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Hello, Hello, good morning, my friend. How are you man?

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Man, what a movie game. That's a great I did like that movie

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had no idea how that it was based on true story? It is?

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Right? Yes, yeah, yeah, that's I was hoping after I said

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that, of course, I said, Scott WiLAN ran the marathon backwards a more story. Do you know what I'm I'm I'm having one of those days,

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Eric Slhanski. But I will say this, man, I'm so excited

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to see your film. And well, I don't know if we're allowed to

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like how much of it we're allowed to break down if the trailer has been released yet? Are we allowed to release the trailer in any of that jazz?

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But um, Quasi looks Quasi looks hilarious. Man, thanks man.

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Yeah, we've done a five, We've done a bunch of screens. We

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did like a little of what we called it, Quasi Cella, toured around

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the country a little bit DIF some screening, so it's out there. Yeah.

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Uh, we watched the trailer as well. And when I say we,

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I mean Corey and I. But uh, the one thing that sticks out, and there are a couple of comments on YouTube about it is how

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very Monty Python like it is and how much Life of Brian it's like.

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It's the trailer is very good and I love the I would say homage to

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Monty Python if that's what you were going for Oh yeah, one hundred percent.

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I always say I'm nervous about the comparison because those guys are geniuses,

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you know, yeah, like they're the Holy Grail and it was our tip

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of the hat because we were just so influenced them by them growing up and

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obviously wanted to be them. But I get nervous in comparison because they're so

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damn good. What's your favorite Monty Python film? Oh? Man, I

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think Life of Brian, But I mean, Grail and Brian to me are so good. Yeah, like they're perfect. I mean they're great comedies.

2:29

Life of Brian it's a perfect film. You are correct, Yeah, it's great. So I have a bunch of questions because this is an interesting thing

2:36

that it's a movie. First of all, it's going to be on Hulu, right, Does anything change for you guys when you're making a film for

2:43

a streaming service as opposed to the big screen or or why are you making

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a movie for both? If you know what I mean? Yeah, you

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know, we made the deal during the pandemic and nobody's feats for even coming

2:53

back, so we thought, well, what kind of movie could we make

2:58

for streaming? You know, I feel like extreamly kind of gives you a

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little more options, Like this is a it's a kind of off brand for

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us, you know, it's kind of a stretch. You know. It's like, could we try to make one of these Monty Python movies? And

3:08

streaming kind of allows you to do that. And that's kind of why I

3:13

felt like Searchlight took a chance on us to make this film because it could

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go to something like Hulu where it is. Yeah, Eric, we've been

3:22

begging to be extras in your films for years or major stars. When you

3:27

when you come up with the idea for quasi motto, when you're calling a

3:30

quasi, how do you not let Sauce be the star? I love you

3:38

guys. I wanted you guys to be in it so badly, But it

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was COVID lockdown like the whole time, like, oh my god, to

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look because we had talked about it on there so many times about like just being in it somehow, and uh, we weren't like we had to every

3:51

day show up a new COVID testing and as actors we had to be on

3:54

one side the cruise on one side. Um, so we weren't allowed to

3:58

ever bringing in anyone from now wow. So we that's even partially why we

4:02

played multiple parts, Like we played all the parts of this movie just to

4:08

be able to contain it. And they actually try to shoot something during COVID.

4:11

So who do you play? I play cardinal clout to play a cardinal.

4:15

We kind of play upstairs downstairs characters, like one character's royalty, one

4:18

character is a peasant, and one character I play as the cardinals assistant assistant

4:24

to the Pope. And then my kind of bigger part is called Michelle.

4:28

I work in a torture chamber because I need to make some extra money to

4:31

go to culinary school. Brilliant. And then I kind of like the third

4:40

guy that teaches Klaus and Duchamp about the true meaning of friendship. So when

4:45

you have it's a broad man, it does sound like it. When you

4:48

guys have this many people involved in the making of a film. Are all

4:51

of you involved in the writing of the film as well? And how in

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the hell did you do that during the pandemic? Yeah? Well, interestly

4:58

thinking about this was we wrote this back around when we first wrote Super Triperte.

