Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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This one's from 2017, featuring guest Judd Apatow, along with Brian Bishop. Judd's always a sleeper classic recurring guest. Always good, every episode. Always surprises you when he comes in. Always something interesting to say. This episode's great. Hope you guys enjoy.
Gina Grad is very ill and not here today. Bald Brian is here.
Come on, we got money on this.
Credit where it's due. Gina Grad nailed the score, I think. We're at least very, very close. I listened this morning.
She said that it would come down to the last second and the Patriots would make everyone very upset.
That's Paul Bryan. Judd Apatow in studio. Always great to see Judd Apatow. Good to be here. Even though I lost money on this game. How much? A thousand bucks. I would like, well, actually $1,350. Okay. Because you bet to win the thousand? I bet the money line. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's what you mean, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, no, I didn't bet to win $1,000. I bet the money line.
It was like plus $135 for the... Yeah, no points. Right.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Judd Apatow's appearance on the show?
You bet the Falcons to win outright for everyone wondering what that means. Yeah, no points. Yeah, outright. I still contend I was right in both my predictions.
Man, I was thinking about, your voice is echoing in my head for the first half, and it's like, the Falcons are going to blow it out, they're going to run away with it, the Patriots aren't going to be able to hang with them.
I was like, oh, this is going exactly that way. It was 28-3 late in the third quarter. I said two things. I said, either the Falcons are going to blow them out, and the Pats aren't going to stay with them, but if it's a close game, the Patriots will win. And somehow you were right on both counts. I was right on both counts. That was pretty awesome.
And you weren't able to profit off your amazing knowledge.
So here's how bad it got. Kevin Hench, the biggest insane Patriot fan in the world, and Dickie from the Boss Tones, both sitting in my warehouse watching the game while Kimmel dutifully made smoked wings and drum mats for us. I thought he only ate six days a week. Was this the day he's allowed to eat? Yes, this is the day his people eat.
He – those guys got up about midway, early fourth quarter, dejected, and left. Oh, they trumped it. Isn't that what Trump did? Yes. He's like best buddies with all those guys. He leaves. My wife tried to leave. She's like, we should go. And I said, I think we got to give it five more minutes. And – There was a moment of tension between us.
I'm like, seriously, this is the moment where it's either going to happen or not. And then she had the greatest night of her life because he's cute. You know, that's what you get. Sure, Trump.
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Chapter 3: How does the discussion shift to gambling and predictions?
He's good looking. No, my wife. Not Trump. My wife doesn't find Trump good looking. She finds Tom Brady good looking.
Oh, that makes a lot more sense, actually.
Right, right. Sorry. I was on Trump. Sorry. That story got so confusing, you thought I was with Trump. Yeah. No, I know that Trump is a big Robert Kraft guy because I was introduced to him by Trump some years ago. I wish I thought of this earlier, but was this the best-looking matchup of quarterbacks in Super Bowl history?
I wish I had done some research on this.
It depends on your taste. Matt Ryan is easy on the eyes.
He's a good-looking fella.
They're both good.
You can rule out any stealer Super Bowl, right, as a matchup. Because you've got Rosberger or Terry Bradshaw.
Yeah. Before we take a strong turn for the homoerotic, where were you watching the game? We were watching at a friend's house. It was a combo birthday party. Super Bowl party and there was – people didn't seem to care much who won, most of them, but there was one guy losing his mind.
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Chapter 4: What personal anecdotes are shared regarding family and relationships?
I'm not betting this year. All I do is lose. I'm not interested. I'm just going to enjoy the game. And he went, well, we really kind of need you to bet. And I said, what is this? I don't want to bet. I'm fine. I'm just going to go watch the game. And then I heard Jimmy's voice come in because he was on the line as well going, hey, we need you to bet.
We need to figure out how to bet, and we need to go the opposite of the earth. It's like, wow, thank you. I felt, like, simultaneously important and sad at the same time. Like, I guess you really do need me. I never liked gambling because I don't get that much pleasure from winning, and I get an enormous amount of pain from losing. And it doesn't even matter if it's, like, $5.
Like, there's too much suffering versus too little joy. That's a... It's an interesting point. Like, I think we should all figure out what our least favorite Girl Scout cookie in life is. Meaning. There's stuff I love, like the peanut butter ones and the Samoas and stuff like that. And look, you're going to get fat, but it tastes good. Yes. And then there's the trefoil. Yeah.
What is the trefoil? That's just the shortbread. Oh, yeah. And that makes you really fat. That makes you fat, and it doesn't taste good. Yeah. So, like, what are the things in your life that, where's your trefoil? Yeah. That you love. There's your next book. That you love but don't really enjoy? No. The trefoil is to eating and cookies and desserts what gambling is to Judd Apatow. Oh, I see.
Which is not a lot of downside without much pleasure. Exercise. I guess there is upside, but I refuse to acknowledge it. By the way, Judd's working on a million things. Girls coming back is back for the final season. The 12th. The 12th? Oh, I thought it was bad. I've been watching. Well, they're rerunning a lot of last season. And then it's our last. This is our last season. So we land the plane.
