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Thomas on the knobs. Welcome to the handsome pod. Is that okay to say Thomas on the knobs? Thomas on the knobs. Sure. Okay. How are you guys? Oh, man. Yeah, it's been a year so far. We have been dealing with a lot already in 2025. And many people have, especially in our Los Angeles area. I know. And the three of us haven't been together since the fires. We've been keeping in touch.
checking in but but yeah how are you holding up we're good you know i think that god that the fires as of when we're taping right now not as of when this is airing um are not fully put out yet Um, but much more contained, but there was a good, um, gosh, how long has it been to a week and a half? It's been 10, 11 days, 11 days of just. Pure anxiety and tension and fear and devastation for all the people who've lost their homes in Altadena.
Pasadena, Malibu, Palisades. I mean, it's been heartbreaking. Yeah. The speed that it happened and having friends who get, you know, you get the evacuation notice and then three hours later, your whole house is gone. It's like. It's really frightening, and it's been absolutely wild. And it got pretty close to your house, right, Fortune? You could see it raging. Yeah, there were two nights that were – I mean, listen, we're totally fine.
lucky there were two nights it was really dicey i started getting notifications from this app watch duty that everyone's been glued to and um saying like uh it was coming towards the the 405 and uh I went to get gas in our car, and when I came home, I saw a lot of red in the sky. So I ran up to our balcony, and just on the mountain right here, there was fire everywhere.
I was like, if that comes over this ridge, we're done. We're done. This whole area is done. And so, Jackson, I started packing. And I just kept watching it and watching it. What happened on the original nights of the main fire is that the winds were like 100 miles an hour. It was unprecedented winds that you can't control anything. Luckily on this night.
The winds were not like that. So I watched the planes come in one after another after another and drop water. And you could see it over hours going down, down, down. They weren't able to have that aerial help.
those original nights and that is what makes the difference so thank god for our firefighters and all these people that are fighting the fire they i watched it in real time them save like the entire valley from so that those efforts i can't even i mean i i can imagine i mean i saw your picture um but seeing oh man fire on the ridge like that um the smoke and the air and the heat and yeah are you good in a crisis like did you learn like that adrenaline when you're like
like how it's so rare that you're in that situation yeah i actually was more calm than i thought i would be it was just a matter of staying on top of it the hardest thing for a lot of the people that lost their homes and some people didn't make it out as you know like you said they had minutes to evacuate um because everyone's like oh why didn't you you know do this or why didn't you do that i mean these people are literally minutes yeah getting in a car getting out of there so
I was just trying to watch the fire on the app, watch it on the ridge, just being aware and having like a plan. And so many people were like, the city was so amazing. All these friends were... texting and looking out for each other and yeah what do you need and are you good and like you know la gets a bad rap for no one caring and man people kept showing up for everybody
Mm hmm. That first night with the winds and I was about to do an improv show with Stephanie in Atlanta. So we were like, let's all get meet up before the show. We'll meet at this. And we got there and there's a power outage. And I just had not been aware of the Santa Ana winds as a thing. I just didn't know about them. And there was this power outage and the waitress was like, I'm sure it'll come back in a minute. And it was like.
The vibe was weird. Then we look outside and there's an electricity pole just swaying in the wind like it could fall at any minute on the buildings. And there's a kind of sense of panic. And Stephanie's like, huh. I'm just texting with Tig. And then she's like, a tree fell on our house. And I was like, what? And then we were like, we're all going to go our separate ways and go home. Yeah.
Well, we were on the phone on her way to meet up with you and Alana. And it was just a normal conversation. Like, let me call you from the car. And we're talking. And then. My next call from her is, oh my God, there was a power outage and there are light posts about to... crush the comedy venue yeah yeah and then we get a text that that tree i mean it's so massive this eucalyptus tree
It is so massive. And yeah, that was just the very beginning of it. And the tree's still there. And all the traffic lights. The least of anybody's concerns right now is a tree is down. Yeah, yeah. And then so you were in Toronto and that must have felt so helpless and terrifying. It was. And, you know, I was aware and I was watching the fires from Toronto and I understood the distance from our house. So, but I was watching.
