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and gentlemen, it's time for

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office hours here on this

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Sunday in this garage. We're

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I'm here, I'm Ginger Root.

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I'm playing music right now. We

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also have another lovely guest. Michelle's

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on her Japanese breakfast, I'm

3:55

currently stealing Tim's job. Thanks

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for being here, happy to be here.

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And we're going to chat about a

4:01

lot of stuff and hang out. And

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here's your host, Tim

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Heidecker. Welcome

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to the show, everybody. It's me. Thank

4:27

you to Ginger Root.

4:29

We're kicking things off in an

4:32

unusual way. Where

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am I? I have no clue. I'll

4:40

be very honest with you. You have no

4:43

idea where I am. You're

4:45

in Glendale. We don't know

4:47

where I am. I'm on a

4:49

different plane than everybody else

4:51

today, folks. Wish

4:53

you could join me up here on

4:55

the magic carpet ride that is my

4:57

mind. Let's

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start the show in earnest

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with the great DJ Doug Pound.

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Welcome, DJ. Good morning. He's

5:16

not wearing pants. Victor

5:18

Snickers burgers in the

5:20

house. What's up, everybody?

5:23

The man is not

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wearing pants and no

5:27

underwear either. That's

5:30

true. I mean, I guess. It's

5:32

making everybody uncomfortable because he has

5:34

been standing up at odd times as

5:36

we're getting things ready, just standing

5:38

up and then sitting down and everyone

5:40

sees what's happening. and bending over. The

5:45

worm dude, Captain Carlin,

5:47

doing what he does best.

5:51

Shilling for our merchandise. He's a

5:53

bit of a worm nerd.

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Wait, we get no... We're the

5:57

worst merch deal. Worse than

5:59

the Beatles had when they were

6:01

starting out. We get nothing

6:04

from this merch. Matt gets everything.

6:06

He's like Brian Epstein. He

6:08

gets the lion's share of the

6:10

profits from the merch. Worm

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nerd. I'm laying out. Do you

6:14

remember that, Tim? No, what's that from? This

6:16

is you. My seven -year -old son. He's a

6:18

bit of a worm nerd. When did I

6:20

ever say that? It

6:23

was some kind of prank

6:25

call show. Maybe Kellison

6:27

was involved. Do you remember this?

6:29

For TikTok. For Snapchat. Maybe toss

6:31

some worms around. Maybe toss some

6:33

worms up against the wall. I

6:36

don't remember that at all. My

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seven -year -old son. Worm

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nerd. That's

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funny because that would have been years

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and years ago before I had a seven

6:47

-year -old son who is now eight. Pretty

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exciting. So it is pretty exciting.

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Notice me, senpai. We've

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got a great show for you today.

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We've already had a song from Ginger

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Root, Cameron. Cameron, what's your name?

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What's your full name? Cameron.

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Lou. Lou. Lou. Okay. Lou.

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Cameron. Lou. YouTube.

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Right? Yeah.

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Listen to this. I have my own

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site called Lootube, actually. Really? YouTube.

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What is that? We

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got Woody on the phone. Was that Woody? And

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I press the music

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or the YouTube. All

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right, thank you. And

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you're about to be going on tour. Is

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this announced? Can we announce this? Absolutely. Announced with?

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Our main attraction, no offense to you. Hey.

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I mean, are you opening up for her or

7:42

is she opening up for you? Let's be

7:44

honest about this. I'm just along for the ride.

7:46

Thank you. I'm being honest. Japanese

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breakfast in the house. Hi.

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Michelle's on. We're going to call you

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Michelle today. We're not going to

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call you Ms. Breakfast. Now,

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the Japanese breakfast is the

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name of the band. Yeah.

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But you're doing all the work. Is that

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fair to say? No. No?

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Okay. Everyone's chipping in? Everyone's

8:09

chipping in. Okay, good. They're

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not here today, that's for sure. They're sleeping in.

8:14

here today. You were doing

8:16

the Coachella business, right? Yeah. How's

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that going? Good.

8:22

So good that you're doing it

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twice. spa water. Really? Yeah. Walk

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us through the day for you

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at Coachella. For

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the musicians, you

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just... Head right in. You

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do your thing and get out didn't have to wait in any

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line. There's great artist

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catering. Legendary. Legendary artist

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catering. I only knew it because... Because

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of me. No, actually because you made TikTok.

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And then because I've talked it up

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so much, they gave me... There's like 10

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different types of spa water and they

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gave me my own... They named one Japanese

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breakfast spa water. What's spa water? What

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the hell is spa water? Spa water is...

8:59

This is water people sit in when

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you drink? put fruit in water. Oh, like

9:03

the... Oh, like the hotel lobby water?

9:05

Yeah, yeah. Okay. What's

9:08

your favorite spot water flavor? Cucumber

9:12

is pretty good. Doug, that was one of

9:14

my questions. Now what am I going to ask?

9:16

Can I ask questions once in a while?

9:18

Next. Do they ever put like meat in there?

9:21

How much time are you allotted? Beef water?

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We get 45 minutes. Oh, that's good. That's

9:25

a chunky set. I love a short set, personally.

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Well, that's like a little more. Well, let

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me do the math. That's a little more than

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30. I got 55. You

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got 55? got 55. You did a

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full 55. What's that about?

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I don't know. What time of the day is this?

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It was like 9 a .m. It was evening and

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with air condition. I was in the air condition

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tent. You're in a smaller. I was in the small.

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You're at my mom's condo. I was at the

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kids table. That's

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better though. Well, you're really here to talk

9:54

about this new album you put out, which I

9:56

have to tell you is beautiful. Thank you. I

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love sad music. Oh! Produced

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by Blake Mills. Yeah. Did you

10:07

do it at his spot at this

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famous... Sound City. Sound City? Yeah.

10:11

Wow. It was my first studio record.

10:13

Like actually... Oh, because everything else had been

10:16

in warehouses. Like semi -professional warehouses. Wherever

10:18

you can get people together. Yeah.

