JW Ep 28- Brooks Wheelan

Guys, I got some good news. My arm is out of the sling. Oh my god, that's such amazing news. Wow.

Yep. And guess what? Fully recovered for the most part, except they told me that it's going to take three more months for me to get back the strength in my arm. So I'm doing some strength training right now.

Trying to figure that out. But that guy's just good. I don't have to walk around with the sling anymore. So, you know, that was some great news that happened during, earlier in the week.

And I talked a little bit about me having a broken arm, you know, during the podcast while it was still up in the air. Didn't know what was going on. So that's a good update on the arm. How's your guys week?

Do you get any good news? Do you have something good? It happened? Something positive, I hope.

Hopefully you did something nice for somebody. Maybe you did a kindness challenge. Or maybe just, you know, just did a normal routine. Maybe you're just nice every day.

I'd somebody write me a letter. They're like, I don't do the kindness challenge because I'm nice every day. And I'm like, okay, there you go. You're getting it.

You know? He's going to be a very short intro, guys. I'm recording this in advance because I'm in New York City right now. I'm traveling while this is being uploaded.

So Brooks Whelan, very excited to get him on the show today. Man, we had some pretty big celebrities call in to the show. Not going to give anything away, but there's some certain musicians from some maybe famous bands I called in, guys. It's a little bit of a, you know, a big deal.

So we also got into talking about Brooks spent a year. He did a season on Saturday Night Live. A lot of cool stories and he talked about some sketches that did get on the air and the behind the scenes of, you know, how sketches get cut and stuff like that from us now. Very interesting stuff.

And he just did Brooks with a super fun hanging riff with. He's a good guy known for a while now and I was happy to get him on the pod. I want to mention the sponsors of the show, Bronx Born Pizza in Bendorg. And if you're anywhere near that place, go get a pie from them.

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So that's about it guys. Very excited to introduce you to Brooks if you've never heard of him. Or heard of him or not familiar with him. You should be.

So I think you're going to enjoy this episode. And without further ado, please welcome to show on Jeremiah Wenders, Brooks Whelan. We did it. We did it, man.

We got World Cup fever right now. I got World Cup fever. I've been bored all month and it's a great time to be bored. Yep.

Good time. It's hot. It's a lot of soccer going on that I don't care about. But I do because I don't have anything else going on in my life.

Do you have a lot of friends that are in your soccer? No one. You define friends. Well, I got in a soccer because I toured with John Oliver and he loves Liverpool so much that I started to like Liverpool.

It's contagious. And then they made it really for in this Champions League thing. And then I got to watch that. And then right after that, finished World Cup started.

And I was like, I'm already in the mood. So I don't have a lot going on. So it's a perfect timing. What's it like touring with John Oliver?

Good dude. He's the best. He's a nice guy. I haven't texted with him during the game, but I won't text with him for a while because England just lost.

Yeah. I mean, you got to give him a big soccer a lot. Yeah. So I'm like, I hope Liverpool wins.

People who take that seriously, like genuinely seriously, it's a respecting to give them time. Yeah. He considers himself a failed soccer player. Really?

He's a good player for Liverpool. Yeah. So he doesn't consider himself successful at all. It's really funny.

Did you use the play sports? I grew up wrestling. Yeah. In Iowa, right?

Yeah. I don't know if you know this. I have a... This is where all my mom's side of the family is from...

What town? Des Moines. Oh, they're from the big city. I guess.

No, it is. By proxy. By like 500,000 people compared to mine. And the 500,000 people live in that.

That makes sense. Yeah. Croatia just won. And they have 4 million people.

That's like the state of Iowa. That's like my mind blowing to me. That's like the state of Iowa is in the World Cup finals. My team has finally made it to the World Cup.

I mean, sure. Yeah. That's exactly what I mean. Yeah.

I've been to Croatia. It's great. It's much better than England. So when did you go to Croatia?

I just went on a road trip with a lady I was with a babe I had met and we drove through Croatia like up to Bosnia. It was super fun. Whoa. It was dope.

You've traveled a lot. Like a value over the years. I'm terrible with money. Like if I have it, I spend it.

But I feel like it's a better way to live than like somebody who... I don't know. My friends have houses now. So I'm going to disagree.