And then, yeah, the sunset fire started, which was roughly three miles from our house. And then. My kids were having some anxiety and then Stephanie's there having to wrangle three cats. It's not like a dog where you snap your finger and the dog comes, you know, the cat is. We have three scurrying around the house doing whatever they want, whenever they want. And so it was very emotional for me. I called the production and just.
said, there's no world I can be in another country on the other side of, you know, on the East Coast in another country while there's a fire. a couple of miles away from our house with my kid. It was after their bedtime. They were so disoriented and confused. And just to go back to production, they were so, so compassionate. The executive producer said, Tig, I can hear your soul and your voice. Give me five minutes and we'll get this confirmed for you to go home. And I was, it was so.
emotional and touching and i flew home and man the second i walked in the door the hugs that i got from my family and that trip home i think was One of my greatest time spent with my family. It was so special. But we drove Max and Finn to show them, you know, where the fire was to give them perspective. So they. because they were like is our house gonna burn down and yeah and you know even as an adult you feel that even if you're watching the news you're like are we burn yeah and then you know
then think about a child who has no perspective about where these fires are, what is going to happen. But yeah, we gutted our house like crazy. I mean, with bedding and clothing and toys and stuffed animals, food, did our deliveries and distribution. I think that was also good. um, for Max and Finn too, to, to be a part of trying to help. Yeah. You know, and all those cliches are true about making you realize what's important and, you know, feel grateful for.
the people and you know oh my gosh I ended up in um well I had like you know you call up your ex you have apocalypse sex then you go then I got out of town Yes, you must. You gotta think. It's all going down. Wait, you do? Okay, let me write this down. Apocalypse sex. Yeah. That's a good movie. Step one. Step one. Apocalypse. Apocalypse. And what does that look like?
Is it happy? Is it sad? Is it intense? It's sort of all three. It's like, you know, if this is our last day on Earth. Yeah, let's make it count. I mean, that's just an extension, though, of like... realizing who's important to you and what you want to do. And then I got out of town to Palm Springs with my friend Sabrina and her family. And it was so nice being around kids and her dog. And they were all in like one hotel room.
You know, on night one, the baby got a fever and the five-year-old got an ear infection. I'm just like, it was nice to be there for them and helping out. babysitting. Oh, I thought you were going to say it was so nice to have my own room. Yeah. You know, I always thought I wanted a family and then, but then, uh, it's such a weird, surreal thing. Cause all this.
craziness is going on and then but also daily life continues and and you know we're we're not that far from LA we're in Palm Springs and then we we took the at the hotel there was a drag brunch on the like a few days into this And so we took these like six year olds to this drag brunch and it was, it was incredible seeing like the joy of these drag queens who are so funny and we're like making the kids laugh and seeing the kids.
you know just the kids were like rivet it was i've never seen it was like they'd seen god like their eyes were so big and yeah gaudy god yeah yeah so Well, and Thomas, you were you were hunkered down with a newborn. Oh, my God. Our friends had a baby the Monday. So the day before the fires, their baby was born. And so they were very fast to get a Airbnb and then they had some extra space. So my wife and I joined them there. So it was...
It was very surreal being with this like newborn baby I got to hold and then watching like my city burn, you know, and just. The contrast was crazy, but there was a lot of joy because of the baby. So it was nice. Their first kid?
Yeah, their first kid. Both the grandmas were there. One of the grandmas is like- Staying with you too? Yeah, staying with us. That is incredible. That's incredible. One of their moms is like a- uh birthing nurse so she just knew everything about the baby so like they felt secure to be away from their doctor and stuff because she was there yeah
And yeah, just getting to hold a newborn baby is like so special. But also like similar to the pandemic, it's so confusing sorting through the information about what's safe and what's not and like the air quality and what's in. And there's also so much just kind of personal choice about like, what do you feel comfortable with? Like, and it's so confusing to know what to do.
yeah i feel i feel for people pregnant people people with newborns it's like it's an interesting vibe in the city right now because there's a resilience there of like what do people need i'm gonna do this show up for people There's also a sadness that I've seen in the last two weeks of just like people, there's this look in their eyes of kind of like, this just...
It's too much. A forlorn-ness, for lack of a better word. Yes. And, you know, luckily there's a lot of places in LA that are helping and people are dropping stuff off, but it's going to take a long time.
for a lot of these people to get on their feet so yeah it was mentioning helping uh also helping places that are helping the animals there are a lot of animals that were displaced in this and a lot of people that have animals who can't care for them right now or now that they have to find an apartment or hotel room they can't have their pets and
It affects so many things. It just trickles down in so many ways. There's so many different needs. So many different needs. I was saying before we started recording that, of course, I care about people and animals, but there was something about... seeing this animal hospital that had taken in an owl and a turtle and you know all these different it's not just the family dog and cat With, you know, it's, there's so many different. And when I saw that little turtle and it's hospital nook.
