being honest i don't know what it is it's like somebody who um has a lot of like passions but isn't serious about any of them yeah yeah yeah i'm very serious in the moment and then and then i'm done for the day and i'm like great i'll do that tomorrow and then i don't but then i pick it back up two weeks later and i'm like not that good i don't think i don't think you are that i think you you you really learn and get into things and and know a lot of stuff and glenn i love your hat thanks man [Music] should we talk about this episode um i i thought it was pretty funny i don't remember this being the second episode of the third season i don't know why but for some reason this is we shot it much later and i think we liked it and pulled it up or something well a lot of the scenes were shot in philly yeah for sure but that was at the end which was at the end of our shooting schedule usually so yeah did you guys notice something um that so we we have a thing now or we had a thing then when we would have like two or three scenes before the episode started and then we just started instead of one single scene so there's like one there's like two scenes there's the there's the scene in the bar where we're all arguing like crazy and charlie screams then we go outside yeah right then we come back for essentially a third scene after um back at the bar back at the bar where we're actually talking about what we're gonna do and we then at some point just skip past that and now we just have somebody come in in the cold open and say okay the episode's about to start because we're gonna go try out for the eagles but we you don't know that we're gonna try out for the eagles for for a very long time yeah for longer than it's unnecessary um is that arguing was that a sort of self-aware meta yes like answer to like a criticism of the show isn't it funny that we like what like 8 10 15 episodes into doing our show or like well we better comment on what we're doing like yeah just self-reflecting constantly uh but i do i do appreciate that we doubled down so people like ah it's the show where they just yell at each other it's so annoying and we're like you know what let's start an episode where we're screaming at the top of our lungs let's acknowledge it and then keep doing it really lean into it yeah yeah uh one little thing i completely forgotten about this episode which i enjoyed so much was the capes oh yeah people were drawing wearing capes and i had no recollection of the guy with the lunch box yeah he was whose mom made his tape who was [ __ ] great yeah yeah who was that guy he's an actor yeah i don't know i don't remember he killed me and when uh i'm i'm just talking about the things i like this is not really interesting philip knew commenting okay yeah it says assuming i remember him being now look maybe i'm wrong can you look it up meg and if not we'll cut that cut that got that i think he was legally blind yeah i think so i remember him saying like on day one he's yeah yeah i can't really see and we were like right well you should definitely um come join us like that's such a fun character trait for someone trying for the eagles yeah right to not be able to see he was so funny his mom made him a cape faze on love is hilarious in the episode do you guys remember faison i i every time i see faison in something i'm like why is this guy not a massive movie star i know yeah i think i know why too maybe i don't know i don't know if this trend like you know like sort of carries through his entire uh acting career but i'm sure you guys remember this that the very first day that we shot with him uh it's not the first scene that we see him in because that was actually in philly so that was much later the very first scene that we shot i believe was the scene where he calls us all over and he you know gives us the speech right before he introduces uh donovan mcnabb and the speech was so long this was like it was like a page and happened it was really funny yeah it was really funny we're really looking forward to seeing a lot of time crafting this really funny like speech that he gives to everybody and faison so the way the way we do things and not a lot of shows do this but but uh what we always do is the very first thing we do is we just read the scene we get together with all the actors that are in the scene we've got what's called sides which is just a small version of the the scene in script form and you we just read it first before we block it well so we show up to uh to do this scene we're outside we've all got our sides and we're all standing around except i noticed that faison didn't have his sides and i was like oh wow this guy's like a maid this guy's a pro he's off book as they say in the industry he's already off book and normally you're not off book by that time you know you but i was like man he's it's a big it's a big speech he's a big speech he must have really memorized monday morning he took the whole weekend right exactly so we show up he you know we gather around for rehearsal faison's there you know we're all looking around and uh you know savage calls action he's like action nobody says anything and uh and we're like oh uh faison that's you and he's like oh and we're like go he's does anybody have any sight he's like what do you want me to say what do you want me to say so not not only did he didn't read it not right he didn't even not entirely certain he read the script oh he definitely didn't read the script you know uh uh no way showed up to the rehearsal not knowing his lines and didn't even have the sides to prompt his lines to be very clear it's not it's not a rehearsal like a week before you film it's the rehearsal is just right before you say action and actually roll the camera pretty much yeah you've got maybe 