Surprising Jake Johnson With “The Sauce” From New Girl

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No.
>> Awesome.
>> You know what I'm eating some kale?
>> How's the kale?
>> Oh, [ __ ] Tastes good. Tastes like
Jurassic Park. [laughter]
>> Welcome back to Mythical Kitchen. Today
we are joined by the star of Apple TV's
The Dink. You might recognize him from
New Girl Jurassic World into the
Spider-Verse and he's the host of the
We're Here to Help podcast. He once
helped us navigate a tremendously
difficult holiday gifting situation
right here in the mythical office. Jake
Johnson, welcome back to the show, man.
to see. And thank you for being on my
podcast. You were hilarious.
>> I had a wonderful time. I remember I was
going through a tremendous sweating
problem and I couldn't figure out what
was going on. Do you remember me being
very sweaty?
>> I remember you discussing it, but all I
can ever think when you're around is and
I said it again today. You're looking
good, man. [laughter]
>> Come on. He refused to do a push-up
challenge. I don't know why I insisted
challenging him on that.
>> Well, I'll tell you why. What's been
happening with me is I tried to get
stronger for a while and I was getting
really into doing doing the creatine,
working out a lot and then I was bulking
up and I was like, you know what, I got
to slim down a little [laughter] bit.
>> I'm looking a little boxy.
>> I think you should lean into the boxy,
man. I feel like we have so many more
actors that are taking on like
bodybuildingesque roles.
>> I agree.
>> I feel like you should just fully lean
into that. I want to lean into like the
1900s bodybuilder though pre any of
these shots and injections where the I
mean James Gandalf's body type is the
goal.
>> I no I'm like h hurtling towards that so
hard you got to wear like the tiny
little singlet
>> just exactly right just strong
[laughter]
>> for what lifting a comical dumbbell with
proportion that's exactly right for
life. for life.
>> When I was growing up, some like weird
uncles and men in Chicago and you would
have like a guy who I just thought was
overweight and out of shape
>> breathy with cigarettes be like a 400 lb
piano and this fool would just be like
I'm like yeah man I want that strength.
>> No more bodybuilding competitions. It's
like we have a ninth floor walk up with
a bunch of oblong furniture. How quick
[laughter]
>> who can you by the way that would be
really fun. Move a futon.
>> Yeah.
>> Move a piano upstairs. Here's a 42-y old
Croatian man. He's [laughter] going to
do it all by himself.
>> You're You go to a bar, some guy
smoking, you go, "Sir, you versus this
Hollywood actor with A BEAUTIFUL
>> TELL BY THE FOREARMS." You can tell you
can see these guys as they like, you
know, try and grip their pack of
>> tree trunks. Tree trunks. I would
co-host that with you.
>> This is legal. [laughter]
We're here. We're here. Uh before we get
to that though, we we're we're cooking
your career so you can eat your career.
How do you feel about that?
>> Well, when I just heard the title, I
thought disgusting.
>> Horrifying. Yeah. last meal sounded
better. The idea of eating my I'm like,
>> "All right, man.
>> We've grabbed some of these set up into
a smoothie for you."
[music]
>> There is one instance in your career
where you spent an entire 22minute
episode um cooking a food. The sauce.
>> The sauce. Exactly. Right. I remember
that. Um, we are trying to create your
sauce, which was a Bolognese based
sauce, but do you remember why you
thought it was called Bolognes?
>> I don't.
>> Uh, you started winging bologn into the
sauce because of course that's where the
term bolognes comes from. Ironically,
you're not wrong because the term
bolognes just means other relating to
the city of Bolognia and that's where
this meat is from.
>> We're eating bologn.
>> We're eating baloney. Jake, live a
little, man. If you want to get that
James Gandalfini body type,
>> this is all he did in the Sopranos was
just eat Mortadell and Gaba Ghoul out of
the fridge.
>> So, we're going to take this and we're
going to make
>> something delicious.
>> And then as Schmidt is reading the
ingredients and the sauce, he notices um
that Jew bread. So, we got some Jewish
rye. Even though I think you might have
been talking about matzah, we're doing
Jewish rye. And then a a murder of
peppercorns. I'm going to need you to
grind up those peppercorns. There's no
wrong way to do it. Okay,
>> just really the best way to do it.
>> So,
>> Italian grandmas would tell you
>> that you never bash.
>> You just slowly do this.
>> And if you're wondering why they have
those massive forearms,
>> that's why
>> it's just from this. It's very unclear
what else is in the sauce, but there are
some ingredients that we see on the
counter such as basil. So, we're
throwing in a ton of basil into this
aioli. And this is going to hopefully be
a really delicious sandwich.
>> I like Oh, it's we're turning it into a
sandwich.
>> We're turning the sauce into a sandwich.
Uh the other part of the bolognes you
said was uh mayonnaise. The bologna the
bologna comes from bologna and and the
a's comes from mayonnaise. Um and so
that's how this bolognes is getting
turned into a bologn sandwich with
mayonnaise. Very good.
>> Do you remember saying any of this? Do
you remember shooting that?
>> No, I remember shooting.
>> You were there.
>> Yes. That was I mean I think that was a
decade ago and we did 150 episodes
>> of season 4 episode 17. The spider hunt.
>> Very nice. Now, what I do remember is um
that big disgusting pot.
>> What What are your favorite memories
from shooting the New Girls there or any
like single episode that really stands
out?
>> Um you know, honestly, the memories I
have from that one are more the people,
not for Zoe, but for the rest of us, it
was the first gig that started to hit a
little bit.
>> Mhm.
>> And so, we got to go through all that
together. It was also such a different
time. It was pre- YouTube and the
pre-streamers and we had so many great
like guest stars, you know, like Rob
Reiner comes to mind and being able to
talk to him about when he was on
television and how it was changing
>> and his thing was how different it was
while we were doing New Girl about how
not everybody's watching at the same
time and how back in the day
>> you could everybody at the same time at
whatever night that show aired everybody
was watching. It's just so different. We
were part of TV the way I loved TV when
I was a kid. And I'm happy I experienced
that. But TV is different now. All those
people, we were all part of the old
world together.
>> And then transition to this new one
together is fun. But those guys will
always feel like the my family in this
business.
>> Yeah. And now everyone's a podcast host.
>> We're here [laughter] to help you.
Wherever you can find,
>> you can get it on YouTube. You can get
it on [laughter] Hulu. Is is New Girl
like maybe the this is crazy. Is it the
last great sitcom? Like the last great
network sitcom? How many?
>> No. Brooklyn 999 Abbott Elementary.
>> A habb is to me felt almost in that way
though where I was like oh we can still
really we can still do this.
>> Totally agree. Yeah, we'll see. What are
you putting on that? What are those?
>> So chips are Oh, so these are sun-dried
tomatoes. Okay.
>> Do you mess with sun-dried tomatoes?
>> Yeah, they look like uh weird dates.
>> They're kind of weird dates. They're
just like kind of a you know you dry a
date all the moisture out of you're
drying the tomatoes. We got We got this
sandwich, man. The sandwich with all the
flavors of the sauce. You do uh insist
that you throw chips uh and mustard
inside the sauce. So, we're using at
least like eight ingredients.
