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so can we talk about borderlands or no yeah oh yes the reason i'm here yes
yeah just kidding i've always wanted to be on your show what the movie that you
guys did wait
okay we have a connect a three-way connection right you did the film together
correct my
one of my closest friends is a producer on the movie so this when he told me he
was she told me
he was gonna get the role or they were gonna whatever you know and i auditioned
i auditioned
and it was a cool i was like i knew before he knew it was kind of a sweet
little nugget of life
and i was like oh this is amazing and then it's opened his world to all these
great people and
it's just been a i saw the trailer look amazing i saw it before they put it out
which i thought was
really cool but it looks rad what's a bummer about it though is because i you
know when i found out
you're in it yeah but then i realized you're not going to be there oh so you
were out in bulgaria
going where the is jack black yeah yeah and then i realized oh he's clapped
this is but we
still kind of work together yeah we did one table read yep i remember that date
you assume a zoom table
yeah but you crushed it and can i tell you tell you what happened to me at that
table can i tell you
what happened yeah all right so jack let's i want to be vulnerable and and i
want to be you know because
i know sometimes people think i'm cool and i got my together like oh yeah he's
he's got it all you
know what there you are though that's incredible look zoom in there he is you
got the smallest
picture but thanks for putting on dude made the poster i made the post that's
fucking huge yeah
fucking amazing so here's so who's the guy in the middle oh who's that guy in
the dead center kevin
hart kevin hart that's kevin that's right with the beret yeah with the like you've
never seen him before
wow yeah yeah special forces yeah edgar ramirez is allowed so anyway i get the
movie and jack i'll
be honest with you i've never been in a movie with that kind of this kind of
cast before caliber of
stars yeah it's just stacked right yeah and i i let me be vulnerable yeah i'm
nervous as fuck let's
be honest yeah yeah i don't know if you're remembering me oh real nervous yeah
you thought
you might lose the job over the zoom performance exactly exactly exactly not a
chance so this is what
happens okay yeah chance by the way yeah yeah so what happens is eli's like
assistant or something
calls me and goes hey dude there's not gonna be a lot of people to table read
at the zoom i go okay he
goes i'm i'm gonna text you a list of characters that you're gonna be playing
as well as the character
that you're doing so i go okay and they're and it's like 20 names right so now
i'm panicking like
i could get fired from so many different angles now right so i for days bro
highlight even the you
know i mean the sergeant or whatever right and i'm trying to memorize
everything and like their point of
view or whatever whatever different sounding voices right i go i have to kill
here yeah this is my shot
right so when we get on zoom like i'm there five minutes earlier and i'm
looking at all the boxes
there's so many boxes right and in my mind it's like i don't know if i'm
playing 20 parts i'm just
you know what i mean it seems like there's right and i'm glad i did this two
minutes before we're
about to start i text the guy again i go are you sure about these 20 names he
goes oh no i forgot
to tell you you're only doing two oh my god so if i hadn't called i would have
been interrupting
somebody yeah yeah you would have been interrupting 18 people i know thank god
i mean would that have
been bad oh yeah i think that would have been i'll tell you what was bad though
is that they
made you rehearse 20 different roles and really it was only two that you had to
yeah it was mean
because you put in some hours it sounds like and some stress lost a little
sleep they owe me money
is what you're saying okay yeah what are we talking about here do we get a
lawyer yeah oh no yeah it
was stressful but you know it's fine i'll tell you what uh when i found out you
were in it i was like
that's rad and they're lucky we are lucky to have you on that movie because you're
hilarious oh god
bless you you can relax about the worrying about getting canned they yeah they're
thanking their
lucky stars because you're killing it yeah yeah it was also just a very
positive experience i'll tell
you that right now you know what has currency that people don't really realize
if you like kill it
in like a social media post that has just as much if not more like power in the
industry
than like having a zippy cameo in a major motion picture if you crush it like
you do on the regular
on social media on like podcasts or on like interviews and other people's that
stuff uh