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We wrote this back in like mid nineties. We were a sketch comedy

5:05

group on stage. We had read a bunch of sketches, I mean scripts,

5:11

and uh yeah, we wrote this like twenty years ago, so we

5:13

kind of duffed it off. Every a couple years, we kind of dusted

5:15

it off and refresh it. We had I wish you guys could do if

5:18

we had written a joke about remember the song Don't Pay the Ferryman by Christ

5:23

Burke. Sure, yeah, you guys the only ones that did, because

5:27

we wrote a whole scene based around it, and then we tested it and

5:30

nobody laughed because nobody knew what the song was. We even threw this song

5:34

in the fun end credits to try to remind people, but nobody remembered it,

5:38

so we cut it, cut the scene, cut the song, put

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credit Evan Fleet in there. Yeah and so so yeah, we wrote a

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long time ago, so we actually didn't write during COVID, but a long time ago. We dusted it off and we made it during COVID. And

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how do you how do so many people work on one script? Yeah,

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we've been doing it for so long. You know, it's kind of like a writer's room and a TV show, Like we all sit around collaboratively and

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all five of us are throwing ideas around and then you kind of get an

6:03

idea. And I know, with five of us were just always what we

6:08

call riffing. You know. It's just like you start with the Kurnel and

6:11

it's like you guys on air. You know, it's like if you guys are on air and all three of you years playing off each other all the

6:15

time, one person kind of records it and kind of, I don't know,

6:18

we're all writers and so somehow we've just made it work over thirty years.

6:21

So let me take that one farther Stepton, if you don't mind me

6:24

asking. And maybe I'm getting too far in the weeds, and maybe it's a completely different situation. But often in a situation like that where you have

6:30

five different people being creative, one of them has to be the guy who

6:33

says, okay, it's done, or the you know, the the arbiter,

6:36

the person who keeps people from strangling each other. Is there one of

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you who kind of takes that role? It's funny. I like our group

6:45

reminds me a lot of you guys, especially when you have like pair of

6:48

lever in the room and you guys have five guys and just like having so

6:50

much fun or even rose and just like that dynamic. What we do is,

6:55

you know, we all write like an outline, but we have one

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person what we call we can swear we're in the podcast, right, yeah, that's great. Yep, um, we see. Uh, we call

7:03

them the bitch. So each round, each script gets a bitch because it's

7:09

a terrible sort of role. Like all of us get to dick around and

7:11

have a great time, but one person has to be in charge of like

7:14

being responsible and h taking all of our notes and incorporating into a script and

7:19

then finally, like you know, kind of being the main person who's responsible.

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Why the rest of us just get to kind of dick around and having

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a great time. That makes sense. Yeah, So basically if a script

7:29

mediator, yes, yeah, and then then then then the next script,

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something else has to do it so that guy can go around and dick around

7:36

having good time and just joke around and not have to worry about responsibility.

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All right, So when does it come out twenty Yeah, of course that's

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going to be a big day for comedies, right yeah, I mean yeah,

7:50

even though this has kind of been done for a while, the Studio

7:53

really really loves to release things down four twenty. You sit in at home,

7:56

you don't have to leave it, you know, have to get done to get in the cars in your living room. So because it's a streaming

8:03

debut and not a theatrical release, does that calm your nerves because you don't

8:09

have a box office number to worry about. I'm sure you're curious about the

8:11

streaming numbers, but is it a little less nerve wracking? Yeah, I

8:15

think that's a fair question. You know, when we first met Sandler,

8:18

the first thing you said was don't read your reviews. So I don't know.

8:22

I'm still I still have I'm a fragile person, just like everybody.

8:26

And maybe I don't know if you guys ever have to deal with this, but like you probably don't get better views, but you get one better view

8:31

and every positive review goes out the window. Yeah, so yeah, I

8:37

still get nervous about that, you know, I just you just want people

8:39

to like stuff they put out there, but you get a better view, and it hurts. It hurts. Guys, Well, what do you think

8:43

about this movie? You were part of the writing, part of the acting,

8:46

part of putting it together. What do you think. I think it's

8:50

fun. You know, it's really fun to go back to where we started and throwing out wigs and costumes and bad British accents, and it was kind

8:56

of our It was definitely a bit of the hat and money pipe. But

9:00

we used to We used to watch Great Heart a lot during the time that we were writing this, and we thought it'd be kind of fun to make

9:05

a comedic brave Heart like there is. We always loved the King when he'd

9:09

be like emo and we would do this that over and over again, that

9:16

like British King and Las be yelling leave us. So that kind of like

9:18

became our inspiration. So, m who does the editing and such like that

9:24

on a film like this? Do you hire an outside director, an outside

9:28

editor? Everybody else is outside of the group, I would guess not.

