52. Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life | The Always Sunny Podcast

why am I the only one who can't figure out how to use the Bluetooth earphones you see the Bluetooth up in the right hand corner now I don't have a Bluetooth in my right hand corner oh as it searches for devices it doesn't seem to find these little suckers press the button and hold the button and don't take them out yeah is there like a little button on there on the back button ain't no money nah nah nah nah dog I ain't got no button oh wait okay I haven't noticed that sorry my dogs decided she has to be a part of this so she's gonna be wow me that's fine that noise you hear is her not me farting and barking I can't get my uh my mic to work is it turning on I can't hear any of these you can't you can't hear us hold on you can hear everybody can hear but I'm the only one that can't hear you know great I'm calling you here's Megan calling me hey Mike this is funny hey so um just check your sound preferences because I bet I bet you have your output going through your microphone which is why you can't hear us so if you go to assistant preferences wow are you guys hearing like crazy [ __ ] sorry guys it's probably me oh [ __ ] I forgot something I'll be right back um great uh okay well after all that fun let's get started [Music] foreign Sunny podcast now if you'll notice we're um we're not in studio we're here in our homes doing this uh Zoom [ __ ] again and um I'd like to bring up why and I have a couple of questions um it appears that my co-hosts Glenn and Charlie uh were both sick Charlie's been sick for a while Glenn is now sick uh with some sort of flu type cold and or covered we don't know but we have established that both of them are more healthier than I am and yet here I am I have more beef than you do with this exact issue Rob and here's why yes because Charlie uh can I say you just please what you just went through please okay so Charlie who somehow was the healthiest of all of us according to Dr Kipper and you know I've got beef with that too but we can get to that later um you know got hit with covid uh pretty hard and I who was not as healthy as Charlie currently have covid and I feel nothing well I mean if you want to go Tit for Tat this is your second bat with covet it was my first I think I went a good two wow years without even without even a sniffle and his first time I was sick in quite some time uh secondly I think I was pretty worn down from that tour that we did when I got it so uh you know it's like uh already pretty run down and then it's it crept into me now we all did the tour we all did the tour yeah but you guys had already had coveted so you had coveted immunity uh I did not so I was just like uh naked as the day I was born out there you know real risky and you know it takes a lot to sing you know to really just get out there and sing every night you're really kind of pushing the lungs and uh and um and we pushed back let's admit it we push the liver and uh if we disprove did we disprove then Rob's theory that whiskey kills covet if you like drink enough of it while you're traveling well I didn't have any at my cousin's wedding which is I'm pretty sure is where I got it so maybe if I had been drinking whiskey I would have been fine I don't know isn't that amazing we were around thousands of people I mean just thousands of people in Philadelphia and Kentucky yeah hugging and shaking hands and just getting breathed on left and right it was so foolish that's just that shit's just yeah just we should not have done that we should not have done that and yet that's not where Charlie apparently got it I don't believe so I think it was like my like uh my aunt's friends being like yeah it's good to see you Charlie I'm just like screaming right into my mouth like this I've been sick for a long time but you know yeah it's always good yeah yeah if you don't think that Philly accent sounds like [ __ ] some kind of ridiculous Victorian England accent uh what is this get like get out of my face like I hate it when people talk right into my face have you ever it's loud at a wedding though right it is like so they're they're blasting the music so then you know some someone who like uh doesn't know me very well wants to say hi really has to get up in there to to talk to me and I think that's where the coven particles were passed back and forth yeah I I did an experiment the other day uh this was this was fun um I was at some event and this person was a close talker right and just you know just kept getting like in my face to talk and it just it wasn't that loud so it was not at all necessary for this person to do this so I just kept backing up right and what I decided to do because I was like this is so funny to me I'm just gonna go in a circle and see what happens and this [ __ ] followed me in a circle we went and we just got kept and I was just like I'm gonna see how long this will go on for before this [ __ ] notices that we're literally going in circles and we just went in circles and circles and circles and this person never ever noticed that I was taking him on a ride and it was completely bizarre and I just I luckily it kept me from going crazy because I was like get out of my face is so weird that you that you that you just brought that up because I had almost the same experience on Saturday night I was at an event and I had the same thought where I was like I'm going to there's a very close talker it was kind of loud but not loud enough to justify how close he was and and I know him like it wasn't a complete stranger but I but I thought okay how am I going to navigate This I Gotta I'm gonna take him on a ride but I did the complete opposite where I went closer to him closer and closer and closer and closer and eventually he started like backing up to the point where I got all the way up like up to him and he was like what are you doing and I was like I was just trying to get as close to you as possible and he's like why and anyway we worked it out that's that's funnier that's even funnier that's funny that I feel like that's the personality difference maybe between you and I right there like in a nutshell you know like that's your move my move is to is to like keep backing up and just going in circles and your move is just all right well if we're going forward let's go forward and like let's just go all the way forward because buddy I'm ready to touch noses if you want yeah no I'll [ __ ] kiss you I'll kill on that top lip just to just just see what happens that's right and I just stand there and take it I just take it man like I take every person who wants to talk right into my mouth I take it I didn't wear a mask at the wedding because I I was like I don't want to be like the only like celebrity guy there and then he's got a mask on and people are like hey Charlie thinks he's better than us he's gonna cover his face you know like I don't know just like weird like I want