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Everybody's like, anyway, that's my David Spade. Our guest today, where David is on the interview, was really a blast. We put him in one of our favorites, Ike Barinholtz, who was on MADtv for like seven years, I think, did all these characters. He's got a big resume, The Mindy Project, and currently running Point.com.

on Netflix with Cade Hudson. Chet Hanks, that's pretty cool. Justin Theroux. So we go through all those shows. We go through his career. He has a Nepo dad. You'll find out about that. And he is sort of a brainiac. He's won Celebrity Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and raised literally babillions, millions for charity. So very fun, a hard laugher.

Came to play, so I think this one will cheer you up for sure. Ike Barinholtz. Everybody. I can't wait for the 50th anniversary of this podcast. I skipped the SNL 50th, man. Had something to do. Wait, were you...

I was wondering, you must have had the flu or something. Yeah, I had the flu that was lingering, so I was kind of, by the day of the show, I felt great. But I was 3,000 miles away. Yeah. But yeah, when I had to make the call, I was like, I don't have the oomph. Yeah, no. Well, if he doesn't have the oomph.

We don't want him. Marcy, look up oomph. No, it's a Scandinavian word for laissez-faire, I believe. For lazy fare. Did you audition for SNL? We don't have any now line. You have a lot to talk about. I did not audition for SNL. In 1998, I remember people from NBC came to ImprovOlympic to watch

you know, to scout. And I remember, Oh my God. And it was the worst too. Cause the owner, God bless her. Sharna. She like invited like 50 of us to go on stage at once. So like everyone was like, put your pushing people aside to like do a character. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was just a reprehensible, but, uh, so then I, I, I moved to Amsterdam for a couple of years. And then when I came back, I was like, I want to do SNL, but before SNL,

I even auditioned, I got cast on Mad TV. And so I was kind of there. Basically the same thing. So you're on doing sketches and you stayed there a long time though, right? Are you one of the longest? No. There's different versions online, by the way. The last one I got before this was 2002 to 2007.

That's right. The result there is 2009 to 2000. I mean, it's a very important information, so it's natural there's going to be discrepancies online about it. Mine says 1886, too. It's got to be wrong. Oh, man, I did an amazing impression of Rutherford B. Hayes that really got me cast on it.

That guy gets literally no press. I do them too, by the way. I've done them. You did run them for days. Give me a second. Not now. I mean, you're Rothschilds. I'm Ruth P. Hayes. Ruth P. President of this here United States. I don't say it's accurate.

but it's the stab. I'm Ruth. Ruth. Um, so were you like, did that disappoint you at all that you weren't on SNL or you, you were just glad to be on a sketch show every week and pay. My dream was to always be on SNL. We grew up in a very SNL heavy home. Uh, like we, we, I was some of my earliest memories are watching like, uh, like Eddie Murphy, uh,

the 83 year with like Billy Crystal and stuff. So we were obsessed with it in our house. And when you're in the comedy scene, especially the improv scene in Chicago in the nineties, that's your goal. But, you know, listen, man, I, I, I was busted.

bussing tables at Morton's on La Cienega. I know the rest of them. It's no longer there, sadly. Bus boy. Bus boy. We've all been bus boys. The hardest job in the world, bussing tables. It's so hard. Especially there because there's so many famous people and you're kind of starstruck. One time I saw Pete Rose there and I was so excited. Then I walked past him and he grabbed my arm and he goes, hey, give

Give my wife a Diet Coke. Get out of here.

And I was like, Oh, okay. Get out of here that fast. Jesus. And you said, Hey, Pete, I just won 20 bucks. I promise that guy, you would say, get my wife a diet Coke. Bet you can't finish that ribeye. But it was, it was, it was, you know, to get an offer to be on, on a TV show, especially a sketch comedy show was, was just a dream. So I was just kind of like, great, let's do it. And there was really,

Great writers there. Great. Some great. A lot of great people came out. You're with Bobby Lee around then, too. He's funny. I see. Oh, my friend. I know. I know you're friends with Bobby. You've been friends with Bobby for a very long time. Business acquaintances. Yes. And Josh Myers. That's a great. Yeah. Josh Myers and Michael McDonald was still there.

Jordan, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key came while we were there. Nicole Parker. Oh, you did have a big fat cast at that time. Yeah, we had a big fat cast. Dude, I like that when I look at your impressions. When does Bo Bice impression come up these days? Not as much as before. Yeah, you have some quirky impressions. Can we get a few?

The off-label, obscure Carrie Underwood, right? Is that him? I'm Rutherford B. Hayes. Beau Bice. Oh my God. I mean, I'm still doing it a lot, obviously. I shouldn't say this, but I feel like Beau Bice, if you told me he stormed the Capitol, I'd be like, yeah. Beau Bice's typecast. But

But yeah, we, you know, mad TV definitely did a lot of impressions of the moment. Of course. We got stuck with that too. It's like whoever that week, like go around the room. Can you cover this one? Can you, and you just have to work on some, something close. Was there ever one that you guys were like bum that you're like, this is obviously, this is a bad impression. I don't want to do it. Oh, it's there. Someone's super hard.