And then the week after that, after Girls, every week will be this new show called Crashing starring Pete Holmes. who is in here talking about very funny. Yeah, and he's great. Artie Lange is on the show, and a lot of comedians like Sarah Silverman is on some episodes. And that one's really funny.
It's about being a bad open mic comedian in New York, like a religious guy who's not good yet, needs the money desperately, but is too unfunny to make any money. And then we're going to do this tour, me, Artie, and Pete, and then there's guest stars. We're going to be in New York on the 12th at the Gramercy, and in L.A. on the 18th at the Regent, and you can get tickets at PeteHolmes.com.
And we give the money away in New York. We're giving the money to the USO and to 826 in Los Angeles, which is a literacy program. So we've found a way to not get paid. I was listening to that, and I was thinking, all right, Pete Holmes, all right, Judd Apatow. Artie Lange. I don't feel like Artie's down with charity. He's traveled the world with the USO a little bit. You're right.
I don't know Artie that well. He's very sweet, though. I feel like the only one he hurts is himself. I agree. I think it's documented. But I also feel like I have my list of guys, like Norm MacDonald, which is like, hey, if they're going to do a show, they want to get paid. Oh, Artie wasn't like that. He was pretty quick to go charity with us. Wow. I think he's very excited to be on the show.
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Chapter 5: Who is Merlene and what connection does she have to the family?
Merlene, longtime friend of the family. Do a little babysitting stuff. She's featured in Hoarders. Wow.
Your mom knows celebrities.
Featured is the word without an ounce of judgment.
Does she know what Hoarders is?
Oh, yeah. She thinks it's that John Popper tour. Aren't the Black Crows going out with them this year?
It's almost like a roast joke. Like, I saw your episode of Hoarders.
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Chapter 6: What dilemma does the speaker face regarding family relations?
It was great.
She says without any judgment whatsoever, Merlene featured in Hoarders.
Wow.
Featured. Profiled. Awesome. So now the dilemma question.
Okay.
It's a big question. You guys tell me what you would do. So we're just sitting there, just kind of sitting, talking about muffins. And, you know, shooting the shit about muffins. And at a certain point, my stepdad, John, gets up and says, I'm going to go to the car and get my sunglasses. And he gets up in the car, gets his sunglasses, and then my mom says... Oh, you did that race last weekend.
Now, you won one class of that or something? What was the story there? And I said, well, I'll tell you the story. And she said, hold on, hold on. Let's wait for John. He's going to want to hear this. And I said, okay. And we sat there. Two minutes later, John came back, sat down, and we continued the muffin talk. And then an hour later,
My mom piped up and said, John's too shy to ask, but do you think you can get him on a tour of Jay Leno's garage? And I said, I think I'd probably arrange that. Then we talked about Jay Leno for 10 minutes, a little more muffin talk, end of visit.
They never asked again about the race?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the speaker's family dynamics?
It was just – it never happened. Yeah. It never happened.
Non-issue.
It's bizarre that they would bring up something in the automotive world again, right? Like, that's kind of a ballsy ask.
You think they want to steer clear of it. No pun.
Right. But there should be, you know, the way those things normally are supposed to work when you're wired correctly is, hey, man, huge win at Long Beach. Heard all about it on the alternate. Real exciting. And speaking of cars. Your buddy Jay Leno, do you think John could swing by and take a look at a guy who's not a real race car driver like yourself over there?
That kind of thing is a little sunshine up the ass and then a nice transition over to the automobile. Now, this was just, hey, can you do this for me? Now. Here's the question. It's fine with my family. You never have to do anything. Everything will just go away. You don't have to. There's no discussion. Like, hey, what about when you told Johnny, take him to jail? It's been nearly a month now.
What's going on? It'll never come up again. Right. But it'd be very easy to call Leno and take Stepdad, who's a good guy, on a tour of Garage. But I don't feel like I'd be sending the right message if I did that. What do you guys think?
Are these people who are your family, are your loved ones capable of receiving a message?
No. Well, they can get pretty easily offended.
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Chapter 8: What insights do the Plain White T's share about their musical journey?
And then you never bring it up again. You kind of made that decision not to do the arm skipping. That's the way I feel.
Well, yeah. In terms of meeting you halfway or even meeting you at all, if this is at all contingent on them holding up their end of the stick, then no. They've done nothing to earn this largesse from you.
Right. Also, your mom brought it up proactively, the race, which is against her nature.
Very against her nature.
And also, I don't know, you obviously know them a lot. They're in their 70s, 80s. Maybe there's a forgetfulness factor. People get a little foggy at that age. Maybe she forgot to bring it up again.
Haven't they been forgetful since?
Yeah, but they didn't forget about Jay Leno. That's a good point. I didn't bring that up. They brought that up. John evidently has a love-hate relationship with the automobile. It's a very mixed feelings about the automobile. Self-loathing auto enthusiast.
It almost feels like throwing good money after bad, if you know what I mean, to like how many times are you going to extend yourself for people who don't seem to appreciate it? These people who are your family.
I don't extend myself that often. All I do is I go, if you want to call and go to lunch, we'll go to lunch. But if you don't, then we won't. And then the phone never rings.
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