15 minutes between the time you rehearse yeah the 15 minutes they light it and then you're shooting and adjust your shirts and then yeah make sure your microphone's in your shirt and we're like oh no oh no this guy's got a page and a half long speech he's like we're screwed and he and we were and he didn't know it and he just improvised a bunch of stuff and we cut it you know down to that little short thing that's in the thing yes that's in the episode yeah yeah and it got blossomed and it totally worked i mean that's the thing is like i think that he's and also he's so lovable and fun and he was really cool it wasn't like he was coming in to be a dick he was just like island's the way i do it i think there was also a conception that we were an improv show yeah i think people thought we were just like yeah here's a scenario let's make up a scene yeah uh which we were definitely not we weren't boy that would be really funny if he thought that uh did we hire him we just made an offer to him we just made an offer yeah we'd seen the movie made yeah and elf and i mean we're like this guy's great and it turns out yeah it it he's one of the funniest parts of the episode i mean he's amazing it's absolutely it absolutely works he's just doing his own thing and we were like great there is oftentimes a thing where like we scripted a whole thing and you do realize oh i don't need any of these words i just need the essence of what these words are trying to get after her which he sort of embodied which is just like i just need the energy right and the intention and one sentence can cover this entire speech by the way by the time he introduces donovan and jeffrey jeffrey comes out and does that commercial i mean i was crying too yes jeffrey's laughing amazing and that's why we've used year after year after year uh across shows i mean i've used them on mythiquest a number of times we put him in a pilot years ago yep we've had him play multiple characters on uh and it's always sunny although always as jeffrey owens or this mysterious man who we don't know he's also played tiger woods that's what i'm saying yeah yeah he's played but it's always the same actor who presumably is jeffrey owens although he he never fesses up to that either because he never fesses up to actually having been uh what was it al elvin on on the cosby show but one other thing i wanted to bring up about faison i'm sure you guys remember that no of course you do because we've joked about it many times the man could not say the words donovan mcnabb yeah donna john the crab daddy in the crab johnny the crab donut not a big football fan i think faizon i guess not yeah i guess not but just by the way that is a difficult name to say donovan mcnabb i'm having a hard time saying not that hard i'm on pain medication though so i have an excuse but that's just the name of in mick nab yeah yeah slow it down if you need to just yeah but he would just if you watch the episode please please watch the episode and watch how he pronounced it because he never got it right we could go back and get the we could get the outtakes it might be worth like putting that out there because i don't think i don't think we put it on like a real or whatever donny john crap mccrabb johnny john mccrav donovan donovan i think in the episode he called him donna donovan donovan mcmahon dominar yeah the one that's that was the closest now a professional doesn't matter it's still so it just doesn't it's kind of better that he doesn't say the real name because then it's sort of it's almost implied that he's like not legally allowed to call this man donovan mcmahon because he's not jonathan mcnabb right so he's going to dance around it yeah [Music] one thing we do in this episode that we then go on to do a number of times and we've kind of gotten away from it um i think and probably in a good way because it dates the episode in a weird in a weird way where we are referencing like popular culture like movies that had come out yeah talking about invincible yeah and yet like you know the way that movies kind of come and go nobody knows that movie anymore but our since the show's continued on people might go back and watch these episodes and you have no idea what we're really talking about it's pretty funny that we're talking about it as the new kids on the block movie yes i do like that i do like that and not only do we not only do we refer to it as that but faison refers to it yeah because of the new kids on the block movie yeah yeah yeah yeah that's right that's why they're having to do it because they're getting so many yeah they got badgered into it because that was the part of the movie right like they had a tryout and then was that based on that that was based on a real thing right now yeah i admit i never i actually never saw that movie yeah i did not not even when we were writing the episode i didn't even watch it i should have i did just didn't it's like it's rocky in a football but but it was based on a real story yeah okay now so do you know the story i do but it's not as it's not as the guy vince papali was a player was like a track star so it wasn't like some like rando guy from the neighborhood he was just older and then it turns out he was like can you believe it he was 31 years old but i mean did was there did the the eagles hold a tryout yeah they they do their oh they do that yeah every nfl team still continues to do a version of it they're just [ __ ] random yeah the whole like open tryouts yeah they're like just in case you know there's a farm somewhere and there's a dude working in the barn and he's 7-7 380 and he he's the fastest runner in the world they're just hoping that that guy shows up he was just too stupid to realize that football existed because he was kept he had a stroke he