I'm 31 and I'm like, oh shit. I got to hold my cartoon. I'm going to help my cartoon. I'm going to get picked up for another season because I got a trip planned in New Zealand that I can't afford right now.

You're already spending the money in your head like... I already have the trip planned. I already bought the tickets. I mean, I have the money now but I need money to live when I come back.

Yeah. Either way, Croatia was really nice and a lot of great memories. So are they friendly to locals? We were out of town or something.

I didn't go to any of the cities. I didn't go to like Gresib or whatever or split this island or Dabravnik. I went up into these to Waterfalls which is tourist based so they are nice to tourists because what brings them their money and they let you swim in Waterfalls. It's great.

They're national parks. They're like, go nuts. Versus like ours are kind of more regulated. What does a...

Can you do like a Croatian accent? I don't even know what that sounds like. Is it close to Jamaican? I don't even know.

I couldn't even tell you what a language they speak like when I was there. But I was like going all through Europe. I came from Italy. I don't know.

I mean, the former... It's a Slavic language. It's part of the Yugoslavia a long time ago. Look, I don't know a lot about...

I just know that they got dope Waterfalls and it's fun. That's something that I've not... I guess I haven't done too much traveling outside of the country. But I have not seen many Waterfalls.

I've seen a lot of comedians, like whenever they travel, a waterfall is a destination whenever you travel. And I see a lot of videos of people playing in Waterfalls and stuff. I mean, I like Waterfalls, but I've never seen anything like Croatia. Croatia is where they film King's Landing in Lord of the Rings.

So that's Croatia. It's like these beautiful Waterfalls. And Dubrovnik is King's Landing. Like a city for city.

That's where they shoot it all. So it's just like ridiculous. My dad... I'm not an expert either.

I just enjoy being there more than... England. Yeah. My dad after Lord of the Rings came out and the end of credits it says like filmed in New Zealand.

From that point forward, like since then, he thinks every movie is filmed in New Zealand. Any beautiful series. I was like, I was like, I was filming in New Zealand. Yeah, I like that.

I enjoy that. What stage did you grow up in? I grew up in Kansas. Okay, what's the big Kansas movie?

Like what's the movie that happened that they filmed in Kansas that you're like, yeah. Like we have the Field of Dreams for Iowa. What a great movie. I still don't think I've ever seen the whole thing.

I hate it so much. Why? It gives Iowans too much pride. Like there's literally a line where some like a ghost or whatever is like, is this having to be a movie.

And then Kevin Costner is like, no, this is Iowa. And I'm like, and Iowans love that. And I'm like, fuck you. No one's been in Iowa and has been like, I'm sorry, did I die and go to heaven?

Because it's not, it's fine. It's not heaven fine. So I've annoyed with the Field of Dreams. I worked next to the Field of Dreams.

It's a fucking tourist trap. It still exists. Dude, what if you get to heaven? And it's Iowa?

Bro, bro. Oh no, I died in the middle of Jeremiah's podcast. I'm in heaven right now. Welcome to heaven.

God, your voice sounds strangely like how we thought the devil might sound. Okay. Sounds much lighter. Okay.

I mean, it seems like it fixed it a little bit. Sure. I mean, just a little bit, little bit. Well, this is crazy how I immediately get to talk to you.

Yeah. Bro, yeah, we go shoot. I don't know what happened. I must have been electrocuted.

You were electrocuted. You were working on some art in your garage. And that's how you got here. Oh, wow.

Okay. I must have blacked out during Jeremiah's podcast and then went home and started in our career. This is the future. Oh, I thought this hasn't happened yet.

No. Okay. I was saying like, what if like, you know, you died and then you went, I was improvising that you had that I had just died right now and had just died in God and heaven. Okay.

So I guess you just died right now. Yeah. Okay. You just died right after in the middle of Jeremiah wonders.

That's not how I God. This is crazy. I was just doing a bit with Jeremy. I was doing a bit about what if I died.

Now I did die and this is now I'm in heaven. That's crazy. This is like, it's a very meta situation. It's so weird to me.

Yeah. How's it going though? Like I'm glad I got into heaven. This is like, I sound like this because some people don't know what gender I am still.

Sure. I wasn't mean, but I also quick on a church a while ago. So are you affected people in a positive way? It never refused to ever say I'm not Catholic.

