Matthew Maher (Air); Broken Lizard & Adrianne Palicki (Quasi)

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,580In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with Matt and Mar from Air, and the broken200:00:05,580 --> 00:00:10,060lizard crew about their new film Quasi, Let's Go!300:00:10,060 --> 00:00:14,920Welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My Heart Radio.400:00:14,920 --> 00:00:21,160Your Pop Culture News, views, reviews, and celebrity interviews on all the movie's TV500:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,000music and pop culture you crave weekly.600:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,840Here's Kyle McMahon.700:00:25,840 --> 00:00:36,880And welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.800:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,120I of course, and Kyle McMahon.900:00:40,120 --> 00:00:45,160We have an awesome episode for you today, and I'm really, really excited about it.1000:00:45,160 --> 00:00:50,520There's so much going on, and there's so much for me to tell you about, and that's1100:00:50,520 --> 00:00:55,680why we're everywhere you are, whether it's video or audio, the podcast on the1200:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,640radio, wherever you're listening around the world, blogs, social, you know, we got1300:01:01,640 --> 00:01:02,640you covered.1400:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,040So I just try to put out as much as I can everywhere to get you all the news that you1500:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,760need in Pop Culture.1600:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,960So this week, I've got some awesome interviews.1700:01:14,960 --> 00:01:20,320Air, which you saw my review about, and I love that film so so much.1800:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,520It's such an incredible film.1900:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,320I talk with Matt Mar from air.2000:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,360He plays Peter Moore.2100:01:29,360 --> 00:01:36,520He is absolutely incredible in the film brilliant, in fact, and I have a feeling he'll be up2200:01:36,520 --> 00:01:43,960for a best supporting actor award for awards season from everywhere, just a hunch that I2300:01:43,960 --> 00:01:46,520get just because he's so awesome.2400:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,560And he's such a great guy.2500:01:47,560 --> 00:01:56,200So I talked to him, and then I talk with the cast of broken lizards, quasi, this film is so2600:01:56,200 --> 00:01:57,200funny.2700:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,240If you like super trooper, super troopers too, club dread, you'll love quasi.2800:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,240It's really funny.2900:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,640It's more historical than stuff they've done before, which is really interesting in my point3000:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,360of view.3100:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,360And I asked them why that is.3200:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,840And so they talk about that and so much more.3300:02:14,840 --> 00:02:22,600So I talk with Adrian Policki, who stars in the film, along with the broken lizard guys.3400:02:22,600 --> 00:02:32,080Jay, Shandra Saker, Kevin Heffernen, Steve Lem, Paul Soder, Eric Stahlhonsky, and as I3500:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,520said, their new film out quasi is really, really funny.3600:02:36,520 --> 00:02:44,160It's streaming right now on Hulu in celebration of Ford 20, which is, you know, you know,3700:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,200Ford 420 is we all know what Ford 20 is.3800:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,600International pet year bunny day.3900:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,720So let's get right into it.4000:02:53,720 --> 00:03:02,880Oh, let me also tell you, you know, I people ask me what sources do I read, you know, or4100:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,400get I guess consume.4200:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,840I get my info from everywhere, Twitter.4300:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,240I mean, obviously also my friends and contacts in the industry, I get press releases4400:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,800sent to me.4500:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,680I'm, you know, I'm obsessed with pop culture just as you are.4600:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,920So I'm also on Twitter and Reddit and Apple news and Google news and everywhere.4700:03:22,920 --> 00:03:25,200I also love variety.4800:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,800That's an incredible website billboard or music.4900:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,400Obviously it's the industry Bible.5000:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,400Deadline.5100:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,040I love Deadline.5200:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,360Absolutely love Deadline.5300:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,760Deadline is, you know, they've got your TV, your film, theater.5400:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,880It's just breaking Hollywood news.5500:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,200So I love them.5600:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,160And we will be working with Deadline.5700:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,720I'm really, really excited about this.5800:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,880They have got some awesome talent over Deadline.5900:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,880Obviously, that's why they've been around since 2006.6000:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,880And I'm going to have some of the editors start coming on.6100:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,480Probably once a month or so, we'll just talk about, you know, what's going on in this6200:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,560industry that we love so much.6300:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,880Whether, you know, it might be a special event that's going on.6400:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,720It might just be the state of whatever summer content, whatever it is.6500:04:13,720 --> 00:04:21,360So one of their great podcasts that I really, really love is called 20 questions on Deadline.6600:04:21,360 --> 00:04:28,120And it is literally, you know, every episode, a star reveals their toughest moments, their6700:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,840best advice, biggest fears, it's 20 questions.6800:04:31,840 --> 00:04:36,880It's hosted by Antonio Blife, who is Deadline Senior Awards Editor.6900:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,360And they have some awesome, awesome, awesome guests.7000:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,960So if you like the guests, we have you'll love the guests that they have over on 20 questions7100:04:43,960 --> 00:04:44,960on Deadline.7200:04:44,960 --> 00:04:51,840I think last week was Ralph Machio, you know, they've had Gary Oldman, Jason Seagull, Jenna7300:04:51,840 --> 00:04:55,880Ortega, lots of great, great artists.7400:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,960I highly, highly recommend that you go and check it out.7500:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,400I will have 20 questions on Deadline in the show notes.7600:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,000So you can check them out as well.7700:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,200And of course, Deadline.com, they are breaking news throughout the day.7800:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,400I mean, 24/7, you know, they're breaking news.7900:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400I love Deadline.8000:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,400All right.8100:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,560So let's get into, oh, I cannot forget this.8200:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,400How could I freaking forget this?8300:05:22,400 --> 00:05:30,760I'm giving away two tickets to see Taylor Swift on the Aeros Tour in Philadelphia.8400:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,200It's right.8500:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,760She's doing three sold out shows in Philly and I have your chance to win.8600:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,760Obviously, we're not providing transportation.8700:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,560So you gotta get here yourself.8800:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,440But go to the website, pop culture