everyone to be happy at my own expense now I want no one to be happy because I was sick for too long so that is that's really funny I want everyone to be happy I had a good time at the wedding what are you gonna do what are you gonna do what are you gonna do okay he's gonna talk about this erratic life man this uh Dennis Reynolds erotic life yeah God every time we watch an episode it just blows me away how weird this show is a really funny so weird really so weird it's so weird do you guys want me to recap what happens for people yeah you're doing that a little bit of structure back because remember the structure all right so yeah we have a little bit of structure um Dennis Reynolds an erotic life is from season four episode nine um it aired on October 23 2008 it was written by Rob mcelhenney Glenn Howerton and Scott martyr it was directed by Fred Savage Dennis enters rehab while Mac and Frank try to authenticate his erotic Memoir Dee and Charlie live in each other's shoes for the day what were you even doing in that crawl space Charlie well Waters I was minding my own business I was also trying to do a little light reading and then I was putting some cheese in the rat trap putting the cheese in the rat traps yes can I smell your mouth what you were eating the cheese weren't you out of the rat traps no well yes I mean I was eating the old cheese to test it see why the rats weren't eating it he was doing such weird things Charlie I do weird things name another thing that you think is weird well I caught you stealing a bunch of coins out of the fountain at Logan Circle uh I was acquiring a little bit of cash to pay my Spidey what spine to spy in the waitress of course I have a spy is that normal do you know what shut up and give me my book back please hey guys what book you keep going on and on about nothing you don't need to see oh my God oh these are my these are my Memoirs Charlie you found my book I wrote a Memoirs hey guys charlie found my Memoirs your Memoirs I've been keeping track of all my sexual exploits and I was gonna unleash them in the world in a fiery blaze of eroticism whoa whoa whoa slow down a second Dennis you wrote a book well it's more of a tale of redemption told through my erotic travels giddy up man that's amazing that's good stuff right yeah but then one day the book just sort of went mysteriously missing Charlie what the hell were you doing with it well uh since you can't read I'm guessing he was masturbating to your picture goddamn jacking off to my phone no that is not at all you know what are you doing to me why are you doing this you've been riding me now you're accusing me of things you just don't get it you don't know why I do the things that I do it's nuts you don't know how hard I got it dude pretty tough your life is pretty hard I'll tell you what I just have to walk a mile on my shoes so I'm trying your old buddy Charlie on for size you want to walk a mile in your shoes because I can't handle your big tough life I will that sounds fine to me I will do that oh my God shut up Dennis what's the name of this book ah Dennis Reynolds an erotic life I'll tell you what in my covet Haze I watched a lot of uh movies uh which that's you know the one good thing about it is like just having some time to just be like well I can't do [ __ ] so let me watch some stuff and I watched some like some I won't like say every movie but I watched some what are considered really high-end sophisticated uh you know like movies from Europe that are very funny and they were brilliant that blew me away but out of watching all those movies and as much as I love them nothing made me laugh harder than Danny running into the room to eat that cat food at the end of the night when those cats start howling Charlie no wonder if reeks in here you have open cans of pee everywhere well I'm sorry but you do not want to use that bathroom okay now eat one of these all right you're gonna want to hop a little glue and drink some beer this is cat food Charlie oh dude I can't explain it all right there's some sort of weird chemical reaction that happens when you combine cat food beer and glue it makes you feel like extremely sick and tired and you're able to fall asleep why would I want to make myself extremely sick and tired because there's gonna be about 50 cats Helen outside that window all night long and you have new idea how about 50 cats can be okay maybe there wouldn't be cats surrounding your building if you didn't have open cans of cat food everywhere I have 50 cats howling outside my window because I have 10 000 rats running around my building dude okay there's a reason to do the things that I oh I don't feel good I'm just starting right on time if I were you I'd started woofing that [ __ ] down I gotta go to sleep oh I'm not feeling good at all [Laughter] there's a certain type of humor that our show found and that we were able to get away with that for me I'm sure not for everyone for me is a true Belly Laugh you know it's a true belly laugh and I would I would argue that this episode does not work for for many reasons but even an episode that doesn't work to have a laugh that because I'd forgotten I'd forgotten it came firing it and started wolfing down the cat food so he could go to sleep and what's just a funny thing that was I don't know that did that make any sense I think I have coveted Brain still I I cried laugh didn't make sense I I cried laughed like five different separate times in this one was when you picked up the P bucket to show D um Charlie and it's flashing you start laughing and I I was laughing at that then I also laughed when Danny came firing in with the inexplicably wearing Mardi Gras beads yeah yeah he's been in some crazy party yeah I remember us making that choice and being like let's just store some Mardi Gras beads on him and have it be a total mystery we won't explain it at all but it's just like he's been at some kind of [ __ ] weird thing and then but it it's also like the specificity of like how he he wolfs it down then he again he gets in bed puts his back to you and then he like turns over for a second and he's like like almost like he's considering turning the other way and then he's like and turns back to the direction that he was going in the specificity of like some of those choices was incredible and then I also guffawed um at all the all the shining stuff but especially when Dee comes back in and and Danny's like occupied [Music] well this is I mean it's the first yeah it's the first time we really kind of peeled back uh the curtains to show you what was going on uh you know in these guys and I mean we we alluded to you know what their life was like and pooped the bed and you know so but we were getting deeper and deeper into their like strange uh Bromance if you guys remember this season we had um a couple issues it was this episode and it was Mac and Charlie die and mac and Charlie die and this episode were coming in crazy long on