Ep 12: The Strike Force Five Says Goodbye (with a Special Guest)

Alan King, all of a sudden, that's, I know I can't read the bulls.

“What shall we, shall we, shall we, gentlemen?”

Shall we start? This way, shall we? We're recording, I know that. All right, they were warmed up. Seth. Yeah, I'm ready.

Do you want to leave it off? Yeah, sure. Great. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the final, the 12th and final episode of Strike Force 5.

Let's meet our hosts, our cast. He's graduate of Northwestern University. In 2011, gave a commencement speech that many said was the best they'd ever heard until 2016 when another graduate who remain unnamed, stole his thunder. Please welcome Stephen Colbert.

Thank you, Seth. You're welcome. A man who cut his teeth at Northwestern University. At Northwestern University's Meow Show, but is beloved by dozens. As the winner of Bravo's 2004 celebrity poker showdown.

Yep. They call him snake eyes. He's Alexey's husband, Seth Myers. All accurate. Came down to me in Dave Navarro, you guys.

The best part about doing a podcast with him is when it ends, and he drops the British act and goes back to his real Midwestern accent. Right of Naperville, Illinois. John Oliver. Hey, are you the one who lived with?

That's Naperville. That's Naperville. So you can't just go to Indiana. What was that? What were you just doing?

I'm from Gary. Do you know the Jackson Five? A man who started as a computer science major as a college of Saint Rose, but went on to fame and fortune as the co-star of the hit movie, Fever pitch.

Wait till they say my name before you. Go out. You get two for this. Nancy's husband is Jimmy Fallon. Double clap.

Thanks. And do I have the next one? Do I still have the next one, Seth? Yeah, you do. We did this.

We went the wrong way. Oh yeah, man.

This is the first time we've had co-hosts, and we're off to a great star.

A man named by time magazine in 2018 as a well. One of the 100 most influential people, most likely due to the work on the hit late night show, Win Ben Stein's Money. He's Molly's husband, Jimmy Kimmel. Thank you.

It's actually a game show, but yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're so serious about it. You're so serious about it.

You're so serious about it. You're so serious about it. You're so serious about it. You're so serious about it. You're so serious about it.

That was really. That was really. That was a serious show.

“That was on when anyone do when spent Ben Stein's Money?”

No, I was a fan of them. You were on when Ben Stein's Money? Yeah, I was on when Ben Stein's Money. I might have won Ben Stein's Money. Was I the co-host at that time?

Yeah, you were there. And it was three of us, I think, from the Daily Show came, and we played for charity. Wow, I have to look at them. I have no memory. And I'm sorry.

In your head, this is better or worse than Bravo's celebrity poker. What was a bravest woman on celebrity poker? Bravo's celebrity poker. It was that you would actually play poker. You would have to win your table of five, and then you'd go to the next table of five.

So I had to win, I had to win twice. It was a big deal. It was a hundred grand for charity. But... The Jimmy Fund, which is...

Thank you very much. The Boss of Red Sox. Yeah, it was a big deal. I can't believe I didn't see that coming. You're very dicey.

What'd you spend your 50 grand on Kimmel? I spent it on other Jimmy's. I gave it to a series of other Jimmy's. And I bought Jimmy Walker a mobile home just outside of Las Vegas. And that's how you Jimmy.

That's right.

Okay, gentlemen, how was your first night back?

Strike is over. Now we're all... we're all working again. This is... this is why this is the end of the strike force five for now. How was your first night back? Or first day?

Talk about the process of re-entering. Even you said I was interested to hear that you said you were... Feeling really nervous about it. I was, yeah. And had to do something very foolish to kind of shake those nerves off.

I forgot what I did. We got on the dolphin, a fiberglass dolphin. I know. I needed the thing that... to get over the nervousness of it. I had to do the stupidest thing I could think of.

So for our cold open, with the established that I was on a roadboat, 2700 miles from New York. And a dolphin came and gave me my daily news update. That's the way established. He taught me.

And then I jumped on his back and I rode the dolphin. And then we parked it in New York on a pile of garbage out front of the Ed Sullivan there.

“Is that something a decision you made this one time?”

Or is that something you regularly do to get over nervous situations?

Yeah, well, I'm from Charleston, South Carolina,

and the waterways around there.

“Just are just teeming with friendly citations.”

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And then I said, well, how many did we sell?

Apparently, they're on the third printing of these shirts because we have sold them all.

Second printing of the hat, third printing of the shirt. That's right. Yeah, did we know that?

“And did we just assume that no one wanted our shirts?”

I think we made a calculation about whether those shirts should be desirable. Came to the correct conclusion. No. How do people have my debate choice? I'm very grateful for that.