that stuff counts a lot yeah but jack here i'm a lot of eyeballs a lot of
clicks jack i appreciate
that but um and i'll tell you the difference between me and andrew yeah and the
other podcasters
right the other podcasters they understand that but him and i for some reason
and i know i know you're
like this some of our dreams are still tied up with television and movies yeah
because we're a little
older you know i mean we're just we were same right so it's like i think we
gotta i i i want to talk
to talk about yours i had to talk about me i have to sort of kind of you know i
mean kind of unlearn
that you know i mean and find that this is the dream yeah but i do we like the
others no we love
the other stuff but i'm just saying but you are right i i think that um it's
great no but i'm saying
i love it i'm saying that it's uh it's actually also working in the industry
when the casting
agency is a thing that really makes them laugh hard it doesn't matter what the
venue is right
they see you killing it in a in a post uh people get cast off of that just as
much as anything else
nowadays i know but you did it the traditional way right yeah i mean you you
got a manager agent you
took acting classes you know i mean you auditioned probably commercial i mean
you kind of moved your
way up i don't know right yeah and there was like a clear pathway of a way to
do it and i think you
and i were the same way right or no well yeah for a little bit and then the
industry kind of changed
yeah it changed wait do you guys have a head shot that on the back has four
different activities
yeah see we're old school like that soccer the kids today they don't have those
head shots with
the things of the yeah the skateboarding yeah yeah ken ken ollie not languages
i don't know any
other language but english but i would put like five things on there i had
eating cereal was one of the
pictures i could eat cereal commercial yeah yeah it's crazy when we used to
have to bring in those
headshots was so it was so it was so demeaning and they'd like throw it in a
pile and you were like
that cost me four dollars yeah yeah yeah they throw it away you know you'd get
stacks of them in your
car i was around when your agent would call you and go oh you have an audition
tomorrow okay cool all right
come pick up the sides and so i would go to an alleyway you know what i mean
and they would have
like a filing thing yeah and i would have to look up l lee and pull out my like
i'd have to drive there
you know what i mean and there'd be sometimes a line of other actors there once
i learned that
there were acronyms for agencies i would make up fake acronyms of an agency i
would just i'd type in
three letters it'd be like cbcbf or whatever cbf creative agency or whatever
yeah they would never
check why would they ever even check it was just like the guy who was my
manager was out of his
studio apartment next to the magic castle that's a hack yeah that wow i mean it
did it got me enough
around where i got to sneak into but that's what you stuff i have to staple
your headshot to your uh
resume or whatever yeah yeah another thing people would go is like i hated that
yeah are you in sag
i want my points i'm building up the points or whatever right that was a whole
thing if you were
in sag or not you know what i mean it's a catch-22 you couldn't get a job
unless you were in sag
but you can't get sag unless you get a job right and then there's this
mysterious thing called taft
hartley i don't know the that is that what i mean i'm saying it right yeah taft
yeah taft well they
merge after after and sag merged but taft hartley was how you got into the back
door that's it right
right yeah okay good yeah you did yeah thank you so much inside baseball talk
but the truth is if they
if the director really wants you they'll find a way to get you into sag to do
the movie this costs a
little more money it's a little more hassle but that happened mark pellington
the guy that directed uh
this the first thing i ever did when the studio i worked at as a pa
i got this role to deliver luke wilson a pizza and then they overshot and the
pa i did 13 hours
in a trailer just like sitting waiting sitting waiting like excited excited the
pa came and was
like cutting your scene good night and i was like oh my god fucking killed me
dude yeah and then
mark pellington was smoking a cigarette uh by the way that director mark pellington
famously directed
if i'm not wrong jeremy pearl jams jeremy i think that was great song i think
that's what he did
looked that up but he was smoking a cigarette or something or hanging out by
the trailers and he
was like oh i heard they cut your shit i was like yeah and then i wanted to be
like didn't you cut my
shit yeah yeah yeah yeah and then uh he was like we'll get you back dude we'll
lie lie no he was true
