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We are now on the record.
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This is the video
recorded deposition
of Joseph Pickett.
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This is the video
recorded deposition
of Nicholas Prueher.
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Would you mind raising
your right hand please?
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Do you solemnly swear
that the testimony given in this
matter will be the truth,
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the whole truth,
nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
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Yes.
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Did you develop
a backstory for K-Strass?
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-Yes.
-What was that story?
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I don't remember
a lot of it, but...
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I think we did say he had
won some yo-yo championships.
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So it was a lie
that K-Strass
was a yo-yo champion?
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I wouldn't
characterize it that way.
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It was not true
that K-Strass
was a yo-yo champion?
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Yes or no, Mr. Pickett?
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Oh, it was not true
that K-Strass
was a yo-yo champion.
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K-Strass is a fictional person.
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So this entire
press release is false?
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Yeah, it's based on fictional
characters who don't exist.
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So nothing you'd
say about them could be true.
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It just seems like
a question of semantics
because he's not a real person.
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But in his fictional world,
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yes, he was a yo-yo expert,
do you know what I mean?
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-Do you see the second
email from the top, from you?
-Mm-hmm.
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-You write, "Also, those
fuckers work from 4AM to 10AM."
-Yep.
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Who were you referring
to when you said "fuckers"?
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I don't know, but I assume
whoever he'd signed
the press releases to.
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-Do you use
the term "fuckers" a lot?
-Yes.
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It was one of those things where
like your first reaction is...
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"Well, of course, this was
going to happen eventually.
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You can't get away
with this stuff forever."
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Joe has sort of
always pulled pranks.
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I mean, he's been doing it
since he was a child.
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That is probably his main
goal in life, are pranks.
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As a mom, just was so scared
that they were going
to get in trouble. Hmm.
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Nick, I always
say he was our challenge child.
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He's a grown up boy.
He's responsible.
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Is he?
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Nothing surprises us anymore.
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I know a lot of stories of, like
when Nick and Joe were young.
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It was all like
light-hearted fun.
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This is Joe and myself,
and Joe giving me the finger.
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This is the picture
Nick took for his yearbook.
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Nick does not play the trombone.
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Putting the mustard
in the ketchup and the ketchup
in the mustard at the A&W.
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We got a police visit for that.
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In sixth grade we put together
a humor newspaper.
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I use the word humor
very loosely.
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No I think it holds up,
as funny as the day we wrote it.
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And then we did a prank phone
call tape in high school.
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This is Steven Gorgon
from the University
of California, Berkeley.
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-Yeah?
-We have reason to believe
that under your house,
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is prehistoric dinosaur bones.
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-No, no, no.
-No, we have reason
to believe this.
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It's just the cruelest thing.
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Now that you listen to it, we're
just like waking up old people.
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No, again, I think everything
holds up perfectly with that.
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Do you know
what time it is mister?
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Well, yes, I do.
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Are you crazy? We're in bed.
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-We actually
made money off that.
-Sold that to teachers...
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-Yeah, that was...
-My social studies
teacher loved it.
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For years,
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he was always the one
just getting friends
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to do silly things
and make idiots
of themselves in public.
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And I just remember
being at a grocery store
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and you daring me to go running
into a thing of cans
and then apologizing.
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The board and I would like pass
you a note saying,
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-"Three dollars If you do this."
-Yeah.
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I always call him
the Puppet Master,
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just like pulling the strings.
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-I did that with Mark too.
Mark worked for cheap.
-Yeah.
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He could lead a cult.
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When they were in Eau Claire,
they were doing break
dancing on the campus.
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Joe "Ozone" Pickett
and Nick "Turbo."
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Nick and Joe had a booth where
you could unregister to vote.
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They started
an improvisational rock band,
and it was cacophony.
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And I said, "Well, Nick,
what's the name of your band?"
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He said, "It's the Beatles."
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College, we had
permed our hair as a joke.
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Like two weeks later,
it was just kind of ratty.
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-Yeah.
-And I just chopped
the shit out of it.
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I went down to the DMV
and got my photo taken.
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Ever since then, I've always
done a dumb picture for it.
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I remember when I moved
to New York, I did this one.
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Went down and got a neck brace.
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The key is you gotta go
like right around five o'clock,
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usually on a Friday,
when everybody wants
to get out of there.
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That's what I did with this one,
I dressed goth,
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put a safety pin through my lip.
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This is my current license.
I got custom grills made.
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But the worst part
was having to get cornrows.
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It was pretty painful.
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Went to a Catholic supply store
and bought a priest's collar,
and nobody even questioned it.
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We were doing a show out
in the middle of nowhere,
cop pulls us over.
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I handed him my ID and he goes,
"Dude, is this for real?"
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And I was like, "Yep."
And he goes, "You're a priest?"
And I said, "Yep."
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And then he goes, "So how much
heroin do you have in the car?"
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Nick and I have known
each other since we were
in sixth grade,
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and I went over to your place,
and I found out that you were
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a big fan of Pee Wee Herman
and you were actually part
of the Pee Wee Herman fan club.
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-Yeah.
-And I was interested in that.
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Yeah, and I remember bonding
over the television show
Small Wonder,
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-Oh yeah.
-About the robot little girl.
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And we both thought
it was so stupid.
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And we both loved
how stupid it was.
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You know, 10-year-olds
usually are kind of appreciating
things at face value.
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-But...
-We hated things.
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-We hated things very early on.
-And we realized we both hated
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-very similar,
loved to hate, yeah.
-But loved to hate, yeah.
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We started finding VHS tapes.
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Found a McDonald's
training video
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in the break room of the
McDonald's I was working at.
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It was this guy
and it was his first day
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on the job in the video,
and he cleaned really hard.
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The overly perky crew trainer
said that he could see "McC."
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-Well, what's next?
-Garbage.
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Which they never defined
what that is.
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No, they invented their
whole, their own mythology
for this whole thing.
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Don't stop cleaning
until you see McC.
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Well, we got obsessed
with that tape, I stole it.
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I took it home in my backpack
and we showed it to friends
on a Friday night,
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And we developed a running
commentary of jokes
to go along with it.
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Make it shine, guy.
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Make it shine.
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The obsession grew
with McC even further.
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Then we started
looking out for other videos.
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We started finding
VHS tapes at thrift stores
and garage sales.
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Yeah, like the '90s,
that was the golden age of VHS
because it was so cheap.
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Anybody with, like an inkling
of an idea could get it
produced.
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Sky starts to light up
with stars to the music
from "Smoke on the Water."
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Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum, da-dum.
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So we started finding
these videos.
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You know, nothing to do
in our hometown
on a Friday night.
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Go over to somebody's parents'
living room and we'd pop in
whatever video we had found.
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A reading
from the letter of Paul
to the Koreans.
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Corinthians!
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After college, I got a job
at a video duplication house.
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Companies would come in
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and they'd bring in these
safety videos or industrial
training videos.
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I'd always make
an extra copy for myself.
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The collection grew
exponentially from there.
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I've been to their office.
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It's crazy, it's beautiful,
it's wonderful.
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It's a museum. It's inspiring.
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It's a stunning collection
of videotapes.
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It's... one could say too much.
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We'll take you around
to the different categories
we have here.
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-This is religion.
-These two walls
are all religion.
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This one is called
Hey Kids, it's Jesus!
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And then it's animals down here.
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Whiskers, the Cat
with the Magical Attitude.
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Martial arts, self-defense,
then we go into the holidays
and Christmas.
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Kenny and Corky
Singing "Nuttin' for Christmas."
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So there's a lot of videos about
how to be a better gambler.
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You know how there's a lot of
strategy in winning the lotto?
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Andy always puts himself
on the cover of these videos.
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Well, sex sells.
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This Michael's training video
I actually stole
on my wedding day.
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Then it segues into sexy stuff
like nude golf, nude yoga,
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nude bowling party,
and they're not
good bowlers, either.
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There's a sea
of children's videos.
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It's basically a video
so parents don't have to have
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the sex talk with kids,
and guiding you through this,
Howie Mandel.
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And then eventually
we just had enough tapes
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that in 2004 we were like,
let's take this thing we do
to entertain friends
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out of our living room
and put it
into a theater somewhere.
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One time, Austin!
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-Hey, welcome to the show.
-Welcome! Thanks for having us.
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Welcome to the show.
My name's Nick, this is Joe.
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This is the Found Footage
Festival and what we do,
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if you haven't seen
the show before,
we travel around the country,
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we look for old VHS tapes,
exercise videos,
and other people's home movies
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and you know, stuff that wasn't
meant to be shown in public.
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And then we show it in public.
Been doing it 15 years.
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And we have no backup plan.
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-This is our career.
-This is all we're doing
with our lives, this is it.
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Monkeys are very affectionate
animals when they want to be.
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I'm looking for somebody
I can feel special about.
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I'm looking for the goddess.
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Life is a playground,
and I want somebody
to play with.
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Hi, Mom.
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The Found Footage
Festival's always hilarious.
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Everybody comes into it
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not knowing
what the hell is going on
and then still not knowing
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what the hell is going on,
even while they are watching.
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Don't be surprised
if you're surprised.
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Just prepare for chaos.
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Hi, I'm Ben Dover
from Computers Northwest.
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Just let it out. Aaah!
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This video, when your mom
and dad break up...
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Follow instructions carefully.
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Excellent health,
full of energy.
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What's involved
in having a litter?
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The bitch is into heavy labor.
Comforting the bitch.
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You want to reassure your bitch.
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Milk the bitch.
Calm the bitch down.
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Everybody is screaming laughing.
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It's like
a circus-like atmosphere.
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There's a niche interest
with broad appeal.
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I drink my urine every morning.
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I think Jesus was an incredible
person, but I also feel
that he did urine therapy.
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Finding the Found Footage
Festival was like being
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a Star-bellied Sneetch
and I found the other Sneetches.
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It's like, oh you guys
watch the same crap?
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They curate all these moments
from the garbage heap
of pop culture.
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Check this out.
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In 19 years
of representing our roster,
plus seeing what everyone else
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in the market is doing,
there's nothing
like Nick and Joe.
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It's not like they're just
a successful band and
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and they're good at their music.
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They made up this genre
and they're the world champions.
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We just did Edinburgh
for a show at night for a month.
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You know, we do shows
that are like 600, 700 people.
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We do shows that are 50 people.
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We've done shows
for zero people, didn't we?
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For one.
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We don't have a traditional job.
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Our job is, I mean,
we see each other
every single day.
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We do the show
for an hour and a half.
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The rest of the time is spent
traveling from a city
to the other city,
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or hanging out in thrift stores
looking for VHS material.
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This is one we find a lot,
but I always like the title.
Come on, Geese!
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Here's one
about how to play the mandolin.
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-I think we have it.
-Do we?
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-Yeah, we do.
-We have this one?
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It's a decent haul.
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Yeah, it's not bad,
it's a decent haul.
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We're on the road
for 130 days a year,
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And we're like
five feet away
from each other at all times.
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On long drives, like if we're
on a sevené\-hour drive,
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we won't say a word
the entire time.
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As far as our relationship goes,
I'd say it's moreOdd Couple
than anything.
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Like, I will fart in front of
you, but you won't fart
in front of me or anybody.
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You were
with a girl for eight years?
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-Eleven. Yes.
-Eleven years?
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-You never
farted around her once?
-Nope. Didn't happen.
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It takes me like a week.
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We get to a hotel.
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I'll try to get to sleep early
because I know Joe snores.
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-I do.
-So I go by the radiator,
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or the air conditioner,
and I get the bed
closest to that.
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-And it's just an unspoken.
-We have this whole routine.
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You'll watch an infomercial
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-and give me a half-hour head
start so I can fall asleep.
-Yep.
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We do like close
to 120 shows a year.
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Send out press releases to
local news stations and stuff.
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We'd go on the local news
and talk about our show.
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Savage beauty.
Look at that powerful body.
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Most people cleaning
out their storage units,
their closets,
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they toss away
those old VHS tapes.
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Well, that's like
throwing away gold
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to the creators of the Found
Footage Festival, Nick Prueher
and Joe Pickett.
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-You specifically don't
like doing the morning shows?
-I hate doing the morning shows.
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Well, they are early.
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It's like still dark out
when we would have to wake up
for these things, it sucked.
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It's nice to have you guys
back in town, welcome.
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-Thanks for having us back.
-Good to be here.
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-We were in Missouri
or somewhere like that.
-It was Kansas City.
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-Kansas City.
-Yeah.
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And we had a morning
show interview and you didn't
want to drive to the station.
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So our UK tour manager, Michael,
who has a thick
northern English accent,
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he came on as you
and he tried to do
an American accent.
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When did you start
doing all of this?
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-Joe?
-Yeah, we went
to high school together.
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We've been best friends
for, you know,
since back in the day.
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He didn't do
a very good job either.
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So that was the main challenge.
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-It was a disaster.
-I was just happy I didn't have
to do the morning news show.
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I'm looking at some of
these morning news shows,
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and I mean, they just make it
so easy, like look at it,
Monica Quintero.
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That's such an anchor
name, too, isn't it?
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And they tell you
what their hobbies are.
It's way too much information.
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And feel free to contact her
at hdavis@kxxv.com.
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Shit, their emails
are right there.
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We hated doing these
because we got the impression
that the news people
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were not listening
and doing their homework
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because the chyrons would have
our names wrong below us.
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They'd always call it
the Found Film Festival.
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Right. There's no films here.
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So as an experiment,
we sent out a press release
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for someone other than us.
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Me and my buddy Mark, we
invented a character and pitched
him to morning news shows.
286
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Well you probably owned a yo-yo
a kid, but our next guest
has turned it into an art form.
287
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And this fake person
got booked on more shows
than we did.
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Yeah, we wrote up
a press release
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saying that we've represented a
guy named Kenny Strasser
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who was a yo-yo expert
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who traveled around the country
to schools, teaching kids about
the environment with his yo-yo.
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They totally bought it
and we got him booked
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on seven morning news shows
and our buddy Mark
played the yo-yo expert.
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I am just a 35-year-old kid at
heart, you know, twice divorced.
295
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I have no kids.
296
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I don't have a girlfriend,
don't want one.
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And Mark has no idea
how to yo-yo at all.
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See, you have the up and down.
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-Okay.
-Okay, pretty basic.
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-And then...
-Oh!
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-Oh! You all right?
-Yeah.
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What I say is, you know, life
has a lot of ups and downs
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and...
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Oops, lost one.
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Then into a Huey.
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And we get going.
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Oops.
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What should I do?
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I mean that yo-yo guy.
Oh, my God, what a train wreck.
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-Let it drop.
-All right.
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What am I doing?
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Just seeing
super, self-serious people
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face to face with this
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hilarious thing
that they don't know
is hilarious,
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it like shines a light right
through the whole
news industry I think.
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They have to be happy
and excited, even though
something is failing.
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There is my yo-yo trick,
right there.
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-Well, kind of.
-We'll be right back.
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The pressure is on,
you've done it once
and then people want more
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and you want more because
it's the excitement of doing it.