>> Yeah, it's really nice. I would say what
connects me to New Girl on that is the
idea of chips in a sandwich to me
personally
>> because that show to me we did it. I was
so new to the game, learned so much. It
was the first job where we were really
allowed to improvise. And so we pulled
so much from our like, you know, I'd
spent from the time I was 17 to that
show on comedy stages two to three
nights a week. Finding where audiences
laugh. And on that show, you have to
pull so much of that experience. [music]
And so chips on a sandwich was something
that I've been doing since I was a kid.
So that does feel to me like other jobs
I do, I'm not pulling anything from past
experience. You're reacting to the
thing. But New Girl was so deep for us
and so many episodes where you're like,
"We got to find something." And so you
kept going back to your bag of tricks.
>> That was so tremendously thoughtful
about looking at a sandwich or chips in
it.
>> I think that's the premise.
>> I
don't know if I can do it to all of
them, but the chips did get
>> You're going to have to do it TO ALL OF
THEM.
>> YEAH, YOU one of one.
>> One of one.
>> Let's see if I can get three out of
five. I feel good.
>> Hell yeah. Let's do it. You ready, Jake?
Here we have the New Girl season 4
episode 17, the sauce inspired sandwich.
>> Okay,
>> dig in. Uh, I realized we didn't put a
single piece of peppercorn, let alone a
murder of peppercorn. And these are
>> these are so not even close to ground.
That's I think if I hold out your
sandwich.
>> I got bored.
>> I'm [laughter]
>> I was like, am I doing this [ __ ] for 20
minutes?
>> Dude, wouldn't last a day. Man, you're
lucky comedy worked out. [laughter]
That's [clears throat]
>> Cheers.
>> As this initially entered my mouth hole,
all I can think of is this is a perfect
food. It's so it's nostalgic. The chips
and sandwich. I love not toasted bread.
>> Me, too.
>> Soft. Let all that quality mortadella
come through. By no means is it healthy,
but it tastes just fresh enough with the
basil.
>> I totally agree. I think it's a great
sandwich.
>> Hell yeah, man.
>> I think what's happened since the
pandemic
>> Mhm.
>> and a lot of shows about cooking is they
have nonchefs. Yeah.
>> Becoming experts
>> based on just what they like to eat.
>> Yeah.
>> And I think it's crazy where they'll go
like I get a taste of tanginess. It's
like who cares [laughter]
if if you haven't worked in a kitchen
and know how to do it. You're just
talking about what you're tasting.
>> It's the same thing with sports. I'll be
watching it and I'll watch a receiver do
a cut and I'M LIKE CUT ON THE EIGHTS.
[laughter]
>> WELL, THAT JACKASS
>> THAT'S DIFFERENT CUZ I WOULD HAVE PUT MY
FOOT IN THE GROUND and and I would have
set him up with the jab. Ah, the
quarterback mystery.
>> I PLAYED MADDEN ONCE.
>> IT'S INSANE. UH, but this does taste
delicious.
>> You ready to go to the next dish?
>> Yeah,
>> let's do it.
[music]
>> Jake, would you mind uh massaging this
kale for me? So, if you just get some
lemon juice off camera, you said, "Do
you want to make the salad?" I said,
"Yes."
>> No, you said massage.
>> You know, like if you want, you know, if
you want like 20 bucks, you can kind of
test the waters [laughter] with five.
You know, you're worried about shutting
down the conversation. Why don't you
just massage massage some kale?
>> Uh, so get some lemon in there and get a
little bit of avocado oil.
>> Let me ask you a question as a chef.
>> Some salt first.
>> What are your thoughts and process of
doing this? Cuz I'm a man who makes some
salad and I got avocado oil. I got
lemons.
>> What's the secret?
>> A little braggadocious there. I got
avocados and lemons.
>> I got thising slice of weird pie.
[laughter]
>> You got a hard pie. You got the hard
salt pie.
>> I got a hard disgusting pie that was
left out.
>> Well, hot damn, man. You really got it
all. Well, so what I'll do with this at
home is I'll put some avocado oil and
then I'll bake it.
>> Oh yeah.
>> Crispy kale.
>> Well, this is a very specific kale. In
Italian, it's called lassinato or
cavalonero, which means black cabbage.
We would call it
>> Wait for this one. I kind of want a
dramatic
>> Okay.
>> Dinosaur kale.
>> Oh, Jurassic World. Sorry.
>> Shoot. Well done.
>> God damn. We're good.
>> So, why is this just cuz it's big?
>> It's kind of like big and just like
really rough and grally. So, the reason
you would massage this, Do you put the
lemon on it? Not yet.
>> Squeeze a whole lot of lemon in there. I
was um squeeze it. If you squeeze it
flesh side up, then the seeds don't fall
right in there. Yeah. Yeah. There it is.
There it is. And then the seeds stay in
it.
>> Oh, that's cool.
>> Perfect. So, the salt, the oil, and the
lemon, when you really massage it,
there's like a really rough dinosaur
kale. It kind of resembles dinosaur
skin. And so, when you massage it in
there, it'll actually like break down
the cell walls and tenderize it. Acid
breaks down the cell walls. Salt gets
inside there. Oil, [snorts] you know.
>> Cut that out. Now, I'm going to say the
same thing.
>> Perfect. Good. What you want to do with
dinosaur kale is you want to do a weird
cloth thing with the lemon.
>> You go like this, then it goes on and
then you want to massage it because it
breaks it up. What were you saying?
>> That lemon looked pres. [laughter]
>> We'll do it in post. It's got like a
nice big walk. [laughter]
>> What do you think about doing a woman's
painted nails?
>> Avocado oil early or later? Does that
get pre-massaged?
>> You know, as a chef, what do you think?
>> Well, I would say before massage, you
always put oil on.
>> That That's my only thought process.
[laughter] Yeah. Yeah. Scient I'm just
here. Scientifically, I don't think it
does anything except for making it slide
around better, but that's what you
>> Helps the massage.
>> It helps the massage. [laughter]
>> I'm not going to tell you what the sauce
is for yet. We're going to make a
delicious green sauce right here.
>> I'm going to go crazy with salt for no
reason.
>> Uh Jurassic World. This is something
that I didn't realize until we were
literally deciding uh what movies and
projects to do for you. Um is it Colin
Travaro?
>> Yes.
>> Colin Travaro directed Safety Not
Guaranteed.
>> That's exactly. So, are you not
massaging with your hands?
>> I will get there.
>> Okay, perfect. Toss it.
>> I got a weird process.
>> Those movies were only like 3 years
apart. Is that the reason that you got
the role in Jurassic World? Was just
your connection.
>> So, Collins, an old friend, and he and I
kind of came up at the same exact time.
We both moved to LA around the same
time. He knew another mutual friend
named Clay Allen. And uh we were all
building this thing together. And it
started Colin had a movie where he was
doing it was like a kung fu movie. And
then from that he got some traction. He
did a pilot and I remember visiting that
pilot. It was an indie pilot and I'd
never seen a set professional one and I
remember being like Collins for real.
>> Okay.