they brought me back as a hospital orderly uh and they gave me a line i was
like sir you can't be
out of your room wait that's you no that's man that's the word jeremy yeah that's
jeremy no but
he was cool man that was a fucking really rad thing but that's that was what
you need those little
tiny moments sometimes to like give you a little bit more hope because after
that i thought
man i was so excited to have one line to maybe get in the union to be able to
get another job
and it's a huge thing that dude did you know favor i got it you know talking
about that and about
borderlands uh sorry to bring it back but it made me think of a story about how
i met uh kevin hart
years before we did jumanji together and it was just sort of a general general
meeting he was kind of
new and up and coming and he was going around we were at the same agency and he
was going around
meeting all the the different people at the agency to just talk about maybe
developing something
and uh we had a good like meeting just hitting it off talking about things that
we liked
and uh then years later i got that call to do jumanji and it was kevin i know
it was kevin that got me
in into that room because even though i had a lot of success before jumanji i
was in a little bit of
a dip and i was like god i gotta get another gig and i remember thinking that
that uh kevin hart
he's a stand-up guy he's a great guy yeah he said we were going to work
together and he went out of
his way i believe and made it happen do you have anything else you want to plug
that like coming up
um i did a a little movie called minecraft but that's not gonna be uh based on
the video game i only
do video games dude yeah yeah i just basically do whatever my my sons tell me
now what minecraft
how is that going to be a movie exactly oh that's we have to figure it out well
it's like not obvious
it's like that can't be a movie can it yeah can it yes it can it can wow what's
that gonna be like
yeah that's harder to describe i'm not even gonna try oh really but it's a
combo of live action it's
me it's not a cartoon yeah and uh and animated like like computer animated like
the world of minecraft
like you see it when you play it wow so there's there's humans like uh what's a
move another movie like
that roger rabbit yeah tron right yeah closer to tron yeah yeah uh and it's uh
it's pretty rad and it's
pretty funny i bet my old pal uh jared hess who directed nacho libre is at the
helm oh wow and uh
napoleon dynamite too right napoleon dynamite if you need them and uh jason momoa
it's me and him and uh
and some great kids uh and uh yeah look for that next year probably around april
1st dish wow dude
yeah that's a awesome danielle brooks amazing and the color purple recently she
kicks ass as well
also great singer that danielle brooks and she's in this too yeah jesus and
there might be a tiny little
bit of music but i don't i don't know what i'm allowed to say it's one of those
where they don't
want you to talk to me what you wrote some of the soundtrack i mean there might
be i'm saying there
might be so i'm not gonna get in trouble for it we'll wait and see minecraft
but have you i i've
never played the game because i do love seeing i am building rocks and shit and
playing minecraft
that might not be a song yeah yeah yeah it's gonna be but i don't know i i don't
know should i play it
minecraft yeah yeah because i like building world i like building but it's like
so blocky i don't
even know how it works dude it's really fun but it is like learning a language
you got to spend some
time learning the world i did it because my boys were were deep into minecraft
for a long time and i
wanted just to speak of their language so i learned how to do it and then i got
into it it's like
architectural wow you will be building buildings and digging tunnels and making
making progress but
do you do you raid other is there like combat in it or what uh there is
fighting at night time if you
get caught outside outside of a shelter you will have to scrape and scrap to
survive and there will be
zombies there will be exploding thingies i can't remember what they're called
creepers creepers this is
true that fighting should only be at night by the way that makes the most sense
yeah daytime is for
chilling out what night time is for what do you mean why don't fight there
shouldn't be daytime
battles in these games it should be only at night it's it's cooler it's sexier
it's darker i guess
you're right yeah night fight dude night fight remember silent hill yes you
guys are all remember or no
yeah the video game when it first came out oh it was so scary because it was
you know the first game
where it was dark like foggy and there was just creatures that would come run
out at you and it
was scary and jumpy and you would have like a i forgot what you had but you had