weekly.com.8900:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,520And it'll redirect you to my national site.9000:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,400Then on that page, you'll see promotions.9100:05:52,400 --> 00:06:00,720Click on that Taylor Swift picture for your chance to get to Taylor Swift tickets for9200:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,120the Aeros Tour brought to you by pop culture weekly.9300:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,600I'm really excited about this.9400:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,160This is an awesome giveaway.9500:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,840And the contest is on right now.9600:06:12,840 --> 00:06:15,720There's rules and all that stuff, which I'm sure you know.9700:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,200But you'll see all the rules and all that good stuff.9800:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,600You'll see it before you register to win.9900:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,120So you know what you're getting into.10000:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,040Phoebe Bridgers is opening up for her for the Philly shows.10100:06:27,040 --> 00:06:32,120So it's May 12th, May 13th and May 14th are the Philly shows.10200:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,200Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.10300:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,800So I'm really excited for this giveaway.10400:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,240So go register to win.10500:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,080I hope you win.10600:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,080Good luck.10700:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,680And please, I've gotten already a gazemillion messages, emails, angry tweets saying,10800:06:49,680 --> 00:06:50,680please pick me.10900:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,320I don't pick it.11000:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,600I don't pick it.11100:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,160I only see the winner.11200:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,600It's a software that does it.11300:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,200They don't allow me to touch the software.11400:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,400So it's fair, which I love.11500:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,320So I don't even see the names of people who's registered.11600:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,600I heart, you know, does it?11700:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,840They send me the winner.11800:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,360I get to deliver the good news.11900:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,960That's my extent of picking a winner.12000:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,960I don't.12100:07:12,960 --> 00:07:13,960Okay.12200:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,080So good luck to all of you.12300:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,680I'm really excited.12400:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,760And I'll see you there too.12500:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,760I'll be there myself to see.12600:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,040Tate on the Ares tour.12700:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,200All right.12800:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,280So let's get into my interview with Matt Mar.12900:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,160You know, I loved air.13000:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,160I love air.13100:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,600It is one of the best films I've seen in a while.13200:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,480It really, really is an incredible film.13300:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,640You may have read my review.13400:07:36,640 --> 00:07:43,560If you haven't got a pop culture weekly dot com and read my review on it, it's a really, really,13500:07:43,560 --> 00:07:44,680really good movie.13600:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,320The performances by everybody, the writing.13700:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,640I mean, you already know how it's going to end and you're still on the edge of your13800:07:50,640 --> 00:07:51,640seat the whole time.13900:07:51,640 --> 00:07:52,840It's so good.14000:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,640Matt Mar is a big part of that.14100:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,120So let's get into my interview with him.14200:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,600Here he is.14300:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,600Matt Mar.14400:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,800Thank you for joining me.14500:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,520I really do appreciate it.14600:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,960I absolutely love air.14700:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,680It is so good.14800:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,440I have got to say, I'm not a huge sports guy.14900:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,960And that doesn't matter with this film at all.15000:08:18,960 --> 00:08:26,760It's done so beautifully in every single way from the writing, the directing, the soundtrack,15100:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,000the performances right down to you.15200:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,280And so kudos on that.15300:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,280Thank you.15400:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,280Thank you so much.15500:08:35,280 --> 00:08:36,280I'm glad you like it.15600:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,280I'm not much of a sports guy either.15700:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,280Or a sneaker guy.15800:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,280OK.15900:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,280Yeah.16000:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,680I mean, I wasn't hardly at all.16100:08:43,680 --> 00:08:46,720My brother, my brother, my brother, co-actor, Air Jordan.16200:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,240But I was never a guy into it.16300:08:49,240 --> 00:08:54,040But so I came into the experience really clean.16400:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,320But I really enjoyed working on it.16500:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,640It was really fun.16600:08:57,640 --> 00:08:58,640Yeah.16700:08:58,640 --> 00:09:04,480It seems like one of those films that at least as a viewer, you can tell sometimes when people16800:09:04,480 --> 00:09:05,840really click.16900:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840And it seems like all of you guys really, really clicked in this film.17000:09:09,840 --> 00:09:10,840Yeah.17100:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,840It was really--17200:09:12,840 --> 00:09:19,160I was such an easy environment.17300:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,760You just walked right in like--17400:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,960I had gotten some research, obviously.17500:09:24,960 --> 00:09:32,680And he had just passed away, Peter Moore, just passed away when the offer came.17600:09:32,680 --> 00:09:34,040So I wasn't able to meet with him.17700:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,960But I did a bunch of research.17800:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,280And so I had these ideas.17900:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,120But then it was very important to ban, I think, to create new characters, like to honor18000:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,520and to people.18100:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,720But also make a movie based on these people.18200:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,120But it's going forward and making interesting new people.18300:09:54,120 --> 00:10:01,960And so suddenly, Charlie's his costumes.18400:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,960And I had this big beard, which I had fully intended to shave off.18500:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,760And he could speak to more.18600:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,880And then he was like, no, I love to be a green beard.18700:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,520I was like, OK.18800:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,200And Charlie's had this such a specific visual idea.18900:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,600And