702. - Tim Heidecker

All right, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it three times a week, Jason. Does that sound familiar to you? We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place. All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcast. or watch on YouTube. How long gone? Super Tuesday, them jeans. What's Gucci? You know, you say Super Tuesday a lot. I'm starting to wonder if we're ever going to land on the actual Super Tuesday. When you say that? Yeah, we will eventually. Yeah, we're only like we're only a month out from the real Super Tuesday. So I'm kind of warming you as well as the audience up for when we finally hit that milestone. Yeah, I was I was thinking earlier about how, you know, we have you had you see like the Christmas countdown. Yeah. Yeah. Where it's like, you know, 95 more days until Christmas, y'all. And it's something to get excited about. And then, you know, the election is like a month away. uh yeah and i don't think anyone is interested in counting down uh no um i mean well i mean i don't know i mean i guess some people are of course but like i just i don't you know there's there it's not like you know when obama was running i like we're like oh shit a change is going to happen i think everyone just thinks that more slop is going to keep slopping i just like that you're comparing the election with christmas and that you think people two things that happen a month away from each other that we all have countdowns for one thing we are excited for and like and enjoy and look forward to and another thing we used to and now we dread well to be fair i don't look forward to either um and i want to make that very clear we know that getting presents is probably better

than going and waiting four hours to vote for someone you don't believe in. That's my only... That's kind of the only... Yeah, but I don't do it for the presents. Issue I'm having. I don't get presents. As a straight adult man, you should never receive presents. First of all, that's a lie. I know you get presents. I also give you presents. So I don't know what you're talking about. Bro, you give me a book. That's homework. Give me a book. That ain't a present. I got to read it now. I've given you several presents, and some of those coincide with the holidays. And I appreciate... I appreciate you trying. Friend is for birthday. Friend for Christmas, that's gay, bro. Well, that tracks then, doesn't it? I mean, what do you want me to say? Wow, you just got gagged. Oh, fellas, is it gay to give your homie a Christmas present? Follow up in the comments. I'm starting to believe so. Follow up in the comments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm more excited about, you know, winter wonderlands, a little snow. I like it when Carolyn decorates the house. You know, you get the little broom that smells like cinnamon. You come home, your dog's wearing a sweater. The fact that you guys decorate for holidays is so impressive to me because that seems like there might be nothing more that I think is a waste of time than that. There might be, not that it takes an exorbitant amount of time, but the thought of, like, hanging tensile. There's more time than your minimal ass house. I just, like, for what? Like, for what? You don't have any, what, the dog's going to get excited? No, we have friends and family that come over to our house every day. Not every day. But do you think if friends and family come over to your house and it was Christmas time and it was just your house but you had good food, do you think they would care? No, not at all. Exactly. That's my whole point. But it puts you in a feeling. You don't like the feeling? I don't like the feeling. I like the feeling to stay the same year round. Well, speaking of presence, a quick note. We did an ad read for PrizePix, the Joe Button advertising platform.

You can use it to bet on sports. You could bet on everything in the world now. I saw a thing you can bet on if Donald Trump is going to go on Red Scare. I think there's like a 6% over under on that one. Look, I'll put money on that. Anyway, I'm sorry. Go ahead. You'll drop a couple ETH on that. You'll drop a couple DOGE down. Let it ride. Yeah, exactly. Throw some DOGE down. Because you usually don't really dip into the doche stash, so this is kind of big. But anyway, somebody or a couple people were noting to me that when you say over-under prize picks, they say more or less. And that's like their branding thing because maybe they feel like it's easier to understand. Okay, well, let's tell these degenerates that alerted you to this that they can keep that to themselves. I don't really give a fuck. I don't know if you care. I just wanted them to know that I know what over-under means, and I was saying more or less because that's what the brand pays me to do. Just a quick note. Now that I'm divulging into a sports fan. I watched football with my brother yesterday. I made sweet and sour meatballs, and we watched the Chiefs take on the Saints. Jesus Christ. I don't know what's happening to you. Look, I guess one of us had to. I mean, of course, we started with bubbles. I think one of us was eventually going to eventually devolve into a sports fan. I'm glad it's you and not me. I don't like it, to be fair. But you're feeling the pull. No, I'm not even feeling the pull. It's, you know, not to bring up 30 Rock again, because there's an episode for everything that happens in your life on 30 Rock, but there's an episode where Jenna and her weird, like, dominatrix boyfriend, they've done everything in the world, and they start normaling to feel something. Yes. Like, they usually have, like, degrading, like, crazy BDSM sex and, like, humiliation rituals, and then, much like Diddy,

You know, those receptors burn off and then suddenly just going to look at pillows at Bed Bath & Beyond is the most illicit act that one could do. And that's sort of how I'm feeling with me watching sports. I'm normaling. Okay. Well, hopefully I never get there. I'm watching commercials. Hopefully I never get there. But I'm watching commercials. I like commercials. I like commercials. That's all different. That's the only thing that you do like. We went and watched. We went to the premiere of Patrick Radden Keefe's new show. uh say nothing that was at the whitby hotel we went on sunday and let me tell you that's some captivating nothing that's some captivating motherfucking television and i i now want to spend hours researching the ira it's really i can't i people are going to people will like this show it's really good it's really really damn if you like the show wait till you read the book I mean, me, it was a real, I recognized a lot of our FX family, actually, which was pretty funny. I was like, damn, I know that fucking guy. Oh, shit. Oh, you're the head of, you know, anyway. Oh, okay. But it was good. It was really good. And I'm glad I went because my idea of a nightmare is usually sitting in a room with other people watching something. That's just not really something I'm trying to participate in. i i was i was like oh we'll cut out after one episode and then i was hooked had to stay for two had to stay for the whole thing that that is really something because you you go to the screenings for the tv show and you're always you know the over under will will they won't they play one episode or are they gonna are they gonna play three and then we're gonna be here for two hours is there an you know but if you if you did two yeah and the episodes were not 22 minutes as the crow flies that's impressive they're what they're hour-long episodes with commercial break 45 each i think or something or maybe a little less even but it was great it's it's really good i think it comes out i think it comes out like next month pretty soon i'll be checking it i know i know you will um i did not i tried to watch the sympathizer the the the hbo show that was based on another pullitzer ass book but uh it was too wacky for me

