63. The Gang Hits the Road | The Always Sunny Podcast

oh man I got your wrecked some scarf on I put my scarf on um you know you gotta enjoy the wins I I just watched a wreck some win we're top of the league um we're in first place and that feels good I know that's I know this isn't a wrexham podcast but you know you gotta you gotta do it number one it's good it feels good to be in first place you know what else feels good uh watching this episode maybe my favorite episode thus far during the re-watch really truly up there for me too it's it's up there probably one of my top 10 episodes of all time it's like I say that a lot but um yeah you want to do us an intro yeah um sure uh we're getting right into the episode none of you are coming in hot yeah well let's see no let's get the fans what they want they want to hear us talk about the episode this is a good one to talk about we're in the process of working on the show so it feels like it's very present in our minds how things happen and and how they happened to just get into it well I mean unless we want to give some people some context to where we are We Are One Day Out from production on season 16. tomorrow baby in Philadelphia we start filming tomorrow and we're finishing things up um behind on a few things but no more than other Seasons we usually have one script or two that we're like okay we're gonna be working on those in our trailer that's right that's right we got it there that's where we're at it's fun to watch an episode like this though because gets me excited to act it's a good like uh they can feel like this we're doing something right great very inspiring very inspiring it's very inspiring let's tell the audience what the episode's about so uh season five episode two is what we're discussing today the gang hits the road it aired on September 24th 2009 was written by Charlie and Glenn and directed by Fred Savage the gang tries to expand the Horizons by going on a road trip to the Grand Canyon but they hit a few speed bumps along the way oh yeah more than a few right yeah Charlie I remember writing this episode with you uh it was the first year we were in these offices on the fox lot however we were one floor down from here we're on the fourth floor we were on the third floor we wrote that we were in the exact office below the office that we've been writing this entire season from and as all the the creeps can tell it's it's so inspiring the car is very it sounds funny and by the way Meg put these up something to break up walls otherwise it's just a white wall just a white room with Windows which are not which are nice but sterile very sterile but I like to start from a sterile place you know before I get things dirty [Laughter] it forces you to go somewhere else in your mind and that is your imagination and that's where stories come from yes it is he's right he's right tell me about what happened well [Music] we had a lot of fun we were having a lot of fun um I I don't remember exactly how specific and extensive the break was but I do remember that it came to us very very quickly and we had a draft an entire draft of the episode Done by the end of the first day of writing with it which is outrageous um it just happened very very quickly and I don't even think we changed that much we always you know we went back through it and we because it only taken us a day we were like let's just take another day and go back through it make sure that everything's as good as it can be but it just flowed really yeah you can tell like watching it and my favorite thing is when we're writing and you hit you hit that thing where the writing is actually doing the braking for you so like you've done some breaking but you're coming up with things and how you execute a scene that you're like oh we'll we'll actually pay this off later so things that I imagine weren't in there as as we were like writing it I I remember these kind of things coming up like probably like the p in the window of joke and stuff like that but yeah do you remember do you guys remember where the all the fruit stuff came from of the Scott martyr yeah yeah so our writer Scott martyr yeah discovering that he yeah it never had a blueberry never eaten a blueberry and yeah we just couldn't believe that a person had never tasted a blueberry and that was just the beginning then we really got into listing all the things that he had never eaten and an apricot a pair and it wasn't just fruit specific vegetables it was other like certain kind like a chicken sandwich it was very very common foods like extremely common foods not rare foods not exotic foods very common foods yeah and he had not had a number of them it wasn't you know it's very it's it's one thing when somebody's like I don't yeah I know it's weird but I don't like blueberries okay I get that a little weird blueberries are delicious never tried it never even tried one never tried them but every once in a while he'd bring in like smelling salts and he'd be like let's do these today yeah sure and then he'd smell those how do you get that far in life without trying a blueberry well you know that'll be a question for when we do the martyrs yeah let's say that for what was he's not here today right he's not here today but they have agreed that they will remember oh thanks oh you are going to Dane us with your presence oh will you all right The Writer's room with them like uh Roselle and I talked for an extensive period of time about nitrous the other day which was fun sure because I was gonna go get some for like a little outpatient procedure and he was like oh yeah whatever did you have the nitrous yeah I did and I thought it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be I thought it was going to be strong and it was fine yeah they were like it feels like a warm blanket kind of like come like kind of sitting and it was good but I don't think it had the strength of the