I just looked like, oh, I have this--19000:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,720as soon as I got there, the characters were came together.19100:10:23,720 --> 00:10:29,000And I was like, I such a clear vision of a guy who lives in suburban--19200:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,600the suburbs of Washington and where's weird sweaters and has his thoughts.19300:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,440And it's hard to articulate.19400:10:37,440 --> 00:10:44,040But suddenly, he just became a new character, as soon as I arrived on set.19500:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,720And I was like, this character make perfect sense to me.19600:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,000And all I need to do right now is just19700:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,560get your out and how to say these lines.19800:10:50,560 --> 00:10:51,880And it just worked out.19900:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,840And then was like, that's great.20000:10:53,840 --> 00:10:59,720You know, it's very not all created processes or like them.20100:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,320You can't even try for a process like that.20200:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,680You just everyone's going to wild happens.20300:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,880And you're just grateful for it.20400:11:07,880 --> 00:11:08,360Yeah.20500:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,320And I'll tell you, as a viewer, I'm grateful for that process, too,20600:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,400because it really, really is.20700:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,720I was crying in the theater at the film.20800:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,760It's just so good.20900:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,720And for me, it's really-- I lost my mom two years ago,21000:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,840most of the day to pancreatic cancer.21100:11:26,840 --> 00:11:33,200And this really for me is a story of a mother's love.21200:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,480And on one side, and then on the other side,21300:11:37,480 --> 00:11:43,480on how really thinking outside of the box and being21400:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,480nimble, which is a word I hear buzzword, I hear a lot,21500:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,840can sticking to your vision and your dreams21600:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,640can really get you somewhere.21700:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,640And that's very representative of, in my opinion,21800:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,440Michael Jordan's life as well.21900:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,520Yes, totally.22000:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,280But I think it's so interesting.22100:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,320And what's the prize?22200:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,560My wife actually saw the movie, which22300:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,280hadn't really put in for me.22400:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,320I was thinking of it in terms of my own character,22500:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,440which was going through a midwife crisis.22600:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,720And not himself very athletic.22700:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600And he's just like his own process22800:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,960and this moment presents itself in suddenly22900:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,200there's a way out to where he feels stuck.23000:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,160And I think the reason what makes his successful23100:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,960is that there is a connection between these eternal people,23200:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,800these characters that Michael Jordan or Patrick23300:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,080Ewing, where we are like, these are like,23400:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,880secular dogs, people are like capable of great things.23500:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,200And we love them so much, because we ourselves23600:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,840are getting older and we're getting weight.23700:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,400And our lives are complicated.23800:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,480And sad, and they're not there's joy.23900:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,120And then there's also like, deaf, and all these things24000:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,400are happening.24100:13:09,400 --> 00:13:14,080And I just thought, well, people get really into sports24200:13:14,080 --> 00:13:20,400because it offers them a respite from thinking about, well,24300:13:20,400 --> 00:13:21,880their own mortality.24400:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,760And I thought a movie has like, oh my God,24500:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,480the movie is absolutely a hundred percent about that.24600:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,240And that's like, and the speech match speech at the end,24700:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,320which they sort of have worked on in shape,24800:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,040just like really just said that.24900:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,640And I think that that is one of the reasons why people25000:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,680are connecting so deeply to it,25100:13:41,680 --> 00:13:45,520is because it actually leaves room for our sadness25200:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,960at our life and the joy at the same time.25300:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,080And the correct guys is that joy and sadness25400:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,040are the same thing.25500:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,280And people who real sportsman, I think, actually,25600:13:57,280 --> 00:13:58,160understand that.25700:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,000Yeah.25800:13:59,000 --> 00:13:59,840Yeah.25900:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,880And I've been working on this show since my mom26000:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,120passed called Deathgreaf and other shit we don't discuss26100:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,720where I went around the country.26200:14:06,720 --> 00:14:12,360And interviewed all different subject matter experts26300:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,640on the various facets of death.26400:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,280And so ultimately life.26500:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,280And I think one of my biggest takeaways26600:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,760from doing that limited series is that you can't have26700:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,040happiness without sadness.26800:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,040You can't have.26900:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,800So I'm putting it in terms of my mom.27000:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,800I think about this a lot.27100:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,800Would I, going through, it was horrible what she went through.27200:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,960And then what we went through,27300:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,040would I change any of that?27400:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,880If it meant that I got to live the life that I did,27500:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,160previous to that with her.27600:14:53,160 --> 00:14:54,480And I wouldn't.27700:14:54,480 --> 00:15:00,520I couldn't have all of those happy loving years.27800:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,360You know, I wouldn't be going through the sadness so intensely27900:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,640if it wasn't for all of those happy moments.28000:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,880And that lifetime of love that was giving you have to have28100:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,840won in order to have the other.28200:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,520Yes.28300:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,040Yeah.28400:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,800And