time and for anyone at home who doesn't know what that means you have a certain amount of time the episode has got to be what was it at that time 22 minutes 23 minutes yeah 22 40 21 and a half it was getting it's getting shorter and shorter as the years go by right so at that time we had about 21.5 minutes whatever it was and you know the episode was like 30 minutes and nowadays there's more wiggle room in television but back then it was pretty much like no you have to you pretty much have to hit this time window because we have all these ads that are paying for the the eyeballs so um so we were we had enough time to fix Mac and Charlie die because of when we shot it in the season that we said okay we can add a bunch of scenes and make a a two-parter and I think we pitched two FX doing that for this episode too and they were like no uh I think well they didn't like they didn't like two-parters they they never wanted two parters that yeah they you know they always wanted the show to play like you could watch any episode at any time and it wasn't tied to anything else so this is the first time we sort of coined amongst ourselves a Frankenstein episode the term a Frankenstein episode because we had to pull out so much of this episode to get it to the run time and we we pulled out just enough that it made sense but I think there was a lot more of me and D uh uh of of what we were up to I think there was more there's there was definitely more of Sinbad and Rob Thomas do you guys remember the thing we cut let's see that I was expecting it I thought Oh I thought it was in the episode where where did that that never exist what did we release it on the DVD we put it on the DVD did we so Megan there was a beat where Rob Thomas breaks Glenn out of uh the psychiatric ward he says look you got to get out of here Sinbad's crazy you know and then he thanks Rob Thomas and he climbs out the window or something like that and then Rob Thomas like pulls a gun up and we pan off of Rob Thomas to the picture of Sinbad and then blood splatters across Sinbad's face you're gonna get out of here Sinbad read your book and he loved it of course he loved the book it's a great book I mean you know you don't get it he's gonna kill you and then he's gonna write his own stories using your erotic Legacy that's son of a [ __ ] I'll never get away with it Sinbad gets what Sinbad wants now come on let's go out the window I'm doing that but wait Rob Thomas what about you I mean what are you gonna do when Sinbad finds out you help me don't worry about me man I'll be just fine I've seen this so yeah we might have put it in like we did we put it in the DVD extra I had the DVDs for the first like five seasons so I bet I've seen it on that I also there is a Dennis Reynolds like short film where he reads from his erotic Memoirs yeah that was on the dining scene stuff we started shooting yeah I gotta send that to you guys how upsetting was that it's it's less funny than the episode welcome to another installment of Dennis Reynolds an erotic life let us turn erotically to another installment of Dennis Reynolds an erotic life chapter one Memoirs with a geisha the least funny stuff in the episode in my opinion is is all of the erotic Memoir stuff and the funniest stuff is I disagree is just I I mean I don't know the Memoirs are funny it's so fun the same bad stuff is probably less funny to us because we know it's coming I think if you like when you don't know it's coming and you're like what the [ __ ] is Sinbad and Rob Thomas what are they doing in the show I think no I like to send that stuff Sid that's great by the way Sinbad's amazing boom yo Punk oh we go what the hell yeah you in hell all right you know what my name is Sinbad this is Sinbad's house when you're in cinema house you my [ __ ] yeah you know what that is huh that's Rob Thomas Matchbox 20. sing a song shut up I also like the little detail by the way that I I noticed on this viewing that when you put your hands up Glenn you have very clearly two different Stigmata wounds suggesting that Charlie that um Mac and Frank couldn't agree and so did one yeah yeah nice little Easter egg for people uh watching but by the way we tried to get Bon Jovi for this one um and we try to use we tried to get bovine Joni himself um to do this with this I think through Danny because you know we've used Danny a couple times for that um you know or had Danny reach it he's like look you know Bon Jovi's a jersey guy and he was or no that was the that was the that comes later that was the Bruce Springsteen thing was going to do it he was going to do it yeah yeah yeah but I don't think I don't know that bovine Joni ever even got back to us about it so Mr Reynolds you're interested in buying our Arena Football team big time but I want to do business with Mr Von Joni himself Bon Jovi yeah Mr bovine Joni himself ma'am I am dying of very terminal cancer and I would like to request a private bedside concert from Mr Bon Jovi now sambora's presence is not necessary but it would be nice if he was involved question is this a laser pointer yes can I have it anymore you're not negotiating [ __ ] we're on to the cancer thing now and that is the way that it's gonna go from here okay I'm just gonna throw this out there I don't think you have cancer what what are you what are you talking about no that's that's chemo that's chemotherapy right there and for the record when you go through chemo your beard hair falls out too are you sure I asked a lot of people I asked my bald Captain I do the cancer but they was working until you got in with the [ __ ] numbers God damn it you know I'm not even really bald I have a full head of hair not like him there's a lot of just screaming at each other in this episode there's not a lot of levels you know Dee and I are just hollering at each other the whole time the stand-up comedy sequence though is also really funny so I don't go to a therapist Mars if you walk up to the nearest drunk guy and bump up from behind he always turns around goes hey man what's your problem this guy is great you come here every night every night huh this is great do they have food too because I could go for some food no no food I don't eat while I'm here well when do you eat I don't oh why don't you eat dinner do you gotta eat dinner sometime because when you perform your nerves make you dry heave and you better hope that you don't have any food in your stomach you're gonna perform all right now this next lady you all know because she's here almost every night let's hope she's got some new jokes this time everybody put your hands together for Deandra Reynolds [Applause] howdy howdy howdy how's everybody doing tonight so you guys what's the deal with those hands-free headsets that everybody's wearing in their ears right it's like hey everybody look at me I'm one part robot and three parts [ __ ] I mean am I right that's great I laughed so hard at all the all the dry heaving stuff I like