kind that Roselle was talking about which is when you just Huff off of a yeah like I have a balloon parking lot and then you you basically go brain dead for 30. and then you know everything just goes you fall down and right and he's like yeah that's what it is that's what I remember I remember there always being this the sound of your brain dying a little bit it's the sound of the blood trying to um but yeah it wasn't as good but you know it's because it was administered to me by a doctor and not a whipped who had the cracker yes do you remember that was the thing that actually got into the nitrous was the crap was the cracking tool oh yeah then you didn't do whippets no I did whip it I did whip it oh oh the big you did the big night I did yeah we had we had well you know you could buy the individuals it was almost like The Keg tap whoever had the cracker is the person who had the the tap that was the that was the the tool that would allow you to crack the thing open and then fill up a balloon and it was just another 15 year old it just who was in charge of the cracker I just now that I've got kids I just don't want to think about that for my kids I I'm happy to say I probably only did I could probably count on two hands the number of times I actually did it maybe three hands uh uh sure but you hit a certain point where you realize okay I'm gonna stop doing that because I I truly believe I don't even love The Sensation that it's not that great I'm just gonna experiment with it then I realize I'm actually killing myself and then there were the kids were like I'm gonna do this every day and then you realize well they're gonna do lots of things every day speaking of things that make you pass out from the episode I did notice on this free watch a very funny Choice by Charlie for when you guys like the wicker chairs on fire and it like gasses you in the in the trailer and they you open other thing and Charlie is just face this down we were laughing about that yeah like yeah funny he made the choice to to just lie face to face directly face down arms at his sides backwards as if you just like yeah we've always enjoyed that kind of fall where so you get knocked out instantly and your arms are not you don't even stop yourself your arm's just at yourself I remember wanting to do it in a way that it was like it's seemed really believable that he made no effort to stop himself yeah yeah but also I remember being like you know you gotta wait for a good chunk of dialogue before they open the thing just be like this is uncomfortable oh yeah yeah straight down knowing it would be funny Billy but it'll be a good bit the biggest laugh for me in that whole episode is the Hibachi Grill legs kicking up and sliding out like I'm proud of the the joke like the writing of the joke but I'm really proud of the special effects team that's a pretty sweet duct tape rig you got going on the door man yeah you like that tape the chairs down too so don't slide know but you stopped at the grill and that's got me confused ran out of tape actually all right it's not gonna slide through the crack it won't because I measured the crack and the crack is smaller than the height of the grill we are all hooked up here dude a shot got a beer that'll come a nurse it sure will do you remember how hard it was for that to happen no oh oh my gosh yeah we had to get filament to pull the the legs sideways and then have someone pull it straight out now but at the time we were very very frustrated and we had a we had a great special effects team but for some reason this was the one that stumped them because you had to get the timing exactly right so I remember exactly how this happened because you guys were in the oh in the van sorry also yes you know what I do remember also the time this maybe was what you're talking about when you say timing because it wasn't like when to do it it was starting it slow and then speeding it up yeah it's like do we yank it out it's like no yes do we do it all slow no you start slow and you it's like again it hits a bump so it's gonna go boom and then the legs happen and then the legs have to collapse and the legs have to collapse at the same time it can't go one one it just doesn't look as funny it's Gotta Go Bump Bump and then out and then and so so we're we're thinking well we're in Hollywood but we know that at this Point our show's a piece of [ __ ] and and we don't have any money so we got to figure out now again we've seen dinosaurs on screen in 1993 and yet we can't just get this goddamn Hibachi Grill to just do what we needed to do they wound up having two three two special effects guys one on one side of the trailer one on the other they cut a hole through the through the van and they pulled the string this way and then a third special effects guy that pulled the thing out that's right and you know why because the van the the tightness of the van is such that we couldn't put two guys in there to pull on the strings to have the legs come out so we had to like drill through the outside the U-Haul and originally what they did was they fed the wire this way right and then through a little like snake hole out so the time the way that they had without drilling a hole so all three guys were on the other side of the truck and pulling but how do you get the timing right where the the attention isn't this way the tension is this way but then eventually it's got a pull like through a pulley system but it's also it was so complicated there's so many different ways until they got it until they got it thank God we spent the time on it because it's yeah it's like it definitely works yeah yeah you wouldn't think that it would be that difficult but it's also like because we have a very specific sort of like timing in mind of what we want to happen it's like as you said it's got a fault both legs have to collapse first and then there's going to be like the tiniest