Let's move on to more serious topics than the IRA and Pulitzer books. Kanye is getting a divorce. What say you? Love is dead. I mean, if you can't, if Bianca and Ye can't stay together, who can? I think we're all doomed. That would have been a bet that I would love to bet on. The over-under on the when. Not the if, but the when. They're our favorite couple. They're everybody's favorite couple, and it's just sad when love doesn't win. Yeah, I saw a tweet that said Pete Davidson has the opportunity to do something very funny right now. Connie would be in solitary confinement after what happened. I think Pete's laying low. I think he's in and out of rehab. Maybe now is not the time for him to ruin Kanye's life. Pete's kicking Kratom right now. He's not necessarily feeling like a Rizzler. He's not a Rizz monster. No, he's not feeling like the Rizz monster right this second. So it might be best for him just to kind of stay in his corner. But yeah, RIP Bianca and Kanye will never see. another rapper getting top on a beautiful wooden boat in the venice canals i think that's a one-of-one experience that only kanya and bianca could bring us yeah she really is kind of the the taylor swift of yabos you know what i mean no absolutely so when you were one unprecedented when you were watching the chiefs game the yabo department were you loving it because Taylor Swift was there. How much camera time? Is she getting more camera time than any players, correct? It's kind of 50-50, her and the people playing the game at the moment. I think they seem to have lessened her screen time just a little bit. The bloom is off the rose a wee bit, but she's still there. I think she has one of those custom... turvis tumblers with like her her main squeezes um jersey number oh yeah on the on there oh yeah it's it's it's like it's i don't i don't know who's writing the script but at least they kind of keep it homely at least they're like appeasing my elder millennial yeah it's cool they're just like my parents they have they have turvis mugs with their favorite stuff on them i like that i do like that yeah but i don't i don't like people who are

you know younger than me acting like our parents well well you should you like stolen like nana's stolen valor well you shouldn't go to any non-major city then because that's all that people do you you go you go 25 minutes outside of your beloved glendale and that's exactly what you're going to see that's just how people operate i know but i kind of i guess i kind of i like i want i just want my old people to be old and my young people to be yeah i'm with you but then i want segregation oh okay wow That's big. I hope that's not taken out of context. No, no. Did you watch the Tim Dillon Jerry Springer show on Netflix? Unfortunately, it was bad. But yeah, I did watch it. You didn't like it? It wasn't good. You know what it is? I think he was pretty funny. When he would roast, he would go up to people and act like he was going to interview them and make fun of them in the crowd. That was funny. But I think because of the premise of the show, all of that stuff just felt really fake, even though it probably wasn't. or some of it you know what i mean it was just it wasn't i think it was like 50 50 it just didn't there was there was definitely some plants they were a little heavy-handed with the with the like 80s looking graphics and shit too which is just ugly like and that's not really what those shows looked like that i remember like i i watched jerry springer marie povich didn't really look like that but I still give big Tim props for doing something different and like trying. And I'm sure he got a nice check from Netflix and there's no harm, no foul. Yeah. I think he, he really shined in those, his little asides where he would, you know, make fun of whoever was just saying something at that moment. Carolyn. and i were watching this last night and she was cracking the fuck up so there is an audience for it and i also cracked up a few moments but yeah with the yeah there's a few but i was i was expecting a lot that's probably it's a bummer when when you know you put so many eggs into the basket of untrained professional you know just random people who are up there to get money yeah but but our our guest that's on the pod today hold on one second tim sorry we're just finishing our intro

And you were mentioning the graphics for the Tim Dillon show, Chris, and I think our guest may have used to produce content on his show, Tim and Eric, that had very similar graphics as well. So we can ask our guest, Tim Heidecker, about that. His round two appearance on How Long Gone, I can't believe he came back. I didn't think he liked us, but I guess he's got an album to push. So here he is. So let's go pay some bills and give him a jingle. This episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by a new podcast from The Guardian stateside with Kai and Carter. This is covering a lot of our bases, Jason. It's trying to slow down. The news and wrestle with the questions we all have about what's happening in the world. And I know you particularly have quite a lot of questions. A lot of questions. But how often? Because we do this podcast three times a week and that's a sweet spot. How many times do they do? Three times a week. And I have a feeling just based on the platform and these talking points that they're maybe going to be covering different stuff than we do. That's just a guess. The Guardian is not some billionaire owned. They're not afraid to say what they want to say, brother. Yeah, Rupert ain't sniffing around in what journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman are up to over there at Stateside. But yeah, listen wherever you get your podcasts. You can watch it on YouTube. It's three times a week. And who couldn't use more news? You know, especially when it's not, you know, from here, let's say. Give it a listen. Give it a listen. This episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Squarespace. Obviously, Jason, you and I spend a lot of time on the World Wide Web, so do our peers, our listeners, our friends, our colleagues, maybe even your parents if they're freaky. And if you're doing anything in the world... writing, taking pictures. I do topless boxing. You need a website. Exactly. A website that works, that does what it's supposed to do, that allows you to be creative but also business-minded. Jason, there's one place to go for that, Squarespace. Yeah, Chris, I'm over here. I'm modifying calculators and putting Claude inside of them so you could cheat at school. And I just want a place where I could have everything all in one place. I can have the SEO tools.

So those future graduates can find me. And, you know, I'm able to accept, quote, unquote, donations for my services that might be gray area. You know what I mean? And then email campaigns. Hey, I got a new, you know, 2.3 version upgrade. Boom, boom, boom. Get the analytics going. Raise some money. You know, show your investor all of your cool analytics of what's going on. They're going to want to get in early. And we can use Blueprint AI to make your website look as professional. as your competition, if not more. So head to squarespace.com slash how long for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code how long to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. What's up, bro? How are you? I'm good. It's weird you brought up that Tim Dillon graphic because I don't know if you're just watching my podcast or you are independently talking about it because I did bring it up. I did not watch your podcast. I would think you wouldn't. I mean, we're not watching each other's things, right? No, no, no. We're peers. We don't have to do that. I listen to your podcast, but I don't watch. I made note of that Tim Dillon graphic. Does Tim owe you a steakhouse dinner for kind of lifting that, or are you going to let him slide? I'm going to stay far away from that man. No interest in being in his presence. I don't want to shit talk on this experience. Well, we go back and forth with Tim because when he's funny, he's very funny, but it can go down some dark paths, I will say. Yeah, he's just like a... a surrogate for for like well he was for donald for um robert f kennedy jr right yeah he had he had old bobby on but i think it was so now he's got him yeah but i think he had surrogate's a good word for it i think he had bobby on though to like make fun of his voice was like half of the reason well maybe but then i saw that he did some kind of charity like um fundraiser uh not charity like a fundraiser on a on a boat

I don't know. I want to say Rob Schneider, but maybe not Rob Schneider. Are you allowed to call it a charity if you're raising money for a Kennedy? What is the word for that? Running for president costs a lot of money, guys, and you also have to have people that like you, so that's why he's no longer in the race. I don't think the money was the issue. I have no evidence of this, but I think all these Tim Dillons, Tim Pool, theo vaughn uh tony hinchcliffe fellow podcaster theo vaughn okay yeah i think they're all funded by like my guess is they're all like um peter peter teal elon musk uh lab creations to like change culture towards their liking i want to be with you on that tim but i think that i think that the reality is that there's a lot of people who just like that and they make money doing it i i don't think there maybe i i yeah maybe i don't know it's too it's too big yeah i don't know well that's true yeah i'm not a conspiratorial guy i i'm i'm hyperbolizing by saying that it's some kind of lab creation by a right-wing conspiracy i mean look how big world wrestling sometimes feels like that yeah look how huge like professional wrestling is which i you know i have some respect for the sort of you know the way that they uh have created that universe but like i just watched that vince mcmahon documentary and i just i knew about it and i grew up around it but uh or grew up watching like hulk hogan and stuff but i had no yeah i really had no clue that it was that it maintained or got way bigger and like you know you look at that audience i mean oof marron That's not an audience I want. I didn't watch that, but Vince is a bad guy, if you could just summarize. See, there I disagree with you. First of all, his name is Mr. McMahon, you guys. His name is Mr. McMahon, first and foremost. I assume that he was a titan of industry and built this thing from nothing and then ended up doing something bad. Am I wrong there? That's too complicated to get into. I'm kidding. He definitely seems like a very bad person.