You know, usually during the primary seasons, politically, they'd say, you know, you're John Lickwick from Pennsylvania Circuit Four. And then you look at the impression like, hi, I'm John Lickwick. And you know there's no hook. And then Lorne would say, are you ever going to get Representative John Lickwick? And I said, no. So I said, Lorne, no, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. But the key to impressions, if you can't do it,

Just say the name of who you're doing right at the get-go. Oh, yeah. That's it. I'm John Licknick. I'm John Licknick, and they don't know. But what was your best one? I'm just curious. That you thought was the most accurate, because I saw you did Arnold.

But my Arnold was not great, especially that was a huge bummer because Will Sasso was on the show. I really kind of replaced him and he did the funniest Arnold. So then I had to come in and do my kind of half baked one that wasn't that great and it wasn't funny. And it wasn't as good as Will's. Well, it's already good. But Will's was like a tour de force. You know, I kind of look like Mark Wahlberg. So yeah.

you know, sometimes we do a Mark Wahlberg, come in, come on, sit down. Maybe I'll give you a knuckle sandwich if you're lucky. - Yeah, that's it. - That was kind of, you know. But there was a lot of times too where I would just get, I remember one time I got assigned and they were doing a Frasier parody

And the writer's like, you're going to play John Mahoney, who was the father on Frager, who was a great actor. And I was like, I can't play. He's like an older man. And I remember sitting in, we did a lot of prosthetic makeup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember sitting in makeup for like two hours as they're aging me. And I was complaining so much and I was on set and I only had like

three lines and one of them was I'm John Mahoney. And I complained so much that they cut down my lines where I only said that in the sketch. Five hours of prosthetic makeup, six hours to get it off, getting it off when I put that like alcohol directly in your eyeball. And they're like, Oh, I'm such a colossal puss. When, when I do movies and they're like, or SNL even,

But you hear about these people that are in makeup chair for nine hours a day. I'm like, well, what are you shooting? Like you shoot one half a scene and then go home and undo it all. Like you're only legally allowed to shoot so long. And you get all this shit on to look like the blob. And then you, for the penguin, I would just say, I'm going to sleep as a penguin guys. We'll do this. Give me a head start tomorrow. Yeah.

Who's the guy who plays the penguin now? Nice looking movie star. Colin Farrell. Yeah, and it's like he's... Some agent somewhere is going, you're throwing away your good looks. You got good looks. You're behind rubber. I can't monetize this kid. Yeah.

But I, you know, so he got enough good looking parts. Now he's now he just won something for the penguin. So I want to actually come up with a lit cigar at some point. It's like, it's a magic trick. Well, I know you're, I know, I know you from your Raphael Palmaro. I like they bother putting that in your Wikipedia. What the hell is a Raphael Palmaro? He was a baseball player for the Texas Rangers and he was,

He was like a big steroid guy and he kind of famously went in front of Congress and was like, I did not take steroids. So we did like a parody called like, oops, I just took steroids or something. I can't remember what it was, but that was another impression that I still am getting a lot of love for. People are constantly asking me to do a baseball player who retired.

In 1996. What did they do the thing like? Cause I noticed when the Mark McGuire and those went up to Congress that they were so roided up by the time they got to Congress, they didn't bother to buy fitted suits. So like they got little pencil necks and giant suits and it was so obvious. Gigantic suits. Look like David Byrne. I'm wearing a 52 large. Yeah.

And now I weigh 160 pounds, but I'm telling you, I did nothing that, that two 90 I put on, but I know my head is three times the size of a normal man. I know that Senator Lucknick, I have a huge jaw and forearms for no reason.

I love the callbacks. It was representative, but... Well, it was your character. I loved it. Well, he became a senator. You know he became a senator. I'm going to run with it. So you did a lot of work before you got on MADtv, and you went to Amsterdam for two... Who went with you to Amsterdam? So I was there. So there was a theater that a bunch of dudes in Chicago started, because like...

Dutch comedy back in the day Josh Myers, right? Josh Myers was there Seth Myers was there And I kind of came in right after him But I was there with Brendan Hunt, who I don't know if you guys Watch Ted Lasso, he's Coach Oh yeah, yeah, I love that guy Yeah, and then I was there for just about two years And we had great people come through Sudeikis came through there for a year Jordan Peele

Suda Cakes was there, Jordan Peele, Liz Kakowski, Kay Cannon, who directed me in Black, Amber Ruffin, just all these really, really funny people. And it was a really fun time, too, because it was like,

Before like, it was like before nine 11, you know what I mean? Like it wasn't the Euro yet. It was, it was, uh, the Gilder. Yeah. So it was really, uh, uh, nice. And, uh, I still talk to a lot of the sex workers. I befriended while I was there. We still keep in touch. Okay.

Those Dutch accent is tricky, but the Myers brothers, Josh and Seth, didn't they live there in high school or something? They have a big affinity for it. Well, they just, they just really like Josh kind of went native for a while and dated like a Dutch woman for a long time. And yeah, the Dutch people as a people, they're very like reserved. They're very friendly.

but they're very honest. Like they're, they would come up to you after the show and be like, uh, I did not think you were the funniest one. I thought your black friend was funnier. Um, the woman, the woman, the song about sex was very good as well. Uh, so, uh, congratulations and goodbye. And you're like, thank you. If I had a dollar for every time my wife said that, because she's half Dutch, her dad was Dutch. And she says, yeah, I,

I listened to the podcast and Ike was a terrific guest. You were not at a 10. You were a little bit late there. I don't know why you were late. The representative Lutnak comeback was very entertaining. I'll see you at dinner time, bitch. I go, bitch? Why do you have to say bitch? That's not, that's unacceptable.