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People who are
compelled to do this over
and over and over again,
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it's just horrific.
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It's got to be some kind of
like, serious adrenaline thing.
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I mean to think of a prank
and execute it,
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it's just, it's the biggest
rush in the world.
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There is something addicting
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and you need
to go bigger and bigger.
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We had fun doing that.
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And we're like, man,
let's see if we can do
something else stupid.
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So we wrote up a press release
saying that Nick
was a celebrity chef
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who had just written a book
on what to do with your
Thanksgiving leftovers.
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Chef Keith Guerke is here,
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author of Leftovers Right:
Making A Winner
of Last Night's Dinner.
334
00:17:14,033 --> 00:17:15,686
Pretty good title, right?
335
00:17:15,730 --> 00:17:17,993
-That's a great book title!
-Thank you very much.
336
00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:19,821
I just checked
my email before and I might
have to cancel
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the signing because
the books have not arrived.
338
00:17:21,301 --> 00:17:22,867
Okay, well never mind then.
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00:17:22,911 --> 00:17:25,000
First of all, mashed potatoes.
Boring, right?
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00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:26,915
-Right.
-How about a mashed
potato ice cream cone?
341
00:17:26,958 --> 00:17:28,569
-What do you think about that?
-That's fun.
342
00:17:28,612 --> 00:17:30,658
The fun part
comes with the toppings.
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These are your sprinkles.
I think of this as like
a sundae bar.
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00:17:32,964 --> 00:17:34,488
-Like corn sprinkles?
-Yeah, so put on some...
345
00:17:34,531 --> 00:17:36,881
I love it when pranks
are very, very silly.
346
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I think that that helps people
loosen up the idea
of their everyday reality.
347
00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:44,498
Of course, don't forget
your cranberry cherry on top.
348
00:17:44,541 --> 00:17:47,457
Because then you got your
mashed potatoes
and it's all in one.
349
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First of all, getting on
a morning show and pranking,
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I mean, it takes balls,
it's not easy.
351
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You have to walk a tight line
of being funny, pathetic,
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and believable enough
to sustain that
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and for them not to suss out
that you're fucking with them.
354
00:18:00,992 --> 00:18:02,603
It's quite a talent.
355
00:18:02,646 --> 00:18:04,909
There's a Judas Priest
song called "Turbo Lover."
356
00:18:04,953 --> 00:18:07,347
Well, I call this Turbo Gravy.
It's a spoof on that.
357
00:18:07,608 --> 00:18:09,914
And it's basically taking gravy
to the next level.
358
00:18:09,958 --> 00:18:12,265
-You can really make it
out of any leftover.
-Right.
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00:18:12,308 --> 00:18:14,397
So put like some
of your ham in here.
360
00:18:14,441 --> 00:18:16,138
-Put all of it in.
-Perfect.
361
00:18:16,182 --> 00:18:19,315
Just put a bunch of like
green beans and turkey
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00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,884
and mashed potatoes and always
skim milk in the blender.
363
00:18:22,927 --> 00:18:25,452
Fried chicken, put it all in
there and then add more gravy.
364
00:18:25,495 --> 00:18:28,846
-Gravy to gravy.
-Of course, we need more gravy
to make the gravy.
365
00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:30,848
-There we go!
-Yes.
366
00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:33,329
I'll just let you try this.
And this is so fun.
367
00:18:33,373 --> 00:18:36,637
My daughters Spirit and Curtis
Anne love these smoothies.
368
00:18:36,898 --> 00:18:40,206
Maybe not as blended as we like,
but just try a little
bit of that.
369
00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:42,295
Most of the anchors
actually ate it.
370
00:18:42,338 --> 00:18:44,732
Like gulped down a smoothie
with chicken in it.
371
00:18:44,775 --> 00:18:46,690
They don't think about it.
They don't want the show
to keep moving.
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00:18:46,734 --> 00:18:48,214
-You're gonna have
whipped cream left over, right?
-Whoops.
373
00:18:50,781 --> 00:18:52,305
I am so sorry.
374
00:18:52,348 --> 00:18:54,437
-It's okay.
-Oh, God. Live TV.
375
00:18:54,481 --> 00:18:56,265
We're going to
throw things out to Mark
for a check of our weather.
376
00:18:56,309 --> 00:18:59,442
Putting them on the defensive
and having to watch them
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make a decision
about whether or not
they're going to eat shit,
378
00:19:03,011 --> 00:19:05,753
it calls into question
everything about the legitimacy
379
00:19:05,796 --> 00:19:08,190
of that whole endeavor
of the morning news source.
380
00:19:08,234 --> 00:19:10,584
So you can watch that
and think, "This is crazy."
381
00:19:10,627 --> 00:19:13,282
But then you might,
the next thing that's on,
382
00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:14,849
you also have to question.
383
00:19:15,676 --> 00:19:18,461
This is the Halliburton
SurvivaBall.
384
00:19:18,505 --> 00:19:23,031
In the event of extreme
catastrophe, there might be
a scarcity of resources.
385
00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:30,125
These kinds of interventions,
this kind of mischief,
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00:19:30,343 --> 00:19:31,953
is something that
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00:19:32,345 --> 00:19:36,784
plays a really important
role in changing the world.
388
00:19:37,785 --> 00:19:39,395
I'm waffling back and forth.
389
00:19:42,616 --> 00:19:45,271
The fans have come
to expect a new prank,
390
00:19:45,314 --> 00:19:47,186
and they want to know
how you can top yourselves.
391
00:19:47,795 --> 00:19:50,014
And we're like,
"I don't know. Any ideas?"
392
00:19:52,452 --> 00:19:56,412
Hey, do you wanna get in
here to coach me a little bit
on the shaving?
393
00:19:56,456 --> 00:19:58,719
It will look stupider
if you go further up.
394
00:19:58,762 --> 00:20:00,286
I know, because then
you'll see my second chin.
395
00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:02,375
-Yeah, yeah.
-Yeah, okay.
396
00:20:02,418 --> 00:20:04,768
-I think that's the...
-See, I'm glad you're here.
397
00:20:06,292 --> 00:20:08,163
Oh, I know.
What about male
pattern baldness?
398
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,817
Shaving male pattern baldness.
399
00:20:12,167 --> 00:20:14,909
-Should I?
-I mean, what does it add to it?
400
00:20:14,952 --> 00:20:16,954
It just makes it,
makes you look stupider?
401
00:20:16,998 --> 00:20:19,827
Yeah. The laughs would increase,
I think like 72%.
402
00:20:19,870 --> 00:20:22,917
-Yeah, well, I say go for it.
-Yeah.
403
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,354
Do you have a message?
404
00:20:25,789 --> 00:20:27,008
No. What happened?
405
00:20:28,662 --> 00:20:32,492
Well, no, well I had a question
for you about the, about shaving
406
00:20:32,796 --> 00:20:35,103
because I know that facial hair
was the big concern.
407
00:20:35,669 --> 00:20:37,279
Yeah?
408
00:20:37,323 --> 00:20:40,891
What about like if I shaved
male pattern baldness?
409
00:20:41,414 --> 00:20:43,459
-Because I feel like it would,
-No.
410
00:20:44,068 --> 00:20:47,333
it would step up
the comedy like 82%.
411
00:20:47,724 --> 00:20:49,770
No.
412
00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:52,033
Not right before the holidays,
not when there's like
shit to do.
413
00:20:52,076 --> 00:20:53,600
And we have people to see.
414
00:20:53,643 --> 00:20:55,515
You're not doing that.
415
00:20:57,604 --> 00:20:59,388
My only requisite for the
characters is like I have
to live with the person.
416
00:20:59,432 --> 00:21:02,478
I remember,
he did this prank where he had
like a tiny mustache.
417
00:21:02,522 --> 00:21:05,394
It was a Hitler mustache, but
it was not a Hitler mustache,
418
00:21:05,438 --> 00:21:08,005
but it looked like a Hitler
mustache and no sideburns.
419
00:21:08,049 --> 00:21:12,271
So he really looked
like Sling Blade.
420
00:21:13,184 --> 00:21:16,753
And I had to, like, go out
with him looking like that.
421
00:21:16,797 --> 00:21:18,189
All right,
I'm not going to do it.
422
00:21:18,233 --> 00:21:19,539
I'll look normal
when I come home.
423
00:21:20,453 --> 00:21:22,498
No, you're not.
You're gonna look like an idiot.
424
00:21:29,070 --> 00:21:33,335
So this year we're a
strongman duo and we called
ourselves Chop and Steele.
425
00:21:33,379 --> 00:21:36,599
12 or 11 news stations
all wanted us on that same day.
426
00:21:36,643 --> 00:21:40,299
Within 24 hours we got
12 responses back,
all interested.
427
00:21:40,603 --> 00:21:44,215
Hello Wisconsin!
This is WEAU 13 News.
428
00:21:44,259 --> 00:21:46,740
A plane with dozens
of people on board,
429
00:21:46,783 --> 00:21:50,047
including a soccer team,
has crashed in Colombia.
430
00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:53,181
Also, if your breakfast
needs a side of muscle,
431
00:21:53,224 --> 00:21:56,402
this morning, the strongman duo
Chop and Steele.
432
00:21:56,445 --> 00:21:58,839
Chop and Steele!
Been waiting
for this all show long.
433
00:21:58,882 --> 00:22:00,231
I know, I'm excited.
434
00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:01,972
I was a rich guy
from the suburbs.
435
00:22:02,016 --> 00:22:04,323
He was a skinny little boy
from small town Wisconsin.
436
00:22:04,366 --> 00:22:06,281
We made it work.
This turned out to be
a slam dunk.
437
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:10,459
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight...
438
00:22:10,503 --> 00:22:13,070
It was already preposterous.
439
00:22:13,114 --> 00:22:14,550
I mean, if they took one
look at us, they would know
we were not strong men.
440
00:22:16,378 --> 00:22:19,163
And then we also claimed that
we were on America's Got Talent,
441
00:22:19,207 --> 00:22:21,252
and they clearly
didn't even do a Google search.
442
00:22:21,296 --> 00:22:24,255
Now you were
on America's Got Talent
and you showed your stuff.
443
00:22:24,299 --> 00:22:25,909
So tell us a little bit
about what you do.
444
00:22:25,953 --> 00:22:28,999
We work in a pretty rough
roadhouse in Missouri
445
00:22:29,043 --> 00:22:30,392
called the Double Deuce.
446
00:22:30,436 --> 00:22:31,872
Our buddy Dalton
got us a job there.
447
00:22:32,263 --> 00:22:34,614
And it was great.
We're good bouncers.
448
00:22:34,657 --> 00:22:36,355
There was a local business guy,
449
00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:38,618
he started throwing his weight
around at one point.
450
00:22:38,661 --> 00:22:40,881
You have to be
in character the whole time,
so it's a little nerve wracking.
451
00:22:40,924 --> 00:22:44,319
It's like doing a play,
but your co-actors
aren't in on the play.
452
00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:45,451
-Ready?
-Yep.
453
00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:48,715
One, two...
454
00:22:48,758 --> 00:22:50,456
What's really beautiful is when
455
00:22:50,499 --> 00:22:52,632
you listen to what
the news hosts are saying.
456
00:22:52,675 --> 00:22:54,373
"All right." "Amazing."
457
00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:56,157
"Oh, we've been waiting
all morning for this."
458
00:22:56,418 --> 00:22:58,202
It's like, "Have you? Have you?"
459
00:22:58,246 --> 00:23:00,379
I'm enjoying this too much
to comment on it.
460
00:23:01,249 --> 00:23:03,904
Now is this North Dakota
or South Dakota, because
that makes a big difference.
461
00:23:03,947 --> 00:23:05,949
-One!
-All right, perfect.
462
00:23:07,908 --> 00:23:09,083
Two!
463
00:23:11,781 --> 00:23:13,000
Three!
464
00:23:13,957 --> 00:23:15,219
It's a little big.
465
00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,614
Feel it in your, whatever
the back muscle is.
466
00:23:18,658 --> 00:23:21,312
Yeah, this is just basic
turbo gravy that you
would have in your house.
467
00:23:21,356 --> 00:23:23,097
Especially with Chop and Steele,
you're like...
468
00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:26,274
Come on, that's obviously fake.
469
00:23:26,317 --> 00:23:30,017
One, two, three.
470
00:23:31,148 --> 00:23:32,976
When I watch those two guys,
471
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:34,848
I know that same energy
where you're going,
472
00:23:34,891 --> 00:23:36,066
"Well, I guess
we're doing this."
473
00:23:36,110 --> 00:23:37,894
"Yeah, we're really doing this."
474
00:23:37,938 --> 00:23:41,028
"OK, they haven't caught on yet.
We'll just keep doing this."
475
00:23:41,071 --> 00:23:42,943
There's only
been one that we showed up,
476
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,903
and the guy looked at us
and he's like, "You guys don't
really look like strongmen."
477
00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:51,821
And then we were like,
"Well, we are. And we're here
to perform for you."
478
00:23:51,865 --> 00:23:54,258
And he's like, "Hold on, let me,
I'll be back in a second."
479
00:23:54,302 --> 00:23:56,913
He goes to the back room
like ten minutes and then
comes back and he's like,
480
00:23:56,957 --> 00:23:59,089
"No, I'm not gonna have you on."
481
00:23:59,133 --> 00:24:00,961
I've done a lot of things
over the years
482
00:24:01,004 --> 00:24:02,876
like smash up Arsenio Hall
and done all this crap.
483
00:24:02,919 --> 00:24:05,182
We'll be right back!
484
00:24:05,226 --> 00:24:06,836
When I do it, there's
always a buddy with me,
485
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,012
just so I know
I get out of the building.
486
00:24:09,056 --> 00:24:11,537
I feel like I'm robbing a bank
whenever I do these things.
487
00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:13,321
It's all in the name of laughs.
488
00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:24,419
I just remember thinking
like, I don't know how you have
489
00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:28,858
the balls to do this
because it's so cringe-inducing
490
00:24:28,902 --> 00:24:31,948
and also like,
how do you not feel bad?
491
00:24:32,601 --> 00:24:35,082
In a weird way,
you're doing them a favor.
492
00:24:35,125 --> 00:24:38,825
I mean, no one gives a shit
about channel...
493
00:24:39,739 --> 00:24:44,308
Bing Bong in North Dakota,
like no offense to North Dakota,
494
00:24:44,352 --> 00:24:48,399
but I'm saying not
a lot of people might watch
the 5AM show.
495
00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:53,535
Now those people that do
that show every single morning
are known on the internet.
496
00:24:53,796 --> 00:24:55,842
I don't think that's
necessarily a bad thing.
497
00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:57,670
I mean, I don't know.
498
00:24:57,713 --> 00:25:00,673
It's not mean, it's just funny.
499
00:25:00,716 --> 00:25:03,850
And we'll take, we'll have more
Good Day Dakota on the way.
500
00:25:03,893 --> 00:25:05,808
Oh, I was gonna also say,
501
00:25:06,243 --> 00:25:08,332
-I'm so sorry about this.