like, my, yeah, I walked my father.28500:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,120I'm so sorry.28600:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,760Yes, likewise, to use well and before my kids were born,28700:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,160he was T pass way in 2016.28800:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,840And my first kid was born in 2019.28900:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,920And my second, just like eight months ago.29000:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,720And my love for them, their both boys,29100:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,880is like when I'm really contemplated,29200:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,680I cannot contemplate it without also being sad29300:15:43,680 --> 00:15:44,840that my dad is not there.29400:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,840Like they cannot, one cannot, they're enjoying.29500:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,840No meal.29600:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,400Joy at my kids and the sadness are not having my dad.29700:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,680They're the same.29800:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,000They're resting in the same place.29900:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,040You know?30000:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,760And both are get bigger and more real.30100:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,520And more comforting in a way.30200:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,320Because even then the sadness feels like,30300:16:09,320 --> 00:16:15,000I mean, you know, what I've been saying for years30400:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,400about both losing a parent and having kids30500:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,160is that they're two craziest things that can happen to you.30600:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,440And it's insane that they happen to30700:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,600that losing a parent anyway happens to actually everybody.30800:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,760Every single person loses parent.30900:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,280If you're appalling that like everybody is going through this31000:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,040in some way, it's insane to contemplate.31100:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,040Like God, I can't get through my head.31200:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,880That the one thing that I went through in my life31300:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,560got was the most difficult thing.31400:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,520And also, you know, because sad is thing,31500:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,240was also the thing that literally I haven't come with31600:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,880every other person on earth.31700:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,240It's crazy to me.31800:16:57,240 --> 00:16:58,840I can't cross that side.31900:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,360And if people are saying, "I'm not having kids,32000:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,280"not everybody has kids."32100:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,960But it's crazy that we just have kids.32200:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,880We're in charge of like raising them and making them better.32300:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,680It's so difficult.32400:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,560And so spend almost all the time32500:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,800wonderfully and hard that like, "I'm like,32600:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,920"this is common, like all these people are walking around having babies."32700:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,120It's boggle-semane.32800:17:26,120 --> 00:17:28,120You know?32900:17:28,120 --> 00:17:30,600So yeah, anyway.33000:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,840Just when far afield from what you're saying.33100:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,960But I connect with what you mean, a good joy and a sadness.33200:17:39,960 --> 00:17:45,400And I do think that God sends a joy and sadness,33300:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,280especially as it connects to middle age, where I am personally.33400:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,840You seem like a younger man.33500:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,000That's part of why people are really loving the movie.33600:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,360Yeah.33700:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,360Yeah, I mean, it really does.33800:17:58,360 --> 00:18:03,720It gives me a kind of, as I'm sitting there in this theater,33900:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,480which is what great art does in my opinion.34000:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,080It kind of made me think as the credit started rolling.34100:18:11,080 --> 00:18:18,280I need to, I see Ben's characters, his kind of life motto for the business on the wall.34200:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,880And I'm like, "I need to write mine down."34300:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840Just all of these things that I'm like,34400:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,960it's just such a great movie on every single level.34500:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,680And it's in my opinion a very, very special film.34600:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,800Before I went into it, you think, "Oh, it's going to send around Michael Jordan and all that sort of thing."34700:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,160As I heard that it was being made and all.34800:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,720And I love what the way that they handled that,34900:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,520that it's almost secondary.35000:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,720And then we all know the outcome of the film,35100:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,240what the ultimate ending of the film is going to be.35200:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,200But it has us on the edge of our seats the entire time,35300:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,840which is such a special thing to do.35400:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,840Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.35500:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,080It's very, it's very clever, got way.35600:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,760Actually, it's, I mean, a lot of sports movies are based on true stories35700:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,640that where you end up sort of reliving this event.35800:19:17,640 --> 00:19:24,200I mean, when I watched the last dance, I was like, "Oh, there's no way the bulls are going to win a scour."35900:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,600I don't mean that you're possible. They should go away.36000:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,200Yeah, but God is the key.36100:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,840Or like, in theater, you know, tragedy, like a ham, whatever,36200:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,880a dollhouse where like, "I think we got to be in."36300:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,360Like, when it's well done when you connect on a human level,36400:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,640or when I think it's done with heart.36500:19:47,640 --> 00:19:53,880And I think Matt and Ben engaged in this movie.36600:19:53,880 --> 00:19:59,400You know, I don't know the deep, well, keep, but they brought to it a lot of36700:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,800bare own heart, you know.36800:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,200And it's worth, I always thought, one thing I did think we're going into is36900:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,280like, "These events were occurring when I was in high school,37000:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,680when we were on, we all went to high school together,37100:20:12,680 --> 00:20:13,880and gay wearing high school.37200:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,320And that is just right, right around the time in their