completely forgot how funny that was and I I didn't think anything was going to top Dee's thing but then you're you're dry heave at the very end yeah every cheese cheese is a funny thing she's a strange thing I always wonder like what what is cheese where does it go that's all put in post right I mean that was didn't he make it yeah we like doubled it up and like yeah did the whole thing yeah we added something to it we also added the bur the first thing that when Dee's for on her first uh thing we added that like the burp noise Caitlyn's such a good dry heaver she just does what is that and then Pat Walsh is great as a as a uh so you know did Pat write this episode or no he was just on a writing staff Roberto rad who I just ran into uh for the first time since then so that was that 13 years ago that was two weeks ago he came up it's that guy the first that guy stand up yeah oh two weeks ago this guy I was at someone's house and this man comes over to me and says I was in an episode of sunny and it was it was that man but he also went to high school with Charlie he did what a name Roberto rad who screamed uh Jesus Christ from off screen when I think that was doing what's that yeah I think that was our editor all right yeah and then those are like editing add-ins right where we're in the editing room we're like Jesus Christ [Music] we are supported by athletic greens yeah that's right and as you know I take ag1 every single day primarily because it's it's lifestyle friendly no matter what diet I'm on at any given moment because I want I want an optimized immune system okay especially for this time of year well right because Halloween's right around the corner uh yes that's true but I'm talking about flu season being right around the corner I don't need my immune system all right ag-1 does contain less than one gram of sugar no GMOs No nasty chemicals and nothing artificial so ostensibly you could take it and still save your daily sugar allotment for candy okay I'm not I'm not eating any candy and I'm also not talking about 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h-e-l-p.com slash Sunny [Music] one thing that was so funny to write and perform was uh Danny and I in the movie theater just trying to be the most obnoxious people that could ever possibly be in a movie theater and to do everything that everybody has at one point experienced in a movie theater but like put them all into one or two people was really fun thank you hey dude where you been I'm in rehab dude oh yeah hey that whole Joby thing went South so I think we're just gonna scrap the whole book we'll do I got another call Buddy hello are you looking for oh this is Mac you got the wrong number yeah no it's no problem what number were you trying to call shh hello Frank you gotta get me out of here man we're all I mean rehab I'm in a movie bro is about to get naked so I gotta go and the person who's calling Terry uh do you remember who that is it's either ball cap guy the way the or is it who was actually playing well it's a random call that was like part of the joke oh that's right it's random he calls looking for Bill and then I must take him for Bill and then it turns out he's Terry and then we make arrangements to chat after after a random guy but by the way you and Danny have a chemistry in that scene which is I feel like we haven't played that energy a lot and it's really funny it's uh yeah you're very combative with him in a fun way yeah yeah um but okay do you remember what actor what actor was playing Terry on the other end no clue no clue I'm almost 100 sure that is that that is Glenn I think that that is Glenn with a modulated voice yeah I could tell by the delivery yeah I thought it was some chick who are you talking to I'm talking to Bill and anyway so oh I'm sorry no it's Terry sorry about that Terry anyway these cat people Harry because I kept calling them what number did he want would you please shut up what's up yeah I got some dick in a movie theater turn around like that yeah nice talking to you all right I'll talk to you afterwards bye right yeah yeah he's not it's not that dissimilar to the guy that I played um when the guy was trying to check his voicemails in that sweet D has a heart attack episode and he calls in and you answer the phone in his office that was that was also just a voice modulated version of me you guys can yeah Glenn you can change your voice in a way that someone won't recognize it I feel like maybe I don't know I I think I can but then I do it and then I'm like oh it sounds exactly like me still somehow well you guys didn't even realize that that was Glenn in the episode and you just watched it yeah you don't really hear the other voice though that well it's like turned down but you're yeah right you're right you can you can hear well let's we'll put it in the Pod and people can see if they can determine for themselves but but what you were saying about the obnoxiousness of those people like that was so I feel like this question we're constantly answering on It's Always Sunny in the quote and the answer the question is always who does that you know what I mean like when you go through life and you see people like act a certain way you're like who the [ __ ] who acts this way who does this and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the answer to that question you know what I mean that's it's it's been it's been such a delight to uh Purge that uh from myself because I've been in movie theaters where people are basically doing exactly what you guys are doing and I'm like are you [ __ ] kidding me uh did I tell the story on the podcast about going to see The Thin Red Line and the guys on the phone the whole time just talking about what's on the screen and he's blowing on his popcorn Union Square I'm seeing The Thin Red Line in the theater it's pretty packed theater and uh and this guy's on the phone and he's just like describing what's on the movie to his buddy like he's like kind of talking he's sitting right behind me I'm going crazy I'm getting I'm getting pit so pissed off right and uh for me which is you know it's like the feelings are so deep down they're actually coming up and um but he's he's also big and too scary I can't there's nothing I can do about it uh you know he'll Pummel me in an instant uh but he's like you know he's like he's on his phone and he's got this weird habit of blowing on his popcorn so he picks up his popcorn he's like yeah on the screen I don't know it's like a monkey right now every piece one at a time and uh you know ah this is [ __ ] weird there's like two monkeys and I'm like what the [ __ ] is this guy doing well the the movie is is so like powerful about like I don't remember now like acceptance and peace and love or whatever it is that like by the end I'm like this that man is the most beautiful man I love him I love him blowing out his popcorn uh and it didn't bug me at all but there's the craziest thing I've never