John pointed out on the show tonight that Green is just a color that anyone can wear. It's fantastic, I think it's the easiest color to wear. And also the easiest color to super pose anything on top off in a TV sense. It's a massive mistake. Whether men can't wear this, that's you.

No, though. First guest, who is everybody's first guest back? Mine was Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not Roger, Travis Schwarzenegger.

Travis Schwarzenegger? I had a mechanic. All that's quality. Rooster? Yeah, Rooster was not there, but McConaughey was on fire. Did you just jk, jk 11 it?

Jk 11 it dude, and jk learning it too. He just, did you give you the green light? I got the green light and I got the just because. And that was, it was, it was great. It was just, honestly, it's the guy from the circumstance.

Making your turn to the show? No, that was my impression of Matthew McCoy. Oh, really? Yeah, that would be what would be like if those two met, though, Jimmy. Well, let me do it.

I can't do crap. No, I'm so famous for my Carl Perkins impression.

You can't. Carl Perkins was the audition. You did the got you SNL was.

“No, man, you're in two Carl Perkins dude.”

I go, just let me live. Can't I just go into the office? I go. I can't. But now I'm working out in McConaughey.

I'll figure that out. Uh, I'd use you to sign a hearing. One night, one night I interviewed him when he was coming on to talk about his bourbon or something, his wild turkey. And I mean, it's a tasty turkey,

but I really like aviation gin. That might be my favorite. It's a goat. That might be my favorite. Oh, what are the bourbons?

Yeah, yeah. But he was on. And in the commercial break, he turned him in. He goes, you like me. And it's true.

I do like him. But he felt it necessary to name it. And I felt really intimate. Like, this is going somewhere. That's how it felt.

I'm still waiting to find out where it's going. I hope we've named dropped Steve Higgins a few times.

When McConaughey was to SNL the first time,

Higgins asked him to record a story. He wanted to tell him the monologue. And so McConaughey recorded like a 20-minute story about his dad on a voice note that Higgins has. And once a year, Higgins leaves me a voice mail

or he just plays it. And so I get a voice mail and I'm like, what's going on? And then you just hear, because it's kind of quiet.

“And I remember my dad said, you're just like, what?”

Oh, he's the only company. He's talking. He takes on my whole voice mail box. Higgins says the best bits ever. Do you remember when he had Ken Ward in the office?

He was right when they invented cell phones with cameras. That's how many years back. Yes. They had phones, cameras on the phones. And he's like, I'm trying to leave this email

on Eric Ken Ward's a great writer and producer. I mean, he was like, probably in your files. So he goes over to Steve's computer to try to help him. And he's like, I can't see it. You sure you sent this email?

He's like, ah, sent it to that address to that desktop. He's like, where is it? And as he's doing it, he finally files this file pops up and he clicks and he double clicks. He opens it.

And it's a picture of him trying to find Higgins' email. Higgins is behind him giving him the finger. So Steve would be like, God, maybe laugh at us at the perfect time in technology where that joke was funny. Ren knew Seth first guest.

First guy, we didn't have one the first night. And then we had Tracy Morgan tonight as our first guest. At the start of the first night, you did a closer look for 42 minutes. And how did that feel? Is this something you're going to do often?

I don't know if we'll do it often. It felt great. First act felt great. Second act, a little bit worse. Third act, a little bit worse than that.

By the fourth act, the audience is like, OK. We could have used one famous person. Welcome to my fucking world, Seth. Like you. Tell them the difference, John.

The difference, John, is I go, will be right back. So it really has to stop. But then they think, oh, when we come back, certainly, there'll be some change of your own or gain, or there'll be some furtherance of this.

And it's just, we'll be right back to you. Should we go to a commercial? Yes. After I tell you who my first guest was, thanks a lot. Jimmy.

I was going to tell you their first guest is. It's like, let it totally polite. And I have a call. Seth, who was supposed to be like a clip hanger. You want people to keep listening.

OK, fine. I won't. Nobody can't because we have another reveal at the end of the commercial break. It was Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sorry.

It was Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's Neil deGrasse Tyson. Did you think it was a Jew anything?

I would never get to have any followers.

Because you've all this man on this wall. Neil deGrasse. Neil deGrasse Tyson. He should go to a commercial. On our friend, just check in to you.

Well, no, no. No, no. I don't want your pity. No. Let's go to our first commercial.

“Yeah, I mean, I think we should, since this is our last show,”

start by thanking our sponsor, Mint Mobile, and our friend Ryan Reynolds. He's been unbelievable. I believe it will be a great role in making this possible. And what he did for our staff too, and said,

That's right. That's right. That's right. It was so grateful for that. They really think guys, anyways.