had a strict maddie right and he was like football but we need you here on the farm and then what's football daddy enough about football his daddy played football but he didn't make the the cowboys and he was heartbroken he's like i just and then when the sun makes the team he was just like i just didn't want you to go through the heartbreaks on you know but then but then the guy makes the team but then his heart explodes at 28 years old yeah because he has thyroid problems right because he's seven foot seven i mean didn't we just establish that i'm going along with what you said yeah yeah okay yeah he's got a thyroid issue um vincent papaleous yeah vince papalia papalia oh do you remember uh the refrigerator perry of course oh yeah he played for the bears but then also the eagles did he play for the eagles yes i remember him on the bears yes yeah just so big he could just run over everyone i remember the the he scored like a huge touchdown that that one in the super bowl in the super bowl right the patriots versus the um the chicago bears yeah and the pats lost like it was like 60 to 36 10 or something like that oh lord no it was like sixty to three look up what that was uh what year was that it was a beat down there you go uh patriots bears super bowl 1986. 85 season 86 wow wow i mean like 46 10. 46 10 46 10 yeah i have a weird thing i feel like that's what i remember like football scores i feel like that's exactly what you said i dramatized it you sure did well because it was exciting it was a beat down i think that it was actually worse than the score yeah like i think they kind of let them score at the end they just didn't care i just gave up ouch yeah you know what we gave up on completely forgot about the character of doyle mcpoyle yeah i did not remember there was a doyle mcpoyle yeah there's a door maybe he died from that that bullet wound i i was laughing so hard at you laughing because this is all happening in the moment where they're just walking out of the um walking out of the rv and you're commenting on each one of them as they come down and you but you're seeing them for the first time in real life oh no that was like yeah i was like literally laughing as he's as he's doing it but it just works it works as a character yeah yeah yeah yep that's you're out here yeah you're in the world yeah yeah oh good you brought your fife yeah actually is that a jar of yeah oh yeah what is that a jar of but once again the props department doing like an amazing job of like putting together a group of weird things and then you're not seeing them until you're seeing them yeah for the first time even just the coverage of that though i kind of was like oh right we really stopped down to see all those people come out yeah which i feel like maybe we wouldn't do now but maybe we would did we play the hawaiian uh the mcpoyle hawaiian theme song yeah uh yeah every time i'm on here pretty much every time we see the coils yeah we play this uh this like hawaiian cowboy yeah hawaiian cowboy is that the name of the song hawaiian cowboy i feel like it's something maybe it was just like it was a you know there was this library of cheap music that we could use and uh it was probably listed as hawaiian cowboy or something like that let's talk about that for a second because our music um which which we we love and have been using from day one we've never um like we've never had the money to license it and keep it ours like to write music and then to have it be like owned by the show so there's a company that owns this library and they just license it out to anybody and everybody yeah so like there was a year where madden the madden football game the sunny theme was there was the madden theme and right now on minecraft i hear i hear sunny music in the background of my house i'm like what's going on like my kids watching sonny it they're it's on my minecraft videos they're using sunny music on minecraft videos yeah and it's a very heavily used casting commercial you hear in commercials all the time yeah it used to upset me because i'd be like oh man dang it why didn't we just like have a theme song that was just hours you know but i think maybe it ended up working in our favor because it trick like every time those songs play people think of sunny eventually yeah eventually that happened and advertising it's like if there's an association with the show yeah but like madden is way bigger than sunny so people madden like the purse company like what are you talking about the shoe guys [Laughter] what are you talking about no you're absolutely right that game's way bigger than this yeah so people will be like oh that's the music item i don't know but it was always funny to me that like look like look around all the shows that you watch and know you're like oh no they didn't use that theme song on a on a tied commercial no ours is the only one yeah the only one where they're like oh cheers well literally they they now are using the cheers song yeah what did i see that that must have cost them a fortune seriously to pay paramount a fortune who wrote that theme song song to cheers that's a good theme song it's the golden girls really amazing it's incredible and that guy was like it was he was just like a pop artist yeah and his version of it is strange like the woman singing it is a much cooler gary portnoy gary portnoy is cheers is cheers is he also golden girls he might be it might be the same guy or maybe it's andrew younger um i don't think so wait a second pop guy yeah so you're saying the guy who did the golden girls theme song he has a version his version of that song yeah well it's him thank you for being a friend thank you for being andrew gold andrew gold it's it's in his name yeah that's crazy yeah okay it took him about an hour to