He's a very, very, very bad person. Look, I don't want to get into this, but he's a bad guy. Let's just leave it at that. So you were doing a podcast seated. You're normally a stander. I wanted to ask how you're recovering. You had a little routine procedure over at Glendale Memorial. Yeah, isn't this beautifully timed for my promotion, my record promotion? I got a little health scare in there. Get a little gurney time. A little something to talk about on the talk shows. Manna from heaven. Yeah, I could tell you about it. Like, I mean, I kind of, you know, I juiced it up a little bit for my show. But the reality is I had these, and I assume there's a lot of guys in my age range listening now. So I think I've had a lot of people reaching out who are like, I've had that, I had that, or I'm going through that. So I feel a little responsibility to like. At least talk about it in a way that people can maybe gleam something from. Gleam? Glean? Gleam. Yeah, I had this thing called PVCs, premature ventricle contractions. So it's just basically this, you know, the heart has like plumbing and electric, as it was kind of explained to me. Thank you for putting that in terms that our big working class contingent can understand. Now I got it. It really helped me because it's like. It's like there's like the arteries that get the blood in and out, and then there's the electrical pulses that make your heart beat. And for whatever reason, I have, and a lot of people have, an extra nerve tissue was sending an extra beat. And it was actually sending the beat ahead of the normal beat. So it was beating without any heart, without any blood in the heart, which makes you feel weird. It doesn't, I mean, it kind of like you kind of feel the extra beats. It makes it hard to take blood pressure readings. And over time, it was weakening my left ventricle. But so you knew, you've been tracking this for a while and then it finally got to a point where you had to do something about it? No, let me get into the, let me kind of get into the weeds in a, I think, interesting way, which is for movies and TV, some of these,

programs depending on how big your part is uh require you to do a physical and i'm sure this is true in a lot of industries but like It seems random. It's like this job. It must be nice. I've never had a job that wanted me to get a physical. I know it is. Spotify did not ask when I uploaded this. It's also very stressful, though, because I'm like, I've got to like my body has to be approved by, you know, like the health of my body has to meet the Disney company has to approve my body. Yeah. Which also makes me question, like, how is, like, Michael Douglas getting roles in anything? Or anybody over 70 years old, you know? I think maybe some guys, they get to bypass that. I think maybe you hit a certain level and that doesn't happen anymore. But, so I go to this, and there's only one woman that I know of that does it in Hollywood. And she's this very, very, like, notably diminutive woman. Short, I'll say. Quite short, strikingly short. Dr. Ruth type. Yeah, very much so. She's very sweet, and I hadn't had to see her in a long time, but I had to go see her at the beginning of this year, and my blood pressure was high, which it generally is, but it's higher when I have to go to an insurance physical, right? Sure. What do they call that? The white coat effect or something where your blood pressure goes up at the doctor's? um so she was she said your blood pressure is too high and you're i'm not getting i'm getting like your your heart rate is low which means you have some kind of something's going on and i got really nervous not because i was worried about my heart because i didn't want to lose this job you know what i mean you're like i better die if i don't get this job yeah i mean it was a big it was a fairly big job and it was like i was i felt so embarrassed if like i lost this opportunity because of my own genes and lifestyle choices. Anyway, that led me to the cardiologist who did a much deeper scans of everything in the early part of this year. There was another job I had to do another physical for and have to get the cardiologist to say he's okay. That call being like, can you just tell them that this isn't an emergency and I'm not going to die?

He's like, well, let me see here. What is it you're doing? You know, it was really he had to think about it. He couldn't he couldn't give you the high sign comedy or I mean, nobody really wants that kind of responsibility to say, like, I guarantee everything will be all right. But anyways, it led to this. The test revealed this PVCs that led to this procedure called an ablation, which is an insane. process where they stick a uh wire up your vein through your groin up into your heart with a laser and and laser off oblation uh this little errant tissue that is causing the electrical pulses laser off your you got an extra spark plug in there and you gotta you gotta pull her out yeah they pulled it out and it went swimmingly i mean i went i was under the whole time But the only side effect has been the catheter in the groin. Obviously, it was not painful when it went in because I was fully under. Hold on, Jim. Just quickly. Are you podcasting us right now with a catheter in? No, no. Okay, because I was going to say that's a first for us. I agree with you that a catheter in my mind was like a tube in my penis. Yeah, that's right. That's not what this is. That's not what was going on. This is like more of an IV. The tube goes in. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. So they need to come up with a couple more words because what this is is not that. I did not have anything going in my tip. Big calf needs a rebrand. Yeah. It was essentially three needles, like an IV, going into the artery in my groin. Which is like to the – if you're looking at my penis, imagine you're looking at my penis. We're talking about an inch up and to the left. Stage left, your right? Is that what we're – stage right, your left. I'm saying if you're looking at my penis, it's to the left. Yeah. Okay. It's on my right-hand side. You're right. I guess I could have said that. How did this make – did you have to lay low or could you kind of do your thing with the catheter end? Well, no.