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Bedrooms? Any bedroom? Yeah, definitely. Did

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you like the studio experience? Yeah,

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it's like warmer in there than

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these... Warehouses Temperature wise

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Temperature wise It's definitely warmer in

10:32

there I looked at some of the

10:34

credits You had Jim Keltner had

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Jim Keltner That was Yeah That's kind

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of surreal right That guy played

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on Dreamweaver Dreamweaver Really did he Yeah

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watching him He was a Wilbur

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He played on Imagine He played on

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George Harrison John Lennon What does

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he play He's a drummer And yeah

10:51

Blake was like We call him

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the life giver Wow. And, yeah, I

10:55

mean, it was. And you saw

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it happen in real time. it happen

10:59

in real time, and it was

11:02

surreal. He brings all these weird, like,

11:04

ancient coconuts and things, like, just

11:06

shakers and brushes. any shakers, but he

11:08

brought, I think he probably brought

11:10

some snares and, yeah. He's a wizard.

11:13

Master of percussion. Yeah. We

11:17

also are nominated for a Webby. I would like

11:19

to say an Emmy as well, but we are not.

11:25

Go to bit .ly slash we want to win

11:27

a Webby. Matt,

11:30

we're right now neck and neck with these people

11:32

from The Office. And I feel like, honestly,

11:34

The Office has come. Not The Office. Well,

11:37

they're the people from The

11:39

Office. Two random people from The

11:41

Office have a podcast where

11:44

all they do is yap on

11:46

and on about The Office.

11:48

They re -watch. Frankly, you could

11:50

watch it in your own time.

11:52

It's not comedy. What we

11:54

do is we provide cutting edge

11:57

musicians the opportunity, cutting edge

11:59

and humor, which people don't even

12:01

get anymore on their regular

12:03

podcasts. Most of these podcasts lost

12:05

the humor angle. I

12:08

haven't seen these. No

12:10

one's laughing and no one's having

12:12

fun except on this show. We have

12:14

documentation to prove that, by the

12:16

way. So

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get your votes in if

12:23

you haven't already, and we'll win

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with your support. Would you

12:27

pledge to vote, Michelle? Yeah. I

12:29

don't know. You have some steep competition in there. Absolutely. Really?

12:33

Who would you vote for if

12:35

we weren't on that list? I'd

12:37

vote for Les Cultures. Fuck! Even

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if we were on the list, would

12:42

you vote for them? No comment. Okay. We'll

12:44

see how this morning goes. Yeah. I

12:46

mean, so far it's going – this is

12:48

big news for office hours. We provided

12:50

some breakfast options for you, which we usually

12:52

do not do for guests. And

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where are they from Japan? Oh,

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Doug. Japanese breakfast. I see,

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Doug. Hello, food fans. All

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right. We're going to get into the interview

13:04

with you a little later. We

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have lots of questions. I'm sure our audience does.

13:08

We have so much to get to. We have

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– I

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have something I'm calling the ultimate game. Doug,

13:15

I hate to do that to you, but I do

13:17

have the ultimate game. not

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baseball. That's just a name. It's semantics.

13:22

It's the ultimate game, and we're going to play

13:24

it throughout the show, and I think we

13:26

could just start that now and then kind of

13:28

return to it throughout the morning. Now I'm

13:30

getting excited. All right, so this is a quote,

13:32

and the audience can play at home. You

13:34

guys can play. The only one that knows the

13:37

answer is Matt, the worm dude. This

13:39

is a quote, and we want to find

13:41

out who said it. We

13:43

couldn't hold back any longer. It was our

13:45

first kiss, and it was long, passionate, and

13:47

deep. It was wonderful, too, though, as we

13:49

continued to kiss and press against each other

13:51

so closely that we could feel each other's

13:53

body heat. A part of me, a tiny

13:56

part, admittedly, said to myself, oh, my God,

13:58

I'm kissing my brother. What am I doing?

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Who said it? Kiss! Who

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said it? Any

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quick guesses? Trump

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about Biden? Trump about Biden,

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no. Doug,

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do you have any quick guesses?

14:14

Did you do any research on this?

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I didn't, but I had a

14:18

similar guess. It was like Trump's sister.

14:22

It's not all going to be about Trump. A lot

14:24

of people think I'm obsessed that I have TDS. You

14:27

know what TDS is? Trump

14:29

derangement syndrome. A lot of

14:31

these lunatics, far -right lunatics. Vic,

14:35

anything? Oh, my God. I

14:37

don't know. Gyllenhaal?

14:39

Yeah. Well, didn't

14:41

Angelina Jolie kiss her brother or something that?

14:44

But she would never speak this way. True.

14:47

Or it could be Rob Schneider again. All right.

14:49

The audience can play. We're not going to

14:51

just linger on this. We'll check in. Matt, just

14:53

make sure we check in on this. Yeah,

14:56

Steph has a guess. Who does?

14:58

Oh, really? Steph. Steph

15:00

on Zoom. Can you unmute? It's

15:02

up to you. Steph.

15:08

No, Steph, you don't want to. All

15:10

right. Come on. Let's

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jam. I was going to take a call

15:14

anyway. So if anybody has a guest, you can

15:16

also call the hothead hotline. If you want

15:18

to be on the phone, you don't want to

15:21

see, you want us to see your face.

15:23

It's going to say ugly mug, but walk that

15:25

back. In

15:27

real time telling us. You see

15:29

what a good person I am? I love you. A

15:31

lot of people think I'm a bad guy, but I'm

15:33

actually a good person. You are. Thomas.

15:35

Thomas, you have a guess. Thomas

15:38

Makowski. Yeah.

15:40

I think I'm wrong. Can

15:42

you hear me? All

15:45

right. Princess Leia. Princess

15:49

Leia is not known. Incorrect.

15:51

If you're saying by that,

15:53

do you mean not the

15:55

actual? character Princess Leia, but

15:57

Carrie Fisher? No,

16:00

Princess Leia. The actual, okay.