All right. Let's play it. It's here from Ryan. Hey, I'm Ryan Reynolds, owner of Mint Mobile with one final message for all five of you. I speak, of course, about the five people who still tune into this podcast.

I know that I've had some fun at the expense of our hosts these past few weeks.

Honestly, I was, I was mostly kidding about being hurt because they never invited me on.

But I never wanted to see the podcast get canceled after only 12 episodes, 12 episodes. That's just embarrassing. So, you know, rather than come up with some way of burning them and they figure out their next move, while also telling you that Mint unlimited premium wireless is just $15 a month for limited time. I want to tell you how it ends for the members of the Strike Force.

It's a series epilogue brought to you by Mint Mobile, likes ending high prices in wireless. Steven, unable to face his family after the humiliation of podcast rejection moves to Nicaragua, where he spends the rest of his days searching for that ever elusive matching dictator shirt. The jimmies change their name to the flying jimmies and perish. An horrific trapeze accident before a small but board audience in Eastern Europe.

Seth spends the rest of his career doing lucrative ads for a non-Mint Mobile brand wireless service just to hurt me. And honestly, it works. While John, but no, actually John makes it. Yeah, don't, John, he's okay. He's thriving, even. I didn't, I didn't see that come on either. So, for the final time on this final show, go to Mint Mobile.com/strikeforce to learn how you can get Mint unlimited for $15 a month for a limited time.

And back to you, knowingly talented and disturbingly generous sons of bitches. That's... The great writer.

You know what? We're here right now. You know, it was always kind of just playing him a piece of my mind.

He stopped at 11, guys. You really should have stopped at 11. What? Is that still the end? What?

No, this isn't the, no, I'm not reading the legal. I'm still here. Ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Reynolds has joined us. Wait, I'm sorry. Ryan, have you been doing all these, these ads live during our podcast?

Yes, of course. Anything for strike force five. You know what's the worst part? Is that I'm the son of Tammy Reynolds, my mom, who's just a super active listener. So, I didn't realize there was a mute button. So, this whole time, everything was just big facial expressions every time you guys said something.

Oh! He didn't even have you up on screen.

Yeah, no, it's unbelievable, right?

Wow, what an honor. So, that means you sit for the whole, like, 40 minutes before your ad rolls. Yeah, this podcast is the darkest crease in the Aina's of the universe. Five, five, five. Tonight is my 12th death.

I'm well past any cat. Yeah, it's been, it's been a... Because when you're here live, you can't listen at 1.5. No, no, absolutely not. This is a Sisyphus type stuff.

That rock is just, you know, five angry, middle-aged, mediums falling on top of me.

“Ryan, do you remember the time you texted or emailed me accidentally thinking it was Jimmy Fallon?”

Oh, yeah. And the apologies that followed. They were, they were flowers. It was like, the apologies were so intense. It was just a scope short of giving you an actual Canadian passport.

I got one. I remember what you were so terrible. Well, because Jimmy Fallon lives in New York, I live in New York. I see him a lot. Our kids hang out with, you know.

Yeah. And so for me, it was a bit of an odd medium, because I think it was like on, like, DM or something. Maybe, yeah, possibly. Yeah. And yeah, that's how I felt.

So automatically I should have known better. It's like, who talks like this on DM? No one. No one. Absolutely no one, yeah.

Horrible. Well, by the way, you do a live reading at that one night. Michael Keaton was the one time I show and he said there was a guy named Cooper who made Saddle. And he texted, he was texting with Cooper about how much he liked the Saddle.

And he realized, like, two hours into it, he was texting Bradley Cooper. Who was there? Who was very politely saying, oh man, it's great. I'm glad you like your Saddle. Do you know the Tom Hanks story where he was getting, he got a text from Bruce Springsteen.

He was driving. Do you know the story? No.

“He's driving and he got a text from Bruce Springsteen goes, Tom, do you want to play tonight?”

We're doing the Dodger Stadium or something. And he's like, I almost drove my car off the freeway. I freaked out. I go, wait, what am I going to play? I don't, I mean, sure, I mean, I can, yeah.

I mean, I don't think of something. And, you know, well, this will be, yeah, of course. I'll think of something, yeah, I'm in. I will play, Bob. And the hour later he got a text from Bruce.

He was, sorry, that was for Tom Morello. Oh. But I'll see you there. Oh. I understand him.

I mean, way too many times. I have sent notes on the script to Barry Levinson. Oh. And he's like, I totally agree with it. I totally agree with these notes.

But I don't know how to get into the guy. No, no. These are good cuts. That choice, yeah. I like it.

