Bunker Brothers

Jack forgot that he booked a songwriting session a year in advance for his anniversary. Brian tries to co-opt the session to write a song about Lena. 

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This episode features Rachanee Lumayno as the local singer, Miss K aka Karen. Check out her podcast Ex Pat here. It also features Vinita Khilnani (aka @omgvinita) as a surprise guest! Fans of the show will be amazed and astonished by her bringing this much-lauded character to life. Thank you both so much!

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Brian and Jack watch a movie to help distract them from the horrifying events of the previous episode. The movie they choose is a coke-fueled 80’s schlockfest called Hard Ticket to Hawaii. 

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This movie features rampant toplessness, violence and racism, so viewer discretion is advised. If you so choose to bear witness to Hard Ticket to Hawaii, check it out on Amazon. In terms of bad movies, it’s highly entertaining. In terms of regular movies, it’s basically the worst thing imaginable.

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The half-brothers discover a creature living in the Bunker. Brian calls an old co-worker to help deal with the beast, but the man and the beast have a history.

Today’s podcast features Wilson Chavo Rivera of Teach These Devils podcast as Jimmy Bones, the Marine Biologist. Via Matt:

“I was on Teach These Devils to promote my book, Travis & The Labyrinth, and that’s where I met Wilson. He was playing an audio clip on his phone and I thought it was the voice of a random stranger. Little did I know it was Wilson doing one of his MANY hilarious voices. I’m so glad we got to work with him on Bunker Brothers and especially this episode, which has been one of my original ideas for the podcast. I’m still not sure if we went too crazy with this one, but we’ll let you be the judge.”

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After hearing the podcast, a local Musical Theater director (Michael Price, The Simpsons) wants to turn Brian and Jack’s life story into a musical. Jack wants no part of it, but Brian is willing to sing his lungs out to prove he should play himself.

This episode features Emmy and Writers Guild award-winning writer Michael Price as “Paul McCartney,” the misleadingly-named director of local theater. Mr. Price’s latest show, F is for Family, is absolutely hilarious. You should check it out on Netflix right now if you haven’t already. Also if you have Disney Plus and want to check out some of his Simpsons episodes, I highly recommend “E Pluribus Wiggum,” the one where Ralph Wiggum runs for President, and “Mad About the Toy,” which won an Emmy!

From Matt: “Mike Price is literally one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He always takes the time to help me with comedy stuff, even though he’s insanely busy! Thank you again, Mike! I had a lot of fun/stress trying to make this episode’s musical moments be listenable, so apologies if anyone’s ears explode. Personally I can’t get enough of Mike singing ‘STEEEEEALING’ over and over. But maybe that’s just me?”

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Jack’s son was caught smoking pot by the Principal. The Principal stops by to give Jack a crash course in parenting, but Brian gets sidetracked by Star Wars references. 

This episode features Tim Barnes (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) as Principal Principle. Tim’s tweets and stand-up are absolutely hilarious, and we were lucky enough to get him on the podcast while he was on break from his regular, much more impressive comedy job. Also in this episode you’ll hear music from Vinita Khilnani, who’ll be a much bigger part of the show in the coming episodes…

Also, don’t worry Disney! None of the Star Wars sounds in this episode are official. They’re either free sounds from Apple or made with my own mouth. #bossnass

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Brian hires the Norton University Mascot to cheer Jack up, but the Mascot has problems of his own.

This episode features Tim McGovern as Martin McGallister, the Mascot for Norton University (which as we all know is just a front for that greedy professor). Tim and I met in college and I remember immediately being impressed by how much younger and funnier than me he was. I was only 20 and I was already being replaced by a younger, hotter model. When I think of Tim playing “The Sea Rat,” Norton U’s mascot, it reminds me of another sea-faring adventure Tim once went on. In college he wrote a play called The Baleen Bessy, about a Moby Dick-ish whale-killing ship. Congrats to Tim on his recent engagement to Tulasi! We wish you happiness and love!

Special thanks to our partners The Psyche-Delic Podcast for advertising us on their show! We returned the favor in this episode. Check them out!

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Estranged from his wife and kids, Jack reverts to his irresponsible high school persona and decides to reformat the podcast. Brian is shocked to learn that he’s been replaced and that Bunker Brothers is now, “The Jack-Hole,” an attempt to recreate the success of Howard Stern and Joe Rogan. 

Our first special guest this week was Travis Irvine as Jimmy ‘Moondog’ Moon. Travis is a director, a comedian and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate. Travis and Mike met doing stand up comedy in Columbus Ohio. They soon started doing sketches together for the sketch show Monday Night Live. Travis is currently trapped at home but you can help him out by buying his comedy album “Guy From Ohio” at this link https://www.ontourrecords.com/store/guy-from-ohio

Our other special guest this week was Diego Torrado playing Bobby Gobbins. Diego is a writer/director/comedian currently living in Chicago Illinois. Mike is jealous of how young and funny Diego is. You can check out his Instagram @prunebetrippin or his bizarre youtube cartoon series “Independence Ye” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6JQWvjAFzM&t=134s

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Brian finds himself in a complicated relationship with an OnlyFans model who is furious that Brian recorded her private shows. When Jack asks the model what her content is like, he is shocked by what she reveals.

This episode features Gabrielle Williott as OnlyFans Model Nina Precious. Gabrielle is one of the funniest people I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Her tweets (@grabbyelle) are equal parts clever and jaw-dropping. I’ve wanted to get her on the show since we started it, and I’m so glad we made it happen. Follow her on Twitter and support her in all her endeavors!

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On the first night Jack stayed in the Bunker, the half-brothers watched the Super Mario Brothers movie as a bonding experience. The quality of the movie almost tore them apart.

Matt here. I remember seeing this movie for the first time at an after-school program. I must’ve been in fourth or fifth grade. I’d already heard that a lady got turned into a skeleton, which freaked me out because it sounded so unlike the Mario games I loved. My parents hadn’t taken me to see it in the theater because they’d heard it was a trainwreck.

But in the darkened classroom in the elementary school basement, me and another kid whose mom ran the program watched the Super Mario Bros. movie. It was every bit as lousy as I’d heard. I tried to console myself by being happy that Yoshi made an appearance, even if it was lousy. Watching it again for this podcast I didn’t find it as brutally awful as I had as a kid. It was more frustrating than devastating. It’s amazing how something so ill-conceived could be created and carried through without anyone stopping it, especially from a company as conservative as Nintendo.

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After they’re forced to move in together, Jack and Brian can’t stop fighting. They search the Bunker for rooms that could give them a little more privacy, but instead they find a jaw-dropping surprise.

This episode features Alec Hall as Mao the Basement Guy. (Wow, that even looks offensive when you’re writing it.) Alec is Kolar’s pal, so I’ll let him take it from here:

“Our special guest this week was Alec Hall as Mao Xin Ping. Jack (Mike) met Alec when they were put in the same class at the Harold Ramis Film School at the Second City. Alec mentioned to Mike that he was an animator and they became fast friends based on their shared love of weird cartoons. When Alec is not hanging out in his rumpus room you can find him writing, directing or animating dope shit. Check out his Instagram @regularlnormal3d to see more of his work. JUSTICE FOR MAO!”

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