16:02

No. Incorrect. That's all

16:04

I got. But thank you so much for

16:06

playing and that's why we call it, and

16:08

we have music for this, The Ultimate Game. Thanks

16:12

for having me. Thanks

16:15

for having us. Thanks for

16:17

having us. You know what? It could be

16:19

a brother kissing a brother. That's what

16:21

I was thinking. That's why it might be

16:23

extra tricky. I don't want anybody out

16:26

there doing reverse search engine shit where they

16:28

type in the quote. That's

16:30

illegal. Is there a

16:32

system to check that, though? I would think you

16:35

could type that thing in and search it. But

16:37

if they tell you the answer, and then you

16:39

have to be like... This is an honor system

16:41

situation. But there is $100 ,000 on the line

16:43

if you get it right. Is

16:45

it new? Is the person

16:47

still alive, I guess? Yes, they are. All

16:50

right. We have

16:52

a new, also another segment. Are the

16:54

lips licked? I

16:57

don't know what you mean by that. Wait,

16:59

when do we find out? Well, end of

17:01

the show. Whenever somebody guesses it, maybe. Oh,

17:03

okay. We're going to give the audience some

17:06

time. But again, no cheating. We're

17:08

also going to do, Matt, do you want to

17:10

do this now? We can do the clip of

17:12

the day. Sure. This is pretty fun. This is

17:14

real fun. We had so many clips that come

17:17

in that we love and make us smile and

17:19

laugh about the stupidity of this world. And

17:22

they're fairly short. We said, well,

17:24

why don't we gamify this? We

17:26

love gamifying things. Are

17:28

you ready to smile? So we want you

17:31

all to pick what your clip of the

17:33

day is. You do have TDS. Well,

17:37

actually, two of these are TDS. Well,

17:39

actually, all of them. But, you know, they're

17:41

generating quite a bit of content these

17:43

days with their behavior. They're up to work.

17:45

I think it's just a content farm

17:47

at this point. They're

17:50

working with TikTok and YouTube. It's

17:54

like, JD, what stupid shit

17:56

are you going to do today? We need to up

17:58

the numbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a couple

18:00

ideas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so this

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is clip one, and Matt will vote one, two,

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up, we have President Trump and Cheryl

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Hines. Maybe saw this one. I thought

19:25

he's at the White House to fight

19:27

for him. That was

19:29

crazy. It's insane. Okay.

19:34

I like how she's holding her hand up like.

19:36

Fist bump? We're going to do that or what? She's

19:39

doing the hand thing. I wrecked my image for

19:41

this. Oh, my God. Can you imagine that car ride

19:43

home between the two of them? And

19:45

look, RFK loves it. I know.

19:47

He's like, what are you going to do? That's

19:50

daddy. He's autistic,

19:52

honey. That's

19:54

just. He's autistic. RFK

19:58

is saying Trump is on

20:00

the spectrum, but we're going

20:03

to cure that by September.

20:05

Don't worry. He

20:07

got vaccinated. You

20:10

remember how he was vaccinated and now

20:13

he's on this thing and now he can't.

20:15

He doesn't recognize you. He's got

20:17

face blindness. Well, it

20:19

was fucking embarrassing. He

20:22

knows me. Not everything is

20:24

autism. Tim, if

20:26

Trump... somehow in his proximity and you're in

20:28

the lineup for the shakes. Would you put the

20:30

hand out for the shake? Would you go

20:32

for the shake? That's the question. You mean like

20:34

if I'm on the Los Angeles Dodgers and

20:36

I get invited to the White House to receive

20:38

some kind of honor? Yeah, you're courtside with

20:41

one of your Hollywood hotshot friends. Right. And

20:43

Trump's coming down shaking hands. I'd give him

20:45

one of these. I'd be like, how you doing?

20:47

And then roll the eyes. Tim, would you

20:49

do one of these? Eyes closed. No,

20:51

I'd be like. With the hand up. While

20:53

you're saying how you it. One of

20:55

these? Oh. Oh, that could work. How would

20:57

you approach? Trump's walking down the aisle,

21:00

shaking hands with Bon Iver. Bon

21:02

Ivar. He's at Coachella. He's

21:04

talking to Charlie XCX. He

21:07

gets to Michelle. I think I would

21:09

just, like, turn around. Ooh. Damn. Can?

21:15

Uh. I'd like to start

21:17

tying my shoe or something. Oh, okay. And then accidentally

21:19

hit him in the head? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Headbutt

21:22

him? All right. You got to

21:24

his hand and then like hold his hand

21:26

tight and just like, fuck you, you asshole. Oh,

21:29

yeah, do the - Just do the - Shake it real Pull

21:31

him in. Yeah, and then pull it. Like

21:33

Gavin Newsom. Yeah, do that thing. The

21:35

whole shake thing. Arm wrestling. All right,

21:37

so this is clip number two. You

21:39

know what? I heard he's a good

21:41

guy. I know. Bill Maher. Bill Maher

21:43

got so conned. He

21:45

got played like a little fiddle, Bill Maher.

21:47

Did you hear about this? No. Bill

21:50

Maher. Now I'm getting

21:52

excited. The lecherous Kid Rock.

21:56

Junk rocker Kid Rock. Junk

22:00

rocker Kid

22:03

Rock. His name

22:05

is Neil? No, Neil Hamburger,

22:07

the comedian. He always calls like.

22:09

Bad music. Kid Rock's name is

22:11

Bob. It is Bob. Bob Rock.

22:13

Bob Rock. That's the most

22:15

Kid Rock ever in my life. Bob

22:17

Rock organized a sit down between Trump

22:20

and Bill Maher. What? The lecherous, drug

22:22

addicted. He's addicted to pot, by the

22:24

way. I fucking hate the woke from

22:26

my ball. He's a drug addict. To

22:29

sit down with Trump. It's not pot.

22:31

It's a closed cigarette. You know.

22:34

A meeting of the minds. Bridge. Sort

22:36

of a truce or whatever. And

22:38

of course, Trump's psychopathic, so he knows

22:40

how to play Bill Maher. It's

22:42

just like, I'm just going to be

22:44

Mr. Normal. I'm going to treat him

22:47

nicely. I'm going to be complimentary. And

22:49

then Bill Maher's going to walk in and be like, hey, you know

22:51

what? The guy's not so bad. You're a

22:53

movie fan? So obvious what the move

22:55

is. What a scumbag, Bill Maher. Your

22:57

product is a piece of shit. All

23:00

right, let's get on with this quiz.

23:02

Clip number two. the first one. Yeah, clip

23:04

two. Uh

23:11

-oh. Who's

23:13

that little guy? Whoops.

23:22

Music is there. I have a question

23:24

about this award. Is the bass part

23:26

of it or is this the golden

23:28

part? It doesn't feel like it should

23:30

just be that gold piece. That

23:32

was a setup job. I feel like it

23:34

was not meant to be picked up.

23:37

Look at Trump dressing exactly like Trump. I

23:39

mean, J .D. Vance dressing like Trump. Replay

23:43

just so you can... It's

23:45

just a content font. That

23:47

was plain. I

23:49

mean, I don't think that's true. Specifically for

23:51

art, for this show. I'll take it. It's

23:53

funny stuff. All right, that's clip two. It's

23:55

funny to watch Trump's face, though. He's like,

23:57

ooh. Look

23:59

at that dope holding that football helmet. Yeah, show

24:02

him his reaction to it. Ooh. Ooh,

24:05

let's see. Now

24:08

he notices. Do you believe this? Get there. All

24:13

right, so clip number three is

24:15

also, I hate to tell you, It

24:19

is total tedious. Because I'd like to teach you.

