Danny McBride

25:51My daughter is she's 11. And she, I mean, she is insane. She, she, I mean, from a very early age, she curses. She, I mean, she curses like me and even uses my, you know, my deliveries and stuff. She, uh, it's really, it's really incredible. I mean, she'll just do little things like her brother will say something and she'll just like walk past and just do that and just keep walking. It's like, she's been doing it for a long time and we'll try to reprimand her. And it's just like no use. You're kind of like, it's hard to tell her to stop when I'm like laughing at her delivery. And also you've been rewarded for this for 20 years.

26:24So keep at it. Maybe your dreams will come true. We'll see. This makes me so happy that the legacy continues. It does. Yeah. You can just like all reboots these days. Of course, it continues with a gender swap. You know, it would have been too much if it would have been my son being like, it has to be the girl. That's how that's how reboots work these days. So they haven't watched. You haven't like gotten them to watch the Ghostbusters, the Goonies, any of the ones that really meant a lot to you. I have tried to get them to watch that stuff. They like it. You know what genre plays well with them, surprisingly, is the 90s thriller.

26:58Really? Like River Wild and Pacific Heights. Honestly, it works. I watch them. We watch it, and their fists are quenched, and they're like, getting speed worked really well. Yeah, it's funny. It's not what I would have expected to capture their imagination. But you know what I think it is? I think on YouTube there is so much content that's geared towards people their age, you know, and I think when we were kids, Goonies and this stuff, this was like a, you know, wow, there's like, there's something made with people that are my age in it. Now, I think they have so much of that, that weirdly seeing like a mom and a son and a feeble dad on a whitewater rafting trip getting terrorized by John C.

27:40Reilly. That seems cool. That's amazing. Where do you stand on a Goonies sequel do you want to roll in it it seems like there's some more momentum in recent years i don't know you know what i'm not going to say i'm above a reboot because obviously i'm not i've i participated in some but uh that movie means so much to me that that is one that i'm uh yeah i'm i'm i'm cautious about that you could be the son of sloth you could be the next i could be sloth maybe he's still around you know he's as old now and he's you know he only one ear moves yeah do you think i don't know sloth would play today i don't know if it would work i'm not sure it was a pretty ballsy move wasn't it yeah okay so go going way back when you've talked about how obviously you really came into your own when you went to school and you kind of found like-minded individuals that some of which you still work with to this day but you weren't aspiring to be a performer like was it even like a secret dream that you just didn't want to express you know it wasn't i was i was at school for uh you know to be a filmmaker to write and direct and that was kind of how i I saw myself and we at that at School of the Arts at time, the film school was brand new.

28:48So that school has a pretty cool history. They have a pretty amazing drama department and a dance department. So there were these other was an art conservatory. So you had to go four years there. You couldn't like transfer in like it was, you know, it was a big emphasis on whatever your art form was. But the film school was brand new. We were the third class to go there. So no one had even graduated from that school. We were there. And because I think we were getting all this money, there was a lot of disdain from the other art schools, the other concentrations. They didn't really like the film school.

29:19And I also think because it's an art school and there's some pretty eccentric characters, then all of a sudden there were like frat guys that were showing up, you know. And so, yeah, it was a little bit of a growing period for that school. But in the beginning, the drama teacher was just totally opposed to the drama students working with the film students. and he said it was because he didn't want like these inexperienced directors to like ruin the craft of what he was trying to instill I see because obviously every actor is always going to work with an experienced director when they get out into the real world that's just how it goes all pros but because of that we were all forced to uh like be in each other's films and so I had like you know I had acted for a lot of my buddies just because and I think once they saw that I could memorize lines I would be cast in multiple student films uh but it was always just uh to help someone else out it was never because i really wanted to do it or saw myself doing it and so um when david green was directing all the real girls he had an actor drop out the last minute and then he asked if i would come and do it i remember thinking like this is crazy man like you have a real opportunity you're gonna like put me into this and it was a lot of fun i had a good time actually doing that that was the first time like oh this is kind of interesting like it was fun to do it and to do it and to take it seriously and and then after that jody and i started talking And that's when we kind of started kicking around the flip fist way and the idea of me being in that.