microbeat and then it just yeah you know what I mean and you guys have such a funny reaction it's just like staring at it yeah yeah there's sort of there's the air of like yeah that was we could have seen that coming maybe I loved it I love the the attitudes throughout the entire episode it's always fun when characters are on the same page or excited and happy and having fun so Dennis and Frank when they first get back there how excited they are and how on board they are and there's very little fighting there's very little argument it's more they might have a little disagreement but Dennis is up for anything and Frank's up for anything that's fun same thing when Charlie got back there as well everybody's excited playing those colors as Dennis I miss like playing the you know the the like you know still calm and still everything but and still kind of narcissistic and full of himself but like I don't know not always angry it's a simple story there's no big theme we're trying to jam in there there's no like well it's they're on a road trip but it's really about uh you know we're really saying it's about XYZ no they're trying to go on a road trip and they're unable to pull it off and that's it so it allows for those grounded moments because people can relate to it right we don't have to we don't have to sort of invent a motive for why people would want to go on a road trip like people go on a road trips so yeah so then then we have nothing but free reign to then be like okay well what are the funny things that happen that keep them from going on this road trip yeah so yeah it doesn't it wouldn't make sense to have any like heightened Hearts one person that we've talked about on the podcast in the past um and now people can put a face to his name is Cha-Cha so Cha-Cha who we've mentioned in the podcast was Danny's friend um who may or may not have been hang on certain organization that may or may not have existed somewhere in the Northeast part of this country we can't say for sure but we were it could be that he possibly was a member of one of those or types of the American Legion like yeah yeah or whatever the Carpenters Union something I didn't say [ __ ] now the thing is that Cha-Cha has since passed so we're we're clear to talk about in in many different ways but none of the ways that will get us beaten up or murdered ideally Cha-Cha was the best he was the he was so he was he a boxing promoter for Tony Danza and that's how Danny met him yes yeah Cha-Cha and I had a night where he took me to a um a fight at Madison Square Garden yeah what was this around that time I guess I was in New York City and oh it was I don't know it was something like we were shooting in Philly and then there was a big fight coming up at Madison Square Garden and I was talking to Cha about it I think it may have been even been when we were doing that episode and he was like yeah he was like I get I could get a synth that I fight you know and I was like let's do it you know what I mean so I went to New York and I stayed in New York and I went to his he had a he had a a coffee like a cafe Mulberry Street called Mulberry Street yeah yeah Little Italy yeah it's like a July yeah it was gelato it had pizza it had lots of things yeah lots of stuff yeah yeah yeah I had had coffee it had calzones whatever you wanted you could get there and everybody knew Cha-Cha everybody everybody knew cha and so you know he I went there and I met him there you know he he fed me gave me some espresso then we went to the fight together and uh had a blast and you know everybody at the stadium knew him like everybody you know and uh we just we just had a really really fun night and I think very fondly on Cha-Cha because he really he really like hosted that night it was and it was it was really cool those scenes down in the Italian market are like they feel very alive there's a lot of pedestrians and you know we didn't like pay for like 200 ushers that day we were just filming down in the market and you know I'm sure we had like 15 or 20 people maybe we you know had them cross through that wasn't the Italian market to be clear yeah in Philly yeah but like we that was still at a time where I think we could shoot and we wouldn't draw a huge crowd right yeah 2000 yeah season five not yet yeah we could still get away with it although I do remember people yelling to Danny when we were driving around the clock yes but when we hit the guy with the with the by the way the stunt guy nailed it going over the uh yeah sure did and we'll start we'll start that from the beginning because that was a really fun moment in the shooting of the show that we reference a lot because it was very specific we were going around a big loop so when we were shooting we would just because I had to throw it at that guy's head and I think I missed like three times but we had to do this giant loop around this one neighborhood in Philly where we would just go up and down the street and the car is being towed right so the car is not really driving it's uh yeah right and so we have a camera car shooting us and then and so we're just going around we're passing the same houses and the same people and no one knew our show including people in Philadelphia but everybody knows Danny so the neighbors were out on their Stoops and every time we would pass by they would yell out hey Danny hey Danny come on over Danny I'll make you some ziti and then we'd be passing and turn around we'd come back around and then just more and more people Danny yeah and we had a joke running joke in the car about it getting more extreme like oh Danny come over and let me tie you up in the basement me wear your face then a spike off the foot come here Danny Danny just a little piece of your body for the basement for the trophy room Danny Danny I'll bake you into a city Daddy can we eat you for dinner tonight Daddy yeah yeah everybody wanted a piece everybody