9:33

Kevin directed. It really was Flam and Sam and yeah it was directing this

9:35

movie called Easter Sunday. Kevin stepped in did an awesome job. Yeah,

9:41

we did it all man. We edited it, directed, acted, wrote,

9:43

so just you know, a full broken leisure movie. What's it like

9:46

being directed by somebody you've known forever? Used to tell him to shove it

9:54

a lot. Yeah, he tells you to do something. No, it's

9:58

totally easy. You know, we're just so used to like Kevin's on screen,

10:00

so we play multiple parts. There's time when like Kevin's on stage acting

10:03

against Kevin, and then then he's trying to direct, so you know,

10:07

Jay would just organically step in, or one of us would just kind of organically step in. I don't know, We've been doing it for so long

10:13

that it's just it's almost like not taking direct direction from somebody because you're writing

10:18

it, rehearsing it, and then by time to get in front of a

10:20

camera, you just kind of know what to do. So this comes out four twenty twenty three. When did you guys finish principal filming on the show?

10:28

I would say around Christmas of twenty one, Wow, and then we

10:33

spent last year doing post production and then editing and then on marketing. Okay,

10:37

so I would guess then you guys are well into your next project.

10:39

Am I write about that? Yeah? Wen draft said a Super Troupers three.

10:43

Oh wow, Wow, no kidding, I did not know you were

10:46

making a third one. Yeah, we're about to hand in the next draft

10:50

tifully next week. For when we handed the first draft. It's like our

10:52

tenth draft, so we've been spending a year writing it. What's it like

10:56

to to, you know, come up with a great had a great joke,

11:00

whatever, and film it and put it out there and and and I

11:03

don't really I guess I should say, before you even put it out there,

11:07

film it and then have to wait, you know, so long for

11:09

it to actually be seen by people. Is there this anticipation to finally get

11:15

that payoff that you did, you know, almost two years ago. Yeah?

11:18

Yeah, the waiting part is just such a bummer because it's finished.

11:22

But they're trying to you know, marketing needs time. They try to get these long leads for magazines and they want a certain date that they plan out

11:28

at a calendar. So you just sit around. You haven't watching Coxy a

11:33

lot doing these interviews for Succession, And in my mind, I still,

11:37

even though I'm in the business, like I'll see coxyum fallon or tonight show.

11:39

I'm like, wait a minute, your show's on HBO right now,

11:43

how are you doing this? And I'm like, all right, right, right, he's probably been done shooting the thing a year ago. Yeah,

11:48

That's exactly what I was just going to ask you about. Is Brian Cox

11:50

because obviously he's he's in the super Troopers lore right, everybody loves him from

11:54

those films with man, he's had just a gigantic last couple of years.

11:58

So how does that How does that change the future of his partnership with you

12:03

guys. Yes, of course we'll find out now we call him up about

12:07

this. You know, like he actually does the voiceover for Quasi. So

12:11

we start the movie as a voiceover and we handed with the voiceover and Brian

12:15

was cool enough to do it. Um. So, yeah, he's become

12:18

like this rock star and he's just become like the biggest guy out there right

12:22

now. And we're gonna have to approach him pretty soon about acting in the

12:26

third movie. So we'll see. Yeah, that that check I think is

12:30

gonna be a little bit bigger after his role as Logan Roy. So good

12:33

luck, good luck. Maybe you're gonna you're gonna have to do a go

12:37

fund me ye or something just for his salary of one film. Hey,

12:41

by the way, speaking of speaking of your fan base, Eric Stolhanski,

12:45

by the ways, who we're talking to. Um, So the Broken Lizard

12:48

comedy group obviously as a giant called following. So when you when you release

12:52

a movie like this, is it to the point where you're almost like a

12:56

band? Where as long as your diehards like it, that's all you're looking for. Like, obviously, if it goes wide and it's a huge deal

13:01

and everybody goes crazy for it, that's great. But are you guys always

13:05

satisfied if the Broken Lizard cult group at least is having fun with it?