30:39But it's so strange to me that like, I mean, people obviously must have thought you were funny as a personality and had that predilection because like you seemed back in 2006, 2007, 2008, when there's like that giant cluster of movies happens, like this fully formed comedic, very specific personality, like people really you clicked with a wide audience very quickly. so i mean again i i i'm just like wondering like what you made of that given that you hadn't even been aspiring to that it's probably a prime example of imposter syndrome where you're just like when will they find out when will i when will i show up on a set and uh and it'll be obvious that i have no idea what i'm doing and then the more i'd work i was like oh everybody feels like even the people who have uh you know who have more experience than me that's just you know part of it Yeah.

31:29I think I think I also just like love this whole process of filmmaking and storytelling that I started to quickly see it as a way to learn. You know, you could be I would start picking projects based on I've always liked that director's movies and I would love to see what it would be like to work with that director and see how they work. And yeah, it ended up being an awesome way to to just get to learn. Are you still in touch with Nick Nolte from Tropic Thunder? I haven't talked to him in a hot minute, but I hope he's doing well. I had an absolute blast with him on that movie. Yeah. That voice, that life that he's led.

32:04Come on. Him and I, you know, a lot of our scenes were together. And so this was, you know, before this was like, I think Ben Stiller gave us the very first iPhone as our start gifts on that movie. So like everyone was like, oh, my God, what are these things? But there was no real good cell reception in Kauai. And like every day on that movie, you were on call. Like you never knew if you're going to work or not. So that meant that you really couldn't go anywhere cool in Kauai because they couldn't get a hold of you. So Nick and I spent that whole experience just together. Like we were always at the hotel pool together.

32:40We would go snorkeling together. We just were always sitting there with our brand new iPhones waiting for them to call us to know if we're going to have to come into work. But it ended up being a really fun experience to get to hang with him for that long. And, yeah, it was nuts. That reminds me of that story that Will Forte told about how he ended up somehow living with Val Kilmer for a while. Yeah. This could have been your reality show. I wish. Yeah. Yeah. Felt like we were just on a really long extended vacation together. Did you spend any time with Tom Cruise? Obviously, you weren't in the same seats.

33:09You know, all of his stuff was in L.A., so we finished almost all of our stuff in Kauai. I think I had maybe a day or two in Los Angeles. Have you ever been in a room with Tom Cruise? I haven't, you know, but I feel like I know him because I've grown up watching all of his films. I would love you. I feel like you two are meant to be. Well, maybe you can pull some strings. I'll do my best. I am on the cruise cake list. It was a really big moment for me. That's great. What the hell is the cruise cake list? You don't know about this? No. You need to do this. Okay. He sends a cake to a certain, I mean, it's probably 50 ,000 people.

33:41It's not a very exclusive list. It's a lot of cakes. It's a lot of cakes, but it's a delicious coconut chocolate cake. Okay. It comes every holiday season. And you're on that list. I made this. And then once you make the list, do you have to do anything to stay on the list? You have the exact same brain as me. Yes, that was my thought. Like, now I'm petrified that I'm going to be off the list. Because I would be and I would be I would hate to get on the list. And then one year it just doesn't come. You're like, oh, man, he changed his opinion of me. Yeah, I know. I was such a psychopath when I got it.

34:06I called the bakery to make sure that it wasn't a friend of mine pranking me because I've been talking about it for years. Yeah. But they said it was real. It's real. I hope you're on that list forever. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you. We talked about Eastbound a bit, but in terms of the cultural stickiness of Kenny Powers, have you come up with a theory of why this character, even among your pantheon of characters, is the one? You know, it's interesting. You don't know. I mean, it is interesting to me that it's, you know, we sold that show 20 years ago, like this summer, 20 years ago. We went in and pitched it the day, the weekend after the Monday after Talladega Nights had come out in the theaters.

34:50Yeah. And it's wild that it's something that people still reference. And I feel like there's also like a whole new generation of of young people that that are finding it. I find that like it was for a while, it was a very unexpected group of you never really knew who like D-Spawn. It would always be it would it was never one type of person. You know, when that first started to hit, it would be someone's parents. It would be somebody young. It was always a wide variety. And then I've noticed in the last like two years, there's been a lot more young people. So I'm like, oh, it's making the rounds.

