But one time I had a meeting at Tom Cruise's house and I had to pee so badly. So I like stopped in the middle of a driveway and I assume he had cameras everywhere.

Hey guys, it's Chrissy Bear with Young Hollywood and I am sitting with one of my all-time, all-time favorite people. Seriously, on earth. Seth Rogen.

I don't know if I qualify for Young Hollywood anymore. It's a little bit of a stretch.

It's not about age, it's about attitude.

I don't I don't know if that work I don't know, I honestly don't know if that adds up.

No, I mean, we've had Betty White on here. She's still cool. She's still fun.

There you go. Fantastic.

Um, but we really like go back like 24 hours because we were literally sitting on the flight in the same row. Yes. On our way over here.

We were it was amazing. It was amazing. It was no ordinary flight. No ordinary flight. It was a party flight.

Yeah. I was pretty much standing the entire three hours, but I was going to say you're the only one I think who like actually made it normal.

I tried to you and your wife are sitting there just like listening to your. I tried to it was trying to ignore the reality of the situation. It was a little much for me.

Um, and then here we are in Austin, Texas. We made it.

Yes. Luckily, we made it.

And this is I know this is not your first South by. You've been here how many times now?

I honestly don't know. Maybe four before this. Literally the only uh festival that treats comedy as though it is in any way in the same plane as other uh genres and they have television here and they treat it with um again, the same kind of respect and due that they treat movies, which is incredibly nice and very rare.

That's true. Yeah. I mean, what do you, so is that like the one thing you would say you love the most about South by versus like other festivals.

I mean, it's first like we're in Austin, so it's the coolest. They don't invite me to any other film festivals. I I don't get to go they don't they don't invite me to the other ones. No, it's not. You're like South by's the only one I'm allowed to attend. It's truly 100% true.

You were talking about barbecue and you did tell me your favorite spot. So, because there's so many spots, I was like, how do you choose where to go? Are you a barbecue person? Or do you like more Mexican?

Okay, cool. My barbecue myself. Love barbecue. Is good, I think. Yes. But there's a lot of us.

I know, you can't, you can't go wrong. Yeah. So do you have like staples when you come here since you've been here a lot of times.

I go to the Salt Lick in the airport a lot. That's like the most consistent staple for me probably. And there's a good fried chicken place a block from the hotel that I end up at every time I come here. And so I tend to go there as well.

Like you started off when you were like, what? Writing comedy, doing standup when you were like a teenager and things just worked out like you got your movie made, Superbad. You wrote that.

Mhm.

With Evan Goldberg who by the way is like does everything with you.

He does.

And this project that you're here for. Uh-huh. Preacher. First of all, it's returning for season two. On AMC. So

Yeah, I mean, Preacher is a comic book that we we uh we both started reading in high school.

I was going to say, were you a fan of the comic?

We were. It came out in the mid-90s. Um, to the late 90s it ran. And yeah, we were huge fans. It's our favorite comic book of all time. And we've been trying to make it for over 10 years. And just people who are more successful than us always had control over it. And they somehow all failed to bring it to life. And then slowly it wound up in my and Evan's hands.

I feel like that's just how the world of Seth Rogen works. He just hang in there long enough.

Yeah. And we made it into a show, yeah.

Don't quit. Everyone else will mess up in some capacity. And it's a cool story because it's kind of like you asked the question of like, an angel and a demon get together. They have an offspring. Yes. And like what is that? It's a soul. What does it create?

Exactly. Um.

It's kind of a really weird story.

It's a really weird story. I mean, the show what's fun about the show is yeah, I mean, at its core, it's like it's kind of like a road trip searching show. It's about people literally searching for God. Um, who is somewhere on earth. And they have a power that makes them able to perhaps uh confront him when they find him. Um, to me, that's the thing that I think separates it from other shows on television. Pretty much every other show on television. I don't think there's any show that when you watch it has like the visceral experience of of this show.

So it's got like that supernatural slash twisted vampire like.

Yeah, there's a vampire, but it's I think it's very funny. It's also very dark. There's a lot of action on the show. Um, the actors are all incredible. Um, and like the relationship between the three main leads on the show is like an incredibly complex and interesting dynamic that uh is again, my favorite part of the comic book. Is like the three main characters. The world itself is very like kind of crazy and out there, but the ideas are like incredibly deep in a lot of ways. So it allows you to if you if you're a theological person, you can look into it that way. And if you just like to see vampires fight people. You can look into it that way.

Oh, that's funny. And you, I think they control you with one word, right? So he just said one word.

Any word. He can say tons of words.

Oh, any word. So if He can just use yes. So if you could control anyone with one word what would that be? Would you want to control anyone in particular with one word or just anyone?

Resign. I think it's where that was going. I think that was going. Uh, yeah. I don't know. It's a tough question.

And if you could pick.

Well, that's the thing. It's it's inherently kind of like an insidious power. Like, which is I think one of the things again, that's interesting what the show is like our main hero on the show has a power that's like kind of a bad power. Like it's it's manipulative. It kind of is like reaching into your brain and making you do things you don't want to do. Um, yeah, it's it's kind of again, one of the conflicts in the show is like is it even right to be using this power where you can tell people to do whatever it is that you want.

So what could what could people expect for season two? Um, because I know you're going to be doing 13 episodes now instead of 10.

We're doing 13 episodes. Um, the show in season two becomes much more like a literal search for God. Um, they in the first season were kind of confined to this small town of Anville. And now they're like really literally on the road driving around the country searching for him.

Yeah, but you're also executive producing. That's something you're doing a lot of now. Does that you kind of like that more than that?

Yeah. As I age out of being physically acceptable to watch on camera, I've decided to.

That is No, okay, first thing I don't watch you forever. I love you.

decided to segue behind the scenes. Um, yeah, I mean, we originally became producers just because we honestly wanted to control the marketing of our of our material. We got sick of making movies that we didn't have control over how they came out. So we became producers. And then we solely realized that through being producers, we could actually bring a lot of uh ideas and um that we've been huge fans of for a long time uh to life, um, because no one else was doing it. And so it really came out of like necessity um to protect our own material basically. And then once we did that enough, people trusted us to make other people's material, which uh, which is lovely and I hope they continue doing it.

And then lastly, since we're in Austin, you know, the tag line obviously is keep Austin weird. Yes. So what has been one of the most weirdest experiences in your career? It could be something on set or with anyone. What is one of the weirdest memories that you have?

Wow. There's a few.

I was going to say there's probably like one every day.

I've told this story before, but one time I had a meeting at Tom Cruise's house. And he has a very long driveway. And I arrived early to the meeting and I had to pee so badly, but I didn't want to talk to him for Jud Apatow was also coming to the meeting and he's good in those social situations. I was like, I don't want to be with Tom Cruise before Jud gets there, but I had to pee. So I like stopped in the middle of a driveway. And I assume he had cameras everywhere, so I peed in a Snapple bottle in my car uh in Tom Cruise's driveway.

What? Did he know about this?

No. He probably doesn't. If he watches Young Hollywood, maybe he does now, but uh but yes.

Wow. Okay, that I don't know. And that is not my weirdest story, but it's the one that came to mind. You're going to say, and not your weirdest story.

We might have to do a whole separate interview just on weird stories with Seth Rogen. It's a pretty good one. Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us. You're the best. So see you. Preacher. Preacher. Check it out, season two.