In his little turtle gown. I was like, when I get home, I'm going to the animal hospitals, you know? Yeah. Now I want to do a painting of a turtle in a hospital gown. i'm still on my animal paintings and yeah that's got to be one i haven't done a turtle yet yeah we all need our therapist right now what'd you say
We all need, I feel all the therapists working overtime right now in LA, like just with everybody. And then the therapists are trying to sort it all out. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Um, what were you going to say? Sorry, Stephanie. Oh, Stephanie reached out to me the other day saying, you know, one of our friends who has a newborn baby, they didn't lose their house, but they were evacuated and they can't get back in.
for at least three months. And so I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Because it's toxic. Yeah. Oh my God. So, and they have a dog, a cat, a newborn. And so they, they are moving into our office. oh and but when stephanie called and was like hey this is going on i'm like yeah we got to get that little baby in in there we you know i mean of course i like offered the place to fortune or whoever needs it but um
There's something about like, yeah, we got to get that little baby in there. Yeah, get that baby safe and warm. We got to get that baby in there. Well, you know, we definitely send love to everybody who's been affected. in one way or another just also so many people on our social media so sweet being like
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fires hit uh even though i'm not somebody that posts all the time i felt a little depressed like i don't scroll too much on instagram but um i did look at things and it was so depressing I just needed to like remove myself a bit because there was and and not to block it out and ignore it because We're donating. We are, you know, we're, we're doing housing, a family, we're doing anything and everything we can. But I just couldn't continue to look at.
the things on social media like in the old days you'd have to watch that you'd watch the news at five o'clock yes and then you'd turn it off and you know And now it's it is constant. Yeah. Yeah. But I so I've been a little more MIA because I had to kind of protect my. sanity yeah um anyway but i do appreciate people reaching out and yeah thank you and we'll keep sharing like places to donate and a huge shout out to again firefighters
Yes. Any of those pilots, any of the first responders, those people that... The incarcerated firefighters. Yeah. I didn't know that that was a thing. And these incarcerated young men who were... you know, getting paid a dollar a day and they're risking their lives. We got to support them. Well, and also just a side note that blows my mind about firefighters, police. even therapists, your meaning there day to day is getting up and walking towards devastation and negativity.
And that's what they get up and do every, I mean, of course there's the charming day when they get a kitty out of the tree and whatever, but like their hard work, I mean, like getting up. you turn your alarm off and you go towards the negative. It's just, it's so intense. And it's like, it takes a very particular person that can, that can go do that.
It's crazy, but there's a foundation called the California Fire Foundation, the Wildfire and Disaster Relief Fund. You can Google it, and that's a good place to support. A lot of the disaster relief and the actual firefighters and their families. And there's many, many places to donate. The Pasadena Humane Society, the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society.
There's many personal GoFundMes. There's so many things. Also, I think you've said this, Tig, about world issues and things. It again brings home... without fighting climate change like none of the other things matter nothing else matters this is like we like this is so urgent yeah yeah you can have all of these political differences and Anything, anything on the planet that's going on in personal lives, in politics. And it's like, yes, it's all important. However.
If the planet is not intact, it doesn't matter at all. And all of those other issues are going to be exacerbated by natural disasters and things. So, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, who are we? I always feel like I don't know what I'm talking about. And how are you know, in 20 minutes, how are we going to like, talk about the California fires, but I guess we just have our own experiences and
I don't know. It's, it's nice talking to people and connecting. Yeah. I think people listening can connect and people that don't live in LA have been watching it just every second of it and, and feeling it. I mean, my mom was more scared that I went and had apocalypse sex than she was about the fire. Oh, you told your mom? Well, I said, I'm going to, I'm going to, you know.
My ex's house, she went, oh my God. She goes, I know your to-do list in Apocalypse and that's number one. So I know what you're up to. Yeah. I will say it wasn't like I was, you know, I went there to, to be safe with someone with a car. I don't have a car. And, you know, it was, it was really nice to be, to have a car. I'm coming over for your car. Yeah, she's like, I feel like you're using me for my car. And you're like, damn straight. Oh, wow.