24:21

They're so good, though. I know. Because

24:25

I'd like to teach. You ready? Yeah. You

24:27

think he pieced through that hole in his

24:29

hands? Because I'd like to teach you how

24:31

to say, let's make America great again in

24:33

Spanish. So, vamos a hacer America grande otra

24:35

vez. America grande otra

24:37

vez. No,

24:40

that's it. Because I'd like to teach. Here

24:43

it is again. Teach

24:45

you how to say let's

24:48

make America great again in Spanish.

24:50

So vamos a hacer America

24:52

grande otra vez. America grande otra

24:54

vez. That's

25:00

number three.

25:03

You can vote on the YouTube.

25:05

We got a poll going

25:07

there. Please check in. Any

25:10

early favorites for you? Probably number two.

25:12

I don't know. I mean, I think

25:14

that. His Duolingo streak is probably really

25:16

good right now. Ultra

25:19

bass. I'm going ultra

25:21

bass. I'm

25:23

going ultra bass. You're going J .D. Vance

25:25

trophy. going J .D. Vance trophy. Okay. Ultra

25:28

bass. I think

25:30

it gets funnier as it goes along. In fact,

25:32

I was, well, should I tell you what happened

25:34

yesterday? I mean, maybe people don't want

25:36

to know about this. I

25:38

had a dental

25:41

emergency yesterday. Dental

25:44

emergency yesterday. I

25:47

went in to get a crown. You ever

25:49

have a crown? I never had a crown.

25:52

Went in to get a crown.

25:54

I got Novocaine all the

25:57

way up. Full, you know, numbing

25:59

the face. And then the dentist comes

26:01

in and she looks at my x -ray

26:03

and she goes, oh, no.

26:06

We got ourselves a root

26:08

canal situation. We have

26:10

a root canal situation. So

26:13

I'm already numbed up. She says, I'm

26:15

going to put a temporary crown on that

26:17

tooth, but then you have to go

26:19

see a root canal specialist to get the

26:21

root canal. Oh,

26:25

God. I know. It's

26:28

horrifying. So luckily, I get home

26:30

and I call this place that she

26:32

recommended. They can come see me

26:34

later in the afternoon that day. RC

26:36

guy. Say again? The RC

26:38

guy. Yeah, the RC guy. He

26:41

said it's from drinking too much RC.

26:43

Cola. But anyways, I go in for this.

26:45

I'd never had a root canal. Many

26:47

people have said it's not that bad. This

26:49

was not good. But

26:51

the big problem was I had the

26:53

numbing, which I don't like the numbing.

26:55

I don't like that feeling. Couldn't eat. And

26:58

then I love eating. That's

27:00

a problem. And if I

27:02

can't eat, what am I going to do? What

27:04

am I supposed to do? sugar guy? Yeah.

27:06

Everything. Sugar, salt. I love Batman. Who

27:10

said that? But anyway, so

27:12

as soon as this numbs wears off,

27:14

I get to go back in and get

27:16

re -numbed. So I get re -numbed. And

27:18

have you ever gotten a root canal?

27:20

Has anybody? Yeah, I have. Wait,

27:22

you got it done the same day? Yeah.

27:25

That's amazing. So my mouth

27:27

is wide open. They got,

27:29

and so my jaw hurts

27:31

really badly. And they were working

27:33

on it for like two hours. Hitting

27:37

bone. And

27:40

they numb you as good as they

27:42

can, but there's still these moments where

27:44

you're like, I built that. And

27:48

then after, she was like,

27:50

this is going to be sore

27:52

for a little bit. And

27:54

I said, like 20 minutes after

27:56

I left, she gave me

27:58

a prescription for Advil, like 600

28:01

milligrams of that. You don't

28:03

get the good stuff? No, then

28:05

I got acetaminophen with Cody,

28:07

which we like. But

28:10

while I'm waiting for that

28:12

prescription, it starts getting seriously painful.

28:14

Uh -oh. And I'm in the

28:16

CVS almost in tears. Oh,

28:19

my God. Almost in tears. Actually,

28:21

tears welling up. Yeah. Oh,

28:23

my God. And pain and anxiety.

28:25

I feel from this right

28:27

now. Tim,

28:29

you should have made some purple drink with that

28:31

coating. I suffered so badly. Purple

28:34

drank? That was yesterday? It was

28:36

yesterday. And then I took the

28:38

meds and thank God. on

28:40

the scissor right now? Yeah, the scissor. No,

28:43

I didn't take it. I took it last night.

28:45

And now I feel fine. My jaw is a little

28:47

sore. Oh. No jokes about

28:49

that, please. Why?

28:52

It's not fair to joke

28:54

about that shit. But

28:58

anyway. What was I

29:00

to say? She got the canal and you're fine. Well,

29:04

one of the parts when I had to bite

29:06

down to match the crown, to push the crown

29:08

in or whatever, I accidentally looked at my phone

29:10

and watched that Trump Spanish video. It

29:14

got me good.

29:16

But I was in

29:18

such pain, everybody. It

29:21

was such pain. I bought a bunch

29:23

of those Insure things. You ever drink Insure?

29:25

Because I was like, maybe I won't

29:28

be able to eat food forever. Forever. Maybe

29:31

forever. Maybe. Anyways.

29:34

Trump speaking Spanish is the

29:36

winner. 45 % of the vote.

29:39

Nice. Okay, not a plurality. Is

29:41

that what you'd call plurality? Sure.

29:44

Matt, we're having too much fun. We have

29:46

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32:18

on the Silver Jews? course.

32:21

Of course it is. Luke Burba

32:23

on the guitar. Thank you,

32:26

Luke. Vic, you played on that,

32:28

too. Yeah, I played the chords of that. Who played

32:30

the drums? Captain Carlin.

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How about that? Did you play live

32:35

drums? Yeah. Got the drum set out.

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32:39

city of the day? Karen, take it

32:41

away. Oh, not another Karen. It's

32:43

the same old Karen. Hi,

32:46

Karen. City of the

32:48

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32:50

Okay. Michelle lives

32:52

in New York. Where

32:56

are you

32:58

headed? I'm

33:00

headed. nowhere. This is where I live. You

33:03

live in your car? Main

33:05

Street USA. I am between

33:07

clients right now. What

33:09

are you, a prostitute? Yes.