write yeah it always does it always does um now that was the because i cocaine i told you guys this this story before but um there was a time where i sat next to uh the drummer for uh the band's survivor on on on a flight right and i got to chatting with this guy super nice guy looked like one of those guys was like oh you're still rocking like the 80s hair band look but you're like in your late 50s you know but whatever anyway the guy was super nice and uh he actually told me the story of how he how the band survivor wrote the song eye of the tiger for uh rocky iii i believe it was yeah so uh stallone had actually called the lead singer of survivor uh and left him a voicemail and uh he was like you know beep this is uh this is sliced alone and uh i really like music that i'd love for you to write the theme song to the new rocky movie that i'm doing right so this guy gets the message uh gets the voicemail and he's like i asked my buddy like [ __ ] with me you know what i mean so he doesn't he pays no attention to it gets a call gets another voicemail like couple weeks later what's going on you know this it sliced the law i really want to use you know it doesn't know i feel like this collaboration could be a real knockout [Laughter] um and so but again he just thinks it's like you know his friend's like [ __ ] with him so he doesn't he doesn't call the guy back um then he gets a call from his agent his agent's like dude what are you doing you know or his booking agent or manager or whoever he's like sly stallone is like trying to get in touch with you wants you guys to write the new theme song he's like oh [ __ ] that's real so so then he gets on the phone with stallone still loans like you know basically tells him uh i i i need a theme song for my for rocky iii i think you guys are perfect for it i'd like for you guys to write one but here's what i need i need you to write two songs because you know what if i like one over the other i i need you to write two songs we'll pay you to write two songs so these guys get in the studio they spent about two weeks crafting the most epic song ever right and then they get to the very end of it they realize like two o'clock in the morning and they've got to turn in both songs the next day to to sliced alone and listen when you tell sly stallone you're you know you're hitting a deadline you better hit it because sly is going to come after you you know what i mean um with the expendables [Laughter] uh so they they realize they're like oh [ __ ] we have to write like a second song they're like oh we'll just bang something out real quick and over the course of the next like hour or so they just like wrote i have a tiger and just did either time like an hour or like two hours and they're like all right let's go to bed that's at least we'll give them two but clearly the other one is better he played and of course you know you know the rest of that is they played either uh both the songs and and sly loved eye the tiger and they were like what we were just [ __ ] around like that was you know and then the other song he ended up using i believe in the movie fist fist yeah he did a movie called fist yeah i think so i i think so yeah yeah man like the theme yeah what was that about i'm nervous yeah don't don't google that um it's an acronym f-i-s-t yeah it was an accurate yeah a neo-noir crime drama weird yeah so i believe he used that other survivor song in the movie fist you know what that's what song that was uh i don't know actually i don't know anyway the guy from survivor was very nice the drummer i liked him he was he told some good stories that's the only one i remember uh do you want to tell one of the good ones listen man he's on a lot of pain come on man i'm on a lot of pain pills right now i'm not thinking straight yeah what do you got yeah what do you got tell us a good story um i i am curious to know uh like if you guys i know you you got you've you've done acid before right do you not want to talk about this no yeah okay have you done acids yes you did acid uh-huh when did you do acid like right like right after high school just once you did it we've done it twice yeah okay when what were the circumstances and do you have any funny stories surrounding that because yeah it's a fun dream no what uh what was the name of the why am i blanking on the name of the um music series that was big when we were lollapalooza oh yeah music series well my mind went to coachella and i couldn't get it out of my head yeah la la palooza yeah i did some did some acid lalalapalooza yeah is that fun what year no no uh the 1996. 96 it was the beastie boys no that was 94. oh so i was in high school that was 94 because uh i was at that lollapalooza probably not the same one i went i went to the one in in atlanta oh yeah i don't think you came to philly no no uh yeah no i mean i it's just not for me no it's not i might maybe try it again later when my kids are older and i can get in like i want to break through the matrix and see what's on the other side kind of thing you know what i mean i think i want to go on a guided one at this point right like i want to see the destruction of my ego before my very eyes yes i don't want to just you know take like three tabs of acid and drink 16 course lights and then you know throw up well you were also probably like yeah you're fighting it you know what i mean like when it kicks in you gotta lean into it you know when you start fighting it you know that's when the fear kicks off yeah yeah when the fear gets in then you fight in the field for absolutely 13 15 hours how much it took but yeah yeah or years yeah unfortunately i think you had you've had some good trips yeah yeah yeah yeah but and some bad like uh i ate too many mushrooms once at a fish concert in 90 