13:09

I am yeah. I mean I can only speak for myself, but yeah,

13:13

totally. Like we just get these screens across the country, and you

13:16

know, your fan base comes out and you get to hang out afterwards. You did meet and greets afterwards and bars and hung out fans, and yeah,

13:22

it feels like a band. You know. It feels like we've been

13:24

tourned for thirty years and every time we do a movie tour and then you

13:28

get to meet the fans. And to me, that's fine. I'm happy

13:31

with it. I mean, as long as you got this fan base that

13:33

enjoys because everyone's not gonna love it. I mean, Steve Martin did this

13:37

masterclass and one of the first things he talks about is like Comedi's niche, you know, like doesn't matter who you are, Like you have certain people

13:43

like it, some people that don't, and all you could be grateful for

13:48

is it people that do enjoy it or respond to it. Do you listen to the master Classes a lot? But I have watched Steve Martin's is awesome?

13:56

Do you guys? I do. I'm a subscriber, And it's funny

14:00

how different they are from person to person. You can tell which person really

14:05

puts time into it and takes it seriously and which people are just kind of

14:07

riffing, if you know what I mean. And it aggravates the piss out

14:11

of me when somebody's just riffing and you can tell they didn't write anything down.

14:13

But Steve's was really good. And there's the other guy who wrote,

14:16

um this is forty umpt. I think it's appatas. Yeah, his is

14:22

fantastic if you ever get a chance, or maybe you've already seen that, Eric, but it's my favorite of all of them. That's the best one.

14:30

Check that out. Are you so you're in California right now? I

14:33

take it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Primiary a couple of nights

14:37

and I'll go back home. Yeah, yeah, Do you have another place out there or something? Or you just when you go out there, do

14:41

you stay with a buddy or do you sleep on the beach or what path

14:46

on the beach? A couple of times, I'm currently in a hotel.

14:48

Sometimes Soder's got a little back house, so I stay in, um,

14:52

but usually stay in a hotel. Yeah. Isn't true that Mark Parrish is

14:56

not speaking with you because he does not have a role in Quasi WHOA.

15:00

He is missing my tooth. He'd perry, he would be perfect. Um,

15:05

I would have you know. The COVID thing was just so closed off,

15:09

such a bubble thing. But now the world's open again, you know, next movie maybe? Yeah? Right, um, and if you get

15:15

something, go ahead. I want to go back to Brian Coxon, So don't let me forget. We were talking on the main show about like meeting

15:20

your heroes. Is there somebody in your world that you've met that's a total

15:22

fucking prick besides the aforementioned Mark Parrish. Yeah, besides no, and you

15:28

don't you know, you don't have to name him, but if you run

15:31

into somebody you're like Jesus, Oh yeah, for sure. That's what's funny

15:35

when you ask that, My god, do I say the name? You can't? Um? Yeah, the one, well, I've met Sevil,

15:39

but the one that I will I will have I'll talk about was, Um,

15:43

we're shooting beer Fest and my grandfather purposely we cast this guy because we

15:48

loved him an animal house and he was someone that we wanted to work with.

15:54

Donald Sutherland is his name, and we're like, oh shit, we

15:58

got Donald Sutherland. And I was so because I did I show up.

16:00

I played grandson. Jay introduced me and Donald, Hey, I want to

16:03

do so. This is Eric Stillhanski, he played your parents in the movie.