-No, it's okay.
Don't worry about it.
502
00:25:08,376 --> 00:25:09,812
No sweat at all. No problem.
503
00:25:09,856 --> 00:25:11,771
Thank you so much
for joining us.
504
00:25:11,814 --> 00:25:13,947
-And we have weather
with Amber coming up.
-Oh, sorry.
505
00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:27,047
One of the news stations
didn't find it funny.
506
00:25:27,090 --> 00:25:29,353
Actually, the news station
that we did it,
they found it funny.
507
00:25:29,397 --> 00:25:31,747
But their parent company,
didn't find it funny.
508
00:25:31,791 --> 00:25:34,794
Yeah, so four months after we
were on, we found out
in the New York Post
509
00:25:34,837 --> 00:25:38,101
that they were suing us
in federal court for fraud,
510
00:25:38,145 --> 00:25:40,843
-Copyright infringement.
-copyright infringement,
fraud and conspiracy.
511
00:25:40,887 --> 00:25:42,541
Conspiracy to commit fraud.
512
00:25:48,721 --> 00:25:54,683
Most of our friends were very...
just angry for him
513
00:25:54,727 --> 00:25:58,600
because they thought
it was bogus and stupid,
and some friends,
514
00:25:58,644 --> 00:26:00,950
it's not like they didn't
support what he did,
515
00:26:00,994 --> 00:26:03,823
they were just sort of saying,
"Well, that's the consequence
you pay for...
516
00:26:04,432 --> 00:26:06,652
you know, fucking around."
517
00:26:08,654 --> 00:26:10,612
I may have
this in common with them.
518
00:26:10,656 --> 00:26:12,832
I think I'm one of the few
guests on a television show
519
00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:16,836
that had charges because
I got convicted of arson
520
00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:18,489
when I set
The Tonight Showon fire.
521
00:26:18,533 --> 00:26:20,622
Well it is sweeps,
and I love Jay very much.
522
00:26:20,666 --> 00:26:23,277
And I thought, "Well,
what if I, I don't know,
523
00:26:24,017 --> 00:26:25,932
-what if I set
his furniture on fire?"
-What are you doing?
524
00:26:25,975 --> 00:26:27,977
Don't set that on fire.
525
00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:31,372
There's always that window
of time when you do something
526
00:26:31,415 --> 00:26:34,941
and charges are brought up
where you're like going,
527
00:26:34,984 --> 00:26:36,769
"This isn't
really funny anymore,
528
00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:39,206
because you're like, I could
actually go to jail."
529
00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:43,471
When I became aware
that they were getting sued,
530
00:26:43,514 --> 00:26:46,474
I actually donated
to their GoFundMe.
531
00:26:46,517 --> 00:26:49,129
I feel a kindred spirit.
532
00:26:50,217 --> 00:26:51,827
Hey, I'm Joe. This is Nick.
533
00:26:51,871 --> 00:26:53,612
We do a show called
the Found Footage Festival.
534
00:26:53,655 --> 00:26:56,179
Last March, we were slapped
with a frivolous lawsuit
535
00:26:56,223 --> 00:27:00,401
after appearing on a news
station as a strongman duo
called Chop and Steele.
536
00:27:00,444 --> 00:27:04,971
That's right, a giant media
company decided to sue us
because they were embarrassed.
537
00:27:05,014 --> 00:27:08,670
That's why we're seeking $80,000
to cover all of our expenses.
538
00:27:08,714 --> 00:27:11,760
It's a lot of money, we know,
but it's actually more money
539
00:27:11,804 --> 00:27:13,806
than I think we've ever made
doing the Found Footage
Festival.
540
00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:15,851
To give an idea
of what we're working with,
541
00:27:15,895 --> 00:27:18,767
Joe once found
a block of cheese on the ground
and brought it home.
542
00:27:18,811 --> 00:27:20,987
-And you ate it.
-And I ate it actually,
like that day.
543
00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:22,684
-Thanks in advance, everybody.
-Thank you.
544
00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:36,872
They were the defendants
I was born to defend.
545
00:27:36,916 --> 00:27:39,919
I think Chop and Steele
are performance artists.
546
00:27:39,962 --> 00:27:42,661
I think what they're doing
is absolutely social commentary.
547
00:27:43,052 --> 00:27:48,492
And the fact
that it is hilarious
and perhaps a bit silly
548
00:27:49,145 --> 00:27:52,714
does not take away
from the underlying point
that they're making.
549
00:27:52,758 --> 00:27:54,585
When you get sued,
550
00:27:54,629 --> 00:27:56,457
there are a bunch of things
that are scary about it.
551
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,416
For one thing, you realize that
during the discovery process,
552
00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:03,159
they may ask to read
any of your emails ever.
553
00:28:03,203 --> 00:28:05,640
And you think, "Oh God, like,
who's gonna see that?
554
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:07,773
And what are they
going to ask for?
555
00:28:07,816 --> 00:28:09,905
You start thinking
about everything
that you've ever done.
556
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,306
I could see it being
a thing that would really
make you shit yourself.
557
00:28:23,963 --> 00:28:26,661
This lawsuit
was incredibly disruptive.
558
00:28:27,662 --> 00:28:30,012
They are working comedians.
559
00:28:30,056 --> 00:28:33,973
They are on the road
while all of this was happening,
and in the back of their minds,
560
00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:37,933
they have to be thinking,
"Well, this could be the end
of Found Footage Festival."
561
00:28:41,937 --> 00:28:43,286
We sold one, right?
562
00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:46,463
Here's the thing.
We're broke right now.
563
00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:49,858
Even if we win the lawsuit
or we settle or whatever,
564
00:28:49,902 --> 00:28:51,512
we're still going
to have all these fees.
565
00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:53,601
And if we get sued again,
we're done.
566
00:28:53,644 --> 00:28:55,255
All right so yeah,
it's 20 bucks.
567
00:29:03,132 --> 00:29:06,570
You have to vacate the
room within three minutes
of going in.
568
00:29:06,614 --> 00:29:08,747
So here's where you can
microwave your chimichanga
569
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:12,533
and then If you need to, you can
pick up an American Defender.
570
00:29:12,576 --> 00:29:14,927
Well, if it wasn't out of order,
you could pick up
the American Defender.
571
00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:16,450
Look at that,
believe, dream, imagine.
572
00:29:16,493 --> 00:29:19,148
Believe, dream, imagine
a better hotel room.
573
00:29:22,325 --> 00:29:24,893
I know it's something
I struggle with for myself.
574
00:29:24,937 --> 00:29:29,550
I wish I was more successful,
and I want to be successful
and I want to be a star.
575
00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:32,248
But you just kind of need
a perfect storm.
576
00:29:32,727 --> 00:29:34,685
You need several perfect storms
to hit in a row.
577
00:29:34,729 --> 00:29:37,427
And you see that, like
that actor Mark Proksch,
578
00:29:37,471 --> 00:29:40,561
who was sort of
catapulted into success
579
00:29:40,604 --> 00:29:43,042
after the Kenny Strasser
videos went viral.
580
00:29:43,085 --> 00:29:45,827
-Uh-huh?
-And you're like this, you know?
581
00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:49,004
-And that was Kenny Strasser.
-Yeah.
582
00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:52,181
That was
the first experiment, right?
583
00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:56,664
It went big, and so, like,
Hollywood came calling
and Mark got on The Office.
584
00:29:56,707 --> 00:29:58,579
And then he got
on Better Call Saul.
585
00:29:58,622 --> 00:30:00,755
And now he's on What We do
in the Shadows.
586
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,106
And we're here selling Frisbees.
Yeah, a trunk full of Frisbees.
587
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:06,108
-That's fine.
-Yeah, we're not bitter at all.
588
00:30:06,935 --> 00:30:09,851
I'll turn on the TV, and every
so often Mark
will pop up in a show.
589
00:30:09,895 --> 00:30:12,419
Like he was on Portlandia.
590
00:30:12,462 --> 00:30:15,074
And he was making out with
Carrie Brownstein in a scene.
It was like, "Oh there's Mark!"
591
00:30:15,726 --> 00:30:18,207
-I had fun last night.
-Yeah, me too.
592
00:30:18,251 --> 00:30:20,427
-Yeah.
-It was a good time.
593
00:30:20,470 --> 00:30:23,473
Yeah, and Mark's doing that,
and it's all based
on the yo-yo thing.
594
00:30:23,517 --> 00:30:27,086
And the writers at The Office,
they flew Joe and Mark
to go there, you know?
595
00:30:27,129 --> 00:30:29,958
So hey, if you want
to submit writers' packets,
Joe wasn't interested.
596
00:30:30,002 --> 00:30:31,830
I didn't necessarily want that.
597
00:30:31,873 --> 00:30:33,396
I didn't really like that show.
598
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:36,356
It was never a dream of mine
to write on that show.
599
00:30:36,617 --> 00:30:38,010
I don't like having a boss.
600
00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:40,099
-Dondeare you from?
-Scranton.
601
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,190
-Ybefore that, La Philadelphia.
-You speak English?
602
00:30:44,233 --> 00:30:45,539
Yes. I'm really good at English.
603
00:30:45,582 --> 00:30:47,454
Okay. Good, me too.
Get in the car.
604
00:30:47,497 --> 00:30:50,370
Mark was interested in acting,
so they basically wrote a part
605
00:30:50,413 --> 00:30:53,547
based on the yo-yo expert
for Mark on The Office.
606
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:56,550
But I wouldn't want to be,
I mean, I had
the opportunity to do that.
607
00:30:57,246 --> 00:30:59,814
I liked what I was doing.
I like Found Footage.
608
00:31:00,989 --> 00:31:03,470
You're just
with somebody for a long time
609
00:31:03,513 --> 00:31:06,255
and in Nick's case,
I've been with him
since we were in sixth grade.
610
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,433
So it's going to be hard to say
like I'm going to move
across the country.
611
00:31:10,477 --> 00:31:12,914
and potentially
do something else.
612
00:31:12,958 --> 00:31:14,698
What's admirable
is that they listened
613
00:31:14,742 --> 00:31:16,918
to the voice inside them,
that little voice that says,
614
00:31:16,962 --> 00:31:19,094
"No, I don't want to do this,"
and they stuck to their guns.
615
00:31:20,182 --> 00:31:24,186
I doubt they're
mega millionaires
by doing the Found Footage.
616
00:31:25,274 --> 00:31:27,407
I'm not driven by money,
luckily.
617
00:31:27,450 --> 00:31:29,278
Maybe I should be
a little bit more.
618
00:31:30,497 --> 00:31:34,980
Best of all, they wanted
20 dollars for each VHS tape.
619
00:31:35,023 --> 00:31:37,765
So this is the most
we've ever spent
on a collection of tapes.
620
00:31:37,808 --> 00:31:39,636
So you better fucking enjoy it!
621
00:31:47,731 --> 00:31:51,518
In a way, I do wish
that we didn't have to work
so hard to make money.
622
00:31:52,127 --> 00:31:55,478
I would've jumped
at the opportunity
to write for The Office.
623
00:31:55,522 --> 00:31:58,829
But Joe wasn't interested
in doing that.
624
00:32:08,361 --> 00:32:11,451
We were talking last night
and like, what was my dad
doing at my age?
625
00:32:11,494 --> 00:32:13,061
He had three kids.
626
00:32:13,496 --> 00:32:15,977
He was like the principal
of a juvenile delinquent home.
627
00:32:16,021 --> 00:32:17,587
And my grandpa,
628
00:32:17,848 --> 00:32:21,591
in Okinawa in World War 2,
his friend was shot in a field,
629
00:32:21,635 --> 00:32:23,985
so he ran to save him
and drag him back.
630
00:32:24,029 --> 00:32:27,989
And then he got shot
and was left to bleed out.
631
00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:31,471
And then somebody, a medic
found him and rescued him,
632
00:32:31,993 --> 00:32:34,387
and he was nursed
gradually back to health.
633
00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:39,348
Was awarded a Purple Heart
and a Bronze Star for valor
in the line of duty.
634
00:32:40,784 --> 00:32:46,399
And I'm gluing pom-poms
on the positive and negative
parts of the car battery.
635
00:32:47,704 --> 00:32:49,837
-Here's the glitter.
-Okay, thanks, buddy.
636
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,187
He got a Bronze Star?
637
00:32:52,231 --> 00:32:54,537
Yes, for valor.
From the President.
638
00:32:56,191 --> 00:32:58,019
We are now on the record
639
00:32:58,063 --> 00:33:00,587
in the matter of Gray
Television Group Inc.
640
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,851
v. Found Footage Festival LLC.
641
00:33:04,634 --> 00:33:07,724
Nick and Joe were both
deposed individually.
642
00:33:08,247 --> 00:33:12,555
Found Footage
Festival was deposed
and Nick served as the deponent,
643
00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:15,558
which meant that Nick was there
for something like 12 hours.
644
00:33:15,602 --> 00:33:17,865
-Found Footage does
derive revenue from these?
-Yes.
645
00:33:18,605 --> 00:33:19,998
And selling merchandise?
646
00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:24,002
-Yes.
-And the merchandise
is Frisbees?
647
00:33:24,959 --> 00:33:27,527
-Mm-hmm.
-What do the Frisbees
have on them?
648
00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:33,402
They are a reference
to a clip from an adult film
we found called Frisbee Fuckers.
649
00:33:33,837 --> 00:33:38,929
Nick and I clearly
are not strongmen,
we don't look strong.
650
00:33:40,105 --> 00:33:41,280
What's a strongman?
651
00:33:44,196 --> 00:33:46,067
Uh, a strong man.
652
00:33:48,809 --> 00:33:51,290
It's an awful experience
being sued.
653
00:33:51,333 --> 00:33:57,426
It really is like
a shocking, sobering slap
in the face.
654
00:33:57,470 --> 00:34:00,995
You know, ice water
thrown on you like,
"Hey, you think you're funny?
655
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,910
How's this, funny man?"
656
00:34:02,953 --> 00:34:05,391
You're walking around thinking
I'm going to go bankrupt.
657
00:34:05,434 --> 00:34:06,827
How am I gonna feed my family?
658
00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:08,307
What am I going to do?
This is crazy.
659
00:34:08,350 --> 00:34:10,135
I'll never work again.
660
00:34:10,178 --> 00:34:12,050
The emotional roller coaster
you're on is insane.
661
00:34:14,269 --> 00:34:16,228
How you guys doing?
Good.
662
00:34:16,271 --> 00:34:18,273
Are we on hugging terms,
or we just shaking?
663
00:34:18,317 --> 00:34:22,060
I don't know what you guys
are comfortable with.
664
00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:23,235
Okay, all right. Yeah.
665
00:34:24,801 --> 00:34:26,760
You know, I already talked
to Nick about this a little bit,
666
00:34:26,803 --> 00:34:29,719
but I wanted
to mention it to you.
667
00:34:29,763 --> 00:34:34,115
I can read it, but I think that
we shouldn't do that with
the cameras here.
668
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,075
You know, we should do it
in a more informal setting.
