Joel McHale | Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino 245 

Joel McHale is so cool. He's like a version of Anthony Jesilnik that still hates but doesn't wish you were dead.

Sitting in this horrible CA traffic. 1.5 hours until I reach work & this podcast has come to save the day once again.

Big fan of Joel. Love Community and the Soup. I hope he shows up again in the Bear as well. He’s only in it for a minute but it’s an intense ass minute

I remember loving Joel McHale from TALK SOUP, one of my favorite shows of that time.

Community is such a funny show. They nailed it with the cast

Joel is so Naturally hilarious! Love everything he has done. Great Interview!🥰

I met Joel 15 years ago when he did stand-up at a Chinese restaurant, he was great

LOVE BOTH OF THESE GUYS! Community got me through my deployment to afghanistan! and Santino the prodigal son!

these two dorks are equally witty and hilarious. wholesome af episode

"You feel like a Midwest guy"..."Like, large?" Well played Joel who never seems to age, well played.

LMAO I did not know Annie said "You two are bad friends". So dope

Had to watch right away. Always a good day when it starts with any of Andrews podcasts!

Whiskey ginger saves my work day yet again. Keeping me laughing non stop.

I want a podcast with these two all the time

Joel McHale can get it

Its Jeff! “Shut up Leonard, I know about your prescription socks!” 😂

I love Joel McHale. His dry sense of humor is stunning!!!

When I saw who came this week, i just knew this conversation would be oozing with sarcasm , and i am HERE FOR IT❤

Two of the funniest "tv" comedians! Let's get it!

Joel is a Seattle Legend !! He is so funny on animal control

Also, for anyone who doesn't know. The samples in the beginning of Bad Friend's "An Asian dude with a white dude" is from Fresh Off The Boat and the "We're bad friends" is from Allison Hannigan on an episode of Buffy.

The best part of my Friday morning. Thanks Andrew and Joe!

That edit at 4:25 is fire! Fucking bravo to whomever sorted that out.

I had no idea the outro to bad friend was from community. It’s like an out of body experience watching the clip and hearing the audio

This was FANTASTIC!!!!! OMFG Joel! So naturally funny! My goodness what a great guest. Very fun to listen to this entire thing. Santino begging Joel to say he’s funny 😂😂😂 Ahhhh. I adore both of these dudes. ❤M

Before watching I already know these two together will be riffing like crazy

Norman Lear... it took me a few minutes to figure it out also.

Just ordered Community on blu ray after watching this, never seen it before but heard nothing but the best. I look forward to checking it out.

Joel 52 is same age as Bobby Lee 52 is so fuckin unbeliveable!!!!! he look so good and way younger than Bobby

Andrew and Bobby hit it out of the park with guests gaddam

B and I were both excited to get back into the cave and get to work. I figured with about 4 hours work we could be in and see what was on the other side. We had arranged to borrow a DeWalt cordless drill to bring with us. We also had masonry bits to drill with, sledgehammers (two) to break up the rock, bullpins to insert into the drill holes, and a few other tools that we ended up not using. Getting the tools down to the work site proved to be a challenge. One of us would climb down the rope and stop at a ledge or good resting place, then the other person would lower the tools. We kept repeating this routine until we got to the bottom of the cave. Then we had to drag the tools to the hole. It took about an hour to finally get to work. B took the first turn at the hole. After an hour of exhausting work, we could tell that we were not going to get through in one session. We kept trading off after we worked ourselves into a sweat. One would take a break and get some food and water while the other one went to work. The routine went like this: To begin work we had to get down on our knees and do our best to avoid smacking our heads on the ceiling. Working in this awkward position we would drill into the wall around the hole. That was difficult work. We really had to push on the drill, and it was still slow progress. Then we inserted the bullpin into the hole and hammered on it until the rock broke up. Then we would repeat the process. To give you an idea of how slow it went, the typical size rock that would break off was about fingernail size. If we broke off a large piece (about 1/3 the size of my palm) it was cause for celebration. From time to time, for variety, we would just wail on a cold chisel with a 5-lb. sledge. It was slow progress. The problem with the sledge was that we couldn’t take a good swing because of the tight quarters. Even though we spent many hours and several trips working on the hole we never did find a better technique for widening the hole. The drill/bullpin/hammer got the best results for our efforts. We came up with some crazy ideas for breaking up the rock. Everything from TNT (never seriously considered) to hauling a generator to the mouth of the cave and running an extension cord down to a jackhammer. We even thought about using liquid nitrogen to freeze the rock and make it more brittle! After a couple hours of hard work, we realized what our limiting factor was going to be. It was about then that our first battery met an abrupt death. We had a second battery, so we swapped them out. The second battery lasted a little longer because we hammered and chiseled a little more often and a little longer each time. Finally, after about three more hours of drudgery, the second battery died and we called it a night. Whew! We could tell that we had done some work in the cave, but it was not much. For the first time since we got in the cave, we sat back both of us took a break. It was nice to check out the results of our hard work. Then we noticed the howling again. It seemed to be a little louder than the last time we were there. We just figured the wind was blowing a little stronger outside. What we could not figure out was the rumbling. It, too, seemed to be louder, and more frequent. This time we could not attribute the noise to trucks. The road that the trucks drove on was not very busy to begin with. At that time of night, it should be dead. Yet the rumbling continued. It seemed to be coming from deep within the passage. B said he would ask some veteran cavers what could be causing the noise.