I love Barry Levinson. I want to. Ryan, I have a question that we asked. We've asked everybody.

What was your first talk show you were a guest on?

God, the first one was a guest.

“I think it was, you know, I actually have a pretty good one here.”

I did readjust and Kathy Lee. Mm-hmm.

I was on the episode where it was right in the middle of that huge Bill Clinton scandal.

And I don't know if you guys remember where Kathy Lee was just there. She was, she was not into him and it was a tough situation all around when that happened. And she was going on to sing her, this big song. She was very, very nervous. She warming up, she was all backstage just complete, which is a ball of nurse.

And she was going to go on and sing her new single, I guess, off of her new album. And later, I'm not, you couldn't make this up. It was the counter in and a one, two, a one, two, three. First breath. And they preempted her for Bill Clinton.

Oh, no. And I was backstage in Galvin, who's the producer of the show, said, "No one tells her. No one tells her. No one doesn't work.

No one doesn't work. Just walking around.

“Everyone, he pointed it like, my publicist, who's like, "Why would I tell her?”

I don't care. I don't care." Yeah, that was, and then the other, the next talk show is, I was also a doozy. It was Mac and Rose last show.

John Mac and Rose last show. Oh, we've talked a little bit about this show. And it didn't make air because he and I just got horrendously, bonelessly drunk on the show. Just shared a bottle and finished it.

And you, I guess he can't do standards and practices, of course, don't allow you to do such things.

So it never made it to air.

That was my other one. Early talk shows. Did you ever do Bruno Geruci's celebrity chefs? Oh, I miss. A beach comers reference.

Stephen. That was Levin's first talk show. That was Levin's first talk show. With Bruno Geruci. But he's disdressed.

Did you see his Bruno Geruci? Yes, of course. That's correct. That Canadian icon. I just knew it was just me trying to find a way to make juicy work with Geruci.

I wasn't. I want that to show. But he was. You may not read juicy. If you do ask me, I need to go.

You'll face really lit up at the nine Bruno Geruci that run. I did, right? Because the name in itself is a conflict. Bruno's a real tough guy name. But Geruci is like a hard working empathetic Italian man.

It's a whole thing. None of it. And then celebrity chef, all citation and another. And then celebrity chef. And then, of course, the oversized cardigans.

It's just everything about him. It's a progibly handsome. John, were you ever on Regis? No. But I interviewed him.

He was my last guest when I was standing in for John. Stuart when he was away. And he ended it. But I remember. I went backstage to talk to him.

And he wouldn't do it. I walked in and said, hey, Regis likes to be the one. No. Let's do it out there. I don't want it.

Okay. Okay, fine. So, and then it gets to the end. He's been very, very funny. And he grabs me hard by the back of the neck.

Pools my head down and kisses me on the top of the head. Why? And it was so weird. I have a photo of it on my wall in my head. Because it just felt like what, what, what,

what, what message were you trying to send? It was almost like, like, the, how to say it out. I'm happy to hit. Okay. I'll kiss the guy on the top of his head.

And he's the guy that you take out.

“I remember when time, Letterman went to the booth for money.”

And I football back when Frank Ivern was doing it. And he just did one of those. He's going to come up for, you know, one set of downs. And one point, Letterman. Because, oh, by the way, Frank, Regis just called.

He wants to know where the keys to the liquor cabinet are. [ Laughter ] One of the reasons I was so excited to talk to was that I would love him when every was on Letterman. I just did that dynamic was so glorious to me.

It's the greatest. It's the greatest. He's so good.

When I first started signing a live, remember I was walking down the street

and Regis was like, maybe 20 feet ahead of me. And everyone was just going, Regis. Hey, Regis. Oh, Regis. Oh, Regis. He's like, how you doing? Hello. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? Hey, everybody.

That's a good Regis. Thank you. Thank you. And, and I go, man, that's got to feel great. You know, you, you're walking in New York City. And everybody knows you, man. It's got to feel like it's just so cool and nothing even close to it.

But when I went into work, Monday, walking into work, and I got like five people going, you know, "Jimmy, hey, you back!" [ Laughter ] Of course, I was standing underneath the sign. That said, tonight's the start.

Sure. I don't know. It doesn't notice that. You're out there again for hours. And I got to see-- I saw some of your interns wrangling people around saying,

"Hey, do you want to go say, hey, Jimmy, to Jimmy?" There was one intern at, like, just a bad mustache on me. Jimmy, I love you, too, great. Hey, Jimmy, what if Carl Perkins met Regis Filbin? Go.

Yeah.

“Hey, man, how long was that show when you did that show?”