669
00:34:47,215 --> 00:34:51,001
I have here the apology
that Gray Television initially
670
00:34:51,045 --> 00:34:53,091
wanted Nick and Joe to read.
671
00:34:53,134 --> 00:34:56,268
"Journalists
like the Morning Crew at WEAU
672
00:34:56,311 --> 00:35:00,968
and other Gray
television stations have
a difficult and important job.
673
00:35:01,011 --> 00:35:05,581
We now appreciate
that in not telling
WEAU journalists
674
00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:07,844
Chop and Steele
were fake performers,
675
00:35:07,888 --> 00:35:11,674
that we undermined
the hard work
of these journalists.
676
00:35:11,718 --> 00:35:13,894
That certainly was
not our intention."
677
00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:17,419
They asked that that statement
678
00:35:17,463 --> 00:35:21,119
be the only thing that you say
from here on out about the case.
679
00:35:21,162 --> 00:35:23,121
My impression
is that that's a no-go.
680
00:35:23,512 --> 00:35:25,645
-Yes, for sure.
-Yeah, no way.
681
00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:27,299
That's so, no. That's so dumb.
682
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:31,825
It's like
something we would read,
like I said this earlier, but
683
00:35:31,868 --> 00:35:33,827
it's like something we'd read
if there was a gun to our head
684
00:35:33,870 --> 00:35:36,134
right off camera.
685
00:35:36,177 --> 00:35:38,701
It does not sound like us,
and everybody would sniff
right through it.
686
00:35:38,745 --> 00:35:40,399
It's like, so preposterous.
687
00:35:40,442 --> 00:35:42,705
We've been willing to settle
for reasonable terms,
688
00:35:42,749 --> 00:35:45,882
but there hasn't really been
anything reasonable
put out there for us.
689
00:35:45,926 --> 00:35:49,756
There's a part of me that
really wants it to go to trial,
have Chop and Steele up on the,
690
00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:52,846
Yeah, I'd love to have
a formal bandana.
691
00:35:52,889 --> 00:35:54,587
-Up on the witness stand.
-A Zubaz tuxedo.
692
00:35:54,630 --> 00:35:56,719
Yes, you guys
make this decision.
693
00:35:56,763 --> 00:35:59,766
I was talking about this
to my partner, Eric, last night.
694
00:36:01,507 --> 00:36:03,770
He said, "I hope
this fucking goes to trial."
695
00:36:04,858 --> 00:36:07,339
I said before, I'll say it
again, he's the greatest lawyer
of all time.
696
00:36:13,388 --> 00:36:15,651
We have a lawyer now,
we're emboldened.
697
00:36:15,695 --> 00:36:18,741
And then the next day,
somebody sent us
a clip from the show The Talk,
698
00:36:18,785 --> 00:36:20,961
-that daytime talk show.
-All of a sudden, we were
699
00:36:21,004 --> 00:36:24,051
part of like
this national conversation
about the First Amendment.
700
00:36:24,094 --> 00:36:26,140
If they had done
their due diligence,
701
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:31,145
that I feel like
is the responsibility
of a news organization,
702
00:36:31,493 --> 00:36:34,322
they would have known
this was a goof.
703
00:36:34,366 --> 00:36:37,760
As activists,
when you get sued by somebody
more powerful than you,
704
00:36:38,108 --> 00:36:41,373
they give you a platform,
it's like they're giving you
some of their power.
705
00:36:41,416 --> 00:36:44,419
After Chop and Steele
duped Hello Wisconsin,
706
00:36:44,463 --> 00:36:47,335
the station's parent company
got mad and sued them
707
00:36:47,379 --> 00:36:49,424
for posing as fitness experts.
708
00:36:49,468 --> 00:36:51,557
They have a YouTube channel
709
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,255
with all of their
shenanigans on there, right?
710
00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:58,085
And they look
like an SNLsketch.
I mean, it's so funny.
711
00:36:58,128 --> 00:37:01,088
So the suing, I actually think,
is beneficial to them
creatively,
712
00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:05,179
because it makes their act
seem larger than it was.
713
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:07,529
Please welcome Joe Pickett
and Nick Prueher.
714
00:37:08,922 --> 00:37:11,533
Nick and Joe,
how did this start?
715
00:37:11,577 --> 00:37:15,842
I was in high school
working at a McDonald's
in my hometown in Wisconsin,
716
00:37:16,277 --> 00:37:18,888
-and I found a...
-All right.
717
00:37:18,932 --> 00:37:20,368
McDonald's fans?
718
00:37:24,938 --> 00:37:30,030
Suddenly you have a David and
Goliath story that you can talk
about, and then it becomes fun.
719
00:37:30,073 --> 00:37:35,905
It becomes another form
of being Chop and Steele.
720
00:37:37,037 --> 00:37:38,734
Pranking the media
is nothing new.
721
00:37:38,778 --> 00:37:40,736
What makes Nick
and Joe's case unique
722
00:37:40,780 --> 00:37:42,738
is that this is the first
example we could find
723
00:37:42,782 --> 00:37:46,089
of retaliatory legal action
being taken by a media company.
724
00:37:46,438 --> 00:37:50,006
I think what it was is they're
like, "We need to make
an example of these people."
725
00:37:50,790 --> 00:37:53,662
We reached out to Gray
Media and were put in touch
with their lawyer.
726
00:37:54,228 --> 00:37:59,189
After trying many times to
arrange an on-camera interview,
something unexpected happened.
727
00:38:03,063 --> 00:38:07,154
I think because the people
at America's Got Talentsaw the
video just out of the blue.
728
00:38:07,197 --> 00:38:09,025
America's Got Talent
emailed us and were like,
729
00:38:09,069 --> 00:38:11,419
"You guys need
to be on the show."
730
00:38:11,463 --> 00:38:14,204
I wasn't that excited about it.
And then my wife also was not
very excited about it.
731
00:38:14,248 --> 00:38:16,337
She's like,
"Those shows are beneath you."
732
00:38:16,381 --> 00:38:18,339
You guys have
achieved something.
733
00:38:18,383 --> 00:38:20,210
I don't think she's right
about that.
I don't think we've...
734
00:38:20,254 --> 00:38:22,387
Well, I've never seen the show.
But 20 million people see it.
735
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:24,127
And that's not how many people
come to our shows.
736
00:38:24,171 --> 00:38:26,478
-No, it's true.
-It opens it up
to a new audience.
737
00:38:29,524 --> 00:38:30,743
You gonna do AGT?
738
00:38:31,134 --> 00:38:32,832
Yeah, so what
do you think about that?
739
00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:36,444
When we first pitched this idea
in the press releases,
740
00:38:36,792 --> 00:38:38,881
we said that, you know,
Chop and Steele had won
741
00:38:38,925 --> 00:38:40,666
America's Got Talent.
742
00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:42,581
And now we're thinking
"It's all coming back,
full circle."
743
00:38:42,624 --> 00:38:44,060
Now we actually play.
744
00:38:47,847 --> 00:38:49,196
They do, they absolutely do.
745
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,545
Yeah, the producers do.
746
00:38:50,589 --> 00:38:56,159
Right.
747
00:38:58,161 --> 00:38:59,467
Yeah.
748
00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:06,387
You're narrating
the sticks part.
749
00:39:06,431 --> 00:39:08,824
So I have intro,
you narrate sticks.
750
00:39:08,868 --> 00:39:10,173
-Yep.
-Count out loud.
751
00:39:10,478 --> 00:39:12,262
Then we do this,
we count out loud.
752
00:39:12,567 --> 00:39:14,090
They've already done it.
753
00:39:14,439 --> 00:39:18,921
What value is there in, no,
there's no, there's no value
754
00:39:18,965 --> 00:39:23,012
if everybody, if the producers
know it's a prank.
755
00:39:23,056 --> 00:39:25,406
Should we do a bow
after each exercise?
756
00:39:25,450 --> 00:39:27,234
Like that, or like...
757
00:39:27,539 --> 00:39:32,021
I was vehemently against it
because I think
it's a shitty show.
758
00:39:32,065 --> 00:39:38,114
And I work for NBC, so sorry,
but it's a shitty show.
759
00:39:38,158 --> 00:39:41,204
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
760
00:39:41,248 --> 00:39:43,772
-You say strong, I say strength.
-Okay.
761
00:39:43,816 --> 00:39:49,387
The fact that they reached
out to Joe and Nick already
has me feeling weird about it.
762
00:39:49,430 --> 00:39:51,519
You're making fun
of the establishment,
763
00:39:51,563 --> 00:39:52,999
and then the establishment says,
764
00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:55,480
"Come on,
will you give us more of that?"
765
00:39:55,523 --> 00:39:57,438
And you're like,
"No, that's not how this works."
766
00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:59,658
That happened to me, like I set
the Tonight Showon fire.
767
00:39:59,701 --> 00:40:01,137
I got more bookings after that.
768
00:40:01,181 --> 00:40:03,096
Here he is,
Bobcat Bob Goldthwait.
769
00:40:04,793 --> 00:40:07,796
You know, I'm on Regis
and Kathie Lee and they go,
770
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,494
"Oh, we're going to give you
a fire extinguisher.
771
00:40:09,537 --> 00:40:11,234
Wouldn't that be funny?"
And I go, "Sure."
772
00:40:11,539 --> 00:40:13,846
Hey! Hey!
773
00:40:15,151 --> 00:40:16,762
Bobcat! No, Bob.
774
00:40:17,589 --> 00:40:19,678
Basically the establishment
775
00:40:19,721 --> 00:40:22,507
that you're making fun of says,
"Hey, come on, do that to us."
776
00:40:22,550 --> 00:40:25,335
We're giving you
the middle finger
and you're saying,
777
00:40:25,379 --> 00:40:27,599
"Yeah, can you do it more?
778
00:40:27,642 --> 00:40:29,644
That's the type of thing that
would have gone through their
heads as like,
779
00:40:29,688 --> 00:40:35,128
"How can we do
something subversive
on America's Got Talent?"
780
00:40:35,171 --> 00:40:36,999
There's one idea we had.
781
00:40:37,043 --> 00:40:39,306
Should I talk about the ideas
or should I keep them a secret?
782
00:40:39,567 --> 00:40:41,613
-Yeah, I just, I have to go.
-Okay.
783
00:40:41,656 --> 00:40:44,224
But so to make it more
interesting, I was like,
784
00:40:44,267 --> 00:40:46,574
we've got to bring
something back with us.
785
00:40:46,618 --> 00:40:48,271
They might blur it.
786
00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:49,925
They might pixelate it,
I guess they would pixelate it.
787
00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:51,579
But I'm gonna do it
at the beginning of the segment.
788
00:40:51,623 --> 00:40:53,581
It'll be a Rockytraining
montage on that.
789
00:40:56,149 --> 00:40:58,630
It's kind of hard when you're
in debt to risk another lawsuit.
790
00:40:59,021 --> 00:41:00,283
It's really scary.
791
00:41:00,327 --> 00:41:01,850
Getting sued wasn't that bad.
792
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,505
We got so much press out of it,
it's like...
793
00:41:05,332 --> 00:41:08,857
It's tough to go back out
and risk that again.
794
00:41:08,901 --> 00:41:10,424
I guess I'm not that concerned.
795
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,209
The show has a lot of viewers.
796
00:41:13,253 --> 00:41:15,342
I think that they can do
something really awesome,
797
00:41:15,385 --> 00:41:18,040
you know, it's like it's their
Andy Kaufman moment.
798
00:41:18,084 --> 00:41:21,957
The audacity to do
it is so cool because
you have to commit to it
799
00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:24,786
once you're there,
you can't back out.
That's your one shot.
800
00:41:24,830 --> 00:41:29,791
Are you kidding?
They should only do it
if they do the double prank.
801
00:41:29,835 --> 00:41:34,013
My fear is that they're going
to go on this show
and do something.
802
00:41:34,056 --> 00:41:36,363
Producer is going to be like,
"Well, that was embarrassing.
803
00:41:36,406 --> 00:41:39,497
Let's cut it out
and just make them look like
804
00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:43,457
two idiots who are coming on
and make fools of themselves."
805
00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:50,246
I don't know, I just don't,
I don't trust Howie Mandel.
806
00:42:14,444 --> 00:42:16,621
We are here in California.
807
00:42:18,318 --> 00:42:21,800
Hard to believe,
but America's Got Talent
808
00:42:23,018 --> 00:42:26,282
called us up a day ago,
809
00:42:26,892 --> 00:42:29,895
and said, "We want you
on this Thursday."
810
00:42:32,245 --> 00:42:33,638
-Hello.
-About time.
811
00:42:34,464 --> 00:42:36,336
Party time.
812
00:42:36,379 --> 00:42:37,598
Oh, I'm fucking exhausted.
813
00:42:37,642 --> 00:42:39,121
Yeah, my mom texted me.
814
00:42:40,601 --> 00:42:43,561
I was terrified of the lawsuit.
815
00:42:43,604 --> 00:42:46,999
I was hoping that that would be
the end of pranking.
816
00:42:47,042 --> 00:42:53,396
Then he told me
what they were going to do
and then I went full on mother.
817
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,312
My mom said,
"It's too gross for grown men."
818
00:42:57,662 --> 00:42:59,664
Don't you dare do that, Joe.
819
00:42:59,707 --> 00:43:01,666
And then
five exclamation points.
820
00:43:01,709 --> 00:43:02,928
And then she said, "Good luck."
821
00:43:08,803 --> 00:43:11,719
And I think I'll chime in
and you say...
822
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,288
And we'll do it
under ten seconds.
823
00:43:40,661 --> 00:43:42,054
Yeah, yeah.
824
00:43:44,926 --> 00:43:46,580
Oh, okay.
825
00:43:47,712 --> 00:43:50,366
-Yeah, yeah.
-But we had to do that
on the news stations,
826
00:43:50,410 --> 00:43:53,021
just show up and leave
still in character.
827
00:43:58,331 --> 00:43:59,506
Right.
828
00:43:59,854 --> 00:44:01,116
Yeah.
829
00:44:02,074 --> 00:44:03,728
Yeah, super excited.
830
00:44:18,046 --> 00:44:20,179
This is the holding room
at America's Got Talent.
831
00:44:20,527 --> 00:44:25,010
We only have about eight hours
before we go on,
so they'll get B-roll.
832
00:44:25,053 --> 00:44:27,012
We'll probably have to make
asses of ourselves.
833
00:44:27,490 --> 00:44:28,970
Like the Wizard of Ozcast.
834
00:44:29,014 --> 00:44:30,580
It's going to be a long day.
835
00:44:30,624 --> 00:44:32,582
One, two, three, go!
836
00:44:34,367 --> 00:44:35,716
One, two, three, go!
837
00:44:36,848 --> 00:44:40,112
One, two, three, go!
One, two, three, go!
838
00:44:41,940 --> 00:44:44,551
All right,
let's go for it. So let's do
an introduction first.
839
00:44:44,594 --> 00:44:46,379
"I'm Chop and I'm Steele.
840
00:44:46,422 --> 00:44:48,686
-We're from New York,"
is that right?