>> And then he came to me with the script
for Safety Not Guaranteed. I met Aubrey
Plaza during that and we were packaging
it together fell for her and then we
were looking for the guy to play the
third
>> and it was going to be Andy Samberg at
one point. He was going to be Bill Bill
hat her at one point and then everyone
kept falling off and then Delas came in
and as soon as Delas came in it was a go
cuz he's also a producer
>> made that
>> he felt so right for that genre at the
time people were using the term like
mumblecore and that kind of
>> yeah which I don't really think safety
guaranteed is part of it but it was
close to it Lyn Shelton played a part in
it
>> that whole world was help we shot up in
Seattle
>> um and then that movie did uh well for
Colin but and it was because the ending
of that movie spoiler [music] But you've
had 15 years or whatever it was.
>> If not now, when?
>> But the end of that movie ended as a
downer
>> and it was really indie and it was more
serious and it was a little bit sad. And
in post, I got a call from Colin saying,
I'm going to do something crazy,
>> but I'm going to make it work [music]
>> and it's going to be a big ending. And
instinctually, I was like, man, go for
it. I don't know how that's going to
play. And at Sundance, it got like a
huge applause.
>> That's awesome.
>> And [music] so Colin then also in terms
of certain shots, there was a shot with
Aubrey looking at the thing go. He was
he was personally holding a fan so her
hair would go back and I remember
[music] being like oh Colin wants to
make a big Spielberg type movie. We I
was thinking we were making just a
little indie
>> but I was like oh he's doing that. So
when he then got Jurassic I was like of
course and he called me up told me about
the part Lowry was at first supposed to
be alone
>> and I was like I'm not good at the
exposition stuff of this part. if you
give me someone to act opposite, we can
create a whole different tone of the
movie. Yeah.
>> And we'll just have our dynamic. And
then they came up with he and the writer
Derek came up with the Lauren Lapis
part, built all that in. And he said,
"We're going to shoot this differently
than the rest of the movie. So this will
feel like its own thing." But the real
fun of that was before action on each
take, he would say like, "Say whatever
you want." So it'd be a whole scene
about like how many bodies the dinosaurs
killed. And I'd go like that then action
I'd be like well I never viewed him as a
dad but Carl was there when I was nine
[laughter] and I was like but I guess
you know he is my dad he basically
raised and then somebody would come and
be like there's been four dinosaurs
[laughter]
and that for he and I was a huge joke of
like what we and then Col would always
say it's really funny to think of this
being translated into all these
different languages these like
[laughter]
stupid lines of
>> Slovenian voice of like hitting on a
girl trying to be like opening up
talking about the dumbest stuff, but
that was the real fun of that one for
me.
>> Was did that feel like the first like
big big Hollywood blockbuster [music]
type moment for you? So, I remember
seeing you on like the press tour for
that.
>> And for me, you know, um Safety Not
Guaranteed and even like New Girl, those
are not not to not to age anyone here,
but you were just talking about how your
bones are brittle and they're
dislocating all the time trying to hit a
ball. Um but uh that was like for me in
college and that felt like a formative
time in my life where I was like this is
like kind of new media. This feels like
mine.
>> I feel totally right. And then fast
forward, I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] there's
Jake Johnson. Bryce Dallas Howard is
saying that like that that you're her
hall pass." Yeah.
>> And I was like, I think they might have
left set here. And you know, got into
some trouble in in a hotel room. But it
felt like [laughter]
>> trying to make news, but
>> uh but that felt like a big move. Did
you uh develop a taste for it or were
you did you have an aversion to it or
neither?
>> Uh neither. Yeah. Um, for me it was a
huge set in a big production, but Pratt
and Bryce were doing all of the
blockbuster stuff.
>> You're improving with Lauren Lis.
>> My goal, what I wanted to do in this
career has always been, it was clear
before I started.
>> Yeah.
>> And big blockbusters and all that was
never it. When I got into the game, it
was pre- like the Marvel explosion.
>> So, that was just never the thought
process. I remember when when we shot
last meals here together. You said
something to me that like has always
really stuck with me in terms of kind of
a career and lifestyle Northstar where
you're like I can make $5 million movies
with all my favorite people and I don't
have to leave the city that I live in
with my family and it's not like the
people making you know $150 million a
year any happier. It just it seems so
simple.
>> So those movies exposed you to way more
people and way more fame. But I realized
early on it's not physically doing
anything. Even when I'm like alone
before bed, I'm not like, "Oh yeah, it
made 300 million for a studio."
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm like I don't I
mean I want them all to do well. But I'm
just as excited if we make a movie for,
[music]
you know, a million bucks and one person
loves it as I am for that one cuz it's
still to me it's just one person coming
up going, "I love Jurassic World, man."
And you go, I had a funny one today
where painting the exterior of our house
and one of the painters goes uh he had
seen the mummy
>> and and he said how my a friend of mine
said uh they saw you in it and they
couldn't believe that I was working on
the house. How's Tom Cruz? And I go
cool. And then they go they said [music]
he seems like a really bad guy. Is he a
bad guy? And the guy goes he's a nice
guy. And I realize oh they just believe
the movies they see.
>> Yeah.
>> They're like he's a mummy or whatever.
[laughter]
They're like, "You kill him, he comes
back. He's going to try to kill you."
And then the guy was like, I kept
saying, "You're a nice guy." And I
[laughter] was like, "This is amazing.
You're
>> incredible." But whatever it is,
>> dispel the rumors.
>> Doesn't matter. They
>> those dinosaurs are real though.
>> Those?
>> Yeah. Yeah. In the movie.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> They're real. And they're bad guys.
>> Bad guy. Dinosaurs.
>> Yeah, they
>> I saw them.
>> You okay, brother?
>> Like bad guys. [laughter]
>> Um, a new player has entered the chat
over here.
>> Um, so we were inspired by, of course,
uh, pterodactyl lings. Um, we thought of
the biggest most prehistoric looking
bird and and I said, "What if there's a
big prehistoric bird that you and I both
have a connection to?" So, these are
ostrich wigs.
>> Ew.
>> Because of the ostrich farm. Yeah. Yeah.
No. So, I hear I hear that. Can I have
some of your water,
>> please?
Um, my bad. I kind of forgot to get
water in there.
>> Also, ew.
>> What? Ostrich wings?
>> Yes. Where on the ostrich's body is
this? Their legs?
>> No. So, you know, they got like um So,
if I'm an ostrich, they're like perched
here and they're kind of [music] two.
So, their wings are like pinned back.
They're covered. But when they make um a
sexually threatened gesture that they
do, they kind of straighten up and they
cran their neck and they start to, you
know, their neck expands and turns red.
>> What did you So, what is this? A
sexually threatened.
>> Yeah. When they're sexually threatened,
>> they do that.
>> They do that.
>> Ask me how I know. How
>> I I sexually threatened a lot.
>> Is this true?
>> I'm dead serious. I We did a shoot where
I wanted to make ostrich egg mayonnaise,
okay,
>> for a hamburger. So, we went to get an
ostrich egg and we were like talking to
this ostrich farmer who got sold the
ostrich farm in like a kind of like
Montreal salesman way.
>> I see in his eyes that he hates me and
that's fine. I don't need to be loved by
everyone.
>> Uh but anyway, so a bit of a jaded
ostrich farmer. He's like, "Yeah, you
can just run in and grab that egg
yourself. We can get it on camera."
>> I wouldn't. Those sons of [ __ ] can
kick.