an apparatus but um
but there was an elementary school there and you were not supposed to go over
there remember i know i
know my parole over says that no but um no but um there's little kids like
demons and stuff oh yeah
i found that to be so scary you know i mean there he is anyway looks kind of
like uh michael cera
yeah yeah a little bit like he could play he could play in the movie silent
hill yeah so jack i
want to say um number one uh what a pleasure to have you on i um truly it was
because we didn't know how
it was going to go me neither i was scared no but it was probably the best time
i've had
i mean it was since mcg no no everything's everything's different but this was
like
it felt like you were already a part of the ecosystem of podcasting it felt
like you know
having shane gillis or somebody on right it just felt natural and you know how
to add information and
you're silly and it was just a blast and if you ever need to plug anything you're
always welcome back
hey how about this if it ever comes a time when all three of us have empty
google calendars yeah we
get together and we fucking come up with some shit i like this a lot you know
what i mean that's what
happens this you circle the wagons i'm gonna circle it too we'll circle the wagons
over a cheeseburger
which would be really that'd be really nice it'd be fun even if the google
calendar i want to be i want
to be in a western i hear you and i want to be opium den guy wait a second well
is there an opium den in
the western what do you mean in deadwood and all these towns oh right right we're
like remember in
fucking um once in my time in america with robert denaro oh you remember that
one you're a cinephile
it's like a sergio leone not sergio leone it was uh yeah it was a sergio leone
yeah yeah it was a
prequel to once upon a time in hollywood yeah yeah yeah and there was that
opening right this way
mr you know i mean i've always wanted to play the opium den guy sitting you
know man yeah but then what
you can do it i think i can do it what's going on in that tent oh we have our
opium straight from
china my friend really got open from china no me and my friend here traveled a
long way it's weed
it's mexican smoking is this brick weed you gave me brick weed yeah yeah me and
my boy didn't come
all the way here for brick weed anyway jack thank you for being a bad friend
thank you for being here
and um anytime thank you so much give jack black a round guys awesome
and um

Jack Black on Playing Steve in "A Minecraft Movie"

so can we talk about borderlands or no yeah oh yes the reason i'm here yes
yeah just kidding i've always wanted to be on your show what the movie that you
guys did wait
okay we have a connect a three-way connection right you did the film together
correct my
one of my closest friends is a producer on the movie so this when he told me he
was she told me
he was gonna get the role or they were gonna whatever you know and i auditioned
i auditioned
and it was a cool i was like i knew before he knew it was kind of a sweet
little nugget of life
and i was like oh this is amazing and then it's opened his world to all these
great people and
it's just been a i saw the trailer look amazing i saw it before they put it out
which i thought was
really cool but it looks rad what's a bummer about it though is because i you
know when i found out
you're in it yeah but then i realized you're not going to be there oh so you
were out in bulgaria
going where the is jack black yeah yeah and then i realized oh he's clapped
this is but we
still kind of work together yeah we did one table read yep i remember that date
you assume a zoom table
yeah but you crushed it and can i tell you tell you what happened to me at that
table can i tell you
what happened yeah all right so jack let's i want to be vulnerable and and i
want to be you know because
i know sometimes people think i'm cool and i got my together like oh yeah he's
he's got it all you
know what there you are though that's incredible look zoom in there he is you
got the smallest
picture but thanks for putting on dude made the poster i made the post that's
fucking huge yeah
fucking amazing so here's so who's the guy in the middle oh who's that guy in
the dead center kevin
hart kevin hart that's kevin that's right with the beret yeah with the like you've
never seen him before
wow yeah yeah special forces yeah edgar ramirez is allowed so anyway i get the
movie and jack i'll
be honest with you i've never been in a movie with that kind of this kind of
cast before caliber of
stars yeah it's just stacked right yeah and i i let me be vulnerable yeah i'm
nervous as fuck let's
be honest yeah yeah i don't know if you're remembering me oh real nervous yeah
you thought
you might lose the job over the zoom performance exactly exactly exactly not a