What do you mean, the whole show was live? It's called live. That's the name of the show. I don't know what that-- what part of it was taped? And what part of it was live? The whole show? Who is this guy?

[ Laughter ] I like Carl as a dullard.

I think the only problem is that Regis wouldn't know Carl Perkins is. I feel like he wouldn't have said it. Regis wouldn't have gone 100%. No, Carl Perkins, yeah.

“Yeah, they'd be-- you know, Regis had a thing before, again,”

before there were cell phones with cameras on them, probably even after there were where he would come into a party for, like, four minutes with a Polaroid camera and take a whole bunch of pictures and say, "Regis has to leave and then he'd storm out of the party

and then you'd see all the pictures on his show the next day." Just out hunting for it. Would Regis say Regis has to leave?

He just always referred to himself in the third person.

And I thought it was just an affectation, but he told me that he-- I forget who the athlete was. Regis thought to do this. Regis thought to stay in a party.

[ Laughter ] He saw somebody being interviewed and referring to himself in the third person and he thought it was so funny. He started doing it.

And then it became not even a joke. It just became what he did all the time. Yep. I forget after I liked him so much, he then did some sport show on fox sports.

And I went to see him before. Yeah. And that, that's it. How's this show going? This shows that this has the for Regis.

[ Laughter ] It really was. Poor Regis. He ended up-- Yeah.

He thought he was back in the old up front days.

I had a show in ADC back in 2000. I think it was. And they did the up front and-- Right, and I'm sorry to tell you, they're not-- the old up front days.

We still have to go to the hospital. Yeah, they're not on site today. To you, they're the old up front day. We host them. Yeah.

New checks back it for me, guys. [ Laughter ]

“The point is, I remember my mom came with me and--”

Yeah, Tam Tam. Regis took her, took her for a little walk around Brian Park. And I'm telling that she came back and changed woman.

She was awakened. I mean mine. Yeah. Regis was a big football fan. And he used to--

I was on Fox, the Fox NFL pre-game show. And he saw-- he liked he took a liking to me. And he actually asked them to book me on the show. And I was really excited because, like, wow, Regis knows who I am.

This is, you know, a very exciting. And he was abusive and really, like, showering me with compliments except for he thought my name was Brian. [ Laughter ] He kept going on Brian.

Brian. Brian. Brian, you're on the Terry and how are you? Fantastic. [ Laughter ]

It took a little fun with it. I didn't go with it. I didn't go with it. Yeah. I forgot to respect.

Respect. Our friend Jimmy and my friend Mike Sherr married his daughter, J.J. Filbin. And Jimmy was saying that you go to their old apartment. He saved every book that anybody was ever on a show,

gave him. And they all conscribed it. And he said it's fascinating because everybody was so happy to give Regis one of their books. So they didn't just, you know,

they all wrote, like, Regis thinks of me.

And he goes just an incredible collection of just the

breadth of his career and how many people across that guy's path is really amazing. Do you guys have that where you get a book signed by the author who's a guest on the show? And then you can't really give it away.

I hate to throw books away. You can't give away because they're, you know, this is a lot of grab and they're written to you. Sometimes it's your last name on it. That's the last one.

It's the one way people will know that you did that. And you're turning the newspaper burning on. There you go. Exactly. Yeah.

You can't burn them now. Do you guys ever go so far down the road with something you've agreed to, especially like a field piece? And then you go, oh, my God. I suddenly realize I don't want to do this.

Because I kept on saying, like, yeah, that's about 60% of the way there. And I'm sure as the process unfolds and with my own brilliant additions to this idea, we're going to get it to 85%.

And we'll discover that last 50%. the last 50% in the field and then you realize it went from 60 to 43 during the process. But the crew's been booked and you've been measured for the suit and you're about to like get on the you know tomorrow you have to leave I've canceled shit that we literally people like already in the location right to shoot I'm like I'm not going we never can't so we never can't see anything. Really set you never can't see any ever almost almost thank you John almost legally almost almost.

Do you guys have a done a bit that was not offensive at all least in your opinion wasn't offensive but people got mad?

“Yeah, I've done entire movies like that. I'm not really a current. What's your what is the worst you've had right what is the worst thing you've done the people have?”