I'm going to look at apocalyptic situations very differently now. Well, there's got to be some silver lining. You know what I realized in all of this too, when I was in Toronto and Stephanie was like trying to pack things that are important and maybe this is already a known thing.
I was telling Stephanie when I went home, I bet it's good because what I did was I went around our house and I made a list of what is important to me. And I took a picture of the things and where they're located in our house. And then just to give her in case something happened when I left. But everything seems to be under control. It feels still like.
If you haven't done this or haven't thought to do it, seems like it's a good idea to make a list, take those pictures, but also put the things in one place. Yeah. Make an emergency bag too. Well, and if there's an emergency that you have a closet in your garage or in your basement or in your hallway where you're like, okay, the left side of the closet is go stuff.
You know, and if there's ever anything that happens, we know we just open this closet and pack all that stuff and we're out the door. So you're not scrambling around going. oh gosh, what's important? Where's my birth certificate? Where are the photo albums? You know, whatever it is. We got this little pouch a couple of years ago that's supposedly fireproof. I don't know where I keep all my like. important just documents yeah yeah all that stuff is together in one of those pouches my crystals
Okay. Strap on. Whoa. I'm just joking. I'm just trying to keep it alive. Whoa. I'm joking. No, you're not. No, you are not. one like whoa whoa are those is that it just crystals No, I'd have some astronaut ice cream. You know, what else? You want to talk about a prepared person? Mae Martin. You know what Mae's doing in the apocalypse?
fucking well and then having some ice cream you know we we we joke and we laugh but i did think if it was my last day on earth and i would want to i would want to be having sex it's like The most human thing. I don't know. And having ice cream. I'd be wanting to eat a cheeseburger. Yeah, that too, for sure. Yeah, you just, you know, yeah. I'd probably have some kale.
Some kale. I'd go out in a bang. You'd stroke a turtle and have some kale. Yeah, it takes probably stroking a turtle and having some last supper kale. You're stroking a turtle. Stroke and something else. Follow May to the ex-girlfriend's car. Wow. And you will also get, did you say outer space ice cream?
Yeah, I was just thinking about, I don't know why I said that, about non-perishable foods. And I thought astronauts have that freeze-dried ice cream. Oh, astronaut ice cream. It's so tasty, yeah. You think so? Yeah, I remember getting it at the Science Center in Toronto and I liked it. You don't like it? Not really. It's kind of a weird texture. It tastes like dried ice cream. Yeah. Guys, good talk. Good talk.
Well, should we get to our questioner today? Yes. Can I say this is, I mean, like a foundational comedian for me. Like I'm buzzing that this person sent a question. Today's questioner is a musician, a comedian, an actor best known for his hilarious parody songs ranging from Amish Paradise to Smells Like Nirvana.
to yoda and he has sold over 12 million albums winning five grammy awards along the way i saw him i saw him live in like an arena tour when i was about 12 and it was like a comedian be a rock star like people were acting like like when he was singing like you know a Michael Jackson song or whatever it was like the actual artist people were losing their minds and I was like yeah he's always been a true hero of
pure, inane silliness. Weird Al Yankovic is asking today's question. Or as I like to call him, Weird Albert. Do you know him personally? I do. That's how we got it. Stop. I get a Christmas card from him every year. Stop it. but he knows everybody oh my god this whole podcast is just me going oh my god they okay no way exist and you guys being like yeah i just text them today holy shit yeah i don't know if his name's albert but i love
I love elongating people's names, you know. Can you tell him I deeply love it? He'll hear this. Okay, okay. Okay, great. We'll see to it. Yeah, yeah. Old weird Albert. Yeah. Yeah. Let's hear it. Hey, handsome pod, how you doing? It's your close personal friend, Ali Yankovic, and I have a question to posit to you. You can answer it individually and or collectively, but I really want to know, I really want to know... Is there one particular scene in a movie that you had a...
severe physical reaction to. I'm not talking about a movie that touched you deeply or made you think or changed your life. I'm talking about a movie that, you know, made you laugh or cry or... or throw up or soil your underwear, something that made you flip out. So what is the one movie scene that made you do that? What a great question. Wow. It's not an easy one. No. It's not an easy one. No. And I will say, just to like gush about him more, I watched UHF a lot as a kid, the Weird Al movie.