>> Well, yeah. So, so we we knew that and
and he told us he was like, "I see this
scar almost gored me." And I'm like,
"That's great." And so I'm running in
after this ostrich egg and I grab it and
I run out and then the male bull
ostrich. It's 9 ft tall and it's the
fence is here. And so this thing just
starts kicking around the fence and then
it just goes like and it you see it's
it's its neck inflates like three
[music] times the size
>> like a king cobra and the guy
>> is that Josh is that sexually threat?
>> Well, I'll tell you I'll tell you what
happened. I'll tell you what happened. I
ask this farmer, right? This.com boo
ostrich farmer and uh and I say what's
going on here? Am I in danger? And he
goes, "No, he's just feeling sexually
threatened."
>> Oh, like you're going to try to get one
of the ladies.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I was
>> Okay.
>> I was establishing dominance by stealing
the egg.
>> Understood. So, he was He thought you
were just a new ostrich in town.
[laughter]
>> And what if I told you I was?
>> That's wild, man.
>> So, we're going to eat the ostrich's
wings as a sort of recompense, but I'm
going to make a green sauce to go along
with all the behdy
um of [music] Isla Mueres. What would
what did he say is the difference
between just pissed off and sexually
threatened? Because
>> I was I was trying to get out of there
quicker. [laughter]
>> But make us feel weird things.
>> But if it's So the idea of specifically
sexually threatened versus just you're
breaking in and stealing their [ __ ] Cuz
you could also say the human man goes
like this [laughter] when he's sexually
threatening. You go like this.
>> Wait, no. Let's explain that. Was it
that I think I think I think Freud and
myself would probably argue that that's
everything cuz I think if you if you
were actually like worried you wouldn't
fight someone, you would be like it's
better to just sort of back up,
>> you know, and the only reason you would
fight is coming from some sort of
insecurity about your masculinity, which
would say that you're sexually
threatened
>> or somebody was breaking into your house
trying to steal your eggs and you're
like [laughter] you're like
>> got to get,
>> hey, homeboy man, I'm an ostrich. This
is all I got. Look at my life.
>> I think you can.
>> I'm in a a box that's caged in. I got
that lady in these eggs.
>> GET YOUR BIG ASS OUT OF HERE.
>> I BOUGHT THIS 30 YEARS AGO. HE HAS A LOT
OF REGRETS AND I FEEL HIS NEGATIVE
ENERGY.
>> SUCKS. Get your big ass out of here,
man.
>> Yeah, that's a fair point. You know, I
uh again, I was really trying to get out
of
>> eggs.
>> Oh, yeah. So, we're cooking the wings.
They're pretty small. They're pretty
good, though. We uh uh we we pressure
cooked them and then we char grilled
them. Um, and then we're just gonna sort
of plate these dinosaur wings on here.
Is this reminding you a lot of of
Jurassic Park?
>> I'm trying to figure I just remembered
our other game, the one of one.
>> I don't know how to [laughter] do this
one.
>> Yeah. Well, here's the thing. You get
You only said you need three out of
five.
>> That's true.
>> So, you can sort of just punt on this
one if you really wanted to.
>> You know what I am going to say?
>> Go ahead.
>> I think I figured it out on this one. I
like what you're doing at the top there.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Right. Nice little spicy
herbaceious sauce. So, this is how I'm
going to be able to connect these to
that movie in terms of eating my career.
>> So, when you start a career as an actor,
you say yes to everything.
>> Perfect.
>> Because you don't know.
>> Uhhuh.
>> You do things you're like, I don't know.
You're so nervous. You're looking at
Video Village, you're being like, do you
like me? Is it good? You lose all your
instincts because you start getting
paid. You start getting the childhood
dream and you're like, oh my god, I'm
here. I don't want to it up. M
>> then you start hitting a point where you
go, but I also got to remember who I am.
>> Yeah.
>> Because I'm only on this rock for so
long. [music] So I respect Video
Village, but I'm here too.
>> So Jurassic World was um Colin and I
talking and I did say you're going to
want a lot of exposition from Lowry that
you're going to need hit precisely and
fast.
>> Yeah,
>> I'm dyslexic as the day is long. We're
you're asking me to do a whole numbers
game and you're going to want some
beautiful shot and it's going to go like
somebody says something somebody says
something gets to me and I go like well
there was 70. [laughter]
So I go give me somebody else to do that
and then they and I she and I or he and
I whatever it was can go back and forth
>> and then we could figure it out. So then
Colin thought about it and came back and
said I actually love it. So with that in
mind, I learned at around that era to
start going, I appreciate this, but this
is my path. And with that in mind, I
ain't TRYING THAT OSTRICH. COME
[laughter] ON, MAN. COME ON. HELL NO.
>> COME ON. TRY ONE BITE. ONE BITE. What if
you watch me bite it first?
>> I'm going to watch you bite it.
>> Okay, perfect. We'll bite the same
ostrich.
>> What kind of [ __ ] it? Let's see what
you got.
>> Just Okay. Just Just hold it. Just try
it on for size. Just hold it. See how it
feels in the hand, you know, and then
I'll cheers that with you. Cheers. And
then
>> I mean, you're not selling it, homeboy.
>> [ __ ] up.
>> Yes, homie. You didn't sell it.
Everything that happened there did not
tell me try a bite. And you know I'm
right, John. [laughter]
>> You know I'm right.
>> That was horrifying. I hate that that
happened. And I hate And frankly, can I
say I'm so sad that that you had to be
here to witness that. That [laughter]
should be in front of all these people.
They're paid to be near me. That was
disgusting.
>> That wasn't you.
>> That was the bird. But man, you did
Josh. You did everything right. You did
every
>> GIVE ME THE SOUNDS.
>> OH,
>> THE SOUNDS.
>> From what I know,
>> that's just that the sounds. We've all
had a chicken wing before. I've never
heard that sound before.
>> No.
>> Some kale.
>> How's the kale? Nice.
>> Oh [ __ ] Tastes good. Tastes like
Jurassic Park. [laughter]
>> That's the clip, baby.
Jake, you got five guesses to guess
which one. Hard
>> this is. Yeah. Well, do you know what
that is?
>> Some sort of aioli. Like a sauce.
>> Correct. What's that?
>> Some sort of weird carrier. Looks like a
sp Oh, it's a spider-verse because he
loves a hamburger. He loves the burger
from the Greek place.
>> Wait, were you serious that you didn't
know which one this was?
>> I didn't know which one it was.
>> Oh, I thought you were doing it cuz
you're like a very funny comedian and
there's a spiderweb in a red and blue
bagel.
>> But what's the red and blue? Oh, cuz of
Spider-Man colors.
>> Yeah, man. SPIDER-MAN A LOT OF PROJECTS.
>> I DON'T [ __ ] KNOW. YEAH, SPIDER-MAN'S
LIKE A BIG ONE. Last time you gave me an
ostrich. [laughter]
It's kind of discom.
That scared me.
>> I guess sometimes I forget that like
this is different than going on like a
late night show. You know what I mean?
Late night show. You know what? You
know, I'll tell you an already run that
by a producer.
>> Well, this I know the premise that I'm
eating my career. So, I'm still catching
up.
>> Uh sp into the Spiderverse.
>> Yes. Into the Spider. to uh voice
Spider-Man. And also during the
pandemic, you set up a line where you
would leave people voicemails
>> as Peter Parker. Yeah.