So that's not even at like gunpoint. I'm like, okay, I think like I just have to because I'm scared of this situation. Perhaps to my boy Brooks. Thanks so much.

So Catholicism was the correct religion. Make a definitive statement, please. Oh, I'll have to get back to you on that. All right.

Good call cover your basis. Well, you may proceed into the fields over here. Oh, fucking shit. There's a baseball team right over there.

Goddamnit. Are you serious? You know, I can say it to you. I'm saying it to you.

I guess we're friends now. Yeah That's like saying Jeremiah damn it when I'm at it something he did I'm just upset that you made heaven kind of look like this 1990s movie about Iowa But there's some great baseball players around no ghosts. They're ghosts. They just creep me out.

I guess now I'm a ghost son of a buck I mean you're more of a spirit. That's floating into the ether. I'm not even good at baseball Like this is a terrible place for me to live like oh, I guess I'll play right field bat sometimes Hey, bro. Do you want to play sure stop?

It's Joe DiMaggio I wish I could Joe. I would really goof though. I'm not lying. I would be a mistake I want the team to win.

I know where I belong some right field or rover if we're playing with ten people behind second base Are you left your right? I'm a neither. I never hit the ball out of the fucking infield It's terrible. I did not have a good baseball career.

Do you want to be third base coach? I'm that actually sounds kind of nice. Yeah, don't welcome to your eternity as a third base coach I can just watch people play baseball which I enjoy and then be like go home. There's a lot of cracker jacks in heaven too No, thanks not Joe's in beer.

Yeah. Yeah, do I have to count my calories up here? No, man? You did it right?

So happy thanks god. I was very exciting See later, man, I think we gotta give it to so if you watch bro, it's where did you go? I died for a second But now I'm back that was crazy. I must have a near-death experience dude I don't know what just happened exactly, but your eyes kind of rolled back into the back your head and It was very scary you see you think and fall me the mouth a little bit allergic to water to be honest like it never is I think it's that Ralph's water.

I think it you know they had a call back on it recently. Yeah, yeah It's I don't know if you say that though just from your own because Ralph sponsors this podcast Rock and roll Ralph's on sunset exactly somebody told me that they saw like Slash passed out at like Ralph's in that like a aisle one time like not long ago. That's how I got its actual name They might not it was just like one grocery store over there They're like slash was just like laying in the ground like both like before that They didn't have the window decals of the guitars and different instruments, but then they saw slashing or like this is rock and roll Or maybe that's what drew slash like a like a bug to the to a flame or a moth to a flame I guess so it's like a bug zapper for cool rock stars. What do you think what do you think slash does for fun?

I think drinks you drink yeah, he just drinks and then fucking whales on the guitar. Yeah, mm-hmm I think yeah, I call our ideas. I think slash is actually calling in to the show right now. Hello Hey, wow rock and roll legend slash Have you been partying and playing music with?

Yeah other grocery store names on this podcast because a Ralph's is Oh, you formerly Slash you're telling me that you the musician the legend You've been taking classes at UCB You can't get on a herald team. They won't like throw your weight around because you're celebrity right right So you just saw the window decals on the outside of Ralph's and you're like this seems like a good fit for me because I'm You play guitar. Yeah, yeah, so yeah So okay, so slash let's let's say that we're in an improv scene together. We get a suggestion from the audience Yeah, I mean, you know if you said you've been taking 501 like multiple times like you should be pretty good if you've even gotten to that point Yeah, okay, let's you know, we got a suggestion from the audience.

What's that over there? Okay? I guess we're father and son and we're at Fishing Sorry, but dad, what is this? I Need to put the worm I'm mad at you because you didn't buy me a bobber for my birthday Very quickly and then after that I was like you all the boss of me, but I still think he's supposed to Dad you prefer trout or largemouth bass Rani James do is an ultimate I'm gonna play here.

He was so good. I was crazy And he was like you want to play down those and I was like this guy's on half black and he said yeah, sorry Right Dad I don't think that the the pound of resistance of the fishing line that we got is strong enough we got 30 pound We need at least 50 or 60 pound. What are we gonna do? We're gonna wheel that fish it here.