35:19Is that a good thing? What's the recommended age for people to start watching? Maybe six, seven, probably. Yeah. It's a good start. Yeah. Do you get invited to like throw first pitches out at baseball games? Are you? I have before, but I don't ever, I've never taken them up. I mean, you've seen the show. I can't throw. I'm not going to do that to myself.

35:37What's the lesson from, I love your highness. What's the lesson of Your Highness? I feel like it was a film before its time. If it had come out after Game of Thrones. We were up against a lot of things. I mean, you know, maybe the biggest lesson is you shouldn't make a rated R movie for 13-year-olds. That's probably the first lesson. Yeah. But if you remember that, that was such a strange time, too, because I think Franco had just hosted the Academy Awards and was getting, like, piled on for it. And I think this movie came out, like, the next week. And so then it suddenly quickly became the punchline or the way I mean, like the reviews were vicious.

36:13They were so brutal. But I mean, I think David Green just did had a career retrospective in Paris last year. And they were running every they played all of his movies every day for, you know, he's made a lot of movies. Yeah. But he said that Your Highness was the one that people were talking to him about the most. And even at the screening, it was like packed with all these Parisians. And you're like, that thing traveled. And I saw it recently. It was on, I think, on HBO. And I like, you know, usually I'll like very adverse to like it makes me it's like hearing your own voice. I'm like, I don't ever really want to see any of this stuff.

36:49I like my wife will put it on like, oh, this is I'm like, get rid of it. Turn it off. And she we left it on. And I did. I was laughing at I was like, God, the balls that we had to make this. Oh, my God. Literally.

37:05Yeah, I really that was a fun time. It was. And yeah, I think we did exactly what we set out to do for better. It does not feel like a compromised movie. No, no. The only thing we compromised is there was an alternate ending that they, you know, we also had come out, I think, like after Scott Pilgrim and after Paul. And then there was kind of a thing at Universal where they were like, oh, we're not we don't want to like market this to nerds like this doesn't to comic book culture. We want to market this to like a wider audience. So suddenly, you know, we, this was very much a movie for nerds. We're nerds.

37:39And, uh, but suddenly they were wanting to shy away from all that. And so there became this brief moment where, uh, it's what every director loves. I'm sure where they're trying to reinvent what the movie is with like test screenings. And the idea of like neutering some jokes might make it play more and it never really does. And there was one, there was, uh, there was one sequence that they chopped out, which i still was like i wish we would have held to it which was that right now justin throws character lazar like he dies like i you know he gets stabbed with lady unicorn he dies that wasn't how he originally died originally we beat him and then we're all uh we're all like you know congratulating ourselves and then justin throws character comes crawls out of the pit you know because he drank the potion to have the have the uh the dragon and so then he's in front of us and it's like he has to take a massive shit and he lays a dragon egg in front of us and then the dragon uh comes out of the egg and then burns his face off and kills him and then everyone's going to kill the dragon but then i come down and take a knee next to the dragon and give this monologue about how we should not always judge a book by its cover and that maybe this disgusting beast has something to offer and then i think the dragon uh farts or shits and then i cut its head off and kill it and then then then it would cut outside.

38:53That would have changed. That was a bridge too far, I guess. Everything else, the miniaturist cock, all that stuff was fine. But that ending was too much. Can I get your perspective on, I've heard all sorts of stories on and off the record about what happened on This Is The End and awkwardness with Emma. I do not want to talk about that. Every time that comes up for Seth, he has to issue apologies. Okay, okay. And you're still friends with Seth. Okay, we won't do that. Okay. I will say I was on the set of that one And I will always remember, and I'm not just saying this because you're here, watching like this amazing group of improv comedians.

39:28And you were the one. You were the one that was just like on a whole nother damn level. It was. That was a blast. Those guys did me a solid because when you have that many people, that many funny people, it is definitely hard to kind of like find your way. But those guys wrote me a great entrance and a great exit. Sometimes that's all you need to kind of to land it in there. But that was probably one of the most fun times I had making anything. I mean, Seth and Evan, I love. I love working with those guys. They're a blast. And the idea that they were getting a chance to make something so irreverent and so different.