>> Was that your decision?
>> It was. It was. The pandemic started. My
daughters were I think five and a half,
six and out of school. And so, um I
don't know how it's I was I don't know
how it started, but I thought cuz I do
the voice and not the face. The voice is
Peter B. Parker, but they've never seen
my face, which means I could make like a
voicemail. I think I was going to like
just put it on my social media for
parents to grab that if you want this,
email me to this account.
>> Yeah.
>> And I'll make a little voice note on my
phone and send it to you. And I thought
I was going to get a few hundred.
>> Yeah.
>> And the next day, I'm not kidding, there
were about 20,000.
>> And so I started and I wanted to
personalize it to each person's name.
>> Yeah.
>> So spent the day just on the voice note
doing [clears throat] and it was getting
overwhelming. So I contacted Jay Gner,
my agent at UTA, and I was like, I've
made a little bit of an error.
>> [laughter]
>> I'm I'm a little underwater, brother.
And so he got me in touch with this guy,
Eugene, at UTA. We created a pretty cool
thing where I would do each name. So I'd
be like, "Hey, Rose, it's Peter B part."
My daughter's in some of them. She's a
little sister. We called her Spider
Rose. Where she'd be like, "Hi."
[laughter]
>> That's a good impression of your
daughter.
>> And I was like, "We're doing this
thing." And then they created a thing
where if you emailed in your name, they
could just uh connect it to the name in
this database. Um,
>> so I spent a couple of weeks just doing
as many names as I could and then we
sent out, you know, maybe a hundred
thousand of these, 80,000 of these.
Yeah. But I couldn't have done it
without uh UTA's help.
>> But I'm so sorry. I didn't know that the
spider WAGON A WEIRD BAGEL WAS THAT
MOVIE. OH, I GUESS THIS is so DIFFERENT
THAN JIMMY FALLON.
>> IT IS. I But you know, you know, hey,
and I think if we just turn the turn the
temperature down,
>> Jimmy Fallon's not doing weird little
games ON HIS SHOW. [laughter] IF HE
STEALS them from us, he steals them. We
have a good relationship, but they but
they know.
>> Well, cuz my my podcast, we're here to
help.
>> Uh Stavros, uh Stavi believes Stavy's
World believes my partner Gareth stole
the idea from Stavi.
>> Wait, really?
>> Yeah.
>> Because it's very similar, but I didn't
know of Stavy's World before.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> But we had Stavi come on our show and
he's so funny. And before we start
recording, he's so nice. I'm making
jokes and then once we start he goes
like you little rat. [laughter]
>> Well, I mean there's so many there's so
many podcasts and everything like this
isn't last meals, right? It's not the
first time that somebody had ever asked
that question, but we were like we are
the first ones that seem actually
outfitted to like fully cook all of
someone's requests. You asked for quote
a Coca-Cola but with none of the junk in
it. We have the the the the capacity to
create Coke from scratch in an art
department to create the label. So we're
like whatever anybody else has done.
Shout out to Ed Gamble and James
Acastaster. I love your show. We were
like [music] we can do this different in
a way that feels
>> totally fine.
>> Well, it's by the way, what is that
meat?
>> Turkey.
>> We know you're not big on red meat, so
we're like
>> uh we got some fries frying off.
>> I love it.
>> But yeah, this is based off of one the
scene where you and Miles Morales are uh
uh escaping the laboratory. M
>> uh and uh you snag a bagel. So we're
making a bagel burger
>> delicious
>> to call back to the diner that uh closed
down 6 years ago in Peter B. Parker's uh
universe uh but then is open in Miles
Morales's universe.
>> So you're really languishing over a
burger.
>> I'll tell you multiverse
>> in that part deserves more credit than
he's getting.
>> Yeah.
>> He is so good as Miles. When you record
with Shemik,
>> the whole thing makes sense. Yeah.
>> And that doesn't happen on every project
where one character becomes like the
baseline and once you're with them,
>> you just go around them. But he really
did that for miles. And I really believe
he deserves a lot of credit for the
success of that franchise.
>> Yeah. I mean, I remember watching Into
the Spider-Verse for the first time and
thinking that like it was something new
that like, oh, this is a thing that feel
the style of animation that I had grown
to know. This was something that blew it
>> so far out of the water. you know what I
mean? It felt like um an apocalypt
[music]
that that style of animation in a way
that seems spiritually I don't know it
felt like a a totally new thing. Do do
you still get the like same
gratification from voice acting as you
do?
>> I love voice acting. What I really love
about it is you can [music]
dim the lights in the room
>> and you just have the material and the
person you're reading with.
>> Oh, that's cool. And so nothing else
matters.
>> Yeah.
>> So while we're doing this, we're both
aware of those cameras and those people
here. And you as an actor, you're always
aware of the room. [music]
>> Yeah.
>> In voice over, because you're not even
seeing the final product. [music] You're
not part of a movie. You're just doing
the scene. They're part of the movie. So
I actually find it to be some of the
most pure acting where you're just
hitting a scene and it's just about
trying to nail the emotions or the
comedy of the scene. That is unlike if
there's a crew and you're making
something.
>> Damn.
>> So for me, I'm like I love it.
>> That's such an interesting term to use
of like the purest form of acting.
>> Yeah. For me at least.
>> When do you feel like is there was there
a time earlier in your career where you
felt like there was a certain purity
that you're like chasing a little bit
like from the early improv days?
>> Um I Yes, I am always chasing it. So,
and it started early in the improv days
100% where every once in a while you're
in a scene with somebody and [music]
you're just in it and everything
[clears throat] fades away
>> and it is just you and that person
locked into this thing
>> and you're totally out of your head.
You've 100% dissociated. You 100% feel
what the character is supposed to be
feeling and they call cut and you get a
little bit like, "No, I know I'm cool.
[laughter] I didn't overly believe. I'm
back to being snarky." But there is a
period where you get to believe in that
magic and feel it. And it doesn't happen
on every job. It doesn't happen on every
scene. But there are moments. And when
those moments, that's the drug where
you're like, "I'll go do this job in
hopes that that happens once in a
12-hour day."
>> What actor have you felt give you that
feeling the strongest?
>> Um, so many. So Tatiana Maslani recent.
So strongest is hard because I've been
doing this for a while, but recently
she's so good in Maximum Pleasure
Guaranteed and so unpredictable.
>> Yeah.
>> So when [music] I I literally did a
whole thing where it's a custody battle
and I finished that and felt anger
towards her, like actual resentment and
thought like she's a bad mom. Um for the
dank, uh Aaron Chen is so funny in that.
>> I was so stoked to see him and uh in the
dank man. Yeah. But we would be doing
scenes and because I'm just trying to
keep up with his logic and his improv
sometimes I would be totally gone from
the movie set and just going like
[music] the is he going to say next?
[laughter] So there's always you know
>> there's always a job where at least for
me recently Dakota Fanning in the
Swanberg movie we would get in little
grooves in the Sunset PI one. [music] I
loved working with Jane Levy. We like we
were doing certain scenes where you're
like oh I'm so excited to chase [music]
that again. So each job it does feel
like there's roads.
>> I felt that feeling once for like 10
seconds. I got bullied into doing an
improv show.
>> Okay.