We go over the fish and seen I see I feel like I goofed up somewhere in the Middle of that You know, I was trying to be your son slashing it and I can't bring up like different like fishing scenarios My teachers keep saying like you kind of went on a tyrant of story. I mean they were fascinating stories right? I mean I did have fun. I did I want to see a bunch of white dorks planned for Tim They want to hear slash tell stories, so that's why I do what I do All right, so I wish you continued success with your UCB trials and tribulations I'm trying to get on a mod team as well You just want to be behind the scenes you don't want to be seen at all you just want to contribute Yeah, I want to put all my mod scene things that are right about it was about God's step from Creed I'm create use it fucking head Scott step was doing his home slash shows up flexes muscles.

That's got step You know Scott step his like this Oh, you're so strong and the slash goes that's right, and then he has sex with Scott's dad's mom You know, I think Scott's dad is actually calling in to show right now Scott you're on with slash I'm gonna fight you if you keep talking about the way you did about my mom Your mom is a dumb bitch Scott, and you know that and I tell you about all the time I write it into my modax I don't know if you know that but it's gonna be on television soon right now fuse called Scott steps mom It's super easy to have sex with cuz she's dumb And why wouldn't you call it the stamp infection if you think my mom's a slow She made me wrap it up that be rude. She's clean all right. Well Slash I think that you need a this is me traveling persona right now. Okay.

Yeah, I appreciate that for once Yeah, this may be in real with you. Okay. Why don't you be real and go sing on a boat that other flooding city with a dumb music video, right? I'm using it was a rock and roll.

We had a man swimming with fucking dolphins was dope. Well, maybe I'll go on top of a mountain Huh, what do you think about that? I mean if you can get hired up, I don't know That sounds hard. I see what you did there, and I did not appreciate it sure Yeah, you know, I know like one of your sounds man, and I'm really I looked into that one.

Hey, man. Let's fight welcome to the jungle No, I don't want to play this game. I could name a bunch of my songs too But I can't name your songs on the county your band stinks well I'm gonna welcome you with arms wide open back into my life. Okay.

Just can I take you higher is that a song? I called that one us because I accidentally had on Why 105 one day and it came on I had called in I said what the fuck was that don't ever do it again? They said it's Scott stabs Kenny take me higher and go Scott I thought his band was called Crete and they go they won't even take credit for that one won't tell I'd sex with your mom and I took her to her shin know You hurt my mom you took it to her nays yeah, I took her to her knees sounds like sexual assault no, no It was consensual she got no sense if you said she went down on it in a knee that would that's consensual you took her down to her You're about to get me too out of there's music already All right see later Wow, what what what? Happening go down down?

They didn't even let us interject I actually had a lot of questions for Slash and Scott Stappa. I think that they kind of had a lot of past history that they kind of need to get through themselves. Sounds like a lot of issues, man. Yeah.

And also I wish Slash all the best at UCB 501. Dude, I almost snorted and snotted everywhere whenever he said that he was trying to get on a mod team. Yeah, no, he's big into a UCB subculture. For those of you who don't know, for these inside UCB references, a mod is a writing team at UCB.

So Slash is just wanting to get on a team just to be a writer. Just to be a writer. Just to be a sketch writer for UCB. And a Harold team is like an improv team that he's been trying to get on, but I guess he's had no luck.

Well, it sounds like he's just excited to talk about his life. He should be doing a storytelling show. That's what a lot of professional wrestlers do. After they've had their time in the ring, they can't fight anymore.

Obviously, they go on the road, like Jake the Snake, and they tell stories and different stuff like that. And it becomes like a popular thing. Maybe Slash might be into it. I'm mistaken.

Like, not mistaken. I was in Boston on Monday and Monday night, Rob was there. And I'm friends with Dolph Ziegler, who's the current Intercontinental champ. And I like drunk texted him too much to where I woke up in the morning.

And it was like I texted a girl that I felt embarrassed. I was like, I texted Dolph too much. It was very embarrassing. And then he was nice.

But I still was like, you don't do that. Hey, Dolph, I had a little bit of rough night last night. I texted him. I was like, whoa, had a few drinks.

My bad. Yeah. I think there was one selfie where I was giving him the finger. I thought that would be funny.

I just like you're seeing all this thread. And you're like, oh, there's no responses to any of these. Yeah, I felt either way. I was like, that's when I was like, maybe we should, you know, why am I drunk texting other guys that I think are cool.

