Urijah Faber
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Show Summary
Adam opens the show talking about getting his daughter to properly use a balance board. He also rants about his new audiobook and talks with Lynch and Dawson about why it’s exactly the length he didn’t want it to be. The guys then hear some backstory on Adam’s Mr. Birchum pilot, and Adam is proud to debut the entire animatic.
Urijah Faber enters the studio next, and Adam talks with him about being wired as a fighter and how adrenaline can affect your memory. Alison then starts up the news with updates on the controversial Arizona immigration law. The group also talks about the third anniversary of both Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett’s death, and Adam recalls a bad experience repurposing flowers. As the show wraps up, the guys chat about the death of the last Pinta Island tortoise, and why Adam wants to outlive his pets.
Links
Visit http://UrijahFaber.com and be sure to get his new book, ‘The Laws of the Ring,’ by clicking through our Amazon link.
Videos
Natalia Balance Board
Birchum Animatic
Show Credits
Producer: Mike Lynch
Producer: Mike Dawson
Audio/Voice Over/Post-Production: Mike Dawson
Newsgirl: Alison Rosen
Sound Effects: Bryan Bishop
Associate Producer: Gary Smith
Technical Director: Chris Laxamana
Show Summary: Matt Fondiler
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That Birchum pilot is absolutely hilarious! That nine minute clip alone was probably the best TV I’ve seen all year after Mad Men and Veep. Good job.
Seems to have a ton of potential. Listening on the podcast was a bit tedious, but the animatic suggests this could be really good.
I find athlete guests (particularly boxers and MMA types) to be a major bore, but lots of people seem to like this guy, so I’ll give it a chance, having turned it off when he came on.
Tried to watch the clip but it’s removed? It sounded funny on the podcast. Big fan
why’d they take down the birchum clip?
Really? It was everything that the Aceman has said in the podcast, so nothing new, and frankly, it was a bit boring and cliche, as if it was something that’s been made already. I don’t think I’d watch it.
He said most of it on the podcast after making the episode.
Birchum looks great. Hope to see more!
dang ace, your lil girl has some great balance!
Hi. I’m Chris Hansen. Why don’t you take a seat right over there . . .
That animatic is pretty damn good. I’d watch it! Good stuff!
You need more athletes as guests. Urijah is a great fighter and incredibly cool in person.
I like the cartoon ace man
That Birchum clip was really good.
Nice Job Adam.
Good show. I dig Uriah Faber, he seems like a really cool guy.
Holy crap, that Birchum animatic is freaking awesome!!!
GET IT ON. Speaking of MMA guests you guys should get Chael Sonnen on the podcast.
Love that animatic! Is that how the final show will look or will there be different animation?
Not a complaint, just curious. Animated shows tend to change visually after the pilot.
there won’t be a final show. Fox rejected it and Adam basically said he wasn’t pursuing stuff like it anymore.
Looked promising, but I felt when Alan Gregory and Dynamite fell flat on their faces his animated show didn’t have much hope… sucks how the business is.
In all fairness… alan gregory and napolian dynamite sucked more than most of the fox cartoons.
Liked the animatic! Jokes worked for me, including the peanut butter running bit (by the way, I’m 22 and know what a Pay Day is…).
Pretty decent Birchum… Birchum’s son looks just like a gayed up Harlan Williams… It would’ve been perfect had Harlan done the voice. Nice work Aceman!
Adam: I applied to Taco Bell when I was around 15. I got a job. I happened to know the manager, sister of my best friend from school. She hired me.
1) My family was rich: but I was still working fast food
2) Jobs and applications are a “numbers game.” Just keep applying, and you’ll eventually get hired. Just because you didn’t get hired at Taco Bell, isn’t a comment on you as a person. Just the way it happened. Don’t take it so personally.
3) I hated my job at Taco Bell; they never let me work the register, and put me on Taco Frying, WHICH SUCKED ASS!!!! Back then, Taco Bell, fried every single taco shell fresh from tortillas. It SUCKED ASS!!! Consider yourself lucky.
Maybe you could get on at Del Taco Aceman if you “Just keep applying”
Taco frying…yeah.
So your friends sister got you the taco gig.
Is your current job to sandblast away the funny from comedian’s premises until we’re left with dry tales of factual clinical psychological self realization? What a goal.
Exactly what does that job pay?
Does it SUCK ASS???????????
I think it does.