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Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. And then I cannot recommend highly enough, if you're a Weird Al fan, the biopic that he made with Daniel Radcliffe playing Weird Al. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was not what I was expecting in the best way. It was so funny that they play it completely earnestly, like that this is...
a biopic of the greatest artist of our time. And it was incredible. And Dan Radcliffe was amazing. I haven't seen it. I'll have to watch that. It's so funny. Conan O'Brien's in it is just ridiculous. Yeah. I feel like Al is one of those people. it's like across the board. So he has so much respect from so many people and it's so.
Cool to see with such a silly person. I know. Like the silliness is so overboard. It doesn't age because it's just pure silliness. It's I feel the same way sometimes about.
adam sandler like his new stuff he's doing i'm like i know i'm gonna love it because it's just silly and and conan and like it's it's relaxing because there's also like a mr rogers vibe about the love that people have where people are like I love Weird Al oh my god you know you see grown men and you see children and people are like I love him and he's just the nicest guy
Oh, yeah. Well, when I went to see him at that arena show, I always remember he came out into the audience and he's like sprinting up the aisle in this big arena. And this like 10 year old boy is there and just gets stands up. and steps in front of Al, like into the aisle. So Al's like running up and just stops and this boy just stands there.
And they just have eye contact and stare, have a like staring contact. Like he just stares at him and they just both stand there staring for so long. And it was so funny. And then the kid just goes and sits down. It was great. Yeah.
Classic Al. Oh, man. Okay, visceral reaction. Shit. Because in the old days, when people hadn't seen movies much... you know and then you hear about people seeing the exorcist and like passing out yes and like oh god jaws people wouldn't go in the ocean for like a while yeah i mean jaws like was was that visceral for you were you like
I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, was it not for you? Yeah, it was. It scared me, but not in a way where I was like, I'm never going to the ocean again. How old were you when you saw it? Let me see when it came out. I don't remember. You saw it when it came out? Because I don't think you were alive when it came out. Maybe not. Oh yeah, 1975. I was not born yet. Jaws 2 is 78. So you saw it when it came out, Tig? And were you like, this is the most unsettling, primal?
yeah yeah yeah you know maybe if it came out now that original version came out now i'd be like oh this is you know you kind of can see behind the curtain a bit with um no but the score yeah and the it is primal something like a threat that you can't really see in the depths of the unknown and you're so vulnerable you're like And it gets faster and louder. I wish the score was Fortune's version. Can we make, can we dub over? And we cut to her. Yeah. Every time the music kicks in.
we cut to fortune making that face but yeah it definitely it was hard for me to even swim in a pool i thought for sure when i had my back turned somebody threw a great white shark in there yeah I never did. Worst when that happens. Yeah. And that wasn't the sequel called just when you thought it was safe to get in the water. That was the tagline.
I have a great title. It's just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, but it's not because the sharks are still there. Part two. I had movies that made me want to do things. Like what? a league of their own made me want to be on a woman's baseball team. Yeah. And in a house with a bunch of ladies. Right. A pretty woman made me want to be a high-end escort in Beverly Hills. Really? Did it? Big mistake. Huge. But wait, did it make you want to? No. Oh. Come on.
I don't know. I don't know. And the jewelry scene. That was iconic. Where she goes to reach for the necklace and he shuts the thing and she's like. I think we've done that on the pod. I have really bad news. What? I've never seen Pretty Woman. Oh, my God. I have bad news, too. You haven't either?
i don't think i have either two against one two against one uh well one guys come on a lot of these though are like things that you see as a kid that really mess you up and i i was taken to see jurassic park and in cinemas when i was like i think i was four or something i was way too little and just at the moment where the footprints Like the footsteps come and the water's shaking and I ran out of the movie theater and I remember standing by myself.
in the movie and and that my dad took quite a while to come out after me like but i was i think i was four i was what year did it come out that came out in like 1993 i would guess that was scary because it was Was that 93? Was it? Let's see. Jurassic Park. Yeah, 93. It was like silent. And then it's like.
boom boom yeah that made a massive impact on me too and i i talked about it in my um my animated special but i worked with children like at a daycare center at one point years ago and this woman that i worked with that was maybe a little annoying and i didn't pay close attention to things when she talked to me um i was i mean if you think i'm out of like
The pop culture loop? Yeah, the pop culture loop. You should have seen me when I was 22. Really? So I'm sweeping up the room, and the woman that I work with is talking. nonstop about these dinosaurs that, you know, scientists have brought back from extinction. And now they're loose, running around, killing people.