-Wisconsin.
841
00:44:48,729 --> 00:44:50,557
And then let's just do one
with your ages, too.
842
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,733
So I'm Chop, I'm 41.
843
00:44:52,777 --> 00:44:54,692
Just tell me,
so strength became
an obsession for you guys.
844
00:44:54,735 --> 00:44:56,476
Tell me, sort of about that.
We've been working,
845
00:44:56,519 --> 00:44:58,521
we've been training,
you know, all that stuff.
846
00:44:58,565 --> 00:45:01,350
Like all this since we were
six years old, you know that.
847
00:45:01,394 --> 00:45:03,309
Talk about what a huge
opportunity this is.
848
00:45:03,352 --> 00:45:04,745
There's nothing
like us in Las Vegas.
849
00:45:04,789 --> 00:45:06,573
Give me that.
There's Celine Dion.
850
00:45:06,616 --> 00:45:08,749
There's this, you know,
Blue Man Group, whatever.
851
00:45:08,793 --> 00:45:11,230
You know,
there's nothing like
what we do in Las Vegas.
852
00:45:11,273 --> 00:45:13,188
We are so ready,
or we couldn't be more ready,
that kind of thing.
853
00:45:13,232 --> 00:45:15,016
We're...
854
00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:17,149
We are so ready
to get out there
and show the world,
855
00:45:17,192 --> 00:45:20,500
-show the judges what we can do.
-Let me at 'em.
856
00:45:21,936 --> 00:45:22,981
Amazing.
857
00:45:30,553 --> 00:45:33,600
Here we are backstage.
You hear the audience
858
00:45:33,643 --> 00:45:35,645
Tyra Banks
just introduced herself.
859
00:45:35,689 --> 00:45:37,256
-It's horrifying.
-Yeah.
860
00:45:37,299 --> 00:45:39,606
-And we're about to go out,
-About to go out,
861
00:45:39,649 --> 00:45:41,129
-for real this time.
-we're feeling it.
862
00:45:41,173 --> 00:45:42,914
We're really feeling it.
863
00:45:58,277 --> 00:46:00,061
And you are?
864
00:46:00,105 --> 00:46:02,542
Chop and Steele.
We are a professional
strongman duo.
865
00:46:02,585 --> 00:46:04,283
-Yeah!
-Tonight we're
gonna be performing
866
00:46:04,326 --> 00:46:07,025
amazing feats of strength
that you have never seen.
867
00:46:14,075 --> 00:46:16,512
We've known each other
since we were little,
since second grade.
868
00:46:16,556 --> 00:46:18,514
We watched
the Incredible Hulktogether,
869
00:46:18,558 --> 00:46:20,778
and that was our bonding thing.
870
00:46:20,821 --> 00:46:23,693
And we're like, one day we're
going to be the Hulk,
and here we are.
871
00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:28,698
-Did you want us to start?
-Yes, please.
872
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,311
All right.
We're doing a little act
we call Buddy Lifts.
873
00:46:32,354 --> 00:46:34,487
And all you need
for this one is a sledgehammer
874
00:46:34,530 --> 00:46:36,924
-and your best friend
in the world.
-Your best friend in the world.
875
00:46:36,968 --> 00:46:40,449
And this is why we stress,
do not do this one at home.
876
00:46:40,493 --> 00:46:42,321
Unless you're really strong.
877
00:46:42,364 --> 00:46:44,149
If you're strong,
give it a shot.
878
00:46:44,192 --> 00:46:45,933
Watch how the pros do it first.
879
00:46:45,977 --> 00:46:47,805
All right, you ready? All right.
880
00:46:48,066 --> 00:46:51,591
Now while Chop does this,
it's actually
gonna be working...
881
00:47:08,434 --> 00:47:10,523
All right, that was something.
882
00:47:10,566 --> 00:47:12,699
But now it's time
to break a world record.
883
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:28,846
One! Two! Three!
884
00:48:00,660 --> 00:48:02,792
This will happen.
885
00:48:03,141 --> 00:48:05,273
Did you get
nervous during that...
886
00:48:05,317 --> 00:48:09,495
-That's the problem.
-There's something
on your trousers.
887
00:48:11,976 --> 00:48:14,413
You're gonna see
what we do in Round 2.
888
00:48:14,456 --> 00:48:16,328
This is so uncomfortable.
889
00:48:17,242 --> 00:48:19,853
It happens.
890
00:48:19,897 --> 00:48:21,594
Oh my God.
891
00:48:23,813 --> 00:48:28,470
Joe told me that they
drank lots and lots of water
and held their...
892
00:48:30,298 --> 00:48:32,822
But they peed their pants,
though,
I don't think they...
893
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:35,477
What's the difference?
894
00:48:35,521 --> 00:48:36,957
Well, they didn't open
their zipper
and pee on the floor.
895
00:48:37,218 --> 00:48:39,133
I just want to make it clear
he just peed his pants
896
00:48:39,177 --> 00:48:40,961
-There really is no difference.
-and it ran onto the floor.
897
00:48:41,005 --> 00:48:42,832
-There's a huge difference.
-Might as well pee on the floor.
898
00:48:43,050 --> 00:48:45,400
-Well, he didn't expose himself.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
899
00:48:45,444 --> 00:48:48,664
He didn't expose himself,
but, gee, I wonder why
they didn't make the top ten.
900
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:51,754
Have to leave a tip
for the maid, for sure.
901
00:48:51,798 --> 00:48:55,019
Yeah. You know,
that was the one thing
that I didn't anticipate
902
00:48:55,062 --> 00:48:59,414
with everything was the fact
that somebody had to clean up
our piss at the end.
903
00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:01,590
I didn't even think about that,
you know?
904
00:49:01,634 --> 00:49:04,376
It was like, I kind of wish I
would have had
a towel standing by
905
00:49:04,419 --> 00:49:06,944
so that I could go out there
and clean it
so somebody else didn't.
906
00:49:08,075 --> 00:49:09,598
I feel bad about that.
907
00:49:09,642 --> 00:49:11,252
They wouldn't have allowed you
to do it anyway.
908
00:49:11,296 --> 00:49:13,080
No, but it would have been
at least a gesture.
909
00:49:13,124 --> 00:49:15,126
I kind of wish
they hadn't told us, but...
910
00:49:15,169 --> 00:49:18,216
I just want to crawl in a hole.
911
00:49:18,259 --> 00:49:20,000
It's so cringeworthy.
912
00:49:20,044 --> 00:49:22,960
That's really impressive,
that they peed on camera.
913
00:49:24,091 --> 00:49:25,440
Congratulations boys.
914
00:49:25,484 --> 00:49:27,138
I didn't see that coming.
915
00:49:27,181 --> 00:49:30,663
That is a level of commitment
that is pretty sick.
916
00:49:30,706 --> 00:49:33,796
By the way, no one on our crew
wants to clean that up.
917
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,059
Have you noticed that?
918
00:49:35,755 --> 00:49:38,714
No, it's not real.
There's no way.
919
00:49:39,106 --> 00:49:41,413
Right when we came off the
stage, the producer
came up to us.
920
00:49:41,456 --> 00:49:42,980
Her first question was,
921
00:49:43,197 --> 00:49:44,938
"Is that real pee
or is that water?"
922
00:49:45,373 --> 00:49:47,027
And told her the truth.
923
00:49:47,071 --> 00:49:49,203
It was like, it's real pee,
but we had an accident.
924
00:49:49,638 --> 00:49:51,858
So I tried to play it up like,
"Oh, I'm sorry."
925
00:49:51,901 --> 00:49:53,991
And she said,
"You guys can't do that."
926
00:49:54,034 --> 00:49:55,818
She goes, "You have to
run that stuff by me."
927
00:49:55,862 --> 00:49:57,429
-Yeah.
-But see, here's the thing.
928
00:49:57,472 --> 00:49:59,909
Our pee was so clear
because it was all water.
929
00:49:59,953 --> 00:50:01,476
That was barely even pee.
930
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,478
Like you used that defense
with the producer.
931
00:50:03,522 --> 00:50:07,439
"It's mostly water,"
Like it doesn't matter,
it's piss.
932
00:50:07,482 --> 00:50:09,354
I haven't texted Albertina yet.
933
00:50:09,397 --> 00:50:12,052
Like she,
and she hasn't texted me.
934
00:50:12,096 --> 00:50:15,447
I think that she kind of, I
think she buried her head in the
sand a little bit with this one.
935
00:50:15,490 --> 00:50:17,797
I don't think that she,
I don't know.
936
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,669
I text her right now.
I'll see what she says.
937
00:50:20,713 --> 00:50:25,152
"We peed on AGT."
938
00:50:25,196 --> 00:50:26,806
Good news, honey!
939
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:34,335
I think they're probably
not going to sue.
940
00:50:34,379 --> 00:50:36,903
Watch, five years from now,
941
00:50:36,946 --> 00:50:38,992
I'm like living in a box
because they sued.
942
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,777
But like I'm just worried
that's going to be,
943
00:50:41,821 --> 00:50:45,042
like I'm going to be the lady
who's married to the guy
944
00:50:45,390 --> 00:50:49,046
who just peed
his pants for comedy.
945
00:50:49,785 --> 00:50:51,396
Yeah. She goes, remember
it's a family show.
946
00:50:51,439 --> 00:50:53,093
Public urination isn't funny.
947
00:50:54,355 --> 00:50:55,922
I actually
have to pee right now.
948
00:50:58,142 --> 00:51:00,187
Now I feel
emboldened by all this.
949
00:51:00,231 --> 00:51:01,841
Oh yeah, let's just keep
doing what we're doing.
950
00:51:03,364 --> 00:51:04,844
So...
951
00:51:23,645 --> 00:51:26,779
I have no idea what the next
five years looks like
for Found Footage Festival,
952
00:51:26,822 --> 00:51:28,737
for me personally,
I don't think that far ahead.
953
00:51:28,781 --> 00:51:30,174
Neither does Joe.
954
00:51:30,217 --> 00:51:32,176
This card
that came in the tape says
955
00:51:32,219 --> 00:51:34,656
"This is developed by the USDA."
956
00:51:34,700 --> 00:51:36,658
That's who you want
in charge of your rap music.
957
00:51:37,877 --> 00:51:40,140
For the first time in my life,
I have no savings.
958
00:51:40,184 --> 00:51:41,359
I am in debt.
959
00:51:41,620 --> 00:51:43,012
There's no business plan.
960
00:51:43,056 --> 00:51:45,276
There is no long-term strategy.
961
00:51:45,319 --> 00:51:48,322
There's no conversation about
whether it's going okay or not.
962
00:51:48,757 --> 00:51:50,977
Joe and I,
we've been doing it 15 years.
963
00:51:51,020 --> 00:51:54,633
We've never had a conversation
about delineating
responsibilities at all.
964
00:51:59,203 --> 00:52:00,900
Growing up
it was like this, too.
965
00:52:07,646 --> 00:52:10,779
Joe's got subversive,
hare-brained schemes
966
00:52:12,085 --> 00:52:14,609
and sometimes I was like,
"Okay, fine, whatever."
967
00:52:17,786 --> 00:52:20,615
The annoying part is now
for the first time,
968
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,052
we went all the way to L.A.
969
00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:28,449
and did the prank and
you know, Joe thought, "How
can you take this over the top?"
970
00:52:29,668 --> 00:52:31,060
[crew[ There's no way.
971
00:52:32,758 --> 00:52:34,890
That was weird.
We're not going near that.
972
00:52:35,543 --> 00:52:37,850
I do wish that Chop and Steele
could be on TV.
973
00:52:37,893 --> 00:52:39,939
I'm really proud of it. But...
974
00:52:39,982 --> 00:52:41,288
There's no way.
975
00:52:41,897 --> 00:52:43,334
It'll be a challenge.
976
00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:56,956
It's two hours long.
It's such a long show.
977
00:52:57,391 --> 00:53:00,220
I really doubt that they're
going to include the peeing.
978
00:53:00,264 --> 00:53:02,179
I doubt it too.
979
00:53:02,222 --> 00:53:04,006
See, that's why I'm not
really looking forward
to seeing it,
980
00:53:04,050 --> 00:53:05,617
because I feel like they're
going to make us look dumb.
981
00:53:05,660 --> 00:53:07,314
Well, we'll see. I don't know.
982
00:53:07,358 --> 00:53:09,055
I think there's gonna
be a lot of fast forwarding
983
00:53:09,098 --> 00:53:10,796
because I'm not going
to watch the whole 2 hours.
984
00:53:10,839 --> 00:53:12,928
Fast forward is disabled
for the duration of this
content.
985
00:53:12,972 --> 00:53:14,408
-Oh no!
-Fuck.
986
00:53:17,890 --> 00:53:19,848
Ugh, this show is
just a cringe-fest.
987
00:53:19,892 --> 00:53:22,242
The only comfort is
that he might have been
988
00:53:22,286 --> 00:53:24,766
playing in a puddle
of our piss at this time.
989
00:53:28,030 --> 00:53:30,381
Oh, this is
like the bullshit guys.
990
00:53:30,424 --> 00:53:32,470
Yep, yep, yep.
This is where we're going to be.
991
00:53:33,819 --> 00:53:35,081
I don't get it.
992
00:53:36,691 --> 00:53:38,084
-Oh, there was us! There's us.
-We were there for a second.
993
00:53:40,129 --> 00:53:42,523
-You got me confused.
-That's how she wakes up.
994
00:53:44,569 --> 00:53:46,092
Who's next?
995
00:53:46,135 --> 00:53:47,441
We just stomped on a bag.
996
00:53:47,485 --> 00:53:48,921
-That was it.
-For one second.
997
00:53:52,881 --> 00:53:54,056
-So it is...
-Rewind it.
998
00:53:54,622 --> 00:53:55,841
I don't get it.
999
00:53:57,451 --> 00:53:59,105
Is this comedy?
1000
00:53:59,148 --> 00:54:00,367
"Is this comedy?"
1001
00:54:02,717 --> 00:54:06,765
So we were used to illustrate
the point that Mel didn't get
a lot of comedy.
1002
00:54:07,505 --> 00:54:09,768
-Fourteen million people
saw that.
-We finally made it.
1003
00:54:11,030 --> 00:54:12,597
-Oh, that's it.
-That's it.
1004
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,468
That's it.
Half a fucking second.
1005
00:54:14,512 --> 00:54:16,731
Yeah, well, it's something
that we can put on our resumes,
1006
00:54:16,775 --> 00:54:18,385
-that we were on
America's Got Talent.
-I'm not gonna.
1007
00:54:18,429 --> 00:54:20,169
I didn't like
anything about the show.
1008
00:54:20,213 --> 00:54:21,606
There was zero
that I liked about the show.
1009
00:54:21,649 --> 00:54:23,085
The whole day
was just torturous.
1010
00:54:23,129 --> 00:54:25,697
It was the most
stressful day of my life.
1011
00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:29,048
We had to be holding in our pee
all day long, and it was just
constantly doing interviews.