16:06

He wouldn't look at me, and he wouldn't extend his hand, and he wouldn't even say hello. Oh no, really like wow. And then

16:14

I kind of like walked away laughing. I'm like, oh, you know

16:17

what I mean. You meet some in such a dick, it's like hard almost hard to believe. Well, somebody that's exact opposite that, somebody that

16:22

you were afraid was going to be like that move was super cool. Oh

16:26

that's interesting. Um, well, Coxi's coxy, I mean all, but

16:32

like we Coxie Paxton and Claris Leachman, and Michael Clarke Duncan are the four

16:36

people who've been really fortunate to be able to have leads in a movie. And they were all super cool. Like Paxton came down early to hang out

16:42

on set and rehearses us. But like I feel like most people just show

16:45

up, day up and shoot leave. Like Paxton came down or hanging out

16:49

and we'd you know, drank, and he loved to eat pancakes. He

16:52

started calling Pancake Paxton. Man, I don't call me that. That's kind

16:57

of nicknakeer really stick with a guy, so we was calling pancake. He

17:03

was super cool. To lose him, going back to yeah that sucked,

17:06

man, what a what a good dude? Man? Um? Yeah, going back to Brian Cox for a second, looking at his career. Obviously

17:12

started like in the Royal Shakespeare Academy, and he's done, he'd done a

17:17

lot before he got the Super Troopers even and of course he's you know,

17:19

and he's done a million things since then to make him even bigger. Do

17:22

you remember how that even happened that you guys got him in Super Troopers?

17:26

Yeah, it was weird. We were you know, kind of going down

17:30

this list of like super comedy guys like art, you know, you kind

17:33

of start with the list of wish list type of guys. And we were

17:37

like, well, how about Bill Murray and then John Goodman, the kind

17:40

of guys that done a lot of big comedy roles and critically carry a film.

17:42

And then we got an incoming call saying, hey, would you guys

17:47

ever consider Brian Cox and we we were like, Hannibal Elector. Yeah,

17:51

you know, it's like such a weird choice, Like he's such a great actor, like he said, clappy train, Shakespearean actor, and he had

17:56

played Hannibal Elector, the first person to ever play handibal actor. Yeah,

18:02

and we were thinking, well, you know, like it was so different than what we've sort of had on the radar um for like a comedic actor.

18:08

But he said, We're like, wow, they're really interesting if we

18:12

got like a Shakespearean actor, and this kind of became our peloates, like

18:15

you anchor film with somebody's really good, and then we can kind of like

18:18

fly around and kind of do our thing because we can, you know,

18:22

he grounds us, he makes us give us some weight, So we kind

18:26

of took a chance on Brian because we weren't sure if you have the comedic

18:30

chops, And he turned out to be fucking fantastic, you know, yeah,

18:33

in almost the same ways he's fantastic on Succession. Right. It's the

18:36

joke is his anger, right when he says fuck off in Succession, it's

18:41

a joke even though he's actually met. And I felt like he was the same way in Super Troopers. Right, every time he yells at you guys,

18:47

the anger is the comedy it is, and that's so great, Like

18:51

he just every time he's like you like the blustered guy who's so frustrated with

18:56

us. And he just he grew up love Jerry Lewis and comedy in Allywood

19:02

comedy, and then he got cast and he's really dramatic roles. And he just said he never ever gets cast in anything funny and he always wants to

19:07

do comedy. So he kind of sought ups on a way, you know,

19:11

he threw his age and he kind of sought out being in this and

19:15

he was on fower. Dan Fallen asked him about Super Troopers and he said,

19:18

you know, everyone kept saying, well, why do you want to

19:21

do that movie? And he said That's exactly why I did it. When somebody says, why do you want to do that? That's the kind of

19:26

thing you try to do. Well, that's fantastic. Here's an odd question

19:30

for you, and I've never thought about it till right now, So stay

19:32

with me. But when you have people like Brian Cox, who, as

19:34

we had said, had been successful but had gone has gone onto even greater

19:37

success, do you ever have to check yourself not to ask for favors?

19:44

If you know what I'm saying, Like I know, for me, when

19:47

we get to know people and you know their star continues to grow, I

19:51

find myself keeping myself in check even more because I don't want to become that

19:53

friend. Is it hard not to do that in Hollywood? A little bit?

19:57

Yeah, it's challenging. Like when you have a good friend that asks

20:00

through you for something from somebody you know, and then you want to be

20:06

a good friend and ask that, But then I feel like I'm imposing and

20:08

somebody by asking charity events, you know that was for a good cause.