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So when did you start feeling like, just either as a kid or high school, like, I think I should do this. I'm good at this. Because on your Wikipedia page, it said, considered to be a lawyer or a politician. Okay. Yeah, growing up in Chicago, I mean, my goal was Representative Lucknick when I was a child. But as I got older, I went to college and I didn't...

I knew I didn't want to be in politics. I was a terrible student in college. And I kind of eventually got kicked out of college because I stopped going to class. And I was drawn to acting and I didn't, and I was drawn to comedy, but I didn't know where to start. And my dad took us to see the Improv Olympics. I think like their, maybe their 15 year anniversary or their 10 year anniversary. And I saw improv for the first time. And I saw, yeah,

Adam McKay and I saw Amy Poehler and specifically the person who made me laugh so hard that I was like, I need to do this was Tim Meadows.

He is, to me, one of just the funniest people in the world. Absolutely. And watching him on stage just kind of enter a scene and make a random joke, it got such a big laugh. I was like, I'm signing up for improv classes. I gotta do this. I was like 18 at the time, and I really kind of...

jumped all in it was so much fun and you're 18 at that point and how old were you when you got mad tv was that kind of your biggest break and then you went from oh that was my first break yeah i got mad tv i was probably 25 ish yeah okay um wow it was great i was making that that late night money which when you're broke you're like uh i'm basically steve jobs and

And then as you learn, you're like, oh, late night money is terrible. It's not in the grand scheme of, you know, acting. Yeah. But you're on a job. You worked with Del Close. That was Farley's guy. He used to talk a lot. Yeah, man.

Oh yeah. I hung out with Farley a couple of times. Oh good. I gotta, I gotta meet him a couple of times. Um, uh, and, uh, he was like my idol, you know, like I loved him so much. And I remember one time he came, I was a bus boy at second city, uh,

And I remember he would come in once in a while and he was always so nice. He was Midwest. Nice. Midwest, Wisconsin. Nice. Wisconsin. Nice. And one night he came up to me and was like, Hey, you know where, where Johnny is, you know, his brother, John. And I was like, Oh yeah, he's, he was actually, he's at this party. I'm Lincoln. And he's like, you want to go? Can you take me there? And I'll never forget. I turned to my dad.

So he says that. Go ahead. Go ahead. Finish this story. Turn to my friend, my buddy Brian from high school. It's like, hey, do you I quit. You take me and Chris Farley to this party. It was like, what? And we went there and we were I remember we parked and we're walking right under the L tracks, train tracks. And Chris is like, I got to pee. I got to pee. And I was like, I got to pee, too. And we started peeing. And I remember he turns to me. He goes, want to play swords?

you know, and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, I kind of turn him or kind of, you know, mixing our urine. Right. And he just kind of turns and just sees kind of on my foot. He goes, I cut your foot off. So, so, so what? I remember laughing so hard. I couldn't like, I couldn't metabolize. David, you knew Chris. Well, does, did you ever sword fight with him? Um,

But yes, that sounds like classic buffoonery. I think I'm not just saying this because I'm on this podcast right now. I think this weekend we're going to show, I have three daughters from six to 12, and I think we're going to show them Tommy boy. It's a 30th anniversary. I heard.

Maybe 20. That's a bummer when you, I heard it's the 15th actually. It just came out. I would never say anything higher than 15. That sounds sickening. I don't know. I can't believe I've been around 30 years to do anything like, Oh, gross.

You look, you look really good though, man. Like you're really hanging on. Like it's a lot of people, like they get smashed by the wall, but you're looking good. Unbelievable. Thank you, buddy. Look at this. New sweater on trying to zhuzh it up for you. It's good. It's the beard. It's very good. It's working. Tommy boy is pretty much surefire. I think for your kids. Yeah, it is. I'll probably just hit a quick fast forward on the scene where you're

Oh, that's right. You know, sometimes they take that out of when it's on TV and stuff. And I never knew that. And I'm like, oh, there's a couple of things they just pull out of movies where you're like, oh, yeah. Some people never see that part.

Yeah, if you're watching it on TBS, that's not in there, but we're going to go ahead and pay the Apple TV. You'll probably be getting a little check in the mail. You're welcome. It's not a competition, but if something doesn't work out or it doesn't quite fly, you pop in. One or two, but it's not a competition. I'm just saying I love Tommy Boy. I think it's a classic, but.

If it doesn't work out, you're like, what do we do? Well, let's not surf the web or go on Instagram. Let's put in. I have been pitched Tommy Boy 2, and I'm telling you, I always go.

you have heard the news about Farley and they're like, yeah, but it would still, and I'm like, it would still be without Chris. It would still be what? I mean, you don't think that was 99% of them. They're like, it's about, and I'm like, Oh, it's just a good solid break pad movie. Yeah.

Do they push back at the co-star who knew Chris better than anybody? I can't do it. You can get someone else. Yeah, Syke. I think it's a prequel where you go back to the founding of Callahan Auto Parts. Oh, okay. And you have basically someone playing like young Brian Dennehy.