1012
00:54:29,091 --> 00:54:33,574
And it was just a long,
tiring day, and I was like, I
don't know if this is worth it.
1013
00:54:33,618 --> 00:54:36,316
And I was like,
"Do you still want
to do these pranks?"
1014
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:37,752
Because they're
always stressful.
1015
00:54:37,796 --> 00:54:39,276
What if we didn't pee our pants
1016
00:54:39,319 --> 00:54:41,190
and they played
our entire segment?
1017
00:54:41,234 --> 00:54:43,367
Wouldn't have made
a single difference.
1018
00:54:43,410 --> 00:54:46,239
I think if
you were to sell it
to college students,
1019
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:48,110
maybe, you know,
you could use that.
1020
00:54:48,154 --> 00:54:50,809
And what, we get, like six more
college shows a year?
1021
00:54:50,852 --> 00:54:51,897
-Yeah.
-Who gives a shit?
1022
00:55:03,212 --> 00:55:06,041
Hello. Hi, Hi.
1023
00:55:06,085 --> 00:55:07,478
Come on. Come on.
1024
00:55:08,130 --> 00:55:09,306
Hi, buddy, I know.
1025
00:55:09,697 --> 00:55:11,177
I wasn't gone that long.
1026
00:55:14,354 --> 00:55:18,184
When I adopted Marty, I was like
filling out the paperwork
1027
00:55:18,227 --> 00:55:20,012
and they're like, "Oh, by the
way, he has a little thing
with his penis,
1028
00:55:20,055 --> 00:55:24,364
you just have to apply some
some lubricant on it, you know,
1029
00:55:24,408 --> 00:55:26,410
keep it protected
from the elements."
1030
00:55:26,453 --> 00:55:29,238
And I was like, "Oh, okay.
1031
00:55:29,282 --> 00:55:32,198
Seems like a kind of a big deal
to mention late in the game."
1032
00:55:32,241 --> 00:55:36,420
But I do this because
his penis is basically
like one of those sticky hands.
1033
00:55:36,463 --> 00:55:37,943
It just picks up all the dust.
1034
00:55:38,204 --> 00:55:41,033
And so I take lube,
I apply it on there.
1035
00:55:41,555 --> 00:55:44,515
And he just kind of sits there
and has a knowing look.
1036
00:55:44,558 --> 00:55:48,693
And then I take some wet wipes
and kind of get it back
1037
00:55:48,736 --> 00:55:51,173
into the sheath
and hope it stays
and it never does.
1038
00:55:55,395 --> 00:55:58,006
What I get is,
"Oh, he's adorable,"
and then, "Whoa!"
1039
00:55:58,050 --> 00:56:01,358
Or I also get, "Boy he's happy
to see me," I'm like,
"Don't flatter yourself.
1040
00:56:01,401 --> 00:56:02,533
It's just, it's a condition."
1041
00:56:09,844 --> 00:56:11,977
-So this is
our dedicated dog menu.
-Great!
1042
00:56:12,020 --> 00:56:14,327
I highly recommend the ribeye.
Marty looks hungry.
1043
00:56:14,849 --> 00:56:16,329
He always is, yeah.
1044
00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:18,418
-Well enjoy, all right?
-Okay. Thanks, man.
1045
00:56:18,462 --> 00:56:22,117
I like doing the shows
and being in front of an
audience and performing.
1046
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,687
But the other parts,
the travel, everything else
really has taken its toll.
1047
00:56:27,253 --> 00:56:30,169
And like, I mean, I've been
engaged to be married twice.
1048
00:56:30,212 --> 00:56:32,389
Those have ended.
I've been, I can't...
1049
00:56:32,780 --> 00:56:35,740
It's hard to maintain
a relationship when you're
on the road all the time.
1050
00:56:36,349 --> 00:56:38,917
That's why I'm trying
to transition
to be on the road less
1051
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,137
and that might mean
getting a regular job
at the end of this tour
1052
00:56:42,181 --> 00:56:44,705
and be home to do
penis maintenance on my dog.
1053
00:56:44,749 --> 00:56:45,967
That's my priority.
1054
00:56:47,578 --> 00:56:50,581
I know that Albertina
has been living in Los Angeles.
1055
00:56:50,972 --> 00:56:54,236
I think it would throw
a wrench in things
if Joe moved to L.A.
1056
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,630
In the back of my head,
I knew it might
be a possibility,
1057
00:56:56,674 --> 00:56:58,284
but I don't
think Joe wants to move there.
1058
00:56:58,327 --> 00:56:59,590
He doesn't like L.A. much.
1059
00:57:00,504 --> 00:57:02,549
Hello and welcome to my home.
1060
00:57:04,899 --> 00:57:07,032
This is the soulless Airbnb.
1061
00:57:07,075 --> 00:57:09,295
It's very generic.
It feels like a movie set.
1062
00:57:09,338 --> 00:57:11,645
Our refrigerator
has absolutely nothing in it.
1063
00:57:12,254 --> 00:57:13,560
Nothing.
1064
00:57:14,169 --> 00:57:16,998
Albertina got a job last March.
1065
00:57:17,042 --> 00:57:19,261
We're bouncing back and forth.
She's visiting me in New York.
1066
00:57:19,305 --> 00:57:20,828
I'm visiting her here.
1067
00:57:23,614 --> 00:57:25,790
I don't know.
Maybe I'm due for a change.
1068
00:57:27,356 --> 00:57:28,532
That's going to be a good one.
1069
00:57:29,881 --> 00:57:32,492
-I mean...
-I've been, yeah.
1070
00:57:32,536 --> 00:57:34,581
You've been saving blackheads?
1071
00:57:34,625 --> 00:57:39,064
-Yeah.
-I think that maybe
your body filth
1072
00:57:40,587 --> 00:57:42,589
should not be front and center
1073
00:57:42,633 --> 00:57:44,896
at all times.
1074
00:57:44,939 --> 00:57:47,159
But you're saying that
I shouldn't talk about it
anymore or I shouldn't...
1075
00:57:47,202 --> 00:57:51,511
No, I think that, stop
showing people your body filth.
1076
00:57:52,033 --> 00:57:54,688
-Oh, okay.
-Maybe.
1077
00:57:56,081 --> 00:58:01,086
Yeah, sometimes I feel
like I have to choose
between Nick or my wife.
1078
00:58:01,129 --> 00:58:03,480
But the answer's easy
that I'm always going
to go with my wife.
1079
00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:07,353
I think both of us tend to avoid
heavy conversations like that.
1080
00:58:08,397 --> 00:58:10,922
Ah! Ah! Anything?
1081
00:58:10,965 --> 00:58:12,880
-Yeah. Oh boy.
-Oh boy.
1082
00:58:13,446 --> 00:58:15,143
-Oh.
-Oh, Jeez.
1083
00:58:15,187 --> 00:58:18,190
-It's like a forest.
-That is a rain forest.
1084
00:58:20,845 --> 00:58:22,107
What should we do with this?
1085
00:58:23,369 --> 00:58:25,850
-I mean, you throw it away.
-No.
1086
00:58:25,893 --> 00:58:27,460
This is Gilbert.
1087
00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:29,244
Is this a good
holding technique here?
1088
00:58:29,288 --> 00:58:31,769
Okay, it's kind of It's kind of
the ventriloquist's dummy.
1089
00:58:35,424 --> 00:58:38,906
I mean, do you think Nick
feels like abandoned in any way
1090
00:58:38,950 --> 00:58:40,908
-or like...
-I don't know, that's
what I kind of worry about.
1091
00:58:40,952 --> 00:58:43,128
-Like, yeah,
-I mean, you're allowed to.
1092
00:58:43,171 --> 00:58:45,609
-your life is allowed to evolve.
-I know.
1093
00:58:45,652 --> 00:58:49,351
It's one of those things
where I think every little
like small thing that he does
1094
00:58:49,395 --> 00:58:51,615
-irritates me.
-Slightly diverging paths.
1095
00:58:51,876 --> 00:58:55,575
Yes, well, I think that
that personality difference
is good for the show.
1096
00:58:55,619 --> 00:58:58,056
If we were both, like
gross picking our nose,
1097
00:58:58,099 --> 00:58:59,710
then it would just
be a gross show.
1098
00:58:59,753 --> 00:59:01,668
-Yes.
-But if we were both like Nick,
1099
00:59:01,712 --> 00:59:04,149
then I think
it'd be a boring show.
1100
00:59:04,192 --> 00:59:08,109
There's real consequences
to what they're doing,
and they are really
1101
00:59:08,153 --> 00:59:12,287
putting themselves on the line
in a pretty courageous
but a dangerous way.
1102
00:59:12,984 --> 00:59:15,856
And it could be
that maybe one of them
doesn't want to risk it all.
1103
00:59:15,900 --> 00:59:19,120
And that would be kind of
heartbreaking, because I think
of Joe and Nick, Nick and Joe.
1104
00:59:19,164 --> 00:59:21,427
That's like a team.
1105
00:59:21,470 --> 00:59:24,386
I kind of had
this thing where it's like,
"Look, we tried this experiment.
1106
00:59:24,430 --> 00:59:26,475
We've done it for two years.
1107
00:59:26,519 --> 00:59:28,303
It's not working.
We've got to come up
with something else."
1108
00:59:30,697 --> 00:59:32,917
I think if I didn't work
in comedy, I would go into
the board game industry.
1109
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,572
I love it.
I'm a huge board game fan.
1110
00:59:38,183 --> 00:59:40,751
We don't scream at each
other unless it's a board game.
1111
00:59:40,794 --> 00:59:43,014
He called me an idiot
a couple weeks ago.
1112
00:59:43,057 --> 00:59:46,104
Pointed at the rule book.
He's like,
"It's right here you idiot!"
1113
00:59:46,147 --> 00:59:47,279
That's a line we don't cross.
1114
00:59:47,322 --> 00:59:48,715
We don't call each other names.
1115
00:59:58,986 --> 01:00:02,120
What about being
a cheesy rock and roll guy
playing like an air guitar?
1116
01:00:02,468 --> 01:00:04,688
Just kind of like
being an idiot? Yeah.
1117
01:00:06,646 --> 01:00:09,823
We're in Austin, Texas,
at the Alamo Drafthouse
headquarters
1118
01:00:09,867 --> 01:00:13,000
and we're shooting hunky guys
1119
01:00:13,044 --> 01:00:16,047
for a board game I'm working on
called Dream Crush,
1120
01:00:16,351 --> 01:00:18,571
which I think can go either way.
1121
01:00:18,615 --> 01:00:21,661
It could be
your dreams are being crushed
or this is my dream crush.
1122
01:00:22,227 --> 01:00:24,795
We have to have our outside
things, to you know,
1123
01:00:25,186 --> 01:00:28,146
keep ourselves interested,
and so I've been
kind of workshopping
1124
01:00:28,189 --> 01:00:30,844
this game and pitching it around
and playing it with friends.
1125
01:00:30,888 --> 01:00:35,283
So I am excited for,
like this project and to kind of
have my own thing.
1126
01:00:36,328 --> 01:00:38,069
Certainly Leonardo.
1127
01:00:38,112 --> 01:00:40,332
I mean, I'd hate
to see them break up.
1128
01:00:40,375 --> 01:00:44,205
You know, selfishly,
I love great collaborators,
and I've really enjoyed
1129
01:00:44,249 --> 01:00:47,774
working with Nick on this game
and, you know,
we've talked about other ideas.
1130
01:00:47,818 --> 01:00:50,995
I just want to do
cool shit and make cool things.
1131
01:00:51,038 --> 01:00:55,782
And so I see there's a path here
for Nick to do that
if he wants to.
1132
01:00:55,826 --> 01:00:59,438
I wouldn't want to do that
if it ended up being the force
that broke apart
1133
01:00:59,481 --> 01:01:02,136
the Found Footage Festival
because that's also
important to me.
1134
01:01:02,180 --> 01:01:04,530
I don't know what it would mean
if I ended up moving to Austin
1135
01:01:04,573 --> 01:01:07,054
because, like Joe
and I don't discuss anything.
1136
01:01:07,098 --> 01:01:10,449
We haven't talked about any
moving or what's going to happen
after this tour wraps up.
1137
01:01:10,492 --> 01:01:14,409
I've expressed the fact
that I need to take a break
after that.
1138
01:01:14,453 --> 01:01:17,456
For me, I'm kind of just trying
to get out of debt right now.
1139
01:01:17,499 --> 01:01:20,546
We haven't been
making much money
at the Found Footage Festival
1140
01:01:20,589 --> 01:01:24,506
and I just realistically,
I need to get a job.
1141
01:01:42,263 --> 01:01:46,964
Movie theater screens
went dark when businesses
deemed nonessential closed
1142
01:01:47,007 --> 01:01:49,488
in response to the
coronavirus pandemic.
1143
01:01:52,404 --> 01:01:54,711
It happened so fast.
1144
01:01:54,754 --> 01:01:57,235
Over the course of about a week,
it became clear
that it's not safe.
1145
01:01:57,626 --> 01:02:00,455
We have to shut down.
So we furloughed
1146
01:02:00,499 --> 01:02:04,372
I think 5,000
people in one day,
which was a really bad day.
1147
01:02:16,645 --> 01:02:18,473
I always thought our show
was recession-proof
1148
01:02:18,517 --> 01:02:20,954
because people will always
want to be entertained.
1149
01:02:20,998 --> 01:02:23,130
It's not contagion-proof,
1150
01:02:23,174 --> 01:02:25,524
is what I'm learning
through this whole thing.
1151
01:02:31,486 --> 01:02:33,880
It's kind of weird.
I'm kind of going
a little crazy.
1152
01:02:33,924 --> 01:02:36,578
I've been talking
with my cats a lot.
1153
01:02:36,622 --> 01:02:39,407
We've been having
full-on conversations.
1154
01:02:39,886 --> 01:02:41,540
Tiny, I think she's
getting tired of me.
1155
01:02:42,062 --> 01:02:45,544
It is day 16
of self-isolation, quarantine.
1156
01:02:45,587 --> 01:02:48,808
Just me and Marty
here in the apartment.
1157
01:02:49,591 --> 01:02:51,506
And Marty
is loving this actually.
1158
01:02:53,204 --> 01:02:57,686
I'm worried about
the fact that we had to cancel
40 dates on our tour.
1159
01:02:57,730 --> 01:02:59,645
We are supposed to be doing
a show like right now.
1160
01:02:59,688 --> 01:03:01,212
Instead, I am eating my...
1161
01:03:02,126 --> 01:03:05,129
eh, I don't know if it's,
it's good, it's fine.
1162
01:03:05,433 --> 01:03:09,133
I think if there's anything
that's good about
this whole thing
1163
01:03:09,611 --> 01:03:11,875
is that I'm learning to cook
for myself a little bit more
1164
01:03:11,918 --> 01:03:13,267
because you can't
go out to restaurants.
1165
01:03:13,659 --> 01:03:15,574
So yeah, I'm grilling.
1166
01:03:15,617 --> 01:03:18,490
I grilled up some food.