a piece of Danny they wanted a piece you know who could blame him who could blame him and then uh and then also if you remember from that shoot um one of the trucks got hit by lightning one of our camera trucks got hit by like no I don't remember that oh yeah we were shooting down there there was a thunderstorm a lightning storm out of nowhere I remember it's a huge thunderstorm yeah and you don't really know where to go because we don't have a set so the neighbors were like you can come into our house with the lights yeah we go up into these truck these giant Metal Trucks which of course are grounded from the tires but still it's terrifying and like the trailer is like shaking and whatnot and then one of our trucks got hit by hit by lightning Jesus what happened did it like blow up or like no maybe that's why this episode is so good because it's like infused with the power of my lightning it's infused for the power of Zeus right the power of Zeus came through us um a lot of Philly stuff yeah you did you shoot this entire other than the the scenes in the bar and in front of the bar did you shoot all of it in Philly the gas station scenes and stuff yeah that was in LA uh not far I believe not far from the Patty set in downtown yeah like could really pass for Philly because it was just very Urban and yeah and chases you guys like that yeah that was downtown yeah and I wonder because we haven't been shot down there a while like the more and more we go down in the neighborhood it's nicer and nicer it's nicer we can't even nicer we can't even shoot outside of that Paddy set very much anymore because it's I went from judgment night to like you know hipster hipster night do you remember like in the early years where whatever that we might have talked about this in the podcast the guys across the street oh yeah would just lay on their like car horn when we were filming and our line producer had to go over and just give them cash it was just uh they were just it was just a Shakedown I kind of see both sides of that yeah sure I mean they were shooting on my street like two weeks ago and I pulled up and they're like you can't go up there and I was like no I live up there and they're like sorry you can't go through and I was like I'm sorry you're telling me I can't go to my house and they're like yeah they're filming and I was like I'm gonna drive and if you get in front of my car I'm gonna run you over like what the [ __ ] and of course it's like some poor PA yeah yeah some ideas the first day on the job like I was told not to let anyone up the street I don't really want to work in TV and uh totally but like the guys the guys uh across the street from us they had a business and we would just shut the street down or we would do like intermittently they had a business like Cha-Cha had a business cars come in cars go out whose cars they are I don't know but the horns [ __ ] work so give me cash but that one time in particular I remember and they were started they started to blare music out of their cars and it was because the they were told that they couldn't bring they had some importing exporting business somebody told them they couldn't bring their trucks in yeah and they were like this is our business you just you can't shut down the street unless you pass and so we paid them yeah I see it from their perspective yeah yeah yeah it's a middle I think what you're saying is there's a middle ground in that case there is a middle ground there is a middle ground [Music] all right who here hates cooking oh God thank you overrated it's just it's it's so much time and energy hours of shopping and prep and cooking and cleaning also it's just not economical well check it out Charlie we're sponsored by Factor America's number one ready to eat meal kit they shipped fresh nutritious meals made with high protein I love that I love protein guys big protein guy I love Factor especially the Protein Plus meals because they are extra filling and great for my busy days where I want a quick and healthy meal well that's a huge Boon when we're busy on set you know we're just kicking off production and there's hardly ever time to fit a meal into your schedules well we do have a caterer you're aware of this right well yeah I mean you know but the caterer he's not dietitian approved factor is you know plus it only takes two minutes to heat up versus trudging over to the truck and you know waiting in line yeah who's making you wait in line well I'm not I cut to the front but yeah yeah you know but I'm saying in theory be like Glenn don't let anyone stand in the way of your meal time ever again head to factormeals.com sunny50 and use code sunny50 to get 50 off your first box so that's code sunny50 at factormeals.com sunny50 to get 50 off your first box [Music] [Music] I really got slapped in the face with apple juice or something like that yeah so you were feeling the actual your frustration now that kid's got to be uh 62 63 years right now Shannon McCain what's his name Shannon McCain Shannon McCain what's he up to is he is he been working on channel he's 38 years old wow [Music] so that means he was 24 when he did it did the episode yeah yeah yeah well I think runaway train was your pitch I feel like maybe I remember like working on that and like we might have had some different song or something and I think I wasn't in the break maybe it was maybe the president you had in the room because I feel like you liked that song I liked well I like that I remember that song being on the summer of probably 1990 I'm gonna say four sure the summer of 1994. that sounds right that song was on constantly and the video they would play the video and it was all about like runaways and then it became a whole marketing campaign uh where they were talking about how many lives the song saved because people were The Runaways were inspired to like call home or come home this is like all engineered