#1199 - Tom Segura & Sean Anders

Tom Segura (0:03)

I didn't realize how good your hair is.

Sean Anders (0:06)

Thanks, I'm losing it, but what's left of it is still right in there.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Boom, and we're live. Gentlemen, hello Sean.

Sean Anders (0:11)

Hey, how are you?

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Hello Tom.

Tom Segura (0:12)

Hello Joseph.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

You guys did a movie? Did you make a movie?

Tom Segura (0:15)

We made a movie.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

You guys do movies?

Sean Anders (0:17)

We do, we're movie guys.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

How many movies have you made?

Sean Anders (0:20)

One.

Tom Segura (0:21)

Well, I bet you've made, how many have you made before?

Sean Anders (0:24)

Like six, but we've made one.

Tom Segura (0:26)

We've made one.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

What's your favorite one other than the one that's right now, which is definitely your favorite? Because you're promoting it right now.

Sean Anders (0:32)

Sex Drive.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Sex Drive? Which one was that?

Sean Anders (0:35)

It's the one nobody knows about.

Tom Segura (0:36)

Yeah, this is the first one.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Nobody knows about it?

Sean Anders (0:38)

I mean, it was one of those movies that just opened and nobody knew about it, but it was a really, really fun movie.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

Maybe we could change that. Is it on iTunes or Netflix?

Sean Anders (0:46)

Yeah, yeah, it's all in there. James Marsden's in it.

Tom Segura (0:48)

This is the one, is this the one that you, like when you made it, you're like, and maybe I'll go back to work in construction or whatever.

Sean Anders (0:55)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I thought it was over after that.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

Did you finance it or anything?

Sean Anders (1:01)

No, no, we made it with Summit Pictures and it was amazing.

We were in town trying to get a career going, trying to make things happen. We were making a TV pilot at the time, which was a living hell.

And we had gone out and pitched this idea to a bunch of places and nobody bought it. So then in the middle of our editing our pilot, Summit Pictures called and said, we keep thinking about that pitch, would you guys be willing to write it? And I said, you know what, tell them, I was really busy. I said, tell them we'll write it if I can direct it, but I figured that would make them go away. And they said, all right. And so we went in and we wrote it and we turned it in and they greenlit it. It was this crazy process where we got this movie greenlit and I think we wrote the draft in like a month and we turned it in and they loved it.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

What's it about?

Sean Anders (1:50)

It's a teen road trip movie. It's about these kids that, it was kind of in the early days of the, Facebook and all that stuff. And it might have even been, I don't know, I can never track the, it might have even been like sort of MySpace into Facebook that era, you know?

But it was about a kid who meets a girl online and goes to lose his virginity on a road trip.

Tom Segura (2:11)

It's funny.

Sean Anders (2:12)

Oh, shit. It is funny, yeah. Marsden's in it, James Marsden, he's really funny. Clark Duke, and yeah, had a good cast. There it is.

Yeah, wow, good. Bam.

But it was a really great experience. It was really fun. And then we tested it, we did the test screenings, and it just murdered. Like it was just, and the studio got really excited, and I thought, oh my God, like, I'm gonna have a huge career. And the movie came out and it didn't do any business at all. It was like, okay, I'm gonna go back to Wisconsin and not have a career at all.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Is it true that Instant Family, you hired Tom because Bert Kreischer wasn't available?

Sean Anders (2:48)

Yes, that's absolutely true.

Tom Segura (2:50)

Don't tell me that, man.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

That's what I'd heard.

Sean Anders (2:52)

Well, and he was asking for a lot of money, a lot more of it.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Well, you know how Bert is.

Tom Segura (2:58)

He's like, whatever Marx gets, I want double. I want double!

Joe Rogan (3:06)

So this movie is based in no small part on your own life experiences.

Sean Anders (3:13)

It is.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Of adopting an actual, you adopted like a full family.

Sean Anders (3:17)