40:04And when I showed up to New Orleans, that's where we shot it. I knew a lot of people that were working on the movie. Jonathan Watson, who directs on Gemstones, and he's been our AD forever. He was the AD on it. And I would check in with him because I wasn't there yet. And he's like, oh, man, you better bring some ammo. These guys are going hard at each other. And it was an exciting vibe. And then they did this really cool thing where everything was basically on a – we shot like in an old coffee warehouse or something, and that's where we built the set. But those guys had the green room on the set.

40:34So there was this massive room that had like a pool table and video games and all this stuff set up. And it was fun because you'd just be sitting there with these guys talking, and then they were like, all right, we're ready to shoot. And then you would just like keep talking and then sit down and roll the cameras. Then sometimes you would just rip right into whatever it was you were just talking about and throw that in. I mean, the takes would go on for 45 minutes. I remember that was the cool thing about shooting on digital then because at that point, that was even still new. It wasn't just a foregone conclusion that you were going to shoot on digital.

41:06We shot Eastbound on 35. It's crazy. But that was a new thing where you're like, oh, you can do longer than 10-minute takes because it's digital. And so we were running takes so long that the cameras were like overheated. Like we were like, well, we beat the film bags, but there's now the cameras are melting. More Happy Say Confused coming up.

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42:32Switching gears, the fact that you somehow found yourself in and it worked into Alien Covenant, directed by none other than Ridley Scott, I know that's a meaningful one for you. I mean Ridley is iconic for a thousand reasons he doesn't suffer fools he's kind of a bastard in the best possible way he's amazing do you have a favorite direction he ever gave you did he ever have to he never what I loved is his style there was a lot of things I loved about him I mean I grew up loving his movies so then to get to meet him is just like unreal and how nice he is and how funny he is and his like passion and enthusiasm still to this day.

43:14You know, everything that every scene, no matter how small it was, everything was four cameras always. And it was interesting because a lot of times even, you know, when you try to do more than two cameras, usually the first shot's great. Second shot's a little compromised. You get to the third and fourth, it's not unusual. Why are we even doing this? But his, you would look and every one of the shots on the screen were like Ridley Scott shots. It looked amazing. And it was like because he was thinking about that multi-camera shooting even when he constructed the sets. They would pull out portions of the wall and slide a camera in.

43:44So all of it was designed really efficiently. And it's the only movie I've ever been on where we finished ahead of schedule. You would come in every morning and they would be like, here are the sides for today and here are the sides for tomorrow in case we get to this scene. That never happens. I mean, you get the sides for the day, usually you're like, yeah, good luck, we won't get through all this. They would pull up scenes all the time. And a lot of it is his shooting style. But also, he doesn't like do a lot of takes, you know, it's like one of those two, three takes, whatever. And then you move on.

44:13And though the energy that that created with the actors was awesome, because I think everyone was just nervous. You knew that you weren't going to have time to find it. You really had to come prepared and know what was going on. And it felt almost more like doing something live because the energy was there. And I thought that was awesome. But he at the end of the day, he was sort of like he would say, like, look, I'm I I'll be the bumpers. If it goes off the rails, I'll come in. But ultimately, I'm hiring you because I'm hiring people who are a personality. And I want you to be you. And that's why I feel like you'll fit into this movie.

44:45And he said that's what he did with Alien was that everybody in that were – they were a certain personality type. And so those people were encouraged to come and be who they are. And then that created that cool dynamic between that ensemble. So you – another thing I want to talk about, you and David embarked on quite a journey on the Halloween trilogy. The hollow, hollow greens. Before it came out, there's this great quote where you said, I just hope that we don't fuck it up and piss people off. Now they succeeded. The film succeeded. And then as they proceeded, they got a little more divisive.

45:18Very much more divisive. You know, the first one was definitely the assignment was don't mess this up. Like, let's give fans what they want and have it be an answer to those films. And I really feel like we succeeded at that. And then I think once Green got to the point where like this was like we didn't know it was going to be a trilogy. There was no like we were hoping the first one to work. And then I think, you know, Green is such an interesting filmmaker. Like he got into the mindset with it of like, I'm going to make these next ones what I want them to be. If I'm going to dedicate this much of my time to making this, I'm only going to get one shot to do this.