by MTV and I thought man it just seemed like such a scam to sell to sell records right as if they're like kids on the street that would hear that song and be like oh you know what I'm the runaway train I'm the runaway train back in touch with my my family who's who's definitely looking for me that's why I ran away in the first place they're really um right they're really that's the nuclear family that I needed yeah I love that she's like you need to hear the songs it's got a message for you and then she cannot remember the words it just delivers all the emotion but a few of them I also like that she she immediately invade is like invading his space like she's she's gotten drunk like so fast and she also mimes like you get she starts moving yeah as like before she reveals the piss jar yeah she does a couple movements which like on second viewing you're like oh that was her zipping up yeah yeah yeah I got some meaning to hear about a second [Music] [Applause] I actually got this Uncle out there that said [Music] [Applause] and it's an open mouth jar yes like so how did she that's a bunch of dudes right now Caitlyn just figure it out I don't know it's a good good aim I wonder how many of her cars we wrecked so we wrecked the the first the blue one and mac and Charlie died and then this one gets stolen and then we we wrecked the one at the mcpoyle wedding Massacre I drive it into the pole I think it's a purple PT Cruiser yeah yep um what do you remember anything else about the writing of this episode uh Charles nope me either um you guys do you know did you have all that what I like about it is that there's just the Simplicity in just mixing up the pairings like somebody goes back into the back and then somebody moves to the front seat and like that kind of energy of the story is just really funny okay yeah yeah uh but was that planned or did you guys just be like generally they're gonna be on a road trip I mean I think so that's so long ago it's really hard to remember yeah it's hard to remember I mean I don't think we would have gone into writing it without there being I don't think we broke them in the detail that we break the stories now like sometimes we did and sometimes we didn't sometimes we're like they go on the road trip this happens they go to the farmer's market we do the blueberry run the car gets stolen you know like um I think you improv improved on that on the day possibly I mean I remember Roselle pitching the sheriff of patties okay so that was probably the show right because the guy's back in the last scene yeah so but I think the ocular pat down think joke I'm pretty sure you came up with though yeah I didn't knock your path down and I cleared him I'm sorry I'm saying that I did an ocular assessment of the situation garnered that he was not a security risk and I cleared him for Passage what are you talking about I'm talking about breaking down the security situation clearing an individual and making it safe for Passage foreign how exactly do you view yourself within the context of our group the sheriff of patties well I can't I can't have this conversation I want to unfold this thing I'm going to pass out but my favorite part of that whole thing was is setting that up and then in the end finding out that Charlie is also very much aware of the process and and he he's clear to him I thought yeah he's the funny reveal that we've had these conversations many times yeah yeah yeah I also liked the little round about the glaze on the chairs yeah I don't remember how we did I did I smoke machine in there I don't remember how we did that yeah I think it was just I think it was just that I don't think it was anything more complicated than that thank God we didn't have to actually set anything on fire because they they send the whole fire department when you do that [ __ ] light candle these days on set and the whole fire department's got to shut I tried to cook my husband dinner on Friday and the fire department Carl called shut off an alarm I did I sent off our own fire alarms and apparently we have uh we have it's somehow connected to like the security alarm and then they they called us and the fire department called and so two very embarrassing conversations my husband just had to be like no my wife's just cooking yeah it doesn't happen very often that's probably why we haven't been so they actually came by now no no they just oh they did okay all right well so I had an experience uh I don't know maybe about a year ago and we were we had like a busted pipe in our Landscaping and we had like expanded our Landscaping so I knew where the Landscaping uh the the controls were for turning off all the water that goes to the Landscaping except there's this like a new section of landscaping that had been done and it wasn't on the same pipe so I was like I don't know how to stop this and there's [ __ ] water geysering so we had to call we had to call uh I don't know if we called I guess we've called the fire department or somebody yeah I don't know yeah I guess we did but they they show you know we were just like just like why do you always have to show up on a fire truck like you know it's like it's like midnight you know like the whole waking the whole neighbor a neighborhood up the siren got like blaring honking the horn like lights blowing up you know or let's say oh man Spiderman and I I these guys got out I uh there's nothing more emasculating it's so amazing hey bud you want us to turn your water off for you yeah yeah yeah basically wants to come in there and take care of your wife too yeah you can turn her up water on every single guy was was like six foot three on average you know what I mean like no one was below six foot three it was like six foot three and above every single guy I'm not kidding you looked like he could be a male model we got the calendar shoot right after this so it looks like it yeah I will say I noticed I