seen a guy like blowing on his popcorn and talking through the whole movie I I it's not a good payoff to that story I wish it doesn't it should be a better there isn't well you didn't confront him [ __ ] no why would I mean you could always go tell on him you could always go tell on him you know just tattletail on him the guy looked like uh uh like uh be wait you know WWE ather like he was looking he was in there looking for someone to respond to him so that he could do something yeah yeah I don't think so no I I think he was on his own uh on his own thing I think I think he was ready to I think he's he's that's the kind of person who's like I'm gonna do whatever the [ __ ] I want because I want to get in a fight wait you guys want to hear something funny yeah going back to the changing your voice thing when I was uh really feeling really sick I recorded my voice because for whatever reason when I have a really bad cold my I can get my voice super low in a way that I can't ever get it you want to hear it yeah sure we can cut it off this doesn't play funny but all right listen hold on the gold I can get my voice down no um normally again but if I have gold again foreign I don't know if I'm allowed to tell this story but I have a friend who is uh practicing um his James James Earl Jones impersonation for uh for a gig where he he was trying to basically do James Earl Jones's voice and he was like the he's like I have to do it I have to every time I record I have to do it first thing in the morning right when I wake up um and then for the rest of the day I can't do it just because it's the only time I can get that deep is first thing in the morning that's a good story um so okay let's try a little experiment just because uh let's let's put some energy into the pot two stories we're told and by the way great attempts you're trying to you're trying to find content for the for the Pod but they didn't have great endings now I wonder if you could retell the story but make up an ending just make up a completely different ending so if Charlie whatever might have happened a liar Rob well but it could be fun to cut it into the podcast have you tell that incredible story and then we were going back and it turns out that we yeah you know what I'm saying okay so here we go yeah so I've got I've got a friend on I'm not gonna say who it is or why uh he was doing this but he had to do James Earl Jones's voice so he was practicing doing James Earl Jones voice it was a very distinct voice James Earl Jones as we all know and it's very very deep and the only time that my friend could ever get it to sound like actual James Earl Jones was when he first woke up in the morning so this is the only time he could record James Earl Jones's voice was right first thing in the morning and then the rest of the day he couldn't do that anymore and then and then I bought myself a muffin and I ate it [Laughter] and it was delicious very good okay I'm gonna try I'm gonna try so so I'm in the movie theater with a guy right he's blowing on his popcorn he's talking on the on on the [ __ ] thing right and and then he think I already noticed God sorry no no no no he eventually he's like hang on I'm gonna put you on speaker because he wants to eat more than like one piece of popcorn yeah and he's got the other guy on the speaker and the other guy blowing up popcorn and he said and and the guy's like hey what are you doing you blowing on your popcorn he goes yeah you blowing on popcorn he goes where are you he goes I'm in a movie they're both in a movie theater talking to each other did you get a muffin and then oh yeah and then I look under the seat what's their free muffin yeah that's always the best ending is when there's a muffin at the end for you to eat like that's that's what I'd find is always the most satisfying ending um how's that Rob did that that work for you did that I thought you were gonna say that you were you've eventually had enough and you told this guy to [ __ ] shut up and he and he stood up and he turned around and he was looming over you and he was scary as [ __ ] and he was backlit so you couldn't really get a good look at him until the house lights came up and you realized it was James Earl Jones whoa oh my God crazy man crazy man James Earl Jones gonna do something like that he would never do so he's got too much he's a classic guy let's talk about that ball cap you're wearing in the episode yeah that's a a real look it's a real life because you had too much hair to really get it flat so you get that kind of like what's the most fascinating look is the bald cap with the two bag on top yeah and I remember we were shooting in Philly obviously at the at Logan Circle there um Logan Square I believe it's called and um and I remember the next morning getting a bunch of calls and texts from people saying uh Rob you're in a newspaper you're in the newspaper and uh you're in the inky which is the Philadelphia Inquirer and sure enough Inky uh on on the front page down in the in the lower left hand side it was telling the story about how we were shooting in Philly and they used a photograph of Danny and I walking and I'm wearing the bald cap with no context whatsoever I'm wearing the ball cap and the wig and so many people were like what's are you okay are you okay what's wrong with you you're malaria or something what's going on yeah that's that's the one they went with no context whatsoever I remember it just said Danny DeVito and unknown actor walking through the streets of Philadelphia [Laughter] yeah that's always fun too is it and in your hometown too where all your friends and family can see it sure and yeah yeah yeah and at a point where we could have probably really used some good press yeah you know yeah sure I've got some um good photos of you directing or not directing but like being behind camera with that bald cap on like um Talking to Rob Thomas and stuff I'll put them in the Pod you must have worn it all day when you were like not shooting yeah because once once that thing goes on it's it's hard to take it's hard to take off so you just kind of keep it on and shoot as much as you can yeah that's that's why uh if you did a whole movie of it you just gotta shave your head take it from me um I thought the erotic Tales was really funny I I enjoyed you me too they definitely made me laugh me too her breasts were awesome your balls totally rule yeah it's just funny how he goes from eloquent to just blunt yeah it just kind of makes me uh want to throw up a little bit I think it's I think it's like I I think it's like I um I don't want to be I don't want to be associated with that man you know Dennis Reynolds I don't want people to think that I'm that I'm that person you know but uh and that's my cross to bear you know yeah it's my cross to bear guys I'm sorry I gotta go to the bathroom oh wow yeah I'm sorry one or two vintage hey mind your own business man uh all three all three What's Up Glamor