Unofficial

Whenever a guest falls through Unofficial goes to it’s happy-place, aka Reddit. It’s definitely still clunky on these visits but there is something special about the chemistry, Coop&Myan just sort of let loose on the front page and its a bottomless pit of opportunity for humor, knowledge, WTF and of course, puppies and kittens. Coop&Myan aren’t huge WTF fans, not big gross-out pranksters, we’ll leave that to the cool kids while we nerd-out on musicians, actors, politics, repeat-marathons of the Office and of course…puppies and kitties!! Yeah that’s more like it.

This week Reddit instantly sparks a Myan-esque rant about Bernie’s surging poll numbers, Biden’s gropey-mediocrity and Obama’s impossible to ignore, shortcomings. But don’t worry, its not long before it’s back to the front page where Cooper Buffet teaches some tips on making money through the New York Stock Exchange, ever heard of it? It’s in New York, no big deal. Just remember, buy low and sell high. See? Easy.

As the title of episode 73 would suggest, Myan does make an argument for the continued use of the word “retarded.” Retard - verb: delay the development or progress of; hinder or impede. If that word doesn’t accurately describe the hindered intellectual development of a trump supporter, well… But don’t worry, Cooper tries to clean up Myan's mess by defending those who might be offended when hearing that word, regardless of context, so good news, you don’t have to hate them both. Hey, it’s good cop/bad cop, it’s a classic archetype, there’s no such thing as good cop/better cop. Damn, maybe that’s our problem.

Do you like eating food in restaurants? You do?! Are you sure you know what you’re doing? Would you be shocked to find out you’ve been doing it wrong? Well today on Unofficial, it’s etiquette-education time, restaurant edition. Rule #1 when dining, don’t call your waitress a bitch. Seems obvious, some still struggle. Rule #2, don’t be an alcoholic. This one’s a bit more common and most likely related to rule number one. And rule #3, don’t say to the manager, “you know what, fuck you“ for absolutely no reason. Rule number three feels strangely similar to rule number two. OK, class over, now order the beef belly with the balsamic reduction. Enjoy.

If you like John Oliver and have since forgiven him for undermining the Green party during the 2016 “election“, then you absolutely have to check out his recent episode of Last week Tonight featuring Turkmenistan’s beloved dictator, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. If you think Kim Jong-un is hilarious, you are going to love Gurbanguly. I mean as much as you can love a brutal dictator. Given that, it’s literally just a matter of time before Trump has him over to the White House for Big Macs. Assuming he’s still alive of course.

Coop&Myan Are creeping up on one year in the business and almost 75 episodes deep. It’s honestly hard to believe we’ve been able to pull out this much content directly from our asses. With Myan‘s gift for gab, Cooper’s creativity and the seemingly bottomless pit of fascinating guest-talent here in LA, the evidence shows there is much more to come. Also it’s important we throw out a really big thank you to our incredibly loyal super-fans who followed us through every episode, our casual fans who listen once in a while and of course the future fans whom we have yet to impress…or offend, it really is a mixed bag. But we love you all.

To the next 75. Cheers.

That’s it, it’s official, Reddit has become Unofficial’s #1 friend of the show. No one has been on the show more often than our good friend “The front page of the internet”, and no one has brought more consistently top notch content and unblemished reliablitly. As a fan of Reddit for over a decade, Myan credits the now “5th most visited site in America” for his undiagnosed, adult onset ADD and of course the style in which he cohosts the show. It’s a mixed bag. Cooper loves Reddit too and it’s honestly such a joy since Myan spent the last ten years surrounded by people who didn’t even know what it was. Can you believe that?

Where else can you bounce from discussing Reddit’s ugly older brother, “4chan", to 1999’s hilarious box office flop, Mystery Men? From Japan’s promise of flying cars by 2030, to Donald Trump’s record involvement in a staggering...3500 lawsuits! Hey, some men just want to watch the world burn. Unfortunately a desire for global destruction does not reflect the most impressive level of intellect. It does however reflect, "craazyyyy."

So join Coop&Myan and check out Unofficial’s seventy-first episode and learn jaw-dropping facts like, never leave your son with a catholic priest OR a boyscout leader. The odds are just not in your favor. Finally learn the truth of Texas’ historical origins…(parts were Mexico) and the proper pronunciation of the word “Verbiage.” Definitely a word you wanna get right. Don’t forget, there’s a BEE in the middle.