chance so this is what
happens okay yeah chance by the way yeah yeah so what happens is eli's like
assistant or something
calls me and goes hey dude there's not gonna be a lot of people to table read
at the zoom i go okay he
goes i'm i'm gonna text you a list of characters that you're gonna be playing
as well as the character
that you're doing so i go okay and they're and it's like 20 names right so now
i'm panicking like
i could get fired from so many different angles now right so i for days bro
highlight even the you
know i mean the sergeant or whatever right and i'm trying to memorize
everything and like their point of
view or whatever whatever different sounding voices right i go i have to kill
here yeah this is my shot
right so when we get on zoom like i'm there five minutes earlier and i'm
looking at all the boxes
there's so many boxes right and in my mind it's like i don't know if i'm
playing 20 parts i'm just
you know what i mean it seems like there's right and i'm glad i did this two
minutes before we're
about to start i text the guy again i go are you sure about these 20 names he
goes oh no i forgot
to tell you you're only doing two oh my god so if i hadn't called i would have
been interrupting
somebody yeah yeah you would have been interrupting 18 people i know thank god
i mean would that have
been bad oh yeah i think that would have been i'll tell you what was bad though
is that they
made you rehearse 20 different roles and really it was only two that you had to
yeah it was mean
because you put in some hours it sounds like and some stress lost a little
sleep they owe me money
is what you're saying okay yeah what are we talking about here do we get a
lawyer yeah oh no yeah it
was stressful but you know it's fine i'll tell you what uh when i found out you
were in it i was like
that's rad and they're lucky we are lucky to have you on that movie because you're
hilarious oh god
bless you you can relax about the worrying about getting canned they yeah they're
thanking their
lucky stars because you're killing it yeah yeah it was also just a very
positive experience i'll tell
you that right now you know what has currency that people don't really realize
if you like kill it
in like a social media post that has just as much if not more like power in the
industry
than like having a zippy cameo in a major motion picture if you crush it like
you do on the regular
on social media on like podcasts or on like interviews and other people's that
stuff uh
that stuff counts a lot yeah but jack here i'm a lot of eyeballs a lot of
clicks jack i appreciate
that but um and i'll tell you the difference between me and andrew yeah and the
other podcasters
right the other podcasters they understand that but him and i for some reason
and i know i know you're
like this some of our dreams are still tied up with television and movies yeah
because we're a little
older you know i mean we're just we were same right so it's like i think we
gotta i i i want to talk
to talk about yours i had to talk about me i have to sort of kind of you know i
mean kind of unlearn
that you know i mean and find that this is the dream yeah but i do we like the
others no we love
the other stuff but i'm just saying but you are right i i think that um it's
great no but i'm saying
i love it i'm saying that it's uh it's actually also working in the industry
when the casting
agency is a thing that really makes them laugh hard it doesn't matter what the
venue is right
they see you killing it in a in a post uh people get cast off of that just as
much as anything else
nowadays i know but you did it the traditional way right yeah i mean you you
got a manager agent you
took acting classes you know i mean you auditioned probably commercial i mean
you kind of moved your
way up i don't know right yeah and there was like a clear pathway of a way to
do it and i think you
and i were the same way right or no well yeah for a little bit and then the
industry kind of changed
yeah it changed wait do you guys have a head shot that on the back has four
different activities
yeah see we're old school like that soccer the kids today they don't have those
head shots with
the things of the yeah the skateboarding yeah yeah ken ken ollie not languages
i don't know any
other language but english but i would put like five things on there i had
eating cereal was one of the
pictures i could eat cereal commercial yeah yeah it's crazy when we used to
have to bring in those
headshots was so it was so it was so demeaning and they'd like throw it in a
pile and you were like
that cost me four dollars yeah yeah yeah they throw it away you know you'd get
stacks of them in your
car i was around when your agent would call you and go oh you have an audition
tomorrow okay cool all right
come pick up the sides and so i would go to an alleyway you know what i mean