Oh, you go way back. You go way back. Yeah. So this is way before Chris. This is really what you're looking for. A hundred years before that. Instead of looking for a modern day Chris Farley, which is impossible, you find a modern day Brian Dennehy. A young Brian Dennehy. Which I think is doable. I think that is doable. That's interesting because looking at all your stuff, you're a writer. Right. A real writer, not a comedian who hogged it in the room. Not some bullshit. Yeah.

And you're a co-producer, co-writer of your current project. Now, how do you say it, Dana? Now, I'd say that's the best pitch for a Farley, that I've heard, for a Tommy Boy sequel. You slap on executive producer. You do a cameo like Stallone in Stayin' Alive with Travolta. And you do that little turn. It's David Spade. Boom. Yeah. Boom, boom. So much booms coming. That's all I'm... Do you like money? Do you like money? Do you like dollar bills? Yeah.

You like money? We're asked that a lot by our agents and managers. I don't think I want to fly to Malaysia for a one-nighter. Guess you don't like money. Guess you don't like money. Well, do you want to go with me? Spade likes money. Ah, that'd be enough. Do you want to do impressions of Joe Biden for the Saudi royal family? I don't. Well,

Well, that, because they don't care what they pay. No tax. We pay the tax. We paid the shitbox golfer 400 million. He can't make a pot. My friend, you are going to go home with this lion. Yes. It will fly with you on the plane. We kill you on the way back to the airport. So we get it all back. The key to that is my friend. That's it. My friend. My friend. My friend. Listen to me, my friend.

We are going to make you so rich if you want to be rich. And I'm from Denver. I just adopted this accent by watching too much Alabarsi television. Too much. All right, go ahead. Running point. Now, I have heard it both ways, Ike.

I think it's running point and people say running point. I thought it was the, the, the mediocre rascals. Wasn't that the name of it? That was the name we tried to get. The mediocre rascals. I decided to be. The little rascals own any rascals. And Eddie Murphy would have a bone to pick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Luckily we get involved. It is, it is, it's whatever you want it to be. You could say running point. You could say running point. You could,

You could say running. Yeah. Because there is something when people go, you're going to run point on this job or whatever on this client. Right. So I call it running point and no one else does. And I'm, I call it, what's the point. Yeah.

No, I was just going to say, okay, I got to put this in. I'm going to watch it on Netflix. I watched the pilot. I'm from the 80s. I mime it even if I'm clicking on digital. And you guys nailed it. There's a genre of that kind of workplace, fun, single camera. Yeah.

And I honestly was thinking to myself last night, I don't feel like these people are acting. They're having fun. So whatever you, I mean, you kind of, you're renewed for a second season. My sources told me we were picked up for another season. But you do something. You're part of putting it together or is this?

You're an executive producer with Mindy Gowen.

And we were, we loved her. We had such a fun time working with her. It had been a while and we had just finished up a thing. And so we, we kind of spent a long time kind of breaking the show and what it could be. And, and we kind of, it became very, very real when Kate Hudson was like, I want to play this part. Cause that was like, wow, that's a real, that's a real no fooling movie star. Yeah.

Yeah, she's fantastic in it. And you got Justin Theroux, too, who's just too cool for school. Friend of the show. He's so cool. Friend of the show. He's my best-dressed friend. He does dress cool. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's just like, I think he has clothes that are like all bespoke, like little leather jackets that like are only made for him. Can I throw something? Can I throw something about, this has been a thing that I've taught. We talked to Justin about it. I just have a thing that like he would be the perfect guide in a Rod Serling biopic.

Oh my God. He looks so much like him. And he really does vibe, but I don't, it doesn't have to happen, but I just, yeah. Picture. If you will, if you like picture, if you will, he did night, a tiny leather jacket picture, if you will. Um,

drakkar cologne well i love that he's so polite i can't think of the other instead of think of this was the first thing think of this then he said picture if you will it's i watched two episodes of twilight zone yesterday which one wally cox with the uh the first ai woman that falls in love with him wally cox from an old tv show what hollywood squares uh

Marlon Brando's best friend, by the way. They would have sex with the same woman at the same time. They were very famously coxswain together. He was on that show, Husker Bros. I'm not mistaken.

You know, Wally Cox was on... Wally Cox was on... What did you say? Because I want to laugh. Eskabros. Eskimo brothers. But Wally Cox was the bottom left square when I was a kid in Hollywood Squares. And I had no idea he was an Eskabro with all these famous people. I just thought...

He and Paul Lynn were funny, you know, so. Oh, that's tremendous. Smells like pussy in here, I think. Yeah. Smells like, that's a, that was repeated. But anyway, back to your show, Scared Straight. What? So you get,

You get Goldie Hawn's daughter, Katie and Katie Hudson, who I think is tremendous. Amazing. And it's so much like so fun, like stories of like her stories are so crazy, you know, like, oh, yeah, you know, it's my birthday and

It was crazy. Like Paul McCartney, you know, was there. And at one point he looked over to Barack Obama and told him this. And when people tell you those stories, I'm like, what do I have? I'm like, oh, really? You're like, this is all a pizza hunt. One time, Bobby Lee and I went to Las Vegas together. That's your story. And we couldn't find his pubes. Wow. So he couldn't go on that night.