>> We had a wonderful improviser named
Vicis on Last Meals. Vic bullied me into
doing an improv show with Lisa Gilroy.
>> So funny.
>> This was Oscar Mononttoya Dembe.
>> Oh Killers
>> like Angela Jeran a murderer's row.
>> So you're safe by the way.
>> 100%. Someone was like you're playing
basketball with the dream team.
>> Just relax. Exactly right. Just relax.
But there was one moment where they were
like there five people out there and
they're all like the Beatles and I just
had this idea of just like what if they
weren't the Beatles? What I come out
there [music] and I just like pull a
plug and I just go like goddamn
holograms are malfunctioning again and I
just felt this like kind of rush of like
oh you've started something and then Vic
just lights up. Vic runs in there and
then we just end up like [music] over
literally like 30 seconds creating the
scene in which like Vic and I were like
a a married couple who moved to Naples,
Florida and started this hologram
company that we took from state fair to
state fair because I have seasonal
effective disorder in this universe
>> created in in 10 seconds with three
lines
>> and I was like it was real and then like
you know one of the Beatles he was like
oh [ __ ] myself and then we're back in so
there was a thing that we heard my
brother and I my brother's my [music] to
me still the funniest guy I've ever met,
best friend, everything. When we were
growing up outside Chicago, Second City
was the thing. And back then, Dell Close
was the genius of Second City. [music]
>> And we had heard this thing and it was
our thing growing up that we believed to
be real. [music] And that is he did an
improv show with a bunch of people and
he said, "Set it in a kitchen." They do
a whole hour in front of the like a pack
of theater of students. They never
talked about the kitchen or what it
looked like, but they really committed
to the reality of this scene in the
kitchen. Then they asked the people,
"What color were the cabinets in the
background?" And something like 80% said
light yellow. [music] And so whatever
that is
>> is what I love about the game because
they were
>> Yeah.
>> yellow. They just didn't exist. But that
thing got so real that everybody
believed it to be real. They laughed
when they were supposed to laugh. The
rhythm was right. The cabinets were
yellow. the walls were white [music] and
you don't have to have it for people to
see it. And that dissociation into
creating another reality is the drug for
me. [music]
>> And so the rest of it are, you know, I
view projects like chapters in a book
where they'll be like, "Yeah, that was a
great period with great people, but what
I'm going after is these little like fun
little moments."
>> Man, let me check on that burger. We're
making food. Oh, uh, I I put fries in
the fryer. And this is just like late
night. I put fries in the fryer.
[laughter] You know how they do.
>> Fallon, copy this [ __ ]
>> We got our sizzling hamburger. We We do
have um
>> That looks way more Spider-Man.
>> Yeah. Yeah, we should have showed you
that. This is our housemade Spider-Man
rainbow bagel. [laughter]
>> We're pretty proud of this.
>> Looks good.
>> We're going to do a little bit of
chipotle on there. Trying to really play
with those lighter turkey burger
flavors. Talking earlier about like the,
you know, sitcoms and everything kind of
transforming. This is just like Food
Network like you know and then even Food
Network was super new and all the people
who watch PBS cooking shows are pissed
off that Food Network was you know
different than that.
>> Everything just morphs and changes over
time. You know what I mean?
>> What is what do you know in history in
terms of uh turkey burgers or
hamburgers?
>> Turkeys are also indigenous to America.
>> Okay.
>> So like uh in Mexican food like they
were using a lot of like turkey meat
instead of you know they didn't have a
pork and cow. Benjamin Franklin wanted
to make the turkey the the national bird
of the US and people were like, "Have
you seen a turkey band? Come on, Eagle."
It's like,
>> "Oh, yeah, totally. That would be so
different."
>> Turkey was our bird.
>> Well, Canada's the goose, you know, and
that's why we don't take them seriously.
God bless him. But, uh, but yeah, so
turkeys are like purely indigenous to
America. But I'm curious about the rise
in ground turkeys. It relates to the low
fat movement
>> cuz that's why I grew up eating ground
turkey,
>> right?
>> Put that
>> right on top.
>> Yes. Nice big old slice of beef steak
tomato. [music]
Crown that. Of course, we got to put it
on the web plate. Put some fries.
>> You ever considered doing uh like a
little popup?
>> That would be cool. I would really like
to do that.
>> You want to finance it?
>> Maybe. Actually, I'll finance it with
you.
>> Yeah, we'll go in
>> cuz this would be successful.
>> Be fun, right? Wait, can you talk to the
people at Is it Sony?
>> Yes.
>> Can you talk to people at Sony about
getting the rights?
>> You give me a break. [laughter]
>> Sony's gonna be fine. A weird looking
bagel with a turkey on it. They're not
going to go, "WAIT A SECOND. WE OWN
THAT. [laughter]
It's
>> got potential for billions."
>> Josh, you're going to be fine.
>> Uh, fair point. What do you think?
>> I think it looks delicious.
>> You think you're going to go three for
three?
>> Oh, the connection [ __ ]
>> Uhoh. Okay. Bring those impro.
>> I'm not on this one. Actually,
[laughter]
I can go three for three on this one.
Um, I love aioli on a burger. I love the
way this looks. When I was offered
Spider-Man from Chris Lord, it was the
easiest yes for me because it was then
it was an IP I thought was cool and it
was voice over.
>> This is the easiest yes for me to eat
this one of all fries too from like the
to this is the one from here. I'm like
100. I know I'm going to like it as soon
as I saw that. Can
>> I do like a half credit? Maybe that's a
full three. Is that a half? You think
it's a full three?
>> I want a real vote. Don't listen to me
or Josh.
>> Easy yes to Spider-Man. Easy yes to a
hamburger director.
>> Real vote. I'm not sensitive.
>> Yes.
>> Is that a It's a Thank you. Thank you,
Chris.
>> Okay,
>> we got a 75. 75.
>> I'll take 75. Exactly right.
>> That's better for the betting market,
too.
[clears throat]
>> That's delicious. That's really nice.
Are you getting that nostalgic flashback
when you see you go, "Oh my god, that
reminds me of the suit that I wore, the
spider suit for the movie when you were
doing voiceover recording."
>> It does.
>> Yeah. So, I'm I'm [laughter] getting
that, too.
>> So, let's hear as a chef break this
down.
>> To me, bagels are much better as a
standalone dish as opposed to a bun for
a sandwich. Even like going to New York,
I don't like a bacon, egg, and cheese on
a bagel. I like that on a Kaiser roll.
To me, bagel, it should be like shmear
and locks. So, for me, this is a little
bit obstructive. I think this would be a
lot better
>> on something like a Kaiser roll.
>> Okay.
>> But I love the turkey burger.
>> And is that just texture-wise?
>> Yeah, it's texture. It's the way that
like the teeth sink through the bagel
cuz bagels are by definition kind of
hard.
>> You boil them. You put uh maltto syrup
in there to kind of make it a little
extra tough. Right.
>> That's the point of a bagel.
>> But it kind of takes away from the
actual meat of the burger.
>> I do I do love though thinly sliced
onion, tomato, avocado, chipotle. Turkey
doesn't have as strong a flavor as beef,
so you can kind of play with it a little
bit more.
>> Totally agree.