Oh, I think you could go back to almost any movie. I did in the late 90s in the early 2000s and each one of them would have resulted in a life There's like fourth Angela's right each one has like four jokes that seem fine at the time. Yeah, yeah Which and you're just a whoa. That's no. Yeah. Oh, no, can't do that. Yeah, I did have a joke once about marching bands high school marching bands and that is the angriest People in social media ever got to the point that I then fell bad because I think that you know

Mostly, but I also framed it as I'm afraid of my life and I as I walked on my heart at Tuba

Like just a very soft I made the mistake of upsetting the entire city of Milwaukee once It was during the convention in 2020 when the I don't know was a democrat so the public is I can't remember who was in Milwaukee and I have one of my writers is from Milwaukee gave ground these wonderful guy. He wrote Like seven minutes of savage jokes about Milwaukee and

We don't have an audience. We don't know what's playing and what's not playing. We don't have we don't have any gauge only our internal minds Which are a dark place and I loved all the jokes. We did them all. We had an I we had a robot that sort of Contraplates ending it all because he ends up in Milwaukee at the end or something and They were so mad like the mayor said something like they were so furious that I made these jokes about Milwaukee That I went I went to Milwaukee to apologize to Milwaukee, but I had to go to a brewer's game

To apologize. It was the brewer's game where they said this is where you all apologize and then I said okay, it's time to give your speech I went and gave the speech and they said they said hey go have a good time out there and I said You'd understand 40,000 people are gonna boon me when I walk on to that green grass and I was Probably shy of how many people it was it was really absolutely brutal

But I pander to them as hard as I could. I just did everything I could I shit on Chicago Which they the thing they love more than anything else was to shit on the cubs. It was the double down Should have double down. Yeah, I don't know if you would have met 43,000 people just Saying you suck I owed I owed Detroit and apology. I Okay, um, right said I don't want to die young. I don't want to die next week. I want to live to a hundred and then die like the city of Detroit

And water Joe Yeah, so I'm gonna use this opportunity right now to apologize to all the good people in Michigan I have similar thing with Detroit. I had to go do my show there for a week because they were so mad at me

“We almost got canceled it really honestly almost canceled the shows after our first year and the”

Lakers playing the pistons and I said something to the effect of Jeopardy should say again, but I said something to the effect of you know I'm rooting for the Lakers because I'm a Lakers fan. It also Pistons when you hate to see them burn the beautiful city down and they were very very very upset and then the next night I

Yes, I did double down and it was a Absolutely crazy

Crazy week I was there for the whole week and just it was nuts the first night. Oh my god

One of the guys that works for us gave all the tickets away to like like clients of the local affiliate and The end and everyone was even matter. It was just this crazy week where we had it We dug ourselves into the deepest possible hole and then somehow by the end of the week came out of it John Oliver total chaos agent

“Literally nodding the entire time. I love it. I love everything about that story sounds great. I mean, I think my favorite stand-up thing I've ever seen was when Bill Bird turns against that”

Philadelphia audience. He just starts yelling. It's an outdoor festival They just boomed somebody off stage and it goes out and he just like starts attacking the audience for how terrible a place fill it Oh, and he counts down how long he's got left. Yeah, so somebody do the whole 15 minutes destroy. He's then said 10 minutes left and then keeps going Yeah, he wins the heat. He wins them over Yeah, I'll let you see feel like the statue to a fake boxer rather than the real world champ. Yes from that city

I think that I think that you see feels of the best Philadelphia joke ever told you guys probably all know it which is today. I spend a I spent a year in Philadelphia once I think it was a Sunday Well Ryan, thank you so much for joining us I'm in this I'm in a joy Thank you for your generosity

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a wonderful partner. You're all seriously. Thank you guys for your generosity

“I mean you should give donating all your time here to do this”

So I think it's a really noble and beautiful thing you guys have done and and contrary to my My silly stupid little ad. I am very sad that this is not continuing because it is an excellent podcast Thank you for now with you guys. It's gone for now when we decided to do this I called Ryan's partner George doing and I said would you guys be interested in aviation gym sponsoring this podcast and he said yes And we would also like to sponsor it through mint mobile

So luckily Ryan owes a whole bunch of companies and they really I mean you guys did so much more than we possibly could

Of asked and I will tell you that our employees are very very grateful. Yeah, very grateful to never forget that

Or wonderful. I'll remind you I'll remind you So much you guys Thank you very much Not a fan No, yeah, well, it's a march. It's a bunch. He was in your favorite superhero movie green lantern. They should reboot it though

“Yeah, they should reboot good. I don't know why they're doing all those dead woods. Is that the guy's name?”