20:12

He reads out to somebody and like, oh man, I hate to ask

20:15

someone a favor That is I think unbelievably lame. But on a side note,

20:21

Eric, it is Conan O'Brien's sixtieth birthday. Do you know anybody that

20:25

knows him? And if so, can you get me his number? Let

20:29

me try because I love you. Let me see now I feel guilty. Let me put it a couple of calls for you. Awesome, thank you.

20:34

Just know it's not for charity. No, this is just for me

20:38

and and I don't know anybody that you don't. So if you need somebody's

20:42

number, just ask Parish because he would probably have it in his phone.

20:47

I don't. Can I go back to when you guys ask me about somebody

20:52

super cool? Yeah, to give them props? Yes, we when we

20:56

were first making super Troopers. Orge Clooney who also was in a fucking great

21:02

sense of humor, and he was, um, he wasn't as big as

21:07

he is now, but he was you know, he had done like he was doing like perfect Storm and he's coming up the yard. He was a

21:11

fan of Super Troopers, the script and he was trying to get you know,

21:14

doing getting this producing. He said, Hey, if it helps it

21:17

all and you want to put my name on it, I'll help you take

21:19

this to studio to try to get in the door to pitch it and ultimately

21:25

we didn't sell it to studios because we were going to act in and direct

21:29

it. But he was super cool to try to help us get it made. Wow, that is a really fresh place. What about then go ahead?

21:34

And then one other thing is Sandler was also saw Super Troopers and he

21:38

said, Hey, I kind of make movies with my buddies, kind of

21:41

the same thing I do. I like what you guys do. If there's

21:44

anything I can do to help, I would love to try to. And

21:47

so we originally tried to make beer Fest via Sony where Adam had his deal,

21:52

but he was super cool to take it in and say, um,

21:55

I like these guys. Maybe if if I can help make beer Fest,

22:00

happy to help. And ultimately we made it with Warner Brothers. But Adam

22:03

was super cool to try to help us. So Super Troopers too. You

22:07

had Rob Low and I just heard Rob Low on the smart List podcast a

22:10

handful of days ago, and he and Jason Bateman were going back and forth

22:15

essentially about you throw a random name at either one of them and they have

22:18

a story just because they're so connected in Hollywood, they know so many people.

22:22

Did you feel that when Roblow was on set that he just knows everybody

22:26

and his crossed paths with everybody. And now, of course all of you

22:30

are on that list as well. Yeah, his list is deep. I

22:34

mean he grew up in Malibu with like Charlie Sheen and yeah, I mean

22:42

those guys are like high school buddies. And then he's been acting ever since.

22:47

I mean the guy is just like I kind of Hollywood. I wanted

22:49

to just droll him questions about young bloodle and we're in set. That's all

22:52

I cared about, was talking to about young bloods. Yeah. Nice guy

22:56

too, Roblow. Nice, Yeah, super nice. I'm pretty cool.

23:00

And four twenty on Hulu, a Quasi comes out. Eric Stohanskin His Whole

23:04

is another movie from this great group of comedic actors man, and I'm very

23:08

excited about seeing it. And again the fact that you can go ahead and

23:11

take it up at home and watch it and not have to worry about leaving

23:14

the house at home. That's right now. What the kids say is I

23:17

know what the kids say. Alright, cool, Um, one more actor

23:19

that you've worked with that I've got to talk to you about, because this

23:22

son of a bitch is great, and I know it was a small role

23:26

in Super Troopers too, but Paul Walter Hauser hasn't. Oh my god,

23:30

dude. I mean obviously he played Richard Jewel, but then the role he

23:34

played in Blackbird as that serial killer. My god, dude, how did

23:40

you know what was going on with him? And did you have any idea

23:42

that he was going to turn out to be the guy he is? Oh

23:45

no, I mean, the guy's unbelievable. Every role he does. I

23:48

mean, uh, I turn to think. There's a couple other films he

23:52

did it were standing Besides Richard Jewel, he did uh Black Plants, phenomen

24:00

know, the Spike Lee Black Black Clansman. Yeah, I mean he does

24:03

he pops you know what I mean? Jesus. And he had the smallest

24:07

part in Super Troopers too, and it is my favorite part. He just

24:11

came in and like it was so fun to watch him improvised lines and stuff

24:14

like that. Just a Dyamond actor. Super cool guy too. Um yeah,

24:18

I don't know. We you know he Kevin had met him doing some

24:22

stand up show years back, and he kind of looked like Farva and he

24:26

liked Super Troopers and he came in and he's perfect and we were just honored

24:29

to have him, but had no idea kind of like Brian Cox, you don't know that these guys are just gonna come rock stars. Yeah, Lonnie