It was out by the time the surgery was over. Oh, you didn't have to. Okay, I thought you had to. Okay, okay. It was only in there to bring the wire up to my heart, zap, and then it got out. Okay, okay, okay. But the repercussions is that area is very sore, like very tender. So you're not able to do your weighted hip thrusts maybe in the same way that you would. I'm not doing my squats at the gym. For now. I really think like I just. I pushed it a little bit after like a couple of days after I went to Universal Studios with my kids on Sunday, like and literally went on like roller coasters and stuff, which is like, you know, exactly what there's the big X at the entrance, which is like anybody with recent surgeries or heart issues, you know, I think I pushed it. So it's a little more sore today. But the other the last thing on this is it's the bruise. Guys, the bruise on the right side of my inner thigh up into my privates is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. It's huge. Yeah, yeah. Purple. Walk me through the color, the kaleidoscope of purple. Deep purple. We're getting some yellowing on the outskirts, which I'm excited about. That's good. That means healing is occurring. It kind of looks like the current hurricane that's over the Gulf right now. Yeah, it does. Red and purple in the middle, and then kind of yellow on the outside. Exactly. Okay. So that's the only issue right now. I looked it up on Google this morning. Google Gemini. We're excited about Google Gemini. Ran it through the Gemini. Right. And I wrote like post-op catheter pain or something. And it was like, yeah, you'll have bruising and a lump that will last for like seven days. I do have a little lump. So it all seems normal. I'm glad to be on the outside of it. This is definitely like 48-year-old kind of living.

experiences happening right now let me let me ask you a final question did you get both of the jobs i got all the jobs hell yeah okay so then we're good then everything you're alive and you got the job so we're straight how did you like being um this was the final question i thought or do you guys each get a final question um this is this this is this is unrelated to bruising or surgery or job i just okay now i'm the drug user of the of the podcast and i want to know Did they give you any painkillers post? And then walk me through the anesthesia process. Did you like being all the way under? Because some people get really scared and weird about that. Tim, are you high right now? Are you high right now? No, it appears as if I might be, but I am not. I wasn't given any pain meds. No pain meds? No, it didn't warrant it. I mean, it was like Advil-level pain. It wasn't serious. Okay. What else? I love the general anesthesia. I mean, I get what Michael Jackson was all about there, you know, with Conrad Murray. Sure, you get it now. If that could be done. You get it now. If that could be controlled. Yeah. I mean, that is the way. Because I have some normal man's. sleeping issues you know kind of waking up in the middle of the night having a hard time going back to sleep waking sometimes waking up too early like it's like 4 30 and i'm like yeah when you wake up at 4 30 are we looking at the phone or are we being a good boy try to be a good boy um sometimes i'll put on like an audiobook or something on my headset headphones um but the general anesthesia is the best like i was lying there and all i heard was All right, we're going to get you ready for a nice long nap. And then I don't remember. Then I'm gone. I don't remember any fading away. I just remember coming to in the recovery room. But they told me I was like kicking my legs and stuff. And I was like at the end of the thing that I was kind of freaked out a little bit. But I don't remember any of it. You woke up and you were handcuffed to the bed for some reason in the recovery room. You have no memory of what happened.

The surgeon sat on my face. That's why my throat was sore. My throat was sore because they had a breathing tube down my throat. So that was kind of a weird feeling. That's what they told you? Yeah. That's what they told me exactly. The breathing tube makes that feel even more extreme to me than some of the other stuff you just told me. I know. That's why I feel like I'm so disassociated from the whole process because it was like, I don't, it's not like I had a broken wrist or something, right? Something very tactile and something that I could see and understand. This was like this very abstract, microscopic thing going on inside of me. And I wasn't there. I wasn't conscious for any of it. Did you brew up a nice cup of throat coat before that tube went down? Something to think about next time, maybe. I didn't know about that. I don't think I knew about those. You're a singer-songwriter, Tim. How do you not know about Throat Coat? No, no, I know about Throat Coat. In fact, if you read some other press I just did for the strategist where I have to fucking list the things I can't live without, which the answer is, the real answer is just me. They're one of my employers, Tim, so please continue. I just did one of those, too. Okay, well, listen, I ended up liking it. But it was a stretch to make a list of things I can't live without because. it's very you know they they want it to be a little materialistic and everything you're not that kind of guy you don't even have an amazon account no i don't i don't need very i don't collect stuff and like i'm not i'm not very like you know but they got some good stuff but throat coat made the list that throat coat was on that list okay yeah you should check out jason's my co-host but also the one jason schwartzman's went viral i because it was so thorough yeah in fact and he's uh yeah a friend of mine and i got very upset when i saw his because i was like oh well I can't compete with this. It's also psychotic. It's totally psychotic, but in a way that's captivating because he's a good writer, so it's fun to read it. It's fun to read, but I think you can live without a lamination machine. I know. I don't know if you need that necessarily. That's not a need. But you put water on yours, which was cool.

i put waterloo yeah oh now you can see oh you're sipping right now black cherry i didn't so you like flavored water that's interesting yeah what's up with that plan what's up with that you can't just have regular water you gotta have flavor ew water like i didn't grow up drink i didn't grow up drinking i don't remember drinking water at all like i drank water uh Like after I brush my teeth or something. Glass of water before bed or something. You're a little older than us, but my generation, I grew up in the South, so it was just Coca-Cola and milk were the two beverages that were available to us as a child. I had Sunny D, purple stuff. Juice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything had that flavor. I guess because I'm like an ex-smoker and there's something about this that feels like, you know, it's that mouth feel. is something to do something the magic of carbonation yeah the next time uh tam the next time you're in new york you should go to superiority burger they have a restaurant there they have go ahead i have a whole thing about superiority burger but go ahead okay great well that's a great segue they have um they have like a turbocharged seltzer water draft spout thingy and they've like tweaked it so it has like other worldly levels of carbonation. So if you're a bubble hunter, if you're a bubble bunny, give it a shot. But what's your beef with superiority? Hey, that's a good pun right there. I saw that coming from a mile away. Saw that coming from a mile away. Oh, this is huge for me personally. This episode of How I'm Gone is brought to you by TaskRabbit. Oh, baby, let me tell you something. This is not a joke. I use TaskRabbit a lot because I can't do anything. You need some art hung? TaskRabbit. You need something put together? A cabinet? Got to reach that cheese grater on the top shelf? TaskRabbit. Anything you need, TaskRabbit can take care of it for you. How it works, TaskRabbit connects you with skilled taskers in your area. They can help you move. They can assemble furniture, repairs, yard work, mounting, and more. You can search for a tasker based on cost, skill set, availability, and past client reviews so you know exactly who's showing up and can have confidence that they know what they're doing because taskers have assembled over 3.4 million pieces of furniture, completed 700,000 home repairs.

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Philly cheesesteak before you go on stage at Johnny Brenda's? I did a Philly. You were at the Philly show this past one? Yeah, the one with Waxahachie. Yes, I was there. Oh, I would like your review of that. You guys rocked. I really liked it. I'd never seen you play before. I saw you do the cover thing. for vulture fest with katie okay yeah that was where you did where you did the where you did the lemon head song which is they're one of my favorites so i enjoyed that but you you you guys were good it was good but did you think it was good yeah i did i did i just wanted to make sure i would tell you if it was bad i would tell you if it was bad yeah no i would i would appreciate the honesty um i actually did have a cheesesteak like an hour before that show that's crazy wait i'm trying hold on hold on time out hold on I'm sorry. I'm going to take that back. I had it after the show. It was a special show. It came late. Katie got pizza from Bedia, which is like my favorite. So I even had some bad boy pizza at like 1030 or whatever after she finished. Were you backstage? Shout out to Bedia. Yeah. You didn't say hi? I didn't want to interrupt you. You seem to be building with some kind of... Chris is kind of a forgettable guy. His presence is giving backstage cop or security guards. Philadelphia is just... The backstage is an interesting crowd, let's say, in the backstage. I felt like there was a lot of Teamsters back there that I didn't want to tangle with. Right, right, right. Sounds like a classic Waxahachie show to me. Yeah, you brought the Teamsters. I don't know if they were there for Katie or for you, but somebody brought the Teamsters. I'm like the Rolling Stones. I travel with the Hells Angels. Yeah, that's who I was. I knew you were surrounded by someone. Yeah, I knew you were surrounded by someone. Yeah, the Grateful Dead have the Hells Angels security cards. How was the tour? How was the tour? What are you, my mom? Yeah, because it was only a week, right, or two weeks. So how was the tour? The tour was really, it was two weeks, and it was different for me because it was an opener situation that I usually am out there in front of my people.