life.37300:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,320Like, gay, we're like, "I have a thing that I want to do."37400:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,120And I'm going to risk everything to do it.37500:20:24,120 --> 00:20:29,480And I think it is crazy that they did it.37600:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,040You know, like, it really did it.37700:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,880Like, they have had dreams of becoming gay, much actors.37800:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,600And gay did it, like, more than most other gay, much actors.37900:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,960You know? And I think God is also kind of a crazy thing that happened to you.38000:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,760You know, to get everything that you want.38100:20:48,760 --> 00:20:54,520And to become an iconic figure in your own field, you know.38200:20:54,520 --> 00:20:59,320I think that's almost in its own way kind of traumatizing this wrong word.38300:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,160But you mean, I think they're still working through in some way.38400:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,320The fact that they were dreaming in the same period of time, the community said,38500:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,760there's like really big dream.38600:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,000And decided to gamble a lot to make it happen in that may go.38700:21:15,720 --> 00:21:20,680And I think like one thing, gay of toxicists or an interviews or to me.38800:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,960But my theory I have is that they're working through those feelings.38900:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,600And some of the go-go-go-working crew got event.39000:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,080And like, the most human way possible.39100:21:31,080 --> 00:21:37,160You know, by focusing on like human beings who are basically already failed a lot already,39200:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,000but we're going to even come to this moment.39300:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,320Yeah, I love when people say talk about overnight success.39400:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,320You know, somebody we were talking about my show and they were, you know, they were like,39500:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,880oh, it's all happened so quick for you with the show.39600:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,960And I'm like, no, it didn't.39700:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,000You know what I mean?39800:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,800I failed so many times before it started getting traction.39900:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,920And you're seeing, you know, that part of it.40000:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,920But you weren't seeing the years of, you know, my old show.40100:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,400And, you know, retooling and me working until 3 a.m.40200:22:09,400 --> 00:22:15,560You know, five nights a week trying to perfect everything and that overnight success is like,40300:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,480doesn't really exist.40400:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,240You know, people just see, oh, the movie stars, Matt and Ben.40500:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,800And then don't see all of the heartache and tears and blood and sweat.40600:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,440And yourself as well, where, you know, you worked so hard for so long40700:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,600that then when it happens, it is nacing, you know,40800:22:36,600 --> 00:22:42,760to some that it's kind of this overnight thing or whatever, but it really is a lifetime's worth40900:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,600of work into that.41000:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,080Yeah.41100:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,600And success is complicated, as failure.41200:22:48,600 --> 00:22:55,800You know, in a way because I was talking about this trick with a friend, a friend just around41300:22:55,800 --> 00:23:02,440the success of a movie where you're always like, oh, god, I really just want to, you know,41400:23:02,440 --> 00:23:09,960one of the goals is an actor to be in a hit movie, you know, and I've done TV and I've done,41500:23:09,960 --> 00:23:16,040I've been in other things and a lot of theater have done very very well, but this41600:23:16,040 --> 00:23:21,080we look like a particular like this movie is going to be a really big hit.41700:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,000And it weirdly is like great.41800:23:25,000 --> 00:23:31,320It makes, I feel happy as long as I think about Matt and Ben and how hard they work.41900:23:31,320 --> 00:23:38,200And got how present they are in their own achievements.42000:23:38,200 --> 00:23:38,920You know what I mean?42100:23:38,920 --> 00:23:45,240I know, I've known them for decades and I just feel particularly happy for them.42200:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,280Even though they have many other successes, I just feel happy for all of their successes42300:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,080for something I just feel like, wow, I'm very warm feeling for them around this movie.42400:23:55,080 --> 00:24:02,280You know, they've been working hard for decades, really trying, putting their heart into their work42500:24:02,280 --> 00:24:09,720and they have found again after, you know, a trick away of putting their heart out there and42600:24:09,720 --> 00:24:15,480people are connecting to it. And that, I think, is very meaningful. And I'm able, it's easier for me42700:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,680to be happy for them and be happy for me because when you're inside of it, you know,42800:24:20,680 --> 00:24:28,600people coming up being like, air, it's amazing. Hey, hey, and I'm like, yeah, I mean, I just got up42900:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,680six this morning with my kids and I returned to me. Like, my life is sort of the same,43000:24:34,680 --> 00:24:42,200you know, it's a success that you sort of abstract thing in terms of like, you know,43100:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,440I had a really good time working on the movie. That was it's main, it's main role,43200:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,120main role, the main reward, you know. Yeah, I, I, I love that and I love that you're in touch, you know,43300:24:52,120 --> 00:25:03,400with that. Did you feel any responsibility to, you know, playing a, a real person, yeah.43400:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,960You know, I, I did, I did at first. It was the first time playing a real person.43500:25:07,960 --> 00:25:16,040The, it was the first time I ever played a real person. And so, um, I was like, oh, shit, you know,43600:25:16,040 --> 00:25:23,160this is, oh, I'm sorry, but you're totally fine. I was like, this is a big deal. And then,43700:25:23,160 --> 00:25:28,200I, I looked at documentaries. I'm like, I really looked at much, I Peter Moore, you know,43800:25:28,200 --> 00:25:37,000and then, but like, I've heard, okay, okay, you know, Matt and then want me to be in this movie,43900:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,120we met, why me being in this movie, and so, whether it doesn't matter. And then I showed up,44000:25:42,120 --> 00:25:48,920on set, and I had this kind of big beard. And I assume I was going to shave it off, I didn't want44100:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,360to shave off until I got to set. So if I could do whatever I want. And then, I was like, I love44200:25:54,360 --> 00:26:01,400the beard. Keep the beard, I love it. And I'm like, okay, there's nothing beard like about Peter Moore.44300:26:01,400 --> 00:26:09,160And then Charlie's like, like, hooked up, all these like hilarious, these like awesome costumes,44400:26:09,160 --> 00:26:15,880these sort of prints, sweaters. And suddenly, this whole new character, so it was like appeared,44500:26:15,880 --> 00:26:22,120like around me, uh, of course, like, I was saying before, like, it's sort of suburban,44600:26:23,000 --> 00:26:31,720a centric suburban dad type, who's like, you know, uh, we're like a very specific Northwest sort of44700:26:31,720 --> 00:26:37,160brainy guy who lives in like an ice house through this life and has this whole life, but it's44800:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,720in God secretly. Like, because I walked into the thing, because he's always been obsessed with44900:26:41,720 --> 00:26:48,920basketball shoes, and now he designed basketball. And like, and that there's