Amen. I mean, you know, it's almost the same thing. Yeah. Well, my girlfriend.

Like whenever you're in that state, I mean, you probably just like, who can I talk to? I was with my girlfriend. And we were with our other friend, Renee Young, who's an announcer at WWE. And then I was like, where's Dolph out here?

And then he was busy because he had obligations. And then it just turned into that. Right. But then my girlfriend was like, I'm like jealous that you're embarrassed that you texted him.

I was like, well, I am. He's great. He's cool guys. Cool guys.

You could maybe learn something from it. If you were the intercontinental champ, maybe I would text you a little one. A girlfriend who I would send you selfies of me flipping you off. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. That was wrestling for a while, right? So did you get into it?

So, Matt, on that. I was a huge wrestling fan, giant wrestling fan for the Attitude Era, NWO, DX, Superfun. And then I kind of fell off a little bit. Then I came back in college because we thought, like when we were suffering, it was like, how funny would it be if we smoked weed and watched Monday Night Raw?

And it was funny for like two weeks. And then we were like, we don't have any weed. And we're like, well, we still need to watch Raw. So we got into it for like two or three years then.

And then I moved out to LA and then back to New York and then back to LA. And then my girlfriend, they gave her some free tickets to like a Raw. And I was like, well, we should go watch, we should watch an episode. This is like a year ago.

So we went on and then we went to the Raw. It was the most fun thing I've ever done. And then we came back and we just stayed in tune. And now we travel and see them, went to WrestleMania and stuff.

It's the best improvisers in the most athletic gymnastics combined. Like it's amazing. I went and saw my first live wrestling event a few months ago. It's so much more fun than you think it could be.

Oh, dude. It was, I went with a few other comics, dude, which made it that much better because we were all like just having a blast. It's so fun. Also, there's so much more talented than we are.

Oh, they're great. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like what you said, it's improvisers who work out.

And can do backflips. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty phenomenal.

It's so fun. He's even flying through the air. It's so fun. Yeah.

The bad part when they do Monday Night Raw in Los Angeles is it's a Monday. And it starts at four because it airs at eight. No, so I guess it starts at five because it airs at eight East Coast time and five. So it's from 5 PM to 8 PM.

But that's three hours. And I'm drinking before because it's a pro wrestling event. It's super fun. And then I drink for those three hours.

And then you get out and you're just wasted. And it's eight o' o'clock on a Monday. And then I go back to Los Feliz. And I'm just hammered at the rust again.

Like eight. I look like a real Looney tune. But I'm like, is that my fault wrestling wasn't that. That was earlier than it should have been.

Some people could say it's called self-control. But I would say I try going to a Monday Night Raw and not having the most fun you've ever had. Yeah. It was dude.

I went with Adam Ray, Salvolcano. And then we saw what wrestling event was this? Was it a SmackDown? That would make sense.

SmackDown was in Anaheim not that long ago. This wasn't downtown Los Angeles. So it might have been was it maybe a Raw? It would have been a Raw if it was at Staples.

It was a Staples. So that would have been a Raw. I was at that Raw. Yeah.

But this would have been like four months ago or five months ago. Was Cena and well, I mean, Cena went against. I can't even remember. Roman Reigns or something.

I don't know. This is unimportant. Anyway, it's so fun. And I was with Steve Simone, who is a huge wrestling fan.

And Sal was nice enough to he had backstage passes and stuff. So I got way better treatment than I should have as somebody who is like, you know, this was my first time. So I got the like. Right.

But that makes it fun. I mean, then you're not bugging out over wrestlers like I do when I backstage. I'm like, yeah, we took out our phones. And right away, security came up.

And like we're like, oh, these guys don't belong here. Because we're like, hey, we got to do an Instagram post and stuff like that. Yeah, you have to have some respect. Yeah.

Well, we weren't so much even. I'm sure you were being respectful at the same time. They're like, hey, hey, guys. Yeah, I don't do that.

These guys are warming up to go perform live. I get it. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't want people backstage at a comedy show being like, hey, I'm backstage right now.

Yeah. No, that is what it is. Like, I'm trying to play it cool. Like when I'm backstage, I do try to really play it cool, and not take photos.