now Meg anything no guys I got nothing I'm halfway to a nervous breakdown right now oh yeah why is the dog yay that [ __ ] dog you're just jealous because I pay attention to anything that isn't you look at how cute she is it's like a Star Wars creature oh yeah look at her Meg why are you halfway to a nervous breakdown what's going on over there I just had like a series of I don't know like everything's been hard lately yesterday uh there was a some sort of water main break on the street outside and we didn't have any water in my house from 6 a.m to about 7 p.m at night um and I had picked that day to go on like a long run so I went out and did like six miles and then I came home and all I wanted was a [ __ ] shower and there's not only no water in my house but like no running water I can't even have like a glass of water uh you know and drinking tap water what do you mean well no but yeah but like even the filtered water that I have runs through the the tap water runs through a filter and so there's just no water coming out and it's just been like a series of stuff like that this week where like everything that can go wrong does go wrong so this is boring for the Pod nobody cares about my I don't know I think people want to hear but I think people want to hear about trials and tribulations well see this is the problem though we've already we've already established that we're not allowed to really truly complain about anything in our lives because uh you know uh because we're so many other people are less fortunate than us and uh so we're I you know I'm looking listen I got a lot of stuff I complain about okay let's get into that what's left if you had to complain if you had to complain about three things that's all you had just three things what would they be in no particular order because we can ramp up you can complain about the number of things that Rob has allowed you to complain about that could be one of them but that seems like I'm just trying to put some structure into it Meg I thought you would appreciate that no well I do think that I I do think that uh uh no matter what level you are in your life uh you know financially or whatever um there's always going to be some [ __ ] to complain about you know what I mean right I mean I think everybody can agree on that I think it's just a matter of like um whether or not you decide to share those things you know uh because it's you know like the other day when I was telling the story about how I broke my toe because you know my buddy and I were headed down to my office and Jill came out of her office and we established that we've got two offices in our house it's like once once you establish you've got two offices in your house and uh yeah you're just like I I can't I I can't I can't complain about anything man like I really can't I can't not in public okay so okay so number one is that you're complaining about not being able to complain that's great that's a good start I'm not complaining about not being able to complain I actually understand why um but you know it's you know I I do like to complain and and it does it does hurt that I can't I like to come I can complain I can complain about things like the way people Park their cars and how it affects and how it affects me you know what I mean because like that that's that that's Universal you know what I mean now if my projector breaks down in my theater room in my house I probably can't complain about that well you could you could but you know you just keep it off the air yeah yeah so it's all about who you complain to yeah here's something I can complain about when I was doing my run the other day I got like body shamed by this person that told me to wear some clothes I was like running around and I haven't I've been doing these longer runs and super hot outside so for the first time in my entire life I was running with like a sports bra on and like then leggings but like no tank top on because it was like cooler that way and this woman I ran past her and she goes wear some clothes and I was like you're in Los Angeles this is this is like Dowdy for Los Angeles oh 60s probably yeah next time next time she was threatening next time just yell back you felt that yell back I hope you die I hope you die today yeah well like you live in Los Angeles like what oh I'm sorry you've never been to the [ __ ] beach you've never been to the beach yeah and and like honestly what I was wearing like most women wear to brunch like just a sports bra and like that's just like an LA staple and I was actually wearing it to exercise during like the hottest part of the day but um you know there may only be five people on Tick Tock who wear more than that yeah the the balls on people though it's like I love it a total stranger like you don't know like that like you could turn around and just beat her to death with a rock it is amazing how much how much women have to deal with like Mega is always telling me stories of my sister because she runs a lot and Caitlyn how often they have to like hear from anybody whether it's male or female and I don't think I've ever I don't think anybody's ever yelled anything at me when I was running ever yeah right have you ever been like yelled at while you're walking down the street or running I don't think it's ever no but I'm no but I'm like that guy in the movie theater with Charlie like I I want I want it I want it any excuse to just absolutely unleash on somebody is is would be terrific yeah I wish that you would get the experience which I and many women have had so many times of having a man stop you on the street to tell you to smile which is so like just a joy of women's lives to be like just wandering around with a neutral expression and have a man stop you and be like hey you know we like the best line ever heard is you forgot your smile baby like and you're like no I didn't I just have a neutral face because I'm just walking down the street and yeah unfortunately my neutral fans I'm always I'm always like think I'm always like thinking about stuff like I you know I'm just always like thinking of her I'm like in my head about something and then you know I walk into a room and and I don't realize that I have this expression on my face [Laughter] and I walk into a room and of course inevitably somebody you know somebody's like hey man are you are you okay and I'm like huh yeah I'm fine well you interrupted my you know and then people you have established that you hate when people ask you if you're okay I it irritates the [ __ ] out of me I'm like don't [ __ ] just just do just why I don't know I it's I know it shouldn't [ __ ] why does that irritate me break it down for me Rob like can you explain why that irritates me so I hate it when people ask me if I'm okay I think I have a theory I have a theory are you okay are you I think if I if I were to pull you aside and say Glenn can I talk to you for a second in fact I have done this before and when I say and