45:51I'm going to service like my creative wants for what this franchise is and really put his stamp on it. And so, yeah, I mean, I, you know, I know that some of those things are divisive, but I look at him and I'm like, it's it's what Green wanted to do. Like he achieved exactly what he wanted to do with that series. And and I'm sure that somebody else will come and make more Halloweens. And I don't know, like to me, it's like when people are relaunching things and in making new things, I do find it interesting when it's a filmmaker and it's someone who has a point of view. Totally. They get their chance to do it and someone else will get their chance and someone else.

46:30And I think it's cool to have that conversation of how these different directors with their different points of view and their different styles, how they can all affect something that at the end of the day is the same, but translated completely differently. No, you're spot on because like that, that first film. Yes, you, you, you like fulfill the assignment. You kind of gave them enough of what people wanted and felt comfortable with. And as you guys further kind of departed and by the, you know, the third one kind of got, you know, people came after it when the perspective changed and it felt like it was like, no, this isn't my Halloween.

47:00Did that surprise you at the time or was it? No, I knew that everything that Green led the charge on where those movies went. And I knew that some of those ideas would probably be divisive. But again, like I liked that he was doing what he wanted to do. You know, I mean, even Carpenter had talked about how what he struggled with with the second Halloween and like what you know what that how creatively that was difficult to challenge that. I think anybody who's approaching a slasher film is going to inevitably fall into the same stuff of like, oh, once it once the engine gets going, it does kind of become repetitive.

47:32And so I think Green was really just trying to push all those movies into a chance for him not to repeat himself, but to do something just totally different. So it's been a minute now since Gemstones ended, which you've got to take a huge source of pride in. I mean, it was probably your most ambitious television show. I mean, it's funny how like if you look at the evolution from Eastbound to Vice Principals to Gemstones, like the cast kind of kept expanding. You've talked about this. It was kind of like a singular, you know, built around Kenny. And then it was two characters. And then it's this family.

48:04And then just it's an ambitious show for a thousand reasons, especially even the final season taking the swing with the Civil War episode. Yeah. Like, what do you look back on with a little distance now at Gemstones and take the most pride in? Because everybody knows a comedy about religion. That's the way to go. That's you want to do that, right? Yeah, exactly. That's definitely going to work. You know what it was? That was, you know, we I created that show right after I moved to Charleston. And so I was even at a point in my career where I was just kind of questioning what I wanted to keep doing.

48:36And so the idea of creating that series and sort of channeling now, like, I'm going to make something very Southern. I'm living in the South, and I want to incorporate these big, wealthy Southern families and have fun here. It was awesome to create that. And then every – I live outside of L.A., and then every year all my friends come back to where we're living, and it's like the circus comes to town. And even all the crew on that are people that we worked with from when we shot the pilot of Eastbound. It was a lot of crew from Georgia and North Carolina. So people at this point that we had known for years and years.

49:13And then to bring something like that to that part of the country where now you were giving a lot of people steady work in their backyard and getting to make something that hopefully we would all be proud of at the end of the day, that was very gratifying. It was it's really, really hard work writing for TV. And I think the thing that I find the most challenging about it is that the train is moving the whole time. You know, like if you're writing a movie or even writing a book, it's like it's over when you're done writing it and then you move to the next layer. I mean, I know some some of these don't operate that way, but most of them you have to have a finished product.

49:48Then people have to decide whether they want to pay for it with television. like once once they got you they got you and so then it becomes like you know you're writing and the production office is opening up here and then we're shooting here and then you got to go and so you know you usually with each season you would have each season of this was about 15 months from the beginning of writing to the end of post-production yeah so we were already kind of up against the gun because ideally they'd like this stuff to come out every year but you were already at a point where that wasn't going to be true so the only way to kind of be close to it is just to never take a break, to kind of go from one into the next.

50:22And the first two or three months of writing is great because, you know, it's just you and the writers and you're coming up with where are we going to go this year? And then after about the third month, the production office opens up. And then suddenly you start having all these questions like, well, the house that you've written in episode one, is that going to come back in the other episodes? Because we need to know about that for this date. And this actor suddenly can't come up. So you start, not only are you writing, but you're also puzzle solving. Sixth dimensional chess. Yeah. I mean, it's honestly kind of nuts.