that idea. And so Peter45000:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,880Moore, the real person who was a genius and did many great things, and then there's Peter Moore,45100:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,800the character in this movie, who was potato playing a particular role in the narrative, you know.45200:26:59,800 --> 00:27:07,400So it's like Dick Sunny Vicarro, like, was he contemplating his own mortality when he signed Michael Jordan?45300:27:07,400 --> 00:27:16,600Who knows? And the movie is doesn't care. You know, like, uh, I mean, the, maybe the closest45400:27:16,600 --> 00:27:23,320person, the closest performance, like, closest real life is by with Iowa Davis, as the Laura's, just because,45500:27:23,320 --> 00:27:30,360you know, she is like speaking, she sort of almost seems to be in her performance, and when she's written,45600:27:30,360 --> 00:27:36,440like, speaking from the real world. You guys are having a feeling, but I am in the real world. And45700:27:36,440 --> 00:27:44,120Michael Jordan is actually my son. And we're talking about actual business decision. And, um,45800:27:46,120 --> 00:27:55,080and God, I think it's also a very clever choice. But in general, even her, I think, uh,45900:27:55,080 --> 00:28:01,000we're characters in a movie. And story, you got banned, is really interesting and telling.46000:28:01,000 --> 00:28:10,280For you, finally, um, you know, trying to be a spoiler-free as possible at your character,46100:28:10,280 --> 00:28:19,960really many of the characters, there comes a point where, um, this, you realize that this is your chance,46200:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,600this, you know, this is your opportunity to really go all in and it could change your life.46300:28:24,600 --> 00:28:32,040What was that moment either personally or professionally for you and your life if there has been one?46400:28:33,080 --> 00:28:42,360I think, you know, there goes moments, it's cyclical. Go moments sort of come for me like every few46500:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,680years where it's just like, Matt, okay, what are you thinking about this? Okay, so,46600:28:46,680 --> 00:28:53,160Matt, this is what you want me to do it. And for me, it was moving to New York. You know, in 2020,46700:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,880and then a few years later, it was like quitting my day job. You know, after I had some success in46800:28:59,880 --> 00:29:05,000theater, I was like, well, if I want to start doing more TV movies, you're not just like tiny parts,46900:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,640I'm going to have to become available and not have like this office job, which I actually really enjoyed.47000:29:09,640 --> 00:29:16,200Left-acto and dang it. Are you going to go to LA? And so then, if you were to get our47100:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,080one to LA, and then, you know, nine months after God, you're like, are you going to get the47200:29:21,080 --> 00:29:27,000fuck out of LA? Can you hate it here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you'll go back to New York and47300:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,440Recommit. And then it was, you know, are you, are you going to have children? Are you going to47400:29:32,440 --> 00:29:41,480have, you know, can Recommit to this thing that you want? Like, so, it goes never one moment.47500:29:41,480 --> 00:29:47,560Goes, specific moments really. Those are some specific moments where you just have to47600:29:47,560 --> 00:29:54,200where you are going along, going along, and you become aware of like, what it is you have already been47700:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,640going and just like, okay, so are you going to be consciously doing this thing and really do it47800:29:59,640 --> 00:30:06,120with your whole self or you're going to kind of bone it in. And so, I've always been like,47900:30:06,120 --> 00:30:12,840okay, stopping going in. Make the difficult choice to try and honor these decisions that you48000:30:12,840 --> 00:30:18,440are kind of already making. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, that's so beautiful. Matt, thank you48100:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,800so much for speaking with me. I could talk to you forever. Air is absolutely stunning. You48200:30:23,800 --> 00:30:32,440know, your performance is is so amazing. And I, you know, you deserve all of the success and more. So thank48300:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,640you so much. Thank you so much. I really enjoy talking to you. Me as well, please come back for your next48400:30:37,640 --> 00:30:46,600project. Okay, I will. I will. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome guy. Isn't he such a nice guy, such an48500:30:46,600 --> 00:30:53,320incredible actor? I can't wait till his award till, you know, he gets his flowers, this award season,48600:30:53,320 --> 00:30:59,640because I'm telling you, Mark my words right now. He is going to be nominated for everything. All right,48700:30:59,640 --> 00:31:05,480we're going to go to break, which allows me to continue delivering this show. We'll be back in one moment.48800:31:05,480 --> 00:31:12,600All right, next up. So quasi, he heard me talk about it before such a really funny movie. It's48900:31:12,600 --> 00:31:21,640outstreaming right now on Hulu. And if you love broken lizards, like I do, you will love this film49000:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,800quasi. It basically follows a hunchback who is looking for love, but he gets himself in the middle of a49100:31:27,800 --> 00:31:35,720deadly feud between the Pope and the King of France when they kind of order to kill each other. So it's49200:31:35,720 --> 00:31:45,240really, really funny. You know, broken lizard, the comedy trope, they formed their comedy trope at49300:31:45,240 --> 00:31:53,480Colgate University back in 1989. And you know, would just do skits and sketch comedy around campus. And49400:31:53,480 --> 00:32:01,240they all were members of the same fraternity beta theta pie. And then they started doing short videos49500:32:01,240 --> 00:32:08,040under the name Chargus Peak, which, you know, they now are known as broken lizard. And then they went on49600:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,880to produce all kinds of stuff. You know, they have puddle cruiser super troopers club dread, which I love.49700:32:13,880 --> 00:32:23,080It's like a take on the kind of harsh horror genre. Dukes of hazard, which Jay directed from 2005,49800:32:23,080 --> 00:32:28,440that starred Johnny Knoxville, Sean Williams, Scott and Jessica Simpson. And of course, all of the49900:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,840broken lizard trooper did cameyers in the film. They did beer, fast love that movie. The slamming50000:32:32,840 --> 00:32:42,040salmon, super troopers too back in 2018 and now quasi. So I'm really excited for this interview.50100:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,960We're going to start before we talk to broken lizard. We're going to start with Adrian Pelickey. She plays50200:32:47,960 --> 00:32:54,120the queen in the film. She plays the queen in the film. Has sterically funny. I love her in this. She of50300:32:54,120 --> 00:33:01,800course she was Miss Perkins and John Wick. She played Lady Jay and Jay Joe retaliation and for a very long50400:33:01,800 --> 00:33:13,560time. She was she starred as Tyra Colette in Friday night lights. Also for you fellow MCU fans, she was50500:33:13,560 --> 00:33:21,400Bobby Morris, aka a mockingbird in agents of shield. And for you sci-fi and comedy fans like myself,50600:33:21,400 --> 00:33:29,800she plays Commander Kelly Grayson in the Orville. So she's awesome. Let's get right into my interview50700:33:29,800 --> 00:33:36,360with Adrian Pelickey. Thank you so much for joining me on I Heart Radio's Pop Culture Weekly. I really50800:33:36,360 --> 00:33:45,240appreciate it. I love the film. I think it's hysterical and you are great. The whole cast is great.50900:33:45,240 --> 00:33:54,920But I got to ask you what was it like to do quasi? It was, it was honestly one of the most51000:33:54,920 --> 00:34:02,120amazing experiences of my entire life. Wow. It was so fun. I was petrified going in. You know what?51100:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,520I mean I'm walking into the den of these guys who've been working together forever in our hilarious51200:34:06,520 --> 00:34:12,680and already have this relationship and feel comfortable with each other. From the moment I met them,51300:34:12,680 --> 00:34:19,320it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, chemistry. They made me feel like I had been with them the whole time.51400:34:19,320 --> 00:34:27,320You know, and it went itself to make this really fun movie that I literally at night didn't want to go home.51500:34:27,320 --> 00:34:33,320I wanted to keep, I wanted to keep, you know, doing shit. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's, you know,51600:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,520you can't, it's hard to call it. Where it's, I feel like the same doing my job. Like it's hard to call it work.51700:34:38,520 --> 00:34:45,240When I love what I do. Exactly. Exactly. It makes such a big difference. I got to dress up51800:34:45,240 --> 00:34:52,200and I got to live out my childhood dream of being Princess Buttercup. So it's like, you know,51900:34:52,200 --> 00:35:00,040absolutely. And speaking of that, your character is very much a centerpiece of this film.52000:35:00,040 --> 00:35:06,200As you're reading the script, where you, you know, where you, like as you said, you know, it's,52100:35:06,200 --> 00:35:13,720it's a, there's a lot of history to, to her in many ways in, you know, kind of the lens of,52200:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,960of the historical part of this film. Was that like, as you're reading this, or you're like,52300:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,160oh my god, this is so cool. Like, where you're like fanboying out?52400:35:21,160 --> 00:35:28,200Totally. I was like, this is, this is what I'm in my dream. Also, these guys can really write for a woman,52500:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,760which is awesome shocking because not a lot of people, that meant not many here.52600:35:32,760 --> 00:35:39,720So I love that she's always as smartest person in the room. She's like, come on, guys. Come on.52700:35:39,720 --> 00:35:47,080Let's do this. I know I'm a woman, but, you know, she tells it like it is in that like her.52800:35:47,080 --> 00:35:56,360Yeah, she is awesome. And, you know, as I talked to the guys earlier, and they were telling me how52900:35:56,360 --> 00:36:03,160they originally saw themselves as a money python, as a money python, as group, where I didn't53000:36:03,160 --> 00:36:09,880realize that a few of them are actually, were actually history majors. And so they were interested in telling,53100:36:09,880 --> 00:36:15,720like, you know, a historical story that they never were able to get greenlit before. And now they're53200:36:15,720 --> 00:36:23,720able to do that, you know, from you being kind of the quote, outsider of broken lizard in that regard,53300:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,920did you see that with them? We're like, they're like, nerding out to to finally get to do this,53400:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,240like, passion project. Absolutely. And even when I got the phone with them, I was like, I was like,53500:36:33,240 --> 00:36:39,160it feels like mine python, which I grew up loving, like Holy Grail was, you know, a staple in my home.53600:36:39,160 --> 00:36:45,640So seeing it and just reading it, and like this is what they're tapping into, and they were so53700:36:45,640 --> 00:36:50,280excited that I got it. But also, I didn't realize that they had written it the same time they53800:36:50,280 --> 00:36:55,560written super-tubers. Like, that's how long ago. And this is how, like, this is their passion project.53900:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,720And seeing them all just to play different characters. It was just so fun. There's the best people in54000:37:01,720 --> 00:37:06,600the world. They don't fight. They don't argue. I mean, they, my bigger, like, brothers, but54100:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,240they just have this great feeling about them. Like, all the people that work with them, like,54200:37:11,240 --> 00:37:16,200the crew, and then working with them for years. And there's some of them are family members. Like,54300:37:16,200 --> 00:37:22,360it just feels like you're just playing. Yeah. Thank you so much. And right now, I can't54400:37:22,360 --> 00:37:35,080people even get to do this. Did you, you know, they have a very successful niche, particularly with54500:37:35,080 --> 00:37:43,240their improvisation. Did you get the chance to do that as well? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.54600:37:43,240 --> 00:37:48,760And how was that? I feel like it was always like a prerequisite. But that was that was the thing that54700:37:48,760 --> 00:37:57,800was I walked into petrified about the fear of like, I would have had to done this in years. And again,54800:37:57,800 --> 00:38:03,320just that comfortability, the way that they just bring you in and make you feel like it's a big54900:38:03,320 --> 00:38:09,480warm hug and your safe. And so, you know, it was like, after day one, I was like, all right,55000:38:09,480 --> 00:38:17,880here we go. That's cool. That makes you feel good. You're like, okay, I can do this. This is55100:38:17,880 --> 00:38:24,600so cool. And how do you, you know, I was wondering, how do you like on a film like that where you55200:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,360have a script, how do you improvise like for you in particular? Like, are you just whatever kind of55300:38:30,360 --> 00:38:36,120comes to your head that you just kind of say or how does that work? I feel like I would be so nervous55400:38:36,120 --> 00:38:41,240that I want to rehearse my improvisations. You know, I mean, absolutely. But, you know, I think55500:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,400that's the thing with comedy, especially that kind of thing. If you overthink it, it feels55600:38:45,400 --> 00:38:51,320stale. I mean, we shot everything that was on the paper on the page. But then it was like, okay, we got that,55700:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,040let's play. And sometimes I'm like, you're reading it. I'd be like, okay, that might be a funny55800:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,920thing to say there. But most times it was just about listening because you know what they were going to55900:39:00,920 --> 00:39:06,920do. So it's like, you know, okay, all right, I can play with this, you know what I mean? They say something56000:39:06,920 --> 00:39:12,440and it's like, okay, just just listen and instinctually, don't think about it. It's like, just56100:39:12,440 --> 00:39:20,520lead. I really love that. And you know, so I was talking to Nick Cannon the other day who I admire56200:39:20,520 --> 00:39:27,160greatly for all of the different kind of things that he does. And as him and I were talking,56300:39:27,160 --> 00:39:33,800I'm like, wow, I'm like, you know, I'm interviewing somebody on my show that kind of does something56400:39:33,800 --> 00:39:40,520that I aspire to do, you know, and all the, he's so successful and so many of the various things he does.56500:39:41,240 --> 00:39:46,760For you, you know, I was thinking about this. For you, when you're with this, you know, these56600:39:46,760 --> 00:39:55,000comedy, you know, I mean legends in so many ways where, you know, they've done all these great projects56700:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,480super troopers and club dread and I did you kind of find yourself like, you know, kind of taking notes56800:40:03,480 --> 00:40:12,840at some of their comedy style or, or what have you? Absolutely. Absolutely. The thing to about56900:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,720the way that they work is every time there would be changes in the script, whether it was like one57000:40:17,720 --> 00:40:23,480joke, two jokes, whatever. We have another table read. So it was so fun to get to sit and watch them go57100:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,680through their process. And then they would sit there and they'd riff and they'd be like, okay, well,57200:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,760maybe this will be funnier here. Maybe this will be funnier here. And so that happened constantly.57300:40:30,760 --> 00:40:39,080And I think that was probably why I felt so comfortable by the day I walked on set to say, like, whatever,57400:40:39,080 --> 00:40:43,240you know, I mean to have that in frog moment because that we're watching their process,57500:40:43,240 --> 00:40:48,600watching how they work and getting a sense of that already, kind of play the end all that57600:40:48,600 --> 00:40:56,040comfortable. I love that. And you know, and it is, I always enjoy the process of seeing other57700:40:56,040 --> 00:41:02,680people that do what I do, watching them, just because, you know, I can always learn something. And57800:41:02,680 --> 00:41:10,600and I love that they because it seems to be from my understanding kind of rare that that if you're not57900:41:10,600 --> 00:41:18,440one of the writers to kind of be in that situation, and it seems awesome, you know, as an actor, and especially58000:41:18,440 --> 00:41:24,040successful one like yourself, to be able to then kind of go in that other side if you will,58100:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,760and take part in that part as well. Absolutely. And that's a great way to put it because yeah,58200:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,360like