and they would have
like a filing thing yeah and i would have to look up l lee and pull out my like
i'd have to drive there
you know what i mean and there'd be sometimes a line of other actors there once
i learned that
there were acronyms for agencies i would make up fake acronyms of an agency i
would just i'd type in
three letters it'd be like cbcbf or whatever cbf creative agency or whatever
yeah they would never
check why would they ever even check it was just like the guy who was my
manager was out of his
studio apartment next to the magic castle that's a hack yeah that wow i mean it
did it got me enough
around where i got to sneak into but that's what you stuff i have to staple
your headshot to your uh
resume or whatever yeah yeah another thing people would go is like i hated that
yeah are you in sag
i want my points i'm building up the points or whatever right that was a whole
thing if you were
in sag or not you know what i mean it's a catch-22 you couldn't get a job
unless you were in sag
but you can't get sag unless you get a job right and then there's this
mysterious thing called taft
hartley i don't know the that is that what i mean i'm saying it right yeah taft
yeah taft well they
merge after after and sag merged but taft hartley was how you got into the back
door that's it right
right yeah okay good yeah you did yeah thank you so much inside baseball talk
but the truth is if they
if the director really wants you they'll find a way to get you into sag to do
the movie this costs a
little more money it's a little more hassle but that happened mark pellington
the guy that directed uh
this the first thing i ever did when the studio i worked at as a pa
i got this role to deliver luke wilson a pizza and then they overshot and the
pa i did 13 hours
in a trailer just like sitting waiting sitting waiting like excited excited the
pa came and was
like cutting your scene good night and i was like oh my god fucking killed me
dude yeah and then
mark pellington was smoking a cigarette uh by the way that director mark pellington
famously directed
if i'm not wrong jeremy pearl jams jeremy i think that was great song i think
that's what he did
looked that up but he was smoking a cigarette or something or hanging out by
the trailers and he
was like oh i heard they cut your shit i was like yeah and then i wanted to be
like didn't you cut my
shit yeah yeah yeah yeah and then uh he was like we'll get you back dude we'll
lie lie no he was true
they brought me back as a hospital orderly uh and they gave me a line i was
like sir you can't be
out of your room wait that's you no that's man that's the word jeremy yeah that's
jeremy no but
he was cool man that was a fucking really rad thing but that's that was what
you need those little
tiny moments sometimes to like give you a little bit more hope because after
that i thought
man i was so excited to have one line to maybe get in the union to be able to
get another job
and it's a huge thing that dude did you know favor i got it you know talking
about that and about
borderlands uh sorry to bring it back but it made me think of a story about how
i met uh kevin hart
years before we did jumanji together and it was just sort of a general general
meeting he was kind of
new and up and coming and he was going around we were at the same agency and he
was going around
meeting all the the different people at the agency to just talk about maybe
developing something
and uh we had a good like meeting just hitting it off talking about things that
we liked
and uh then years later i got that call to do jumanji and it was kevin i know
it was kevin that got me
in into that room because even though i had a lot of success before jumanji i
was in a little bit of
a dip and i was like god i gotta get another gig and i remember thinking that
that uh kevin hart
he's a stand-up guy he's a great guy yeah he said we were going to work
together and he went out of
his way i believe and made it happen do you have anything else you want to plug
that like coming up
um i did a a little movie called minecraft but that's not gonna be uh based on
the video game i only
do video games dude yeah yeah i just basically do whatever my my sons tell me
now what minecraft
how is that going to be a movie exactly oh that's we have to figure it out well
it's like not obvious
it's like that can't be a movie can it yeah can it yes it can it can wow what's
that gonna be like
yeah that's harder to describe i'm not even gonna try oh really but it's a
combo of live action it's
me it's not a cartoon yeah and uh and animated like like computer animated like
the world of minecraft
like you see it when you play it wow so there's there's humans like uh what's a
move another movie like
that roger rabbit yeah tron right yeah closer to tron yeah yeah uh and it's uh
it's prett