No, my current job doesn’t suck, but you suck ass, my Frenemy.
lol timmy mac, funnnnny stuff
holy crap, that failed pilot is god-awful.
I’m in the animation biz, and that’s also not called an animatic, but a PILOT. It wasn’t that funny, either
And Adam: what’s with telling your daughter she is special to boost her ego? What’s with telling her she has gifts from God? These are 2 things you’re going back on.
If you don’t see the distinction, you are an angry moron.
Also, I’d consider it a compliment if you said anything I’ve ever done wasn’t very good.
eat dick Mike
I think the difference is that she’s actually doing something special, and she should be considered gifted for being able to do it. Adam has said that children being told they are special when they’ve done nothing special is a crock. I don’t think Adam has ever said that people who do something notable should be ignored, quite the opposite as I recall.
“People of Earth, How are You!”
Adam, I know that you have heard this a million times, but that Mr Birchum was a really funny show…
I don’t know how it woeks but have you pitched it to other cable networks? Cartoon Network perhaps?
Keep up the good work…
Is that a wood paneled El Camino or a Ranchero?
Urijah who ?? Gonna pass on this one.
You must try Smoking Joe’s BBQ while in San Antonio!
Hey, ace broadcasting, pitch your show to netflix.
Good show, great guest. The cartoon didn’t translate so well over audio but better than I could have done. Is Adult Swim an option? Better than anything I’ve seen there.
Great video of Natalia on the balance board. I’ve already bought “Not Taco Bell Material” in book form, today I’m going to Barnes and Noble to get the audio version. By the way, all that talk about “you are a unique individual, and nobody has ever existed with your precise genetic makeup, and what you do in this world matters, and that your life on earth is not ultimately meaningless, and that you are loved by God beyond your ability to grasp or quantify”…..these are not b.s adages, they are all true. To the “prove it ” skeptics I say just keep living and you’ll come around. When life humbles and crushes you as it eventually (and sometimes repeatedly) does to everybody, reach out and you will not be disappointed. There is no proving it. That is why faith is required. I challenge any atheist that fancies himself too smart and intellectual for such “superstition” to read “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis. Or if you prefer, get the audio book version. It’s not about intellectual prowess. Albert Einstein absolutely believed in the existence of God and was not shy about saying so.
Adam is the MAN!!!!
natalia is adorable she kinda looks like alicia silverstone
Where is the scene where you were told to go to sensitivity training?
Why couln’t we see something like a frig full of beers…and what was the rush in opening and closing the frig? Why couldn’t we see what else was in the frig?
A lot of people may not agree with the “junior college” comment; you’ve been making that comment for 20 yrs…I think it may offend people. Hell, one of the executives may have gotten their college career started at a community college.
Some of the scenes don’t connect with each other; for example, what happened to the principal office scene? Why did we see that you and other guy were looking out the window, after the chat about the kids? Some of the facial expressions (if any) or movements do not synch up with the audio.
Yeah…there was a scene witht the peanut butter-sniffing dogs, but why wasn’t that whole district-wide ban you mentioned near the end not setup in the beginning; it would have connected with the final scene, where you were eating that candy bar…which by the way, you could have shown you opening a drawyer that was filled with those candy bars.
The classroom scenes were good; I would just add more kids. I would show the kids taking different seats, after you mentioned a potential emergency situation.
I wouldn’t show you standing beside the guy in the office; you would both be standing outside.
I think the executives are right about introducing the character. You gave the daughter personality and probably a minute of scene….what happened to the son?
This wasn’t a full episode … it’s supposed to be a “taste” of the show … jesus christ does anyone listen to the podcast. Do you listen and comprehend?
First a guy doesn’t understand the distinction between praise for nothing and praise that is justified and then it’s a dissertation and critique over an animatic (Fuck what one of the Mike’s said – he explains that Fox wants their animatics done this way, and his animators worked to make it look more like a finished product).
Was Mr B the pilot show? I would so watch this.
Birchum’s wife looks like his daughter.
LOVED the Birchum Animatic! NIce job on the B-board Natty girl!
The thought of that Big Ben Fathead had me crying
ACE!! When in SA you better eat at Rudy’s no other BBQ joints in town can touch these guys!
Y’know, couldn’t you put that pilot up on kickstarter.com and promote it, and lets see if you can get an entire season on dvd/bluray funded solely by fans! If Amanda Palmer can fund an entire music album with 1million dollars, can you it be done with a few episodes of Mr. Burcham?