I missed that it was a movie. And I was like, wait, what? And she was like, yeah, you haven't heard about this? And I was like, no. And she was like, oh, it's called Jurassic Park. And I was like. And so there are actual dinosaurs. And she was like, yeah. This scientist found this amber. And what she explained, it made sense. And I was like, what the hell are we doing just at this daycare center? We got to get the hell out of here.
But I went and saw it after that because I was so fascinated by the story she told me. And it terrified me. Absolutely terrified me. It's like a flawless movie, too. This isn't a movie, but in Twin Peaks and the great David Lynch just passed away. And there's a couple of David Lynch moments that will stay with me. But Twin Peaks, when you see Bob in the flash, have you seen it?
I haven't. Two against one. It's it's that's one of the most affecting and scary and amazing shows. But the mom of the murdered girl is remembering. going into the girl's room and she's hugging someone and she's we kind of go into her mind and she's remembering going into her daughter's room when her daughter was missing and suddenly
In her memory, she sees this man crouched at the end of the bed with long hair and it's Bob and he starts sort of crawling and she just starts screaming. And I, I still can't like my whole body even now is like.
goose bumpy like i hate bob and it's bob is so scary and he was just a guy who worked on set i think he was a janitor and david lynch saw him and he had this long greasy hair and cast him as the main villain who doesn't really speak much but he appears and oh my god that is visceral like if I'm home alone and also at the very end of like the final scene of that show nah no spoilers but it's someone
who you love spoilers decades later yeah but agent cooper he's like looking in the mirror and and then he starts going where's annie Where's Annie? And you go, oh, my God, he's bad, too. Bob got him, too. Anyway, whatever. Things like that. Do you think Bob's still alive? That's a great question. Thank you. He's alive in me. What if he's a listener?
Oh, my God. I don't want to invoke Bob. I don't want to. But The Shining as well. That is the idea of someone that you love trying to kill you and changing like that. That really. was so scary those those hallways those corridors yeah i didn't see the shining either don't it's i mean it's amazing but that's one of the did you see it fortune i did yeah it's good
Did it spook you? I watched it much later in life. If I had watched it younger, I would think it would have. It didn't spook you as an adult? No. Those older scary movies in these days. Watching them don't really. I know. I watched some Albert Hitchcock movie. What is it? The window or something? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is that what it's called? Rear window. Rear window.
I wasn't scared. Well, sometimes when you watch things that other things have been so derivative of that original thing, but then you watch the original thing and. subsequent things have done it scarier now yeah yeah when we're in just in different times we've been exposed to so much but yeah back then that stuff was so transformative
I remember watching the movie Riding in Cars with Boys in college, and that one got me good. I'm putting it on my list. I've never seen it. Yeah, I was having some... And I've talked about it before. My mom and I used to have a difficult relationship. And as I got older and moved away, it got a lot better. Now we're very close. But in college, it was pretty fractured. That movie got me. Got me good. Why? What's it about? Is it about a mother-daughter? It's about a mother finding herself.
yeah and sometimes you know that took priority so that hit you in the guts hit me i also get really anytime uh i watch a movie where um A mother or a grandmother or any older woman dies of cancer, it kills me. And I think that goes back to my grandmother. So I will sob. Like a baby. And it doesn't matter what movie it is. If it's a woman of a certain age dying of cancer, I just... I cry when men break down in movies.
like Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar when he cries or like Tom Cruise. Anytime he cries, it gets me. In terms of endearment, when Deborah Winger is crying. on her deathbed and saying to her son who is this like probably 12 year old kid and he's like yeah no i know i don't care you know that kind of vibe And she's just crying and she's like, listen to me. I know you love me. And when I die, don't beat yourself up.
I know you love me. Oh, my God. And he's just like. Oh, but you can tell he cares. He cares and he can't express it because he's got such a chip on his shoulder. Yeah. And her performance. I mean, it gives me.
goosebumps she's so great can you remember the first movie that like gave you a boner like like like that's a visceral apocalyptic movie what that's a visceral physical reaction and for me it was rock your picture show i was five when my parents showed it to me was five and i've talked about this before but yeah it was the moment that frankenfurter throws that cape off and it's and tim and he's in that corset and fishnets
and starts striding down the hall and and his hips moving and these high heels and i i don't i've never been the same i've never been the same i like and then there's one particular moment where rocky the creature he's created is he's singing something and then frankenfurter like runs his finger down rocky's stomach like and rocky has two belly buttons
And runs it down to like the edge of his underwear. And I was like, well, I'll think about that tonight. I don't know why, but I'll store that moment. And it was a visceral. I'll think about that tonight and forever. Yeah. But I don't know why. Good night. I follow the actor that played. Good night, Bette Midler. Rocky. Oh, yeah. I bet. I mean, yeah. The actor that played Rocky in Rocky Horror, I follow him on.