1167
01:03:18,533 --> 01:03:22,102
This is like the end
of the Twilight Zoneepisode
where the guy who loves to read
1168
01:03:22,146 --> 01:03:24,626
breaks his glasses
because I'm stuck
in an apartment
1169
01:03:24,670 --> 01:03:26,977
with 500 board games
that I want to play.
1170
01:03:29,414 --> 01:03:33,070
If this goes on for a full year,
things are going to
get very weird.
1171
01:03:33,113 --> 01:03:37,335
I mean, it's only a week
and a half that I've been here,
and it's already weird.
1172
01:03:38,162 --> 01:03:39,859
Got the Murder She Wrotegame.
1173
01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:42,470
Mr. T, the Urkel game,
the Chippendales game.
1174
01:03:42,514 --> 01:03:43,863
Tiny Tim made a game.
1175
01:03:44,690 --> 01:03:47,388
We got the Alf game of course.
Ziggy put out a game.
1176
01:03:55,875 --> 01:03:57,877
I'm still here. I'm in Brooklyn.
1177
01:03:57,921 --> 01:03:59,618
It's been three months.
1178
01:03:59,661 --> 01:04:01,707
I miss Albertina.
1179
01:04:01,750 --> 01:04:03,709
I never thought I'd say this,
but I actually miss Nick.
1180
01:04:03,752 --> 01:04:05,798
This break
was kind of refreshing.
1181
01:04:05,842 --> 01:04:08,453
But now I'm like,
"I wanna play games
with the dude."
1182
01:04:08,496 --> 01:04:10,020
You know?
1183
01:04:12,892 --> 01:04:14,372
I woke up this morning kind of,
1184
01:04:14,415 --> 01:04:18,071
I don't know,
maybe a little bit panicked.
1185
01:04:18,115 --> 01:04:20,726
Just about everything's
just setting in.
1186
01:04:22,946 --> 01:04:24,121
Just wondering
1187
01:04:24,512 --> 01:04:27,037
what the future will hold.
1188
01:04:27,951 --> 01:04:30,736
Anyway, I gotta feed the cats
because they're bugging me.
1189
01:04:58,024 --> 01:05:00,679
I haven't seen Nick in
person in like two months
1190
01:05:00,722 --> 01:05:02,768
-probably that I've seen him.
-Yeah, since mid-March.
1191
01:05:02,811 --> 01:05:05,379
And humans in general.
We're in a parking lot
1192
01:05:05,423 --> 01:05:09,079
right now, getting ready to meet
perhaps the biggest guest
1193
01:05:09,775 --> 01:05:13,083
we've ever tracked down
from one of our VHS tapes.
1194
01:05:13,126 --> 01:05:15,824
The janitor, Chris,
from McC, this video
1195
01:05:15,868 --> 01:05:19,045
that started us thinking
that VHS tapes might be funny.
1196
01:05:19,089 --> 01:05:21,308
We figured out
that he actually is
the president
1197
01:05:21,352 --> 01:05:24,442
of the Joyva Candy Company,
which is right nearby here.
1198
01:05:24,833 --> 01:05:26,879
He's been in our backyard
this entire time.
1199
01:05:26,923 --> 01:05:30,927
It's honestly,
a 15-minute drive
from our office to meet McC.
1200
01:05:30,970 --> 01:05:33,668
It's a mystery
that has plagued us
for going on 30 years.
1201
01:05:33,712 --> 01:05:35,844
And I'm sure
he's thought a lot about it.
1202
01:05:35,888 --> 01:05:38,325
He's got the answer.
1203
01:05:38,369 --> 01:05:41,198
But that's another thing about
this movie, how influential
it was on our career.
1204
01:05:41,241 --> 01:05:42,460
I call it a movie.
1205
01:05:42,939 --> 01:05:45,550
You call it a career.
1206
01:05:46,768 --> 01:05:48,422
There he is.
1207
01:05:49,815 --> 01:05:51,991
That's him. How you doing?
1208
01:05:52,035 --> 01:05:53,775
I'm all right, how are you?
I got Nick and Joe, right?
1209
01:05:53,819 --> 01:05:55,473
Yeah. Yeah. I'm Nick here.
1210
01:05:55,516 --> 01:05:57,040
Are we allowed to elbow or not?
1211
01:05:57,083 --> 01:05:58,563
-We can elbow!
-All right, why not?
1212
01:05:58,867 --> 01:06:00,086
I want to hug you.
1213
01:06:00,130 --> 01:06:01,827
I know.
We've got to hug and kiss.
1214
01:06:02,306 --> 01:06:05,570
I mean, this is
just unbelievable.
1215
01:06:05,613 --> 01:06:09,835
Wow. Is this the first time
anybody's ever approached you
about the training video?
1216
01:06:09,878 --> 01:06:11,489
Of course! Are you
out of your fucking mind?
1217
01:06:11,532 --> 01:06:15,014
No, I get calls a lot
about that industrial film
1218
01:06:15,058 --> 01:06:17,190
-I did in Gurnee Illinois.
-Oh man!
1219
01:06:17,234 --> 01:06:19,453
You started
the Found Footage Festival.
1220
01:06:19,497 --> 01:06:21,020
-Right?
-Yes.
1221
01:06:21,064 --> 01:06:22,891
And you are partially
responsible for that.
1222
01:06:22,935 --> 01:06:24,937
This is the video
that started it all for us.
1223
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:27,984
I just can't believe
I'm talking about this.
1224
01:06:28,027 --> 01:06:30,029
We've always wondered
what McC is,
1225
01:06:30,073 --> 01:06:33,902
because at one point she says,
"Did you see me see McC?
1226
01:06:33,946 --> 01:06:35,817
I'm sure he's
around here somewhere."
1227
01:06:35,861 --> 01:06:39,430
So like, did you have an
understanding of who McC
or what McC was?
1228
01:06:39,473 --> 01:06:42,346
Ugh, no.
1229
01:06:42,389 --> 01:06:44,478
We've been waiting
30 years for this answer.
1230
01:06:44,522 --> 01:06:48,482
I think that McC
was this spiritual,
1231
01:06:49,614 --> 01:06:53,183
looking-over being,
God-like thing
1232
01:06:53,487 --> 01:06:58,014
to make sure that everyone
did their job right
1233
01:06:58,057 --> 01:07:00,277
and there's someone watching.
1234
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,150
-Yes.
-And it wasn't exclusive
to janitorial custodian videos.
1235
01:07:04,194 --> 01:07:05,804
I think McC was in all of us.
1236
01:07:05,847 --> 01:07:07,545
Make it shine, guy.
1237
01:07:07,588 --> 01:07:08,807
Make it shine.
1238
01:07:11,114 --> 01:07:13,377
I'm tearing up at this.
1239
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:16,249
I mean, you don't have
to put it on, but if we
could just hold it up.
1240
01:07:16,293 --> 01:07:18,034
-That's...
-Oh man!
1241
01:07:18,077 --> 01:07:20,645
-That is like...
-I think I see McC, guys.
1242
01:07:20,688 --> 01:07:23,082
I definitely see McC.
1243
01:07:23,126 --> 01:07:26,433
Worst thing about these
is you can't see me
beaming and smiling.
1244
01:07:26,868 --> 01:07:29,088
I know, now it's just like,
it's not even veiled.
1245
01:07:30,002 --> 01:07:32,178
The fact that these guys
found this tape,
1246
01:07:32,222 --> 01:07:36,269
the fact that they've made a
creative career out
of these kinds of films
1247
01:07:36,313 --> 01:07:41,448
and commenting on
and having an audience,
to me is unbelievable.
1248
01:07:42,014 --> 01:07:44,321
God bless Nick and Joe
for what they did.
1249
01:07:44,799 --> 01:07:48,020
Make it shine, guys.
Make it shine.
1250
01:08:08,606 --> 01:08:09,824
Hi.
1251
01:08:12,740 --> 01:08:16,657
Can I just say something?
I think that you guys are funny.
1252
01:08:16,918 --> 01:08:18,529
Let me talk.
1253
01:08:19,443 --> 01:08:21,575
I think that they're funny.
1254
01:08:21,619 --> 01:08:23,316
-No!
-I think, yes.
1255
01:08:30,715 --> 01:08:34,545
Whoever shot it,
they weren't supposed
to be shooting.
1256
01:08:36,068 --> 01:08:38,201
Already I like it because
you know, you're not supposed,
1257
01:08:38,244 --> 01:08:39,898
if you come to a taping
of America's Got Talent,
1258
01:08:39,941 --> 01:08:41,291
you're not supposed to tape.
1259
01:08:41,552 --> 01:08:44,337
This is a great comedy act.
It's really funny.
1260
01:08:44,816 --> 01:08:48,211
My favorite moment in the whole
act, was you asking me,
1261
01:08:48,254 --> 01:08:49,734
is this comedy?
1262
01:08:49,777 --> 01:08:51,823
I think a lot of people
in the audience laughed.
1263
01:08:51,866 --> 01:08:53,912
I would imagine a lot of people
at home were laughing.
1264
01:08:53,955 --> 01:08:55,783
Thank you.
1265
01:08:55,827 --> 01:08:58,395
Wanna know what?
I'm going to say yes,
it's funny.
1266
01:09:03,878 --> 01:09:07,055
If you do watch the tape,
I was laughing.
1267
01:09:08,970 --> 01:09:12,496
And honestly, my favorite thing
in the world is pranks.
1268
01:09:17,588 --> 01:09:21,069
I hired a company
to put an addition on
to the library in high school.
1269
01:09:21,722 --> 01:09:24,986
So I'm sitting in math
and watching these people
out there measuring
1270
01:09:25,030 --> 01:09:28,425
and the principal going out
and saying,
"What are you doing?"
1271
01:09:29,339 --> 01:09:32,907
And I get called to the office
and the principal said,
1272
01:09:32,951 --> 01:09:34,953
"Did you authorize
an addition onto the library?"
1273
01:09:34,996 --> 01:09:37,085
And I said, "Well, I'm
getting three estimates."
1274
01:09:37,608 --> 01:09:41,220
But the point was,
I never acted
like it was funny.
1275
01:09:41,612 --> 01:09:44,049
And they called my parents,
and even in front of my parents
1276
01:09:44,092 --> 01:09:49,750
and throughout my life,
people have said,
"Who is this for?
1277
01:09:49,794 --> 01:09:52,013
Where's the joke? Where is it?"
1278
01:09:52,057 --> 01:09:54,407
And it was just about me.
1279
01:09:54,451 --> 01:09:58,933
So when I see these two guys,
I mean I love
what they're doing.
1280
01:09:58,977 --> 01:10:01,936
I wish everybody had
a sense of humor,
you know,
1281
01:10:01,980 --> 01:10:08,204
at the darkest, humor
always just by nature,
only comes out of misfortune.
1282
01:10:10,249 --> 01:10:11,598
I think it was hysterical.
1283
01:10:11,859 --> 01:10:13,296
Did the show? No.
1284
01:10:15,298 --> 01:10:17,604
That to me
is funnier than anything.
1285
01:10:20,041 --> 01:10:21,782
I'm not
an emotional guy, but I did,
1286
01:10:21,826 --> 01:10:24,350
there was something that kind of
just hit me a little bit.
1287
01:10:24,394 --> 01:10:27,266
-I was just like,
"Oh, this is..."
-Yeah, I'm speechless.
1288
01:10:27,310 --> 01:10:30,138
It was amazing.
1289
01:10:30,182 --> 01:10:34,665
He had a good perspective on it,
and that totally re-energized me
for Found Footage Festival.
1290
01:10:34,708 --> 01:10:38,277
You know, we can't perform.
That's where we get a lot of
our energy to keep doing this.
1291
01:10:38,538 --> 01:10:41,889
It really made me excited
to get back on the road
whenever we can do that again.
1292
01:10:54,467 --> 01:10:56,339
This is our first show back.
1293
01:10:56,382 --> 01:10:57,862
Do we still got it?
1294
01:10:58,428 --> 01:11:00,821
-Did we lose it?
-Did we never have it?
1295
01:11:00,865 --> 01:11:03,215
It's the wildest show on wheels!
1296
01:11:08,525 --> 01:11:10,396
It's good to be back!
1297
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:12,442
-This is our first show back
in a long time.
-Our first show!
1298
01:11:12,485 --> 01:11:14,618
-Thanks for coming.
-Thank you!
1299
01:11:14,661 --> 01:11:16,620
Yes, you're just the best.
1300
01:11:16,663 --> 01:11:18,230
Last time we were in the area,
1301
01:11:18,274 --> 01:11:20,406
we were in the middle
of a federal lawsuit.
1302
01:11:20,450 --> 01:11:22,930
It would not have
taken long for anyone
at that television station
1303
01:11:23,453 --> 01:11:26,934
to have verified
that these two guys
were pulling a prank.
1304
01:11:26,978 --> 01:11:29,502
They're not in very good shape!
1305
01:11:29,546 --> 01:11:32,723
-Darlene!
-What the hell? Come on Darlene.
1306
01:11:32,766 --> 01:11:34,507
Oh, boy.
1307
01:11:35,334 --> 01:11:36,901
Happy ending to the story.
1308
01:11:36,944 --> 01:11:39,599
So we ended up settling
out of court, and we won.
1309
01:11:39,643 --> 01:11:41,471
We didn't give them
anything they wanted.
1310
01:11:41,514 --> 01:11:43,299
-We didn't give them anything.
-We won!
1311
01:11:43,864 --> 01:11:46,127
So and at the end
of this whole ordeal,
1312
01:11:46,171 --> 01:11:48,608
we were filling out
paperwork with our lawyer,
1313
01:11:48,652 --> 01:11:50,610
and there is a box
you could check.
1314
01:11:50,654 --> 01:11:52,264
He's like,
"Did you want the footage
from your depositions?"
1315
01:11:53,874 --> 01:11:55,441
And that gave us an idea.
1316
01:11:56,181 --> 01:11:57,878
Who do you refer to as a fucker?
1317
01:11:57,922 --> 01:12:00,620
Uh, my niece and nephew.
1318
01:12:05,103 --> 01:12:06,974
Joe's parents. I'm sorry, what?
1319
01:12:07,018 --> 01:12:09,760
These are all real.
We paid $700 for these.
1320
01:12:09,803 --> 01:12:14,155
He's not seriously suggesting
we could come up with a way
to have this reporter
1321
01:12:14,199 --> 01:12:16,810
with his pants around his ankles
holding a big lollipop.
1322
01:12:17,898 --> 01:12:21,685
Nick and I clearly
are not strongmen.
1323
01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:23,469
We don't look strong.
1324
01:12:24,427 --> 01:12:25,732
What's a strongman?
1325
01:12:27,386 --> 01:12:30,737
Uh, a strong man.
1326
01:12:30,781 --> 01:12:32,522
Nailed it!
1327
01:12:32,565 --> 01:12:35,438
-All right, we gotta go.
Good night.
-Take it easy!
1328
01:12:37,875 --> 01:12:39,877
Come say hi to us
over at the merch table.
1329
01:12:42,793 --> 01:12:44,055
Hi guys, how ya doing?