Can someone explain the “What part of canada are they from” joke?
I know the guy sounds like an idiot for saying it’s only the leaders that are screwing up his home country, but I don’t get how the two relate.
The premise: Canada is the country most unlike the Middle East, so he’s facetiously suggesting that the leaders are Middle Eastern but the people “must” be from some “white country,” i.e., Canada.
Woulda liked to have heard Urijah and the Ace man go a couple rounds, after you mentioned you brought focus pads.. It was like bringing a car on the show and not letting us hear you start it up… Oh well, good show anyway, good guest!!…
Your daughter will thank you for the balance when she starts wearing high heels.
Love the animatic, hope it gets picked up someday.
FYI, for the sloth comments, there are many different types of sloths, two and three toes and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth#Classification
How did Mr Birchum not get picked up,but Bobs burgers did? You need to talk with John Travolta..
You don’t need to lie to your children, Adam. My kids are 9 and 5, and I’ve never felt the need to credit anything to a god. Go ahead, tell them it’s genetic that they have brown hair and a good sense of balance. Don’t just say it’s how god made them because you don’t want to have to answer any question they might have.
That Torque shirt looks like a direct rip off of the Torco Emblem, just sayin…
The Mr. Birchum show was hilarious!! You gotta stop messing with FOX, those people are fucking idiots. Everybody knows what a godamn Payday bar is, we have them in a vending machine in our break room. Take it to Cartoon Network, they’d be happy to have this comedy gold. Oh and Billy West was great yeaterday, please have him back.
Ok, the Birchum animatic wasn’t the funniest thing I’ve ever seen or anything, but it was definitely funny and it was definitely better then 95% of the god awful sitcoms on any network TV today. Why they’d pass on that is idiotic.
Dawson screwed up? You mean a pothead wasn’t reliable? Inconceivable!
I especially liked the chalkboard gag:)
THAT was a great show. I wanna see more Birchum. If Fox doesn’t want it, just put it online.
How bout a guest rotation of MMA fighter, pornstar, comedian, repeat.
Loved the Birchum animatic. Shame you can’t produce it as a web series and make your millions off of youtube instead of getting a tiny paycheck from a crappy network no one watches. Hint hint.
Adam should do Birchum as a Web Series.. Felicia Day manages to make money off the Guild, I’m sure Adam could spin Birchum into something that pays.
Good ep. To travel back in time a bit, the ep with Billy West was great in terms of momentum. flowed together really well. Rosen was on a roll, too.
She’s got her Daddy’s freakish balance!
Why is the pilot suddenly down?
YouTube pulled the video Aceman! >:-[ Anywhere else we can get it?
I think both your show and your daughter are O.K…
dang, it says the birchum animatic vid was removed. wonder if youtube took it down. sounded hilarious on the podcast, compared to alot of the shows on tv. definitely a show I would have watched
Why’d you take the Birchum pilot down? Anyone know where we can find it?
So. . .how much would it cost a ‘DrunktankDan’ type idiot with only a few months of boxing experience to get a boxing lesson from Adam Carolla? Do I have to sell a kidney? Adam seems like he would be a great teacher (he likes the sound of his own voice, after all) and the dude has an IQ through the fucking roof so he could notice things about your form and whatnot and help you to correct your basics.
I wonder if all of those morons that took boxing classes from him back in the day knew the incredible deal they were getting. It seems like Jimmy Kimmel did. And now, here we are.
By the way, loved your book Aceman, and I bought one for my Dad.
Hey, you took down the Birchum video? That sucks.
Maybe he took it down because some non-retarded producer saw it and there’s a deal in the works. Get it on. Fingers crossed.
Adam, if you can talk people into it, make 12 full 22 minute episodes, leak them out on Youtube slowly. The networks may pick it up mid season. By that time they won’t have as much input and will hopefully run with it.
Great job parroting back those Fox News talking points, Adam. Keep it up!
Arizona’s immigration law wasn’t written by private prison lobbyists who want more prisoners (aka customers) in their jails, it was about saving Arizona from dangerously lazy yet somehow job-stealing Mexicans!
Voter ID laws aren’t about keeping the around 30% of urban blacks who don’t own photo IDs from voting in this election, it’s about preventing the .0001% incidence of voter fraud from tainting our entire democracy!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
When you use that old script to make a porn name for yourself using the street name where you grew up with a pets name I would’ve been bud Burcham. So I go to use the urinal the other day at work and there is this guy there finishing washing his hands while I start draining the lizard. The guy doesn’t close the door when he leaves. C’mon! Use common sense! Everyone walking by got to listen to me admire dick.
