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I'm Tamar, and I'm here with Alex. And today we are going to be discussing Josh

Rubin's episode, which I'm very excited to talk about since this entire show was

based on Josh's show from 2012, I believe, called Hello, My Name Is.

And so we already knew Josh would be obviously great at this. I don't

how we came up with.

his character, but I know we called it Slubby Man with Puppet. We're like,

just keep it simple. We're going to do some acne, we're going to do the middle

part, and we're going to give him braces.

He was, fun fact, the only talent that I saw.

beforehand because there was no way to get around not doing a mouth cast for

those braces.

I have a previous working relationship with Josh. He's one of my favorite

to work with. We had such a great time because I've transformed him into so

different things. And I knew that he was probably expecting a huge

transformation. And I think that was the fun part of him of keeping him more

simple. He was on the first day, I believe we were still trying to figure

like, how am I going to keep these things a secret? And Josh.

Like I said, I've worn so many prosthetics and I was so nervous because

like, he's going to know exactly what I'm doing. He's like the makeup king.

As soon as I started putting the pimples on him, he was like, oh, I wonder what

that is.

Right where I used to get all my teenage acne, just right on that temple.

Okay, I'm on to you, all you guys.

He guessed it. And this is what birthed the idea of lying to them.

Because I was like, I think I went to you.

He said, am I allowed to lie to them? And I was like, please, yes.

I was like, he's guessing.

And I was like, nope. And Josh knows me pretty well.

And so luckily I had my mask because I was just smiling. How long have you been

painting zits?

on my face, or just in general.

What would you say is your favorite technique for painting zits on someone

doesn't know what they look like?

And then it was game over as soon as I did a middle part.

And then when we put the braces in, I mean, he can roll his tongue. I mean, he

knew. To be fair, I think no matter what we put on Josh, he was going to know.

He's been in so many different prosthetics. He's become so many

characters. But I think he was unique in the sense that he thought he figured it

out. And he, you know, the reveal, and he was like, oh, I'm a nerdy guy. And

then you waltzed in this puppet, and he was just, his mind was blown a bit. Oh,

thank God.

We had an amazing.

puppet maker who had worked with Jim Henson's company and worked with Bob

Baker's Marionette Theater.

And we sent her different headshots of Josh. And just in, you know, a couple of

days, she just whipped up this amazing Josh puppet. It was really cool to see

what he did do with the puppet afterwards.

And I think it was good that we kept him more subtle and didn't really cover him

too much because I think it gave him so much more to focus on with the puppet

and use this item more so than what his look was quite as much. It just gave

such a cool performance that we wouldn't have seen had we designed the character

different.