noticed a major difference when I first moved to Los Angeles with the police force I noticed the the LAPD and California State uh the highway patrol those are some big people and In-Shape people even and even if the women aren't large they seem like they're in very good shape and all the cops I knew in New York and Philly yeah fat as hell yeah not really or skinny but like never like not in like the kind of California shape where yeah right these are California firemen and yeah policemen right yeah yeah just coming correct right just coming straight from the gym like hitting the gym at 4am every single morning you know what I mean cooking cooking uh you know sticking to a a paleo diet down there at the at the firehouse right cooking everybody chicken and vegetables let's lay off the rice guys we're gaining a few lbs when we show up to these people's house we really got to make the men feel small that's our primary goal here right putting out fires absolutely every time if we can more important than that though and pressing the woman in a masculating demand that's why they became firemen in the first place right yep that's right I think you're absolutely right stickers all the time was that an improv on the day I can't remember definitely the whole thing yeah it was pretty gross the stem and then in the core you didn't tell me not to eat the stem dude did you eat the stickers that are all over it yeah it was gross of course it's gross it's a sticker buying stickers all the time dude this whole thing is a disaster I I'm going back to the car we thought about that in the in the editing room yes we did because you were we we both were on the same page where you're like uh I thought it was funny yeah because you improv to I eat stickers all the time and you were like that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard we're now we're establishing what does that mean Charlie eats stickers all the time and we're like yes okay good you guys remember that too oh yeah yeah look I'll fully admit that that there's they're just and everybody's got a line right everybody's got a line it's not like that's earlier Seasons right so maybe the characters aren't have gone as crazy yet so you're you're still having the conversation you know do or do they not eat stickers you know by season six and seven we know that Charlie and Frank and possibly sometimes maybe Mac eat stickers like sure create contracts and all sorts yeah pieces of a credit card wolfhare like all inconclusive the line is always changing and yeah and always but we just had a conversation this morning I know where Glenn was pointing something out that was like I don't think this makes any kind of rational sense and Charlie and I are both like yeah like there's part of me that just like in those moments I want to back down just because I I I could just sense you guys being like Oh no yeah but we didn't fight back though no you didn't we didn't fight backwards we were like okay okay um let's let's see let's pivot let's see if we can figure it out yeah because there is a there is a tendency to want to just be like well come on man like we we do crazy [ __ ] all the time why is it this thing but we each have one of those moments throughout the week where you're like no this is my line and we can either like tell the person they're being stupid or we can kind of figure out by the way I usually like to be like do you guys stand behind you fully stand behind this and if you do and you guys are like this is amazing I fully stand behind it I still might fight back a little bit but but I'll eventually just be like all right I'm just gonna back off yeah you know what I mean uh because I don't feel like you do it that often it's just every now and then yeah no no no I mean it's like if the joke is really funny you know you probably get a little insecurable no you know what it is it's actually the opposite it's when I'm like this if it's really really funny I care less about how ground grounded it is you know what I mean if it's making me but that's my but that's my me thinking something's funnier or not funny you know whereas you guys might find something funny that I'm like I don't even think that so not only is that not funny but it but it also there's it's not grounded in any sort of reality that I can believe yeah that's it it's just a reality thing right yeah it's a sticker thing for you or the gun thing with Frank and the in the episode where he's shooting in that thing we're like it's just not that funny to me so I'm like why are we bending reality for some but it's funny to you guys and it's funny to a lot of people in the audience so it's like okay it is what it is what about now is the sticker thing funny to do now no she found it no not that funny but I can appreciate why I I understand why other people think it's funny uh I just don't think it's that funny I mean I think you know buy that the guy would eat stickers all the time no I buy that you would have eaten the sticker on the pear and that that it tasted awful and that you ate the stem and the seeds and all that kind of [ __ ] because you don't know how to eat a pear like I somehow that's okay with me but this is the ones that passes it's the one step past where you say like I eat stickers all the time that means that means you're a man who looks at a sticker and goes I'm gonna eat that yeah probably just like a scratch and sniff sticker but yeah it's so good so that additional line would have brought it back for you if he was like what are you talking about like you scratch you sniff you taste you scratch yourself it's like it's just scratch and sniff yeah since when it's scratched them today scratch it if it taste the ones on the bananas do taste like bananas um have you guys ever been to the Grand Canyon uh did road trip once with our dog many years ago our first dog Arthur and uh it was two degrees when we got to the Grand Canyon