Yeah. Unless it's like somebody I know. And I'm like, yeah, what's up? Yeah.

But it is just because I respected so much. Yeah. I'm scared there. Then Rhonda Rousey randomly walked in later, and I was like, and she was very serious.

I was like, oh, this is intense. The energy in the room changed when she walked in. She had a hoodie on. Oh, that's crazy.

I sat next to Dana White at WrestleMania and got into an argument with his bodyguard. Because about fucking crowding me. His bodyguard was crowding me. Literally next to him, where it's tight quarters, we're in the front for WrestleMania.

And his shoulder, his body, there were two seats next to me. It was great. It was my me, my girlfriend, her friend, and her boyfriend. And we're having the best fucking time.

There's two seats next to me. So we spread out a little bit, because it's close quarters then. Gosh, Dana White shows up with his bodyguard. And they take the two seats that were next to me.

And his bodyguard is standing in my seat. But his bodyguard is a big fucking dude. He's bodyguard for MMA, dude. And I had to be like, hey, because everyone had photos with Dana White, but I personally don't give a fuck.

So his bodyguard kept pushing me. And I just had to be like, dude, we all have the same seats. I don't care who you're with. Quit crowding me.

I bought this seat. I don't give a shit if you're next to that, dude. You should have bought more seats if you wanted more space. And he was like, oh, yeah.

He was genuinely like, oh, yeah. I guess you're right. I'm sorry. I was like, yeah, man, you ruined fucking WrestleMania for me.

I was always pretty drunk enough to have that. And then I kind of confidence. And then yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then runner-out he won.

We all high-fived. It was very fun. And then he left. And then when he left, I kept yelling, he's not a fan.

He's not a real fan. Get him out of here. Yeah, it was pretty fun. It was super fun.

You meet so many weirdos at those events. Oh, dude, there are people. Well, it's funny. No matter how many things are documentaries are made, however many shows, there are people that go there that still think it's 100% real.

Well, one documentary is so funny. The guy goes, it's still real to me, damn it. Like YouTube, everyone, YouTube, it's still real to me, damn it. And it's this guy crying at like a speaking engagement for Coco B.

Ware or something. And he's just like, I just want to thank you guys for what you put your bodies through, because it's still real to me, damn it. And he's like this 40-year-old dude. And he just cries like, it's real.

And it is. Don't take that away from me. It's so great. He's like, I don't want to thank everyone.

They put their bodies through. It's great. I think it was. I don't know what it's from, but you could definitely YouTube that moment.

It's kind of like have you ever seen the King of Kong? The documentary about Billy Mitchell? I've heard about it. OK.

That's great. It's like my favorite documentary ever. There's a moment. You got to watch King of Kong.

It's about a guy trying to beat the Donkey Kong World record. And this whole crazy little world that exists we don't know about. He's been kicked out of everything because he cheated. But he had actually cheated.

Yeah, he was a modulator. He wasn't playing on a real machine. He was playing with a little hand-held joystick or something like that. And there's a scene in it where a guy keeps popping around.

He's this huge dork, but like lovable. And he just keeps stopping people playing. Just going, there's about to be a Donkey Kong kill screen, if anyone's interested, which is like a thing that only two people have ever gotten. Well, more than two, maybe five people have ever gotten to.

But it's like on shirts and stuff where it's just this guy's face. And he's like, there's about to be a Donkey Kong kill screen. It reminds me of it still real damn it. Did you know I heard that Will Forte is like a nationally ranked Kong player?

Like he's like really good, I guess. I mean, that would add up. But I can see him just having this weird focus on something. Yeah, just like laser focus.

Dialed in. Yeah. I loved Last Man on Earth when I was on. Yeah, I never finished it.

But I mean, McGruber is my favorite. Oh, man. When I was on SNL, Last Man on Earth had taken, was starting to play. And I asked John Solomon who created McGruber and Yorma Tacon.

If, well, Yorma, John and Will created McGruber, and they wrote McGruber the movie. And I was like, Forte's doing all right. So I went up to John Solomon. Can we do Brooks Grubber?

Like for us now? Because I'm dying. And then he was like, yeah, let me text Will. And he's like, can Brooks be McGruber?

Like joking? And then Will just sent back at him giving me the finger. He's like, absolutely not. You want to Brooks Grubber?