It was good. It was a good experience to play in front of a... I had fans there, but it was a lot of, you know, just casual music lovers, Waxahachie fans, because some of them were like outdoor venues, like, you know, I don't know what we'd call them. Sheds, as we call them in the biz. Yes, right, sheds. So I was nervous about it, but then, you know, you saw the band. Everyone's really good. I was kind of less antagonistic, as I might... be or like okay so you had to you had to change some of your banter style banter i kept yeah i kept i just kind of like kept i don't say kept my head down but i kind of like played nice and because if we go to if we go to a tim heidecker solo show i'm pissing on the crowd yeah you're going gg allen mode human shit in the audience you're letting your nuts hang yeah yeah i just yeah i cut i cut also we didn't have as much time so it was like not a lot of yeah not a lot of banter time and uh just tried to play the songs and i realized like there's a lot of like her audience i found at least at these shows were like maybe a little older a little more like yeah um my age and older and we play kind of like you know we play like rock music like country rock americana whatever um somebody eric slick you know eric slick he had a good um term for this kind of he's the drummer and dr dog and a musician on his own philadelphia's own correct yeah He called these guys in the audience who I saw the hard-boiled eggs. He was like bald guys who are like into the music. Like the music. Hard-boiled eggs. I like that term. Okay. But so, yeah, I felt really good about it. Beautiful. I recently saw you wrote and put out a song called Pumpkin Man for a little kind of North Carolina. hurricane relief and i wanted to know what it was like is this the first time writing a song with your child and what that was like um i've written songs with my daughter uh before or i've helped her write songs i like to come i'm in my little studio here and i like to come down here with them and let them play around with the mics and like they like to try stuff and then i try to focus it in a little bit

But this time, yeah, I was just... Okay, Rick Rubin, relax. I just watched his Rick Beato interview. Holy cow. it's in it's very we're all out we're all out on rick rubin we can get into that but go ahead with your i want to hear this story about making beautiful music with your children yeah that's true we could we we're trying to avoid the shit talking but that's not true yeah well please get us back on the shit talking whenever you want but i will because this isn't very exciting i was down here like messing around i didn't have any ideas i had nothing i was like but i had this now if i seriously if you want to get rick rubini it was a little like spooky because i was like i'm gonna go down i haven't really written a song but in a while and i was like i'm gonna go down and just like play the piano for a little while and hadn't done that in a little while and so i was down there and my kids charlie sneaked like came down just to see what i was doing like after about 20 minutes and wanted to hang out and i was like well i want to keep playing but uh i want to hang out with you too so like we just started coming started i started writing this little song and we were talking about halloween and then i was just asking him for ideas and lines and stuff and i have to be honest with you i didn't use too many of his ideas you know i used okay so he's good he's not great is what you're saying his top his top line stuff is still coming together he's he's working on it but then he sang with me on it and then yeah he was just around for the making of it and it was i like having even if it's just one person or you know It's nice to have an audience to bounce things off of, even if that person is eight years old. He's into this song called Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Great song. Which is very annoying, but yeah. Yeah, I mean, it could be worse. I've listened to a lot of children's music from other friends with kids, and it gets worse than Peanut Butter Jelly Time. I know that you talk a lot about Bill Maher on your podcast. He's often in your bullseye. Yeah. What do you think about him?

tricking off with al pacino's 30 year old girlfriend at uh the chateau marmat this week i saw that you proud of him i feel like we're gonna get like a flood of pacino news in the next couple of weeks because he's got like a book coming out or something right a memoir oh so pacino's yeah he does he does there was a story about him getting uh dying almost dying of covid and saying that there's nothing else there's nothing out there so that story my man yeah um i died trust me there's nothing yeah that's what he said it's amazing it's all black okay so so you are you are you sort of like polarizing or like sort of half and half on bill mar are you do you have does he have any redeeming value to you because chris and i are both a little We have a love-hate with them. I watch it every week. You watch Real Time or Club Random? No, Club Random is... I watch the clips of Hawk Tua, of course, because I'm not an idiot. I'll watch his clips of Club Random when he tries to pick up teenager women in his basement, but it's more HBO. Real Time I watch. I've never watched Club Random. That's a bridge too far. I don't watch real time. No, I don't give a shit what they have to say. I think I'm all out on Bill Maher. You know what I started noticing watching real time is the laughter. And this is kind of true on any of these talk shows, like even on Jon Stewart or something. The laughs come so free and easy and the applause. But on the Bill Maher show. like i really feel like you can just hear the producers and writers like they're like close to the microphone of the audience more than anybody so he'll say something snarky and you'll just hear like yeah like his pal it's like you're just hearing his his uh staff good stuff boss good stuff yeah yeah we talked about this on here before but have you noticed the thing he

does with his hand on his jacket when he's doing the monologue he like hooks he holds it like Frankie Valli he like holds his fingers like this like kind of near his crotch in this way yeah now that now that i'm saying this watch it and you'll be you will never be able to notice anything else it's ruined my viewing experience it's all i can look at is his hands it's like morgan freaking's wooden hand once you see it you'll never yeah he makes like a claw he makes like a claw with his hand because he doesn't know what to do with it yeah he's so in the bubble it's so in his own like what talk i mean i guess he says he tours and travels and stuff but He really seems so calcified into his own set of ideas and stuff that I'm no interest in here. I think a lot of those kind of guys, they still do comedy because people will pay to go see it, but it's not comedy when they get there, I think is what the – I think it's like – I don't know. Like if Bill Maher's playing at a casino in Connecticut, I don't know how funny that's going to be, but he has fans that will go. Yeah, they're – I don't know what that experience is like. I mean, you know what it's like to see professional stand-up comedy in person? There's an entertainment quality to it, I guess. And you laugh probably more than I would if I was watching a clip of it or something. I have this take. I'm not going to shit-talk this situation necessarily. I just think it's kind of interesting. Famous first words? Yeah, yeah, great. You sound like our wife. I just think it's funny. I just think it's interesting. Saturday Night Live. I seem to like this Nate Bargatze. I think he seems affable enough. He seems like a clever guy. He's funny. But then I watched this latest episode of Saturday Night Live, and there are actually, I think, some funny sketches. There was a really funny sketch about a water park where a guy died at the top of the water park, and the paramedics kept on trying to...