I've seen Bobby Lee naked more often than I've seen my own wife naked. So I've seen him naked three times. Plot thickening. Bobby is hilarious. He is one of the all-time funniest. He's got a very funny thing about him. He's got a great burn. He acts real serious and just looks over. I like when he stops. And he does the death stare. In his podcast. And you know he's loaded up with something. Every other comment is racist and he just stares at them.

And he doesn't say anything. I think I'm going to take off. That's funny. Oh, by the way, Dana, on a side note, you don't have to listen. Like when I was, when I was golfing with Lovitz the other day, I burned him because we were on the green and he was blabbing away and I was walking the other side of the green. I go, Oh, you're cutting out. And I've never used it in real life before, but it was good with Lovitz. Cause he goes, I take offense to that. And I'm sorry about your attitude.

And then, but it was funny to say he's cutting out real life. Laughed at my own joke. Then laughed at his. All right, go ahead. Back to this guy. Some people say you're cutting out on me. You're cutting out on me. I have a brother who says that to me. You're cutting out on me. Well, I'm not doing it intentionally, bitch. Oh yeah. They're mad at you. That's his affection. Hey, you're cutting out. You're cutting out on me. It's not. What? So the show's a smash. Yeah.

Show is picked up, which is good sign. I thought you're in it a little bit or where are you as an actor? No, I'm not in it. I just kind of wrote it and was there while we were shooting it. My dad is in it. My dad is an actor. He plays the family attorney. I saw him. Who also played the attorney on jury duty. Yeah, the judge. He played the judge on jury duties.

And he always wanted to be in show business. You get in show business. Now he's in show business. I got a nepo dad. And he has a good spot. That's cool. A reverse. I've never heard of that.

Because a nepo, I understand people get mad at nepo babies. I don't, by the way. I think they're good a lot of the time. They're fine. But nepo. Unnecessary evil. Everyone can get behind a nepo dad. Yeah, let them have fun. And by the way, who I think has a shit ton of charisma is Chad Hanks.

Oh my God. That's something else. Someone says to me, it's like, I can't believe Chet Hanks is such a good actor. I'm like, his dad is Tom Hanks. That's the apple ain't going to fall that far from the tree. If he's half as good, he's going to get a couple Oscars. Even if he only got three Oscars, that would be good.

Yeah. Yeah. I only have, I only have two best original score for the brutally. Did you do that? Peppy tune? I did it. That was my little Casio keyboard.

I saw Ignora last night because I had not seen it. Again with Ignora. I loved Ignora. What was the real name of it? What's it called? Anora. Anora. Okay. Card made no disrespect. Well, Ignora is some disrespect, by the way. No, I only saw Dune 2 and Conclave of the nominees. How many have you seen? I love both of them.

I loved Conclave. I loved Dune 2. I loved Enora. And I loved The Brutalist. And I think that's all I thought. Will you watch The Brutalist again? Never. Never. It's very long. It's the feel-bad movie of the summer. Yeah, it's really brutal. But I really did think it was cool. Was Dune 2 with the popes?

No, the popes were... The popes are gone, Clay. They had to get a new pope, so they sequester him. Not unlike a jury. They put them all in this big room in the Vatican. I love the pope. Don't you think he's a little... And then it's a Game of Thrones. He can't be pope. You need to be a little heavier. You can't have a stick figure as a pope. No anorexia popes. They need to be round. People want to look... Marcy! Marcy.

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You're kind of a movie fan because, well, one thing is you must be, I don't know if your IQ's been tested, but I saw it. I mean, come on. You've won twice. Look at this shit. With Jeopardy, a million dollars. Celebrity Jeopardy. He won Jeopardy twice. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune or, no, wait. Celebrity, who wants to be a millionaire? Another million. Played with your dad.

Yes. And then you win this one of them by referring to a obscure quote in Eyes Wide Shut or a reference in Eyes Wide Shut. Stanley Kubrick. Yes. Yes. Tell that story. So I went on I went on Celebrity Jeopardy. I won it. I got the trophy right there. Did you go against Mindy?

No, I went against, who did I play? I played Jalen Rose. I played Constance Wu. I played Simu Liu. I played Shang-Chi. Wait a second, it sounds like it's all stacked over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. I played, hold on, someone else. These are the people you smoked?

Then in the finals for Celebrity Jeopardy I went up against Pat Patton Who's a real smarty pants Patton Oswalt He's a definite pop culture Yeah he loves that And then also Will Wheaton Who you might remember from Stand By Me He still gets Stand By Me He still gets Stand By Me Next Gen I won that

So then I went back, they invited me on the tournament of champions, which I thought was just going to be like, not to do with celebrities. You're going on. No celebrity. First time that happened. And I just, it was like a fait accompli that I wasn't going to win. So I was just going to have fun and let these kind of, you know, sweet nerds destroy me. And I just kind of by a fluke won my, the quarterfinal.

And the final question was the final Jeopardy category was Roman poets. I only know like one or two. And then I read like this, what the quote was. And I just, in my mind, I was kind of weighing them. And I thought of Eyes Wide Shut. Cause you remember the scene in Eyes Wide Shut where, you know,

Nicole, they're at the party. They're at Sidney Pollack's party. Yeah. And Nicole came in that like really creepy European guy is like, hello, how are you doing? Have you ever read Ovid on the Art of Love?