on Instagram, Peter Hinwood. And he's, I love that he's still so passionate about Rocky Horror Picture Show. We post pictures all the time of Tim Curry and like throwbacks. And he just seems like a cool. God, what if I was like that about instant family? It's a movie I did with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer. And I'm just constantly posting. I'm like, here I am with Rose at the craft.
table okay i need to watch instant family because that is a foursome i didn't know i needed warming movie mark walberg roseburn you and octavia spencer yeah that what a quad
Yeah. And you did another rom-com with the. Reese and Ashton. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. But it feels more random to do instant family. Cause it's not like a. a classic rom-com you know it's like the adoption family story yeah yeah there was some other thing that was um oh i was gonna say i mean john travolta was you know he He ignited my fire as a kid. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Star Wars, when he uses his lightsaber to cut open the belly of the Tauntaun. Yes.
Yes. And it was like shrimp. Yes. Falling out. What production designer made that choice that the insides look like big maggots? Oh, my Christ. I thought it looked like raw shrimp. Yes, it did. Like jumbo shrimp. Yes, it did. Just pouring out. Thomas, will you look up what came out of the Tauntaun? Yeah. And how they did it. Yes, and how they did it. Please, could you look up how the special effects did that scene? We have time, right?
That's Han Solo that crawls in. I want to know how Harrison felt about crawling into that raw shrimp. I don't know any Star Wars trivia. I was a Star Wars nut. Not this gal. should the three of us go to disney together probably yeah why not are you do you like rides no yeah how are you guys on I like a ride, like Space Mountain I'm good with, or like a little roller coaster that...
is kind of fast and whoop, here comes a hill. But not like, will we be alive at the end? Not like, will our vertebrae be dust? Even from a heart. yes like a heart attack yeah i'm kind of the same yeah i'm not a roller coaster person at all but for chris cole for his birthday um he did the thing where you can go to six flags and ride all the roller coasters you want all day
And I just wanted to be a good friend, but I hate roller coasters for like a whole afternoon. I'm like literally passing out. Oh my God. I know what we can do. And Thomas put this on the list. We can go to Disneyland and just get like little, you know, Disney hats and eat cotton candy and just walk around. Oh, just hang out. Yeah, just carry a balloon. I kind of do want to go with you guys just for the photos.
Yeah, I want the photos of us with Mickey. Yeah, and Minnie with her feet shoved into those high heels. Thomas, do you have an answer about what was in the Tauntaun? There is no definitive answer online. People speculate that it could be... kind of long balloons that are filled with goo or pig intestines. No raw jumbo shrimp? No one's saying jumbo shrimp. Wow.
Wow. We stumbled upon the mystery. Movie magic. What a podcast. What a podcast. We really learned a lot about each other through movies. There is a, is his name Emo Phillip? Yeah.
There is in UHF, in Weird Al's UHF, there's a section where Emo Phillips keeps getting... fingers and limbs cut off and the blood is just in that way that comedy blood yeah of course that we don't see anymore yeah just the comedy blood spurting from all of us and he's he's trying to i think still do it still present a tv show while he's spurting everywhere that was you could you could paint um comedy blood splurts that's true yeah yeah yeah you should make a painting of all the things
that we don't see anymore. And one of the things that I bring up often is mooning. Nobody moons anymore. I was just talking about this yesterday. Yeah. Mooning quicksand. Because I'm writing a new act in a... In one of my stories that's not, I don't talk about it, but my friend mooned someone in the car ride home. And my other friend said, yeah, people don't really moon anymore. Yeah, people don't moon.
I feel like we've talked about it. And then on social media, people were like, well, because that's sexual assault. And I was like, oh, come on. We're talking about mooning. Back in the 80s, it was just a good time. Yeah, in the 70s. It was a grand old time. But yes, we've lived and we've learned, but we still could use a painting of...