50:54And it's kind of what's fun about it. There's like a rush to it because when you accomplish it, it does feel like, whoa. And it's also that influences the writing. So you are kind of creating something that is it's a response to the situations you're in or the problems that you faced while you're creating it. And so it becomes, you know, a product of that. But it's very stressful and it's fun. But that's what was so nice about writing this is that the train was not walking behind. Whenever you. Yeah. And like, and it was nice to get back to writing that way where there wasn't this sort of like, I was just telling my wife, I'm like, I, every day we, whenever I'm doing gemstones, I just would have low grade anxiety all the time.

51:33And not because I disliked doing it, but it was just, I'm someone who just works and I just know that there's. The apparatus around you that's always asking you stuff. And I want all these artists to have all the information that they need to do the best job they can do. So if someone was unsure about where something was going, it would always just eat at me like, oh, I got to figure this out. I got to I want to make sure this guy has enough time to build the right set. And I don't want him to build something that I'm not going to use later. And so you just start thinking about all that stuff at the same time.

52:01So by nature of like gemstones and moving to Charleston, like it's interesting. Like when I was looking at the filmography, it's like even very busy, obviously. But like you haven't been in a feature film like live action in like seven or eight years. Yeah. You know, like honestly, I kind of had a weird, not a weird moment. But after I did Alien, I kind of felt, you know, like I said, I didn't get into it for I didn't get into any of this for acting. Yeah. And there was something after working with Ridley where I'm like, I feel like I've done it. I feel like I've seen what I want to see. And at this point, I want to just focus on what I'm trying to create.

52:33And I want to facilitate that. And so, yeah, that's where I kind of jumped into Gemstones. And like I said, that's 15 months every season. There's not room to be in a various movie. Yeah, there wasn't room to be in anything. So it's kind of nice now to, as sad as it was, to wrap up Gemstones. It also was kind of cool because I felt like I had done something, and now I am free to try other things. It's nice to show up on somebody else's set, and you're not wearing 10 hats. So you're just there to do your thing and just to help support something. It's fun. Is it true you're writing a G.I. Joe movie?

53:09I've written one. Yes. I'm stoked about it. I'm really fired up about the script. Paramount seems fired up about it. So hopefully we're shooting it next year. So I know you don't need to spoil anything, but just like your history with G.I. Joe. Was it the cartoon, the action figures? Like what did you want to honor in this script? It was definitely the cartoons and the comics. Like G.I. Joe was my thing when I was a kid. I like that more than Star Wars, more than anything. Like, I love G.I. Joe. And I still have all the characters. And I tried to give my G.I. Joe collection to my son, and he wasn't interested.

53:41You know who's interested? My daughter who likes robots. That's who plays with gung-ho in Snake Eyes in the Shower. But I've always loved it. And, yeah, so I had an idea for a Dreadnoughts movie. And I was like, I just wanted to do a Dreadnoughts movie. And I went to Paramount and pitched it. And they were like, well, the franchise kind of needs to be like it needs to be launched. So we can't come out with a dreadnoughts. Would you have a take on a, you know, on, you know, would you have an angle for G.I. Joe proper? And I was like, hell yeah, I'll have an angle for that. So Jeff Fradley and John Couture, who I wrote a lot of gemstones with.

54:21Yeah, we we sat down and we cracked something that we really love a lot. And it's, you know, weirdly, it grounds G.I. Joe. It's not a comedy. It's like kind of suspense and action. And yeah, I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. The whole ensemble? Like who's the star? Who's the character that's the anchor? You're following Duke and a group of other Joes. And I don't know how familiar you are with the comics, are you? I watch the cartoon religiously, but it's been a minute. Yeah, and there's that town in the comic Springfield, which is a town that's secretly all Cobra. And so that is where our film takes place.