And I was like, oh, Ovid. Maybe it's Ovid. And so I credit Stanley Kubrick. Oh, my God. How many times had you seen that movie? I've seen a lot. I watch it with the family. We watch it once a week. With the kids? Every Saturday with the kids, we watch it. Wow. So we want them to understand that there is a Illuminati out there who are having secret sex parties. Do you have other Kubrick movies that you like? Is it Unruh Landing? Mm-hmm.

the moon landing moon landing the jfk he's supposedly feeling good on dana that was oliver stone oh he felt the moon i see okay you got it you got it um i i have been in a bit of a barry linden phase uh really really i don't know the last time you said it was i have i remember seeing it when i was young and i was like it's so long but now when you watch it it's it's it's

hilarious first of all uh and it's so beautiful and ryan o'neill really was a really great actor i had the same thing that the standard was so high in the 70s with kubrick and other movies that i saw it didn't get it saw it in the theater i watched it a year ago by myself just said fuck it i'm gonna go revisit it and um the the uh

The prologue was the afterwards. They said, as such was life in 16th century France or whatever, and they're all gone now. And then I got the whole, the whole thing. And the thing, the physical comedy of that dance sequence, he did. Oh my God.

which he just stepped right up to the tippy toe of winking at us. Yeah. But that's a brilliant film. The atmospherically you are completely submerged. Oh my God. Into it. And the cinematography is, you know, so very sexy. And let's see, do you guys mind if we watch a couple hours of it real quick?

We always talk about movies at some point. And I always say, if you could only watch one movie tonight, you had to watch a movie tonight by yourself. Ike, what pops into your head? God, this is different than my favorite movie, right? No, not me. But what would you watch tonight? Tonight, if I was going to watch something, I would watch Idiocracy.

Oh, wow. Workplace comedy with Mike Judge, the director. Workplace comedy, Mike Judge. I was just watching a little of it on a flight last week. And not drug idiot parallels to the present, of course, but it is such a funny movie. And every time I watch it, it gets...

funnier and funnier. I would watch the Bridget Remagen World War II movie from the 70s. That's what I would watch. What's it called? What's it called? The Bridget Remagen or Remagen? Remagen. No, I'm kidding. You don't have to watch that. But I want to do it. Yeah. I like...

Um, the longest day, if you like world war two, that is a great movie. The longest day. But if you haven't seen, cause God rest his soul, Gene Hackman, if you haven't seen the firm, you've seen it, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. He's great at that. And that whole movie is fantastic. That movie is really great. Like for like a legal thriller, that's a great movie. And he's unbelievable. Um,

No, that's the Pelican Brief. That's his next movie. David, what would you watch? And don't say Tommy Boy. Don't say Tommy Boy. Don't plug the 30-panel movie. Don't say Opportunity Knocks. Josie and the Pussycats. All the classics. No, I don't... Dave's not a movie guy. When I get on a movie, when I get on a flight, I have to have a TV in the back of that chair. And it just kills time. It's so great. So when I'm on a flight...

They have new release. They have old ones. I always buzz through. I can't tell you the last one I saw, but I will say I don't think they can call Fern Gully a new release on Delta. Just shouting out. Legally, I don't think they can. And I do watch, I will watch almost anything on a plane because you're stuck. So, God, what did I watch last time? Maybe that Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.

Oh, Edge of Tomorrow? Edge of Tomorrow. Oh, yeah. That's a cool one. I like that movie. I like science fiction. You got another thumbs up. Hey, Dana, can I tell you something about Opportunity Knox? Sure. I saw that movie opening night. Love it.

Love it. And a kid I went to school with, elementary school, was one of the kids who, the karate kid who beats you up. Because you shot that movie. Yeah, Josh Livingston. I don't know if you remember him. In Chicago. In Chicago, yeah. So I saw that movie opening weekend, baby. I did the best I could. It was a bit of a tussle with creative forces. But this goes full circle of this podcast.

So I'm doing the movie in Chicago. And so there's these two dudes playing dude number one, dude number two. Maybe they have a line. They look like they're in their 40s or early 50s.

And I'm just talking to him at lunch and whatever. And I didn't know one of them was the infamous improv guy you mentioned earlier. Del Close. The godfather of improv. So Del Close, he's moonlighting, getting a check on this silly romantic comedy. And I didn't know until later I was talking to Del Close. He had no, he didn't never kind of go, well, you know what, I...

I kind of started improv in Chicago. No, he was very, very cool. And that checks out. Cause he was always like broke. So he would, whenever they were shooting a movie in town, he would get up, you know, the directors would call him he's teaching. And he was also like, you know, and,

heroin addict for a long time. He wasn't like, he wasn't like, he didn't have his shit together, so to speak. But he was a really fascinating guy and I learned a lot from him. And yeah, for a guy who, I think,

I think touched so many people. He wasn't a name dropper around us. He never was like, Oh, one time Bill Murray told me he was just like very, like, uh, he was cool. Mike Myers always would refer to close, you know, just so Mike was big. Yeah. Yeah. I have an Mike Myers who, by the way, is a enemy of the state right now. Cause he's Canadian. So you guys should reach out to him because he,

They're coming after him. Yeah. Well, I did Elon Musk for 28 seconds on that show and got a little chatter from him. So now Mike's doing this sort of Monty Python-esque avant-garde version. It's really funny. He's running. He's turning. He turns himself off. He's like...