Yeah. But I mean, I was joking, of course. Of course. It was a fun bit.

I mean, the amount of times they did that sketch on SNL, it's the best. It would have been very funny if he would have given me the kid. But I also get at the same time, where he's like, oh, that's my character. Also, no.

Also, Lauren would never do it. It was a joke. It would be ridiculous for me to be like, can I be gumby? It's basically what I was asking.

Can I just steal? Can I just steal? And Rosanna Danitan? Yeah.

Can I just steal from someone else? Even though the audience doesn't know who I am, and they'll be like, what the fuck is going on? What's happening right now? Yeah, exactly.

Just offended right away. Yeah. I hate this, and I'm mad at it, him. Yeah.

The worst first impression you could have. I've got an idea. Yeah, I've got an idea. How about I steal from everyone?

Yeah, knowingly. But that Maguber, the movie, is like, Maguber and Hot Rod are my two favorite movies. Dude, I saw Hot Rod in theaters. Me too.

Yeah, no one was there. I was one of the few. No one was there. Same mind.

Mine was in the middle of nowhere in Missouri whenever I watched it. Yeah, I was like, scream laughing, applauding. Yeah. I remember my girlfriend came, my college girlfriend, and her friend, and they were both like, that was all right.

I was like, that's the best thing I've ever seen. So good. Yeah. Cool beans, just that whole sequence.

The fact that I was even in a motion picture, I was like, this is amazing. I tell, yeah, when I first was talking with Lauren Michaels, I was like, Maguber and Hot Rod are two of the greatest movies I've ever seen. And he was like, whoa, think about me, I'm a group or two. And I was like, well, you should make Hot Rod two.

He's like, no, no, no. Because they lost a lot of money here. Yeah, I mean, also, it's cold. Like, I was like, but me and one of my friends loves them.

He's like, the world isn't filled with 25-year-old comedians. And I was like, that's probably true. You're probably right. Was that a weird interaction in his office like before you got the job or was it pretty?

Well, we had gone out to drinks before. And then I got hired to be a writer. So then I was around him a little bit as a writer before. And then I went and had a meeting with him in his office that I was chill because as a writer, I wasn't scared of him because I never even planned on writing for that show.

And then he called me into his office. I was like, you're going to be in the show. And I was like, cool. I was like, that's great.

So it wasn't like a one. It was like a sudden, like a lot of people's. Yeah, which is probably better, more organic so you're not freaking out. So you just went in there.

It took me like 10 weeks to start freaking out. I was very chill for the first 10 weeks. I'm like, it's fun. Everybody were here at school.

And then like, after that, when I wasn't getting on, then I started having panic attacks. Like genuine panic attacks? Well, just like anxiety, just crippling anxiety. Oh, sure.

Yeah. I mean, just like freakouts and just like having to like, you know, leave and skateboard a lot. Around New York? Around, because it's right next to 30 Rock is right next to Central Park.

And I would just be like, like, I need to take a half hour break. So I would skateboard around Central Park and come back just to get fresh air and listen to music. Yeah. And that's how I would like deal with it.

Wow. And then yeah. And then it's turned into me just, I was like, I need to drink three beers in my office, which was much less healthy because it was fucking cold. Right.

Yeah. I, uh, do you still skate? Yeah. But a lot less than LA.

I skate in like Los Felos. But in New York, I skate everywhere. Wow. Because it's a flat city.

So last month, I broke my arm. Whenever I go out of it and have to wear a sling. Oh, really? Yeah.

What'd you break into it? I was dropping in and. Oh, yeah. I don't drop in.

I can't drop in. Yeah. I'm an A to B skater. I'm a really bad skater.

I should. I mean, I had the confidence, like because I just done it multiple times and I was trying to go up a little bit higher and it just, I got in my head. Confidence is most of that game. It is.

Oh, dude, if I would have stomped down a little bit harder and like had a little bit more confidence, I don't think it would have broke my arm. No. If you have confidence, you can do it. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a scaredness. Yeah. And then you get too confidence. We used to call it when I lived in Huntington Beach for one year when I moved to Los Angeles from Iowa.

We would call and I was really bad at surfing. You were hunting in the beach. You said for a year? Yeah, yeah.