33:12

Come on! Prostitute

33:14

in a chore jacket, baby. You set me

33:16

up for that one, I think. Where's

33:18

Reinbeck? Upstate. It's

33:21

in the Hudson Valley. Beautiful

33:23

town. You said we used to go

33:25

there for New Year's sometimes. Well, not

33:27

me. You weren't there? I was in

33:29

Times Square. That's my jam. Nivea.

33:32

With my Nivea hat on.

33:35

Planet Fitness hat. Ian

33:37

Anderson Cooper. Those

33:40

were good times. All

33:42

right. Well, anything else you want to

33:44

ask our musical guests? Can

33:47

I ask you guys? Say

33:50

you win a Webby. And

33:52

I believe you will. I

33:56

feel this psychic

33:58

tingling around this. What

34:00

sort of fanfare?

34:03

I think we need to incentivize

34:05

people to vote more. So

34:07

is there anything that you can

34:09

offer? We will provide full,

34:11

tasteful nude photography of Vic Berger

34:13

if we win. I

34:17

was thinking more like... Like

34:20

military parade or – Well, a nude

34:22

military parade. You can think whatever you want.

34:24

I'm telling you what we're going to

34:26

be doing. All right. That's good

34:28

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34:30

vote. Go to bit .ly slash we

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34:35

Cast your vote. You know

34:37

that cover John Lennon and Yoko Ono

34:39

where they're full? That will be Doug

34:41

and Vic. Two virgins. Two virgins cover. Let's

34:44

do one that's

34:46

not tasteful. Nasty.

34:48

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34:50

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34:53

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35:00

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that number? It's an

35:07

average. Maybe more.

35:09

It's a minimum of 150.

35:14

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35:20

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35:22

right. Legs up. All

35:25

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God. So we'll provide

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that for you. All

35:31

right. Well, thank you so

35:33

much. Jeffrey Toobin? Now,

35:36

now, now. Come

35:38

on, guys. We have

35:40

classy people in the studio. Let's be a little

35:42

more. You

35:45

guys, well, first, let's just

35:47

talk about this record. Let's

35:50

talk about Coachella more. Why?

35:52

Did you see Bernie backstage at the

35:55

Spa Waters section? Okay, so fun fact

35:57

is we're talking to my booking agent.

35:59

They're like, Bernie's trying to introduce a

36:01

band. Do they want to do Ginger,

36:03

my band? And my manager said that

36:05

on April Fool's. So we all just

36:07

were like, good one. Yeah, right. Yeah,

36:09

and then we missed that opportunity. He

36:11

opened for Claro instead. He opened, sorry. That's

36:14

what they're calling it. Yeah, yeah. Clario,

36:16

right? Clario? Clario, Claro, yeah. Now,

36:19

I saw a little clip of that, and I

36:21

guess she, is she a bit, is she active?

36:23

Is she an activist? You

36:25

don't know. Bernie says so. That's

36:27

what Bernie says. I

36:30

believe Bernie. Well, no, I

36:32

was listening to this record produced by

36:34

a friend of the show and neighbor

36:36

of mine. Blake Mills. Yeah. And

36:38

we talked about Keltner

36:40

on there. But you also

36:42

get Jeff Bridges. How

36:44

did that happen? Oh, yeah.

36:46

I wrote a song

36:48

that was kind of a

36:51

murder ballad about two

36:53

people in love. It

36:56

was kind of inspired by that

36:58

Kenny Rogers song, Ruby, Don't Take Your

37:00

Love to Town. I don't know

37:02

that song. It's great and it's about

37:04

a guy who's asking his girl

37:06

not to go to town because he's

37:08

lost his legs in that crazy Asian

37:10

war. So I wanted to make... a

37:12

dialogue between a couple about jealousy

37:14

and bars. And we knew that we

37:17

wanted to have like a cameo

37:19

and we went back and forth for

37:21

a really long time about who

37:23

the male vocal could be. And we

37:25

wanted this kind of character voice,

37:27

like a lower kind of like working

37:29

class guy. And the

37:31

two of us had very different opinions on

37:33

who it could. You and Blake. Me and

37:35

Blake. went back and forth

37:37

for a really long time. And the only person we

37:39

could agree on was Jeff Bridges. Who's somebody that you,

37:41

would you want to say a name? Give

37:43

us an example of the

37:45

chasm. It

37:48

was anywhere from, I feel like

37:50

I shouldn't say it. You wanted Skrillex.

37:52

I wanted Skrillex, yeah. I

37:54

wanted Skrillex and he wanted... Benson

37:58

Boone or something. He definitely did

38:00

not. Do you ever

38:02

find that? I feel

38:04

bad for Benson Boone. I don't know why

38:06

everyone hates him. I mean, they don't.

38:08

I mean, clearly a lot of people love

38:10

him. You see his set? I'm kidding.

38:12

I didn't see his set, but I'm like,

38:14

you know what? Like, he flipped off

38:16

a piano and he's doing his thing. Like,

38:18

leave him. Here's my problem, and this

38:20

is more about me than anybody else, but

38:22

I don't know who anybody is. What's

38:24

wrong with him? I just don't know who

38:26

anybody is. When I do find out

38:28

who people are, it's like well past the

38:30

time when you should know who these

38:32

people are. So like first

38:34

time I'm hearing of Benson Boone

38:36

is like literally this week. Yeah. He

38:39

had like a big performance at the Grammys, which

38:41

is how I found out about him. Okay. Is

38:43

he the guy that flipped off piano? He's the

38:45

guy that flipped off the that was impressive. And

38:47

then adjusted his balls. Right. I just

38:49

heard this story that was in the news

38:51

that said that he was upset with, look at

38:53

him, he should be in one of those

38:55

Marvel movies. That's what he should be in. Oh,

38:58

that guy. Yeah. Okay. Let's look at Jeff

39:00

Zucker and Mark Zuckerberg. Okay, so

39:03

that's... Well, the

39:05

story I heard was that he comes

39:07

out and he does like Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah.