and Arthur had to take a crap and I remember like the steam coming up like he was just like squeeze one out took a dump at the Grand Canyon we stayed like a Red Roof Inn yeah the old days the old days right I looked at it it was like this is really sad but looked at it was like yeah sure oh really yeah I think because I'd seen things in books accident on television so many times yes what is it impressive of course but there's something about this world that we live in now that you have access to things so much you're like I imagine seeing that for the first time when you're riding a horse across the country and you're like oh [ __ ] oh yeah we got a home a big hole a big hole could be the end of the world not sure yes this is where the world is it is strange because I've flown over it so many times because that is the direct route back to the east coast and so you look at it from the sky and of course it's it's impressive it's a massive Gorge but because of the scale because of the height yeah you're like you can't really get a sense of it because so I'm kind of like nah I get it yeah I had the exact opposite reaction uh I did not I actually expected maybe because my expectations were low I fully expected to not be impressed by it because it's seen so many pictures of it right I'm like well I mean I just it's not it's a [ __ ] hole in the ground like it gives a [ __ ] uh but you know whatever it was we were on a road trip my girlfriend and I at the time is the early 2000s and we just we were like let's stop by the Grand Canyon great went to the Grand we went to like this one area where you could really like stand like really close to the edge and um which is maybe a lot of it but I was absolutely floored to me it gave me the feeling of being like Oh I'm so small and insignificant in a way that actually is like kind of great and yeah I found it really yeah I felt the same there was a space to that for me where you see like how many galaxies there are and you're like wait wait we're one dot and one of these things like I find that comforting but the Grand Canyon I was like oh it's nice all right [Applause] we interrupt this podcast to talk about Mech your favorite subject boners you know what Bluetooth is to the Bluetooth train Bluetooth is an online service that delivers the same active 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I was I had hitched a ride with somebody who had been drinking and I should have said maybe I'll get out of this one I didn't and I we got an accident any of these people they try to talk you into putting your mouth on them I I would have done it I mean sure time at the time I would have done it now is that because you just were so appreciative of them giving you a ride and you were like well the least I can do is get my mouth on you I'm just I was trying to get my mouth on anything I could I was anything well not a dick but that just wasn't my thing but like yeah I guess I'm sorry you said you would have done it I'm thinking I'm not anymore no I was picturing a man so interestingly enough I didn't even go there I went right to a woman a young woman asking me to put my mouth on her for a ride and that's never happened in the history of human history right I think it's going to be a man that's going to be doing that yeah I just if I ran into Sizemore maybe but other than that I'm sorry there's so many moments in this episode that that had me chuckling um I'm trying to remember trying to name the states I thought was very funny saying East Virginia and West Virginia and North Virginia and all the some little things from my well that that the East Virginia West Virginia North Virginia came from a thing that I swear to God I was like 25 or 28 no 23 and I was in New York and I was looking at a map of the United States and I was looking at West Virginia and it was like as if someone had told me there was like a West California I was like I just kind of I'd forgotten about West Virginia I just just because like I'm like what sports teams are like you don't you don't hear about it there's a chunk of my life from like fifth grade when you learned the states to my adulthood where I'd I'd forgotten about West Virginia uh so I think that like that state thing was going in there like make fun of that also like the her opting out for the cheaper uh radio situation was something that my parents had done in my childhood oh yeah which I think I've said on this were they yes I had a Honda yeah Accord 1980 well they had a Honda Accord 1985 with no radio yeah just a little plastic plate that said Honda because it was cheaper to get the option with no so not even not a CD player not a tape deck no radio no radio man so I would ride around with a Boombox hey yeah well I think music is distracting when you're driving and therefore dangerous yeah also like they didn't like listen to like pop music like occasionally like you're throwing a classical station yeah right like some NPR the news it was usually the news was on or someone would sit at a piano and be like trying to like knuckle out of it's fine piece I look at your parents and they look like the physical embodiment of NPR [Laughter] yeah like the NPR in human form yeah just a theory people but not like not like rock and roll people so uh yeah so like you know my mom just teaching music class from kindergarten to eighth grade my dad is teaching at the local college and yeah music everywhere but right not in the car but I got music in the car so in high school my buddy uh Sean Coulter had a male Jeep and he had he had put a a radio in there that he'd sort of put in himself and the radio had a brand name it was called the spark-o-matic now I bought the spark-o-matic off a Coulter and put it in my car where I had it didn't quite fit so you had to put like little pieces of wood in there just to kind of like get it to stay in sweet and it worked went to had it for like two