>> It doesn't even need cheese. I love
that. But to me, the burger, the bun
would have been
>> I'm gonna agree with you. You throw some
of that Jewish rye.
>> That would have been shocking. [snorts]
>> Oh [ __ ] man.
[music]
>> Jake, what we have here, uh, it's truly
one of the world's great products. This
is Hamon de Bayota from the Iberian
Peninsula. It's made, of course, with
the patenegra. [music]
Uh, it's been cured for, uh, just over a
year. Um, uh, they're fed a diet
exclusively of, uh, acorns, which makes
their fat monounsaturated. Has the same
profile as olive oil.
>> Wonderful. I got a feeling this is about
drunk history. [laughter]
>> You son of a [ __ ] God damn it. He's
good. God, what gave it away?
>> I just have a feeling.
>> That's a feeling.
>> A duel is going to happen. [laughter]
>> Explain to me why you think this is drug
history. What do the What do these all
symbolize?
>> They battle each other.
>> Battle had the guns. Aaron B. You were
You were Aaron Burr. I was Aaron B.
>> You were the bad guy.
>> Yes. It was Mike Sarah. So the it was
Mike Sarah and I. It was Derek Waters,
the brilliant Derek Waters, the great
Jeremy Connor who directed it and it was
early YouTube. I think it was one of the
first big YouTube things that exploded
and I remember they Derek posted it and
overnight it felt like there was a
million views and we were all freaking
out.
>> Do you remember getting asked to do
drunk history? Like do you remember
Derek reaching out and being like, "Hey,
I got this idea."
>> Yeah. So, that started um one night
Derrick and I hung out one-on-one at my
place in Silver Lake and got drunk, just
throwing back alcohol. And then I told
him a story about the night Otis Reading
died that my friend Bill Bongroth told
me growing up that I just believed to be
fact. It's probably a three-minute story
and I think I took 45 minutes telling it
and I'm not going to do it now, but I
was doing everybody's voices. The moment
got on top of me, but it happened. His
vision during that was this was really
funny and he pictured Otis Reading
sitting next to me and whenever I lied
and the alcohol started talking he would
imagine Otis Ready being like to camera
to Derek being like that didn't happen.
Yeah, that's false. And so the next day
he called me up and he said, "Can we
come over get drunk again and have
Jeremy uh film you telling that and then
I want to get a bunch of actors to
reenact it?" And I was a commercial
actor at the time and I just got into
the union and I go, I can't get drunk on
camera. [laughter] I'm a professional
commercial actor. So I passed our other
buddy Mark said yes. They recorded him
and [music] then Mike Sarah and I both
agreed to be in it. So we just went in
some backyard and Derek bought all the
costumes, shot it thinking nothing of it
>> and then it exploded online.
>> Another thing that felt like it was its
own genre.
>> I totally agree. So I still see it all
[music] the time. I'll watch stuff where
it's that same voice over that then cuts
back. Yeah. And you're like, "Yeah, it's
now just a style."
>> Yeah. Even like we we have like a kind
of a show that we just called Meals of
History where we have an improv actor
like dress up as a historical figure and
>> and I'm the one that knows all the
history and I'm cooking it.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. And then they're just acting
completely, you know, and it's like
>> you're just cutting for laughs.
>> Yeah. An interesting thing about, you
know, growing up with such a big cadre
ultra talented comedians is like
>> it always takes the right sort of stroke
of luck.
>> Totally for the timing.
>> Yeah.
>> And having a million failures and never
stopping.
>> 100%. Is there anybody from you know
back in your your improv days growing up
that you're just like this was the most
talented person that I performed with
regardless of of what their career is.
Just raw talent.
>> My brother Dan.
>> Yeah. Wait, does he does he he act as
well or
>> he he did when he was young when I was
14 one day he did like a bunch of
mysterious older brother stuff which was
cool where I was a freshman and he was a
senior and one day he's like hey man
want to go to the city with me and I was
like yeah I do and we drove to some
improv theater right near Second City
some hole-in-the-wall place we walk in
and the professional comedians saw him
and they were like Dan what are you
doing here and he's like I'm with my
brother I had never known he had taken a
class I swear in my So I was like, "How
do they know?" And then they said, "You
want to jump up?" He got up and crushed.
I didn't even know what improv was. And
I was like, "What is this?" And he goes,
"Oh, I take classes." And so that was
the beginning of like, "Whoa, you're my
like bits partner." Yeah.
>> And so forever, like when I just did the
Alaska movie, he comes does bits with
everybody gets to know him. He always
crushes, but he's not interested in this
job job. He's a lobbyist in Chicago, so
in Springfield. So he's got his own
thing. But hands down, when he's in his
groove,
>> yeah,
>> nobody's funnier. The difference is is
most professionals can find a groove
even when there isn't one.
>> And my brother, if it's not there, he'll
be like,
>> I'm going TO GO BACK TO
>> professional lobbying.
>> But if my brother gets in his groove, I
don't think anybody's funnier.
>> All right, we got to initiate the duel.
Jake, in your gun, you have hot sauce to
glaze the beer brazed Brussels sprouts.
>> Great. And I have balsamic vinegar to
glaze the bourbon brazed veric. There's
so many words in this. Bourbon
[laughter] beer drunk history dueling
bitter. You get the point.
>> Beer and bourbon gets us to drunk
history.
>> Light them up.
>> Oh, hell yeah. Wait, why don't more
restaurants do that?
>> Your honest thoughts. [music]
>> The beer braze on the Brussels sprouts.
>> Okay.
>> Performative.
>> Really? Tell me why.
>> Beer Brussels sprouts are already bitter
enough. There's not a lot of alchemy in
cooking, right? I remember the first
time I tried to make like IPA chili cuz
I thought it was going to be super cool
when I was in college.
>> Yes.
>> Drink IPA. I was like, "This is bitter
as all hell." Well, I pour into this
chili. Surely it's going to taste like
something else. And then I tasted the
chili. I was like, "No, this sucks. It
tastes like IPA." [music]
>> Right.
>> Right. Beer can be delicious in
something like a chili or like a
Guinness stew or something like that.
>> What do you think of like a beer
chicken?
>> Terrible.
>> Terrible.
>> It's actually bad.
>> Why?
>> Have you ever be like a beer can be can
chicken up the butt? Yeah, that I've
done that once.
>> If you do that next to just like a
chicken that was cooked nice on a grill,
the chicken that's cooked nice on a
grill is going to be way better,
>> right?
>> The beer in the chicken butt actually
prevents it from cooking
>> cuz the beer holds chicken. The breast
the correct temperature is like 165°.
>> The whole thing with beer can chicken is
people say it it steams from the inside
and keeps it moist,
>> right?
>> Water doesn't boil until 212°,
>> right?
>> What the hell are we talking about here?
You know what I mean? So, there's no
point to it. But it's a fun little term.
from Beer Brace.
>> Totally.
>> The Redikio.
That's awesome. Sweet. Acidic. Balsamic.
The bourbon actually works with it. The
little saltiness from the ham. I'm a big
fan of that.
>> Yeah.
>> Now, can you go four for four?
>> No.
>> I'm going to take I'm going to take my
loss here.
>> Totally fine.
>> I'm going to take my loss. [laughter]
>> Yeah.
>> These are called kitchen sink cookies.