39:09

Oh, he brings out... And he brings

39:11

out Brian May. Brian May, yeah. And then

39:13

he's annoyed. And no one knows who

39:15

Brian May is. That felt... And then he

39:17

was like... First of all, you can't

39:19

criticize the audience when you're playing for a

39:22

bunch of goons that are there at

39:24

this... Zoomers. Yeah, I mean, it's like... Yeah,

39:26

you can. I think

39:28

you can. That's a good question. My

39:30

favorite moment is when Charlie XCX is

39:32

like, I thought this song was big

39:34

in Germany. And those moments are

39:36

great. I mean, should the audience be

39:38

shamed? Yes, of course. I think so.

39:40

I think it's fair game. Absolutely. It's

39:43

not a good look because you just

39:45

want to come. I think when you're

39:47

performing, you get what you give. Even

39:49

if things aren't going your way, you

39:51

kind of just got to put on

39:53

a show and not put it on

39:55

the audience. Behind the

39:57

stage, everybody should be saying, people. Everyone

39:59

should be shaming them. I

40:02

think especially when it's in favor for someone else

40:04

that's a legend, though. Yeah, but it's always embarrassing.

40:06

Like, come on, it's Brian May. What the fuck

40:08

is your problem? Like, that's just embarrassing for him.

40:10

I guess they would have thought he was going

40:12

to be there. They probably thought it was like

40:14

a kid with a wig on or something. Maybe.

40:17

But everyone, how was your

40:19

audience? It was good. I

40:22

know you're going to get beat. You got

40:24

to be diplomatic. Listen. And I'm

40:26

not one of these shock jocks who's going

40:28

to try to make you say shit

40:30

you're going to regret. I'm

40:33

too empathetic. What a

40:35

funny guy. Wow. Shock

40:37

jocks. It was funny. It was really

40:39

good. But how much do you lean

40:41

into your new record? Because it's not

40:43

necessarily a festival -style sounding record. There are

40:46

some songs that are pretty. There's some

40:48

bangers. There's some bops. I get it.

40:50

You got to serve somebody like Bob says.

40:52

Yeah, I mean, we're not playing the

40:55

more acoustic ones, but we have four records

40:57

now, so we can really cherry pick

40:59

the ones that work well for the... You

41:01

design a set that plays, but then...

41:03

It's only 45 minutes, so we can really...

41:05

I think of festival sets as like

41:07

flirting, and then your real show is like

41:09

a long -term relationship. So you can show

41:11

all the shiny stuff. Now, when you're

41:13

designing this new tour, is

41:16

it going to have these kind

41:18

of... Yeah. You're to go

41:20

on a little journey. Yeah. You have to. You

41:23

are going out and you're doing the tight 30. Yeah,

41:26

yeah. It's longer than that,

41:28

isn't it? I think it's 40. Yeah, tight

41:30

40. But yeah, I mean, like, you got to

41:32

really grab the audience for those 40 minutes

41:34

and, like, not let them breathe. And then, like,

41:36

let them go and be like, that was

41:38

my set. I love opening. Leave them wanting more.

41:41

Logistically, it's awesome. Yeah. Cam,

41:43

can you just get a little closer up on your mic?

41:45

Are you guys sharing a tour bus? Is he going to

41:47

be on the tour bus? No. We're

41:50

going to carry his rods. Apparently.

41:53

They're this wide. Is it just

41:55

you? I got a band

41:57

with me. We'll be

41:59

traveling. Are you guys

42:01

doing visuals? We are. Their visuals are

42:03

really cool. I've been

42:05

a fan of your music videos for a while. Thank

42:07

you. You do these incredible. Yeah. Do

42:10

you shoot those on like Ikigami cameras?

42:12

The same type of thing. We'd use actual

42:15

80s tube broadcast cameras. Yeah. To get

42:17

that look or whatever. And people always think

42:19

it's a filter, but I was crazy

42:21

enough to scour eBay. You should

42:23

rent from Eric Natornicola. You ever run into him?

42:25

No. I think he's got a couple of

42:27

those. He's got those. He's got them. They bought

42:29

those for the first season of Eric Andre

42:31

show too. Oh, right, right, right, right. Yeah. They're

42:34

crazy. Now, Michelle,

42:36

you'd be, unbeknownst to

42:38

you, currying favor with

42:40

Vic Berger because on

42:42

your... Vic, stand up.

42:44

Let's see what you're

42:46

working with. Oh, no.

42:50

He doesn't have pants on. Because

42:52

for your Pitchfork Perfect 10, you

42:54

went with Billy Joel's The Stranger. But

42:58

I thought you hated Billy Joel. No, I mean,

43:00

I used to. I think I grew a lot more

43:02

respect for him after doing the Joel Hole. We

43:04

did a side show where we did a deep dive

43:06

in the history of Billy Joel, which has yet

43:08

to be completed. I started to feel bad him. And

43:10

it was meant to be because of your keyboard.

43:12

That's right, that's right. I'm with

43:14

you, though. That record is pretty

43:16

hard to beat. I

43:19

swear, that's an intro for a sitcom

43:21

or like a hospital drama. They used

43:23

it for something. That's who I wanted

43:25

for my duet, and Blake wouldn't allow

43:27

it. Duet. Bosom

43:30

Buddies? I don't know. It feels

43:32

like a Bosom Buddies. I'm going

43:35

to ask the chat here. What

43:37

song is the sitcom or 80s

43:39

TV show? Play it. Okay.

43:48

I await your answer. I'm

43:50

going to keep my eyes peeled on the chat. All

43:53

right, Matt, let's take a call. Do we have anybody on

43:55

the hotline? We do, we do. We got lots of

43:57

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43:59

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44:01

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44:03

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44:06

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44:10

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44:13

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today. Yeah,

45:04

thank you. Speaking of space, I just

45:06

watched Moonbase 8 and really enjoyed it.

45:08

Just want to let you know that's

45:10

him. First

45:12

of all, thank y 'all

45:14

for having such amazing

45:17

guests. This is the first time

45:19

I've been introduced to Cameron's music. I

45:21

love Cameron's music so far, so I'm looking

45:23

to explore that more. That's about as

45:25

good as it gets, unfortunately. We did a

45:27

deeper dive. It's all downhill from

45:29

there. I'm sorry. I'm going to disappoint you.

45:31

I'm sorry. Well,

45:34

no. And also, I'm a huge

45:36

Jay Brekke fan, so Michelle. Thank

45:38

you for being on this show.

45:41

This is great. I mean, I'm

45:43

so happy. So my question is,

45:45

it's for Michelle. So

45:47

your writing and your music, obviously

45:49

they both explore grief and identity.