You know, I always picture mooning out of a school bus window because that was the first time I saw it in the 70s. People would just like, the bus would peel out of the school parking lot and you'd see. moons moons yeah i love it i am firmly against sexual assault and harassment for sure me too I do love a moon. A comedy moon. Like I think I've said when I was super down this summer and going through, you know, tough times and my friend was like.
being so earnestly helpful. And then she went to the bathroom and she came back completely naked. It was the best joke. It made me laugh so hard. It was so unexpected. Just she sprinted around the kitchen. You know, I was just realizing. I love a moon, but it's not as fun when you see an ass crack. Oh, wait, that's such a crucial part of the moon. No, I know. But I'm saying like if somebody's pants are hanging down low.
Oh, I see what you mean by accident. Oh no, that's not as fun. Yeah. Yeah. And look, I've been guilty of that before in my life as well, but I'm just saying a full moon is, is what I'm looking for out of a school bus. Sorted. Back in the 90s with low rise jeans, low rise skinny jeans, there were a lot of butt cracks. Yeah. And thongs peeking out. Oh, yeah. We haven't heard Al's answer. Oh, my gosh. That's right. What is Al's answer?
Okay, I'll tell you mine. I'll tell you mine. I have to say it's the 1976... movie Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma. I was a teenager going to the movie theater with my friends and I mean the end of the movie, the scene in the graveyard, that's been... duplicated and parodied so many times. In fact, I did a parody of it in my biopic. But the first time I saw it, it kind of freaked me out. In fact, I remember the scene, of course, is one the scariest friend is...
placing a flower on Carrie's grave. And Carrie's hand reaches up out of the grave and grabs her friend. And I remember at the time... I literally jumped out of my seat. I was out of my chair and yelling at the screen, which is something that I've never done since, that apparently as a 16-year-old. Alfred Yankovic, that really freaked me out. So thank you for listening and keep in touch. I will, Al. Of course it's Alfred Yankovic. Yeah.
Look at me calling him Albert. I don't deserve his Christmas cards. Oh my God. Yeah. Those scary movies leave a mark. Jumping out of your seat is such a, what a compliment to the filmmakers. I like to be so electrified that you're just. I forgot to mention Thomas is also a massive Al fan. Are you, Thomas? Oh, yeah. I had all the tapes. Me too. Yeah, just grew up thinking that was a fun... His American Pie parody, I had that memorized. Me too, me too.
And also, yeah, just that era, I guess we were similar ages when Star Wars Episode I came out and that song came out. And it was like anyone singing those songs at school. kind of got the cred of as if they'd written those Weird Al songs like you were it was you were the funny cool kid. Matthew Burdick knew all the songs and it made him so cool. Well, what a treat. It was so great to reconnect with you all after the, and during the fires, and to have a great question from Al. Weird Al.
Yeah. Always uplifting to talk to you guys and a pledge. Yeah. And does anybody have anything coming up? I'm working on my new hour. So if anyone lives in Ontario, California. or Oxnard, California, Irvine, California, or Huntsville, Alabama. I'm doing a bunch of club dates, very intimate shows. So there'll be new material. Crowd work, all that good stuff. And then my tour starts after that in Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina and a lot more other dates on my website.
Well, I'll say right now that we have the handsome pod live in Nashville on April 6th. And then we will be. Also, Handsome Pod live in Austin, Texas on April 12th. And those are both like 90% sold. Yeah, so you better get on it. Get on big theaters too. This is gonna be really cool. Yeah. Awesome. It was like 2,800. I'm also going to be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, June 14th.
It feels so weird that it's finally happening, but my music album is coming out. I think when this airs, the single will be out. Maybe even two singles. So it's always helpful if you stream those on Spotify, if you like them. And then I'm doing four big music tour shows, which is so...
It's bizarre for me because I'm not a musician and I'm really nervous and they're big venues. So please come. Nice. February 26th in LA. I'm going to play the whole album with a band and I'm going to play a couple of covers as well. So March 1st in Toronto at Danforth. musical march 4th in new york and then march 9th in london i haven't been back to england in so long so please come out to those shows there's maybe a special guest or two and you'll see me like muddling through
playing live for the first time. And will you be getting a haircut from Debbie? Oh my God. Yes. Oh my God. You didn't even occur to me, but yes, I simply must. You simply must. Oh, I'm going to get her to come to the show to get a little video. We could post a video of you getting a haircut from Debbie. Yes. Tell her hello. Yeah. And I guess until next time. Keep it handsome.
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