six you're into a fish concert oh yeah but he was you were a big fan what we were at the clifford ball he was a jam band guy oh yeah i was there with uh me and my pals and uh oh man it's so like we were so low rent like we went with this other group of kids and they like they were like kind of rich kids they had a volvo they had like a nice like tent and [ __ ] we had like a tarp and then we were like hey we're gonna try to make a little tent out of this tarp can we use your frying pan they were like making like pancakes and [ __ ] and we like [ __ ] totally [ __ ] this kid's frying pan up trying to like hammer hammer and spike we didn't mean to like i'm so sorry dude i ruined you nice frying pan um and then we got our hands on like an extraordinary amount of very powerful mushrooms and ate way too many of them i remember i remember passing out like within the first five minutes throwing up and then like when i came to i was already tripping a thousand times harder than i already had and this was within the first 30 minutes so i was like okay this is going to be quite a ride and i remember just trying to like hang on to my sanity for my dear life look at one point we're in the concert you know and uh we're just kind of like sitting on the lawn and all of a sudden like everyone turns around they're looking like right at us oof and we're like that's you don't want you why is this happening what the [ __ ] is happening only to realize there's like a marching band like moving oh we don't realize what's going on i remember another one of my buddies said like he's like man the cutest girl came up to you and asked you for a cigarette and all you said was like yeah i'm all about it yeah i'm all about it you know but mostly it was good and then i don't know i think i would do it again once i got through this parenting phase in my life and like yeah i didn't i would hate for the fear to kick in and be like oh [ __ ] i'm i've compromised my brain and i got a kid out there but i do think i don't know i think it's like something everyone should do a little bit of i kind of do too actually i think under the right circumstances i think it's uh it can be a very very eye-opening experience i mean like you've done ayahuasca you've done a lot of psychedelics right um yeah uh i know you had to think about that which is interesting well no because well because it's because i haven't done like an ayahuasca ceremony i i did a ceremony with uh a shaman and a bunch of other people and uh took something that was it was actually a combination of ayahuasca and uh and psilocybin so uh but it wasn't like a super high dose so i wasn't like tripping balls because it was my first but weren't you doing one of those things which sounds awesome and also disgusting and terrible at the same time where you were like [ __ ] in a bucket and then throwing up and then also oh you wasn't one of those no because i know people have gone through that we're like nah man it's awesome you go through like this guided tour in your house and like you [ __ ] your brains out but you got a bucket so you do under the bucket then you also vomit i'm like okay where's the good part it's very spiritual it's super spiritually like you really like see you know what's inside of you yeah because it's now in a bucket [Music] rum charlie i don't feel creatively good about the ep the episode where we talk about invincible i feel creatively good about the episode that aired in 2002 or whatever that was yeah but i don't like i felt like the podcast version wasn't we we didn't we got we got about halfway i was listening to a little bit of it and i just don't think it was very good i think it was boring and i want to blame it on glenn well no that's not true i don't want to blame it on glenn i want to blame it on glenn's um busted collarbone well yeah i mean i i i want to um i got three options right i can blame it on me i don't want to do that no i can blame it on you but you're here i'm here yeah um but glenn has left and he's not here so i could blame it on glenn yeah glenn's not here i think we should blame it on glenn and to be a good friend i could say well he was on pain meds for his broken collarbone so we could blame it on that yeah i think that's i think that's i think that's fair so here we are and it's a different day and we're wearing different clothes and we're talking about the thing that we weren't talking about but most importantly glenn isn't here just to be clear for the people who aren't watching this john's not here he has a thing he can't even be here so we're gonna have somebody uh who's gonna call in who's going to take his place well we're getting a call we're getting a call are we getting a call yes all right welcome to the always sunny podcast you're on with rob and charlie hello hello well here's the thing special caller so we were talking about this uh episode the gang gets invincible it's one where uh the gang tries out for the philadelphia eagles that happened in season three and uh we just we we didn't do a good job the podcast wasn't funny now we've gotten rid of glenn he's he's he had to go somewhere he couldn't stick around but we thought we'd take this special call you mm-hmm i really i really appreciate it um i'm happy your voice is that is so loud can you turn her down in my headphones is that not so shrieky in your ears you guys do you want me to come in because no very last minute i'm happy to come in i hear that you're recording now so how far are you that way are you close back i don't know where you are and i'm not really coming in that was just meant to be funny i don't have any plans to pop by um guys this is really smart i feel good it feels very last minute but i'll still i'll take it i'll take advantage of it let's tell the listener at