Yeah, yeah Green lanterns a good guy. Green lanterns handsome looks like Ryan Reynolds deadwoods all fucked up Hey, do you guys you guys ever Talk to people on the phone. Oh, yeah, I thought I'd talk people very rarely. I do I'm driving I thought Stephen was calling me on the phone the other day

What I went into our guest room because my wife had people over And I answered the phone all the lights were off and then I realized Stephen was FaceTime me And so I had this really awkward. I had to then go turn the lights on. So Stephen's song like to Stephen He just FaceTime me and I answered in the dark. It was kind of upsetting That's where I am. I just am sitting in the room. There was one of the strangers waiting for the phone ring

That was I was last night when we were going to split up this little rodeo for the night. Yeah If you're wondering if you're wondering why Stephen and I are so in sync. We talked for half an hour You really got this cycling. Yeah, well, yeah, guys. This has this has been such a joy. You know

“I think it's just I don't know if the episode's over or but I'll just say this now because then we can always have Mike Chaffey”

Move this somewhere later into an appropriate spot. I'd like to start off by saying what's here for Mike Chaffey The the guy who added in all of this You set up with all of our equipment and everything and just had a delightful fella to spend some time with I hope I hope I stay I don't know about you guys. I hope I stay in touch with Mike the rest of you didn't go I do think we accomplished what we set on to do

I just want to say with all sincerity not just raise money first dance

But just having you guys to talk to you through the soul strike was an incredible I

Green and that was very nice for you to say that on your show their Seth you know I have to say I think you guys are I like you all before this and I like you all Even more now that we feel the same way that I had dollars had an enormous respect for what you guys do But you know, just a great hang. This has been lovely and as you said That this is sincerely we did this for our staffs

But it kept my brain from unraveling right at the moment when I just couldn't hold it together anymore Which was late August. This show was a lifeline for me. It didn't keep my brain from unraveling But it would have unraveled. Okay, fair Without it also Falun's episode five is the hardest I've laughed this year. Yep. Those are laughs that

I'm trying to be great for four. I don't know if I think I'll ever it'll get all I think I can always go back to episode five

All of this I can't wait to go back to I'll just listen to the letterman one and I just I'd stop to because I go Not all of it. I mean just episode five Feel there's a multiple piece. I don't know. I'd say I'd say red onions in plastic bags on your feet

“Is worth a mention. That's really regrettable. It's an horrible mention at least. That's what I'm that in the contenders ring”

The only thing we missed was Jimmy texting Lennerman swifed questions That wasn't an inch. Wow. I mean that we should have John Stewart and Letterman and Ryan back and then do 13 one experiment that we did and we did something that it was just odd I mean I don't know if anyone could do this again And we we do know that we have similar Lives or sorts of things in common, but we don't know much really about our personal lives in each other and our wives

But even to see our how we produce I mean you guys are great producers I mean you know how to get to like every episode we hosted but getting things together Kimmel you got us this the microphones and the yeah, Kimmel really drove this. Kimmel you did all of this Yeah, incredible business man over there. He did the guy gets shit done really amazing Thanks guys, you know, hey listen if there's equipment to be order on Amazon. I'm I'm you go to God

It's weird to call him a great business man after Ryan Ryan. That's it guys I'm all the aviation gym Kimmel's move 50 1500 teachers

But it's been such a joy and I really we'll never ever forget this this is like going to

Camp or something I agree. Yeah, it was great. This will be fun to listen to when we're old too, right? Yeah, yeah, I mean for the rest of our lives we will be the strike four five

I'd like to say that I did Seth and Josh Myers podcast which is called family trips with the Myers brothers and

Seth's brother Josh does something great at the end of this podcast of each podcast He writes an original song That recaps everything that happened on the podcast you just heard and it's really funny And so Seth I hope you don't mind I asked your brother if he would do one for us that recap kind of everything that happened over the past while you're a friend of all You're a friend of all Kimmel. I'm not surprised. You went around me

But Josh was kind enough to do that. You guys want to hear it

Yeah, here it's end of soft Josh Myers

“You should show at the start but then they hit their stride. I hope you have enjoyed strike four five”

Only 12 episodes and then the strike was done And now they celebrate the games the writers won Colbert home stories of touchos and most of fans Jimmy I've the wife to name a thing they came from friends Don't know what speed you listen that, but I'd be 2.5

I hope you'd have enjoyed strike four five At least to fill the vacuum for some super chatty guys. I hope you have enjoyed strike four five

“Unlike the end of Moby Dick nobody had to die”

, man. He spoiled Moby Dick. Oh, wow. Everybody started talking. Andy that was great Josh Myers from family trips with the Myers brothers. That's yeah, that was great I can't wait to tell you. Have it until you can Faith this podcast would not have happened without another very Famous and great business man. I guess a two of them in fact are amigos at Casa Migos George Clooney and Randy Gerber who not only did they help us pay our staffs while we're out of work

They provided us with a lot of bottles of Casa Migos. Can I just say something about Jordan Randy? Do you mind a fan to wrap? Yeah, they started their company. I think I know this the way kind of we started this podcast

“There were on vacation together in Mexico. Do you guys remember that?”