Oh and check out Coop’s new album, Front of House, on Spotify. Thanks, guys, see you next week.

https://open.spotify.com/album/13Rlux7NUD8UZiklvT8vM8?si=VE4B5TNdTmO2f3crhyxOQQ

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Have you seen the leaked footage of Trump doing yoga? OK that’s not real but that image probably made you laugh because it’s so absurd and frankly, revolting. Can you imagine that fat fuck doing anything beneficial for body and mind? Just the thought of that flatulent slob caught in a Happy Baby pose like a flop-sweating, obese tortoise is enough to make you spit-take your Diet Coke all over your big Mac buffet. Luckily for America a Sanders/Warren ticket is the antidote for the festering, open sore of the Trump “presidency.”

In episode 70 Myan illustrates the average citizens conflicted position, torn between their desire to be engaged in the political process while also being so fed up with the corruption in every corner of corporate-Washington, that even buying into our democratic system for one moment, can make you feel like a sucker. Luckily for many of us, the apathy we feel for our broken political structure has been temporarily cured thanks to Senator Bernard Sanders. So get out and vote, you lazy bastards.

On a happier note, Cooper has a new album called Front of House and as you probably guessed, it’s really good. Check it out on Spotify as soon as you get a chance.

Every day in Hollywood we are surrounded by the sights and sounds of people clawing their way to success in their perceived paradigm of happiness. You have to be tough, you’ll need a little talent and you’ll probably have to eat some kale. But some say success in Tinseltown means selling your soul, handing over your innocence and compromising your principles. For many that may be true but for our guest today, it’s all about being a better person. In a town someone once called the City of Satan, Ben Dornbush is finding a taste of what some might call... enlightenment.

LA is famous for many things, fast cars, big budget films, beautiful people and the struggle for all who venture here to “make it." Can you “make it" if you don’t make it big? Can you be happy if you don’t strike it rich? Ben Dornbush joins the boys on Unofficial this week to talk about his emotional, spiritual and physiological journey as a hard working yoga practitioner and teacher, navigating the hurdles of everyday existence and also stumbling over reminders of just how magical the universe that surrounds us, really is. Preserved nutrients, liver and kidney detoxifications, candida cleanses? Entheogens?? Pratyahara??? Ben’s search into himself has even taken him from Agnosticism to an opinion on god that is now technically more TBD. The mark of a humble man, a selfless student of the cosmos, always ready for the next opportunity to learn. Accepting the unknown, healing the self by holistic means and embracing the absence of sensory gratification. Ben sees the world as perfect, just the way it is...Gleaned in a town that is mostly famous for the grand theft of real art, drug overdoses and sex-crimes. No small feat, my friend.

Every week Coop&Myan introduce a random element into the Unofficial equation for an off-the-cuff discussion that usually tangents in directions impossible to predict. But this week Ben Dornbush does a pretty good job bringing the discussion back to himself and his journey in LA as a progressivly developing human being, utilizing meditation, Yoga and the periodic practice of fasting. Many of us get cranky if we go 14 minutes without a snack so can you imagine 14 days? Ben takes being on a cleanse to levels unfamiliar to the average American and does it in a town famous for wood-fired pizza, epic sushi and comfort-food trucks that literally pull up to you on the side of the street.

The challenge on the path toward enlightenment is a real one and Ben dives in and finds a host of personal benefits from chakra-connected emotional clarity, to diarrhea-related detoxification. It may not be pretty but no one ever said being a better person was a lilty jaunt through a dewy meadow. So hat’s off to you, Unofficial’s spirit-animal, Ben Dornbush.

It’s not often Coop&Myan can brag about being super-focused, staying on topic or sticking to any kind of predetermined subject matter. But change is good. Always growing, spitballing and exploring new attempts to refine our voice at Unofficial, today’s half hour episode breaks the show into three,10 minute chunks, each one focused on a unique topic.