I say you seem upset uh or agitated or in pain or whatever it might be are you okay is there anything I can do for you would you like to talk about it you're very receptive to that very receptive indeed if someone walks up to you and you seem annoyed or angry upset or whatever and just goes what's wrong are you are you all right it the implication isn't I that I don't care actually how you feel you're bringing an energy into a room that I actually find repulsive and I'm gonna call you out on it okay you have just yes you've just you've just put the put your finger on it I think that's exactly what it is I'm like I'm like what the [ __ ] does whatever I'm thinking about or what's going on with me have to do with you you do you and I'll do me and just [ __ ] off like like and if you want to be in a good mood great be in a good mood and guess what you're gonna lift me up and I'll be in a good mood in five seconds I'm not even in a bad mood but now I am but that's the problem it's like because usually usually it really is me just like I'm thinking about something and and I'm not in a bad mood and then the person puts me in a bad mood by asking me if I'm in a bad mood that's the irony of it it's like they've done the Office application isn't can I help you the implication is hey change your mood because it's bothering me it's yeah yeah you're affecting you're affecting my mood and I'm like I shouldn't have that much power over you I should I mean I understand why I do I'm a very powerful presence I'm a powerful man I bring a powerful energy into the room and I get that I just don't want that burden and actually I subconsciously respect you less for elevating me to that specific status absolutely 100 absolutely yeah yeah because I don't because I don't strike I don't strive for that I don't want to be the person who you know walks into a room and you know affects everybody's mood but as you've had to pull me aside when we were you know as a as our working relationship you pulled me aside I remember specifically somewhere around season six I started to lose my mind um because I was like what is my list my life now just this show like what is my life you know I had so many other things I wanted to do um and I just was having like a little bit of like a a crisis and um and I was bringing a really kind of like just sour energy I think to the set and you know you pulled me aside because you were like look I get it you're going through some [ __ ] like and we can talk about it and I'm happy to you know we can talk about it uh whenever you want um but you should just know and I like that you put it this way because you weren't telling me you were you were just telling you were basically saying like you should just know that because you're the boss on this show or one of the bosses on the show people are going to be affected by your mood and that's just how it is like you whatever energy you bring to set people are going to be like oh oh you know because already with you know the actors on the show they everybody feels like they have to accommodate that person because if the actor is in a bad place and the actor's in a bad mood you're [ __ ] like you know the guy lighting a scene can be in a bad mood and still light the scene well but I can't be in a bad mood and play a happy person or be in a a really really shitty mood and you know and be funny so all of a sudden everybody's like oh okay I have to you know everybody's walking on eggshells and so you know that's that's what you are pointing out to me and I was like yep you're right you're 100 right yeah but there's a way I'm sure like prior to that I probably exacerbated any given situation if you were to walk in like that and I probably did a version of what's wrong with you suck it up and like and that's never gonna work right it doesn't it doesn't that's not the way human beings are you have to meet people where they are and then and then accept what the reality of the situation is and then help them you know find whatever conclusion they're going to find but like still like setting boundaries in a safer environment as opposed to just confronting somebody with how you feel about the way that they feel which is never going to work but there is still a version of that conversation that gets across the same information but that's just more empathetic and compassionate well it's also I've noticed three of us have been in that position too I think um yeah absolutely over the course of doing the show where I think just had whether it's like I don't know about a whole season maybe but like days or episodes or weeks in the writer's room it's usually just in the writer's room because not you though Charlie like as you've established you just stuff it all down I I do stuff most of it down but I think there's there's been times like when the last few seasons where I you know have been just like burned out or something and we've called each other out you get a little snippy a little irritable or easily easily you're yeah or like easily offended or or something like that and and yeah that's that's happened to you too Rob where like yeah you're like a little down and we have to we have to talk about it but but the thing is is like again it was a good way of communicating it because you didn't tell me what I had to do you were basically just saying like hey just so you know here's how your actions are making me feel here's how what you're doing is making us all feel um you know what I mean and then when I have to take it seriously it's like when I see both of you guys like when I when I when I see both of you come into a room at the same time and one of you says hey man we got to talk and the door shuts I'm like neither one of these guys is big on confrontation and yet they're confronting me about something so this is a big deal I already know that they've discussed it outside of the room about how to handle it and I'm immediately put in a position of again this is coming from a place of respect like I'm I already know I've done something wrong that I need to apologize for and then you guys let me know what it is and then I take in the information and I'm almost 100 wrong uh every time and then I apologize and try to do better next time and we move forward each one of us has been put in the hot seat at one point or another being like hey man XYZ doesn't work for the other two of us you know so uh uh it's very healthy but the the most healthy thing is that all three of us miraculously don't have that Gene to not hear that you know where there's certain people that you could be a partner with who just would not hear it would not hear the other two people would be like [ __ ] you I'm not doing this and just couldn't take it and I don't know what that is but we we take our lumps well I think some of us some of it really is the approach I think the three of us at least strive to be the kinds of people that can deliver that information without it you