Oh, we're in vacation together in Mexico. We didn't know we didn't plan it. The five of us were in Mexico together What year was it? Matthew Severe's was it 90 for somewhere. No, I want to say 20 no, I want to say

Well, it was so much fun. You'll get it Must have a great time The best we were just hanging out and we were all singing James Taylor. Yeah, no, we didn't weird. We were Nursing in the song. No, we didn't know we sang our girlfriends Yes, all of us and our girlfriends at the time. Oh my gosh, and we were married all this day to one girl

She's still there in our girlfriend. It is time. Yeah, she was great She was really great. We got better at the podcast and we're so the ads

What a thank you. This is too George Clooney and you know George Bernie was my first guest on my first

Late show. Oh, no, I know I think that was on my last guest on the late show stop stealing my line is that true?

He was also my first guest. But it didn't come back on again for seven years. Oh, he was my first musical

“Because Van March. Quick story about George Clooney. We did an ER reunion show and the joke was that no one showed up except for George and”

House and Dr. House. So I'm laying on the table as a patient and George comes out dressed as the doctor and he lifts up He's supposed to do an operation of some kind and he lifts up my hospital gown and instead of wearing the shorts I was supposed to be wearing I was completely naked It was a great moment where he George just looked at me naked and he nodded and he went of course I was I was with Clooney last Thursday at the Clooney Foundation for Justice benefit at the New York Public Library

And I'll expose myself to him there. And he's in the time, but this is the place now and forever Casa Migos the official tequila of the striped force five Well Mootis grassy is Casa Migos anybody want to do the tagline the legal things the one person let's do it over the top of each other After three you know what in honor of the way we've done this podcast from the beginning

That's you and I see what we've done this quick enough As always Perfect that was absolutely perfect. Yeah gentleman. This has been an honor It's been an extraordinary honor to spend this time with you I just I love all of you individually and and I love the collectively

I'm part of the strike force now. Thank you for this incredible experience

I'm happiest when the five of us are together, but also John and I will be doing a show a New Year's Eve in Las Vegas Oh nice if you're in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve naturally thinking I wish I could see John Oliver and Seth might do some stand-up. Yeah, just like so many people in Las Vegas on just like verbal

“How do you find this fear? What do you find this fear?”

Are you open for you, too? You're at seasons, right? We're playing Adele's theater with the performance that we like to call the opposite of watching Adele I was in Vegas last weekend. I was at the sphere actually what to see you two at the sphere

And I saw a picture of you guys on one of those digital billboards and it rotates and it'll show you guys and then Adele and then

You know Gordon Ramsey's restaurant and it goes from and I wanted to get a picture to send you guys And it took I stood there for 13 minutes and then I did miss the picture and I had to go another Rotation another round and then I took the shittiest picture. Sorry. I tried since we started this I think I'm taking like a bunch of photos just that I think individually each one of you would like Like didn't I take a picture of something like a t-shirt said co-bear or something

I don't know But but I'm glad you brought that up Jimmy because we did get a great photograph from John Oliver about that pirate themed party And we promised to post it so we'll put that on our website strikeforce5.com Which by the way, you know the podcast may go away, but that website will be there for many many years to come So go enjoy look at our graphics and

Yeah, I mean, there's not gonna be any more content than that But we will put that picture of John Oliver up there and also Steven we should also put the picture of Samosas pants right we do a screen grab of me showing them to Dave because I'm again I didn't know longer. Yes, that's a good idea. I was briefly with the pants and I'm not hey I have a true thing to say remember we were talking about how I don't have any merch in the NBC story

Which is a true thing and in fact Kim will send me a YouTube video Like somebody talking to showing the discrepancy between the two and the NBC reached out to it Hey, is there anything we can do and Fallon shoemaker and I are like, oh, yeah, make this shirt Jimmy suggested on the strike force five podcast So we're gonna make it sure this is it's time for a and then tiny letters closer look and we're gonna put on the tag

Jimmy found this idea Nothing would make me happier in the whole wide world. I still think it's a great image. That's

“That's what I think it's great. You know, yeah, yes, how they she met John”

I think it's great a closer look. I think you I think of the late night shows at NBC You're the John Lennon and I am the you'll go on People have said that people have said that Hey, let's make one promise here as that we will do this again and if it's not before then let's do it on Write around or on Steven's 60th birthday. What do you guys say? Yeah, May 13th of next year

I would love you fun. Yeah, all right great. It's a deal coming for ever guys

Thank you everybody for listening. Thank you everybody. Yeah, and thank you guys for all your time and doing this and gosh

“I really really appreciate this. One more time just on-cyl if I will always win one last time and let's all say it together”

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