home or the watcher uh in their in their probably home or office uh who we have on the line here if you if you haven't guessed the voice and i and i have it and i haven't who is this you guys it's the star of the of your television show uh the only woman the the one and only uh the big bird herself and um i'm here and i'm happy to be here it does feel like a bit of an afterthought but that's okay i'll let it go i've been waiting a long time for this thank you for having me it is most definitely an afterthought television's katelyn olsen people televisions hey kaitlyn do you remember being in this episode do you remember being in the show at all i remember i remember moments listen this is the episode where uh i dressed up what was my name cole call cool and as soon as we got me all dressed up i turned around and looked in the mirror and i was like oh you've made me look like david hornsby yes yeah you you did come across looking like cricket for the for the people at home who don't know him by the first name um yeah something happens when you put a goatee uh on me and um take away my hair i look exactly like david horn well one of the good things about having you on for the for for the first time is maybe we could even go back to the beginning of the show we don't have to talk about invincible we could talk about the beginning what was your experience uh auditioning for the show because i think the first few episodes that we got some good feedback that people like to hear some of those stories from the beginning yeah the first few episodes were stinkers for me because you guys had already written them um and you did a great job of writing uh for your characters which is why i wanted to do the show in the first place because it was so well written um but not such a great job for dee cause she was kind of um a wet blanket there was a lot of like you guys you gotta stop having fun yeah we covered all this now some now listen we covered this on the podcast but you don't listen to the bot i know but you don't listen to the podcast you don't support me you don't support me what about the first what about the very first time you came into the audition room uh what do you remember from that experience did you you've been do you even remember rob in the room no so what i do remember is as soon as i got in my car i called my manager because i thought it was such a good i wanted it so bad and i was like i think that was really good and she goes were any of them cute and i was like not really [Laughter] good good it was not love at first sight i really fell in love with rob's ego i think during the first season yeah a lot of confidence in that mcelhenny he was in control yeah yeah i felt safe you know what i mean like somebody was in charge and funny so yeah i'm not too attractive now i am now i find him very handsome it only took 17 years yeah really to get to that place it's a long time it's a long time but i walked into the room and i instantly all of you were in there and you were all participating and laughing and like just having fun and encouraging me to have fun with it and i remember thinking this is the best audition experience ever because they usually are absolutely terrible i think a lot a lot of that had to do with the fact that we were we're actors and we and we were compassionate to how shitty that situation normally is and then also you were awesome so it was really fun yeah we were laughing because you were funny yeah oh you're sweet i was having fun and then i remember rob saying um okay just put the script down and just improvise with to have this do the scene with charlie but just you guys say whatever you want and that was like why it was super fun are you calling us are you in your car yeah where are you i'm outside oh you're outside are you really are you pulled over talking to us or are you like on route i'm on route i'm driving i'm being safe are you worried about my safety i'm being very safe charlie what's what is this yeah where were you headed tell us about yourself try to paint the picture yeah you know you're trying to get the big picture here for the people at home like like let's get them all the information i took one son to school she took the other and then then what happened i came to work no i don't know where you went are you going to go to the beach for pleasure or for business um today i dropped off one son i stopped and got the coffee and then i went and got a facial oh there you go okay yeah yeah you gotta take care of that face i got a facial and um now i'm on my way to uh have lunch with a friend and then i have a doctor appointment in the afternoon and then i'm going to pick up both boys this is great thank you now i know i understand this guy we're your schedule here this is really good is there anything you want to promote or rob do you get worried are you are you at the jealous type are you like now now who's the friend she's having lunch with and is it the same person who gave her the facial and what's happening here like and you kind of face yeah exactly like do you you don't have a jealous bone in your body right i i i don't think so caitlyn can speak to that i don't really no i don't know i'm being blue-collar well because caitlyn uh well because caitlyn had a had a sex scene in a movie she just shot oh yeah yes yeah i i i had a sex scene with woody harrelson um in the movie i told him all about it in great detail and he was like cool cool i gotta go yeah well because it because you had a sex scene with woody harrelson he wasn't you know like if you had a sex scene with brad pitt he would have been like now hang on a second well did you see that sex scene with woody harrelson and um true detective i mean that was were you saying look i'm not saying woody harrelson is not a sexy