45:51

And I'm a huge fan of

45:53

Crying in H Mart, as I'm

45:55

sure most of the people here

45:57

are. So

46:00

how do you protect

46:02

your emotional well -being when

46:04

you're like revisiting these

46:06

deeply? personal moment you

46:08

know over and over and over

46:10

again is it is it tough to

46:13

kind of refill your cup or

46:15

how do you know any tips for

46:17

the rest of us who are

46:19

struggling what you trying to take my

46:21

job yeah i mean i think

46:23

that i've always used um creative work

46:25

to understand that stuff and so

46:27

it's been really sweet actually to meet

46:29

so many people and realize there's

46:31

a lot of grief in

46:34

the world and feel a little less

46:36

alone in it. So it's actually really

46:38

helped me fill my cup I think. Thank

46:42

you. And I don't want to be

46:44

like, hey, do you got another thing

46:46

coming, another book on the way or

46:49

anything? But have you given much thought

46:51

to writing again? I do believe I've

46:53

read about it. You have something in

46:55

the works, right? Is that public? So

46:57

I lived in Korea last year, going

46:59

to language school and studying the Korean

47:01

language and just living as a student.

47:03

And yeah, it's going to be about

47:05

my life abroad. And I kept a

47:08

diary. And once I'm a little bit

47:10

more on the road. rotisserie hot dog

47:12

circuit of Tor, I'm going to start

47:14

reading that journal and finding the narrative

47:16

arc to that second book. So yeah,

47:18

that'll be my second book. That's interesting.

47:20

So you... It will be a book,

47:22

but you know what it's going to

47:24

be about. You just haven't written it

47:26

yet. You haven't pulled it apart and

47:29

rebuilt it. a journal, and I have

47:31

an idea of what that looks like,

47:33

but I... have to kind of make

47:35

it into more of a story and

47:37

find the best parts of it. Now,

47:39

did you go, did you make the

47:41

move to Korea with that idea in

47:43

mind? Yeah, yeah. And what's that? What

47:45

was that genesis like for you? What

47:47

was the beginning of that? Well, after

47:50

Crying in Age of War came out,

47:52

you know, it did quite well. And

47:54

then my publisher was like, any second

47:56

book you want to write, we'll put

47:58

it out. Wow. And, you know, I

48:00

was... And you weren't interested in a

48:02

Vic Berger nude photography book? I wasn't.

48:06

That'll be the third one. Yeah,

48:09

and I just – it felt really natural

48:12

to just – I love the idea of

48:14

turning living in the present day into a

48:16

project. Yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, I just

48:18

thought it was a great story to, like,

48:20

go and learn Korean and see. When I

48:22

was young, my mom was like, oh, if

48:24

you just lived there for a year, you'd

48:26

be fluent. Did you feel like you were

48:29

– well, I mean, you're going – Do

48:32

you think about it as this is

48:34

my job almost, this is my vocation,

48:36

this is my career, is to just

48:38

be a creative person. So wherever that

48:40

takes me, I will go. It's

48:43

more just like I'm really lucky that

48:45

people – I can write about what I

48:47

want and this is what I want

48:49

to do. And this is like how I

48:51

turn something I want to do into

48:53

a project. Right. And were you – in

48:57

a relationship at the time? Yeah, I've been

48:59

married for 10 years. So what was that like?

49:01

My husband and I went together. And

49:04

yeah, I mean, he was a good sport

49:06

about it. It was funny. I think a big

49:08

part of the book will be so many

49:10

people instead of asking me, aren't you worried

49:12

about the band? What are you going to do?

49:16

Where you going to live? Everyone was just like,

49:18

what is Peter going to do? And

49:21

I was like... Peter got a

49:23

book deal to go to Paris

49:25

for a year, I don't know.

49:27

Would they be as concerned about

49:29

me? I found it kind of

49:31

offensive that people were like, is he going to be

49:33

okay in Korea? What is he going to do?

49:35

And I was like, if you got a book deal

49:37

and you went to Paris, would people be like,

49:39

what's Michonne going to do in France for a year?

49:42

And were you in Seoul? We were in Seoul, yeah.

49:45

And what did Peter do? Peter worked on

49:47

his novel and hung out and played

49:49

a lot of guitar and learned this record.

49:51

Blake is a crazy guitar player and

49:53

we had to spend a year figuring out

49:55

how to play all the records. That's

49:57

an interesting problem. I didn't think about that.

50:01

Blake creates a bunch of problems for

50:03

you. Totally. I spent a year

50:05

learning how to play all of these

50:07

songs. Shame on you, Blake. They're

50:09

really hard. And

50:14

did you fall in love with Soul?

50:16

I loved it. Yeah? Yeah. And you learned

50:18

the language that you didn't know? I

50:20

thought I knew more than I did when

50:22

I went. Because I can read and

50:24

write, and my accent is pretty okay, and

50:26

I knew some words, but I realized

50:28

going in that I actually don't know. You

50:30

can know a lot about a language

50:32

and not be anywhere near. Any kind of

50:35

level. Right. I took an entry test

50:37

and it was like foundation. Oh, geez. So

50:39

it was like pretty humbling. Well, the

50:41

whole, the letters are all different. Yeah. It's

50:43

pretty easy. I mean, Cameron taught himself

50:45

how to speak Japanese. I did. Really? did.

50:47

Like during COVID. Yeah, I had nothing

50:49

else to do. I couldn't tour. I couldn't,

50:51

I worked as like a freelance editor.

50:53

I couldn't, you know, how Hollywood went. Yeah.

50:55

So I had all this free time

50:57

and I was like, I'm going to learn

50:59

Japanese purely by immersion. Just like watching

51:01

a bunch of stuff and flashcards and. Yeah,

51:03

it's weird. It takes time. How long

51:06

do you think it took for until you

51:08

were like, I'm pretty fluent? I remember

51:10

distinctly like a year and a half into

51:12

doing that really hard. Like as close

51:14

to 24 -7 as I could. I remember

51:16

I was watching something and I was like,

51:18

oh my God, I understand what's going

51:20

on in this show. It was a crazy

51:22

like click moment. And then maybe two

51:24

years at the two -year mark, I was

51:26

like, I think I can talk to people

51:28

like everyday conversation level. It was still

51:30

real rocky. Can I ask? Yeah. How did

51:32

you learn it? Did you use an

51:34

app? There was a flashcard app called Anki

51:37

that use. That's what I use. it

51:39

called? Anki? Hey, they're not a sponsor. They're

51:41

not a sponsor. I'm sorry. A timed

51:43

repetition. might be. No, I'm just kidding. But

51:45

yeah, so what I do, this is

51:47

really crazy. We were talking about this when

51:49

we met up in Japan, is like

51:51

I'd watch Netflix with this Chrome extension that

51:53

would basically show me the definition of

51:55

a word, and then it would go straight

51:57

to that app, and I could review

51:59

it like, Anytime or whatever. And so

52:01

I did that for like as close to 24 -7

52:03

as I could because I had nothing else to

52:05

do. And it worked really well.