But yeah, we'll have him on tomorrow to discuss his... Yeah, and if you guys could shelter him, that would be nice because he's going to need help. Remember shelter in place during the pandemic? Shelter in place. Do you remember the pandemic? Wherever you are, shelter. Do you mean the plan-demic? Yeah. Can I bring up a video of Anthony Fauci that I made? It's a jib jab where he kind of admits the whole thing was a hoax.

I want to hear it. I want to see a jib jab. You know my Anthony Fauci bit. Let me taste him. I know I told you if you had two shots, I'd just do this guy for him.

You'll be dancing in the streets. I missed it by a little much. A little bit. Who knew it was a mutating mother? That's why I'm introducing the Daily Shot. Anthony Fauci's Daily Shot. Every single day you go to your health care provider. By the time you get to your car, you don't have any immunity, but it's a beautiful 39 seconds.

He does He's a doctor He's supposed to be like You know Have an academic voice And he sounds like He's trying to sell you Like an old Pontiac In New Jersey Let me get you In this LeSabre From the bottom Of my all new Leather Fauci's Go fuck yourself I just I just did that For myself You are a great audience Ike You must be fun In the writers room And you're a great writer I have a serious Question for Ike Before we Get rid of him Please

You were shooting the movie blockers, which, which I think I just met your director recently. Uh, we had a super cool guy. He's also friends with Theo. Um, wait, take in and directed blockers. Oh, maybe it's a lady. Maybe he wrote it or did you write it? Oh, there were, oh yeah, no, there were, there were other writers. There was one of the 40 people. Yeah. So he's friends with Theo, uh, pretending to be part of the film blockers and he was on the set. Uh,

And, uh, but it says I, cause I have a bad neck and you fucking did a stunt. You hurt your. Oh yeah. God, it's the worst on a movie too.

Yeah, it was a bummer. What dick joke were you doing where you fell? I was trying to suck my own dick. It was an improv that I threw in there. Guys, one take. Keep the cameras going. Yeah, it's the last take of the thing. No, right when it happened, you kind of don't even realize what's happening until before you know it, you have a doctor being like, hey, you fucked up your neck. So I was really bummed, you know,

But luckily, I really took the rehab of it all really seriously. The worst part about hurting your neck, besides the fact that you could possibly be paralyzed, is you have to wear a neck brace, which we can all agree is an inherently comic thing. Like when you see people in a neck brace, you're thinking like,

Christopher on The Sopranos or like John Larroquette on Night Court. It's a good bit. It's like a funny, it's a funny bit because most of the times it's like nine times out of 10 when someone's wearing a neck brace, they were rear-ended.

And, and, but this one, it was a more involved one that had braces and buckles. Oh no. Yeah. That was rough. That was really rough. Um, because like I would see friends of mine and people on the street too, who don't even, I don't even know him would walk up to me like, Oh my God, what happened? They feel for you. And like, they feel for you, which is nice, but you're also like, I don't want to tell this fucking story. I don't want to talk about it. Yeah. I don't, I don't want to tell us. So,

Yeah. So no, it was, it was a bummer, but it, it, it really, uh, I, every morning I would wake up and they were like, you gotta do your, you gotta correct your posture, which is basically if you, if you shrug your shoulders and put your arms up and then drop your arms, that feels crazy. Right. But that means that's your proper posture. So I would,

strap that brace on and put on like a giant sun hat and just like walk up and down my block for as long until my legs gave out. Basically, I was committed to fixing it without surgery, trying to hold it. So, and I didn't have to have surgery. And now watch this. Ready for this? Oh, that's good. That's more than I can do. I can do the full Brady, but full Brady bunch mobility. Yeah. Can you crack your back just by yourself standing up?

I can crack my sternum a little bit. But I've read, I saw, I read about a crazy person on TikTok that said you should not be, you shouldn't be cracking and popping. I've seen those chiropractors on TikTok, but most of the time the people fart on the ones I get, but those are funny too. I get ones for dogs where it'll be like a guy who takes like a 140 pound pit bull and he's like, and you hear like a bomb go off and the dog is like,

Dogs are not used to getting cracked. It's so weird. And then the dog's happy though and runs away smiling. Is that because I saw one of those? I don't know if they're happy. I think that there's an owner holding a piece of bacon on camera. I don't buy it. I saw him do it to a gerbil. He's like this. And the gerbil's like, I was fine. By the way, who's complaining? I did it to a red ant. I was like, can you cut him in half accidentally? And the ant was like, he's like, it's more my thorax.

Luckily, I can regenerate. It's more my thorax. Well, a gentleman joins us here today, Mr. Ike Bolling.

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We haven't even had, have we had Mindy on, Dana? We should have Mindy on. Love to have her on. She would do this in a second. She's very fun. She loves you guys. She's like me, big ass and elf man.

Let's book Mindy if possible. But if you could do it as Johnny Carson, that would be amazing. Well, let me do this for you. This is what I do now for friends. Johnny Carson gets pulled over for drunk driving in 1972. Oh, sorry, officer. I didn't know I was swerving. I had two slippery monkeys at the hook and crook. Yes. Slippery monkeys at the hook and crook. Sorry, I had a tomato strawberry boom boom at the windy summit.

