We can't all be geese!

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Chris Hardwick (0:48)

Mike Phirman, back on the podcast, after a summer.

Mike Phirman (0:55)

Hey, when was the last time I was here? I don't remember. It was at April 21

Chris Hardwick (0:58)

In your house? I don't know. Probably this morning, right?

Mike Phirman (1:01)

An hour ago, yeah.

Chris Hardwick (1:03)

You mean on the podcast. It's been a minute because I was doing the AMC ones. Yeah.

And so that was weekly. And as soon as we kind of hit a, like we're in sort of in the kind of in the middle of the cycle on that.

Mike Phirman (1:18)

Yeah.

Chris Hardwick (1:19)

I kind of went back to every other week because that's a much more comfortable pace for me.

Mike Phirman (1:27)

Yeah. Understood.

Well, if any of your listeners out there had me as the next guest on their polymarket bedding, cash money for you right there. That's right.

Chris Hardwick (1:41)

I'm sorry, Mike, was that a tambourine on a stick?

Mike Phirman (1:44)

That was a tiny tambourine on a stick. I'm at that stage.

SPEAKER_4 (1:49)

That isn't a, you've always been at that stage.

SPEAKER_5 (1:51)

I've known you for 35 years.

Chris Hardwick (1:53)

You would have all, I feel like you've had that since I've known you.

Mike Phirman (1:55)

It's damn. Yeah. That's 100% true, unfortunately for almost everybody.

Chris Hardwick (2:00)

We were talking off Mike before and you said, what are the little metal disks called in a tambourine?

Mike Phirman (2:07)

Because they're in pairs and they seem to be very specific. They're not bells.

Chris Hardwick (2:14)

I went to the internet and I looked it up, Mike. They are called either jingles or zills.

Mike Phirman (2:20)

There it is.

SPEAKER_1 (2:21)

Zills.

Mike Phirman (2:22)

Zills is endlessly fun to say, zills.

Chris Hardwick (2:25)

Zills.

Mike Phirman (2:25)

Which actually is almost onomatopoeic, right? Because it's kind of zills.

SPEAKER_1 (2:31)

Zills.

Mike Phirman (2:32)

If you say zills a whole bunch of times, you're going to do something of a tambourine impression.

SPEAKER_1 (2:37)

Zills.

Mike Phirman (2:37)

Which also we realized could very well be related to the company Zildjian.

Chris Hardwick (2:44)

Yes, we assume that there was a common ancestor, but I just didn't go back to the internet, even though it's surprisingly at our fingertips at all times, to find out what that linguistic connection is.

Mike Phirman (2:56)

Also, by the way, jingles.

Chris Hardwick (2:57)

I think we made jokes about how little tambourine, how zills are basically just turbo sequins, and that you could, if you blew up the sequins on a sequin jacket, let's say, could just be a bunch of little tambourine zills. Yeah.

Mike Phirman (3:13)

But by the way, I think jingles is not a great one because we have these.

Chris Hardwick (3:19)

But those are jingle bells.

Mike Phirman (3:21)

I know. But that's if you have a thing that has the word jingle in it, and there are two names for a thing, I think the one you use is the one that doesn't associate with another thing. Even though they are pretty much the same thing, they're just curved around and made into a circle version, kind of.

Chris Hardwick (3:43)

The important thing is there are so many little nicknacks, musical nicknacks in your studio, we could probably do an episode off each one of them, and just sort of go back and forth about what their history is, where they come from.

Mike Phirman (3:57)

I have our original Moose Call from the Moose Lodge song, which is... Where are you?

Chris Hardwick (4:06)

Moose Lodge is a song that we did many years ago.

Mike, I'm not saying this would be funny. It wouldn't be funny if it literally happened. But if you did that and a moose just came plowing through your wall and took you out.

Mike Phirman (4:23)

A hundred percent. It wouldn't be funny.

Chris Hardwick (4:25)

I'm not saying because I love you and I would miss you.

Mike Phirman (4:28)

But the bugs bunny up that all would be like, but what have to be happy for me that part of the you would be like, but what a way to go.

Chris Hardwick (4:40)

If you knew Mike, you know that just randomly pulling out a moose call in his studio in Southern California and then a moose just a random moose just coming through.