weeks went to one Motel Six party the Sparkman oh the spark Ematic of all things oh man I think that the absence of that the hole that it left behind led to your hatred of holes and why you were impressed by the grace tie it all together yeah um one thing I I did uh pick up on that I remembered in the conceiving of or the writing of the episode I don't remember where it came if it was in the break or if it just came when we were writing it was the French Press getting the French Press at the Italian market because that came from a very specific um I did a road trip from Alabama to Los Angeles I uh my high school car kind of died on me and so I went back to Alabama and I bought my my mom's car like an old Lexus ES I was like you know driving across the country you gotta have you gotta have coffee right but the coffee like gas this is before there was a Starbucks set different exits right so the coffee you could really only get coffee at like gas stations and stuff like that so I was like I'm gonna buy I'm gonna bring my own coffee grounds and bring like just a little personal French press and I'll stop at the gas station I'll fill up I'll go inside and I'll ask where the hot water is you know for tea and stuff and I would just go in the gas station and I would put my own coffee in the French press and I would fill it with water excuse me where's your hot water for tea you know a glenius gland [ __ ] I've ever heard and yet it makes absolute sense it does it's definitely the thing that I would make and at the time did make fun of you for and would still make fun of you for but also would love I would love to enjoy a couple of that well exactly so it makes sense yeah yeah it's just so particular but it also is fantastic yes no it is very it is very very Glenn you're absolutely right adding as many steps to my life as possible you know what I mean like Rob would have just sucked somebody off for a better cup of coffee would have let the guy drink an espresso and then suck this guy and got the caffeine that way that's when uh it shows at his best like everyone's bringing stuff from their own lives and you know you get Martyrs blueberry story and like just every little thing's going in there and then do we do that anymore is there anything any piece of art that is the fear right the longer you're in the business that you're like uh do I live enough of a life too well yes I've thought about this a lot right to it and I'm like I need to just like take a year off and just like live like refill you know have stories to tell I don't have you know if you're working all the time you run out of stories to tell them we very typically go what do people do like that question comes up now what do people do what's the thing that people do especially if you've been working together for so long you already know what everybody's parents did to [ __ ] them up and that's what every writer's room is anyway is like people trying to like mine their their history and try to figure out who they are and why they are like that and then put it like imbue it into the characters we've already we already know I don't know all the secrets yeah yeah I know all the secrets yeah oh boy they've already gone to the shop oh boy do you guys have any travel destinations still on your bucket list you'd like to see before you die I want to go to Africa I've never been to Africa yeah I'd love to go to Egypt yeah I would like to go to Egypt so definitely I want to see the pyramids before I die for sure I have a million play I want to go everywhere just uh not right now yeah but at some point at some point well the next trip we're taking is just right across the way to the stages where you guys are going to live for the next we walked into the bar uh today and every season since like five or six I get a crazy sensation walking into that bar where it feels like your home and it feels like this place that you've lived in that in a weird way you also are the character even though you're you I know this sounds psychotic but like you've worked there for a long time yeah and if you you click into something immediately stepping on that stage maybe that's part of what you're talking about like you step onto the stage and you start to feel like you're becoming the character again a little bit and you feel the history of how many years we've been working on that stay that's set and in that bar there's also still the excitement especially in the very beginning where everything's still being put together and all the electricians are there and the construction people are there and props are there and wardrobe is there and the ads are there there's an energy to it it's all coming yeah it's that but it's to me it's like the floor and the bar and the space and certain little triggers like that yeah it takes me all the way back to the herald examiner where we kind of found the location and started you know working on the first time to all the years that we've been there yeah to this weird like other life that I've lived where it's like I've been I've had a life but I've also been this person for a long time yeah yeah man it's sweet I love it you know it's like uh well you could really see the dust in the air though couldn't you do you guys see that you guys pick up on that I I that's course where my my my brain goes too Dusty I walked on the stage and I was just like what am I breathing what am I breathing that was my first thought your first thought was like oh you know there's so much history here it's such a more it's a much more healthy thought well you know I feel that way about movie sets the way you feel about the Grand Canyon uh the magic is there for you on a movie the Magic's there for me in a false reality so is it better I don't know I'm not sure I looked at the Grand Canyon I saw a lot of dust [Laughter] [Music]

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Published: Mon Jan 30 2023