maybe uh like take the shortcut and push and let him go down the slide that was really funny you know i was like damn that's a great good premise concept good premise and the way they executed but then um there was the that george washington sketch which is good uh the first one was good and it was like a callback to that yeah but some of them were like some of the oldest comedy premises i've ever heard like i've like i can't believe that uh that you can go back to that well like shit i should have an example of what it is i have no examples of it i mean i guess there's the there's the golf one where like the golfer keeps hitting birds with his ball yeah and some of that look at some of that's like timeless enough that's like make man falls down is going to be funny no matter what sure but uh the one of i i i'm sorry i don't have an example we can change the subject but the the washington crossing the delaware sketch this this It was already like a sequel to a sketch, which is always going to be less impactful. But yeah, there was like, why do we call it this when we don't call it that kind of joke that I swear I just had heard since I was like watching not necessarily the news when I was eight years old. More important, what did you think of rock band Coldplay? They really talked on the house, eh? Coldplay. I don't know. I've never known what to think about Coldplay. I never know what I'm supposed to. The first two episodes, the musical guest was Jelly Roll and Coldplay. And I'm just like, you guys, you can't do those back to back. We got to put something in between in that sandwich. It's a little better. You can't hit us over the head with that. But apparently, I don't know. People that like Coldplay, are they the people that don't really... Yeah, I like music. It doesn't really matter what it is. Yes, I like all kinds of music. What do you listen to? The radio? I think Coldplay has a couple good songs and they used to have some talent, but now it's just a whole other thing. I think they had the highest grossing tour of this year. There's just so much else that I would...

put on first i would think you know well the the sometimes i just feel like they go through phases and late night shows are like this late night shows do a better job because they have five a week so it's different but like snl like often will give somebody a shot that maybe shouldn't be up there you know like that in a good way and they often disappoint but sometimes they surprise and delight and that's the whole game i wonder if there i mean there must be a whole class of people that just don't that just say no right like that just are like yeah well yes because you you're you you or your record label has to pay for everything right it's not so it's you know if you want the full horn section and your three backup singers you know to come over from berlin it's going to set you back yeah and they don't do a great job of of like the sound on those yeah uh it's never that well they also tell me i've been told by friends that have they'll they'll kind of like tease you with it for a while and then they'll ask you and it'll be like well i have to cancel three shows to come to new york for rehearsals and everybody's like you have to do it because they're not going to ask you again right it's kind of the vibe the whole place has to get shut down for a while i think and then have it reboot you never you never tried it you never tried out or anything right no i never tried i was never asked so That was not something I refused. Sure. You're like, absolutely not. I would never do that. They didn't ask me, but I want to be very clear. I did not do that. But you are primed. You're on the beginning. You're on track to do host and musical guest all yourself, though, now that you have transitioned into a full 50-50. I don't know, guys. I feel like I'm 40. I'm sort of harping on this a little bit privately in my life. I think some things are just probably not going to happen for me over, you know. Sure. Like, I'm 48. Like, some ships have sailed. I think I'm settling into, like, the reality of my career. So you're not going to be a professional basketball player. What else do you think is kind of set? I don't think there's, like, a stadium tour in me, you know. Okay. Yeah. Look, I don't want to discourage you, but I would maybe agree, you know, unless something happens. But you saw my band. Like, we're.

fucking good you're great and it's also though i have to say it's music made for someone like me because i'm in my early 40s and only like music with guitars yeah so it's right up my street you know and i mean but you could have a tiktok breakthrough anything could happen anything you know i was talking to the eric slick again dr dog and you know about this where they just had a song go platinum yeah i can't remember the name of the song but it's a song on where did the time go but where did the time go or something like that It was on their third record, like an album cut, not a single or anything. A good song, but I don't think one that they even played in concert when they would tour. This past year got on TikTok because people started using it in their graduation ceremonies. Oh, oh. And it blew up and went platinum. That song went platinum, and they all got sent. platinum album you know i mean yeah i'm looking at their spotify they're they're like three they're their top five songs you know like around 50 million one of them's almost at 100 million and then word all the time go you know it's coming up on half a billion yeah jesus so that's their one big daddy i mean that gives you hope because you're just like i don't know some some random you know keep putting stuff out and you know you don't know what's going to hit or why it's going to hit but And then that could lead to a placement on an Apple commercial for a new iPhone next year, and they'll be $28,000 richer, split between four guys, manager, and agent. Ka-ching. Look, you ain't getting rich. Yeah, that's been a recurring theme on our podcast, as we've had a lot of musicians on lately. um you know from from 19 year old rappers to steve malcolmist and everyone in between and that's the the running theme is that you can just hope to break even on these tours well i have the same thing happened to malcolmist right yeah yeah they had a they had a b-side that just like popped off and now that now the poor guy can't get off the road yeah he yeah i know i know he was doing his little fun band he's like god damn it now i gotta go

yeah sell my other shit i thought i was done with this poor him i feel bad for him um i wanted to i actually had a weird question i wanted to ask because i had a had a moment i was i was at an open house in uh in like la crescenta this weekend you're you're in glendale right i'm in glendale yeah i don't know why we're not doing this in person getting a little slap back from you don't worry i clean it up in post it's going to be beautiful I was just hiking the mountains on your green screen on your podcast just this morning. Oh, yeah. But I was at an open house, which I found out was by looking at context clues, you know, the books, the movies, you know, whatever is going on, I can kind of figure out. Sometimes I'll be like, I can guess who lives in this house or, you know, maybe I know who they are in real life. Have you ever toured an open house and thought? This guy is a fan of me. Just based off of, you know, just the items in their home. No, I don't tour a lot of open houses. Because I was like, this guy listens. But I'll redirect that question a little bit. The house I'm in, I mean, I've been here in Glendale. now for almost 11 oh yeah almost 11 years one of yeah remind mark maron that that he was the first settler oh is he like claiming fucking glendale now like he's mr glendale he claims glendale heart he's trying to piss on your territory he's like a bad dog well i put out you you've seen my rep my 2016 record uh in glendale which is prime yeah You're a little more up the hill than old Mark too, right? He's down by the Ralphs. I actually – well, no, I'll get back to – remind me about Mark Maron because I've got very nice things to say about Mark Maron. Okay. Oh, boring. Next. I know. I know. I'm just kidding. I will say this is a little different, but actually I think it's right on the money, is we got this house 11 years ago.