Love You Santino !

Two of my favs 🤘 Did not disappoint!😊

So cool being from Washington hearing Santino talk about Alki Beach (not Mercer though, Richy Rich LoL). So many great memories chasing girls @Alki.

Love that they start with rich white guy talk: collecting cars and golf 😂

I always look forward to our Tito on Friday!! First pod of the day

I thought I was the only person who thought Jack Daniel's was straight up generic swill. Thank you Santino for vindication once again! ❤

Hale yeah 🎉

As a life time West Seattleite - that was a great nod to my neighborhood!

This is gonna be a good one🤟💯

Joel McHale was so good in Parks and Rec

Love Joel and ya both HELLA FUNNY always

i miss the soup so much, truly the pinnacle of commentary television

drinking out of my troy an abed in the morning mug while watching this. we love community Joel

Great guests especially recently, ideal episode length for a pod. This was a top watch.

I LOVE THAT ANDREW BROUGHT UP THE BAD FRIENDS INTRO!!!!

Joel is in one of my favorite underrated movies of all time called "A Big Year" w/ a loaded cast including Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson. I re-watch Community all the time too. I'm a big fan of his work.

Huge fan of Bad Friends and Community so this was an awesome episode!

Shoutout to Dekalb! Home of NIU, the Harvard of Northern Illinois.

I really like Joel. Community is one of the funniest shows.

The altar boy bit lmao

Santino yer great ! 😁

its the tv guide soup guy!!!!

Hearing him talking about Granville Island is crazy, I probably spent 5 days a week down there for a decade. Between the basketball courts, all the restaurants and working down there.

Community is one of the best things to ever happen. I wanna say this and don't know who could see it that matter but... Joel in a Fargo season. I think that would be so interesting and fantastic.

Been waiting for him to say bad friends intro was from community. I didn't think anyone else ever noticed.

First 7 minutes - LET JOEL TALK! lol

THE GOAT BACK WITH ANOTHER POD

Joel McHale is one of my favorite actors of all time

Loved him in The Bear even if it was only like 5 minutes

"Well, great sex." Lmfao.

SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!

Watching this at the airport. It's making the wait a hell of a lot better

Holy shit Andrew Just blew my mind, the sound from Bad Friends is from Community?!

57:57 My mind is blown hahah - I've always wondered what the quotes are in the theme for Whisky Ginger too.

6 seasons and a movie, let’s goooooo!!!

6 Seasons and a Movie!!!

Hearing the source for the "You two are bad friends!" just blew my freaking mind, and I've seen Community in its entirety multiple times

Most enjoyable 🙂

I had the same type of experience at Alki Beach , stayed for 2 days in a van

Oh my goodness, the Community / Bad Friends intro clip! Love it!

Love me some Joel. This was nice, guys. Real nice 👍

This is almost as good as Conan O'Brien and Joel I mean don't get me wrong this is very very good for my heart and my spirit and stuff like that

Great listen waiting for the pod with rain now 😂😂

Hes the leader of the Joel's, we shall rise!

Not everybody can riff with andrew. Him and joel are on the same wavelength

The cigarette burns of Joel in different costumes is fucking hilarious

Becky was such a great movie and Joel was fantastic in it

This is awesome!!

Joel still looks fucking amazing. Always funny

OMG! I loved Joel McHale in The Soup!

24:34 WTF the theme music isn't playing in the background during the ads. WG is the only show I don't skip the ads for *because* of the them song maaaaan...

These two gotta do a show together. They make up such a good combo!

"Thr sloppiest guys I know are the best." Applies to most hairstylists also lol

what kinda knife had me. dying

Live in Kilkenny! Glad you enjoyed it! Some lovely spots!

I’m trying to manifest spending time with 2 of the coolest comedians ever like Mckone.

HUGE fan of Joel ❤❤❤

Duuuude, its been killin me what “you guys are bad friends” was from, gave up on it, blew my mind / so happy it was a pull from one of my fave shows Community / love of my life Ali Brie 🤯

My adolescent and current crushes come together 😮

Geezus christ you're blowing up. I remember when my bro saw you live years ago and told me a joke about a "Kansas city flip flop wearing f... " that joke is still in my lexicon. Can't wait to see you in Denver 8 days after my birthday

Thank god for this pod with joel. Could not get through the first 10 minutes of two bears

Listening from West Seattle right up the hill from Alki beach. That’s trippy 😂

The Waterpark on Granville Island is still there 😅

57:35 No way One of my favorite shows and I never noticed

Joel reminiscing about wooden bats in little league? What league was that I mean we all used aluminum bats lol

I thought Merry Friggin Christmas was enjoyable. We watch it every Christmas in my house. It taught me about red beer and asparagus with bourbon.

It was funny listening to the story about KilKenny. I've never been myself, but i did go to Kinsale and Dingle, and had word for word the exact same experience. Even the guy running our B&B in Kinsale played at the local pub. Invited us out, and we stayed til 3 or 4. In Dingle the breakfast waiter invited us to hear him play, we went and he only played Johnny Cash. Not complaining, just surprised at the amount Johnny Cash in Ireland. Point is any small town in Ireland is pretty much awesome. Or I assumeall are based on visiting 3 or 4 of them. Science.

OMGOSH! "GREAT SEX" LMAO!

Six seasons and a movie!!!