I just like the drinks and the location at the windy summit. I had a double daiquiri up with a twist at the rusty nail. Copper penny is by Warner brothers. He would have gone to that. All right. So, and the rusty nails.

And the rest of the nail. And or the desperate pillow is another good watering hole. The desperate pillow. But anyway, so those five years was big for you, right? Yeah, and it was so much fun. It was such a fun job. We had such a fun cast and writers.

it's like when a lot of my children were born while we were doing the show. And now it's so crazy. Now they're watching it. It's on Netflix or it was on Netflix and now they're watching it. And it's really sweet because you do stuff like, and you, you just kind of don't rewatch it for a long time. And then it comes back to you one day with your kids and they get to see me, you know, like farting so hard that my pants fall down. How old are the kids again? Uh,

Six, nine and 12. Okay. So there's still in the world of innocence and magic. Yeah. They have social media, but still they're like. They do, but we don't, we, I really am like, you're going to watch like SNL and Wayne's World and Tommy Boy and the things that I loved. Um,

uh because at some point they're gonna go online and watch some idiot online so and as long as they're in my house before they like the pranksters on tiktok you have to give them some baseline if i was right if i was i'm sorry if i was running for president uh i would uh sadly have to execute all tiktok pranksters or you're or you're put in a gulag like like because they're not even like

clever pranks, man. It'll be like a guy, like an older man in a Home Depot, like trying to get a bag of mulch. And they walk up behind him and give him a wet willy. And the guy's like, what the fuck? And then they run away. And I'm like... Or they hit him with a ball in the head and then they both look around like, what happened? I'm like, beat that guy's ass. I got hit too. And it's like, you guys are now going to break rocks for five years. Let's see some pranks about that. I've seen when pranks go bad. I should send you one. It's

Instagram where it goes wrong and they get the shit kicked out of them. It's great. David, I have seen those and it's mother's milk to me where a guy just starts wailing. And he's like, it's a prank. It's a prank. It's a prank. I've seen those too. Why would I be like, Oh, you're not candid camera. You're some asshole.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were disrupting my life for internet. For your own fame. Don't get me going, Ike. Ike, now, I have to say, were you named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose nickname was Ike? I'm sure you've been asked this a billion times, but Ike is a very... Our fans deserve it.

This one's for the fans. I've never discussed this before. I never will again. I will never discuss it again after this. It's very private, but I will tell you. No, my real name is Isaac.

And, uh, uh, yeah, I know. There we go. It's very, it's a Jewish bummer. Um, but, uh, I had a, I had a teacher, my favorite teacher, a guy named Kehoe, Mr. Kehoe, and he started kind of calling me Ike. And that's really when it just, I kind of became Ike and, uh, it's very rare.

It's rare. And they're most Ike's I think are good. Ike Eisenhower was an amazing president. Really, really good. Ike Turner is the rough one, but you also have, uh, Ike Austin manager for the Miami. He was very good. He was a good, listen, Ike Turner early on had a vision and I think we can all agree. He made some very bad decisions, but, um, and I, I don't like him. I think he's a bad guy on the record with that. Yeah.

On the record, I want to just end the controversy. Okay, it's 1223 Pacific Standard Time. End the controversy. Ike Turner gets that. Ike Turner holds thumbs down. Come on, Zoom. Put that thumb. Come on, let's do it. It doesn't do it when you really do it. Look, I got rain. Dana, look at that. Wow. Heather, did you see that?

we don't know how it happens. It's just random. I can't. It has a special Zoom app. Yeah, you know, it's, it's Spade World. but it's worth it. All right, Ike, anything else, Danny? Are there any final thoughts you want to do? Because what the Scared Straight Show or Standing Running, what is it called? It's called Standing

I always hate when shows tee themselves up for critics to slam it. Running, running point is more like running,

whatever, running away. Happy times was anything but. Bad moms, more like bad movie. Yeah. That's really clever. Come on. They're so excited. Don't go for that. Such a delicious pun. Delicious. I just got to say when they, when I first heard your guys' podcast, I listened to it. I was so excited being on this show. So much fun. You guys have made me laugh.

so much over the years really it's wild it's wild i'm putting you in the hall of fame of guests because you were so lively so much energy you laughed at our jokes can i say suck it thoreau yeah thoreau oh he's always gonna come back and try to beat you

Yeah. Well, let's have a little competition. Make it healthy. And you're smart. No one knew that. That's great. No, I present very dumb. You won $2 million for charities. Oh, you gave it to charity? What are you going to keep? It's a foundation I've started. I've started a foundation. I wet my beak a little bit. Yeah, wet my beak a little bit. Yeah. Wet the beak.

I'll take a taste. I won't take all of it. I'll wet my beak a little bit. Some went to some kids. Some went to some poor people. Some went to my boat. Yeah. Something for the effort. I wet my beak is a great figure of speech. That's got to be it. We got to do a Sopranos remake, man. That is a fucking brilliant thing. That's the best. That's the best. All right, boss. Appreciate it. Look for running point.

Running Point. Running Point. Running Point. Running Point. Netflix right now. Peace out. Please have me back. Yeah. Peace out. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff. Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.