man but i'm just saying you're probably the very attractive man yeah yeah a long time vegan long time vegan this is just the information i know caitlin i'm just trying to fill the air time here i see no well here's a fun fact about rob that probably i think most people know he's very good friends with jack shepherd who is sort of an ex an ex lover of mine he did not know that i'm not sort of i didn't know that hardcore lovers i did not know that it was pretty hardcore i was trying to be i was trying to you know be nice but um yeah no rob and jack's a really good friend you like men with masculinity inferiority complexes it is so interesting men who appear to be confident but are masking severe and secure they're trying to prove so hard that they're a man yes exactly but then perfectly open to talk about it with other men that's the exciting part that's the missing piece so they have both hard and soft you might say yeah not too hard not too small not too hard not too small boys two men they become men yeah uh caitlyn do you is there anything about doing this episode of your do you remember being in philly when we were shooting and that was like fred savage directing days and him like just partying like a maniac and we had we had good times in philly i believe did fred get he was not arrested because it wasn't he didn't do anything crazy but he i think he was pulled over by the police or the driver was pulled over by the police because fred was hanging out the window or or the roof i think he just got yelled out i don't know it was fred's limo he climbed out the top of it while it was while it was in transit and was like climbing on the back of the car there's something that happens in philadelphia where everyone kind of loses their minds and does things maybe they wouldn't do at home that's what i remember about shooting yeah this is 12 years i do remember season one filming in philly and going to just the bar in the hotel we were in uh and meeting your buddy you had somebody who another guy she's another guy that you probably used today that's that would be uh ian right yeah yeah my college boyfriend and we were drinking a lot of yinglings and but i don't think you guys weren't together yet right no not season one no no um no is it is it fun going to philly or is it a little bit stressful because you've got to like deal with rob's family the whole time and you've got to be on we don't actually see his family that much when we go because such a whirlwind um i love going to philly philly's got great restaurants and great people and all rob's friends from high school are there and i love it we only stopped going regularly because we started having kids right it just became a little bit too much of a nightmare and because rob would go on talk shows and tell people where we were filming and we would get so swarmed that it felt downright dangerous we were like yeah remember the last time we were there we were in a van and people were uh the van was dry moving we were driving and people were um pounding on the windows and trying to pass like pieces of paper in for us to sign we were like someone's gonna get run over this is and then some random man showed me his penis and offered me a beer that sounds sounds like sounds about right yeah one or the other dog both of them no this is why ron's not jealous because it's non-stop harassment for you and he just he has to deal with it so much yeah i mean was that random man can we talk about it was it danny can we talk about the panels you didn't want to out there hey caitlyn you want to bear up some fell out okay so what's your favorite episode oh my god oh boy what a stupid question don't answer that i don't answer it tell me what you're doing man what's your favorite episode that's the worst and that's you're not you know that's the worst it's the worst i have moments i love when charlie and i get to uh pair up and do things you know we thought we were human we were just talking about this that you and i have not i feel like we don't have enough of those things and they're always so fun and funny and we don't get to do it enough i think next season we gotta yeah i feel like maybe that's why they're some of my favorite is because it just doesn't happen that often but um those are always really fun i don't know i just like when i mean i i love things like you guys drowning me in a bog almost so you know anything that's like crazy those are just stuff you you were a trooper to get in that bog that was uh nasty gross stuff and yeah and you fully submerged that much of a trooper whatever please i'm doing it because i know it's gonna be hilarious it's very selfish of me yeah you climb climbing over mary elizabeth was really [ __ ] funny oh man now you were pregnant through a lot of this this show right i mean we did a whole season where you were eight months pregnant what's that like yeah so the p diddy the p diddy boat dance with the inflatable guy that kind of got kind of blew up and got famous i was i just remember being angry the whole time first of all we were in long beach and it wasn't like two o'clock in the morning it was and it was cold yeah and i was um i was so hell-bent on on moving my body with the way that that thing was moving and i was pissed off because secretly i was six months pregnant and i couldn't bend backwards as far as i wanted to and like snap myself back up and i threw the whole time just being angry like this isn't working this isn't working my stupid baby in there it's ruining everything yeah um this is all tracking this is all tracking it's sort of like when um for the viewer and listener out there who doesn't know that when when caitlyn and one of my favorite moments of the of the show uh she leaves the shoes sales uh or the shoe store and she falls