It's a beautiful house, and it was very competitive, as it is now, but it's always competitive to try to get the house you want. And we put a little money over you, whatever the price was. We did that whole game. You've got to compete with China. Yeah, exactly. Wrote the letter and all that stuff. But the linchpin was the teenage daughter of the family that lived here was a fan. And she said, let's go with this couple because I love Tim and Eric. That's huge. So in this house lived a fan. Well, do you think she was more of a Tim girl or an Eric girl, though? You've got to choose one. We know how it goes. It's the same way with this podcast. Her parents were animators for the company that did Nightmare on Elm Street. Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a little more Eric, like artsy, craftsy kind of tactile. Based on context clues, you're thinking it could have been Eric, but regardless, you benefited from this fandom. Yeah, yeah, totally. Okay, what about Marc Maron? I did have, I had dinner with Marc. Where'd you guys go? Well, we went to Scaff's, which I love. Do you know Scaff's? Lebanese food. Yeah. Classic. But I like Mark a lot, and every time I run into him, we ran into each other in Albuquerque because I was doing this movie that I almost didn't get because of my heart. Famously his hometown. Yeah, and he was taking the Southwest flight down there, and I was on the same... Wait a second. He's making too much money to take Southwest. There's no other way to go. There's no other way to go. You could drive. You know what I mean? There's other options. That's a pain. No, I love flying Southwest. I like the hoi polloi. I like sitting with the common man. I'm not saying that, but they've changed the policy now where the seats are reserved. I don't like that. So the magic is over. I don't like that. I like the hoi polloi. I don't want to breathe the same air, though. You were saying? So Mark and I sat on the flight together. We had a great catch-up. And then when we got there, he was like, well, call me if you want to do something. I'm here for the next couple weeks.

I didn't know anybody, so we went out and had dinner. But at the dinner, we went to the nice spot in Albuquerque, and Mark was like... There's one. Yeah, there's one. Yeah, there's a nice hotel there that has a good restaurant. Nicest enchiladas in town. Well, this was elevated, man. This was like... Sure, sure, sure. Steaks. There were microgreens on the enchilada. Yeah. It was farm-to-table, 100%. 100%. Nothing coming from a Cisco truck. Cisco truck doesn't even have them in their database. We banned Cisco. If we see a Cisco truck, something's going wrong. Account not found. I wonder what the nicest restaurant in the world that Cisco delivers to. You don't want to know the answer to that one. There's a lot of nice ones that use Cisco for something. Let's get on Gemini. We'll get some answers. You ain't going to find this on Gemini, brother. So we get in there. I think this is, I mean, listen, this is a little whatever, Hollywood gossipy bullshit. But I think it's funny coming from me because if you know me, this stuff is all kind of a joke to me anyway. But he was like to the hostess, he was like, anybody famous here? Like kind of jokingly. And he knew her, he knew this person, everything. So anybody else famous here, like referencing him and me to some degree? And she was like, well, I'm not supposed to tell you, but Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley are back in the corner. Called his bluff. And we, I know, I don't know, Margaret, I didn't, I'll be honest with you, I didn't even, I didn't know the name Margaret Qualley, okay? Like, I just didn't. The same way I just found out about Chapel Rhone like three weeks ago. You're late to the party on Quali. Quali's not A-list yet. I'm late to the party. But she's what's-her-name's daughter, though. So she's kind of... She's Andy McDowell's Andy McDowell daughter. Yeah, Andy McDowell. She was in Once Upon a Life in Hollywood. That was her breakout role. She's done 11 lesbians playing movies. Yeah, and now she's in what's-his-name's movies. Well, she's famously married to her.

Our enemy, Jack Asher. That's her main clamp. You have so many music producer enemies. That's right, because there's good ones and there's bad ones, Tim. And you know that. Yeah. Yeah. I do. Anyways, but I happen to know, and Mark also knows, and I know her pretty well, Aubrey. I did a movie with her, and I know her husband. I could legitimately say we're friends. You're chatty with Plaza. We were in a movie in Italy together for three weeks. We spent a lot of... hang time together we had so so we just like went right to their table and they had just sat down and so mark and i sit down with arby plaza and and uh margaret quali and fucking have this big old meal together and it was like wow this is and mark and i just kept looking at each other like what the fuck is going on with this you know like who are we a couple of weird A couple of bums hanging out with some A-listers. Mark's still a pooh at the end of the day. Mark's out in the streets. Mark belongs in the streets. I think Mark's taken. I think Mark's spoken for it at the moment. I'm sure he's got a 25-year-old girlfriend, but who knows how far it's going to go. Look, we love Mark. We support the behavior. So instead of sending over a couple spicy skinnies to their table, you decided to just saddle up and mansplain them right in there. We joined. Question. Question for you. Question for you. And I don't mean to get that. That's all I'm going to tell. That's all the tales I'm going to tell. No, no. I'm not asking. I'm just who paid. That's my final question. That's a great fucking question. Who paid? And it better not be you. I don't remember. I could get back to you on that. Go through my old, my Amex receipts. If you could. I'm going to think we split it. You can't split it. You mean you and Mark split it, or it was a four-way with the ambulance? You're saying you, Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley, and Mark Maron all threw down your Bank of America checking cards at the fucking bank? What are you talking about? Mark's going to do the whole thing. I'm not trying to be coy here. I honestly don't remember. That's fine. It was a hotel, and Aubrey was, I think, staying at the hotel. She might have just...

She could have easily put it on the room. I'm sure production is covering it. I don't want to say too much more about it. I truly don't remember. If I do discover who paid, I will... I could track that down. If you could just call your accountant and see. Send us a DM. We'll wait. Jason, I could drop by your place later and we can go over. You bring a couple of bankers boxes. We can go over my statements. I'll stay home just in case. Jason goes to the store to get a new pack of highlighters just to make sure you guys can get the job done. Tim, you're playing a benefit show tonight. It's on Thursday. Sorry, Thursday. Yeah. In two days. The proceeds of that show, from what I've gathered on the internet, go toward... Trump USA 2024. RFK independent campaign. It said it's just going... What do the proceeds go for? Something more sinister than Trump. The city of Highland Park. Oh, Tim. What's going on there, Tim? Oh, God. I'm backing out. I'm backing out. Where is your line? I had no idea. Just generally to the city of Highland Park? I mean, I was hoping to get some clarity on the issue. I don't even want to go there for dinner. But they are our enemy. Much less give them money. Scribble is a great organization. I know that. I mean, my bass player, Ellie, we've been doing these duo shows together. It came from her. She was like, can you do this? And I just like any opportunity to play with her. i'm sure it's all she's a real shredder great voice yeah great voice yeah i don't know we're gonna play a couple songs low stakes everything in highland park is low stakes that's what people like about it that's what people like about everything in la like the idea of doing a show in la feels so like kind of pointless and like oh you're not gonna go are you why would you go why would you go to our show or yeah but no um The big news is the band is getting back on the road next year for the big full tour, the big rock and roll tour. Now January, December, et cetera. No, is there an L.A. show? Because I don't think I saw one. Well, we're not going back in time. We're going to start. We're not going to go from January to December.