know just being offensive or without getting the person's defenses up without you know like you have to be able to communicate those things well otherwise you know because if Rob had just pulled me aside and been like hey dude you're being a dick you're being a [ __ ] dick and you need to stop like that would not have worked like I would not have been like you're right like that's not my personality my personality had been like hey man I'm going through some [ __ ] go [ __ ] yourself like yeah I'm being a [ __ ] dick like it just would have made me more Angry you know what I mean but because he communicated it well it worked and it was effective in it and it did kind of melt me in that moment like I I felt my defenses I I actually weirdly also you know like you know in that moment felt seen acknowledged you know what I mean like it was it was a it was an acknowledgment that didn't put me on my heels didn't make me defensive and I I mean I there's no way that the three of us could have worked together for this long without uh having those moments where we had to pull one person aside and be like hey what's going on because you know this is what's happening and this is how we see it and it's it's you know we need to talk about well this is all leading to the moment Meg where where we have to we have to talk to you the three of us we've we've talked off camera and this is the most see I have a secret weapon which is I'm comfortable crying in front of all of you and I don't think you're as comfortable watching me cry as I am comfortable well if Rob probably is at this point but the other well no but that's what we wanted to do that's actually what we wanted I don't want to see it but that's what we wanted to talk to you about Meg we just want you to smile more I mean I just wish you well more yeah just smile it's so you know it's so nice when you smile honey listen whenever you feel sad just smile and be glad and the feelings will go away [Laughter] [Applause] today we are sponsored in part by Zell when anyone sends you money or if you 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catching a lot of it there's a terrible okay yeah I'm also not hearing her in the meantime listeners look for Zell in your banking app today [Music] you know it's a crazy and maddening part of the experience is that there is no like one way to write an episode there is like no correct way to do it and I don't know about you guys I'm sure you feel the same way where I'm going back and I'm watching all the episodes and I'm trying to I sort of watch everything analytically right like what worked what didn't work so much how can we do better how can I do better with this show or other things that I might try to write I I can't I have a hard time ever turning that those questions off but the truth is I I'm nowhere closer to An Answer than we when we first started doing the show like I don't really know why one episode of Sunny is a home run and another one is like ah not doesn't quite add up I haven't figured that out are you guys excited to get back into the writer's room this year because we're yeah actually I had a couple good ideas that I I wrote some notes down that I might say but I'm excited to share with you guys ideas that we can just turn into eight episodes and be done with it it's one idea it's definitely one episode I'm excited about the prospect of bringing the podcast into the writer's room and having people take a look at how we start the show it might be really fun to do a podcast episode that's Soup To Nuts an entire episode an empty white board with no ideas how do we turn that into a fully realized episode of sunny and do a podcast about that I think that could be fun kind of interesting yeah that'd be interesting for sure I wonder could could but we'd have to we'd have to hold that probably until after we aired the episode or no you think we could actually air that I mean but why not yeah yeah maybe or or maybe we drop it in installments at the same time on Hulu at the same time that the episode comes out we could do that uh well uh I've got no ideas um going into this next season uh I'm terrified to go back in the writer's room uh the first couple days are always really fun because we're just getting you know we're getting back in a room together and you know everybody's there's that Energy's popping you know and we're making fun of what everybody's wearing and you know they're weird hats and hairdos and who's going gray and all that kind of stuff and it's all fun and games it's it's better not to come in with ideas I feel like because they get stale right like if you have an idea like those first couple note cards like almost never get used you know like that the first episode you break is always the one you're like that one I don't know like yeah it's like yeah you've got all these great ideas for these great episodes and then everybody's just like yeah but I kind of like the cat in the wall one yeah really yeah no but you got to come in with I mean it's just they're all just jumping off points you know what I mean uh it's good to have some jumping off points Meg do you have ideas for this season um I have one idea but I've already pitched it to you guys last season which is just that um the the gang oh yeah that's right oh yeah but truly I I can't pitch things like this but the thing I the podcast has made me want to do is just more like really simple stories about like somebody wanting to be somebody's best friend or like you know like just this even this episode the idea of just starting out with um Charlie and Dee being like you couldn't walk a mile in my shoes it's such a funny jumping off point for like an episode and it's so small it's not like based on current events or like anything like that and I really enjoy that stuff so I guess I'm gonna Endeavor to try to pitch stuff like that yeah well it's really funny right because that's going back to what I was saying about like it's so hard to kind of crack crack that nut right so like uh Mac and Dennis break up or whatever such a funny episode like uh you know these like really small personal ones that all take place on our sets and in our Apartments can be so fun and yet the one where we go to the water park is just fantastic or the Jersey Shore right so you know it's it's just hard it's hard to know I guess you got to do it all you gotta try different things that's that's the gig right we're just trying different things with these characters and um hopefully most the time it works and sometimes but we've tried them all it's not as strong as the next one but uh that's the beauty television you got the next episode to go improve by why are you shaking your head Rob's shaking this because no go sorry because Glenn said we tried them all but we haven't we haven't we have we have we're only halfway through the Run bud halfway through yeah foreign

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Published: Mon Oct 10 2022