Wait? People on this forum thought that animatic thing was fun? Bryan and Alison didn’t bother even forcing a laugh. It is just a rehash of the things we have heard on the podcast and the Birchum voice isn’t even really different from his speaking voice… I like the podcast most of the time, but the Birchum character isn’t nearly as ANTI PC as he thinks it is and the peanut allergies in school thing is just very esoteric in its appeal to take up so much time in that presentation.
It’s a lot better when watching it. Adam’s voice goes well with the animated character. You won’t get it when just listening to it.
We have adrenaline to make us forget? Was TV invented so we could have Shark Week? Maybe we forget because we are too busy doing other things to remember? When you’re all hopped up on adrenaline maybe the part of your brain that tries to store stuff just can’t keep up.The correlation might be a good thing, but if you are going to assign intent to the value of traits why be an atheist? It’s just God doing you a favor, not a mechanism of cause and effect that just happens to benefit you.
Foxnews, “Arizona’s main illegal immigration statute upheld”
CNN, “Arizona’s illegal immigration laws overturned”
Alison, “Arizona’s illegal immigration laws overturned”
Hmmm…….
Urijah’s chin ass alone is enough to intimidate me…
Did anyone get a copy of the Mr. Birchum animatic? Where can we see it since it’s no longer on youtube?
Great pacing on the Birchum video. Needs to see the light of day.
Ace-
You have to make Birchum a web series! Great stuff!
Natalia will have the balance and athleticism to work the pole nicely
I suspect the show not getting picked up has a lot to do with Adam having been pegged as being a pain in the ass to work with/for. Also the demographic for the show probably skews older than most networks want to attract. I find grumpy reactionary old men funny because I am one. But I don’t watch a lot of network tv or buy a lot of Payday bars.
Yes! Adam, you have to get CHAEL SONNEN on the podcast. He’s got a book too and that guy can TALK! Get him on!
As a boxing instructor, it was very funny to see how poor Urijah Faber’s form was when Adam was holding the mitts for him…
Hey Dumbass Carolla, why are you bitching about how all the kids nowadays are me me me and now your daughter is doing the same thing and you’re cool with it. What a piece of shit.
The network did Adam a favor when they passed on that show. Hostile and shrill is funny for a while but it gets tough to stomach fairly quickly. It does convey his shtick pretty well.
Dammit, too late for the Birchum vid. That was pretty damn funny. I didn’t like Adam’s original telling of the black people crossing the street, but it worked in here because it was making fun of Birchum, not just being racist. Someone’s gotta pick it up, it’s funny and Adam has a solid fan base that would watch it. Fox sucks, their “Faux News” does too.
Adam:
1. Arizona does NOT have a problem with too many Mexicans in 2012 – they are at record lows. This is a problem as fields of fruit and vegetables in the southern states are rotting on the vine. Too few Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran and Ecuadorian immigrants are bad news for the profit margins of Arizona’s biggest businesses.
2. It is actually NOT AGAINST THE LAW to be in the united states without all the proper documentation. Once you are hear, being here is not illegal. Your new right wing friends have misinformed you. It is only after commission of a crime that the status matters in that we are supposed to make their home country pay to incarcerate them.
3. But our States run by Republicans see a new way to pocket our tax money for personal profit. How? Google “for profit prison” and maybe add “immigrant” – you’ll see lots of ties between Governor Jan Brewer and a for profit prison corporation called, “CCA” – Corrections Corporation of America. She and her friends want to make a buck off of RACISM, plain and simple.
Ya see Adam, if you get facts then you are not mouthing off from your feelings about complicated issues… and not exposing those feelings as being RACIST. -you’re welcome.
4. 3 Toed Sloths live up to 40 years.
Great show Ace. But WTF is going on with Uriah Faber’s hand in the show summary picture? By the look on your face I’m pretty sure I know. But come on man, you’ve got kids. You should keep that stuff on the DL Ace!
Love you man! But not like Uriah does. Did you two ‘wrastle’ at all?
Does anyone else think Adam’s Mr. Birchum sounds like the head Elf in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
Not that anyone will read this, but I also want to add that I thought the episode was hilarious!
Loved the Birchum Pilot/Animatic. That would make a great show! Too bad it will probably never see the light of day.