into the car and she bangs her head that is her and that's a real car and a real dent and she said i'm doing this yeah not only that and then you did one take it was amazing we were like oh my god she broke her neck but you were okay you were okay and then we said look don't do another take we'll get one for safety we'll have the stunt person do it she's here to do it and she did the stunt woman didn't do it half as good as you did it no because she did it safely because some person's like yeah if you do it the way caitlyn does it i'm gonna break my neck yeah you could be paralyzed yes well listen she i i was angry because she was not funny and she wasn't gonna flail her body in a funny way and i needed i needed you guys to give me a chance and i knew i only had one chance so i just really went for it yeah um there's a lot of chiropractic after that but it was totally worth it how many bones have you broken over the course of the run of this i'm gonna let husband and wife talk for a second because caitlyn i have to i can't hold my p i've been holding my pee for so long okay charlie's gonna go play back okay all right yeah you gotta take care of your kidneys when you gotta pee just let it go i get it listen to that podcast listen listen he's gone he's got he's he's gone now listen i this is what i've always wanted i want the podcast to just be me right and i guess you can call him from time to time megan but megan won't say a goddamn thing back there right now it's the three of us hi caitlyn hi maggie hey can i ask you a question yes please do you remember rob peeing on you in philly when he got too drunk that night no what oh wait and was it was it philly or new york it was philly oh yes this is when we were secretly wait please yes i do we were secretly dating and you got so drunk we all went out to dinner you even you guys even went out after that i went back to my room and you came like drunkenly knocking on my [Laughter] the bed was soaked and you tried to say you had sweat it was the opposite it was the opposite you were like man you really sweat a lot and i was like yeah i guess i did so while he's back he's back yeah i didn't cut the [ __ ] i know it was not you peed me and you were like no i just i swipe dump sweat sometimes i'm like that would have come from all over your body not just by your penis oh you're talking about when rob pissed into bed yes was this the episode we were talking about it okay so yeah oh it was this episode that we were talking about uh it was actually no the one before but then i think you brought it up again yeah well yeah let me reiterate i've never listened to your podcast i know i know but but you don't watch the show you don't really watch episodes of the show right i mean no i i love watching episodes of the show there were there was a period of like four or five years where you didn't want to watch it because you were in the editing room so much um and so we didn't sit down and watch them together but i see of course i've seen every episode i i i even like them i know this sounds weird but like if it'll just randomly come on somewhere i get sucked in i think they're hilarious because i also don't remember we've done so many of them and that's we often break up into a and b stories i don't always remember what happens in the episode besides what i was doing i'm finding how much i've forgotten too and i thought i knew them all like the back of my hand just because of the amount of time we spent in the editing room but uh it's interesting going back watching all these caitlyn from day one you're great on the show thank you charlie rob gets a lot better but you from guys it took me a while to warm into it caitlyn and katelyn i was learning from the masters i was learning from people like caitlin and charlotte they just needed to get fat that's awesome suddenly you were hilarious no i think you're funny in those first seasons too you don't you just don't think it which is why we lean into it bob's weird he thinks he's not funny or like the least funny of all of us and that's so stupid i know that's why we lean and we we we see that wound and we jump right on it you know i think it's objectively true i think it's objective but i'm a lover of comedy and i can see that you guys are funnier than me and i'm okay with that well that's that you're right that's true i i'm funnier than you but that's true yeah you're very hard i need something yeah smart guy um well i guess we run out of things i mean caitlin thanks for calling in are you where you have to be are you i'm i'm you know what thanks for thanks for making my ride more fun i'm about five minutes away um when do you guys want me to come in because it'd be fun it'd be so fun megan let's get her off the line yeah let's go ahead and cut this call okay okay okay sweetie sorry you're breaking up we're making the connection here you're driving connection well that was fun yeah i mean it's not it's better it's better with glenn yeah yeah yeah it's it's just you know he was just low energy for that one episode but you don't want to deal with it you know why because caitlyn's nice and happy glenn's angry and it's and it's really interesting and that's when it's fun but when he's all low energy because he's like my back and my browns are broken i that would be more interesting than just sitting there just low energy come on man and look i'm not going to blame them he was on massive amounts of some kind of downer i'm on drugs when i can't make a podcast interesting but i think we can both agree it is better with glenn than it would be with caitlin oh i mean [Music]

Channel: The Always Sunny Podcast

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Length: 53min 12sec (3192 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 28 2022