52:08

It worked really well. you watched a movie

52:10

in Japanese? I'd watch a movie or a

52:12

show or YouTube with no English subtitles. Like

52:14

word after word, you're going to another app?

52:16

Yeah, I would just be like, well, you'd

52:18

let it wash over you as much as

52:20

you can. Do you watch it

52:22

with Japanese? I watch it with Japanese subtitles.

52:24

Because in context, if this kid has kept...

52:26

at his dog and he's like, dog, dog,

52:28

dog, or whatever. Eventually in that language, you'd

52:30

be like, he's got to be talking about

52:32

that dog. So there's like a context to

52:34

remember it easier. It's like, oh my God,

52:36

that scene where that guy shot, oh, he

52:38

kept saying gun or whatever. And you're like,

52:40

oh, so that's probably what that is. So

52:42

that helps you learn the language like a

52:44

lot quicker and stuff. So that's what I

52:46

did. Well, I'm taking, I know if I

52:48

announced this. Maybe I did.

52:50

I'm taking the family to Tokyo in

52:52

June. Yeah. Well, you

52:55

can come with me as my translator. be there.

52:57

Really? Yeah. I'll translate for you. Yeah. Just

52:59

over the phone. I'm not bringing you in. When

53:01

in June? That's fine. That part was understood. in Tokyo.

53:03

You are? What date? 15th

53:06

or something? Holy shit. I think I'm going to

53:08

be there. Yeah. Can you imagine? Come to the

53:10

show. All right. Can I get on the list?

53:12

Of course. Nice. You and the

53:14

fam. You and that worm. The

53:17

seven -year -old worm dude? Worm nerd. Matt, let's

53:19

take a call, and then we'll turn things

53:21

over to Michelle to play us one of

53:23

the songs. My seven -year -old son. He's a

53:25

bit of a worm nerd. Thank you. Let's

53:27

go to the hotline. Let's

53:30

talk to Patrick on the hotline. Patrick, how

53:32

you doing, man? You all right? Patrick,

53:34

403. You're on the hotline. 403.

53:38

Hey, guys. Oh, crap, I

53:41

finally got on. It's been about two

53:43

years. It's been

53:45

a long way. My best friend

53:47

in Winnipeg and my other best

53:49

friend, one of them was German,

53:51

one of them was Korean. Great

53:53

times, okay? That was my

53:55

mom and dad. Anyways. What's

53:58

that? Don't worry it. Continue

54:01

on. Okay, anyways. Okay,

54:03

I got this new

54:05

music concept, and I don't

54:07

know if it's appropriate

54:10

for today's day and age.

54:12

It is essentially 1980s

54:14

New York City breakdance music

54:16

mixed with violent lyrics

54:18

like DMX and WA. It's

54:21

really funky, but it's really violent,

54:23

and it's catchy. I don't know if

54:25

I should put something like that

54:27

out there, since we're trying to get

54:29

rid of guns and stuff in

54:31

Canada now. What do

54:33

you guys think? What do you think? Well,

54:35

it's hard to say without hearing it, you

54:37

know, but I

54:40

like it. I

54:42

think there's a certain amount

54:44

of violence that's helpful to

54:46

include in art because it's,

54:48

like you said earlier, about

54:50

your grief. It's about expunging

54:52

things and cathartically fantasizing, playing

54:54

with dark images. Dark

54:57

ideas. So I think you go for

54:59

it, brother. Are you whispering? Okay.

55:01

Remember the music in

55:03

Ghostbusters part one? Just

55:05

unbelievable. And New York

55:07

City 80s stuff. Just obsessed with

55:09

that right now. And Tara. Just

55:12

unbelievable. Do you have any

55:14

of it you can share with

55:16

us? I want to know

55:18

what 80s breakdance music are you

55:20

referencing specifically? Like name one

55:22

artist or song. One

55:25

artist? Baby

55:27

DMX? Not

55:30

DMX. The Breakdance.

55:32

The Breakdance era. What's your

55:34

favorite Breakdance era song that

55:36

you're referencing? Oh, Captain Rock

55:38

to the Future Shock Rock.

55:43

Shit. I got a million here. Hold

55:45

on. This guy's kind of

55:47

blown. This is his chance to open for

55:49

Japanese breakfast. Mash it

55:51

up, send it in, and we'll play

55:53

it. Yeah. I like it. Watch your

55:55

ex. I'll put samples on your ex.

55:57

Just watch some of your... Watch my

55:59

ex. He's saying he's going to send

56:01

it on Twitter. We're not on Twitter.

56:03

We're not on Twitter. That's a shit

56:05

site. That's Nazi website.

56:07

Send it our way, Patrick.

56:10

I will. None

56:12

of these bad words with the N. Let's

56:15

start with the N. That's right. All

56:17

right, friend. Thanks for calling in. We

56:20

got so much more in the second half. Our friends

56:22

here are going to stick around. And

56:24

Doug's got a game. I

56:26

think we're going to take a look

56:28

at the exciting trip to space. A

56:30

deep dive there. Deep highlights. That

56:33

some of Jeff Bezos' friends went

56:35

on. It's a pretty exciting day for

56:37

Katy Perry and all the rest. Gayle

56:40

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56:42

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57:47

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57:49

lens Playin'

58:19

king, Slow

58:23

in time

58:25

Wandered for

58:27

our rescue

58:29

With your

58:32

x -ray

58:34

my locket

58:36

Burning sea

58:38

And not

58:40

alone to

58:45

my reflection In

58:47

the shower of

58:49

a mountain Playin'

59:28

king, playin'

59:31

bright

59:36

Bloomin' in

59:38

my leisure

59:40

Sleepin' hours

59:42

left uncounted

59:44

You and

59:46

me, until

59:49

now Buried

59:52

me beside you

59:54

In the shadow

59:57

of my mountain

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