Unless you're talking about doing a full year. Yeah, he thinks you guys should. He expected 300 shows out of 365 days. You guys figure it out. I was saying I don't see a lot of tour routing that begins in January and you kind of circumnavigate some of the chillier parts of this country is what I was getting at. I know. I mean, the past two summers I've been able to do these summer tours. That's the most fun, just living in shorts and sandals and going to swimming holes. Living in your chubbies all day. Exactly. Going three, four days in your Calvin underwear. I get it. The road can be a bitch. You're so well read. Sometimes I hate when I do those kind of interviews because now people like you, like I did this, I was at this show in Nashville. and i i mean it's partly it's my fault because i like on the on my podcast i talk about everything i like and what mostly what i don't like and this fan comes up he's like can i get you a beer and i knew kind of knew him so i was like oh thanks man because i didn't couldn't get to the back area and he's like i know you don't like ipas so make sure it's not one of those i'm like yeah thank you very much i forget that i just I think that's a good thing. You're letting people know. I wouldn't let one of those freaks buy me a beer. You never know what's in there. I generally don't, and this is a big statement, I don't take... Yeah, try not to take drinks from people. Drugs, drugs, that's fine. But drinks, I wouldn't go that way. Drugs, love drugs. Marin, he's on tour. He's taking brownies, cookies, cinnamon rolls. No, he's not. No, he talks about it all the time, how people bring him baked goods. We do have to go out in the dead of winter on this round for all kinds of other reasons. But I think it's kind of nice, too, because people like – when you're not in California, it's like – You get out into the actual United States where it's cold and miserable in January. It's like you go out to see shows. You do indoor things. Yeah, that's true. Well, it's less competitive. You can actually play at venues you want to play at because it's not like you're the fourth hold on July 17th. That's true. It's a nice change.

That's true. I'll put on my parka and come see Tim Heidecker live. Yeah, it'll be a coat. Like, check your coat. I love spending an extra $10 to check my coat. That's great. All of our listeners get some snow chains from Santa Claus this year, and you can head out to see Tim on tour. Well, Eric and I did a tour in January and February of 2020. now think about what was going on then so everyone was indoors at a time where being indoors was illegal no right before it was illegal it was right it was right before okay so our last our last show was like the week covid hit and it was in la but it was interesting timing yeah we spread that we spread it all over the country how many times how many times have you had how many times have you had covid if you had to guess uh well officially uh no not knowingly i had it Twice, I think. Okay, not bad. We're trying to... I think I'm touching four or five, but I never... I can't be sure. Let me ask you, and this is a potentially dangerous thing to talk about too, but are you done with the boosters? Or is it something you're going to keep doing? It ain't controversial at all. I'm out. I'm all set. I think I'm all set. I feel like I'm good. I'm all set. We're boosted. It just feels like you could... do this forever and someone's profiting off of it and that's the only reason it still exists but fear and profit are the two reasons that it could go on for another decade yeah i feel like i'm good and unless somebody unless it becomes a really big thing where there's a i don't know it seems like it's there's a big push to do it but just like Friends of mine be like, are you going to drop into CVS and get that booster? I'm like, I haven't heard anything about it. See, you're hanging out with the wrong people. No one I know has brought up a booster to me. No one I know has gotten a booster in three years. But, yeah, it's kind of crazy that it's still going on, the booster thing. I mean, like, I just don't. I'm all set. I'm updating my iPhone quicker than my boosters. That's right, brother. 16 Pro. She's a beaut.

And then the album comes out in a couple weeks. Is that right? Yeah. I mean, this is the thing, man. Like, with all this – Lay it on us. I'm sorry if you're trying to get rid of me, but I'm about ready to wrap it up. But it's like all – I do all this press, and I'm doing like, what did you eat today? And – What are the things you can't live without? And this has been a fun chat. Marry, fuck, kill. Yeah, all this crap. And it's nice to get the name out there. But it's like this record I made is one of the most important things I've done in a long time. I care so deeply about it. Then it's just like, oh, yeah, by the way, you're putting out some more music, eh? Yeah. It's just like. I'm looking at the press release upside down. Yeah. So you got a couple of new tunes coming out. That's what I understand. Yeah, and I just, yeah, I farted it out with my son in an hour. And it's on Spotify for you to ignore. But I really do think it's, I'm very proud of it. And I think it's like a big record for me. I love the way it sounds. I love the way how it came out. I think it's a true like sit down and listen from beginning to end. It's not very long. It's like 35 minutes or something. So it's like, yeah, it's like it's like a front to back kind of experience. And I hope maybe it's just like the idea of promotion nowadays is like you got to talk about everything up until it comes out. And then it's like it's it's old news as soon as it comes out. I've also heard, I think, I can't remember who said it, but I think it was a rapper. Who's the guy, I mean, I'm so bad with names, but who's the guy that did that Loiter Squad show? A big rapper. A big, like, alternate rapper. Tyler the Creator. Yeah, Tyler the Creator. Was like, I don't understand people that, like, stop promoting their shit, like, the second it comes out. Like, I'm going to be talking about this for the next year, so get used to it. Like, I'm going to be talking about it a lot. Don't sit down. Yeah. So.

Maybe it's the beginning of it being in the world. It's a good way to look at it. Now that people can listen to it and sit with it for a while, they can have thoughts about it and whatever. But anyway, it is coming out on Friday. I think it's coming out on actual Friday the 13th. Is that correct? That's good. That's good luck. Is that just crazy? Good luck. No, sorry. It's Friday the 18th. Friday the 18th. In stores everywhere. Stream it. Buy it on vinyl if you're feeling crazy, if you live in Highland Park. I was listening to yet a couple singles out already on Spotify, and I was hiking. I'm like... It sounds like Ringo's playing drums on Fleetwood Mac right now. It was a nice pocket. Nice. That's exactly right. That's a great way of describing it. No Ringo songs necessarily. Fleetwood Mac songs, Ringo drums. Just Ringo on the skin. That's exactly what it is. Just the drums. Fleetwood on the drums is a little too busy. That's really tough. I love it. It's a big kit. Thanks, Tim. It was a pleasure to talk to you, as always. Yeah, nice talking to you guys, too. And we'll see you soon. All right, guys. See you around. Getting hard to write Getting hard to get down to it So many things I want to say Stay up all night Gotta get them out of my head Gotta say it the right way Relax and let Kroger Delivery handle your grocery shopping this week. We start with only the freshest items. Then carefully pack your order in our refrigerated trucks. And our cool trucks keep your food fresh right to your door. Fresh groceries your way with Kroger Delivery. And right now, you can save $20 on your first delivery order. Kroger. Fresh for everyone.