actors don't tend to be in the writers or in the writers will be there to be able to read to take notes58300:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,480and make the changes, but there's not, they're not talking about it there. And because they're the58400:41:37,480 --> 00:41:44,920writers, directors, producers, actors, all of them in the movie, I get to be privy to to see58500:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,480the making of how it all goes down and how to make it better. And actually be a part of it.58600:41:49,480 --> 00:41:55,560You're like, I haven't been saying that thing there. Yeah. And will you take that to your future58700:41:55,560 --> 00:42:02,040projects? Like can you see some, you know, some of what you learned in doing quasi, can you see yourself58800:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,440making any, you know, things that you kind of picked up that you like that you're like, you know what,58900:42:06,440 --> 00:42:14,360I'm going to do that for my next project. I mean, maybe, you know, I've written a couple of scripts59000:42:14,360 --> 00:42:20,760with my writing partner and whatnot. They're not common to yourself. So that, you know, a little different.59100:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,200But even just the directing style is somebody who'd wanted to direct at some point, you know,59200:42:26,200 --> 00:42:32,440watching have, he's so amazing. He's so put together. He has it all, you know, he is funny as59300:42:32,440 --> 00:42:38,520that guy is. He was really like, he kept things in motion. And there were a lot of moving parts.59400:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,560And the guys don't have to get changed back and forth sometimes twice in a day.59500:42:43,560 --> 00:42:49,960So to see how all that worked and how he did it with such grace. I'm like, okay, those are things that59600:42:49,960 --> 00:42:55,640I'm going to take. Take in the future. That's awesome. Thank you so much for speaking with me. I can't59700:42:55,640 --> 00:43:04,680wait till everybody sees quasi, which streams exclusively on Hulu on April 20th, which is of course59800:43:04,680 --> 00:43:12,360National, I love donuts today. So of course. Yes. Thank you so much.59900:43:13,320 --> 00:43:18,360Adrian Polickey love her. She is great in this film. She's great. And everything she does.60000:43:18,360 --> 00:43:26,040But she's especially funny and quasi. All right. Let's get into it. Right. Let's just jump right into it.60100:43:26,040 --> 00:43:37,480Broken lizard troop. Here they are. Jay Shandra Saker Kevin Heferman. Steve Lamm.60200:43:37,480 --> 00:43:46,040We're Lemme. Paul Soder and Eric Stohansky. Broken lizard. Thank you everyone for joining me. I really60300:43:46,040 --> 00:43:54,520appreciate it. I love this film quasi. And I've got to ask Jay. I'll start with you. What?60400:43:54,520 --> 00:44:01,000When you're trying to decide it's topic, as you're writing, what drew you to this?60500:44:02,760 --> 00:44:09,080Well, we were, you know, some of us were history majors. And so we also thought at the time,60600:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,280which, you know, we wrote this very early in Broken Lizards existence, like three or four years into it.60700:44:14,280 --> 00:44:21,240So we thought we would be more like money Python. We thought we'd make a money Python style.60800:44:21,240 --> 00:44:26,600Louis, so we set it in France and we did the whole thing. But if the budget of it was always too high60900:44:26,600 --> 00:44:33,560for us to ever, you know, raise the money privately. And so a no studio was like willing to do it until we61000:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,240eventually fox search. I do make a lot of period pieces said, oh yeah, we'll make this movie.61100:44:39,240 --> 00:44:44,600I mean, it was kind of, it's been like 30 years in the making. I love that. And Kevin, for you,61200:44:44,600 --> 00:44:50,040when you, I mean, obviously you guys have all worked together for a long time. But when you have a cast like this,61300:44:51,080 --> 00:44:58,920you know, what is it like as a director on that side of it to kind of wrangle these guys together for61400:44:58,920 --> 00:45:04,360their various roles? Well, I mean, we've been doing together for so long that there's just a second hand,61500:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,840you know, communication. And we've gone to the point where we're so comfortable with each other,61600:45:08,840 --> 00:45:14,760that it makes it simple to improvise and to, you know, do fun things on the set. So it is also kind of a61700:45:14,760 --> 00:45:20,760support group, you know, in the sense that, you know, everyone's got your back, you know, there's no wolves on the set,61800:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,000you know, everyone, we're all friends. So it just makes it a very comfortable atmosphere to work in.61900:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,800You never have to tell the actors what their characters, I mean, the revolution was just like,62000:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,560yeah, no shit. Dude, I wrote it. Yeah, so we're trying to get it. Yeah, yeah.62100:45:33,560 --> 00:45:40,680Yeah, and there's not many, you know, there's not many groups that really can't are able to say that62200:45:40,680 --> 00:45:48,680for films, especially regularly like that. How do you guys, how do you find, you know, especially as we62300:45:48,680 --> 00:45:54,040said, you're working, you know, so closely with each other for such a long time, do you do ever find yourself62400:45:54,040 --> 00:46:00,920just, you know, unable to reign yourselves in or is that not a, not a problem?62500:46:00,920 --> 00:46:07,160You know, it's not a problem. In fact, it's, in the beginning of our careers, when we made our first62600:46:07,160 --> 00:46:13,240movie, we were shooting on film and we had no money, we had like one or two takes. And so it was, you know,62700:46:13,240 --> 00:46:17,240almost no improv. And if you were going to improvise you better be damn sure that's good.62800:46:17,240 --> 00:46:23,240And as our careers have gone on and we've, you know, gotten bigger budgets and now, you know,62900:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,040we don't shoot on film anymore. It's actually nice because all the pressure is off. You can just63000:46:28,040 --> 00:46:34,840roll and you can improvise and you can riff and have fun to do whatever you want and then figure it out63100:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,880in the editing room. So it's actually, I think it's pretty liberating that. But there's still a, you know,63200:46:39,880 --> 00:46:46,520an attitude of trying to improvise within the character within the seat, rather than just saying any63300:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,840old thing. Yeah, also get what's on the page first and then you can riff after that.63400:46:50,840 --> 00:46:58,760I love it. It obviously is working, you know, both on both ends for you guys and for viewers like63500:46:58,760 --> 00:47:06,280myself, I can't wait every, for everybody to see quasi exclusively on Hulu on 420, which of course is63600:47:06,280 --> 00:47:13,720as everybody knows National Dog Day. So thank you all and thanks for joining me today.63700:47:13,720 --> 00:47:22,280Thank you. Have a good day. Broken lizard. Love those guys. Love their work. Love quasi.63800:47:22,280 --> 00:47:28,600It is available right now on Hulu exclusively. Go watch it. Let me know what you think.63900:47:28,600 --> 00:47:37,480And, you know, in celebration of 420 International Pet Aboney Day, go pet a bunny and watch it and believe64000:47:37,480 --> 00:47:42,680me, you're going to love it. Then let me know what you think. Send me your bunny petting.64100:47:42,680 --> 00:47:48,120Send me your tweets after you've watched it and you're all bunny petded up.64200:47:48,120 --> 00:47:55,400All right. That is our show for today. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for hanging out with64300:47:55,400 --> 00:48:04,120me and always being awesome. I love you. I can't do pop culture weekly without you. You make this show.64400:48:04,120 --> 00:48:10,440What it is. All right. I'll see you next week. I love you. Oh, no. Not next week. There's another64500:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,800special episode. I'm sorry. There's another very special episode coming out right away. Very soon64600:48:16,920 --> 00:48:27,960with the cast of the evil of evil with the cast of evil dead rise. Love that movie. Oh, my God.64700:48:27,960 --> 00:48:33,560It is brutal in a really good way. All right. I love you. See you next time. We are.64800:48:33,560 --> 00:48:39,560Thank you for listening to pop culture weekly. You're all the latest and pop culture weekly.com.64900:48:52,360 --> 00:49:00,600Makes me happy. My heart is true. You're planning to come for the dumb.