24:33

la Lous was his name, and he's that. When he plays that killer

24:38

in black, it's one of the best acting performances the whole all the interrogation

24:45

scenes, it's fucking incredible. How good he is. Oh, he's unbelievable.

24:49

Yeah, he made up some line and super Troopers like walk faster,

24:52

finger blaster. I mean just he made it up, I think, and

24:56

it was just like the funniest thing. I was like trying to laugh to

24:59

break correct ruined the scene. But he's a great piece, not a great

25:03

actor, and he's super funny too. The very thing is a sketch comedian,

25:07

no kidding him. So so when you guys again, when the movie

25:10

is being launched on Hulu, a streaming service, and you just said you're you're about to do, is there going to be like a red carpet walk

25:17

and a release and all that kind of stuff, the way they would do a movie that's getting released in theaters. Yeah, Yeah, we're doing a

25:22

premiere in Hollywood. It's not going to be like a big theater. They're

25:25

doing skin of a I think they're going to get torture chamber or something and

25:29

doing like a medieval kind of like party, but they don't have a screening

25:33

and red carpet that kind of stuff. Yeah. Well, I think Rosie

25:36

wants to go to the party and skip the movie. He just wants to be said, that's okay with you? Yeah, he likes he wants to

25:41

go on the dungeon. He's got a dungeon in his basement, right, he's got a dudgeon in his pants. Who bit? Yeah? Oh,

25:47

and you know what I should ask this because you get to make out with a hot baby, and like every movie you're in, is there a hot

25:52

baby get to make out within this one? No, I'm not dirty and

25:56

muddy and get tortured, son of a bitch. I give make aason in

26:00

every movie guys. M Yeah, we're gonna to write the next one together

26:03

because you're gonna be making out with like seven different women. It's going to

26:07

be a story of my youth. Yeah, that's that's that's that's why Eric,

26:11

you and I need to be better friends. I need to be the

26:14

the honorary member of the Broken Lizard comedy group. I'll help you write these

26:17

movies, and every role I'll have is just making out with Carrie Russell.

26:21

Oh okay, and then I don't even care if you cut all of the

26:23

rest of my scenes. He's gonna try each scene though about eight hundred times.

26:27

Yeah. Yes, you just want to shoot it, that's all.

26:30

Yeah, I just want to shoot it. If you cut it, that's fine. I mean you're gonna have to pay carry. I'll do it for

26:33

free, okay, okay. Well, and I'll direct and I'll just keep

26:37

saying, Okay, we're we're gonna need another take. We're gonna need another

26:40

take. Yeah. Absolutely. And by the way, Eric, do you

26:45

know Carrie And if so, can you get me her number? It's for

26:48

this one's for charity. Um, I don't know carried, but this is

26:52

a bit of Kevin Bacon here. I know somebody who used to date her.

26:56

So that's one steps to be And Mark Parris says, to see Mike

27:02

get through Mark Parris. You got to know though Mark doesn't remember anybody that

27:07

he's met. You know, I asked him if you wanted to be in

27:10

and part of this interview to day and he goes, who's Eric Stolhanski. Yeah, I believe that, my heart. You're the best dude. You

27:17

really are, man, And I was I forgot to mention this last time

27:21

we had you on, but I didn't even remember. I'm looking it up right now Esquire magazine. Yeah, it was in March of twenty twenty two.

27:26

I can I just found it. They did an article on the fifty

27:30

fifty best comedies of all time, and super Troopers is on that list,

27:33

man, So that's got to feel fantastic. Oh my god, it's amazing.