Our first segment is a speculative romp through the mind of Quentin Tarantino, his career plan to make no more than 10 films and a little trek down memory lane for Old Hollywood. Part two is all about the Bern. Bernie Sanders, America’s only option for returning honor to the Oval Office. The pure-energy, uber-mensch yin to trump’s obese, soul-festering yang. And finally, Coop&Myan delve into sexual abuse...and more specifically James Safechuck and Wade Robson, the two primary victims featured in the Michael Jackson documentary, leaving Neverland.

It’s always an adventure in the magical world of Hollywood, you can always count on corruption in American politics and the sometimes twisted, sexual nature of the human race will keep us clamoring for justice until our sun supernovas, destroying the earth and vaporizing every trace of humanity along with it.

So tune into Unofficial and let Coop&Myan brighten your day...before it’s too late.

I guess you can say Coop&Myan are a bit partial to having actors on the show. If you were a theatre-nerd as a kid, we’ll probably enjoy having you around. Today’s theatre-nerd we loved having is our friend, Laura Baggett (like “bag-it” not actually “Baguette") a once potential Ford Modeling company prospect, until her parents screwed it up, the inaugural winner of the Ali Murphy Memorial Award, stand-in for Jessica Biel AND Elizabeth Banks and creator and star of the potentially viral youtube music video, Milf Rap. There is very little that Laura can’t do, she survived the “Bizarre-Monologue” trend of the 1990’s, recently killed-it in an American Home Shield commercial where she literally stole the scene from Death himself and still gets residual checks, BOOM…AND finds a way to deal with it all with something called "Garden Therapy"…which is really just Laura screaming while gardening.

Sure Cooper finds a way to get excited about Shark Week and Myan rants a bit about the beach which in his defense was initiated by Cooper when he brought up the sharks, so there is definitely a fair share of tangential dialogue, rest assured. I mean, it’s Unofficial. It's what we do.

Oh and a shout-out to Laura’s American Home Shield fans in Ohio, too often YouTube comments get a bad rap when frequently they are written by earth-salt folk who just want to spread a little cheer and appreciation for their favorite, unknown working actors and for that, America, we thank you.

If you ever wanted to know what Unofficial would be like as a one-man show…today’s your lucky day. Myan being the forgiving soul that he is, decided that the 405, aka “Sorry-I’m-late-freeway” deserved one last chance. Unsurprisingly his heart was broken yet again as the uninspired, archaic design of the 405 completely sabotaged any chance of starting episode 66 on time. So fearing Myan would never arrive, Coop decided the show must go on. What a professional.

Listen to Coop sing acapella excerpts from the lion king while peppering in spot-on impersonations of Mufasa and even some of the rodents in the ensemble. Perhaps even gather the kids around while Cooper creates an inimitable world of Disney magic all inside your mind using nothing more than his voice.

If high-speed chases, police helicopters and murder are more your cup of tea, then don’t worry, we have plenty of that in episode 66 as well. Check it out and see what all the kids are talking about.

If you’re a fan of everything, then Unofficial’s patented Reddit episodes are exactly what you’ve been craving. What started off as a lark has now become a staple format for Coop&Myan. I wish we did Reddit for a full hour.

So if you like magic-pranks, accidental-LSD trips, Cardi B knowing more about Bernie Sanders than you do or how caveman disprove the existence of Jesus (and maybe the occasional reference to the movie Clue) then check out episode 65, Reddit: “The front page of the internet.”

Have you seen the last episode of Game of Thrones? Well don’t say anything because Myan hasn’t seen it yet. Honestly, great television shows are not that common, it really sucks when the epic ones come to an end. The good news is that Hollywood doesn’t seem to be cutting back on production anytime soon, you can’t walk to the coffee shop in LA without stumbling over a handful of on location sets, and a multitude of companies and services like HBO, Netflix and Hulu seem to be ramping up spending with every new year.

After spending most of the episode gushing over Game of Thrones, Coop&Myan dive into some of their future plans for Unofficial’s own production ramp-up, so if you want a little insight into what percolates in the brains of two dudes in a room smoking weed, nurturing a tiny little podcast about artists in the heart of Magical Main Street USA... then definitely tune into this week’s off-the-cuff tsunami of creativity, as Coop&Myan keep pumping out an endless stream of truly organic whatever.

Next week check out Unofficial’s Monday episode as Coop&Myan attempt to stay on topic for once. Could the boys in J30 actually be maturing? Let’s hope not but check it out anyway because you just never know.