Ike Barinholtz

“I think people see what they want in the part. And, it's really based a lot off of my friend Eric Byers, who's an executive at Universal, except for he doesn't do drugs and is very responsible. Right. But, they love the, some of them love they they they the work isn't exciting, making the movie's exciting, but they wanna where are we going to dinner afterwards? And that's, like, my cornerstone of, like, where are we gonna go to dinner?”

“But going there and having to perform for people who don't speak English necessarily, or don't understand your reference base at all Yeah. That taught me how to, I think, like, be bigger and kind of perform for for the masses.”

“You are a Jeopardy Celebrity Jeopardy champ. Yes. You won a million dollars for charity Yes. Of which I'm told you took $600,000.”

“I have an obsession lately that I wanna talk about. Yeah. Which is, rappers that, have agreed to do a soundtrack for a major motion picture, and then they have to rap about the movie and kind of get bogged down on the plot of the movie.”

“And there's a similarity in between Larry Sanders and the studio. They're both about the business, and there are specific ways if you're in show business that you can pick apart certain things and say, well, that's not really how it is.”

“I wanted to figure out a fun podcast, and I I just couldn't think of, like, a fun hook. And then I was like, oh my god. What if I just wrote trivia questions for my friends? I write the trivia. Oh, I write the trivia. Not because not for me. I have a producer who writes the questions for me, so I don't see the questions on our system.”

“it should start as the show wants to do x, y, and z. So let's go out and buy the necessary supplies, curiosities, whatever it is so that we can make that happen, so we can execute on it.”

“at first, it was just, like, like, five or six of them in the back of a bar. I believe Miriam, Flynn was one of the or Tolan was one of the first ones, rather. Yep. Later Miriam Stack. Miriam later Miriam Stack. And, by the time I got there, it was like a big theater.”