Kitchen sink cookies where you just take
anything. We did pretzels and peanuts
and potato chips.
>> 100%. 100%. Uh there's a sport in which
the kitchen
>> then the dink and and and check this
out. Check this out.
>> Now we're talking
>> pickle flavored potato chips
>> that we're going to roll it in just to
finish it. So this is your pickle ball.
>> I love it.
>> Kitchen sink cookie ice cream sandwich.
>> But check this out. Check Check this
out.
Look at you.
>> Come on, Jake. Well,
>> are you going to get this on Fallon? No
way, man. We'll probably cuz he's
watching. We know Jimmy's watching.
>> We don't steal this. This is
>> This could happen. [laughter]
>> He has so much. He has so much.
>> So much gone. [laughter]
>> Put them away. I'm driving. See this
watch? Found these on the floor at a
concert. These I didn't even buy these.
>> Let Let this man live.
>> Come on.
>> Um question to you about uh the kitchen
sink idea. We will get into ding. Is
that thing true about Chopsui from your
knowledge that how Chopsui started was
in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco
and all the a restaurant ran out of
food? There was a bunch of uh servicemen
in there and the guy said uh just went
in his back uh fridge, grabbed whatever
he had, put it into a soup. Everybody
liked it. They came back and said, "Can
we get what we had last night?" And he
made up chopsi.
>> I can't imagine that's true. I I
actually don't know though. I don't know
a lot about
>> cuz that's another drunk history thing.
>> I've heard that and I've told that but
I've never double checked it. [music]
>> So you don't know cuz that's what I've
I've always heard that to be is how
Chopsi started. [music] That's how
Chinese food got huge in San Francisco.
>> Interesting. I know. I mean the reason
Chinese food got huge in San Francisco
is cuz there were like a bunch of
[music] Chinese people.
>> Well, how it got huge with uh white
people.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> It transferred over.
>> I don't know the origins of chops. I
know that people in different regions
use the term chop sooie to mean
different things. So if you are I think
in the northeast in like New England you
call something chop sooie that is just
macaroni noodles, beef and tomatoes
>> in the same way you might call it like
uh some people call it like American
goulash, some people call it chili mac,
johnny marzetti, whatever. And so
chopsui is this like weirdly vague term.
I don't even know there's like a cannon
of what chopsui
>> actually
>> actually is. You know what I So when the
dink came to me, Sean uh Clemens, the
writer, uh pitched me an idea. He said,
"Do you care about pickle ball?" I said,
"No." He goes, "Do you care about
tennis?" I said, "No." But I finally be
one of the funniest guys I've ever met.
And he goes, "What are you looking to
do?" And I said, "I think our country is
going to be in a weird spot." This was
about 2 years ago. I want to make
something that's easy and fun and
joyful. And my thought was kind of like
yacht rock if it was like a movie of
like just feel good, light, funny, good
bits, good performances, nice simple arc
story with a big third act that like
peaks and he pitched this idea and cuz
it's based off his real life. He started
playing pickle ball after he got a
tennis injury and he played with a bunch
of older women
>> and he was so egotistical that he was
going to kill them that at first he was
being like really gentle and then these
older ladies killed him. Not only that,
they talk [ __ ] to him. And I thought
that was such a funny thing. And he
goes, "But it's actually real in the
pickle ball community because it's easy
to start, but it's hard to get really
good."
>> So when you're starting, you could be a
70-year-old woman who's kicking your
ass. And it's the first time she's
winning like this, and these women are
getting nasty about it.
>> And so, and when he pitched me that, I
was like, "All right, I want to do it."
But the way I can connect to this is
this. No. Even if this was poorly made,
it's going to be good.
>> Yep.
>> It's going to be delicious and we're
going to like it. The premise of this
movie and the fun of it, the lightness
of it, even if you pretend not to like
it and you're mad at pickle ball, if you
watch the movie, you're going to like
it. It's easy listening in a way that I
find really enjoyable
>> that I find the same as about an ice
cream sandwich.
>> I'll give you 1.25 on that. I'll make
I'll make I'll take the [laughter] lost.
I just I just needed about 0.25 on it.
We're good, but I'll take the win. Jake,
please have a bite. Uh, cheers to the
dink, man. I'm so stoked to watch it.
>> It's a great one.
>> Architecturally, I might switch to Open
Face. Just I think I've started to get
TMJ. That's That's one of my old uh
aging things.
>> Yeah. So, it just hurt to open too much.
>> Mhm. Are you getting any pickle flavor?
>> Maybe.
>> I think maybe is about as much as you
want with ice cream.
>> Gross.
>> Right. Cuz we did put pickle flavored
chips in here just as an homage to try
and, you know, really make you eat your
[laughter]
>> GOD DAMN IT. WE ALWAYS PICKLES.
>> WE MAKE FRIENDS ON THE SHOW AND THEN WE
COME HERE.
>> I got COOKIES AND ICE CREAM.
>> WE MAKE MAKER and we TRY TO BE A
[screaming]
>> MONSTERS CUZ WE THOUGHT WE COULD relive
that guy Chris. Remember Chris?
>> SOME DISGUSTING HAM SLICE.
>> THE ham slice was good. [laughter] I
like the HAM SLICE.
>> THE PICKLES.
>> REMEMBER THE OSTRICH WINGS GUY CHRIS?
YES.
>> He moved to Massachusetts,
>> came back here one day, didn't tell
anybody that he was that he was coming
back. And literally, he just like an
angel, he just walked through our door.
>> What a place.
>> And he just came in and I was like, "Oh
my god." We reminisced and then poof, he
disappeared uh back to Massachusetts,
you know. But he walked in, he walked
back into my life, which means he walked
back into our lives from one day, one
glorious day.
>> Sweet guy. Check them out. And we're
here to help.
>> Check them out. We're here to help. And
that's the podcast that you host. We're
here to help
>> with you.
>> But but is it available wherever you can
get podcasts?
>> It's wherever you can get podcast.
>> Wherever you get Now that's incredible.
Well, really what I'm asking people to
do is check out The Dink July 24th. I
love the movie. Imagine this, but not
with disgusting pickle [laughter] sauce
in it cuz that wasn't a sneak.
>> So, it's delicious ice cream or frozen
yogurt cookies with M&M's,
>> but we don't put pickle juice in it.
>> So, I guess it's like that was the high
[laughter] floor, right? Until the
pickles. Yeah, the pickles. Huh.
>> Well, at that point, I was like, "We're
just going." Yeah. Cut. Yeah.
>> [laughter]
>> By the way, that's that the the pickles
are when your director's cuts 2 hours
and you make it down to an hour 30. 30
minutes got to go.
>> That was all pickles. Pickles are out
and all the pickles have been good. Now
the movie's [laughter] just a perfectly
delicious sandwich.
>> Uh dude, Jake, thank you so much for
eating your career. We're just going to
have that as like an all new case
because we don't know how it's going to
perform yet cuz again, we've never done
this before. [laughter]
>> Truly, man. Thanks. Thank you for being
awesome. Um come back on the show, man.
And we'll embarrass Steve.
>> Oh yes, for sure. Let's do it.
>> Will embarrass me on the pickle ball
court.
>> I love it.
>> I'm going to go play pickle ball on this
podcast. We'll see how it goes.
[laughter]
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