27:37

Yeah, I can't believe it, absolutely, dude. Thank you for for being on has always. Please come see us when you get back to

27:41

town. And best of luck. Congratulations on continued success, dude, Thanks

27:45

guys, Love you guys. I guess there, He goes, all right,

27:49

So Quasi comes out Friday on four twenties. Zach, you're gonna be

27:52

higher than hell. You probably have Hulu blaze it. Yeah, you can't

27:57

wait. Man. I love those guys. It's was I was cool seeing

28:00

they had a picture of them all working on their laptops on a plane or

28:04

something, and I'm just I'm just fascinated buy you know something where you just

28:10

spend years working on on one project. I don't know if I mean have

28:14

we have you guys ever done? I mean other than I guess initials game

28:17

dot initially that came up organically. So um that dude, man Um.

28:26

I will remember the first time we met him in person because the whole time

28:30

I'm looking at him going, how in the sweet shit do I know that

28:33

guy's face? And it wasn't just from super Troopers. Yeah, and that's

28:36

what I realized. He was part of P ninety X the video. Yeah,

28:38

he was one of the guys working out in the video before Easter got

28:41

away from you. Right, that's exactly right. That's a great story as

28:45

well. But and then he brought in the old Spice guy. Remember that?

28:49

Oh that that wasn't him? Is it really? Man? He was

28:56

in the It, he was in the It's sequel. I think, gosh,

29:03

he was like, God, hand, don't tell me his name,

29:07

man, I got it. It's it's real close to me. Um,

29:11

don't tell me. Hang on, I want to. I want to say

29:15

MoU Fassa, but that's obviously from Lion King. But it's something like that.

29:21

It's something very close to that. Shit. I'm looking it up right

29:23

now. I got the guy. Okay, Isaiah Mustafa's close to fa Yeah,

29:30

yeah, that's it. And and he just came in and didn't say

29:33

a thing in the studio, he was just sitting there. Were like, hey, who's your buddy? Old Spice guy has been in a bunch of

29:37

other movies and stuff too. And remember that guy was the guy that was

29:41

like, oh God, what is that other dude's name? Man our,

29:47

our freaking memories are falling apart. Remember he was telling us that one of

29:49

the dudes from like the Avengers kept getting into it was the guy with the

29:56

guy we met in London. Anthony didn't Anthony, Yeah, it was Anthony

30:00

Mackiekins. Really he talked about like I think we asked him off the year,

30:03

like what roles he'd been in or tried out for him? He said

30:08

he tried out for whatever that character multiple roles. Yeah, and he kept

30:12

snapping him and apparently the two of them don't get along super well. We

30:17

ripped him yeah, and he was like yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Wow. We told we told the London story about him shutting down

30:22

Ellie from getting an autograph or a picture. When Ben asked, Ben Lieber

30:26

asked, yeah, and uh in Isaiah Mustafa was basically Yep, that's pretty

30:30

much par for the course. That's kind of who he is. He doesn't

30:33

all right, You could tell they don't get along. They did not get along. In an article from November of last year, the Alex Cross Series.

30:40

The Alex Cross Series at Amazon Prime Videos cast two key roles, Ryan

30:45

Eggold of New Amsterdam and Isaiah Mustafa of it Chapter two. I will be

30:48

part of the James Patterson series. So that's pretty good. He was a

30:52

nice guy. Yeah, great dude. Yeah, And honestly, Eric's about

30:56

the nicest Guy's great. You would never know he's been in this many movies

31:00

because he just he's super unassuming, Like, um, when Lieber has those

31:04

National Championship football parties or whatever. Yeah, Eric just walks around the basement

31:10

like he's just a dude. Yeah. If you had never seen any of

31:14

his movies, you would just think it's one of Ben's neighbors, because he's

31:17

not. He doesn't seek the spotlight. He doesn't go look at me, look at me, look at me. He's just duds, just Eric,

31:21

and he just happens to be in a whole bunch of movies. No big deal, just a movie star. Do you remember who the hot baby was

31:26

he made out with Yeah Chicken, Yeah from from Entourage, Manuel Shrieky because

31:32

I say her last name, man and still hands you get to make out

31:34

of it. He's the queen of the galaxy. She she certainly should man,

31:38

she's so hot. So they go. That's the afterparty podcast. Yeah,

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32:37

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32:42

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32:45

of this podcast, but they probably checked out three minutes ago. Goodbye,

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