1330
01:12:46,405 --> 01:12:48,364
We've been
following them for years now,
probably over a decade.
1331
01:12:48,407 --> 01:12:53,194
It is fun, though, to see
it live because their energy
is like really strong.
1332
01:12:53,238 --> 01:12:57,460
They're historians, they're
comedians, they're presenters.
1333
01:12:57,503 --> 01:12:59,549
Just the most sincere,
1334
01:12:59,592 --> 01:13:04,858
ludicrous, real, look at people.
1335
01:13:04,902 --> 01:13:07,948
I hope that they keep finding
ways to make people laugh,
1336
01:13:07,992 --> 01:13:10,429
because that's really the stuff
that brings us together
1337
01:13:10,473 --> 01:13:12,910
and that's sort of
what we need right now.
1338
01:13:12,953 --> 01:13:16,740
When Nick and Joe need
bail money, I would definitely
contribute to that GoFundMe.
1339
01:13:18,219 --> 01:13:20,134
[Nick[ Well great, it was fun,
it was good.
1340
01:13:20,483 --> 01:13:22,049
It felt good
because we could do no wrong.
1341
01:13:22,528 --> 01:13:24,704
Yeah, like people are just happy
to be out of the house.
1342
01:13:24,748 --> 01:13:26,358
So they're very charitable.
1343
01:13:28,534 --> 01:13:32,930
Go home tonight.
We drive back three hours
and right back in it.
1344
01:13:32,973 --> 01:13:34,497
Yes, I think we have like,
1345
01:13:34,540 --> 01:13:36,673
six or seven shows
left in this fall.
1346
01:13:36,716 --> 01:13:39,458
-Yeah.
-And no, I'm excited.
It's gonna be fun.
1347
01:13:41,068 --> 01:13:43,114
I think after
a year and a half,
we have a different
1348
01:13:43,157 --> 01:13:46,073
perspective on the pranks,
and we can say, like frame it
1349
01:13:46,117 --> 01:13:47,727
and put a nice
little button on that.
1350
01:13:53,211 --> 01:13:56,083
I'm not really surprised
to learn that Joe and Nick
1351
01:13:56,127 --> 01:13:58,869
don't want to do any more pranks
because it's stressful
1352
01:13:58,912 --> 01:14:01,524
and there's a lot of occasions
for personal conflict.
1353
01:14:01,828 --> 01:14:04,265
I think it's okay
to not do this.
1354
01:14:04,875 --> 01:14:07,617
I think Joe and Nick
are going to have
a very hard time quitting.
1355
01:14:07,660 --> 01:14:12,056
They will feel a great sense of
relief for stopping for a while,
1356
01:14:12,099 --> 01:14:13,449
but they'll still
have that itch.
1357
01:14:13,971 --> 01:14:15,538
They'll need to scratch it.
1358
01:14:15,581 --> 01:14:17,322
They'll go back to it.
1359
01:14:17,365 --> 01:14:19,498
I think you have to keep upping
the stakes for yourself.
1360
01:14:20,064 --> 01:14:22,283
It makes sense they wouldn't
want to do the same thing again.
1361
01:14:23,197 --> 01:14:26,897
How do you top urinating
on the biggest show in America?
1362
01:14:27,463 --> 01:14:28,768
I don't know. Good luck.
1363
01:14:30,509 --> 01:14:32,729
We rented a place in L.A.
This is the place.
1364
01:14:32,772 --> 01:14:36,080
And there is a hummingbird
in the grapefruit tree.
1365
01:14:36,123 --> 01:14:41,085
There's a grapefruit tree, what
have I been doing my whole life?
1366
01:14:41,999 --> 01:14:46,438
I always think about what the
Coen brothers said about having
their corner of the sandbox.
1367
01:14:46,482 --> 01:14:49,485
-Oh yeah, yeah.
-I think he has
his corner of the sandbox.
1368
01:14:50,442 --> 01:14:52,357
And that's like,
there's a freedom in that.
1369
01:14:58,189 --> 01:15:00,496
I actually have made residence
1370
01:15:00,539 --> 01:15:03,368
-in his apartment.
-Who believes in residence?
1371
01:15:04,238 --> 01:15:08,591
If you walk into here,
It's not really that
kind of Zen feeling
1372
01:15:08,634 --> 01:15:09,896
that you would get.
1373
01:15:11,463 --> 01:15:12,464
It makes me happy.
I feel very calm here.
1374
01:15:12,986 --> 01:15:15,380
Kids like it.
1375
01:15:15,423 --> 01:15:16,468
Why would they want to stop?
1376
01:15:18,165 --> 01:15:20,385
As somebody who has sat
on that stage for 17 years,
1377
01:15:20,428 --> 01:15:24,781
you see all these people
come out swallowing fire
and hanging upside down.
1378
01:15:24,824 --> 01:15:27,523
But when a human being comes out
1379
01:15:28,045 --> 01:15:32,092
and just bares their urine,
1380
01:15:33,050 --> 01:15:35,487
I think that's a gift.
1381
01:15:35,531 --> 01:15:37,445
Laughter is the best medicine.
1382
01:15:39,752 --> 01:15:43,016
And now more than ever
it is needed on this planet,
1383
01:15:43,060 --> 01:15:45,279
and that's why I said yes
to doing this documentary.
1384
01:15:45,323 --> 01:15:47,238
I want to see where
they're going next.
1385
01:15:47,281 --> 01:15:49,414
I'd love to work with them.
They're brilliant.
1386
01:15:50,154 --> 01:15:52,330
And it's my cup of tea.
1387
01:15:53,679 --> 01:15:55,028
Thank you.
1388
01:15:55,986 --> 01:15:58,162
We have a pretty great job.
We don't have a boss,
1389
01:15:58,205 --> 01:16:00,817
we don't have
any of that stuff,
and it took being
1390
01:16:00,860 --> 01:16:05,561
away from it for so long
to really appreciate it.
1391
01:16:05,604 --> 01:16:07,650
I wouldn't trade
this job for anything.
1392
01:16:07,693 --> 01:16:09,216
I'm happy with life.
1393
01:16:09,260 --> 01:16:12,176
Yeah.
1394
01:16:20,706 --> 01:16:22,055
Stop it Marty.
1395
01:16:23,230 --> 01:16:24,884
-Hey.
-Okay.
1396
01:16:25,145 --> 01:16:27,495
I got this, it's a choker.
1397
01:16:27,539 --> 01:16:28,975
Oh, great.
1398
01:16:52,433 --> 01:16:55,436
It's such a blue.
I've been doing it too much.
1399
01:17:00,050 --> 01:17:01,660
There it is.
1400
01:17:01,704 --> 01:17:03,270
Hi, how are you?
1401
01:17:03,314 --> 01:17:06,056
So there's a bank statement
with proof of address.
1402
01:17:08,145 --> 01:17:12,540
Passport and social here.
1403
01:17:15,065 --> 01:17:21,680
No one questioned my nose tubes,
my long flowing locks,
my tan or my pouty lips.
1404
01:17:21,724 --> 01:17:23,639
So in that sense, great.
1405
01:17:23,682 --> 01:17:26,293
It's just like you're
an ageing rocker
who has health problems.
1406
01:17:26,337 --> 01:17:29,209
Kind of like Criss Angel
who has emphysema,
maybe something like that.
1407
01:17:29,688 --> 01:17:33,170
I was happy.
I kind of did psycho eyes,
kind of bugged out eyes.
1408
01:17:33,213 --> 01:17:34,998
-I'm pretty happy.
-Pouty lips too?
1409
01:17:35,041 --> 01:17:37,130
Pouty lips.
1410
01:17:37,174 --> 01:17:39,263
-TSA is going
to hate you so bad.
-Oh yeah. "This isn't you."
1411
01:17:56,106 --> 01:17:58,151
-Uh, Donkey Training.
-California Big Hunks.
1412
01:17:58,195 --> 01:17:59,805
It's Eroticise.
1413
01:17:59,849 --> 01:18:02,503
You play a lot of
more erotic videos.
1414
01:18:02,547 --> 01:18:04,201
Yeah, I'm into eroticism.
1415
01:18:04,462 --> 01:18:06,594
-You're a sexual man,
aren't you?
-Yeah, completely.
1416
01:18:06,638 --> 01:18:08,074
And I like
people to think of me that way.
1417
01:18:11,295 --> 01:18:13,601
Barbershop quartet,
we got the outfits
and the straw hats,
1418
01:18:13,645 --> 01:18:15,125
but it's only the two of us.
1419
01:18:15,168 --> 01:18:16,909
A couple guys who specialize
in life hacks,
1420
01:18:16,953 --> 01:18:19,564
but they all involve
toilet paper.
1421
01:18:19,607 --> 01:18:22,610
Parenting experts who don't
have any kids, and it's clear
they're afraid of children.
1422
01:18:22,654 --> 01:18:24,482
Male belly dancers
we talked about.
1423
01:18:24,525 --> 01:18:27,833
Yeah, a toy expert could have
a baseball attached with a rope
1424
01:18:27,877 --> 01:18:30,444
to a basketball
and be like,
"This is the hot new toy."
1425
01:18:30,488 --> 01:18:32,011
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
1426
01:18:32,055 --> 01:18:33,317
I am a male crafter.
1427
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:34,753
All my friends
are having children
1428
01:18:35,145 --> 01:18:37,756
and I can't afford to buy them
all a fucking present.
1429
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:40,280
So I started making
stuffed animals.
1430
01:18:40,324 --> 01:18:43,588
I make these fur sharks,
I buy fake fur
1431
01:18:43,631 --> 01:18:46,591
and make animals that don't have
fur out of anyway.
1432
01:18:51,639 --> 01:18:53,859
That's the part that keeps
my wife and I together.
1433
01:18:54,251 --> 01:18:55,948
I still look cool.
1434
01:18:55,992 --> 01:18:57,515
We've both been
to therapy before.
1435
01:18:57,558 --> 01:18:59,647
But not together.
1436
01:18:59,952 --> 01:19:01,519
And so this is
going to be a first.
1437
01:19:01,824 --> 01:19:03,651
Well, I really,
really want to be helpful.
1438
01:19:03,913 --> 01:19:06,045
I was going to ask,
have you seen
the Metallica documentary?
1439
01:19:06,089 --> 01:19:08,265
No.
1440
01:19:08,308 --> 01:19:11,311
They went to seek therapy
because they've been
on the road constantly.
1441
01:19:11,790 --> 01:19:14,010
And I don't remember
how the movie ends.
1442
01:19:14,053 --> 01:19:15,838
Did they, were they healed
at the end?
1443
01:19:15,881 --> 01:19:18,275
-They fired the therapist.
-Oh, they fired the therapist?
1444
01:19:18,318 --> 01:19:19,972
Okay, all right.
1445
01:19:20,016 --> 01:19:21,887
Yeah, I liked Irina.
I think she tried her hardest.
1446
01:19:21,931 --> 01:19:25,021
-But...
-Yeah, we're never going to see
her again.
1447
01:19:25,064 --> 01:19:26,500
Yeah.
1448
01:19:26,849 --> 01:19:29,286
And by the way,
we have enough VHS tapes
about therapy.
1449
01:19:29,329 --> 01:19:31,941
-We didn't need this.
-Yeah, we could have just
popped in one of those.
1450
01:19:31,984 --> 01:19:34,813
So this one, okay, so we're
lifelong zoologists,
1451
01:19:34,857 --> 01:19:37,163
we're touring a show
called the Zoo Disco.
1452
01:19:37,207 --> 01:19:41,167
We promise to bring on
a variety of animals and
dance with them, live on air.
1453
01:19:41,211 --> 01:19:44,040
But then we show up,
we forgot the keys to the zoo
1454
01:19:44,083 --> 01:19:46,999
on our way here,
and we weren't able
to grab the animals.
1455
01:19:47,434 --> 01:19:49,697
-And then we can launch...
-Pretend I'm a raccoon.
1456
01:19:49,741 --> 01:19:52,918
All right, now I'm on my hind,
on my back paws,
and we're going to walk.
1457
01:19:52,962 --> 01:19:54,615
Okay? All right.
1458
01:19:55,007 --> 01:19:56,835
I'm a little worried
that Metallica is going
to sue us, though,
1459
01:19:56,879 --> 01:19:59,272
because we took their idea
of getting a therapist, but...
1460
01:19:59,925 --> 01:20:01,622
-And they're litigious.
-Yeah.
1461
01:20:01,666 --> 01:20:03,668
Hey everybody,
we're Chop and Steele.
1462
01:20:03,711 --> 01:20:06,105
This is what we do for our job,
and we play to a lot of
audiences.
1463
01:20:06,149 --> 01:20:09,587
But not one
quite this big, and I have
to be honest with you.
1464
01:20:09,630 --> 01:20:15,201
I normally, I get a little
nervous when it comes to
bigger crowds like this one.
1465
01:20:15,245 --> 01:20:17,334
Well, I'm usually cool
as a cucumber.
1466
01:20:17,377 --> 01:20:20,119
It's not a problem for me,
but first, first thing
we're gonna do
1467
01:20:20,163 --> 01:20:25,168
we're gonna...
it's all over my foot.
1468
01:20:25,429 --> 01:20:29,128
-It feels so hot.
-It really is,
my shoe is just full.
1469
01:20:30,477 --> 01:20:31,914
I don't like
anything about this.
1470
01:20:34,917 --> 01:20:38,137
The whole conversation
for months was,
1471
01:20:38,181 --> 01:20:40,009
"I think that was real piss."
1472
01:20:40,444 --> 01:20:41,924
"That was real piss."
1473
01:20:41,967 --> 01:20:43,534
"That guy pissed himself."
1474
01:20:43,577 --> 01:20:46,319
Nothing, like nothing else
happened that day
1475
01:20:46,885 --> 01:20:48,887
but some guy
pissed himself on our stage.
1476
01:20:53,892 --> 01:20:55,720
Was it real piss?
1477
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:58,549
You know.
1478
01:21:01,073 --> 01:21:02,901
I feel like, let's just
close the book on it
and just chalk it up as a win.
1479
01:21:02,945 --> 01:21:04,642
I mean, it's the perfect
ending to the story.
1480
01:21:04,685 --> 01:21:06,426
We got sued,
and then we won the lawsuit.
1481
01:21:06,905 --> 01:21:08,080
Yeah.
1482
01:21:09,734 --> 01:21:11,910
So, but there's
still a part of me
1483
01:21:11,954 --> 01:21:14,565
that we have this idea
ready to go.
1484
01:21:15,566 --> 01:21:19,048
It would be so easy to get on,
and we came up with this
pretty cool idea.
1485
01:21:20,527 --> 01:21:22,051
Thanks for staying
with us, everybody.
1486
01:21:22,094 --> 01:21:23,922
I'm joined now
with Geoff Byrd and Nick.
1487
01:21:23,966 --> 01:21:25,184
How are y'all doing
this morning?
1488
01:21:25,228 --> 01:21:26,577
Good, yeah, real good.
1489
01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:28,100
Thanks for having us on.
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