#2053 - Danny & Michael Philippou

SPEAKER_2 (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Pleasure to meet you guys.

Danny Philippou (0:15)

Nice to meet you too. Oh my God, we're live. Ladies and gentlemen.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Introduce yourselves to everybody.

Danny Philippou (0:20)

I'm Danny Philippou, it's my clone Michael.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

You guys are not clones.

Danny Philippou (0:24)

Oh, well. Yeah, there's a big difference, isn't there? Danny acts like we're identical twins, mirror image twins.

Michael's the dumb twin. The unreliable twin. Danny's the arrogant twin.

But ladies and gentlemen, we're here on The Joe Rogan Experience. I'm so like, yeah. It's very surreal. I'm fanboy, yeah. We've got young Jamie over there. We might pull some things up. And we're going to talk about DMT and elk meat.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Did you guys prepare for this?

Michael Philippou (0:51)

No, yeah.

Danny Philippou (0:55)

I don't know, yeah. Mike was like, we're going to be at The Joe Rogan Podcast. And all of your guests are really smart. I feel like people will be dumb ive listening to us.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

There's a lot of dumb ones too. Don't worry about it.

Danny Philippou (1:05)

That'll be the playlist we're in.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

So tell me about you guys, the background. First of all, how did it come that you made that movie?

Danny Philippou (1:13)

Well, we've always wanted to make films ever since we were like little kids.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Is that your first real film?

Danny Philippou (1:19)

That was our first proper production.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

The fucking movie was awesome.

Danny Philippou (1:22)

It was so weird that you posted about it. How did you hear about it?

Joe Rogan (1:24)

I was just flipping through, I think I was just flipping through the current movies on Apple, on Apple TV.

My daughter loves horror movies, and so we like to watch horror movies together. And I was like, let's try this one. And we watched a preview, and she was like, oh, it's good. And then I watched it, and I was like, that is a really good original movie.

Danny Philippou (1:47)

Fuck yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

It's fucking scary as shit.

And it wasn't like any other movie. It wasn't like, oh, this is like 28 Days Later, or oh, this is like The Exorcist. No, it's like very original.

Danny Philippou (1:58)

Yeah, it's something we've been building towards making a movie for forever.

And we've been writing scripts forever as well. We had a YouTube channel. So we started off making stuff as little kids. We've been obsessed since we were seven years old with making stuff. Even before filming, we'd just draw movie covers and shit like that and pretend we're, we'd act through a movie and look at the time and act for 90 minutes and then draw the cover for that. We were loser kids, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

That was creative.

Danny Philippou (2:29)

Yeah, I remember even in primary school, they had to bring my mom in. They're like, we're really concerned about Danny because I would draw the most violent, fucked up movie covers. Or just like, some were getting split in half, trying to figure out different ways that I could kill these stick figures.

Yeah, it was like, and then we had a group of friends around the same age, like 12, 15 kids, same age in the neighborhood.

And we'd do two things together. We'd beat the shit out of each other, like backyard wrestling. And then we'd do, make movies. And like, that's why, if our friends wanted to hang out with us, they had to do it. Like, I feel bad for them. And then like, they'd come together and we'd just fuck each other up. And then we'd like, film movies and stuff.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

So you've always been interested in some kind of filming and something. And so you started off with a YouTube channel?

Danny Philippou (3:12)

Yeah, well, initially, we were just making stuff with friends. And then a TV show, it was called To Muffy, 96 episodes.

Joe Rogan (3:20)

And where was that?

Danny Philippou (3:21)

In the 90s, that was just...

It always says it's a TV show, it was never on TV. It was on our TV, it was on our TV. We would play it for our friend's older sister, Nellie. And we would just premiere it for her. And as we got older, all of our friends were growing out of it. And we're like, why are you still doing this? It's really immature.

Everyone was growing up, getting jobs, getting girlfriends, and we were still trying to make movies. Yeah, we'd organize a big weekend with everyone. But everyone was 18, like in Australia, you can go out when you're 18