54:57so this has some momentum it sounds like paramount likes the script yeah and we have some pretty interesting people lining up to be in it too uh i don't want to get ahead of myself but it uh it looks to be like it's gonna be pretty fun holy crap i'm excited okay amazing um we're gonna end with two things okay so i do this with folks that have an impressive filmography danny you have a great filmography you're gonna choose the best movie in your own filmography oh god i'm gonna pit some against each other okay it's round robin style you ready oh okay so we're gonna start with foot fist way versus hot rod.

55:28I really, I mean, I have to go with foot fist way because that, you know, that launched it all, but man, hot rod is one of those movies that I still come back to. I, that will probably be the first movie I show my children properly. I should just take them through the filmography in order. Pineapple express versus your highness, man. I can't do this. You have to do this. You have to do this. I can't do it. Almost melted Jack black's brain. when I did this to him. If he can handle it, you can handle it. You know what? God, you know, I think because it was the friendship that began with Seth and James, then I would probably go to Pineapple.

56:06But you know what? Your Highness to me is, I don't know. I would never diminish the power of that. There are no losers here. This is just at this moment. Okay. I feel like I'm picking children. It's like, it's a custody battle. Who's going to go live with mom? Tropic Thunder versus This is the End. Oh, God. Jesus. You know what? Because I just chose Seth in the last one. I'll choose Tropic Thunder on this one. Land of the Lost versus Alien Covenant. You know what? Both of them were very fun experiences. You know, I think for the audacity of me showing up in an alien movie, I'll choose Alien Covenant.

56:46Now you're almost there. Now it's Foot Fist Away versus Pineapple. I'll stick with who I came to the party with Foot Fist Way And then Tropic Thunder versus Alien Covenant I'll probably go with Tropic Thunder Okay Now for all the marvels It's Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder You know what, I think it's the David and Goliath story You know, we had 75 ,000 bucks Versus 100 million plus We gotta go for the$75 ,000 winner You had a dance with the girl that brought you to the party, right? Yep, very loyal excellent okay finally happy second fuse profoundly random questions we end every episode this way okay dogs or cats uh i grew up a dog boy and uh my wife's a cat is a cat person so it's my my last 15 years has been cats oh yeah that's how that's love that's true yeah yep yep uh what do you collect uh what do i collect uh i collect cameras and i collect vinyl Okay.

57:49Do you have a favorite video game of all time? Probably the Zelda series. I've played every one of those. Yeah, I'll go with Zelda. The Dakota Johnson Memorial question, she asked me this. I ask everybody, would you rather have a mouthful of bees or one bee in your butt? One bee in my butt. Yeah, why not? What's the wallpaper on your phone? It's my son with a cowboy hat and a pistol. Who's the last actor you were mistaken for? I get Denzel Washington a lot. More than you'd think. Really? Yeah. Okay, let's just move right on the wall. Worst note a director has ever given you?

58:32God. It's probably something from David Green. He has a tendency to give direction like, say it like you're squeezing out a fart, say it like a bad actor, say it like you're a robot. So it probably is David Green. And finally, the spirit of happy second fuse. An actor who makes you happy. You see them on screen. You're in a better mood. Would be?

58:58God, who would that be? Who is that? You immediately see them and like, oh, yeah. Yeah, he's in it. Good. Maybe Kurt Russell. Maybe. I love that. Yes. Movie that makes you sad? Cinema Paradiso. The music, the Ennio Morricone. Come on. The end of it. Just, yeah. Great. Crumbles me. And a food that makes you confused. Hmm. A food that makes me confused. Takis. What do they? Takis. Do you know what these are? I don't. It's like a disgusting spicy chip that's like weird. My kids are always eating. They're spicy and blue for some reason. Oh. Very confusing. I'm going to stay away. I never think of something that's blue as being spicy.

59:44Right? Generally speaking, blue is not the color you want to eat. You think blueberries. You think Slurpees, you know, you're not thinking spicy. Right. Sneaks up on you. Takis. Thanks for that PSA. Yeah. Full circle. Congratulations, Danny. Look at that. It's real. It's real. Thrilling Tales of Modern Men. It's real and it's very good. It's very fun. Thank you. Congratulations on it. You are now an esteemed man of letters. Finally. You did it. Yep. I always knew you had it in you. No, truly. I've always enjoyed our conversations and I'm thrilled for this one now. Thank you. Thank you. It's nice to see you, Josh.

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